Chapter 2237 — Danger
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"That's true!" Wei Zhao nodded. Up on the summit, what he had feared most was the appearance of the Heaven-rank expert the Great Fire Lion had spoken of, but now it seemed the whole mountain was quiet—apart from him and Sun Jingyan, there was no one else about.
Wei Zhao crouched and carefully pried up with his hands the blue brick Thunder Pig had indicated. For an Earth-rank expert like Wei Zhao, this was a simple matter; only, once the brick was lifted, there was nothing beneath but earth—no hidden compartment or the like to be seen.
"Are you sure it's here? There's nothing at all?" Wei Zhao looked at the ground beneath the brick, puzzled.
"Jiji!" Thunder Pig nodded with certainty, then stretched out its foreleg and pointed at the space beneath the brick, signaling to Wei Zhao that the thing was down there—though perhaps buried in the soil.
"All right." Since Thunder Pig was so certain, Wei Zhao said no more and set to digging with his hands. Soil of this hardness posed no difficulty for him; his bare hands were enough.
Yet after a few scoops, Wei Zhao still sensed nothing unusual. But since Thunder Pig had been so adamant, he kept digging. At a depth of about thirty centimeters, his hand touched something hard—it seemed to be a box made of metal!
Wei Zhao's heart leaped. There really was something there! He quickly redoubled his pace, and in a trice he had dug the object out!
It was a plain iron box, utterly without ornament, yet clearly very well made; along its seams ran sealed strips of glue to keep water from getting inside.
"You found it?" Sun Jingyan looked at the little iron box in Wei Zhao's hands, astonished and delighted, her heart pounding with excitement!
The secret of her parents, which she had awaited and dreamed of for so many years, might now be unlocked by this little iron box!
Wei Zhao was about to say something when the jade pendant at his chest abruptly sent out a warning signal—danger!
Wei Zhao smiled bitterly. So what was meant to come had come after all. He had thought that this trip to the Wulonghaote Mountains, though beset with setbacks, would end well—but what he had never expected was that this was not the end. Perhaps the danger and the fighting had only just begun!
"Enemies!" Wei Zhao said swiftly to Sun Jingyan.