Chapter 237 (1/2)

On the seventh day after the Gao Family had been exterminated on the surface, Mu Changyan told An Zaixin to bring people to the Gao Family compound to search them again. After all, the soldiers' search of the Gao Family seemed to be like a wild wind sweeping away fallen leaves, but perhaps the Gao Family's many secrets still needed to be carefully discovered.

An Zaiyan knew that Mu Changyan wanted him to stay away from Empyrean Terminus Palace, but he couldn't figure out why.

Perhaps, Mu Changyan had already given up?

He just wanted to let An Zaixin protect Xiao Qidao properly.

No one knew how many secrets were hidden in the Gao Family's courtyard.

In order to let them all gain some experience, An Zhe brought them all.

Even though the Gao Family Compound occupied a huge area, it was outrageously large.

But whether it was architecture or decoration, it was so low-key that people thought they might have gone to the wrong place.

At this time, a portion of the security forces in the Gao Family's courtyard were transferred from the military, and the most important locations were all officers of the Thousand Revolution School.

The elites of the almost disbanded army were still keeping a low-profile and reserved att.i.tude. They were terrifyingly calm and collected.

After all, if it wasn't for the An Vanguard Department, then the empress dowager would have taken care of everything else.

The skinny Du looked around while walking and could not help but shake his head: ””This place is so big that it seems to be the military's drill ground. Don't tell me the Gao Family can't bear to part with a few trees?””

He stopped and looked around.

The Gao Clan's courtyard was truly huge, but the vast majority of the area was paved with extremely smooth and firm s.p.a.ces. Only a few small gardens had some flowers and plants, and they didn't even have a name.

Such an empty courtyard was either because a large number of people practiced frequently, or because they had other purposes.

However, the Gao Clan had at least over a thousand helpers in Fang Gu City. Just thinking about the scale of the a.s.sa.s.sins when the Gao Clan attacked Heavenly Temple made no sense.

And if all the employees of the Gao Family's casino within the entire Yan Kingdom were taken into account, there would at least be over ten thousand people.

Therefore, the courtyard was s.p.a.cious and empty, most likely because too many Gao Family guards and fighters needed cultivation and body tempering.

Anjou stepped into an open s.p.a.ce and squatted down to sniff. The smell of lime entered his nose.

There is, of course, nothing to doubt, that the ground will be harder by mixing lime with earth.

However, An Zhe felt that something was wrong. He turned around and called out, ””Send a team over here and dig down from here.””

Before long, fifty or sixty able-bodied soldiers with shovels began digging downward.

Thin Du was also curious as to what exactly An Zhe had discovered. He grabbed a shovel from a soldier and began digging downwards with keng-keng-keng-keng-keng-keng-keng-keng-keng-keng-keng-keng-keng-keng-keng.

These people were well-trained and physically strong, and it didn't take them long to dig more than a meter deep.

At a meter and a half, the soil became whiter and whiter, and the lime should be higher and higher.

After digging for a few dozen more centimeters, the shovel could actually hit sparks.

””No, there's a layer of gravel under the lime.””

””Maybe it was the foundation the Gao Family laid when they first built the yard?””

The stones are of different sizes and are very thick. ””

The cat owner squatted on An Zeng's shoulder and called out to the bottom of the hole.

It rubbed its contentious face as if it was afraid, but also as if it was disgusted.

An Zhan handed the good lord to Qu Liuxi, and he jumped down.

Squatting on the stone floor, he carefully examined it, then dug out a stone and looked at the sun. ””The stone was buried in there for less than two years. It definitely wasn't buried when the Gao Family first built the courtyard.””

””The Gao Clan's residence is in Fang Gu City for at least a hundred years. There's something down here, and it hasn't been buried for more than two years.””

””Move the stones away!””

With an order from An Zaiyue, the soldiers began to carry the stone away.

These soldiers were strong and curious, so they worked especially hard.

The stone was more than half a meter thick, and after two years of pressure, digging it out wouldn't be easy.

The dozens of muscular men worked for a full hour before they managed to clear out an area that was three to four meters in radius.

But beneath the stone stratum, there was another layer of lime.

Everyone couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Perhaps this was just because the Gao Family had once repaired the ground in the courtyard two or three years ago, and there were no secrets below.

Anjou asked for a shovel, sc.r.a.ped the layer of lime, and found it only a few centimeters thick.

He sc.r.a.ped the plaster aside, and everyone's hair stood on end.

Corpse.

An Xin went up and ordered more people to come over.

After that, he would send people to report to the army and Heavenly Temple, and have the soldiers and Heavenly Temple send people over to keep an eye out.

After another hour, five hundred elite soldiers were sent to the army, and over a hundred guards were sent to the Heavenly Temple to gather some more people from the Punishment Department.

Before the matter was decided, there were no laborers employed in the dispute.

The soldiers were w.a.n.g Kaitai, the Heavenly Temple was An Chengli, and the two were old acquaintances. They were chatting quite warmly along the way, but when they saw the scene in the pit below, their faces turned pale.

The group of seven to eight hundred people had cleared out all the courtyards. There were several large pits underneath the layers of rocks. There were countless corpses, at least a thousand of them.

The year in which these corpses were buried was different as well. After An Zaihai had seen them, he discovered that the earliest corpses would take around ten years, and the latest was no more than half a year.

And among these thousand corpses, there wasn't a single adult male.

A woman or a child.

””Motherf * cker!””

Skinny Du threw the shovel to the side and squatted down while hugging his head. ””The Gao Family b.a.s.t.a.r.ds!””

Gu Qianlin and Qu Liuxi were already holding hands and standing to the side. Their eyes were red, and they didn't dare to look at the corpses below.

The new body, though rotting, was vaguely recognizable.