Chapter 268 - 256: Gu Heqian (2/3)
It didn’t resemble other cave dwellings filled with oddities; Gu Heqian’s abode was notably "tidy."
This cleanliness wasn’t about being spotless but rather the absence of miscellaneous items. Everything was ordinary—stone tables and chairs, all utterly mundane, as if it were a retreat for some reclusive expert.
"Heh heh, that old thief Gu is the best at deception. The plainer it looks, the more treasures he has hidden!" Black Donkey said, drooling as his eyes shone brightly.
"...Have you been tricked by him?"
"Pah, would I, so astute, fall for that ancient thief’s tricks?" Black Donkey snorted disdainfully, but his long donkey face involuntarily betrayed a sense of indignation, suggesting that he had indeed been duped in the past.
Zhou Heng laughed out loud. Regardless, Gu Heqian had been dead for tens of thousands of years, and there was no need to speak ill of the dead.
The cave had only one level, but it was very deep. Each stone room looked similar with stone beds, tables, and chairs. Zhou Heng wondered why Gu Heqian had made so many of them.
"Idiot!" Black Donkey gave Zhou Heng a look of extreme contempt. "Ever heard of ’A crafty rabbit has three burrows’? Among these numerous rooms, one has a mechanism that opens a passage to the true secret cultivation chamber of the old thief!"
"Donkey, if you don’t know how to use proverbs, don’t use them at all. Do you even know what ’A crafty rabbit has three burrows’ means?"
"Woof, I like it, you got a problem with that?"