Chapter 1762 - 316: 20,000-Word Mega - !_8

Eyes closed, Su Xing.

When he opened his eyes again, Li Zhiyuan sensed a wave of weakness in his head.

The good news was, his nosebleed had stopped.

In front of him were two rows of stone lions, and inside the stone lions were doors like those of a warehouse.

While Li Zhiyuan was "unconscious," Tan Wenbin had been directing everyone to the location of the Zhao Family Treasure Vault.

"Brother Xiao Yuan, you okay?" Tan Wenbin asked, concerned.

Li Zhiyuan nodded. "Nothing serious. At least my eyes aren't bleeding yet."

Tan Wenbin froze for a second. He knew it was a sign the condition was improving, but he still wasn't used to Brother Xiao Yuan cracking this kind of flippant joke.

Lin Shuyou, on the other hand, had no such scruples and just went, "Hahahaha!"

It wasn't actually a funny joke, but coming from Brother Xiao Yuan, Ah You really couldn't hold it in.

He laughed so hard his shoulders shook, and several of the lanterns he was carrying slipped off.

"Ah!"

Ah You hurriedly crouched down to check if they'd been damaged.

Tan Wenbin comforted him, "It's fine. We're just going to break them down for raw materials anyway."

Li Zhiyuan slid down from Run Sheng's back. The front of his clothes was stained with quite a bit of blood, thick and sticky, making him uncomfortable.

But with the Zhao Family Treasure Vault right in front of them, that little discomfort didn't count for much. They were going to get their clothes dirty hauling stuff out anyway.

Li Zhiyuan raised his hand and swept it to the left. The eyes of the row of stone lions on the left flashed in unison and then quickly went dark. He swept to the right, and the stone lions on the right let out a series of "crack" sounds as all their necks split open.

For the sake of convenience when moving things out later, Li Zhiyuan simply destroyed the outer restriction.

With things having progressed to this point, there was no longer any need to keep a lot of stuff under wraps.

All the little Arrays and restrictions in the vault, Li Zhiyuan had already broken down in advance, converted them into numbers, and had his partners memorize them on the way here.

Still, before going in for real, Li Zhiyuan reminded them:

"Stay sharp. The more it's this kind of time, this kind of place, the more there'll be dangers buried deep."

"Got it!"

"Got it!"

Run Sheng stepped forward and pushed the doors open, and everyone went in.

The interior of the warehouse was at least ten times larger than it looked from the outside.

The Jiujiang Zhao family's entire accumulation was laid out here, completely unreserved, for them to see.

The value of the things in here couldn't be measured in money anymore. Even if you wanted to spend, you couldn't buy any of this.

"Waaah~"

Lin Shuyou's mouth hung open as he looked around. This was what a true Jianghu Family was—he was finally seeing it with his own eyes.

He'd always known the Three-eyed family was loaded, but he hadn't expected it to be like this. In the end, Ah You let out another sigh:

"The car we brought… is still way too small."

Tan Wenbin kept blinking, recording everything he saw so he could move it all out with maximum efficiency later. He did it so frequently and with such force that the whites of his eyes were shot through with red.

Run Sheng swallowed once, then swallowed again.

It wasn't just the partners— even Li Zhiyuan was quietly a little stunned by what he was seeing.

If they could move this entire vault to the back of Grandpa's house, then no matter what they wanted to make or study next, they could indulge themselves completely.

Li Zhiyuan kept walking forward; his partners, although constantly glancing left and right, still held formation.

The boy remembered Zhao Yi had said there was some old undying thing in the Zhao family vault, living off the treasures.

So far, Li Zhiyuan hadn't sensed its presence.

But he more or less already knew where it would be.

Because at the deepest part of the vault, that long, wide ice platform silently told everyone who stepped in here: the most precious treasure in this place is here!

Li Zhiyuan stopped in front of the ice platform, his gaze falling on the old-fashioned lamp sitting atop it.

Just judging by appearance, there was nothing special about this lamp. It didn't even really qualify as an antique.

In its own era, this kind of lamp had been fairly common.

Li Zhiyuan lowered his gaze to the ice platform.

Logically speaking, this seemed like the only place suitable for hiding a person, and it was the closest spot to that lamp.

Hm?

There was writing here too.

Li Zhiyuan focused on it. These were fresh marks, Zhao Yi's notes.

The others noticed as well. Lin Shuyou read them out and then asked, puzzled, "Whose birth date eight characters?"

Tan Wenbin said, "Ah You, they're yours."

"Huh?" Lin Shuyou translated it in his head, then suddenly understood. "They really are mine."

He barely ever used them, and when he did it was just going through the motions at formal rituals. Not being familiar with them was normal.

Tan Wenbin frowned. "But Zhao Yi leaving Ah You's birth date eight characters here— is he hinting at something? Is Ah You actually the key to breaking this whole setup?"

Lin Shuyou pointed at himself. "Me?"

Li Zhiyuan said, "It's possible Zhao Yi didn't know what to leave either. How exactly this play is supposed to go on, he himself might not know.

Leaving this mark is to tell us the lamp is very important.

As for using Ah You's birth date eight characters, it's probably just so we don't start overthinking and blind-guessing."

Tan Wenbin nodded. "Makes sense. If you can leave writing, then there's no need to put on a show or play guessing games. Anyone with a halfway normal brain knows you just write the answer down directly."

Lin Shuyou muttered, "That Three-eyed guy really is…"

Li Zhiyuan once more fixed his gaze on the lamp and said:

"A treasure whose value lies more in its symbolism is definitely tied to the most important person in the family's history. So this should be the lamp Zhao Wuyang used back when he was running the Jianghu."

Tan Wenbin said, "Then this counts as a Dragon King relic."