Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 2277 (Two Thousand Two Hundred and Seventy Seven) Steps

"This door hasn't been opened yet." Tie Wandao said as he shone the candle towards the position that was previously blocked by the curse mark and looked there.

Tie Jinjue and Li Pingrun also looked towards that location.

They all found that there was a square protrusion there.

Tie Jinjue pointed at that place and said, "That thing looks like a button. Will something come out if I press it?"

Li Pingrun said, "That should be it."

Tie Wandao asked: "Where will the things come from?"

Tie Jinjue took a look and noticed that there was another square below the button, like a small door. He thought that maybe if he pressed the button, the small door would open and something would come out.

At this time, Tie Wandao also noticed the square door-like thing and asked Li Pingrun: "Could it be possible to open it so that things can come out from here?"

Li Pingrun carefully looked at the position under the light of the candle in Tie Wandao's hand and said, "I think it should be able to be opened after pressing the button, but I'm not sure if the key will come out directly."

"Uncertain again? You are not sure about this either?" Tie Wandao said.

"Chief, in order to prevent any danger, I will now use some ritual to find out what's in there," said Li Pingrun.

Tie Wandao frowned slightly and said, "Why didn't you know it directly when you were performing the ritual just now? The curse-breaking mark has been taken down, and you knew through the ritual that there was something blocking the curse-breaking mark. But you couldn't directly know whether that thing was the key?" Tie Wandao said.

Li Pingrun explained: "Just now, with the curse mark across the door, I could only find out whether there was something behind it, but I couldn't know what it was blocking. Only when the curse mark is no longer on the door can I find out what it is through the ritual. For this, I can only follow these steps step by step, and I can't skip any step to proceed to the next step."

Tie Wandao understood the reason completely, but when he recalled Tie Jinjue's receiving the curse mark, he still felt it was too dangerous. He said with a complaining tone: "If there wasn't a key inside, why did you take such a big risk to let Elder Tie receive the curse mark? Wouldn't it be enough to just let the curse mark stay on the door?"

Tie Wandao said this purely to vent his anger, but Li Pingrun felt that he had to explain it to him again.

"But, in that situation, we all felt that the thing blocked by the curse mark might be the key. If we hadn't taken down the curse mark just now, what else could we do? We couldn't get the key by just waiting. After all, we thought at that time that the key might be in the place blocked by the curse mark. Although we couldn't be sure where it was for the time being, if we wanted to find the key, we could only do it step by step. If we didn't do this because we were worried about danger, and the key was indeed there, then the door would not be able to be opened." Li Pingrun said seriously.

Tie Wandao thought: You don't need me to tell you, of course I know! But I felt that the situation was dangerous just now, that's what I wanted to say! You actually explained so much to me, do you really think I don't understand what's going on?
Tie Wandao said impatiently: "Alright, alright, I know it even if you don't tell me. I just said it because I thought it was dangerous. Didn't you say you wanted to perform a ritual to find out what's in there? Then hurry up!"

(End of this chapter)