Downwards, it can be said that there is a basement, but further up...... There are only beams.

If you think about it simply, Joan feels that she should go down, but on the other hand, this may be a psychological trap. It is also possible that the designer has observed the exterior and thinks that the house has only one floor, so he chooses to go down......

On the other hand, I think that the designer of the mechanism can also take advantage of the mind that the intruder has figured out, but it is not impossible to set a trap on the stairs going up......

It's not good, if you think about it like this, you're going to enter the realm of the Eight Wonders.

Joan stopped the one-ring-by-ring consideration mode in time.

It's easier than that.

She still has the bomb that Li Yunsu gave her in her hand, the distance between the door and the stairs on both sides is beyond the reach of ropes and hammers, but the distance of the bomb is three hundred meters, enough to shoot through, and if there is a trap, it can be triggered by the vibration caused by the bomb.

Joan shook her sleeves, took the launcher in her hand, and first aimed it at the staircase upward, and after the launcher let out an inaudible whoosh, a bomb shot out, and soon hit the staircase steps, exploding, and the powerful vibration caused the wooden staircase to be shattered in an instant.

“……”

Jo Ann looked at the blown up staircase speechlessly.

Okay, at least...... There are no traps.

It's just that the stairs are all blown up, and I don't know how to go up.

Joan still used her hammer to find her way and walked up the stairs.

This is......

Joan's eyes lit up!

When I got closer, I found that there was a road behind the blown up staircase! Judging by the debris on the ground and the metal parts that had fallen, the staircase itself was a door.

Is this part of the ordeal?

It's kind of interesting.

Joan was intrigued, and after poking up and down to make sure there were no traps, she stepped straight into the stairs. It was a very narrow small passage, almost only allowing a girl to pass through, and Qiao An could barely squeeze forward, if it was Li Yunsu who came in, she would definitely be stuck.

There is a door at the end of the path, of course, but it is locked.

At this point, a small old-fashioned door lock could no longer stop Joan, she pulled out the dagger from behind her waist, and gently moved it against the crack of the door a few times, only to hear a snap, and the door opened.

In order to deal with kidnapping and imprisonment, Joan naturally learned to pick locks quickly, and ordinary locks can't stop her, let alone this old-fashioned.

Qiao Anxin was a little nervous, she took a deep breath and pushed the door open.

Contrary to what I imagined, behind the door was a narrow, stairwell-like small warehouse.

The warehouse was full of boxes, and there was dust everywhere, which had been covered for many years, and it was very thick...... It can be seen that this should have nothing to do with the test, because there are no traces of touching on the dust.

There wasn't much space in the warehouse, except for the boxes, there was only a place for almost one person to stand, and Joan frowned slightly.

Rationally speaking, Joan should turn around and climb up the stairs that were blown up just now

Fang should go straight to the beams of the house, and then somewhere, there will be the tokens needed for this test.

It's just this warehouse in front of you...... There must be something in there!

If it's just an ordinary staircase warehouse, why hide behind this path, which also uses the staircase stage itself as a door?

Oh, my God! She's so curious!!

She's already here! If you go back like this, you are really unwilling!

Joan knows that curiosity will kill cats, but if she doesn't satisfy her curiosity, she will suffocate people!

She took a deep breath and opened the nearest box.

Inside were some old newspapers, and Joan rummaged through them, and there was nothing other than newspapers in the whole box.

She took down another box from above, it was very light, and when she opened it, it turned out to be an old newspaper inside, and it was not stuffed.

What are these newspapers ......?

Joan pulled out a newspaper that she had to be careful about because it was yellowed and dehydrated to the point of vulnerability.

Looking closely at the date on it, Joan was shocked, the newspaper from decades ago??

She read the newspaper quickly, and unfortunately, there was nothing to do with Lai.

Since it has already turned over one, it is better to take a look at each one, maybe there will be some unexpected gains, Qiao An will not care about the test for the time being, anyway, Li Rourou is not so easy to wake up, she still has time.

It's a pity that each box contains only old newspapers.

These newspapers are easy to explain, this is the Lai family's mansion for hundreds of years, and there are some newspapers from decades old in it, and it is not so strange why these newspapers are in boxes and piled up in the hidden warehouse behind this staircase.

Maybe...... The problem is not in the newspapers?

Jo Ann narrowed her eyes as she threw all the boxes behind her.

She guessed right.

There was a ring of noticeable gaps in the empty floor, which had previously been covered by cardboard boxes.

Joan stepped on it a few times, making sure it was the kind of door that covered the cellar.

As it turned out, these cardboard boxes were just a trick, and the reason why they contained newspapers was because they were light, and they could be pushed open with a little force even if they were placed on top of the door.

The real purpose of this small warehouse is probably this door. Joan tried to pull the door, but it was unlocked. Underneath the door was a rude wooden ladder that led to the bottom, pitch black.

Joan climbed down the ladder on the wall, took out her phone and took a photo, another secret passage.

What secrets are hidden in this, as for setting up such a layer-by-layer pathway.

No matter!

We've all made it here! It's not Joan's character to go back!

Curiosity alone was enough to keep Joan going, and she slowly walked along the path with her phone in her hand. The sides of the passage were no longer wooden walls, but hewn out of earth and stone, as if they had gone deep into the ground, and the passage was very cold and long...... It's long.

According to the time on the phone, Joan walked for about twenty minutes before seeing the end, although there is also the factor of walking too dark and not fast, but

It is also enough to prove the length of the channel.

At the end of the passage is another ladder.

She crawled along for a while, and a wooden door appeared above her head, and she reached out and pushed it, and sure enough, there was no lock!

Qiao An took a long breath, she was very nervous in her heart, she had a hunch that it would not be good...... She's about to uncover a big secret about Lai.

There was a slight resistance outside the wooden door, and she pushed it hard, and the door opened.

Joan climbed out of the aisle and found that the resistance was a small carpet covering the wooden door, and she got up, and the first thing that caught her eye was the wooden floor covered with a thick layer of ash.

(End of chapter)