Chapter 501: Rubbing shoulders with death
After the stone bricks were turned 240 degrees, there was only silence in the air.
Everyone held their breath and stared at the brick, even the sound of breathing disappeared, and the absolute silence really sent chills down the spine.
Just now, the "snort" noise made by the stone brick when it rotated seemed to still echo in my mind, but at this moment, the stone brick just stayed motionless, and after a lot of time, nothing happened.
Ling Zheng's brows gradually twisted into a pimple: "Impossible, the angle of rotation of the stone bricks is said to be fine, and now the secret path should be revealed." ”
I asked him, "In what way will the secret passages manifest themselves?" ”
Faced with this question, Ling Zheng shook his head helplessly: "This ...... I don't know. ”
I figured that the tunnel should be under this stone brick, and depending on the size of the stone brick, if there was a slightly narrower entrance hidden underneath, that entrance would be enough for an adult to walk through.
Thinking of this, I rolled up my sleeves and wanted to go up and check it out.
Priest immediately stopped me: "You wait first! ”
I turned to look at him, and he first made a pause gesture to me, meaning to wait for me, and then he beckoned to Monceau: "Monceau, go and see." ”
This was the first time that Journalor and Monceau showed the relationship between master and servant, and at the order of Journal, Monceau did not say a word, immediately pinned the gun to his waist, and then picked up the axe again, and quickly leaned towards the stone bricks.
It has to be said that the priest was right to do so.
After all, no one can say clearly, whether there are other mechanisms under the stone bricks, in case there are crossbows, poisonous gases and other things pressed underneath, it is easy for mortals like me to die, Menceau is different, he is a vampire, his vitality and recovery are much stronger than me, a mortal, he was shot with two arrows, poisoned twice, and it can only be regarded as skin trauma in other people's places, and it will be good in minutes.
Why didn't Priest himself go, he had to stay and keep an eye on Stephanie.
Monceau approached the bricks, and first knocked the edge of the bricks with the handle of the axe, and the force with which he lowered the axe was very small, always, and the two axes fell up, and the stone bricks trembled several times in succession, and the tremor was quite large.
Under the stone bricks, there is a mechanism such as a hair spring.
Monceau crouched there and thought for a moment, then turned to the person behind him: "Stand back!" ”
I immediately waved my hand and motioned for everyone to retreat.
When everyone had withdrawn from the distance of four or five meters, Monceau pressed the blade of the axe into the gap between the stone brick and the ground, and then pressed the handle of the axe with force, and pried the stone brick up with the force of a lever.
At first, the bricks rose little by little as Monceau gradually strengthened, and when the side supported by the axe blade was nearly a finger away from the ground, a sudden explosion was heard from the bottom of the bricks.
Boom!
It wasn't the sound of explosives, it was more like the sound of some kind of metal structure being broken.
Immediately afterward, we saw the stone bricks rise from the ground with a snort, like a monkey that had been lit on fire, and flew towards us in a circle.
It was so fast that it was too late to make any other moves, so everyone had to crawl on the ground in unison.
The stone brick weighed tonnage, and when it flew over my head, it was at least two meters away from my head, but I could still feel the wind it carried.
The sound of the wind is so dark that it makes people's brains tingle when they hear it
After nearly ten seconds, we heard a heavy muffled sound far behind us, although the stone brick landed far away, but its landing can still make us feel a slight tremor under our feet.
I glanced back quickly, and the light didn't reach where the bricks landed, but in the distance of the beam, I could see a large cloud of flying dust.
Thanks to the fact that the people present are all practitioners, and their reactions are fast enough, just now, if they beat a little slower, they will be hit by stone bricks.
Being hit by that thing, it's not like a comet hitting pork, snap, and no one can tell who is who is flesh and blood.
I adjusted my breath to quickly recover from my fear, then crawled to my feet and refocused the light on Monceau's side.
Monceau was also frightened, and was now standing there with his hands on his knees, and as I shone the light through, he let out a long breath at me, with an expression on his face that would be the rest of his life.
Even if it was a vampire like him, he would have died if he had been hit just now.
People who have not experienced that kind of situation, I'm afraid it is difficult to understand what we felt at the time, the moment the stone bricks flew past, it was really a brush with death, we are not afraid of death, but when the boundary of life and death suddenly pressed on the brain, everyone was shocked.
I smiled at Monceau as a reassuring gesture before moving my gaze to the hole beside him.
As it turned out, my conjecture was correct, there was indeed a hole hidden under the stone bricks, and the hole was surrounded by a circle of metal...... No, judging from the texture, it should be a very special kind of hard wood, it is a round, small track made of special wood, and you can see small round balls used as rollers on the track.
I said, the stone bricks are so heavy, how did you turn them, and there were slide rails under the bricks for a long time.
On the opposite side of the cave wall, there are two slightly curved wooden plaques, one long and one short, the long one looks a bit like the bow body of a longbow in shape, and the short one breaks in the middle, but judging from the remaining half, its original appearance should be no different from the long one.
At this time, the relatively long wooden plaque was still vibrating violently, like a tuning fork that had been hit by a heavy hammer.
The reason why the stone bricks flew up just now should have been bounced off by this wooden plaque.
The broken wooden plaque did not tremble, which means that before the stone brick was bounced away, it was broken, I saw that there were several riveting holes at the top of the long wooden plaque, presumably the stone brick was originally connected with these two wooden plaques, but because one of the wooden plaques was broken, the connecting surface was less than half, resulting in a complete imbalance between the support force and the elastic force, which caused the stone bricks to not be supported normally, once supported, it would be bounced away instantly.
I found that Monceau was such a lovely man, and I didn't say anything here, but he took advantage of the light I had turned on, looked carefully at the section of the broken plaque, and then told me: "It was forcibly torn off." ”
Ripped off?
The toughness of these two wooden plaques is so strong, supporting such a heavy stone, not only has it been maintained for so long, but it has also remained strong and resilient.
How much power does it take for such a thing to be torn off!
I couldn't help frowning: "Are you sure?" ”
Monceau nodded, then leaned over to the entrance of the cave and poked his head into the cave.
After a long while, he beckoned to me with a solemn face: "It doesn't seem right, Boss Gai, you better come and take a look yourself." ”
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