The boss has no descendants, but he encounters four smaller versions of himself

Nanyu nodded and led everyone towards the exit.

Along the way, the passage was dim and filled with a damp and decaying smell. Several people walked hurriedly and no one spoke.

As we got closer to the exit, the light became brighter.

When they finally walked out of the underground palace, the dazzling sunlight shone on them and everyone squinted their eyes.

Zhang Suo had been waiting anxiously outside. When he saw everyone coming out, he quickly walked over to greet them.

"Mr. Bo, you're finally out!" Zhang Suo said excitedly.

Nan Yu walked forward and asked Zhang Suo, "Where is that old man?"

Zhang Suo's expression froze as he said, "I tied him up over there and have been watching him."

Everyone walked towards the direction Zhang Suo pointed, only to see the old man sitting on the ground, tightly tied with ropes.

When he saw everyone, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes.

Xiao Hengyu walked forward, looked down at the old man, and asked coldly, "Why do you want to control the mechanism below?"

The old man trembled all over and stammered, "I... I was also forced..."

Xiao Hengyu said angrily: "Force? Who forced you? Old man, you almost killed us!"

The old man defended himself anxiously: "I didn't hurt you."

Xiao Hengyu sneered, "You didn't harm us? If not, why would you have set up so many traps down there?"

The old man frowned, puzzled, and asked, "So many traps? No, I only set up one trap where you entered. I wanted you to give up the treasure hunt because of the difficulty. As for the traps behind, they weren't set by me... Could it be that you walked through the trap array?"

Xiao Hengyu snorted, "Old man, you didn't expect us to pass through the trap array and come back alive, right?"

The old man shook his head: "I really didn't expect that no one who came here to look for treasure before came out alive, except you."

When everyone heard this, they were all stunned, and an inexplicable chill surged in their hearts.

Su Yutang frowned, looked at the old man and asked, "Besides us, who else has been here?"

The old man said slowly, "That's too many. Over the years, from time to time, someone would hear rumors of treasure, be blinded by the benefits, and break in here regardless of the danger. But the trap array is not so easy to break into. Everyone who entered was buried in it, and no one ever came out. I thought you would be the same as them, so I wanted to scare you away, but I didn't expect..."

His voice became lower and lower, finally turning into a helpless sigh.

Bo Jingzhou stared at the old man with sharp eyes. "You're lying! If someone else had gone in there like us, why didn't I see any body parts along the way? Including the three people who died in there earlier, we didn't even see their bodies. How do you explain this?"

Everyone's eyes were focused on the old man again. Feeling those gazes, the old man swallowed nervously, and a trace of guilt flashed across his face.

"That...that I don't know. I'm just a gravekeeper, guarding this tombstone and protecting the peace here. As for those man-eating creatures down there, how would I know? Maybe those monsters have already gnawed people to the bone."

Bo Jingzhou frowned, his eyes growing darker as he pressed on, "Are you sure it's those man-eating monsters down there? And not... people?"

He already had suspicions in his mind, thinking that there might be human factors behind this. The disappearance of those corpses was too strange and could not be simply explained by monsters.

The old man shook his head and said, "I don't know what you are talking about..."

Seeing this, Xiao Hengyu's eyes flashed with ruthlessness. He suddenly put the dagger to the old man's neck and said viciously: "Old man, even now, you are still lying."

He didn't have the patience to listen to the old man's excuses and just wanted to use the most direct way to make him tell the truth.

The old man was so frightened that he was shaking all over, but he continued to shake his head and said, "No, I really didn't lie. Everything I said was true..."

Seeing that he refused to say anything, everyone was at a loss for what to do.

Xiao Hengyu gritted his teeth and said, "Alright, since you won't tell me, I won't force you. Then let me ask you again, do you know what the Su family's token is? How can we get the treasure down there?"

The old man looked confused and frowned as he asked, "A token? What token? I don't know what a token is."

Xiao Hengyu didn't believe it at all. He raised his voice and asked, "You've been guarding here for so many years. You even got a map of the Xiao family. How could you not know where the token is?"

The old man defended himself anxiously, "I really don't know about the Su family's keepsake. And to be honest, there is no treasure underneath. Even if you dig underneath, you won't find any treasure."

He spoke in a sincere tone, shaking his head helplessly as he spoke, as if trying to persuade everyone not to do useless work.

When Xiao Hengyu heard this, he immediately flew into a rage, "Why do you say there's no treasure underneath?"

The old man swallowed and said slowly: "The treasure here is just a legend. No one has ever seen it. My father has been guarding here for his entire life. If it existed, we would have seen it long ago."

Xiao Hengyu narrowed his eyes: "You are wrong, there is a treasure underneath! We have passed through the trap array and reached the stone gate secret room."

"What? You went to the Stone Gate Secret Chamber? The Stone Gate Secret Chamber on the map actually exists?" The old man's face was full of astonishment, as if he really couldn't believe it.

Xiao Hengyu: "You also know about the Stone Gate Secret Room?"

The old man's eyes were blank. "I always thought the Stone Gate Chamber was just a legend, just like that illusory treasure. But I didn't expect you to actually find it."

That means the treasure might really exist...

Bo Jingzhou pressed the issue again: "You just said you were the gravekeeper here. Whose tombstone are you guarding?"

The old man was stunned for a moment before he said, "I heard this from my father... This tombstone has been guarded by our family for generations. Everyone in the world covets the treasure within, and we want to protect this tombstone and prevent outsiders from disturbing it. The mechanical array is also a means to prevent tomb robbers."

As he spoke, he raised his head and looked in the direction of the underground palace, with a hint of piety in his eyes, as if there really was an extremely sacred existence under the tombstone, which was worthy of his life and even the inheritance of the entire family to protect, and he would not allow any blasphemy.

"So you think we are tomb robbers and want to control the agency to deal with us?" Bo Jingzhou asked.

The old man sighed and said, "That's right. When I saw you come in, I knew you were here for the treasure. I didn't want you to disturb the peace here, so I wanted you to retreat. I... I was wrong."