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Chapter 499 Leaving a Personal Witness
With these questions in mind, Zhu Yu watched as the guards huffed and puffed as they smashed through the thick rammed earth wall, exposing the original bluestone brick walls, doors, and windows inside.

Then she was surprised to find that the doors and windows inside were not covered with paper, but were all nailed shut from the inside with wooden boards. It was almost completely airtight.

Upon seeing this, Fu Wen frowned, unable to help but think of the Chang'e Zui who was afraid of light before. He looked at Lu Qing and asked, "Master... could this place... be something like the Immortal Fortress?"

Lu Qing slightly lifted the veil in front of her hat and asked Zhu Yu, "What do you think?"

"Probably not. Those things will wither if they aren't watered regularly, and they won't live that long."

"I can't say for sure right now, but... when they open the door later, we absolutely mustn't go near it." Zhu Yu whispered to him, and also to the talisman beside him, "This place has been so airtight for over a year now, no matter what, the smell inside can't be too pleasant..."

Since there were outsiders present, she couldn't be too direct and could only hint at it.

Fortunately, Lu Qing and she had always been in sync, and Fu Wenfu had also come to trust his mistress just as much as he trusted Lu Qing during the time he spent with Zhu Yu. So none of them raised any objections, and the four of them stood at the back, none of them in a hurry to move forward.

Once the guards from the royal palace entered the courtyard and found no danger, they seemed to forget about the poison on the gate and were only focused on getting the high priest out to report back. They had no interest in paying attention to Lu Qing and the others.

Looking at their demeanor, Zhu Yu couldn't help but suspect that these people were just scoundrels hired from elsewhere at great expense. They didn't have the demeanor of a royal guard at all, nor did they have any manners. Instead, they exuded a fierce and aggressive aura.

When I came here before, I saw their people bullying men and women with ease, but today they seem both wicked and brainless.

It seems that no matter how autocratic King Brahma is, he is still an easy person to deceive. Otherwise, he would not have kept such a group of people who are strong but have no discipline as guards of the royal palace, and ordered them to abduct women and do evil deeds outside.

Furthermore, this also shows that Brahma may have been preoccupied with his own survival, and his only goal was to stay alive, so he couldn't care less about anything else in his own territory.

Before long, the guards smashed the door open as well.

They immediately threw away the wood, exchanged glances, and one of them stepped forward and tapped the door a few times with the hilt of his sword: "High Priest, the King requests your presence; he has important matters to discuss!"

After he finished speaking, everyone held their breath and listened carefully to what was happening inside.

The house was quiet; not a sound could be heard inside.

"High Priest, the King is in a hurry. If you don't open the door, don't blame us for offending you!" The guard knocked several more times, but there was still no response from inside, so he shouted into the room again.

His response was still silence.

Without further hesitation, they swung their swords and slashed at the door.

Although the door was sealed with a layer of wooden planks from the inside, it was not made of a very hard material. In no time, the door was chopped into pieces. After a few more kicks, the broken door panels fell to the ground, revealing the bare doorway.

Looking through the doorway, it was pitch black inside. Seeing no movement, the group of people were about to walk in. Zhu Yu thought for a moment, then stepped forward and called out to them, "Guards, my master told me to tell you not to rush in. Knock on those windows first, otherwise it'll be pitch black and you won't be able to see anything."

After saying that, she turned around and ran back behind Lu Qing, not wanting to get any closer to the door.

However, in the eyes of the guards, her actions seemed more like those of a naive young apprentice who had never seen much of the world, being pushed out by her master to deliver a message, hence her unease and fear.

The guards looked into the dark doorway and thought the warning made sense. It was pitch black inside, and they couldn't see anything. If anything happened, it wouldn't be good for them.

So the men split up, circled the area, and used their swords to break the wooden boards that had been used to seal the windows, allowing light to shine in.

"Second Master, why did you remind them of this?" Fu Lu asked Zhu Yu in a low voice, puzzled, as the group had gone around to the back and were some distance away. "Let them do whatever they want, why bother with them!"

“You don’t understand.” Zhu Yu shook his head, glancing in the direction of the guards. “I’m afraid that if they don’t break open the windows for ventilation, and someone dies inside, we won’t have a single witness in front of Brahma.”

"Huh?!" Fu Lu was taken aback.

"For over a year, sealed in a place that's more like a tomb than a burial chamber, anyone would die." Zhu Yu sighed and looked at Lu Qing.

Lu Qing glanced at her through the edge of the veil, seemingly already fully aware that the person inside had little chance of survival. She simply told Zhu Yu, "You can only go in after you've made sure there's no danger."

“We’re all the same,” Zhu Yu replied.

After that, none of them spoke again, watching as the guards smashed open the surrounding windows, and finally, some light and shadow could be vaguely seen in the previously dark doorway.

After the windows were smashed open, the already small room was exposed to the wind. Zhu Yu and the others were not too worried as they stood upwind. They watched from a distance as the gauze curtains fluttered in the wind inside the room, swaying like phantoms.

Judging from this gauze curtain alone, it is exactly the same as the Brahma King's bedroom, and it really seems to be the work of the same person.

Now that they could see the light and shadow inside, the guards no longer hesitated and rushed inside, shouting "High Priest!" as they went.

Lu Qing and the other three waited patiently outside.

Listening to the guards shouting inside, Zhu Yu guessed that they had done a lot of work to replace the air inside. He couldn't help but shake his head, but thinking about how the people of the Brahma Land had been harmed by these so-called royal guards, he couldn't feel much sympathy.

Soon, they heard the guards talking as they found the high priest, but there was only the voice of the guards from beginning to end, and no one responded.

A little while later, a guard ran out from inside with a strange expression and said to Lu Qing, "Divine Doctor, don't just stand outside waiting! Come in and help us see what's wrong!"