Liu's failure to find any semblance of any sort of entrance nearer to the forest was marginally irritating, but it was a feeling he had gotten used to after months of hunting in the forests near Mingdu. Every trace of activity has either been too old to make use of or too different from a human's to be... Well, a human's. Just as the hunter was about to go move on to the other side of the road, though, he heard Torako calling out to both him and Kyang.

"...A wooden thingy. Under the stuff. Okay. Well, I mean... Broken carriages are a thing, right?" he muttered to himself, casually walking over to where Torako was in order to see what she had been clamoring about. Somehow...

"...You actually found it. Wow. I'm impressed," Liu said, patting the girl on the head as a joke before kneeling down next to whatever it was that was being covered. Carefully brushing away the cover, the 'wooden thing' made itself to be a trapdoor of sorts. Taking a deep breath, Liu began to lift the door...

Only to be denied by... A lock.

"...You know, I should've seen this coming."

With a sigh, Liu backed away and turned to his companions, shrugging his shoulders.

"You think we should just... Bust the door down and throw caution to the wind?"