Chapter 78 Ashes to dust, dust to dust
Chapter 78 Ashes to dust, dust to dust
After Liu Xi's interruption, the blush on Little Doctor Fairy's face faded a little.
A few meters in front of them, there was a stone gate made of earth emitting a pale yellow light, blocking their way.
Looking at the stone gate in front of him, Liu Xi's brows flickered with bookish air, and he recalled more details about this place from the original book.
He remembered that in the original novel, it was the beautiful woman beside him who helped Xiao Yan open the stone door.
Thinking of this, he turned sideways and said slowly to the Little Medical Fairy:
"I see this stone door is glowing yellow. It should be an earth-based mechanism set up by our predecessors. Junior sister, please be careful and look around to see if there is a mechanism around that can open the stone door..."
"Ah."
The Little Medical Fairy responded with a mosquito-like sound, and when she took the torch from Liu Xi, their fingers inevitably touched each other. Compared with Liu Xi's shameless and calm performance, the Little Medical Fairy's jade hand felt as if it had been electrocuted.
Unknowingly.
In this strange, secluded cave, a charming atmosphere quietly arises.
This situation is actually not surprising. Since ancient times, opposites have always been attracted to each other, especially in the relatively closed and special environment of a cave. A single man and a single woman, with dry wood and a burning desire, are the time when feelings for each other begin to grow. Even if nothing happens between the two of them in the end, this trip to the cave will leave a mark in the depths of their hearts.
With the help of the faint firelight, the little medical fairy looked up and down at the stone walls around the stone gate.
It can be seen with the naked eye that there are many marks left by predecessors on the stone wall. Those marks can be vaguely seen to form a series of interconnected human figures.
Those figures are connected together, as if telling unknown stories.
It's a pity that perhaps because the time was too long ago, most of the figures were incomplete and blurry, and the two of them had no way of making out anything.
Soon, the two of them circled the stone gate, and just when Liu Xi had no results, the joyful sound of the Little Medical Fairy came into his ears.
"Found it, the mechanism is here!"
Liu Xi looked in the direction of the sound and saw the Little Medical Fairy squatting in front of the stone gate, pointing at a gray bulge under the stone gate and smiling at him.
Seeing this scene, Liu Xi reached out and touched the tip of his nose with an expressionless face.
In fact, the place under the stone gate was very eye-catching. He had scanned it several times when he was searching before, but he remembered that no matter which time he scanned it, the bulge did not appear in his eyes.
But when it was Little Medical Fairy's turn to investigate, it suddenly popped out?
"Damn it, does this mechanism recognize people? Or is this opportunity supposed to be opened by the Little Medical Fairy?"
While muttering to himself, Liu Xi moved forward, next to the Little Medical Fairy, and squatted down, looking at the tiny bulge, nodded and said:
"Well, this should be the mechanism to open the stone door, Junior Sister, why don't you press it?"
The Little Doctor Fairy showed hesitation on her face and pursed her lips and said:
"Brother, have you ever thought about what if this is not a mechanism to open the stone door? What if a trap appears after pressing this button?"
Hearing this, Liu Xi was stunned.
To be honest, he hadn't even thought about it!
If he had not read the original novel, he would naturally be as cautious as Xiao Yixiang, and would not rule out the possibility of danger in his words.
But he just knew that there was nothing wrong with this mechanism!
Where do so many what-ifs come from in this world?
However, he knew clearly that this place was not dangerous, but he was not in a position to tell Little Medical Fairy directly!
Could it be that he could tell with his fingers?
Liu Xi remained silent in his heart, but he had to put on a confident and determined smile and said:
"Don't worry, Junior Sister. I've read some books about earth-based and wood-based mechanisms before. This mechanism is very safe! Moreover, if there were any traps in this cave, the predecessors who dug this cave would not have done so unnecessarily. I'm afraid the traps for outsiders would have been triggered as early as when we stepped into the cave..."
After Liu Xi finished speaking, the hesitation on Little Medical Fairy's face disappeared for a moment. She nodded lightly, stretched out her jade fingers, touched the tiny protrusion under the stone door, and then pressed down slightly.
Grumbling…
In an instant, accompanied by a noise, the stone door slowly swung open.
The two men stood up, took a few steps back, and waited until the noise of the stone door opening subsided before they stepped forward again.
Seeing the suddenly open passage behind the stone door, Liu Xi felt as if the Little Medical Fairy's eyes were on him. He raised his chin, shrugged his shoulders, and said:
"See, I said it's okay, right? Let's go in and see what treasures are inside!"
After he finished speaking, Liu Xi took the lead and stepped into the stone gate without hesitation.
Behind him, the Little Medical Fairy retracted her gaze and followed.
As the two entered the stone gate, it took about ten breaths of time for them to pass through a short and narrow passage, and their view became wider.
At the end of the passage, there was a huge stone chamber with a radius of one or two hundred feet.
The walls of the stone chamber are inlaid with many valuable moonstones used for lighting, which only nobles and wealthy families can afford.
When they reached the innermost part, the torches in their hands seemed useless.
Liu Xi reached out to extinguish the torch, then placed it in a corner of the stone chamber and looked around.
In the field of vision, in the center of the stone chamber, stands a magnificently carved stone base, half a zhang wide and more than ten zhang long.
On top of this stone base was a skeleton that had long since lost its flesh and blood. The skull was not on the spine, but had fallen next to the leg bones after the corpse had metamorphosed.
Seeing this scene, Liu Xi's eyes were slightly complicated.
Even the owner of this stone chamber is still like an ant in the face of time. When the end comes, dust will return to dust.
No matter how powerful you are in your life, in the end you will be nothing but a pile of bones.
After gazing at the withered bones for a while, Liu Xi calmed his fluctuating emotions, which had arisen for some unknown reason, and turned his gaze towards the towering bluestone platform beside the stone seat.
On the bluestone platform, there were three locked stone boxes.
And that is exactly the purpose of Liu Xi's visit!
Under the bluestone platform, there were mountains of shiny gold coins and some valuable property.
Liu Xi took a quick glance and estimated that the pile of gold coins alone must be at least hundreds of thousands. This amount of gold coins, if placed in a place like Wutan City, would probably be enough to support a force that could compete with the three major families in Wutan City.
Of course, anyone with a discerning eye can see that no matter how attractive gold coins and valuables are, since they are casually placed in a corner by the owner of the stone chamber, they are obviously not the most precious things.
Those three locked stone boxes are the highlight!
The little medical fairy beside him soon realized this. She had never seen such a huge fortune before, and it was hard for her to imagine what kind of treasures were stored in the three stone boxes that were much more precious than tens of millions of gold coins!
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