Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

"What is this pattern?" Gu Yue tilted his head.

After turning it a few times, I could vaguely see what kind of tree it was carved in. But it was really crude and simple, not worthy of being worthy of a formal occasion, and it was engraved in negative, with traces of chiseling on the sides.

The entire floor of the crypt was circled, and there were four tree-shaped carvings, one at each of the two protruding small spaces of the concave character, and one on each side of the door below the concave character, but the spacing was farther, and the overall symmetry was achieved.

The tree carvings also look different. The crown of the tree carving at the entrance of the small space has some circular chiseling marks, and the trunk is only one; while the tree carvings on both sides of the door have multiple branches and no circular chiseling marks on the crown.

In addition, there are long vertical indentations on both sides of the concave space. At first, Gu Yue thought it was naturally formed, but now it seems that it is probably some kind of rough carving.

What does it mean?

The whole dungeon gave Gu Yue a feeling of perfunctoriness, panic, anxiety, and carelessness.

What's behind the door? Is it the same?

What do these carvings mean?

Let Shi San stand in the middle of the cave holding a fire starter, and Gu Yue looked at the unclear marks on the ground and fell into deep thought.

I always feel like I've seen this layout somewhere before...

There was a sudden knock on the stone door behind him.

Gu Yue hurried over.

I put my ear to the stone door, and Gu Xu's voice came from the other side: "Gu Dashi? Are you here?"

"Here, here, here!" Gu Yue shouted excitedly.

This is too fast, he is worthy of being the male lead!

Gu Yue squatted and waited for the door to open.

There were knocking sounds coming from the other side. After a while, the sound of a spring came from somewhere, and the stone door rumbled open a crack, and firelight came in from the other side of the door.

This seam... even someone a little fat can't fit in.

"It's stuck." Gu Xu handed in a torch first. Gu Yue took it and stepped aside, and Gu Xu squeezed in from the door.

"I thought it was some kind of anti-theft measure. How did you know it was stuck?" Gu Yue asked casually.

"...The sound of the mechanism is wrong." Gu Xu remained calm.

Gu Yue would not listen to the sound of the mechanism, in his ears it was just a crackling noise.

“But considering the shoddy appearance of this place, it is understandable that the mechanism would get stuck.” Gu Yue said.

"How are you? Are you okay?" Gu Xu asked.

"It's okay, my butt hurts. I fell so hard." Gu Yue touched his butt with one hand, and the base of his tail still felt dull and painful.

"...Yeah." Gu Xu was already accustomed to his vulgar speech.

The place where Gu Xu came in was the concave stone door, the one that Gu Yue felt was not tightly fitted.

Gu Xu looked around in the light of the torch.

"By the way, Xiao Xu, come and see, there are corpses here." Gu Yue called him.

The two walked to the small space with light above their heads, and Gu Xu looked up to observe the crack in the stone above his head. There was a gap in the middle of the supporting stone, just enough for a person to fall down.

Four skeletons fell to the ground in different postures. Gu Xu looked at them without changing his expression.

"There's also a gold brick! It looks like this place is full of treasures." Gu Yue handed the torch to Shi San, picked up the gold brick, and a happy look on his face.

Gu Xu glanced at it and said, "That's fake. It's brass."

"Ah?" Gu Yue's expression suddenly fell.

He didn't give up, holding the gold brick and moving closer: "Are you sure? It's really not a gold brick? Is it fake?"

Although the color of this gold brick is indeed dull, considering the light and ancient purification technology, as well as the fact that these treasure thieves were holding on to it until their death, Gu Yue was unwilling to believe it.

Gu Xu looked at it carefully.

"It's indeed fake, put it down." Gu Xu said mercilessly.

Gu Yue was distraught and put the brass brick back to its original place.

It seems to be some kind of anti-theft measure... Most treasure thieves are unwilling to take risks, and it is possible that they will just go home after getting such a big "gold brick".

"These four people must have been here for some years." Gu Xu said.

"That's what I thought, too." Gu Yue said, "Let's ignore them for now. What should we do next?"

This is the male protagonist's home court, listen to him.

Gu Xu walked towards the half-open stone door on the other side.

"By the way, Xiao Xu, there are some carvings on the ground. I don't know what they mean." Gu Yue took him to see the tree carvings on both sides, as well as the vertical strips against the wall.

"..."Gu Xu squatted down and looked at the scratches on the branches.

"Yard." Shi San said suddenly.

"What yard?" Gu Yue turned around.

Shi San brought the torch close to the flagstone floor and swept the ground with his feet. He saw two long dents starting from both sides of the door and extending to the door where Gu Xu came in.

Like a road.

Shi San walked to the wall again and pointed at the messy vertical carvings: "Bamboo, maybe."

--Oh!

"It's true!" Gu Yue suddenly realized.

Aren’t these layouts common in the courtyards of wealthy families?

It is so neat and tidy, like a northern courtyard, which is quite different from the south of the Yangtze River where Yunxi is located.

Gu Xu looked a little dazed: "No wonder it's so familiar... So that's how it is."

"Is this the yard where you lived as a child?" Gu Yue asked hurriedly.

"I don't remember it clearly, but it should be correct." Gu Xu walked back to the door, "If it really is my former home, then maybe..."

The door was ajar, and it seemed that one could squeeze in directly, but the gap was too small. There were several marks of hacking on the door, and it seemed that someone had pried it open violently.

He asked Shi San for a torch, and Shi San came over with the torch, illuminating the stone wall.

Gu Xu felt around inch by inch and found a mark about one meter high on one side.

The two circles intersected, with the middle part protruding slightly. Gu Xu pressed the center position, and the half-closed stone door opened completely.

Shi San walked in first.

Inside was a stone chamber, but it was empty.

You can see the whole picture from the door. There is really nothing there, and it is made in a crude and perfunctory manner. You can only barely see that it is a rectangle; the protruding stones in the corners of the wall have not been cut off.

Gu Yue studied the stones and found that they were not mechanisms.

dead end.

I think the three treasure thieves were trapped here in the same way. The door in front can only be opened from the outside, but they took great pains to pry open this door, but there was a dead end inside.

The entrance might be where they fell.

Don't you even leave someone on top to guard it? A bunch of stupid thieves.

The three of them evacuated the stone chamber, returned to the door through which Gu Xu came in, and squeezed out one after another.

After going out, there is a stone corridor about three meters long, followed by an irregular cave-like space with a stone screen standing in the middle. With the previous guess of the courtyard layout, Gu Yue thought that this should be the screen wall for entering the gate.

Sure enough, after passing the stone screen, there is a narrow entrance. After turning the corner and crossing a translucent vine wall, there is a tiny crack in the stone. Outside is an entrance blocked by stones and opened on the mountain wall.

The stones and plants were probably camouflage added after the underground palace was built.

Where is the treasure?

That door is obviously a dead end?

Original text, how was it written? Gu Yue tried hard to recall.