Just as I was scurrying from junction to junction, I heard a "click" sound not far from the walkway next door.

Who is it? I slowed down, held my breath and quietly probed around a short bend in front of me, and saw a familiar back - is it broken?!

Through the light streaming in through the vents on the wall on the right, I could see that she was trying to break something that was jutting on the wall, as if trying to force something in.

I quickly ran out of the corner and stopped her by patting her on the back - in such a rough way, the mechanism had to be broken.

She shook her whole body, then quickly turned around, and immediately showed a very surprised and happy expression when she saw that it was me, and shouted excitedly: "Glutinous rice!" Why are you here?! I thought I'd never meet you again, but that's great!! Then he threw himself at me with open arms and wanted to give me a big hug.

The next moment, as if he suddenly remembered something, he forcibly put back the half-hugged hug, and his face quickly sank, turning all the previous happy expressions into full grievances: "Wait...... Where did you suddenly leave me and your brother alone? I'm worried for a long time! After that, I was left behind by your brother, do you know what I was feeling at the time! I followed your brother into this secret passage because I couldn't worry about you, but they were all white-eyed wolves! Both sisters and brothers are virtuous! After saying that, she snorted in extreme discomfort, then turned around and coldly pointed her ass at me.

I was a little embarrassed - I really didn't handle this matter correctly, so I immediately leaned over with a salivating face and sincerely apologized, "I'm sorry...... It was also a sudden, and I could only ask you in that situation. It's better to say that you really did me a great favor, I owe you once, okay? He folded his hands and looked at her with the most pitiful expression I could make.

It wasn't until the corners of her mouth seemed to tremble a little loosely that I continued to twist and say, "Actually, I didn't expect that the mark made by my brother would be noticed by Xiaomo...... Didn't Xiaomo go back later? …… It's hard for you've been wandering underground for so long, isn't it? ……”

In fact, when I met my brother before, I wanted to ask why I wasn't with him, but the misunderstanding that my brother was going to leave me alone made me very flustered and forgot to ask this question. Although there was also a discussion about what happened to each other after the separation, it was basically all I said unilaterally, and when it was his turn to speak, it was just the time to temporarily separate, and the topic was forced to be interrupted. So in the end, I didn't know the whereabouts of the shattered aftermath, but I didn't expect to meet her here again by such coincidence.

After a while, she finally relented and replied to me with a pout, "You know I'm hard!" Not only did Xiaomo not come back, but your brother also ran away after waking up and knowing where you went. I didn't keep up with your brother, and I didn't find the so-called 'mark' you said, so I had to run around in this secret passage alone, and I basically despaired after running around, you know? I thought I'd never be able to get out of this secret passage in my life......" As she spoke, the corners of her eyes turned red.

The guilt immediately swept over me, and I hurriedly hugged her and coaxed her vigorously, looking at this girl who had always been afraid of the sky and not afraid of being arrogant for the first time in front of me with such a vulnerable look, and secretly cursed the brother who would leave it in pieces and had no gentlemanly demeanor at all - the next time I saw him, I must clean him up and give him a good look!

After a while, she eased up, wiped her eyes a little embarrassedly, and hid the tears that were rolling down: "It's okay, in fact, it's not all your fault, I want to run around, I should have stayed where I was and waited for rescue, right?" Ha ha...... Anyway, you came just in time, I found a mechanism, but I can't open it...... Your science and engineering brain should be better than mine, you can give it a try. With that, she dragged me again, and pushed me to the wall on which she had just forcibly broken something.

"Look, there's a couple of wrench-like things on it, so they must be triggers for some kind of mechanism, right? But I can't break it...... Tried them all one by one. She pointed to the short metal handles protruding from the horizontal slots in the wall.

There are five empty slots, the notches are long and narrow, about 20~30 cm long, and the metal handles inserted in each notch are moved to different positions, and the arrangement is also very irregular.

I went up and tried it, and it was exactly what Shatter said, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't move the metal handles.

And what makes me very curious is that the previous mechanisms are so hidden that it is even difficult to notice that there are mechanisms here. And this mechanism not only directly exposed the brake handle of the mechanism so blatantly, but also deliberately left a rectangular gap in the shape of a door around these handles, as if it was afraid that others would not know that there was a mechanism here.

As far as I can guess, it's either a trap or just a pretense of a show.

Or, it wants to cover up something through everything on the surface.

After looking at the handles a bit, I moved around them to look around them. If my speculation is correct, there should be some clues to be found around here.

Sure enough, above the inside of the notch in one of the handles, I felt a small bump and gently broke it to the side.

Suddenly there was a few crisp sounds of gears colliding and staggering in the wall in front of him, and then something began to "click" into motion.

Before I could react, the metal handles were retracted into the wall one by one, and then replaced by a few sturdy wooden sticks that were re-protruded out of the notch, and turned to the left side of the notch. When the sticks were all extended, the "clicking" sounds stopped completely.

Shatter immediately tentatively reached for one of the sticks, and sure enough, it could be pushed. And as the stick moves to the right, it seems that a certain part of the surrounding environment also changes subtly.

"Shattered, don't move!" I suddenly noticed something, screamed, and jerked the stick back into place that was still wrestling in Shatter's hand.

The shattered floor at his feet quickly put back together, so tightly that he couldn't see a trace of the shattered form just now.

"What's wrong? What happened? "Shatter was still out of condition and didn't notice that he had almost killed both of us at once.

I looked at the sticks with a more serious gaze - it seemed that this might not be just a simple secret passage mechanism.