Chapter 189 The secret below the stairs

The sharp steel thorn almost grazed the hair on Xiao Ran's face, making Xiao Ran feel a chill. Along the way, he had no idea how many times he had escaped the oncoming dangers again and again with this kind of good luck.

I don’t know how many more times I can use this kind of luck.

It seemed that his guess was right. The owner of the living room would not take advantage of a strange visitor just like that. He would pull the protrusions on the edge of the table in the order pointed out by Xia Niang. If he was not careful, he would get a hole in his head.

fate.

As for what the correct order is, it seems that only the owner himself knows.

Cold sweat fell from his forehead, and he came to his senses and found that the steel thorns were connected to a wooden box, which could be opened from the side.

Xiao Ranxin said, this box doesn't have any mechanism, right?

But the box didn't wait for him to hesitate, and slowly retracted into the wall. Xiao Ran didn't have time to think anymore, and quickly opened the box, and a copper key fell out from the side of the wooden box.

He picked up the key and held it in his hand, stood up and took a few steps back to the living room. He saw that the steel thorn connected to the wooden box retracted into the wall, and the brick that was originally hanging outside was also pulled by the iron chain at the rear end.

When I went back, the entire wall was restored to its original state, with almost no trace of any mechanism visible.

Xiao Ran couldn't help but secretly admire that since the Xianniang Temple, the design of these mechanisms had been extremely sophisticated. They were indeed designed by the Yuan Dynasty, when craftsmen had the highest status.

This key was hidden so carefully that there should be no other search value in the living room. He looked at the key carefully. It was simple and simple in shape, with a hint of rusty patina.

He inserted the key into the keyhole of the iron door in the living room and could easily unlock the door. The iron doors in this hall were all of the same shape. Perhaps the secret key hidden in the master's bedroom could open the remaining doors.

This platform was no longer worth exploring, so they turned around and jumped to the next platform. The iron door here was tightly closed. Xiao Ran tried it with the copper key. Although it was a little stuck due to age and rust, he still opened the door smoothly.

Behind this door, it looks like a storage room. There are rows of shelves arranged neatly against the wall. There are also many swaying alchemy cabinets in various shapes on the shelves.

Xiao Ran took the lead and entered the alchemy room by himself. Liu Shengli and Xu Er were outside and pressed against the door, trying not to trigger any more mechanisms to trap Xiao Ran inside.

This storage room has a sunken structure. To enter, you must first go down a series of steps nearly two meters above the ground. When viewed from above, the entire storage room looks like a big "concave".

Xiao Ran cautiously tested every step. The designer of the underground palace was like a crazy technician obsessed with mechanism skills. Who knows what surprises he would prepare for the guests who entered the storage room.

After stepping down the steps, Xiao Ran didn't encounter anything unexpected. He took a flashlight and looked around carefully. The storage room was dilapidated and messy. Alchemy boxes of various shapes were not only tilted on the shelves, but also cracked on the ground in front of the shelves.

A lot.

Pills of various sizes were scattered everywhere like big pieces of mouse droppings.

No, it didn't all look like mouse droppings. Xiao Ran's flashlight flashed across some corners, and many rats with red eyes as big as rabbits fled around, making squeaking sounds.

It seems that the door of this storage room is locked tightly to prevent people but not the aborigines of the underground world. The rats have already regarded this place as a granary, and they probably have eaten a lot of elixirs refined from various unknown herbs.

"Old Xiao, congratulations. These mice have been reproduced and passed down for hundreds of generations. The effects of various elixirs in the body have penetrated into the bone marrow and been fully understood. Eating one can extend your life by seven days. Do you want to give it a try?"

Hearing the evil smile in Bai Jiuguo's tone, Xiao Ran knew that he had not held in his fart well, and asked: "Eating one will extend your life for seven days? Will the mouse shit extend your life? Come on, come back to my body quickly, let's eat together, we will be blessed together

Enjoy!"

Bai Jiukuo said with dismay: "Don't I discuss this with you? I'm not lying to you. Eating one can indeed extend your life by about seven days, but there are also side effects. But what are you afraid of when I'm here? I'll just cleanse the marrow for you, but

Maybe you will be sick for ten and a half months..."

"Shut up, if I catch the plague if I eat this thing, how many years will my life be shortened?"

While talking, Xiao Ran had already carefully walked to a shelf. This shelf had three floors, and a lot of dust had accumulated. In the middle of the middle floor, there was a gourd-shaped alchemy cabinet that looked unique. The seal was not made of cloth.

The strips, oil paper and wax seals are integrated with the entire gourd, making it an obvious decoration at first glance.

Judging from the previous urine behavior of this "Tianling Sanren", this gourd must also be a triggering position.

He carefully held the gourd and slowly lifted it up. Sure enough, there was a steel wire connected to the shelf under the gourd. From the sound, the end of the steel wire should be in the wall behind the wooden frame.

Xiao Ran looked at Liu Shengli and Xu Er outside the door. They were holding the door. The copper key was also in their hands at this time. There should be no need to worry about the door being locked.

He bravely pulled the gourd pill box, and a sound of a mechanism sounded behind the wall, followed by the sound of heavy objects falling from the sky behind him.

He quickly turned around and saw that the iron gate was still open, but inside the iron gate, a gate with crisscrossed iron bars fell down, blocking Liu Shengli and Xu Er from outside.

"Manager! What happened...Manager!"

Xu Er was still holding the door, while Liu Shengli was nervously lighting the torch at the gate, trying to find the switch to open the gate.

Xiao Ran took a look around the storage room and found that except for the suddenly lowered gate, there were no fatal mechanisms such as poisonous gas steel needles, so he relaxed and waved his hands to the two of them to show that it was okay.

This is probably another anti-theft mechanism. Since it can be triggered from the inside, it can also be unlocked from the inside. As long as there is no life-threatening danger, there is no need to worry.

He walked to the next few shelves, and sure enough, after a few shelves, he found the same model of gourd alchemy switch as before.

After carefully checking that there were no holes sealed with clay on the surrounding walls and floors, and that there were no gaps or openings that seemed abrupt, he once again pulled the Alchemy Chamber mechanism in front of him.

This time, as the mechanism continued to rotate, the iron gate did not open, but there was a sound of stones rubbing against each other under the steps.

Xiao Ran turned around and took a look, and vaguely saw a hidden stone door under the steps. He stepped forward carefully, and saw that behind the stone door under the steps, there was another smooth passage leading to unknown depths.

A gust of wind blew from behind the open stone door passage. Xiao Ran was sure that there would be no long-standing rotten gas and poisonous smoke behind the door, so he bravely walked in.

This passage looks very much like a tomb passage, and at the end where the flashlight can shine, a large square stone object is placed in an empty room.

Xiao Ran felt excited. Could it be that there was a tomb inside and the stone object was a sarcophagus?
Chapter completed!