"An underground tunnel?"
When Fang Qianyuan learned of this, he could not help feeling a little surprised.
This had not been discovered during the earlier raid.
"Come on, let's go over there."
Fang Qianyuan soon brought Lin Xiong, Lin Bao, Wu Longjie, and Lu Feiyang to West City.
Behind a street whose residents had already been evacuated, they passed through a narrow alley and arrived before an utterly unremarkable two-story building.
The City Guard Army had surrounded the building so tightly that not even water could seep through. In its courtyard, an excavated cellar entrance stood wide open. People were climbing down a ladder and carrying sand and rubble out from within.
Seeing Fang Qianyuan approach, the black-backed Demon-Hunting Hound trotted over, its tail swishing furiously.
Fang Qianyuan jumped down from Little White's back and asked the others following him, "What exactly happened?"
A City Guard Army officer in his thirties stepped forward and saluted. "Elder Fang, we followed the Demon-Hunting Hound here and discovered something hidden inside the cellar. We're opening up the passage now..."
Before he had finished speaking, a muffled, thunderous boom came from within. It sounded as though someone had unleashed an offensive spell such as Mountain-Breaking Gang.
Fang Qianyuan looked toward the entrance. Sure enough, before long, people began carrying out baskets of stone.
They appeared to be the remains of a large stone door.
"Elder Fang, it's very dusty inside. Would you like to wait a little before entering?" the officer asked when he saw that Fang Qianyuan intended to descend.
"No need. We'll go down now," Fang Qianyuan said.
When he descended into the cellar, the bailiffs, Spirit Tamers, and City Guard Army soldiers inside hurriedly saluted him. Fang Qianyuan paid them no heed, turning his gaze to what lay before him.
It