She tried pushing the wall hard, but it didn't budge. She then looked around for any mechanisms or buttons, but after searching for a long time, she found nothing.
However, it is certain that this is indeed a "door".
Lin Ying simply increased the force, trying to find the point of leverage on the door, and then searched in that direction. Surprisingly, she used a little more force and found that the stone door actually opened.
Lin Ying stood there dumbfounded, realizing that this door wasn't some kind of mechanism, but rather something that could be opened with enough force.
Wait a minute, could it be that there's someone in the Lin family who's just as strong as her?
Lin Ying had a strange feeling lingering in her mind, but since she couldn't figure out the specific reason for it, she simply stopped thinking about it.
The main issue is that there are still unsolved mysteries surrounding her.
Lin Ying continued walking and found the source of the dampness on the ground: an underground water source.
There is a stone bridge over the underground water flow.
This time, Lin Ying went straight up.
Because she was certain that this was where they used to live.
This man loves his wife very much. He might create obstacles for his son, but he won't create barriers for his wife's living environment.
In fact, Lin Ying was right. She continued walking forward without any obstacles.
When she arrived at a staircase, Lin Ying went up without hesitation.
Lin Ying didn't know exactly how many steps she climbed, but she was panting heavily, and the rest of the way was entirely due to her willpower.
After an unknown amount of time, Lin Ying finally arrived at a spacious place.
Here, Lin Ying discovered countless gold and silver jewels, but what surprised her most was a piece of cloth made of the same material as the map.
Lin Ying didn't touch the gold and silver jewelry, not because she didn't want to, but because the military would eventually come in. If she took anything, she would definitely be discovered. But the cloth was different; no one could predict that some pieces of cloth would remain intact.
The set Zhao Qinghuai was wearing was precious enough, given the precious materials used.
Who would have thought there was a horse?
Even though she had obtained a precious piece of cloth, Lin Ying still felt that she had not yet achieved her purpose in coming here.
Lin Ying sighed, thinking that she might have been mistaken.
Lin Ying had barely finished sighing when she realized there was still no ventilation here! Then, unsurprisingly, she found a stone door with a ventilation opening.
Pushing it open again, Lin Ying saw the stone steps where she could no longer see the cauldron.
Perhaps what she's looking for is up there.
With this thought in mind, Lin Ying continued climbing. Halfway up, her mind wandered, and she even drifted off, thinking about what to do with that batch of fabric.
Then Lin Ying stood still and asked, "How can you make clothes from fabric that's impervious to swords and spears?"
Lin Ying thought incredulously about the unremarkable sewing basket in the first cave. Everything else had clearly weathered away, but the scissors hadn't rotted!
Lin Ying's heart pounded, because she had just thought of something.
In that man's eyes, nothing was more important than his wife, so what others considered a treasure was something he could freely give to his wife to use.
So she felt that what she was looking for wasn't in this secret room, but in that other place.
However, she wasn't planning to go look for it now, because she had already climbed halfway up and wanted to go up and see what was inside!
What she saw made her eyes widen in surprise.
If I'm not mistaken, this should be the male homeowner's study, plus a workspace.
This place was more spacious than the other places. One room was a study, containing many bamboo slips and some weathered items whose contents were no longer discernible. Another room was a pharmacy. What shocked Lin Ying the most was another item: bamboo slips containing various Five Elements and Eight Trigrams formations, as well as a miniature landscape painting on the table.
This landscape painting is clearly a physical map. In modern terms, it's a 3D image.
It was from here that Lin Ying truly saw the entire geographical landscape. And if she wasn't mistaken, the markings indicated the location of the formation in this area.
Just as Lin Ying was looking closely, she heard a sound coming from over there.
The other person was speaking Mandarin, and Lin Ying only knew simple words like "I" and "you," so she had no way of guessing what they were saying.
But that's not important. What's important is why we can hear sounds here?
Lin Ying searched carefully and unexpectedly discovered the surveillance equipment here.
Lin Ying's gaze was fixed on the discovered surveillance equipment, her heart filled with shock and doubt. The equipment looked old-fashioned, yet it also exuded a sense of ingenuity, forming a stark contrast with the slightly dilapidated surroundings.
Its main body is a round disc resembling a crystal mirror, about the size of a washbasin. Its surface is smooth and has a faint sheen, with delicate cloud patterns carved along the edges. Without a close inspection, it is easy to mistake it for an ordinary decorative item. A copper pipe is connected to the bottom of the disc, winding its way up the wall and eventually disappearing into a corner of the ceiling, presumably a crucial channel for transmitting signals or something similar.
On one side of the disc, there were several small knobs. Lin Ying curiously reached out and gently touched them, discovering that they could be turned. As the knobs turned, the previously still disc began to tremble slightly, as if it had been activated. A thought struck her: could this thing actually function properly?
Lin Ying looked around, trying to find a matching receiver or display device. Soon, her gaze fell on a painting on the opposite wall. The painting depicted a landscape scene, which seemed ordinary, but when she shone her flashlight at a certain angle, some blurry light and shadow appeared on the picture, like the outline of someone walking in the distance.
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