It seems that they will not be able to escape on their own except to wait for the Musa patriarch to come and let them go.

Patriarch Musa left the dungeon and went to the outer room. A soldier waited there and saw the Musa patriarch come out, and the soldier said, "Patriarch, we have searched the entire fortress and found no woman. ”

"How is that possible!" said the Musa chief, shocked and angry, "that woman is blind, there is no one around, and she can't get out of the fortress, where can she escape?

The soldier said, "We've searched all the places in the fort that can be searched." If the woman was still in the fortress, I thought, she would be hiding somewhere. ”

Patriarch Musa muttered, "What other places in the fortress have you not searched?"

The soldier said, "Except for the armory, the case storehouse, and the residences of the four captains, all other places have been searched. ”

Patriarch Musa said, "Could that woman be in the residence of a certain patriarch?" He thought of Mu Ling, among the four captains, only Mu Ling and Wu Song were the closest.

Patriarch Musa said, "I will call a meeting of the four captains later, and you will quietly search their residences while they are away." ”

After the soldier retreated, the Musa patriarch sat down in his chair, and his whole person seemed to age ten years in an instant.

He is a person with an upright temperament, and he said before that Wu Song was the hero of the entire fortress, and it was indeed from the bottom of his heart. Therefore, for him to use trickery to take down Wu Song and hand over his friends is really a very painful thing for the Musa patriarch.

But the Musa patriarch had to do this again, because he had already told Wu Song in the dungeon that it was a matter of the rise and fall of the entire fortress.

The Purgatory Land is located at the southernmost tip of the Xizhou Continent, and it is inaccessible to people, and few people will enter it. The Guardian Fortress located in the hinterland of the Purgatory Land, on the Western Continent, is almost unknown to anyone.

Most of the soldiers in the fortress had never left the Purgatory Lands and knew very little about the outside world. They thought that the fortress was cut off from the outside world, and that there was no contact between the two sides.

But in reality, the fortress was in contact with the outside world.

Hundreds of years ago, when the fortress was built, the first generation of the Guardian family established contact with the forces on the Xizhou continent. At that time, there were no four major city lords on the Xizhou Continent, but various forces coexisted.

These forces are hostile to each other, and they all want to destroy and annex each other. However, all of the forces are connected to the Guardian family and are willing to fund them.

Because, they all understood that what the Guardian Family was guarding was the core of the entire Xizhou Continent. If that core is destroyed, then everyone will be destroyed.

Later, the situation on the Xizhou continent changed, and various forces were annexed, and finally the current four city lords were formed.

The four city lords, like their ancestors, still keep in touch with the guardian family, regularly providing them with weapons and other financial support.

And it is with these external funding that the Guardian family can continue for such a long time. Wu Song had previously thought that the Guardian Fortress was self-sufficient and did not need help from outside the Purgatory Land at all.

Actually, that's just an illusion. The Purgatory Land is very barren, that is, the food can be self-sufficient, and in addition, medicines, weapons and other things need to be imported from the outside world.

The four city lords and guardians agreed that each city lord would fund the Purgatory Land for one year and four years of reincarnation.

In the past, the four major city lords were basically independent, and there was no party division. Any city lord is on an equal footing with everyone else.

However, this is no longer the case.

In Zangsha City, in order to kill Wu Song, the city lord of Kewan City detonated the ** in the armory and blew himself up. Now, Kewan City has not yet elected a city lord, and it can be said that the dragons have no leader.

The pattern of the four major city lords has temporarily become the three major city lords.

These three city lords are the city lord of Flying Eagle City, the city lord of Goddess City and the city lord of Luo Xi City, among which the city lord of Flying Eagle City was usurped by his younger brother and lost his power.

In fact, the current city lord of Flying Eagle City is his younger brother. And his younger brother was in cahoots with the city lord of the goddess city, and obeyed the arrangement of the city lord of the goddess city in everything.

Therefore, among the three major city lords, the city lord of the goddess city can be said to control two cities.

In this way, the city lord of the Goddess City has a bargaining chip to negotiate with the Musa patriarch. The City Lord of the Goddess City threatened the Musa Patriarch that if he did not hand over Yun Rong, then the City Lord of the Goddess City and the Flying Eagle City would stop providing funding to the fortress.

The city of Kowan did not know when the city lord would be elected, and it would not be possible to provide financial support to the fortress until a new lord appeared. If the Goddess City and the Flying Eagle City don't provide funding again, then the fortress will only be funded by Luo Xicheng's family.

With Luo Xicheng's financial resources, it was certainly impossible for it to take care of the fort's material supply, and it could only provide a year's worth of funding at most. So where does the fortress go after a year?

The Musa patriarch clearly knew that without the supply of materials from the outside world, the fortress would only last for three years at most, and then the operation of the fortress would collapse.

When that happens, what to do?

The Guardian Family has existed for hundreds of years and has always been the strongest barrier in the Western Continent. In the heart of Patriarch Musa, he was very proud to be a member of this family, and he was full of supreme honor.

He couldn't imagine that the family would be ruined in his own hands. If that day does come, then the Musa patriarch will judge himself to apologize to his predecessors.

Under such a mentality, Patriarch Musa had no choice but to hand over Yunrong.

Before, the Musa patriarch went outside the city to meet the city lord of the goddess city. Later, Wu Song and the others looked for it. At that time, the city lord of the Goddess City was nearby, and in order to prevent Wu Song and them from being suspicious, the Musa patriarch deliberately jumped into the valley and pretended that he had been attacked.

In this way, they deceived Wu Song and them.

Among the guards guarding the residence of the Musa patriarch, there is one who has been friends with the wood spirit since childhood, and once in the battle against the magma monster snake, the wood spirit also saved his friend.

The two can be regarded as a lifelong friendship, and Mu Ling brought this friend in.

Mu Ling got straight to the point and said, "Brother, I want to know what happened to Wu Song after they entered the patriarch's residence. ”

Mu Ling's friend hesitated for a moment and said, "They have been arrested and are now locked in a cage in the dungeon." ”

Mu Ling said, "Why do you want to arrest them?"

Mu Ling's friend said, "I don't know. ”

The wood spirit pondered for a moment and said, "I'm going to the dungeon." ”

Mu Ling's friend said, "I can arrange for you to go to the dungeon, but it's useless for you to go there, the three of them are locked in a meteorite cage, you know that kind of cage, you don't use a key, don't want to open it by external force."

And the key is only owned by the patriarch. ”

Mu Ling said, "I know, but I still have to go and see Wu Song and them." ”

The guards of the dungeon are in shifts of five hours, and during the shift, there will be a quarter of an hour, and there will be no guards in the dungeon.

On his next shift, Mu Ling's friend brought Mu Ling to the dungeon.

When Wu Song saw Mu Ling, he was surprised and delighted, and said, "Mu Ling, what the hell is going on?"

Mu Ling shook his head and said, "I don't know, but don't worry, Miss Yunrong has already hidden in my residence, and now she is safe." ”

Wu Song breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you, Mu Ling. ”

Mu Ling looked at the wolf and Ba Mao, although the two of them had woken up, the ** on their bodies had not completely faded, so they were a little delirious.

Wu Song said, "Can you get us out?"

Mu Ling said, "This meteoric iron cage can't be opened without the key of the Musa patriarch, and it can't be opened by external force. I'll find a way to get the key as soon as possible and get you out. ”

Wu Song said, "Mu Ling, be careful of the City Lord of the Goddess City, the Musa Patriarch should have seen him, and everything that is happening now has nothing to do with him." ”

Mu Ling nodded, "Don't worry, I'll be careful." ”

The wood spirit left the dungeon before the change of guard was complete.

As he walked to his quarters, he pondered how to get the key to the Musa chief.

As he walked near his quarters, a soldier approached and said, "Captain Musa Spirit, Patriarch Musa has invited you to a meeting, the other three captains have already passed." ”

Mu Ling nodded and walked towards the conference hall.

When the wood spirit was far away, a group of soldiers entered the wood spirit's residence.

They are careful not to touch anything. They went to the room outside the lodging and then split into two teams. One team searched the outer room, and the other went to the inner room.

There were five soldiers who went to the inner room, and when they entered the room, they found it dark and unlit.

One of the soldiers who was walking in front suddenly felt a black shadow pounce on him, and before he could react, he felt a chill in his neck, and a long hole had been torn open.

As the first soldier fell, the shadow scurried up to the second soldier's neck, ripping open the other's throat.

After all, these soldiers were well-trained, and by the time the second soldier fell, the other soldiers had already reacted. When the shadow jumped at the third soldier, the soldier swung his steel knife and slashed at the shadow.

The black shadow quickly flashed to the side, and the soldier slashed into the air.

Just then, the soldier outside came over with a lamp and said, "What's going on?"

The lights illuminated the room, and the soldiers saw that Yun Rong was sitting in a chair with a calm face. A demon beast squatted on Yun Rong's shoulder, roaring at the soldiers.

The beast's claws were stained with blood, and the two soldiers fell to the ground, blood gushing from their necks.

All the soldiers drew their swords in their hands as if they were facing a great enemy, staring at Yun Rong and the Spirit Rhino Cub.

Yun Rong said calmly, "You don't have to do it, I'll go with you." ”

She hugged the young spirit rhino beast to her chest and said, "You are waiting for your master here. ”

Yun Rong stood up and walked towards the door. The soldiers were tall and large, with bright steel knives in their hands. But in the face of such a soft woman as Yun Rong, they had a sense of fear from the bottom of their hearts, and they didn't dare to do anything to damage her at all.