After walking along the corridor for a long time, Gu Chunuan found that there was a stone wall in front of him and there was no way to go.
She didn't believe that there would be nothing in front of such a long secret corridor built deep in the palace.
After searching carefully for many times, she pushed and pushed the stone wall but could not find any mystery. She was so tired that she collapsed directly to the ground, gasping for air.
"It's strange, how come there is no flaw at all."
Gu Chunuan did not believe in evil and looked at the smooth and flat wall, trying hard to see if there was any formation here.
But she failed again.
After finally getting rid of the people who were spying on them, they came here. Now they have wasted most of the night here. They don't know how Xiao Yuxuan is doing now. Gu Chunuan was annoyed and punched the stone wall hard.
The punch was so hard that the stone wall was stained with her blood, and unexpectedly it opened automatically.
Gu Chunuan looked at the blood on his hands and didn't quite understand why his blood could open the stone wall.
Could it be because this wall needs watering of blood?
She ignored this and moved forward step by step with the fire certificate in hand.
The secret passage was like a maze, with countless winding and forked roads. Gu Chunuan was afraid of getting lost, so he marked every forked road he passed.
As time passed by, Gu Chunuan's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
She walked here for nearly an hour and didn't see any marks she made. If she hadn't gone back to check, she almost thought that the marks she made had been erased.
If you continue to walk forward, you're afraid it will be dawn when you come out, and you won't be able to escape the surveillance of the Empress' spy.
If we don’t move forward... Wanli Xiao Yuxuan is trapped inside?
Gu Chunuan was in a dilemma.
Suddenly, she heard a faint gasp in front of her.
Gu Chunuan stepped forward gently.
Vaguely, she saw a woman with disheveled hair being trapped all over by a thick iron chain at the mouth of the bowl.
The woman's body stank, it smelled very bad, and her body was covered with numerous wounds. It looked like she had been tortured quite a bit.
Judging from the shabby clothes on her body, she must have been trapped here for several years.
After confirming that she was the only one around, Gu Chunuan plucked up the courage to move forward.
Because of the close distance, Gu Chunuan finally saw her appearance clearly.
She couldn't help being frightened, and she wanted to leave conditionally, and even the fire stick in her hand was almost extinguished.
Empress...
She turned out to be the empress...
"Cough cough cough..."
The woman coughed in pain. Gu Chunuan turned around after being shocked, took out the soft sword on his body and lifted up the woman's hair.
With the faint light, Gu Chunuan was sure that this woman looked exactly like the empress.
It's just that the empress's eyes are like a venomous snake tempered with poison, and every move she makes is creepy. She always feels gloomy, like falling into hell.
The woman in front of her was pale, her lips were dry, her expression was sluggish, her eyes had no sparkle at all, and her breathing was so weak that she could hardly hear it. It was obvious that she was exhausted and was just holding on.
Gu Chunuan asked, "Who are you? Who trapped you here?"
Hearing her words, the woman opened her eyes drowsily, tried her best to look at Gu Chunuan, and then nervously looked elsewhere to see if anyone was there.
When he saw no one was there, his tense body relaxed.
Although it was just a small movement, Gu Chunuan could tell that she was afraid of someone coming.
The woman opened her dry mouth and wanted to say something, but another painful dry cough came out of her mouth.
Gu Chunuan took some water from the space ring and gave it to her to drink.
The woman hadn't drank water for an unknown amount of time. She held the kettle tightly with both hands, eager to drink it all.
"Slow down. You've been dehydrated for too long. You can't drink too much."
Gu Chunuan lowered his head and looked at her hand holding the kettle.
The palms of both her hands were cut off at the base, and now only the arms are left, with no palms at all.
Her legs were also chopped off.
I don't know who was so cruel. Not only did she chop off her hands and feet, but she also dug a bloody hole in her body.
"Thank you...thank you...ahem..."
"Besides you, is there anyone else here? For example, a young and handsome guy, probably in his early twenties, wearing a blue brocade uniform."
"I don't know. There are many secret rooms here. Each secret room is blocked and separated by a long distance. Ahem..."
"Then I'll go look for it myself."
"Don't, don't go, she will find out, she won't let you go...ahem..."
Every time a woman speaks, it feels like she has expended all her energy.
Even though she had no hands, she still held onto Gu Chunuan tightly, fearing that Gu Chunuan would be discovered by that vicious woman.
"Who are you talking about? The Empress?"
"Answer me first, who are you and how did you get in?"
"I'm just a doctor who broke in accidentally."
"Break in by accident? This secret passage is the most hidden secret passage in the Ice Kingdom. No one knows about it except the emperors of the past dynasties. And if you want to enter here, you have to come in from the imperial study room. The imperial study room must be very tightly guarded, no matter how powerful you are.
It's impossible to sneak into the imperial study, unless...unless you come in from the side room not far from the imperial study."
The middle-aged woman's depressed expression suddenly brightened, she looked at Gu Chunuan seriously, and even struggled to crawl towards Gu Chunuan.
"You...you came in from the side room, right?" She was very excited, so excited that her chest was heaving violently.
Gu Chunuan didn't understand what she was excited about.
I could only nod and admit, "Yes, I came in through the mechanism in the side room accidentally."
"To get to the side house, you have to pass a stone wall. That stone wall weighs tens of thousands of kilograms and cannot be opened without human effort. How did you open it?"
Gu Chunuan looked at the blood on his fist.
This action was seen by the middle-aged woman. Her breathing quickened again, and the previous depression completely disappeared. Instead, she said with great excitement, "It's you. You used your own blood to open that stone wall, right?"
"Any questions?"
"No one can open that stone wall except someone from the royal family. Your blood can open that stone wall and prove that you are a member of the royal family, or my...my daughter..."
Gu Chunuan was speechless.
"Your daughter?"
"Yes, my daughter, the daughter I lost since childhood. Daughter... daughter... I..."
"Wait a minute, don't rush to recognize me. If I guess correctly, you are the real empress of the Ice Kingdom."
"Yes, that woman pretended to be my appearance, replaced my identity, trapped me here, and chopped off all my hands and feet. She is not the real empress, I am..."
Gu Chunuan glanced at the embarrassed real empress and sneered, "My guess is indeed correct. She is not the real empress, so her temperament changed drastically."
"Daughter, can you tell me what's going on outside now? Has that cruel woman done anything harmful?"