Just as I was daydreaming, passerby A took out the map from his waist again. He looked at the map and then compared it with the content on the wall, frowning, seemingly dissatisfied with the result of his comparison.

  I once heard Li Lao Da San say that at the time, Lu Ren Jia took them directly to the main entrance of Yabuda, and Zhang Doctor also said that he had a ghost seal in his hand, which made me feel strange. In my subconscious mind, the ghost seal in Kunlun Mountain was likely taken away by Wen Jin who arrived earlier, but now it appeared in Lu Ren Jia's hand.

  I shifted my body to take a look at the map, and Mr. Qi became very vigilant, his face turned towards me, slowly rolling up the map, saying: "Do you want to continue following?" His question was quite abrupt, I was slightly stunned, then responded with a sentence: "This place wasn't bought by you, where I go is none of your business, we're not familiar."

  Passerby A raised a smile at the corner of his mouth and said, "Are you going to hell too?"

  I suddenly thought of the content on the mural, and my heart was shocked. The ancients have always liked to exaggerate, this so-called eighteen layers of hell, may just be an abstract concept. If a painting can scare me away, then I've been fighting in vain all these years.

  I smiled and said, "Of course."

  After finishing, I'm not going to pay attention to passerby A anymore. The murals on this stone wall record a lot of information about Yabuda, but they don't have what we really need. What we're looking for now is how to get out of this stone room.

  I took the Wolf's Eye from Xiaolongnü's hand and lit it, and the murals in the stone room gradually disappeared. But as soon as I turned around, I was startled and retreated, because on the platform behind me, Jiaodu Library, a white-haired old man had appeared out of nowhere.

  My movement caused two passersby to turn their heads, and upon seeing this scene, the stone room suddenly fell silent. After a while, the German beauty swallowed her saliva and asked fearfully: "Wu, who is he? When did he come out?"

  I don't know who he is, but judging from his attire and exposed skin, this should be a mummified ancient corpse. The ancient corpse was wearing a black robe, with snow-white hair scattered all over the place. Just as we three were intently looking at the mural, this ancient corpse suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

  What's going on?

  When did he come out? Was it when we were cleaning the murals just now, accidentally triggering some mechanism, so this hidden ancient corpse was pushed out from under the platform?

  I subconsciously shifted my gaze to the platform under Gerdoku, which was very neat and completely intact, with no visible seams or gaps that would indicate any mechanism had been triggered. Moreover, when a mechanism is triggered, there should be some noise, but this one was silent. I hadn't seen such a silent mechanism anywhere else except in Wang Zanghai's tomb. Had the ancient Yapuda's mechanical skills already reached such an achievement?

  The three of us silently gazed at the ancient corpse for a while, and I suddenly felt that this ancient corpse's image was somewhat familiar. This... isn't this the person from the mural? I immediately closed my eyes, shifted my gaze away, and quickly found the image of this person on the mural - it was the one who put the long box into the coffin. The mural depicted him wearing a mask; he first appeared in the square, dancing with abandon, as if performing a ritual dance. The second time, he followed everyone else, slowly walking into the boundless darkness.

  It seems that the content recorded on the mural is indeed not true, because this old man has at least come out of the 18th level of hell.

  I couldn't help but satisfy my curiosity, and immediately walked around to the front of the old man. As I looked up at his face, I suddenly felt a chill run down my spine. His face was covered with a jet-black mask, which was extremely exaggerated, resembling both human and beast. The eyes were very large and painted scarlet red, with a round hole in the middle. Under the blue light of the wolf-eye flashlight, the eyeballs inside the hole seemed to have turned blue as well. He stared straight ahead, his eyes meeting mine perfectly.

  These blue eyes immediately brought back very bad memories, reminding me of the Qingyan Fox Corpse in Lu Wang Palace. Due to my past experiences, I reflexively averted my gaze. At this moment, I suddenly discovered that the ancient corpse's throat had an extremely large Adam's apple, appearing somewhat deformed. In front of the corpse was placed something resembling a sheepskin scroll.

  Just as I was about to go forward and take a look, passerby A had already quickly snatched the sheepskin scroll away. I was one step slower, and my hand accidentally touched the crotch of the corpse, scaring me into hastily withdrawing it. Such a disrespectful move would surely enrage this ancient corpse, wouldn't he immediately rise from the dead?

  Considering my physique changes when I encounter a corpse, I decided to keep some distance from him. Stretching my neck to see what was in passerby A's hand, I found that he suddenly hooked up the corner of his mouth with a smile, looking very good-natured. What did this sheepskin scroll say? Suddenly being amused by this scoundrel?

  At this time, passerby A threw things at me and said, "This time I really have to thank you"

  Thank me? If I had helped you in any way, I would have regretted it and looked at the thing in my hand in confusion. It was only then that I discovered it was a map of the mechanisms we had encountered on our journey, including the palace where I was. There were also some places we hadn't been to, but if things went as expected, these places should all have been explored by someone else.

  According to this mechanical analysis diagram, the passageway mechanism here is mainly based on the Qilin relief at the back, referring to the three-palace mode of the Central Plains, with three Qilin Bai Rui stone carvings, each using a different Qilin pearl.

  The Kirin pearl I got in the stone room earlier was actually the mechanism to open that line palace, but at that time I didn't think of this layer, so not only did I not use it, but I was also pulled down by those corpses. Old Sun somehow knew about the Kirin pearl, but apparently he only knew one part and not the other, took my Kirin pearl to start the mechanism of this stone room

  That Qilin bead didn't match the mechanism of this stone room at all, but he still went out. Whether he would be led to the correct path by the mechanism was hard to say. At the moment when Old Sun used the wrong Qilin bead to activate the mechanism, he had already been thoroughly calculated by the ancient corpse in front of him.

  I finally understand what passerby A means by "thank you". At this moment, I really don't know whether to cry or laugh. If it wasn't for the unexpected turn of events, and if Old Sun hadn't taken the lead, I'm afraid it wouldn't have been long before I would have thought of the Qilin Pearl layer too, and then triggered the wrong mechanism, walking down the wrong path.

  Looking at this incredibly complex mechanism diagram, I couldn't help but feel shocked. This is an extremely high-level anti-theft measure. Due to the location of the underground palace, which is very deep underground, anyone who wants to enter and move forward must follow the route designed by the designer in advance, step by step opening the Qilin pearl mechanism, and then they can proceed. If you find the wrong mechanism, you will be led to other places by the incorrect mechanism, and you will keep circling inside.

  The people of Yabuda, did they build this place just for the world behind the murals? If calculated according to this logic, the stone chamber we are in at this moment should be the second palace in the three-palace layout. That is to say, even if we leave this stone chamber, there is still a third mechanism waiting for us.

  So, where is the Qilin Pearl that opens this stone room?

  At this time, my gaze involuntarily shifted towards the ancient corpse's throat, that abnormal large Adam's apple seemed to have something stuffed into it.

  Passerby A obviously had the same idea as me, he lowered his head and stared straight at the ancient corpse, the courage made me admire him, after a moment, he suddenly quickly reached out and took off the mask on the ancient corpse's face.

  That mask was also unknown what material it was made of, after thousands of years still intact, was casually thrown by passerby A, making a "dang" sound, as if it were a metal-like sound.

  The face hidden under the mask finally came out, it was a face that couldn't be expressed in words, with a long skull like a rectangle on the neck, and the muscles of the ancient corpse's face turned into dark purple dried meat, tightly attached to the skeleton.

  Isn't this face just like those dark soldiers I saw outside the Bronze Gate?

  In an instant, the three of us were drawn to the ancient corpse's face. The eyeballs were still intact, but due to the sagging of the eye muscles, more than half of the iris was covered by a withered, dark purple muscle mass, leaving only a small black pupil visible, which also appeared pale and eerie under the faint green glow.

  At this time, passerby A made a gesture to me and Xiaolongnv, indicating that we should not stand next to the corpse. Then, he suddenly pulled out a strap from his wrist.

  That was a bundle wrapped around his foot, with small packages of various shapes and sizes on top. Inside were all sorts of tools. Roadman A spread the bundle flat on the ground, then pulled out one of them - it was a small knife, somewhat like a scalpel.

  Is he going to perform surgery on this corpse?

  At this time, passerby A automatically unlocked the way: "What's in his throat might be the key to starting the mechanism, but I suspect there must be some other mechanism in this corpse. Now I want to dissect it, you guys stand back a bit." I suddenly understood passerby A's idea

  The person who can solve the hidden mechanism in the corpse, like the one in the oil bottle, is rare in this world. For ordinary people like us, when encountering such a mechanism, the best way is to dissect the body.

  But apart from pulling out the arm of that kid's corpse in Kunlun Island, I've never actually dissected a body before. As for what happened next, I'd rather not bring it up again. Passerby A thought that the easiest place to hide a mechanism would be in the abdomen, so he started by making an incision in the abdominal area, cutting through the outer layer of dark purple muscle tissue, and found that there was only a thin, almost transparent layer connecting the belly.

  Some organs release through pressure, and after retaining this layer of membrane, the pressure will not change. Then, passerby A waved his hand to signal me to turn on the wolf eye flashlight. At this moment, he was the boss, and I didn't have that skill, so I could only obediently be a younger brother. The green light of the wolf eye penetrated through the thin membrane, instantly projecting a black shadow. It turned out that there were no intestines inside the corpse, but rather a square-shaped object.

  I secretly thought I was lucky, fortunately there was an autopsy next to me, otherwise I would have been alone here, with my personality, I estimate that I would have gone straight to the corpse's throat, it's strange if I didn't get infected.

  The little dragon girl had obviously never seen such a strange corpse, and she was both frightened and excited. "You Chinese people are really too weird," she said. "You can actually put something so big into your belly. What do we do now? Do we need to take it out?"

  The occasional naivety shown by German beauties really makes me sweat, but that's not strange. If you've seen a corpse with a long tail, that's truly eye-opening.

  Passerby A smiled and said, "It's a hidden crossbow mechanism. Help me put his body in there." He pointed to the hole we came from, I understood what he meant, but Little Dragon Girl looked puzzled, her face full of doubt as she stared at us.

  I didn't have time to explain to her, and I divided the work with passerby A, one lifted the top and the other lifted the bottom, carefully moving the corpse, finally, we slowly put the corpse into that pit, in the end, only the neck of the ancient corpse was left outside, it looked like there was only a long, rectangular, eerie head on the ground.

  Right after that, I quickly retreated, and the pedestrian A made a polite gesture with his hand. He didn't decline, and without saying another word, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the person's neck, his two gloved claws clamping down on the protruding part of the throat. His fingers slowly applied force, and then pressed against that place upwards.

  Just moved less than two centimeters, a "click" sound suddenly came from the stone room, listening to the sound, it seemed to come from that hole in the ground.

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