Luo En felt a little lost looking at the game buttons on the stone Door in front of him.
"There shouldn't be game consoles in this world, right?"
"So this can only be something left by a Transmigrator…"
"No, it might just look like a game console."
"Lachi, what do you think?" Luo En looked at the cat beside him.
"Meow…" Lachi let out a cry, then leaned forward and lay on the ground. That relaxed posture seemed to say she was just a cat and didn't want to be bothered.
"How about I try pressing them." Luo En hesitated, placing his fingers on the buttons.
"No, I should divine first."
"Pressing the buttons on the stone Door will lead to danger."
After a moment's wait, the blue crystal pendulum rotated slightly counter-clockwise, indicating a negative.
"Does that mean there's no danger?" Luo En pondered the situation before him.
There was no text on the stone Door, did that mean the Door's builder didn't want to communicate with later people?
If it was a Transmigrator, that wouldn't make sense; if they didn't want others to know, there would be no need to install a game controller on the Door.
So was it just to guard against locals? After all, there were no game consoles in this world.
"No, that's not right…" Luo En thought of another possibility.
What if it wasn't that they didn't want to leave textual information, but were afraid Transmigrators wouldn't understand it?
If Transmigrators were originally from different countries, then people from other countries might not understand their native script. But if they left the script of this world, the secrets inside might be known to the locals.
That's why they left something like a game controller that a Transmigrator would recognize at a glance.
Luo En placed his hand on the "controller" and swallowed.
"Forget it! I'm already here, might as well try."
"Speaking of this kind of Famicom controller, the most famous one should be…"
"Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, B, A."
Luo En followed the cheat code from his memory, pressing each button one by one.
"No reaction… My goodness." Just as Luo En thought he might have been wrong, he felt the ground shaking.
A muffled rumble suddenly echoed in the crypt, followed by continuous rumbling tremors…
"This can't be an anti-Transmigrator trap, can it?!"
"Once the cheat code is entered correctly, it self-destructs."
Luo En grabbed the Orange Cat in front of him and was about to run out, but as soon as he took a step, he heard the roar of gears turning.
Greenish-gray moss rustled down from the Door crack, and under Luo En's shocked gaze, hundreds of years of accumulated dust mixed with cold underground air gushed out from the Door crack.
He quickly covered his mouth and nose, holding up a torch with his other hand, vaguely illuminating a considerable space inside the Door.
"There won't be any danger, right?" Luo En didn't act rashly but directly threw the torch in his hand inside.
"Clatter!"
The torch successfully fell inside the stone Door along an arc.
Seeing that the torch was still burning, Luo En's tense expression eased slightly.
The fact that the flame could still be maintained indicated that the air was circulating, so he wouldn't suffocate.
Moreover, there shouldn't be any trigger-activated traps at the entrance.
"Should I go in? Maybe I should divine again."
"There is danger behind the stone Door."
Luo En picked up the pendulum again to divine.
The pendulum once again rotated slightly counter-clockwise, indicating no danger.
"No danger again? Isn't that too much of a coincidence." Luo En, on his first treasure hunt, was surprised by this series of smooth events.
At such a critical moment, one should be cowardly… Ahem, one should be cautious.
Rushing in headfirst, thinking there's treasure inside, only to end up dying, is a common plot for minor characters in novels.
"To go, or not to go." Luo En muttered to himself.
Seeing his master's hesitation and indecisiveness, Lachi seemed to be attracted by something, directly leaping from Luo En's arms and slipping behind the stone Door.
"Hey, be careful, there might be danger!"
Having no choice, Luo En drew his pistol and followed her.
The space behind the stone Door was much smaller than expected; Luo En estimated it to be only about 30 square meters.
In the center of the room was a rectangular three-dimensional structure.
Luo En approached and realized it was a stone box, roughly large enough to fit an adult.
This… couldn't be a coffin, could it?
Hey, I'm just here to be a Treasure Hunter, not a grave robber!
If I open it, will someone suddenly rise from the dead?
Mr. Vampire, Ghost Blows Out the Light… various plots from horror movies and novels echoed in Luo En's mind.
He also activated his Spirit Vision and looked at the stone box in front of him, but found no spirits, including vengeful ghosts.
"Am I being too cautious? I'm a Transmigrator!"
"This is clearly a plot for getting equipment, what am I afraid of?!"
After steeling himself, Luo En placed his hand on the stone slab and pushed hard.
"Rumble"
Accompanied by rising dust, Luo En grabbed his pistol and aimed it at the inside of the box. When the dust cleared, Luo En saw another box inside.
The nature of the situation changed from this moment.
Luo En expressionlessly opened another lid, then found an even smaller box inside.
He didn't believe it and continued to open the box, then found an even smaller box.
…
…
Looking at the box in front of him… No, it should be called a nested doll, Luo En was speechless.
"Playing nesting dolls here!" Luo En was now certain that this place was definitely built by a Transmigrator, and only a Transmigrator would play such tricks.
Once again, Luo En opened the box, and then he saw a small box with a diameter of more than ten centimeters inside. However, unlike the previous stone boxes, the small box inside appeared to be made of wood.
Luo En, already somewhat numb, opened the wooden box.
"This! This is… nothing at all!"
Looking at the empty box in front of him, Luo En felt a cold wind blow, and he seemed to hear the cawing of crows in his ears.
"What a scam!"
Luo En suppressed the urge to throw the wooden box in his hand.
"Calm down, calm down, impulse is the Demon."
"This is what Emperor Rosell said… Bah, he's just a plagiarist."
Gradually calming down, Luo En began to examine the wooden box in front of him.
"Is there a possibility that this box itself is the treasure?"
"This place is probably hundreds of years old, so this box should also be considered an antique." Luo En picked up the box and carefully examined it in the dim light.
But unfortunately, after observing for a long time, he couldn't make sense of it.
"Forget it, I'll take it back first and study it slowly later."
"Lachi, let's go." Luo En called out to his cat.
"Lachi…" Seeing that the Orange Cat didn't respond, Luo En called out again.
Fortunately, the room wasn't large, and Luo En turned slightly to see Lachi, who was lying not far away, pawing at something.
"What are you doing?" Luo En came up to her and bent down.
"This… Is this a monocle?"