Upon learning that Qu Ruilin and his group had already entered the mountains, Jiang Man quickly ordered people to make preparations in earnest.

After hearing Qu Ruilin and his team's analysis in the recording, our ideas were in complete agreement. We both believed that the beast head hidden in the mountains was the key to the Miao Jiang Immortal Palace.

The Jiang family's security personnel were all professionally trained, and after receiving orders, they quickly gathered near Li Changyou's house.

At the alley entrance, I pointed inside with my chin and said to the security captain beside me, "According to Li Changyou's intelligence, the people the enemy is lying in ambush in the third courtyard. Your task is to guard this alley and, no matter what happens, not to send anyone to the front courtyard to provide support."

"Don't worry, there will be absolutely no problem."

The security guard drew his Taser from his waist and gestured to me: "Even if there's an elephant in the backyard, I'll stop them!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Jiang family's security guards appeared from both sides of the alley and slowly approached the courtyard.

I saw the security guards prepare, take a few steps at the alley entrance, and climb onto the roof of the row of houses in front of them by stepping on the wall.

Li Changyou's courtyard was not large. Upon entering, there was an open space. The gate faced the tiled house in the courtyard, and behind the tiled house was a small open area. According to Li Changyou, the entrance to the cellar was here.

After I went around to the roof of Li Changyou's house, I peeked out and found a large haystack in the backyard, which Wei Shengnan and the others used to hide their cellar. Not far away, a young man was sitting in the shade, playing a handheld game.

After I came into view in the backyard, the man on lookout quickly spotted me, pushed open the door, and shouted in the backyard, "Hey, what's that guy up there doing?"

Upon hearing the roar, the young man at my feet immediately dropped his game console and reached for the crossbow beside him.

With lightning speed, I threw a throwing knife, which struck the young man's arm.

At this moment, many people had already run out of the back courtyard, but as soon as they opened the door, they were stopped by the Jiang family's bodyguards.

After dealing with the young man in the backyard, I turned around and jumped down in the opposite direction, running towards the gate at an extremely fast speed.

"Clang!"

As I ran, the door of the tiled house behind me opened, and the few people left behind rushed over, all carrying sticks.

I shook them off, rushed to the front of the courtyard gate, and flung it open. Manjing outside was like a bull in heat, and in an instant he took down two people. Monkey, Lin Que, and Jiang Man also dealt with the remaining two.

Ignoring the situation here, I quickly ran into the room inside.

When Li Changyou saw me enter, he said slyly, "There's no one left in the house. They left five people behind."

After I finished checking inside, Jiang Man and the others had already subdued the people outside.

When I got to the backyard, Manjing had already cleared away the woodpile. I saw the entrance to the tunnel and immediately frowned.

In rural areas, cellars are usually accessed by a small wooden door. However, the door to the cellar in front of us is made of pure steel and has an embedded lock, like a safe, instead of a padlock.

The monkey stared blankly at the cellar entrance, which resembled a fortified defense: "Damn it, Wei Shengnan and the others are being way too cautious! It's just a temporary stop, why did they modify the cellar?"

"I'll do it!"

Lin Que glanced at the cellar entrance, pulled out a piece of wire from his sleeve, and aimed it at the keyhole.

I looked at Lin Que with a skeptical expression: "Will it work?"

Lin Que nodded confidently: "When I was in Fengmen Village, they trained me in lock picking. With my current skills, opening this kind of door is basically using a sledgehammer to crack a nut!"

My eyes lit up: "Open this door, and I'll give you double your bonus this month!"

"All done!"

Lin Que grinned, lay down on the ground and stared at the keyhole for a moment, then inserted the wire and started poking around.

"Click!"

About thirty seconds later, I suddenly heard a slight sound coming from inside the lock.

Hearing that voice, I breathed a sigh of relief: "You're something else, kid. I didn't expect you to have this kind of skill now!"

"hey-hey!"

Lin Que scratched his head and gave me an awkward smile: "Brother, the door wasn't open. The noise you heard was from a broken wire inside..."

"!!!"

When I heard Lin Que's response, I was completely dumbfounded: "Didn't you just tell me with absolute certainty that you could definitely open this door?"

Lin Que scratched his head anxiously: "Honestly, this kind of lock is child's play for me, but I really don't know why this happened! This is beyond my comprehension!"

I turned my gaze to the young gatekeeper who had been struck in the arm by a throwing knife: "Tell me, where is the key to this cellar?"

The young man shook his head, clutching his injured arm: "This door doesn't have a key. The keyhole is designed to mislead intruders; it's an anti-theft device that will lock if someone tries to pick it! The correct way to open it is to just lift it up!"

Upon hearing the young man's response, the monkey's eyes widened like a bull's: "Damn it, why didn't you say anything when you saw us breaking into the door?"

The young man, with his neck stiffened, retorted confidently, "I'm the gatekeeper, you're robbers! Why should I warn you?"

"Beat him up!"

Upon hearing the young man's answer, the monkey and the sparrow, like two crazed teddy bears, rushed forward and began to pluck at the young man.

"Alright."

I saw the young man's nose bleeding profusely from the beating and stopped them. I said to the monkey, "Wei Shengnan and her group haven't been here long, so they definitely haven't had time to fully modify this cellar. The purpose of this door is to delay the intruders from opening it, buying time for reinforcements from the backyard! So the inner wall probably wasn't reinforced; they can just dig a tunnel down!"

The monkey's skills have improved so much that in less than half an hour, it dug a slanted hole next to the entrance of the cellar and crawled into the tunnel.

After the monkey went down, I leaned over the entrance of the cave and asked, "So, is what we're looking for inside?"

"There's a lot in here, I'm looking for it!"

The monkey's voice came out: "The bottom is full of tomb raiding tools, weapons, explosives and the like, it's almost filled the cellar... Young Master Duan, we found it, the sheep's head and the chicken's head are both there!"

"I'll lower the rope, you tie the things up, and we'll pull it up!"

When I heard that the stolen chicken head had been recovered and that I had also obtained the sheep head, I couldn't help but show my joy and quickly pulled up the two animal heads.

Compared to our chicken head, that sheep's head was much larger, looking almost exactly like a real sheep. It also had a key about the thickness of a forearm attached to the back of its neck, which was also a double helix structure, but covered with strange patterns.

Soon, the monkey climbed up and handed me a rolled-up paper tube: "Young Master Duan, I found a map down there!"