Chapter 40: Hooked to the Stone
As soon as he finished speaking, the five colors on the gradient bar turned red.
Ling Feng diverted his attention from the mirror and stared at the rope for a few seconds.
"We're supposed to tie the scythe hook with a rope to catch the ball."
"But there's a rope in the device that pulls the hook in front of it." Jiang Zi expressed his doubts and subconsciously scratched the back of his head with his hand.
Ling Feng thought about it and looked at it, it was indeed so.
"Unless it's for backup, which means the rope will break."
Black Whirlwind said as he looked at the device with his eyes, and at times, narrowed his eyes, completely stringing together the whole idea.
"Break, by the way, I just saw through the mirror that there were some tawny kegs down there. There are also burning engines on the edges. ”
There was a hint of joy hidden in Ling Feng's tone, and his tense cheeks relaxed slightly.
However, within two seconds, his cheeks began to tense again, and even his demeanor became a little stiff, a bit like the result of a failed plastic surgery.
"Ah, why is it so heavy?" The tone was mixed with some impatient resentment.
What's going on?
It turned out that Xiaoqing had just tinkered with the device, and he didn't know where he had touched it, and the hook in front of the device flew out with a rope.
Then looking through the mirror, she noticed that the hook seemed to hook into a gray object.
If you look closely, you will find that it is a large gray stone with some edges and corners.
The shape of the stone is deformed, and the surface area seems to be a bit large compared to the other objects around it. That means it's a bit heavy!
When the hook goes out with the rope, it seems to be a momentary thing, but when it comes back, it needs manpower to pull, otherwise it will get stuck in the corresponding position.
This was also discovered by Xiaoqing while they were thinking separately, so they began to slowly fiddle with the silver-gray U-shaped device next to them.
However, the weight of the stone was much heavier than she had imagined.
At first, Xiaoqing stretched out two hands and put them on one of the U-shaped silver-gray handles, and pressed down in a clockwise direction and using gravity.
However, his stomach was stuck and aching, and the babbling sound came out intermittently.
But at that time, Jiang Zi, Black Whirlwind, and Ling Feng were immersed in the world of thinking, blocking out some subtle voices from the outside world.
Xiaoqing really couldn't bear to disturb them, and thought to herself,
"Forget it, let's try again, maybe it will work! And this gray stone doesn't seem to be a good thing, so I'd better clean up this mess quickly. ”
As soon as she thought of this, Xiao Qing looked carefully clockwise to the right around the silver-gray handle, and her oval-shaped green brows couldn't help but wrinkle slightly.
"What should I do?" She muttered quietly as she bent down and looked up from below in a half-crouching form.
"Could there be other little switches hidden somewhere?"
Xiaoqing reached out and stroked the back of the U-shaped handle, smooth and cold.
The little hand kept stroking on the same side of the U-tube, but there was still nothing further to discover.
So she raised her head a little disappointed, and hit her head with a careless "snap".
The scalp was suddenly hot, and at that moment, I don't know why, Xiaoqing was so aggrieved that she wanted to shed tears, and she had the urge to crush this broken device a thousand times, ten thousand times!
Crushing?
By the way, why don't you sit on it with your ass and run it over?
Thinking of this, a smile appeared in the corner of Xiaoqing's eyes again, and two shallow dimples also appeared on his face.
So, happy as a nimble little monkey, he jumped up gently, and his butt landed on the handle.
However, it didn't seem to be moving, and Xiaoqing's expression froze a little at that moment.
So I sat down and jumped up a few times, but it still didn't seem to work.
Xiaoqing's unhappy little mouth pouted, after all, the small bag on the scalp was about to be cracked, and the device had not yet reacted.
Forget it, I won't get it. The irritability and anger in her heart were already burning in small clumps.
Then, in a long, sharp voice, she shouted the sentence,
"Ah, why is it so heavy!"
Because the loudness is so loud, and even with some strange impatient tones, the crowd is forced out of the world of thinking and discussion.
"What's the matter, what's wrong with you again?" As soon as Black Whirlwind, who was familiar with Xiaoqing's temperament, heard it, he predicted that she had done some "bad things".
"I just tinkered with some devices and caught a rock, and now I can't pull it up."
"Stones?" Ling Feng repeated, ran to the device to take a look at the mirror, and found that it was true.
It's just that it was in a relatively remote corner before, and I didn't pay much attention to it.
Now if you look through the mirror, you can see that there are many more stones.
"The red of the gradient bar has become a little lighter." Jiang Zi's eyes began to sink as he stared at the gradient bar.
"Yes, and it's turning a little bit yellow."
Black Whirlwind paused, lowered his eyes, and raised his eyes again, "If you look at it this way, it is estimated that the time taken by the five color transformations is the time we have to break through the level." ”
"Hmm...."Jiang Zi thought about it, felt that it made sense, nodded subconsciously, and moved his gaze to Ling Feng's body.
"That's how it should be! Let's hook the stone up quickly, and we'll talk about the rest later. ”
Ling Feng straightened up, his gaze resting on the silver-gray device.
"It doesn't have any hidden switches, so it can only honestly use gravity to turn it." Xiaoqing said what she had discovered.
"Let's try it first, Jiang Zi, you go up first."
After all, in several people, the mass of ginger is relatively heavy.
Moreover, Ling Feng was also skeptical of Xiaoqing's answer, because he felt that Xiaoqing's work was not very reliable, so the conclusions he came to were not necessarily accurate, so he had to experiment first.
With a "pop", a sturdy ass pressed against the side of the U-tube handle.
"Click-click-click." The handle turned a little.
"The stone has risen a little."
The answer said by the black whirlwind who was watching in front of the mirror made Xiaoqing a little happy, after all, he didn't succeed for a long time just now.
But I was right.
"Alas... Wait, as if it's stopped again. ”
What's going on?
It turned out that the handle was only pressed down by the weight of the ginger to a certain height above the ground and then stuck.
"I can't seem to hold it anymore."
Jiang Zi said as he pressed down hard, but it still didn't seem to help.
I moved my butt to the right, and I felt the U-shaped handle move to the right with it.
Then there was a "bang", and a violent vibration bounced Jiang Zi from the handle to the ground.
"Ugh." His knees hurt from the fall, and Jiang Zi couldn't help but let out a moan.
However, the others didn't hear him, because the piercing explosion just now had cracked their eardrums, and a wave of vertigo was manipulating their sensations at the moment.
What the hell is going on?