"Nameless, watch out for a trap!" Chen Weihua warned the moment she saw the key on the ground.
Nameless walked over with a smile and bent to pick it up. "Don't worry. It's just the key to Hope Outpost."
"Wait, haven't we already been to Hope Outpost?" Zhang Shouzhong asked.
Chen Weihua immediately understood what Nameless meant. "Strictly speaking, the Hope Outpost we visited was only a projection of the original. The real Hope Outpost should be here."
"Let's go!" Nameless put the key away and headed straight out of the village.
Zhang Shouzhong and Chen Weihua hurried after him. As they walked, Zhang Shouzhong asked, "Nameless, do you know where Hope Outpost is?"
"Didn't that video just give us the answer?" Nameless asked helplessly.
As they spoke, they left the village behind. A quiet bamboo grove lay ahead, with an ancient pagoda deeper within it.
Nameless walked up, took out the golden key, and inserted it into the pagoda's door. The entire pagoda gradually turned from gray to gold. At the same time, the ground shook violently as something beneath it began to emerge.
"Get back!" Nameless warned, retreating himself.
The earth split open, and Hope Outpost slowly rose from the ground.
It looked a little like a Hakka earthen building, but it was shaped like a bagua. The ancient pagoda stood at its very top, sealing off the entire roof.
Only after a full ten minutes did the ground stop shaking, revealing Hope Outpost in its entirety before the three of them.
"I already saw it in the video, but seeing it with my own eyes is still breathtaking," Zhang Shouzhong said.
Chen Weihua nodded. "And it's a treasure in its own right. It would be extremely difficult to destroy!"
"Amitabha."
A resonant voice drifted down from above.