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

"Hmm." Lin Lezhi nodded slightly in response, motioning Xiao Yihuo to look below the statue. "Look at this statue. Its base seems to be connected to something, not just placed between the trees. Also, all the snake-entwined tree patterns we've seen along the way are almost identical; no snakes are completely resting. Considering the mechanism of the light, a single snake closing its eyes and spitting out its tongue is too simplistic. It seems like a trap designed to trick us into thinking that way. If it were that simple, there wouldn't be any need for all the snakes' heads to be able to move, and their mouths are clearly not fixed."

Lin Lezhi paused, his eyes darkening as he said, "If we want to get out, I'm afraid this is where the trap is."

"The road to the outside world has been sealed off." Xiao Yihuo looked at the wooden boxes stacked on one side with a sullen gaze and said, "I remember the same pattern was carved on the top of the box."

"Don't," Lin Lezhi quickly spoke up, stopping them. "It's better not to open those boxes to avoid attracting snakes. Eighteen snakes might look intimidating, but there's a pattern to them. I roughly remember the snakes' forms, but I'm afraid some of them might not be accurate, so I'm checking with you to make sure there's no mistake."

As they walked all the way here, the pattern of a snake entwined with a tree repeatedly appeared before their eyes. Even if they didn't try to remember it, they would have a vague impression of it in their minds.

Moreover, in general, snakes do not present many postures.

They may lie down to rest, spit out their tongues, or open their bloody mouths to reveal their fangs and tongues. It looks complicated, but there is actually a pattern to it.

"it is good."

Hearing Lin Lezhi's words, Xiao Yihuo responded, then squatted down beside Lin Lezhi, his brows furrowed, staring intently at the statue in front of him, recalling the patterns he had seen before.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Xiao Yihuo squatting down without hesitation, saying nothing more and showing no doubt. Lin Lezhi's heart moved slightly, and his originally depressed mood dissipated a little.

Although Xiao Yihuo didn't say much else, the trust he showed in himself was self-evident.

"What do you mean by having a pattern to follow?"

Lin Lezhi's peripheral vision froze for a moment, and then his gaze was completely fixed on the statue in front of him.

Although he was originally worried that if the box was opened, the yellow powder spilled inside might trigger Xiao Yihuo's poisoning, but what he said about there being a pattern to follow was not false.

after all.

The most important thing right now is to get out of here as soon as possible. This is not a joke.

"This snake is located in the position corresponding to the mechanism at the tomb door and the mechanism in this underground chamber. It is in the posture of closing its eyes and spitting out its tongue."

To be on the safe side, Lin Lezhi handed the tinder to Xiao Yihuo, and carefully turned the snake's head at the beginning. With a slight movement, the snake's head spitted out its tongue, but its eyes were still closed.

The snake head can only turn to this point before it becomes motionless, while the other positions have a significantly wider range of opening and closing.

This confirmed Lin Lezhi's guess that this snake with its eyes closed and its tongue spitting out was used as a mark.

"Although the remaining snakes appear random, this randomness is because we divide it into two parts, nine on each side, rather than viewing it as a whole. This visually makes it appear chaotic and disordered. But when you view it as a whole, with the lamp snake as the starting point, the remaining snakes are arranged in pairs facing each other."

As they spoke, the two relied on their memory, and Lin Lezhi turned the snake heads separately and adjusted them to the corresponding shapes.

At last.

Both of their eyes were focused on the last snake, which was the eighteenth snake.

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Lezhi said, "The last snake, the eighteenth one, is the opposite of the one with its eyes closed and spitting out its tongue. It has its eyes open and is spitting out its tongue."

Lin Lezhi was clear in his thinking, but he was still a little unsure, and his hand was hesitant to touch the eighteenth snake.

Although the whole process was quick and Lin Lezhi appeared to be very calm on the surface, he was actually very nervous inside, worried that his inference was wrong.

Therefore, I was a little hesitant and didn't dare to take action.

Seeing Lin Lezhi's hesitation, Xiao Yihuo directly turned the eighteenth snake and adjusted it to the form that Lin Lezhi said.

A hint of surprise flashed across Lin Lezhi's eyes, and his heart was shaken.

At the same time, the next moment after Xiao Yihuo withdrew his hand, the snake heads on the banyan tree, without exception, suddenly faced the two of them in an attacking state with their mouths split open and spitting out their tongues.

The two men stood up with alert expressions, until the sound of a door opening was heard above their heads. Only then did Lin Lezhi finally let go of his worries and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

For a moment, it was a little difficult to come back to my senses, and I felt a little dazed and slow.

"The door is open, let's go."

"…oh."

Click——!

Just as the two were about to leave, the statue made a crisp sound, as if some mechanism had been opened.

The two of them looked at the sound.

It was discovered that there was a hole at the bottom of the tree stump.

The two men looked at each other, squatted down again, and brought the tinder close to the hole.

The hole was narrow inside and deep outside. In the light of the fire, there was something inside that emitted a faint glow.

The two men stared at the hole for a moment, and then a hint of fear flashed in their eyes. Then, Xiao Yihuo handed the fire starter to Lin Lezhi, and took out the transparent seal with the word "punishment" engraved on it from his sleeve, which they had found in the wooden box in the basement of the abandoned house.

The size and specifications of the side without any words on it just fit the inside of the hole.

The two looked at each other again, and Xiao Yihuo inserted the seal in his hand into the hole. After placing it in, as if confirming something, the inserted seal began to rotate.

After another "click" sound, the eighteen snakes that were in attacking mode all returned to a resting state.

soon.

A low roar followed, accompanied by shaking, as if a giant creature was about to break out from the ground and swallow up everything here.

The two men realized that something was wrong. Xiao Yihuo wanted to pull out the seal and leave, but the seal was stuck inside and did not move at all.

If you apply more force, there is a risk of breaking it.

Lin Lezhi looked at Xiao Yihuo and said decisively, "It might be dangerous here. Let's get out first."

"it is good."

Say it.

The two of them no longer hesitated and immediately rushed in the direction they came from.

at this time.

The bluestone slabs on the top were opened again, and the originally sloping stone surface took on the shape of stairs.

No wonder.

Some scratches are intermittent, and there are also horizontal lines with uniform intervals but not very obvious. It turns out that they can be turned into stairs.

Why didn't you do this earlier, catching them off guard?

Are you really trying to trick your own people?

However, now is not the time to dwell on this. The two of them quickly went out of the entrance and left the banyan forest along the same path they came from.