Tomb raiding: following the plot while tearing up the script

If they weren't mistaken, the pattern carved on the stone gate looked like the fiery unicorn tattoo on Zhang Qiling's body.

The majestic Qilin statue is magnified several times and finely carved on the stone gate. Its expression is like that of a divine beast guarding this place, solemn and dignified.

Its pair of yellow, gem-encrusted eyes seemed to possess the expression of a living creature, as if it might awaken at any moment and break free from the constraints of the stone gate.

"He looks so fierce!"

Su Li, who looked tiny among a group of tall people, rubbed her tired neck and sighed.

"So, buddy, how do I get into this floor?"

Wu Xie tugged at Zhang Qiling's sleeve and asked.

Zhang Qiling pursed her lips and remained silent.

However, Wu Xie noticed with her sharp eyes that the young man seemed to be... blushing?

Then, under everyone's gaze, Zhang Qiling took off his shirt, revealing his upper body with smooth and clearly defined muscles.

Her porcelain-white skin appeared even whiter under the light.

"Fatty, light a fire."

Zhang Qiling looked down at the skin where the tattoos weren't showing and said to Fatty Wang.

Fatty Wang obediently lit two flames in his palms, controlling them to scorch Zhang Qiling's skin at a distance that wouldn't burn him.

As the skin temperature rises, the tattoos hidden beneath the skin gradually become clearer, revealing a tattoo identical to that of the stone gate statue.

Only after seeing that the tattoo was quite clear did Fatty Wang remove the flame from his hand.

Zhang Qiling told everyone to step back a few steps, while he himself stepped forward and stood directly in front of the stone gate.

But then a glint seemed to flash in the gem-encrusted eyes of the Qilin statue on the stone gate, followed by a dull thud as if a heavy object was being moved.

The heavy stone door in front of them slowly moved to the right.

The mysterious sixth floor was finally revealed to everyone.

As everyone stepped into the sixth floor, a feeling different from the previous five floors washed over them as the stone door behind them closed.

The first five levels, even excluding the empty sacrificial hall on the first level, just looking at the first four levels, whether it's the second and third levels filled with shelves, or the fourth level guarded by the giant black tortoise, the fifth level is all coffins...

None of them gave off a feeling of being small, closed off, or cramped like this floor.

Like the previous floors, the sixth floor had no partitions; the entire floor was simply filled with stacks of wooden crates of similar shape and size arranged in a staggered manner.

The wooden crates were neatly arranged, not messy, but the overall feeling was one of crowding.

It felt like once you entered this place, especially after the stone gate closed, that even the air seemed to be reduced by half.

Wu Xie carefully took two steps forward, his eyes following the flashlight in his hand as he carefully observed his surroundings.

There's something wrong with the floors here.

Wu Xie said with absolute certainty.

As he spoke, he carefully stomped his feet on the wooden floor, the thick floorboards making dull thuds as his shoes struck the ground.

"Little Flower, lend me your dragon-patterned staff."

Without a word, Xie Yuchen switched the dragon-patterned staff in his hand to the long staff form and handed it to Wu Xie.

Wu Xie took the dragon-patterned staff, stretched it straight up to the ceiling, and gently tapped it a few times, confirming his guess.

"This floor has mezzanines on all sides, and its height is different from that of other floors."

Judging from the echoes, the floor and ceiling can't even be described as a mezzanine; it's more like a secret room has been created inside.

Wu Xie is quite confident in his professional knowledge in architecture. Even if he can't be 100% sure of his judgments, he's confident that they're pretty close to the truth.

Wu Xie was very happy to have the rare opportunity to use her professional knowledge.

Although Su Li could directly scan with her divine sense, it was truly heartwarming to see a friend shine with their professional knowledge!

Little Tianzhen is absolutely amazing!!!

Sprinkling flowers~~~

被夸夸忽悠得晕头转向的无邪：嘿嘿嘿~~~(?0?5?0?4?0?8?9?0?0?4?0?8?0?5)

Although Wu Xie determined that there were layers in the space above, below, left, and right, the group did not find any trace of mechanisms on the floor or the supporting pillars.

Even though they carefully traversed the entire sixth floor, no one stepped on any traps or mechanisms. Even Wu Xie, the unlucky one, passed through the floor smoothly and arrived at the entrance to the seventh floor.

Wu Xie: ? ? ? Are you implying something about me again? ? ?

"Little Ali, didn't you say you were going to empty the Zhang Family Ancient Building?" Hei Xiazi gestured to the room full of wooden crates, his meaning not too obvious.

Su Li glanced at the boxes.

"It's just a pile of stones, filled with fragments of Miluotuo rocks..."

This is probably something from a failed human cloning experiment, and it's actually been carefully packed and placed here?

"Wait a minute, mute, didn't you say this was the Zhang family's treasure vault?"

Hei Xiazi still remembered how Zhang Qiling had encouraged him to hurry upstairs.

“The treasure vault is here,” Su Li pointed to the ceiling.

"The seventh floor?"

"No, it's a layer in the ceiling."

The space beneath the floor and in the surrounding walls contained toxic gas for protection, and the ceiling mezzanine was also a veritable treasure vault.

They really made the most of this space.

After all, the treasures that the Zhang family has taken in here are all national treasures. If they are just left carelessly on the sixth floor, won't all these treasures be destroyed when the poison gas is released?

For a few petty thieves who coveted the treasure vault, they ended up destroying the entire vault. Although the Zhang family members are all rather stubborn, they're not exactly brainless, are they?

Zhang Qiling, the petty thief who coveted his own treasure trove...

We can take care of that guy on the seventh floor later and then remove the floorboards from the front to get the stuff. If we remove the ceiling now, we'll have to work hard to control it and be careful that things don't fall down.

As they went upstairs, they once again faced a dark stone door carved with a fiery unicorn.

What...

Twins are all the rage now.

Thankfully, they had a human key—Zhang Qiling!!!

"Hiss... It's happening again..."

Wu Xie suddenly blurted out something that left Fatty Wang, who was standing next to him, completely bewildered.

"What the hell?"

"The sound of the mechanism has started again." Wu Xie listened to the faint sound of the mechanism turning in his ear with a sense of despair.

The sound was very soft; if Wu Xie's head hadn't been right next to the sixth-floor ceiling, he wouldn't have heard it either.

As the mechanism turned, a very faint hissing sound began to emerge.

"So this is where the gas activation mechanism for the sixth floor is located."

Hei Xiazi pushed up his glasses. Before, when his eyesight was impaired, his hearing was much more sensitive. Now, upon hearing this noise, he immediately understood what was happening.

No wonder the mute character in the book was trapped here; the way upstairs was blocked, and it was unclear whether the stone door downstairs could be opened.

Even if they could open it, going around those wooden crates back to the stone gate over there would take enough time for him to be poisoned and collapse.