Su Yang patted the crotch of his pants. "I'm out of coins, do you have any?"
"I, I don't have any either. Why would I carry coins?"
"Well, take off your earrings, and I'll try throwing them."
Sakata Sōgetsu touched her ear. "What are you doing? I only have one pair of earrings, and you want to throw them away."
"If you don't throw them, you can go up and scout. I'm not in a hurry anyway."
Su Yang retreated to his original position and sat down unhurriedly.
Sakata Sōgetsu gritted her teeth and took off a pair of earrings.
"Here you go."
"That's more like it. We're in the same boat now, why be stingy!"
Su Yang took the earrings and threw one out first.
*Clang clang clang!*
The earring landed in a safe spot, which Su Yang noted.
"Let's go!"
Su Yang leaped directly onto another square, stopping after a few jumps.
Sakata Sōgetsu behind him didn't dare to hesitate and jumped to Su Yang's back.
"You're nudging me, you're squashing me until I'm deformed."
Su Yang felt a softness behind him. "Who told you to be so big? I'm uncomfortable with you pressing against me!"
"Then hurry up."
Su Yang threw out another earring. The method of testing the waters by throwing something was very effective.
The two of them jumped back and forth, only covering a quarter of the entire passage.
"We're out of things. Do you have anything else to throw?"
"Get lost! All I have left is my clothes and skirt. What do you expect me to throw?"
Su Yang glanced at Sakata Sōgetsu. "Come on, take off your high heels!"
"Why aren't you taking off your leather shoes?"
"Hurry up, or I'll throw you over!"
"Bastard! Do you only bully women?"
Sakata Sōgetsu gritted her teeth. Su Yang remained unmoved. They were standing on a square, and he wasn't the one at a disadvantage.
Sakata Sōgetsu reluctantly stood on her tiptoes, took off her high heels, and handed them to Su Yang.
"Do you have athlete's foot?"
"Get lost! I won't wear them if you do!"
Sakata Sōgetsu was almost angered to death by him, asking her if she had athlete's foot.
"Just kidding. Look how agitated you are."
Su Yang took the high heels and threw them forward.
However, although the high heels were large, they didn't fly far and weren't as useful as coins.
"Damn it, jump quickly!"
Su Yang exerted force with his legs and jumped across several floor tiles. Sakata Sōgetsu followed closely behind.
Sakata Sōgetsu said, "If you can't do it, let me go first. How long will it take to reach the end if we jump like this?"
"Alright, you go!"
Su Yang slowly nudged Sakata Sōgetsu from behind. This time, she would throw the shoes and jump first.
Sakata Sōgetsu habitually bent down to throw something, her rear end protruding. She was then pressed by something.
"What's this hard thing?"
"Throw it quickly, don't look back. What are you dawdling for?"
Su Yang felt her rubbing against him a few times, and he became aroused.
Sakata Sōgetsu shook her head and threw the shoe in her hand. As a result, the shoe only landed on two floor tiles and stopped moving.
"We're doomed..."
Sakata Sōgetsu's face turned red. She had just made a bold statement, and now she could only jump two tiles.
As Sakata Sōgetsu jumped to another tile, Su Yang pushed against her from behind again.
She quickly reached back and touched her rear. "What are you carrying in your crotch? It's hard and keeps poking me."
"Stop talking nonsense. Let's think about what else we can throw."
"Take off your leather shoes. Let's both jump barefoot."
Sakata Sōgetsu bent down to take off Su Yang's leather shoes, but she accidentally took a step back and landed on another tile.
*Bang!*
All the floor tiles shook. Some tiles fell off directly, and the remaining ones were all safe.
Su Yang was stunned. Sakata Sōgetsu, by accident, had cleared all the floor tiles at once.
This time, neither he nor Sakata Sōgetsu needed to throw anything.
"Quick, go first!"
Su Yang pushed Sakata Sōgetsu aside and jumped alone. In a few leaps, he reached the end.
Sakata Sōgetsu didn't dare to hesitate and chased after him on her tiptoes.
"What's going on? We're only halfway, and all the other mechanisms have been disarmed?"
Su Yang pointed at a floor tile with the character "空" (kōng - empty) carved on it.
"You accidentally stepped on that just now, and the mechanism was inexplicably disarmed."
"I'm going crazy. So my shoes were thrown away for nothing?"
Sakata Sōgetsu looked down. Her shoes had fallen below with the previous mechanisms.
"Let's go. Don't dwell on the shoes."
Su Yang pushed open a door and walked in. At first glance, the golden light in the distance hurt his eyes.
Ahead was an open space, with chests of gold and silver jewelry scattered on the ground. The wood of the chests had rotted.
Bronze ware was covered in rust, and antiques were everywhere.
"Hiss... so much treasure?"
Sakata Sōgetsu's eyes widened, and she ran to the small mountain of gold.
She casually picked up a scroll and unfurled it. The pattern on it was already blurred.
"What a shame, a masterpiece by a famous artist is gone like this."
"How do you know it's a work by a famous artist?"
Su Yang curiously glanced at the painting. The name of the artist had become blurred with the passage of time.
He couldn't help but wonder. The Yangwei looked like a brand new cruise ship on the outside, yet it hid long-forgotten treasures inside.
Was it deliberately moved in, or was it left by the original owner?
"I guessed."
Sakata Sōgetsu dropped the scroll and bent down to sift through a pile of antiques, picking out a bronze bottle.
As soon as she picked it up, a hiss came from inside.
The next moment.
A green snake lunged at Sakata Sōgetsu's neck.
"Careful!"
Su Yang's eyes were sharp. He flicked his fingers, sending a silver needle flying.
"Hiss hiss..."
The green snake was hit by the silver needle and pinned to the wall, unable to move.
"Uh... there are still snakes here?"
Sakata Sōgetsu, startled by the green snake, dropped the bronze bottle and hid behind Su Yang.
"Don't touch anything carelessly. Be careful of more mechanisms!"
Su Yang stepped forward and examined the green snake in detail.
It had two short horns on its head and was covered in scales. Snakes transform into pythons, and pythons transform into jiao.
This green snake was actually a jiao.
What was astonishing was that although the green snake was pierced by the silver needle, it didn't bleed. It seemed the silver needle had caused no damage to it.
"Little fellow, I'll take out the silver needle, but you can't bite anyone, understand?"
The green snake blinked, its long forked tongue flicking out.
Sakata Sōgetsu panicked. "No, what if it tries to bite me again?"
"What are you afraid of? It definitely won't bite people for no reason. Maybe you disturbed its rest just now."
Su Yang pulled out the silver needle. The green snake fell to the ground, and in an instant, its small body writhed and quickly disappeared.
"It actually ran away?"
Sakata Sōgetsu tilted her head and looked around. The green snake had long since fled.
"Let's not worry about it. Let's first see if there are any other mechanisms here."
Su Yang didn't rush to move the gold, silver, jewelry, and antiques. Instead, he cautiously observed the surroundings.
Everything here was unknown, and it was always wise to be careful.
Sakata Sōgetsu sat down on the spot. After the incident with the green snake, she had become more docile and well-behaved.
Su Yang searched for a long time but found no mechanisms.
He could guess that this was a storage room, specifically a place for storing wealth.
With no hidden mechanisms, Su Yang felt relieved and began to sort and appraise the gold, silver, jewelry, and antiques.
He squatted on the ground and first picked up a short dagger.
"Skull Dagger?"