Plotting with You: The Forensic Scientist in Ancient Times!-Chapter 435 - 434: The Suspended Wooden Door

Zhu Yu listened to his words and felt a sense of deep resonance.

How could she not feel the same? Initially, she thought she would spend her life idly in the Prince Shuo Mansion, living a life of leisure as if on a long vacation.

Unexpectedly, the marriage that suddenly fell upon her has completely changed the trajectory of her life.

If she was now to return to the starting point with these memories and live according to the original plan, she might not be able to manage even a single day. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

But clearly now is not the time for sorrow, as it doesn’t match the usual nature of Zhu Yu and Lu Qing.

So, Zhu Yu quickly adjusted her mood and asked Lu Qing, "So where did you find the other entrance to come in and find me?"

"Since there were sentries heavily guarding the front, we decided to make some arrangements on the mountain," Lu Qing replied. "While inspecting the mountain, I accidentally discovered a cave entrance at the summit, inlaid with a crystal stone.

Initially, we thought of breaking the crystal stone to enter through the cave, but we were afraid the noise might alert the people inside Little Mountain Building, especially since we didn’t understand the inner structure at the time.

Moreover, the cave entrance was at the mountain’s peak, making descent difficult, so I didn’t let Fu Lu touch the crystal stone and instead led them to seek another path on the mountain’s backside."

Zhu Yu couldn’t help but feel extremely relieved hearing this.

If at that time, the crystal stone capable of wide light refraction had been destroyed, the light below wouldn’t have been so bright, and those bloodthirsty spiders wouldn’t have waited until darkness to emerge...

She would have been wandering aimlessly in the maze while avoiding those terrifying spiders, possibly not surviving long enough to face the big rats.

"So where did you eventually find the way in?" Zhu Yu asked curiously, "What else did I not get to see?"

Her gaze swept across the scars on Lu Qing’s face, speculating that the path she hadn’t experienced yet must have been extremely perilous.

"We found on the mountainside, not far from the peak, a wooden door suspended in mid-air," Lu Qing replied. "Fu Lu tied a rope around himself, slowly descending from the summit to try opening the door, only to find it extremely tight despite being pushable outwards. It wasn’t locked, but it required great force.

Dangling mid-air, Fu Lu couldn’t exert force backward safely, so we decided to break the wooden door.

After breaking it open, we discovered a tunnel behind it, with a downward slope right past the door.

This meant anyone trying to break through would have to charge from inside with great force—"

"While outside the door was a cliffside that no one inside could have anticipated..." Zhu Yu gritted her teeth and continued Lu Qing’s thought, "Otherwise, if one couldn’t break through, they might fall off the cliff, smashing to pieces!

The traps and tunnels confounded the people inside, making it impossible to discern whether they were underground, halfway up the mountain, or near the summit.

After enduring countless perils, nine deaths narrowly escaping one, finally seeing a door that seemed like an escape to freedom, one would surely risk everything to break it open and flee...

Who would have thought that the moment the door broke was also the moment of falling off the cliff, shattering to pieces!"

"You’re right; when we first entered the cave, the path was unusually calm, with no abnormal signs except for a faint smell of realgar.

But it was this smell that aroused our suspicion, so we took precautions. Unexpectedly, a few steps later, we saw countless snakes of various sizes and lengths ahead, crawling densely. There were too many to immediately determine which were venomous.

These snakes seemed to have been processed and trained. Generally, snakes wouldn’t attack unless threatened.

Yet before we approached, upon merely seeing them, they rushed at us swiftly, as if mad.

We didn’t overthink, started slashing through them, fortunately having many detoxification pills from Yan Daoxin. As long as it wasn’t deadly venom like that of the silver-ring or five-step snake, we could withstand it.

After fending off most of the snakes, a few steps ahead, we saw rats as large as dogs, and then you, surrounded by those rats..."

At this point, recalling that day, Lu Qing’s expression slightly soured, unknowingly gripping Zhu Yu’s hand tighter before realizing and quickly loosening his grip, afraid to hurt her.

"I’m fine, don’t worry." Zhu Yu noticed his brief panic, a rare expression she had never seen on Lu Qing’s face before.

The Lu Qing in her memory was always calm, unhurried, and confident, exuding poise even with impending calamity.

This composed and impervious man, now showing such a panicked look.

Lu Qing sighed softly, "You don’t know how severe your injuries were; you had numerous wounds from rat bites. Yan Daoxin couldn’t personally tend to your wounds, so he instructed me how to treat them.

The first step was to ensure you wouldn’t contract any disease from the rat bites, requiring thorough cleaning before applying wound-healing ointment after your fever subsided.

Yan Daoxin assured that with his ointment, you won’t have scars; there’s no need to worry."

In fact, whether scars remained wasn’t of much concern to Zhu Yu; after all she’d been through, surviving was a huge relief. A flawless body bore little value compared to life and safety.

However, she quickly realized another issue: were all her wounds treated by Lu Qing...?