Emperor Zhaoming was trapped alone in the prayer hall. If an assassin sneaked in, it would be like a sheep entering the tiger's mouth, and there would be no return.
"Bang!" "Bang!" The imperial troops behind seemed to have heard Xiao Lingyue's words, and they banged against the palace door even more desperately.
However, the Prayer Hall is not an ordinary palace.
It was specially built for the dead. To put it bluntly, it is a hell hall.
According to the custom of the Northern Qin State, the underworld is not exposed to light.
Therefore, the praying hall has no windows on all sides, and is not made of wood as a whole, but is made of large pieces of hard gray stone, sealed with high walls, and built in a remote and cold place. There is only one door for entry and exit.
Logically speaking, this palace door would not be sealed, but now it is somehow blocked from the inside.
Seven or eight strong Imperial Guardsmen tried to knock on the door but couldn't open it.
Perhaps because of the stone walls, the sound insulation effect is very good. Once the palace door is closed, no movement can be heard inside.
Xiao Lingyue frowned and looked around: "How long has your Majesty been in there?"
Xue Hai tried to draw, but found that he couldn't explain clearly, so he just held his sword and wrote quickly on the ground.
He wrote: "After dinner, His Majesty said he wanted to stay alone with the late Queen for a while, and ordered no one to disturb him, so he entered the prayer hall alone. I and others were guarding outside. In the middle of the night, a loud noise suddenly came from the prayer hall.
The palace door is closed and cannot be opened."
"While I was thinking of a solution, a fire broke out in the main hall in front of me, and thick smoke ignited from nowhere. After smelling it, it hurt my throat and made me unable to speak. Then the assassin appeared."
Xiao Lingyue watched him finish writing a long string of words, and keenly grasped the key points: "Did the first loud noise come from the prayer hall?"
Xue Hai nodded solemnly.
"In other words, you are not sure about His Majesty's safety at all now? You don't know what happened in the prayer hall?"
Xiao Lingyue's scalp almost exploded.
Has it been half an hour?
If there is really danger in the prayer hall, will His Majesty still be alive?
The expression on Xue Hai's face was ashamed and impatient. He quickly wrote: "The palace door can't be opened, what can you do?"
Xiao Lingyue didn't care about anything else and immediately walked to the palace door: "Let me try, you all get out of the way!"
Several Imperial Guards hesitantly stepped aside.
Xiao Lingyue casually picked up a big knife from the ground, took a deep breath, poured her inner strength into the blade, and suddenly slashed it hard.
"boom!!"
The blade slashed down.
A very deep knife mark instantly appeared on the iron wood palace door, almost cutting off the two palace doors in half. Wood chips flew into the air, and large cracks covered the entire door.
Xue Hai: "?!!"
A group of wounded Imperial Guards: "!!!"
Everyone's eyes changed instantly, and they all looked at Xiao Lingyue with a look of shock and disbelief.
Are all the daughters of high-ranking families in the capital so cruel?
It's a pity that no matter how cruel you are, it's useless.
From the cracks in the knife marks, Xiao Lingyue could only see that the entrance to the palace was tightly blocked by a huge stone.
Her blade penetrated the palace door and struck the stone, leaving only a shallow white mark without even peeling off the skin of the stone.
"What is this?" Xiao Lingyue was simply shocked. Popular『』