Chapter 265: Machinery
I hesitated for a moment and finally made up my mind to see where this mysterious bronze chain leads.
Maybe there is a coffin hidden not far below the abyss.
The chains glowed cold and strange in the dim light, and I put together the rope from the team and handed it to the fat man and the dragon boy, and tied the other end around my waist as a safety rope.
If I encounter any danger below, the strength of the fat man and the dragon boy can quickly pull me back.
I thought to myself and bent down into the abyss, only to feel a gust of wind whizzing under my feet, and a chill that I had never felt before spread all over my body.
But before he could go down two or three meters, he heard a scream from above.
The sound must have come from the only woman in yellow in the team, and then there was a shaking of the ropes and chains, which frightened me and I couldn't help but grasp the iron locks for fear of falling down.
I looked up at the fat man and wanted to ask him what was the matter, but I didn't expect him to look horrified as if something terrible had happened.
"The terracotta warriors are alive."
A few words of endless fear and despair flowed through the rope, and I quickly climbed up the chain.
I saw that the figures that had been standing in the darkness all began to shake, and they shook their bodies and fell into puffs of dust.
The sound of the whole body moving "gaba" is crisp in the ears, as if the joints are a little inflexible after standing for too long.
Even more piercing was the sound of bronze gears turning, and the flames on the castle tower rose into the sky, and many arrows burning with fire oil were aimed at us.
These terracotta warriors looked stiff but lined up, approaching us with heavy steps.
Behind him, there were many terracotta warriors and horses who had just "woken up" and turned their bodies, and the Changge in their hands fell sideways and aimed at everyone in the team.
"Run!"
I shouted for everyone to evacuate, and the torch in my hand had just been turned down but was instantly knocked away by the terracotta warriors and horses approaching in front of me, and it was directly shaken out of my hand.
It seems to be stiff but has great strength, and it can be equal to the dragon boy.
At this critical juncture, I didn't even think that even the flaming arrows on the castle tower flew at a rapid speed, slashing through the darkness and flying past my cheeks like a meteor shower.
It seems to warn that this is not a hallucination, but a real scene in the tomb.
"What are you doing in a daze, run."
I supported the dragon boy to run along the edge of the abyss first, and I didn't know if there was a road ahead in the dark, but I felt that the strange atmosphere of the fire behind me was gloomy and cold, making people despair.
There were black figures everywhere, they swayed from side to side exuding an ancient aura, and the patina in their hands was still shining with cold light.
It seems to kill all the tomb robbers who enter the tomb.
"These people have been dead for two thousand years, how can they move!"
The fat man and the little white face supported Uncle Nine and Long Tsai to follow behind the team, blurred in the dim light.
I don't know how many of these terracotta warriors there are, and why they suddenly came back to life.
"Well..., I didn't expect my old bones to die here eventually."
Uncle Nine looked at the situation in front of him with a sad face, and he was already a little desperate, and even his voice was full of old age and sadness.
Because the torches were knocked out, I had to grope my way through the darkness with all my might, moving little by little along the cracks in the abyss.
It is also necessary to avoid the resurgent terracotta warriors and horses at all times, as every step they take will cause the ground to shake.
In the process of circling, I vaguely found an inexplicable pattern, their movements were stiff but repeated like a machine.
Although the mechanism created by the warlocks of the Qin Dynasty did allow them to achieve immortality, they had long since lost their consciousness, and even the head on their shoulders could continue to move without being affected in the slightest.
"These people are no longer the so-called living dead, but tomb slaves who are completely controlled by machinery."
Burning arrows slashed through the darkness overhead, and the millennia-old mechanisms finally lost their inherent power.
Although it looks terrifying, it is far less ferocious than the moving terracotta warriors and horses on the ground.
I struggled to climb along the rift in the abyss, not knowing where I would lead the group.
The wind was gusting under their feet, and the terracotta warriors and horses behind them still followed unhurriedly, and some fell together or even fell into the abyss.
It was a long time before I heard an echo.
"There's no road ahead."
I couldn't help but look at the scene in front of me and muttered to myself.
I don't know when it suddenly started, but a tall black city wall was suddenly erected in the darkness.
I suddenly remembered that we were in a castle inside the tomb, a miniature version of the city surrounded on all sides.
Only the bronze gate, which we had just entered, was the only entrance and exit to the entire city.
I looked at the towering wall in front of me, and the terracotta warriors and horses behind me shook the ground and trembled, and they were approaching us little by little, and there were only seven or eight paces left.
"Fatty, send me away."
I closed my eyes and the idea of taking a risk popped into my head, and it seemed like the only way out right now.
Only by destroying the mechanism structure in the entire city can everyone have a way to live, and the terracotta warriors and horses behind them will definitely stop attacking.
“… This... Will this work? ”
The fat man questioned, and he didn't have time to care too much about it when he saw that the pursuers behind him were gradually killed.
The dragon boy and the fat man set up a ladder around the city wall, and I rushed up with a single arrow to barely reach the edge of the city wall.
The fat man behind him was already a little physically exhausted and crumbling, and behind him was the abyss, which would fall if he was not careful.
It took me almost desperately to climb the city wall, only to find that the city wall tower was full of terracotta warriors and horses with bows and crossbows.
They all had strange expressions and torches lit up beside them, repeating several actions such as charging, aiming, firing, and swinging arrows.
The rows of arrows behind me are delivered to everyone's receivers by extremely sophisticated teleportation mechanisms, which would have taken my breath away in normal times.
But now that human life is at stake, I can't care about being curious, I only saw a Qin sword full of patina rust stuck under my feet, so I couldn't help but pull it out.
The long sword in his hand swung at the terracotta warriors and horses in front of him who were releasing arrows on the castle tower.
The rusty sword in his hand was extremely sharp, and in an instant, half of the bronze mechanical figurine was cut off, revealing the intricate and intricate gear structure inside.
The sharpness of the sword in front of me surprised me a little, and the fat man and the little white-faced Longzi and others were already vaguely unable to hold on to the city tower.
Long Tsai picked up Changge on the ground and blocked everyone in front, and pierced the oncoming terracotta warriors with a strong blow.
However, the terracotta warriors in front of them had no effect, still wielding copper ge, slowly approaching, allowing a big hole to leak in their chest.
"Ganzi, remember to burn a few pieces of paper money for my brother at this time next year, I will fight for the fat man."
The fat man looked up and shouted at me, then picked up the long-handled weapon that had fallen from the ground and rushed over with the dragon boy.
Some of these decaying terracotta warriors and horses are crumbling, but the mechanism structure in their body still allows them to continue to move, and it is unknown how this extremely delicate mechanism structure was invented.