My voice had barely faded when all the doors in the corridor opened simultaneously, like a hundred people roaring in unison, "Li Po, Shi Yu, you have killed and injured others, your crimes deserve death. Kill—"

The corridor reverberated with shouts of killing, and several chains shot out from the doors, heading straight for Shi Yu and me.

"Down!" I roared. Shi Yu immediately lay flat on the ground, his feet constantly rubbing the floor to propel his body along the ground, his hands waving out palm winds to block the iron chains.

I drew both sabers, my body like a whirlwind, spinning in the corridor. Bai Zhou and Zi Ye sabers transformed into dragons, their blades colliding with the aerial chains in a revolving roar.

Amidst the flying severed chains, the saber light and sparks reflected each other, Shi Yu and I quickly advancing towards the end of the corridor.

As Shi Yu and I stepped out of the corridor, ghostly voices rose again behind us, "Resisting law enforcement, your crime is doubled, you deserve to be cut in half at the waist."

I turned my head sharply, and all the doors in the corridor slammed shut, plunging the entire first floor into darkness once more.

But this time, the endless shadows no longer felt like a blank void, but rather as if someone was staring at Shi Yu and me from a place beyond my sight.

Sweat appeared on Shi Yu's forehead, "Li Po! What's going on?"

I said in a deep voice, "That whole thing about four people was a lie! The so-called four people are just there to make people kill each other. Killing is a crime, and crimes must be punished. Only when we commit crimes will we trigger the taboos in the archive."

"If we had stayed still, we could have walked all over the archive without anything happening, just like when you led us upstairs during the day."

Shi Yu also realized, "No wonder there hasn't been any activity in the Third Archive, known as Little Yellow Springs. So that's how it is."

The owner of the archive must be a warlock!

He understood the warlock's style of doing things, and he knew what warlocks would do and could do.

Warlocks hold a detached position in the martial world. More important than their own cultivation is that there are no fools among warlocks. People without sufficient intelligence cannot become warlocks, because trickery is also a type of 'technique'.

Nine out of ten warlocks are proficient in trickery, and the remaining one is a master of it. However, those who can deceive others are often more easily deceived themselves because they think too much.

The person in the archive had set up a trap that wasn't really a trap. After emptying the archive, he left only a few clues and a hint that was difficult to understand, letting the warlocks think for themselves.

The brilliance of his trap lies in this hint.

The reason why his hint is so difficult to decipher is that it can be aimed at ghosts or at the people around you. Once a warlock encounters a colleague here, especially one they don't know, they will be wary.

Once a warlock is led astray by some clue or hint, they will inevitably have murderous intentions, and a killing will occur.

Once the other person dies, the master of Little Yellow Springs can justifiably punish the crime.

Lin Sihan knew this all along. The reason she revealed so many flaws was to lure me into killing her. However, I didn't know about the so-called "hint" at first, nor did I have any reason to act immediately.

It wasn't until Shi Yu appeared as a warlock that everything changed.

Lin Sihan also accelerated her plan. By making the two of us kill, she was essentially making us fight against Little Yellow Springs, allowing her to extricate herself and find her target.

Although Shi Yu and I understood the key, it was too late!

I gripped the saber hilt tightly and said, "Shi Yu, how far have we rushed out?"

"About fifty meters!" Shi Yu's expression suddenly changed. "We've entered a side path!"

The entire archive is less than a hundred meters long. We weren't advancing forward at the end of the archive. Fifty meters is enough for us to hit a wall, but we still seem to be standing in the middle of a corridor. What else could it be but entering a side path?

I took a deep breath and said, "Find a way to locate us, even if it's a forced location. We have to find a door to get out. Hurry!"

"Wait!" Just as Shi Yu took out a compass from his backpack, a sound like wheels rolling on the ground suddenly came from one side of the corridor.

A moment later, I saw a prison wagon carrying someone slowly approaching from the end of the corridor. Lin Sihan was locked in the wooden cage of the prison wagon.

She was captured!

Lin Sihan screamed, "Li Po, Shi Yu, hurry up and save me! I can lead you out of here!"

Lin Sihan is also guilty?

That's right. Strictly speaking, Lin Sihan tricked Shi Yu and me into killing people. If we're talking about crimes, she should be several times more guilty than the two of us.

Shi Yu stood in front of me, blocking my way, "Don't listen to her! She might be lying!"

"I'm not lying!" Lin Sihan screamed, "I have more clues than you do. Go to the second floor, there's a chance of survival on the second floor. You'll know when you get up there."

As Lin Sihan spoke, the prison wagon had moved forward several meters.

Lin Sihan screamed again, "Li Po, don't let them push me upstairs. Once I go upstairs, I really won't be able to get out. Save me! I can really help you."