Jiang Yue nodded slightly, her gaze sweeping over the surrounding stone walls. "Search carefully. Find the entrance to the second level."
Everyone immediately began searching the first level.
Before long, a constable noticed something unusual about one wall of the stone chamber. A light tap produced a hollow echo, but no matter how they felt around, they could not find the mechanism that opened the hidden door.
By the light of the torches, Li Feng glimpsed what appeared to be a stone lotus statue in the innermost corner.
The sight immediately delighted him.
As a transmigrator who had watched countless films, he knew this setup all too well. He could figure it out with his toes-a statue placed in the corner of a secret chamber like this was absolutely the key mechanism for opening the hidden door!
"Hold on, everyone. Let me try!"
Li Feng cleared his throat and strode forward, brimming with confidence.
His call immediately brought the surrounding constables to a halt. They all turned to look at the man of merit whom the Deputy Constable Director had just singled out for praise.
Under everyone's gaze, Li Feng approached the black lotus statue and made a show of feeling around its pedestal. Then he tried twisting the stone lotus petals clockwise and counterclockwise, but the statue did not budge.
He frowned. They really hid it well. He simply put his strength into both arms and, with a bang, forcibly uprooted the entire heavy statue
and flipped it over, smashing even the stone floor slabs beneath it.
But... there was absolutely nothing beneath the pedestal. Not even a stray hair, let alone any sort of mechanism.
Li Feng silently withdrew his hands. Facing dozens of stunned, bewildered gazes, he dusted off his palms. For a moment, the atmosphere was