Chapter 113 The Secret of the Tangram Box
Mo Juren initially didn't take the big secret that Tian Ling mentioned seriously.

He thought that the so-called secret had already been discovered by him. Wasn't it on the piece of "spiritual material" that the golden rat sensed the abnormality?

The habit of the golden rat is that it likes things made of metal and stone. It usually likes to eat various minerals such as gold, silver, and iron.

Perhaps the "naturally high-quality refined crystal" mentioned by Liu Liang is very suitable for its appetite!

As a result, Mo Juren turned the mechanism to take out the spiritual material, but found that it was completely ordinary and did not look like a rare material for refining equipment.

Mo Juren, who was at a loss, threw it to the gold-eating rat. The gold-eating rat gobbled up the mineral-like spiritual material in just a few bites.

But after eating, it still looked unsatisfied and kept sniffing at the box, as if the thing it was really interested in was still hidden inside the box.

This aroused Mo Juren's curiosity, and combined with what Tian Ling said, "It's called the Seven-layer Box, but why does it only have six layers?", he began to take this matter seriously.

It feels like Tian Ling seems to have really discovered the secret of this thing.

Unfortunately, this person has been burned to ashes and there is no way to ask him any more questions.

Fortunately, there was the help of the golden rat. It seemed that it could smell some details that Mo Juren could not see.

Combining the state of eating golden rats, after many attempts, Mo Juren finally made a discovery.

It turns out that the layer in the Tangram box that makes the golden rat interested in eating changes every once in a while.

Whether it's the skills layer, the spiritual materials layer, or the map layer, it's always rotating.

Just flip the corresponding layer to the top and press a mechanism on the side and the rat will lose interest in it.

It was as if some internal mechanism was triggered, shutting off the leaked metallic and stone aura again.

After a period of time, the golden rat will sense the new breath of gold and stone again. After repeating this process, it will get a set of codes in a different order.

At present, Mo Juren has triggered the mechanisms of the skills layer, medicinal plant layer, formation flag layer, talisman layer and spiritual material layer respectively. Now only the last map layer is about to be completed.

The opened Tangram box was placed right in front of him. Mo Juren sat cross-legged on the ground, smiling as he watched the little silver-haired mouse listlessly rummaging around the Tangram box, as if there was a supreme delicacy right before its eyes but it couldn't get to eat it.

However, the golden rat was also quite clever. It was not interested in the box at all and did not use its little claws and sharp teeth to destroy anything, so Mo Juren just let it sniff around.

After a while, seeing that the Golden Rat was finally getting impatient again, Mo Juren knew that the time had come and quickly pressed the mechanism on the side.

Following a slight sound, just as Mo Juren had expected, the mechanism inside the seven-piece box operated for a while and then fell silent.

This time the sound of the mechanism moving lasted longer, probably because some advanced switch was turned on.

Mo Juren picked up the seven-piece box and looked at it carefully, and found that there was indeed an extra bulge on the front.

There really is a difference! This should be the final switch.

Before Mo Juren pressed the switch, he glanced at the golden rat.

After losing the aura of gold and stone once again, the little thing walked to the side dejectedly with its head hung, and lay on the ground with its legs spread out, looking as if it had lost all hope in life.

Mo Juren shook his head and smiled bitterly, then threw a piece of gold to it.

After the golden rat jumped up and took it, it regained a little energy, lowered its head and started eating again with a "gulp gulp".

After pacifying this little "hero", Mo Juren decisively pressed down the bulge. With a click, a layer suddenly popped out from the bottom of the box.

In the mezzanine, there was a leather map and a key-shaped object inlaid with gold and jade!

The eyes of the gold-eating rat nearby lit up, and the monkey was eager to pounce on it and grab it.

Mo Juren quickly blocked it and threw it into the spirit beast bag to isolate it.

Looking at the key more closely, you can see that it has a gorgeous shape, exquisite workmanship, and intricate details.

The golden metal on it should be some kind of very high-level spiritual material, which is why it could cause the golden-eating rat to lose its composure like this.

Looking at the map again, there were very few marked points on it. It seemed to be a city to the north. In a piece of yellow sand, there was an entrance marked between several oases.

I don't know what the name of this city is, but judging from the terrain, it should be in the south of a desert.

Apart from these, there is no other text on the map, which makes it confusing.

But when the key and the map are combined and stored in such an ingenious box with a mechanism and put together, the significance is self-evident.

It must be some kind of treasure map and key to open it!
However, Mo Juren did not dare to determine whether this was an opportunity or a danger. After all, his current strength was too weak and the map markings were too vague. It was impossible for him to spend too much energy looking for it.

I can only put it in the storage bag and keep it carefully.

Then Mo Juren took out the "corpse" of the puppet leopard released by Tian Ling from another storage bag and spread it out in front of himself.

The entire puppet was almost the size of a human, and its entire body was made of some hardened wooden material.

The hardness of these wooden materials is comparable to that of gold and iron, but their weight is not very large, and it seems that they will not sink even if they fall into the water.

This puppet beast is just a small doll shape when it is not activated, but it can become so big after being activated. It is really magical.

Mo Juren searched carefully and found the small device in the chest and abdomen of the puppet.

After opening the lid, he saw that it was a spirit stone warehouse. The six spirit stones inside had exhausted their spiritual power and turned into white ash.

It turns out that this powerful puppet is a mechanical beast driven by spirit stones!
The reason why he suddenly became unable to move was not because he smashed his head, but most likely because the spiritual power in the spirit stone was exhausted and lost energy.

Although the puppet's power was indeed very strong, this puppet leopard did not launch many attacks in total during the fight, and it had already used up all the spiritual power in the six spirit stones.

It can be seen that this way of fighting is comparable to burning spirit stones and throwing talismans madly.

In particular, the powerful white light that could be ejected from its head almost killed Mo Juren with one blow. Its power should have exceeded the Qi Refining level.

However, this part seemed to have been completely damaged by Mo Juren's fierce attack.

Mo Juren couldn't just replace the new spirit stone to test the puppet beast rashly.

After all, there is no way to control it. If it attacks you as soon as it moves, it will take a lot of effort to subdue it.

So I put it away for the moment, and planned to study it again after I learned more about it.

(End of this chapter)