It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Soon, only three mine tunnels remained unexplored.

Chief Sun ordered his subordinates to go out and collect firewood, and after quickly smoke-fed several mine tunnels to confirm that there were no survivors, they focused on tracking the remaining clues.

Before Governor Fang asked for help, they had already discovered traces of a large number of people stepping on the mine. However, because there were traces in two directions, and the traces returning to the mine were newer than those leaving, they could not be sure whether it was a trick to deceive people, and they had to make a final confirmation.

Governor Fang was not very satisfied with this plan.

He found it hard to accept the fact that he had lost face in front of his subordinates, especially those of Governor Lu. In addition, more than half of the guards in his mansion were unconscious, and he felt a lump in his chest that he couldn't relieve.

Therefore, he forcibly blocked Chief Sun's plan and proposed to treat him in his own way, that is, to let those who might be hiding in the mine tunnel taste the poison gas.

If you don't know what's producing the poisonous gas, then move the entire alchemy furnace over here. If the alchemy furnace is too hot to move, then put out the fire first.

Chief Sun could hardly imagine that the highest official of Heding Prefecture in front of him would act impulsively and lose his mind at such a critical moment.

His remaining guards did not want to dissuade him and actually intended to carry out the order. Especially those who were assigned to guard the mine, they had forgotten their orders and followed Governor Fang out.

They are all unreliable, and Chief Sun's thought became stronger and stronger.

In order to avoid any problems and delays in the mission, Chief Sun had no choice but to assign a small number of men to replace the guards who had left, while he himself led his men to monitor the actions of Governor Fang.

Governor Fang's guards dug out seven or eight large wooden barrels from the kitchen, filled them with snow, then covered their mouths and noses with the snow and carried them into the workshop. They quickly poured the snow into the furnace, sealed it with a heavy alchemy furnace lid, and then ran outside to wait.

Soon, crackling and popping sounds of boiling and popping were heard in the furnace, which could be heard clearly outside, and then gradually, the sounds disappeared.

After half a quarter of an hour, a guard came in to check the situation. He touched the outer wall of the stove lightly with his hand and found it was warm but not hot. He came out and called for someone to come in and move the stove.

The alchemy furnace is unlike other things, it is very heavy, so extra people were specially assigned to help lift it. With four people carrying one furnace, it must be held steady.

Everything was going smoothly. When they were about to carry the objects into the mine, the two guards who were carrying the furnace in the middle suddenly collapsed and lost consciousness.

This letting go caused the alchemy furnace to topple over, and the furnace cover, boiling waste slag, and the compressed poisonous steam instantly exploded and blasted forward.

At the same time, the other two alchemical furnaces exploded instantly due to the shock, and poisonous steam carrying hot slag of different sizes sprayed out, directly covering the people around them.

Even Governor Fang and Chief Sun, who were following the team and deliberately keeping a "safe" distance, were not spared and screamed in pain.

Several guards who had been staying in the mine to guard the mine tunnel were shocked by this sudden change. In their anxiety, they even forgot to cover their mouths and noses and ran straight over to try to drag the person to a safe area.

Fortunately, this mine was larger than the one where the workshop was located, and the explosion occurred at the boundary between the inside and the outside. The poisonous gas quickly dissipated, and the victims were not severely poisoned like the initial victims.

But unfortunately, the guards who were carrying the stove were already dying, and the others ran so fast that they did not inhale much poisonous gas, even though they covered their mouths and noses. Their symptoms developed quickly, and some of them felt dizzy and disoriented.

What's worse is that, just as Chief Sun had initially imagined, people kept choking out of the mine tunnel.

Even though these people were pale and thin and walked unsteadily, they were holding iron tools in their hands and could still cause harm in the current situation.

The guards who were still standing held long swords and threatened to kill anyone who came forward again.

But the miners wouldn't listen.

They burst forth with unprecedented energy, rushing forward to strike the guards with all their might, chiseling those lying on the ground, hammering those standing... one after another.

In the end, there were only corpses piled on the ground, exhausted guards, and an impossible mission.

The return journey was even more difficult. Not to mention that people were too weak on the way down the mountain and could easily fall down the mountain and die, even when they were on horseback heading back to the mansion, there were people who kept fainting on the way and were forced to be tied up with belts.