"I don't think they had the time to set up a decoy underground!
The tunnel was dug later, most likely after the major earthquake, when this whole site had been abandoned! Beneath an abandoned factory, anything they did would have been perfectly safe from discovery! No one would ever have found out! So there was no need for them to build a tunnel specifically to mislead people.
We've covered quite a distance. Who knows how much excavated earth they had to haul out? There was no reason to go to all that trouble! Besides, that doorway we just passed through was repaired within the last two years. Would a passage meant only as a decoy need repairs?"
After a moment's thought, she raised her flashlight and began searching the walls on either side.
"You think there might be a hidden mechanism here?" Xiong Gang asked.
He had pestered his boss for plenty of details about solving hidden mechanisms with Song Ning.
He had also listened to Han Xiao brag about Song Ning's many lucky-koi-or rather, ill-fated-exploits, with major cases cropping up wherever she went.
He had always lamented never having the chance to work alongside Song Ning.
Now that he finally had a chance to experience it firsthand, he was eager to try.
But Song Ning shook her head. "I just want to confirm a theory!"
Soon, she spotted something different at the junction of the two passages.
There was a wooden board almost the same color as the tunnel wall.
It had not been deliberately concealed. The tunnel was simply so dark that they would never have noticed it without looking closely.
There was even a matching wooden handle on the board.
She pulled it outward, revealing a cabinet inside.
She swept her flashlight over its contents.
"Just as