Chapter 1123: A shriek in the labyrinth, a trap afoo (1/2)

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From a distance, Gu Beiyue and Tang Li saw Hao San’s corpse!

The two of them strode forward and witnessed the injury on his head that had clobbered him to death. Neither of them knew the man, but here were the remnants of Bai Yanqing’s handiwork.

“This doesn’t look like my big bro or Gu Qishao’s style. They couldn’t have gotten here that fast, either,” Tang Li muttered as he prepared to crouch down for a closer look.

Gu Beiyue discovered something odd about Hao San’s blood and quickly held him back. “Careful, he might have been poisoned.”

“Could it have been my sister-in-law?” Tang Li exclaimed.

“Possibly!” Gu Beiyue observed. They never imagined that Bai Yanqing would personally kill his subordinate out of the blue.

“So….has my sister-in-law escaped?” Tang Li asked.

Gu Beiyue had already discovered a large stone cell and its open door. “It’s more accurate to say they’re in the process of escaping right now!”

As he peeked into the room, Tang Li hastily followed. They discovered a pot for boiling medicine and some untouched ingredients inside. Gu Beiyue swept his eyes over the items and was certain. “The princess was locked in here and must have left just recently!”

None of the dregs had been cleaned out of the pot yet; moreover, Hao San had only died recently. From these two clues, Gu Beiyue guessed everything had happened not long ago! Although they assumed that Han Yunxi had dealt the final blow, it was more or less right. The two men exchanged looks before going back into the corridor. There were only two paths here, one to the left and one to the right. The left led back to the cliffs, while the right headed for darkness. Without a doubt, Han Yunxi had gone that way, or else she would have been trapped in an array ages ago.

Gu Beiyue and Tang Li chased after the right tunnel and soon saw multiple corpses poisoned to death on the ground. They had only expired recently. Now they were even more certain that Han Yunxi had fled this way. How unlucky! If she had left a little later, they would have met up!

Very soon, Tang Li and Gu Beiyue’s figures disappeared into the dark. They started out heading straight, but soon ran into a crossroads with two pathways. They didn’t know which one to pick and simply flipped a coin to decide. But soon enough, they came upon a crossroads of two tunnels again. Once again, a coin was tossed.

After a while, Gu Beiyue sensed something amiss and said, “Tang Li, let’s double back! There’s a problem with this place.”

“Another array?” Tang Li felt it was strange too. They’d walked for ages but kept seeing the same paved pathways and branching tunnels. It was unclear whether they’d walked the same way before.

“It might be a maze, but I hope that isn’t the case!” Gu Beiyue declared. He silently left a mark and double-backed with Tang Li, choosing a different path this time. But after wandering for a bit, he soon saw his own marker.

“It is a maze!” Tang Li huffed.

“Don’t stop and keep walking. If the princess hasn’t been captured by Bai Yanqing yet, she should be in here too. Perhaps we’ll run into her,” Gu Beiyue said seriously.

Tang Li’s spirits lifted at his words. Sister-in-law might be with Ning Jing! Or she might know where Ning Jing’s locked up.

Tang Li and Gu Beiyue went around in circles within the maze while Long Feiye and Gu Qishao were doing the same exact thing in a different area. Gu Qishao had never been a patient man and soon released the Moye sword spirit. “Let’s just cut through these walls.”

Long Feiye glared at him. “You’ll pay the price if you startle the snake in the grass!”

Gu Qishao quickly sheathed the spirit. “Then what do we do? Bai Yanqing might be spying on us this moment and laughing at our efforts.”

Long Feiye stared at him coldly and said, “If you don’t have any patience, then get out!”

“You!” Gu Qishao felt gloomy. If I didn’t have any patience, would I still be hanging around now?

Long Feiye ignored him and stopped to sit down, crossing his legs. They had gone in multiple circles already before going back to the place where they started. Compared to wasting their energy, it was better to sit and think up a strategy first. Seeing this, Gu Qishao wanted to speak up, but paused and simply looked away, ignoring the other man. The two of them were forever arguing with one sentence or falling into a cold war with the next.

Gu Qishao eventually ended up sitting near Long Feiye and began to think up solutions. He was trying to come up with a definite way to escape the maze. Meanwhile, Long Feiye was long certain that their skills combined weren’t enough to find any shortcuts; their only choice was to try the different pathways one by one.

He suddenly looked up at Gu Qishao and said, “Hey!”