The lead Ministry of Industry official exclaimed, "This object, we must find a way to get it out, the Emperor's grand birthday is approaching, it would make for an excellent congratulatory gift."
Seeing that the pottery tower posed no danger, everyone continued forward.
Strangely enough, there was no danger that followed.
On either side, chambers contained bookshelves filled with all sorts of bamboo slips and books concerning Mathematics, Mechanical Techniques, and Qimen Dunjia.
On the other side was similarly an antique rack with various ingenious small items, including strange tools and small mechanical components such as levers, bearings, gears, evidently for teaching.
The rear chamber held two stone coffins.
Plain and unremarkable, Li Yan didn't even need to open them to smell the stench of the long-decayed corpses inside.
