Chapter 57: The Golden Sword Array
The blood on the hands of the sixth master and his second nephew kept gushing out, and we had no choice but to tear off the clothes and help him bandage them, but the blood couldn't stop at all, and soon the whole cloth was dyed red.
He sat on the ground, looking very flustered and even trembling. I saw that he was pitiful, and asked the sixth master: "Sixth master, why don't we go back the same way, and send him up to clean up first, otherwise ......"
The third child, who had not spoken much, also spoke: "Yes, sixth master, it's not a way to go on like this......
"No way!" The old man actually responded to us in a categorical tone, "I'm so hard, my son has gone in, can I go out if I say it!" ”
"Sixth Master, you are angry, let's send him up, it won't take much effort."
"I said no!" He looked up and glared at me fiercely, and for a moment I felt a great threat, and secretly clenched the iron hammer in my hand. Just when we were at a stalemate, the second nephew didn't know what was going on, so he suddenly got up from the ground and ran away in the direction he had just come. Before we could react, he had already run out more than ten meters, and he didn't turn on the oil lamp.
Seeing that he was about to disappear, the third child was the first to rush up, and I glanced at the sixth master and rushed over. Not to mention anything else, it's hard to run around in this kind of place, and it's even more dangerous if people run away. I heard footsteps, and the old man behind me must have caught up.
Because it was flushed very fast, our oil lamps swayed up and down in the small and dark space, which made my eyes a little dazzling. After running a long way, I only vaguely felt that we were not going back, and the direction of the second nephew was a little wrong, but I didn't have time to think carefully.
Suddenly, my face pounced directly on the back of the third child, his sudden brake caught me off guard, I quickly adjusted my pace to prevent myself from pounced, but the inertia of running is so easy to control, the feet do not move, I barely avoided the third child, but I went to the ground in front of me.
When it was too late, the third child stretched out his arm and grabbed me tightly, and I quickly took a big step forward with my right foot to support myself.
After I stood firm, I turned my head to the third brother and said, "Thank you, third brother!"
He didn't say a word, his eyes staring coldly ahead. I realized something was wrong, and when I looked back, the sight in the oil light almost didn't make me throw up.
The second nephew of the sixth master, it should be him, standing in front of him with his body behind us, the place where the head was originally missing, the upper half is missing, and the blood and white pulp are constantly gushing outward. Next to the fracture, there was a knife horizontally, one end still fixed in the column of the yellow intestine inscription, and the other end was still dripping crimson blood.
I resisted the nausea and turned around, and found that the sixth master had also caught up, and I was also shocked when I saw this scene, and stood there without saying a word. A moment later, there was a muffled thud, and I knew it was the unlucky man who had fallen to the ground. But I still don't want to look back.
I only heard the sixth master sigh, and didn't say much. It seems that the second nephew should have been hit by the trap, and if he hit the blade himself, the force should not be enough to cut off half of his head.
I pondered in my heart, indeed, it should be the mechanism that has such great strength, and this height design is just according to the person's neck, just because of the posture of him rushing forward with his life just now......
The sixth master looked up, I knew what he was looking at, and he also looked up, only to see the shining thief hole, thirty or forty meters away from us. This is not right, the speed we ran just now, there is no 100-meter sprint, it is almost the same, the running time and distance should not be short, the most important thing is that we didn't turn at all, how could we only run so much?
Moreover, when we came, we didn't encounter the mechanism, so we should not have taken the same road. My mind is getting more and more chaotic, fortunately there is no movement next to the two people, I try my best, but I can't figure it out, the more I think about it, the more I feel that it is impossible, even if it is a maze, we have been going back and forth according to the only way, if the road changes, we can't hear any movement.
Thinking of this, a cold sweat gradually broke out on my back, and I remembered the last time I was hit by a monster on the wall in City A. Could it be that there is also one here? Was the second nephew also led to the trap by the monster hitting the wall? And the way he jumped up just now was like he had fallen into an evil spirit.
But this doesn't seem to make sense, it's not the same as being hit by a monster on a wall in the open night, if even the road is disfigured, is this magic or a trick?
Looking at my puzzled look, the sixth master asked me, "Did you think of something?" I nodded: "Sixth Master, do you think that this place is really like a maze array, we have been lost in it."
After listening to this, he was silent for a while, and said: "I also feel that something is wrong, but in terms of feng shui, this is an excellent auspicious acupoint, and there should be no strange birth, if it is not strange, could it be that the ancestor really has a maze array?"
As he spoke, he was about to go to the second nephew, but the third child hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, and shouted repeatedly: "Sixth master, sixth master, you can't go in danger!" He only shook his head, slowly pushed away the third child's hand, walked to the knife and took a closer look, turned back to us and said: "This is a mechanism, this knife was cut in the wood before, but I didn't expect that after so many years, the wood was rotten and the mechanism was not broken." Housheng, come and see, can you find where the introduction is? ”
He told me to go, and though I was ten thousand reluctant in my heart, because there was a puddle lying on the ground, I couldn't go and not go. I could only try to calm myself down, try not to think about anything on the ground, and walk next to him.
Sure enough, there was a gap in the wood where the back of the knife was facing, and the knife was ejected from it with great force. I couldn't see the doorway just like that, so I got closer, and looked closely at the gap in the wood with an oil lamp, and sure enough, the mystery was in it.
I also looked at it for a while and figured it out, this mechanism may sound a little incredible, this kind of switchblade-like structure was actually invented in the Han Dynasty, but instead of using a spring, it uses a simple pulley to accelerate. The tail of the knife, the part that is still in the wood, has a circular hollow, bolted to a cylindrical metal, like iron and copper, the same material as the knife, and this thing is the point of rotation.
The end of the knife was lengthened, attached to a very thin wire, which in turn hung in a quarter arc, and the other section fell vertically downward, into a black hollow, which now looked tense, and must have touched the primer, and the force of the falling weight hanging underneath was transmitted through the pulley, swinging the knife out. So it's a one-time trap.
There is already a record of the pulley in the "Book of Ink", so it is not surprising that such a structure appeared in the Han Dynasty, but the metal wire that replaced the rope on the pulley must be extremely soft, and it should not be the iron wire, and the skill at that time may be ...... Isn't it like the golden thread of the golden thread of the jade clothes? That's extravagant.
But I immediately realized that this was not the time for academic research, let alone for amazement, because if I continued to follow them, it would always threaten my life.
I told them both about my findings, but I still hadn't found the lead.
The sixth master listened thoughtfully, and suddenly squatted down and rummaged around the corpse, I admit that my mental endurance is indeed not as good as his, and I forcibly endured the nausea and thought about something else in my head.
After a while, he stood up with something in his hand, and when I looked closely, I saw that he was carrying a thin wire in his hand and a small hook at the end. He looked at it carefully for a while, and then said, "It's really golden." With that, he threw it on the ground.
I said in my heart, what's going on in this world, the tomb builder doesn't feel sorry for the money, forget it, and the tomb robber throws the gold wire on the ground when he sees it?
The third child obviously thought the same as me, and asked the sixth master: "Sixth master, why don't you go back and sell it, it is safest to sell gold."
"You know a fart, he is not rare in this bit of gold, will there be fewer treasures in it?"
After hearing this, the third child nodded yes again and again.
This old thing's mind is indeed very lively, and he is not messed up at this time. It's no wonder that he hasn't been caught active for so many years, but he has to go deeper to listen to what he means.
In fact, I know that the best way for me to survive is to wait. The news has been sent out for a long time, if the big waist receives the news, he will definitely not abandon me, as long as the official comes, he should be able to discover this place soon, and it is the most cost-effective, labor-saving and safest way to be rescued at that time, but the biggest danger is that when the time comes, will they fight for a fish to die or take me as a hostage?
Thinking of this, I secretly prepared that if I found that the movement was wrong, I could only strike first. Fortunately, there are only two of them left now, the third is strong and should be able to fight, and the sixth master is old but extraordinary, and he may really have martial arts. If I really do it, I can only sneak attack and stab the third child first, and then use a weapon to deal with the sixth master, so at least I have some chance of winning, although it is not big at all.
I've never killed a chicken before, and maybe saving Abidan was the only time I was ruthless, if that counted. But what can't people do when they're in a hurry? This kind of scene where either you die or I die, and there is no room for being a turtle with a shrunken head.
So I began to change the crossing of the Yamen Tomb intentionally or unintentionally, for fear of missing the best opportunity.
The sixth master suddenly asked me, "Hou Sheng, do you see that there is something wrong here?"
I said in my heart where did I know, so I had to pretend to be very embarrassed and said: "Sixth Master, something is really wrong here, but I will be less, what do you think next?"
He sneered: "You don't have to worry, I have my own way." I've just figured it out in my heart, this is what you call the Ecstasy Array, but in comparison, the arrangement here is more like an eight-array diagram. ”