At this time, Shu Youjin was standing at the door of the deep passage.
Shi Mu frowned slightly and looked at Shu Youjin. He saw a confused look on his face, and he obviously didn't know what would happen after the ban.
Shi Mu helplessly shook his head, his eyes flashed with golden light, and he spat out a few inches of golden light forward, looking into the passage.
When Shu Youjin saw this, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Shi Mu with a more solemn look.
After a moment, Shi Mu withdrew his golden eyes and said with a disappointed look on his face: "I once studied a spiritual eye magical power, but the inner wall of this passage is covered with runes, and there is an indescribable strange force that prevents me from continuing to pry.
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"What about Mr. Cai'er? Did you see anything?" Shu Youjin looked at Cai'er with eager eyes and asked.
"I can see a light curtain at the end of the passage. Behind the light curtain seems to be a large stone chamber. You can't see anything further in." Cai'er stretched her neck and looked into the passage.
"The treasure house of the underground palace should be in that stone room." Shu Youjin nodded and said.
"It's not too late, let's go in." Shi Mu greeted and walked into the passage first.
Shu Youjin followed him with his eyes twinkling, and walked cautiously into the passage.
The space in the passage is not large. The walls on both sides are made of huge rectangular stones, and the feet are paved with huge square blue bricks, which is very smooth.
On the walls on both sides, the huge stone strips were engraved with various zigzag and streamline patterns, mixed with various runes. Some of them were familiar to Shi Mu, and some of them he had never seen before.
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On the ground, the surfaces of those blue square tiles are engraved with many lifelike patterns of animals, flowers and birds, which look very exquisite.
However, Shi Mu and the others had no time to appreciate this at this time. They were all focused on the front of the passage, for fear that some guard puppets might unexpectedly rush out in front of them, or there might be some prohibitive trap.
However, after walking for about an hour, the two of them encountered nothing.
It was surprisingly peaceful along the way.
"Shitou, why do I feel something is wrong?" Cai'er suddenly said.
"Did you notice it too?" Shi Mu frowned slightly and said.
"What happened? What did you find?" Shu Youjin asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"According to our previous visual inspection, this passage is no more than a hundred feet long. Logically speaking, we should have walked out of the light curtain and entered the room long ago, but now...you look back." Shi Mu's eyes flashed slightly.
So said.
Shu Youjin twisted his neck suspiciously and looked behind him.
"What? How could this happen..." Shu Youjin's expression changed drastically and he exclaimed.
Behind him, only ten feet away, was the entrance of the passage they had just entered. In more than an hour, they actually only walked ten feet away.
"What on earth is going on?" Shu Youjin asked hurriedly.
"I'm not sure, we seem to be trapped in some kind of formation." Shi Mu glanced at the runes on the four walls and said with some uncertainty.
"Hey, isn't this your family's underground palace? Why do you seem to know nothing?" Cai'er stared and said with some dissatisfaction.
"This underground palace treasure house has been buried in dust for thousands of years, and all the clan's records about this place have been lost. Before I came here, the elders in the clan were actually opposed to it." Shu Youjin said with some helplessness.
"Stone? What should we do now? Go back?" Cai'er asked.
"I'm afraid it won't be that easy to go back." Shi Mu glanced at the wall and said without looking back.
"Ah? Why is this?" Cai'er shouted.
"As soon as we stepped into this passage, we have already fallen into the formation. No matter which way we go at this time, the result will be the same. We cannot get out of this passage, and we will only be trapped here alive.
Shi Mu pondered for a moment and said.
"Ah... what should I do? I haven't eaten enough spiritual stones yet." After hearing this, Cai'er immediately started to howl with a bitter look on her face.
"Don't worry, in the worst case we can break through the passage with force, but we may not be able to get out," Shi Mu said.
"This must not be done." Shu Youjin said quickly when he heard that Shi Mu was going to use violence to clear the way.
"What's wrong?" Shi Mu asked.
"Once this passage is penetrated, all the treasures will be sealed underground, and we won't be able to get anything." Shu Youjin said with a look of regret.
"If your life is at risk, how can you care about your treasure?" Cai'er said.
"Then I won't be able to cash in on the immortal spirit stone I promised to Master Cai." Shu Youjin said.
"Shitou, I think we should think of another way." Cai'er said seriously.
Cai'er's conversation changed so quickly that even Shu Youjin didn't expect it and was immediately startled.
Shi Mu, on the other hand, had long been accustomed to it and was no longer surprised.
At this moment, his eyes suddenly turned and looked towards the square blue bricks on the ground.
"This is……"
I saw three square blue bricks laid horizontally on the ground under my feet. On the one on the left, a series of oval patterns like a cobblestone road were carved, which spread out for more than three feet. Behind it, there was a huge mouse with its mouth wide open.
, spitting out its fangs, and seemed to be devouring those round eggs.
Shu Youjin was also attracted by Shi Mu's movements and looked towards the ground.
"This is a picture of a giant rat eating millet." Shu Youjin said willingly.
"Shuo Shu? Is that the fat mouse?" Cai'er asked.
"Well, Shuo Shu, also known as Jia Lu, is the mount of Lord Shejun." Shu Youjin explained.
"Shejun?" Shi Mu frowned, feeling as if he had heard it somewhere.
"Master Shejun is the ancestor of our Flying Rat clan, and he has always been regarded as a god by us." Shu Youjin continued to explain.
Shi Mu's eyes lit up, he pointed at a green brick in front of him and asked, "Is it that one?"
Engraved on a blue brick directly in front of the two of them was a hunched-backed weirdo wearing a long ribbon, holding something like a whip in his hand.
"Yes, yes, that's the one." Shu Youjin said as he saluted the pattern.
"Then I know how to get out." Shi Mu said confidently with a smile on his face.
"Really? How to get out?" Shu Youjin asked immediately.
"I once read an ancient book among the Mitian Giant Ape Clan, which recorded the story of Shejun. From his birth in Zishen Mountain, to his recovery of the deer beast, to his founding of the Flying Rat Clan, until his death
You can see everything up to this point." Shi Mu said.
"Brother Shi means... Could it be..." Shu Youjin's expression suddenly changed and he quickly looked at the pictures on the ground.
After a while, the joy in Shu Youjin's eyes became more and more intense, and he couldn't help but praise: "Thanks to Brother Shi's extensive knowledge and observation of details, we were able to find this way to pass."
"What riddles are you two playing? Why can't I understand a word?" Cai'er shouted anxiously.
"We only need to walk along the blue bricks depicting the experiences of Master Shejun, and then we can walk out of this passage." Shu Youjin explained.
"Okay, let's go."
After Shi Mu said that, he took a big step and came to the blue brick with the image of the Lord of the Society engraved on it.
Shu Youjin, however, bowed and gave a salute, repeatedly shouting words such as "Don't blame our ancestors" before walking over.
After walking a few steps, Shi Mu looked back and found that the distance from the previous entrance had indeed lengthened a lot.
After about a cup of tea, Shi Mu and the two came to the light curtain.
The two looked at each other, took a step at the same time, passed through the light curtain and entered inside.
As soon as they entered it, the light curtain behind the two people disappeared out of thin air, and was replaced by a thick stone door.
Shi Mu looked around and found that they passed through the light curtain and entered a completely enclosed octagonal secret room.
But inside this octagonal secret room, except for the stone doors distributed on the eight side walls, there was nothing.
"I said that the people of your clan are really wicked. They just want to hide a treasure. Why go through so much trouble? We passed one door after another. When we finally got inside, there were eight more doors. How do we choose?"
Cai'er said dissatisfied.
Shu Youjin could only laugh a few times and said nothing.
"Cai'er, look again, which door is the real treasure hiding place?" Shi Mu said.
After hearing this, Cai'er's eyes lit up and she glanced towards the eight doors.
After looking around, Cai'er shook her head and said, "You can only see the hidden patterns on the stone gate, but you can't see what's behind the stone gate."
"What patterns are there?" Shu Youjin's eyes lit up and he asked quickly.
"It's nothing special. It's similar to the ones I saw before." Cai'er looked a little impatient and glanced at him and said.
"Then have you seen the image of Mr. Shejun?" Shu Youjinhun didn't care and continued to ask.
"Yes, that's the one." Cai'er raised her wings and pointed to a stone door in front of her.
After Shu Youjin heard this, he immediately walked forward quickly, reached out with his palm, and pressed it on the stone door.
A burst of light shone on his palm, and a drop of bright red blood suddenly condensed in his palm and was imprinted on the stone door.
I saw that drop of blood slowly seeping into the stone door. A strange red light suddenly lit up on the surface of the stone door, and a hunched-backed figure wearing a long ribbon suddenly emerged from it.
At this moment, a "bang" was heard. Except for the stone door in the direction in which they came in, the other seven stone doors in the secret room opened at the same time, and bursts of clanging sounds of soldiers and armor came out from them.
"What's going on? Did you encounter any mechanism?" Shi Mu asked loudly.
"I don't know either, I didn't..."
Before Shu Youjin finished speaking, his eyes suddenly turned and looked towards the stone door he had just opened.
"Oh no, this is not Mr. Shejun, this is Mr. Yemozi." Shu Youjin exclaimed in shock.