Chapter 2712 — A World of Its Own
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This was especially true of that earlier record of strange tales. Wei Zhao had been on the verge of leaving with White Leader when Yu Xiaoke spotted something unusual. Clearly, Yu Xiaoke was a true professional—no wonder Old Black had paid so handsomely to bring along such a skilled breaker of mechanisms.
"Exactly. I thought we'd be opening some secret passage, but instead I found a lift. There's a whole hidden world down there—lots of women's things!" Yu Xiaoke said.
"Oh? Then shall we go down and take a look together?" Wei Zhao was intensely curious about the space beneath the ancient tomb, yet he worried White Leader might not want to go exploring, so he posed it as a question.
"All right, let's go down together." White Leader was in fact quite curious as well. That solid stone coffin had aroused his suspicions too. If Wei Zhao's guess was right and Zhang Lifeng had never died—could he be down there?
If he could see Patriarch Zhang Lifeng with his own eyes, White Leader would surely be overcome with excitement.
"Then let's all stand on top of the coffin, and I'll trigger the mechanism," Yu Xiaoke said with a nod.
So Wei Zhao, White Leader, and Yu Xiaoke, together with the Thunder Pig, stood atop the stone coffin. Then Yu Xiaoke reached out and pressed a spot on the wall, and the coffin began to descend rapidly—though its descent was perfectly steady, with none of that jolting sensation, and utterly silent, so that one could not even feel the coffin moving.
This left Wei Zhao clicking his tongue in amazement. The design of this ancient tomb was truly a masterpiece.
Earlier, Wei Zhao had examined the spot Yu Xiaoke pressed quite carefully: there was no unevenness on it at all, nothing that looked remotely out of place. He had no idea how Yu Xiaoke had ever discovered what was different about it.
The coffin soon came to a stop. The three of them stepped off, and they now found themselves in another empty stone chamber. Yet at a glance it was clear this chamber differed from the previous one, for the walls bore no carvings of text about Zhang Lifeng.
Watching the Thunder Pig hop down from the coffin, Wei Zhao frowned slightly. This creature—did it seem entirely unsurprised? Could it be...
"Thunder Pig, did you know all along that there was another underground level here?" Wei Zhao looked down at the Thunder Pig and demanded.
"Squeak, squeak..." The Thunder Pig looked somewhat helpless, but nodded to say that it had known.
"Then why didn't you say so earlier?" Wei Zhao glared at it in fury. Wasn't this making him do everything twice over? Had he known, he would have explored this place thoroughly on their first visit to the tomb—why wait until now?
"Squeak, squeak..." The Thunder Pig gestured aggrievedly with its two front paws, as though defending itself.
"Write it out on the ground with your claw!" Wei Zhao could not understand what it was trying to say; the meaning was too complicated for him to guess.
"My master said to let nature take its course." Those were the words the Thunder Pig traced out on the ground.
"Let nature take its course..." Wei Zhao pondered a moment and understood Zhang Lifeng's meaning. It seemed Zhang Lifeng wished everything to follow fate. That someone could open the tomb and inherit his legacy was itself a matter of destiny; as for everything else, it was better to let nature take its course and not force anything.
And since the Thunder Pig had merely obeyed the will of its former master and not told Wei Zhao about the level beneath the tomb, that was only natural—Wei Zhao had no grounds to blame it.
"Never mind. Let's take a look around. Xiaoke, there's no danger here, is there?" Wei Zhao looked to Yu Xiaoke and asked.
"No." Yu Xiaoke shook her head. "But I didn't go far—just looked around nearby, then came back."