230 Granite passages
The group came and gathered, and the leaders of the five families stood in front of all the ten people involved in the operation, and Raphael, the leader of the Ross family, gave an explanation to everyone:
"Although we have explored this place twice, there is still a lot to be found. You are all elites selected from various families, and I believe that you all have the spirit of adventurers! Yes. If we lack the courage to take risks and the courage to be the first, then our five major families will not be able to prosper for a long time! Now, you are about to embark on an adventure into the unknown......"
Raphael's voice was full of energy and emotion, and a simple speech stirred people's hearts. It makes people feel that if they don't break through, they don't deserve to be called the children of the five major families.
Gao Jin didn't think so, just listened quietly.
The next step is to make some specific arrangements for the operation, which of course have been negotiated in advance. A total of ten people participated in the operation, including the descendants of the five major families, as well as their respective bodyguards. And these ten people are divided into two groups, one is an action group composed of junior disciples, and the other group is a guard group composed of bodyguards.
All the right to speak in this operation is in the action group, and the five people in the action group vote to decide if they encounter problems. As for the escort team, it acts as a guard throughout the whole process and must obey the decisions of the action group.
The leaders of the five major families all explained that they must work together and negotiate to solve problems when they encounter them. But only God knows how loud the little calculations in everyone's hearts will be.
There were three men and two women in the action group:
The Ross family is called Mike, and he is twenty-three years old, and he is a blonde man with a strong leadership temperament. The Locke family's name is Lance, and he is also twenty-three years old this year. He and Mike have always been inseparable, and the relationship between the two is extraordinary.
The Gandhi family sent out this time was a woman named Miranda, although her age is unknown, but she should be the eldest of the five. Han Mei estimated that this Miranda might be thirty years old, but naturally no one inquired about the woman's age.
As for the family of Ibn, they sent out the nineteen-year-old George, a shrewd-looking but somewhat timid Arab young man, who actually had a big beard and looked much more mature than he really was.
There were four men and one woman in the escort group:
Toniga of the Ross family. A man with dark brown skin, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, about 1.7 meters tall, not smiling but with sharp eyes.
Mickey of the Locke family. A burly black man with a height of 1.98 meters, in his early thirties, his teeth were white only when he smiled, and if he squinted his eyes and closed his mouth in the dark, it was estimated that it would be difficult for anyone to see him.
Jason of the Banu Ibn. A white man of medium stature, also about thirty years old, is said to be a retired Marine with a cold murderous aura.
As for the woman, it was Suzanne of the Gandhi family, a petite and lithe woman. However, there is a clear scar on the left cheek, about four centimeters long, which completely destroys the original beautiful face, making it unbearable to look at it directly.
Before the start, the five members of the escort group conducted a lottery to determine the order of scouts who encountered the unknown area. According to the agreement, it is an unknown area, and one person will investigate it first, and other people will keep a distance from it, and to put it bluntly, it is to draw lots to determine the order of stepping on mines.
As a result, Mickey of the Locke family drew the first number, and Gao Jin drew the second number, so that it was Suzanne of the Gandhian family, Toniga of the Ross family, and finally Jason of the Ibn family.
The biggest goal of this trip to explore the underground temple is to extract the "fruit of life" from the temple. It is a mysterious fruit that looks like an apple, but is golden all over. It was located on top of the altar in the deepest part of the temple, and it was said that there were ten more, and each member of the team had to bring back two of them this time.
The other task this time is to unlock the mechanism at the entrance to the temple and break the restriction that only 10 people can enter. This is also to prepare for large-scale explorations in the future, and only ten people can come in at a time, and many tasks cannot be carried out at all. Otherwise, according to the strength of their five major families, such a place would have been completely turned upside down.
After some deployment, the five team leaders led the two groups of people to set off.
Leaving the camp and heading north through the cracks, the cracks on both sides gradually closed. After about 200 meters, the crack closed completely. And in the mountain wall in front of everyone, a huge stone wall suddenly appeared.
Originally, the color of the sand in the cracks was brownish-yellow, and the surface was very rough and uneven. The walls of the boulder are of white granite, ten meters long and five meters high, and the surface is very flat and obviously polished.
And in the middle of the boulder wall, there is a circular hole about two meters straight. Although the light from the outside is strong, it can only illuminate the area less than one meter from the entrance of the hole, and the inside is pitch black.
Standing in front of this strange round hole in the stone wall, you can vaguely see that the passage inside is semicircular with the help of the outside light, and there is a stone paved road below. The slabs are also made of granite, and each piece is about 60 centimeters long and wide.
It is said that this hole is the entrance to the temple, and it is this entrance, as long as more than ten people enter it, many red laser beams will suddenly appear, and the person who enters will be completely killed in an instant. However, if there are no more than ten people, there is no problem at all, and there is no problem to somersault inside. It's really weird.
"Alright, go in, God bless you!" Owen, the leader of the Locke family, said. The leaders of the other four families also blessed their descendants who participated in the action in accordance with their own national customs.
At the beginning of the operation, Tonyja was the first to step on the thunder, and he was the first to step through the circular hole and enter the unknown path leading to the temple. Pulling a distance of three meters, the remaining four members of the escort group also entered one by one, and finally the five members of the action group.
As soon as you step into the circular hole, your footsteps fall on the stone slab. Gao Jin felt that behind the surrounding stone walls, there seemed to be many energy fluctuations. These energies are not very strong, or even very weak. If it weren't for the fact that he had turned on the wind energy** and his sense of energy had increased, I am afraid he would not have noticed it.
Concentrate and carefully sense the situation around you. After taking a few more steps, Gao Jin finally made a discovery. It turned out that behind the four stone walls on the left and right sides of the passage, there was an energy reaction every ten centimeters. According to his current sensing sensitivity, he could only judge so much, but he could not determine the attributes and exact location of the energy.
Fortunately, these energies do not seem to be in real danger, and it seems that as long as the number of people does not exceed ten, the mechanism will not be triggered. Gao Jin's nervous mood relaxed a little, but he was just careful and didn't mean to explore.
He was here to accomplish two things: the first, of course, was to complete the task assigned by the spirit realm, to find out what was in this temple; The second thing is to ensure Han Mei's safety. As for other matters, he adheres to the principle that more is better than less, and ignores them when there is no real danger.
There were ten people in the group, and no one spoke. In the silent passage, there were only footsteps and the sound of small breathing, and the atmosphere seemed a little oppressive in the silence.
Everyone turned on their lights, but the light could only illuminate a small area in front of them, and further away it was pitch black. Even the beam of the flashlight seems to be limited, and it can only shine three meters in a straight line.
After walking a dozen steps, Gao Jin's attention was attracted by something else. I saw a large area of coagulated blood on the floor and walls, and it was distributed in a spray-like manner. Looking at the shape, many people were killed here, blood splattered on the walls and floor.
Thinking back to the strangeness of the entrance mentioned earlier, Gao Jin knew in his heart that these bloodstains should have been left by the people who came in to investigate before. With so much blood, I don't know how many people paid with their lives.
The action team also spotted the bloodstains, causing a burst of whispers of stealing. However, these second ancestors are not afraid of heaven and earth, and they are full of adventurous spirit. It's just a matter of how many people have died here, and how horrible their deaths are......
However, as we went deeper and deeper through the passage, the voices of conversation became less and less, until at last only footsteps and breathing could be heard. Indeed, in this strange passage, no matter how lively the conversation is, they will also close their mouths and feel uneasy when they are affected by the environment.
This passage is long and dark, but the flat granite floor and curved walls give a very unreal feeling. It looks like an underground sewer in a big city, but it's devoid of sewage and bad smells.
After walking a distance of about three or four hundred meters, I felt that I had been moving straight ahead. At this time, Tonika in front of him stopped, and Gao Jin saw that the place where he was standing was a right turn. The passage had a ninety-degree right turn here, so Toniga stopped and waited for the man who stepped on the mine to take over.
Since it is a joint action of the five major families, as the bodyguard of the Ross family, Toniga will naturally not be stupid to serve as the first official all the way. He was smart enough to stop and wait for the action team to arrive, then said to Mike in English, "Master, there is a turn in the passage here. ”
"Who's next? Go ahead and don't stay here for too long. Mike commanded. He took a flashlight and shone it in front of the corner, only to see that it was still a connected passage, and it was the same pitch black. The entrance was also out of sight at this time, and it was also pitch black.
"It's my turn." Gao Jin stepped forward with a flashlight. Although he has a flashlight in his hand, he doesn't rely on the faint light of the flashlight. Because he had already quietly dropped eye drops into his eyes that could see things clearly in the dark, and at this time, it seemed to him that the surroundings were almost no different from daytime.
From the entrance until now, except for some faint energy fluctuations behind the stone wall from time to time, everything was normal, and no danger was found.