Ten guards, upon hearing Tong Sanlang's words, immediately started searching throughout the room.
A moment later, they made a discovery.
Underneath the pile of firewood in the woodshed, there was a secret tunnel.
The reason they had found it so quickly was that the firewood was scattered, and the anomaly was apparent at a glance.
The tunnel was small; jumping down, one found the space less than a meter high, requiring one to walk bent over. With the light of the torches, it was clear that there were fresh crawling marks on the ground.
The marks were fresh; it seemed Jia Cheng had not run far.
Realizing this, Tong Sanlang, without a second thought, bent down to pursue.
Seeing this, the other guards hurriedly stepped in to stop him, "Scholar Tong, this is too dangerous. We should call for more people to come, and we can all go down together."
The tunnel was pitch-black and less than a meter high; one could only crawl inside.
