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Chapter 20 (1)

In the next two hours, Fatty told us all the process of entering the Zhangjia Ancient Building in detail. Fatty’s narrative was extremely vivid. If I could fully record it, it would be a very good short story, but obviously I don’t have so much time, so I can only choose the most critical part of it to describe it.

The mouth is within the deep mountains more than ten miles away from the Yaohu Lake. A few miles away, it is actually just a mountain. The fat man pointed to the cliff opposite the lake, saying that it was the other side of the cliff.

This entrance is a stone tunnel that opens down the mountain diagonally. Behind a big tree, this big tree grows almost horizontally on the mountain, with trunks and vines. In fact, there is only one distance between the trunk and the mountain, so people still have to squeeze into this gap to find the entrance.

The fat man probably planted this strange-growing tree, with the purpose of covering up the entrance. But Mrs. Huo said no, because such a tree is more eye-catching on the mountain. It is likely that the project here caused changes in the rock layer, and the tree should not have been like that at the beginning.

The big possibility is that nearby projects loosen the rocky soil layer here. After the craftsmen left, part of the tree roots broke and lay on the rock, but did not die, and then slowly formed such a scene.

But they didn't think about it because it didn't make much sense. They cut off some vines from the tree and finally found the entrance.

After entering from the entrance, most of the mechanisms they encountered were blocked, such as very, very thick stone walls. These mechanisms had very strange ways to open them. They used the passwords we provided to crack, but after opening them, the journey between each blocked mechanism was very calm, incredibly calm.

They kept walking in. The passage was very narrow, almost allowing them to crawl. This was a way and habit for them to dig holes. The basic shape of the entire passage was square, and there were many abandoned, rotten, dry and cracked wood on the ground of the passage. The fat man believed that it was the traces left by the locals when dragging the coffin.

The mutation occurred in the third mechanism, which was the one that we provided the wrong password in Siguniang Mountain, Sichuan. If you think about it carefully, it was actually very strange, because the fat man said that even if they pressed the wrong mechanism, they could still open the stone gate, and nothing fatal happened.

Strangely, they walked through the entire passage and looked over, and found that there were almost no traces of mechanisms in the passage. This was the earliest discovery of Mon Oil Bottle. He had a deep understanding of all tombs and mechanisms, so his judgment was credible. In other words, those secret codes that opened the door seemed to be just decorations, and their only function was to remove the stone doors.

This is very strange. After all, it is spent so much energy to set such a complex password in Siguniang Mountain thousands of kilometers away. When using the password, it is just a decoration, which is too unreasonable. Faced with this situation, they are even more uneasy because it means two possibilities. The first possibility is that there are indeed no mechanisms here, and they are too careful. The other is that the mechanism settings here are beyond the experience range of the Muyou Bottle.

Soon they discovered that the situation they encountered would never be the first, but they were not sure whether it was the second.

They passed the stone gate with the wrong password and continued to walk for a kilometer or two in the low passage, and then found something was wrong.
Chapter completed!
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