After the light faded, everyone appeared in a dark and narrow tomb passage, all illuminated by the flashlights held by several people.
"Huh? There's no light magician among you?" Professor Dou asked curiously, also holding a flashlight.
"Indeed, I am an illusionist," Fei Huihua did not have the habit of exposing his shortcomings in front of outsiders, so he told Kun Yi, "He is a fire magician."
"I see, that's quite inconvenient. Didn't you consider this when you first formed the team?" Professor Dou didn't know much about magicians, nor did he understand what universal elemental magic was, but he also had his own consideration, "Speaking of which, how many times have you been to the grave before?"
"We have never been to the tomb before," Ji Shuzhai answered honestly, "This is our first time taking on a mission from the Scholars Association."
There is nothing bad to say about this. After all, their entrustment license has its own number, which can be checked at any time.
"Never done it before?" Professor Dou asked in surprise, "Then how did you accept this task? Isn't it stated in the commission?"
Hearing what Professor Dou said, Fei Huihua was also surprised: "The commission did not require us to have relevant experience."
Although the content of the commission did mention that this mission would be carried out in an ancient tomb, and there was also a danger warning, the only requirement for the escort team was that they could fight.
"Is that so? I thought it was a big improvement that the efficiency of that crappy task release office was improved this time, but it turned out that such important information was leaked." Professor Dou sighed and stretched out his hand to Yi Liuling, " Show me the power of attorney and I’ll confirm who sent it.”
Before, he just checked the license to make sure that Yi Liuling and others were not imposters, and did not read the instructions carefully. In fact, the letter of appointment used to accept a commission contains a large amount of information. In addition to the description of the task itself, it also details the information of both parties to the commission and the task release office as the intermediary.
Yi Liuling took out the letter of entrustment from the ring again and handed it over, and asked Ji Shuzhai to help Professor Dou hold the flashlight so that he could read with the light.
"Oh, oh, ah?" Professor Dou was stunned for a moment, then looked at it carefully again, his face a little ugly.
Fei Huihua saw that his expression was wrong and asked quickly: "Is there something wrong?"
"Ah, no, no," Professor Dou shook his head, rolled up the commission and gave it back to Yi Liuling, "The person who issued the mission was Xiao Chen. He is the nephew of a great sage in our association. This is not his first time. It went wrong once and I just didn’t realize he hadn’t been fired yet.”
"That's it." Fei Huihua was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the Scholars Association also had connections.
"Forget it, that's it for now," Professor Dou sighed, with a guilty tone for the first time, "I think it's probably okay."
"Don't worry," Fei Huihua said skillfully and reassuringly, obviously wanting to keep his job, "No matter what danger occurs, we will definitely find a way to protect you."
"It's not dangerous..." Professor Dou muttered a few words, then touched the stone wall of the tomb passage with his hand, "Anyway, let's go forward."
According to Professor Dou, since the Laiyemen have the habit of worshiping their ancestors, their tombs usually have three types of passages. The first type is the main tomb passage, which is the most spacious and safest, leading to the coffin storage area to facilitate holding ceremonies.
In order to prevent outsiders from breaking in and stealing grave goods, there will also be a type of pseudo tomb passage that is very similar to the main tomb passage in the tomb. Such passages are densely covered with trap magic, and even some wealthier families will put patrolling monsters in them. Grave robbers who accidentally enter them will almost never return.
Now, the tomb passage where several people are located does not belong to the above two categories. It is a multi-functional tomb passage called a backstage passage. This tomb passage is very close to the main tomb passage. The whole body is made of materials with good magic conductivity, and Like bamboo knots, every other section can be closed by special means.
The backstage channel is usually used for the maintenance of the tomb itself, such as the repair and detection of magic circles, the feeding of monsters, and the transportation of some materials. And when the family to which the tomb belongs encounters a threat, this special passage that extends in all directions and can be turned into a safe house at any time is their emergency escape exit.
"So, we are going to enter the main tomb passage through here now?" Fei Huihua asked.
"Yes," Professor Dou touched the wall of the tomb passage again, "Judging from the material distribution, there will be a passage about a hundred meters ahead."
"Can you judge this?" Ji Shuzhai asked in surprise, "You are worthy of being a scholar of the Scholars Association."
"Ah, it's just that practice makes perfect. You can do it if you deal with these things all day long," Professor Dou said. "Because the backstage channel has a segmented structure, the texture of the stone wall itself is very uneven. You can see it here.”
It turned out that Professor Dou was right. After walking about a hundred meters, they discovered a secret door embedded in the stone wall.
"I didn't expect that the mechanism here could still be used after such a long time." Professor Dou took out the piece of jade again and knocked on the secret door. The stone door rose upwards, revealing a dark hole. "This should be the main tomb passage."
"Brother Ling, what are you thinking about?" Gudu found that Yi Liuling had become extremely silent since entering the ancient tomb. Except for giving the letter of appointment before, she was deep in thought at other times, not even Ji Shuzhai. active.
Hearing this, Fei Huihua also expressed concern: "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"Ah, no, I just feel like I forgot something." Yi Liuling was awakened from her fugue state by their shouts. She smiled and shook her head, "But I couldn't remember it after thinking for a long time. Maybe it's not important. thing."
"I guess so. There is no need to waste time on trivial things." Kun Yi also boasted, "After all, not everyone has such a strong memory like the young master."
"Xie Niu," Nomi said, "Leatherface."
"Hey." Kun Yi's eyes turned into dead fish eyes.
Although the others didn't understand it, they felt it from the atmosphere and laughed silently.
"Since everything is okay, let's go in, shall we?" Professor Dou quickly came out to bring back the topic.
"For safety's sake, you should walk behind me." Ji Shuzhai reached out his hand handsomely, took out the door handle, unfolded the door panel, and stepped into the secret door first, not forgetting to tell Yi Liuling, "If there is anything, Remember to pull me back."
But this time, the tomb was very respectable. On the other end of the door was the spacious main tomb passage. After a few people lit the torches on the wall, the entire tomb passage became brighter.
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