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Then it becomes much easier by using the lever principle.
A moment later, Gu Ran pushed the large stone slab aside and looked at the space below.
Johnson took out air-tube earpieces and throat microphones from his person and distributed them to everyone: "Put on your communication earpieces. We'll split into two teams, one team going down and the other on guard."
"I want to go down," Gu Ran said.
Johnson nodded: "Then I'll go down with you, and Xiao Shui and Susie will stay upstairs."
After putting on communication equipment and completing the test, the two jumped into the basement.
The basement is spacious, more than three meters above the ground, and equipped with emergency lights all around so that it can continue to provide illumination even when the power is out.
There are several rooms here, each of which is quite large, approximately 100 square meters.
Gu Ran and Johnson explored together, and the first room they entered was an armory.
The rifles are mainly AKs, but there are also various pistols, as well as a number of RPGs and mortars. The boxes contain a lot of mortar ammunition and grenades.
They weren't interested in the weapons, so they went to another room and found more weapons there.
This time it was large-scale weaponry, including several mountain guns that looked very similar to Italian cannons, but Gu Ran couldn't name them.
“The weaponry here could arm a reinforced battalion,” Johnson said, looking at the guns. “They deserved to die under bombers.”
No matter which country, if the ruler has the power, he cannot allow such an armed group to exist within his territory.
The two glanced at it casually and then left.
The third room is really something else.
It's all gold and jewels!
Gu Ran looked at the small mountain of gold in front of him and remarked, "They even arranged it quite neatly."
The mountain of gold was made of gold bricks, about one meter high, the size of a person, and its weight was unknown.
“They’re from the old days. If it were me, I would have exchanged them for bearer bonds. When I ran away, I could just take a few pieces of paper with me and run. Who could take this pile of gold with them?” Johnson said.
Chapter 162 Zhang Family Talisman
“Bearer bonds are only useful in peacetime. The old man in the Zhang family is probably afraid of war, so he has gold reserves.” Gu Ran understood the old man’s thoughts. People who have experienced war know that gold is the only hard currency.
Moreover, Siam is not a very stable country internally, and there are coups from time to time. The old man of the Zhang family was prepared for the worst and planned ahead. If something really happens, it can be considered that he will leave something for his descendants.
Besides gold, there were also pearls, agates, and other decorative items around it.
After taking another look, the two lost interest and continued to explore other places.
The remaining rooms contained some cold weapons. Gu Ran looked around and, finding no alchemical weapons, lost interest.
Johnson seemed to have a great interest in Chinese cold weapons, so he was looking at swords and knives here.
In another room, two walls were specially carved, one of which recorded the family genealogy, documenting the history of the Zhang family.
Gu Ran shone a flashlight on the wall and quietly looked at the written records.
When the old man from the Zhang family was expelled from China in his twenties, he admitted that his grandfather and father had done wrong and committed unforgivable crimes, so he had no complaints about being expelled from China.
But he still hoped that the Huaxia clan could give him a chance to return to his roots...
Even if it's not possible while I'm alive, I hope my ashes can return to the ancestral hall after I die.
This old man was also a person who cherished the old ways; his greatest wish was actually to be recognized as a member of his ancestors.
Unfortunately, he is dead. We can only hope that his soul can return to his hometown.
There is another wall that records the Zhang family's secret techniques.
A section of the wall was hollowed out in the very center, and inside was placed a seal carved from jade.
"All members of the Zhang family bloodline possess a bloodline imprint that can command all things. Newborns can touch this imprint to test their lineage. Those who can emit firefly-like light are considered talented and can learn talismanic arts. When learning, using this imprint can enhance the effect of the command. This imprint is a replica of the ancestral imprint of the Zhang family ancestral hall, and every household has one. Its effect is only one-tenth of the ancestral imprint, but it is enough to increase the success rate of talismanic arts and alchemy several times over..."
So... the Zhang family uses seals to draw talismans? Gu Ran is indeed ignorant.
His explosive tags don't require hand seals; he only needs to guide chakra with his mind.
"Let me test my bloodline." Gu Ran was eager to test the jade seal, so he touched it.
The jade seal is carved with a lifelike large bird, which seems to be a phoenix. Gu Ran gently touched the bird's head with her fingertip.
"Huh? Without light, my bloodline is no good?" Gu Ran looked at it in confusion. Just as he was about to withdraw his finger, the jade seal suddenly emitted a dazzling white light!
The white light, like a fluorescent lamp but even more intense and bright, filled the basement space with its radiance.
Gu Ran released his hand, and the light immediately dissipated, turning into an ordinary white jade seal.
The jade seal was about the size of a fist, and Gu Ran put it into his trouser pocket.
In another room, Johnson, who was looking at melee weapons, picked up a Guan Dao (a type of halberd) and brandished it.
“That big sword is really cool!” Johnson laughed.
"You're not going to take it with you, are you?" Gu Ran asked.
“Why not?” Johnson actually shouldered the knife.
Johnson said that when he was learning Chinese, he watched the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". His favorite character was Guan Yu, and his favorite weapon was the Guan Dao. He even went to China to find a martial arts master and studied Guan Dao martial arts for a period of time.
Unfortunately, this thing was definitely a controlled weapon, and he couldn't carry it with him, so he gave up on it.
The two explored all the outer rooms, leaving only the innermost room unexplored.
"Gu Ran, can you smell a foul, pungent odor?" The further Johnson went in, the stronger the smell became.
"Hmm." Gu Ran thought for a moment and said, "It smells like the zoo."
He stopped, focused his mind, activated his White Eye, and used its telescopic and X-ray vision to look into the depths.
"There's an animal, is it a dog?"
Deep inside was a tightly sealed cage made of welded steel, in which eight dogs were kept.
The two walked to the front of the cage and saw the eight dogs. These dogs had blood-red eyes, but they didn't bark when they saw people.
“There’s something wrong.” Johnson walked up to the cage, planted his halberd on the ground, and carefully examined the dog inside.
"What's wrong?" Gu Ran also felt that something was amiss.
The dogs inside are about the same size as Chinese rural dogs, with some having brown fur and others black fur, somewhat resembling African hyenas.
The dogs all sat on the ground, quietly watching the two of them.
Johnson explained, "These dogs are Siamese Ridgebacks, which are extremely wary and bark incessantly at strangers, but these eight dogs didn't bark at all..."
Gu Ran immediately recalled a proverb: Beware of dogs that don't bark; they bite the hardest.
Just as the two were about to take a closer look, they suddenly heard the phone ring.
The bell was coming from inside the cage.
Johnson was closest to the cage, and when he tilted his head, he saw something tied to the back of the cage!
"Oh no!" Johnson, with his experience, immediately understood what it was and turned to tackle Gu Ran.
"It's a C4 bomb!"
With a loud explosion, the iron cage door was blown apart, and the huge shockwave knocked Johnson and Gu Ran to the ground.
Gu Ran, pinned to the ground, quickly patted Johnson: "Are you alright?"
Johnson coughed a few times: "It's alright, luckily the amount of explosives wasn't much, and it was a directional blast, it's just that the shock wave was a bit strong... But, since you're going to plant a bomb, why not plant a big one?"
Just as they were wondering what was going on, Gu Ran, lying on the ground, saw a pair of blood-red eyes approaching them.
"Oh no!" With a swift movement, she jumped up and grabbed Johnson.
The instant he jumped, a dog lunged fiercely at the spot where they had just been lying.
Before Gu Ran could even feel relieved, a dog suddenly leaped up and pounced on the two of them.
Using the terrain, Gu Ran carried Johnson and scaled the walls, retreating dozens of meters.
"Gu Ran, Johnson, what happened?" Xiao Shui and Susie asked immediately upon hearing the explosion.
“There are dogs inside, dogs that have been mutated by dragon blood!” Johnson replied.
Gu Ran put Johnson down and watched warily as the eight vicious dogs slowly approached.
Then, Gu Ran and Johnson heard another explosion through their earpieces.
"What's wrong?" Johnson asked.
Xiao Shui replied: "There was also an explosion outside. We don't know the cause, and we are on alert!"
"The situation is unclear, let's retreat first," Johnson decided decisively.
Gu Ran nodded and immediately stepped back.
When the eight dogs saw them running away, they immediately gave chase.
The two arrived at the entrance, but since there were no stairs, they had to jump up.
Chapter 163 Flying Thunder God Slash!
The Siamese Ridgebacks that have been injected with medicine are extremely fast. Gu Ran and Johnson sprinted at full speed, and their speed was definitely faster than Bolt's. But dogs have four legs, so their speed is always a notch faster than theirs!
Seeing that they were about to catch up, Gu Ran said to Johnson, "You go first, don't worry about me."
After saying that, he turned to face the vicious dogs.
Johnson paused for a moment, about to persuade Gu Ran to go with him, but then thought that this next Lionheart president was very brave and perhaps he didn't need to worry about him.
And if I stayed by his side, I would probably become a burden to him.
"Be careful!" Johnson cautioned.
Outside, several more explosions were heard, seemingly more than a hundred meters away.
Gu Ran turned around, facing the eight dogs charging towards him, and quickly formed hand seals.
Art fire escape ho fireball!
He increased his chakra output, filling the entire passageway with a large fireball and blasting it towards the eight dogs!