Episode 10 Chapter 313
Chapter 313
Pang Li is familiar with the route, and she has her own way. Read the full text. Hiding behind a house close to the moat, she took off the package on her shoulder without any hurry, put it on the ground, opened it skillfully, and then looked up and asked: "Wait, who among you will accompany the king into the waterway?"
Cheng Jin took the lead and said: "I'll go!"
Pang Li looked at him strangely and asked: "Didn't General Cheng say that he doesn't know how to swim?"
Cheng Jin looked at Tang Yin and said: "But I can hold my breath, and the king doesn't know how to swim." If it was the brothers below who entered, Cheng Jin would wait outside, but now Tang Yin was going there in person, how could he not be by his side.
Tang Yin also can't swim? ! Pang Li looked at Tang Yin in surprise. The latter smiled and said, "As Cheng Jin said, it's okay if you don't know how to swim, as long as you can hold your breath."
Pang Li shook her head with a wry smile, and then asked the other four people, "Do you four want to go in together?"
Without waiting for their answer, Cheng Jin said, "Liu Yang, Li Yaojin, Yan Li, and Ding Yong will stay outside!"
Pang Li had no objection to his arrangement. She lowered her head and took out four packages of oil paper from the package and handed them to Tang Yin and Cheng Jin. Tang Yin was puzzled and asked, "What is this?"
"When you enter the waterway, the king will know!" While speaking, she took out a cloak from the package and quickly put it on herself.
Tang Yin looked up and down curiously. The cloak was very ordinary, but it looked a little bulky. It wrapped Pang Li, who was not petite, tightly. The most incompatible thing was that the color of the cloak was too earthy. It was a real earthy color with spots on it. After reading it, Tang Yin suddenly realized that she was going to use the cloak as a disguise to approach the moat under the eyes of the defenders.
Yeah! Tang Yin nodded secretly and praised her in his heart! Pang Li was a wonderful woman who could think of the art of disguise in this era. He put the oil paper bag Pang Li gave him into his arms and asked, "When do we leave?"
"Not now!" Pang Li walked to the corner of the wall, slowly stuck out half of her head, looked at the opposite wall, and whispered, "The spiritual cultivator in charge of insight is still there. As long as we approach the moat, we will be discovered by the defenders immediately!"
"When do we have to wait?" Tang Yin asked.
"Wait until the person responsible for releasing insight leaves." Pang Li replied.
"What if the other party doesn't leave all night?" Tang Yin raised his eyebrows and asked.
"Then we can only give up today." Pang Li turned back and grinned at Tang Yin, saying, "But don't worry, my king. People have three urgent needs. The spiritual cultivators who release insight cannot be there all the time. They will definitely give us a chance."
Tang Yin shrugged and muttered, "I hope so..."
Time passed by minute by minute, and Tang Yin and others became more and more impatient. Just when they were all feeling discouraged, Pang Li, who was on guard at the corner of the wall, suddenly waved and said, "The spiritual cultivators on the city wall have left, right now, hurry up!" As she spoke, she crawled on the ground, covered her body with her cloak, and then quickly crawled towards the moat.
Tang Yin, Cheng Jin and the two secret arrows looked at each other, nodded at the same time, and drifted with shadows, flashing directly to the small embankment of the moat.
The four of them all covered themselves with spiritual armor, most of their bodies were immersed in the water, and their ten fingers were like nails, deeply embedded in the river bank, so that their bodies would not sink to the bottom of the river.
On the other side, Pang Li's situation was much more thrilling than Tang Yin and others. Although she was covered with a cloak of the same color as the ground, she still had to crawl and stop. Whenever a defender on the wall looked out, she had to stop crawling immediately, stay where she was, and not move. In the dark night, from a distance, she looked like a small mound of earth.
Pang Li was truly close to the moat under the eyes of the defenders. When she dived into the river, she let out a long breath, swam to the other side, approached Tang Yin and the other four, and whispered: "The entrance to the waterway is under the river. The river is dark now. Everyone should hold one person and don't lose it!"
Everyone nodded, and Tang Yin gestured to her to lead the way quickly.
Pang Li did not delay, pulled Tang Yin's arm, and plunged into the water of the moat. As Pang Li said, the moat is now so dark that you can't see your hand in front of you. Others may not be able to see things, but Tang Yin has night vision and can still see clearly.
He held Pang Li in one hand and Cheng Jin in the other, and dived to the bottom of the moat for a while, and finally saw a large round hole on the river bank, more than two people thick. Pang Li swam in first, and Tang Yin pulled her and followed in. When he passed the hole, he could clearly see iron bars cut by sharp weapons around the hole. Obviously, it used to have metal guardrails, but someone cut it off, so it became a free passage.
Entering the hole, it became completely dark this time, and even Tang Yin, who had night vision, could only see about three meters away.
Swimming diagonally upward for a while, Pang Li pulled Tang Yin and finally floated to the surface. At the moment of floating, Tang Yin instinctively took a big breath, and the result was that this breath was inhaled into his lungs, and he almost vomited all the food he had eaten yesterday.
The waterway was really smelly, with the stench of excrement, moldy rot, and damp yin. The various odors mixed together were enough to make people faint. Pang Li was experienced. Even after she emerged from the water, she did not breathe in immediately. She first took out the fire wick, blew it, and inserted it into the rotten mud on the wall. Then she calmly took out the oil paper bag, tore it open, pulled out a clean cloth towel from it, tied it tightly around her face, and then took a deep breath.
Seeing this, Tang Yin finally understood what the oil paper bag she had given him before was for. Following Pang Li's example, he dispersed his spiritual armor, took out the oil paper bag, tore off the outer layer of oil paper, and quickly tied the cloth towel inside around his mouth and nose.
The cloth towel was obviously specially treated, and there was a faint fragrance on it. It was not strong, but it completely covered the stench in the waterway.
This made Tang Yin breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Pang Li gave him this cloth towel, otherwise he would not be able to stay in the waterway for a moment.
Soon, Cheng Jin and the other two hidden arrows also showed up. Cheng Jin was as inexperienced as Tang Yin. He surfaced and subconsciously inhaled. As a result, his face turned red and he kept coughing as if he had swallowed a fly.
Tang Yin pointed at the cloth towel on his face and said, "Hurry up and put on the cloth towel Miss Pang gave you!"
Cheng Jin was stunned for a moment before reacting and quickly took out the oil paper bag.
Tang Yin took the opportunity to look around. The space here was long and narrow, and the width could only accommodate one person. Looking forward, there was a dark cave in front of him, with a diameter of only about half a meter. He asked Pang Li in front of him, "Is that the waterway you mentioned?"
"Yes!" Pang Li turned back and smiled at Tang Yin, saying, "The environment inside is much worse and dirtier than here. You are a daughter of a king, do you really want to go in?"
Tang Yin said calmly, "Miss Pang, just lead the way."
Hearing his resolute tone, Pang Li said no more and took the lead in getting into the waterway. Tang Yin was right. The degree of dirtiness in the waterway was beyond Tang Yin's description.
The walls around were all rotten mud and filth, and even feces were hanging on them. When he pressed his palms into the ground, they were soft and his ten fingers would sink into the mud and filth. Even though he was covered with spiritual armor, he still felt nauseous.
This was the first time that Tang Yin regretted his decision. If he had known that the environment in the waterway was like this, he really shouldn't have insisted on coming here. Now that he was in it, regret was useless. He could only bite the bullet and crawl forward with Pang Li.
This waterway was the most disgusting road Tang Yin had ever walked in his life. By the end, he was numb and even lost his sense of smell temporarily.
It seemed like a century, and finally there was a dim light ahead. Tang Yin was shocked and said to Pang Li in front of him: "We are almost at the exit, hurry up..."
Before he finished speaking, Pang Li hissed, turned her head slightly, and reminded in a low voice: "This is already inside the palace!"
No matter where it was, Tang Yin didn't want to stay in the waterway for a moment. He raised his head to signal Pang Li to crawl out first.
After finally crawling out of the waterway, Tang Yin immediately dispersed his spiritual armor, then pulled off the face towel on his face, raised his head, and breathed in fresh air. Cheng Jin and the two secret arrows who followed him did the same.
After a long while, Tang Yin's mind was pulled back from the brink of collapse. He squatted down and looked around silently. This is a small courtyard. Although the ground is relatively clean and free of debris, the square bricks are covered with stains, especially at the outlet of the waterway, which is shiny black. Looking around, there are a lot of debris piled up around the courtyard, mostly waste. I think this should be the garbage room in the palace.
In order to confirm his location, he whispered to Pang Li: "Can I go out and take a look now?"
Pang Li made a gesture to him to wait, then raised her legs high and walked towards the courtyard door lightly. First, she listened to the movement outside for a while, then slowly opened the door, and looked out through the gap for a while. After confirming that there was no problem, she waved to Tang Yin.
Tang Yin followed her out of the yard and looked around. In the night, tall and majestic palaces were vaguely visible. The most attractive thing was that there was a very high platform-style building on the east side. Tang Yin was not unfamiliar with this building. Looking west from the observation tower of the coalition camp, he could see this building. This was the famous "Dengtiantai" built in the center of the Zhenguo Palace.
Through Dengtiantai and its location, Tang Yin could confirm that this was indeed the Zhenguo Palace, and he could also confirm that the exit of the waterway was located on the west side of the palace.