Chapter 128: Vicious Design
The structure of the third floor at the top of the White Jade Pagoda began to change almost instantaneously.
Immediately, the speed that could be seen was that the conical spire at the top of the entire pagoda quickly sank.
I could hear the sound of jade pillars striking, and once the mechanism was activated, it couldn't stop.
Until the conical roof of the entire tower disappeared, the passage between the third and second floors was firmly locked.
The nine princesses in the tower let out a panicked cry.
What is called cocooning self-bondage, this time is.
If she had expected such a change, she would not have sealed the gates at the bottom of the tower.
Now that we can hear her cries, we also understand that she is trapped in a cage that has sunk from the top of the tower, who can rush to save her in the first place?
Lan Tianfang looked at the White Jade Pagoda with a gloomy face, unable to say a word, his mood must not be good at this moment.
Even if the Nine Princesses didn't seal the gate at the bottom of the tower, we could quickly enter the tower, and if the second-level mechanism wasn't someone who knew the secrets, how could they be in danger?
No one is going to joke with their own lives, unless they are very sure.
But the occurrence of accidents is often accompanied by unexpected accidents in the next step.
Sometimes the situation is opened up because of the changes again and again.
Yun Chu was already using his light skills with all his might for the second time today, and I watched him fly towards the back of the tower.
I only had time to call him out behind him.
He seemed to be attracted by something, and I could only follow him to the wall of the main hall behind the White Jade Pagoda.
I finally understood what Yun Chu cared about.
At this moment, I looked up at the stone wall in front of me in amazement, and I had been studying this stone wall all the time. But until the Ninth Princess entered the White Jade Pagoda, the stone wall was almost blank, and there was nothing special about it.
Because his every move in the team often has a special meaning, he starts with the expedition. My eyes were always on him, and I could see almost every little movement of him, except for those moments when he was out of sight.
This time, however, I was shocked by what I saw.
Despite a subtle premonition, I looked at the huge map slowly emerging in front of me, filled with incredible admiration and amazement.
Map found in the grotto earlier. Before I had time to look closely, the traces quickly faded away.
I was limited in what I could see, but I was still impressed by the special shape of the map fragment.
What emerged from the huge stone wall in front of him was a large map with a small fragment of the map missing in the center.
In other words, it is the sub-graph that has just faded away, and this is obviously the mother graph.
I looked at the whole picture and realized that it was the whole picture of the world I live in now.
Because I found the fallen Snow Country on it, found the Yannan that I had been to, and found the Lake Country that followed Yun Chu day and night.
The missing piece. It's not anywhere else, it's the land in the southern part of the Miao Mountains.
Once I figured this out, I had one more question for a moment.
Since this is the map of the great territory where the entire Seven Kingdoms are located, why should the southern part of the Miao Mountains be divided separately as a special location, and a small map was made and sealed a long time ago.
Who is the person who made this map?
If it is the ancestors of the southern Xinjiang of the Miao Mountains, where is their intention?
Even stranger. From the incoherent narration of the ninth princess, I vaguely understood that her mother had told her that the shortcut to leaving the underground was hidden in the White Jade Pagoda.
As a result, it was completely different from what her mother had described, and she was almost one step away from success when she was looking for what she wanted.
In just a few seconds, he fell into a trap that seemed to have been set up a long time ago, and it was a trap design that grasped the psychological weakness of the treasure hunter and attacked his unpreparedness.
The trap is the entire top of the tower that sinks down. Obviously, the so-called statement that the passage is in the White Jade Pagoda is completely false.
Now that the Ninth Princess is trapped in the tower, she can't get a glimpse of what happened on the back wall of the main hall, let alone know that such a map actually appeared on this huge stone wall.
I was afraid that there would be a new change this time, so I began to check the map in front of me with a high degree of concentration, and Chen Yuqing and Lan Tianfang, who heard the movement behind me, also watched intently as much as I did.
I heard Chen Yuqing scream in surprise.
"This isn't the map of the Seven Kingdoms. This is only a whole map of the territory, and on this map, the boundaries between the seven kingdoms are blurred. “
A word woke me up, and when I looked closely, it was.
"Another point," Chen Yuqing's tone still couldn't suppress the surprise, "How come this map, the situation drawn is very similar to the seven countries are all attached to this vacant land in the middle." “
It wasn't until Chen Yuqing said this sentence that I noticed the biggest difference.
As early as in the General's Mansion, the map that Yun Chu showed me, the mountains and rivers were also very exquisitely drawn, and once made me feel that the survey technology in this world can actually reach such a level.
But the huge map in front of him was obviously more delicate than the one Yun Chu was holding in his hand at that time.
What makes people have to pay attention is the perspective of this map.
As Chen Yuqing was surprised, the center of this entire map is the vacant land, which is the Nanling Miaojiang that has long disappeared.
And the biggest problem is that this map does not look like it is a map of the territory of the Seven Kingdoms.
It is a map of the territory after the merger of the Seven Kingdoms.
Nanling Miaojiang was drawn as the capital of this world, the center of a qiē.
I looked at the map and couldn't close my mouth for a long time, saying that the person who drew the map in the first place.
What he has is the determination to annex the Seven Kingdoms, and no matter how you look at it, this person will be one of the ancestors of Nanling Miaojiang.
That land is full of mystery in the eyes of the world, and the history of the disappearance of that group of people is even more obscure.
I stood in front of the stone wall. I felt the impact of the map.
For a while, it seemed that you could see the picture of people dressed in Miao Jiang costumes carving on this stone wall.
Whether it was him, his descendants, or his followers' masterpieces, we don't know.
Yun Chu frowned. Usually breezy and calm, he found something.
The change on the top floor of the white jade pagoda behind him finally stopped at that moment, and the tightly knit jade pillar made the last sound of the mechanism closing.
In the middle of the stone wall in front of him, the missing piece moved instantly.
I could hear the grinding between the stone walls.
A few seconds later, the blank space in the middle of the massive map protruded a full half a foot outward.
"It's here." As soon as Yun Chu's words fell, Chen Yuqing had already laughed happily.
"I didn't expect that the way to open the mechanism was actually here."
Chen Yuqing stepped forward and moved the protruding white stone. "If this is the design, wouldn't it take two people to find this path, and one would have to sacrifice himself to go to the third layer of the White Jade Pagoda to touch the mechanism."
"Only the other one has a chance to escape."
"What a sinister design." I sighed in my heart.
Looking at the entire route of travel under the Capture Rock, there are many mechanisms along the way. ”
There are too many incredible places in this underground, not to mention the collapse of the cave and the explosion of the dark river, if it weren't for the masters around us, how many teams would be able to walk here safely like us?
Besides, there are people in our team who have lost their lives in vain.
"Even if you can make it to this final destination safe and sound." I paused, watching Chen Yuqing move the white stone with great difficulty. The stone was so strong and heavy that Lan Tianfang saw that he couldn't move it, so he stepped up to help.
Sure enough, with the concerted efforts of the two of them, a long passage appeared in front of us in front of the stone wall.
This is a passage that has been sealed for many years. An old, musty smell came to my nose.
I was stunned for a moment, and looked at the passage, the steep slope of the stone steps leading to the top.
As if talking to myself, I continued to state: "Even if I can get here, how many people can resist the temptation of that white jade pagoda. ”
Looking back when I came in, wasn't I almost lured by the white jade pagoda to break in?
"Those who can't resist that temptation will die on the second floor of the tower, and they will die when the third layer is ecstatic and thinks they have found that treasure box."
"How could you not take the box, as soon as you take it, the mechanism will be activated. Trapped as a cage. ”
"One in ten thousand, someone can resist the temptation and remain unmoved, or can leave a life, but in front of this stone wall. With Chen Yuqing's strength alone, he can't move, and there are probably not many people in the world who can beat him in kung fu. ”
All the coincidences were taken by us, is this fate?
The word popped into my head with blood.
"Now, what are you going to do," the path was revealed, and Chen Yuqing naturally wanted to ask the backbone of the team, Yun Chu's opinion.
Chen Yuqing looked at Yun Chu expectantly, and the expression on his face was like facing the division commander.
Judging from his age and appearance, Yun Chu is younger than him, so the situation is a bit interesting.
"I have a reluctant request," Lan Tianfang interrupted the exchange of eyes between the two of them, and suddenly whispered, "If it is possible, I still want to take the Ninth Princess out of here, even if she is already ......"
"Senior brother," at this time he could still say this, I looked at him with some tears and laughter, I really hated that iron could not be made of steel.
"The Ninth Princess has been calculating all the way and taking you to the ditch," I looked at him depressedly and said, "Are you sure you still want to do that?" “
"I'm sure," Lan Tianfang avoided my gaze and turned his gaze to Yun Chu.
I was expecting Yun Chu's answer, and what I heard was "Okay." “
Yun Chu looked at him, there was some indescribable love in his eyes, and he continued, "I can only try, I don't dare to pack tickets." “
I sighed, and agreed.
Several people were preparing to return to the White Jade Pagoda, intending to work together to open the tower door again.
If he could, Yun Chu seemed to be planning to break the second-layer mechanism.
The Ninth Princess had been muttering for a while since the cage on the top of the white jade tower was activated, and there was no movement.
What kind of hidden mechanism is still in the tower, we people outside the tower really can't know.
However, just as we agreed to act, a dull sound could be heard from afar.
"Wait a minute," Yun Chu, who was originally walking in the first place, suddenly raised his hand and stopped in front of us.
I watched as he listened intently to the distant sound.
When I heard what it was, I knew it in an instant.
The most critical moment of this trip to capture the rock underground has finally arrived!!