Let the system try to save the world

Lu Jingming didn't need to say much about the long-standing tacit understanding. With just a glance, the team members had already formed their formation.

Lu Jingming took a deep breath and said, "Tear it apart."

Li Ziche and his teammates looked at each other and quickly tore off the yellow rune.

There was a small black hole on the wall under the yellow rune. The flow of spiritual energy was not disordered, and no sealed objects appeared.

Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, a slight sound of a machine lever came from the wall.

With a bang, a sharp arrow with a diameter of three fingers was aimed at the forehead of Lu Jingming who was kneeling on the ground, and shot out from the black hole quickly and fiercely.

"Jingming!" "Captain!"

There was a chaotic cry of surprise, and colorful spiritual energy followed closely, trying to shoot down the sharp arrow in mid-air.

Lu Jingming suddenly raised his head, exhaled a breath of foul air, and in an instant, he caught the tip of the sharp arrow with his mouth.

He spat the arrow on the ground. He didn't know what material the arrowhead was made of. After so many years, there was no trace of rust on it.

"You almost scared me to death." Gu Yugui came over in a cold sweat, "If this arrow had hit me, your brother would have eaten me alive."

"Xitong won't eat you." Lu Jingming struggled slightly and stood up from the red rope. "Brother Gu's meat is old and not tasty."

"Your meat is tender, I'll eat you." Gu Yugui complained, bent down to pick up the arrow and observed it carefully.

"Different people have different ways of eating." Lu Jingming stretched and walked to the black hole in the wall. He listened for half a second and asked, "Did you hear a rustling sound?"

"Not good!" Guo Ping yelled, "The mechanism has been activated!"

They saw that the entrance to the secret passage they had come from was slowly moving away at a slow but unmistakable speed.

The opening that just allowed two people to walk side by side is now wide enough for one person to walk sideways. At this speed, it will take only a few seconds before the passage disappears completely.

Lu Jingming took a quick step forward and his two arms transformed into dragon claws covered with black dragon scales, firmly supporting the gap between the passage and the wall.

As soon as he put his hands on it, he realized that this force was beyond his ability to contend with. The sand or groundwater pushing the secret passage had a force of more than ten tons.

Unless Lu Jingming fully reveals his dragon body, he will have no way of resisting this power.

“No, Jingming!” Gu Yugui hurriedly stopped him, “Don’t go against it. This wall has been here for who knows how long. We will all die if the wall is broken.”

Lu Jingming glanced at Gu Yugui, then he swung his hand vigorously, and the mechanism began to click, and the passage just now disappeared completely.

"Listen," Li Ziche suddenly called out, "the rustling sound just now is getting louder!"

There was no need for him to call out now, as everyone had seen it.

Some yellowish sand poured in along the black hole from which the arrow was shot.

At first there was very little sand, but then it seemed as if it had opened up some connection. The terrain of this secret room was originally low, and the sand poured in almost like a tide.

Without Lu Jingming saying anything, the people closest to him took action directly, using their spiritual powers to seal the hole tightly.

“…This is a real desire to kill someone.” Lu Jingming said after a moment of silence.

“The Heart-Eating Demon was not a good thing from the beginning.” Gu Yugui crossed his arms and said coldly.

"No." Lu Jingming pointed at the red ropes and said, "The person who set up this mechanism really wants to kill this person."

"These mechanisms are closely linked to each other." Lu Jingming said, "If it weren't for me, someone who should have been tied up here would have had an accident."

"First, an arrow pierced directly through the brain."

"If that person is lucky enough to survive." Lu Jingming looked at the hole in the wall, "the sand that comes with it will eventually fill up this room, and there will be no body left."

"Several years later, if that person is lucky, we may still be able to find a set of bones."

"This mechanism does not use spiritual power." Gu Yugui said, "If that person is a cultivator, how should the owner of the mechanism deal with it?"

"There are pills that disperse spiritual energy." Lu Jingming took the arrow that the team members were studying, "Let's not talk about this for now. If my guess is correct, the owner of the mechanism can ensure that these sands can be poured into this secret room."

"We lost the torch when we came in." Lu Jingming snapped his fingers, and the arrow made a metallic buzzing sound. "Together with the Jiaozi, these two things indicate that there is both oxygen and water in this passage. In this case, this arrow has not rusted for so many years."

"This can probably be called... stainless steel." After testing the hardness of the arrow, Lu Jingming returned the arrow to the other team members who were proficient in this field. "This is the world of immortal cultivation. There are no electric arc furnaces to make steel. The temperature of 800 degrees may be achieved by a refiner, but this process is not something that can be done by just anyone on the street."

"As long as we can get out, we can find the insider with just this arrow."

"You've really made great progress in the past ten years." Gu Yugui looked at Lu Jingming talking and couldn't help but sigh, "You're becoming more and more like Xitong."

"Of course." Lu Jingming said proudly.

"What do we do now?" Gu Yugui asked.

"Wait." Lu Jingming sat cross-legged on the ground. "Since this secret passage is turning, there must be other rooms."

"What's the point of having only one room rotating? Wouldn't that turn it into a revolving restaurant?" Lu Jingming closed his eyes, turned his five hearts to the sky, and began to recover his spiritual power, "Wait until the other room rotates right in front of us."

It was not too late at this time. It felt like less than half an hour had passed before the door to another room appeared in front of them.

Lu Jingming seemed to have sensed something. He opened his eyes, put on all his equipment, and was the first to walk into the new room.

The new passage was about the same length as the one they came in through, and Lu Jingming turned on the mining lamp.

There seemed to be more clues left in this room than the previous one. There was a table in the front and a map hanging on the wall. Several place names on it were circled in cinnabar, forming a long line.

Lu Jingming read out these place names gently under the light, "Kunlun, Taizu, Shaozu, Zhushan..."

"Fuck." After a long while, Lu Jingming cursed, "What kind of place is this?"

"We have to find our native boss as soon as possible." Lu Jingming muttered, and followed the others to rummage through the things in the room.

There were very few things in the room, and the group quickly searched through everything.

Lu Jingming turned on the light and looked over. The ink in the inkstone on the table had dried up long ago, and the cushion for people to sit on was also made of straw and had already rotted for the most part.

"There are words." Gu Yugui lifted Lu Jingming's mining lamp, and they saw a line of words on the corner of the table that were so messy that they were almost incomprehensible.

“Years of hard work…”

"It's all in vain."