"Boss, why are all these skeletons black? Is it because their hearts were too dark, and they tricked children out of candy, so they turned black?"
Fatty picked up a black skull and examined it curiously.
"They've been cursed, Fatty. I figured you wouldn't want to be cursed."
Zhang Tian looked at Fatty.
Fatty chuckled upon hearing this, then casually tossed the skull far away.
Skull: "***"
Zhang Tian's face was a mess of black lines. When it came to doing things like this, it truly had to be Fatty.
"There are curse runes on this skeleton too," Hu Bayi said, looking at the black skeleton before him.
"These skeletons should belong to the people who were sacrificed under this altar. Let's not disturb them and just dig down."
Zhang Tian spoke, and Hu Bayi nodded. Without paying attention to the skeletons, the group dug down for nearly two more meters before hitting something.
"There are indeed stone bricks," Hu Bayi murmured, his expression serious.
Zhang Qilin gently brushed his hand over the stone bricks at his feet.
"This is a step."
Zhang Qilin spoke, his gaze fixed on a spot not far away.
"The steps are going upwards."
As he spoke, everyone looked into the distance.
"Holy crap, if that's the case, Boss, wasn't our digging all for nothing? This is truly a rip-off."
Fatty looked at the steps beneath his feet and accidentally tripped and fell.
"Ouch, my mother, I'm just unlucky everywhere."
Fatty grumbled, while Zhang Tian quickly climbed up the hole they had just dug.
Then he looked into the distance.
Not far from the steps, there was a small hill. If the steps led upwards, then that small hill was undoubtedly the best location.
"Damn it, wait for me, Fatty."
Fatty saw Zhang Tian and the others jump up and quickly scrambled up as well.
"It should be over there."
Zhang Tian pointed into the distance.
"Damn, it's infuriating! Fatty's going first."
Fatty seemed very agitated and rushed towards the mountain.
"My goodness, what the hell is pushing Fatty again!"
Fatty ran and rolled all the way, looking exceptionally peculiar.
Soon, following the small hill, Zhang Tian and the others reached the summit.
"Come quickly, Boss, Old Hu, there's a huge space here!"
Fatty waved frantically at Zhang Tian and the others.
He looked excited, and Zhang Tian and the others quickly climbed the small hill.
Directly in front of the small hill, there was a blocked doorway.
Due to the excessive amount of sand, the door was partially blocked.
The interior appeared somewhat dim, which was strange.
"This should be the location of the underground palace."
"Old Hu, the altar we were just at should also be part of the underground palace. If we were to dig a tomb-robbing tunnel, we should be able to enter."
Zhang Tian spoke, looking at the open door before him. Hu Bayi nodded, and the group walked into the space.
Turning on their flashlights, the interior space was revealed in its entirety.
"Such heavy demonic energy," Zhang Tian inhaled, sensing the surrounding atmosphere.
"So many stone pillars."
"Boss, the statues on these stone pillars are so ugly. They look like snakes, but their heads are really bizarre."
Fatty approached a low stone statue. On it, an ugly, monstrous statue resembling a chimera was arranged.
"Boss, there are a total of sixteen stone pillars here. If we consider the trap arrangements in some Han Dynasty tombs, then the mechanism here should be a sixteen-dragon arrangement that penetrates the earth."
"This secretly aligns with the number of the Jumen (Great Gate) star. Some Han Dynasty tombs favored this kind of arrangement," Hu Bayi said, looking at the surrounding stone pillars.
"Old Hu, what are you talking about? I don't understand," Fatty mumbled to the side.
"This is a Jumen formation, usually used for passageways and entrances. Simply put, it's a gate mechanism."
Hu Bayi explained.
"Oh, so it's a gate switch. Old Hu, saying it like that makes it easy to understand," Fatty said, waving his hand indifferently.
He then looked around the area again.
Fatty's gaze finally fell upon an altar on top of a stone pillar.
"Hmm, what's this big white thing?"
Fatty was somewhat curious.
At this moment, Zhang Tian was captivated by the surrounding architecture.
There were sixteen stone pillars, but the one in the center was missing.
"This should represent the illusory space in the queen's eyes, a parallel world."
"It is said that the queen's eyes are the key to opening parallel worlds, but this design is a bit strange," Zhang Tian murmured, his gaze drifting upwards.
Above, a giant eye was closing.
Zhang Tian knew this. He had watched a documentary before. Inside this eye, there should be many black snakes.
Moreover, this eye might even contain something else, possibly another illusory space. After all, where did so many black snakes come from?
"Boss, there's a big eyeball here!"
At this moment, Fatty stood on a platform and shouted excitedly.
Hu Bayi and Zhang Tian and the others looked over.
Upon seeing the eyeball before them, Hu Bayi examined it intently.
The eyeball before them was lifelike.
Furthermore, the eyeball had patterns, veins, and essentially everything else.
If a doctor were to see it, Zhang Tian estimated, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference between this eyeball and a real one.
"This eyeball is made of jade. I didn't expect it to be so lifelike," Hu Bayi said, marveling at the eyeball.
When Fatty heard it was jade, his eyes widened.
"Heh heh, Old Hu, heh heh, Boss, such a large piece of jade, wouldn't it be worth a lot of money?"
Fatty grinned, reaching for a small backpack, intending to put the eyeball in it.
What a joke, such a large piece of jade, how could Fatty let it go?
Zhang Tian slapped Fatty's greedy hand away.
"This is the mechanism to enter the underground palace. If you take this away, do you still want to enter the underground palace? Enter the queen's tomb?"
Zhang Tian gave Fatty a glare.
Fatty reluctantly lowered his hand.
"Alas, I wonder when I'll be able to take away treasures in large quantities. I can only look but not touch; my heart is bleeding."
Fatty clutched his chest, feigning heartache.
"Boss, there seems to be a groove here, and it looks like Fatty's jade pendant from before..."
Hu Bayi pointed to a missing groove on the eyeball.
"Holy crap, it's true! Isn't this the groove for my jade pendant?"
Fatty said, looking at Zhang Tian. He remembered that his jade pendant had been bought by Zhang Tian.
"Boss, you didn't know this beforehand, did you?"
Fatty looked at Zhang Tian in shock.
Hu Bayi also looked over. After all, a jade pendant bought a year ago was proving useful today, which was simply incredible.
Could it be that Zhang Tian was a prophet?
"I saw something unusual about this jade back then. I didn't expect it to be used here, which I also didn't foresee."
Zhang Tian spoke, simultaneously taking out the jade pendant.
"This is truly miraculous, Boss. Your intuition is so strong. If Fatty had this, he wouldn't be living in poverty."
Fatty said, as Zhang Tian had already taken out the jade pendant.
Vaguely, Zhang Tian noticed that the jade pendant was glowing!