The hall was empty, Yun Ziyue called out tentatively, and in the silence, only her lingering voice echoed down the beams.
After checking the entire hall inside and out, there was indeed no sign of anyone's presence.
It shouldn't be. This is the only place that can be accessed behind the stone arch. How can there be no one there?
Yun Ziyue did not believe in evil and stood alone in the middle of the empty hall. In the increasingly dark environment, she started counting with her fingers.
This calculation indeed gave her a new discovery.
"Down there?" Yun Ziyue stomped the stone bricks under her feet, making a very dull sound. It didn't sound like it was hollow down there.
Walking to the front of the hall, there is a huge wooden screen behind the long desk, with patterns of auspicious clouds and cranes carved on it.
The crane sculpture is lifelike, and the eyeball is even more vivid, as if it is inlaid with something like obsidian.
Yun Ziyue pressed the obsidian down without hesitation, and sure enough, there was a "click" sound, and the wooden screen slowly opened to one side, revealing a dark stone staircase going downwards.
Yun Ziyue thought there would be a secret room hidden under the stone steps, but when she walked down, she discovered that it was not a secret room, but a huge dungeon hidden underground.
Going down the stone steps, there is a long passage. There are oil lamps every few meters on the walls of the passage, all of which are dimly lit at the moment.
It was the lighting of these oil lamps that made Yun Ziyue dare not move forward rashly.
This place looks very secretive. According to common sense, there should be people guarding it inside and outside. It is impossible to not see a single person.
After hesitating for a long time, Yun Ziyue finally walked out of the winding passage, and what appeared in front of her was a row of cells used for incarcerating people.
The moment she saw these cells, the hairs on Yun Ziyue's body suddenly stood up. Whether it was an illusion or not, she felt an unpleasant smell of blood in the slightly humid air.
Fortunately, when I walked through these cells, I found that they were all empty. Not only that, these cells looked very clean, with no torture instruments or dried blood or anything like that.
Further forward, these cells disappeared, leaving only a corridor paved with black stones.
Keep going forward along the corridor, and the way forward is blocked by a stone door.
Observing this stone door carefully, we found that there are many grooves on the stone door, and countless brass beads are embedded in them.
Yun Ziyue counted and found that there were twenty-eight brass beads in total, which made her easily think of the twenty-eight stars.
Sure enough, if you look carefully, these brass beads are engraved with a small handwriting, representing the name of each constellation.
It seems that the way to open this stone door lies on these beads representing the stars.
At this moment, Yun Ziyue discovered that the beads embedded in the stone door could move slowly in the grooves.
After studying the movement of the beads for a while, Yun Ziyue suddenly realized that the password for opening the stone door should be different every time, which explained why there were smooth friction marks on each bead.
The twenty-eight constellations are divided into four images, representing the four directions of southeast, north and west, with seven stars in each direction.
So, which direction and seven constellations should be the password to open the stone door this time?
Yun Ziyue was a little troubled. It was not completely dark when she entered the hall, and there was no way she could know what the starry sky would look like tonight.
Should we go back and take a look now?
After thinking about it, Yun Ziyue shook her head decisively, closed her eyes and reached out to count.
After a while, Yun Ziyue opened her eyes, studied the beads representing the stars on the stone door, and began to move carefully.
"Tonight, the stars dominate the east. The seven stars in the east are Angle, Kang, Di, Fang, Xin, Wei, and Ji."
While chanting softly, Yun Ziyue also moved the beads representing the seven stars one after another, and finally connected them into a line on the stone door. In an instant, the stone door opened with a "rumbling" sound.
