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When the door opened, the inside was brightly lit, and there were seven or eight wind lanterns hanging in the small two-zhang square room, so I could see it clearly. Gao Muqing only glanced at it, hurriedly took half a step back, and reached out to grab Lin Jue's sleeve.

It turned out that the floor of the house had no ground at all, but a two-zhang square hole of a black hole. Gusts of cold wind came out of the hole, giving people goosebumps even in the June weather.

A dozen bandits began to shout in unison, and they pushed the axles. The huge axles spun round and round, and the thick cables were rolled up in circles. Then, at the mouth of the hut, there was a rumbling sound. Finally, there was a click, and a thick wooden platform with a half-height fence on all sides slowly appeared at the entrance of the cave under the pull of the cable, which happened to be parallel to the ground.

"Leader Jia, please go up to the lifting platform." The little boss said.

At this point, Jia Dongsheng had no choice, and several mermaids rushed in and boarded the platform. With a bang, the door shut. Several people stood on the platform with bated breath, the roof of the hut was almost overhead, and the whole space was extremely cramped, making people breathless and depressed.

Finally there was a shout outside, and the thick cable slowly descended, rubbing against the axle above, making a bouncing and sliding sound. With each sound, the platform shook several times, and it was very frightening. The platform slowly descended, the space became larger, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Jue understood that this was a shaft leading to the ground, surrounded by rock walls, seeping into the bottom of the water, growing green, green, yellow and yellow moss, and it looked like it had been built for a long time. Who would have thought that there would be such a huge underground project on this desert island far from the inland, I have to say that Hai Dongqing has a big plan. Such an underground warehouse may not only be used as a warehouse, but also a place for soldiers to hide at critical times. I don't know how many people were arrested and forced to dig this underground project, and I don't know how many people died because of it.

The cold wind from below the shaft whistled upwards, causing the wind lamps hanging in the corners of the platform to sway. The loud rumbling echo rings in the ears and is deeply unsettling.

"Tall village master, Lin ...... Lin Gongzi. No wonder I didn't put it in my head. There is only one entrance and exit to this underground warehouse, and without my order, the people above will not twist the platform to let people leave. So...... If you kill me, you will not be able to come up. Jia Dongsheng said in a deep voice.

Lin Jue smiled: "Don't worry, I said it, as long as you don't mess around, we won't kill you." ”

Jia Dongsheng swallowed and spitted at the mouth: "Not only don't kill me, if you make something happen down there, then it's a dead place down there, and everyone will have to die inside......"

Lin Jue smiled: "Is there really only this one entrance and exit?" If there is a fire below, how can the people below escape? ”

Jia Dongsheng's brain buzzed, and he cursed in his heart. Based on Lin Jue's words, it can be seen that they definitely want to come up with tricks. Are they going to set fire to the storeroom? That's a real deal. Jia Dongsheng didn't dare to imagine the consequences, there were hundreds of barrels of fire oil on the second floor of the warehouse below, and the entire warehouse was piled up with weapons, grain, grass and other things. The entire underground storehouse is about to collapse.

"Lin Gongzi, the only exit is this lifting platform, and there is no other way out." Jia Dongsheng replied in a deep voice.

Lin Jue snorted, nodded and stopped talking.

With a rumbling sound, the platform slowly fell. The hut above gradually became a bright spot, and the underground warehouse was at least dozens of feet deep.

With a bang, the platform touched the ground. It was also a small stone chamber, smooth and neat all around, obviously an artificial stone chamber carved out by an axe. The four of them walked down the platform and walked out from the stone gate on one side, but in front of them was a long and open passage, more than two zhang wide, about zhang high, and the surrounding stone walls were horizontal and vertical and neat and orderly, obviously this is also a passage dug manually.

Lin Jue and the others smacked their tongues secretly, not to mention anything else, just the passage and this long corridor, I don't know how much manpower it will take to dig it to succeed. I don't know how many people's blood and sweat have been condensed.

The walls of the walkway are hollowed out in the hollows, and inside are burning lanterns, illuminating the entire corridor as bright as day. In front of the stone room, seven or eight bandits were on duty here, and when they saw Dao Jia Dong coming down, several people hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Jia Dongsheng walked past them indifferently, he wanted to shout and ask them to save him, but he didn't dare to do it rashly. When he thought of Brother Sun's face, he felt a chill in his heart, and he needed a better time to get out.

The group walked through the long corridor to the front, and the footsteps of several people echoed in the stone corridor, giving a huge response. Although the sound was noisy, it was even more lonely and isolated in the ears.

Finally, the road came to an end, the road turned a small corner, and the next moment, the scene in front of him changed abruptly. Lin Jue and the others originally thought that the entire underground warehouse was dug by hand and neatly regulated, but the situation in front of them at this moment subverted their previous imagination. At the end of the road, it suddenly opened up to a huge natural cave. The high and wide cave floor is full of raised stalagmite pillars, and on top are rows of stalactites as sharp as knives, and the ground is pitted, and the shining reflection can be seen under the light of torches and lanterns. It was a stream of water in the cave that flowed somewhere.

Huge caverns have been carved out of several flat areas, and sacks of supplies are piled up. Between the stone pillars and stalagmites, the figures of patrolling bandits haunt from time to time, and the shadows illuminated by torches flicker on the cave walls, like marquees.

At this moment, Lin Jue and the others finally understood that this so-called underground warehouse was actually using a natural cave located in the interior of the island as a place to store materials. The location of the exit was chosen deep in the dense forest to the east of the island, not entirely because of the hidden location, but because of the location of the underground cavern. Carving a passage through the ground above the cave to the cave below is the quickest and easiest way to do so. I have to say that Hai Dongqing's gang is still quite brainy.

The ground has apparently been recuperated, with some pointed stalagmite pillars being chiseled and potholes filled in, forming a path through the rocks in all directions, and you don't have to worry about falling on them.

"Several, you have to look here, I have already done what you said, this is the underground warehouse of Peach Blossom Island. You should be satisfied now. I hope you will keep your promises as well. Jia Dongsheng said in a low voice.

Lin Jue nodded and said, "Leader Jia has done a good job, don't worry, we won't break our promise." But I can't let you go yet. I ask you, how many people are there here? ”

Jia Dongsheng frowned and said, "There are less than three hundred people. ”

Lin Jue said: "So I understand that we can't let you go at this time, there are only three of us, more than 300 of you." I let you go, if you turn your face, we won't be able to bear it. Therefore, we have to ask Leader Jia to accompany us. So let's do it, you lead the way, and we'll visit here. Take a look around. Again, don't make a bad idea, or my thunderbolt will blow you in two. ”

Jia Dongsheng cursed in his heart, but he had no choice but to take a few people to walk around the cave under Lin Jue's coercion. There are dozens of material storage yards in the cave. The accumulation of grain, salt, weapons, ballistas, leather armor, bows and arrows, and even saddles, iron ingots and other in-demand things, after checking all the way, constantly refreshed Lin Jue's cognition. He never expected that there were so many good things in the hands of the pirates, many of which were materials that were strictly prohibited from circulation by the imperial court, and they were strategic materials.

How did Hai Dongqing get these things? Is it accumulated by robbery? This is obviously somewhat unreliable. Not to mention that most of the ships passing by sea were merchant ships, and they robbed some food, cloth and other things, where did these bundles of weapons and arrows, ballistas, leather armor, iron ingots and other materials come from? Most of the merchant ships in overseas trade exchanged the silk, porcelain and other items of the Great Zhou Dynasty for the spices, ivory, corals and other treasures of the Fan Kingdom, and they would never buy weapons and iron ingots, because there was no such thing in the Fan Kingdom that was more advanced than the Great Zhou Dynasty, which was completely unnecessary. Moreover, these things in front of me are obviously the system of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and they are definitely not the things of Fanguo.

The more he checked, the more doubts in Lin Jue's heart grew.

Hai Dongqing has stored so many strategic materials, which also shows that he has indeed prepared for a rebellion. His intention to rebel was only now truly confirmed.

However, Lin Jue quickly put these doubts behind him, and he had no intention of thinking about these things at the moment. But there was one thing that he found very strange, because after checking the entire cavern, he didn't see what he wanted to see the most, and that was the fire oil.

Gao Muqing clearly told herself that when she eavesdropped, she heard Hai Dongqing say that she would distribute fire oil to deal with the attacking ships, which was a heavy piece of information. Because in the wind and rain, the opponent's warship launched an island attack operation, ordinary rockets could not cause damage to the warship, and could only rely on arrows to kill and injure the opponent's troops and horses on the island to stop it. But with kerosene, it's different. The refined oil can burn in the rain and ignite opposing ships. Fire and oil arrows are the greatest threat to warships.

Therefore, when Lin Jue heard what Gao Muqing said, his first reaction was to destroy all these fire oils. It's even more important than taking control of a dock.

But at this moment, although the materials in this cave are varied and varied, there is no fire oil. This is confusing.

Lin Jue bit his ears with Gao Muqing in a low voice, and after confirming that Gao Muqing heard the news, he asked in Jia Dongsheng's ear: "Leader Jia, I heard that there is fire oil here, why haven't we seen it?" ”