Although everyone took different routes up the mountain, the environnts they faced were mostly similar. So opted to force their way through the cliffs like Feng Yuan’s group, but so classes, lacking strength, chose to wait until the next day to descend the cliffs. As for taking a detour?
After encountering dangerous things off the main path, they decided to give up. They couldn’t even handle the dangers below the cliff, let alone the troubleso woods.
"I wonder how many people will discover the passage below this ti."
After seeing all the mbers of Class 3 enter the passage under the cliff, Teacher Lu followed inside and whispered that this passage was extrely well-hidden. In past years, almost no students could find it. Most would choose to take a detour, and there were even stories of many students spending a year in the back mountain without finding the passage under the cliff.
After all, detouring was also a viable option, and considering that in the past, there was no emphasis on a Commander, the academy hadn’t specifically recruited students for this. But considering this year’s situation, he was curious to see what changes might occur.
"Strange, it seems like this place hasn’t been visited for a long ti."
Examining the surrounding rock walls, Dou Yanlan was a bit puzzled. Along the way, they encountered quite a few chanisms, but none posed a significant threat. However, the environnt still felt off to her.
Feng Yuan glanced at the nearby magic pattern circuits and said,
"This place should be mimicking the Ancient Ruins. Here, there’s a requirent for strength, but a higher demand for understanding Ancient Ruins. Not everyone has that capability."
With that, Feng Yuan casually removed a stone brick. As the brick was taken out, the light around them dimd, and the operating facilities gradually stopped, with even the lights slowly going out.
"What are you doing?"
Wu Dingwu looked at Feng Yuan in surprise, not quite understanding what he was up to. Dou Yanlan, however, seed to realize sothing and said,
"Indeed, causing the ruins to lose power supply is relatively safe, but have you considered if there might be any special safety asures?"
While this thod of cutting power could neutralize most of the originally functioning safety asures of the Ancient Ruins, it wasn’t without side effects. So ruins had special thods to counter this approach, from chanically locking most areas to triggering self-destruct devices.
That’s why, most of the ti, when exploring Ancient Ruins, the thod of disrupting their power supply is not used for ensuring safety.
Tossing the stone brick in his hand, Feng Yuan nonchalantly said,
"Not to ntion, this is a mimic of the Ancient Ruins deliberately set up by the academy. You should have understood from looking at those murals. This place, according to the background given by the academy, is likely an underground safety facility of the Tianhe Dynasty. It will not only refrain from triggering defensive asures but might even activate other self-preservation procedures."
At this point, everyone’s Beast Tar lit up the passage, and those familiar with the Tianhe Dynasty gathered around the nearby murals and found that indeed, as Feng Yuan said, this place should be an underground safety facility. Here, the loss of power would only render the internal safety devices inoperative and trigger ergency power, without any counterasures.
Because this was a place used for shelter, naturally, no one would be crazy enough to set up haphazard counterasures here. Otherwise, in the event of an accident, it would only harm their own people.
As for if an intruder cut the power supply? Those capable of dealing with intruders were never the defensive devices but people. If you couldn’t fight back, having more counterattacking devices would be useless; the opponent only needed to trap you inside.
After understanding the origin of these ruins, everyone felt relieved. As for the peculiar chanisms encountered earlier, it was understandable. After all, the academy couldn’t possibly do nothing and give you a completely safe passage. Even if it was hidden deeply, once discovered, it wouldn’t seem like a big deal.
"Wait, do you rember those chanisms we encountered earlier?"
Dou Yanlan suddenly spoke, bringing the others to a halt as so noticed the issue. Qi Chen asked Dou Yanlan,
"What is it?"
"Those traps! The chanisms and traps we encountered earlier, although powered by the ruins, weren’t closely related. It’s as if those chanisms and traps were retrofitted afterwards. If you consider the ruins’ background, then..."
Staring at the closed door ahead, Dou Yanlan seed to have thought of sothing. Feng Yuan yawned and said,
"The academy really finds ways to make things boring, even a little roadblock has a background story."
"It might be a small roadblock to you, but it’s different for us. If our speculation is correct, there might be ans of Mutual Destruction inside. Of course, considering this is a ruin set up by the academy, it shouldn’t cause severe harm, but it could certainly mark us as failed."
Examining the closed door, Dou Yanlan said, the door appeared to be long sealed. Relating it to the chanisms and traps before, it wasn’t hard to guess what they now faced.
"Will it be difficult?"
Soone couldn’t help but have second thoughts. This school outing was becoming increasingly complicated. Dou Yanlan thought for a while and said,
"Perhaps this path reduces the strength requirent through knowledge and might avoid confronting Class 1 from the beginning."
She didn’t believe Class 1 would choose this path. Although she didn’t understand the academy’s strategy, it seed that this kind of route, testing various extracurricular knowledge points, wouldn’t likely be chosen by Class 1, as their focus was on training their Beast Tar. How could they have the spare energy to learn so many things?
Upon hearing Dou Yanlan, everyone’s eyes lit up. If possible, they also didn’t want to confront Class 1’s students right away. They had already witnessed Class 1’s prowess in the training grounds. Although they had an ace, it didn’t an they themselves had the capability.
"So, which way do we go now? Let’s vote to decide whether to turn back and take a detour or continue forward."
Zhang Cheng spoke after a mont of silence. Dou Yanlan nodded and stood with Qi Chen to the side. Such matters were best decided together. Everyone began to consider that proceeding might an facing more things requiring thought, but for those lacking strength, this might also be a chance to showcase their abilities.
"I think it’s better to continue after all. Even my sister didn’t know about this path. According to her, during their first school outing, they united with other classes to fight Class 1. Maybe when I get back, I can proudly show her what I’ve found~"
Wu Dingwu spoke up, and many people’s eyes brightened. It wasn’t that no one had tried gathering information, but the intelligence gathered was mostly about dealing with various battles. Yet, from the mont they entered this passage, the place had been constantly testing their understanding of Ancient Ruins chanisms.
This didn’t require strength, indicating that in the past, they hadn’t taken this route because the academy made a change, or maybe, their seniors hadn’t found this special path?
Thinking carefully, this path hadn’t been traversed for a long ti. Since there were only nine mountain paths, it’s unlikely the academy added this route this year, indicating what?
Reminded by Wu Dingwu, the majority of the students decided to continue forward. Simultaneously, everyone began sharing what they understood. Although each person knew little, combined, they had more counterasures than Dou Yanlan.
Seeing everyone had made a decision, Zhang Cheng counted the numbers and said,
"Alright, more than two-thirds agree to keep going forward, so we’ll proceed. but be cautious."
"Let open the door. In case anything happens, I can handle it."
Glancing at Xiao Ji beside him, Feng Yuan walked to the door. The door wasn’t locked by any chanism; just a gentle push split the door into two, embedding into the rock walls on either side.
"There’s a trap!"
A short-haired girl spoke out at this mont, moving to Feng Yuan’s side to point out the chanism. Soon, everyone discovered many hidden traps. Although these chanisms slowed their progress, it instead made everyone excited.
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