"Tell me, what did you all overhear here?" I asked them, these five people didn't take their turn to be on duty, so they took advantage of their free time and ran under our window to fish for foreign food.
"General...General, we really didn't hear anything," a person chirped in reply to me.
"No? Well, this general doesn't like those guys who say what they mean. Just listen to them. What's the big deal?"
"Uh... To be honest, General, we didn't do this on purpose. It's just that we came down from the sentry post just now and happened to walk here. Then, we heard the shouts of Mrs. Liumei and Mrs. Liujiao and thought something happened.
What's the accident? I just came here to listen. I... we are actually worried about you, General. If you have any accident and we don't know about it at all, wouldn't that be a dereliction of duty?" A sergeant stood there and said glibly.
He really didn't blush, and what he said was true. After hearing this, Liu Yan hid behind me and smiled secretly. When she looked at Liu Mei and Liujia, she couldn't help it for a long time, and a blush spread on her face.
I still had something serious in mind, so I said to them, "I'll spare you today. Don't do this bold thing again in the future. Go, you guys, go and call two more people. We have a mission."
As soon as they heard that there was a mission, they immediately returned to their normal state, stood upright, and said to me in unison, "General, if you have any orders, please give me the order."
I took Yi Liujiao, Liu Yan and Liu Mei, plus seven sergeants, and quickly returned to the hall.
The spacious hall is now empty, and the furniture and furnishings that can be moved have long been swept away by the "mob"
I took them to a corner in the north corner of the hall. There was a pillar with two people hugging each other. Between the pillar and the corner was a three-step wide stone floor with square bricks one and a half feet tall. From the outside, it looked like
It's no different from other places, because the whole hall is covered with this kind of stuff on the floor.
"General, why did you bring us here?" A sergeant was puzzled by Liu Mei's quick hands. Without waiting for me to say anything, she quickly walked to a stone statue of a girl not far from the corridor. It was about a person tall.
, so ** small, with lifelike facial expressions
She stood in front of the statue. The two of them were almost the same height.
On its chest, both hands hold a round plate with half a bowl of lamp oil inside, and the black wick is exposed.
Her two hands pinched the edges of the lamp from both sides, and she pressed clockwise, and the disk rotated bit by bit.
A slight sound came from behind us. Everyone turned around in unison and saw a special stone brick moving slowly next to the thick pillar. The cracks in the bricks gradually left and opened to the bottom.
Leaning over and looking, a sturdy solid wood ladder appeared in the hole.
"Saw it"
In that jade bowl, we collected the visual information of three swiftlets, and they told us about this conspicuous but difficult-to-detect secret switch.
A Dutch man and two Dutch women hurriedly appeared on the water in the jade bowl. They did just that, ran to the statue, turned on the switch, and then disappeared into the entrance of the secret passage.
"General, how did you find this place? It's not easy to find." A sergeant leaned over the entrance of the cave and took a look, his body full of curiosity.
This time I tell you, the shouts of Liujiao and Liumei just now were reporting to me that this mysterious cave entrance was discovered by them accidentally.
Several people were doubtful and had no time to pay attention to my joke. I waved my hand, and the two sergeants, one after the other, holding knives in their hands, went down the forest ladder from the entrance of the cave. I was behind, Rokkaku and the others were behind me.
Ask two sergeants to guard the entrance of the cave. If there is any news, go down and notify us immediately.
After getting out of Mudi, I saw a sergeant holding a fire seal he took out from his arms, and another man standing next to him, warily looking in a direction that he couldn't see clearly.
Through the light coming from the hole, I saw a light hole dug into the stone wall of the corridor. This design can save the space that is not spacious.
I lit one, walked a dozen steps and found another one, which was also extinguished. It seemed that the people who escaped from here didn't want to come back here, and blew out all the lights along the way.
After turning a corner further, the moisture in the cave was a bit heavy and wet, and there was a layer of water droplets hanging on the stone walls. People could only walk forward one after another, even if they wanted to keep up with each other.
No, two sergeants cleared the way, Liu Mei followed closely behind me, she held my hand tightly in the dim tunnel.
At the beginning, our feet were still flat. We groped our way bit by bit. After about a meal, the stone walls on both sides disappeared. Liujiao whistled behind me and said, "After walking so far, I guess
Isn’t it already outside the village?”
I said, "Maybe it's like this. Even though we walked for so long, we spent a lot of time lighting lanterns along the way. It's such a distance, but I don't know the direction of the tunnel."
Further down is a slope. After walking up for a while, the stone pavement under your feet reaches the end. When your body touches the cave wall, soil will fall off. I asked the sergeants to be careful, but this tunnel is obviously
The owner of the house built it as a precaution and did not intend to use it frequently. It was only used once for emergency escape.
However, such a project is already quite large in scale.
I had a premonition from the moment I entered the compound. It has no back door. From a common sense point of view, this is wrong. There is no back door. What to do in case of emergency? The authentic discovery and the scene in the jade bowl
, so that everything looks more normal.
In the last half of the road, we had to find a fire break to see the road clearly. However, the tunnel soon reached the end. It was not an offensive and defensive facility, but an emergency exit for the owner to avoid the sudden appearance of the road.
It’s dangerous, so our group didn’t encounter any trouble.
Finally, we got out from under a forest cover above our heads. The camouflage of weeds and soil covered on the cover fell back into the hole one after another.
The sergeants had already arrived outside. They looked both sides and front and back, and reported to me, "General, ladies, this is a forest, and no footprints were found on the ground."
This is just a clearing in the forest. The weeds are overgrown and it looks like no one has been here for a long time. Our exit is located right in the middle of four big trees on the grass. The gap between the trees can only allow one person to go in and out sideways, although it is simple.
, but the concealment of this exit is still remarkable, which shows the builder’s intentions.
I looked at the grass around me, squatted down, and saw a series of signs of slight lodging on the grass. "Go there and take a look, and be careful."
"Husband, we have come out so far, what should we do with the remaining sergeants behind us?"
Liu Yan's words also reminded me of them. I just asked them to come down together. Just as I was thinking, I saw a figure flashing at the entrance of the cave. One, two, and two sergeants came up. The lights we left in the cave were no longer there.
It didn't blow out, so they quickly followed, "General, let's take a look, you took too long to come down."
"Just in time," I said to the two people, "You go back and call the other people here, and then chase us together in this direction." I pointed to the direction we were going.
"Is it...that we won't be able to defend that compound?" a sergeant asked.
"If you don't guard it anymore, you won't be able to catch the owner. What's the use of guarding that yard? Go quickly." They responded and turned around to disappear into the cave entrance again. We quickened our pace.
Here is a large virgin forest, and soon the sun above our heads was dappled by the dense leaves. We are chasing three people, a pampered man and two young foreign women. I can roughly guess their movements.
, Ren Yeye and the many rebellious slaves are no longer slaves they can call around and drink. After the good days of this place are gone, there is nothing to miss here. They must be thinking of leaving here.
As we walked, the sergeant behind us used a knife to carve directions on the thickest tree trunks around us. The white arrows were enough for them to find us.
We walked and walked, talking and laughing loudly while having three wives. Now we know the details of the enemy very clearly. There are only three of them, so we don’t pay too much attention to vigilance.
After climbing over a small hillside, we suddenly saw a panicked figure. The two sergeants at the beginning shouted first, "Stop, if you don't stop, we will..."
The beige figure started running among the trees and grass. The sergeant surrounded him from left to right and quickly pushed a screaming woman down in the grass.
There was a bloodstain on her face drawn by a branch. She raised her eyes and looked at us in horror. Her chest was heaving violently and her face was pale. She was a laggard woman, and there was no trace of the other two.
"Let her go, Rokko, you take care of her."
The sergeants jumped, Hekaku sheathed his sword, walked over, and stretched out his hand to her
This was a young woman in her thirties. She was wearing a long beige skirt. This outfit was obviously not meant for escaping, but the incident happened so suddenly that she didn’t even have the time to change her clothes. She slipped out from under the skirt.
The exposed shoes are covered with mud
As soon as she was pulled up from the ground by Liujiao, she suddenly launched an attack on Liujiao. This was something none of us could have imagined. However, Liujiao was still very vigilant. When she saw the opponent's upper body move, she immediately threw her away and moved lightly to the side.
He jumped up and not only dodged the opponent's attack, but also knocked a small dagger from her hand with a slap.
The woman desperately went to pick up her weapon in the grass, but was kicked down by Liujia again and fell into the grass.
As a last resort, she turned her head and shouted in one direction. The other two people jumped up from the grass not far away like rabbits and ran away.
Waving his hands, the five sergeants immediately chased them quickly. They could not outrun the sergeants. Soon Fan captured the two men ten steps away and walked back to us, pushing and shoving them.
The forty-year-old white-faced Dutch man looked at the first woman with mixed feelings, neither love nor hate.