In the blink of an eye, Bu Er had reached the stone platform ahead.
"Young Master Jiang, bring the young master over."
With a few leaps, Jiang Zhizhou brought Yang Qing over and joined Bu Er.
Having learned from the mechanism on the previous platform, Jiang Zhizhou began searching around this one as soon as he arrived.
This time, however, he found nothing.
"Why is there nothing here?" Jiang Zhizhou looked at the bare stone platform, deeply surprised.
"Could it be that there are iron chains only at that first platform?"
Seeing his difficulty, Yang Qing crouched down as well and examined the stone platform carefully.
Just as Jiang Zhizhou had said, there was no mechanism on it.
Yang Qing turned to look at another stone platform not far away. After pondering for a moment, he spoke again. "Perhaps the mechanism isn't on the platform!"
If it was not on the platform, where else could it be?
"Could this place be a trap?" Bu Er asked.
They had been allowed to find one mechanism and believe they could escape with their lives, only to discover that there was no road to heaven and no door into the earth.
"Not necessarily," Yang Qing said. "We simply haven't found the way out yet."
Fortunately, this stone platform was considerably larger than the last, so Yang Qing could sit down.
After motioning for Jiang Zhizhou and Bu Er to sit down as well, he turned his gaze once more to the platform ahead.
There had to be a connection between these platforms, and that connection had to involve the iron chains.
But how could they uncover that connection?
Yang Qing had no answer.
His gaze kept moving back and forth between the platforms.
Suddenly, he had the vague impression that the stone platform