Princess Menglang is hard to change, the whole capital is embarrassed for her

The secret room is not big, with candles lit on the left side of the door and many patterns painted on the walls.

If you look closely, you'll see the moon, swastikas, and other bizarre geometric patterns. There are also figures of people prostrating themselves on the ground in prayer, and stories of struggles between humans and animals.

"This is the totem of the Western Qiang people," Xiao Chenze said to Shen Li as he moved closer to her. "The moon, the swastika, and other patterns are all there. They have many tribes, and each tribe has its own representative."

Shen Li said nothing, looked at the wall covered with patterns, and stroked his forehead.

Whenever faith is involved, there will be trouble.

It is possible that this prefect himself is a fanatical believer of the Western Qiang religion.

Wu Yongguang entered the secret room, turned around and twisted the base of the candle. Unexpectedly, there was also a mechanism there. After a few clicks, the sliding door automatically returned to its original position and closed tightly.

Xiao Chenze and Shen Li didn't bother to talk and stared closely at Wu Yongguang's actions.

He picked up the candle and walked to the right wall of the secret room. There were countless swastikas painted on the wall. He counted from left to right. When he reached the ninth one, he pressed hard on the center of the symbol with his hand.

Click click click.

There was the sound of something moving again.

The lights in the secret room were dim, and Xiao Chenze and Shen Li were wearing night vision goggles, but they couldn't see clearly where the changes had occurred.

So he didn't even bother to breathe, and stared intently at Wu Yongguang's next move.

He started counting from the ninth again, and when he reached the eighteenth, he pressed down hard again.

Just at the corner of the right wall, suddenly, a piece of floor slowly moved away, and a black hole slowly appeared on the ground. From the outside, nothing could be seen inside.

Wu Yongguang came to the entrance of the cave, squatted down, and put the candle in his hand in. In an instant, it seemed as if something was lit, and the entire cave was bright.

Shen Li and Xiao Chenze could see clearly from the space that there were stairs inside, one step after another, and they didn't know where they led to.

After a while, Wu Yongguang began to hold the candle, stepped into the cave step by step, and slowly disappeared inside.

Shen Li took the space and quickly slipped in before Wu Yongguang closed the cave entrance.

In front of me was a very spacious room, but only the left wall was lined with thick medicine cabinets, and the boxes on the cabinets were classified with wooden signs hanging on them.

The wooden plaque is engraved with the year and the contents stored inside.

It turned out not to be medicine, but a transaction ledger.

After Wu Yongguang walked to the bottom of the stairs, he did not continue forward, but turned around and squatted down at the bottom of the stairs.

There were a pile of flower pots on the ground. He touched the bottom of one of the flower pots, and when he looked up, he saw that the floor at the hole had slowly closed.

He was the only one in the room at this time. He put the candle on a stand beside him, walked to the medicine cabinet, opened an empty box, took out a few lists from his sleeve pocket, lowered his head to check them, put them in the box, and then closed it.

Then he squatted down again and took out a wooden plaque and a carving knife from the bottom box. He carved in it the amount of iron ore produced from so-and-so year to so-and-so year, how much was given to the government, how much was hidden, and when and where the hidden iron ore was handed over to the person who took it away. He recorded the summary in a book for later verification.

Xiao Chenze's eyes almost popped out of his head.

"I didn't expect the evidence to be hidden here," Shen Li raised the space to a higher level and took Xiao Chenze around the room. "This guy is really cautious. Look at how many traps he set up this time. If I hadn't followed him, even a Daluo Immortal wouldn't have been able to find this place."

"Thank goodness for you," Xiao Chenze was filled with emotion and couldn't help but stroke Shen Li's hair. "If it weren't for you, we wouldn't be able to follow him in just by lying on the roof. We might have alerted him before we even got close. If he's alerted, all our efforts would be wasted. Thank goodness you're here, Shen Li, thank you."

This thank you was very sincere, and Shen Li felt at ease. While looking at the room, she said to Xiao Chenze, "After he leaves, we will go through the contents of the medicine cabinet. By the way, can we not take it away for the time being?"

Xiao Chenze nodded. "Yes, to avoid alerting the enemy, the contents must remain here. If I can't finish copying them in a short time, I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you to bring me in more often in the coming days."

"Can't finish copying? What can't be finished copying?" Shen Li didn't understand for a moment.

"I have to copy all the evidence he hid in the medicine cabinet, starting from the first box. It will take several days." Xiao Chenze explained patiently.

Shen Li smiled and shook her head, "Don't bother. I'll take a picture for you later. It will be done soon."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Chenze hurriedly shook his head and said, "Thank you for your kindness. All you have to do is bring me here. I can do the transcribing myself. No need to trouble you."

He didn't dare to say it in his heart. He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to understand Shen Li's handwriting even if he copied it down. He would have to come back and look it up again to check, which would be a lot of trouble.

Little did he know that the two of them had diverged from each other's topic, and he misheard what Shen Li said as copying.

Shen Li scratched her head, trying to explain it to him. "I'm not going to copy it for you, and you don't have to. It's too much trouble. After he leaves, I'll take out everything in the medicine cabinet. I have a camera here, and we can take pictures of all the evidence. It won't take long, and it won't delay your next plan."

Zhao Xiang Chicken?

What it is?

Xiao Chenze was confused. "What chicken? Can a chicken be so powerful? Can it leave evidence without copying it?"

He looked around and saw only the wolfhound and the big black mastiff, with a few wolf cubs, making a lot of noise.

Not a single chicken in sight.

Shen Li shook her head helplessly, stood up with a smile, walked to the shelf, and came over after a while holding a black box.

"This thing is called a camera. It can take pictures of things in front of you," Shen Li said as she took the camera out of its case and turned it on. After thinking for a moment, she said to Xiao Chenze, "Smile."

Xiao Chenze smiled subconsciously.

Click.

There was a flash of silver before my eyes, and then I heard Shen Li say, "Okay, come and take a look."

Xiao Chenze moved closer curiously, their heads huddled together as Shen Li showed him the photos in the digital camera.

Xiao Chenze was shocked when he suddenly saw himself in the small box.

He looked up at Shen Li in surprise, then looked down at himself in the box. He couldn't help but reach out and touch himself. Wow, he was warm all over and his soul was still there.

Just as she was worried, Shen Li took the camera in her hand again, pointed it at herself, and took a picture.

"Come and take a look at the pictures I took of myself." She knew what Xiao Chenze was worried about, so she took pictures of herself to reassure him. "I'm in here too. This is a camera. It can record everything and preserve it for a long time."

As he said this, he showed a frightened look to the group of brats and then showed it to Xiao Chenze.

"Now you understand, right? This is the machine that can take pictures of everything. Once Wu Yongguang leaves, we can take out the evidence and take pictures of each one. It's fast and foolproof. We can copy it anywhere we want later. We don't have to come back here specifically, and it won't affect our other plans. How about that?"

Xiao Chenze stared blankly at the camera in her hand. What he saw was beyond his understanding. If Shen Li had not spoken to him with a smile, he would have thought that Shen Li was performing magic tricks.

But this trick, this machine...

You can really capture his appearance in it, and it looks very lifelike.