Xu Mingxuan heard Chen Lan say this, handed the large bundle in his hand to Chen Lan, and then carefully felt all around the cabinet with his hands, but still found nothing.
Xu Mingxuan asked in a low voice, "Lan'er, are you sure there's really a secret room?"
After Chen Lan put the bundle into the system warehouse, she still stubbornly stared at the cabinet, looking up, down, left, and right, but when she heard Xu Mingxuan asking her, she nodded very confidently without speaking.
Seeing Chen Lan so sure, Xu Mingxuan stood some distance away from the cabinet and carefully observed the cabinet and the wall where it was placed. Only then did he notice something strange on the right wall next to the cabinet.
Because on the bare wall, a protrusion appeared for no reason. It was neither a hook for hanging clothes nor any kind of decoration. So Xu Mingxuan walked forward curiously and reached out to touch the protrusion on the wall.
Suddenly, there was a movement from the cabinet. The cabinet moved. Xu Mingxuan pushed it hard again, and found that the cabinet began to move slowly to the left. Where the cabinet was originally placed, a wooden door appeared, with a large iron lock hanging on it.
Xu Mingxuan and Chen Lan looked at each other with great surprise. This was truly a case of what the old saying goes, "When you search high and low, you find it when you least expect it." They had searched for a long time in the cabinet without finding the mechanism of the secret room. It turned out that the mechanism was directly on the outer wall. Who would have thought of that!
Chen Lan took out her universal key, reached out, and opened the large lock on the wooden door. Then she pushed the wooden door open. She found that it was pitch black inside, so she used her mind to take a miner's helmet from the system warehouse and put it on her head. Then she turned on the power switch on the hat and intended to go in and take a look.
With the light illuminating the area, Chen Lan then discovered that this was not a room, but a cave entrance. The real cave entrance was below. A wooden ladder was leaning against the wall by the entrance, and people could go down directly along the wooden ladder.
Just as Chen Lan was about to step down, Xu Mingxuan hurried forward and grabbed her. Then he said in a low voice, "Lan'er, I'll go down first and see. You stay up here and watch the entrance, don't let it close again!"
With that, he reached out, took off the miner's helmet on Chen Lan's head, and put it on his own. Then he stepped down the ladder. Chen Lan was worried that if both of them went down, the entrance might close, so she could only stay in the room and wait.
Chen Lan didn't have to wait long on the upper floor when Xu Mingxuan climbed back up from below! He took off the miner's helmet he was wearing, handed it directly to Chen Lan, and said to her, "Lan'er, hurry down and deal with those things."
So Chen Lan carefully went down the stairs into the secret room below. She found that the secret room was square and very spacious, about sixty square meters. Although the place was not small, it was almost filled to the brim! She saw more than a dozen wooden chests of various sizes piled up inside.
Chen Lan casually opened a wooden chest closest to her and found that this chest, more than half a meter high, was filled with exquisite porcelain.
Due to time constraints, Chen Lan didn't have time to open each box to check. Instead, she quickly used her mind to collect all the wooden chests in the cave into the system warehouse.
Then she took out a broom from the system warehouse and carefully cleaned the cave. Chen Lan swept while backing away, removing all traces left by herself and Xu Mingxuan, and then climbed up along the ladder.
Since the items had been obtained, the couple did not linger. Chen Lan relocked the wooden door of the cave entrance as it was. Xu Mingxuan then pressed the button switch, and the cabinet moved back to its original position.
Then the couple quickly left the room. Time was limited, so the couple did not continue to search other rooms. Instead, they used the universal key to lock each room, then exited the rooms and locked the main door. Su Dan Novel Network
Finally, the couple climbed the ladder over the courtyard wall, met up with Jiayao and the others, and quickly left.
Chen Lan was afraid that her mother and the children would worry and not be able to sleep. Moreover, her two younger brothers and Jiayao had to go to work tomorrow, so she planned to send the three of them home first, and then she, Xu Mingxuan, and Jiahui would go to the haunted house to take a look.
The three men adamantly refused to let them escort them, saying they were very familiar with the way home as they ran around this area every day.
It was already late, so Chen Lan and Xu Mingxuan no longer insisted. After parting ways with the three, they rode their bicycles directly to the haunted house.
The surroundings of the haunted house were completely dark at night, truly eerie! Chen Lan felt that the wind blowing from all around was chilling.
Chen Lan's scalp immediately tingled, and her muscles tensed up. She couldn't see anything, and Chen Lan felt her inner fear magnified infinitely. The closer she got to the haunted house, the more intense this feeling of fear became.
Chen Lan walked forward with a brave face and, using her mind, took out three miner's helmets from the system warehouse. After putting one on herself, she handed one to the father and daughter each.
The three of them turned on the power switches on their helmets, and the surroundings immediately became as bright as day. Chen Lan felt a little better. Not being able to see anything before had indeed made her feel frightened and scared.
The three of them walked to the gatehouse together and found that the wooden door of the gatehouse was tightly closed from the inside. Chen Lan spoke in a small voice, "Sister, don't be afraid. I'm the one who gave you corn buns and water during the day. Didn't I tell you I would come back at night? I'm so sorry, I had something to do today, so I'm late!"
At this moment, Chen Lan heard rustling sounds from inside the house, and the sister's trembling voice came out. Chen Lan listened carefully and heard the sister say, "Little sister, is that you?"
Chen Lan quickly replied, "That's right, sister, it's me. I came during the day."
However, the sister still didn't open the door but continued to ask from inside the house, "Little sister, we've all gone to bed! It's so late, what business do you have here?"
Chen Lan replied patiently, "Sister, open the door. I came specifically to pick you up and leave this place! Didn't we agree during the day? The reason I'm late is that I went to find a place for your family to settle."
Chen Lan said a lot of nice words, but the sister just refused to open the door. In the end, Chen Lan was so worn down that she had no choice but to bring up their little grandson.
Chen Lan even deliberately exaggerated the seriousness of the matter, saying that the place had too much yin energy, which was not good for children, and that children could easily see dirty things. If the child were to encounter dirty things, etc., she made it sound very serious.