99: Chapter 99 The Long Sleeping Palace 26

Luo Yuejian's expression was a bit dazed: "Me?"

Couldn't it be that she supports the Man in Black Turtleneck, while the Man in the Suit goes up to the lotus platform to find clues?

She had just wanted to refuse, but suddenly remembered her previous plan—to court death and trigger the mechanism. She told herself it wouldn't do; she still had to go up.

She wasn't afraid of finding clues now. After all, looking at the current situation, if she really kept slacking off, she might end up clearing the level painlessly.

Still, she had to find the mechanism.

Thinking of this, she nodded with a cold gaze, looked up at the lotus platform—which, including the stone base and lotus petals, was over three meters high—and only one thought crossed her mind—

"How the hell am I supposed to get up there?"

Luo Yuejian felt a bit awkward now. She had just agreed with the Man in the Suit to go up and find clues, but now she couldn't even get onto the lotus platform. Wasn't that a slap in the face?

She was someone who feared awkwardness the most. Right now, under the gaze of the Man in the Suit, she felt like she was sitting on pins and needles. How should she wrap this up? If she had known, she wouldn't have agreed so quickly...

She quietly poked the system in her mind: "System? System, are you there?"

The slacker system's attitude was very good: "I am here. Is there something you need, Host?"

Luo Yuejian probed: "That punishment skill you gave me before, that Agility Instinct, can it help me get onto this lotus directly?"

The slacker system: "Of course not, Host. Agility Instinct is a passive skill and cannot be used subjectively."

"If Agility Instinct could be used subjectively, it would be too overpowered. This system is very concerned about game balance."

Luo Yuejian: "...?"

You still have the nerve to talk about balance? Her luck, just how heaven-defying has it become?

"Alright, you may withdraw."

Luo Yuejian chuckled inwardly, knowing full well the slacker system was spouting nonsense.

But she didn't have time to argue with the system now; the Man in the Suit and the Man in Black Turtleneck beside her were still waiting for her to act.

Luo Yuejian gritted her teeth, telling herself she didn't believe she couldn't get up there. At worst, it would just be a bit embarrassing. Anyway, her image wasn't that lofty, and surely the audience in the livestream room would understand.

She took a deep breath and slowly walked to the bottom of the lotus platform.

Given her height, she could touch the bottom of the lotus platform with her arms outstretched without standing on tiptoe.

She carefully observed the structure of the lotus platform and discovered that one of the lower-positioned lotus petals seemed to have a leverage point, allowing her to push off against it.

She was a bit nervous. Okay, like this, hold onto the lotus platform, and use force to pull herself...

Wait a minute?

Just as she was preparing to exert force, she suddenly felt an unusual power coming from the lotus petal.

Luo Yuejian couldn't help but freeze, looking up at the lotus petal she was holding.

Was that her imagination just now? How did she feel like she had just bent this lotus petal? Damn, was she some kind of Hercules who could bend stone?

However, the exclamation from the Man in the Suit behind her made Luo Yuejian realize that her feeling just now was not an illusion.

"The lotus base moved!"

The Man in the Suit's voice revealed a trace of incredulous excitement.

He quickly placed the Man in Black Turtleneck on the ground, ran to Luo Yuejian's side, and then said to her with some excitement: "Quick, let's both push together!"

After saying this, he grabbed a lotus petal and began to exert force.

The Man in the Suit had originally thought that turning the huge lotus base would be an extremely physically demanding task, but the actual situation greatly exceeded his expectations.

The weight of this lotus base didn't seem as heavy as he had imagined, so much so that he didn't even need Luo Yuejian's help; he was able to turn it easily with his own strength.

As the lotus base rotated, the stone platform below, which had looked seamless, actually cracked open in the middle, slowly extending to both sides and finally forming a clear opening.

It was clearly a hidden Secret Room.

The Man in the Suit looked at the revealed Secret Room, an indescribable shock surging in his heart.

While he was still thinking about how to find clues from the lotus base, Luo Yuejian had already perceived the mystery of the entire lotus base, seeing that the whole thing was a giant mechanism and that only by rotating it could the mechanism be solved.

Such an ability to see through traps and mechanisms at a glance really left him far behind.

The Man in the Suit knew very well that if the game ended just like this, the MVP of this game would undoubtedly be Luo Yuejian.

And the items obtained by the winner would naturally belong to Luo Yuejian.

But in this Miracle Escape Live Stream Game full of variables, it was like rowing a boat against the current—if you don't advance, you retreat.

If he couldn't obtain as many items as possible, how could he continue to survive in the subsequent games?

Moreover, based on his understanding of the cold personality of the White-haired Girl in front of him, she might not necessarily let him off.

The Man in the Suit's eyes flickered for a moment, but on the surface, he remained calm and said to Luo Yuejian: "Are we going down together? Or will you stay up here to keep watch while I go down to see what clues are inside?"

"We go down together." Luo Yuejian certainly wouldn't let the Man in the Suit go down alone.

There might be some traps down there; how could she let the Man in the Suit take all the good things for himself?

She was the first to enter the dim Secret Room, completely failing to see the expression on the Man in the Suit behind her, who seemed to be calculating something...

And the Man in the Suit also didn't notice the cold, sinister expression on the Man in Black Turtleneck, who was blind and had his head lowered to the side.

Putting aside his thoughts, just as the Man in the Suit was preparing to follow Luo Yuejian into the Secret Room, the Man in Black Turtleneck suddenly spoke up: "Take me down with you. I have some research on these types of Buddhist-related scenes; perhaps I can help us find the thousand-leaf lotus as soon as possible."

The Man in the Suit was stunned upon hearing this. His eyes rolled as he seemed to be thinking about something, then he nodded and smiled: "No problem, I'll help you in. Be careful, there are steps at the entrance."

After entering the Secret Room, they walked slowly down the stairs.

After walking a few steps, the stairs came to an end, and a flat surface appeared before them, covered with a thin layer of dust.

The Man in the Suit picked up the bronze oil lamp and lit the oil lamps on the nearby walls one by one.

As the flames of the oil lamps flickered, the light in the Secret Room gradually brightened.

The space of this Secret Room was quite large, about one-third the size of the main hall outside. The floor was paved with blue bricks, and in the middle, there was a three- to four-meter-wide waterway forming a rectangle, tightly surrounding the inner area as if it were a natural line of defense, preventing outsiders from approaching.

And in the very center of the Secret Room, there was a giant coffin that seemed to have golden light flowing over it.