Volume 4: Holy Capital Tribulation Chapter 238: The Abyss (Part 1)
"Hush..." Zhao Yu hushed carefully when he came to the dry well, then said to Xu Zun, "Don't worry! Ah Xiu has already gone down and left a mark."
Xu Zun leaned forward to look at the inky black well, then turned around and instructed Huo Anu:
"Anu, you and Hou Zhen stay here and be careful to hide your whereabouts."
"grown ups……"
Huo Anu was reluctant, but then he thought that it was because Xu Zun trusted him that he let him stay there.
"There's not much space down there, so it's hard to open your iron umbrella!"
Xu Zun saw what she meant and reminded her in a low voice.
Huo Anu stopped hesitating and immediately pulled the rope in with Hou Zhen.
Zhao Yu and Ani were the first to climb down the rope, and the other guards followed in turn, holding the rope, until Xu Zun was the last one.
These people all had superb martial arts skills, so they could descend the rope without any effort and without making any sound.
Xu Zun is considered an elite in the police force, so climbing a rope is no problem for him.
After a short while, Xu Zun had climbed down six or seven meters. As the force on the rope gradually weakened, it meant that Zhao Yu and others had reached the bottom.
However, just as Xu Zun was about to go down, he suddenly heard a sound of fighting coming from somewhere at the bottom of the well.
"Not good..." Zhao Yu secretly cried out, and immediately rushed towards the sound...
Xu Zunze was frightened and his wrists loosened, and he slipped off the rope.
Because it had just rained, the bottom of the well was covered with wet mud. Xu Zun didn't know how deep the well was and he stumbled on it, about to fall.
As a result, Ani was quick to act and hugged Xu Zun in her arms, like a beauty saving a hero.
"My Lord, be careful."
Ani helped Xu Zun to stand up, but before she could say anything, she heard the sound of a fight getting more intense somewhere at the bottom of the well.
It seems that Zhao Yu and others have already started fighting with the people inside...
Ding ding dong dong…
The sound of weapons colliding was unusually clear in the deep ancient well.
Following the sound, I saw a hole in the wall of the ancient well. A faint light could be seen from inside the hole, and a human figure flashed under the light.
"Damn bear!" Suddenly, Zhao Yu shouted from inside, "Catch him alive! Don't let him die!"
At this moment, Li Xing and other guards had also rushed in, and the sound of fighting suddenly escalated.
Ani wanted to go in with the sword in hand, but she was worried that Xu Zun might be in danger, so she didn't dare to move.
"Ani!" Xu Zun ordered, "Let's go in too!"
After receiving the order, Ani lowered her head and crawled into the hole, and Xu Zun followed closely behind.
Inside was a dilapidated and damp corridor.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the two entered, they saw Ah Xiu lying in a corner of the corridor, holding his shoulder, and blood was gushing out from the gap between his hands covering his shoulder ...
"Ah Xiu..." Annie called out.
Unexpectedly, at the same moment, the lights deep in the corridor suddenly went out!
"Damn! What's going on?" Zhao Yu yelled, "Flint, flint, quick..."
Click, click…
As the flint struck, a flash of light appeared again.
"Where's the person? Quickly...quickly find him..."
Hearing what happened inside, Annie immediately took a step back and protected Xu Zun again.
However, after waiting for a long time, no one came out.
The sound of fighting also stopped abruptly.
After a while, Zhao Yu came out with his head down and reported to Xu Zun in a depressed tone: "Sir, I failed to do my job well and that person got away!"
What!?
Xu Zun first squatted down and checked Ashizai's injuries. After seeing that he was not seriously injured, he walked into the corridor.
But there was an iron door deep in the corridor, and inside the iron door was a secret room that had obviously been renovated.
The secret room is divided into two rooms, the outer one is an office study, and the inner one is a bedroom.
At this moment, blood was flowing on the floor of the study. A man dressed in official clothes of the Ministry of Works was lying in a pool of blood, lifeless.
Xu Zun recognized at a glance that this person was Shi Chun, the chief architect of the Ministry of Water Resources!
"This..." Xu Zun was even more confused and asked hurriedly, "What on earth is going on? Who was that person just now?"
"Yes..." Zhao Yu lowered his head and said like a child who had made a mistake, "It was Cao Ding's butler. This guy is so powerful. No wonder even the Eastern Divine Constable was almost killed by him..."
"Fuck!" Xu Zun cursed, "Where are the people!?"
" We had the upper hand," Zhao Yu said, "and we had already stabbed him several times. But we didn't expect that he would extinguish the oil lamp. After the light came on, he disappeared..."
Hearing this, Annie immediately rushed into the bedroom, but saw that one side of the bedroom wall was open, which was clearly a secret door.
At this moment, Li Xing was standing inside the secret door with a knife in his hand, frowning as he looked at the situation inside.
Apparently, the butler escaped from here.
When Xu Zun entered the bedroom, he felt a cool breeze and instinctively felt that there was something unusual behind the secret door.
Sure enough, when he approached the secret door and looked down, he was deeply shocked!
But behind the secret door was a bottomless ravine. When I shone a torch down, I saw that the ravine was made entirely of large bluestones. Although I could only see a small part of it in the light, I could already feel the magnificence of this deep ravine!
Oh My God!
The ravine is about two meters wide and bottomless, a veritable abyss.
The damp and cold wind blew from below, making Xu Zun shudder and feel uneasy.
"Hey? Something's wrong?" Ani looked up and down and asked curiously, "There's no road here. Where are the people?"
"He..." At this time, Li Xing gritted his teeth and said bitterly, "He jumped down!"
What!!?
Everyone was surprised.
"Yes," Li Xing said affirmatively, "I saw it, he really jumped down!"
"No... that's not right!" Ani immediately shook her head. "That doesn't make sense. There's a deep ditch behind the secret door. So what's the point of building this secret door?"
Everyone was talking about it, while Xu Zun was staring at the abyss below the ravine in a daze.
Before, he only learned from Chen Taiji that Xuanmiao City was a six-layer ancient capital, and there were ancient city ruins underneath the capital.
But I never expected it to be so large!
A ravine like this is as deep as an abyss!
"Come on, come on... make way, make way..." At this time, Zhao Yu picked up a stone from somewhere and threw it into the ravine.
Everyone listened attentively, and after a few seconds, a faint thump sound came from below.
There is water!
Everyone soon realized that this might be an ancient canal secret passage.
"Oh... Sir..." Ah Xiuzi stumbled into the bedroom, holding his shoulder, and said to Xu Zun, "I am incompetent and was discovered by them!"
"Ah Xiuzi ," Xu Zun just remembered what happened just now and asked hurriedly, "What happened just now?"
"I saw Shi Chun had not come out of the well for a long time, so I separated from Lord Zhao. Lord Zhao went to report the news, and I followed him into the well." Ah Xiuzai narrated, "After I followed him in, I heard someone talking inside, so I eavesdropped from outside.
"I heard that one of the two people inside was Shi Chun, and the other was Cao Ding's butler.
"I knew it was a serious matter, so I didn't dare to move. But I never expected that the two of them would actually start an argument. After Shi Chun was stabbed, he suddenly broke through the door and exposed me. I started fighting with the butler...
"I didn't expect that the butler was so skilled in martial arts that I was no match for him. That's why I was stabbed by him. Fortunately, Lord Zhao came over at this time, so what happened just now didn't happen!"
"Dispute..." Xu Zun asked hurriedly, "Why did they quarrel so much that they had to fight for their lives?"
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