Chapter 865: A fragmented pattern! Wang Canghai has been to the Ancient City of Jingjue?!

With Yang Lu's reminder, the group became cautious.

After all, no one wanted the illusionary realm to turn them into a madman.

Yang Lu did not frantically fill her canteen with water like the others; instead, she observed the surroundings, her flashlight beam cutting into the distance.

Seeing a stone door ahead, her brow furrowed. To her surprise, the stone door was not closed; it had been half-destroyed by an explosion.

Zhang Lin did not need to explain; she knew this was the heavy-duty gate inherent to such tombs.

Yang Lu also realized that once they passed this point, they would officially be inside the tomb.

At this moment, Wang Kaixuan, having finished filling his water, looked up in a daze and saw the heavy-duty gate, instinctively saying, "Team Leader Yang, this thing looks like it was blown up by someone."

Yang Lu nodded slowly, then looked at the two stone statues beside her, speaking softly: "According to the mechanism layout, this gate should be opened by rotating these stone statues, but whoever came here might have been too rushed or had some other necessary reason, so they didn't do it that way."

In the Crescent Hotel, Zhang Lin shook his head slowly after seeing this scene, then added: "Based on conventional judgment, Team Leader Yang's assessment is correct."

"But whoever went down into this tomb is definitely a master!"

It didn't seem strange that someone had been here before; after all, the Second Archaeological Team had encountered those foreigners along the way. The key was that Zhang Lin called them masters.

Initially, there was suspicion that the foreigners had used explosives to force the door open, as they had no understanding of these mechanisms.

But upon further thought, that was indeed the case. Since the previous door could be passed, it meant they had solved the mechanism Zhang Lin called the Sixteen Dragons Piercing the Earth.

The most important thing was how this person opened the mechanism without a key.

Regardless, since they could open the first mechanism, it was impossible they couldn't see through the situation here; why use explosives to blow it open?

Moreover, the risk of using explosives was extremely high. In such a confined environment, if the amount of explosive wasn't controlled well, it could very likely cause the place to collapse.

After all, no one knew how deep the brothers above this fault zone were from the surface. Once this inward explosion generated intense energy, the consequences after compression would be unimaginable.

This led someone to ask the next question.

"Mr. Zhang, why do you say this group is very clever?"

Zhang Lin smiled calmly and said: "Because it was an obvious opportunity, but it was actually a trap. If they had used the previous method to rotate the mechanism, none of the answers would have been correct, and it would have certainly led to them being buried along with the Queen of Jingjue."

"Inside the tomb, many mechanisms are reversed. You can actually think about it with logic: if you were buried here, would you want the tomb door to be opened through a mechanism? The Queen of Jingjue is not Prince Gumo."

This sentence served as a reminder to everyone.

The live stream comments began to discuss it frantically.

【This Sixteen Dragons Piercing the Earth is a new concept itself. If it weren't for Mr. Zhang, who would know??】

【Actually, not necessarily. Maybe it's some master from a previous era.】

【I don't believe anyone is more clever than Mr. Zhang, unless it was several hundred years earlier.】

【I feel the direction of this answer is correct. After all, Mr. Zhang didn't explicitly give a time point.】

At this moment, Zhang Lin was pondering something in his heart, but it couldn't be verified.

Perhaps when they saw the details of the bomb at this gate, some marks would be left to verify his guess.

The location where Yang Lu and the others were currently was the mouth of the Zidu Underground River.

This was an important tributary of the underground veins of the Ancient City of Jingjue. Professor Sun had always said he wanted to find the ancient Kongque River channel, and that dried-up riverbed came from this tributary.

This underground river had been flowing for thousands of years and showed no signs of evaporation or drying up due to the erosion of time.

After the news reached the Second Archaeological Team, Yang Lu couldn't help but nod. She was also glad her previous judgment was wrong; if there had been a rash attempt, who knew what kind of effect it might have triggered.

At this time, Yang Lu went alone to the trestle bridge laid underwater and walked over slowly.

Hearing footsteps behind her, Yang Lu turned her head immediately. Seeing Wang Kaixuan and Hu Bayi about to follow, she said immediately: "I'm going over to take a look alone, don't follow me!"

Hearing this, the two had worried expressions, but they were used to obeying Yang Lu's orders, so even if they were worried, they couldn't say anything.

After all, as the team leader, Yang Lu's skills and vision far exceeded theirs. If they insisted on following, they might become a burden.

Yang Lu had also heard what Zhang Lin said at the Crescent Hotel, which was why she had such suspicions.

Although Zhang Lin didn't voice his inner guess about the fault itself, he believed Yang Lu could resonate with him on this level.

After all, everyone would wonder who did this.

All these suspicious points were too heavy. The Second Archaeological Team only obtained the jade pendant from Prince Gumo's tomb under Zhang Lin's guidance to open the corresponding mechanism.

That was the key, and for this person to reach this place without a key was simply mind-boggling.

Yang Lu wandered around the break in the heavy-duty gate. She carefully illuminated every position and finally saw an inexplicable pattern on the inside of the left corner wall.

It looked like a fragmented phoenix, and everyone in the live stream gasped after seeing this pattern!

They scrambled to switch to the First Archaeological Team's live stream to compare this pattern!

Because this pattern had permeated every corner of Wang Canghai's laboratory, appearing in important places time and again.

When Zhang Lin saw this scene, he breathed a sigh of relief. All the starting points for his suspicions were correct. In fact, he had initially wondered what kind of person could enter this location without using a key.

But this pattern gave an answer in a roundabout way, which he could barely accept.

It seemed that apart from that person, no one else would have such ability?

On this basis, it also confirmed Zhang Lin's guess. There was no need for the First Archaeological Team to verify anything else; even without seeing Lou Wan, Zhang Lin could confirm this answer.

The live stream comments began to stir frantically!

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