Heaven's Formula

"Are you threatening His Highness?" the guard reprimanded loudly.

She was clearly behind her, but the arrow was shot from in front of her. Is this... also the ability of alchemists?Ning Chunan's complexion gradually darkened.But no matter what, her arrow was indeed aimed at herself.

What absurdity!A third-rank official can actually threaten the safety of the royal family, and regard status as nothing—and it is their ability far beyond ordinary people that drives them to act recklessly. "Those who feel angry", he hated this word a little more.

It's just that today is the day of the celebration, and he doesn't want to waste his energy on arguing with the other party.

"Okay, put away the swords! Is the prisoner you're talking about Olina Okan, the ambassador of the Holy Wing Islands?"

"It is this man."

"I have had some contact with her before, so I came to visit her. This matter has also been approved by my elder brother. Now you have no doubts, right? Besides, as long as she doesn't untie the shackles, how will she hurt me? You Privy Council The shackles are not so strong that even a prisoner can't control them."

Does the prince have something to say to Olina?Yu Linglong frowned slightly. This might be an opportunity to find out information, but it was the first time that the crown prince would ask this good-for-nothing fourth brother for work.Many thoughts came to her mind, but when she saw Yan Qing in the prison who was covered with scars, she suddenly lost all interest.

There was an interrogator watching over Olina, and the fourth prince, an ordinary person, obviously couldn't make any waves.Yu Linglong waved her hand, and was about to let him pass - at this moment, she noticed that Ning Chunan was staring at the green sword on the torture rack, with a strong greed in his eyes.

One of Yu Linglong's usual pleasures is visiting brothels, and occasionally she sees similar expressions in the eyes of some vulgar customers.But the fourth prince is not only that, besides greed, there are other emotions mixed in - there is hatred, pleasure and a strong sense of tyranny.He seems to want to possess each other, but also wants to destroy each other.

An uncontrollable nausea flooded Yu Linglong's heart.

She couldn't help thinking of another possibility.

That is, the so-called "something to say" by the fourth prince is just an excuse.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and she has heard of it before-using power to find happiness from such forgotten women, and relying on the pain of the other party to satisfy her own desires.What's more, the fourth prince's abnormal obsession with people who are sensitive to Qi is not a secret among the senior officials of the Privy Council.

She can't take care of the Criminal Department, and she doesn't want to take care of it, but this is the prison of the Privy Council, even if Olina is an enemy, she won't use this method to humiliate her.

Looking at the fourth prince's face, Yu Linglong felt a kind of nausea.

Ning Chunan looked away from Yan Qing, and when he was about to move on, Yu Linglong stopped him coldly.

"Stop."

This time, he also became a little impatient.

The enthronement ceremony is about to begin, and the eldest brother and the second brother have no time to pay attention to him. It is at this time that he has the opportunity to come to the prison. Who knows that he will be hindered by a guard again and again, which is simply annoying extreme.

"Enough! You give me—"

Just as Ning Chunan started talking, there was a deafening explosion from above his head!

In an instant, the prison seemed to be shaking!

The dust fell like rain amidst the violent vibrations, and the torches were also shaken. The already dark cell was dark for a moment, as if it would collapse at any time.

"The ground is shaking!"

For a while there were constant exclamations in the prison, and the Fourth Prince grabbed hold of the guards with a pale face. Only Yu Linglong showed surprise, and then looked towards the northwest with a solemn expression.

She realized that the shock just now did not come from her feet, but spread from the palace!

Something happened at the enthronement ceremony.

……

A quarter of an hour ago, Xicheng District.

"Little sister, where is your family? Are you lost?"

This is already the fourth resident who asked Qianyan proactively, and Qianyan put on a sweet smile as usual, "Father and mother are going to buy me candied haws, they told me to sit still by the side of the road and said that I would be back soon. "

"Then you must wait until they come!"

"Know it!"

After the person left, Qianyan turned his attention back to the ditch at his feet.

As a large-scale city, Shangyuan considered drainage, sewage and other issues at the beginning of its construction. The closer it was to the imperial palace, the wider and deeper the ditches would be.Even in the rainy season, when the roads in the outer city are muddy, the palace can still maintain a clean and tidy appearance.

Moreover, these ditches are also connected to the landscape of the royal garden through secret passages. The water level of the landscape can be maintained by retracting and opening the gates. At the same time, water can also be actively discharged on weekdays, and the underground ditches are flushed by the water level to prevent them from being blocked by sediment or fallen leaves.

Hundreds of years ago, Qian Yan followed the ancestors of the Fang family to visit the garden landscape in the palace, and witnessed the whole process of the water discharge from the river.Now Shangyuan City has expanded more than a circle, but the layout and direction of the internal drainage system have not changed at all, just like it was a hundred years ago.

Chapter 3 opens

Although Qianyan didn't know all the details of the ditches, she still knew roughly that there was a main canal under each of the four main streets, and that there was a horizontal branch connecting the main canals every three or four rows of streets.If it is drawn on paper, it is roughly like a spider web, and it becomes more and more sparse from the inside to the outside.

She is now sitting above a branching ditch.

No one noticed that a lot of frost had formed under these deep ditches.

The task Xia Fan assigned to her and Qianzhi was to turn the drainage channel in the outer circle into a huge "water storage tank".All the undischarged water flow was directed into the horizontal canal on the west side of the palace, making the water level here exceed the main canal below Baihu Avenue.

Through the drainage holes under her feet, she could see that the standing water was about to overflow the ground. This kind of scene that only appeared during heavy rain was obviously not normal, but few people would notice this abnormality.

After all, even if the water overflows, it will at most cause a little inconvenience to the people celebrating. When the ditch is unblocked, the water will naturally dissipate. Who will treat it as a major event?

In fact, even Qianyan didn't think it was a big deal.

According to Xia Fan, the "celebration gift" he sent could concentrate all the defense forces of Shangyuan City to the west block, but it was really hard for her to imagine what could be done with the rain and sewage.

By the way... He seemed to say that it would explode?

"Look, the palace gate is open!"

"That's the worship group that set off first, right?"

"Will His Royal Highness show up?"

"Fool, he is now the emperor!"

Suddenly, cheers erupted from the crowd.

For the people, things done in the palace such as persuading officials to enter and issuing edicts have nothing to do with them. What they can see is that King Xinqi started from Baihu Avenue and went all the way to Lingshan Ancestral Temple to worship.This process will last for most of the day, and there are performances, music, fireworks and firecrackers, which can be regarded as very lively.Therefore, when the west gate of the palace wall was opened, the voices of the onlookers immediately reached a new high.

This is also the time to act in the plan.

Qianyan took out a mass of gun cotton soaked in grease from his bosom, carefully lit it, and stuffed it into the hole under his feet.

The moment the gun cotton was about to enter the water, an ice crystal boat quietly condensed into shape, supporting it just right.

After completing the preparations, Qian Yan stood up, passed through the crowd, squeezed to the side of Baihu Avenue, and stomped his feet at the intersection of the canal.

A newly raised piece of solid ice suddenly pushed open the ice-sealed crossing.

The hoarded sewage immediately resumed its flow, but this time, it flowed from the outside to the inside, pouring back into the main canal.

If it is normal, people standing on the street can even hear the rushing sound.

But at this moment, the hustle and bustle of the city completely covered up the sound of the water.

With the help of the water, the ice boat also moved. It dragged the gun cotton through the ditch, and soon entered the bottom of the White Tiger Avenue.

So far, Qianyan's mission has been completed.

According to the plan, she should leave the main street immediately, head towards the west gate, and take advantage of the chaos to withdraw from Shangyuan City.

However, the living dead did not move.

Because she was also curious about what Xia Fan had been doing here for nearly two hours.

In a place that Qianyan couldn't see, the speed of the ice ship had obviously slowed down—the size of the main channel was much wider than that of the branch channels, and the amount of water accumulated before could not fill the main channel, so after the water flow merged, the water surface was very large. Soon a new balance will be formed.

Under the scorching of the flames, the ice ship itself began to melt, and the dripping water droplets had already accumulated half a palm-sized puddle at the bottom.It's just that the grease does not melt when it meets water, and the oil film they form makes the gun cotton continue to burn on the water.

That weak light also slightly illuminated this land that never sees light.

If someone can sneak into it, they will find an anomaly in the main canal.

It was supposed to be a paradise for rats and insects, and with the fish fry or floating leaf plants floating in from the landscape garden, this place can be regarded as a unique biosphere.

But now the channel is dead.

The corpses of animals can be seen everywhere, whether it is rats, fish, poisonous insects or snakes, they all float on the water motionless, as if they have all been killed.The surfaces of many animals were even scorched black and smelly, and their bodies were still steaming.

In other words, the ambient temperature here has reached an unbelievable level. Even in the daytime, there are bursts of white air coming out of the drain holes beside the main road, like steaming springs in the mountains.

When the iceship rounded a corner again, the brightness of the flames instantly soared.

Its outline expanded, and soon it outstripped the iceship itself, so that it seemed to take off.Once such a change starts, it cannot be stopped.Almost in the blink of an eye, the flame has already expanded into a fireball, and changed from a dull reddish yellow to a dazzling blue-white.

In the next second, the raging flames spread further along the waterway to half of the main canal, and the air above the stagnant water seemed to be ignited at the same time, heating the already warm space to hundreds of degrees in an instant!This high temperature caused the water body to evaporate rapidly, and the small drain hole could no longer meet its release needs.

Then Qianyan heard a loud bang!

I saw that the ground of Baihu Avenue suddenly bulged, and the solid stone pavement suddenly looked like it was made of soft mud. Such a huge deformation directly caused the ground to break and crack, and then white air waves spurted from the ground, blowing the bricks away. Shi directly rushed to a height of tens of meters!

And the explosion is far from over.

Like a series of firecrackers, it exploded towards the imperial palace step by step. The successive roars made the ground tremble, and the white smoke that erupted successively formed a towering "smoke wall" on the White Tiger Avenue!

Qianyan was dumbfounded.

In her impression, only gunpowder can cause such an earth-shattering effect.The problem is that sulfur and saltpeter are strictly controlled medicinal materials, and she has never seen Xia Fan hoarding these things.Having said that, even if he suddenly conjured dozens of large bags of gunpowder, it would be impossible to stuff them into the underground drain under the eyes of everyone!

This sudden upheaval caused the crowd to panic, they retreated in panic, and poured into the surrounding streets and alleys from both sides of Baihu Avenue.If it weren't for the fact that a series of explosions were heading towards the palace, their escape would have been even more chaotic.

The most violent reaction was undoubtedly the worship team that had already walked out of the gate of the palace wall.Those gorgeous court ladies were so frightened that they dropped the brocade and flower baskets in their hands, screamed and ran into the palace with their heads in their arms.The guards clearing the way ahead were not much better. Many even dropped their flags and fled to both sides of Baihu Avenue, fearing that the explosion would happen at their feet in the next moment.

This "thunder on dry land" is not only a gift for the enthronement ceremony, but also a signal for the opening of the curtain.

Hearing the roar, Qianzhi lowered the same ice ship closer to the palace.

3 Chapters of Chaos

In the palace, all the officials and courtiers stopped their movements because of the sudden roar. They all looked out of the hall with surprise on their faces.

Ning Qianshi's face sank like water!

Who doesn't know that today is the day of the Grand Ceremony, and it is an extremely important day for both Qiguo and the Privy Council. If you dare to choose this time to make trouble in Gyeonggi, it is like slapping the Seven Star Envoy in the face!

"Everyone, please be safe and don't be impatient, please don't leave the Hall of Supreme Harmony." He took out a loudspeaker to make his words overwhelm the discussion on the scene, "I'm going to find out the situation, regardless of the reason for the thunder just now No matter how it happens, it will not affect the progress of the grand ceremony, let alone everyone in the palace, please rest assured."

Then he winked at Qian and Baizhan, turned around and walked outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

At first, Ning Qianshi had the idea that some accident would cause the loud noise, but when he climbed to the outer wall of the palace and saw the situation on the west side of the palace, this luck also disappeared.

The White Tiger Avenue is now a mess.The original flat road no longer existed, and a huge gap appeared in the middle of the street—this gap was at least ten feet long, like an earth dragon writhing here, white gas continued to emerge from the gap, and the broken pieces Bricks and stones are scattered here and there.

There are no accidents to do this.

Obviously someone was deliberately embarrassing Daqi.

Yes, embarrassing.

Attack Shangyuan City?The explosion point was completely concentrated on Baihu Street, and the surrounding onlookers were hardly affected.Kill the first worship team?That should also wait until they walk on the street before doing it.

Ning Qianshi only felt the veins on his forehead throbbing.

He would rather that the other party came for the imperial palace or the Privy Council, and started killing in the city, so that at least he had a target to deal with, at least he could clearly show it to the officials and the Seven Star Envoys, Qiguo Privy Council is by no means A mess.

But just blowing up a street?

Or is it the main road of Ximen where the emperor is going to travel?

What's the difference between this and a slap in the face of the Privy Council!

A slap in the face does no real damage, but sometimes it is more unbearable than a sword.

"Bai Zhan, go and find out what's going on for me." Ning Qianshi said in a solemn voice, "I didn't smell gunpowder smoke. The explosion should be caused by a spell. Someone in the mansion can trace the traces left by the spell , you take him with you."

"Leave it to me." Layman Yunshang nodded.

Gan rubbed his chin, "If this technique is performed in a crowd, there will be at least a thousand casualties, right? It only destroys the streets and does not endanger the people. Whose handwriting would it be?"

Many answers emerged in Ning Qianshi's mind, opponents of the Seven Stars, remnants of the Eternal Dynasty, members of the Heimen Cult... and even the ambassador of the West, but he always felt that there was something wrong. "It doesn't matter who he is. As long as he is caught by me, I will definitely make him not be able to live or die—"

However, as soon as he finished speaking, the ground in front of the palace suddenly swelled up!

With dry eyes and quick hands, he grabbed the second prince behind him.

"Boom——————long———————!"

A loud noise exploded under their feet, and the turbulent shock wave carried a large amount of water vapor along the wall, covering half of the palace wall immediately!

This time, the defenders were obviously not so lucky.

The soldiers near the wall were rushed by the scorching air waves, and immediately covered their faces and fell down.At the same time, the violent explosions paralyzed many people's hearing and affected their balance. Even if they escaped the blast, more than a dozen soldiers fell off the city wall in a panic.

As in the case of Baihu Avenue, the explosion did not occur only once, but spread in a chain.The second blast suddenly appeared in the palace!

The palace area is like a pot of boiling water!

……

"Xia Fan, the Privy Council's troops are dispatched!"