Chapter 170 The Correct Sequence

Though only three coffins were being opened and closed, this complex code still made our heads spin.

The Kaiyang coffin closed, yet the Yaoguang coffin opened on its own. What did that signify?

Jiang Yongguang and the others were dumbfounded, frozen in place, unsure how to proceed.

Xiao Liang, however, pinched her chin and thought deeply, her eyes gleaming with intelligence.

Seeing the Yaoguang coffin open by itself, Xiao Liang calmly directed, "Open the Kaiyang coffin again."

"What?" Jiang Yongguang was taken aback because they had just closed the Kaiyang coffin.

Xiao Liang didn't have time to explain, and once again firmly commanded, "Open the Kaiyang coffin."

"Okay, okay!"

This time, Jiang Yongguang completely became Xiao Liang's subordinate, fully obeying her commands.

The four Xiaoling Guards held onto the coffin lid and laboriously reopened the Kaiyang coffin.

However, at that moment, as the Kaiyang coffin opened, the Tian枢 coffin, originally open, automatically closed. As the Kaiyang coffin opened an inch, the Tian樞 coffin closed an inch; as the Kaiyang coffin opened a foot, the Tian枢 coffin closed a foot.

Finally, the Kaiyang coffin was fully opened, and the Tian樞 coffin was fully closed.

Watching these coffin changes, I felt as though my head was about to explode. I saw that everyone else present was also confused. Only Xiao Liang intently watched the coffins, muttering something under her breath.

Once Jiang Yongguang and the others had opened the Kaiyang coffin, Xiao Liang immediately ordered, "Close the Kaiyang coffin."

Just opened, and now closing it? The Xiaoling Guards were completely bewildered.

But they didn't dare question Xiao Liang's decision and obediently followed her command, closing the Kaiyang coffin.

As that coffin closed, the wall on the north side of the main burial chamber rumbled and began to recede, trembling as it returned to its original position, restoring a considerable amount of space to the chamber.

Although we still hadn't found the hidden secret passage, this change gave us a lot of confidence.

Seeing the wall recede, Xiao Liang also revealed a faint smile that was hard to detect. I guessed that meant she had calculated correctly and likely understood the operating principle of the entire mechanism.

Sure enough, I heard her immediately say, "Close the Yaoguang coffin."

The Xiaoling Guards immediately acted, laboriously closing the Yaoguang coffin.

At that moment, the wall on the south side of the main burial chamber also began to move, trembling as it receded into the distance!

In this way, the entire burial chamber, except for the central part of the ceiling that had dropped several feet, pressing down on our heads, had its north and south walls completely restored.

Although the air within the enclosed space was still thin, at least we didn't feel so cramped!

"Well done, Xiao Liang! Have you figured out the entire mechanism?" I asked admiringly.

Xiao Liang smiled and nodded, saying to me, "Yes, I think I've understood it. Don't worry, I'll find the secret passage right away."

After speaking, she issued another command, "Officer Jiang, open the Yaoguang coffin first."

"Okay."

Jiang Yongguang acted immediately, pushing open the Yaoguang coffin without hesitation.

The result was that the ceiling of the main burial chamber returned to normal, slowly rising upward, returning to its original position.

Xiao Liang nodded lightly, then said, "Open the Kaiyang coffin."

"Okay."

Jiang Yongguang immediately led the men to the Kaiyang position, pushing open the coffin lid.

With a creaking sound, the Kaiyang coffin was opened, but in contrast, the coffin in the Yaoguang position automatically closed.

Xiao Liang nodded again, it seemed everything was consistent with her calculations.

"Next, open the Tian枢 coffin," she commanded again.

The Xiaoling Guards immediately obeyed, swarming to the Tian樞 position, slowly pushing open the coffin lid.

As the Tian枢 coffin opened, the Kaiyang coffin not far away automatically closed.

When the Tian枢 coffin was fully opened, the Kaiyang coffin was completely closed. Then, a "click" was heard from the Tian樞 position. The lower coffin board inside this coffin suddenly popped open, revealing a bottomless underground secret passage!

Seeing this underground secret passage appear, the Xiaoling Guards couldn't help but cheer!

I looked at Xiao Liang with even more admiration and said, "Damn! Xiao Liang, you're too awesome! How did you guess this sequence? Purely from observation?"

Xiao Liang still smiled shyly and said, "Well, I did some calculations and observations, and I was quickly able to find the correct sequence. It's not really that difficult. After all, there are only six possible sequences; it's essentially just a multiple-choice question with six options."

It really was easy for those who knew how, and difficult for those who didn't.

I remembered the sequence at the time very clearly, but even now, I still hadn't figured out how Xiao Liang had guessed the correct sequence.

I could only say that Xiao Liang could get 147 points on her college entrance exam in math because she definitely had the ability. This girl had a very high IQ.

Uncle Mei, Jiang Yongguang, Lao Wei, and the others were also extremely impressed with Xiao Liang.

Jiang Yongguang said with a smile, "Alright, now everyone knows who to go to when they encounter a difficult problem that requires intelligence, right?"

Uncle Mei couldn't help but say, "It's fortunate that we brought Xiao Liang down here with us. If we had left her up there, we would all have been stuck in this ancient tomb today."

Everyone praised Xiao Liang, which made her face turn red with embarrassment.

She quickly pointed to the secret passage in the coffin and said, "Alright, alright, stop praising me and let's get down to business. The secret passage is open. Shall we go in now?"

I leaned in to take a look. Inside the Tian樞 coffin was a tunnel paved with blue bricks. The tunnel was pitch black, and I didn't know where it led.

"Yang Guo and the others should have gone down from here, right?" I asked.

"Definitely, otherwise they wouldn't have disappeared into thin air," Jiang Yongguang said.

"Since they went down, it means there's nothing dangerous in this secret passage, otherwise we would have seen their corpses by now," I added.

Jiang Yongguang nodded in agreement, but for safety's sake, he still took out his air composition detector and used this little gadget to "beep, beep, beep" in the secret passage for a long time.

The final conclusion was that the oxygen content in this secret passage was actually higher than in the main burial chamber, which meant that the passage below was not a dead end, but connected to the outside world, and the space below was definitely larger than this tomb chamber.

Jiang Yongguang immediately took the lead, climbing into the coffin and saying, "Let's go, let's go down and take a look!"

With that, he stepped on the blue brick steps and walked down, and we followed closely behind him, walking down together. A group of people came from this strange Ming tomb to another unfamiliar space.

The air composition detector didn't lie to us. The space below the secret passage was indeed more spacious than the one above. This seemed to be a larger burial chamber, but we couldn't see any coffins or funerary objects.

Just as I was about to look around, I suddenly heard Jiang Yongguang, who was walking in front, say, "Well, the ancient tomb above is just a smokescreen. The real mausoleum is here..."