"I think there are two reasons. First, there were no treasures in this palace in the first place. They were all made up by people. Second, there were indeed many treasures here in the past, but they were all stolen."
Hu Yandong analyzed.
"Stealed?" Ouyang Wuwei frowned: "Haizi left a message, saying that there are agencies everywhere here, and everyone who comes in to steal the treasure is dead. Even an amazing figure like Haizi is not immune. With these agencies guarding him, it stands to reason
No one can steal the treasure from here?"
Hu Yandong turned around, looked at Ouyang Wuwei, and asked calmly: "Let me ask you, have we ever encountered any agencies along the way?"
"Well...not really..." Ouyang Wuwei was stunned for a moment.
"Why didn't we encounter the agency?" Hu Yandong asked.
"This...how do I know..." Ouyang Wuwei shook his head.
"There are only two possibilities." Ouyang Wuwei raised a finger: "First, there was no mechanism here." At this point, Ouyang Wuwei raised another finger: "Second, there was a mechanism here originally, but
It was broken."
"There is a third possibility." Ma Xiaoyao suddenly interrupted.
"The third type? Which one?" Hu Yandong asked in confusion.
Ma Xiaoyao slowly scanned the surroundings: "There is a mechanism here, but we are lucky and it has never been triggered. Do you think there is such a possibility?"
This time it was Hu Yandong's turn to be stunned: "Is this possible?"
"Why not?" Ma Xiaoyao asked back: "We were very cautious along the way. We followed a fixed route and did not touch any uncertain places. Based on this calculation, the possibility that we did not trigger the mechanism is very high."
"Actually, it's very simple to confirm this." Ouyang Zilan's mouth curled up slightly.
"How to prove it?" Everyone looked at Ouyang Zilan at the same time.
"Let's walk around, bump and touch, and see if the laser will be triggered. If the mechanism is triggered, it proves that Xiaoyao is right. If the mechanism cannot be triggered, then Senior Huyan is right." Ouyang Zi
Lan smiled.
"What a bad idea!" Ma Xiaoyao couldn't help scolding: "I thought you really had some good ideas. After working on it for a long time, it's just such a bad idea. You are really good at it!"
"What!" Ouyang Zilan was unconvinced: "What I said is the truth!"
"You'd better shut up." Ma Xiaoyao glared at Ouyang Zilan: "If you don't speak, no one will treat you as a mute."
"Okay, let's not argue. Let's continue on our way." Ouyang Wuwei raised his hand: "Whether there is any agency here has nothing to do with us. The most important thing now is to leave here quickly. I don't know why, but I feel very uneasy.
, as if something bad was going to happen.”
"Let's go, let's keep going up. Sooner or later we will be able to get out." Ma Xiaoyao waved his hand and continued to climb up.
Eighteen, nineteen, twenty...thirty...
The four of them walked through thirteen more floors of the palace in one go. Counting the ones in front of them, they walked through a total of thirty floors of the palace.
I haven't seen the end yet.
The four of them finally couldn't calm down anymore...
"How many floors are there?"
"Who built these palaces? What is his intention? It can't be just to live in it after spending so much manpower and material resources, right? And also choose such a bad place?"
"The thoughts of the ancients cannot be fathomed."
"If I hadn't seen the palace getting smaller and smaller, I would have thought I was trapped in a trance."
"Everything in front of me is very real, it doesn't look like a formation."
"Keep walking...I have an intuition that the way out is not far from us."
…
After resting for a while, the four of them hit the road again.
When she entered the palace on the thirty-first floor, Ouyang Zilan suddenly shouted: "There is something here!"
"Whoosh!"
Everyone turned their attention to a corner of the hall, where there was a jade table. There was a small wooden box on the table. The lid of the box was closed tightly, so it was not clear what was inside.
After walking through the thirty-first floor of the palace, I found something for the first time, and it didn't look like an ordinary thing.
"What on earth is it!" Ouyang Zilan couldn't help her curiosity and walked over.
"Don't be impulsive!" Ma Xiaoyao grabbed Ouyang Zilan: "Be careful there is a trap here!"
As soon as the word "organ" was mentioned, Ouyang Zilan's expression suddenly changed: "Will there be an agency here?"
"It never hurts to be on the defensive."
"Then what should we do? We can't give up the treasure, right?"
"We must not give up! How can a treasure that can attract the ancient wise man Haizi to steal be a mortal thing?"
"Let me test it out!" Hu Yandong took out a throwing knife from his backpack, shook his hands and threw it out.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
More than a dozen flying knives spread out and flew toward the table in the corner in a fan shape. "Bang bang bang..." A row of short arrows made of fine steel suddenly shot out from under the table, knocking all the dozen flying knives away and nailing them to the ground.
On the ground.
"Sure enough, there is a mechanism!" Ouyang Zilan felt scared for a while. If Ma Xiaoyao hadn't pulled her just now, she might have turned into a hedgehog now.
Hu Yandong's expression was very solemn: "Sure enough, as Mr. Ma said, there is a mechanism here, but we didn't trigger it along the way. I have to say that we are very lucky." The short arrows shot out from under the table were all
Made of fine steel, the flying force is so powerful that even a ninth-level warrior might not be able to block it.
"Although there are many short arrows, they will eventually be used up." Hu Yandong took out a throwing knife from his backpack and threw it out. Just like last time, it was knocked away by the short arrows shot from under the table... But Hu Yandong
Don’t be discouraged and keep throwing knives...
The hard work paid off. After Hu Yandong threw hundreds of flying knives in one breath, no short arrows flew out from under the table.
"After all the short arrows have been shot, we can pass." Ouyang Zilan's face was filled with joy.
"We can't go there yet." Ma Xiaoyao shook his head: "Because we are not sure yet... there are no other agencies here..."
"Test it again." This time Hu Yandong took out a handful of darts from his backpack. There were about twenty of them. He threw the darts like a goddess scattering flowers. More than twenty darts scattered in all directions.
The whole table was covered.
"Pfft..."
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..."
A small hole suddenly opened in the wall on both sides of the table, and a stream of black smoke floated out from it. The dart instantly turned into a puddle of water as soon as it touched the black smoke...
"Sure enough, there is still a mechanism!"
"What a domineering poisonous smoke!"
"No! Run! Poisonous smoke is drifting towards us!"
The expressions of the four people changed, and they hurriedly climbed up to the thirty-story palace, and then blocked the exit so that the poisonous smoke could not come up.
"Is there something here too?"
There is also a table in the corner, but this time it is a wooden table. There is a small box on the table. The lid of the box is closed tightly, so you can't see what's inside.
"No need to ask, there must be a trap!" Hu Yandong took out a throwing knife and threw it over.
"Bang bang bang..."
A row of short arrows suddenly shot out from under the table, smashing the flying knives into pieces.
Hu Yandong did not believe in evil, so he used the method of scattering flowers by a goddess and threw a dart. As a result... another puff of black smoke was drawn out, which scared everyone and hurriedly climbed up to the thirty-third floor of the palace.
"bump!"
After sealing the exit, everyone let out a breath.
"It's empty here, there's nothing."
"This is the thirty-third floor of the palace."
"I made a preliminary estimate that it would be impossible to build such a multi-story palace in the Black Swamp without hundreds of millions of taels of silver."
"It's better to exchange silver for gold."
"Hundreds of millions of taels of gold...I can't even think about it."
"Let's go, don't be sad."
…
When everyone jumped on the roof and opened the exit, they smelled a breath of fresh air, and then saw a blue sky...
"Finally the end!"
"What are you waiting for? Why don't you get out quickly!"
"Walk!"
The four of them scrambled out.
"Why is the swamp mud here so hard? It feels like stone when you step on it." Ouyang Zilan asked doubtfully.
"Someone must have used special means to make this area of swamp mud deteriorate. It is precisely because of this that the swamp mud did not flood the entrance to the palace."
"...I just observed that the swamp mud within a radius of a hundred meters is as hard as stone. Beyond the radius of a hundred meters, the swamp mud becomes soft and you will definitely not be able to come up if you sink in it."
"Leave a mark here and we'll come back another day to get the treasure inside."
"Well, I was just about to say this. We were not well prepared this time, so we can only go back first. We will come back when we are ready."
…
After the four people walked out of the 100-meter range, they began to throw stones outside, and then returned to the shore on the stones.
Once we set foot on land, everyone finally let go of their worries.
"Ouch!"
A tall black figure ran in the distance, it was the Baretooth Beast.
Seeing the bared-toothed beast, Ma Xiaoyao's face suddenly darkened: "You guys still have the nerve to come back? When they saw us being caught, not only did they not save each other, but they ran away alone?!"
"Ouch..."
The bared-tooth beast drooped its head, not daring to look at Ma Xiaoyao's expression. It also knew that what it was doing was indeed not interesting enough.
"The main reason is that the turtle is too powerful, and the toothed beast is no match." Ouyang Zilan came out to smooth things over.
The bared-toothed beast glanced at Ouyang Zilan gratefully.
"Yeah, don't worry about it. It also knows it's wrong." Ouyang Wuwei and Hu Yandong also came forward to intercede.
"Hmph!" Ma Xiaoyao snorted coldly: "For everyone's sake, I will spare you this time. Next time you dare to leave me and run away alone, I will definitely not spare you!"
"Ouch..."
The bared-toothed beast nodded, indicating that he understood.
"Let's go back on the Bare-Tooth Beast. We had a big fight with that turtle and we all used up a lot of energy." Ma Xiaoyao dodged and jumped onto the back of the Bare-Tooth Beast. Ouyang Zilan, Hu Yandong and
Ouyang Wuwei also sat on the back of the toothed beast one after another.
Ma Xiaoyao spoke, and the bared-toothed beast could only act as a coolie.
On the way, several people began to discuss what was in the two boxes in the palace. Everyone was talking to each other, and the quarrel was very lively.
