C1396 This Black Is the Other White 7(2)

The sluice opened.

What was surprising was that nobody detonated the gunpowder that was placed around the lock. It proved that not only the shape, but the heat of the flame itself had been restrained, or else the heat of the flame, which would have been enough to melt steel, would have been enough to set off the powder within arm's reach.

"Leader Zheng, lead the way