Seeing Ruolan still surveying the furnishings in the hall unhurriedly, Li Mu asked doubtfully. Other forces had already entered the depths of the palace along a passage, but Ruolan and Uncle seemed to have not left at all.
mean.
"Brother, this treasure hunt in the cave is not about running faster than anyone else. It's about chance. If fate doesn't come, you will find nothing even if you run all over the palace. Come, look at this golden lion. Does it feel like it's missing something?
What?"
Following what Ruolan pointed out, Li Mu took a closer look at the two golden lions. The one on the right was a male lion, covered in long hair, majestic and in a semi-prostrate posture, with its right paw hanging out in the air, while the one on the left was a male lion.
The female lion also has bright eyes and a lion cub under her right paw.
"Sister Ruolan, I don't see anything wrong, so stop being so pretentious and tell me what's wrong with this lion?"
Li Mu went up and down, inspecting the two golden lions several times. Finally, Fang Yan and Lin Qingzhu joined the team of investigators, but the three of them worked hard and still found no clues.
"This female lion has a lion cub under her paw, which symbolizes the endless descendants. But this male lion has his right paw hanging in the air. Doesn't it feel strange? In fact, there should be a golden ball under his paw.
, that would symbolize having supreme power.”
Seeing that Li Mu really couldn't see the problem, Ruolan explained that it turned out that the two golden lions were not built randomly, but had such a deep meaning.
"So if we can find the missing golden ball and put it back where it belongs, maybe we can trigger some kind of mechanism."
Ruolan stood next to the golden lion statue, patted the lion's paw hanging in the air and said. This confidence derived from profound knowledge and a calm and confident look made Li Mu and the others applaud involuntarily.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey."
Suddenly he felt something tugging at his pants. Li Mu looked down and found that the little monkey that had been playing on the beam after entering the palace came back at some point. At this time, Xiaopi blinked and looked at Li Mu.
, and two little paws are holding a golden ball, ball? Ball!
Li Mu originally picked up this skinned monkey, and after trying to teach it a lesson, it ran around again, but he didn't expect this cute little guy to be so considerate, and he was really a considerate little cotton-padded jacket that gave him a pillow when he wanted to sleep.
"Oh my god, this must be the missing golden ball. Li Mu, you little monkey are so powerful, aren't you? Can you find it so quickly?"
Ruolan took the golden ball from Xiaopi's hand, and after comparing it carefully, she found that it was the key they were looking for. She was so surprised that she couldn't help but look at the little monkey a few more times, and wondered in her heart who this monkey was.
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"Sister Ruolan, don't praise it. According to what I know about it, it probably happened to find this golden ball while walking around, and then simply wanted to bring it back to exchange for some food with me."
Looking at the smug little monkey lying on Lin Qingzhu's shoulder, Li Mu couldn't help but give it a roll of his eyes. It couldn't hide its twists and turns from him. It was most likely just a coincidence.
When the little monkey saw that Li Mu not only did not praise him, but also slandered his achievements nonchalantly, he became unhappy on the spot. He babbling and yelled, the monkey turned over, jumped on Li Mu's head, and started to pull his hair.
"You skinny monkey, come down here. Your skin is itchy, don't you? Believe it or not, I'll stew you."
Others have become accustomed to the daily fights between Li Mu and Xiaopi, and completely ignored the rivalry between the man and the monkey. Instead, they all gathered around the golden lion statue. After Ruolan carefully studied the placement, he carefully
The golden ball was stuffed under the lion's right paw.
"Huh? No movement? Is there a mistake?"
Ruolan looked at the unresponsive golden lion in front of her in confusion. Her reasoning should be correct. Is it really just a coincidence that the golden ball was removed? Is there really no mechanism in this hall?
"Rumble..."
Just when Ruolan wanted to take out the golden ball and rearrange it, a low roar sounded. Two golden lions, one on the left and one on the right, began to slowly gather together, and then slowly descended, finally revealing a three-dimensional ball with a length and width of three.
At the square entrance, which is more than a foot long, a granite staircase suddenly appears in front of everyone's eyes.
"It's amazing, Sister Ruolan, she really has a hidden secret."
Seeing that the mechanism was activated, Li Mu also threw the little monkey into Lin Qingzhu's arms, and stepped forward to look at the stairs leading to the bottom of the hall. Ruolan flew out a fire arrow, illuminating the bottom of the secret passage.
Case.
There are more than a hundred steps in this staircase, followed by a tunnel paved with large pieces of blue and white stone. There is no danger visible to the naked eye. As usual, Forbes was the first to go down the stairs, and then
Ruolan, then Li Mu.
When Li Mu, who was walking at the end, also entered the secret passage, he only heard a rumbling friction sound, the mechanism restarted, the entrance to the secret passage gradually closed, and the two golden lions returned to their original positions.
Soon a group of five people descended to the bottom of the stairs. Just when Ruolan was about to shoot a few more fire arrows for lighting, the extinguished wall lamps on both sides of the dark passage suddenly lit up, illuminating the entire dark passage in an instant.
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The lights turned on one after another, from near to far, which shocked Li Mu. These were not voice-activated lights in the 21st century. How could they light up so neatly?
"It's a thousand-year-old phosphorus fire bug. It is said that this insect has an extremely long lifespan, but spends most of its time in a comatose state. Once it is awakened from sleep, it will emit light like phosphorus fire."
Ruolan walked up to a wall lamp that turned on automatically, looked inside through the jade lampshade, and found that hundreds of thousand-year-old phosphorus fireflies were emitting bursts of light inside each lamp.
"It is worthy of being an insect master's cave. It actually uses this method to ensure that if someone sets foot here a hundred years later, there will still be lighting. It's amazing."
Li Mu and the others were amazed by this method of turning on the lamps without anyone lighting them. They were also surprised by the delicate thoughts of the insect controller. Li Mu always felt that the various arrangements of the insect controller in this cave were very contradictory. Those
The beautiful murals and thoughtful wall lamps all show that the owner of the cave is not a treacherous and evil person, but the murderous blood-colored worms make people tremble at the cruelty of this insect master.
"It is indeed very powerful. This kind of thousand-year-old phosphorus fireflies are very rare. There are hundreds of them in this lamp. If this entire dark passage and cave are illuminated in this way, it would be really a big deal. Let's go, let's continue.
go ahead."
With the lights on, the group was no longer as nervous in this dark passage as before, walking along the long passage towards the depths of Lingyun Palace.