"We just received news that they have already started exploring the route. Wuxie and the others are also climbing the mountain at the same time. What should we do next? Should we follow them?"
After Aning finished asking, Qiu Dekao shook his head and said, "Not yet. We gave them the map, which has been a great help. Now...it's up to them. Once they make some progress, it won't be too late for us to go."
Aning nodded and turned to leave. After Aning left, Qiu Dekao got up and walked into a dark room.
In the dark room, a man in sacrificial attire sat on a rattan rocking chair. His hair was half-tied up, and he wore a magpie-tail crown. He was wearing a black robe with algae patterns, a string of dark red beads around his neck, and a dark gold-woven cloak. He had wrist guards on his wrists and golden armor on his hands. He still held his ebony folding fan in his hand. It was exactly the attire of Shen Tingsi when he was the national teacher.
Qiu Dekao bowed respectfully and said, "Sir, they have already started to act."
Chen Tingsi closed his eyes, raised his hand and waved it casually, signaling Qiu Dekao to leave. Qiu Dekao turned around and left, and considerately closed the door.
After a long time, Shen Tingsi slowly opened his eyes, stared at the void for a long time, and smiled meaningfully. It would soon be over...
At the same time, Ji Huaichuan and the others were still walking deeper into the cave. The light was dim and the visible range was not wide. People followed one after another. Thinking of the corpses of Qiu Dekao's men they had seen just now, everyone looked around vigilantly, fearing that they would fall behind and encounter accidents.
The fat man asked two people to go ahead and check the road. Not long after, the two people ran back and said that there was no road ahead. The fat man was a little confused. How could there be no road ahead when a corpse just appeared in such a big cave?
Just as he was thinking, the flashlight flashed and the fat man saw a piece of debris falling on the stone wall opposite. The fat man walked closer, carefully took the thing down and turned back to the team.
Ji Huaichuan looked at the stone in the fat man's hand and felt that it looked familiar. When he got closer, he realized that it was just the fragments of those worthless things!
The fat man shone a flashlight on it. "This is it. It's similar to amber. It can be boiled with strong alkali. It seems... there is a passage behind this stone wall."
Huo Xiu Xiu turned around and directed the two people who had just returned to use strong alkali to dissolve the stone wall. However, the two were blown away just after they sprayed a little. Everyone hurried over to check, and when they took off their masks, they found that the two men's faces had been burned and they were dead.
"Wait!" Ji Huaichuan suddenly said, "This smells wrong... It smells a bit like sulfuric acid."
The fat man took the stone from Ji Huaichuan's hand and sniffed it, his face solemn. "It's sulfuric acid. Someone tampered with it. You can't use strong alkali to open it, otherwise it will react with the sulfuric acid and explode... This is too grandson!"
As soon as the voice fell, Zhang Qiling turned his head and thought for a while, then said, “Chen Tingsi.”
"Are you saying that this was done by my master?" Ji Huaichuan frowned.
Zhang Qiling nodded, it was almost certain that only Shen Tingsi could do such a wicked thing.
"Yeah, only he can do such a thing." Ji Huaichuan also nodded. His master, this old immortal, is really a powerful dog.
"just in case…"
Before Huo Xiuxiu could finish her words, there was a sudden cracking sound from the stone wall. Then the stone wall broke open and a stiff jade figurine walked out.
The speed was so fast that the fat man and Ji Huaichuan, who were facing the stone wall and very close to it, were knocked away before they even had time to dodge. When Ji Huaichuan landed, he saw the anger that flashed in Zhang Qiling's eyes towards the jade figurine.
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