Chapter 1 My team is trapped inside!

As the two sealing stones fell from above, the main burial chamber we were in was instantly sealed off!

Little Liang exclaimed, anxiously, "We're done for! We're trapped inside!"

Jiang Yongguang's expression also changed, and he said in a deep voice, "This is bad. It seems we opened the wrong coffin. I didn't expect the tomb owner to be so ruthless, directly dropping the sealing stones to trap us underground!"

Old Wei glanced at the coffin in front of him and quickly asked, "Otherwise, should we quickly close the coffin?"

According to normal logic, since opening the coffin resulted in the sealing stones falling, would closing the coffin again cause the sealing stones to rise?

Jiang Yongguang looked into the coffin and saw that there were neither remains nor burial objects inside, just an empty coffin. He immediately nodded and said, "Yes, quickly close the coffin again!"

After saying that, the four big men worked together, pushing the coffin lid to close it again.

As the coffin lid moved, I clearly heard a "creak, creak" sound. Logically speaking, the friction between the coffin lid and the coffin body shouldn't make such a loud noise. It was as if this coffin was connected to some other mechanism.

After the coffin lid was closed again, we all looked at the sealing stones on both sides, waiting for them to rise again and let us out.

But at this moment, something even more bizarre happened. Not only did the stones on both sides not rise, but the north wall of the main burial chamber suddenly rumbled, shaking as it pushed towards us for a distance of three *chi*!

I was instantly dumbfounded. How was this different from what I had expected?

Closing the coffin again not only didn't raise the sealing stones on both sides, but it also caused the walls to move, further reducing the space of the main burial chamber!

"What's going on?" Uncle Mei asked with wide eyes. "How did this wall move over?"

Jiang Yongguang was also stunned. After a long while, he walked over to take a look at the moving wall, squatted down to examine the ground, and then said with a pale face, "Damn it, the four walls of this tomb chamber can all move. These Seven Stars Suspicion Coffins (Qixing Yi Guan) must be the switch to activate them. Once we open and close the coffins, the walls will move accordingly."

Old Wei said speechlessly, "But we opened the Tianxuan coffin, and as a result, the sealing stones fell. Shouldn't closing the Tianxuan coffin correspond to raising the sealing stones?"

"I'm afraid it's not that simple," Little Liang shook her head. "If each coffin corresponds to a separate mechanism, then what you said would be true. But if these seven coffins form a compound mechanism, then you can't achieve the opposite command through a single reverse operation."

After hearing this, Old Wei scratched his head and frowned. "Little Liang, what does that mean?"

To be honest, I didn't understand Little Liang's words either. I felt like she was talking a bit too profoundly.

Little Liang explained again, "From the current perspective, these seven coffins should form a compound mechanism. If you think of it as a combination lock, then the actions of opening and closing the coffins can be seen as the password for us to leave the main burial chamber. But currently, we don't know how many digits this password is. It could be one digit, meaning we only need to open one coffin correctly to unlock the password. But it could also be seven digits, meaning we must continuously open seven coffins correctly to successfully leave this place."

This time, she explained it very clearly, and I finally understood what she meant.

Jiang Yongguang frowned and said, "If that's really the case, then this mechanism is too complicated. How can we possibly successfully try out the password?"

Old Wei even more anxiously looked around and said, "Now that the main burial chamber is sealed off, the air will soon be exhausted. If we can't crack the mechanism as soon as possible, everyone will probably suffocate to death in the tomb!"

Hearing Old Wei say this, everyone became even more nervous. The other members of the Xiaoling Guards were also anxiously scratching their heads, at a loss for what to do.

Uncle Mei even more tightly furrowed his brows and said in a deep voice, "Alas! It's a pity that I only have a lot of strength, but my brain isn't very good. I'm afraid I can't be of much help this time."

Only Little Liang was relatively calm. She looked up at Jiang Yongguang and Old Wei and said, "You two seniors, one of you is proficient in tomb structures, and the other is proficient in feng shui knowledge. Don't panic. Calm down and think carefully. We will definitely be able to think of a way to crack the mechanism."

I knew that my IQ was limited, and I probably couldn't be of much help either, so I could only cheer them on, "That's right. Since those tomb robbers aren't here, they must have cracked the mechanism and entered the secret passage. Since those rats can crack it, we can definitely crack it too!"

As a result, my words instantly awakened Jiang Yongguang.

He slapped his forehead and said, "That's right! Little Chen, you're right! Since Yang Guo and the others aren't in the main burial chamber, and there are no corpses of them at the scene, that means they've already cracked the mechanism and entered the secret passage! We don't have to do this problem ourselves at all. We can copy the answer!"

"Copy the answer?" I asked curiously. "How do we copy the answer?"

Jiang Yongguang pointed to the Tianxuan coffin we had just opened and asked, "Look, what changes occurred when this coffin was opened and closed?"

I bent down and took a closer look, and immediately understood. I pointed to the coffin and said, "The coffin lid is connected to the mechanism, and it takes a lot of force to push it open and closed, leaving scratches on the coffin body!"

"That's right, scratches!" Jiang Yongguang said, "Since Yang Guo and the others successfully cracked the mechanism and entered the secret passage, then we can find the scratches on the coffins, and we'll know which coffins they opened!"

"That's right!"

Everyone heard this and immediately looked down to check.

Uncle Mei was the first to find the scratches, pointing to the coffin placed in the Kaiyang position and saying, "This coffin has been opened!"

Old Wei was the second to find them, pointing to the coffin in the Tianshu position and saying, "This one also has scratches!"

Little Liang was the third to find them. The coffin she found was in the Yaoguang position. She raised her hand and said, "There's also this one. The Yaoguang coffin also has scratches."

In this way, among the Seven Stars Suspicion Coffins (Qixing Yi Guan), three coffins have scratches, which means that the "password" to activate the mechanism is three digits.

But at this time, I questioned, "Wait, Officer Jiang, is it possible that the Tianxuan coffin we just opened was also opened before? After all, you can't guarantee that the scratches on it were made by us, or by Yang Guo and the others before?"

Jiang Yongguang shook his head and said, "I don't think this coffin has been opened before, because when we opened the coffin just now, the coffin lid was very stiff, not like it had been opened before. And when we opened the coffin, dust was flying everywhere. If Yang Guo and the others had opened the coffin before, there wouldn't have been so much dust when we opened it again."

As soon as I heard this, I immediately agreed, "That makes sense."

Luckily Jiang Yongguang was observant and remembered the details when we opened the coffin, otherwise, it would have been easy to make a mistake.

At this time, Old Wei asked, "Okay, now we've locked in three correct coffins, Little Liang, how many opening sequences are there with three coffins arranged in different combinations?"

Little Liang almost instantly gave the answer, "Six combinations, which means we have to try six times."

I couldn't help but give her a thumbs up. "Good job, you calculated that so fast!"