40. The road paved by corpses

"Yes. ”

After some haggling, Mataró held out his right hand.

Although still suspicious of Mataró, the knight shook his hand politely.

After the two sides reported their names, the knight leader named Agostino asked, "Since someone has already sneaked in, should we go deeper and catch ☯ the other party as soon as possible?"

Mataró: "Of course, but let's go outside first and see how the rest of the people react. After all, we can't be the only ones who come to discover King Solomon's treasure. ”

By the time the two sides returned to the entrance, the other organizations ☯ had already negotiated some simple ways to get home.

When one of the leaders of the weaving ☯ saw them, he said, "You have been looking for you for a long time. ”

Before Agostino could speak, Mataro preemptively said: "We heard that a new secret door has been discovered, and we wanted to go and see it first, driven by curiosity. ”

"Did you find anything?" asked the other party expectantly.

Mataró: "Mr. Agostino said that this is the location of King Solomon's treasure, and there are many shutdowns ☯, so let's discuss it before we go." ”

"Well, that's right. Take these. The man took out some papers ☯ sealed in plastic shells and handed them them.

"What is this?" Agostino asked.

"In order to prevent further unidentified people from getting in, we made ☯ a personnel ID card for each person, with a photo attached to it. These documents ☯ are to be worn on the body every day so that everyone can see each other. Later, we will take a group photo for everyone, and hold a networking reception in the evening

Everyone knows each other. ”

It's true that it's a good way to prevent the average person from blending in, but if it's dealing with someone special......

It was said that it was a drinking party, but because there was no such entertainment facility on the island, everyone broke up in groups and chatted and drank until late at night.

The next day, everyone continued to carry various instruments to excavate. Due to the exchange the day before, everyone cooperated and the process was also accelerated a lot.

Agostino led the other knights, as well as Mataró and several scholars who studied ancient ruins, and a group of twelve people formed a pioneer exploration team, as the first explorers to explore the secret door, with the encouragement of others, they set off.

It was a knight who opened the door.

As a paladin, he has an obligation to protect the ordinary people around him.

The moment he pushed the door open, his instinctive body ☯ took a few steps back. After a while, seeing that there was no movement inside, the knight pushed the door completely open with the long metal pole in his hand.

Behind the door is a passage, and on both sides of the road are stone walls that do not have a high ceiling.

"This, how is this possible!" several scholars said in surprise: "We didn't dig much deeper, why the stone walls here are not high, this is not scientific." ”

Seeing that the expert ☯ could not accept the facts in front of him, Mataró hurriedly explained: "It may be that the roof of the cave was painted like that, deliberately confusing people." ”

If ☯ you think about it, it's the same way. On April Fool's Day, he had seen a young man draw a big pit in the ground and let all those who passed by walk around it. But I didn't expect that in that ancient past, there were already such mature painting skills.

After solving ☯ the doubts in their hearts, everyone looked around again.

The stone walls on both sides of the passage are separated by three or four meters, and the road below is a body of water, with a row of exposed ☯ stone steps in the middle.

Just as one of the scholars lifted his foot and was about to step up the stone steps, Mataró pulled him back.

"What are you doing?" asked the expert ☯, a little upset.

Mataró said, "Why don't you try to see if this staircase is ☯ closed first, and just pass it like this?" ”

When he said this, the scholar also reacted that he was too anxious. "Tell me, what's ☯ going to happen here?"

"I think you've probably seen some of the tomb crawling movies, and most of them are like this, as soon as you step on the stone steps, a series of sharp weapons will shoot ☯ out from the stone walls on both sides. As he spoke, Mataró pressed the metal pole on the stone steps, and his body ☯ immediately pushed backwards.

At the same time, a series of steel needles shot ☯ out from the stone wall on the left and inserted ☯ into the stone wall on the right.

"See. Mataró then pressed again on the stone steps, this time the needle was fired ☯ from the right.

"This, how to decipher ☯ this. ”

Mataró: "It's very simple, in ancient times, it wasn't that advanced, and the stone wall on one side emitted steel needles, and you had to wait until the other side received the reload before you could release it again. And this gap in between is our opportunity. As soon as we step on the steps to dodge the first steel needle, on the other side of the launcher also

I didn't have time to reload and step on the steps again. One side has not yet been filled and can only be left empty, while the other side is in the receiving state, and the machine ☯ switch is broken. ”

It's better to say that it is better to do it, as long as it is experimented once, the doubts on everyone's faces will recede.

Mataró stepped on the steps with his right foot, and when he felt the steps sink, he immediately moved back half a step. As the needle slid a millimeter from his nose, he stepped up the steps again.

At this moment, he said to himself: Not good. The body ☯ hurriedly jumped back.

And this is, the steel needle on the other side also passes through the top of the steps.

In this way, Mataró's theories were completely shattered. As the director of the Samakofia Antiquities Exploration and Research Company ☯ and the commander-in-chief of the Asian region, Mataró has had a smooth journey and has never been so humiliated as he is now.

"Are you alright?" asked one of the experts ☯ with concern.

Mataró: "It's okay, it seems that the skills of the ancients are much higher than we think. On the surface, he was polite, but in reality, Mataró was very disgusted with these experts ☯. Not only because without them, he and the paladin could have stood up to those steel needles on their own. More causes

For that caring word, it was like a sarcasm.

Agostino asked, "What do we do now?"

One of the knights said, "Why don't we swim over." This stone staircase has been fine in the water for so long, and there should be no corrosive substances in the water.

Expert ☯: "Since the ancients could calculate us on the shutdown of the machine ☯, they should also be able to guess the idea of going into the water in advance." I suspect there's some horrible creature underwater. ”

As he spoke, another specialist ☯ took out a bag of compressed food from his backpack, disassembled it and threw it into the water. Immediately after the food sank into the water, there was a bout of agitation underwater, but soon calmed back.

"It seems that the ancients really thought everything through. ”

"So what should I do now, do you want to go back and send a message and ask someone to bring a simple folding bridge?"

Mataró: "I have a tricky and dangerous method. ”

"How?"

Mataró: "It's a quick reflex to knock the needles off as they pass in front of you." ”

This method is really dangerous, not to mention being stabbed by a steel needle ☯, the steps are so small, and if you move a little more on it, you may fall into the water if you stand unsteadily. What exactly is the creature in the water, whether it is poisonous on the steel needle, these are undetermined factors.

"I'll do it!" said one of the knights, "I'm quicker and have a better balance." ”

With that, he took the metal rod in his hand and walked to the stone steps.

The knight took a deep breath, drew a figure ☯ frame ☯ in front of him, prayed in his mouth ☯, and then stepped on the steps abruptly.

At the moment when the body ☯ retracted, the metal rod in his hand lifted upwards with ☯ force. I could only hear the sound of tinkling, and countless steel needles fell into the water.

Behind him, there was a round of celebratory applause.

The applause continued, and the knight stepped up the steps again, knocking the steel needle off the other side.

After about six or seven minutes, the knight was already more than half gone. And at this moment, he has already noticed the abnormality of his body ☯. Just two steps ahead, he was accidentally stabbed in the arm with a steel needle. Now, his hand was starting to go a little numb.

Behind him, there were scholars on the shore who wanted to follow, but were stopped by Agostino. "Just in case, it's better to wait until he's passed ☯. ”

Sure enough, after the knight had advanced three more stone steps, the bottom of the water was restless again.

First, several large bubbles rose from the bottom of the water, followed by a human-tall fish-like monster that leaped out of the water and pounced on the knight.

The knight reacted quickly and ☯ crouched down, dodging the attack of the strange fish.

Although the monster is in the form of a fish, it has hands and feet. When he jumped out of ☯ the water again, he was already standing face to face with the knight on the stone steps.

"Don't come here, I can handle it alone. Already conscious ☯, he stopped his comrades-in-arms who were ready to come to help.

The numbness in the arm is getting worse and worse, and if you can't solve it quickly, there is only one way to die.

At this moment, the knight saw that the fish monster's eyes were red, and there were many bags on his body, and these bags were ruptured and pus were leaking in front of him.

The knight immediately understood, and the steel needle fell into the water, and the poison on it affected the fish monster, causing it to go berserk ☯.

In this way, this poison should be very powerful, and he may not be saved. In this case, it is better to fight with the fish monster in front of you.

Thinking about it, the metal rod in the knight's hand swung hard at the fish monster. The fish monster was provoked ☯ by the opponent's actions, jumped up and pounced on the knight.

The knight stabbed forward with the metal rod in his hand, and when he was inserted ☯ into the belly of the fish, he tried to knock ☯ the fish monster down on the remaining stone steps with an over-the-shoulder throw.

It was fine to stand still just now, but now that his body ☯ moved, the knight realized that his legs were also beginning to go numb. At the same time, the fish monster, which was about to land in mid-air, grabbed ☯ the knight with its hind feet like an eagle's hook and brought him over.

At this moment, the knight's body ☯ was numb, and he couldn't react at all, and his whole body ☯ rolled towards the stone steps with the fish monster. With screams and strange roars, one person and one monster died tragically on the shore.

The other knights didn't care if there was any more danger, and one by one they rushed up the stone steps and ran to the opposite bank. Others, too, followed suit.

When they reached the other side, everyone saw that the knight and the strange fish were covered with steel needles. Dark purple poisonous blood was pouring ☯ out of their bodies ☯ ☯, and their bodies were decomposing.

Just as Agostino was excitedly trying to hold his companion with his hand, Mataró hurriedly stepped forward and pushed the two bodies into the water with a metal rod.

"What are you doing!" Agostino almost shouted.

"He's dead, we can't be sure if the poison in his body can spread through ☯ the air, and you don't want his body to be ☯ exposed when he's dead. ”

The knight didn't say anything more, just propped himself up on the ground with a metal rod, knelt down on one knee, drew a figure ☯ ten ☯ frame on his chest, and said something in his mouth ☯. The same goes for other paladins.

After the ceremony, Agostino stood up and said, "Good brother, you rest in heaven for a while, your will will will be inherited by us, and your will will be fulfilled by us." ”

Although the time from entering the door to walking through the stone steps was only ten minutes, after the thrilling moment just now, everyone needed to take a break to relieve their emotions.

No sooner had the crowd sat down, and had not even had time to drink water, than one of the knights exclaimed, "Look at the other side." ”

Everyone followed his words and couldn't help but change their faces.

I saw that the land that had just been waiting for everyone was gone, and with it disappeared with it, along with the door through which they had entered.

Before the crowd had recovered from their panic, they felt a violent vibration around them, and the stone walls on both sides began to close.

"Run!" shouted to Mataro, who took the lead. The rest of the people immediately followed.

There seemed to be no end to the passage, and it was getting darker and darker. The stone walls on both sides are getting closer and closer, and the less and less life they have.

"Throw the weight off your body. Agostino shouted.

"No, there's a lot of important stuff in there. A voice behind him replied.

The scene was chaotic, and the paladin had no way to go back to persuade him, he only hoped that the other party's backpack would not affect his speed.

Finally, there was a glimmer of light ahead. And the distance between the two stone walls, as long as you run a little bigger, your elbows can touch.

The moment he ran out of the passage, the knight leader breathed a sigh of relief.

When he counted the numbers, he found that there were two people missing. When he turned around and was about to go back to save people, he heard two screams from the passage.

Agostino clenched his fists, annoyed at his incompetence ☯.

Mataró stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let go of the unwilling emotions for a while, and see what to do in front of you." ”

At this moment, the paladins took a good look at the place where they were staying, a circular cave surrounded by smooth stone walls, there were no other passages around it, and the only path had been sealed behind them ☯.

This shows that they are trapped......