Chapter 257 Key

Fan Fang was about to speak, but I waved to interrupt him, "Wait a minute, I'll ask one by one. If you all talk at once, it'll get confusing."

I looked at Hua Lianqing again and said, "As far as I know, there are three secrets in Bei Shui Town. Now, I've solved two of them. What's the deal with the house by the water?"

Hua Lianqing said, "That house is the lock cylinder. But when I was alive, I never went inside. Hua Wuxin placed a restriction there. No one except himself could enter."

Hua Lianqing continued without me asking, "Are you also going to ask about the mine above Matou Village?"

"That was a tunnel Hua Wuxin dug to observe the lock core."

Hearing this, I couldn't help but gasp.

Although I didn't understand the art of mechanisms, I had seen lock cores.

The reason why a key can open a lock is because the key teeth can push open the lock core. If you want to open a lock without a key, you have to figure out what the lock core looks like.

Hua Wuxin drilled a hole there to look at the lock core, didn't that mean the entire mountain was a lock?

When I looked at Ye Yang, the latter denied, "That statement doesn't hold up!"

"The project of opening a mountain as a lock is too big. Unless the entire mountain is hollowed out and the mountain is filled with mechanisms, you can make such a lock."

"In ancient times, without mobilizing tens of thousands of laborers and spending decades, such a project could not be started at all."

"Unless, they were not using manpower at the time, but were commanding ghosts and gods."

"Moreover, since they had already dug a hole in the top, why didn't they directly enter the secret burial? Why bother observing the lock core?"

Hua Lianqing shook her head and said, "I'm just repeating what Hua Wuxin said back then. I don't know the specifics. At that time, I was stationed in Bei Shui Town and never went to Matou Village."

I roughly estimated the distance between Matou Village and Bei Shui Town in my mind.

It did take me and Lin Zhao half an hour to drive between the two places, but that was going around in circles. If we connected them in a straight line, Bei Shui Town and Matou Village were not too far apart.

Moreover, secret burials usually have more than one gate. It is common to walk through two or three gates before reaching the core of the secret burial.

It was very likely that another secret lock would appear after pushing forward a few gates from under Bei Shui Town.

The problem was just like what Ye Yang said. Since they had already opened a skylight above the secret burial, why didn't they just dig the passage into the core of the secret burial? Why bother going around to unlock it? Wasn't that redundant?

I couldn't figure out what the other party was thinking for a while, so I suppressed the doubts in my heart and continued to ask, "I heard a legend in Matou Village: There's a little girl in black clothes..."

Hua Lianqing frowned when she heard me finish speaking, "Black clothes are Hua Wuxin's symbol! That little girl in black clothes may be another one of his successors. But he shouldn't let his successor kill his own subordinates!"

I intentionally glanced in Fan Fang's direction and asked, "What's going on between you and Fan Fang?"

Hua Lianqing was silent for a moment and said, "After I came out of the secret room, I snatched a body. After that, I kept searching for the ruins of that year near Bei Shui Town. I think that secret room should not be too far from here."

"That was when I met Fan Fang. At that time, I discovered that he was a Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren, and was very interested in the open space in Bei Shui Town, so I deliberately approached him."

"But I didn't expect that he was preparing to rebuild Bei Shui Town!"

"I stayed by his side without making a sound, just to figure out why he wanted to rebuild Bei Shui Town. But I found that he was just a low-level member of a group. The person who really wanted to recreate Bei Shui Town was not him."

"I suspect that the person behind him is Hua Wuxin!"

When I subconsciously looked at Fan Fang, the latter couldn't help but sneer, "So, you attacked me again and again, and almost killed me?"

"If I hadn't faked my death at the fork in the road and had the coffin lifters send me to the funeral home, I would have died in your hands long ago, right?"

Only then did I realize that the black-clothed female ghost that the coffin lifter was talking about who had been following the car was Hua Lianqing!

Fan Fang faked his death, so his body disappeared.

It seemed that Fan Fang was avoiding Hua Lianqing at the time. After Fan Fang successfully escaped, the two sides launched another contest in Bei Shui Town.

They both wanted to get the secret of Bei Shui Town, but neither wanted the other to take the initiative.

That's why Hua Lianqing controlled Xi Hua Lou, and Fan Fang controlled his office.

I tapped the table lightly and said, "I don't want to hear about the grievances between you two, let alone be the judge of this love-hate case. I just want the purpose and the result."

I turned to look at Fan Fang and said, "What is your purpose in building Bei Shui Town?"

Fan Fang was silent for a moment and said, "Hall Master Li, our Dragon Head asked me to say hello to you on his behalf."

My eyes narrowed slightly, "Who is your Dragon Head?"