Mysterious: The Innate Sacred Body of Destiny

Chapter 18 Empty Box and Monocle

Looking at the game buttons on the stone gate in front of him, Lorne was somewhat at a loss.

"There shouldn't be any video game consoles in this world, right?"

"So this can only belong to a time traveler..."

"No, it could just be that it looks like a game console."

"Laki, what do you think?" Lorne asked, looking at the cat beside him.

"Meow..." Rachi meowed, then leaned forward and lay down on the ground. The relaxed feeling seemed to say that it was just a cat and should be left alone.

"Why don't we try clicking around?" Lorne hesitated, placing his fingers on the buttons.

"No, I should consult a fortune teller first."

"Pressing the button on the stone door will cause danger."

After a short wait, the blue crystal pendulum tilted slightly counterclockwise, signifying negation.

"Does that mean there's no danger?" Lorne pondered the situation before him.

The stone gate has no inscriptions. Does this mean that the builders of the stone gate did not want to communicate with later generations?

If he were a time traveler, that wouldn't make sense. If he didn't want others to know, there would be no need to install a game controller on the door.

So is it just to keep out locals? After all, there are no game consoles in this world.

"No, that's not right..." Lorne thought of another possibility.

If it's not that they didn't want to leave written information, but rather that they were afraid the time traveler wouldn't understand it?

If the time traveler was originally from a different country, people from other countries might not be able to understand their native language. However, if they left behind the language of this world, the secrets within might be known to the locals.

That's why they left behind things like game controllers, which time travelers could easily recognize.

Lorne placed his hand on the "handle" and swallowed hard.

"Whatever! We're already here, let's give it a try."

"Speaking of the controllers for the Famicom, the most famous one should be..."

"Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, B, A".

Lorne followed the cheat codes from his memory and pressed each key one by one.

"No response... Oh my god." Just as Lorne thought he might be mistaken, he felt the ground shaking.

A muffled rumble suddenly came from the cave, followed by a continuous rumbling tremor...

"Could this be a trap set by anti-time travelers?!"

"The cheat code will self-destruct once it is entered correctly."

Lorne grabbed the cat in front of him and was about to run away, but as soon as he took a step, he heard a rumbling sound of gears turning.

Grayish-blue moss fluttered down from the crack in the door, and to Lorne's astonishment, hundreds of miles of accumulated dust mixed with the cold earth air gushed out from the crack.

He quickly covered his mouth and nose, and held up the torch with his other hand, vaguely illuminating a fairly large space inside the door.

"I hope there's no danger." Lorne didn't make any rash moves, but instead threw the torch in his hand.

"Clatter!"

The torch successfully fell along the arc into the stone gate.

Seeing that the torch was still burning, Lorne's tense expression eased slightly.

The fact that the flame can still be maintained indicates that the air is circulating and the person will not suffocate.

Moreover, there shouldn't be any trigger traps at the entrance.

"Should we go in? Maybe we can have our fortune told again?"

"There is danger behind the stone gate."

Lorne picked up the pendulum again and began to divine.

The pendulum deflected slightly counterclockwise once again, but there was no apparent danger.

"No danger again? Isn't this too much of a coincidence?" Lorne, on his first treasure hunt, was surprised by this series of successes.

At crucial moments like these, you should know when to back down... cough cough, you should know when to be cautious.

The common plot of death for minor characters in novels is that they rush in thinking there's treasure inside, only to end up losing everything.

"To go, or not to go?" Lorne muttered to himself.

Seeing her master hesitate and have no idea what to do, Rachi seemed to be attracted by something, and jumped directly from Lorne's arms and slipped behind the stone door.

"Hey, watch out, it might be dangerous!"

Left with no other option, Lorne drew his pistol and followed them.

The space behind the stone door was much smaller than he had imagined; Lorne estimated it to be only about 30 square meters.

There is a rectangular three-dimensional structure in the center of the room.

When Lorne got closer, he realized it was a stone box, roughly the size of an adult.

This... could it be a coffin?

Hey, I'm here to be a treasure hunter, not a tomb raider.

What if a corpse suddenly rises up if I open it?

The plots of various horror movies and novels, such as Mr. Zombie and Ghost Blows Out the Light, echoed in Lorne's mind.

He then activated his spiritual vision to look at the stone box in front of him, but did not find any spirits, including vengeful spirits.

"Am I being too cautious? I'm a time traveler, after all."

"This kind of plot is obviously just giving away equipment, what am I afraid of!"

After giving himself a good pep talk, Lorne placed his hand on the stone slab and pushed hard.

"Gurgle"

As the dust rose, Lorne grabbed his pistol and aimed it at the box. Once the dust settled, Lorne saw that there was another box inside.

The nature of the matter changed from that moment on.

Lorne opened another lid without expression and found an even smaller box inside.

He refused to believe it and continued opening the boxes, only to find an even smaller one.

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Looking at the box in front of him... no, it should be called a box, Lorne was speechless.

"Are they playing with nesting dolls here!" Lorne was now certain that this place was definitely built by a time traveler, and only a time traveler would play such tricks.

Once again, Lorne opened the box, and inside he saw a small box about ten centimeters in diameter. Unlike the previous stone box, this small box appeared to be made of wood.

Lorne, already somewhat numb, opened the wooden box.

"This! This is... there's nothing here!"

Looking at the empty box in front of him, Lorne felt a cold wind blow, and he seemed to hear the cawing of crows.

"This is outrageous!"

Lorne suppressed the urge to throw the wooden box in his hand.

"Calm down, calm down. Impulsiveness is the devil."

"That's what Emperor Roselle said... Pshaw, he's a plagiarist."

As Lorne gradually calmed down, he began to examine the wooden box in front of him.

"Is it possible that this box holds the treasure?"

"This place is probably several hundred years old, and this box should also be considered an antique." Lorne picked up the box and examined it carefully in the dim light.

Unfortunately, after observing for a long time, I still couldn't figure it out.

"Never mind, let's take it back first and study it later."

"Rachi, let's go," Lorne called to his cat.

"Laki..." Lorne called out again when the orange cat didn't respond.

Fortunately, the room wasn't big. Lorne turned around slightly and saw Laki lying not far away, fiddling with something.

"What are you doing?" Lorne came up to it and bent down.

"This...this is a monocle?"