Of course, those like Ye Tiancheng and Liang Ping, who arrived here by accident, were not within the norm.
However, looking at the situation in the tomb chamber, there were no signs of it being searched or damaged, so the people who had been active in the tomb chamber before were most likely related to this tomb themselves.
This was unlikely to be a trespassing thief.
If thieves had come here, with so many treasures, even if they had a shred of morality or conscience, it was impossible for so many treasures to have been left intact or arranged here.
Unless the people who came here were not after those things in the first place.
Therefore, when this tomb was designed, the probability that clues for operating the mechanisms would be left for those entering and exiting the tomb chamber was quite high.
The little fox had a quick mind. After a brief look at the clue prompts and fiddling with them for a while, he figured out a pattern and tried pressing a few mechanism buttons. Before long, the mechanism cabinet door was opened by the little fox.
With a click, Ye Tiancheng and Liang Ping heard the movement and went to the little fox's side.
When Ye Tiancheng walked up to the little fox, he asked, "What's the situation? Did you find anything?"
The little fox heard Ye Tiancheng's voice and, after clearly understanding his question, tilted his head slightly and said to Ye Tiancheng, "I've roughly checked it. I found that there's another mechanism cabinet door inside this cabinet. It's so tightly and cautiously designed that I feel there might be something useful inside."
"I fiddled with it for a while and managed to open it."
Having said that, the little fox paused slightly, then changed the subject.
The little fox said to Ye Tiancheng again, "However, I found that most of the mechanisms here have some clue marks around them indicating how to activate them. The appearance of such a situation strongly suggests that when this tomb was designed, it was considered that people would enter and exit the tomb chamber and use these mechanisms."
"That's why these clues were left."
"Otherwise, in other situations, most tomb chambers set up mechanisms to prevent theft and defend against enemies, with a large number of extremely lethal mechanisms inside. Not to mention leaving any clues or solutions."
"It seems this tomb has a secret behind it and is not simple."
Ye Tiancheng nodded and said, "What you said makes a lot of sense. If this is the case, then your speculation might be eight or nine parts accurate."
Perhaps Liang Ping falling into this place was not in vain.
There might really be something very important here.
It's just that he didn't know what was going on, why Nie Chongyang might have been swapped, what entity replaced Nie Chongyang, where Nie Chongyang actually went, and when he was replaced.
Regarding this point, Ye Tiancheng's judgment was not much different from Liang Ping's.
Ye Tiancheng felt that the most likely time for Nie Chongyang to be swapped was around the time Liang Ping fell into this tomb chamber, during that period.
Either Nie Chongyang had already been swapped before falling.
Or, when he fell, or upon landing, an unknown entity replaced Nie Chongyang.
It was in this time frame that such replacements were most likely to occur.
After all, even Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping were not ordinary people. Swapping one of them while they were together was not a simple matter.
First, it had to be fast. Second, it could only happen when they couldn't see each other.
Only under these circumstances was it easiest to succeed.
Otherwise, if Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping were inseparable, always within each other's sight, even with illusions as assistance, it wouldn't be so easy to replace one of them. They would definitely be discovered easily.
Moreover, it should be noted that even if they finally created the right conditions and replaced Nie Chongyang, this fact was quickly seen through by Nie Chongyang's old partner, Liang Ping.
Therefore, under the current circumstances where no unexpected situations had arisen, Ye Tiancheng was not worried that his two companions by his side would be replaced by some strange entities.
They didn't have the conditions for that.
Then, the attention of the three of them was focused on the mechanism cabinet door opened by the little fox.
They clearly all wanted to know what was placed behind it.
The little fox opened the mechanism cabinet door, but to his disappointment, he found that the space behind the cabinet door was empty, containing only a small iron piece.
He took out the small iron piece, looked at it in his hand, and then reached a conclusion.
The little fox said, "This should be part of a mechanism. We need to find a place with similar parts. It might be related."
"I don't know if there are other parts scattered outside, or hidden somewhere."
Liang Ping looked at the iron piece in the little fox's hand and felt a little confused.
He said, "I think this thing looks a bit familiar, but I can't recall where I've seen it before."
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox's eyes lit up slightly at the first half of Liang Ping's sentence, but they calmed down a bit after hearing the latter half.
However, hearing Liang Ping say that he couldn't remember where he had seen similar things, Ye Tiancheng and the little fox were not too disappointed.
The little fox said, "No need to rush. We've found so many mechanisms. It's normal to have an impression if we've seen something similar, but it's also normal not to remember it immediately. Let's take our time. We'll talk about it when you remember or find related items."
Since Liang Ping couldn't recall any more useful clues, he could only nod helplessly.
Ye Tiancheng said to the little fox, "Since this thing isn't useful yet, you keep it for now. You can take it out when it becomes useful."
The little fox had no objections and put the small iron piece into his pocket.
After the matter here temporarily concluded, Ye Tiancheng thought for a moment, then led Liang Ping and the little fox to a spot, pointed to a section of the wall, and said, "I feel there's something here. Do you think this might be a mechanism behind it?"
The little fox looked at the place Ye Tiancheng indicated for a long time before reaching a conclusion.
The little fox said to Ye Tiancheng, "I think this might be a clue? But it's also possible it's a mechanism, it's just too dirty, and the pattern is a bit blurry."
The place Ye Tiancheng pointed out for the little fox and Liang Ping to look at was a section of wall tile on the wall. Faint traces of patterns resembling mechanisms or something could be seen, but the wall was old and had some dirt marks, making it difficult to distinguish.
Liang Ping looked at the wall tile and said, "Can this thing be washed? Will it cause problems if we wash it?"
The little fox observed for a while, and finally even touched it to confirm there was no danger, then said, "It should be fine. Let's wash it."
Hearing the little fox's conclusion, Ye Tiancheng rummaged through his storage space, took out a bottle of mineral water, and cleaned the wall tile.
Watching Ye Tiancheng's actions, the little fox suddenly had a whim.
The little fox said, "You know, if we break something here, does that count as damaging cultural relics?"
Ye Tiancheng's movements paused slightly.
Liang Ping also fell silent.
Finally, Ye Tiancheng said somewhat speechlessly, "Don't say it's a special situation where we can take emergency measures for survival. We're not doing it on purpose."
"Besides, this isn't a normal place. It's not the outside world. Even if there were a tomb chamber like this in the real world outside, this is just a fantasy space. Even if we damage it, it won't affect the outside world in the slightest."
Hearing Ye Tiancheng say this, the little fox touched his nose sheepishly.
He also felt that his imagination had gone a bit too far.
After the wall tiles were cleaned, Ye Tiancheng cleared a large area around them, as he could see that there were patterned wall tiles everywhere, and there might be useful information underneath.
After they were washed, Ye Tiancheng and the other two could see some things.
Liang Ping propped his chin and examined the patterns on the wall tiles. After observing for a while, he said, "It looks like a jumbled jigsaw puzzle?"
"I think I see some patterns that can be pieced together?"
Ye Tiancheng and the little fox also noticed this.
The little fox hesitated and said somewhat uncertainly, "On the surface, it does look like that, but how do we put it together? Do we pry out the wall tiles?"
As he spoke, the little fox couldn't help but complain.
"We're not Little Brother, can we pry these out?"
As the little fox was speaking, Ye Tiancheng had already tried to do so. By the time the little fox finished his complaint, both the little fox and Liang Ping saw Ye Tiancheng holding a wall tile that had been removed.
The little fox and Liang Ping were instantly dumbfounded.
The little fox quickly asked Ye Tiancheng, "What's going on? Brother, how did you get this out? You're too amazing!"
Ye Tiancheng explained somewhat helplessly to the little fox, "It's not that I'm amazing, it's that this thing was actually very easy to remove."
"Originally, I thought if it was a jigsaw puzzle, it should be movable. So I tried it, and found that this thing was easy to take out. As long as you grip the protruding edge of the wall tile and gently pull it outwards, you can easily remove the wall tile."
Liang Ping looked at the empty space on the wall. The inside of the wall tile was not hollow; it was clear that beneath the wall tile, the wall was still solid.
However, Liang Ping said with some surprise, "If these wall tiles are so loose, why doesn't the rest of the wall move when one is removed?"
"At least, the wall tiles in the same row as this one, which are flexibly removable, should also fall a bit?"
"And... even if the wall tiles here are movable and not sealed with cement or anything, the wall tiles above are pressing down on many wall tiles, so it shouldn't be so easy to remove them."
"Even if they can be removed, it would require a lot of effort, and also caution, as the wall tiles above would also be brought out."
The little fox reacted and also realized that something was wrong.