HLnovel Chapter 459 Shui Lingling pulled out a venomous snake
Chapter 459 Shui Lingling pulled out a venomous snake
Lu Yangyang stared intently at him, "If you dare to lie to me..."
"No, no, absolutely not, heroine! I'm just a gatekeeper, how could I dare to deceive you! Please, have mercy and spare my life!" the man pleaded rapidly.
“Okay, but you haven’t seen me today, you know?” Lu Yangyang said, looking at him.
The man nodded hurriedly: "Don't worry, heroine, I absolutely, positively did not see you. I just dozed off, nothing happened, you can rest assured."
Lu Yangyang picked him up and slowly walked him down from the tree on the cliff back to the rock face. She even carried him back with one hand, which scared the young man so much that he was paralyzed and dared not open his eyes, as if he had encountered a living Yama.
After Lu Yangyang returned to the cave entrance, she dropped him off, glanced at the area diagonally above, and whispered to Luo Jing and the others, "Let's climb up from that side."
Luo Jing and the others didn't ask why. Lu Yangyang tossed them a rope and told them to wrap it around herself. Finally, they tied one end of the rope to themselves and climbed up the rock wall with their bare hands.
The young man who had just been questioned by Lu Yangyang was so frightened by this scene that he covered his eyes with his hands, repeatedly muttering to himself, "I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything, this is too perverted, too perverted..."
The cliff wasn't particularly high, and Lu Yangyang, carrying three others, climbed it up in about 45 minutes.
After reaching the top of the mountain, Lu Yangyang observed the surroundings and led them away from the patrolling men before telling them what she had learned from the cave watchman.
"If we want to rescue them, we only have two options. One is to do what that young man said and rescue them from the central iron chain. But if we don't see them by the time the time is up, they will definitely block the mountain and hunt us down. At that time, I will definitely not be able to escape with Xiu Niang. The other option is to rescue them from the mortuary at the foot of the mountain. But this option is more dangerous. We only have this many people, and we don't know how many people they have deployed at the mortuary. If something goes wrong, we may not even see them before we are killed at the mortuary."
Luo Jing nodded upon hearing this: "What you said makes sense. It is said that it is possible to rescue people from between the iron chains, but no matter which method is used, the risks are very high, and it is impossible to go to the Immortal Palace."
Xu Lang frowned as well: "But if we wait for the adults to come, that girl might die. Once we enter the Immortal Palace, it will be their lair, and we won't be able to save her then."
The expressions on their faces changed slightly. What should they do?
They had been working tirelessly for a day and a night. If they couldn't save the girl and might even become her death warrant, then it wouldn't have been their original intention to save her.
Lu Yangyang said, "I have another way."
The three of them looked at her at the same time.
Lu Yangyang said, "Let's work together. When we reach the middle iron chain, I'll take Xiu Niang off and send her to the other side. Uncle Luo, you can meet her there and take Xiu Niang away. I'll replace Xiu Niang to go to the Celestial Palace. Anyway, since she's wearing a veil, even if there are fewer guards once we get up there, we can figure out how to fool them. That way, no one will know what Xiu Niang looks like. I can stay behind in her place for now. This will give you enough time to go down the mountain."
“No,” Xu Lang refused instinctively.
Luo Jing also disagreed: "This is too risky."
“But if I were the one going up, I could at least hold out until the adults come to help, and…” Lu Yangyang reached into her clothes and pulled out a small black snake: “Qingqing lent me Xiao Guai. As long as the poison doesn’t kill Xiao Guai, it won’t kill me either.”
The three of them were frowning in distress when she suddenly pulled a venomous snake out of her clothes, almost making Xu Lang's legs go weak. He stammered, "You...you...you..."
Luo Jing thought for a moment and said in a deep voice, "There really isn't a better way now. So, as you said, you go up the mountain disguised as the bride. I and Brother Qiao will stay behind to provide backup. Brother Xu is quick-witted, so let him go down the mountain now to find a way to get reinforcements. If you encounter any danger on the mountain, send a signal so we can come to your aid in time."
Lu Yangyang thought for a moment and nodded: "Okay."
Xu Lang had no objections, but he instructed Lu Yangyang: "You must be careful. If you have a chance, run away first. If you don't have a chance, stay put and wait for us to come."
Lu Yangyang nodded: "Okay."
After discussing it, the group didn't hesitate any longer. Xu Lang headed down the mountain, while Lu Yangyang, Luo Jing, and Qiao He, who was with them, headed towards Yuming Mountain.
The road ahead was much more difficult than before. Even though it was still dark, there were waves of people patrolling the mountains. Lu Yangyang and the others couldn't use the iron chains to go up the mountain. They had to find a connecting point to go around it. It wasn't until the sun had risen that they finally reached the mountain that connected to Yuming Mountain and found the place where the iron chains connected on the rock face.
There were guards in the cave below, so Lu Yangyang and the others didn't rush down. After observing for a long time and making sure no one else was passing by, Lu Yangyang went down and dealt with the two guards. She then had Luo Jing and Qiao He change into the guards' clothes, and she swung down the iron chain to the other side. She didn't dare to climb to the cave entrance, but instead hid in a nearby tree.
It was at this moment that she noticed that there were actually several thick iron chains hanging on this rock wall, the kind that go up and down, as if using pulleys to control the raising and lowering of things.
Lu Yangyang waited on the tree for almost an hour, her legs were numb from squatting. There was only one trip along the way when they were transporting ore, which was pretty much what Lu Yangyang had imagined. There was a huge basket with two boxes of ore inside, and a person was following behind, slowly ascending along the iron chain.
Just when she was about to think that the young man had lied to her, she suddenly saw the iron chain below move again. This time it wasn't a basket, but a large iron plate with an ordinary coffin on it. There was a guard on each side. Perhaps because it was heavy, the upward speed was very slow.
Lu Yangyang seized the opportunity, tied one end of the rope to a tree and the other end to herself. When the coffin was about two or three zhang away from the tree, she grabbed the rope and jumped down, landing precisely on the coffin.
The two guards never dreamed that someone would fall from the sky. Instinctively, they drew their knives. Lu Yangyang bent down to dodge the knife, grabbed the guard's wrist, and slammed her head against his head, knocking him unconscious. Then, she grabbed the knife from his hand, flipped it over the coffin, and slit the other guard's throat.
Blood splattered onto the coffin and sprayed onto Lu Yangyang's face.
Lu Yangyang casually wiped her face, picked up the two men, tore off their clothes, wiped the blood off the coffin, and threw them onto the nearest tree.
Then he bent down and pushed the coffin open with force.