End of the World Crisis, My Husband is from Ancient Times

The person who came was Teng Junze’s royal brother, Teng Junhao.

His sinister gaze swept across Fan Mengmeng and finally landed on Teng Junze, with undisguised hostility.

"Royal brother, what are you doing? Bringing a woman of unknown origin into the royal treasury is a capital crime!"

Teng Junze's eyes glared, "Royal brother, Mengmeng is not an outsider, she..."

"Enough!" Teng Junhao interrupted him impatiently, "Come here, take them down!"

The guards rushed forward, and Teng Junze protected Fan Mengmeng behind him and responded calmly.

Although Fan Mengmeng was scared, she tried to stay calm.

She knew that now was not the time to panic.

After a fierce battle, Teng Junze and Fan Mengmeng fought and retreated, and finally came to the fork in the road to the treasure house.

"Left or right?" Fan Mengmeng asked breathlessly.

Teng Junze hesitated for a moment and said, "On the right."

The two of them quickly dodged into the passage on the right.

The road was even narrower and darker, with gravel constantly falling from overhead.

"Be careful!" Teng Junze pulled Fan Mengmeng into his arms. A sharp stone scraped against his arm, leaving a bloody mark.

"You are injured!" Fan Mengmeng checked his wound with concern.

Teng Junze smiled nonchalantly, "It's just a minor injury, no need to worry."

As they continued forward, the road became narrower and narrower, barely wide enough for one person to pass.

The air around them also became damp and cold, making people shudder.

Fan Mengmeng suddenly remembered some obscure clues Xiaoyu had revealed about the treasure house mechanism... She stopped abruptly and grabbed Teng Junze's arm, "Wait!"

Fan Mengmeng's eyes widened as she pointed at a protrusion on the wall that seemed to blend seamlessly into the stone. "Wait! Look there! Xiaoyu said many of the mechanisms in the treasure house are just tricks, real and fake, true and false. The most dangerous places are often the safest... I think this place is a little weird!"

Teng Junze followed her gaze and raised his eyebrows slightly.

The bulge was indeed inconspicuous, and if Fan Mengmeng hadn't reminded him, he would have almost ignored it.

He reached out and touched it, and felt a cool sensation at his fingertips.

"Try?"

Fan Mengmeng nodded, her heart beating faster.

Teng Junze gently pressed the bulge, and there was a slight "click" sound, and the gravel that kept falling from his head suddenly stopped!

"It worked!" Fan Mengmeng jumped up excitedly and hugged Teng Junze, "I knew it! I knew it! Xiaoyu will always be my god!"

Teng Junze was stunned by her sudden hug, and then a doting smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

This girl always brings him surprises.

The two continued to move forward, and not far away, they came to a huge stone door.

The stone door was tightly closed, and was engraved with strange symbols, like a heavenly book, which made people confused.

"What the hell is this?" Fan Mengmeng complained. "Are we going to play another puzzle game? I hate puzzles!"

Teng Junze observed the symbols carefully, his brows furrowed.

"These symbols... seem to be some kind of ancient writing."

"Ancient characters? That's even worse!" Fan Mengmeng sat down on the ground. "I can't even understand modern characters, let alone ancient ones! What should I do? How about we go back? I think the world outside is pretty good..."

Teng Junze shook his head helplessly and reached out to pull her up.

"We've come this far, how can we give up so easily? Besides, even if we wanted to go back, we can't do that now."

Fan Mengmeng sighed in frustration and stared at the symbols on the stone gate in a daze.

Suddenly, an idea struck her, "Wait a minute! Xiaoyu seemed to have mentioned that many of the mechanisms in the treasure house are related to astrology..." She pointed to one of the symbols, "Look at this, does it look like the Big Dipper?"

Teng Junze looked in the direction of her finger, and sure enough, the symbol was quite similar to the shape of the Big Dipper.

His heart was moved. Could it be...

"Mengmeng, you're so smart!" He ruffled her hair in appreciation. "Perhaps we have found the key to solving the mystery."

Fan Mengmeng felt a little embarrassed by his praise and scratched her head, "Hehe, I was just a blind cat that caught a dead mouse..."

In the following time, the two began to try to crack the symbol puzzle on the stone gate based on the arrangement and combination of astrological signs.

Time passed minute by minute, and the stone gate remained motionless.

"No way," Fan Mengmeng said, feeling somewhat frustrated. "This is too difficult! It feels even harder than the college entrance exam!"

Teng Junze looked at Fan Mengmeng who was concentrating on thinking about the stone gate puzzle, and gently held her hand, "Don't be anxious..." Teng Junze looked at Fan Mengmeng who was concentrating on thinking about the stone gate puzzle, and gently held her hand, "Don't be anxious, Mengmeng, let me think about it..." Warmth came from his palm, and Fan Mengmeng's originally anxious heart gradually calmed down.

She took a deep breath and tried to recall the various escape room and puzzle games she had played in modern times, those brain-burning levels, weird puzzles... and so on!

Fan Mengmeng suddenly raised her head, her eyes lit up, "I figured it out!"

"Ancient people loved to play around with things like the Five Elements and the Eight Trigrams, and the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, right?" Fan Mengmeng spoke rapidly. "Although the symbols on this stone gate resemble astrology, the arrangement is strange. Could it be... could it be that they're arranged in some special order, like... the Five Elements?"

Teng Junze raised his eyebrows slightly. This girl has a really strange way of thinking.

However, what she said was not completely unreasonable.

Ancient mechanical designs do often include elements of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams.

"Try it!" A hint of excitement flashed in Teng Junze's eyes. He vaguely remembered reading an ancient book when he was a child, which recorded some secret techniques about the combination of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams with astrology.

The two rearranged the symbols on the stone gate according to the order of the five elements: metal gives birth to water, water gives birth to wood, wood gives birth to fire, fire gives birth to earth, and earth gives birth to metal.

"Click, click, click--" A sound of mechanism turning was heard, and the stone door slowly opened a gap.

"It's done!" Fan Mengmeng hugged Teng Junze excitedly, almost strangling him to the point of suffocation.

"I told you, the wisdom of our ancestors should not be underestimated! They are the eternal gods!"

Teng Junze smiled helplessly and patted her back gently.

"Don't be too happy too soon, who knows what kind of trouble is waiting for us inside..." Before he finished speaking, the stone door suddenly shook violently, making a loud "boom" sound, and was about to close again!

"Oh my god! What's going on?!" Fan Mengmeng exclaimed.

Teng Junze's face darkened, "Not good..." The stone door was shaking more and more violently, and was about to close. Teng Junze's eyes flashed, and he shouted in a low voice: "Get out of the way!" He used his internal strength and slammed his palms against the stone door, trying to prevent it from closing with brute force.

"Hey, hey, hey, stop it!" Fan Mengmeng grabbed his arm, "You're being reckless! What if you trigger some more powerful mechanism? We'll both be dead then!"

Teng Junze frowned. The stone door was closing faster and faster, and they didn't have much time left.

"I can't care about that now! This is better than being trapped here!"

"Believe me, there must be other ways!" Fan Mengmeng stamped her feet anxiously, "The wisdom of our ancestors is infinite! There must be clues that we haven't discovered!" She ran around in the stone chamber like a little rabbit, scanning every detail, trying to find a new breakthrough.

"Don't look for it anymore, it's too late!" Teng Junze gritted his teeth, veins popping out on his forehead, watching as only a narrow crack remained in the stone door.

At this critical moment, Fan Mengmeng's eyes fell on an inconspicuous groove at the bottom of the stone gate.

"Wait! What do you think that is?"

Teng Junze followed her gaze and saw that there seemed to be a strangely shaped stone embedded in the groove.

"Could it be..." A bold idea flashed through his mind.

"Quick! Take out your jade pendant!" Fan Mengmeng shouted excitedly. She remembered that the shape of Teng Junze's jade pendant was very similar to the stone in the groove. Maybe it was the key to opening the stone door!

Teng Junze took off the jade pendant without any hesitation and stuffed it into the groove.

With a "click", the jade pendant was embedded in it tightly.

At the moment the jade pendant was embedded, the vibration stopped and the stone door slowly opened to both sides, revealing the dazzling light inside.

"Oh my god! This is too bright!" Fan Mengmeng subconsciously covered her eyes with her hands, and only dared to peek secretly through her fingers after the light dimmed a little.

What appeared before them was a huge crystal ball filled with strange energy, emitting a soft light and suspended in the center of the stone chamber.

The surrounding walls are engraved with mysterious runes, as if guarding this source of energy.

"This is..." Teng Junze couldn't help holding his breath as he looked at the scene in front of him.

"Could this be the legendary energy source?" Fan Mengmeng blurted out, then realized that her statement was a bit too naive and smiled awkwardly, "Ahem, what I mean is... is this the energy source we're looking for?"

Suddenly, the crystal ball shone brightly, and a powerful energy wave spread out in all directions... An old voice echoed in the stone chamber: "Who is it? Who awakened the dormant power..."

Xiaoyu hid in the corner, trembling, watching everything happening before her eyes, her lips trembling, unable to speak...