Chapter 273 Secret Chamber

"Did the two sides fight?" Li asked quietly.

"No, it doesn't seem like it..." Xia Fan's eyes stopped at a body that was cut into several pieces. Judging from the style of the armor, it should be an officer. The cut surface of his body was smooth and smooth, and the directions were different. Unless his opponent was a knife enthusiast and could cut seven or eight times a second, it would be unlikely to cause such an amazing effect in actual combat.

"They should have died in the defense mechanism of the Recording Department." Qian Yan said, "This hall has not lifted the restrictions, and they wanted to search deeper, but the result was a pile of broken bodies."

Others couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

"What does it mean that the restrictions have not been lifted?"

"The custody of the Record Department is in the hands of the staff. If he has not closed the mechanism 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 naturally to eliminate them from the root. Have I said that? There are traps everywhere here, and now they are in an activated state. Whether it is the imperial guards or us, there is no difference for the traps."

"What about the people in the Privy Council?" Fox Demon asked puzzled.

"Probably... they were tortured to death." Xia Fan had noticed that there were no embroidery and shoulder strips representing alchemists on those black robes. In other words, they were all ordinary people recruited by the Privy Council. The garrisons that Xin Wu mentioned should refer to these people. "The Imperial Guards were blocked in their search and did not dare to cause extensive damage, so they pulled these miscellaneous personnel over to ask them how to remove the mechanism."

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 would never reveal the secrets of the Recording Department to non-qi-sensing people.

"Let's go down." Qianyan said, "Things of high value should be placed in the underground area."

"Yes." Luo nodded gently, "I'll lead the way."

According to the memories of the living dead, the Recording Department Hall also has more underground floors than above-ground floors, and it is not like the Luo family library, which tries to make more space within a limited range - its underground part is more like a secret room, with many corridors and small compartments. This design obviously considers more secrecy and safety.

"If we hit the mechanism..." Li swallowed his saliva.

"Then we will become the same as the people below." Xia Fan affirmed.

"Don't worry." Qianyan stepped forward and said, "The documents stored in the upper area are mainly local reports and evil records of cases. I remember that at that time, it was even available for officials of the government office to check freely. This kind of place must not have any life-threatening mechanisms-"

Click.

Before he finished speaking, everyone heard a very subtle tremor.

The stone slab under Qianyan's feet sank an inch.

Almost at the same time, a burst of cold air surged around her feet, and these white air quickly condensed into ice and extended to her knees.

Then Qianyan walked out of the ice block - only half of the crystal ice mold was left on the ground, keeping the stone slab in a concave state.

"Okay, I was careless... Let me correct it. They have already renovated the facilities above."

Xia Fan sighed softly, "Luo Qingqing, then I'll leave it to you."

The group did not go down the stairs, but directly dropped to the edge corner of the first floor with a hemp rope, avoiding the guards guarding the hall, and quietly entered the underground floor. According to Qianyan, there is more than one way to the underground. The recording department in charge of this place can selectively open a certain passage or seal all the passages. Except for a very few people, no one knows the specific direction of these passages and what mechanisms will be encountered on the road.

Xia Fan originally thought that this journey would be extremely dangerous, 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 let's build a bridge, be careful not to slip. Frost Binding Technique!"

"The lamppost on the left has an evil-like aura inside."

"It's probably a combination of a soul-gathering talisman and a magic weapon, Xia Fan, use the shock technique to break it."

Luo Qingqing and Qian Yan talked back and forth, and dismantled these traps. The former was responsible for searching and locating, while the latter proposed countermeasures based on his own knowledge. As long as the two reached a consensus, the discovered traps would no longer pose a threat.

As for Xia Fan and the fox demon, they became tools to solve the problem.

"Great, so awesome..." Li couldn't help shaking his tail and said, "Do you two know everything?"

"You think the mechanism is too difficult." Qianyan sighed, "After all, they are just dead things. They look clever, but they can't change flexibly, which has limited their upper limit. Even if it is a magic mechanism, the driving object is just a few soul-gathering talismans, which is not comparable to the magic tools and formations driven by the Taoist priests. No matter how powerful the defense is, once the core person is gone, it is destined to be easily broken."

"Thinking back then, the Fang family and the army fought against the Taoist priests of Yongguo in Wuya City, and the whole city was made into a magic circle. A storm blew in the city, and the flying sand and rocks could kill people. And..."

Looking at Qianyan who was talking about the old days, Xia Fan suddenly realized that the coldness was just her illusion, or because of memory problems, she was reluctant to get too close to those living dead, but in fact, she was still quite happy to speak.

Come to think of 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 traps with soul-gathering talismans, but how do you detect those ordinary traps?" Li asked Luo Qingqing curiously.

"It's very simple. They need cavities to be placed, and the airflow in these places will be different. The air can reflect this change, and it's hard for me to describe it in words..." Luo Qingqing thought for a while, "It's like a fork with different flow rates in a gentle stream. In theory, if the ability to sense air is cultivated to the extreme, this difference can also be captured by senses, but now the eyes can see it, the difficulty will be much lower."

She suddenly paused, "There are changes ahead."

Sure enough, after turning a corner, a stone door appeared at the end of the passage in front of her.

"Are we... here?" Xia Fan asked.

"Why don't I remember there was such a door in the passage before?" Qianyan took two steps forward, "It seems that there is something engraved on the door..."

Xia Fan also saw it, "Three-bar runes... are the Yao of the Eight Diagrams."

"Two long and one short, the short one is in the middle, the hexagram is Li Fire."

"Don't you need fire to open this door?" He took two steps forward and tried to push it, and the stone door opened with a sound.

This result made everyone stunned.

At the same time, accompanied by four light sounds, the torches on the wall were lit, and a dark room of a hundred feet square appeared in front of everyone.

"No, this is not the underground library." Qianyan's tone suddenly became a little solemn.

"Then where are we?"

"I don't know... I have never been to such a place before." She shook her head slightly and said, "This passage is a dead end, I am afraid we have chosen the wrong fork."