After Being Kicked Out of a Wealthy Family, She Became a Fake Daughter and Shocked the World

 After arriving here, Lin Wu first checked the area.

 It was true as Bai Jing said, there were no traces of anyone else coming around the river bank, not even a single footprint, and there were no signs that the grass had been stepped on by others, only the marks left by her walking back and forth.

Lin Wu walked back, following the direction Bai Jing said, to find the swamp the other party mentioned.

Along the way, she even found signs that someone had cut off dead branches and leaves and rummaged through them. Not long after, she also saw the swamp. There was an inconspicuous depression on the edge, which proved that many people had dug through it. Wet mud is smeared on the body.

These are enough to prove that what Bai Jing said is true, and the archaeological team that night suddenly disappeared out of thin air.

Lin Wu frowned slightly and turned back to the river bank.

This river is not too deep, and the water quality is also clean. You can see that the bottom of the river is mostly silt and stones, which have been deposited for a long time and have not been dug or moved away.

Then it is unlikely that there is another channel at the bottom of the river.

Having said that, Lin Wu still found a branch nearby, took off his shoes and went into the water.

 In late autumn, the cold water of the river makes the forest fog tremble.

The bottom of the river was unexpectedly slippery, and the current was so fast that Lin Wu almost lost his footing.

She found a foothold, bent down and tested the river water with her hands. Then she held a flashlight in one hand and a branch in the other. She poked the bottom of the river with the branch in the light to see if there was anything abnormal, and headed towards the waterfall and lake Bai Jing mentioned. Go in the direction.

 Fortunately, the river was not too wide, so Lin Wu searched for it in a carpet-like manner, not too slowly.

Lin Wu also raised his head and looked downstream. The river was winding continuously in the depths of the night, as if it was endless and far away. He didn’t know how long it would take to find it.

 But what she didn’t expect was that God would be very happy with her.

Lin Wu was about to start searching, and he didn't go far when suddenly there was a muffled "bang" sound, and the branch penetrated the mud and poked a hard unknown object.

Lin Wu stopped immediately, put the flashlight in his mouth and bit it to illuminate, then took out a dagger and used it with the branches to pick away the rocks and clear the mud.

In just a moment, part of the river bottom was revealed.

I saw that it was a piece of material similar to black stone. There were some fine and dense grooves on the surface. The texture was unfamiliar and strange, similar to part of a complete pattern.

Lin Wu continued to dig deeper, carefully cleaning the gravel and mud on and around the surface.

Soon, it completely came into Lin Wu's sight. It turned out to be a circular lock plate with a diameter of about 30 centimeters. There were three separate circles on it, with a round black bead hanging in the middle. There were many complex things surrounding it. The lines are obscure and unknown, but when combined they form a very strange pattern, with an inexplicable sense of splendor and strangeness.

Lin Wu couldn't recognize what it was for a moment, but with sharp eyes he noticed that there were protruding words on the inner walls of the three layers of lock rings. She bent even lower, and after looking at it for a while, she could barely make out clearly that they were the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches and the Six Yao.

Lin Wu then continued to clean up the area around the lock plate, only to find that there was only one lock plate here, and there was no door or the like underneath. Moreover, the bottom of the lock plate seemed to be buried deep in the mud. She dug for a long time but did not see the lock. There is only one cold cylinder at the bottom of the plate, and the surface is also surrounded by the same complex patterns.

This made Lin Wu decisively give up and study the lock plate.

 The three rings on the lock plate are rotatable. Lin Wu guessed that they had to be turned to a specific position for the entire lock plate to react.

Lin Wu had never heard Bai Jing mention it before, which meant that Bai Jing and others had not noticed it.

 But it was obvious that something was wrong with the lock plate appearing here. Lin Wu suspected that it might be the reason why the archaeological team disappeared out of thin air.

“But what mystery will it have…”

Lin Wu rubbed his chin and thought, trying to find some information related to it to decipher it, such as converting this place at this time into the heavenly stems and earthly branches, calculating with six lines, and turning the lock plate to the corresponding position based on the result, but the lock plate did not react at all. No.

 She estimated the approximate time when the previous archaeological team disappeared, and put this result on the lock plate, but there was no response.

“Is it based on the timing of this thing? Or is it a set of answers set by its owner?”

Lin Wu frowned.

 If so, without hints and patterns, where would she get the answer? Even if you study here for years and years, it will all be in vain.

 Wrong. She doesn’t know, and the archaeological team is even less likely to know. Because the archaeological team did not find this.

 But they still disappeared, which shows that this thing does not need to be touched by others, it can be triggered automatically under certain conditions. The premise is that it really has something to do with those people disappearing.

Lin Wu thought about it and looked up at the night.

 Is it related to a specific celestial phenomenon?

 The clouds were thick and not a single star or moon could be seen.

 It has nothing to do with it.

 Is it the terrain and feng shui?

Lin Wu turned around and looked around, recalling the conditions of this place for dozens of miles around, and frowned again.

There is nothing special about this place, it’s just ordinary.

What else could it be?

Lin Wu was thinking, and suddenly thought of Bai Jing and Bai Ning. They did not get into trouble here, but they had the same amnesia as the surviving members of the archaeological team, indicating that they had experienced the same thing.

The same is true in other places. Could it be that... there is an identical lock plate in another place, and there is some connection between the two, and one of them needs to react before the other can react?

If this is the case, Bai Jing and Bai Ning may not be able to find the answer to the lock disk to open it, and then the lock disk in another place will also be actively triggered.

Then if you find the reason over there, you can open this place, right?

Lin Wu turned around and wanted to go ashore.

Each of the two places can lead to the place where the accident occurred. She found the waterfall and lake, and she could enter from there without having to come back. If there is no strange reaction there, she will come back. At worst, it's a bit of a hassle.

However, just when Lin Wu was about to leave, one of her hands scratched somewhere and suddenly felt a sting.

Lin Wu hissed, stopped and looked down. It turned out that her hand accidentally touched the sharp corner of the texture pattern engraved on the edge of the lock plate. A deep blood mark was immediately drawn on the fingertips, and blood beads flowed out and fell on the lock plate. .

Since it wasn't a serious injury, Lin Wu didn't pay much attention to it. He directly put his hand into the river and shook it. The blood was smeared in the river and was rushed to the edge of the lock plate. He then stopped his hand and started to walk away.

 At this moment, a red light suddenly passed by!

Lin Wu stopped immediately, turned around and saw a magical scene.

Her blood fell on the lock plate, but it was not washed away by the water. Instead, it was hidden in the lines of the lock plate. It flowed quickly along the grooves as if it was being pulled by some living thing. It flowed through the entire lock plate in just a few seconds. The texture! The place where the blood flowed also lit up with blood-colored red light, which gradually became stronger and finally concentrated on the black bead in the middle, which emitted a dazzling red light.

Before Lin Wu could react, the three-ring lock body on the lock plate suddenly began to rotate on its own. The muffled sound of "click-click" was particularly clear in the silent night, and it quickly rotated to a specific position and stopped.

The next moment, the red light became so powerful that it instantly enveloped the lock plate for several meters, including the forest mist!

An inexplicable suction force suddenly appeared, pulling Lin Wu who was unprepared, staggering a few steps and slamming into the water.

Lin Wu choked a few mouthfuls of water, coughed violently, and quickly regained consciousness. He thrust the dagger and branches in his hands into the mud to use the force to stabilize his body.

However, the suction force was so powerful that it was almost earth-shaking, and Lin Wu could not refuse it at all.

She didn't even have time to grab something to steady herself, she was already dragged to the lock plate by the suction force, and slammed into the hard and cold column, groaning due to the dull pain in her back.

In a flash of lightning, there was suddenly nothing underneath him!

Lin Wu's eyesight turned black, and the unspeakable emptiness instantly overwhelmed her. She fell straight down without giving her a chance to do anything else.

The feeling of weightlessness made Lin Wu's expression change, and he realized that the lock plate was actually the key to triggering a certain mysterious technique. No wonder the people on the archaeological team suddenly and mysteriously disappeared!

But there were too many mystical arts that required the use of blood. Lin Wu couldn't think of which one it was at the moment. What he was sure of was that the mystical arts should be of the space type, and he didn't know where they lead.

 The worst thing is that she is falling now. If she falls from a high altitude through the occult method, she will be cold!

Thinking of this, Lin Wu quickly thought of a remedy.

What she never expected was that Lin Wu had this idea, and the next moment she landed on the ground!

This all happened so quickly, in just a few seconds, that Lin Wu was stunned for a moment.

 (End of this chapter)