Chapter 217 goes deeper and deeper
Following Chen Fan, everyone walked down the stairs.
It is a catacomb, and there are sarcophagi scattered all around the tomb.
Following the passage, the group quickly reached the innermost part of the tomb.
The innermost part is a hall of about 200 square meters, and on one side of the hall three very striking statues are erected on one wall.
"Jesus in the middle, St. Dethmas on the left, and Jestas on the right." Looking at the statue Laura pointed.
"Indeed, repentant thieves and ruffian thieves." Nate said.
"It looks like this is another test, how can this mechanism be broken to find the next clues?" Chen Fan turned his head to look at the few professionals in the team.
"Let's look around for any clues." Jack clapped his hands and suggested.
Immediately, the crowd dispersed and searched for them in the hall.
Soon Laura's voice came from behind the wall.
Following the sound, everyone gathered behind the walls of the statue.
"Looks like that's where the mechanism is, which of you has flint and steel or something?" Laura said as she saw the crowd coming, pointing to an oil lamp on the wall of a stand.
"Sam, borrow the lighter of your old smoking gun." Nate reached out and beckoned to Sam.
"Oh, my brother, it's a bit of a hurtful name." Sam teased his brother about the lighter in his hand and the oil lamp.
As the oil lamp was lit, the flame flew down the oil lamp, and soon the recess in the wall was lit.
A ray of light shone down the other wall behind them.
"Looks like we need to open this stone door." Momoko curiously leaned forward to take a look.
"Let's go to the front and take a look, it should be necessary to light up the bumps on the stone door before you can open the stone door." Chen Fan looked at the situation in front of him and guessed a rough idea.
Returning to the three statues again, there were some slight changes, as the three circular decorations below the statues had previously slipped away from the middle.
Leaning over to the front and taking a look, Chen Fan quickly understood the general principle of the mechanism, turned his head and beckoned to everyone, "Laura Nett, help to align the pillar of light shining on the back to the bump above the stone door." ”
Hearing this, Laura and Nate stepped forward and began to operate, and soon all the pillars of light shone on the stone door under the operation of the three of them.
Bang~~
After a slight shaking, it calmed down again.
The crowd returned to the stone gate behind them.
"Looks like a constellation." Nate looked at the pattern that appeared on the stone door when it was illuminated by the light.
"Well, it's Libra, the so-called scale of justice." Laura said, pointing to the pattern.
"Alright, then let's see what's behind the stone gate." Hearing this, Chen Fan walked to the stone door and reached out to hold something similar to a switch handle on the stone door.
This handle has been tried by everyone before, but it has no effect at all after breaking it, and now I don't know what will happen after turning on the switch.
With Chen Fan's movement, Shimen did not respond at all.
"Could it be that we didn't open it there?" Jack looked at the crowd suspiciously.
"No, it should be." After thinking for a moment, Nate stepped forward and pressed it against the handle, pushing it inside the stone door.
Click~~
As the handle was pressed in, the stone gate slowly slid open to both sides, revealing the true face of Lushan behind the stone gate.
"Well done." After Chen Fan praised it, he walked forward.
Behind the stone door there is no other room, but another wall, but this wall has many crystal-made windows.
There was nothing outside, looking out through the crystal window, below the cliffs and the sea, and in the distance there was another cliff.
"See those crosses? And the cave. Laura, who stepped forward, pointed to the buildings framed above the crystals.
"Looks like Avery is a bit of a bad guy, and this should be the next step for us to go." Chen Fan pointed to the cave that was framed and said.
"Let's go, let's get over there as soon as possible." Sam suggested seeing this.
"There's not very good news, from this side to the cave, which means I'll meet Leif in that direction, and that's where the cathedral is." Nate spread his hands depressedly.
"It doesn't matter, those dirt chickens and dogs, just flip them when they touch them." Momoko said indifferently.
Hearing Peach's words, the two Drake brothers suddenly felt their hearts congested, and suddenly they found that it was indeed as Peaches said, with the combat power of the coastline mercenary group, it was indeed a chicken and tile dog under the hands of this group of fierce people.
After silently praying for the shoreline and Leif in his heart, the Drake brothers happily followed everyone out of the tomb.
Nate suddenly found that it felt good to have a strong teammate, everything became very simple, and if he had such a strong teammate on his previous expedition, he wouldn't have to work so hard every time.
After coming out of the tomb, the people climbed along the cliff outside the cemetery towards the cave in the distance.
This nearby cliff is full of caves, some of which are natural and artificial, and more are natural and artificial.
For Avery to find such a place, Chen Fan could only give him a thumbs up.
Because through these complex caves in the mountains, it is indeed difficult to find the true location of the clues.
It's like the cave you're going to now.
Although the cave was close to the church, Leif may have discovered the cave long ago.
However, due to the topography of this area, Lefleng did not find the right place, and could only use the most violent method to blast it with a bomb.
As the crowd got closer and closer to the direction of the cave, the sound of explosions became more and more deafening.
Listening to the frequency of the blasting sound gradually becoming more and more urgent, Chen Fan also knew it in his heart.
"It seems that the other party has become vigilant, after all, the communication has been blocked by us for so long, plus the attrition of the patrol, as long as it is not a pig, it is known that this place has been invaded."
Listening to Chen Fan's analysis, Jack nodded and said, "Indeed, it seems that the other party is also in a hurry, and he has already used bombs to explode indiscriminately regardless of the surrounding environment." ”
Sam immediately became anxious when he heard this, "Then let's go over as soon as possible, in case the cave is blown up by Leif, all the clues will be destroyed." ”
Regarding Sam's speculation, Chen Fan felt that it was indeed possible, although he didn't say much, but the pace under his feet gradually accelerated.
Since they were walking in a straight line, they soon came to the mouth of the cave.
But something happened in the middle that was frightening but not dangerous.
Due to the fact that some of the man-made structures in these caves in the vicinity are very old and have been very fragile under the corruption of the natural environment and time, they collapse from time to time as people pass by.
For this reason, Chen Fan also joked that Laura really went to where she collapsed, as long as she was on the expedition, all the ruins and buildings would not end well.
Laura also expressed her helplessness about Chen Fan's ridicule, after all, what Chen Fan said was the truth, and she couldn't find any good reason to refute it.
And Nate, who was silently following on the side, twitched the corners of his eyes, because it seemed that he and Laura also had similar attributes, and no trace could get a good end wherever he went.
However, when he suddenly heard that Laura had such an experience, Nate suddenly felt a sense of relief in his heart, after all, he was not the only one who would go wherever he would, and even if his wife Elena used this to mock him in the future, he could use Laura to talk about things.
After entering the inside of the cave, everyone found that the inside of the cave is very unexpected, and there are many forks in the road, if there is no experience in cave exploration to enter the cave, it is really difficult to get lost.
After looking at the environment inside the cave, everyone finally realized that Leif couldn't find a clue in this situation.
However, although these intricate roads blocked Leif's progress, fortunately, Chen Fan's team was full of big names.
Not to mention Laura and Nate's exploration experience, Chen Fan alone used the technology of the interstellar world to easily explore the terrain inside the cave.
Under these favorable conditions, after dodging some traps and forks in the road, everyone finally entered the purpose of this time through a gap.
Seeing that the way was blocked by a flashing man-made stone door, Nate came to the mechanism very decisively.
At this point, in front of a hole in the wall next to the stone door, which was apparently only large enough for a single hand to fit into, Nate reached inside.
Soon his arm touched a handle.
"Did you hit something?" Momoko asked curiously.
"Well~ something slimy that doesn't know anything." Nate named the one that drove Peaches to the cold.
"Oh, there's a handle, I hope it's not a trap, or my arm might have to say goodbye to me."
As he spoke, Nate tugged on the handle.
Click~
As the trap activated, nothing happened as Nate had suggested, and the stone door slid to the side very smoothly.
"Don't worry, if the arm is really gone, I can press a pirate hook for you, like the one in the movie." Sam, as the elder brother, looked at the open stone door and laughed at his brother.
"Eh~ That feeling is really bad, it's too ugly." Nate looked disgusted when he heard this.
"I have a lot of technology here, and I can install a robotic arm for you, no worse than what you grow out of yourself, and the power is even more powerful. You can think about it. Chen Fan stepped forward and patted Nate on the shoulder, and walked into the open stone door.
Looking at the crowd of fish, Nate withdrew his arm and rubbed it before saying, "Forget it, I think my flesh is quite useful." ”
Behind the stone gate is a huge cavern with these statues carved on the walls around the cave.
There were iron cages hanging around them, and inside were the remains of a skeleton.
"Those who prove their strength, paradise awaits them, exposing the weak, and bad luck becomes." Coming to the bottom of an iron cage where the corpses were kept, Nate found the nameplate hanging from the cage and recited.
"Looks like these are the explorers who came here before us." Jack observes the corpses around him.
"From these signs, it seems that these people have fallen into a trap and died here, let's be careful not to step on any traps." Laura looked carefully at the ground around her.
Hearing this, Nate immediately looked nervously at his feet, and was relieved to see that there was nothing unusual, and then suddenly said, "I know whose sign it is." ”
"Who?" Sam cautiously approached Nate's side and asked.
"Pirates of Rhode Island, it should be Thomas Tu." Nate guessed.
"Looks like they're all pirates." After turning around, Chen Fan said to everyone.
"But why are they all here? And they all died here, it can't really be for Avery's treasure, right? Momoko asked, confused.
Bang~
A loud explosion suddenly came from above everyone's heads.
"Whoever they are, these people have not passed the test, so let's go as soon as possible, in case we are really blown up by Leif and we will be buried alive." Jack suggested.