"I'll go up there and try it out first, and you guys can come back up later." Cao Gui said. Judging from the degree of decay, it's a little better than other places.
"Cao, be careful." Gwen warned.
"rest assured."
Cao Gui stepped forward and jumped over. With a bang, smoke and dust rose up, and the wooden suspension bridge began to creak and sway. The hearts of Gwen and the others were in their throats.
Fortunately, although the suspension bridge was shaking, it was not damaged. Cao Gui knelt down to check and found that the wood of this thing was different from the one on the stairs next to it.
"Cao, are you okay?" Beth called out worriedly.
"Don't worry, it's okay." Cao Gui jumped up and down, but there was nothing but smoke and dust.
As he spoke, Cao Gui turned a handle on the side, and the suspension bridge slowly descended.
Gwen and the other two looked worried. The pit was pitch black, except for the faint light of the flashlight that had been thrown at the bottom of the pit. Only Cao Gui's figure was gradually shrinking.
Cao Gui stood on the suspension bridge and descended little by little, but when he got halfway down, he found that the length of the rope was not enough. He was still about fifty meters away from the bottom of the pit.
But on the wall of the pit in front of him, a small wooden bridge appeared. On the other end of the wooden bridge was a room cut into the wall of the pit.
"Cao, what's going on now?" Harry asked in the headset.
"Uh... I found an empty room. There's nothing in it... Forget it, I'll pick you up and we'll come down together."
With that said, Cao Gui turned the handle upwards, returned to the top, and took the three of them into the empty room on the wall of the pit.
Tie up the suspension bridge and let the last person walk into the pit wall room last time.
Seeing the dust about one centimeter thick on the ground, several people were confused for a while.
"Damn! It won't be taken away in advance, right?" Harry said angrily.
Cao Gui frowned. From what they had seen along the way, Nicholas Zhaosi hadn't started hunting for the treasure yet, which meant that the treasure must still be there, but this place was empty...
"Look again, don't worry, Harry." Cao Gui said.
After hearing this, the three stopped talking and began to search for clues silently, but the atmosphere among the four began to become a little dull.
Cao Gui looked around and found that there were three or four arched, window-like pits on the wall.
In this room, apart from an oil lamp, these are the things that attract the most attention.
"Nothing." Beth kicked a stone on the ground and said a little frustrated. After working hard for two or three days, she couldn't get anything.
"Cao, Beth, come here quickly." At this time, Gwen suddenly shouted.
The three of them were stunned and ran over quickly: "Gwen, what did you find?"
"One eye is the all-knowing eye." Gwen said, she found an eye-shaped mural on the wall.
"What's the use of this?" Beth wondered.
"Have you forgotten?" Gwen said: "Our first clue, that pipe, has an all-seeing eye on it."
"Gwen is right." Cao Gui nodded in agreement: "Maybe there are clues here."
"Quickly, let's look for it quickly!" Harry urged.
Cao Gui looked around and found a metal protrusion on the rock wall.
"Aha!" Cao Gui's eyes suddenly lit up: "I think I found it!"
Cao Gui pushed away the dust on it, and the three of them took a closer look. It was a relatively large cylindrical button.
"Open it quickly and take a look." Several people's faces were full of excitement. Fortunately, they did not give up.
Cao Gui suddenly pressed the button hard, and there was a click. The rock wall with the Omniscient Eye shook for a while, then slowly moved after heating, opening a gap.
"Looks like we've got the treasure, guys." Cao Gui chuckled and suddenly pushed the stone door open.
"Haha, we succeeded!"
Gwen and Beth hugged each other and jumped up and down, celebrating their victory in advance.
Harry's face was extremely excited. Finally, his father could take a breath and no longer had to rush for dangerous scientific research projects.
However, when Cao Gui turned the flashlight and shined a light inside, his whole body froze, and the look of joy on his face instantly solidified.
The inside was just like the outside, covered with spider webs, a few candlesticks were scattered on the ground, and several chairs were eaten by insects and rotten.
At a glance, there is nothing but dust, no treasure as expected, no gold as imagined.
Nothing at all!
"Damn...damn..." Harry's originally red face suddenly turned pale, and he fell from heaven to hell. The feeling was too painful.
Not only Harry, but also Gwen and Beth's faces turned livid.
The feeling of being in despair and then hoping again, only to find that you are still in despair in the end is really painful.
"Shet! All the hard work was in vain!"
Gwen's face flashed with anger, and she kicked the chair with a crash. The chair was kicked and sawdust flew everywhere, and a lot of powder eaten by insects immediately flew up.
Faced with such a huge gap, Gwen, a lady, couldn't help but lose her composure.
Cao Gui was frowning. This shouldn't be the case. I clearly remember that the treasure in the original work is real. Zhao Si hasn't come yet, so it's impossible for anyone to get there first.
"Cao, let's go back." Beth said, "I'm not looking for it anymore. It's been taken away."
"Guys, listen to me!" Cao Gui said in a deep voice: "The treasure is real!"
"Think about it, along the way, has anyone found clues in advance?" Cao Gui looked around and said in a loud voice:
"No!"
"No Declaration of Independence, no letter from Sirens Dogood, still no glasses hidden in bricks!"
"So, the treasure is real!"
"Just now we thought it was the end, but through hard work we discovered this secret room. If that's the case, then if we continue to work hard, maybe we can find another secret room!"
Cao Gui's words were resounding, which restored some of their confidence.
The three of them looked at each other and decided to look for it again. After all...you have come, you can't leave empty-handed, right?
"And... have you noticed that there are many torches here." Cao Gui said in a deep voice.
"So?" Beth asked.
"So this requires a lot of oxygen to ensure combustion." Gwen's eyes lit up and he said quickly:
"We have been using flashlights along the way, but we can see torches everywhere we go, which shows that the builders have prepared lighting equipment for future generations."
"And the oxygen needed for lighting!"
"So, there really is a second secret room!" Beth said excitedly.
Cao Gui chuckled, not bad, their emotions finally recovered.
Seeing this, Cao Gui slowly searched in the secret room. Most of the clues about this treasure were related to the Declaration of Independence and the Omniscient Eye. The place is not big, so it should be easy to find it.
"Can't find it, nothing." Harry shook his head and said frustrated.
Thanks to the experience just now, he also had the same idea as Cao Gui, but there was nothing here, no murals, no words, just walls and dust.
Cao Gui did not speak, but stood in front of the east wall. There were several circular metal products inlaid here, one of which was dented, and the shape... was very similar to a meerschaum pipe.
Cao Gui took off the pipe stem and carefully put the meerschaum pipe inside, and found that the meerschaum pipe fit perfectly.
"Cao...it can't be that simple, right?" Harry came over and said worriedly.
"Probably...no..." Cao Gui replied casually, inserted the pipe stem into a hole next to it, and turned it slowly.
Click!
There was a sudden sound on one side of the wall, a small stone door slowly opened, and at the same time a gust of wind blew, caused by the violent flow of air.
The four people's eyes suddenly lit up and they quickly walked into the stone door.
As soon as they stepped through the stone gate, a burst of golden light shone in front of their eyes. A few people took a closer look and saw that there was a space as big as a basketball court in front of them, with a large number of gold coins, gold nuggets and gold statues scattered in it.
"Look, what I said is right, right?" Cao Gui grinned: "The treasure is real!"
