Chapter 1223: The Underground Pharmacy
After searching for a while, they hadn’t found a switch, which left them feeling a bit deflated. Without a switch, there was no way to get in.
"Could it be that this trip tonight was in vain?" Yang Ruxin furrowed her brows, unable to refrain from kicking the counter in frustration.
Before she could even cry out from the pain in her foot, she heard a rumbling sound. To her surprise, the counter moved forward about a meter in distance, and right beside Yang Ruxin’s foot, near the wall, a dark hole appeared. Looking down from above, there was even a staircase extending downward.
"Holy crap!" Yang Ruxin couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration, "This design..." Even if they opened the hole during the day, the patients coming in from outside wouldn’t notice anything unusual about the counter unless they ran inside or climbed on top of it to look inside, but with the counter being so high, most people wouldn’t be able to lean over it.
Yang Ruxin instructed Du Man and Du Juan to wait outside, warning them to hide themselves in case of any trouble. It would be the best help if they remained undiscovered, and they shouldn’t rashly enter the tunnel in case it was poisoned, which would be problematic.
Although the two girls hadn’t been with Yang Ruxin for long, they knew well enough that when the young mistress said something, it had to be followed to the letter, otherwise they might be a liability.
Their young mistress was indeed extraordinarily fierce.
Once in the tunnel, they didn’t light any lamps outside, but inside, they brought out a homemade torch and lit it up.
The staircase wasn’t long, and there wasn’t a tunnel leading off it. Once they descended, they found themselves in an almost thousand-square-meter underground storage. To say it was a medical storeroom wasn’t an exaggeration at all because it was full of bags of medical herbs, each labeled.