Chapter 1208: Weird Structure

Entering Di She's room, the group confirmed the wall they needed to break.

These walls were made of old, brittle wood and looked quite fragile.

According to Bai She, the walls and the room were strange; the soundproofing worked intermittently, sometimes present and sometimes not.

Di Hu wanted to step forward and punch the wall to crack it, but Bai She stopped him.

"This is my room. I'll handle it myself."

After saying that, he turned around, intending to have everyone step back, but he saw Yan Zhi Chun with a face full of sorrow, her eyes red and tearful.

"Hey... what's wrong with you, kid?"

"Ah...?" Yan Zhi Chun seemed unaware that she had been crying, touching her cheek. "Oh no... this is..."

"Did you just touch me?" Di She asked again.

"Uh..."

"You can't blame me for that. Go cry over there for a bit."

Di She shook his head, rolled up his sleeves, and faced the wall.

He then swung his hand hard, instantly creating a large hole in the fragile wall.

Sure enough, the other side was another room.

He quickly tore away the wallpaper, enduring the pain, and enlarged the hole until it was big enough for one person to pass through before stopping.

Di Hu stepped forward, glanced at the adjacent room, and asked, "Who lives next door?"

"I don't know," Bai She replied. "I rarely hear any sounds. It's possible no one lives there."

The group passed through the hole one by one and checked the next room. It had some furniture, but it was covered in dust, making it seem as though, just as Bai She said, no one had lived there at all.

After all, Di Ji had its own risks of death; perhaps one day these Sheng Xiao members died while out on duty, and the room was simply abandoned afterward.

"This method works great," Di Hu said with a laugh. "We can just keep breaking through like this and avoid the crowds."

"I have a bad feeling about it," Yan Zhi Chun said. "We might run into other Sheng Xiao..."

"Don't worry." Di Hu shook his head confidently. "There aren't many in Di Ji who could take me down."

With that, he went to the wall opposite the hole and signaled for the group to step back. He then swung his arm like an iron pillar and struck the wooden wall with a heavy blow.

This strike was completely different from Bai She's; dull and forceful, instantly cracking the entire wall.

Di Hu realized he had made quite a racket, so he extended his fist again, aiming at the center of the wall and punching quickly.

A hole the size of a basin appeared, but instead of revealing another room, it showed only pitch-black darkness.

Di Hu leaned his large head toward the hole and peered in for a long time before muttering three words:

"The lights are off?"

"What the hell, the lights are off?" Bai She frowned. "Are you sure there's a room on the other side?"

"This..."

Di Hu stared into the hole for a while, spotting tiny specks of light far in the distance, but he couldn't confirm if it was a room.

He then stuck his head in further and looked down, but because it was so dark, he couldn't even see the ground.

"Forget it... I can't worry about that now. I'll go in and check!"

Di Hu reached out and roughly demolished the wooden wall, creating an opening big enough for himself, and was about to step through.

"Wait a minute!"

Yan Zhi Chun stepped forward and grabbed Di Hu. For some reason, the hole made her uneasy, as if something was wrong, though she couldn't pinpoint it.

She glanced back at the hole behind them, which clearly led back to Di She's room. So, where did this one lead?

"What's up, sis?" Di Hu and Lao Sun asked in unison.

"I just feel like something's off..." Yan Zhi Chun thought for a moment. "Di Hu, try throwing a piece of wood into it."

"Throw wood? Oh, yeah... that makes sense." Di Hu understood her idea, picked up a fragment of the wall from the floor, and tossed it into the hole.

To everyone's surprise, the wood kept falling and never hit the ground.

"Damn..." Di Hu was startled, his fur standing on end. "What is this... a cliff?"

Yan Zhi Chun narrowed her eyes and rested her chin in her hand.

"The Lieh Che rooms... aren't they supposed to be symmetrically built...?" she said.

"What do you mean?" Di Hu turned back and asked.

"I mean..." Yan Zhi Chun wasn't sure how to explain, so she looked around the room and spotted some paper and a pen.

She quickly sketched her guess on the paper.

"I suspect that Di She's room and this one are part of a single structure, just divided by the wall in the middle," Yan Zhi Chun explained, pointing to her drawing. "But on the other side of this wall, it's not another room; it's empty, or at least..."

She couldn't quite describe what was beyond the wall.

If it really was a "cliff," then what was the Lieh Che built on?

In other words, what was beneath the floor of this room?

Bai She thought for a moment and said to Di Hu, "Try throwing the wood farther in."

"Farther?"

"Yes," Bai She replied. "Throw it straight out into the distance."

Di Hu didn't fully understand but picked up another piece of wood and hurled it as far as he could.

In front of everyone's eyes, the wood flew forward until it vanished, swallowed by the darkness.

Di She shook his head at the sight, turned around, walked over to Yan Zhi Chun, and pointed at her sketch. "Kid... do you see this? It doesn't seem right..."

He took the pen and added the location of the doors to her drawing.

"From the hallway, the 'doors' look really close, just three or five meters apart," Di She said. "So how could the structure be like this when we break through the wall?"

Di She drew a question mark in the empty space.

Yan Zhi Chun understood what Di She meant, but the more she thought about it, the more abstract it became.

What kind of bizarre design was this?

"Could the 'doors' in the hallway be fake...?" Yan Zhi Chun voiced her doubt.

"That shouldn't be the case..." Di She shook his head. "Di Ji rooms are already short on resources. What's the point of building a room far away and putting fake doors in between?"

Yan Zhi Chun and Di She fell into deep thought, but Di Hu and Lao Sun looked completely baffled.

"Is this problem that complicated?" Di Hu said. "If this path doesn't work, let's just try another one."

"Yeah," Lao Sun chimed in. "Brother Hu's got a point."

"Another path..." Yan Zhi Chun looked up at Di Hu. "What other path is there?"