Chapter 281 Where to Hide

"Search, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to find it. I want to see where this King Zhou can hide."

Entering King Zhou's palace and finding that there was no one there, Jiang Ziya immediately mobilized several of his cronies to search.

"Report to the commander-in-chief that we have captured a maid who is not dead yet."

After a search, several cronies found no trace of King Zhou, but found a half-dead maid and brought her back to Jiang Ziya.

It turned out that before leaving, King Zhou thought that he must leave some clues for Jiang Ziya to find him, so he found a maid who had just entered the palace, made her look like she was dying, and hid her in his palace.

And told the maid to reveal her whereabouts if she wanted to survive, so that she would not be killed by the army brought by Jiang Ziya.

Afterwards, King Zhou left with a group of his cronies.

"Sir, don't kill me, don't kill me, I know where King Zhou is."

The maid was so frightened that she cried when she was caught. After being brought to Jiang Ziya, she was so frightened that she fell to her knees and kowtowed repeatedly to beg for mercy.

"Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you. You just need to tell me King Zhou where he is, and I will let you go."

Jiang Ziya helped the maid up and said to her pleasantly.

"Sir, King Zhou built a secret passage in this palace. This secret passage leads directly to the Zhaixing Tower. King Zhou escaped through this secret passage."

The maid's voice trembled as she told him the whereabouts of King Zhou.

"Tell me, how did you know this secret passage?"

One of Jiang Ziya's cronies drew his sword and put it on the maid's neck. The maid was so frightened that she knelt down again.

"When King Zhou left, in order not to expose his whereabouts, he sent his cronies to take away the people here or silence them."

"I was stabbed after being chased by one of King Zhou's cronies. He thought I was dead, so he called several other cronies of King Zhou who succeeded in chasing me."

The maid couldn't stop shaking after having the sword pressed against her neck, but she still had to explain to them in order to survive.

"Then I heard their conversation. One of them asked where this passage leads to. The person who was chasing me said it leads to the Star Reaching Tower. The mission is completed. Let's leave quickly. We still have to follow King Zhou."

"After they left, I struggled to hide, trying to escape, but in the end I was discovered by you."

The maid trembled and told how she knew this secret passage.

"Now you lead us to find this secret passage. My men will treat your injuries and let you go."

Jiang Ziya helped the maid up again and told him his request.

"good."

The maid trembled and agreed, then stood up tremblingly and led Jiang Ziya and several of his cronies towards the place where the secret passage was.

A few minutes later, the maid led Jiang Ziya, his cronies and others to the secret passage.

"Sir, this is it. This is the secret path built by King Zhou. Can I leave?"

After the maid brought Jiang Ziya and others, she asked if she could leave.

Jiang Ziya waved her hand to let her leave, and then led a few of his cronies into the secret passage and continued to hunt down King Zhou.

After a period of trekking, Jiang Ziya and his cronies finally arrived at the exit of the secret passage.

No one would have thought that the hole in an ancient tree would be the end point of this secret passage.

After exiting the secret passage, you can vaguely see the Star Reaching Tower.

Jiang Ziya immediately rushed there with a few of his cronies.

When King Zhou fled here with his cronies, he deliberately spread the news and asked a part of Jiang Ziya's army to pursue him here.

Jiang Ziya also arrived shortly afterwards.

At this time, King Zhou had been surrounded by Jiang Ziya's army on the Star-Zhaing Tower. However, he had already moved his cronies away. At this time, there were only three people left in the Star-Zhai Tower, King Zhou, Daji, and Shen Gongbao.

"If King Zhou wants to live, surrender quickly, and then follow me to plead guilty to King Wu and ask for his forgiveness, so that you can live the rest of your life."

Seeing that King Zhou was at the end of his rope, Jiang Ziya wanted to use King Zhou to increase his merits.

"Because you still want to capture me alive and offer it to Jichang, so that I can spend the rest of my life working as a cow or a horse for Jichang."

"I tell you, don't even think about it. The one who defeated me was not you, Jiang Ziya, nor that little Jichang, but the so-called way of heaven."

"The way of heaven has cut off my luck in the Yin Shang Dynasty and supported you Xiqi. I admit it, but it is absolutely impossible for me to surrender."

After saying that, King Zhou threw down the torch in his hand and set the entire Star-Zhaing Tower on fire. Then King Zhou took Daji and jumped down to die angrily.

All this was what Jiang Ziya saw.

However, the fact is that when King Zhou jumped down with Daji, Shen Gongbao appeared from the side and threw out two corpses that were very similar to King Zhou and Daji. He put them into the cave treasure, then withdrew and went to The new world mentioned by Master Tongtian.

When they saw King Zhou jumping down, Jiang Ziya's soldiers all shouted excitedly.

"We won, we finally won, and the victory belongs to us."

"I can finally go home."

Seeing this, Jiang Ziya also ordered the army to withdraw, leaving some of his cronies to wait here with him.

The fire in Zhaixing Tower burned for three days and three nights, and finally the Zhaixing Tower was reduced to ashes.

Seeing this, Jiang Ziya immediately ordered his cronies to rush into the ruins of Zhaixing Tower to search for the bodies of King Zhou and Daji.

"I'll definitely find it!"

Jiang Ziya thought silently in his heart, of course he didn't want King Zhou to survive.

"Report to the commander, we have found two corpses, their bodies can no longer be identified."

After a search, several of his cronies informed Jiang Ziya of the results.

"Okay, just die."

Jiang Ziya didn't care at all whether the two corpses really belonged to King Zhou and Daji. He only needed the appearance of two corpses in the Zhaixing Tower to explain to Ji Chang.

As for whether King Zhou really died, it no longer matters. As long as he knows the current situation and does not appear again, he can live the rest of his life safely.

Go and take the bodies of King Zhou and Daji to see King Wu. King Wu will definitely reward him heavily.

As soon as they heard about the reward, several of Jiang Ziya's cronies didn't care whether it was really the corpses of King Zhou and Daji. They immediately found a piece of rag to wrap them up and hurried back with them.

After several days and nights of sleepless trekking, Jiang Ziya led several of his cronies and finally arrived at Jichang's palace.

"Look to see if that is Commander Jiang."

At this time, a soldier guarding the city gate said to another soldier with excellent eyesight.

"It is indeed Commander Jiang."

The soldier took a closer look and then said affirmatively.

"I'll be here to guard you. Go and inform the king."