Chapter Fifty-Six: Seeking Wealth and Danger
After several twists and turns, they came to the mouth of the cave in the Gold Rush Mountain. As soon as the ambition was ordered, everyone headed for the cave. The cave was pitch black, and they had only taken a few steps before they woke up the bats in the cave, and the bats flew out in groups of chatters, startling everyone and retreating from the cave.
Ambition said: "The cave is too dark, everyone hurry up and chop wood and pick cotton to make torches." When everything was ready, Ambition ordered the group to head to the cave again. This time they made it into the cave without any problems.
However, the chirping of the bat just now woke up the waking python. When Ambition carefully lit up the oil pan in the front hall, they found that the python was already in front of them, blocking their way.
Suddenly everyone was frightened and panicked, all of you look at me, I see, I look dumbfounded.
I saw that the python's eyes were staring at them, and he kept spitting messages at them. At this time, Greedy said with a sad face: "It seems that we are finished this time, this guy can eat us all in one bite, I am still young, I don't want to die so early." ”
Ambition rebuked angrily: "Close your crow's mouth, quickly find a way to get out, everyone must not run, lest the python attack us, we must work together to deal with him, the python is afraid of fire, everyone will be fine with the torch in their hands." ”
Seeing this, Ruthless said: "It's useless to run now, it's better to fight with it, ambition, use your iron and clay-like righteous sword to deal with it, and chop it into meat sauce." ”
Ambition responded: "If the enemy does not move, I will not move; When the enemy moves, we will attack it in groups. But it's best to think of a foolproof plan to avoid the bloody disaster. Think about it, if we kill it, if its accomplices smell blood and rush to it, then we will definitely be attacked on our backs, and we will probably die. ”
"I have anesthetics on me that we can use to anesthetize the python, but the point is that we don't have the bait." The thief on the side spoke.
"Is it okay with Apple?" Greedy asked.
"As long as it's edible, it's okay!" The thief replied.
"I have one here, you can take it." Greedy and generous, he handed over the apple as he spoke.
"Is one enough for you to feed yourself?" Thief Heart asked.
"Wouldn't it? You're not planning to feed the python, are you? How many baskets of apples do you have to use? Greedy asked rhetorically.
"I don't want to talk nonsense with you, how much do you have on me? Take it all out! The thief said angrily. Seeing this, Greed took out all the apples on his body, five in all. "I'll just say, why did the apples eat so quickly, it turned out that they were all hidden by you." The thief said with contempt.
"You're really underwhelmed! dared to pretend to be public and private. Said viciously.
Seeing this, Ambition said: "Don't make trouble, if he hadn't hidden the apples privately, I'm afraid we would still be unable to break this catastrophe!" Fast! Hurry up and inject the anesthetic into the apple. Ruthless had no choice but to obey, everything was ready, and Ambition threw the apple to the python, and when the python saw this, he opened his mouth and caught it and swallowed it. After a while, the python's arched body began to shake, and after a while, it fell limply to the ground and fell asleep. This excites the ambitions, and the feeling of the aftermath of the catastrophe is really very fortunate for them. In this way, they easily spared the python's side, without any effort.
After passing through the front hall, they came to a passage, set fire to the oil pot next to the passage, and then took out the treasure map to look at it, only to realize that it was a secret passage full of traps, but it was also the only way to enter, so they had to take a risk.
The passage is paved with square stone bricks of the same shape, some of which are virtual pumice stone bricks, and as soon as the legs and feet step on these virtual pumice stone bricks, the stone bricks will sink, activating the mechanism, and the walls on both sides will release hidden arrows to kill the intruders. Ambition called one of his attendants to follow his mantra, 2-3-2-1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2 The retinue passed without incident, and Ambition told them all to recite the mantra well, and he passed safely according to the mantra.
Next is Ruthless, Thief Heart and two other retinues, and they all passed without any problems. Now there was only Greed and another attendant, and Greed, of course, did not want to be left behind, so he said to the attendant, "You must be right to follow me." "I didn't expect the entourage to be really stupid to follow.
Greedily play this like a hopscotch when I was a child. Jumped up on one foot 2-3-2-1-2-3-1-3-1-3-Leap..., and came to this point greedily and suddenly forgot. He wanted to ask Ming Ambition, but he was afraid that they would laugh at him for his poor memory, and this was the last step. So, he thought that it didn't matter if it was wrong, and he had reached his destination anyway, so he jumped across line 1, but he didn't expect the stone brick to sink down and activate the mechanism. Greedy, frightened, quickly jumped outside the safety line, and the entourage following behind didn't know what was happening, and before he could react, the dark arrow shot pushed him to the wall, and then automatically climbed over the wall to devour his body. They all had palpitations when they saw the ambition, and they accused greed of not being greedy for play, and greed also bowed its head in shame.
Then, a stone gate blocked their way. The thief then shouted: "Let me come, I have the law, the sesame opens the door, the sesame opens the door." Shimen didn't react at all.
"If it doesn't work, let me come, if you don't come hard, it doesn't seem to work, and you started to work hard, and then punched at the stone gate, and the door didn't even move.
"Are you alright?" Thief Heart asked.
"It's okay, pediatrics! I haven't used my strength yet. Ruthlessly argued, in fact, the punch just now was so painful that he was sweating, and I saw him stretching his hand behind his back and rubbing it. Still observant carefully, he found a trap hole next to the stone gate, so he inserted the Zhengxin Sword and turned it, and opened the stone door. "I see, I said it earlier, wasting my expression." Said ruthlessly.
Lighting the oil pot on the side, they saw the bottom of the cupola shown on the map. The cupola ladder coils up from the bottom, which is the only way to the Treasure Pavilion, and everyone walks all the way up, seemingly without danger, but in fact, there is a murderous intention. Suddenly, the leading guard fell down the ladder into the valley. It turned out that they were attacked by poisonous scorpions hiding on the ladder, and Ambition hurriedly ordered everyone to burn the poisonous scorpions to death with fire to avoid leaving a disaster.
On the "ladder to the sky", they encountered another stone gate. This time, ambition opens it effortlessly with the Sword of Righteousness. In this way, they came to the foot of the "Ladder of Heaven", which is a secret passage that slopes from top to bottom, and there are steps in the secret passage, because it is the only passage connecting the "Paradise Pavilion", so as the name suggests, it is called "Ladder of Heaven". The treasure map shows that there is a trap hole on the middle staircase, as long as the treasure hunter steps on the trap hole and the stone steps above, the mechanism in the dark passage will be activated, and the boulder on the stone steps will slide down in an instant, and its speed is as fast as lightning, and the gap above the boulder and the dark pass only allows ants or cockroaches to pass through, so there is no possibility of escape at all, but you can use the sword of good and evil heart to insert the trap hole and then turn it to lock, you can remove the trap.
Ambition ordered the retinue to go up and find the location of the trap. The entourage, though somewhat reluctant, had to follow orders. I saw him tentatively touch the stairs with a torch, and when he saw no reaction, he dared to continue going up. However, when he saw that they had already hid aside and did not dare to show their faces, and there were lessons from the previous two times, the entourage knew that there must be a hidden mechanism in this secret passage, so after walking a few steps, he hesitated and did not dare to go up. Seeing his doubts, Ambition encouraged him: "If you can help us find the trap, and then wait for me to go up and remove the trap, so that you will be safe, and when I find the treasure, I will give you an extra share, but if you resist the order now, you will be killed." Ambition drew his sword and threatened him.
Out of fear of ambition and lust and thirst for treasure, the retinue had to risk his life to gamble with his life, and there was no boundary between life and death at this moment, because he did not know where the mechanism was, so it could kill him at any time; And the fear of death made him see no hope of life, and one of his feet seemed to have stepped into the trap of death. In this way, he lowered his head and examined carefully, and walked up step by step with difficulty, although he had only walked a dozen stone steps, but to him, time seemed to have passed half a century. Finally, he saw a trap hole in the upper stone staircase under his feet, which made him excited that he was able to find the trap hole and be safe. So they shouted to the ambition, "Come up, I have found the hole." ”
Ambition kept an eye on him, and he remembered even how many stone steps he had taken. As a result, they all thought that there was no mechanism this time, and that it might just be a trick to scare the treasure hunters. Just as they set out to go up and see what was going on. The entourage was overly nervous, his legs and feet were trembling, and after seeing that he had found the trap hole, he thought he would be safe, so he sat on the stone steps of the trap hole and wanted to take a break, but he didn't expect it to be such a sitting, the stone steps sank under the action of gravity potential energy and activated the trap, and the stone steps up instantly tilted downward, becoming a landslide, and the boulder also slid down, followed by the stone steps of the trap hole sloping down one by one, as if a mountain and a sea, and before the entourage could react, the boulder had been crushed by him. As soon as they saw that something was wrong, they had already taken refuge on both sides of the dark passage. When the boulder touched the bottom step, the large iron chain attached to the boulder was just tightened, and at this time, another mechanism was activated, and the landslide that the staircase sloped down turned into overturned to the left, and the followers were dumped and swallowed back to their original state, and then the boulder returned to its original position under the pull of the iron chain, and then the landslide stood flat from the bottom to the top, turning into stone steps one by one.
Seeing that there was no movement, Ambition poked his head out first and glanced at it, and when they saw that the stone steps had been restored to their original state, they finally breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, Ambition asked them, "I have just counted, the trap hole is on the fifteenth step, have any of you volunteered to go up with the righteous heart sword and remove the trap?" Everyone was silent, and no one wanted to die in vain. Ambition continued: "These traps are all one-way passages, we can advance but not retreat, we can only move forward, if this trap can't be lifted, we can only wait to die here." Then he paused again and said, "Since you don't dare to go up, it can only be decided by fate." Let's play a game from one childhood: Black and White Touch. Whoever is not in agreement with the rest of the group will take a sword and stick it into the hole of the trap, and then disarm the trap so that everyone can pass the level safely. You all have no opinion.
Out of desperation, everyone agreed. "Good! Now that the game has officially begun, the time has come to decide whether we live or die. Ambition said. I saw that they all put their right hands behind their backs, "Black and white touch!" Listening to the ambition order, everyone threw their arms out.
Unfortunately, greed comes out of black, and everything else comes out of white. "No, how could I be so unlucky? Fate has been so unfair to me! ”
"Who told you to go out of the dark? It must be very back in the dark! The thief gloated.
"Greedy brother, our life and death depend on you, hurry up, this arduous appointment will be handed over to you!" Ruthlessly sympathetic.
Seeing that they were still in a miserable mood, Ambition said solemnly: "Don't joke, this is a real life and death situation." If you are greedy, you will accept your fate! I'm going to give you the Righteous Sword now, the trap hole is on the fifteenth step, and when you get to the fourteenth step, insert the Righteous Sword into the trap hole and turn right, so that when the trap is lifted, you will be fine. ”
"How do you know the trap hole is on the fifteenth step?" Greed is incomprehensible.
"After that attendant walked up the steps just now, I kept watching his footsteps and counting, there is absolutely nothing wrong, you can go with confidence! If anything happens to you, I'll take care of your parents when I go back, don't worry. Ambition comforted.
"Take care, I'll burn some more money for you." Ruthless said with a sad face.
"Go all the way, and we'll remember you." The thief said helplessly.
I was greedy and didn't cry, but when they said this, I was so scared that I cried. Suddenly, he said loudly again, "It's all this time, can't you say something good to comfort me?" ”
"Yes, you are a good example for us, and we believe that you will be able to do it." Ambition said.
"You're the best, you're the best on our team." The ruthlessness is a bit of a lifting.
"Greedy, you have always been my idol..."The thief said this, as if he had raised the image of greed first, making him really a little fluttering, but he didn't expect the thief to make up for it coldly: "I hope we can all see you alive." "When I heard it, my heart was broken and I was embarrassed.
"Bastard, a dog's mouth can't spit out ivory!" Greedy said angrily, and then punched the thief hard. ”
After a period of comfort in life and death, Greed began to walk up the stairs step by step, and he did not forget to count carefully, "Thirteen, Fourteen, Ten......" Greed raised his feet and was about to step on. Ambition shouted below: "Stupid, you have arrived, step on it again and you will be finished." The thief and the ruthless heart both sweated for him.
"You need to be that loud, right? Scared the hell out of me. I already knew it, so I wouldn't be as stupid as you! With that, he put his foot back. Then carefully insert the Zhengxin Sword into the trap hole, and then turn it to the right. The stone stairs continued to rise slightly.
Seeing this, Ambition shouted at him: "Greed, you pull out the sword of righteousness, and then try to step on the stone steps to see if there is a change." Greedily obeyed the order, tried to point the fifteenth stone step with his foot, and saw that there was no danger, so he closed his eyes and stepped on it boldly. Nothing had changed, so he happily ran up a few more steps, and when he saw that the boulder was still not moving, he turned back to the ambition and said to them in a mocking tone, "Why are you still stunned? If you don't hurry up, how can this little mechanism be so hard to stop me as smart. ”
"Oh, it's so bad, I can't see that you really have some ability." Ambition praised.
"Of course, I still have a lot of skills!" Greed began to grow triumphant.
Only then did everyone successfully pass through the Heavenly Ladder and enter the Heavenly Pavilion.