Son-In-Law Gets an Upgrade
Chapter 370

Chapter 370 Mister Jefferson Has A Unique Perspective

Alex glanced at Stefan before turning to look at Maggie. "I can help you, Ms. Grant, but I must warn you. The Dragon's Lock has already formed. To break it, I may have to destroy the earlier arrangement of your

room."

Maggie heaved a sigh of relief. "That's no problem. In fact, you can even destroy the entire mansion to break the spell."

Alex laughed. "Very well, then. Mr. Green, if you could replace me some bronze rods, I'd be very grateful."

Warner nodded but did not leave immediately. He cocked his hand back and punched Mr. Carter once more for good measure, eliciting a pained groan and a gush of blood from the latter's split lip. Only then did Warner leave the room.

Noah swallowed any thoughts of escaping and remained on the floor limply.

A few minutes later, Warner returned with a bronze rod with a sharp tip.

"Mr. Jefferson, will this do?" Warner asked, holding out the rod.

Alex nodded and pointed at the wall to his left. "There's a water pipe running through that wall, which is the main lifeline of the Dragon Lock Spell. If the pipe is broken, the lock will release." "There's a pipe buried in the wall?" Both Maggie and Warner sounded surprised and a little disbelieving.

Alex smiled and said nothing.

Stefan immediately said without doubting Alex, "Just do as Mr. Jefferson says, Mr. Green. If he says there's a pipe in the wall, then there'll be one. Mr. Jefferson won't be wrong." "Alright, I'll open the wall up." Warner was unconvinced. He pried proceeded nonetheless.

Maggie looked at Alex once, then back again at the wall he had pointed out. This was her bedroom. If even she did not know that there was a pipe embedded in the wall somewhere, then she definitely did not believe that Alex could have predicted that.

As Warner was a martial artist as well, he completed the task in no time, exposing the grey concrete underneath it. Seeing the unbroken surface of the concrete, Maggie was convinced that there was no pipe buried in there.

"Mr. Jefferson, there aren't any pipes here," Warner said. Faced with untouched concrete both in the wall and on the floor, he found it hard to believe that there were pipes underneath it. For one long moment, even Stefan wondered if Alex had miscalculated. It seemed so unlikely,

Alex smiled calmly at their suspicious looks. "The Dragon's Lock requires a central axis to take shape. According to my deductions, the central axis has to be a water pipe. When the water in the pipe flows through the eye of the array, it completes the grip of the lock. So, trust me when I say there's a pipe buried in the wall. Break it open and you'll see."

Warner was still unconvinced. "Do you have X-ray vision, Mr. Jefferson? How can you be so sure?"

Maggie was trying to gauge if Alex was exaggerating. He was neither the architect of this mansion nor a construction worker who had worked on building the mansion. How could he be so confident about the pipe in the wall?

"It doesn't matter. I don't even have that superpower. It's a deduction based on my understanding of the Eight Trigrams and Five Elements."

Alex was not just blowing his own horn either. The practice of Geomancy relied heavily on the deductions of the Eight Trigrams and Five Elements. If one could make an accurate deduction, one could see the essence of any forms.

Seeing their confusion, Alex sighed and pointed to the lamp hanging above him. "Look at the lamp. Can any of you see the power cables?"

"Well, of course not," Maggie said. "The cables are wired in the ceiling."

Alex broke into a smile. "That's all there is. When you see the lamp light up, even though you can't see the cables, you still believe that the wires are buried in the ceiling out of sight. It's the same for me. When I see the Dragon Lock Spell in motion, I know the eye of the array must lie along the path of an axis."

"Very well said, Mr. Jefferson. I think we all understand now." Warner nodded. He immediately pried the exposed concrete from the floor.

A few minutes later, a PVC pipe about the width of a thumb was exposed, just as Alex had predicted.

Everyone in the room stared at the plastic pipe in shock.