Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 468 The Strange Castle
The leading guardian in black waved his hand, walked quickly to a wall on the left with several other guardians in front of the car, and patted it lightly. A secret door appeared on the wall immediately, several people walked in, and the secret door closed.

Several people entered the secret passage, only to see Wang Qiang walking out from the shadows, and he asked gloomily, "How is it?"

The leading guardian in black whispered: "Everything is going well."

Wang Qiang nodded: "Very good."

The guardian in black said, "What about the porters driving the carts?"

Wang Qiang said coldly: "It's still a question, old rules."

The guardian in black was taken aback: "Du-killed all?"

Wang Qiang said fiercely: "Before leaving, the Heavenly King ordered that all those who participated in this operation in the desert be executed, and the news must not be leaked."

Protector in black: "Yes, I'll do it right away!"

Seeing that the man in black was not there, the villagers in the underground hall relaxed a lot, talking about their wives and children, and the crops.

Suddenly, there was a hissing sound in the underground hall.

A villager called out strangely: "Listen, what is this sound?"

Everyone stopped talking, and sure enough, the hissing became louder and louder, and everyone looked around for the source of the sound.

A villager pointed to the roof and shouted: "Look!"

Everyone looked up to the roof, only to see more than a dozen streams of white smoke pouring down, filling the entire underground hall in an instant.

All the villagers looked at each other in blank dismay.

All of a sudden, several villagers standing in front grabbed their necks with both hands, let out a scream of "heh" and "heh", followed by spurting blood from their mouths, and fell heavily to the ground.

"poison gas!"

"They want to kill and silence!"

The villagers finally understood that what awaited them was not a reward, but death.

There was a sudden chaos in the underground hall, and everyone scattered to avoid, hoping to find a way out.

It was already too late, the white mist was getting thicker and thicker, and it had filled the entire underground hall. In a blink of an eye, dozens of villagers fell to the ground, screaming in pain.

There was silence in the underground hall, the smoke cleared, and the corpses of the villagers were lying here and there on the ground.

With a soft "squeak", the secret door on the wall opened, and several black-clothed guardians walked in to inspect the corpses underground.

Suddenly, a hand stretched out from the pile of dead people and firmly grabbed the left foot of a black-clothed guardian who was walking in front.

The guardian in black was startled, turned his head, and saw a dying villager standing up on the ground, saying intermittently: "You, you are so ruthless!"

The black-clothed guardian let out a sneer, slowly pulled out the long sword from his waist, held it up high, and stabbed down fiercely.

The villager's body fell in a pool of blood, and his hands slowly loosened.

The guardian in black put his sword into its sheath, reached out and took off the bronze mask on his face. Surprisingly, this person turned out to be a Westerner with yellow hair and blue eyes.

At this moment, Wang Qiang walked in.

The guardian in black went forward and said, "It's all done."

Wang Qiang looked at the corpses of the villagers on the ground and said, "You make arrangements immediately, this batch of goods cannot stay, and must be sent to the 'Mountain of Darkness' immediately."

Protector in black: "Yes."

"and many more,"

A vague voice came from the corner of the hall.

Several guardians in black were taken aback. Looking up, a figure appeared in the shadows in the corner, and a hoarse female voice said, "You all have to do one more thing."

Several guardians in black hurriedly bowed and said, "Heavenly King, you are back."

The voice gave a soft "um" and said: "The little girl Mei Xiang who discovered the secret of the Dark Mountain is dead. But one thing on her body fell into the hands of several strangers."

The guardian in black asked, "What is it?"

The voice paused and said: "It doesn't matter what this thing is, the important thing is that those strangers must die!"

Wang Qiang on the side asked softly, "Where are those people now?"

"It's in the castle."

Wang Qiang was taken aback: "What, here?"

"Exactly."

"It's those guests staying overnight..."

"That's right. They broke the mechanism in the Wangjiabao Temple and saved Mei Xiang... Damn it! Damn it!..."

The sound faded away.

A grin appeared on Wang Qiang's face.

……

The blue-black sky was full of haze, and the sky rolled over the rumble of thunder.

A flash of lightning flashed across the top of the castle, followed by deafening thunderbolts, and heavy rain poured down without warning. Amid the thunder and lightning, the desolate and isolated castle looked even more eerie and strange.

It was raining heavily outside the window, and Di Renjie paced slowly in the house, thinking quietly.

On the square table in the room is the belt left by the little girl Mei Xiang before her death.

Suddenly, Di Renjie stopped in his tracks, and stared at the wall of the room.

Although the wall is not mottled, it is a bit old. There are some weird symbols vaguely engraved on the wall, and the shapes of the symbols are basically unclear with time.

Li Yuanfang came in quietly with tea, put the teacup on the table, and called softly: "My lord."

Di Renjie raised his head: "It's Yuan Fang, go and call Jing Yang, I have something to ask him."

"My lord, I'm already here!"

Wang Mang's voice sounded outside the door.

Li Yuanfang looked at Wang Mang and smiled: "Jing Yang, what a coincidence you came!"

Wang Mang shook his head: "I'm here specifically to find adults."

"Oh?"

Di Renjie raised his eyebrows.

Wang Mang said: "My lord, brother Yuanfang, do you have any feelings? Why do I always feel that something is wrong with this ancient castle!"

Di Renjie raised his head: "Tell me?"

Wang Mang said: "This castle is very strange!"

Li Yuanfang was taken aback: "Strange?"

Wang Mang nodded: "Yes, I have been here when I was young, but there is no castle here at all. I didn't expect there to be one now. Do you think it is strange?"

Li Yuanfang smiled and said: "What's the matter, you haven't been here for many years, maybe you remember it wrong!"

Wang Mang nodded: "Maybe! Maybe this castle has existed for a long time, but I haven't found it yet."

Di Renjie shook his head: "Jing Yang, at least you are right, this castle is really strange!"

"Oh?"

Wang Mang and Li Yuanfang looked at Di Renjie.

Di Renjie said: "As the saying goes, a city prospers with the way.

That is to say, the rise and fall of a city depends on its road traffic.

But the old castle we came to today is on the path that has been abandoned for decades, isn't it strange? "

Li Yuanfang walked up to Di Renjie and said, "According to Wang Qiang, this was built by his ancestors to avoid war disasters during the troubled times of the north and south. At that time, this was the official road leading to Ganliang."

Di Renjie said: "Then, it has been more than a hundred years since the chaos between the North and the South, the world is peaceful and people's lives are peaceful, why do they still live in this remote place?"

Li Yuanfang thought for a while: "Maybe it's because they love the land hard, they don't want to leave their ancestral home."

(End of this chapter)