The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 104 Skeleton
As soon as Lao Qifeng said this, some people's faces turned cold.

We all came together to do this, and it's at most a cooperative relationship. Is it your turn to give orders?

However, no one spoke up to refute, they just pretended not to hear him. Some stood still, while others took their weapons and knocked on the stone wall to check for traces.

Lao Qifeng was not in a hurry either. He just stood there with his arms folded and watched everyone struggling.

He did have the intention of striving for dominance, and he had deliberately omitted the polite part in his words.

If there is one, there will be two, and if there are two, there will be three. As long as everyone does what he says a few more times, the Beggars' Sect will naturally become the leader of this matter, which will be beneficial to the subsequent competition for the Wedding Dress Divine Art.

Moreover, what he said just now was not a lie. Now in the tomb, there was no way up to heaven or down to the earth. No matter how much they delayed, they still had to do as he said in the end.

However, Li Miao didn't have the patience to play the game of finding the mechanism with these people.

"Let me take a look." Li Miao said.

After that, he stepped forward, walked to the edge of the stone wall, and said to Lao Qifeng: "Boss Lao, please make way."

Lao Qifeng looked unhappy and stepped aside to see what Li Miao was going to do.

He hit the stone walls with his palms and could only hear that there was a mechanism inside.

But Li Miao's ear skills were enough to eavesdrop on Liu Baiyun and Mei Qinghe's conversation through the door panels of two or three floors. He already knew the general shape of this mechanism.

Li Miao first glanced up and down, then walked to the edge of the stone wall, raised his hand and punched the wall.

This punch was not heavy, at least in the eyes of everyone, it was just a punch from an ordinary second-rate master of horizontal training.

But this time, the noise was more than ten times louder than that of Lao Qifeng.

Click——click——

bang bang bang-

Only a series of sounds were heard coming from the stone wall, like something heavy falling to the ground, or the sound of a winch or chains rubbing against each other. After a while, it slowly stopped.

The stone wall did not move at all.

Lao Qifeng heaved a sigh of relief and asked, "Master Li also knows about mechanical devices?"

"I know a little bit, a little bit." Li Miao said with a smile: "As a wandering man in the martial arts world, I am used to relying on myself for everything, so I have to know a little bit about everything."

Lao Qifeng turned his head to look at the stone wall, then turned back to face the crowd and said, "Since Master Li has tried it, we don't have anyone who understands the art of mechanical devices anymore."

"Everyone, just do as I say."

Before he could finish his words, he heard a rumbling sound behind him, and everyone's faces changed.

Lao Qifeng turned around suddenly, and like everyone else, he was so shocked that he was speechless.

Li Miao put one hand at the bottom of the wall, and without any effort, he actually "lifted" the stone wall up, revealing a dark hole behind it.

That was a bluestone door three or four feet thick and ten feet wide! It would weigh ten thousand pounds!
How come Li Miao opened it like a curtain!
"Hero Li, you, you——"

Li Miao turned around and smiled: "Ah, everyone, don't be surprised. This stone wall rose up by itself. I just helped."

Even Li Miao couldn't lift a huge rock weighing tens of thousands of pounds by brute force.

The punch he threw just now was a "hitting the bull through the mountain" technique, which accurately destroyed the "lock" of the stone wall through the wall. Then he lifted it up, giving the stone wall an upward trend, triggering the mechanism, and the stone wall naturally rose up.

After he said this, everyone's expressions calmed down.

Lao Qifeng also quickly added: "Thanks to Master Li for being here, otherwise it would have taken a lot more effort."

"Everyone, now that the road ahead is open, let's go in quickly."

After saying that, he led everyone into the dark cave.

After everyone had gone in, Li Miao let go and appeared inside in a flash.

As soon as he let go, he heard a loud "bang" and the stone wall suddenly fell down, blocking the retreat route.

Everyone's faces changed at the same time: "Master Li, this!" Li Miao clapped his hands: "Ah, I forgot."

"If no one holds up this stone wall, it will trigger the mechanism to close by itself."

"The mechanism to open the door is outside. We are probably trapped. This is bad!"

When everyone heard him say this, they became even more panicked.

Lao Qifeng heard Li Miao's relaxed tone and asked quickly, "Master Li, this is not the time to joke."

"If the retreat route is blocked, even if the people outside react and start digging, it will take more than ten days or half a month to dig through. We didn't bring enough food for a few days. Even if we have the inner strength to regulate our breathing and meditate, I'm afraid half of us will die by then!"

Li Miao waved his hand: "Boss Lao, don't panic."

"Although our retreat is cut off, there is still a faint wind ahead."

"There must be a passage ahead. We just need to explore forward as it is."

He did it on purpose.

Although Li Miao knows some mechanical skills, he is not familiar with tomb robbing.

According to everyone's plan, they would move forward little by little, retreat if there was a life-threatening situation, and come back again after discussing countermeasures.

But Li Miao didn't have the patience to explore with these people bit by bit. He simply cut off the retreat and forced these people to explore together.

No matter how high Li Miao's martial arts skills were, he couldn't split himself up. If he needed to split up and explore, these masters who came in would be useful.

Hearing that Li Miao didn't seem to be joking, Lao Qifeng became secretly wary and suspicious of Li Miao, and at the same time, he sighed helplessly.

"In this case, we can only go down this path to the end."

Everyone nodded and took out torches and kerosene from their bags to illuminate the surroundings.

They were talking just now, thanks to a ray of light coming through the cracks in the stone wall. They could only vaguely see the movements of the people on the other side, and it was completely dark around them.

When the fire illuminated the surroundings, everyone gasped.

This is a narrower alley than outside, going down all the way. You can't see the end by the firelight.

The walls on both sides of the alley were no longer covered with poisonous insects, but were inlaid with some things that faintly protruded from the walls.

When everyone looked closely, they saw countless white bones embedded in the wall!
Lao Qifeng tried to remain calm, went forward to check, and breathed a sigh of relief.

"They are not human. They look like the bones of domestic animals such as mice, chickens, and ducks."

As he checked, he took two steps forward and frowned for a moment.

"wrong."

"This skeleton seems to have some secrets."

The head of Qingcheng Sect asked, "Master Lao, if you have any findings, please speak up."

The two of them didn't get along well on weekdays, and they even had a quarrel over dinner last night. But under the current circumstances, Lao Qifeng didn't care to compete with him.

"Master Hao, come and see."

Lao Qifeng called out and pointed at the wall: "From the stone wall to here, there are only rat skeletons."

“And then from here to here, it’s the fish bones.”

"Further back, there are poultry such as chickens, ducks, and geese. There is a clear distinction in the middle, as if they are arranged from small to large."

Lao Qifeng looked at the deep alley ahead.

"Looking at the distance, this alley is much longer than 100 or 200 meters."

“If we extrapolate from the size variations of these animals and the distance from the wall, I’m afraid there’s a bone in the middle that’s the size of a human.”

(End of this chapter)