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After some investigation, there were no other clues except that this was a granary.

In order to avoid being discovered, assassins were sent to monitor the place. The group left the cave and found a very hidden cave to spend the night.

Two days later, Li Er, who was sent by Luo Yao to conduct a secret investigation, brought back an important news.

The location of these people has been discovered, and the group passed through the stone forest and entered the valley behind it.

The valley is overgrown with weeds and thorns, and even if you walk through it carefully, you will inevitably get scratched.

An hour later, everyone was crawling on a high place looking at the cave in the forest.

"Although there is no one guarding outside, there are many people hiding."

"What should we do now?"

Bei Zhenting: "How many people are there?"

Li Er: "There are nearly a hundred people in the dark, and they are very skilled. Judging from the situation in the cave, there should be relatively few people inside."

Bei Zhenting frowned. The only possible way to break through now was to go straight into the enemy's interior, but if they were discovered, they would be besieged by the enemy.

After observing for a long time and roughly understanding the situation outside, Luo Yao and his party returned to the cave where they were hiding.

Eight days later, Bei Zhenting's layout was completed.

In the hidden cave at the bottom of the valley, there was a dull explosion, and everyone in the house was excited.

"Congratulations, sir!"

"Very good, very good. The efforts of the past few months have not been in vain. I believe that it will not be long before we can create gunpowder with extremely destructive power. Then the master will definitely be happy." The man was in a very happy mood.

Inside the cave's granary, two servants were conducting a routine inspection.

"Do you smell anything?"

Oddler B took a breath and smelled nothing. He shook his head and said, "I don't smell anything."

Oddler A sniffed, and the odor he'd smelled was gone. Compared to the pungent smell of sulfur and saltpeter in the cave, it wasn't particularly strong either... Thinking of this, Oddler A put aside his doubts.

That night, a batch of food was transported into the cave. When the last batch of food was about to enter the cave, several assassins suddenly jumped out of the stone forest and attacked them.

The servants were quite skilled, but compared to the assassins of the Yuan family, they were not masters.

"What's going on? How are you guarding it? Come out and help!" The leading manager blocked the killer's horizontal blow and shouted towards the forest.

The forest was eerily quiet and no one responded to his shouts.

Assassin: "Stop shouting. No one will come to save you even if you scream your throat out."

The steward: "Who are you? Who sent you here? How did you get into the Hundred Insect Forest?!"

"The dead don't need to know too much."

The cold sword pierced his chest and the manager died.

Seeing that they were no match for the enemy, the servants present retreated into the cave. The assassin would not let them go and flew forward to stab them several times.

Screams continued incessantly. A servant who had been stabbed in the back stumbled into the cave, and the assassin did not chase him.

"Leave one person alive to give us a heads-up. We'll just wait here for them to send reinforcements."

The servant moved around in the cave and entered a cave through a hidden passage. When the people in the cave saw him enter the cave, they all drew their swords.

The leading man in black yelled angrily: "This is a place with important weapons. Who allowed you to come in?!"

"The granary was attacked! Provide support quickly!" The servant fell to the ground after saying this. The men in black looked at the knife wound on his back and looked at each other in surprise.

"Aren't there many brothers secretly protecting the granary? How could this happen?"

"Anyway, it seems the granary was indeed attacked. I'll report this to the Lord, you guys go and provide support first!"

Just as he finished speaking, there was a loud bang in the cave. Everyone looked towards the cave door in the distance that made the noise, with expressions of surprise on their faces.

"Go and support us quickly. Be sure to protect the 'stone powder' in the granary!"

"Yes!" Everyone left, and the leading man in black quickly opened the stone door and entered the cave, making a significant breakthrough. The man in the cave laughed crazily.

"Sir, there's an enemy attack!"

When the man heard his words, the joy of having made a significant breakthrough disappeared, and his face became very ugly.

"Get out and don't bother me!"

The man in black said: "Sir, the enemy attacked the granary and many of our men were killed. Please pack your things quickly. I will send someone to escort you away!"

The man's face turned even uglier when he heard him say he was leaving.

If the ratio is adjusted a little more, this gunpowder can be used to kill people. Letting him leave now is unforgivable!

"Come here! I have something to tell you."

The man in black believed it and approached the man, "Sir, what's the matter?"

The man suddenly pulled out the sword beside him, and the man in black had no time to react before his head was chopped off.

"Somebody come!"

"Sir, what's the matter?" The man in black who came in trembled as he looked at the head on the ground that was still bleeding.

The man was very calm. "Enemy attack, go light the signal fire, gather everyone to the stone forest to defend the granary, bring the "powder" in the granary, and send people to guard this place."

"Sir, won't you inform the master?"

A gloomy expression flashed across the man's eyes. He had been researching for months without making any progress, and the man had long lost his patience with him. Now that he was on the verge of success, he didn't want to tell the man now, or he would just look down on him. With this thought in mind, the man snapped, "It's just a few assassins, and you can't handle them? You're telling the master about such a trivial matter?! Don't tell the master! Get on with it!"

The leading man in black hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded and left with his men.

"The Stone Forest has been attacked. We can only go through the valley, otherwise we might be surrounded!"

"It will take a full hour to cross the valley. That's too long. They're just a few assassins, nothing to worry about. Let's just storm out from the granary!"

Everyone nodded hesitantly. Ten people stayed behind to guard the stone gate of the research institute, and the rest went straight to the granary.

The twenty-odd people made their way to the two granaries without any problems. Looking at the neatly stacked bags of grain, they were puzzled. "There's no one in the granaries!"

Man in Black A: "This group of people are quite cautious."

Man in Black B: "There's no point being cautious. Once we get out of the stone forest, we'll kill them all!"

Some people were arranged to transfer the stone powder in the cave, and the remaining twenty or so people went straight to the Stone Forest Cave.

Near the cave entrance, there was a wide area, with two rows of men in black patrolling. Among them were Luo Yao and Bei Zhenting. Wearing clothes stripped from the men in black, they blended in with the group. Ye Qing and Zhang Hu'ao were also among the patrolmen.

Luo Yao quietly approached Bei Zhenting and lowered his voice, "Your Highness, the material of this dress is the same as it was ten years ago. Do you think the murderer is among them?"

Bei Zhenting shook his head. "This place looks more like a warehouse. It's indeed suitable for researching gunpowder. However, the person behind this can't be here."

"The people inside tipped off. Should we take action?"

"We just need to keep one of them alive to find out their true lair."

Luo Yao thought of the scene in the costume drama where the captives casually committed suicide, and couldn't help but look in Ye Qing's direction and winked at Ye Qing.

This possibility is very high, and Luo Yao had already reminded Ye Qing.

The princess's focus was always very novel. Ye Qing saw his eyes and knew what he was thinking. Thinking of how Princess Yao had specifically instructed him several times yesterday, a smile appeared on Ye's face.