Chapter 47: Insect Fire and Water Poison
"No, how can you see snow now? This should be a special light source in white! Be careful, everyone! ”
Chen Sanshui immediately woke up the sleeping Zhang Ergou, and then took out a dagger to defend carefully.
"Brother Shui, what are those things? Could it be a ghost fire? ”
Zhang Ergou, who had just woken up, was still wiping his eyes in a daze, and he saw a large piece of white flowers approaching them, looking dense, and he was inevitably a little uneasy in his heart.
When these white light sources got closer and closer, Chen Sanshui finally saw clearly what these white light sources were!
"This is actually a firefly?"
"How can there be so many fireflies in the cemetery?"
"Did they fly in through the exit?"
Chen Sanshui and the three of them were very puzzled, but at this time, they heard the sound of rushing water again, and the three of them looked down and saw a large amount of unknown liquid flowing in from nowhere in the deep pit under the stone bridge!
"It's not water! It's mercury! Cover your mouth and nose, and mercury evaporates into the air to cause mercury poisoning, a trap commonly used in burial chambers. Chen Sanshui immediately reminded Zhang Ergou and Chiba Sakura.
"Grandma's, why is there so much mercury at the end of the good end! We're not going to be poisoned here, are we? ”
Zhang Ergou also knows that mercury is very powerful, this thing is very adherent, it is easy to mix in the air and cause poisoning, and a large amount of inhalation is likely to lead to kidney failure within twenty-four hours!
"Snow flies in June, and nine songs fall on the yellow beach! Fireflies are snowflies in June, mercury and golden sand are Jiuqu and Yellow Beach! This is all right, and there are two more sentences after it! What are the last two sentences? Chen Sanshui immediately asked Chiba Sakura on the side.
"The last two sentences are: The five grains are abundant, and the immortal immortals are immortal!" Chiba Sakura also quickly replied.
"Grains? Where do the grains come from? What is immortality? ”
Chen Sanshui's brain was racing, thinking about the clues related to these two poems.
At the same time, more and more mercury flowed out from under the stone bridge, and the large swarm of fireflies fell on the golden sand, and as long as they came into contact with these golden sands, they would turn into small fireballs in an instant, and they would be burned to ashes in an instant!
"Brother Shui! These fireflies actually burned themselves to death! Zhang Ergou was shocked when he saw that the fireflies flying towards the golden sands spontaneously combusted instantly, and he didn't understand why these fireflies committed suicide in the golden sands?
"That's not right! The fireflies emit cold light, and the temperature is not too high at all, and it cannot meet the conditions for spontaneous combustion at all! Chiba Sakura said at this time.
"The problem is with those sands! These sands may not be sands, but are most likely a special chemical that reacts chemically whenever it comes into contact with fireflies. Chen Sanshui thought for a while and said.
"But why burn yourself to death?" Zhang Ergou asked very incomprehensibly.
"Moths to the fire, it may be the temperature, smell or some other reason to stimulate the fireflies to fly over and commit suicide, and the increased temperature of these fireflies after suicide can speed up the evaporation of mercury, and then we will die faster!" Chen Sanshui said expressionlessly.
"I'll go! After playing for a long time, this is a certain game! So what are you waiting for? Let's get out of here! ”
Zhang Ergou said that he was about to step on the stone bridge and walk back, but as soon as he took a step on his front foot, the entire stone bridge collapsed directly! If it weren't for Chen Sanshui's quick hand to grab him, I'm afraid he would have died in the mercury pool by now!
"Mom! It's dangerous! I almost gave my life here! Brother Shui, there is no turning back! Hurry up and find a way to leave! Zhang Ergou retreated with palpitations, and his heart became very frightened.
Chen Sanshui's brows furrowed, he had worked hard to find a way, but he still couldn't crack the mystery hidden in the last two verses, did he have to find the grains to survive?
"Master Chen, look there are grooves here! Could it be a special lock to unlock the mechanism? ”
At this time, Chiba Sakura noticed that there were several grooves on the cylindrical stone platform where everyone was standing now, but she didn't know exactly what it was for.
Chen Sanshui immediately walked over excitedly when he heard this, he leaned over to look at the grooves on the stone platform, this thing looks like the size of a bowl, there are a total of five grooves, is this the mechanism of the five grains Qi Fengrui in the poem?
Chen Sanshui carefully observed for a moment and found that these five grooves could be pressed, but after pressing them, no special mechanism was activated, could it be that there was a mistake in the method?
"Ergou, you press these two grooves, don't use too much strength, Miss Chiba, you press this groove, I'll press the remaining two grooves, let's press the remaining two grooves for a while, and the strength should be consistent." Chen Sanshui said.
"Brother Shui, how much strength do you have to use? There has to be a standard, right? Zhang Ergou asked again.
"Let's try it with a pound of strength first." Chen Sanshui said.
The three of them exerted force on the five grooves at the same time, and estimated that they all exerted about a pound of strength, and the grooves did sink a lot, but there was still no abnormal change around.
"Add more strength to a strength of about ten catties." Chen Sanshui thought for a while and said.
"Brother Shui, I still haven't reacted to this!" Zhang Ergou shook his head again as he spoke, probably because he had inhaled too much mercury vapor, and the whole person was a little dizzy and weak, and even wanted to vomit.
"Hold on a little longer and keep increasing your strength!" Chen Sanshui saw that Zhang Ergou was in a bad situation, and the other party might not have exerted much strength at all.
After a while, everyone's strength seemed to have finally reached a point of equilibrium, and the five grooves clicked at the same time, as if the combination lock had been unlocked!
At the same time, a three-foot-high cylindrical stone platform rose in the center, which was carved with dense strange patterns, and it was a mixture of Taoist exorcism runes and Buddhist demon suppression scriptures! It is divided into nine layers, each layer is made up of square stones the size of the baby's palm, but the patterns are chaotic, the carved small stones with patterns can move up and down, left and right, the small stones without patterns are fixed, and the middle of the entire stone pillar is hollowed out, and it is estimated that only by putting together these runes can the last mechanism be cracked!
"Oh my God! How can there be a mechanism! This thing is a nine-digit password! God knows how to put it all together! ”
Zhang Ergou fell into despair all of a sudden, and kept scratching his already few hairs, and he was a little delirious, so he looked very irritable.
Chen Sanshui took a closer look at these patterns, although he was not a believer in Buddhism and Taoism, he still had a certain understanding of exorcism runes and scriptures.
"Don't panic, there should still be a way to crack it, Taoist exorcism runes and Buddhist scriptures are very different, but it will take some time to put them together completely correctly." Chen Sanshui said that he had already begun to try to move the first layer of small stones engraved with patterns.