Volume 4 The Stormy Waves Chapter 323 The Shocking Fork in the Road
Bai Yang retreated along the wooden pillar, and as soon as he told the situation ahead, Tie Niu also frowned, and asked, "Then what should I do?" Forty centimeters high, this wooden pillar can't work, but it's not impossible to crawl forward against the ground!"
Bai Yang shook his head with a wry smile and said: "The problem is that there is a distance of about one meter, and there are mechanisms up and down, even if we throw the wooden pillar you are carrying over and crack the mechanism that is more than one meter long, but further forward it will be changed to crawling forward, but there is no room to change the movement at all!"
Iron Bull was a former soldier and quickly understood what Poplar meant.
At a height of only 40 centimeters, it is not impossible to crawl forward, but the height of the wooden pillar is more than 30 centimeters, and even if they lie down on the wooden pillar, their body will inevitably exceed 40 centimeters at the part where the wooden pillar meets the ground.
Once they climb to the ground and touch the trap, the blade will stab them into their bodies.
"Then let's throw my wooden pillar out first, and then walk along the wooden pillar for a while, and see how far ahead there is a mechanism, maybe we can jump over it!" said Iron Bull again.
Thinking that this was the only way to do so, Poplar reached out to take the wooden pillar from the shoulder of the iron ox.
Tie Niu immediately took a step back and said, "I'll just carry it and jump on the wooden pillar on the ground! Don't worry, this distance will not be difficult for me!"
"I know it's hard for you, but you haven't practiced light skills, and you don't have light feet, so let me come, lest it's too late to regret having an accident!" Bai Yang said.
Tie Niu was very reluctant to rely on Poplar for everything, but Poplar was right, he had indeed not practiced light skills, and it was definitely impossible for him to walk steadily on the round wooden pillar like Poplar.
So the iron bull had no choice but to hand the wooden pillar to the poplar to carry.
Because the wooden pillar on the ground was thrown by Poplar more than a meter away from the edge of the mechanism, and Poplar carried this wooden pillar weighing more than 100 pounds, and it was not very easy to jump on it lightly and skillfully.
So Poplar took a few steps back, and then with a little luck, he ran a few steps forward, carrying the wooden pillar and landing lightly and skillfully on the wooden pillar on the ground.
The wooden pillar was jammed by sharp blades on the left and right, and although the poplar jumped much heavier than the single one, it failed to make the wooden pillar roll.
Poplar took another breath, stepped on the wooden pillar and walked to the other end of the wooden pillar, and after a little calculation in his heart, he threw the wooden pillar on his shoulder diagonally forward eighty or ninety centimeters away.
In fact, the slit close to the corner of the wall only extended more than a meter forward, and the reason why Poplar only threw the wooden pillar forward by eighty or ninety centimeters was that he hoped that a few sharp blades could be cut into the top of the wooden pillar in the slit close to the corner of the wall, so as to stabilize the wooden pillar slightly, so as to prevent the wooden pillar from rolling when he stepped on it with Tie Niu.
He would throw the wooden pillar diagonally in order to get it stuck at the base of the wall on both sides, also to avoid the wooden pillar from rolling.
Sure enough, he saw the wooden pillar fall to the ground, and the two upper and lower slits on the walls on both sides were immediately cut out with sharp blades.
In the two slits near the corners of the wall, there are two sharp blades on the left, and one sharp blade on the right that cuts into the top of the wooden pillar, which really jams the wooden pillar and does not roll.
However, because the wooden pillar stopped moving after it landed, from the two slits forty centimeters high, the sharp blade continued to stretch out and retract quickly.
It's like holding down the switch with one hand and not losing it, causing the machine to keep starting and closing, closing and starting again.
Poplar was worried at this moment, and saw that in the two slits forty centimeters high, the sharp blade was constantly expanding and contracting, not to mention that he couldn't land on the wooden pillar below at all, even if he wanted to crawl forward on the ground now.
Poplar was helpless, and was about to retreat along the wooden pillar under his feet to discuss with the iron bull, when suddenly his heart moved, and he hurriedly picked up the javelin in his hand and looked at it carefully.
The javelin was about one meter five or six long, and the barrel of the gun was not a separate wooden stick, but a whole with the head of the gun.
Although the material used to make the javelin is not steel, it is tougher and stronger than steel.
On the other hand, the slit in the wall is so thin, the sharp blade sticking out of it will definitely not be very thick, if you hit it with a javelin, can you directly break the sharp blade one by one?
As soon as he thought so, he immediately crouched down and raised his javelin, and saw the telescopic blade closest to him in the forty centimeters slit on the left, and struck it with a sharp blow.
The blade retracted quickly, but Poplar saw the timing and hit it right at once.
I only heard the sound of "pop", and the sharp blade was really interrupted by the waist, leaving only a short section, still stretching and contracting in the slit.
Poplar was overjoyed, and then broke another blade a little farther away.
Then he turned to the right and broke the two closest blades on the right.
In this way, at the top of the wooden pillar in front of it, there is a small place to the foot.
So Poplar jumped over lightly and skillfully, stood firm on the top of the wooden post in front of him, swung his javelin again, and broke several sharp blades in succession, before turning back to let the Iron Bull follow.
The wooden pillar was about one meter five or six long, and the poplar kept swinging the javelin, breaking all the sharp blades on the walls on both sides, and finally walked to the other end of the wooden pillar.
Looking ahead, the two slits that are forty centimeters high extend more than two meters along the walls on both sides.
And more than two meters away, it is difficult to stop the poplar, the question is whether there are other mechanisms further ahead, but it is impossible to survey at such a distance.
Fortunately, as far as the eye can see, there seem to be two forks in the road, and according to the general rules of mechanism setting, there will be no mechanism near the fork.
Of course, this is the general rule, but it is not absolute.
But Poplar now has no other choice but to take risks.
So Poplar took a deep breath to give himself a little courage and confidence, and then he took a few steps back along the wooden pillar, and then he ran violently, reached the top of the wooden pillar, and jumped again.
The jump jumped straight over two meters, five or six, and landed slightly and delicately in front of the slit.
At that moment, Poplar's heart was extremely nervous, ready to meet the attack of another, more deadly mechanism.
Fortunately, no hidden weapon was hit, and he stood firmly on the ground all the time.
Bai Yang's hanging heart fell to the ground at once, and he turned around and shouted to Tie Niu: "Tie Niu, you run directly along the wooden pillar! You have to run fast, there is a mechanism in this section of the head, at least two meters two or three!"
"No problem, I can jump over two meters and five!" Iron Bull said.
He was still standing on the wooden pillar behind him at the moment, and as soon as the words fell, he immediately started, jumped on the wooden pillar in front of him, and then ran forward with the strength of his feet, and then jumped forward, and landed lightly and skillfully beside the poplar.
Both of them breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but smile at each other, and then they turned around and walked to the fork in the road.
There are two forks in front, and when you look up, you can see that the two forks are also arc-shaped, and the direction of the arc is opposite to the left and right.
The ground on both sides of the passage has a slope, but the slope on the left is upward, and the slope on the right is downward.
"What should I do, do you want to go separately?" Iron Bull asked.
"Do you want to go separately?" asked Poplar rhetorically.
"Of course I don't want to be separated, you know the mechanism better than I do, and if you go with you, you'll definitely have a much better chance of surviving?" Iron Bull said honestly.
"Then let's not separate!" said Poplar, asking him another question, "You said that this side is on the left and right, and that side is against the outside of the tomb?"
"I can't know this!" Iron Bull smiled bitterly, "We have been carried by that circulation and we don't know how many times, where can we still discern the direction?"
"I always felt like I didn't get to the core of the tomb so quickly, so I ...... We should go through the passage on the outside of the tomb!" replied Poplar.
"We can't tell which passage is on the outside of the tomb, but we're going to go up, right?"
Poplar didn't say anything more, but glanced at the passage on the left and right, and said, "But my intuition tells me that we should take the passage down on the right!
"Then take the passage on the right!" said Iron Bull at once, "Your instincts have always been accurate!"
Poplar nodded and smiled, and walked into the passage on the right, and the Iron Bull immediately followed.
The first part of the passage was very soothing, but the further you went, the more steep the passage became, and when you walked more than twenty meters away, water began to accumulate on the ground, and soon the water reached the knees and then the chest.
"Lao Bai, why do I think this is very similar to the passage of the Dragon Tomb of the Crescent Spring? It's just that the passage of the Dragon Tomb is folded back and forth, but the passage here is arc-shaped!" said Tie Niu with a smile.
Poplar was about to interface, when suddenly his feet were empty, and the bottom seemed unfathomable.
However, of course, Poplar did not panic, but quickly surfaced and said: "There may be a dive ahead, let's take a breath and dive forward for a while!"
"That air tank of yours is still being thrown at the outermost pool, I knew we should have carried that air tank in!" Iron Bull said.
"It shouldn't be necessary, the two of us can hold it in the water for more than ten or twenty minutes without breathing, this tomb can't be so big!"
Tie Niu thought about it for a while, so he said: "Then you go first, I will follow you closely!"
Poplar nodded, took a deep breath, and dived underwater.
(See Chapter 324 "Green Hair Water Dumplings")