Chapter 1330: Secret Room and Coffin

But this can't be blamed on Shi Lei. No one has moved this brick for at least seventy or eighty years. Moreover, Shi Lei believes that normal walking and stepping on this brick will never cause changes in the mechanism in the well.

Otherwise, the mechanism at the bottom of the well will move once you walk on this brick casually. This obviously does not meet the requirements of the mechanism designer. No one who designs a mechanism will allow others to accidentally trigger it at any time.

It is not so easy to trigger this mechanism on the well. Shi Lei believes that even if he finds this brick at the edge of the well, it is unlikely to trigger the mechanism so easily. For Shi Lei, there is only one way to go down to the well.

After this discovery, Shi Lei looked down the well again. He found that the position of the brick in the well was no longer flowing downwards, and the previous movement at the bottom of the well also stopped, but the bottomless hole still did not change.

Shi Lei went down the well again. The original position at the bottom of the well was now a deeper hole. Anyway, there was a steel cable hanging on his body, so Shi Lei was not worried and continued to go down.

After going down for about ten meters, Shi Lei finally saw a thin layer of water under his feet. It was too dark in the well, and the surrounding walls were a circle of bricks with many small holes. This caused his strong flashlight to be completely absorbed by these small holes, so it looked as if the hole was bottomless.

However, except for the thin layer of water at the bottom, there was no passage at the bottom of the well, and nothing was hidden. Shi Lei even went down to the bottom of the well and stepped under the thin layer of water. It was only two or three centimeters high, and even his shoe uppers were not submerged. There was solid ground below.

Shi Lei studied for a long time and found no new mechanism, so he had to return to the ground.

Sitting by the edge of the well, Shi Lei thought for a long time and really couldn't figure out what was going on.

Suddenly, he remembered that the water level of the river was much lower than a hundred years ago. Perhaps it was because the water level of the river was too low, resulting in insufficient water in the well?

This was simple. Shi Lei immediately went out to buy a water pipe, connected it to the faucet in the house, and began to drain water into the well.

This draining lasted until dark, at least four hours.

After dinner, when Shi Lei returned to the house, he immediately felt a similar movement coming from the well.

Immediately returning to the well, Shi Lei saw that the tap water had filled the deep hole below the well. Shi Lei quickly turned off the faucet and pulled up the water pipe.

Shi Lei saw that the original hole at the bottom of the well slowly returned to its original state, and the mechanism slowly recovered, completely covering the water surface below.

There was a rumbling sound from the well, and Shi Lei silently took two steps back, but did not feel any more changes. Everything should still be safe.

However, he found that a pillar on the steps at the entrance of the main hall at the back was slowly moving.

Oh my!

What a big deal!

This pillar...

Shi Lei was puzzled. He had studied almost every part of the yard before, but he couldn't see any mechanism.

When the pillar stopped moving, he walked closer and saw that there was a hole under the pillar.

After studying it for a while, he found that the movement of the pillar was entirely due to the underground part, and the part connected to the roof was actually in contact with everything. There was no mechanism on the roof.

It's no wonder. A pillar is standing here, and there is no sign of any mechanism on it. All the mechanisms are underground under the pillar. It's normal that Shi Lei couldn't find it.

I shone a flashlight on the hole under the pillar. It's not deep, about four meters, and the size of the hole is just enough for one person to enter. Even a fat man weighing more than 200 pounds should not be too strenuous.

I shone it again. The position facing south below the hole seemed to be enlarged.

Shi Lei knew that this was probably directly connected to a secret room.

I moved the electric pulley over. It's better to be cautious. Shi Lei entered the cave.

Once you go down, you can see clearly in front of you. There is a very short passage on the west side. The whole passage is in the shape of a fan. Less than ten meters ahead, it is already very open, just the size of a room.

The space of the whole secret room, if you count the fan-shaped passage, is about 40 square meters. It is not too big, but it is not too small.

Shi Lei walked straight to the top of the secret room. He saw an inconspicuous door. There was a candlestick on each side of the door, and there were even two candles on it.

At least seventy or eighty years have passed, and the candles have long been useless, but this has no hindrance to Shi Lei. With the flashlight in his hand, he quickly found out that the two candlesticks are the mechanism.

After a test, the candlestick was turned, and the door in front of him slowly opened.

Further in, there is a small room, and there is actually a coffin in the room.

This always makes people feel a little creepy, although Shi Lei knows very well that whether there is a body in the coffin or not, it is already a skeleton, and there is no way there will be things like zongzi.

He carefully observed everything in the room. Apart from some necessary offerings, there was nothing else, and there seemed to be no place to hide anything.

Shi Lei saw a small altar on top of the coffin, with a pair of tablets on it. The writing had long been blurred, and Shi Lei could only barely make out the two words "Zheng". Moreover, these two words were on two different tablets. The first word on the tablet on the right and the second word on the tablet on the left formed the two words "Zheng".

Below the tablet, there was a small scroll.

Shi Lei bowed to the tablet first. Although the person on the tablet had nothing to do with Shi Lei, he still had to show the necessary etiquette out of respect for Mr. Zheng.

Then, he reached out his hand, but the scroll fell apart as soon as he touched it. It was too old, and this thing had not been processed in any way. Shi Lei estimated that even if the scroll was not broken, the writing on it would be as unclear as on the tablet after it was opened.

The scroll should have recorded something about the collection, but now, nothing can be seen.

After studying in the small room for a while, Shi Lei did not find any other mechanisms. Even when he went under the coffin to study, there were no more mechanisms.

This made Shi Lei feel troubled.

He couldn't really open the coffin...

This would be too disrespectful to Mr. Zheng's ancestors.

After walking around the coffin for several times, Shi Lei suddenly found that this coffin seemed to be much longer than ordinary coffins. After all, no matter how tall the Zheng family's ancestors were, it couldn't be more than two meters, right? And this coffin, minus the thickness of the coffin, Shi Lei estimated that Yao Ming could be put in it without any problem.

There's something strange about the coffin!

Shi Lei began to study the coffin carefully, and finally, he found that the top plate of this coffin, which is usually the end where the feet are placed, seemed to be movable.

He bowed again to the tablet on the altar, saying, "Forgive me, forgive me. This is what your parents' descendants asked for. They couldn't bear to see these antiques go to waste. I have no choice but to offend them."

After saying this, Shi Lei reached out and gently touched the tail of the coffin. Just as his hand pressed on the top plate, the top plate seemed to move slightly inward. Then, Shi Lei heard the sound of a mechanism starting, and he hurriedly stepped back.

No accidents occurred. In the middle of the top plate, where some patterns were originally carved, something similar to a drawer handle slowly rose.

After confirming that there was no other movement, Shi Lei grabbed the bulge and pulled it out.

The top plate was pulled out.

It was indeed a drawer.

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