"Lingzi!" Wuxie didn't know how to comfort him. Lingxiao just shook his head, let go of their embrace, squatted down, and closed Qin Feng's eyes with his hands.

"Let's go!" Ling Xiao's voice was a little hoarse.

“His body needs…” Wu Xie tried to ask.

"No need, I can't take it out."

Wu Xie nodded, thinking that it made sense; they were underwater, and it was indeed inconvenient to carry a corpse.

The group decided to continue forward, with Ling Xiao following at the back. He took out a wet wipe and carefully wiped his hands, then put the wet wipe into his spatial storage. He stopped and said, "I think we are also in the illusion."

"What do you mean? Are you saying Qin Feng isn't dead?" the fat man suddenly asked, leaning closer.

"No, I mean, the Eight Gates is an illusion, and Qin Feng was trapped in an illusion within that illusion."

"What does it mean to go around in circles?"

"It means that we fell into the trap when we came in through the outermost white jade gate. This is a geographical illusion, just like what people often call a mirage. These eight gates are illusions of different scenes. Apart from the space itself, everything else here is fake, just like the mirror we saw earlier. I estimate it will turn back to normal in a while!"

"Besides the geographical illusion, Qin Feng must have been under the influence of some kind of hallucinogenic drug, probably some kind of slow-acting drug, which the weasel probably administered during the fight with him earlier."

Wu Xie nodded: "Then how do we get out?"

"It's very difficult to reach a geographical illusion. Just like a mirage is a light refraction effect, there should be some kind of medium here as well. But this is a closed space, and it lit up as soon as we entered, which is obviously abnormal!"

The fat man said, "Let's look for it together! Let's see what it is!" He then reached out and touched the wall.

The young man also used the "Hairpin Finger" technique to probe the hand. Ling Xiao looked at the hand and sighed inwardly: "What a beautiful hand!" He then looked at the young man's face and thought it was perfect.

Wu Xie shouted from the other side, "There's something here!"

The group ran over and placed a luminous pearl on the ground in Wu Xie's direction. Ling Xiao looked up and saw something different: "A Bagua Mirror!"

The group looked up and found that there were Bagua mirrors above the four corners. Walking towards the southwest corner, they discovered that a luminous pearl was missing from the ground.

“I think this is some kind of formation. There should be something in the middle, but obviously, the missing luminous pearl makes the formation incomplete. I suppose it was Qin Feng…” Ling Xiao said, his voice choked with emotion.

"Lingzi! Think about what he did to you. He's not worth your sadness!" Wu Xie gritted his teeth and advised Ling Xiao. He genuinely felt sorry for Ling Xiao; Ling Xiao was too easily swayed. This wouldn't do. When Ling Xiao first met them, his third uncle only said a few words to him before he followed them and even took them to stay in his rented room. Wasn't he just a child who would be lured away with a piece of candy? He was being sold out and still helping the seller count the money! No way! From today onwards, he had to keep a close eye on this younger brother!

Ling Xiao nodded, his nose and eyes a little red, looking pitiful and making people want to protect him. Seeing this, Wu Xie became even more determined in his mind.

Looking up, Wu Xie saw the fat man setting up a luminous pearl and yelled at him, "What the hell are you doing?"

"If we can't find that woman, we're out of luck with our commission. We can't leave empty-handed; I, Fatty, am going to find her and take a few luminous pearls with me!"

The young man touched the wall, seemingly finding something, and pinpointed a spot. He then pretended to cut his wrist again, paused, and used the knife to make a small cut on the tip of his left thumb. Only after seeing blood did he smear the blood on the wall.

The wall shook instantly, and the group scrambled to the side. The fat man shouted, "Hey buddy, what did you do? Couldn't you have given me a heads-up?"

The young man gave him a thumbs-up, which surprised the fat man: "What did I do to give you a thumbs-up?"

Ling Xiao chuckled, took out some iodine from his backpack to disinfect the guy's wound, then wrapped it with a band-aid, and nodded to him to indicate that he understood.

"Is this tomb going to collapse?" the fat man said again.

Ling Xiao turned to look at the wall, appearing somewhat excited: "No, look, this is a hidden door!"

The wall receded, revealing a large door carved from jade. "I've seen this door before!" the young man suddenly said.

"Brother, haven't you never seen these eight gates before?" Wu Xie asked in confusion.

"The roads to the left and right might be the same," the deliveryman replied.

"What do you mean?" Wu Xie asked, confused, as did the fat man.

"What the young man means is that the route he took and the route we took both lead to the same destination. It's like the saying 'all roads lead to Rome,' it's just a matter of how much time it takes. Maybe his route was easier than ours, after all, the probability of choosing one out of eight is very difficult. No one would have thought that the real exit was at the Gate of Injury, not at the Gate of Life!" Ling Xiao explained the young man's words, and the young man nodded to him.

"Oh dear! You never know! What if it's not that door? Or what if the mechanism inside that door is different?"

"Shut up! You jinx!" Wu Xie couldn't stand it anymore and stopped him.

"Hey bro, do you remember what kind of switch is inside?" Wu Xie swallowed and asked.

"Can not remember."

The door had no mechanism; you could just open it and go in. The passageway wasn't wide, only wide enough for one person to pass at a time. Wu Xie cautiously stepped forward to test the way, saying to the others, "Be careful, this place..."

Before they could finish speaking, it was as if they had stepped on some kind of mechanism, and a large iron ball flew towards them. Ling Xiao pulled Wu Xie to the wall, while Xiao Ge pulled Wang Pangzi, and the four of them pressed tightly against the wall.

"Damn it, you little naive, you dare to talk about me like that! I'm a jinx, who do you think you are? You're just sunbathing in bed—you're a fucking idiot."

Wu Xie was also pale-faced. Ling Xiao supported him and reached out to pat Wu Xie's head: "Slap your hair, don't be scared." He then patted his shoulder: "It's normal to encounter any situation when going into a tomb. No one can guarantee where the trap is. You were already very careful. It's just that the trap was too well hidden."

"I'm not a child anymore," Wu Xie felt embarrassed.

"The most important thing now is our next step. You all need to stick the stickers on the wall properly," Ling Xiao reminded them.

Ling Xiao took out the Thousand Chance Umbrella from his backpack (space) and used it to probe ahead as he walked. Sure enough, two more blasted out. After the third iron ball flew down, Ling Xiao leaned against the wall, which also had a mechanism. Suddenly, many crossbow bolts flew out from the opposite wall.

Ling Xiao transformed the Thousand Chance Umbrella into a shield and crouched down, but he was still struck in the shoulder by an arrow. Seeing that the crossbow bolts had stopped firing and the passageway had ended, Ling Xiao flashed his flashlight, signaling to the others that they could leave.

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