PDLP Chapter 290 Whereabouts
Chapter 290 Whereabouts
After everyone went down into the dry well, they discovered that the area below was a maze of passages, with countless tunnels leading to unknown destinations.
"Everyone, form groups of three and split up to check each passage, see where they lead, and see if there are any traces of the men in black. Be careful." Faced with this situation, Fang Duobing quickly came up with a plan.
"Yes, young master." After receiving the order, the servants quickly departed in different directions.
"I really don't know, with so many underground mines, how did they manage to find us so precisely?"
"How did the King of Hell know that you had a daughter at home, and that he was going to arrange a marriage and come directly to your door? This includes not only your family, but also the families of all the persecuted girls in this small town."
“Wu You, you’re right. Could it be that the King of Hell planted a spy in every household? But that’s impossible.” Fang Duobing couldn’t figure it out either.
"Then we'll have to look at these pebbles on the ground," Li Lianhua said, pointing to a rather conspicuous pebble.
The well was dark, and with only a few lanterns around it, its existence was not immediately apparent.
"There's no underground river in this dry mine, so how come there are pebbles?" Fang Duobing reached out and picked them up from the ground.
"It seems that the King of Hell was able to distinguish between the different mines and find the girl's house accurately every time because of this pebble."
“Li Lianhua, what you said makes a lot of sense. The people in the manor are all hired servants, so they shouldn’t do anything underhanded.”
"Besides the three of you, the only outsider who has come to the house is Doctor Xue, who has come to treat Mother's illness."
"I suppose he deliberately dropped this pebble into his pants as a mark when he was writing prescriptions in Baishuiyuan, but at the time we had no idea what he was doing."
After analyzing the situation thoroughly, Fang Duobing increasingly felt that this statement was quite correct.
"To find out if it's him, we need to check if there's a passageway in this area that leads to his house."
“We can’t be so hasty, Youyou,” Li Lianhua added. “We’ll go up and inquire later to see if the families of the girls who were married off to the King of Hell had all invited Doctor Xue to treat them.”
"safe."
"Let's go take a look ahead."
The group walked along a slightly wider mine tunnel. As they walked, several servants returned, but there were no traces of black people among them.
“Wait, don’t you think the echo here is much louder than elsewhere?” Li Lianhua suddenly stopped in her tracks.
"It seems so."
"With such a large open space in front, the echo is naturally much louder than in other places."
Wu You looked at the mine shaft that could accommodate dozens of people, and at the cramped space where he had been with twenty servants when he went down into the dry mine. He remained silent in each of these places.
“Not only that, listen carefully,” Li Lianhua said.
"This echo is not something that this mine can produce; it should be something that would be produced by at least two mines of this size."
No one spoke inside the mine, making the echo sound even louder.
"There must be some secret here. Everyone, split up and search around," Fang Duobing instructed the gathered servants.
"Yes." The servants, carrying lanterns, carefully examined the walls of the mine.
Li Lianhua and the others were also busy, examining the area inch by inch.
"Young Master, this wall looks a little different from the others." A servant called out to Fang Duobing shortly afterward.
Upon hearing this, everyone inside the mine gathered around.
"Young master, this should be the entrance to a mine, but it seems to have been deliberately sealed off."