Chapter 185: Covetousness
Although she had been mentally prepared, her small waist was held by the young man's tiger palm, Mo Xiang couldn't help but let out a sigh unconsciously, and her ears were red and hot, and at the same time, she was shocked to find that a flame suddenly burst out of the young man's body, and wrapped herself.
Releasing the boiling talisman true qi, Fang Ling landed on the chain bridge with one foot, and the chain bridge that had been repeatedly hit by the whirling knife was already shaking, and as soon as it was pressed down by gravity, the shaking became even more powerful.
Fang Ling didn't wait for the chain bridge to stop, but kicked his feet and ran forward.
As soon as the talent left, several whirling knives had flown from all directions and angles, and the whistling wind carried a faint killing intention, coupled with a blade hook under the bridge, which was simply terrifying. Starting
Fang Ling's eyes were like torches, his ears were listening to all directions, the momentum of the whirling knife could be seen clearly, and his body suddenly stopped castration halfway, and spun on the spot, and the fine iron knife walked around his body, like a colorful match.
With the continuous sonorous sound, several whirling knives had been shocked and flew out upside down, and the whirling knives that flew out upside down collided with other knives around them, and a few more flew back towards Fang Ling.
Fang Ling didn't dare to hesitate for a moment, jumped forward, and as soon as he landed on his feet, he felt the approach of the whirling knife, and the fine iron knife swung rapidly, shaking the whirling knife back between the lightning and flint.
With each step, several whirlwind knives struck, and some slashed on the chain bridge, these whirlwind knives were very cleverly designed to bounce away quickly wherever they were chopped.
Fang Ling walked like a swift wind, swinging the knife and slashing the shock, but the pressure was getting bigger and bigger, at the beginning, the power of the whirling knife was not large, although the speed was quite fast, but the force was equivalent to a blow from an ordinary person, and the knife could shake it back with a slight stroke. The knife came out, like a glimpse, people walked, like a ghost, Fang Ling waved the knife with one arm, and the force he endured became greater and greater, because the whirling knife continued to accelerate the afterburner, and the frequency of appearance became higher and higher, from being bounced to flying back The process was only a few breaths, and these few breaths Fang Ling could only move more than one step. Starting
It was like walking in a swamp, every step seemed very difficult, and at some point, Fang Ling's body was also grazed by the whirling knife, bringing up a bloody light.
Fang Ling was leaning on his body, moving and jumping like a ghost, and with one arm, he gave full play to all kinds of knife killing moves, and every time he hit his legs, he was one step closer to the end of the bridge. (Initial launch, domain name (remember _ three.)
Finally, after Fang Ling shook back the five whirling knives for the last time, they fell outside the bridge, and although the whirling knives were still flying, this place was no longer within his attack range.
Mo Xiang felt that he was being put down, and when he opened his eyes again and saw that he had crossed the bridge, he was immediately overjoyed, but when he saw the blood stains on Fang Ling's waist, he immediately said in shock: "Young Master Fang, you are injured!"
"It's okay, rub a little skin. Fang Ling smiled lightly, and while carrying the cultivation method, the sun fire surrounded the wound for a while, and the wound gradually healed, and at the same time, he secretly rejoiced in his heart, if the whirling knife went deeper by an inch, it would have to cut off the intestines.
Mo Xiang looked worried, but seeing that the wound seemed to have stopped bleeding, he was slightly relieved, and Fang Ling then pushed the stone door in front of him open, and then walked in.
With each pass, the road seemed to be wider, and when they reached the end of the passage, they were surprised by what they saw. The stone figurines on both sides of the slate immediately spun around, turning into a circle of sharp blades, only a few inches away from Fang Ling's back.
Fang Ling secretly took a breath, slammed his hand, and then rushed out through the gap between the two stone figurines, falling to the clearing, and couldn't help but feel a bunch of chills behind him.
As soon as Fang Ling left, the stone figurines immediately stopped.
These dozens of stone figurines, if each one of them is like this, they will rotate, and the strength is so strong, I don't know how many times stronger than the whirling knife array, they are in danger in the past, not to mention bringing ink incense over.
Mo Xiang couldn't help but be secretly taken aback when she saw that the stone figurines were so powerful, but as if she suddenly found something, she said in surprise: "Young Master Fang, have you noticed that the armor of these stone figurines doesn't seem to be quite the same." ”
"The armor is different?" Fang Ling was reminded by this, his eyes fell on these stone figurines again, and found that although the stone figurines were carved with armor, the style of the armor and the head hat were completely different, some represented ordinary soldiers, some represented a high-level small commander, and even a stone figurine representing a general.
Moreover, the stone figurines on the left and right sides are different in the shape of the armor, which seems to represent two armies.
As soon as he saw this, Fang Ling suddenly realized, Mo Xiang also figured out something at this time, and the two of them shouted in unison: "War chess!"
The so-called war chess, is an evolution of Tang chess, very popular in the army, and Tang chess is different, the number of chess pieces of war chess is more than Tang chess, in order to distinguish from Tang chess, the chess pieces are not carved with words in the circle, but the chess pieces are carved into a human type, with armor and hats to distinguish the type of chess pieces. The pile of stone figurines in front of you looks like a stone figurine array on the surface, and you have to pass through these blank stone slabs to enter the stone gate behind you.
However, after knowing that this is a war chess, the two of them suddenly understood that this is not a formation, but an unfinished game of war chess, if they don't understand this, but insist on entering through the current entrance, it is definitely a dead end.
Mo Xiang sighed and said: "No wonder there are so many chess games left by the ancestors in the study, it turns out that the ancestors are also masters in chess, so they will set up this chess endgame." ”
Fang Ling bowed slightly, fortunately Mo Xiang found that this armor was different, otherwise he would have drilled the tip of the horns, he swept the stone figurines array, touched his chin and said: "There are still a lot of chess pieces on both sides on this chessboard, if I guess correctly, he wants us to have a game of chess." ”
"But how is this going to be?" Mo Xiang said with a puzzled expression.
Fang Ling thought for a while, strode to the side of the stone figurine on the left, pressed his hands on its back, and pushed it, the stone figurine made a "click" sound, and the blank floor in front of it immediately fell, and the stone figurine slid forward with the floor under his feet.
In front of it, the enemy stone figurines retracted into the ground along with the floor, as if they had been eaten, revealing only the top of their heads.
Mo Xiang suddenly realized: "I understand, as long as you push the chess piece, you can make it walk, but do we want to make a draw or fight to win or lose?"
Fang Ling smiled slightly and said, "Miss Mo, do you remember the passage written by the ancestor of the Mo family on the stone tablet in front of the entrance?"
Mo Xiang nodded, and without waiting for him to point it out, he thought about it carefully, and then his eyes lit up and said, "Nine deaths!"
Fang Ling said with a smile: "Yes, Nine Deaths and One Life is a kind of endgame in war chess, so, it seems that your Mo family ancestor wants the two of us to turn this game of chess into an endgame of Nine Deaths and One Life!" The two stood on the left and right respectively, and then found that when pushing the back of the stone figurine, stepping on the blank space would not cause the stone figurines to rotate, so that the entire chessboard could move around at will.
Of course, although this meant that he could directly reach the stone gate at the back, Fang Ling knew that it was impossible to open the stone gate until the chess game was solved.
Fortunately, Fang Ling and Mo Xiang are both masters of chess, and after looking at the chess game, they quickly found a path to achieve the game of nine deaths.
Next, it is to move chess and eat chess, as the chess pieces shrink into the ground, the chess pieces on the chessboard become fewer and fewer, and it does not take long for the endgame of war chess to finally form a life-and-death chess endgame.
Nine deaths and life are certain, and there is a "boom" sound at the stone gate, as if something heavy has shrunk in, and then there is silence again.
Fang Ling secretly breathed a sigh of relief, this third level looks simple, but it is a complete trap, if you don't find out that this is a war chess, you don't know what the endgame of nine deaths and one life, let alone a master in chess, then this is a dead place at all, and it is impossible to crack it.
Pushing open this stone door, Fang Ling found that this stone door is several zhang thick, there are round holes in the wall behind the door, you can clearly see the stone pillars inside, these stone pillars are not only thick, but also the color is like iron, it is definitely not an ordinary stone, if it is not for the Nine Deaths and Life Bureau to let these stone pillars shrink back, I am afraid it is really difficult to open this stone door.
Walking along the stone path, there was a small hall in a short time, the small stone hall seemed to be a place for people to rest, there was a stone table on the left, with several stone benches, and a stone bed on the right.
At the end of the place, there is a stone offering table, on the flat table there is a god card, there is an incense burner under the god card, the incense on it has long been extinguished, and under the incense burner there is a large wooden box, looking at the style is a thousand locks Xuanji box.
The two walked to the offering table, and found that in addition to what they had just seen, there was a yellowed booklet on the table, and after opening the booklet, they saw dense small characters written on it, which recorded the various processes and times of the excavation of the underground palace, only to turn to the last page, but there were a few lines of text:
Yu Mozhang was worthy of the position of the chief of the palace craftsmen, and was ordered by His Majesty to lead three hundred craftsmen to secretly develop the Heavenly Divine Crossbow. His Majesty's rampant conquest is tyrannical, and the people are constantly in trouble, but if you don't respect your orders, the life of the craftsman is not guaranteed, only painstaking study, it took ten years of hard work, and then the day of the crossbow was completed, but it was when Your Majesty died, the princes from all over the country rose up, and the imperial city was in chaos.
In order to prevent it from falling into the hands of thieves, the rest of the craftsmen entrusted them to flee all the way with the crossbow and finally arrived at the land of the state.
The country of the princes, each has its own plan, the world is ignorant of the master, the rest of the only way to spend half a lifetime of effort to build the underground palace, the heart of the study into the "Secret Technique", it and the crossbow together in the thousand locks of Xuanji box, and the key of the underground palace locked in another box, to warn future generations to keep a low profile, to guard the underground palace for generations.
But Yu Zizhi knows that the underground palace will eventually be opened, so he does not hesitate to set up a life-killing mechanism to prevent the villain from succeeding, and those who can break through to this level must have great wisdom.
If the world is peaceful, keep it; if the world is not peaceful, you can offer the crossbow to the master, if you can help the four seas to be calm, the people are happy, and there is knowledge under the remaining spring, you should feel very gratified, so as to live up to the trust of the three hundred craftsmen.
After reading the words, Mo Xiang couldn't help but sigh a few times, with her cleverness, of course she could think of the so-called Your Majesty three hundred years ago, that was the last Xiaowu Emperor of the Great Song Kingdom, and the ancestors of the Mo family turned out to be the chief of the court craftsmen of the Great Song Kingdom, and came to Bingzhou to build an underground palace, but also to keep a big secret.
Compared to Mo Xiang's movedness, Fang Ling looked silent on the surface, but deep down in his heart could only be explained by shock.
The strength of any country is inseparable from the military, and the strength of the military is not only well-trained troops, flexible strategies, but also has the most direct relationship with weapons.
Weapons should have stronger lethality, which has a lot to do with the purity of ores, smelting processes and weapon manufacturing processes.
Therefore, in the past wars of various countries, it is necessary to seize mines, especially iron mines.
Of all the weapons of war, melee weapons are in the same form as swords, guns, swords, spears, etc., while ranged weapons are the most lethal with crossbows.
The crossbow is a bow equipped with an arm, which is composed of a crossbow arm, a crossbow bow, a bowstring and a crossbow machine, because it has a longer range than the bow, the lethality and hit rate are higher, and it is a powerful long-distance killing weapon on the earth today, and the range of a high-quality crossbow can reach more than 1,000 zhang, which is far beyond the range of the bow.
However, crossbows have other disadvantages compared to bows, because crossbows are very bulky, not only do they not change their carrying, but also after each crossbow arrow, it takes a long time to reload the arrows, and during this time there must be an archer to cover, otherwise it will become a target for the enemy.
After painstaking research by craftsmen, the repeating crossbow was developed hundreds of years ago, and the repeating crossbow can be equipped with several crossbow arrows at the same time and fired in turn, filling in the shortcomings of the crossbow. However, although the number of consecutive shots of the crossbow has increased, its lethality has been greatly reduced, and the firing range is only three or four hundred zhang, and even the bow and arrow are insufficient.
Therefore, there are only two kinds of crossbows that are popular on the earth, heavy crossbows and repeating crossbows, both of which have their own advantages and disadvantages, and they also need the cover of archers.
Emperor Xiaowu of the Great Song Dynasty was reckless and had great ambitions, that is, to unify all the countries on the earth, so since he succeeded to the throne, the research and development of weapons has not stopped, and this Tiangong crossbow is one of the things recorded in history.
It is said that the Tiangong Divine Crossbow ordered by Emperor Xiaowu to be developed was to integrate the performance of a repeating crossbow and a heavy crossbow, which could not only fire continuously, but also have high lethality, destructive power, long range and high hit rate.
If such a perfect crossbow is really developed, then it is equivalent to the official birth of a weapon that completely surpasses the bow, which is of great significance for war.
If it is mass-produced and used on the battlefield, the strength of the Great Song Kingdom will increase several times, which is enough to affect the general trend of the world!
It's just that according to historical records, before the study of the Tiangong crossbow was completed, Emperor Xiaowu died, and there is no record of this thing in the world since then.
But I never thought that the rumored artifact in the world would lie quietly at the bottom of this Bingzhou city for three hundred years!
After a long time, Fang Ling came back to his senses, and after obtaining Mo Xiang's consent, he opened the Thousand Locks Xuanji Box, and opened the innermost wooden box, and saw that there was a layer of silk inside.
Lifting the satin, I saw that there was a booklet on it, the purple cover was inscribed: "Mechanism Secret Technique", a small booklet, but it gathered the mystery of the Mo family's ancestors, and could become the chief master of the court craftsman, preside over the development of the heavenly crossbow, and what he learned was not profound?
However, Fang Ling did not have a greedy heart for this booklet, he took a deep breath, tried his best to calm down, lifted another layer of silk below, and finally saw this legendary artifact - the Heavenly Craftsman Divine Crossbow.
This crossbow is even smaller than the shooting crossbow, it is made of iron and wood, the wood grain is like water, and there is a swimming dragon carved on the left and right sides, but in the hand, it does not feel very heavy, it can be seen that this iron wood is a shell, but it is other materials.
The color of its strings is pitch black, with a faint light, and it is impossible to distinguish what the material is, and the whole crossbow is like a work of art, flawless, and five fine iron crossbow arrows have been set up on the crossbow machine.
Fang Ling picked up the crossbow, turned to the way he came, and pulled the trigger continuously, and five crossbow arrows whistled out one after another, one after another penetrated the stone figurines in the outer hall, and after the figurines broke out, the first one shot into the stone wall, only half of it was exposed, the second one was in the middle of its tail, and the third one hit the tail of the second one, and the five of them were actually strung into a line!
Fang Ling couldn't help but gasp, amazing speed, amazing lethality, and also had an amazing hit rate, if this range was as long as a heavy crossbow, shooting five like this would be a disaster for the enemy, and it was really worthy of the name of the divine crossbow.
But what is obvious is that in order to perfect the Heavenly Divine Crossbow, its material is extraordinary, and if it is to be mass-produced, I am afraid that the cost of money is not small, but if you can complete a hundred Heavenly Divine Crossbows, you can double the strength of the fiefdom!
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