Chapter 65: The Second Fragment
Two big men squatted down, one of them gently patted the ground. After a crackling sound, a big hole in the ground was opened with a radius of about four meters.
A man poked his head out of the cave, nodded slightly to the two big men coming, and then shrank back. The two big men raised their legs and took a step, and their bodies quickly sank into the cave.
"The secret warehouse of Feilong Village is actually placed underground! And there are guards in the cave... I said why the important places of this secret warehouse are sparsely crowded? It turns out that there are people monitoring them underground... The two big men were introduced into it without even saying a word. I guess the guards here have already received the news. This means that they have a way of messaging that they don't know..." Looking at the slowly closed cave, Xia Zhanhong narrowed his eyes and his thoughts rotated rapidly.
After thinking for a while, Xia Zhanhong's eyes narrowed, he pulled out the first section of the steel gun and placed it on his body, then took off the cloth bag, stood up from the darkness, and raised his legs to walk towards the place where the hole was. Now there is no other way except to try to get into the hole. If the two big men come out and snatched it, they will most likely expose their whereabouts. In that case, it will be difficult for him to break through the blockade of dozens of powerful crossbows set up by the village gate.
Xia Zhanhong walked quickly towards the cave while silently chanting in his heart: "Positioning, warrior!"
"Five meters underground, two people! Turn to the south, two people..."
"Huh!" Xia Zhanhong breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, there are only two guards. It is not difficult to solve them before they send the message!"
When he arrived at the place where the cave was located, Xia Zhanhong squatted down gently. Under the light from the torch not far away, it could be seen that this flat ground was actually iron plate.
He stretched out his hand and hit the iron plate a few times, and a voice suddenly came from behind: "Who is it?"
Xia Zhanhong was shocked, but did not make any major reaction. He just stood up and said slowly: "The master of the village is here. I have something important to tell those two people just now!"
"The people in the cave were able to monitor the surroundings, but I don't know why the sound came from behind me!" Xia Zhanhong predicted various possibilities and strategies to escape once exposed.
"The master of the village ordered you to come, it's strange! Why didn't we get the news? Wait a minute, let's ask!" The voice came out again!
"You don't need to ask. An important guest has just arrived and the village leader has gone out to greet him. Before leaving, he ordered me to come with a token!" Xia Zhanhong said lightly.
"Hmm? Isn't the village leader here... bring the token!" The voice fell, and the iron plate on the ground slowly collapsed, revealing a gap, and a bright light shot out from it.
Xia Zhanhong reached into his arms, took out the token found from Sanying, and threw it into the crack with his shaking hands. At the same time, he was also ready, his whole body was like a bow of a full moon, about to explode. Once the token could not be escaped, he had to escape quickly.
After a while, a crack sounded and the crack slowly expanded. At this time, Xia Zhanhong's heart, which had been hanging high, was slightly relieved.
The entrance of the four-meter-a-radius cave was exposed, and a wide staircase led to the obliquely below. A young man in his twenties was standing on the steps and waved to Xia Zhanhong.
Xia Zhanhong nodded, raised his foot up the ladder, and walked down step by step. Behind him, the young man closed the iron plate and followed him.
After more than twenty steps, after walking down nearly five meters, the steps reached the end. On a flat open space in front, another young man was looking over. Behind him, a copper tube as thick as a teacup mouth stretched out two meters upwards and then submerged into the stone wall.
"That copper tube is probably used to convey messages to each other!" When Xia Zhanhong looked at each other for a while, the young man had already spoken: "There is no problem with the token. You can go back quickly. You should not stay in this place for a long time!"
"Okay!" Xia Zhanhong nodded, his body moved suddenly, and he took a step forward and instantly approached the young man. At the same time, he raised his left palm and cut it horizontally towards the young man's neck.
"Ah!" The young man did not expect this situation at all. He was about to open his mouth and exclaim, but Xia Zhanhong's movements were too fast. As soon as his mouth opened, his voice was before it could be made, Xia Zhanhong slashed on the side neck with a palm and fell down immediately.
Another young man was stunned when he saw this sudden change, and then he hurriedly called for help. But at this time, Xia Zhanhong's ghostly figure had arrived at him at some point. He raised his hand and punched a knife, and the young man also fell down.
After dealing with these two people, Xia Zhanhong turned around and crossed this small flat space. He turned south behind him. A narrow passage more than two meters wide appeared in front of him.
Xia Zhanhong kept running forward quickly at his feet. The passage was more than 20 meters long, and at the end of the passage was a large door. Obviously, it was where the secret library was located.
When he arrived at the door, Xia Zhanhong listened with his ears and found that there was no movement inside, so he quietly pushed open the door and quickly covered it in.
Looking at the densely packed piles of herbs and equipment in the space of more than 100 square meters, even Xia Zhanhong took a breath.
"How many merchants have Feilong Village snatched over the years? The goods placed here alone are worth less than three thousand blue crystals..." Thinking in my mind, Xia Zhanhong had already swept the entire space, but on the wall on the right, he found a secret door.
"I guess Lan Jing should be here!" Xia Zhanhong exerted force at his feet, and then he took a few steps outside the secret door. At this time, a creaking sound was squeaked and the secret door was pushed open, and the two big men walked out.
"Yeah!" The two big men walked out of the secret door and saw Xia Zhanhong approaching, they couldn't help but ask: "Who are you? How could you be in the secret warehouse?"
However, after this subconscious question was spoken, the two big men immediately noticed the problem. They were not the two young men who had been guarding here. They were very familiar with the various places in the village. Even if most people in the village didn't know their names, they would feel familiar when they saw it, and they didn't look like the person in front of them. They were so strange.
However, just when they realized that something was wrong, Xia Zhanhong did not give them any chance and had already taken the lead! In the original idea, Xia Zhanhong also wanted to force the two of them to stop them. When he saw the other party walking out of the secret door, he ignored what the two men said. He pulled out the steel gun on his body with one hand, shook his wrists, and a large spot of light sprinkled outwards, covering the two big men in an instant.
The power of this kind of star shower in the sky was even Zhang Kechuan, who was a perfect martial arts soldier, so how could these two great men be spared?
"Puff! Puff!" Two light sounds, the two big men's bodies froze in place, covering their throats with their hands, their eyes wide open, and their faces full of horror. Then, the two knelt on the ground, and blood oozed out from the fingers covering their throats.
After killing two big men, Xia Zhanhong immediately searched his body and quickly found eight wallets from them. He opened them one by one to confirm that they were all blue crystals. He hurriedly hung the wallet around his waist to leave. In the current situation, the earlier he left here, the easier it was to get out. Once the time came, the mountain dragon found that the two big men had not returned, and he would definitely feel suspicious.
But just as Xia Zhanhong packed his wallet and was about to turn around, his eyes just flew past the four open secret doors. The situation inside came into view. His figure suddenly stopped and his eyebrows suddenly raised.
The space inside the secret door is not large, with a maximum of only seven or eight square meters, but it is extremely empty, with only a small wooden box placed alone in the middle of the house.
"There is only one wooden box in the whole room! The things in it must be valuable!" As soon as this thought changed, Xia Zhanhong had the idea of exploring the truth, and it rose like mushrooms after a rain.
With almost no hesitation, Xia Zhanhong quickly entered the secret door, and before coming to the wooden box, he reached out to open the box lid!
I stared at the wooden box and looked carefully. I saw that the box was divided into two parts, one big and one small. Most of them were neatly placed in rectangular paper bags, while only one purse was placed in the small part.
"What are these paper bags?" Xia Zhanhong reached out and picked up a paper bag. He felt very light when he had no weight. He opened the paper bag and the fragrance of herbs was filled with the nose. Looking inward, he saw several dried grass in it.
"These are..." Xia Zhanhong stared at the grass in the paper bag and silently said in his heart: "Show!"
Three bold characters appear on the pages of the book: "Gu Bencao!"
"Gubencao!" Xia Zhanhong's eyes lit up, and his face suddenly showed a look of joy, and he murmured: "This is the main medicine for refining the Dingyuan Dan, the Gangbencao... There are ten Gangbencao in a paper bag, and there are no less than a hundred paper bags in this box. This is a thousand Gangbencao... The medicinal effect of Gangbencao is very high. Only one plant in a Gangbencao can be used. The value of these Gangbencao..."
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Xia Zhanhong turned to look at a small part of the wooden box.
"I think those wallets were originally placed in the small box in this box!" Xia Zhanhong said, reaching out to pick up the last wallet. It felt very light when I bought it, almost the same as the paper bag containing the cohesive herbs.
"What is in this wallet? It's so light!" Xia Zhanhong's perception of the severity of force was very clear. As soon as he bought the wallet, he noticed something inside.
After opening the purse, Xia Zhanhong reached out and pulled inward, and a small piece of worn-out sheepskin was taken out.
"This..." Looking at this piece of sheepskin, Xia Zhanhong's eyes lit up. He quickly spread the piece of sheepskin, and saw a few strokes on it, drawing some simple lines, almost exactly the same as the piece of sheepskin in his hand.
"Another broken picture..." Xia Zhanhong's smile was uncontrollable. He knew that everything he got tonight, whether it was blue crystal or Guben herb, could not keep up with this broken sheepskin.
After calming down a little, Xia Zhanhong put the purse in her arms, then closed the box cover, lifted the entire wooden box, flashed out of the secret door, and ran out of the secret warehousing.
Chapter completed!