After my soul traveled to ancient times, I don't want to be cannon fodder

Zhong Ning's eyes moved slightly, and he looked at Zhao Yingpu. He saw that his originally elegant and handsome face seemed to have aged a little overnight.

Zhong Ning let go of the hand that was pinching Zhao Yingpu, took two steps back, and looked extremely ugly.

Zhao Yingpu knelt on the ground, bowed his head and kowtowed, then raised his eyes, stared at Zhong Ning intently, and said in a low voice:

"Your Highness, outside the western suburbs of the city, in the Yinming Ridge, the person Your Highness wishes to see is here... I, your humble servant, am here, awaiting Your Highness's safe return!"

Zhong Ning looked him up and down, his eyes extremely cold, as if he was looking at a corpse. After a long while, he said calmly, "I trust you this time. I hope you won't let me down when I return."

"Of course, I also asked Your Highness to protect the lives of my family. How dare I deceive Your Highness? After Yinming Ridge, I will definitely help Your Highness to clean up the mess!"

"Okay!" Zhong Ning made the final decision, then shouted loudly, "Come here!"

The two jailers heard the noise and rushed over. Zhong Ning pointed at Zhao Yingpu and ordered, "Change his cell and put him in the highest-level guard. No one is allowed to visit him until I return."

"Yes, I obey your order!" The two jailers looked at each other, then opened the prison door and escorted Zhao Yingpu to the third underground floor of the sky prison.

There are three underground floors of the Heavenly Prison, halfway between the main gate and the ground. There are at least ten mechanisms and three lines of defense. It is currently the highest-level supervisory area in the Heavenly Prison.

Generally speaking, only those who have committed extremely serious crimes will be sent here.

Zhao Yingpu, wearing iron chains and shackles, took a few steps forward, then turned around and bowed deeply to Zhong Ning, and then walked towards the depths of the sky prison with soundless steps.

Zhong Ning turned silently and strode out of the prison. He tapped his toes lightly and quickly mounted his horse. He then threw the jade pendant at his waist to one of the guards and said, "Split into two teams. One team will go to the Imperial Guards camp and take the jade pendant to inform Qin Mo that I am dispatching 2,000 Imperial Guards to Yinming Ridge."

"Another team will go into the palace to report to His Majesty. Tell him that I will be mobilizing two thousand imperial guards and will apologize upon my return!"

"What about His Highness..." one of the guards couldn't help but ask.

Zhong Ning glanced at him, his eyes firm and unwavering:

"I will go ahead and rescue them. If I cannot return, please remember to tell Father that I mentioned land reform earlier. I ask Father to give more consideration to the people of the world and the long-term peace and stability of Dayong!"

After saying that, Zhong Ning rode away on his horse!

The four guards stood there with mixed feelings, but when they thought of Zhong Ning's instructions, they immediately split into two teams, one team to mobilize the imperial guards, and the other team to go into the palace to report.

As for Zhong Ning, he rode his horse at full speed all the way to the mountains outside the western suburbs.

This place is not like the Futu Mountain of Zhenguo Temple outside the East City Gate. This is the most dangerous one among the many peaks of Futu Mountain.

The mountain is so dangerous that few people come here. There are also wild beasts and poisonous snakes there, so the nearby villagers only dare to wander around the periphery and dare not step into the deep mountains.

I think those people took advantage of this opportunity to build a base in the mountains and set up a tight net here, waiting for Zhong Ning to come and surrender.

Zhong Ning could have led the imperial guards to attack all the way in, but if that were the case, the four people who were captured would have no way out.

She couldn't gamble with the lives of four people, so she could only take the initiative and act according to the circumstances.

Didn't they deliberately resort to such a conspiracy just to force me to come in person?

She came and wanted to see what those people had in store.

As soon as Zhong Ning stepped into Yinming Ridge, she felt the presence of a sentry not far away. She walked towards the sentry and then, under the guidance of the sentry, stepped into the mountains step by step.

The mountains here are dangerous and the peaks are strange. The place where those people hid was hidden under a thousand-foot cliff. After climbing a steep slope, they found a huge cave halfway up the mountain.

There were sentry posts on both sides of the cave. Seeing Zhong Ning coming alone, the sentries hidden in various angles raised their bows and arrows.

"I am Princess Zhaohua. Take me to see your leader!"

Zhong Ning shouted to one of the sentry posts.

Just as she finished speaking, a man in black clothes and a black mask walked out of the cave. He bowed to Zhong Ning and said, "Princess Zhaohua, our master invites you in!"

Zhong Ning tapped his toes lightly and took a few leaps, following the slope of the mountain to the halfway point. He stood in front of the man with the black mask and nodded slightly to him.

The masked man made a gesture of invitation, and Zhong Ning walked straight in.

The light inside was very dim, but fortunately she had strong internal strength and had developed the ability to see in the dark early on.

Therefore, this darkness was nothing to her.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, winding through the cave, we finally arrived at a hall with torchlight, about 800 square meters in area.

As soon as he entered, he saw a huge iron cage suddenly descending from above his head, covering Zhong Ning completely inside the cage.

There was a loud bang, which made her eardrums hurt.

It’s not that Zhong Ning can’t hide, but the purpose of her coming here is to save people. She can’t act rashly before figuring out the situation.

She opened her eyes and tried to see the situation in the hall through the gap in the cage. She saw that not far to her right, there were four ropes hanging from the wooden loft above the cave, and the other ends of the ropes were tightly tied around the wrists of four people.

The four people who disappeared for no reason were just hanging in the air. Judging from their expressions, they had lost all their color and were in a semi-comatose state.

"Fang Ping, Gu Mingzhe, Shen Yan, Zhou Ge..." Zhong Ning called out one by one in order. The four people heard the voice and tried to open their eyes wide. Then they saw Zhong Ning trapped in an iron cage, looking at them with worry in his eyes.

"Aning..." Fang Ping muttered, his eyelids half-lidded, "Go away..." Gu Mingzhe also forced himself to wake up and whispered to Zhong Ning, "Your Highness... why are you here... Go away..."

Zhou Ge was too young and had already been in a coma. After hearing Zhong Ning's voice, he could not hold on any longer and fainted again.

Shen Yan was the most sober, and shouted at Zhong Ning: "What are you doing here? Don't you have martial arts skills? Hurry up and leave... Hurry up and leave..."

Zhong Ning held onto the cage railing, her eyes bloodshot. Then she heard a sneer from above the hall: "Oh, how touching! As expected of Princess Zhaohua, she can conquer so many young men with her own strength... Tsk tsk tsk tsk..."

"Brother, Princess Zhaohua is so beautiful. I am so jealous of her. Can I..." A man wearing a one-eye mask kept drooling in the direction of Zhong Ning.

The man sitting at the top slapped him on the back of the head and angrily scolded him, "You blind man! That's Princess Zhaohua, the emperor's daughter. She has so many handsome men. How could she be interested in you?"