At this moment, the wooden door was closed, clearly locked from the inside by someone.
However, dealing with a wooden door was much easier than with an airtight stone wall.
Li Wenli slipped a dagger into the gap of the door, moving it up, down, left, and right. After a short while, the sound of the door bolt falling could be heard from inside.
Bai Sasa joyously picked up her backpack, ready to enter, but Li Wenli stopped her.
"This room has been sealed off for years. There might be toxic gases. Let’s wait for it to air out before we enter," he said.
Bai Sasa obediently nodded and sat down beside her older sister, thinking they would need to wait at least a quarter of an hour, but it was only two minutes before Li Wenli allowed them to enter.
Li Wenli stood at the door for a moment, and suddenly a strong wind surged around him.
The wind blew into the room instantly, causing a noisy uproar inside. After a short while, all the windows inside automatically opened, followed by a moldy smell that furiously rushed out.
Bai Sasa was caught off guard by the moldy smell and almost fainted.
After a while, when the wind died down, Li Wenli was the first to enter.
Only then did Bai Junjun leisurely stand up, rubbing Bai Sasa’s head, "Stay close to us."
"Okay!" Bai Sasa was very pleased.
The two kids in the basket were also eager to get down, but Bai Junjun refused them.
"You two, stay in the basket and don’t run around."
Now, they were in the City Lord’s study, which could potentially hide countless mechanisms and secret passages. Accidentally triggering a deadly trap would be disastrous.
Therefore, it was safer to limit their freedom.
The children always respected Bai Junjun’s decisions; not only did they stay put in the basket as told, but even if asked to wait at the door and not enter, they would obediently wait.
Thus, the children quietly crouched in the basket motionlessly.
At that moment, Li Wenli lit a candle.
Fortunately, this study’s candles were just like those outside, still having some oil left, and Li Wenli lit them up, soon brightening the room completely.
The study housed many books and next to them was a large sand table.
Li Wenli excitedly walked over, but his face fell the moment he saw the sand table.
Previously, the sand table might have displayed the layout of the whole world, but the wind he had created had tossed the sand table into a mess. Now, it was nothing but scattered sand, with various flags and markers in total disarray.
Then, Bai Junjun also saw everything.
She gave Li Wenli a speechless glance.
Li Wenli coughed awkwardly, "I was just trying to save time."
"Idiot," Bai Junjun shot back.
The original purpose of finding the study was to locate a map, and now, they were back to square one.
Li Wenli had not anticipated that his thorough planning would inadvertently backfire on himself.
Unable to bear looking at the chaotic sand table any longer, he channeled his frustration into strength and began searching for any possible books and precious items in the room.
Bai Junjun was not idle either; the two of them, one searching the bookshelves and the other the scroll tubes, quickly made the already messy study even messier.
However, they found nothing.
Li Wenli felt something was amiss and casually created a subtle breeze.
Seeing him about to work some magic, Bai Junjun rolled her eyes.
This guy wasn’t planning on turning the place upside down with a gust, was he?
However, Li Wenli simply raised his index finger to his lips in a silencing gesture, then flicked his finger lightly and closed his eyes.
The breeze meandered back and forth through the room, the air at the windows was circulating, the air at the doorway was circulating...
Li Wenli carefully sensed the changes in the room.