Suddenly I remembered that it was in the drain and the monster ripped off half of my clothes with its claws. Presumably, the box fell out at that time.

What to do? Do you want to go back and get it? Damn, the thought of going back to that cold, damp place makes me sick to face that horrible monster.

"What's wrong with the old dog?" Looking at my anomaly, the guy next to me patted me.

"I didn't ...... It's okay! "I'm pretending to be calm, and I can't let him see that the key isn't mine.

Now all I have to do is trick this guy into finding my way out, and then I'll sneak back and find the box by myself.

But the question is, what did this guy bring me here for? If he just wants to tell me about the origin of the civilization that exists in this place, he can tell me face to face?

I don't think he knew about the box or the key, so he must have brought me here for some other purpose.

Sure enough, he quickly squatted down and pointed to the corner of the monument, "Look here." ”

I looked over and saw that there was a round keyhole in that inconspicuous little corner.

"Keyhole?" I immediately thought of the hidden compartments in the TV series where the treasures were hidden at home.

"Yes, yes!" The guy was a little excited, "Quick, take out the key you found and open it to see what's inside." ”

It dawned on me that the reason why he brought me here was that he thought that my key could open the dark compartment on this monument.

But can the groove in this monument really be opened with my key? From a distance, I felt that the size was not right, so when I shone the flashlight into the keyhole, I looked up and down and found that there was no so-called lock cylinder in this hole, and some were just a slide, and the slide was topped with a circular sphere, and it seemed that the principle of its operation was just to push the circular objects in those slides into the door to unlock the mechanism, so the key it needed was not the kind of toothed key that Du Chen sent me, It's a corner-shaped key.

"It's a secret door lock, not the key I found." I stood up and flickered to the guy, "Actually, to be exact, it's just a bracket, with a sliding body and gears in it, and if you push the sliding body to a fixed position, it will activate the gears to unclose the state, so you go to the camp and find three wires, and I can open this thing." ”

The steel bar made of the keychain I have now can also open this dark grid, but I want to fool this guy out of the way.

Sure enough, the guy seemed to trust my words, nodded and rushed out, and after a few minutes disappeared into the palace with his footsteps, and I quickly grabbed the flashlight in my mouth and began to insert the wire into the work.

Touched the golden wall of the monument, brushed away the ash layer that fell on it, poured some water on it, and soon a square dark grid prototype appeared in my sight, about a gesture, I immediately picked up a few pieces of wood from the ground and put it on top of the dark grid, the purpose of which is to wait for the moment the machine bounced open the wooden block into it, in case the second anti-theft measures of the entire dark grid, once again lock back independently.

Of course, this is not without reason, when I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that this kind of mechanism, saying that it is at the moment when the slide lock touches the mechanism, only one second, because the time passes and the mechanism does not coincide.

With all the measures in place, I soon swallowed a mouthful of saliva and began to slowly insert the wire in.

This kind of ancient lock, in fact, as I thought, didn't have much craftsmanship, as long as it was something to hold the mechanism up, so within 1 minute, this dark grid was opened by me with a click.

Then a puff of dust shook off, and an opening appeared in my sight, and I hurriedly let go of my hand holding the wooden block, crunching it in.

And at this time, the mutation came suddenly, as if there was a hand in the dark grid, and after 2 seconds, the crack in the dark grid actually began to spring back quickly. Luckily, I stuffed a piece of wood in advance, and it bought me a moment, and in a short time I quickly broke my hand around the small opening of the dark grid, and then suddenly pulled the dark grid open.

And there was indeed a copper pillar connected to the door of the dark grid, but the strange thing was that it was empty and there was nothing.

"What's going on?" I felt a sense of loss in my heart, "Could it be that this is just a void?" ”

While thinking, I continued to shine the flashlight inside, but the dark grid was not too deep, and I saw it through at a glance, and where was there any treasure.

No, it can't be, there are still empty mounds in the ancient tombs, but how can someone design such a secret grid to hide things and not put things? Isn't this fucking pit and not shit?

Raising his head, he glanced at the inscription on the stele again, and then at the empty dark grid, and suddenly a bold idea popped up.

To confirm this idea, I quickly put my hand in, and when my palm was fully extended, my fingertips quickly touched the hard object.

"At the top?"

It seems that this dark compartment is only the size of a palm, so the contents are extremely likely to be a palm-sized box.

"Palm-sized?"

"Box!"

I pressed my temple, and the thought became stronger and stronger in my heart.

Damn, it can't be the box I found in the basement study, right?

Box? Box?

Closing my eyes, I began to think back to what the box looked like.

"Mountain Map ......"

That's right, the box is engraved with a picture of a mountain, which passes through the forest and finally comes to a stone gate, and there is a keyhole in front of the stone door.

"Woods, Stone Gate ......"

"Shantu? Map? ”

It dawned on my God, could it be that the pattern on that box was the way out of this place? And the reason why that box appeared in the secret room under the riverside was because someone stole it from here.

Damn, I'm really stupid, it's obvious that the dense forest drawn by Sun in the box of mountain maps is where I am now, and that winding forest path is the blood-soaked Shinto path I walked all the way.

Then, according to the mountain map on the box in my memory, if I keep walking along the Shinto Road, I will be able to find my way out.

Thinking of this, I didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, let go of the door of the hidden grid, jumped off the altar in three steps and one foot, and hurriedly ran towards the camp.

My plan was simple, I could just go back and steal the backpack while the guy got the wire from the camp and went to the dungeon, and then go back to the aqueduct to retrieve the box, and finally leave this damn place alone.

With wishful thinking, I deliberately avoided the ruins when I came, and even hummed a little song along the way, but when I returned to the camp, I was dumbfounded.

For the camp was empty, there was nothing left, not to mention backpacks and food, even the books on the rocks and the bonfire that had been raised before.

Everything before seemed to be an illusion, and the guy who had been sitting here a while ago and calling my old dog affectionately and cordially had disappeared into this place again, just like the short ones.