Chapter 656: Four Thousand Stone Bricks! How Could It Be That Simple!

From the moment they entered the Prince of Gumo's tomb, even though Zhang Lin hadn't said it outright, everyone understood perfectly well.

He was emphasizing, every single moment, the importance of the sequence itself!

This could already be seen from the mural section.

And yet this very sequence both had and had nothing to do with the positions in which they were originally displayed.

It wasn't that the answer was ambiguous; rather, Zhang Lin was offering a relatively reasonable explanation aimed at the storyline itself.

Only under this grand premise could all the logic be straightened out.

Without Zhang Lin sorting out these logical threads, they'd surely still be completely lost right now.

No one could claim a hundred percent certainty when analyzing such unknown matters — and if anyone could, that person would certainly be Zhang Lin.

This was the consensus everyone had reached subconsciously, whether the audience inside the New Moon Restaurant or those watching the livestream before their screens.

This time, when the sequence was mentioned again, the crowd was even more astonished than before.

【No way, I really need to digest this one — this isn't just seven or eight!】

【Crisscrossing, sixty-four by sixty-four — what devilish difficulty is this.】

【Four thousand and ninety-six stone bricks in total. Even if you had the blueprint to compare against and didn't take a wrong step, there wouldn't be enough time, would there?】

【Stop speculating on your own. Mr. Zhang hasn't said what specific sequence to follow yet.】

【What other sequence could it be? It's bound to be just that.】

【Shallow. You're being shallow.】

【What the heck?】

【Exactly right. Anyone holding that kind of thought is far too shallow. Things definitely aren't as simple as you imagine.】

At this moment, inside the New Moon Restaurant, someone also asked: "Mr. Zhang, by what you mean, will the mechanisms ahead involve every single floor tile? That's over four thousand of them."

Zhang Lin smiled and shook his head, then said something that left everyone baffled.

They heard him say unhurriedly: "If it really were that, it would actually be simpler."

The moment those words fell, everyone froze in unison, even forgetting to ask questions.

【Heh! All you "Mr. Know-it-alls" heard that, right? Told you you were shallow and you still didn't believe it.】

【Bah! No need wasting words on them. Probably some shameless clout-chasing streamer's alt account.】

【But why did Mr. Zhang say it would actually be simpler? That's over four thousand of them — if all of them are involved, shouldn't it be harder?】

Hearing the story up to this point, everyone had actually confirmed one thing: every mechanism and detail the Prince of Gumo had set up was as difficult as it could possibly be.

The reason for saying so didn't only come from Zhang Lin's series of analyses — in fact, from the very moment the archaeological team found the Prince of Gumo's tomb, this had already been proven.

Setting aside the rest of the Second Archaeological Team, just look at Yang Lu — her identity is none other than the Mountain-Moving Chief!

But even so, she couldn't make heads or tails of this tomb. Everything inside it used unconventional methods, meaning that relying on past experience alone left no trail to follow.

Everything that followed could only continue thanks to Zhang Lin's analysis over at the New Moon Restaurant.

Yet no one felt this was because Yang Lu lacked ability.

When they encountered the desert march ants at the giant-pupil stone statue, Yang Lu's fluid, masterful command of the Vajra Umbrella had already stunned everyone!

Even those who hadn't known much about Yang Lu before, or who were watching the livestream for the first time, instantly became her fans.

Under this premise, there was only one explanation for the tomb's difficulties.

The reason the Prince of Gumo had cranked up the difficulty wasn't to conceal the tomb itself, but the key that came after.

At this moment, everyone on the Second Archaeological Team's side looked toward Yang Lu.

If anyone could still parse some of the unspoken meaning in Zhang Lin's words, it would certainly be their team leader.

Wang Kaixuan sighed at this point and said: "Captain Yang, surely Zhang isn't going to play riddles with us again?"