Volume 2 Sand Sea Dragon's Lair Chapter 179 Making Something Out of Nothing
Several people stood upright on the lid of the coffin, and waited for half an hour before the smoke in the room finally thinned.
Looking at the ground again, it was still full of desert-bellied snakes.
And the desert-bellied snakes that were originally scattered in all directions gradually surrounded the sarcophagus again. One by one, they wriggled and moved endlessly, as if waiting for the person on the lid of the coffin to come down.
Tie Niu suggested throwing two more solid fuels down, Chen Xiaopang said: "There are not a few solid fuels left, these little snakes are not together, throwing one down and burning two will not kill! Once the solid fuel is used up, if anything happens to it later, it will be helpless!"
Several people were at a loss.
Max suddenly muttered a sentence in English, and Chu Changjiang said with a wry smile: "Max means that the ground is full of small snakes anyway, let's just leave this coffin alone, jump off the coffin lid and run out, these little snakes may not be able to catch up with us!"
Max's words were actually correct, but several people looked at the front and back of the palace, but they couldn't help but sigh and shake their heads.
The two wooden doors behind the palace were still open, and the bronze mirror that had been smashed and deformed by the iron bull Chen Xiaopang was still stuck between the two wooden doors.
But the other two wooden doors that passed through the palace were tightly closed, and the latches were not pressed on this side.
These two wooden doors must be the passage to the more central part of the tomb, but the problem is that it is not easy to open these two wooden doors.
What's more, there is at least a two-meter-wide black stone brick surface under the wooden door, which must also have a mechanism, and there is no way to stand in front of the door to open the door.
Therefore, if you want to jump off the lid of the coffin and run out, you can only retreat outside, and it is impossible to continue walking.
But as soon as he came in, he withdrew, except for Max, including Chu Changjiang, who was unwilling.
Poplar's mind turned for a moment, and he suddenly said: "Otherwise, I will jump off the coffin lid first, go and move the bronze mirror in, and then use this copper mirror to pad under the door in front, even if I touch the mechanism, those spikes below may not be able to pierce the copper mirror." As long as we stand on the bronze mirror, we can find a way to open the two doors in front of us!"
Tie Niu applauded first and said: "What Lao Bai said is right, and even if we are bitten by a snake, we may not necessarily die, so I will go with Lao Bai to move the bronze mirror!"
"The problem is that the copper mirror is too thin, even if it can be cushioned under the foot to block the spikes underneath, those pit vipers can easily climb onto the copper mirror, so that we can't concentrate on finding a way to open the door!" Chen Xiaopang said.
Bai Yang thought that his concerns did exist, and said: "Anyway, that bronze mirror is big enough, and then the little fat brother and Lingling will stand on the bronze mirror and find a way to open the door, and I will ...... with Lao Hei."
When he said this, he suddenly stopped, and Tie Niu hurriedly asked, "What are you doing with me?"
Bai Yang smiled and said: "How did I forget the Golden Pupil Condor! Later, let's go out first to see where the Golden Pupil Condor is, the Golden Pupil Condor is the natural enemy of poisonous snakes, even if all the pit vipers on the ground will not escape, but as long as the Golden Pupil Condor guards the bronze mirror, these pit vipers will not have the courage to climb on the bronze mirror!"
"Not bad, not bad!" Tie Niu was overjoyed, and immediately nodded in agreement, "If the two of us look left and right for a while, we will definitely be able to protect Little Fat Brother and Lingling from being bitten by snakes!"
Everyone else also felt that this method was barely feasible, and without further ado, Poplar Tie Niu looked down at the dozens of pit vipers that were constantly walking on the ground, and jumped from the lid of the coffin one after another.
Before those pit vipers could rush over, the two of them had already run to the edge of the light gray circle, and then jumped up one after the other, and the two sounds of "plop tom tom" landed on the huge bronze mirror stuck in the doorway.
Before he could gain a firm foothold, Poplar was pleasantly surprised to see that the Golden Pupil Condor did not fly directly to the outside of the tomb, but stopped in this passage outside.
The two jade hummingbirds were already very dependent on the Golden Pupil Divine Eagle, and they actually rested at the feet of the Golden Pupil Divine Eagle, combing each other's feathers.
Suddenly, seeing the poplar come out, the golden-eyed eagle immediately spread its wings and flew up, and soon landed on the poplar's shoulder.
The two jade hummingbirds flew up, and Xu saw that the smoke in the palace inside had almost dissipated, and the two jade hummingbirds chirped and flew in directly to find Ding Lingling.
The poplar iron bull first broke two pieces of the wooden frame on the bronze mirror, and stuck it tightly under the two wooden doors to prevent the wooden doors from closing naturally, and then the iron bull wanted to carry the bronze mirror.
But the bronze mirror is too big, and once it is carried, it is not easy to jump in smoothly through the doorway.
So Poplar simply kicked out, directly kicked the entire bronze mirror into the palace, and then slid smoothly into the big light gray circle.
The poplar iron bull jumped into the big circle after it, for fear that if he reached out to lift the bronze mirror, he was likely to be bitten by the poisonous snake on the ground.
So the two men alternately kicked the bronze mirror around the sarcophagus with their feet, all the way to the bottom of the two closed doors in front of them.
During this period, the Golden Pupil Condor kept pounceing downward, and each time it pounced, it could catch one or two desert belly snakes.
Frightened, the desert-bellied snake ran around, just because there was no hole to drill, so it could only swim all over the ground.
But it was precisely because of being frightened by the Golden Pupil Condor that the desert belly snake didn't care about attacking the Poplar Iron Bull.
Ding Lingling and Chen Xiaopang jumped off the sarcophagus first and quickly approached the bronze mirror. Just in case, Chen Xiaopang picked up the shovel and smashed it a few times above the bronze mirror.
But it may be that the contact surface of the bronze mirror is too large, and it itself is very hard, Chen Xiaopang slammed it several times, but there were no iron thorns coming out of the ground.
Chen Xiaopang gritted his teeth and was ruthless, finally raised his feet and stepped on the bronze mirror, and then hunched his waist and cautiously walked towards the two wooden doors.
Indeed, there were no iron thorns below the ground.
Several people breathed a sigh of relief, and Ding Lingling also stepped on the bronze mirror and slowly walked to the two doors step by step.
The poplar iron ox stood guard on both sides of the bronze mirror, closely guarding against the desert snakes on the ground.
But those poisonous snakes were driven away by the golden pupil eagle to hide left and right, and a few of them were the first to rush out from the other side with the gate open, and the other poisonous snakes found their way and followed suit.
In an instant, dozens of desert-bellied snakes that were originally swimming all over the ground fled without a trace.
But the desert-bellied snake was not big, and maybe there would be one or two hidden corners and corners, so the poplar iron bull still didn't dare to let down his vigilance.
Ding Lingling and Chen Xiaopang quickly determined that the two gates were not equipped with mechanisms, but were directly latched from the other side.
Ding Lingling originally wanted to use a short sword to insert the crack into the door and open the latch, but the two doors were closed very tightly, and Ding Lingling tried a few times, but was unsuccessful.
When Tie Niu heard this, he said directly: "Since there is no mechanism, why don't you let me shoot a few shots at the crack of the door, break the latch inside first, and then see if I can directly knock it open!"
Chen Xiaopang felt a little distressed about these two carved wooden doors, but apart from Tie Niu's method, he couldn't think of any other way for a while, so Ding Lingling and Chen Xiaopang both nodded in approval.
Chen Xiaopang retreated from the bronze mirror first.
Ding Lingling considered that the iron bull was relatively sloppy and couldn't do meticulous work, so she first approached the crack of the door to see the placement of the two latches, and drew a mark on the door with the marker pen she carried, and then stepped back from the bronze mirror.
At this time, there was no shadow of the pit viper on the ground—
To be precise, there is no shadow of a living pit viper, like the charred pythons and small pit vipers, which are still everywhere.
Ding Lingling and Chen Xiaopang no longer climbed on the sarcophagus, but guarded the edge of the bronze mirror with Poplar to prevent poisonous snakes from climbing onto the bronze mirror from the corners.
Tie Niu carefully stepped onto the bronze mirror, took out the pistol under his waist and aimed at the two marks drawn by Ding Lingling, and fired several shots, and the piercing gunfire immediately echoed in the palace, shocking the two girls had to cover their ears.
Before the gunfire settled, Tie Niu put away his gun and retreated, and then suddenly rushed forward.
Bai Yang was afraid that the copper mirror would slip, so he hurriedly pressed one foot against the copper mirror.
Sure enough, his feet tightened suddenly, and as Tie Niu's feet slammed into the bronze mirror, he slammed his body into the two closed doors.
I only heard a "click", and although the two wooden doors did not open widely, a large crack appeared, and it was obvious that the latch inside had been broken.
The Iron Bull then lifted his foot and kicked heavily on the gate.
There was another "clatter", and the two doors were completely open, and the "bang" hit the wall inside.
But the Iron Bull was too strong, and finally activated the mechanism under the bronze mirror.
With the slight sound of "squeak, squeak, squeak", countless iron thorns emerged from the ground, although they did not pierce the copper mirror, but the copper mirror inevitably slid on the iron thorns.
Iron Bull was caught off guard, his body suddenly lost his balance, and he fell to the side.
The ground next to it is also covered with iron thorns, and once the iron bull falls, it is bound to be stabbed to a thousand holes.
Everyone exclaimed in surprise, and Hongxing was especially screaming.
Fortunately, Poplar has been keeping an eye on the movement of the Iron Bull, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately stepped forward, grabbed the Iron Bull's arm with one hand and dragged it back violently.
With all his strength, the Iron Bull was dragged from a side fall to a rollover, and his whole body slammed into the poplar.
The poplar exerted too much force, and his feet were already unstable, and he was suddenly hit by the iron bull and fell to the sky, and the heavy body of the iron bull weighed heavily on him.
Hongxing was timid, and she had been standing on the sarcophagus and didn't dare to come down, but she was so frightened at this moment, she didn't care if there were any poisonous snakes on the ground, she jumped down from the sarcophagus cover, and rushed over while shouting "Iron Bull".
Chen Xiaopang reached out first to pull up the iron bull, and Ding Lingling helped the grinning poplar up.
Seeing that Hongxing's face was already snow-white, Tie Niu naturally felt sweet in his heart, so he smiled at Hongxing, turned his head and said to Baiyang: "You saved me again!"
"Let's still talk about this!" Poplar glanced at him, opened his hand, and let the Golden Pupil Condor fall on his arm, "This time it is the Golden Pupil Condor who has made a great contribution, otherwise we will fall down, and it will be strange if the pit viper on the ground does not bite us!"
Several people all nodded, and they surrounded the Golden Pupil Condor in admiration.
The Golden Pupil Condor seemed to know that everyone was praising it, and it looked like it was holding its head high.
(See Chapter 180 of "Weird Tai Chi House")