Guladan seemingly disappeared. The team then searches for the treasure.
Chen Rui examined the runes while walking in the hall. In every few steps, he would step once harder as if it was based on a special rhythm.
Delia and Roman were surprised to see that under that sequence of "taps", the ground began to stick out rectangular stone pillars of different heights. Some of them were 3 meters high while some were only a dozen centimeters.
3 riddles[]
After Chen Rui finished the steps, these stone pillars had been combined into a realistic figure shaped like a lying dragon.
The stone pillar dragon made a strange sound, "3 questions, those who answer correctly can enter! Those who answer wrongly, the entire cave will self-destruct in 10 minutes!"
This must be the self-destruction program Paglio mentioned. It even has a cliché Q&A session!
"What is the name of the scariest female lunatic in the world? No more than 10 words! Answer within 10 seconds!"
"The fairy dragon, Zola."
"Fairy dragon, correct. Zola, correct. First question is answered correctly."
It was just like how Chen Rui understood. This kind of voice inscription test should be detecting the pronunciation of certain keywords. As long as there were correct keywords, it would pass. To avoid continuous guessing and lucky guess hence there was the limit of 10 words.
"What is the name of the most handsome, smartest and most admired handsome dragon by the female dragon? No more than 10 words! Answer within 10 seconds!"
"Bastard Paglio."
"Bastard, wrong. Paglio, correct. Second question is answered correctly."
"Last question, when Paglio was born, was the first thing he saw his father or mother? No more than ten words! Answer within 10 seconds!"
Chen Rui answered, "Eggshell."
It seemed to be a simple 50/50 question, but in reality, it was very sinisterly misleading because both answers were incorrect. Chen Rui remembered Paglio mentioned during one of their chats.
"When I was born, I saw nothing but eggshell."
"In the past few years, I had no closed ones, but a lot of enemies."
"Dragons don't need friends, especially poison dragons. Have you seen God having friends? They only need admiration and fear. They have no need for unnecessary care and understanding."
If the questions prior were just boring and narcissistic, then the last question had a touch of loneliness.
"Eggshell. Correct."
The stone pillars began to change. The original dragon shape combination turned into an entrance to a cave. There were stone stairs spiraling downwards, and there were magic stones along the way to illuminate. It seemed that the real location of the treasure was the "third floor" under this hall.
"Let's go." Chen Rui said to Roman and Delia, "The real body of the lich hasn't appeared yet. He is likely to be nearby, but he might also be downstairs. We must be careful."
Treasure[]
The stairs were very long. It took half an hour to reach the bottom, but there was no inscription or trap along the way. In front of them was a huge door. When Roman pushed the heavy door open, the light from the gap of the door almost blinded the three of them.
It was a bigger hall with a taller mountain of money! Compared with the sight in front of them, the illusive mountain of money in the hall above could only be considered as a tiny hill.
Chen Rui tried the storage, and it was withdrawable! This is the real treasure pile!
The environment here was a little different from above. The innermost was a pool, and a number of huge boxes were placed in order. Then, it was followed by gems, ores and outermost was the undulating black crystal coin mountain. The sequence was clearly defined.
They then meet Guladan's true form.