Super Soldier in the City-Chapter 2088 - 2151: The Mysterious Courtyard

Li Yifei didn’t find anything by the door, but Xu Shanshan found a clue on her side, another ancient poem—’The small building last night in the east wind, the old country cannot bear to look back under the bright moon.’ As soon as this poem appeared, the previous warm atmosphere was immediately replaced by deep sorrow.

When Xu Shanshan finished speaking, Li Yifei immediately remembered the author of the poem, Li Yu, the last ruler of Southern Tang. He was also a prominent figure in the Song Lyrics, a rare poet among emperors.

The appearance of this poem at least pushed the era of the architect of the formation method forward by centuries.

Xu Shanshan was analyzing over there: "East wind, east wind, this side is west, that side is east, east wind east wind, naturally it blows from the east!" Reaching this point in her analysis, Xu Shanshan looked at the east wall, raising her hand and pointing towards the wall, saying, "A gust of wind sweeps by, so..."

"So is it here?" Xu Shanshan’s eyes lit up. After reasoning through a cycle, she returned to the candlestick area. She noticed two candlesticks with just ten centimeters between them. As Xu Shanshan walked over slowly, she stared at the two candlesticks, back to the starting point, noting there was nothing unusual about these candlesticks. Beneath them was also clear.

Li Yifei noticed Xu Shanshan’s movements and walked over, saying, "Back to the candlesticks again?"

"Yes, back here again!" Xu Shanshan nodded. Li Yifei then began to vigorously push the candlesticks or attempted to lift them up. After trying several times, he found it all ineffective.

"It means the answer is either here, or our previous analysis was wrong." Li Yifei was touching the candlestick while speaking, tapping on it. Xu Shanshan, about to say it’s okay, let’s find another clue, suddenly paused.

Li Yifei’s fingers didn’t stop, continuing to tap lightly, once, twice...but then he felt it.

"It’s here!" Xu Shanshan exclaimed with excitement.

"Here, you try." Li Yifei withdrew his hand from the candlestick.

Xu Shanshan eagerly reached out to turn the candlestick. Indeed, counting from the bottom up, at about one-third of the candlestick, there was a hollow space. If Li Yifei’s finger hadn’t happened to tap here just now, they might have missed it. This portion was about only two centimeters wide, while the rest was solid.

Xu Shanshan found the exact position, twisted it hard, and sure enough, the candlestick turned with her hand and then was taken down.

Inside lay a metal key... Uh, wait, Xu Shanshan, ready to cheer, felt her face freeze, as she was holding a broken key, or rather only half of it...

Unwilling to give up, Xu Shanshan tried to twist the other candlestick, but unfortunately, the other candlestick was solid and couldn’t be turned.

"Do we have to find the other half?" Xu Shanshan sighed, feeling slightly anxious inside.

Initially thinking victory was in sight, unexpectedly they encountered such a problem again.

Li Yifei chuckled and said, "Don’t rush, since we found this half, we can definitely find the other half."

Holding the key, Xu Shanshan’s face showed some displeasure, but after a brief pause, she earnestly started searching again.

The two had already reached the other end of the corridor; this formation method room might be the last one. Once out of this room, they might finally reach the end. However, they were stuck here. Xu Shanshan couldn’t find the next clue no matter what she tried, and it was ultimately Li Yifei who proposed a thought: try the lock, who knows it might work.

Previously, Li Yifei had already proven that this lock couldn’t be cut by a sword, even if wielded by him with Blue Glow and True Qi, it was useless.

Xu Shanshan could only try with the key. Lifting the lock, as she was about to insert the key, suddenly she paused, then turned excitedly towards Li Yifei and shouted, "Husband, the remaining half of the key is here, in the lock."

"Ah?" Li Yifei exclaimed in surprise, quickly walking over to discover that inside the lock indeed lay the remaining half of the key.

Good heavens, Li Yifei almost let out a curse. The creator of this mystery room was way too playful, setting up so many dangerous formation methods yet requiring the challenger to seize cleverly. After leading with poems, the remaining half appeared when they were on the brink of losing hope, only to find it hidden inside the lock.

"But how to get it out?" Xu Shanshan frowned. Typically, if a lock at home breaks, you either take it apart or replace it entirely, but right now the lock had no apparent seams to open, and she didn’t know how to retrieve it.

Li Yifei also leaned over to observe, thought for a moment, and said, "Try inserting the key directly inside, it might work."

"Hmm. Let me try." Xu Shanshan nodded, at this point, there wasn’t much of a choice but to give it a shot.

"Wait a moment." Li Yifei thought of something and advised, "Try using True Qi to connect with the broken segment inside the key. What I mean is, like you use a sword, use other weapons, connect the two with True Qi, maybe this will allow you to exert force to unlock the lock."

"Hmm hmm." Xu Shanshan nodded repeatedly, holding the key, she slowly inserted it, allowing the True Qi to surge and communicate with the inner half of the key. This action was easier said than done, but Xu Shanshan was still a bit anxious.

Turning her hand a few times, Xu Shanshan felt the interaction between the key in her hand and the broken key inside. Finally, after more than ten seconds, there was a click, the lock was opened, Xu Shanshan took a breath and cheered, "Yeah! It worked."

"Wait a moment." Seeing Xu Shanshan about to push open the door, Li Yifei quickly stopped her, saying, "Be careful, this could be the last formation method, we don’t know where we’ll end up!"

Xu Shanshan immediately restrained her smile, agreeing, "I’m ready, dear, let me open the door first, and we’ll observe before stepping out."

Having received Li Yifei’s response, Xu Shanshan slowly pushed open the door, and unlike the inside of the house, it was extremely bright outside, even the sunlight was dazzling, much better than the foggy feel of the whole island, the light source inside the house was quite dim, both could not help but squint, adjusting their eyes to the brightness.

Outside was very different, a courtyard the size of a basketball court, akin to ancient gardens, with a small fish pond, just a few meters to the right side of their vision, even with swimming fish.

Isn’t it possible that someone actually lives here? Both Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan were somewhat shocked, the pond where the fish swam actually seemed like a pond, without a source of flowing water, as the two stepped outside, the fish in the pond even leapt out of the water.

This movement attracted the attention of Li Yifei and Xu Shanshan, as the two walked to the pond’s edge, they saw this pond of less than ten square meters was actually very exquisite. In the center was a raised small island, with bizarre rock formations, trees visible, even Xu Shanshan saw a little monkey, while in the water was only one fish, which had jumped out of the water quite a few times, Li Yifei’s attention shifted from the island to the restless fish.

"Shanshan, look at this fish!" Li Yifei patted Xu Shanshan’s shoulder, suppressing immense excitement, whispered, Xu Shanshan looked over, saw the fish jumping out again, this time directly half a meter high, and then fell back into the water with a splash.

"This fish... How is this fish similar to that big fish!" As Xu Shanshan saw it, her heart was startled and she couldn’t help but shout.

"Haha, you feel the same way?" Li Yifei laughed out loud, pointed to the monkey on the island among the waters, saying, "Look at that monkey again!"

"I... I can’t even begin to describe this, it’s so breathtaking, could that monkey be the kind you encountered before, dear?" Xu Shanshan held her chest, her face continuously surprised.

Li Yifei was actually constantly shocked internally too, because the jumping monkey on the small island in the middle of the pond, like an ant, was indeed the same size as the strange monkeys he saw before, as he nodded, suddenly a monkey several times larger jumped out next to the small monkey, baring teeth and roaring at them.

"This is too overwhelming, I don’t even know how to express!" Xu Shanshan said again.

Li Yifei grinned, "Truly overwhelming, I’m even starting to doubt whether when we parachuted down from the plane, it was just intruding into a formation method, and all we experienced... was a miniature world."

Here was a pond, within the pond there was a miniature island, on the island were the fish, monkeys Li Yifei had seen outside on the island, the miniature island in the pond even had rivers, mountains, a multitude of miniature mountains, other animals, if all this was manually carved, it would be astonishing, as it’s already at millimeter level, meticulous down to the finest detail, also crucial is that these things are alive.

What sort of person could achieve this! Li Yifei’s mouth opened wide, continuously exclaiming, then he saw a giant crocodile lurking in the river water, even bigger than the unicorn lizard...

The two were utterly stunned, the small island above even had clouds shrouding in between, and that fish kept leaping out of the water, with continuous splashes, as if tirelessly.

Li Yifei didn’t know what to think, it’s completely beyond his imagination, he’s even wondering where the two are really located right now, on the miniature island in the pond, or outside the pond’s real island, or whether the outside real island is also an illusion...

Shaking his head, Li Yifei forcibly brought his vision back, while Xu Shanshan was still staring blankly.

In the courtyard, apart from this pond, there were some other landscapes, for instance, opposite the path was a weapons rack, even dozens of types of weapons on the rack, the weapons sparkled with a chilling light under the sunshine, Li Yifei patted Xu Shanshan’s shoulder, saying, "I’ll go take a look over there."

Tomorrow there’s a chance to erupt!!!!!!!