A hunting adventure [unlimited]

Du Yu in the dream is as active as Du Wen in reality.

With an idea, they brought back the architectural design drawings of the palace from the Royal Library the next day, including the floor plan of the underground drainage system they needed.

At that time, Yu Zhen was still feeding the mermaid in the cell. In view of the lethality of its eight-petal mouthpiece, he could only use a long pole to string fresh fish and catch it from a distance.

The face of the mermaid is like the exquisite ceramic human face on the exhibition stand. Its small nose sniffs ten catties of fat cod on a thin stick, and its vermilion lips are gently parted...

The beautiful face turned into a mouthpiece like a python!The esophagus is full of whirlpool-shaped fangs, a long dark red tongue with barbs protruding like the mouthparts of an insect, and the flesh petals that spread their teeth and claws like opening and closing piranhas, enveloping the tail of the fish in one bite, wriggling and swallowing...

Yu Zhen put down his long pole, sweating profusely.

This stuff is still gross.

After the mermaid finished eating, its face returned to its original appearance; it was like a sneaky cat, its sharp red tongue gently and delicately licked the bone spur of its right paw, and its green eyes were slightly squinted.

"You lick slowly, I'm leaving."

After finishing, Yu Zhen quickly retreated.

***

He returned to Du Yu's room, and the other party was already standing in front of the rubbing table, studying the distribution of the sewers in the palace all morning.

By superimposing the floor plan of the palace and the floor plan of the underground drainage system, the light penetrates the sulfuric acid paper, and the positions of the ground palace and the underground pipes are clearly defined.

Du Yu circled a dot on the room in the southeast corner of the map with a red ink pen, and said, "We are here."

Yu Zhen found the location of the cell from the picture, and tapped with her fingertips, "But the mermaid is here."

Du Yu marked a red triangle in the courtyard, "This is the nearest sewer manhole cover."

Yu Zhen: "There are at least ten guards patrolling back and forth nearby, how can they hide their eyes and ears?"

Du Yu: "Next month at the court ball, there will be hundreds of people coming in from the outside. The commander of the guards will definitely transfer people to be on duty in the vestibule. By then, the number of guards will be reduced by at least half."

Yu Zhen: "How to lure away the remaining half?"

Du Yu: "I pretended to be injured and let them catch the assassin?"

"It's too old-fashioned." Yu Zhen snorted, "Besides, if you get injured, the palace will definitely be surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside, and the defense will be stricter; if you are watched by them, let me send that fish back by myself." In the sea? You think it's beautiful."

Du Yu's face was ashamed by the rebuttal, his brows were raised, and he said shamelessly, "Then what do you say?"

"Hmm..." Yu Zhen pondered for a while, then waved to people, "Come here."

Du Yu approached him nonchalantly.

"I think this is better..." Yu Zhen covered her mouth with one hand and whispered in the other's ear.

Du Yu's eyes lit up when he heard the last word, he patted him on the shoulder and said, "You are really a genius."

Yu Zhen: "However, we have to go underground to confirm a feasible route, and prepare the props for transporting the mermaid within the next ten days."

"The props are simple, so I'll find someone to order them right away. I'm planning the route now, and I'll confirm it tonight." Du Yu showed the same resoluteness as his sister.

"It's good to move fast, but do you have the equipment?" Yu Zhen asked.

Du Yu: "?"

Yu Zhen couldn't help but roll her eyes and said: "Lightweight, breathable and airtight clothes, compass, waterproof high boots, headlamp, backpack, pliers, lighter, water, alcohol, gauze..."

Du Yu stroked his chin and said, "Is it necessary to be so troublesome?"

Yu Zhen: "There are mice in the sewers of this old drainage system. It should be common sense. In case of being bitten... it's better not to be in case. It's always right to listen to me."

What he is afraid of is that there are creatures more terrible than rats in the sewer.

Du Yu thought that what he said was reasonable, so he took notes one by one, nodded and said, "Of course."

As a rich man, he is quite free in spending money.

In addition to the list made by Yu Zhen, Du Yu also bought a bunch of miscellaneous retail items, involving various aspects of food and clothing; from nail polish, sewing kits to sunscreen, climbing ropes... The most outrageous thing is the baby swimming ring. In the various shopping carts, what they really need is so ordinary.

In the evening, the maid knocked on the door of Du Yu's room with a flatbed roller cart.

"Your Highness, do you want me to sort and store them in the warehouse for you?"

"No need, I have a servant." Du Yu carried Yu Zhen out, "You go to rest and let him clean up."

"Okay." The maid listened to the order and stepped back.

Yu Zhen broke free from her collar, wishing she could punch Du Yu on the bridge of the nose.

However, the other party has a keen sense of smell to capture the atmosphere, and said in time: "Why are you angry? I'm telling the truth, aren't you my servant?"

These words were like adding fuel to the fire, Yu Zhen gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, yes, yes!"

Du Yu shrugged: "Alright, alright, let's get down to business."

Yu Zhen: "..."

***

At twelve o'clock in the morning, the guards changed their shifts, leaving them a moment of gap.

The imperial palace in the middle of the night is like a dormant monster. The shimmering pearls are the tens of thousands of eyes all over its body, staring at it in the night.

Yu Zhen was wearing the normal clothes he dreamed of—a black long-sleeved jacket and trousers, high boots that covered his calves, and a backpack strap that slanted over his left shoulder; headlamp.

The whole person is neat and coordinated, and the fingerless gloves that are the finishing touch set him off extremely capable.

Finally feeling a bit adventurous!

Du Yu was dressed similarly to him, but because of his height advantage, his legs looked extraordinarily long, and his figure was tall and straight like a fir tree; his slightly long black hair was tied up behind his head, protruding sharp and cold eyebrows, high nose and thin lips, very ...

Forget it.

People still have to be confident and firmly believe that they are the most handsome.

When they visited the site during the day, they found that the artisans who designed the garden carefully covered the manhole cover deep in the grass so as not to damage the landscape.This idea greatly reduces the risk of them being caught red-handed trying to pry the manhole cover, long live perfectionism.

But at the moment when they actually did it, they saw that the manhole cover did not need to be pried, it was just a heavy stone slab, and it only took a little effort to move it away.

The two figures hid in the dark grass and rustled, the thick and dull stone cover was picked up by the edge with four hands, and slowly lifted——

"呵啦——" the sound of stone rubbing is like metal scraping glass, it is nerve-wracking and ear-piercing.

The smell of damp and stinky mud hits me head-on!The cool air-conditioning rushed up from the ground...

The flashlight was extended into the well, and the cold white light illuminated the moss-covered brick walls and rusted iron ladders, and the reflection of the water surface faintly appeared in the deep darkness.

"You go down first." Yu Zhen said first.

His voice fell to the bottom of the well, causing echoes.

Du Yu: "You go first, I'm stronger than you, I'll close the manhole cover behind."

Yu Zhen clenched his fist and said, "Two out of three rounds."

"Ok." Du Yu accepted his challenge.

In the first game Yu Zhen scissors, Du Yu stone; in the second game Yu Zhen played cloth, Du Yu scissors.

The outcome is clear.

It's over, meeting the nemesis, Yu Zhen gritted his teeth and thought to himself.

If he is willing to gamble and admit defeat, he must try the risk himself.

In the past, Yu Zhen would never have imagined that he would drill into the sewer in his dream, but the fact is that, not only did he drill, but he also drilled it with ease.

He held on to the penultimate iron ladder, his slightly heavy boots fell to the ground, and his feet stepped into the sewage twenty centimeters deep.

In the empty and cold dark tunnel, the sound of ticking water echoed closely in his ears. Yu Zhen turned on the headlight, and the cold and bright white light illuminated an area with him as the center and a radius of more than ten meters.

This kind of wide brick sewer is often seen in capital cities with earlier urbanization, such as Paris and Tokyo in the past.

He didn't know if Du Yu had experienced something in the sewer, or if he had a shadow of this kind of building; it was too realistic, every brick and every clump of moss, down to the muddy water under his feet, wet and muddy, floating with the smell of dead rats air……

If this is a foul-smelling esophagus in the mouth of a monster, then the thick pulpy moss is the dark green saliva it secretes, which is highly poisonous to corrode flesh and blood.

Yu Zhen even suspected that Du Yu's body was a mouse, and after living underground for a hundred years, he was finally able to cultivate into a spirit. Otherwise, who would have such a concrete imagination of the sewer?

Of course, this is just his inner activities, he will never say it.

Du Yu pushed the manhole cover back to its original position, and then stepped down.

It has to be said that, as a born rich man, Du Yu did not have those pampering problems, and he adapted well to the harsh environment of the sewer.

In the dark and claustrophobic space, their figures were slantedly reflected on the arched wall by the lights. There was only a straight ditch in front of them. They stepped on the water one after the other without a map.

The sound of splashing water can't cover the rattling of mice crawling along the wall, and the faint sound of "chirping" rats is close at hand, awakening the primitive fear of darkness in people's hearts.

Yu Zhen felt a little uncomfortable, it was too strange not to speak at this time.

He took the initiative to find a topic and said, "How much is that mermaid?"

The echo in the tunnel was heavy, Du Yu couldn't hear it clearly, and asked, "What?"

Yu Zhen slowed down, "I ask, how many kilograms does the mermaid you want to send away weigh?"

Du Yu's voice was closer: "I don't know, I haven't weighed it, but it's heavier than you by visual inspection."

Yu Zhen said: "Then you are responsible for carrying it? There is no way to use transportation here."

Du Yu: "I can hug you."

The conversation is over and no one speaks.There was only the sound of treading water and rats jumping around.

Time seems to have frozen, obviously only 100 meters, but it seems to have walked for as long as an hour.The end of this journey is a narrowed exit, deep and dark, like a door leading to the unknown, Yu Zhen unconsciously speeds up his steps to pass through it——

Thank goodness for not having to keep walking in the water.

On the other side of the exit is a wider drainage channel, a vaulted square wall, and a connected water ditch on the ground. High platforms are built on both sides of the wall so that people can walk on it.

Moss grew between the cracks of the dark red brick wall, and a musty smell lingered.

Yu Zhen stepped briskly to the dry place, and her boots left wet shoe prints on the dusty ground; the headlights swept into the shadows, and several fat yellow-haired mice fled in groups.

"This kind of place, what do you think they eat to grow so fat?" He chatted.

"Corpse."

At the same time as Du Yu said these two words, Yu Zhen suddenly stopped in his tracks——

Ten meters, no, five meters ahead, the light illuminated a slender figure leaning against the corner of the wall.

His heart beat as fast as a drum, bang!boom!It resounded fiercely in the chest.

A gray mouse emerged from the skull's right eye, jumped along the cheekbones to the colorless shirt, stepped on the sternum and got into the broken coat, the clothes bulged out the undulating arc of the mountains, and the hairless meaty tail Disappeared under the cloth like a snake in its hole.

Du Yu witnessed this scene over his shoulder, frowned and said, "I actually hit the mark..."

The point is, how could there be a dead body in the sewer?

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