Chapter 18: The Giant Gate of Bluestone

"There is only one kind of lamp oil left in the tomb of the ancient princes and generals, that is, the fat of the legendary weaving pearl shark, "Historical Records of the First Emperor of Qin" wrote: "The first emperor succeeded to the throne at the beginning, wore the Lishan Mountain, and the world, the world sent more than 700,000 people, wore three springs, and the copper was buried in the coffin, and the palace was full of strange artifacts and strange weapons. With mermaid paste as a candle, those who will not be extinguished for a long time', "Taiping Yulan, Fire Department Three Lights" also quotes "Three Qin Records". ”

"Using mermaid paste as a candle, you can not extinguish it for a long time, and if you are honest, the mausoleum of the first emperor is also brightly lit all year round, which is very lively."

"Merfolk?" Wogua didn't believe it very much, "I heard that it seems to be a manatee, it looks like a loach that has eaten too much and gained weight, so godly?" ”

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "The Chronicles of the South China Sea", "The History of the Yuan", "Sou Shen Ji"...... It is recorded that 'the merman is the spring immortal, also known as the spring guest, the South China Sea out of the silk yarn, the spring first dive weaving, a dragon yarn', 'its eyes can cry beads'...... It has long been rumored that there is an ever-bright lamp fueled by merman oil in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. Its real body is indeed a manatee, that is, a dugong, but some people say that they are Isohime, Lingyu, Siren, Lorelei, and a rather fantasy creature. ”

After a pause, he suddenly thought of something, Wogua listened to it interestingly, but he stopped in a good manner, and immediately felt a little dissatisfied, "It stands to reason that this is an everlasting lamp, how can this thing be on this stalactite?" It's not a barbecue, it's not a picnic, is it used to scald pigs? ”

"yes, why are you here?"

Li Luant muttered to himself, and there was a faint possibility in his mind, in fact, when he stood on this coffin-like stone for the first time and saw these countless rotting corpses, he had a hazy guess, but the next encounter continued to deepen this guess, and now he saw the lamp oil of this weaving pearl shark, and it was immediately more confirmed, but he did not have complete evidence.

Unless you actually see it with your own eyesβ€”

The surrounding rotting corpses crawled up, and Wogua lay on the rocks, holding machine guns "tuk tuk" and began to shoot wildly, who hit whom.

Li Luant was thinking about this matter and calculating at the same time, and under the dual-purpose work, the speed was also a little slower.

"Lao Tie, are you okay, no matter how bad it is, this everlasting lamp will have to be lit for this handsome."

Hearing Wogua's urging, Li Luant woke up like a dream, hurriedly calculated, and at the last moment, Wogua finally used a lighter and built a wall of fire, but under this wall of fire, those rotting corpses made strange sounds, "crackling" were all burned, and they couldn't move slowly.

And the rest of the carrion seemed to be afraid of the fire, and when they saw that their companions were contaminated, they quickly dispersed, so that except for those who did not have long eyes, the rest of the carrion were extremely clever to stay away from the fire.

But it is precisely because of this that the side effects of insufficient methane combustion predicted by Li Green Ant also followed, and just when the smoke was billowing and choking, Li Green Ant covered his mouth and nose and said in a hoarse voice.

The surrounding flames suddenly burst up, about a meter high, and suddenly the fire spread, surrounding the large stone, forming a huge circle of fire.

A raging fire had already burned in the base under his feet, and Li Green Ant and Wogua floated over with ropes respectively, like a juggler in a circus, and as if a lion was passing through the fire circle carefully, for fear of burning his hair if he was not careful.

The two complemented each other, and after several cooperations, finally after stepping on the fortieth stone, they could no longer move, and they were so tired that they lay on the stones, and at this time the ten thousand carrion corpses had gone a little half, but there were still six or seven thousand left, and they began to stack the ladder.

Li Luant began to close his eyes and rest while doing mental arithmetic, and Wogua got up with difficulty: Corporal Grasshopper rarely rested, and he had to do a good job of security, but when he was about to go to the machine gun, a few empty shells fell out of the ballistic, and Wogua looked through the outside, the bullets inside were gone, and he rummaged through Li Luant's bag, and there was no bullet left inside.

Li Luant sat up with difficulty, "It seems that we are destined to die here, no matter how we struggled before, it seems that we are only delaying our own death." ”

Wogua was also deflated, turned his head and began to pack his bags, but suddenly saw that not long in front of him, in a wide line of sight, the night pearl was even brighter, and there were countless luminous treasures embedded in the wall, reflecting a bluestone giant door!

Opposite the bluestone giant gate, is an artificially carved, like a barrier-like inverted bowl-shaped stalactite layer, there are dozens of red lines seem to be deeply embedded in this stalactite layer, directly pull to the top of the bluestone giant gate to tie the knot, from here, it seems to be a folk lantern festival, the street is full of colorful wires, but here dozens of long red ropes are still tied with red bells, and there are yellow paper talismans under the bells.

There was no wind in the cave, except for the vibration that the carrion would bring when it moved, and it actually made those strange bells ring, and it was terrifying.

After the initial excitement, the two swallowed saliva in unison when they saw this scene, "Lao Tie, I thought that I had just crossed a few mountains and crossed a few rivers, why are there so many demons and monsters, we finally came to the bitter end and found a comfortable nest, but I didn't expect that it looks ghostly here, although it is bright, but no matter how you look at it, it seems to be a place to suppress ghosts." ”

Seeing this strange scene, Li Luant couldn't help frowning: Wogua is right, all these arrangements look like they are set up by ghosts, so this big tomb that Liu Jing painstakingly built will allow himself to transform with those burial companions?

It seems that the previous suspicion was indeed a miscalculation, that Liu Jingren was sitting at home, and the pot came from the sky, and now he is sorry to think about it all on his head.

However, seeing this huge bluestone giant gate, Li Luant's previous speculation has finally been confirmed, and it is false to say that he is not excited: sure enough, these rotting corpses should be an accident, then Liu Jing didn't expect that the craftsmen buried alive would finally collectively mutate, and there must be a turning point that even Liu Jing and himself did not find, but what is it?

This place is the last stepping boulder, and this place is also fifty meters away from the bluestone gate, so there are only a few sporadic carrion corpses under the red rope, and the pile here is full, but-

Li Luant was worried: even if he really used all his strength to get there, the bluestone giant gate should be the last barrier set up by Liu Jing, in case he couldn't open it, wouldn't he die with a nest melon?

Wogua touched his goosebumps, looked at Li Luant and said, "I said, shall we go over?" ”

Li Luant pondered for a while and looked at the terrain, "With the strength of the two of us, plus these remaining weapons, it is not enough to shake the army of rotting corpses, only if you really enter a place where these rotting corpses absolutely cannot enter, it seems that it is indeed the best place to go, but-"

"Hey, it's better to die than to live, what but that's it, Corporal Grasshopper, we've lived tenaciously until now, are you still worried that I don't have the courage to accompany you to death? Now my little gall can be regarded as having worked out after these thrilling hours, unless we can't get over, we will pee over there. ”

Wogua was about to take out the flying tiger claw, but this time it hooked directly on the bluestone giant door, and Li Luant saw it and hurriedly stopped it.

"Now this flying tiger claw is useless, if you really believe me, I have a way."

Li Luant first tentatively walked to the very edge, looked at the rope, and said to Wogua, "Look, although I don't know the use of these red ropes outside this bluestone giant gate, and what to do with so many bells and rune papers, but these red ropes are deeply embedded in the stone, and they are very thick, the highest point is ten meters away from the ground, and the lowest point is less than four or five meters, as long as we use this red rope, like thisβ€”β€”"

Li Luant took out the mountaineering rope, compared it to himself and Wogua for a while, and then circled a few large circles, bypassing the front chest from behind, and the last circle around the root of the hind legs, "Look, put this trap on the red rope, like a pulley, and like a cable car, slide directly to the bluestone giant gate, very safe." ”

When he saw the tangled knot made by Li Luant after a few laps, if it was really the case, Wogua was surprised, "It's so good, how can you fucking do anything?" ”

Li Luant smiled, "This is a very simple principle of pulley mechanics in physics, which I took as an elective when I was in college. ”

Wogua's body is short and fat, Li Green Ant gestured for a long time to make Wogua, Wogua scratched his thighs, awkwardly "A little crotch, and a little bit of people." ”

Li Luant was helpless, "Extraordinary times, extraordinary means, you can bear with it for the time being." ”

Afraid that one red rope would not be able to bear the weight of a person sliding on it, Li Luant grabbed five red ropes at one time, bypassed the middle with a climbing rope, and began to tie a knot on the chest.

Speaking of the picture he is in now, the movies Jackie Chan has seen before have also appeared, but in the movie, he directly held a tightrope with both hands and slid from one side of the cliff to the other, this situation can only appear in the movie, and now if he really encounters this situation, it is naturally impossible to be the same as in the movie.

Hesitantly glanced at the nest melon, Li Green Ant saw the nest melon twisting and pinching, and seemed unwilling to be the first to get down, thinking that the nest melon was afraid, so he demonstrated it first.

The five thick red ropes were tensed in an instant, only to hear the "jingling" bell tied to the red rope, and the rune paper at the end of the bell also "swayed", Li Green Ant arrived in front of the bluestone giant gate in a blink of an eye, only one or two meters away, this distance stopped, and Li Green Ant used his feet against the door, wanting to wait for the sake of the nest melon, otherwise he would have fallen in front of the door.

But he said that he didn't know if he didn't see it, and he was startled when he saw it, Li Green Ant leaned sideways and looked back, but saw that in addition to the five red ropes he used, more than a dozen red ropes next to him were grabbed by Wogua, and Wogua was ruthless and directly circled and slid down, but I don't know if it was nervous or what, it actually turned sharply in mid-air, and turned over like a juggling in the air!

It doesn't matter if this turnover, the slipknot of the mountaineering rope originally tied under the root of the thigh was loosened, and suddenly there was a length of more than one meter high, and the safety distance that was originally three or four meters high from the ground became a dangerous distance, attracting countless carrion corpses to gather, and because the slipknot at the root of the thigh was loosened, the slipknot on the abdomen was also loosened, and it stopped straight on the chest.

Thousands of carrion corpses moved over from Fang Cai at once, half and half surrounded the two of them in this red rope area, but after all, Li Luant was close to the bluestone giant gate, sitting in the middle of the rope knot, more than three meters high from the ground, but Wogua fell into the air as if he was being carried by two arms, and those carrion corpses seemed to feel that Wogua had more room to break through, and they gathered to Wogua to wait for pie to fall from the sky, Li Green Ant There was no carrion here.

"Wogua!!"

Li Luant shouted in surprise, at this time, thousands of carrion corpses stretched out their hands, desperately pulling the feet and necks of the nest melon, as if they were ready to tear off the nest melon hanging in mid-air for a full meal, the nest melon was hung in the air, unable to advance or retreat, because of the change just now, at this moment, the inexplicable mountaineering rope was also tied in the air and died, and it could not slide to Li Green Ant.

"Quackβ€”"

The rotting corpse seemed to be excited about the meat that was about to reach the mouth, Wogua panicked, his face was half white, he kicked his feet and necks hard, and his arms were desperately up, but this rope was not a single parallel bar, it could not bear the force, and the green tendons on Wogua's forehead were all over it.

This is very bad Li Green Ant: what to do, what to do, if it goes on like this, sooner or later the nest melon will not be able to hold on, and looking at the dozen or so red ropes that are loaded, it is not the same all the time, every time the nest melon stays on these ropes for a longer time, the toughness of these red ropes will decrease, and over time it will slowly loosen, and then the height of the nest melon from the ground will become lower and lower, at that time......

"Wow-"

It seems to immediately confirm Li Luant's idea, which is like a bowl tray, the rock layer deeply embedded with the red rope, suddenly seems to be a little unacceptable, in the area where the red rope is bonded, falling fine hemp gravel, and there are fine cracks at the top.

Fortunately, Wogua's height is not high, and his legs are very short, although he is only two meters from the ground, he can still hold on for a while, but suddenly, Wogua saw those carrion corpses who couldn't wait to eat him, smiled evilly, and tentatively stretched his legs down, which really caused the group of carrion corpses to be restless.

"Crunch-"

Just when he was almost hit by one of the tallest carrions, Wogua shrank his legs, and the carrion was empty, and Wogua laughed, "Haha, you can't catch me, heyβ€”you can't catch me, come on, you come, you kind of come to catch me." ”

Li Luant's expression froze: When has this been, why is this nest of melons still so big?

Looking at the surrounding terrain, quickly thinking about countermeasures in his mind, more than a dozen red ropes gathered together, and formed a long axis that was used as a fulcrum by the nest melon, the width is there, and the knot is tied in the middle of the road because of accident, in this case, unless the dead knot is untied, otherwise-

The thought of a calcium carbide fire suddenly flashed in Li Luant's mind: There is!

"Wogua, you have to remember what I said next!"

Seeing that the stone embedded with the red rope was breaking and getting bigger and bigger, Li Luant was worried, and the nest melon was still playing with the carrion, triumphant, and didn't care, "You just said it." ”

"There's no other way to untie that dead knot of yours than you do it yourself after you've fallen. But the rotting corpse is below, not so, so what you have to do is to find a way to make the width of the dead knot smaller, as long as it is smaller than now, the dead knot because of the steep loss of width, it will also slide down according to the current terrain and the negative mass, but after a period of time, due to the existence of friction, it will still become a dead knot, then you have to use the method just now, and then repeat the old trick, the speed of sliding to my side, and then hold the bluestone giant gate, in order to avoid this crisis! ”

Wogua was stunned, "Contains less space?" How? ”

"The side area of fifteen red ropes combined, It's 2 times Ο€ times 10.364 times 50 meters, and the same goes for the remaining area of the inner space formed by the dead knot, you have to reduce the side area formed by the red rope, let the dead knot pass, use the knife that cut the rope before, hurry up and cut a red rope first, and then use this gap to slide over, you must remember that the existence of friction will re-form a dead knot that is more difficult to pass than the other way through after 5.46 seconds, you have to seize this time period, let yourself pass as much distance as possible, and then again, and so on! ”

Although I don't understand what Li Luant's bird language is about, I probably understand the meaning.

Wogua nodded suddenly, straightened up with difficulty, lay on the red line, temporarily got a little room for movement, laboriously took out a knife from his pocket, swallowed saliva and looked at Li Lugua, Li Luant looked at Wogua worriedly.

This has a big disadvantage, that is, although it can allow the nest melon to pass quickly, once the number of red ropes supporting him decreases, his situation will become more and more difficult, because the red rope that originally carried him has changed from fifteen to ten, and the bearing force per unit area is greatly reduced, and the change in pressure will bring him closer and closer to the ground. You will be engulfed by the carrion that you have been waiting for!

Trembling and falling again, Wo Gua put the knife close to the dead knot, and suddenly cut one of the red ropes, only to feel that the distance between himself and the ground fell a little in an instant, and began to move, but when he opened his eyes, the original gap of the dead knot began to shrink again with the sound of friction.

"Wogua, what are you waiting for, hurry up!"

Li Green Ant shouted, the nest melon was concocted in the same way, and it was immediately broken, and the group of rotting corpses below became more and more restless and began to trample on the corpses, moving slowly towards the movement trajectory of the nest melon.

"Poof!"

When the fourth rope was cut, the nest melon was already seven or eight meters away from Li Luant, and at this time he was in an extremely dangerous situation, that is, he was only about two meters away from those carrion corpses, and the carrion corpses could reach him anytime and anywhere as long as they stretched out their hands, and the carrion group did so.

Seeing this, Li Luant's heart suddenly tightened, but in an instant, Wogua twisted his eyebrows, slashed his little short legs into a one-word horse in the space, and stubbornly held the rope on his chest, and hurriedly cut a rope again towards Li Luant.