As the first user of the various weapons developed by Lu Qing Wan, she had no worries about Si Feng Wu making any mistakes with the smoke bombs and handed him the items as instructed.
Three smoke bombs in a row, Si Feng Wu's mouth twitched, "Are you planning to knock out the dead bodies in the imperial mausoleum again?"
Lu Qing Wan hummed proudly, "This is called being prepared. If even one escapes, it will be a huge problem for you and me in the future. What, are you going to advise me to show mercy to the enemy?"
"Mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself, I remember it well." Si Feng Wu waved his hand and turned back towards the entrance of the imperial mausoleum.
Normal imperial mausoleums indeed did not have those strange mechanisms, but whether the imperial mausoleum, which had been transformed into the headquarters of Wu An Palace, had mechanisms was another matter. Of course, he wouldn't tell Lu Qing Wan this.
Entering the underground palace entrance of the Northern Wei imperial mausoleum with the improved smoke bombs from Lu Qing Wan, he looked at the entrance blocked by the heavy stone door, took a deep breath, and Si Feng Wu pressed the switch at the entrance.
*Kacha...* a mechanical sound came, and the stone door, as heavy as a small mountain, slowly opened. It was truly difficult not to attract the attention of those inside with that sound.
As soon as the stone door opened a crack the size of a fist, Si Feng Wu decisively threw a smoke bomb in, and then manipulated the mechanism, which was several times harder to close than to open. The flat stones, the size of an adult's head, were embedded in the rocks that blended with the imperial mausoleum. Every time he moved one, it made him sweat. It took Si Feng Wu four or five tries to close the fist-sized gap, leaving only a crack as wide as a finger.
Just as Si Feng Wu was about to exert all his effort to close the stone door, he saw countless small insects pouring out of the entrance like flowing water. If Si Feng Wu hadn't had exceptional eyesight, he wouldn't have realized that the smoothly flowing mass was actually spiders, which Lu Qing Wan considered a terrifying sight. The black spiders, each the size of a finger, crawled on the grass, so numerous they looked like a rapidly flowing black liquid.
He quickly retreated along the formation, rushed to Lu Qing Wan's side, and said, "Give me an incendiary bomb."
Lu Qing Wan instinctively handed him the item before realizing, "What do you need an incendiary bomb for?"
Before she could finish speaking, Si Feng Wu had already turned and thrown the incendiary bomb into the "life gate" of the formation. The violently expanding incendiary bomb caused the small spiders trapped within the formation to emit crackling sounds as they burned.
Lu Qing Wan jokingly raised an eyebrow, "What's going on, did you encounter a magic attack?"
"For you, it's probably a more terrifying existence than a magic attack." Si Feng Wu subtly reminded her, then changed the subject, "Are your smoke bombs effective against snakes, insects, rats, and ants? How long do they take to work?"
Lu Qing Wan shrewdly sensed that Si Feng Wu's so-called magic attack might not be a bluff, and she didn't press further. She took out an electronic watch from her pocket and glanced at it, "It depends on the range. To be safe, let's wait for two quarter-hours before going in."
Si Feng Wu nodded, but picked up Lu Qing Wan and placed her on the horse's back, "It's getting late and the dew is heavy, you shouldn't go in. You can keep watch for me here. I'll handle it, and you can directly interrogate the people." The black spiders crawling all over the ground made even him, who wasn't afraid of spiders, feel a prickling sensation on his scalp. If Lu Qing Wan were to get hurt, she might even be scared out of her wits.
Lu Qing Wan's intuition for self-preservation was exceptionally keen. Hearing Si Feng Wu's words, she didn't clamor to go in with him as she usually would. She simply handed Da Bai to him, "Take Da Bai in. If anything happens, I can rush over immediately." Si Feng Wu had never asked about Da Bai or the spatial laboratory, as if they were just ordinary things. When Lu Qing Wan asked Da Bai to do something and use the spatial laboratory to help him, he wouldn't refuse, nor would he be excessively curious. It was precisely this nonchalance that made Lu Qing Wan feel that the spatial laboratory and Da Bai were not a big deal. With Si Feng Wu, she was still a normal person.
This time was different too. Si Feng Wu threw Da Bai onto his shoulder, squeezed Lu Qing Wan's palm, and then called out to the dark guards, "Check your detoxification pills and personal weapons, prepare to enter the tomb."
Lu Qing Wan chuckled beside him, "Your words make it really sound like you're going tomb raiding." Si Feng Wu gave her a helpless glance, checked the time, and turned to walk into the imperial mausoleum. To be on the safe side, he had everyone spread out to the left and right of the entrance, and he went to open the door.
The stone door made a *kacha* mechanical sound again. After waiting for a while, no strange creatures ran out, so Si Feng Wu took the lead and walked in. A total of thirty-two people, including Si Feng Wu and his attendants, descended into the tomb. Lu Qing Wan's side had more than thirty people keeping watch. In everyone's eyes, Lu Qing Wan was looking worriedly in the direction of the Northern Wei imperial mausoleum's underground palace entrance, lost in thought. Little did they know, due to Da Bai's special identity, as long as Lu Qing Wan was willing, Da Bai was a 360-degree omnidirectional mobile surveillance device. Although Lu Qing Wan was outside the imperial mausoleum, all the actions of Si Feng Wu and her group inside the mausoleum were being broadcast synchronously in her mind. Lu Qing Wan had visited the Da Gan imperial mausoleum once before due to the various antics of Xie Shi Yu and Wen Ya Yi. At that time, Si Feng Wu was with her, and they had gone openly without triggering any mechanisms or formations, but it was undeniable that the Da Gan imperial mausoleum was indeed luxurious. Various specially made bases, pure gold coffins, and countless gold, silver, and jade burial objects all revealed the exquisite luxury of royalty. The Northern Wei royalty, on the other hand, was much simpler and cruder. Because most of the Northern Wei territory was made up of easily waterlogged loess, the imperial mausoleum used waterproof marble, and even the coffins were the most common mutton-fat jade coffins in the Northern Wei. As for burial objects, there was not much to see. Perhaps for convenience, those from Wu An Palace had already removed everything movable from the tomb. Lu Qing Wan's first sight was of people lying in disarray on the ground, along with snakes, insects, rats, and ants scattered everywhere. As she furrowed her brow, enduring the discomfort, a group of people suddenly rushed out from the inner tomb. Lu Qing Wan quickly notified Da Bai through the electronic medium of the spatial laboratory, but before she could even speak, Si Feng Wu had already sensed the danger. Those people, for some reason, had avoided the effect of the smoke bombs and seemed completely unaffected, charging out with their swords. Lu Qing Wan's heart was already in her throat, and she was contemplating whether she should go in to help if things went south, when she saw Si Feng Wu decisively throw a hand grenade at them. With a boom, the charging people were disoriented before they could even see the faces of Si Feng Wu's group. Immediately after, Si Feng Wu raised his hand and fired blindly at the opposite side.