Volume 2 Sand Sea Dragon's Lair Chapter 132 Water Disappears and the Earth Sinks
Ding Lingling could see at a glance that Chen Xiaopang was measuring the width of the room.
In fact, as soon as she walked into this house, Ding Lingling felt that something was wrong.
Because the room next door with a green-haired poisonous crab is only about ten meters wide at most, but this room is also about ten meters wide.
In other words, this room is at least five or six meters wide from the next room.
And such a big dislocation, including Ma Bingxiao, can see it.
So the three of them didn't speak, and when Chen Xiaopang finished measuring and stood in the corner, Ding Lingling asked: "This house seems to be too wide, and it is at least five or six meters staggered from the next one, right?"
"That's good!" Chen Xiaopang nodded and pointed to a section of the wall in the left corner, "If there is a mechanism to get out, it must be on this section of the wall!"
"Then let's look for it quickly!" Ding Lingling said, immediately approaching the wall and looking carefully.
Then she soon noticed that there was a brick protruding from the wall in the very corner, and when she pressed the brick with her hand, a piece of the wall immediately slid back to reveal a narrow doorway.
"This mechanism is so easy to find, it seems that the Grand Master of the Celestial Elephant Kingdom is really kind enough to leave a way for the tomb robbers!" Chen Xiaopang sighed.
Ma Bingxiao also heard about "Celestial Elephant Country" from his father and uncle, but when Chen Xiaopang translated the inscription for him, he did not mention the word "Celestial Elephant Country" at all because he was as concise as possible.
At this time, when he suddenly heard Chen Xiaopang mention it, Ma Bingxiao suddenly shook his head and blurted out: "Celestial Elephant Country, why did another Celestial Elephant Kingdom suddenly pop up? What Senior Brother Chen said couldn't be the Celestial Elephant Country in the Black Desert, right?"
As a senior archaeologist, Chen Xiaopang has also heard people mention the "Black Desert Celestial Elephant Country", but he doesn't know how Ma Bingxiao knows, and he can't help but look at Ma Bingxiao.
Ding Lingling hurriedly said: "The most important thing for us now is to go out as soon as possible, and we will talk about other things after we go out!"
Chen Xiaopang nodded, and the probe drilled out of the narrow doorway, looking out carefully.
Soon he cheered.
"There is indeed a waterhole below, and at the end of the waterhole, you can see the doorway at the entrance!" he turned around and explained to Ding Lingling and the others, "I'll jump down and take a look, just in case, you better wait!"
The doorway was very narrow, and Ding Lingling couldn't squeeze into the doorway at the same time to watch, so she could only instruct: "Senior brother, be careful!"
Chen Xiaopang smiled, grabbed his shovel and jumped into the water.
Ding Lingling approached the doorway and looked ahead, and sure enough, she saw that at the end of the waterhole, it was obvious that there was a doorway.
The waterhole was only more than ten meters away, Chen Xiaopang quickly swam to the opposite bank, climbed up from the doorway, and peeked out, then shouted cheering: "It's really out, Lingling, come here!"
Ding Lingling was overjoyed and wanted to jump into the water, but she thought that Ma Bingxiao had a very poor water quality, so she turned her head and said: "The soldier has poor water quality, so I jumped down first and watched, the soldier followed, and the red apricot was at the end!"
Hongxing nodded in agreement.
Ma Bingxiao thought that he was a man, but he needed two girls to guard him in front and back, and he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.
But this is not the time to be reckless, and he can only nod his head in agreement.
Chen Xiaopang probably also thought that Ma Bingxiao was very poor in water, so he put down the shovel and swam back. Catch Ma Bingxiao halfway, and take Ma Bingxiao back to the doorway.
Several people went ashore one after another, and when they looked up, they saw that the surrounding walls were full of reliefs, and the white translucent crystals attached to the reliefs glittered in the light.
Ma Bingxiao sat down on the ground all of a sudden and said, "We really came out, but it's really not easy!"
Before he could finish his sentence, he heard a chirp, and the two jade hummingbirds outside flew in through the open gate.
Ding Lingling hurriedly stretched out her arms and let the two birds land on her arms.
Hongxing suddenly thought of a question and said, "Before Xiaolu Xiaocui flew in, what did you see that would make you chirp in fright?
"The green-haired poisonous crab and the stone statue that can cut people aren't scary enough?" Mr. Ma said.
"But when two little birds fly in, it is impossible to touch the mechanism, the green-haired poisonous crab will naturally not appear, and those stone statues will not be able to move!"
Ma Bingxiao opened his mouth, closed it again, and turned his face to look at Chen Xiaopang and Ding Lingling.
Ding Lingling took a breath and said, "So we can't rest yet!" Since we can't get in from the inside of the house, let's take a turn from the outside of the house to see if there are other entrances on the other side!"
Chen Xiaopang nodded in agreement and took the lead in standing up from the ground.
Ma Bingxiao and Hongxing also got up, and a few people walked out of the door, leaving the two doors open.
The four of them stood outside the gate to discuss, and finally chose to walk from the left side of the "Crystal Palace" to the back.
The so-called Crystal Palace, which occupies almost the entire sandbar, has a sandy beach vacant in front of its gates, but on both sides, at least on the left side of which they are walking, is close to the deep water that surrounds them, and sometimes they have to wade straight into the water.
I didn't know how far it was when I looked at the darkness on both sides, but when I walked about 30 meters, I found that there was no way ahead.
In front of me was a stone wall, which stretched out on both sides, as if it had reached the end of the entire large stone cave.
And this so-called crystal palace fits incomparably closely on the stone wall, and it feels like it extends directly into the stone wall.
Chen Xiaopang pried between the stone wall and the wall with a shovel, and said: "It's strange, this house should be built into the stone wall! Could it be that there is another space inside the stone wall, and the builder has slightly repaired and expanded it, and repaired the palace directly to the inside?"
He spoke, looking up and up.
He found that the top of the palace also extended into the stone wall, but the stone wall fit so closely together that there was no gap in sight.
"In any case, to be able to fit the whole palace so tightly with the stone wall is already a very remarkable work......manship! If there is a dragon corpse, or a dragon coffin, it must be in this stone wall!" Ding Lingling said.
"But what if we can't get inside at all?" Ma Bingxiao said, adding with a sad face, "You say...... Will Lao Bai and Tie Niu be swept into it by the vortex?"
Several people were speechless.
Ma Bingxiao sighed softly, and said: "It's unlikely that we can find another way out here, and I don't know when my dad and they will come to save us!"
His words made Ding Lingling and Hongxing even more uncomfortable, Ding Lingling raised her head and said, "We haven't searched from the right side of the room yet, maybe...... Is there another way out there?"
Chen Xiaopang was actually discouraged, but he didn't want to hit Ding Lingling, so he hurriedly nodded and said, "Yes, maybe on the right side of this palace, ...... will be found!"
He couldn't finish the last four words, because all of a sudden, the whole ground began to shake, accompanied by a low, dull rumbling sound, as if there had been another earthquake.
"What's going on?"
Ma Bingxiao blurted out in exclamation, reaching out to hold on to the wall next to him.
But before his fingers could touch the wall, it suddenly collapsed.
Ma Bingxiao was so frightened that he blurted out.
Chen Xiaopang reacted the fastest, and shouted: "Jump into the water!"
stretched out his hand to grab the stunned Ma Bingxiao, and took him to jump into the deep water next to him.
Ma Bingxiao was originally not good at water, but was suddenly dragged into the water by Chen Xiaopang, and choked on a few sips of water.
Finally with the help of Chen Xiaopang, he surfaced on the water to stabilize his body, and when he looked back, he saw that the dust was flying and the smoke was filled, and the majestic "Crystal Palace" just now seemed to have collapsed completely.
And what's even more terrifying is that the earth is still shaking, so that the water is bumpy and the waves are churning.
However, the sandbar continued to sink into the water, driving the ruins and remnants of the Crystal Palace to gradually submerge into the water.
"Let's swim to the passage we came in, be careful that everything is going to collapse!" shouted Chen Xiaopang.
"But that passage has collapsed, and we can't get out of there at all! Not to mention that we have to dive dozens of meters in the water without rope traction, not to mention Ma Bingxiao, even I can't do it!"
Ding Lingling glanced around, and then shouted: "Don't be afraid of red apricots, you see that the water surface is also falling, you should be able to skip diving! We have no way out now, we can only swim to the entrance to have a look!"
Hongxing was helpless at this time, so she could only close her mouth and follow Ding Lingling closely.
At this moment, the rumbling sound was still continuing, Chen Xiaopang was holding Ma Bingxiao with one hand and it was difficult to swim, so he had to shout at Ma Bingxiao: "You grab my belt with your hand, and I will take you to swim forward!"
Ma Bingxiao knew that his water quality was not good, so he could only shout loudly: "If it doesn't work, you can go out first, don't worry about me!"
"How can you ignore you, grab my belt, let's go!"
Chen Xiaopang became impatient, and directly reached out and pulled Ma Bingxiao's hand and put it on his waist, and when Ma Bingxiao grabbed his belt, he grabbed his family heirloom shovel that must not be lost with one hand, paddled with the other, and swam vigorously in the direction of the passage in his memory.
But the water shook so much that even if Chen Xiaopang was alone, he couldn't use his strength, let alone take one person with him, and he was still holding a fine steel shovel in his hand.
So he tried his best, but he basically went around in circles.
Ma Bingxiao is naturally afraid of death, but thinking that he is chasing after him, if he drags down others, he will be guilty of ten thousand deaths.
So he simply threw away Chen Xiaopang's belt and shouted, "Senior Brother Chen, you better go first, leave me alone!"
"What, catch me!"
Chen Xiaopang turned his head and scolded angrily, but saw a bright light, which suddenly gushed out from the bottom of the water.
The light was so bright, it was obviously in the deep water, but when the light reflected it, it reflected the main waterhole in a sparkling light.
The others noticed this, and they all turned their heads to look at the light that was rapidly rising from the deep water.
"What's that?" Ma Bingxiao shouted.
No one could answer him until the light burst out from under the water, illuminating the entire space.
(See Chapter 133 of "The Golden Monty Python")