Yun Wanwan then denied it, "No, I'm not hurt!"
What a joke! How could she possibly admit that she was injured while coming down? If that was really the case, Rong Chengxuan would definitely have someone up there pull her up and would never agree to leave her here any longer.
Because Rong Chengxuan and Yun Wanwan didn't bring a fire starter when they came down, Rong Chengxuan couldn't see if Yun Wanwan was really injured. Although Yun Wanwan said she wasn't injured, Rong Chengxuan knew that Yun Wanwan must have bumped into something on the way down.
However, since he had no evidence to prove Yun Wanwan was injured, he could only let her stay down there. Yun Wanwan hadn't anticipated that even if she was injured, Rong Chengxuan wouldn't allow anyone to pull her up.
After all, when we encounter a formation that needs to be solved later, having Yun Wanwan by our side will increase the probability of solving it.
After a while, Ye Lan also came down from above. Ye Lan's movements were the same as Rong Chengxuan's, both of them were clean and neat, unlike Yun Wanwan's bumpy descent.
This made Yun Wanwan think for the first time whether she should practice martial arts herself. But it seemed that even if she practiced martial arts, she might not be able to get down from there unscathed. After all, she didn't often do such sneaky things, so she was bound to bump into some things when she came down.
Zhuge Jia looked back and signaled Ye Lan to open the tinder. Ye Lan did as he was told and squatted in the cave to light the tinder.
The cave was not spacious, and since he was of medium build, it could barely accommodate his body.
Ye Lan pointed downwards and said, "Master, please look."
Six feet below the ground, there is a slanting hole that is only wide enough for one person to pass through by bending over.
Rong Chengxuan and Ye Lan were tall, so when they reached the narrowest place, they could only put out the fire starter, hold it in their mouths, and then lie down and crawl inside.
Fortunately, the tunnel wasn't long, and soon I saw a brighter view, revealing I had arrived at a larger cave. While there wasn't much room to move around, at least I didn't have to bend over to stand.
Yun Wanwan was wearing brightly colored clothes today, and she was the first to appear under the light of their fire. Then Rong Chengxuan, dressed in black, was standing behind her.
At this moment, they all gathered in front of a cave wall, and they leaned over to take a closer look. Their faces, which were originally smiling, suddenly became gloomy when they saw the big door on the cave wall.
This is a strange-looking wooden door. There is no lock on the door. There are only two vertical and horizontal wooden pieces in the shape of a "cross" attached to the door, which are stuck up, down, left and right, and embed the door in the stone wall.
In the middle of the wooden cross was a simple wooden lock, similar in principle to the door in a modern escape room. However, below the lock were carved wooden characters for "one," "two," "three," "four," "five," "six," "seven," "eight," "nine," "ten," "hundred," "thousand," and "ten thousand," with the strokes between the numbers disconnected.
Yun Wanwan studied the wooden lock for a while and found that the principle of this lock was not much different from the door lock of the secret room in the present world.
"Looks like it's a number-arrangement lock." Yun Wanwan picked up the wooden characters, looked at them, and said, "I need to choose the correct four from the thirteen wooden characters, arrange them in order, and place them into the empty spaces on the door lock to unlock it."
"Yes, but the problem now is," Rong Chengxuan said, tapping the wooden shell with his hand. "We don't know which four characters to choose to put in, let alone the order of the four characters. We also don't know if the wrong order will trigger some other mechanism. We don't know these things."
Yun Wanwan also fell into deep thought after Rong Chengxuan finished speaking. Ancient mechanisms weren't as sophisticated as modern ones. Power sources were generally gravitational potential energy and elastic potential energy, so most mechanisms were single-use. If they didn't work the first time, they had to be reset to their original state.
"Thirteen characters, according to probability, there are tens of thousands of possible arrangements. How can we know?" Ye Lan put down the wooden characters and said firmly, "If we try one by one, how long will it take? Master, how about we tear down this door between us? It doesn't seem that this door is that difficult to tear down."
"If you want to tear it down..." Ye Lan's words gave Yun Wanwan a new idea. She raised her chin slightly and began to think about where to start so that she could tear down the door faster.
Rong Chengxuan knew what Yun Wanwan was thinking and immediately poured cold water on her. "Don't even think about it. It's definitely impossible for you to dismantle it. Otherwise, why would the owner of this tomb go to so much trouble to build this trapdoor?"
Rong Chengxuan's words completely dispelled Yun Wanwan's idea of taking a shortcut and asking Ye Lan and Rong Chengxuan to dismantle the door. She went back to study the door. Judging from the size, the gap in the wooden lock could just accommodate four wooden characters placed side by side.
After studying it for a long time, Yun Wanwan felt completely lost. She angrily kicked the broken wooden door and said angrily, "You piece of junk! If I couldn't tear you down, I'd be in there by now."
Rong Chengxuan was very self-aware of his partner and knew that if Yun Wanwan was angry, he had to coax her first, otherwise the situation would get worse and he would be the one who suffered.
He raised his hand and smoothed Yun Wanwan's fur. "Okay, let me see if I can figure it out."
"What if..." Rong Chengxuan had already started calculating the traps on the wall, but Ye Lan still hadn't given up on his devious ways. After thinking for a moment, he asked again, "Can we change direction and dig from somewhere else? At least we don't have to waste time here?"
After hearing what Ye Lan said, Yun Wanwan became eager to try again. But before she could start imagining the future, Rong Chengxuan poured a bucket of cold water on her.
"First, how do you know if there are any traps elsewhere besides this entrance? We'll only know the direction, and if we run into a trap while digging, it might be even more troublesome. Second, even if there are no traps besides this one, what will you use to dig? Will you use your hands? Don't let me calculate it by the time you dig a meter."
Rong Chengxuan stretched his arm, which hadn't moved for a long time and felt a little sore, and continued to ask, "Finally, we agreed to go up there before noon tomorrow. If we haven't finished digging by then, the Royal Guards will see you in such a mess. I'll be clear in advance, if you really want to dig, I won't help you."
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