My Intuition Is Pretty Sharp

Danger always coexists with opportunity. As we get closer to the secret, death also approaches with heavy steps and a sinister grin.

Carlos understood this principle; he had almost been bitten through by the sharp teeth of an ancient corpse when he lifted the coffin lid before, and had also been poisoned by the corpse.

In short, the more reckless you are, the more clues and rewards you will get, because the original intention of Absurd Deduction is to take risks and find the truth.

His premonition of danger was sometimes right and sometimes wrong, but it seemed to have come true today. Carlos hesitated for two seconds, then, seeing that Yu Xing had already started touching the mechanism, reminded him, "Be careful, there's something inside."

With everyone present being outsiders, there was less mutual restraint. Unexpectedly, after several days of back-and-forth, all the NPCs left the team, leaving only the deducer and the experience user. Was this merely a coincidence?

There is no answer yet.

While the three were talking, Carlos didn't turn on his microphone the entire time, so Shi Jiu could only see blurry images with flashing white lines. She saw Master Li's strange behavior and Uncle Zhang's head. From the shore, she murmured, "It's over. Who will we get the rest of the money from...?"

You should know that she was hired but only received half of the payment. The other half was to be paid by Master Li after the mission was completed. She was a mercenary and had many other missions to do. Her cooperation with Master Li was likely to be settled one payment per mission.

The people behind Shi Jiu heard this and asked what had happened.

For some unknown reason, the red dots on the monitors belonging to each individual device were still active, and even the red dots symbolizing deceased people would suddenly move every now and then. Without looking at the live screen, it was hard to imagine what was happening inside.

Shi Jiu subconsciously glanced at Will, who was standing closest. She felt that Will had already been taken over by the ghost timeline, and she didn't know if there were any other changes. She also didn't trust the other three members of the tomb raiding families, because she didn't know them and if they changed, she wouldn't be able to tell immediately.

There seems to be no way to prevent changes in the timeline; perhaps while she's sitting here, she herself is no longer the person she was at the beginning.

So she could only carefully recount what had happened in the tomb, using a technique she often employed, half-truthfully and half-falsely, avoiding mentioning that Will had already noticed Will strange behavior. Although Will had probably heard it all and was plotting to kill her, it was best to maintain the facade of peace to avoid chaos both above and below ground.

The situation is already very bad, and Shi Jiu wants to try his best to stabilize things.

She was already hoping this trip would end soon. She had no use for anything in these bizarre supernatural events, and the uncertainty of the situation made her feel very dangerous. She could even foresee that Carlos and the others would definitely see "her in the tomb," and perhaps even a dead one.

Oh dear, that's terrifying.

"Bang!"

Dust billowed as Yu Xing jumped from the ground into the deep pit, immediately plunging into darkness.

About two meters below the flower field, there was indeed a new space, showing signs of age and dampness. It wasn't very high, just enough for Yu Xing to stand upright, and it felt cramped and oppressive. The walls were pitted and uneven, and compared to the passageway they had passed through before, it even seemed somewhat "rudimentary".

But this is what a tomb palace should look like, without illusions, a pure cemetery.

Carlos, who was behind Lin, helped the weaker Lin down. The three of them looked around the new tomb passage together. Since the Mingzhu was missing, Yu Xing turned on his high-powered flashlight and set it to the lowest setting.

"Now this looks more like a cemetery. The Mingzhu in front are like they're free. I've been meaning to say this for a while now, this demon daoist must be rolling in money." Carlos grumbled, moving closer to examine the wall. It was covered in large patches of strangely colored bacteria, common underground bacteria.

"I've checked the records. Twelve hundred years ago, during the warring states period, even the wealthiest small country couldn't afford so many precious luminous Mingzhu even with its treasury emptied. So it's an illusion, not reality," Lin said calmly, adopting an academic demeanor.

"After we emerged from the maze, there were even more Mingzhu embedded above that flower field." Yu Xing didn't even glance at the ground or the walls, and started walking forward. He smiled, seemingly quite relaxed. "In other words, the upper level, besides the maze, also has an illusory flower field, and it's even closer to reality than we think, making it indistinguishable."

"The demon daoist probably wants to use that upper level to keep all the tomb raiders away," Lin chimed in, disapproving of Yu Xing's decision to walk straight ahead. "Be careful, there might be trouble."

Before he could finish speaking, the wall beside Yu Xing made a sound, and a small square suddenly opened above his head, revealing a completely black quiver.

The arrows were fired recklessly; they were small, black arrows, faster and harder to defend against than ordinary arrows.

The arrows were spread out, firmly placing Yu Xing's location within the attack range.

"Watch out!" Lin's pupils contracted. Yu Xing had walked too far ahead, leaving him and Carlos no time to rescue her.

Seeing that Lin was willing to help, Carlos lazily crossed his arms. "Don't worry, let him go all out, he won't kill himself."

Lin's eye twitched involuntarily. He didn't quite understand where Carlos's confidence came from. Could it be that Carlos and San were actually two very powerful figures?

He had never met such a composed person.

Sure enough, with the clanging of metal, Lin saw Yu Xing's Tang sword draw a strange arc. It seemed like a simple sweep, but it swept away all the arrows. The arrows that flew out embedded themselves in the wall to a frightening depth.

The only ones unaffected were the ones standing in the direction of Carlos and Lin, which shows that Yu Xing, even when caught off guard, still had the ability to watch out for those behind him and knew not to accidentally hit his teammates with arrows.

After a volley of arrows was fired, the quiver above their heads did not retract, but there was no other sound either, suggesting it was a one-time use item.

Yu Xing turned around, her face showing no relief at surviving the ordeal, only that familiar smile, "I'm fine, don't worry about me."

Carlos scoffed, "Nobody's worried about you."

Lin: "..." Probably.

Yu Xing noncommittal, gazing calmly at the malfunctioning mechanism, and said in a low voice, "Attack-type mechanisms are one-time use. The trigger mechanism is a ground trap, with linked sounds from both sides of the walls. The entire mechanism's layout should extend from the ground to the walls, then relay the feedback to the top of the wall. This is a large-scale mechanism. Although it's not as sophisticated as smaller mechanisms, the person who could create such a large-scale mechanism in that era must have been a genius."

Just like the legendary wooden ox and flowing horse created by Zhuge Liang, and the "Mohist mechanical arts" of the Spring and Autumn Period, the technology involved in this tomb passage is even more complex than the Mohist crossbow.

Moreover, this is not only a large-scale mechanism, but also a large-scale mechanism built behind a stone wall. How could the original builders have possessed such ingenuity to make all of this possible?

Lin was taken aback for a moment. "You deliberately triggered the mechanisms to test them?"

Yu Xing gave him a strange look. "Isn't this basic operation? Moreover, testing whether the mechanism is a one-time use or a loop can help us confirm whether this path is the one that Oster Company has taken. Now it seems that the people from Oster Company must have taken a different path."

He shone his flashlight forward, but the tomb passage ahead was empty except for the dust, and there were no signs of any mechanisms being triggered.

The mechanisms in the tomb passage were very well hidden; it would be almost impossible for a normal person to avoid stepping on them. Even Yu Xing didn't discover the mechanisms before stepping on one.

He didn't believe that everyone from Oster Company could evade detection.

"Therefore, we can also deduce that this level of the tomb passage has more than one entrance. If this level of the tomb passage is the true tomb passage concealed and protected by the maze above, and the demon daoist's coffin is also here, then we can deduce several possible locations for the tomb palace."

As Yu Xing spoke, he continued walking forward, "Either the main burial chamber and the various entrances are concentric circles, with the entrances forming a circle and the main burial chamber and the Ghost Tree in the very center; or they are fan-shaped, with the main burial chamber at the handle, all the entrances equidistant from the main burial chamber, and the Ghost Tree standing alone at the tassel."

"Another possibility is that the entire tomb is a regular rectangle, with the main burial chamber and side chambers arranged in a regular pattern, and the entrance located at several uncertain points within the rectangle. This is more complicated because even if we find other entrances later, we won't be able to make further calculations."

He squinted and fanned away the dust that the flashlight beam hit. "But with Lin here, it's much simpler."

Lin and Carlos, who had anticipated this, were both stunned. Only when Yu Xing truly entered analytical mode could they realize how clear this young man's thinking was.

It seems that Yu Xing lists out the clues one by one, the deeper clues hidden behind the surface appear effortlessly, and the pace suddenly speeds up a lot.

Of course, this is also because neither Carlos nor Lin are the type of people who are good at reasoning. If it were someone known for their reasoning skills, they could have quickly come up with these points and discussed them with Yu Xing.

Yu Xing realized this too. After he finished speaking, the other two fell silent; it wasn't fun at all.

Yu Xing wanted to work on the deduction with Zhao Mou. He wanted to see what level Zhao Mou, a highly intelligent person of the new era, could achieve and whether he could find details that even he couldn't discover.

Ugh... I really want a high-IQ teammate, the kind who can just lie around and coast along.

Yu Xing's mind wandered off for a moment, until her vision was blocked by Yi Qing's semi-transparent blue figure.

What are you thinking about? These two kids are calling you.

Yi Qing bent down and waved in front of him, interrupting his reverie.

Yu Xing snapped out of her daze, just as Carlos began his incessant rambling. "... So it's not that we're stupid, it's just that this guy is too freakish."

"..." Yu Xing turned to look at Carlos. What did that brat just say?

Then he saw a hint of pride on Carlos's face as he explained to Link, "I realized how smart San was the first time I saw him. I tried to tease him by having him guess my profession, and he immediately said I was Magician."

Lin also chimed in, and the two of them followed behind Yu Xing, seemingly chatting. "So you two met here. That's great, you became friends after just one Yugi."

Carlos grinned wickedly. "That's... fate."

But what I was really thinking was, "No way! We were never meant to be, it's all because I'm throwing myself at it."

After listening for a while, Yu Xing realized that although Carlos was exaggerating to some extent, he didn't mention anything about the deducer. The things he mentioned were all vague and wouldn't make it clear that the deducer and the experiencer were different.

They didn't yet know whether the relationship between the deducers and the experiencers was cooperative or hostile. Judging from the system's reluctance to involve them too much in these few interactions, it was always better to be cautious.

Lin now believes they are the experience testers, and they hold the initiative. Carlos may seem to be chatting casually, but isn't he also trying to extract information?

Just as Yu Xing thought, Carlos was very cunning, not simple at all, and very dangerous.

Yu Xing let them talk without worry. They deliberately kept their voices down, but the sound still echoed in the empty tomb passage. The passage was straight, and at the end of the line of sight was a door with carved patterns.

There were countless traps on the way to the door. Yu Xing let himself step on one before becoming cautious, lest he trigger one and implicate the two people behind him. They were now almost a few centimeters apart, the kind of distance where if something happened, neither of them could escape.

"Be careful, everyone. Oh, and by the way, I have a question." Yu Xing reminded them before asking the question he most wanted to know, "Does Lin's feng shui skills have any side effects?"

Previously, Zhao Ruru's small-scale divination didn't have many side effects, except that the cooldown time was a bit long after the number of uses was exhausted, and it was difficult to fuse offensive and defensive offerings. It seemed that after gaining the ability to glimpse the secrets of heaven and destiny, she would be suppressed in other areas.

Lin also seems to be physically weak, even weaker than the tomb raiders of this world, just like a frail college student.

"Of course." Lin had been the subject of much curiosity. His team had recruited him because of his uniqueness, even though he wasn't particularly outstanding in any aspect, and they had also helped him obtain the Buddha Seal Umbrella. "If I see something I shouldn't, I'll suffer a backlash. My personal feng shui field is usually fine; I generally won't see anything too terrifying. But feng shui calculations for specific locations... are very risky."

"For example, when I'm calculating the details of this tomb, I deliberately avoid the term 'Ghost Tree,' otherwise, if I accidentally see what the Ghost Tree looks like, I'll suffer the same consequences as if I were facing the Ghost Tree directly in real life."

"This is just the risk. I can't perform calculations too frequently, or I'll gradually turn into a corpse. My ability was activated in the temple of an old Daoist priest who died hundreds of years ago." Lin was sharing information he had already made public among the experience trainers, so telling these two was fine. "Many people envy this ability, and I'm quite satisfied with it."

Just like a regular priest in a Yugi, although they lack self-defense capabilities, have weak attack power, slow speed, low health and low defense, this class is important enough that plenty of people will protect them.

As he spoke, Lin paused, shifting his feet away from where he had intended to step, and instead moved closer to Yu Xing as if avoiding a trap. "Another thing is, my intuition is very sharp. Carlos, when did your camera go out?"