When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

The ground continued to shake, the stream splashed, the flowers and plants swayed, and the white snakes hiding around came out in droves, crawling towards the cave they came from.

"Oh no, Young Master and the others are in danger!"

Seeing this, Liu Yunhe didn't hesitate for a moment and immediately ran towards the banyan tree forest. Qingchuan and Guan Ziheng followed after they had stabilized themselves.

As soon as he ran to the banyan tree cave, Lin Lezhi and Xiao Yihuo ran out of the banyan tree cave. Seeing that the two were safe and sound, the anxious expression on Liu Yunhe's face eased a little.

"Are you guys okay?"

Seeing the traces of mud on the two men's bodies, Liu Yunhe was worried that they might encounter some danger inside, so he quickly scanned their bodies to see if there were any scars.

Lin Lezhi felt Liu Yunhe's worried gaze and reassured him, "We're fine."

Time to speak.

Guan Ziheng and Qingchuan Kazuya rushed over.

After a calm analysis, Qingchuan quickly made a judgment and said, "It's good that nothing happened. It seems like this place is about to collapse. We should evacuate as soon as possible."

"Wait a minute." Xiao Yihuo's ears moved slightly, his eyes tightened, and he said, "It doesn't look like it's going to collapse."

As soon as he finished speaking, the shaking of the ground gradually calmed down, and then there was a "click" sound as if something was about to be opened.

Followed by.

The four corner stone pillars and the four corner incense burner in the center began to rotate.

"Be careful of hidden weapons!"

Liu Yunhe tensed up, drew his sword, and stood ready, his eyes alert and wary of any hidden weapons.

The eight snake pillars that were originally facing the center finally faced the same direction. Then the position of the incense burner began to sink. When it sank to a certain position, a pitch-black hole could be seen underground.

next moment.

Lights were lit on the walls on both sides of the cave entrance, illuminating the inside of the cave.

As the four-cornered incense burner gradually sank until there was no room to sink any further, the entrance to the cave with lights on was revealed to everyone, with stone steps built next to it.

After confirming that there were no hidden weapons and no other dangers, everyone slowly relaxed.

Looking at the underground cave entrance in front of everyone, Lin Lezhi couldn't help but complain in his heart.

"Does this tribe have any obsession with the underground chamber?"

From Zhouqing Town to here, it seems that all the clues are hidden underground, even just now.

"Ah Xu, Le Zhi, did you find anything in the banyan tree cave just now?"

Seeing this cave, everyone did not dare to move forward rashly. Qingchuan looked at Lin Lezhi and asked.

Lin Lezhi responded truthfully, "Inside the banyan forest, there's a tree hole in the trunk of a banyan tree. Inside, there's a tree house. The hole has stone walls and tiles, and the floor is paved with bluestone. I guess it's because of this, plus the surrounding banyan tree aerial roots, that the wind can't pass through the banyan trees."

"What?" Liu Yunhe was surprised and said in disbelief, "They actually built a house in a tree hole?!"

"It's not a very big room, probably only big enough for three or five people to stand. On the wall hangs a picture of a snake wrapped around a banyan tree. There's a square hole carved into the wall, and inside the hole is an incense burner with three incense sticks. The fallen incense ash is still fresh, and the fragrance lingers. It must be the incense that Qiao Ying lit before we arrived."

"Then where did the dirt on you and the young master come from?"

Hearing this, Lin Lezhi's eyes showed a little embarrassment, but he didn't care too much. He patted the remaining dirt on his body and praised with a smile: "Not bad, your observation is very detailed."

Although I was very happy to be praised by Lin Lezhi, worry still prevailed.

"What happened to you in there? Are you not hurt?"

"I wasn't hurt, I was just caught off guard and unprepared."

Lin Lezhi brushed off the dirt on his body, and then gently patted off the dirt on his hands, and told the truth about what happened in the tree hole.

After reminding Xiao Yihuo to be careful, Lin Lezhi walked into the tree house first.

Because the grass was sloping, I paid more attention to the ground, so it was easy to find two scratches and drag marks on the bluestone bricks in the tree house.

Lin Lezhi measured the distance between the scratches, knocked on the floor tile with the scratches with his hand, and then knocked on the floor tile before the scratches appeared.

Scratched floor tiles make a muffled sound, while tiles before the scratches appear make a hollower sound.

Lin Lezhi took out a knife and pried the edge of the brick joint, but couldn't pry it open.

"It seems that there is a mechanism."

He heard Xiao Yihuo's voice coming from above his head, but Lin Lezhi didn't really want to talk to Xiao Yihuo at the moment. He put away the knife, stood up, looked at Xiao Yihuo, turned around and looked at the furnishings in the room.

The furnishings inside the tree house are simple.

There is a picture of a snake wrapped around a banyan tree hanging on the wall. There is a square brick hole on the wall below the picture, in which a small incense burner is placed, and next to the incense burner are incense sticks prepared in advance.

The incense burner is almost a replica of the one outside, a smaller version.

The body of the stove is black, with three incense sticks inserted in it. Judging from the incense ash inside, someone had just come here to burn incense not long ago. The small tree house is filled with the unique woody fragrance of burning incense.

In addition, there are lamp posts placed on both sides of the wall. On this small wall, there are more than a dozen lamps at a glance.

Take a look.

Lin Lezhi looked back at the painting of a snake entwined with a banyan tree hanging on the wall.

This painting is exactly the same as the one they painted on the huge door of the Lake Island Tomb, even the number of snakes and the positions of the snakes with their eyes closed and their tongues out are exactly the same.

Lin Lezhi looked at the wall again. There were nine lamps on each of the walls on the left and right.

The number of lights also matches.

Because he had encountered it once before in the tomb, Lin Lezhi did not wait and walked directly to the lamp corresponding to the snake with closed eyes and spitting out its tongue in the painting.

He extended the tinder in his hand and lit one lamp, and the moment it did, the other lamps on the wall also lit up.

Under the bright lights, you can see more clearly.

really.

The lamp corresponding to the snake with closed eyes has obviously more reddish-brown marks on its surface than other lamps, which must be due to being touched frequently.

"Wait!"

When Xiao Yihuo seemed to realize something was wrong and started shouting, Lin Lezhi had already blown out the lamp on the wall.

moment.

Along with the other seventeen lights, all of them went out, and the bluestone slabs under his feet suddenly collapsed, and Lin Lezhi's body fell down with it.

"Jiang Lian'an!"

The bluestone slabs collapsed inward from both sides. Even though the cave suddenly became pitch black and he could not see anything, Xiao Yihuo still stepped forward quickly and grabbed Lin Lezhi accurately. However, he did not expect that the road below was not flat, but a slope.

With their center of gravity unstable and unable to keep their feet steady, the two men fell to the ground and slid down rapidly.