Do not engage in underworld operations in the human world!

"Wait a minute, what did you just say is spinning over your head"

Jiang Lu took a step forward and was about to ask more questions, but the homeless man entered the cave without saying a word and went down the stairs.

"I always felt something was odd, but I never realized what it was." Lucifer followed, his eyes never leaving the back of the homeless man in front of him. "Wherever we go, all living things should be exposed, but we didn't notice the guy hiding in the cable car until he appeared behind us just now without us noticing. It's not easy."

"It's probably someone Nyarlathotep arranged to guard here." Jiang Lu had already guessed: "He said we circled over his head. I'm afraid he was aware of what we did in the spiritual realm, but he wasn't sure it was us at first. It wasn't until we started looking around that he was sure and brought us here."

"So what do you say, go down?" Lucifer asked.

"You have to go." Jiang Lu sighed helplessly: "If anything goes wrong, you will be the one to cover us. I will find a way."

"Okay?" Lucifer was nodding when he suddenly realized something was wrong: "Why do I have to cover the rear?"

"We are all brothers, why divide it between yours and mine?" Jiang Lu said, dragging Lucifer to follow.

Following the steps all the way down, the two soon reached the bottom, about ten meters below the ground.

This is a suspended platform, fixed to the vertical rock wall only by chains as thick as arms. All around it is a dark abyss. Although there are guardrails on the edge, the rusty fences look like they will fall down if you lean on them, and there is no sense of security at all.

In front of the platform is a stone door embedded in the rock wall.

The stone gate is very simple and seems to be formed naturally. Only after simple polishing and carving by craftsmen can it be barely seen as a door.

Rather than a door, it was more like a heavy stone blocking the way.

At this moment, it had been pushed open a crack, and although it was only a crack, its width was less than one-tenth of the overall width of the stone door. Looking closer, it was actually large enough to accommodate four or five normal-sized adults walking in side by side.

At this moment, Jiang Lu had countless question marks in his mind.

In his opinion, it is almost impossible that this cliff was carved by humans, because even if such a huge project could be completed by manpower, its implementation would be extremely complicated. It would be tantamount to digging a hollow hole in the middle of Huangquan Mountain. How to dig it and how to transport the dug out through the steps just descended are all insurmountable problems.

There is no need to say more about this stone gate. It is also impossible to be transported from outside. Even if it is carved out of the rock wall, it would be extremely difficult.

And the most important point is that there is no need at all. If it is just to build an exhibition hall, why spend so much effort? Wouldn't it be more convenient to just clear out a larger room to use as a museum? The Jiang family compound has no shortage of such conditions.

Therefore, Jiang Lu guessed that the so-called exhibition hall, that is, the space behind the stone gate, had existed from the very beginning. When the Jiang family compound was rebuilt, only a road connecting the outside to here was opened.

In other words, this hollow part may have existed since the moment Huangquan Mountain was formed, and it may even be older than the Jiang Family Courtyard.

Perhaps he saw the doubt in Jiang Lu's heart, so the homeless man standing by the stone gate said, "I just said that there were many things that could not be taken away. If those things were brought here from outside for exhibition, how could they not be taken away? Of course, it's because they were originally in here."

Hearing this, Jiang Lu felt that the person in front of him was more dangerous: "Who are you?"

"I just said this. I'm just a poor soul hiding here because I owed a debt."

The tramp smiled and replied:

"Don't be nervous, I mean no harm." Bad guys never say they are bad guys. Jiang Lu knows this very well. Just like he has a rich emotional life, but he always tells others that he suffers from serious emotional disorders and has lost the ability to love.

So he didn't believe it at all.

"I don't know whether you have any ill intentions or not, but your master has some grudges against me, so let's be frank. How long have you been waiting for me here?" he questioned.

"Master?" The tramp shook his head and laughed, "I don't have a master. I am free. I don't know who you are talking about."

Jiang Lu remained silent and just rolled his eyes.

"But if you mean someone who is also interested in the things here, then I do know a thing or two."

The tramp said meaningfully:
"I don't know what the Yin Emperor has gone crazy for. In the first few years after he came to power, he not only had the Jiang Family Compound sealed off, but he also lived here for a while. I don't know what he was researching. Although he left after that, he still left a lot of spies hidden in the underworld, perhaps they were monitoring something."

As expected, Jiang Lu thought to himself.

In fact, Nyarlathotep had already discovered the antiquities, but for some reason, he did not take them away. Instead, he left them here and arranged people to wait for them.

It seems that the other party also believes that he will be resurrected one day.

etc.
Jiang Lu suddenly thought of something.

Doesn't that mean.
At this time, the tramp continued: "But you can rest assured, as long as I am here, they can't monitor this place. In their eyes, at this moment, this place is still empty like every day in the past."

For some reason, looking at the faint smile on his face, Jiang Lu always felt that he seemed to have a bit of bad taste, as if he was waiting for him to panic first before he was willing to explain everything.

Lucifer looked at Jiang Lu, who seemed a little overloaded because he received too much information at once, and asked the homeless man: "Then why did you help us?"

"because."

The tramp thought for a moment:

"I owe this family a favor, so I have to help them protect this piece of land so that their descendants will not return empty-handed when they return."

After a short pause, he showed a trace of reminiscence and emotion: "A drop of water should be repaid with a spring of water. This is the truth he taught me."

But Jiang Lu didn't care about the homeless man's true feelings, but his expression suddenly became a little stiff: "What do you mean?"

Isn’t this family our own family?
Their descendants. Could it be that...
"After I die, will my parents" Jiang Lu opened his mouth with difficulty: "give me a brother or sister?"

The unfathomable smile on the tramp's face suddenly stopped.

"Is there something wrong with your brain?" (End of this chapter)