Chapter XXXIII
Key?
Hearing her say this, my eyes suddenly lit up, and I patted my head and said, "Yes, we are really stupid, such a big stone door, when it is built, the designer will definitely think of how to open it, the stone door is so heavy, we can't open it with brute force, the ancients obviously can't, there must be a mechanism!" ”
"yes, look for the mechanism, maybe it's around here!" With the direction, Ge Zhuang beckoned Lao Zhong and Qian Yong to move, this time we directly put aside the stone gate, and naturally thought of the huge beast carving before.
The place was empty, and the surface of the stone gate was unusually smooth, so it was obvious that the passage of the mechanism would not be placed on top of the stone gate, and the only way to find out where the mechanism was hidden was to start with the huge beast carving.
My guess is eighty percent correct, this beast carving is standing here, the purpose is to protect the stone gate, and most of the mechanism that opens the stone gate is also on it.
We walked back to the beast eagle, and for the first time we had a close look, we found that the appearance of the beast eagle was a little strange, the dragon head, the fish face, the human body, like a combination of various genetic disorders, and there were two long arms covered with scales, one left and one right hanging down from the waist. I could only reach the thighs of the gills, so I could only look at the tail of the gills.
The surface of the beast carving's body is covered with palm-sized scales, the scales are dark cyan, and if you look closely, it looks like someone has brushed a layer of paint. However, the ancients should not have the technology to color the beast carving, the scales are made of red blue stone, made into sheets, glued to the tail, each scale is very tightly attached, the pieces are connected, forming a whole.
I was very curious about what the ancients made of this stone carving, this thing is not like an ordinary stone, it is very cold to the touch, and the density is also very large, and it is much harder than granite when I press it a few times with my hand, which reminds me of the huge meteorite found in Yunnan.
Perhaps only by using meteorites can such a solid animal carving skin be formed, but this meteorite is so strong, and what methods did the ancients use to carve it, as far as I know, the ancients polished stone tools very clumsily, and can only use the same material of stone for friction and simple rough processing.
However, the surface of this beast carving is polished to be extremely smooth, which can be called round and jade, and this kind of production process, in addition to the modern mechanical processing technology can be completed, I really can't imagine any other way to make it.
I took a deep breath, eliminated the doubts and irritability in my heart, buried my head again, and just a few seconds later, I suddenly heard a strange sound, different from the previous "click", a bit like the roar of a landslide, the movement was very loud, and the whole road shook slightly with the sound.
I was shocked in my heart, I didn't know what had happened, my body tensed, I turned around in an instant, the sound came from all directions, and after a little look, I found the clue.
The humanoid statue standing opposite the beast sculpture also seemed to have undergone a slight change. The statue stares in the direction we came, its hands moving from its chest to its sides, as if thousands of people are staring at you at the same time, with strange and eerie eyes.
Ge Zhuang looked at me suspiciously, and said in a low voice, "This thing is too evil!" Could it be that this beast carving also has some connection with the stone statue opposite? ”
My feeling is exactly the same as Ge Zhuang, the moving statues are already weird, and they can also automatically grow a part of the body, this kind of scene is simply unheard of, I don't understand when we continue to touch the beast carving, will it cause a chain reaction, so that the opposite stone carving has other movements, my heart is a little uneasy, so I have been quietly waiting.
Fortunately, after waiting for a long time, the stone carving did not make the next move, and still stood there upright, with a blank and empty gaze, staring at us closely, no matter how you look at it, it feels unusual.
"Don't pay attention to them, if these stone carvings are really alive, I'm afraid they will have taken action against us a long time ago, maybe the mechanisms connecting the stone carvings are below, when we touch the beast carvings, those statues will also have some kind of reaction at the same time, but looking at their appearance, it shouldn't look like they want to attack us." The old bell whispered.
I had no choice but to withdraw my gaze and continue studying the beast in front of me.
This thing is surrounded by scales, which fit very tightly, and the focus of my search can only be on the scales, which are almost the same size, and have no color, and the pieces are tightly connected, and there are no gaps in sight, and even if there is a button, I can't easily find it.
"Damn, where the hell is the mechanism, little pumpkin, are we in the wrong place?" Ge Zhuang was a little impatient, and said while scolding while wiping his sweat.
I didn't answer his question, but slowly shifted my gaze towards the head of the beast, and suddenly I noticed that on the tail of the beast, there was a scale that seemed to be relatively independent, not connected to the other scales.
When he pushed Ge Zhuang away and squatted down, he slowly stretched out his right hand, grabbed this unique scale, and gently shook it twice with his hand, and found that it was actually movable.
"Found it!" Seeing this, my heart was suddenly slowly dawned, and this scale was most likely the location of the mechanism.
So I moved my steps very carefully, squatted down in a different position, and moved to the tail end of the beast carving, obviously feeling that it did not seem to belong to the tail part, and after hesitating for a while, I looked up and said to the old bell, "You watch closely, if there is anything wrong, shoot immediately, don't hesitate!" ”
Although the tail end of this beast carving can move, it is not clear whether this is the mechanism that opens the stone door. Everything is just our guess, in case after opening this mechanism, there are other dangers, with the old clock watching, it is always safer.
Lao Zhong nodded, and retreated to the back with his rifle, and when I saw that he had already taken aim, I clenched the scales and pulled them outward, almost without encountering any resistance, and I easily pulled out the scales, and at the same time, a "click" sound sounded in my ears one after another, and my heart suddenly hung in my throat.
Whether it is the mechanism that opens the stone gate or not, you will soon know.
When the scales were removed by me, the whole beast began to split automatically, and many irregular cracks spread on the surface, like broken ceramic shards, falling down with a "bang".
The strange thing is that this beast carving is not hollow, but solid, when the outermost rock layer collapsed, it also raised a large cloud of sand and dust in the empty tunnel, Ge Zhuang and I in order to avoid the collapsed stones, we quickly jumped up, far away, and under the collapse of the broken rock, it quickly splashed a thick dust, gray smoke, and slowly covered the huge beast carving.
"What's in there?" Ge Zhuang let out a low cry and was about to come to the front to observe, but before he could get close to the beast eagle, suddenly the collapsed rock seemed to be driven by some kind of force, and began to tremble, and then was lifted up by a huge force and smashed in front of him.
"Damn, there's something under the beast carving!" Ge Zhuang was the closest, and he noticed something unusual in it at a glance, his face turned pale for a moment, and he turned back to Lao Zhong and shouted, "Shoot!" ”