Claustrophobic space, damp ground.

The sound of insects came to my ears, which seemed particularly harsh in the late autumn night.

This is where?

Niu Dafu opened his eyes, and the surrounding area was dim. He could vaguely see a dim light. He rubbed his eyes and gradually adapted to the surrounding environment.

I don't know how long I was asleep.

He remembered that before he fell into coma, he was in Dingguo Temple, accepting the certificate of appointment from Prince Zhu Yan as the "No. 1 Arrow in the World". Then an assassin attacked, causing chaos in the venue, and he immediately fell off the stage and lost consciousness.

He stood up and found that he was locked in a secret room two feet in size. There seemed to be a figure at the other end of the secret room. When he walked forward to check, he was suddenly shocked. It was Zhu Yan, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty.

"Kidnapped?"

It was like having a dream.

Countless question marks were swirling in his mind. He tested Zhu Yan's breathing. Seeing that his breathing was steady and his life was not in danger for the time being, he was suspicious, who tied us here?

His head was dizzy, and he finally remembered that he was still wearing armor and a helmet, and he quickly took them off.

Zhu Yan opened his eyes.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince!"

Zhu Yan looked at the fat man in front of him with suspicion, "Who are you?"

"I am Niu Dafu!"

"Who is Niu Dafu?"

"That's me! My father is Huang Youcai!"

"do not know!"

Niu Dafu pointed to the helmet on the ground, "I, the Archery God of the Central Plains, the best arrow in the world!"

Zhu Yan said: "It's also a six-door model?"

Niu Dafu nodded, "Exactly! If my guess is correct, I think we were kidnapped."

Zhu Yanxin asked why this guy spoke so out of tune, rubbed his groggy head, and asked: "What time is it now?"

Niu Dafu touched his belly and said, "It should have been a day and a night."

"one day one Night?"

"My stomach told me."

As a fat man, Niu Dafu knows what it feels like to go hungry. Not eating for three to five hours is completely different from not eating for a whole day. But now he is so hungry that he will never have this experience without a day or a night.

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Zhu Yan looked around and recalled what happened in Dingguo Temple.

Fan Xiaodao, Zhao Xing told him that there was a mechanism under the platform. If there was any emergency, the two of them would be sent down. However, he didn't expect that when they fell down, there was a strange smell and they fell unconscious in an instant.

passed.

Isn't it an assassination?

How did it become a kidnapping?

The surroundings of Dingguo Temple are airtight. Being able to break through the layers of siege from a thousand forbidden troops and six gates, kidnap two people, and transport them out of Dingguo Temple without anyone noticing is definitely not something ordinary people can do.

.

Are they from the Northern Zhou Dynasty?

The imperial court captured the prince of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty also sent a mission to negotiate. The two parties have reached an agreement to exchange Phoenix Ridge. Logically speaking, they should not take risks. If they really anger the imperial court and kill the one hundred prisoners of war, then

The consequences are definitely not something they can bear, so why go to such trouble to negotiate?

Is it Princess Taiping?

The emperor ignored the affairs of the state, and the court was controlled by the Taiping, eunuch, and civil servant groups. Zhu Yan returned to the capital and had a great influence on Princess Taiping's power. However, she had always been vicious and resolute. She could kill him directly, so why bother with it?

, imprison him here?

Zhu Yan was considering the current situation. When he saw Niu Dafu groping around, he felt bored and asked, "What are you doing?"

Niu Dafu said, "I'm looking for any martial arts secrets on the walls, on the ground or on the stone bed, some magic to attract stars, the Great Shift of the Universe, or if it doesn't work, there's a dragon, tiger, leopard, or a jade futon."

"

Zhu Yan frowned and said: "Don't read messy books if you have nothing to do. People who want six doors are like you. I have to think about whether it is necessary to keep six doors in the future."

Niu Dafu said: "My identity as a police agent was bought with money. If you really want to disband the six doors, remember to return the money to me."

Zhu Yan concluded, is there something wrong with this kid's brain?

When Niu Dafu saw that he was silent, he started beating around in the secret room again and yelling, "Is there anyone? Is there anyone alive? My father is Huang Youcai, a rich man in the capital. Whoever rescues me, I have money!"

Zhu Yan said, "Don't waste your efforts!"

Niu Dafu said: "It is better to save yourself than to wait for someone to save you. See if there is any mechanism inside that can open the door."

Zhu Yan said: "Save your energy. Since they kidnapped us, they will definitely come to us to negotiate terms, or negotiate terms with the court, otherwise they would have killed us long ago."

Zhu Yan was worried that as a prince, he was kidnapped in public. This incident would definitely shock the government and the public. It would also be a good opportunity for his political opponents to attack him, and he couldn't help but regret the decision.

Regardless of Fan Xiaodao's dissuasion, Zhao Xing decided to lead Iron Arrow to succeed others and went out in person.

There was a crunch.

The secret room door opened.

Niu Dafu said with a smile, "It seems that the escape room escape was not in vain. It can save our lives at the critical moment!"

Zhu Yan was attracted by the voice, "How did you find the exit?"

"There is a door handle here. I pulled it gently and opened it." After that, he made a gesture, "Your Highness, please!"

Zhu Yan followed him and walked out of the small door. What he saw was a larger secret room. What was different from before was that there were several candlesticks lit in the secret room, and the light was slightly better. In the middle of the secret room, there was a table.

There is wine and meat.

Niu Dafu immediately sat down, tore off a chicken leg and started to chew on it.

He hadn't eaten anything for a day. In his opinion, any food was delicacies. He said to Zhu Yan, "Why don't you eat it, Your Highness?"

Zhu Yan had no appetite and said, "Aren't you afraid of poison?"

Niu Dafu laughed and said, "I am so hungry that I will eat even if it is poisonous. It is better to be poisoned to death after eating, right than to die of starvation? Besides, His Highness also said, if you really want to kill us, why bother to go to such trouble?"

, just chop it off with one knife."

"That makes sense."

Zhu Yan thought to himself that this kid was not as stupid as he looked.

Silly, maybe it’s because I’m fat that I give people this impression.

He sat at the table, picked up some light vegetarian food, tasted a few bites, poured another glass of wine, and tasted it slowly.

He is waiting.

Now that he has woken up, Niu Dafu was shouting again just now, which will definitely alarm the other party, so he just needs to wait quietly.

A voice came from the darkness.

"Be calm in times of crisis, make decisions and act. It's rare for the old Zhu family to have such a character."

The voice was old and hoarse, shrouded in the secret room, and it was coming from an unknown direction. Niu Dafu put down the chicken leg in his hand, wiped it on his body, and looked around, not noticing anyone's presence, "Who are you?"

"

The voice said: "It doesn't matter who I am, what matters is who we are."

Niu Dafu asked again, "Who are you?"

The old voice said again, "Look up and look at the roof."

The two looked up and saw a skull symbol engraved on the stone slab of the roof. Next to it was a blood-red handprint. When Niu Dafu was sorting out the Jianghu files, he had seen this mark. It was from someone who had been missing in the Jianghu for more than a hundred years.

A sect.

"Blood handprint?"

The old man said, "You are not very young, but you can recognize bloody handprints. You are quite knowledgeable."

Niu Dafu was secretly shocked. The Blood Handprint was a mysterious sect in the world. To be precise, it was a loose organization. The people in it had different identities, but they came together because they had the same views in the world. The Ghost Fan Tower and the Ghost King back then

Zong and even some ministers in the court secretly joined this organization. Its strength should not be underestimated, and it could even influence the government's political opinions. It was not until a hundred years ago that Emperor Lizong identified it as a demon sect and removed the blood fingerprints in one fell swoop. Only then did he gradually gain prominence in the world.

Didn't fall.

Niu Dafu asked: "Why did you arrest us?"

The old man said: "I am in a good mood today and would like to discuss things with you two."

"On Tao, what Tao?"

The old man asked: "What is the world of great harmony?"
To be continued...