Chapter 272: Falling Short

My heart "thumped", no one could confirm whether it was jade or something else, and I couldn't confirm whether the jade was here, I didn't understand what Brother Shen meant by nodding and shaking his head, I guess he probably thought that jade should be here, but he couldn't feel it.

There must be something strange about this sarcophagus, my eyes once again moved to the sacrificial picture above, this scene is very similar to us now, but there is something missing, I suddenly feel very uneasy, I looked at it carefully, only to feel a cool air rushing from behind, there is indeed something missing on it, there is only a metal pillar in the picture, but there is no ladder around the cave.

Seeing Brother Shen and Nineteen walking to the other side, I hurriedly spoke: "Wait! ”

"What's wrong?" Nineteen turned to look at me.

"Look at this, why don't you have this ladder......"

Everyone's movements stopped, but they didn't look at the carvings on the sarcophagus, Brother Shen and Eleven's expressions did not change, and Nineteen lowered his eyes slightly, Ah Chuan looked at everyone and smiled at me: "No, no, what's the fuss, maybe people think it's in the way." ”

I also felt that I was too sensitive, so I didn't speak again, and stood silently in the center of this side, and as soon as I got closer, I felt an abnormality under my feet, I looked down, and I could hardly see anything, but my body could feel that there were two very shallow sockets here, and each one foot was just right.

This place is really for standing people, and even the specific location is intimately told to us, and I feel strange in my heart, the more obvious it is, the more unsettling it is, as if it has been ready for us to step on it for a long time.

Most of my attention was on Ah Chuan, and I always felt that something was wrong with him, but he didn't look at me, but stared at Brother Shen, as if he wanted to see flowers on his face.

Under the flashlight, I could clearly see my own shadow shining on the ground, and the same was true for Brother Shen and Nineteen, half of the shadows were reflected on the sarcophagus, and we were not shadowless people at all.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...... Half a minute passed, the sarcophagus did not move, and my heart turned from apprehension to despair, it was all fake, we were not the right people, the Mo family was wrong.

But we didn't move, I still didn't want to give up, I can't tell you how I feel now, we went through nine deaths to get here, everyone worked hard, got hurt, and in the end there was only a few steps away but faced failure, how do I accept it.

The momentum that had been holding me forward suddenly disappeared, and I felt my legs tremble and collapse, and I was still holding my last breath, and my lungs were swelling.

The sarcophagus was unresponsive, I don't understand what we did wrong, people without shadows, whether we don't have shadows, or if there must be other conditions to open them.

I looked up at Ah Chuan and Eleven, by the way, there are six people on the metal pillar in the carving, and we only have five now, are the three people standing on the side also indispensable?

Ah Chuan understood what I meant, pulled Eleven and stood on the carving, I turned my head to look at their feet, there was nothing unusual there, they didn't show abnormality, these three people seemed to be dispensable.

The sarcophagus still hadn't opened, Ah Chuan's expression suddenly became very complicated, there were too many emotions mixed in it, and there was a little suddenness, he said softly: "Maybe it's the shadow, turn off the flashlight and try it." ”

We did so immediately, and the darkness was plunged around, and the sound of water flowing from another cavern could be heard, and we stood in silence for more than ten seconds, and the sarcophagus still did not respond.

The only remaining hope slipped away little by little, I felt the fire surging in my chest, all the hard work became a joke, all the expectations came to naught, what I had been doing all the year, so desperate, so laborious, and finally ended up like this.

My father taught me from a young age that if you work hard, you can succeed, so what is it now? I have paid so much for this piece of jade, I almost died several times, but at the last moment I fell short, if I can't get this piece of jade, then my efforts in the past few years will be in vain, I might as well honestly give up at the beginning as my father wants, the real despair is not that I can't do it, but that I can do it but can't get it.

The negative emotions that I have been backing up for years have exploded at this moment, and the past has passed by in front of me one by one, in fact, the past is not important, as long as you can get the jade, as long as you can unlock the blood curse, everything you have experienced in the past is worth it, and now you are defeated at the last step.

This is an ending that I can't accept, I feel my body tremble involuntarily, my mind is confused, I don't know what I'm thinking, thinking about the hard work of the past few years, thinking about the corpse of my dead father, thinking about countless days and nights of torment, thinking about despair and hope again and again, thinking about the sarcophagus in front of me and this floating island.

Even if the mechanism can't be opened, we can use manpower, I clenched my fists tightly, it's just a sarcophagus, Brother Shen's strength is so great, even such a heavy stone door can be lifted, not to mention that there are five of us, the weight of this coffin lid will definitely not exceed that stone door, we just need to use brute force to open it.

There was a "click" in front of me, I was startled, I thought the sarcophagus was open, and when I saw the light in front of me, I realized that it was Nineteen who turned on the flashlight, he was looking at me, even if he was wearing a mask, I could see that he was frowning, there was a helpless smile on the corner of his mouth, he was shaking his head at me.

I was unwilling, I couldn't be as indifferent as them, I turned my head to look at Brother Shen, and my voice was almost pleading: "Brother God, can we pry it open?" We'll be able to do it for sure. ”

Brother Shen didn't speak, his brow furrowed, and he quickly stretched again, shaking his head like nineteen.

"Why?" I felt like I was going crazy, "It doesn't look that heavy at all, we can definitely open it, just give it a try, otherwise what are we going to do here?" ”

Brother Shen didn't answer, he avoided my gaze, and I turned my head to pull Achuan: "Achuan, we can definitely do it, right?" ”

Ah Chuan didn't answer, he showed that complicated expression again, he was still looking at Brother Shen, I suddenly felt very puzzled, very lonely, as if they were all far away from me, why is this happening, getting the jade is the purpose of our trip, all of us have been preparing for this for so long, why are they not even willing to try at the last moment?

"Why?"

A thousand words can only be turned into one sentence, and I looked around everyone, only to find that their eyes were full of abandonment.

"Daze ......" Nineteen suddenly spoke, with a tangled voice in his voice, "How to say it, things with organs will definitely not be opened by brute force, so ......"

"Not really!" I shouted, "The last time we were trapped, it was also a brute force crack!" ”

Nineteen didn't speak again, the emotions in his eyes were more complicated than Ah Chuan, he also looked at Brother Shen, Brother Shen looked at me for a long time, and his voice was low: "Give up, the mechanism of this sarcophagus is connected to the metal tower, unless we have the power to destroy the entire metal tower, it is impossible to open it." ”

I was stunned, the anger in my heart dissipated in an instant, and my voice softened: "Why? How do you know if the trap is connected to a metal tower? You haven't opened it again. ”

"I just know." Brother Shen said quickly and looked away.

It's this sentence again, I can't say anything with my mouth half open, his five senses are stronger than mine, he knows more than me, and he has an incredible healing ability, he doesn't look like a person, he says he just knows, but I can't even ask the reason.

A strong sense of loss came to my heart, I felt my nose sour, I didn't know what I was sad about, I always felt that other people's moods were complicated, in fact, the most complicated was myself, I couldn't even describe what my mood was, it was too chaotic, my brain seemed to be divided into tens of millions of pieces, which contained thousands of me.

I'm still unwilling, it's the last step, it's impossible for me to give up, even if I really can't open it, I can't give up without trying.

I don't want to beg them anymore, I can't make sense with them at all, they will never be able to understand my feelings, they don't understand from the beginning when I gave up, I still clearly remember Ah Chuan's roar and surprise, he won't understand me, the Mo family won't understand, they don't understand what the blood curse is for me, this is something that has plagued my family for thousands of years, behind it is the life of generations, the Mo family is the source of the blood curse, they want to make up for it, but they will never have such a strong state of mind as mine.

I turned on the flashlight and felt the sarcophagus in front of me, but I didn't feel the gap, I half-crouched down and looked at the side of the sarcophagus, I thought the gap would be hidden in the carved pattern, but no, it didn't have a gap at all!

It was a whole boulder, and I felt a chill all over my body, and I crouched down and shone it under my feet, and the stone and metal were tightly glued together, and it was cast on the metal tower from the beginning, and I can imagine that it was placed on it before the metal tower was fully formed, and as the metal solidified, the sarcophagus was firmly fixed here.

No wonder Brother Shen said that the mechanism is connected to the metal tower, he must have discovered it a long time ago, even if we have great strength, it is impossible to tear the sarcophagus from the metal tower, unless the mechanism is activated, it is impossible to rely on brute force.

My heart was cold all of a sudden, the impossible is impossible, we are not people without shadows, and we cannot use brute force, our direction was wrong from the beginning.

I felt a terrible pain in my chest, the range of movement I had just made was so great that the wounds that had stuck to the bandage must have been torn again, and I could feel the warm liquid coming out and soaking through the bandage.

"Daze, you have also seen it, there is no other way than to activate the mechanism, in fact, it doesn't matter if you can't get this piece of jade, we still have backup measures, although it is just as difficult, but ...... Don't look like that, I know the remedy, shall we leave first? Nineteen walked over and crouched down to look at me.