Facing the little fox's question like this, Nie Chongyang and the others replied that if they wanted to know, they should see for themselves, and it would also help everyone scout the way.
However, this was just a joke.
Just as the little fox had said before, her curiosity about the situation inside the house was a normal reaction.
However, in reality, Ye Tiancheng would not let the little fox scout ahead. After all, the situation here was unclear, and the little fox was not particularly powerful. Therefore, how could Ye Tiancheng let the little fox take risks?
Similarly, Nie Chongyang and Liang Ping were even less powerful, so they couldn't be the ones to test the waters.
If there had to be a choice, it would only be Ye Tiancheng himself.
However, in the current environment, this was not a good option either. Even if he could protect himself after entering, what would happen if the little fox and the others stayed outside and encountered something?
Therefore, even though doing so would be cumbersome and the efficiency would be much lower, for the sake of safety, it was better for them not to split up.
Ye Tiancheng would not complain or feel that they were dragging him down.
However, Nie Chongyang and the little fox proposed that to avoid troubling Ye Tiancheng, they should wait outside and let Ye Tiancheng check the situation first. Without them following, Ye Tiancheng would not be so constrained.
However, Ye Tiancheng did not agree.
Under Ye Tiancheng's insistence and hearing his concerns, while they were moved, to minimize their burden on Ye Tiancheng, they naturally chose to follow Ye Tiancheng's arrangements.
So, the four of them headed into the house before them.
After entering the house, everyone began to look around.
Nie Chongyang looked at the furnishings in the room and said, "It seems that this place is similar to a ancestral hall. It seems we've picked a good spot, coming to such an important place right away."
The little fox sighed weakly and said, "Yes, yes. Such a crucial place either opens the door to surprises or the beginning brings fright. Guess what we'll get this time?"
A place like an ancestral hall was undoubtedly very important.
It would be of great help for them to understand this place and the original owners, and it would also help them gather information. However, whether there were fragments here was uncertain.
As for how to determine this, it would depend on whether the one manipulating everything behind the scenes was the original owner of the mansion or some intruder.
However, speaking of which, it might not be considered an intrusion.
After all, Ye Tiancheng and the others knew that they had entered here from under the artificial lake of the university, not for any other reason.
This place underneath might just be a projection of the past.
If they had occupied the original mansion, it could be considered an intrusion. But creating such a space could at most be said to be copying the style of the mansion.
If one were to truly speak of occupying the original mansion, perhaps it should be the university above ground.
Even though they occupied it legally.
Ye Tiancheng thought to himself.
But, it was easy to guess that someone who could create such a thing, even if not the original owner of the mansion, was likely to have some subtle connection with the people in the original mansion.
In short, the existence that created such a space could not have made their created space look like this for no reason.
The ancestral hall was quite large, after all, it was the ancestral hall of such a large mansion. One could guess how large the family living in this mansion was.
If the ancestral hall were not built large enough, it might not even accommodate all the ancestral tablets.
Unfortunately, they had overlooked something earlier and forgotten to carefully investigate what kind of family owned the site of the artificial lake, and to gather more information. As a result, facing this ancestral hall full of tablets, they were temporarily at a loss.
Looking up, the densely stacked ancestral tablets, all unfamiliar names, only indicated that the main family residing in this large mansion was surnamed Zeng.
Other than that, there were no further clues for the time being.
To avoid scattering and causing any accidents, Ye Tiancheng and the other three had always acted together, and they had not separated even when inspecting clues in the ancestral hall.
Ye Tiancheng had a vague premonition that this should be a very important place.
Although he didn't know where the clues were, since he had a premonition, Ye Tiancheng would definitely take it seriously and pay close attention to the situation, lest he miss any clues.
To prevent his observation from being incomplete, Ye Tiancheng also reminded the little fox and Nie Chongyang.
Ye Tiancheng said to them, "I have a feeling that there is very important information here. So, let's all be careful later. I'm afraid I might miss some details, so everyone stay alert and see if we can find anything."
The little fox and Nie Chongyang agreed.
However, perhaps because the information they had gathered so far was too little, they were still unable to figure anything out for the moment. They just tried to remember all the details they could observe in the ancestral hall.
In this way, even if there was something they hadn't discovered yet, it might provide them with great help when the right opportunity arose later.
There should be quite a few clues to be found in the ancestral hall.
For a family, the ancestral hall was obviously a very important place. If this family might hide something important, it might even be hidden in the ancestral hall.
Although this kind of conventional thinking might not be correct.
After all, if everyone thought this way, wouldn't it be equivalent to everyone knowing that if they wanted to steal something good or obtain treasures from such a large family, they should look for it in their ancestral hall?
However, in reality, it was not like that.
There was a reason for them to choose to do so.
For these large families, important things should naturally be stored in the safest place, and the most dangerous places are sometimes the safest places.
Although a family's ancestral hall was exposed to the public, such a place was often the most heavily guarded. After all, the importance of an ancestral hall to a family was self-evident. Sometimes, for the people of these large families, even if they died, the ancestral hall could not be harmed.
So, for them, the ancestral hall would actually be a very safe place, the least likely to have problems.
If they all had an accident and couldn't even protect the family's ancestral hall, then what was the point of whether the things stored in the ancestral hall were still there?
Because often at this time, their entire family might no longer exist.