Bai Junjun tried to push the wall.
However, the stones here, like the city walls outside, were one meter thick blocks.
No matter how much she pushed, they wouldn’t budge.
She didn’t know where the City Lord got these stones from; not even the ones used in Angkor Wat were as exaggerated as these.
Compared to Bai Junjun, who wanted to forcibly tear it down, Li Wenli was much calmer.
He walked around the stone house and finally stopped his gaze on the stone pillars surrounding the house.
These seven pillars were neatly arranged on one side, each one meter above the ground.
If you said they were beams, they were not tall enough; if you said they were railings, there were no railing joints. In short, they were very odd.
Li Wenli sized up the pillars, touching here and there, and finally gestured for Sasa to come over.
Bai Sasa hurried over, excited.
The two children in the basket had woken up by now and were curiously poking their heads out to look around.
Li Wenli then asked her to set down the basket.
"Try to see if you can press these pillars down into the ground," he directed.
"Press them down?" Bai Sasa was slightly taken aback.
Li Wenli nodded, "Yes, press them down; when I tell you to stop, you stop."
Bai Sasa nodded seriously. It was rare for there to be a job that suited her; naturally, she would do her best!
While Bai Sasa rolled up her sleeves and got ready to work, Bai Junjun also came over out of curiosity, "Found something?"
"The master Yan Shi’s masterpiece, ’The Beaded Curtain,’" Li Wenli joked half- seriously.
Bai Junjun frowned at the pillars in front of her, but they were round and bulging with nothing special about them.
However, the original owner had studied Mechanical Techniques with a master, and junjun had a modest understanding of Formations and mechanisms, so she patiently applied her theoretical knowledge to study everything here.
After comparing back and forth for quite some time, she finally discovered a clue.
Under the moonlight, the shadows of these pillars perfectly matched a pattern on the wall, except that the reflected pillar was taller than the pattern, and they didn’t align.
If it were a little shorter, perhaps they really would overlap.
At that moment, Bai Sasa was no longer delaying. She rubbed her hands together and pressed down on one of the pillars slowly.
However, the pillar wouldn’t move an inch.
Bai Sasa, not believing it, pushed harder.
But the pillar still wouldn’t shift.
Li Wenli frowned slightly, contemplating the trick of it.
By then, Bai Junjun, who had been sitting on the ground to study the matter, tilted her head and said, "Why not try rotating them clockwise or counterclockwise?"
"?" Li Wenli waited in confusion for her to continue.
Bai Junjun pointed at the pattern on the wall, "Maybe that pattern is a dart? Doesn’t a dart rely on rotation to be thrown?"
Upon hearing this, Bai Sasa immediately applied all her strength to twist the pillar left and right, and with a crack, it finally turned.
"!" Bai Junjun suddenly got excited.
She was just talking randomly! She actually guessed right???
Everyone looked at the pillar with renewed vigor, but other than being rotated, nothing else seemed to have changed around it.
Bai Junjun and Li Wenli refused to believe there wasn’t a trick to it and stood up to continue searching for clues on the wall. Just then, a faint vibration came from the stone wall, and it began to descend slowly.
Bai Junjun and Li Wenli were astonished by the scene before them.
Bai Sasa, who was turning the pillar, grinned widely, "I followed your instructions, rotating it first and then pressing down. Combining the two actions did the trick."
With the stone wall retracted, the house finally revealed its true form.
A wooden door appeared before them.