In the oil painting, there is an old man with gray hair, his cheekbones are slightly protruding, his eyes are deeply sunken, and his gaze is sharp.

Portraits of the previous directors of the faculties are hung on the four walls of each floor of the library, and this oil painting is naturally also a painting of a retired dean, and a row of small print notes at the bottom of the oil painting made Richard know that this was the previous director of the medical academy - shaman.

Retracting his gaze, Richard put the Nighthawk blade in his right hand and continued to walk downstairs, but before he was about to leave completely, he turned his head suspiciously, and glanced at the oil painting again, he himself did not know what the purpose of this move was, and immediately smiled disapprovingly, and went downstairs.

Leaving the library and walking towards the man-made waterfall, Richard became more and more curious, who could be banging on the water supply pipe of the Ice and Fire Academy?

It stands to reason that the students and professors are still asleep at this time, and the time when the sound appears seems to have a certain pattern, which is around two or three o'clock in the morning. It can't be that some student or professor can't sleep in the middle of the night and comes to knock on the water pipe, right?

Richard walked halfway, secretly analyzing, midnight shows that this person can't or doesn't have time to ring in the early hours of the morning during the day, so it's not accidental, but deliberate

Knock? But why do you need to knock on the water pipe?

Richard stopped abruptly, his eyes narrowed, if he was banging on the hose because he wanted someone to hear, then he wanted someone to hear because he wanted to be discovered?

At this thought, Richard's eyes suddenly widened, a cold light flashed through his eyes, and a terrible thought rose in his mind.

The man who struck the water pipe was imprisoned! And it's inside the Academy of Ice and Fire!

Coming to the man-made waterfall, Richard carefully looked at the waterfall, and in the middle of a clear pool, the craggy rocks formed a small cliff, and the rushing water flew down from the top of the cliff like a splash of silver light.

At this moment, the sky is still gloomy, although there is a faint light, but it is still not a short time from the real dawn. Richard walked leisurely around the man-made waterfall, and he still had plenty of time to study the secrets of the waterfall.

The artificial waterfall is not only a waterfall, there is a pavilion next to the strange stone in Qingtan, the pavilion hangs above the pond water, there is a bronze statue of the divine beast out of the water at each of the four corners, respectively, the green dragon, the white tiger, the red bird, the Xuanwu, the direction of the Quartet, is to follow the ancient martial arts decoration style before the Western Yuan Dynasty, faintly revealing a little elegant taste.

These four bronze statues of divine beasts are actually four water outlets, with their mouths wide open in four directions, but they are only made like this for the sake of beauty, but at this moment, there is no water flowing out of the water outlet pipe in their mouths, I think it is the Ice and Fire students who closed these four water outlets in order to save electricity.

Richard rotated around the pavilion, and his gaze fell on the four bronze statues of the divine beasts.

He stepped forward and touched the head of the nearest bronze statue of Suzaku, then put his hand into its wide open mouth and played it up and down, but found nothing but a water pipe.

Taking a step back, Richard took a closer look and reached forward and reached out to wander around the bronze statue, trying to find some hidden mechanisms from the bronze statue, Richard checked inch by inch, his palms wandering from the head of the bronze statue to his neck to his chest and then to his buttocks......

If someone comes to the man-made waterfall in the middle of the night, they will be stunned to find that in the shroud of the night, a sneaky figure is wantonly caressing the body of the bronze statue, pressing one hand on the buttocks of Suzaku and gently patting it, that action is really indescribably obscene.

Richard's ears moved suddenly, he frowned, and then knocked on Suzaku's buttocks, with a little crisp sound in the muffled sound, Richard grinned, the back half of the bronze statue was really hollow.

In order to confirm the conjecture, Richard checked the other three bronze statues of the divine beast in turn, but unexpectedly found that the hollow part of each bronze statue was different, the inside of the Suzaku butt was empty, the Xuanwu was empty on the left front paw, the left eye of the white tiger was empty, and the green dragon was empty on the right eye.

Richard frowned and walked around the gazebo, but still couldn't find the implicit connection, and finally walked up to Suzaku, aimed at its buttocks, and kicked it violently!

Suddenly, there was an inaudible "click" sound from Suzaku's body that surprised Richard, this sound was very slight, if it was replaced by someone else, I am afraid it would be easy to ignore it, but Richard's hearing has been inexplicably improved in the previous blood mutations, especially at this moment It is early in the morning, and it is the dead of night, and no matter how subtle the sound is, it seems to be amplified by the megaphone several times.

Richard frowned again, but after just this sound, the artificial waterfall did not change, and if he couldn't figure it out, he simply walked in front of the bronze statue of Xuanwu, lifted his right foot, aimed at its front paws and kicked it rudely, and then the white tiger and the green dragon

As the green dragon's body also fell with a soft "click", Richard retreated to the center of the pavilion and waited quietly, at this moment, except for the previous four soft sounds, the artificial waterfall did not appear any anomaly.

Time flowed quietly, suddenly, there was a trace of movement in the clear pool, Richard hurriedly walked to the edge of the pavilion, and found that the man-made waterfall had gradually broken down, and at the same time, there were four whirlpools in the clear pool, and the water surface of the clear pool was also constantly falling!

In less than half a minute, the water under the man-made waterfall was drained, revealing four miniature bronze statues of divine beasts side by side, three of which were facing in the direction of the library, and one with his back to the direction of the library, which looked out of place with the other three under the gaze of the night.

Richard jumped from the gazebo into the dry pool, gently twisted the bronze statue with his back to the library, and found that the head of the bronze statue could rotate freely, so he held the head of the mythical beast in both hands and slowly rotated it.

There was another "click", and a stone brick in the dry pool suddenly warped, revealing the steel structure inside, Richard walked over and reached out to grasp the edge of the stone brick, and with almost no force, he turned the stone brick over, only to realize that the stone brick was actually a light frame metal door.

With Richard's lift, a square hole was revealed behind the metal door, and a dark stone staircase stretched down