Each time he went in, he couldn't come out in less than an hour. There was no way. The time agreed with Hong Yi and the others was approaching, so Jian Yi had no choice but to go out first.
"Be careful on your own. If it really doesn't work, use explosives to kill them. We still have a way to rescue Tule Haojia," Hong Yi said, looking at Jian Yi.
Jian Yi nodded, then parted ways with Hong Yi and the others. He quietly made his way to the dungeon and silently took out the guards inside without making a single sound.
Jian Yi walked around the dungeon and found the place the prisoner had been looking at during the day. He knocked on it twice. It was hollow! This was the place.
Jian Yi groped on the wall for a long time and finally found the switch to the water prison. Just as he opened the door of the water prison, a loud noise came from outside, waking everyone in the dungeon.
Without hesitation, Jian Yi quickly slipped inside.
The prisoner who had talked to Jian Yi during the day glanced in the direction of the water prison but said nothing. Instead, he panicked along with the crowd.
Although Tule Haojia was in the water prison, he also heard the commotion outside. He was very familiar with this sound and had a deep memory of it. It was something Mu Fengqie had developed back then.
Tule Haojia smiled. Was the Grassland King so impatient? He had attacked the Qin Dynasty so soon. He wondered if the Grassland King would even have a whole body left after being killed by Jing Xunce and the others.
Just as Tule Haojia was fantasizing, he heard a commotion at the door. When he opened his eyes, he saw Jian Yi.
"Why are you here? Leave quickly!"
Jian Yi looked at the wounds on Tule Haojia's body. Some of them had already festered. With so many wounds and being soaked in water, when had his master ever suffered such grievances?
"Master, your subordinate has come to rescue you," Jian Yi said, looking at the iron chains binding Tule Haojia. Without hesitation, he used his internal energy to break them.
"Was the commotion outside caused by you all?" At this moment, Tule Haojia also realized.
"Yes, your subordinate asked Marquis Zhongning and the others for help," Jian Yi said, carrying Tule Haojia on his back and walking out step by step. The moment he touched Tule Haojia's body, he had already noticed that his master's martial arts had been crippled.
How dare these people treat his master like this! One day, he would surely take revenge.
"Jian Yi, you shouldn't have come. And I can't escape either," Tule Haojia said. If he escaped, the Grassland King would send people to hunt him down, and more people would be implicated.
"Master, don't worry. We've made thorough plans. After we escape, Marquis Zhongning will arrange a death row inmate to pretend to be you and flee outside," Jian Yi said. Shu Yi would surely volunteer to hunt him down. If anything went wrong, he would take the blame alone.
However, judging from that person's timid nature, he would surely not say anything. By then, his master just needed to live under a different name.
When Jian Yi and Tule Haojia went out, they threw two smoke bombs outside. These were also made by Mu Fengqie, but the ingredients were a bit crude, and they were extremely choking.
Jian Yi didn't waste any time. He carried Tule Haojia and ran out quickly. After they got out, he threw a few explosives inside, blowing open all the doors of the prison cells.
After the smoke cleared, the prisoners saw the wide - open gates and rushed out. This was the perfect time to escape.
"Report! General, something has happened outside!" A junior general anxiously stood outside the tent, waiting for Shu Yi's instructions, but he didn't hear a sound for a long time.
Worried that something had happened to Shu Yi, the junior general went inside. But he saw Shu Yi sleeping soundly in the arms of a few women. The junior general shouted twice loudly and then walked out disappointedly.
Since Prince Tule Haojia had an accident, the Tule troops had lost their backbone. Although the king had found them a new master, in their hearts, only Tule Haojia was their true master.
They didn't believe a single word about Tule Haojia's betrayal. They just didn't dare to resist because of the royal power. The junior general thought that it must be Shu Yi who had caused Prince Tule Haojia's accident!
The sleeping Shu Yi had no idea that the foothold he had finally established in the Tule troops was completely destroyed because of this incident, or perhaps even worse.
After receiving the news that Tule Haojia had been successfully rescued, Hong Yi led his men to the Tule troops and gave them a big "gift." They not only blew up the troops but also put castor beans in their food supplies. They would be having a rough time with diarrhea.
"Job done! Let's go!" None of them were discovered. The news about what happened on the grassland was sent back to the grassland by carrier pigeon.
However, the letter never reached the Grassland King's hands.
"Qie'er, Hong Yi and the others have succeeded. I guess they're on their way back with Tule Haojia now," Jing Xunce said. That's right. All the letters from the grassland had been intercepted by Jing Xunce's men, and the Grassland King hadn't received any news.
"That's good," Mu Fengqie replied. It would take at least seven days to travel from the grassland to the Qin Dynasty.
Hong Yi and the others really couldn't travel fast. They could only move slowly because Tule Haojia's martial arts had been crippled, and he was seriously injured. Along the way, Tule Haojia kept having a high fever.
Jian Yi was worried that his master would be burned stupid by the time they reached the capital of the Qin Dynasty.
"Let's find a pharmacy nearby," Jian Yi said. He was really worried that something would happen to his master if this continued.
"No, this place is too close to the grassland tribes. People will find out if they make some inquiries. Didn't Mistress give us some medicine bottles when she left? Check if there's any useful medicine in them," Hong Yi said. He also knew that Tule Haojia's condition was critical, but if they stopped here, the whole team would be in danger.
If they were traced, their master would also be discovered. Although the Grassland King would eventually find out, by then he would have no evidence, so he couldn't do anything to their master.
Hearing Hong Yi's words, Jian Yi remembered that Mu Fengqie had given them a bunch of medicine before she left. He quickly found them and rummaged through the bottles. Finally, he found the fever - reducing medicine.
Jian Yi mixed the medicine with water and fed it to Tule Haojia. Then he took the external medicine and applied it to Tule Haojia's wounds. However, these medicines were not enough.
"Hong Yi, give me some more external medicine. I don't have enough here," Jian Yi said, looking at the wounds on Tule Haojia's body that had been soaked white and rotten.
He carefully cut off the rotten parts with a dagger and bandaged the wounds with clean cloth. Jian Yi spent two hours treating Tule Haojia's wounds.
The group took turns day and night to take care of Tule Haojia. They rushed all the way and finally arrived in the Qin Dynasty half a month later.
"There's an inn up ahead. It's run by our own people," one of them said. Everyone's face showed exhaustion from the non - stop journey, and Tule Haojia hadn't woken up even once during the journey.