"Don't be so nervous. I just want to work with you." Ye Xunzhi walked over with a smile and offered an olive branch without preamble.
Lin Ranran looked wary. "Why should I trust you?"
"Why shouldn't you?" Ye Xunzhi countered, pointing at a mechanism nearby right in front of Lin Ranran.
"See that? That's our only way out."
Lin Ranran froze, then looked where Ye Xunzhi was pointing. They were inside a secret chamber, and Ye Xunzhi was pointing at a wall.
She immediately frowned. "That's clearly a wall."
"But it has a mechanism." Ye Xunzhi pointed at three buttons on the stone wall-three protruding blocks of stone.
Lin Ranran instinctively went to inspect them, but after taking two steps, she suddenly heard a click.
Her expression stiffened. Looking down, she saw that she had depressed a floor tile. Almost the instant she stepped on it, densely packed round holes appeared on both sides of the walls, and a huge iron cage appeared overhead.
Startled, Lin Ranran was about to move her foot in fright when Ye Xunzhi's cool voice rang out.
"I'd advise you not to move your foot. Otherwise, the next second, we'll probably be turned into porcupines by arrows shooting out of the walls."
Reluctant as Lin Ranran had been before, she was panicking now. "What do we do?"
Ye Xunzhi took out her compass and said unhurriedly, "According to my research, the three buttons on the wall can solve this problem."
"In feng shui, wherever there's a gate of death, there must be a gate of life. I deduce that the leftmost button is the gate of life, the rightmost button drops the iron cage, and the middle one is the gate of death. So stay still. I'll press the button."
With that, she started off,