Sure enough, when Ye Fan led Su Rui and the others to the location of the dungeon previously, everything on the surface was cleaned clean.
"Eunuch Su, this is the dungeon where those women used to stay, but it has already been filled.”
Ye Fan easily removed two stone bricks and pointed at the newly buried soil in the stone bricks as he said to Su Rui.
"Is that so? Why didn't I see it…"
Su Rui ignored the fresh muddy water and asked indifferently.
"Even if this place has been buried, there should still be some traces left under the dungeon. Eunuch Su can get someone to dig and try.”
Ye Fan threw away the stone brick in his hand and said to Su Rui very seriously.
"What if there are no traces?"
"If there are no traces, then we'll search again. Out of the sixty people who had died, only thirty-three were left. There were so many bones, it was impossible to send them all out of the palace. He did not have the courage to bury them elsewhere.”
"Alright, Ye Fan. Since he had already said this, this old servant would naturally do his best. However, if this matter isn't as you say, this old servant will be the first one to make a move on you!”
After taking a closer look, this person's face turned pale. He turned around to look at Su Rui but did not speak.
Su Rui saw the guard's flustered expression and walked over. Ye Fan followed closely behind.
There were countless sharp and narrow marks on the black stone bricks. These marks were stained with writing powder, which seemed to be the powder of a person's fingernail. There were also dark red bloodstains.
Looking down from the mark, on a stone brick that was as high as a calf, there were three words written in blood,"Save me".
Following these three characters and looking to the right, it was a very distinct "Li" character, as if it had been chiseled out by someone with some sharp weapon.
What kind of weapon would it be?
"What are you panting for? It was just a finger bone. It didn't mean anything. He continued digging.”
Su Rui snatched the finger bone from Ye Fan's hand and ordered the others to continue digging.
The dungeon was stained with blood, and there were man-made marks on every part of the ground. The most common one was the word "help".
Everyone, including Su Rui, was silent at this moment. They just stared blankly at this empty dungeon that was filled with darkness and brutality.
Not long after, he made a discovery.
Su Rui frowned and asked someone to find a few coroners to examine the corpse and collect the bones, but he still kept a close eye on Ye Fan's every move.
"One, two…"
Ye Fan silently counted these corpses and felt sorrow in his heart. That Li Chengqian, who was only eighteen years old, actually poisoned so many women. The viciousness in his heart was enough to make one's hair stand on end.
"Clang!"
With a crisp sound, the eunuch in charge of digging made another discovery.
The eunuch tried his best to dig up the soil under the floor tiles and saw a black iron door.
"Eunuch Su, we found something in the north.”
A eunuch hurriedly ran over to report to Su Rui.
"Let's go take a look."
"Open it and take a look."
It was a black iron door. It was obvious that it was a passage leading to the underground. However, he did not know what was hidden underground.
The two guards opened the iron door, but two sharp arrows suddenly flew out.
"Eunuch, be careful!"
"Get down!"
Su Rui was furious. This Crown Prince Li Chengqian was too insensible. It was fine if he secretly built an underground palace, but he actually dared to place hidden weapons in the underground palace…
A few guards lit torches behind them and went down first to scout the way. Then, the sound of arrows flying and people screaming came from the tunnel.
Ye Fan and Su Rui slowly walked into the tunnel under the protection of the guards. The tunnel was very wide, allowing five people to walk side by side. There were also wall lamps on both sides of the tunnel. The guards lit the wall lamps one by one, and the tunnel became much brighter.
At the end of the tunnel, there was an underground palace with a radius of nearly a thousand feet. Three piles of artifacts were neatly placed in the underground palace, and they were covered with black linen.
Walking in front of these three piles of artifacts, Su Rui was already somewhat unsettled.
What did 3,000 people mean? If they were elite soldiers, the Imperial Palace would cease to exist overnight.
With a gloomy face, Su Rui slowly walked around a pile of armaments a few times, and his eyes flickered as he looked at Ye Fan.
"Eunuch Su, aren't you going to open it and see what it is? Perhaps there might be other discoveries.”
Ye Fan was also very curious about these three piles of things.
"Open it."
"Hiss…"
Everyone gasped.
The Great Tang's standard Hundred Refined Saber, the three-crossbow, and countless strong crossbows…
"Open the rest too!"
Su Rui was already furious. Initially, Li Shiming had thought that Li Chengqian was just fooling around, but now it seemed that Li Chengqian was really going to rebel.
"Swoosh!"
After the black curtain was lifted, everyone fell silent.
One of the piles of weapons was eight neatly arranged eight-bull crossbows, while the other pile was eight-bull crossbows of different lengths, strong crossbows, and arrows from three-stone bows. With a rough estimation, the number of weapons was enough to fire an army of three thousand soldiers for half a day.
"Eunuch Su, what should we do?"
The head guard swallowed the saliva in his throat with difficulty and asked Su Rui in fear.
"What should we do?"
Su Rui asked with a sneer.
"Report to the emperor immediately after you are clear!”
"Li Chengqian! Do you really want to rebel?"
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