Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 1561: Chapter 1545: Stone Wall Mechanism

However, the Sub Gu is indeed showing to be in this area. Could it be that the Oil Rat is deliberately being mysterious to lure them here?

But that doesn’t make sense either. From start to finish, they haven’t shown their faces. Even the mountain chief only knew that Qibao returned to Miao Village once and didn’t expect them to make a surprise move. The Oil Rat shouldn’t know they are in Miao Village, right?

”How about I go down first and explore, see how deep the bottom of the cliff is, and you wait here for my message?”

Just sitting here isn’t doing any good, Gu Xu suggested.

After all, Gu Xu is a special forces soldier and is quite skilled in rock climbing. Huo Sining didn’t know what to do, so she could only nod and agree to Gu Xu’s suggestion.

However, just when Huo Sining lowered her head to search for ropes in her storage ring, an odd thought suddenly flashed through her mind.

She paused, then quickly raised her head, her gaze falling on the cliff face in front of her.

After the mountain chief entered the Sacrificial Forest with the Oil Rat and Gao Yuyuan, they disappeared without a trace. Even the people from Third Granduncle couldn’t find them.

But before them lay a dead end. Surely those few people couldn’t just vanish into thin air behind the mountain, right?

Huo Sining felt something was wrong. As her gaze unintentionally swept across the cliff face, for some reason, she suddenly remembered the ancient tomb hidden beneath that reservoir in the suburbs of Magic Capital, and a light bulb went off in her mind.

Could it be that there’s something wrong with this stone wall?

”What’s up?”

Seeing that Huo Sining stopped searching and instead stared dazedly at the cliff not far away, Gu Xu couldn’t help but ask.

Huo Sining didn’t speak but walked over to the cliff face.

After suspecting this stone wall, an indescribable feeling rose in her heart, as if there was definitely something hidden inside this cliff face!

Moreover, the closer she got to the stone wall, the stronger that intuition became.

Unable to resist the strong impulse inside her, Huo Sining felt as if something invisible was unconsciously pulling her towards the cliff face. Staring at the smooth stone wall, she was a bit dazed.

This was a granite wall. Years of weathering had left the surface uneven, but there was not a single seam.

A strange sensation arose in Huo Sining’s heart, and a certain image flashed through her mind. Almost instinctively, she reached out and touched the stone wall, her right hand unconsciously pressing on a certain protruding rock.

”Sister, what are you doing?” Seeing Huo Sining press her hand against the cliff, Qibao asked, somewhat puzzled.

Huo Sining couldn’t explain it clearly. The image in her mind passed by so quickly that she couldn’t grasp it. The act of reaching out to touch the stone wall was just an instinctive behavior, with no way to explain it.

However, as soon as she pressed it, the next scene gave Huo Sining a completely unexpected surprise.

Under the Heavenly Eye Skill, the situation within the stone wall quickly came into view for Huo Sining.

Inside the several-feet-thick stone facade, she actually saw the same mechanism structure as the one at the stone gate of the ancient tomb under the reservoir in the suburbs of Magic Capital!

Inside this stone wall, there really is a hidden door!

Huo Sining was dumbfounded. Her eyes flickered with joy, her voice trembling and excited as she said, ”Gu Xu, this stone wall has a mechanism! The Oil Rat and the others must have disappeared from here! They must have found the entrance and entered the mountain!”

Upon hearing this, Gu Xu was stunned, even Qibao looked incredulous.

Huo Sining couldn’t afford to explain further. She groped around the stone wall, carefully exploring every inch with the Heavenly Eye Skill, and finally determined that the protruding stone block she had just pressed was indeed where the button of the mechanism was.

However, what frustrated and even defeated Huo Sining was that after pressing that protrusion for a full three minutes, the entire stone wall remained motionless, as if what she had just done was all in vain.

Huo Sining couldn’t help but smile bitterly. It seemed that this mechanism was not as simple as she thought.

Releasing her hand, she was just about to look elsewhere to see if she could find any clues when suddenly, just as she turned around, the stone wall behind her emitted a ”click-click” sound.

With the appearance of this sound, not only Huo Sining but also Gu Xu and Qibao, standing in front of the stone wall, were startled.

Could it be that it opened so easily? Huo Sining abruptly turned around, staring wide-eyed at the stone wall in disbelief.

The clicking sound hadn’t stopped, resembling the slow turning of gears within the stone wall, the sound repeating every few seconds.

All three of them kept their eyes fixed on the stone wall, fearing they might miss something.

After about a minute and a half, the clicking sound abruptly ceased.

The trio held their breath, awaiting the slow opening of the mechanism.

However, what puzzled them was that after the clicking sound faded, the stone wall remained unresponsive, not at all resembling their previous expectations of a stone door gradually opening toward them.

This result left the trio feeling very disappointed, especially Huo Sining. She silently lamented, wondering if the spot she accidentally touched wasn’t the entrance mechanism but another mechanism altogether.

Just as Huo Sining’s mind was racing, the stone wall unexpectedly had another reaction, beginning to transform swiftly.

The once irregular and uneven stone wall began to restore itself to smoothness, piece by piece, like a jigsaw puzzle divided into nine parts, rapidly rearranging.

This scene left the trio awestruck. The huge stone wall looked as if it had been cut into nine equally sized pieces by a sharp blade, spinning quickly like a Rubik’s Cube, and soon, the jagged rocks all retracted, eventually forming a smooth stone wall.

”This is simply miraculous!” Gu Xu stared intently at the stone wall, unable to snap back to reality.

Soon, after the reassembly, a black wheel emerged abruptly from the center, engraved with eight directions—Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen, Li, Dui. Surrounding the Bagua, in the center was a Tai Chi chart, identical to the Bagua Chart on the pieces of parchment Huo Sining previously obtained.

At the sight of this chart, Huo Sining suddenly remembered the four strange pieces of parchment she was holding. She promptly took them out from her storage ring.