Chapter 349: The Gate of Protection
As soon as he walked down two steps, Wang Lihong said to Tukamunfu: "Old man, should we throw a torch or something first, and see if there is air in it, in case it suffocates to death, it will not be cost-effective." ”
Seeing that he was so cautious, Tukamunfu said to him: "Don't worry, young man, this is just a flight of steps, and there are ventilation holes here, and the danger is after entering the temple. Once there, I don't know what's going to happen. ”
"Oh, I see." Wang Lihong responded.
"Lan Xi, you follow us, be careful." In order to facilitate walking, Wang Lihong let go of Lan Xi's hand.
Fortunately, Wang Lihong and they brought special lighting equipment, which made it much easier to walk.
Sure enough, as Tukamunv said, it was just a long staircase, about a hundred meters. But the steps are not vertically downward, but spiral downwards, and are built against the surrounding stone walls.
After walking for about three minutes, they finally came to the edge of a large stone door.
This stone gate is not very high, it should only be one meter eight, and the width is nearly four meters. There are a lot of patterns carved on the stone door, but all of them are unpainted, and they don't look so eye-catching, and these patterns are all messy, and it looks like they were made at random. Wang Lihong looked at the stone door and looked like it was about half a meter thick, and there was a palm-wide gap in the middle, and there was a slightly yellowish light in the gap.
There are also carvings on the walls on both sides of the stone gate, but this is not a pattern of flowers and birds, but a pattern of constellations. Each star is represented by a black hole the size of an egg, connected by an engraved line in the middle.
Wang Lihong was immediately excited, and said to Tukamunfu: "Old man. Let me do this. Then he would break the stone door with his bare hands.
Just as he was about to lift the stone gate, Tukamunv suddenly grabbed him and stopped him sharply: "What are you doing? ”
Wang Lihong didn't know why he was so angry, and said, "I'll open this stone door, what are you doing?" ”
Tukamunf pointed to the stone gate and said to him, "This is a poison gate mechanism. It looks open, but if you look closely. This one glows in the middle of this slit, and this is amberstone. Using the furnace technique, the Skilled Craftsman melts some of the gold objects into the amber stone, then places it in the innermost part of the gap between the twin stone doors, and places a yellow stone behind the amber stone. If the tomb robbers see the gold in the amber stone through the crack in this door, they may immediately relax their vigilance and eagerly pry open the stone door. Once the stone door is pried open, the poison that the double stone gate only sees will immediately leak due to the movement of the door, and the person who opens the door will definitely die. ”
When Tukamunfu said this, Wang Lihong was instantly shocked into a cold sweat, fortunately he was a little slower just now, otherwise he would really be hanging.
Because of this lesson, Wang Lihong no longer dared to mess around, so he kept listening to Tukamunfu's instructions to act. He was afraid that if he was reckless, he would trigger the mechanism or something. That's the end of it.
"Old man, what should I do now? This door can't be moved, so how do we get in? Wang Lihong asked respectfully on the side.
Tukamunfu looked closely at the walls of the stone gate, as if he were looking for something.
After nearly ten minutes, Tukamunv took a long breath and said, "I found the secret door." ”
Wang Lihong heard him say this. Immediately felt a lot more relieved, and then it was up to Tukamunf's performance.
The two stone doors were carved with dense patterns and patterns, but these patterns looked very messy and did not look like a reasonable pattern at all.
Tukamunfu said to Wang Lihong: "Young man, you come to help me. You take off your coat first, and you do whatever I say. ”
Wang Lihong stood in front of the stone gate in confusion, and heard Tukamunfu say: "Use your coat to sweep over these two stone doors and remove all the mud powder that is hidden on them." ”
Wang Lihong didn't know what Tukamunfu's intentions were, but he did as he asked. Raising the coat in his hand, as if he was using a feather duster, he gently swept over the two stone doors.
"Ahem, ahem...... Why is there so much dust? Wang Lihong just swept it hard, and the dust kept splashing on the stone door, choking him and coughing a few times.
Lan Xi and Tukamunfu covered their noses and retreated to the back door, so as not to inhale the dust as well.
"Young man, hold your breath and don't inhale the dust." Tukamunfu saw that Wang Lihong was choked badly, so he kindly reminded him.
Wang Lihong's face changed suddenly, he covered his mouth and nose with his arm, and said in a nasal voice: "Shouldn't this be poisonous?" ”
Tukamunfu responded: "Don't worry, I've seen it, it's not poisonous, you sweep up the mud powder and come and rest." ”
Wang Lihong held on for another minute or two, and finally swept the two stone doors without falling ash at all, and then ran to the other party where Lan Xi and the others were standing, breathing in the slightly fresher air.
At this time, his whole body seemed to come out of a sandstorm, and his whole body was covered with mud powder, if he stood still, absolutely no one would find out that he was a living person, and they would definitely think that he was a carving.
With Lan Xi's help, Wang Lihong slowly shook off the dust on his body, and a layer of dust fell off the ground around his body.
"That's it! Let's move on to the second step. Tukamunfu looked at the two stone doors that had been swept clean and said to Wang Lihong.
Wang Lihong only looked towards the stone gate at this time, and found that there were many flying squares on the stone door, he counted carefully, there were nine squares horizontally on this stone door, nine squares vertically, there were eighty-one squares, and the two doors added up to one hundred and sixty-two, and on each stone door, there was a square that was completely blank, and nothing was carved, but what these squares were used for, he didn't know.
"Young man, now you do as I instruct. You pull out the blank square. Tukamunfu gave instructions to Wang Lihong.
Wang Lihong was just about to exert himself, turned his head and asked Tukamunfu: "Old man, if I pull it out, will I set off the mechanism?" ”
To be honest, Tukamunfu didn't dare to guarantee it completely, because the pharaoh's underground temple was too tightly designed for no one to predict what would happen, and he also said to Wang Lihong bluntly: "I don't dare to guarantee it, but we can only gamble." (To be continued.) )