Chapter 114 The hiding place
"This place is... strange and weird." Tengu looked around and muttered in a low voice.
The interior of the room is like a twisted space, looking down from the top, it is diamond-shaped, narrow in front and back, and wide in the middle. The stairs start from the third floor, all the way down until they completely sink into the deep underground.
Since the entrance is on the third floor, it is likely to be hidden in a certain room. Considering that there is a brothel on one side and an inn on the other, it will definitely be difficult for outsiders to understand the layout of the room. This is indeed a place suitable for concealment.
The question is, who built all this?
Li keenly realized that it was definitely not the Donghai Gang - they were just outsiders and were unlikely to have the ability to build such a building under the noses of residents.
There is no guard inside the corridor. Obviously, the Donghai Gang believes that this place is hidden enough. As long as the outside is not broken through, no one can break in.
Li raised his front paws and signaled to follow, then jumped and landed smoothly above the stairs.
A fox and a dog went down the rotational stairs, and the surrounding wooden walls also turned into gray-green bricks and stones. After almost thirty feet down, the two demons arrived at the ground.
What appeared before them was a narrow and wet passage.
Since there is only one road, there is no choice. Li quickly walked into the passage and trotted forward - the light in this place was much darker, and there was a candlestick from a distance. If you don't pay attention to it, it will be difficult to find the fox hidden in the dark shadow.
Then the passage was divided into several forks. Some forks were not even lighted at all, and the end was pitch black. I don’t know whether it was abandoned or used to confuse people.
This made Li once again confirm his guess--it would never be completed overnight to build such a complex maze underground. And judging from the old degree of bricks and stones, it should have existed for a long time.
After thinking about it, Li decided to follow the widest path. The Donghai Gang is not a monster, he definitely prefers to stay in a wide and bright place.
After walking dozens of steps again, she finally saw the first living person.
A man wearing a loose robe with a long knife on his waist slowly walked along the passage. His hair was obviously shaved, leaving only a short bunch of braids on the top of his head. One side of his arm was covered with blood marks similar to Qingzi, but only one piece was red.
Li, who was prepared, immediately turned around and retreated into the nearest fork.
The man held up the torch, looking at the posture of a guard. He looked around boredly, without realizing that there were two more infiltrators in the darkness. When he passed by the fork, he didn't even take a look inside.
"We've found the right direction." Li whispered, "continue to move forward."
Obviously, this person is a core member of the Donghai Gang.
The ability to see the people dressed up in this picture means that they are close to each other's base camp.
As expected, not far this time, the scenery in front of me suddenly changed and expanded from the passage into a rather wide underground lobby.
This place is almost 30 feet square, with an arc at the top and light shining in the center, which looks like a patio. There is a sound of water flowing below the patio, and there are hidden channels buried in it, which is convenient for people living here to get water and discharge sewage.
I didn’t expect that there would be this landscape underground in Jinxia City!
No wonder Wu Gang changed bunches after bunches, but no one found out the whereabouts of the Donghai Gang.
"We can go back, right?" Shan Hui pulled Lali's hind legs.
There were about fifty Dongsheng people gathered in the lobby, and at least four of them had three-petal red blood patterns. If measured by Qingzi's strength, these people were probably quite difficult to deal with.
Not to mention Wu Gang, if such a group of people acted collectively, I am afraid that the local government would find it difficult to fight against each other unless the garrison from Shenzhou came.
It was completely confirmed at this time that this was the hiding place of the East China Sea Gang!
Li nodded, and was about to turn around and turn back, everyone suddenly stood up and bent down in one direction.
“Wait a little longer.”
Seeing this situation, Li couldn't help but stop.
On the other side of the lobby, a wooden door was pushed open, and a middle-aged man in a snow-white coat and a tall hat walked out from behind and stood in front of everyone.
Seeing the other party’s outfit, Shan Hui’s body shivered!
"That's--the person from the An family, why... he appears in such a place!?"
Li found that Shanhui had exposed fangs and seemed to want to pounce.
"Hey, don't be stupid." She quickly pressed the other person's head, "So what if the other person is An's family? Don't forget where we are!"
"My hometown... was killed by the An family." Shanhui replied with difficulty, "No one survived except me."
"Calm down, you're just dying now." Li originally planned to stay for a while to see what this person wanted to do, but Shan Hui was unable to control his emotions, so she had to take the other party out of the underground lobby in advance.
Back at the office of the Privy Council, Li explained his discovery in detail.
"Anyway, if it weren't for this stupid dog, we might have discovered more."
"Sorry..." Shan Hui let out a whimper, his neck shrank a little.
"The mentality of wanting to take revenge is understandable, but the premise is to ensure that you can survive. After all, there is more than one An family member." Xia Fan comforted, "In addition, this information is enough - at least we have grasped the enemy's tail. Thank you for your hard work, the cloud-shaking operation has ended here, and it is time to move on to the next extermination plan."
"Xia Fan, are you sure you will take action so soon?" Li expressed his concern, "To be honest, I didn't expect the situation to be so serious before I saw the Donghai Gang's nest. Assuming that the four of them had the strength of Qingzi, the Lingjun had to face four questions at the same time, and even the test-level alchemist. This is definitely not a problem with the *** Lake gang. You are facing an opponent comparable to the Shumi Mansion in Jinxia City."
"I agree. But there are so many dreams in the night, and if you drag it down, the variable will only be greater." Xia Fan breathed a sigh of relief. Although he had known that the East China Sea Gang had infiltrated Jinxia City for a long time, he did not expect that the other party had already infiltrated to this level - under the feet of the government and the Privy Council, a team that was comparable to the strength of the city defense force was gathered secretly. No wonder the Wang family was so fearless.
There is also the An family member mentioned by Shan Hui - according to the May Witch, the alchemist, or Onmyoji, who was born in the An family, was treated as a national teacher in Dongsheng Kingdom. No matter how low this person is, he would not have fallen to this point. He would have condescended to get involved with the Donghai Gang, right?
Dongshengguo sent such a group of people just to ensure the private salt delivery in Jinxia City? Xia Fan always felt that it was a bit unreliable.
They may have other plans.
As for what this plot is not important, the best countermeasure is to disrupt the enemy's pace before the other party and make Dongsheng's plots useless.
"Don't worry, the Donghai Gang is a bit beyond expectations, but they also have fatal weaknesses, and we are not without a chance of winning." Xia Fan thought about it and had a solution in his mind. "For this battle, I need to hold a three-party meeting. Now let me go to the princess Fengyang Villa."
Chapter completed!