The corridor from the entrance was the same as before, so Lin Fan didn’t see anything different as he slowly made his way in.
He came up to the same large door that he had come up to the first time, but he hesitated in opening it.
According to the report, what was behind this door was different from what he had encountered in his first time exploring this place. He didn’t know what to expect from this place, which was why he was worried about opening this door.
But since he was with the Mercenary Guild group, it wasn’t as if he could just stay here forever and not go through this door.
So after taking a deep breath, Lin Fan pushed open the door to see what was behind it.
As he had expected, it wasn’t the same room as before.
Instead of that room, it was now a much larger room that had several other doors in it to indicate several other passages that definitely led much deeper into this cave system. There also wasn’t a trace of the things that had been here before, such as the altar and the other items.
After the initial moment of surprise, Lin Fan looked around with his Appraisal Eyes at the various doors that were in the room, but there was no notification that came up.
It seemed like these doors were nothing more than simple doors and even with a max leveled Appraisal Eye, there wasn’t much that he could get out of this. But without any information from his Appraisal Eyes, he didn’t know where to go either since the path was completely different compared to before.
As he was about to give up since he didn’t know where to go, Lin Fan suddenly noticed something out of the corner of his eyes.
There was a notification that was coming from his Appraisal Eyes, but it wasn’t coming from any of the doors. Instead, there was a notification that was coming from a wall that was far away from the doors.
Lin Fan ignored the doors when he saw this and went over to where the notification was coming from.
When he arrived, he looked carefully at the notification.
“Hidden panel, secret button for hidden passage behind.”
Lin Fan was shocked by this.
His Appraisal Eyes were that strong that they could even find things like this?
He had never tried finding things like this, so he never knew that this was a function, but now he couldn’t help praising the Earth God for giving him such an amazing skill.
The others who had been watching and waiting for instructions from Lin Fan saw what he was doing and they finally couldn’t wait any longer. After all, they were currently watching Lin Fan staring at a wall with his face quite close to the wall.
Tian Tian came forward and asked, “Lin Fan, what are you doing? Is there something wrong?”
The way she asked this was quite considerate since she didn’t directly question his sanity, but there was no doubt that she was worried that he was going through something.
Lin Fan ignored this as he started tapping the wall, as if he was looking for something.
When the others saw this, all they could see was the actions of a madman and couldn’t help wondering if there was some kind of illusion array here that was causing this.
But they didn’t do anything to Lin Fan since they knew that it was dangerous if they were to try something. Lin Fan had already proven his strength to them, so they knew that even if they fought him, they might not necessarily be able to win against him.
However, before they could discuss this even further, Lin Fan suddenly punched the wall, creating a loud sound that shocked everyone.
They were about to say something, but then they noticed that in the hole that Lin Fan created in the wall, there was actually a button.
Once again, before they could react to this, Lin Fan had already reached his hand up to press the button. The moment that the button was pressed, the ground underneath them started to shake as there was a loud rumbling sound that rang out.
Everyone immediately took cover out of fear that this was an earthquake, everyone except for Lin Fan.
He just watched as the wall beside him suddenly started to slide apart, revealing a corridor that had been hidden behind the wall.
When the rumbling sounds and the shaking of the ground finally stopped, the people from Lin Fan’s group got off the ground to see what had changed. When their eyes fell onto the passage that had suddenly opened up beside Lin Fan, they couldn’t help being shocked.
Tian Tian couldn’t help looking at Lin Fan and asking, “How did you know that there was a button there?”
Lin Fan just said with a smile, “Just luck I guess.”
There wasn’t a single person that believed this, but since Lin Fan wasn’t willing to share his secrets, there was nothing that they could do.
So they all gathered around Lin Fan and slowly followed him into the hidden corridor.
…
Deep inside of the ruins.
“EHHH! What happened?! How did he know about the secret corridor?!”
There was a projector that was on the ceiling and the image that it projected onto the wall was the image of Lin Fan suddenly hitting the wall and finding the hidden button. Then it showed him pressing the button and making the hidden passage appear.
“No, no, no! I can’t let them keep going like this! If they do, they’ll reach me in no time!”
The hidden passage that Lin Fan found was actually a passage that could lead right to the second floor, completely skipping the first floor of these ruins.
Normally, the people who entered these ruins would have to go through several layers of traps that were scattered behind the doors on the first floor before they could reach the stairs to the second floor. But Lin Fan’s group had completely skipped these traps just by finding this hidden passage.
That hidden passage was actually supposed to only be used by the residents of the ruins for maintenance and normally, it was well hidden enough that intruders couldn’t find it.
But that human had found it!
“How! How did he do it! Was it just luck or was it something else?”
After a pause, the voice said again, “No, it can’t be luck. He knew exactly what he was looking for, so he should have known exactly where the hidden button was! But how!!!”
Then after another pause, the voice suddenly realized something, “Wait, if he can find the hidden passage on the first floor, doesn’t that mean that he can also find the hidden passage on the second floor?”
Once again, with a pause, the voice suddenly filled with panic as it said, “No! No! No! I can’t let him take that passage or else he’ll reach the third floor and he’ll be within striking distance of me! I have to destroy that passage right now!”
Then the voice calmed down as it said, “I also have to tell the residents on the second floor to target him…He’s too dangerous to let wander around this place…He might even be able to reach me if I let him do what he wants…”
Once it said this, the voice fell silent as it started sending out mental orders.
In this small room, there was only a blue orb on a pedestal that was looking at the images of the projector that sparkled as it sent out mental orders.
…
At the entrance of the ruins.
There were two young men who were standing at the entrance of the cave, looking to see what was inside.
After a while, one of the young men said, “It seems like an undiscovered ruin.”
The other young man gave a whistle before saying, “It seems like the Mercenary Guild really has hidden it well this time. I really never expected them to find ruins like this.”
Then he narrowed his eyes to look at the walls of the corridor before saying, “Moreover, this aura…”
The first young man said, “Un, it seems like it’s the aura of an immortal. Who knows what kind of amazing treasures are hidden here?” After a pause, he added, “What do you want to do first? Do we take care of the target or do we look for treasures first?”
The second young man stroked his chin to think for a bit before saying, “Let’s take care of the target and the group that he came here with first. If we take care of them, then there won’t be any witnesses left.” When these words came out of his mouth, there was a sly smile that also appeared.
The first young man also revealed a sly smile and said, “So you were thinking the same thing that I was thinking.”
But then the first young man looked at the second young man with a serious look and said, “But as for what happens after…I think that I don’t need to say anything, right?”
The second young man also revealed a serious look and said, “We’ll take the secret to our graves.”
But of course, neither of them really meant any of this.
They weren’t that close to each other, but they were both friends of the Qian Family’s eldest young master…
These two were the people the Qian Family’s eldest young master had sent to take care of Lin Fan.
They had been following him since this morning at the Mercenary Guild since they had been curious why the Mercenary Guild had suddenly given them such a strong attitude when it came to this matter, but now it seemed like they found the reason.
But that just made it even more enticing for them to kill Lin Fan now.