C157 (1/2)
Walking to the innermost area, there were indeed two sets of artificially dug stone chamber s. One of them was open, while the other was semi-artificial, and there were even some daily necessities inside. The other room was sealed, as if it was blocked by a stone door, and sounds would occasionally come from inside.
”What's going on?”
”It's a mechanism stone door, and one of the mechanical technique as well. I never thought that the stone chamber here were actually built according to the mechanical technique, and probably to avoid being hunted down, or to imprison anyone.”
This kind of mechanism stone chamber was very rare. After all, the first method was to carve it out in the wilderness, which was very remote and inconvenient. The second way was that very few people would live in this kind of place anymore.
”Then, this stone door should be a great gift to you, my wife. Try and see if you can open it?”
After confirming that there was someone inside, I looked around for a mechanism to see if I could open the stone door.
Suddenly, he realized that the other stone chamber's stone furniture was very exquisite. However, he could tell that some of the flowers were icing on the cake, which made him very uncomfortable.
I walked into the other room and stretched out my hand to try out the furnishings. Sure enough, one of them was the switch to the other room.
”This design is quite ingenious. I don't think anyone would want to see the mechanism of one door in another stone chamber.” Zhang Ziyuan praised.
”Actually, that's not hard to find, but what's strange is that the stone chamber was actually opened wide. If it was closed, it wouldn't have been so easy for me to activate the mechanism.”
If I'm not wrong, this is a chain of traps, and I need to find a way to open one of them before I can enter the other one. But for what reason, one of them didn't close, were they really careless?
We walked into the group of stone door that was just opened, and saw that the general layout of the place was similar to the other one, only that there was a simple bed, and on the bed laid a haggard looking woman, the Princess of Fengdu that we were looking for, Xia Mingtianji.
”Eh? It truly is looking for broken iron shoes, obtaining them effortlessly, ghost princess is here. ”
Before I could finish speaking, the stone chamber's door suddenly slammed, scaring me quite badly.
”Why did the stone door close it itself?”
”This is bad, the mechanism here is probably to trap us here!”
Although he realized that he had been designed, the stone door was already closed, it was too late. He had to check on Xia Mingtianji first to see how he was doing.
”How is he?” Seeing that Zhang Ziyuan still had not woken up even after a long time of treatment, he couldn't help but become anxious.
”Not too optimistic, it seems like all the ghost power in her body have been exhausted. Right now, she looks like she's completely drained of all her blood. She's extremely weak!”
”ghost power, blood, if that person lost too much blood, they could be given a blood transfusion, what about her? Do you want to transport ghost power to him so that he can help her recover? ”
Zhang Ziyuan shook his head: ”If that's the case, then nothing can be cured, and he doesn't seem to have any will to live anymore. Princess of Fengdu has always been a female ghost who has cultivated for a thousand years, and now that he has run out of oil, no one can save her.”
”Speaking of which, if you still want to rely on him to save Shuo Yue, there's no hope now …”
”That might not be the case …” Zhang Ziyuan said as he continuously transferred his ghost power into Xia Mingtianji's body.
Ghosts were like all demons, they had endosperm s in their bodies. The higher their level of cultivation, the higher their level of endosperm s would be.
If that was the case, then the endosperm in Xia Mingtianji's body were like human organs, and had begun to irreversibly damage. If the ghost power Zhang Ziyuan transferred to Xia Mingtianji was able to temporarily alleviate her weak symptoms, it wouldn't be able to save his life.
Not long later, Xia Mingtianji slowly opened his eyes and looked at us in shock. His voice was also very weak.
”So it's all of you. Why are you here? Where's my son?”
”Are you still worried about Shuo Yue? ”Ever since you were a child, you have never cared about him. Later on, you have only used him as a tool. With such a caring tone, I wonder what other plans you have in mind?”
”Don't talk about me like that. Ever since I gave birth to him, I have always been thinking about him. It's a pity, because there are many reasons why I can't do my duty as a mother. However, this doesn't mean that I don't love him! Cough, cough, cough! ”
”Don't be agitated, don't be agitated. I was just casually saying it, I'm not really accusing you. With the current situation, we're already locked in here, so how can we get out?”
Looking at Xia Mingtianji's painful expression, I couldn't bear to provoke her anymore, and I didn't tell him about Shuo Yue's current situation. If I could save her, that would be perfect. Perhaps there was a way to cure her condition.
”Cough cough, there's nothing I can do. If I could open this mechanism, I would have left long ago. Would I still be imprisoned here for such a long time?”
also didn't know that the stone door's mechanism was here, if we were to say that the mechanism to open it only exists on the outside, then wouldn't we be like a turtle in a jar?