Zhang Cheng replied: "Your Majesty, we have not set any traps on this road.

Because this road leads to the prince, we won’t set traps around here for fear of hurting our own people.”

"Could there be other people here, such as hunters setting traps?" Zi Sangyu muttered to himself in deep thought.

Zhang Cheng heard this and said, "There is no one living near this high mountain. Who else would set the trap except us?"

Zi Sangyu always felt that there should be someone nearby, or even a little further away, but where was this person? A bandit? He had been here for more than ten days, and had not seen any smoke from cooking fires.

However, I still feel that it is not peaceful here.

If Xiao Yuehan and his group were harassed by wild animals, they would have to leave traces no matter what.

What if they were taken away by someone? That would leave traces, unless, he was shocked, or they were drugged.

But even if this is the case, there should be traces. This disappearance without any trace is puzzling.

Thinking of this, he still reminded everyone: "Watch your feet and see if there are any traps.

In this dense weeds and trees, you can’t even see the traps.”

After hearing what the prince said, Zhang Cheng recalled carefully and realized that he was in charge of setting the trap.

There are no traps set nearby, but since the prince said so, we should be more careful.

After all, the prince is an experienced war king.

So he arranged: "On the road ahead, you must first use a spear to clear the weeds and expose the ground before you can move forward."

Everyone became careful.

But just as Zhang Cheng had finished his arrangements, a soldier shouted in surprise, "Zheng Saner, who was in my group, is missing. He was just in front of me."

When everyone heard this, they immediately stopped and started chopping the trees and weeds in front of them.

Zi Sangyu and Zhang Cheng hurried to the location of the soldier and took a closer look.

There must be some clues. Look, in front of the soldier, covered by weeds and trees, there is a narrow cave entrance right in front of everyone.

Zhang Cheng leaned forward and looked down. It was pitch black and he could not see anything, but he could hear the faint sound of flowing water.

Everyone stopped walking, thinking that this hole should be the answer to the mystery.

Zhang Cheng picked up a stone and threw it down. For a long time... a long time... there was no sound of the stone falling to the bottom of the cave.

He took out another tube of fireworks, lit it, and threw it into the cave, then lay on the edge of the cave and looked down.

This time, he took a general look.

He said to Zi Sangyu: "My Lord, this cave is very deep.

I saw that the fireworks were illuminating the walls of the cave, which means that the place where the fireworks fell was not the bottom of the cave.

This guy has to go down, no need to..."

He saw Zi Sangyu's ashen face and dared not say anything else.

No matter how deep a hole is, it has a bottom, and if there is the sound of flowing water, there must be another exit.

Could the princess and the others have exited through another cave?

But the best option right now is to go in through this cave, but Zhang Cheng said that this cave has no bottom...

Thinking of this, he said to Zhang Cheng: "Tie a rope for me, I will go down and take a look."

Zhang Chenggong was unwilling to give up, and he wanted to go down.

Zi Sangyu glared at him and said, "You can't be controlled by my orders, right? Give me the rope!"

Zhang Cheng was so bold that he actually ignored Zi Sangyu.

He tied a rope around his waist and tied the other end to a thick tree trunk, and was about to go down.

Zi Sangyu was furious. He cut the rope on the tree with a knife, picked up the rope on the ground, and wrapped it around his waist.

The result was that the two ends of the rope were tied to Zhang Cheng at one end and Zi Sang Yu at the other end.

Zhang Cheng saw this and was not afraid of him. He said, "What are you going to do, Your Majesty? There are not many ropes left. If you cut them, there will be none left. Then no one will be able to get down."

He is not afraid today, he is not afraid.

Zi Sangyu gestured to Zhang Cheng with a knife and said, "What are you going to do today? Are you rebelling?"

"I wouldn't dare to do that. I want to go down and save the princess." He looked stubborn.

"How did you know the princess would be in the cave?" Zi Sangyu really wanted to chop him with a knife, but there was no way to stop him.

"There is no other place where the princess and others could disappear, only here.

So I'm going to go down and take a look."

"You go down? Shouldn't I be the one going down?"

"How can Your Majesty go down there with soldiers watching here? Besides, I have experience with this kind of caves."

Zi Sangyu thought for a moment and said, "It's not impossible for you to go down, but I must go down."

"But there was only one rope, and the prince cut it."

This stubborn guy was so serious that the soldiers accompanying him were all worried about him.

At this time, a soldier came over and said, "While you were arguing, I made a rope. Take a look at it. Is it okay?"

As he spoke, he showed them a large roll of rope woven from tree bark that he was carrying on his shoulders.

Zi Sangyu picked up one end and tied it around his waist.

Zhang Cheng refused again and said, "No. This one is too rough. Give it to me, Your Majesty, use this one."

As he said this, he took off the belt around his waist and gave it to the prince.

Zi Sangyu raised his fist and smashed it down on his head. Zhang Cheng did not dodge, but concentrated on wrapping the bark rope around his waist with the help of Xiao Bingbing.

The big fist was about to fall down and reach the top of the head, and then it stopped to everyone's surprise.

Zhang Cheng smiled naively at Zi Sang Yu, and then the two of them went down the cave little by little with the help of the soldiers.

The entrance of this cave was small, but the walls became wider as they went deeper. In the end, the two of them had no choice but to stay in the middle of the cave, unable to reach the wall to slide out.

Zi Sangyu looked down with the torch to see if his rope was long enough.

This sight gave him a clear idea. In fact, the hole was not that deep.

But there was a pool of water below, so if you threw a torch down, you wouldn't be able to see the bottom, and if you threw a stone down, you wouldn't be able to hear any sound.

After two incense sticks of time, the two reached the bottom.

Where should they land? The two were still on the rope, looking at the water below them, not knowing how deep it was.

Just spinning on the rope.

Zhang Cheng asked himself to go down a little deeper, then lowered himself into the water on the rope to test the depth.

When he got down to the point where the water was up to his neck, he still didn't reach the bottom.

Yeah, is this pool so deep? If the princess and the others fell here, wouldn't they have fallen directly into the pool? He didn't dare to think further.

Zi Sangyu looked at the deep pool that was gradually flooded up to his neck, but had not yet reached the bottom. He began to feel uneasy. Could it be that...

He didn't dare to think about it any more.

He said to Zhang Cheng, "Go to the side and have a look."

Zhang Cheng pulled the rope and swung it to the edge of the pool, but there was still no bottom.

What to do? The two of them were neither up nor down, just hanging in the air, holding the rope tightly.

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