Chapter 65 Sou Shan
However, Xu Jiajia refused quite readily. Ning Xuan briefly enjoyed the melon, then continued thinking about the mountain search that night.
In the evening, after dinner and washing up, Ning Xuan skillfully took out the puppet.
Ning Xuan first took a vision-improving pill, which can improve eyesight.
Then she put on the sachet that Yunxi had given her, which could repel insects and wild animals. With this on, she wouldn't be afraid of being bitten by mosquitoes or attacked by wild animals.
After taking safety precautions, Ning Xuan took out the X-ray vision solution, put a drop in one eye, felt a moment of warmth in her eye, and when she opened her eyes again, she could clearly see the outside world through the walls of the room.
Because this see-through potion has night vision capabilities, Ning Xuan doesn't even need to prepare lighting tools, which greatly improves her secrecy and eliminates any worry about the light attracting attention.
After quietly climbing over the wall and leaving the courtyard, Ning Xuan applied a speed talisman and a lightness talisman to her legs.
After she finished taking the photos, she realized that she could have taken photos of the talismans first, so she wouldn't have had to climb the wall herself. She should remember to take photos of the talismans first next time.
With the Lightness Talisman, Ning Xuan could fly in mid-air without worrying about accidentally stepping on anything messy, since the mountain path was difficult to traverse and had various obstacles.
The X-ray vision potion that Katerina gave her was of a high grade, with a viewing distance of up to 50 meters. In order to search the underground area more thoroughly, Ning Xuan did not go too far from the ground, and she would also land on the ground every now and then to search the underground area within a 50-meter radius.
Because they kept stopping and starting, it took them an hour to search one hilltop. There were mountains after mountains in this area, and Ning Xuan felt that there was still a long way to go.
However, Ning Xuan was not discouraged. She could search several mountains in one night, so she kept going.
Ning Xuan also encountered tombs with burial objects. At first, she was a little scared when she saw them, so she would bow to the tomb owner a few times and then walk away.
Having seen it many times, Ning Xuan went from being afraid at first to getting used to it, and could even chat with it.
They searched from around 8 p.m. until almost 4 a.m., and with dawn approaching, Ning Xuan decided to return at 4:30 a.m. They started work at 6 a.m., so they had enough time.
Just then, Ning Xuan made a new discovery.
Unbeknownst to her, she found the cave where Lu Xun had brought her to store supplies, but the supplies were not in the cave itself, but on the back side of the cave.
There was a cliff there, and then a natural cave. Ning Xuan looked around and realized that they must have descended from above using ropes, and with a little skill, they could stand on the platform in the cave.
However, Ning Xuan now has a lightness talisman that allows her to fly, so she can fly directly to the platform.
I don't know how they discovered this cave. Maybe they saw it from the bottom of the mountain, but the mountain is actually quite high.
The cave entrance was actually covered by a lot of vines, and Ning Xuan wouldn't have been able to find it if she didn't have X-ray vision.
The outer part of the cave appears to be naturally formed, but the inside was dug deeper by human hands and then set up with traps. Ning Xuan didn't know anything about these things; she only realized it was a trap because she saw arrows and pits with spikes buried in them.
Besides these, there are also large rocks. You don't know where you step, but the mechanism blocking the rocks will release, and the rocks will roll down.
Good heavens, although the number of traps doesn't seem to be that many, there are no traces of traps on the surface. Once you fall into one, even if you don't die immediately, it will be very difficult to leave this place, let alone take all these valuables with you.
Yes, Ning Xuan could already tell that these were the valuables that Liang Zhicheng had hidden, because many of the boxes looked relatively new, suggesting they had only been there in the last few years.
Ning Xuan was really curious about how they carried all these things into the cave. Especially since there were so many, were they all hoisted up with ropes?
If she couldn't figure it out, she decided to stop thinking about it. Ning Xuan checked the time; it was already 4:30. She had originally planned to go back at 4:30, but now that she had found her target, she was worried that things might change if she waited too long, in case the target moved during the day.
So Ningxuan decided to take all the boxes away immediately.
She wasn't afraid of the traps inside. She first put a shield talisman on herself, which would form a protective shield that could withstand a certain amount of attack. According to Yunxi's explanation, it could withstand a full-force attack from a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
This is more than enough for Ning Xuan, and since she is flying in mid-air and does not touch the ground, there is a high probability that she will not trigger the mechanism.
Although she is invisible, her body is still visible, so physical attacks must be prevented.
After applying the shield talisman, Ning Xuan thought that speed was the only way to win, so she rushed into the cave as fast as she could. As a result, everything went smoothly and she didn't trigger any traps.
The entrance to the cave was small, but inside was a completely different world. Five interconnected large caves had been dug out, each as big as a room. Three of the caves were already filled with boxes, and the other two were half full.
Ning Xuan glanced around and saw that the room was full of gold and silver jewelry, antiques and calligraphy and paintings, but there didn't seem to be any paper money or receipts.
Ning Xuan didn't have time to look closely; she waved her hand and started packing the boxes.
Because she had to touch them to put them into her storage ring, even though Ning Xuan had sped up her work, it was already 6 o'clock by the time she finished.
There wasn't enough time to replace the puppets and have them do the work themselves.
Ning Xuan decided to take the risk and let the puppet do half a day's work for her. After all, she could control the puppet to perform simple tasks. Her work for the past two days consisted of planting seeds and burying soil.
She planned to try it first, and if it didn't work, she would have the puppet leave under the pretense of going to the toilet, and then she would switch the puppet back.
The puppet performs simple actions according to Ning Xuan's instructions and can also speak, somewhat like an intelligent robot, but it is certainly not as flexible as a real person. For example, sometimes its answers to questions are irrelevant.
To avoid being exposed, Ning Xuan instructed the puppeteer to speak as little as possible.
So Xu Jiajia and the others thought Ning Xuan was unusually quiet today and assumed she was tired. After expressing their concern, they found that Ning Xuan wasn't very interested in talking, so they stopped trying to talk to her.
The situation seems to be under control, and since Gousheng didn't come today, Ningxuan guessed he was still recuperating. Ningxuan planned to rest for half a day and bring the puppet back in the afternoon, otherwise she might not be able to complete today's work points.
Although there are Qi-replenishing pills that can quickly restore vitality, Ning Xuan feels that her body doesn't feel quite right unless it rests on its own.
Sensing that the puppet was performing well through her communication with it, Ning Xuan decided not to waste any more time and quickly lay down after returning to the courtyard.
Just in case she still hasn't eliminated her invisibility.
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