"Should we keep watching?" Xiao Zhao turned around, looking everywhere, whispering as if afraid to disturb something.

Zhao Weitao looked at the time and said, "Forget it, let’s go out. It’s about time."

"Phew..." Xiao Zhao let out a long sigh of relief, thinking, finally, we can leave this creepy place.

"By the way..." Zhao Weitao took a few steps and then suddenly turned back and said, "Don’t tell anyone we came in here, or He Xiaofei will start nagging again."

"Don’t worry, Brother Zhao, I’ll definitely keep it a secret." Xiao Zhao pounded his chest, loudly promising.

As the two left, the passage returned to its usual silence and darkness.

In the basement where the fissure appeared, Lin Tian walked around it twice, finding the crack too small for a person to fit through. Xiao Manxuan and the others all thought Lin Tian was pondering how to solve the bug problem in the crevice, but Lin Tian was considering something else.

How to get in? A part of Jiang Chen’s body is most likely down there, Lin Tian thought with a frown.

Let Little Zi in? But even if it went in, it would be useless; even if it found Jiang Chen, it couldn’t bring him out.

"How about... we inform the school and let them handle it?" Ning Wenbin suggested hesitantly.

Unexpectedly, Wu Xiuluo was the first to object: "No, the school’s leaders don’t understand these things. If we let them deal with it, they’ll probably make things even worse."

"Senior Sister Xiuluo is right, these things are an unknown power to them. Besides, even if we tell them the truth, they won’t believe it, and they’ll just have people fill it in, which won’t solve anything." Lin Tian agreed, nodding to Wu Xiuluo’s opinion.

"Then what should we do?" Xiao Manxuan asked curiously.

"This has to be handled by Luoxi." Lin Tian thought for a moment and said.

"You mean cousin? Cousin is having some trouble lately; I heard from uncle that cousin is feeling unwell, but he didn’t say what exactly." Ning Wenbin frowned, expressing concern.

"Luoxi feeling unwell?" Lin Tian was shocked inside. If Ning Luoxi were an ordinary person, sickness wouldn’t be unusual, but she isn’t, Ancient Martial Artists rarely get sick.

If Ning Luoxi isn’t feeling well, there are only two possibilities: either she’s injured on a mission, or her violent energy is acting up again.

Ning Luoxi’s situation is somewhat similar to Xiao Manxuan’s; both are caused by energy disturbances. But Ning Luoxi’s violent energy is acquired from training, whereas Xiao Manxuan’s unusual energy is innate.

But Ning Luoxi has Blue Snake Grass on her, which should mitigate her violent energy, so theoretically, it shouldn’t be out of control again. Could it be she’s injured? Lin Tian wondered, unable to find an answer.

"Lin Tian, I have a temporary solution: locate all passages in the basements and seal the doors so no one can enter them, then find Sister Luoxi to handle it." Xiao Manxuan suggested.

"I support Xuanxuan’s proposal." Wu Xiuluo agreed with Xiao Manxuan’s idea.

Lin Tian glanced around and nodded, "No time to waste, let’s start here."

The four of them searched around and found the basement exit. Following the exit up a stone staircase led to another old building. However, this old building was half-collapsed, with a pile of bricks and wooden debris at the doorway.

"Indeed, the construction site is above." Ning Wenbin sighed, observing the surroundings.

The four were at a corner of the construction site, and not far away, a pile-driver was pounding, making the noises they heard earlier. Workers were operating excavators and engineering vehicles or running equipment, extremely busy, with no one noticing the four people appearing inside the rundown old building.

"Wenbin, gather some thick reinforcement bars to seal the door from the inside." Lin Tian searched for things to lock the door with and saw many short reinforcement bars nearby, then called Ning Wenbin to collect them together.

Since the area wasn’t fully demolished, the two each gathered a bunch of reinforcement bars and returned without being noticed.

Taking advantage of no one noticing, the four retreated back into the underground passage and closed the door.

"How to lock this door?" Ning Wenbin measured with the bars for a while, not knowing how to proceed. Just wedging them might make them pop out if the door is shaken from outside.

Lin Tian gave all the other bars to him, taking only one bar, threading it through the slot, then grabbing both ends and twisting a few times, tying it off, completely sealing it.

"Damn, that’s reinforcement bars, not wires, and you twisted them like pretzels. Bro, is your hand strength from being single for years, developing the Qilin Arm?" Ning Wenbin exclaimed with wide eyes.

"You’re the one with Qilin Arm, I don’t need it." Lin Tian shot him a disdainful look.

"Lin Tian, what’s a Qilin Arm?" Xiao Manxuan blinked her big watery eyes, full of curiosity.

Facing a girl asking such a question, even Lin Tian, with thick skin, was embarrassed: "Uh, it’s because of long-term one-handed practice of a certain activity, making the arm particularly strong."

"Bro, that explanation was brilliant." Ning Wenbin stifled a laugh, seriously praised, leaving Xiao Manxuan and Wu Xiuluo confused.

"Let’s go, to the next basement. Once we’re done here, you can go back and train your Qilin Arm." Lin Tian shook his head.

The four exited the basement and returned to the passage, leaving this basement. The door was sealed from the inside, and when the old building is demolished, the entire entrance will collapse, completely shutting off the doorway so no one can enter.

With Ning Wenbin as the future architect present, he’s like a living design map, locating each basement according to the design plan for this old building area.

All doors were sealed from the inside until eight basements were sealed off. Lin Tian and the others returned to the initial old building, the largest of them.

According to Ning Wenbin, all other basements were sealed off, only this one remained. This one, of course, can’t be sealed from inside, or else there’s no way to exit.

The four exited the spider-web passageway and walked out of the basement, closed the door, and Lin Tian was about to secure the reinforcement bar when someone walked in.

"Lin Tian, what are you guys doing?" He Xiaofei asked, curious while seeing Lin Tian and the others gathered at the basement door, thinking they were about to go in.

She didn’t realize that Lin Tian and the others had already toured all the basements and underground passages.

Lin Tian calmly replied, "Oh, nothing, we just want to seal off this passage to prevent uninformed people from barging in, as the internal situation is unclear."

With Xiao Manxuan and the others blocking He Xiaofei’s view, Lin Tian twisted with force behind his back, twisting and crunching sounds, sealing off the last door with a reinforcement bar.

He Xiaofei was stunned for a moment, then said, "Good idea. I had the same thought; we might as well seal off the basements of the other old buildings too."