With a warehouse full of supplies, I stood alone as king in this chaotic world, gun in hand.
Chapter 522 The Land of Treasure
The three of them carefully checked the two-hundred-meter-long side passage but found no hidden doors or mechanisms.
Nangong Wu was puzzled. "The target is clearly in this direction. It's only three or four hundred meters ahead."
"Master, the stone walls on both sides are made of the most solid rock. There are absolutely no signs of them being carved out or the entrances being blocked with stones. Even if someone set up a trap here, there would still be gaps," Eileen said.
The surface of the gap in the mechanism door can be sealed so that it is not visible to the naked eye, but Eileen and Aiqi's eyes can scan it.
"Could the entrance to the secret passage be underground?" Bei Chenyan began to examine the surface; they had encountered quite a few underground entrances.
Several years ago, when they went to steal from the Eastern Jin state treasury and the Eastern Jin emperor's private treasury, they dug tunnels to get in.
Upon hearing this, Adeline also tapped the ground with his sword to check.
Nangong Wu nodded, "Then check the ground as well."
The three of them searched for nearly half an hour, but still found nothing.
"Could it be that the entrance isn't here?" Bei Chenyan stared at the fork in the road, which was over two hundred meters long, with a grave expression. "The treasure is in this direction, but the entrance might not be here."
Adeline thought it was possible. "Your Highness is right. Why don't we look elsewhere? There might be a secret passage in the stone wall on this side."
Nangong Wu looked at the small opening at the end of the cave passage and said, "The cave is blocked by a natural rock wall here. There must be another passage that can be passed through."
She leaped forward, grabbed the small hole with her hand, placed her foot on a protruding rock, and shone her flashlight inside.
However, the stone wall was more than four feet thick, making it impossible to see what was inside.
She pushed the flashlight inside, then took out a long, cylindrical night vision telescope, extended the lens inside, and used the flashlight's light to observe the situation inside.
"How is it?" Bei Chenyan walked over.
"There really is a passageway behind here, and there seem to be traces of someone walking on the ground," Nangong Wu said.
"So, the treasure is hidden behind this stone wall," Bei Chenyan said.
"Then how do we get in? By breaking through this stone wall?" Adeline felt that the only way to get to the back was to open this stone wall.
"Try using a bomb." Nangong Wu took out a time bomb and set the timer for three minutes later.
It's just a stone wall a little over four feet wide; once you break through it, you can get the treasure behind it.
"Then let's blow it up." Bei Chenyan agreed to use a bomb.
Using a solution is better than wasting time here.
"Your Highness, Princess, if we use bombs to blow this place up, the noise will alert those who have come into the mountains to search for treasure," Adeline reminded the two.
"It took us nearly five hours to get here. By the time they found us, we had already found the treasure." Nangong Wu placed the time bomb inside the cave entrance and then jumped down.
"We only have three minutes, let's get out of here quickly." She grabbed Bei Chenyan and ran outside.
She could set the time for ten minutes later, but didn't want to waste time in it.
Adlin caught up with them, and he now knew the time she had mentioned: three minutes was about half a quarter of an hour, an extremely short time.
Bei Chenyan picked up Nangong Wu and used his lightness skill to run forward quickly, his figure so fast that he turned into a flash.
Adeline's lightness skill was also slightly better than Nangong Wu's, and he followed closely behind the two.
They ran out of that fork in the road, which was more than 200 meters long, and then ran into another fork in the road.
"Bang—" The bomb exploded.
A violent heat wave surged out of the cave and flowed into the passages on both sides, carrying a strong smell of gunpowder.
The entire cave shook.
"Bang bang bang..." Large and small stones rained down from above.
Bei Chenyan carried Nangong Wu and ran for a while longer before stopping when he saw that there were no more falling rocks overhead.
Nangong Wu took out three dust masks, gave one to Bei Chenyan and one to Adelin, and then put one on herself. "Put them on, let's go back."
She put on her mask, turned on her flashlight, and started walking back.
They ran more than 200 miles this way, encountering falling rocks along the way.
"This bomb is incredibly powerful; I hope it won't collapse that tunnel!" Adeline realized they had miscalculated.
That cave is the closest to the treasure; if the cave is destroyed, they won't be able to get in.
"We're going to blow it up. How else can we get in?" Nangong Wu knew exactly what she was doing.
The rocks inside are very solid; a bomb of such great power simply cannot break them. However, the cave is small, and the explosive energy from the bomb's explosion can only flow along the cave passage, causing the looser rocks to fall down.
They came to the fork in the road and saw that there were even more fallen rocks there. The rocks occupied almost half of the cave, but people could still walk in.
The further you go, the more rocks block the way. After walking about a hundred meters, you can only walk by bending over. After a little more, you have to crawl. After walking a few dozen meters, the gravel almost completely blocks the road.
"It might be another twenty or thirty feet to get inside. Let's move the stones away." Bei Chenyan moved the stones that were blocking the way.
Adlin stepped forward to help, clearing a path through the stones.
These rocks were quite large, so the three of them worked together, climbing in little by little.
They continued to scavenge among the rocks as they climbed deeper into the cave. After nearly an hour, they finally reached the other end and were able to stand up.
"Finally, we've climbed to this end." Adeline wiped the dust off his face and looked around.
"Let's have some water first." Nangong Wu took out three bottles of water from the spring pool and gave one to each of them.
Ever since she learned that the spring water in the space was good for the body, Eileen has been helping them bottle the spring water to drink.
Bei Chenyan unscrewed the bottle cap, took a few sips, and stepped inside. "Let's go inside and take a look."
Nangong Wu took out the detector again and probed as she walked inside, discovering that she was getting closer and closer to the target.
Bei Chenyan, who was walking ahead, suddenly stopped because two more roads branched off ahead.
"Go to the left," Nangong Wu said to him.
Bei Chenyan looked at the fork in the road on the right, his eyes deep and unfathomable. "We couldn't find the entrance over there. This road might be the entrance."
"Very likely." Adeline also thought it was the entrance.
Upon hearing this, Nangong Wu also stopped. "If this path is the entrance, then it must be a trap."
"I find it a bit strange. Since those people hid the treasure here, why didn't they block up that little hole? If they had, we might not have known that there was a hidden world on this side." Adeline was puzzled. He didn't believe that those people couldn't see that little hole.
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