Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 72: Mechanism Wall
A moment later they reached the bottom.

Pei Nai felt very dizzy, but his body hurt even more.

Beyond the ringing in her ears, she heard someone asking her, with barely perceptible panic in the words, "Are you hurt?"

It was Gu Jinheng. She raised her hand and patted her head hard.

These few blows from the palms made my brain instantly clearer.

"nothing."

She slowly opened her eyes, only to see Gu Jinheng scanning her entire body, as if checking if she was injured.

At this moment, the silver-armored guard who fell down beside him suddenly shouted, "Master, Madam, look over there!"

Pei Nai no longer cared about his address and turned around with Gu Jinheng. The place where they fell was a corridor, and the top wall on one side was moving towards them.

Pei Nai and Gu Jinheng stood up quickly.

The wall moved faster than they had imagined, and they had almost no time to stay before being forced to walk towards the exit of the corridor.

They walked down the corridor to a dark room.

The wall was also moved over to be flush with the wall of the darkroom, completely sealing off the corridor, with almost no gap left between the outer wall of the corridor and the wall.

It was as if they had entered this place out of thin air, and it was as exquisitely crafted as a god.

Since I couldn't go back to the corridor, this room was the only one left.

After confirming that there was no more danger, they had time to observe the dark room quietly.

Like the corridor, there was a luminous bead inlaid every ten feet between the walls, which emitted light in the dark, allowing them to see things clearly in the dark room.

Pei Nai originally thought it was a night-shining pearl, but when he got closer, he was stunned.

The semicircle that looked like colorless white jade seemed to be just an outer cover, and inside the white jade was a plant that emitted strong light all over its body.

"What is this?" she asked in surprise.

Gu Jinheng glanced at the Silver Armor Guard.

The silver-armored guard took out a dagger at this moment, pried along the edge of the white jade cover, and the semicircular cover fell off.

As the plant came into contact with the air, it slowly dimmed.

The silver-armored guard turned back silently, as if to confirm with Gu Jinheng whether to remove the plant.

After Gu Jinheng nodded, he immediately drew his knife, but was stopped by Pei Nai.

"Wait! Lend me your dagger." She reached out to the silver-armored guard, took it, and cut off one side of her skirt. "Use this to cushion it. It's better not to touch it directly."

The silver armored guard obeyed respectfully, "Thank you, Madam."

He cut the plant off from the roots, and the glowing substance inside the plant slowly disappeared as they watched.

At the same time, water drops seep out from the roots of the plants.

Pei Nai poked the soil there. "It's wet. There should be a water supply behind this."

There was nothing in the room, it was extremely empty.

She knocked on the wall and said in disbelief, "Someone built a dark room under the palace just to grow these strange plants?"

Looking around, they were now in a completely enclosed underground chamber.

Pei Nai asked again: "What should we do next? Wait for Xiao Mingyi to send someone to rescue us?"

Gu Jinheng did the same as her and knocked on the wall behind him. "This wall is made of special materials. It can't be broken open from the outside."

"What should we do?" Pei Nai was shocked.

Hearing this, Gu Jinheng suddenly smiled very faintly and moved his eyes to her. She almost drowned in his gentleness.

"This place is old, but there are no corpses or traces of others left here. You can leave here, don't worry."

Hearing him say this, Pei Nai asked again: "But what if we are the first ones to break into this dark room?"

"Assassin." Gu Jinheng looked around.

Yes, the two assassins who disappeared out of nowhere must have entered here.

After he reminded her, Pei Nai finally remembered.

But did the two assassins break in accidentally, or did they know there was a secret room here? If they knew, what was their purpose?

Escape, or look for something else?
In any case, there was a high chance that they would run into each other here.

Gui Mo Gun was still in the Tang Mansion. Before entering the palace to meet the emperor, she placed the Ling Yue Gun on the carriage and did not take it down.

Now I have nothing in my hands and I feel less confident.

"Do you have a weapon?" Pei Nai turned to ask the silver-armored guard. "Madam, I have."

Pei Nai looked at him expectantly, "Let me see."

He had wrapped up the plant tightly and took the sword from his waist.

In addition to the dagger he had used to dig out the plants, he also took out a dagger and three throwing knives from various places on his body.

Pei Nai picked up a short sword and said, "Lend me this. I'll be ready to fight at any time."

"Yes."

The Silver Armor Guard nodded. He would have done the same thing even if Pei Nai hadn't said it.

But he didn't expect Pei Nai to add: "No one here needs your protection. Take care of yourself when necessary."

The guard glanced at his master, but saw that Gu Jinheng's gaze at Pei Nai paused for a moment, and he lost some of his spirit.

The guards also noticed something was wrong.

The lady seemed to be more concerned about him, a stranger, than her master.

But as a subordinate, he couldn't take care of household affairs, so he just said ambiguously: "I will swear to protect the safety of the master and his wife."

"Don't call me Madam," Pei Nai waved his hand, "What's your name?"

"Your subordinate is Zhang Ming."

Pei Nai did not ask any more questions. He put the dagger on his waist, clapped his hands, and began to look for the mechanism along the wall.

After this walk, she really found something abnormal.

On one wall, there are many grids formed by square convex patterns, which are arranged simply but neatly and regularly.

It's a bit like a chessboard, but a chessboard has 324 squares, while here there are only 64, eight horizontally and eight vertically.

On the other three walls, there was nothing else except the glowing plants and the jade covers.

It seems that if there is any clue, it can only be on this wall.

There are gaps on the edges of these protruding grids, and it seems that they can be pressed down, but Pei Nai has learned from his previous experience and dares not move.

"What should I do?" Although she didn't want to take the initiative to talk to Gu Jinheng, she was not given the opportunity to choose.

Gu Jinheng examined it and said, "Try one."

Pei Nai picked a grid and pressed it, and then a "click" sound came from behind the grid, like the sound of some mechanism being activated.

Then a piece of the wall on the right was moved out and connected to the other walls, revealing a new corridor.

This time, Zhang Ming went in first to explore the way, while Pei Nai and Gu Jinheng followed behind.

As soon as they entered the corridor, the wall closed again and moved over, driving them deeper into the corridor.

This corridor is quite long and has several bends along the way, but at the end is another dark room.

It is still empty, but the location of the corridor is different. Is this a new dark room?
Or did they circle back to where they were just now?
Pei Nai wondered.

"Still pressing it?" She turned her head to ask Gu Jinheng for his opinion.

Gu Jinheng nodded without hesitation.

Pei Nai then picked another wall grid and pressed it, and this time another corridor appeared, and they walked in as before.

But it was obvious that they had never been to this corridor before.

What came into view was a huge pit five meters deep, which replaced the dark room. Many sharp spears were buried at the bottom, standing upright.

If you accidentally fall down, the halberd will immediately pierce your body, and the consequences will be disastrous.

There are dozens of wooden stakes extending from the bottom of the pit. The top is chopped flat and circular, at the same height as the floor of the corridor, so it seems that one can step on them to walk to another corridor.

It was when they saw the huge pit that they realized that what they had accidentally entered was not a dark room.

It's an underground palace.

Looking down from here, they could see that half of the piles had fallen.

"Sir, Madam, please look over there."

Zhang Ming pointed to a place, and they looked in the direction of his finger. It was an exotic scimitar.

They couldn't see the inlays and patterns on the handle, but they could be sure that it was made by the Wu tribe. It seemed that the two assassins had been here.

There are more than three of them in this underground palace at the moment.

(End of this chapter)