It was late at night, and the Dali Palace was shrouded in the night. Lanterns were lit on the Eight Palaces, Ninth Courtyards, Seventy-Two Halls. From a high place, these lanterns were as dazzling as stars in the sky.

Lin Ruoxi, Situ Zhan and Mo Xueyuan changed into black robes and were waiting late at night to find the palace where Tuoba Duo is now living in the deserted palace.

Situ Zhan looked at the starry sky and suddenly sighed.

Lin Ruoxi smiled faintly and asked, "Fourth Brother, when did you become a sentimental person?"

"Oh, I really want to know, but even I don't know when I will start to be sentimental. Ruoxi, you said that if your fourth brother stayed in Dali Country and could not return to the southern Xinjiang Country this time, would you feel sad for me?"[

Situ Zhan said with a smile, his eyes blinking at Lin Ruoxi as black as agate, looking like he was joking, but Lin Ruoxi knew that he must have said this seriously.

She stretched out her hand, held Situ Zhan's hand, and solemnly said to Situ Zhan: "Fourth Brother, since you came to Dali Kingdom, you have been saying such unlucky words. Ruoxi really doesn't want to hear them. Ruoxi also promises you that no matter how dangerous it is, I will not leave my fourth brother alone. Since we come from the Southern Xinjiang Kingdom together, we will return to the Southern Xinjiang Kingdom together. Even if God wants to go against me and take my fourth brother away, I will go against the will of heaven and bring my fourth brother back to the Southern Xinjiang Kingdom safely."

Lin Ruoxi's fingers were slightly cool, and every word she said was firm, just like a swearing to the sky, and should not be despised or blasphemed.

Situ Zhan still had a smile on his face, but the smile became a little gentler. He stretched out his other big hand and rubbed Lin Ruoxi and said, "Okay, the fourth brother is joking with you! When he came, the fourth brother said he wanted to protect his younger sister and return to the southern Xinjiang country. Why did he become the fourth brother and ask the younger sister to protect him now? The fourth brother promised you that we must all return to the Pingyang Marquis Mansion safely to prevent our mother and the old lady from worrying... Your hands are so cold. Obviously so many people care about you, but your hands are still so cold. It's strange."

Lin Ruoxi saw Situ Zhan helping to rub his hands with a smile on his face, and his cold hands gradually warmed up. She felt that even her cold heart warmed up.

She looked at Situ Zhan and smiled gently: "Fourth brother, thank you for being by my side!"

"Silly girl, I am your fourth brother. If you don't stay by your little sister's side to protect you, who can protect you?"

Situ Zhan felt that Lin Ruoxi's hand was also warm, so he let go of his big hand and looked at Lin Ruoxi gently and said, "Okay!"

Lin Ruoxi smiled gently, and from Situ Zhan's face, she seemed to see the warmth of home reborn as a mountain.

Mo Xueyuan stood aside. It seemed that Situ Zhan had a brother-sister love for Lin Ruoxi, but she always felt something was wrong, especially when Situ Zhan looked at Lin Ruoxi, which always had a kind of love-like warmth and warmth. She suddenly remembered someone - Lin Jingxuan. Yes, Lin Jingxuan looked at Lin Ruoxi, and the same was true for her master's eyes. Does he also like her master?

Shenlan Zhanshiruo. Mo Xueyuan quickly shook her head and shook her bad thoughts from her mind. Now she should not think about it. The most important thing is how to help her master and find the whereabouts of Empress Dowager Xiao Shu.

At midnight, Lin Ruoxi, Situ Zhan and Mo Xueyuan were preparing to take action.

Lin Ruoxi took out a piece of kraft paper from his arms, and opened the kraft paper on the ground, saying, "This is the secret passage that I have placed in the Dali Palace for five years. This secret passage is 200 meters long and leads directly to the palace where Tuoba Duo lives. Of course, this secret passage does not rule out that there is a dangerous thing, that is, Tuoba Duo already knows about the digging of this secret passage, and is waiting for us to drill into the trap he sets. Therefore, we must always be vigilant and pay attention to our feet and what we are facing. If there is danger, we must withdraw in time and never get entangled with those people. Fourth brother, Xue Yuan, have you listened?"

Situ Zhan and Mo Xueyuan nodded.

The three of them stretched out their right hands and put them together, shouting: "Action!"

Lin Ruoxi and the other two came to the ancient well under a dead tree, moved the stone lid from the ancient well, and then Situ Zhan jumped out of the well first, Mo Xueyuan followed by Lin Ruoxi.

The well the three people jumped into was an empty well. When they reached the bottom of the well, Lin Ruoxi and the other three took out a fire note from their arms and lit the torch hanging on the stone wall. Each of them held a torch in their hands and bent over along a stone cave at the bottom of the well.

Situ Zhan stretched out his hand, covered his mouth, and suddenly started to laugh. In such a tense atmosphere, he was in the mood to laugh?

Lin Ruoxina said: "Fourth brother, when is it time? Are you in the mood to laugh?"[

Situ Zhan smiled and said, "Why do I feel that the three of us are like mice, drilling into the mouse hole?"

Mo Xueyuan sighed: "Fourth Young Master, have you ever seen a mouse laugh out loud before acting? They are not loud, afraid of being discovered?"

Situ Zhan shook his head: "These are all timid mice. The three of us are more courageous than the sky. How could they be such timid mice?" 17357815

"Okay, Fourth Brother, stop making trouble. This secret passage is still very long. I don't know what will happen ahead. We should be quiet!" Lin Ruoxi sighed lightly, and Situ Zhan stopped smiling.

The three of them walked for about three quarters of an hour before they reached the end of the secret passage. Situ Zhan raised the torch and lit up the exit of the secret passage. There was a stone cover with the word "天" written in lacquered red. He stretched out his hand and gently, but it was very heavy and could not be opened easily.

He looked back and pointed to the manhole cover of the secret passage, spread out his palm, indicating that the secret passage door was very heavy and not easy to open.

Lin Ruoxi and Mo Xueyuan understood what Situ Zhan meant. Lin Ruoxi only said two words "Mechanism".

Is it the secret passage?

Mo Xueyuan and Situ Zhan were busy looking for such a mechanism on the wall of the cave. They saw an oil lamp lamp on the wall of the cave. Situ Zhan, Mo Xueyuan and Lin Ruoxi all looked at the lamp lamp, feeling that this lamp must have mystery.

Situ Zhan was about to rotate the lamp, but was stopped by Lin Ruoxi. Lin Ruoxi carefully observed the lamp and found that this lamp was not an ordinary lamp, but it looked like a mechanism to activate the hidden weapon.

Lin Ruoxi had to give up this lamp and searched around. He saw a painted red character on the wall of the stone cave, which was about the size of a thumb, "Xuan". This character was exactly the mysterious character of Xuanji. Lin Ruoxi stretched out his finger and gently tapped the wall painted with Xuan characters, and made a sound of "Xuan, Kong" flowing from it.

This time she could conclude that there must be a mystery on this wall, that is, the mechanism to open the door of the secret passage.

She stretched out three fingers, just like the code they had agreed on before, "Three, Two, One". Lin Ruoxi moved the wall, and the secret door above her head suddenly opened, and the three of them turned over and jumped out of the secret door in turn.

They moved lightly, like butterflies, and flew on the marble floor of the hall.

Lin Ruoxi narrowed her black eyes and observed the hall in the dim light.

As the secret spy said, Tuoba Duo did not like to disturb anyone when he was resting on the dragon couch, or he was afraid of being assassinated by the people around him, so he kept all these people out of the hall. At this moment, the edge of the dragon couch was hung with a golden curtain, quiet, as if no one was in the tent.

Mo Xueyuan was afraid that there was a fraud, so she took the lead in walking to Lin Ruoxi, tiptoed to the tent, raised a corner of the tent, and saw that the person lying down inside was Tuoba Duo, the new emperor of Dali.

She looked back and nodded to Lin Ruoxi, confirming that the person lying on the bed was Tuoba Duo. Lin Ruoxi walked quickly, lifted the curtain of the bed, and took out the short sword at her waist in a neat manner, and put it on Tuoba Duo's neck.

He curled the corners of his lips and said coldly: "Master, long time no see!"

Tuoba Duo did not feel panic or surprised. He opened his eyes and saw a pair of deep black eyes staring at him. He said lightly: "Lin Ruoxi, you are so brave. You dare to threaten me with a sword? Do you know how many imperial guards are guarding my palace outside? Do you think I will be afraid of you in this way, and you can escape from this hall alive?"

"Stop telling me all this. Since we dare to come, there is no reason to be afraid of death. Tuoba Duo, I ask you, where is the Empress Dowager Xiao Shu?"

Tuoba Duo said lightly: "I don't know!"[

With the short knife in Lin Ruoxi exerted force, a blood-red hole appeared in Bai Xi's neck, but he didn't even frown, and he still looked stubborn.

"Don't you want to say it yet? If you don't say it, I really want my subordinates to show mercy."

Tuoba Duo suddenly laughed and said, "Okay, then if you have the courage, kill me, kill someone!" He suddenly raised white powder from his palm and sprinkled it on Lin Ruoxi's face. Lin Ruoxi was caught off guard and was fascinated by the white powder. His vision suddenly blurred, but she did not forget to call out, "There is a fraud in it, you can go!"

The short sword in Lin Ruoxi pierced Tuoba Duo's forehead, but after sprinkling powder, Lin Ruoxi's whole body became sore and soft and fell on the bed.

Mo Xueyuan and Situ Zhan looked at each other, and according to the previous agreement, they quickly got up, jumped into the secret passage, and closed the door of the secret passage.

At this moment, the palace suddenly shone brightly. Tuoba Duo, who was covered in bright yellow, walked into the hall with more than a hundred imperial guards and surrounded Lin Ruoxi.

Tuoba Duo raised the corners of his lips and said coldly: "Lin Ruoxi, I didn't expect you to be so cruel. Even you want to kill me?"

Lin Ruoxi glanced at the person who died under her knife and knew that this person was clearly disguised and was not the real Tuoba Duo, but a person who could have such a wonderful disguise technique was definitely not an ordinary person.

She sneered: "Tuoba Duo, you are really smart! But there are so many people who hate you, you can't live long." 1pyl.

Tuoba Duo waved his hand and smiled, "Lin Ruoxi, you are wrong. There are many people who hate you. The reason why this disguise technique is so good is that it is the work of your enemy, right? Chen Rong?"

Lin Ruoxi suddenly felt a sudden jump in her heart, Chen Rong? The only person who survived the Chen family, he actually... actually returned to Dali and found her to take revenge!
Chapter completed!