Chapter 15 (1/2)

Duwei picked up a candle, thought for athe little body he currently had, he chose a short sword Then he took a fe candles and put them in his pocket

Duwei stepped into this hidden rooht up two to three steps of space Luckily Duwei’s higher spirit power allowed hi

This was a secret path inside the wall, both sides were stone walls The whole path was covered in dust Even though tried his best to move softly, he couldn’t help but stir up the dust

He would ocassionally step on some small rocks Duwei ht

Luckily this place see, it didn’t go out due to a lack of oxygen

After a while, he reached a set of stairs Narrow spiral stairs leading down They were also made of stones and appeared crude, but at least they felt solid enough Following the path down, Duwei reached a small door after thirty steps

The metalic door was rusted Duwei tried to turn the handle but found out the door was locked He sighed then remembered that line from the book shelf

“The drinking gourd is the key”

Duwei thought for a moment, then looked around with the candle Finally he found a picture on the ceiling The picture was carved into the ceiling He could barely h he was not well versed in stars, he still found what appeared to be the Big Dipper

The ceiling was a bit too tall for hiht As a candle was burning out and he was about to light up another one, he suddenly thought of an important question

Key? What a joke! If this secret path are to be discovered, then even if that person doesn’t have a key, couldn’t he just get some tools to brute force open the door? If so then the key wouldn’t be too important Yet that hint specifically indicated key There

In other words, it wasn’t possible to open the door without the key This key probably wasn’t a literal key

Duwei sat down to think for a while When he stood up again, he ju with his short sword

Bang!

Duwei’s eyes lit up! This sound was a little airy

He bent down and found a crack on the ground Then stuck his sword in the crack and stood on top the sword His hands could barely reach the ceiling now

The ceiling was covered in a thick layer of dust He groped for a while and could feel the Big Dipper felt different from the other places He tried some methods like knock, twist, turn, etc

Finally he turned so sound, the floor on the corner sank A path appeared on the ground leading doard

Duwei juht, it was all a trick Duas sure his speculation was correct The rusted door on the side was just a disguise The real secret was not on this door If whoever ca Dipper, then he wouldn’t be able to find the real secret

Duas sure the real secret lied in that new path He walked over to the path The entrance was very narror, it could barely let a person in The inside was dark, Duwei lit a candle and threw it inside He could see the stairs weren’t deep, it’s just about two to three meters tall This was probably a secret room

He waited by the entrance for a while When there didn’t see unusual inside, he cautiously walked down the stairs

This was a concealed room, the sides were stone walls On the ere a row of chests, most of them locked and rusted In the middle of the room was a stone stand

The height of the stand reached Duwei’s waist There were a lot of decorations carved on the stand The center was a big circle with stars on the side

Duwei inspected it a little but he couldn’t figure out anything Then he moved his attention to the chests Most of these chests were locked and the locks were rusted After some effort he found one that wasn’t locked! The only one not locked