"Did the two sides start fighting?" Li asked quietly.
"No, it doesn't really look like..." Xia Fan's eyes stopped on a corpse that had been cut into several sections. Judging from the style of the armor, it should be an officer. The sections of his body were smooth and smooth, with different directions. same. Unless his opponent is a sword-slashing enthusiast and can slash seven or eight swords in one second, it is unlikely to have such an astonishing effect in actual combat.
"They should have died in the defense mechanism of the Ministry of Records." Qian Yan said, "The restrictions on this hall have not been lifted, and they wanted to search in depth, but the result was that they turned into pieces of corpses."
Others couldn't help but take a breath.
"No lifting of restrictions...what do you mean?"
"The custody of the Recording Department is in the hands of the director. If he does not close the agency before being taken away, the hall will be in a closed state, and anyone who enters will be regarded as a potential threat." Qian Yan lowered his voice and said, "And the best way to deal with threats is The method, of course, is to eliminate it from the source. Did I say it before? There are traps everywhere here, and they are now activated. Whether it is the Forbidden Army soldiers or us, there is no difference between the traps."
"Then what happened to the people in the Privy Council's Office?" the fox demon asked in confusion.
"Probably... they were tortured to death." Xia Fan had noticed that those black robes did not have the embroidery and shoulder strips representing the alchemists. In other words, they were ordinary people recruited by the Privy Council. The defenders Xin Wu mentioned should refer to these people. "The Guards' search was hindered and they did not dare to cause any damage, so they pulled these miscellaneous workers over and wanted to ask them how to disarm the trap."
Killing these people will not worsen the relationship between the court and the Privy Council.
Because they are non-staff personnel who can be replaced at any time.
And such an attempt is doomed to be meaningless.
The Privy Council will never disclose the secrets of the Recording Department to non-sensers.
"Let's go down." Qian Yan said, "Things of high value should be placed in the underground area."
"Yeah." Luo nodded slightly, "I'll clear the way."
According to the memories of the living dead, the Lubu Hall also has more underground floors than above ground floors, and it is not like the Luo Family Library, which tries to make as much space as possible within a limited range - its underground part is more like a secret room, with With numerous corridors and small compartments, this design obviously took more consideration into privacy and safety.
"If we hit the trap..." Li swallowed.
"Then he will become like the people below." Xia Fan affirmed.
"Don't worry." Qian Yan stepped forward, "The documents stored in the upper area are mostly local reports and evil spirits recording cases. I remember that at that time, they could even be freely consulted by government officials. Presumably nothing would be stored in such a place. A mechanism that kills people—"
Click.
Before he finished speaking, everyone heard a very subtle trembling sound.
The stone slab beneath Qian Yan's feet sank an inch.
Almost at the same time, bursts of cold air surged around her feet. The white air quickly condensed into ice and extended to near her knees.
Then Qianyan walked out of the ice - only half of the crystal ice mold was left on the ground, keeping the stone slab in a sunken state.
"Okay, I was careless... Correction, they have renovated the facilities above."
Xia Fan breathed a sigh of relief, "Luo Qingqing, I'll leave it to you."
Instead of going down the stairs, the group used hemp ropes to hang down to the edge of the first floor. They avoided the guards guarding the hall and quietly entered the underground floor. According to Qian Yan, there is more than one way to the underground. The Ministry of Records in charge of this place can selectively open a certain passage, or have all passages blocked. Except for a very few people, no one knows the specific details of these passages. Go forward and see what mechanisms you will encounter on the way.
Xia Fan originally thought that this journey would be thrilling, but... the result was very different from what he expected.
"There's something wrong with the ground ahead. It's best to avoid it."
"Then build a bridge, be careful not to slip. Frost Technique!"
"The lamppost on the left has an evil-like aura inside."
"It's probably a combination of the Soul Gathering Talisman and the magic weapon. Xia Fan, use the shock technique to break it."
Luo Qingqing and Qian Yan dismantled these traps with just a few words. The former is responsible for searching and locating, while the latter proposes countermeasures based on its own knowledge. As long as the two of them agree, there is no threat from the discovered trap.
As for Xia Fan and the fox demon, they became tools to solve problems.
"Okay, so awesome..." Li couldn't help wagging his tail and said, "Do you two know everything?"
"You think the mechanism is too difficult." Qianyan sighed, "In the end, they are just dead objects. They may seem clever, but the inability to flexibly change has limited their upper limit. Even the spells The mechanisms and driving objects are only a few soul-gathering talismans, which are not comparable to the magical weapons and large formations driven by the monks. No matter how powerful the defense is, once there is no core person, it is destined to be easily broken."
"I think back then, when the Fang family and the army fought against the alchemists of Qi State in Wuya City, the entire city was turned into a magic circle. A storm blew up in the city, and the flying sand and rocks could kill people. And... "
Looking at Qian Yan who was telling about the past, Xia Fan suddenly realized that the coldness was just her illusion, or that she refused to get too close to the living dead due to memory problems, but in fact, she was quite happy to talk.
Think about it, no matter who has seen so much, they will always want to show off. This has nothing to do with age, but human nature.
"It's not surprising that you can feel the trap with the Soul Gathering Talisman. How do you detect those ordinary mechanisms?" Li asked Luo Qingqing curiously.
"It's very simple. They need cavities to place them. The airflow in these places will be different. The air can reflect this change. It's hard for me to describe it in words..." Luo Qing thought for a moment, "It's like the gentle flow of water. There is a branch with different flow speeds. Theoretically, if you practice your Qi sensing ability to the extreme, you can also catch this difference with your senses, but now that you can see it with your eyes, the difficulty will be much reduced."
Her steps suddenly stopped, "There are changes ahead."
Sure enough, after turning a corner, a stone door appeared at the end of the passage in front of him.
"Are we... here?" Xia Fan asked.
"Why don't I remember that there was such a door in the passage before?" Qian Yan took two steps forward, "There seems to be some mark carved on the door..."
Xia Fan also saw it, "The three-bar rune... is the Bagua Yao."
"Two are long and one is short. The short one is in the middle. The hexagram image is Li Huo."
"It doesn't take fire to open this door." He took two steps forward and tried to push it, and the stone door opened in response.
This result shocked everyone.
At the same time, with four soft sounds, the torches on the wall were lit, and a hundred-foot-square darkroom appeared in front of everyone.
"No, this is not an underground library." Qian Yan's tone suddenly became more solemn.
"Then where are we?"
"I don't know... I have never been to a place like this before." She shook her head slightly and said, "This passage is a dead end. We are afraid that we have chosen the wrong fork."