Heavenly Dao Formula

"Is there a fight between the two sides?" Li asked quietly.

"No, it doesn't look like..." Xia Fan's eyes stopped on a corpse that had been cut into several sections. Judging from the armor pattern, it should be an officer. Are not the same. Unless his opponent is a knives lover and can chop seven or eight knives in a second, it is unlikely to cause such an amazing effect in actual combat.

"They should have been killed by the defense agency of the Ministry of Records." Qian Yan said, "This hall has not lifted the restrictions, and they wanted to search in depth, but they turned into pieces of corpses."

The others couldn't help taking a breath.

"What does it mean that the restrictions are not lifted?"

"The custody of the Recording Department is in the hands of the chief. If he does not close the mechanism before he is taken away, the hall will be in a closed state, and anyone who enters will be regarded as a potential threat." Qian Yan said in a low voice, "And the best way to deal with threats The method, of course, is to eliminate them from the source. Did I say it? There are traps everywhere, and now they are in an activated state, whether it is the soldiers of the Imperial Army or us, there is no difference to the traps."

"Then what happened to the people in the Privy Council?" the fox demon asked in confusion.

"Probably...they were tortured to death." Xia Fan had already noticed that the black robes did not have the embroidery and shoulder strips representing alchemists. In other words, they were ordinary people recruited by the Privy Council. The guards that Xin Wu mentioned should refer to these people. "The Imperial Guard's search was hindered, and they didn't dare to wreak havoc, so they pulled these miscellaneous personnel over, and wanted to ask them how to release the agency."

Killing these people will not worsen the relationship between the court and the Privy Council.

Because they are originally non-staff personnel who can be replaced at any time.

And such an attempt is doomed to be pointless.

The Privy Council will never disclose the secrets of the Ministry of Records to those who are not sensitive.

"Let's go down." Qianyan said, "Things of high value should be placed in the underground area."

"Yeah." Luo nodded lightly, "I'll clear the way."

According to the memories of the living dead, the Lubu Hall also has more underground floors than the upper ones, and it’s not like the Luo Family Library, trying to free up as much space as possible within a limited range—its underground part is more like a secret room, There are many corridors and narrow compartments, and this design is obviously more about privacy and safety.

"If we hit a trap..." Li swallowed.

"Then it will become the same as the people below." Xia Fan affirmed.

"Don't worry." Qian Yan stepped forward, "Most of the documents stored in the upper area are local reports and records of evil spirits. I remember that they could even be freely inspected by government officials at that time. Presumably, there will be no place in this kind of place. A life-threatening organ—"

click.

Before he finished speaking, everyone heard a very slight tremor.

I saw that the stone slab under Qianyan's feet sank an inch.

Almost at the same time, bursts of cold air surged from her feet, and the white air quickly condensed into ice, extending to near her knees.

Then Qianyan walked out from the ice - only half of the crystal ice mold remained on the ground, keeping the stone slab in a sunken state.

"Okay, I was careless...Correction, they have renovated the above facilities."

Xia Fan let out a sigh of relief, "Luo Qingqing, then I'll leave it to you."

The group of people did not go down the stairs, but directly dropped to the edge corner of the first floor with the hemp rope, avoided the guards guarding the hall, and entered the basement without a sound. According to Qianyan, there is more than one road leading to the underground. The recording department in charge of this place can selectively open a certain passage, or seal all the passages. Except for a very small number of people, no one knows the specifics of these passages. Where to go, what institutions will be encountered on the road.

Xia Fan originally thought that this journey would be extremely thrilling, but... the result was quite different from what he expected.

"There is something wrong with the ground in front, it's best to avoid it."

"Then build a bridge, and be careful not to slip. Frost formation!"

"The lamp post on the left has something like evil spirit inside."

"It's probably a combination of the soul-gathering talisman and the magic weapon, Xia Fan, use the shock technique to break it."

Luo Qingqing and Qianyan dismantled these traps in sevens and eighties with each other. The former is responsible for searching and positioning, while the latter proposes countermeasures based on their own knowledge. As long as the two agree, the discovered trap is no longer a threat.

As for Xia Fan and Fox Demon, they became tools to solve problems.

"Okay, that's amazing..." Li couldn't help shaking his tail and said, "Do you two know everything?"

"It's because you think the mechanism is too difficult." Qianyan sighed, "In the end, they are just dead things. They seem ingenious, but their inability to change flexibly has already limited their upper limit. Even if it is a spell The organ and the driving thing are just a few soul-gathering talismans, which can't compare to the magic weapon and the big formation driven by the warrior. No matter how powerful the defense is, once there is no person as the core, it is destined to be easily broken. "

"Back then, when the Fang family and the army fought against the alchemists of Yongguo in Wuya City, the entire city was turned into a magic circle. When a storm blew up in the city, the flying sand and rocks it raised could kill people. And..."

Looking at Qianyan who was talking about the past, Xia Fan suddenly realized that the coldness was only her illusion, or because of her memory problem, she refused to get too close to those living dead, but in fact, she was quite willing to speak.

Think about it too, no matter who has seen so much, they will always want to show off. This has nothing to do with age, but human nature.

"It's no surprise that you can feel the traps of the Soul Gathering Talisman. How did you detect those ordinary traps?" Li curiously asked Luo gently.

"It's very simple. Placing them requires a cavity, and the airflow in these places will be different. Qi can reflect this change, and it's hard for me to describe it in words..." Luo thought for a while, "It's like a gentle water flow There is a fork with a different flow rate in the middle. Theoretically, if the ability to sense Qi is cultivated to the extreme, you can also capture this difference with your senses, but now that you can see it with your eyes, the difficulty will be much reduced."

Her footsteps suddenly stopped, "There is a change ahead."

Sure enough, after turning a corner, a stone door appeared at the end of the passage in front of him.

"Are we... here?" Xia Fan asked.

"Why don't I remember that there was such a door in the passage before?" Qian Yan took two steps, "There seems to be some kind of mark engraved on the door..."

Xia Fan also saw it, "The three-bar runes... are the lines of the gossip."

"Two long and one short, the short is in the middle, the hexagram image is Lihuo."

"You don't need to use fire to open this door." He took two steps forward, tried to push, and the stone door opened in response.

This result made everyone stunned.

At the same time, accompanied by four light bangs, the torches on the wall were lit, and a dark room with a square of a hundred feet appeared in front of everyone.

"No, this is not an underground library." Qian Yan's tone suddenly became serious.

"Then where are we?"

"I don't know... I've never been to this kind of place before." She shook her head slightly and said, "This passage is a dead end. I'm afraid we chose the wrong fork."