Chapter 12 Section Eleven

The west corner of Taiji Palace must be the most eerie place among the three major palaces in Chang'an.The Royal Dacang in the north and the Yeting Palace in the south are absolutely forbidden places that the Shence Army is always on guard and patrolling.Regardless of day or night, the thin, gossamer-like cries from Ye Ting Palace always hovered in the sky, and then were scattered by crows' crows. There are towering palace walls on three sides, and the narrow strip sandwiched between Dacang and Yeting never sees sunlight all day long.Even walking around here will be frightening.In the center of the long and narrow area, a circular altar stands alone, which is exactly the same as the altar for offering sacrifices to Liu Bi in the Sanqing Hall of the Daming Palace.

When Guo Yu led the crowd to the altar, the guards in charge of the guards were very surprised: "Master Guo, why are you here?" Guo Kui ordered: "Open the dungeon immediately and bring out the Tubo prisoner Lun Mangtai!" "This..." the forbidden army blocked the way, "Does your lord have the will of the Holy One?" "Oh, the decree is coming soon! It's urgent, act first!" "No! The dungeon is a criminal of the imperial court. We have no right to open the dungeon without seeing His Majesty's will!" During the stalemate, there was a muffled sound from the direction of the altar, followed by another sound.Along with the muffled sound, everyone found that the ground under their feet seemed to be trembling slightly.

Everyone shouted in unison: "Dungeon!" The guards ran up to the altar first, and removed the round stone in the center, revealing the dark entrance of the tunnel.Guo Kui took the lead and got in. Before he could go down a few steps, thick smoke was blowing in his face. The pungent smell made everyone burst into tears, coughing again and again, and almost groped to find the door of the dungeon.Suddenly, several streaks of cold light pierced through the dense black smoke and hit them. A melee begins. As flesh and blood flew, the thick smoke gradually dissipated.More Custodian soldiers poured in from the ground, and they were finally able to see the scene clearly—it was simply soul-stirring.Those who fell in the pool of blood included the Forbidden Army of the Tang Dynasty in armor, as well as aliens whose whole body in black was soaked in blood.And in the deepest part of the original dungeon, a big hole was opened.

Guo Kui rushed into the dungeon with blood and stumps. Facing the empty iron cage in the middle, he stamped his feet and shouted, "Run away! It's better to be reckless or run away!" Beside the iron cage lay a Shence sergeant, his face covered with blood, and a weak voice came from his mouth. Guo Wei leaned down and asked, "What's going on?!" "I, I heard... there was a strange sound below, so I opened the door and came in to see...Suddenly, on the wall over there..." Sergeant Shence raised his arm with difficulty, pointing forward tremblingly.Guo Wei was horrified to find that the soldier's palm was completely gone, and the bone at the wrist was poked out, dripping with blood.

Guo Wei forced himself to calm down and looked at the big hole in the wall.The hole was pitch black and bottomless, like a huge mouth wide open to swallow everything. "Suddenly... a big hole exploded in the wall, fire and smoke rushed, rushed over, I was blown away, dizzy...they smashed open the iron cage, Lun Mangti ran out..." "Where did the person go?" "When they heard someone coming, those people rushed to the top to cut off the back...then ran away and fled into the cave..." The soldier tilted his head and died out of breath. Guo Ju raised his sword and pointed, and shouted hoarsely: "Hurry up and chase me!"

The tunnels and culverts are intertwined and extend in all directions.Guo Wei led the portraits of all the people into a huge dark labyrinth, bumping around everywhere, but Lun Mangti was nowhere to be seen. Guo Wei was so anxious that he was almost crazy. Suddenly, he yelled: "Map!" Why didn't I think of it earlier? Guo Wei patted his head straight, took out the map from his arms, and tried his best to identify the red line in the dim light. Will Lun Mangti run away towards Jinxian Temple?Guo Wei didn't know.Once he entered the culvert, Lun Mangti could get out from any corner of Chang'an City.But his intuition told Guo Wei that he must pursue along the red line!

"Come with me!" They ran wildly, and the sound of footsteps, breathing and heartbeat echoed in the tunnel as tall as one person.At every intersection, Guo Wei judged the direction according to the map, and then continued to chase. Guo Wei had heard about the tunnel leading from Jinxianguan to the imperial palace for a long time, and when he was in it, he still had the illusory feeling of falling into a nightmare.He has also carefully studied the map and knows that the actual distance is not long, but why does it seem that it will never reach the end? "Blood!" The soldiers beside him exclaimed.

Guo Wei also saw that there were continuous bloodstains on the ground suddenly, it seemed that someone was injured and was dragged forward.Guo Wei stepped back half a step, and kicked some kind of bump again. He looked around in horror, and finally found that this was the junction of the black and red lines on the map!I happened to be standing on a huge piece of cast iron, and what my boots touched were the nails on the iron door. It turned out that after the iron gate was opened, it was completely closed on the ground. Although he was burning with anxiety, Guo Wei couldn't help but stand still and took a deep breath.The place where grievances gather will always make people awe-inspiring.Today, a new layer of hatred has been piled up, oppressing so deeply that it will never be detached.

His voice became calm: "Follow the blood, hurry up!" The blood stains became lighter and weaker, as if the blood was gradually drying up.Drilling through a series of winding narrow tunnels, the front suddenly opened up. "Look, general, it's over there!" All the torches were raised together, illuminating the underground cave.There were two people lying down in front of them.Although Guo Wei had only seen Lun Mangti when he was arrested twenty years ago, he immediately recognized one of them as Lun Mangti—that huge body still towering like a hill when lying on the ground, with a head Covered with thick hair like the fur of a wild animal.

A step away from Lun Mangti, there was another person falling backwards.Face down, thin and small, he looks like a child when compared by Lun Mang.Both of them were extremely filthy, exuding a bloody stench, and they were also motionless. Guo Wei stepped forward. "General beware!" "It's okay, I think they are all dead?" Before the words were finished, the "child" jumped up from the ground, screamed strangely, and rushed towards Guo Wei.