Chapter 164 The flames are high when everyone gathers firewood
Chapter 164 Slate and Cat Statue
Fly over...
These three words fell into everyone's ears and exploded like cannonballs.
Yes, the width of the sand is only three kilometers, with the stone slab in the middle, which is 1,500 meters. If you can fly, this distance is nothing. But people can't fly.
But wizards do.
In the eyes of everyone, Tom turned into a phoenix and raised his tail. Hermione walked to her side and motioned for others to also grab Tom's tail feathers.
"What the hell?" Alan couldn't hold it back and exclaimed. Just now, Tom transformed from a human into a big golden-red bird in front of his eyes. This was really magical!
"Is this a phoenix?" Dr. Hunter looked shocked. He didn't expect to see this legendary creature in person in his lifetime. He suddenly realized that since Tom could become a phoenix, could he also become that?
A giant dog? It turns out that the giant dog that saved him in the sandstorm was Tom himself?
"Stop making such a fuss, Tom can change into many things." Hermione shook her head, tied her hair back, and put one hand on Tom's tail feathers. The others followed suit and put their hands on Tom's.
On the tail.
But after three people were hung on the tail, Tom shook off the remaining people who wanted to "get on the bus". He glared at them: Do you think I am a transport plane? How can I hold on when everyone is hanging on?
Ah, Phoenix also has its limits!
Tom left Alyosha, Sarah, and Yusha all in place, and took the remaining three people to fly directly into the sky. After two back and forths, Tom brought everyone to the stone slab in the middle of the sand.
Sure enough, just as they had guessed at the beginning, there was only a shallow layer of sand around the stone slab, and beneath the sand was the solid ground. This layer of sand, less than a foot thick, was more like dust accumulated over time.
Tom put the man on his tail down and returned to his original shape.
There were dozens of floor tiles protruding from the ground painted on the stone slab. Tom counted seven horizontal rows and seven vertical columns, a total of 49. Each floor tile was a one-meter square with a cat carved on it. The stone slab
There is a groove in the middle, as if something is missing.
"This cat..." Hermione exclaimed as soon as she saw this graphic: she had seen this cat before, and it was exactly the cat drawn on the four clues they found!
Everyone looked at the grid on the ground, thoughtfully. Tom stretched out his foot and lightly stepped on the grid in front of him. With a harsh friction sound, the floor tile sank in.
"Dr. Hunter, let's take out the four clues we collected." Looking at the cat image in the grid that was exactly the same as the clues, combined with the fact that the grid would sink, Tom had a guess.
The doctor understood it, drew a 7×7 block sketch on the ground, and copied the contents of the clue onto it.
There are four pieces of clues, each piece has twelve grids, and when combined, they form a forty-nine grid with one grid missing. The splicing method is naturally based on the direction of the eyes of the cat image on the clues: clues with eyes facing down and to the left are in
The clues for lower left and upper right eyes are placed in the upper right.
After assembling the clues, Dr. Hunter compared them and found that the position of the groove on the stone slab exactly corresponded to the missing grid on the clues he had put together.
"So that's it!" He was overjoyed. It turned out that these four clues were used here! But he fell into thinking again: in these grids, are the grids corresponding to white cats on a black background to be stepped on, or are they corresponding to black cats on a white background?
Do you want to step on the position?
He looked at the floor tile that Tom stepped on, and saw that the floor tile was shorter than the surrounding bricks and was shrouded in shadows, making it appear darker. In addition, it happened to be a grid corresponding to a white cat on a black background, so Heng
Dr. Te made a bold guess: all black-bottomed squares on the clues must be stepped on.
Now that you have an idea, put it into action.
He and Tom stepped on it one by one according to the records on the clue. When they stood in front of the extra square, the last black square in the clue had also been stepped on. But the stone slab did not change at all.
"Did I guess wrong?" Dr. Hunter was shocked. He was already thinking about how to restore the stone slab.
"I can't draw a conclusion yet," Tom looked at the groove on the ground. "I think there should be something here, such as a statue or something." Dr. Hunter looked down and saw that the floor tile did look a bit weird.
There was an image of a cat all over the floor tiles, and here it was a groove, which was just screaming at them to put something in the groove.
"What could it be..." Dr. Hunter was immediately worried. He thought it might be the three-dimensional statue of the cat on the floor tiles. He looked at the shape of the groove - it did look like a cat squatting on the ground, but
Where could he find such a statue?
He was also trying his luck in the ancient city. Dr. Hunter thought this way. He had decided that if he could find the cat statue, he would continue this adventure. If he couldn't find it, he would have to collect camels and leave the Sahara Desert.
When Tom saw the groove, he screamed in his heart: Damn it?! He only had one thought now: No way? This groove is not for the statue, right?!
He immediately signaled Hermione to open his backpack and rummaged through it to find the ancestral cat statue that the Nubian uncle had "lent" to him. This statue cost Hermione a full one hundred thousand Egyptian pounds!
When the statue was taken out, everyone's eyes were opened: this statue looked exactly like the cat carved on the brick!
When Hermione was about to send the statue to Tom, Alyosha stopped her.
"Is it really okay to put this statue in hastily? How are you sure that there are good things like treasures under this stone slab? I think it may be an ancient curse or some sealed monster." Alyosha scratched.
He scratched his cheek and said, "The greedy adventurer released an ancient curse... That's how it's done in the movies, isn't it?"
Hermione thought for a while, "The information that Uncle Hunter found before said that the clue is the key to enter the city. I think that after the pattern on the stone slab is deciphered, we can find the legendary ancient city. As for what is in the ancient city
, I don’t dare to guarantee it...but I guess the stone slab will not bring any danger."
Tom nodded, but his idea was much simpler: he intuitively felt that there was no problem in doing so. What's more, he got this statue from the Nubian night market, and it matched the ancient poem.
Alyosha thought for a moment and got out of the way.
Hermione handed the cat statue to Tom, and Tom put it into the groove. After thousands of years, the statue and the groove were still able to fit together perfectly, without any trace of splicing, as if they were originally on the floor tiles.
It's like carving a statue like this.
After the statue was put in, the stone slab reacted.