In desperation, we could only go back to the tomb in the hope of finding something, but after searching around, we found nothing useful. There were basically some stone statues here, and there was nothing that could be used. Xiaobai was a little frustrated.
My mood was also depressed. I let out a long sigh and slumped down on the ground. The moment I opened my eyes, I suddenly found something dark under the belly of the stone horse.
I immediately became energetic, and suddenly I remembered that I had seen an introduction to ancient mechanisms in a book before. It said that ancient people usually installed black gunpowder in stone statues, which would explode immediately if touched.
The dark thing under the belly of the stone horse might be the mechanism that detonated the explosive.
I immediately patted Xiao Bai who was sitting on the ground with his head downcast.
When Xiaobai saw that I was so clueless, he angrily asked me what I was doing!
I stood up and said to Xiaobai: "Come here quickly, there is a mechanism under that stone horse, and there may be explosives inside!"
After saying that, I walked carefully towards the direction of Shima. Xiaobai listened to my words and followed me with doubts. He kept asking me if it was true or false. In fact, I was not sure, it was just some remaining information from before.
My memory tells me this. I saw that book by chance in the library. I don’t know if that’s the case.
I asked Xiaobai to be careful so as not to touch the mechanism. Although it has been a thousand years, it is still good to be cautious.
I walked to the side of the stone horse and looked carefully with a flashlight. There was a gold thread on the dark thing under the stone horse connected to the ground. It was really hard to find it if you didn't look carefully. I pointed out excitedly.
He held the golden thread and said to Xiaobai: "You see, this golden thread may be the device that triggers the switch. Let's cut it short now, then move the stone horse to the stone wall, and tie it to the golden thread with the thread from the clothes."
Go up, and then detonate it from a distance to say that you can't blow through the stone wall!"
After hearing this, Xiaobai asked me with some worry: "If you cut this golden thread, will it trigger the mechanism?"
I pondered for a moment, and although I'm not sure, I think the gold thread must be pulled to reveal the gunpowder inside the stone horse, but as long as we don't pull it, there should be no problem.
I said to Xiaobai: "As long as you are careful, you should be fine!"
I asked Xiaobai if he had a lighter. Xiaobai took out a lighter from his pocket and handed it to me. I held the lighter carefully and burned the gold thread nervously.
The gold thread was very strong. When it came into contact with fire, it immediately turned black, and then turned blue again. I was surprised. Sure enough, after a while, the gold thread split into two sections.
Seeing that nothing strange happened, I breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, my palms were slowly covered with beads of sweat.
My heart was in my throat just now! Fortunately, the mechanism was not triggered, otherwise we would have been blown to pieces.
Xiaobai also took a long breath, patted his chest and said: "You damn scared me to death! Lao Du, do you think the gunpowder in this mechanism has been used for thousands of years, will it get damp? It doesn't work.
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I said: "I don't know, no matter what, give it a try, this is the last hope!"
Xiaobai nodded after hearing this, and then asked: "This stone horse is so big, can the two of us move it?"
I patted the stone horse with my hand and found that it was hollow inside. If I touched it with my hand, I could hear a thumping sound. I said to Xiaobai: "Don't worry, there are mechanisms inside and it won't be too heavy. Let's
You should be able to do it with a little more force!”
After hearing this, Xiaobai rubbed his hands, walked behind the stone horse and lifted it hard. The stone horse actually moved, and Xiaobai lifted its two hooves more than ten centimeters high. Xiaobai shouted to me excitedly:
"Lao Du, this stone horse looks quite big, but there is nothing inside!"
I stepped on this stone horse and deliberately hollowed it out in the middle to store the black powder, but I don’t know if it’s heavy enough to blow open the stone door!
Xiaobai and I carried the stone horse to the front tomb passage one after another. The stone horse weighed more than a hundred kilograms. It didn't take much effort for the two of us to lift it. We rested for a while in the middle.
Finally I carried the stone horse to the stone gate. I saw that Xiaobai was wearing a shirt, so I asked him to take it off.
"Why don't you take it off!" Although Xiaobai was a little dissatisfied, he still took off his shirt and handed it to me.
I explained: "Your shirt is made of chemical fiber and is relatively hard. The T-shirt I am wearing is made of cotton and will break when I pull it and cannot be used!"
I pulled out a piece of thread from the shirt, and then pulled it gently. Fortunately, the shirt Xiaobai was wearing was from a brand name and the fiber was relatively strong. After a while, I pulled out a thread that was more than 20 meters long.
I tied the fiber to the gold thread and stood at a distance.
Xiaobai asked me a little nervously: "Do you think it can work?"
In fact, I didn't feel confident at all, and the hand holding the thread was shaking a little. I took a deep breath and slowly pulled the long thread. I knew that I must not use too much force at this moment, and it must be even. The thread was too long, although it was a little
It is tough but can easily break the long string if you use too much force.
Just like this, I pulled it out by half a meter. Suddenly, I felt my hand loosen, and a crisp sound came to my hand along the line. I immediately turned my head and shouted to Xiaobai: "Run!"
I had just run three or four meters when I heard a loud noise behind me. The huge shock wave shook my internal organs and almost went crazy.
My body was blown several meters by the shock wave before I fell to the ground. Fortunately, I didn't lose consciousness yet. I thought Xiaobai was still behind me, but when I opened my eyes, I found that Xiaobai was already in front of me.
This guy's legs and feet are very nimble. I saw that Xiaobai didn't have much of a problem. He got up with difficulty and felt uncomfortable and tight all over.
Xiaobai patted the dust on his body and cursed: "A thousand years of explosives are still very powerful!"
I looked back and saw that the corridor was full of dust and smoke. I didn’t know if the explosives had blown open the stone door. In fact, there wasn’t much of a problem with my body. I only had an uncomfortable shock to my ears. The corridor was too narrow and the explosion caused a lot of damage.
The loud noise was almost amplified several times in such an environment.
I pulled Xiaobai towards the front of the tomb, wanting to see what was going on. Xiaobai suddenly pulled my clothes, holding a dagger in his hand, covering his nose with his hand and said, "Take off your clothes!"
Why did I ask him?
Xiaobai frowned and said: "The smoke here is so big, you want to choke me to death! Take off your clothes quickly!"
I made up my mind, so I took off my clothes, cut them in half with a dagger, then covered my nose and mouth, and walked deeper. The space here was too small, and the thick smoke and dust could not be dispersed for a while, and my vision was blurred.
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The power of the explosion just now was really not small, but I didn’t know if it could blow open the stone door. In fact, I was still very nervous. After walking for more than ten meters, I saw clearly that there was a hole with a diameter of more than one meter in the stone wall.
I said to Xiaobai in surprise: "Look, a hole exploded there!"
Xiaobai was also a little excited and hurriedly stepped forward. The stone wall seemed to have been damaged by the explosion. It was originally moving but now it stopped. I took a flashlight and took a photo into the stone cave and found that there was a huge space inside. It seemed like
It was another tomb. My heart skipped a beat, thinking that I was not where I came from. But when I looked carefully, I saw that the space inside was huge. It was not the place I came in before. Xiaobai and I looked at each other and then left.
When I went in, I was very careful. There might be some mechanism or something like that here, so there's nothing wrong with being careful.
The environment here is completely different from the back. The ground and walls here are all green, as if they were made of some kind of plant. The same is true underfoot. They feel soft when stepped on, not like rocks, but like ivy rhizomes.
Just not a single leaf can be seen.
Xiaobai walked forward and muttered: "Where is this place? Have we entered the forest world?"
I leaned over and touched the ground with my hands, and found that it was indeed the rhizome of a plant, but I didn’t know what kind of plant it was. It grew so regularly, as if someone had specially built it. Plant maze? In my mind
Such a term suddenly popped up. Could it be that this place was really designed to be like this?
I held up the flashlight and looked around, and suddenly I found that the hole I had just entered was gone, and the broken plant roots had healed again. And not only that, what was even more terrifying was that I found that the plants behind were growing crazily.
The speed was far beyond my understanding. The space was constantly shrinking. Tree walls visible to the naked eye were rising from the ground. My feet became weak for a while. I pulled Xiaobai and ran forward quickly. Xiaobai and I
It’s like I’m racing against time and space. The surrounding space is changing with every step I take. Where there were roads before, there are suddenly no roads. Where there were no roads, one or two suddenly appear. I only see this situation.
I had seen it in a science fiction movie, but I didn’t expect to see it in real life. The surrounding walls were constantly changing. I didn’t know where to run in. As long as I saw a road, I ran forward desperately, knowing that there was no one around.
On our way, Xiaobai and I were trapped in a rectangular space. The rectangular space kept shrinking. We stood in the middle at a loss, looking up at the shrinking wall. Our bodies were trembling. We could all
Feeling the fear coming from the other party, Xiaobai swallowed his saliva and asked me stammeringly: "Lao Du, are you afraid?"
I thought for a moment and said, "I'm not afraid!"
Xiaobai asked me: "Then why are you shaking!"
I said: "I don't know!"
The dishonest body has given us the most honest answers to each other.
Just when I thought my life was about to end, the walls suddenly stopped shrinking, and a bud suddenly bulged out from the middle of the four walls. I couldn't tell what the bud was at first, but as the bud got bigger and bigger, I finally saw it clearly.
This bud is actually the outline of a person, but the outlines of these four people are obviously different. One is thin, one is tall, one is thick, and the other is rickety.
The appearance of these four people is getting clearer and clearer. Their hair, facial features, and fingers are all revealed at the last moment. These four people are actually the dead sister Qian, fierce son, fierce son, his father, and the third uncle!
I remember that when I came in, their bodies were placed on the pineapple tree.
Why did they appear here? Although these four look exactly the same as them, they are no longer a person but are made of the roots of these plants. The corpses of these four plants slowly develop and mature like fruits, and then they ripen and fall off.
Then turned into ashes.
It wasn't until this scene faded that I felt like I had reincarnated from life and death. I didn't know what kind of thing I was going through. This thing was beyond my knowledge.
I didn't dare to move, I just stood there quietly. I always felt that these incomprehensible creatures wanted to express something to me that was difficult for me to understand.
Where the four humanoid corpses fell, four black holes appeared. The black holes were getting bigger and bigger, and the four walls began to shrink again. The black holes were like giant man-eating mouths, slowly approaching Xiaobai and me.
Bai suddenly shook, and a round object fell to the ground, making a crisp and sweet sound, and then shattered into powder. I recognized this object, it was the stone eye we took from the giant-pupil stone statue when we met Zhao Banxian before.
But when I was in another tomb, the stone eye had been left behind. I don't know when Xiaobai picked it up.
The stone eye seemed to have a special ability. After it shattered, the surrounding tree walls not only stopped shrinking but also retreated. Countless buds appeared on the wall. Those buds were different from the previous four corpses. They gradually became clear.
Slowly twisting, from appearance to ripeness, falling in front of me, I recognized them, fourth uncle, Goudan, my parents, second uncle, Li Dayan, appeared in front of me one after another, and they
The entangled green vines gradually withered and disappeared until their true colors were revealed. They could stand up and talk. Although I couldn't hear what they said, they looked like living people.