I treated you so well, yet you betrayed me! (Please subscribe and vote with monthly tickets)

Hearing Lin Mo's question, the official smiled. "Lord Lin, are you curious about how I opened the door? I spotted a hidden mechanism outside and wondered whether there might be treasures inside, so I checked it with an instrument for a while."

He talked for a while, and through some roundabout questioning, Lin Mo finally realized what had happened.

For some unknown reason, Li Chen, the emperor of the Heavenly Strategy Dynasty, had discovered the Dragon Emperor's Tomb, which contained vast amounts of wealth, cultivation resources, and the Dragon Cavalry.

He had ordered the Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of Works, and Ministry of War to organize teams to explore it.

Before that, however, the hundred consorts here had already followed Li Chen into the Imperial Palace in the Imperial Capital, and the slumbering Dragon Emperor was as dead as could be.

Li Chen had not explained any of this in detail. He had merely announced the discovery of a vast fortune left by the former dynasty, so the others naturally knew nothing more.

Lin Mo followed his colleague from the Ministry of Works out of the secret chamber and saw people from the Imperial Court bustling through the corridors. They belonged to different departments, apparently the Ministry of Works, Ministry of Revenue, and Ministry of War.

Having spent some time in the Imperial Capital, he could certainly tell them apart.

According to his colleague, the ministers of all three departments had come in person, each bringing more than ten thousand people.

That was also why his colleague had not questioned Lin Mo's presence here.

He had assumed that the minister had summoned Lin Mo as well.

When Lin Mo visited some of the consorts' palaces and asked about their occupants, his colleague told him that no one was here; all