After coming down the mountain, I was pampered by two emperors!

The next morning, a ray of sunlight shone directly onto Long Jiaojiao's face through the branches and leaves. She slowly opened her eyes and wanted to use her hands to block the sunlight on her face. Helplessly, she found that Mei and Shu were still sleeping soundly, each holding one of her arms.

She smiled faintly, and looking at their cute appearance, she really couldn't bear to wake them up.

About an incense stick of time later, Mei Xichen woke up from his sleep. He rubbed his eyes and looked at Long Jiaojiao.

"Long'er, are you awake?" He found that he was still holding Long Jiaojiao's arm, so he immediately sat up and rubbed her gently.

"Are you numb?" Mei Xichen said embarrassedly.

"What do you think?" Long Jiaojiao asked with a smile.

"Hey, hey, wake up." Seeing that Shu Rong hadn't woken up yet, Mei Xichen pushed his shoulder and shouted angrily.

"What's the matter? Is it dawn yet?" Before Shu Rong opened his eyes, he was pushed aside by Mei Xichen.

"What are you doing? I was having a sweet dream and you woke me up." Shu Rong stretched, sat up straight and said unhappily.

"It's time for us to get down to business. Why are you still sleeping? How about Long Er and I go, and you stay here and continue to dream about your big dream?" After saying this, Mei Xichen was about to pull Long Jiaojiao off the locust tree.

"No, wait for me."

"Then why don't you cheer up?"

After Shu Rong tidied his clothes, the three of them jumped down to the ground together. Mei Xichen led the way, followed by Long Jiaojiao and Shu Rong.

Although it is early morning, the sunlight is intermittent because the sky is filled with yellow sand. Fortunately, the visibility does not affect their observation of everything around them.

Mei Xichen gently pushed open the door of the palace and three people walked in.

"Long'er, look, besides the blurry mural, there is also this picture on the ground. It's what I told you about that day." Mei Xichen said, pointing to the picture on the ground.

Long Jiaojiao looked at it and didn't understand it. It was just an ordinary picture. If the meaning of the picture was the same as the lies that Chi Heng told to deceive Uncle Zhong and the others, then there was nothing special about it.

"Why are we studying the painting? Let's hurry up and find Chi Heng's lair. Didn't we see him walking out of the palace? So he must be here." Shu Rong said with certainty.

"Yes, there is no time to lose and we should look around to see if there is any protruding mechanism here." Long Jiaojiao said as she walked towards the left side of the palace.

When Shu Rong saw Long Jiaojiao went to the left side, he began to grope from the right side little by little.

"You guys search on the wall, I'll go to the ceiling to see if I can find anything." Mei Xichen jumped into the air and lay on the ceiling like a gecko.

The palace is not particularly large, with four pillars in the middle supporting the building. Shu Rong observed carefully and found that these four pillars were different from those of other buildings. Logically speaking, the area, frame and pillars of the palace should complement each other, but these four pillars are particularly thick. Could it be that the aesthetic taste of the people here is different from that of normal people?

He circled the pillar, looking it up and down.

"No, there must be something inside this pillar."

"Mei Xichen, come down. I feel something is wrong with this pillar." Shu Rong waved to Mei Xichen and motioned him to come over to him.

"Is there anything wrong? It's just a few pillars." Mei Xichen jumped down, came to Shu Rong and said to him.

"Your palace is much bigger than this one, but are the pillars in your palace this thick?" Shu Rong asked.

When Mei Xichen heard Shu Rong ask him this, he immediately became confused.

"Shu Rong, are you saying there might be someone inside the pillar?"

"If that's the case, then aren't those the four men in black we saw?"

"I think so." Shu Rong nodded.

"Let's look around and see if there's any mechanism in here." Mei Xichen winked at Shu Rong, and the two began to search up and down.

After searching the left wall for a long time without any results, Long Jiaojiao looked in the direction of Shu Rong and saw Mei Xichen and Shu Rong groping and patting the pillar up and down, so she walked over.

"What are you two doing? Is there something wrong with this pillar?"

"Long Er guessed right. We just suspected that there was something wrong with this pillar, but now we don't know how to open it."

"Are you sure you have searched everywhere and there is no trap?"

"I've looked everywhere, but there's nothing special." Mei Xichen shook his head to indicate that he didn't see it.

"Look, maybe the trick lies in the murals on these two sides."

"Is there something wrong with this mural? It's so blurry?" Shu Rong walked over and took another closer look.

Long Jiaojiao came to Shu Rong and pointed with her finger: "Look, the murals on both sides have the same pattern, a snake king with several figures on it. Not to mention that these figures are blurry, but you can see that the snake king's eyes are clear. Why is that?" Long Jiaojiao glanced at Shu Rong on the side.

"That means that this eye is different from a painting. It is not painted with paint or mixed with other ingredients?"

"I think it should be like this. There are two snake kings on both sides, and their four eyes are all looking towards the pillar. That means the mechanism is the eyes of these two snake kings?" Thinking of this, Shu Rong jumped up and pressed the two eyes on the right.

"What's going on? It's not open."

"It shouldn't be a button that was pressed, but something that triggered it." Long Jiaojiao said after thinking for a moment.

"Moonlight, it must be moonlight." Mei Xichen answered with certainty.

"Didn't they wait until daybreak before going back? Why?"

"It must be that the moonlight can shine into the eyes of the two snakes and then trigger the mechanism. During the day, they stay still and sleep inside, and come out at night."

"Have you noticed that although the sky is full of yellow sand, the sky is always normal before dawn, and the moonlight is sufficient, which gives them ample time to return to their nests."

"If that's the case, then things will be much easier. We can do this..." Shu Rong suddenly came up with an idea.

"Well, this is a good idea. It turns out you have a lot of ideas." Mei Xichen kept nodding and praising.

"That's right, otherwise why would Long'er love me more." Shu Rong smiled proudly.

"You can always blame Long'er for everything. I really admire you." Mei Xichen rolled his eyes at Shu Rong and walked out of the palace.

"Where are you going?" Shu Rong ran up and tugged at the corner of his clothes and asked.

"Aren't you thirsty or hungry? Of course you're looking for something to eat or drink."

"I'll go with you."

"Long'er, go back to the big locust tree first, we'll be back soon."

Long Jiaojiao looked at the two men's backs with confusion. It seemed like they had a good understanding of each other.