Imperial Treasure
Chapter 392 - 268: Do Loulan People Still Have a Culture of Hanging Corpses?

Chapter 392: Chapter 268: Do Loulan People Still Have a Culture of Hanging Corpses?

Chapter 268

Gently pulling on it, the handle didn’t budge. Xiao Yu asked, "Can’t pull it? Could there be a strength restriction?"

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"There are some restrictions."

Ye Changan would absolutely not speak of any power restrictions. Xiao Yu weighed her own strength and thought to herself, Could it be that she had to admit her strength might be greater than his?

Xiao Yu had just thought about letting herself try...

Click!

The handle moved.

Upon pulling it, it swung~~~

The seemingly heavy iron gate trembled with a boom, followed by the sound of gears turning...

The gate was slowly lifted.

The three of them were all intelligent and could tell from the sound of the stone being lifted and the barely visible mechanisms and locks that this stone must weigh no less than a ton.

And within these thick city walls, there were undoubtedly many gears and chains operating to lift this block of black stone.

Study of mechanisms is indeed a profoundly deep discipline, especially in the ancient times that relied solely on human power, it seemed even more magical.

"It’s open, let’s go in."

Sui Yi didn’t wait for the others to react and took the lead, with Xiao Yu seeing this and allowing Ye Changan to be in the middle and herself at the end, maximizing the safety of Ye Changan.

Another advantage of Ye Changan was his ability to seize the situation, not forcing things or acting pretentiously; he followed Sui Yi without any fuss.

The inside of the gate was relatively bright, so naturally, the three of them did not walk towards the right side by the mountains but looked straight ahead at the wall—uh, a sealed wall?

"There’s no direct exit through the city wall here?"

The three were very surprised, but at this moment they realized that the city wall was thicker than they had imagined, at least five meters wide...

"Not five meters, ten meters."

Xiao Yu pointed at the outer wall, "We are currently inside the hollow inner side of the city wall. This outermost side is the defensive wall. But it’s strange, why build such a corridor inside the wall..."

One side isolated the outside; the other isolated the inside.

The light ahead was too dark, so the three of them turned on the torchlights on their watches.

It seems that in terms of state-of-the-art equipment, Gong Jiu’s group was quite up to the official standards.

The three proceeded with lights in hand. As for that side gate, they simply closed it, but before doing so, Sui Yi, using his Demon Que, wrote a row of words in English under the city wall, noting the method to open the mechanism gate.

The other two agreed with this, but Ye Changan was curious about how Gong Jiu’s group knew the location of this mechanism gate... They couldn’t possibly have checked every spot along the base of the wall.

"Gong Jiu has also seen the map, and her strength is also sufficient to open that mechanism gate," Sui Yi simply replied.

Geez, you people’s survival chances are just too high.

Ye Changan turned around and exchanged a glance with Xiao Yu.

Suddenly, the two, eyeing each other, heard Sui Yi’s footsteps stop ahead. Instinctively, Ye Changan turned to look forward...

Upon looking, her eyes widened...

Her mouth was gently covered by a hand.

Sui Yi turned his head, looking at her calmly; his eyes, under the light of the lamp, shattered into soft halos.

Yet behind her, the seemingly endless spacious corridor appeared like a ferocious beast opening its mouth to swallow everything, magnifying even the smallest of sounds with echoes.

This was not the slightly terrifying part, making even a person who prided herself on being calm like Ye Changan, nearly scream...

The two walls.

Numerous iron hooks on the walls.

Like ship anchors, hooked with grey, slightly black-spotted large cloth bags.

Black stains trickled from underneath the bags...

From the very top to the bottom, a few hung right next to the three of them.

On both sides, there were two grooves as wide as a palm, with a solidified black substance below.

The flowing manner and darkened color naturally made the vigilant and not naive trio accurately deduce that it was blood.

Just from what could be seen under the light of the fire, there were fifty or sixty cloth bags.

What exactly was in those bags?

Ye Changan’s first response was a terrifying speculation, and she almost screamed on the spot.

Actually, any fear in this world originates from your own internal speculations. If a simple-minded fool with a blank mind saw a blood-knife wielding murderer, his first reaction would definitely be curiosity.

But ordinary people? Upon seeing one, they would imagine the worst possible horror, and then scream and run away quickly...