The Ming Dynasty took an unconventional approach
Chapter 694 Opening the Treasure House
The torches continued to be lit, but Xiaohong didn’t like the smell of fire, so she deliberately avoided it.
Moreover, these people were all soldiers, and they were all men. The evil and yang energy on them was too strong, which made her very uncomfortable.
So she floated slowly in front and said to Pan Yun in the air: “I just saw them touching this wall, as if they wanted to hide from you, but you came in and they couldn’t find a place to hide.”
Pan Yun looked at the man in gray robe. He was wandering around in the cave, but he didn’t get close to the wall that Xiaohong mentioned.
When Chen Wen saw her looking at the wall and then at the gray robe, he understood what she meant and kicked the gray robe over and lay directly on the wall.
Chen Wen said with a dark face: “Open it.”
The young man in gray robe didn’t expect that they even knew this. He glanced at them, but couldn’t recognize their origins from their clothes.
There were men, women, middle-aged people and teenagers in the group, seemingly a mixture.
but……
He looked at Chen Wen and the people behind him, his eyes narrowed slightly: “You are the Han army, right? You are not wearing military uniforms, but you have the temperament of a soldier…”
Before he could finish his words, Chen Wen slapped him on the head: “Stop talking nonsense, open the treasure house!”
The gray robe lowered his eyes and said, “I can’t open it. We are only responsible for guarding the treasure house. Only Kikuchi-kun can open it.”
Chen Wen snorted coldly: “You are still not honest even at this point.”
He asked the soldiers to drag him down and beat him!
The gray robe screamed in fear and shouted, “We really don’t know. If we knew, we would have hidden before you came in…”
Pan Jun: “Didn’t you want to hide? Didn’t you have enough time?”
Chen Wen waved his hand, and the soldiers immediately dragged him to the cave entrance and beat him up.
A quarter of an hour later, the soldiers threw him back, limp.
Pan Yun, Miao Zhen and the other two had already knocked on this wall and confirmed that it was empty inside and the echo was different from the other two walls.
But the four of them haven’t found where the mechanism is.
Pan Yun walked up to the gray-robed man and asked: “How many years have you been guarding this cave?”
The gray robe said weakly: “Five years.”
“How often do the big ships come?”
The man in gray robe paused, and Pan Yun lightly raised her foot and stepped on the back of his hand.
Gray Robe immediately said, “Half a year! They come once every half a year!”
“To take or to store?”
“There are both taking and storage. In April every year, a large ship comes from Japan to take some of the goods, and in November every year, they come to store the goods.”
The gray robe was afraid that they would start fighting again, so he started to talk incessantly: “Last November, they sent two boats to carry things in, but no one came in April this year. We have been waiting. I don’t know what happened outside.”
Pan Jun raised an eyebrow: “No one brought you supplies?”
The gray-robed man shook his head. “We have enough food on the island for a year. We also grow some vegetables, beans, and rice. Except for the lack of salt and oil, everything else is fine.”
Pan Yun leaned over and asked him, “Then let me ask you, every time they came and opened the treasure house, where did they stand and what did they move?”
“I, I don’t know,” the gray-robed man saw Pan Yun’s face turn black, and hurriedly explained: “I really don’t know. Every time Kikuchi-kun opens the treasure house, we have to stand outside the cave and can’t get close…”
Chen Wen frowned and said, “It seems like he really doesn’t know what to do with this wall? It feels like all stone, and it’s hard to chisel. How about using gunpowder to blow it up?”
Pan Yun was curious: “You also brought gunpowder?”
“Bring it.” Chen Wen waved his hand, and immediately soldiers came up carrying two bamboo baskets covered with black cloth.
Chen Wen said: “Two bamboo baskets, are they enough?”
“It’s enough. Maybe it can bury us all inside.” Pan Jun thought, if she could use brute force to blow it up, why would she need gunpowder? She could just draw in spiritual energy and use her elemental power to detonate it. Wouldn’t it have a different effect?
It can also grasp the position more accurately.
But no one knows how this mechanism is designed. What if a hole is blown open and the whole cave collapses?
Pan Yun pulled out Chen Wen’s knife and poked the gray-robed man with the tip of the knife.
Although the blade couldn’t draw blood through the clothes, one could still feel the edge of the knife. Every time it fell, the man in gray robe would tremble.
Pan Jun smiled and said, “Why don’t I believe it? You don’t know anything about it?”
“Five years, not five months, and certainly not five days,” Pan Yun leaned over and stared into his eyes. “You two have been staying on this broken island all day, guarding this treasure house. Don’t you want to know what’s inside and how it was opened?”
“No, I don’t want to!”
Pan Jun smiled lightly, leaned over, and her voice seemed to drill into his ears from his skull: “You don’t want to, doesn’t your companion want to either? He must have told you where Kikuchi stood to open the treasure house. Tell me, where is it?”
His eyes swept over involuntarily, but he quickly realized something was wrong and instantly retracted his eyes.
Pan Jun had already tilted his head and looked in the direction his gaze had just wandered.
She couldn’t help but chuckle: “That’s it.”
The gray-robed man shuddered.
Pan Yun stood up and put the knife back into Chen Wen’s sheath.
Chen Wen said in a deep voice: “He is useless now, drag him down and chop him into minced meat!”
The soldiers responded and went forward to drag the man away.
The gray-robed man screamed and shouted, “I know, I know, I also know how he moved and how he opened the treasure house. I will tell you everything!”
The soldiers looked at Chen Wen and then let go.
Everyone looked at the man in gray robe with serious eyes.
Under the gaze of everyone, the man in gray robe shrank back, then he pointed with trembling fingers at the wall that he had accidentally glanced at just now: “There are several mechanisms about five feet away. We only peeked at it once. His back was facing us, and it was blocked very tightly. No one could see it.” Pan Yun and Miao Zhen came forward to take a look curiously. After a closer look, they found that the wall was indeed a little different. The color was similar, but there were slight bumps.
Miao Zhen pressed forward inch by inch, and with a gentle click, Pan Yun felt that the sound was very familiar. She subconsciously grabbed Miao Zhen, leaned back and quickly retreated…
With a dozen or so popping sounds, dozens of needles as thin as cow hair shot out and pierced the wall.
Pan Jun put Miao Zhen down and reached out to pinch the man in gray robe.
The gray-robed man shouted, “I didn’t know there was a trap. We haven’t touched it…”
Pan Yun pinched his neck and said, “You’d better tell the truth, otherwise I don’t mind you trying all the traps in this cave like your companions.”
The gray-robed man’s face turned pale, and he just kept muttering, “I don’t know, I really don’t know, we haven’t touched it, and the master hasn’t told me…”
Pan Jun used five fingers to pinch him back to his senses and then asked, “Did he move his right hand or his left hand first?”
The gray-robed man was stunned for a moment, and after thinking carefully, he said, “Okay, it seems to be on the right.”
Pan Jun raised the corner of her mouth slightly, pinched him to the wall, grabbed his hand and pressed it from the right.
She whispered, “I can definitely avoid traps, but you are different.”
The gray-robed man was sweating profusely, and then he said loudly: “From the left, he started from the left and ended up in the middle, but we didn’t see the steps in the middle…”
He cried with tears streaming down his face: “I didn’t lie to you this time, really!”
Pan Jun snorted coldly, let him go, and then looked at the wall carefully.
After looking for a long time, she slowly found the differences.
She searched in her own space and took out a large brush from her sleeve.
They rubbed the pen tip loose and gently swept it across the wall. After a while, a layer of mud on the wall fell off, and they could finally vaguely see the circle on it.
The edges are very faint, but if you look closely you can see that there are four in a row, for a total of four rows.
Chen Wen came over at some point, looked at it for a while, and frowned: “This thing looks familiar.”
Pan Jun scanned it carefully and vaguely saw that there seemed to be some words engraved on it.
Miaozhen leaned forward to take a closer look: “It looks like chess.”
Pan Yun, who knows only a little about chess, said: “Are you crazy? You use chess to set the password? If you have the guts, use Go!”
Miaozhen touched her nose and tried to identify the marks on it: “This one should be a car, and this one is a photo…”
Pan Jun stared at the four rows of circles thoughtfully, then turned around and asked the gray-robed man again, “You haven’t changed the password of this mechanism?”
The gray-robed man shook his head and said, “No, because there were rumors that those who tried to open the treasure house privately died. And we don’t have a ship, so we can’t leave even if we take the treasure. There is not even a five-foot-tall tree on this island. If the masters don’t come, this is just a wild island.”
Pan Yun withdrew his gaze and stared carefully at the circle above.
Miao Zhen murmured: “The first cannon, but there are two cannons…”
Pan Jun was quick-witted and quick-handed, and directly pressed the upper left cannon.
Chen Wen’s pupils suddenly shrank, she was frightened and almost turned around and ran, but after she pressed it, nothing happened, and the circle was really pressed down.
Chen Wen was stunned, and Miao Zhen was also stunned.
Chen Wen: “You, you, you, how do you know it’s not the one on the lower left?”
Pan Yun said calmly: “Looking at the marks, it has been worn out more severely.”
Pan Jun glanced around and said, “I already know which circles he pressed, but I don’t know the order.”
Miao Zhen said: “The next one is the horse.”
When Pan Jun heard this, he quickly pressed a circle and poked it hard.
Nothing happened, but they heard a cracking sound from inside the wall.
Pan Jun raised her eyebrows and asked her, “What’s the next step?”
Everyone was cheered up and stared at Miaozhen excitedly.
Chen Wen also stared at Miaozhen with sharp eyes.
Miao Zhen thought for a moment, “Soldiers, please.”
“Don’t worry, there are five of us…”
Pan Yun has already pressed down a soldier.
One in five possibilities. No, one in five possibilities only requires that Miaozhen guessed the order correctly.
Everyone was waiting nervously, but they heard a click from the wall and nothing happened.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Pan Yun’s eyes lit up slightly, and he pointed at the three chess pieces that still had traces left and said, “There are still the general, the minister, and the rook. Who goes first and who goes second?”
Miao Zhen’s confidence increased greatly. He looked back and forth among the remaining three chess pieces and said, “This guy is not very smart. The code he set is based on the most simple wall formula, and the main move is attacking, so the next one is the rook, and the official is the way he left for himself.”
Pan Jun raised his eyebrows, reached out to press the right car, front official, and then pressed the only handsome one in the middle with one finger!
The speed was too fast, and Chen Wen didn’t even have a chance to run. Then there were a few clicks, and then a loud bang, and the whole wall next to them opened inwards in front of them…
The vibration was so great that dust and pebbles on the walls and the ceiling of the cave fell down, and it took a long time for everything to calm down.
Everyone looked towards the treasure house, and at first glance, they were almost blinded by the golden and pearly light inside. (End of this chapter)