After an unknown amount of time, the vibrations on the floor finally stopped, and the turning of the stone door gradually came to an end.
"So why is this broken mechanism shaking the ground! Does this mean anything to the script?" Zhao Zichao struggled to keep his balance in the swaying corridor. He already felt like vomiting. "Did... I gave the wrong answer?"
Lin Xi's face turned pale and she held his hands tightly: "Well...it's not necessarily the wrong answer, maybe it's just to disgust you..."
As she said this, her stomach was so upset that she almost vomited it in the corridor.
"Click..."
The familiar sound of gears sounded again.
With the experience from the last time, Zhao Zichao knew this time without thinking about it that this was a sign that the wall would stop flipping.
Sure enough, after a huge roar, an iron box suddenly popped up where the chessboard had been. It was exquisitely made and did not look like an ordinary object.
"Awesome," Lin Xi's eyes flickered, "I can't tell that you still have this skill."
"You're kidding, who am I!" Zhao Zichao adhered to his usual shamelessness and proudly pointed at himself with his thumb: "This kind of puzzle is trivial, okay?"
After the corridor returned to normal, he dared to go up and knock on the wall. He said with certainty: "The wall is solid, there should be no secret passages... Hey, hey, don't touch it directly! Who knows what is in that box!"
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Xi on the side had already picked up the box. She looked at the decoration on it and said, "The iron box, with silver rims on the corners, is indeed a product of the Republic of China. It matches the era and has been heavily encrypted.
There should be some important clues in it..."
She raised her head and looked at the vigilant Zhao Zichao: "I think there should be no danger, just like no one would put a bomb in the safe. And... this box cannot be opened."
"Why can't it be opened? Are you too weak?" Zhao Zichao frowned. He quickly stepped forward, took the box and looked at it.
Ten seconds later.
"Um..." Zhao Zichao said awkwardly, "It seems like it really can't be opened..."
The reason Lin Xi couldn't open it was not because the lid of the tin box was too tight, nor was it because his strength was too weak, but because... it was locked!
In Zhao Zichao's heart, there were ten thousand grass and mud horses galloping past. I bet he had solved the mystery for a long time. Do you still need the key now?
"Tch, it's so powerful, why don't you get a key..." Lin Xi pouted, "After all, you can't open it either."
"I, I..."
"Come on, rather than the key, it's more practical to think about how we can get out." Lin Xi interrupted Zhao Zichao who was trying to make excuses: "Do you have any ideas?"
"I have an idea for a hammer..." Zhao Zichao said depressedly. He finally found a breakthrough, but was destroyed by the lock again.
Feng BuChang's life and death were uncertain, and Jian Jian's whereabouts were unknown. The two of them were trapped in the corridor with nothing to do.
The air in the corridor itself was dull, which made him even more upset: "Isn't the person who designed this piece of shit too wicked? He didn't even give him a way out?"
"I want to accuse him of such bad behavior, which is not appropriate at all..."
"Crack."
When he was complaining about the corridor mechanism, Lin Xi turned around and silently pressed the button on the wall.
At the same time, there was a sound of friction between stone slabs coming from the direction where they came from. Apparently, the door opened.
"Well," Zhao Zichao's face was full of embarrassment, "I...didn't see it. Yes, I didn't see it. It was purely an accident. Just treat what I just said as if I didn't say it..."
"Are you a StarCraft player? You can't even see such a big button?" Lin Xi raised his forehead and said, "Isn't this just a matter of bending down..."
"Ahem," Zhao Zichao coughed twice, pretending to be serious, "Aren't I giving you the chance to show off? How could I not see such a simple thing?"
"Tch..." Lin Xi stuck out his tongue and kept up with Zhao Zichao, "You have learned a thick skin from Master over the years, right?"
"Don't talk about that now, it's important to go up." Zhao Zichao yawned, and seeing that Lin Xi was going to make fun of him, he immediately changed the subject.
The stone slab in front of them has collapsed, revealing the exit above. Although the exit is obvious, the only drawback is that they do not have a ladder.
Including the thickness of the stone slabs, the distance between them and the ground above is still a full three meters.
"Tsk, how do you get up here..."
Zhao Zichao muttered while looking at the surrounding environment.
He raised his eyes and found that Lin Xi's eyes were locked on him.
"Hey, why are you looking at me so maliciously? That look is too scary!"
One minute later.
"You're only about 1.6 meters tall, why are you so heavy..." Zhao Zichao gritted his teeth and supported Lin Xi's body, lifting her up. There were still thirty minutes before the end of the script, and they had to race against time.
"Will you die if you speak less? Try harder!" Lin Xi firmly grabbed the edge of the floor above his head and jumped upward with Zhao Zichao's push. After a roll, he returned to the ground smoothly.
She casually pulled the high chair next to the dining table and quickly threw it down. The height of the chair was about 1m, which was among the tallest among the sitting furniture. It was just enough for Zhao Zichao to climb up.
When Lin Xi heard Zhao Zichao's gasping sound like a dead fish, the two finally escaped from the humid and hot underground passage and returned to the villa.
Now it seems that the villa is quite friendly.
Except for the corpse.
Before Zhao Zichao could recover, Lin Xi pulled him over: "Look at this, there was no such thing just now!"
They were several pieces of crumpled letter paper, which were unfolded and folded again. The center of the letter paper was bulging, as if it were wrapped with something, and it looked like a round sesame seed cake.
"This origami technique..."
The two looked at each other and said in unison: "It's Master!"
Zhao Zichao looked up in the direction where the letter fell. It was pitch black and he couldn't see anything clearly.
"Thrown down? Or..."
"careful!"
Before Zhao Zichao could finish his words, a burst of black air suddenly came from the direction above his head. It was shaped like a big animal trap, and seemed to eat both of them alive.
Lin Xi quickly grabbed him with quick eyes and hands, and picked up the letter that was thrown on the ground.
In terms of reaction ability alone, she is even better than Jian.
Seeing the two of them retreating, the strange black energy seemed to have no intention of pursuing them. It circled in place and then disappeared into the darkness.
When Lin Xi turned on the flashlight again, everything in the hall had returned to normal, with no trace of black air invading.
But the only difference is that the place where the letter fell should have been the spiral staircase leading to the second floor, but now...
