"Let's let it out and see,"
After a moment's thought, Ye Feng nodded.
Then, Xiao Xiao slowly opened the small iron gate of the cage, and the Voltech chicken immediately ran out, rushing towards the black insects and eating them happily.
"Cluck cluck cluck!"
"Sizzle sizzle!"
The Voltech chicken chirped happily while eating the black insects, sparks constantly leaping around its body. The swarm of black insects had retreated a considerable distance, but they still coiled near Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao.
Seeing that the black insect swarm showed no signs of attacking him and Xiao Xiao again, Ye Feng ignored them and turned to survey his surroundings.
Time flowed by, second by second.
"Bang! Thump!"
"Kekeke!"
Suddenly, a loud noise came from the ventilation duct above, and then two zombies fell down, crashing heavily onto the ground.
"Rustle rustle!"
Before the two zombies could stand up, the black insect swarm pounced on them, crawling all over their bodies and beginning to gnaw.
In a short while, the two zombies were completely devoured by the black insect swarm, not even their bones left.
"So that's why this place is so clean, with no zombies or corpses. They were all eaten by that swarm of black insects."
Seeing this, Ye Feng finally understood.
"Cluck cluck cluck!"
At this moment, the Voltech chicken seemed to have eaten its fill. It cocked its head, stared at Xiao Xiao for a while, and then walked back into the iron cage.
Xiao Xiao squatted down and observed the Voltech chicken for a while. Finally, she tentatively reached out and stroked the comb on its head.
The Voltech chicken closed its eyes, seeming to enjoy it.
"This..."
Ye Feng was quite surprised to see this.
"Big brother, where are we going next?"
After stroking the Voltech chicken for a while, Xiao Xiao stood up and asked Ye Feng.
"Further in!"
Ye Feng surveyed the surroundings and pointed in one direction.
"These insects seem to have been deliberately placed here to prevent anyone from reaching the area behind them. And this Voltech chicken was likely brought by Xu Xun specifically for passing through the swarm."
"There might be good things behind this swarm, perhaps even the place where Xu Xun said he was looking for the Fire Seed Record!"
Ye Feng felt a surge of excitement.
After all, the Fire Seed Record that had recently refreshed in the [Shop] was a bit strange. Some parts seemed to be missing, and some he couldn't understand at all.
Then, the two of them, using the Voltech chicken's deterrence, walked straight towards the area behind the black insect swarm.
The further they went, the more numerous and denser the black insect swarm became. However, they clearly feared the Voltech chicken. Especially when the Voltech chicken emitted sparks, they dared not approach closer than a meter from Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao.
A few that flew over were dealt with by Ye Feng using his Tang sword.
An hour passed. After a series of twists and turns, Ye Feng and Xiao Xiao arrived at a blast door similar to the previous one.
Without a key, Ye Feng once again used his Tang sword to cut a large hole in it.
"What the..."
As soon as Ye Feng saw the scene behind the door, he was speechless. It was a large, messy room.
There were many cabinets, but they were all overturned on the ground, and the drawers were pulled out. The contents had clearly been taken, and discarded papers were scattered everywhere.
It was evident that despite the massive blast door, this room had been thoroughly ransacked.
What made Ye Feng even more speechless was that the floor of the room had been dug up, and quite deeply. As far as the eye could see, there were pits everywhere.
"Someone was looking for something here. Truly digging three feet into the ground."
Ye Feng muttered to himself after entering the room and observing.
"Big brother, this place is so strange. The ground seems to have been dug up again and again, and the cabinets have been rummaged through countless times. Some cabinets have even been broken into pieces!"
"There's nothing useful in the entire room."
"But such a place is locked by a thick blast door. And there's no other exit."
Xiao Xiao, carrying the Voltech chicken, also looked puzzled.
"If I'm not mistaken, Xu Xun and Wen Jie just now were likely looking for this room. They've searched this place many times before."
"Look at the pits over there. The soil and rocks are still very fresh. They must have been excavated not long ago."
"There might be something Xu Xun has been looking for here, but they haven't found it yet. And they are convinced that what they are looking for is in this place."
"As for the blast door, it's probably because Xu Xun didn't want others to enter."
Ye Feng spoke as he walked around the room, observing.
"Huh? Xiao Xiao, what's that jade pendant you're holding?"
Suddenly, Ye Feng's attention was drawn to something in Xiao Xiao's hand.
"Oh, this is something I just found on the ground. It looks pretty, so I picked it up!"
"Is this called a jade pendant?"
Xiao Xiao looked at the round, crystal-clear stone in her hand, her eyes full of curiosity.
"Yes!"
Ye Feng nodded. "This jade pendant looks familiar. Let me see!"
"Oh, okay!"
Xiao Xiao immediately handed it to Ye Feng.
"‘Han’... This..."
As Ye Feng took the jade pendant in his hand, he was instantly surprised.
Because the appearance of this jade pendant was identical to the one he had seen with Han Qiuli before, and the "Han" character in the middle was also the same.
"What's going on?"
Ye Feng was puzzled.
Frowning slightly, Ye Feng returned the jade pendant to Xiao Xiao and then began to search the large room himself, occasionally moving cabinets and making clanking sounds.
Half an hour later.
"Clang!"
A metal cabinet was thrown to the ground, and Ye Feng sat on it, feeling disheartened.
He had searched for a long time and found nothing useful. The scattered papers were all reports from the early days of the Great Cataclysm, filled with information about monsters, earthquakes, and tsunamis, but nothing about this Red Bank ruins.
"Big brother, are you looking for something?"
"Could it be hidden behind a secret door? When I was young, my sister told me that rich people always hid their treasures in secret rooms."
Seeing this, Xiao Xiao spoke to Ye Feng.
"I also considered the possibility of a secret room... but I've knocked on these walls, and they're all solid."
"And this ground has been dug up all over, repeatedly."
Ye Feng spread his hands, looking somewhat dejected.
"Solid, huh..."
Xiao Xiao also tentatively tapped the wall with a metal rod.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
After a series of dull thuds, Xiao Xiao also sat down beside Ye Feng, looking discouraged.
"Big brother, I've tapped all the walls, and even the ceiling... and I haven't heard any echo. I can't possibly knock on the blast door, can I?"
Xiao Xiao looked at the blast door that Ye Feng had dug a large hole in and muttered.
"Knock on the blast door... Right!"
Upon hearing Xiao Xiao's words, a thought flashed through Ye Feng's mind.
He squeezed Xiao Xiao's cheek and said, "Xiao Xiao, you're so smart!"
After saying that, Ye Feng suddenly stood up and began to re-examine the surrounding walls.