When the wall tiles were lifted, a black round hole was revealed in the wall.

The diameter of the hole is almost as big as that of a basketball, and it looks black inside, but if you look closely, you can still faintly see a little bit of metal reflection.

As soon as I saw this thing, I immediately reacted, it was the firing path of the dark crossbow, and the metallic luster was reflected from the crossbow.

With such a wide launch path, it is not well hidden that it is a siege crossbow.

This thing is not a joke, at such a close distance, the speed of the crossbow is very fast, and the power of the siege crossbow is huge, the weight of the crossbow is more than 100 catties, once the crossbow is shot out, the impact force is more than a thousand pounds, ordinary people are not to mention being shot directly, it is rubbed on, it is a big injury that hurts the muscles and bones.

Lao Zuo obviously also realized that the situation was not good, and immediately shouted: "Flash ......"

I didn't fully say the word "flash" at all, but I heard the sound of a big string trembling from inside the wall, and then I saw a huge phantom rushing out of the wall and pressing towards me.

It was too fast to dodge with a large displacement, and in a hurry, I had to rush out the shock and land a forehand hook.

This blow was actually quite risky, because I couldn't be sure if the punch would hit the crossbow at all.

Almost at the same time as I struck, Lao Zuo also set up the green steel sword.

Then there was a muffled sound of metal striking and punching stones.

Lao Zuo's sword was slightly faster than my punch, and the green steel sword first hit the metal head of the crossbow, and then my fist hit the crossbow made of stone.

Under the combined impact of the two forces, the crossbow immediately deviated from its trajectory and rushed diagonally above our heads, but in the process of changing direction, the crossbow rod still hit me in the chest, and I felt a sweet throat at that time, and almost spurted blood, and I couldn't withstand such a strong impact, so I retreated several steps in succession.

Lao Zuo came over with an arrow and held me up.

The stone hall we were in was originally open-air, but after the crossbow flew upwards for more than three meters, it seemed to be blocked by some kind of force and fell at an extremely fast speed.

At that time, I saw that the crossbow was first in the air for a short time, and then fell at a faster speed, as if it had been ejected back by a spring bed.

After the crossbow was lost, it happened to be on the shoulders of several puppets, and it failed to fall directly to the ground, and after those puppets suffered this sudden pressure, most of their bodies were crushed out of shape, and even some of the organs filled in were directly pressed out.

"How?" Lao Zuo asked me.

I tried to shake my body: "It's okay. ”

As I spoke, my dad was also in a hurry, and I quickly waved his hand to stop: "Don't move, there may be a hidden trigger on the ground." ”

When I said this, the people who wanted to move didn't dare to move, they were all like sculptures, and they didn't even dare to make movements on their upper bodies.

Its practicality doesn't know how to make yourself so stiff...... Alas, forget it.

At this time, Lao Zuo lit the flashlight and shot the light on the crossbow.

Only the tip of the crossbow is wrapped in a layer of bronze, which is used to strengthen the hardness and impact force, and the entire crossbow rod is made of bluestone, and at this time, there are many thin incisions on the surface of the crossbow made of stone.

The incisions were clearly new to the crossbow, as some of the incisions could still be seen with fine sawdust on the edges.

Lao Zuo and I remembered the scene when the crossbow was bounced back at the same time, raised our heads together, looked upward, and Lao Zuo also picked up a flashlight and lit up the top of the stone hall.

Under the light of the flashlight, a thin line of fine light reflected from the top of the stone hall.

There, there was a net of filaments so thin that even the ghost eye could not detect them.

I am afraid that in contemporary times, only nanomaterials can make such a slender but yet tough silk thread.

I heard Lao Zuo say three words on the side: "Diamond wire." ”

I glanced at Lao Zuo: "Have you ever seen this thing?" ”

Lao Zuo said: "I have seen relevant records in the outer pavilion of Jisoul Village. The diamond wire was originally a special vegetation that grew in the small dragon pond, and was often mistaken for a dragon's whisker in the early years, but after the Sui and Tang dynasties, this strange vegetation became extinct, and I didn't expect to see it here. ”

I admire Lao Zuo's ability to popularize science, but now is not the time to study hard and make progress every day.

The old left flashlight swept the surrounding walls: "There should be other dark crossbows, right?" ”

I nodded, motioning for Lao Zuo not to move, and then my eyes widened, carefully observing the layout of the organs in the stone hall.

In fact, just by observing it like this, I can't see anything wrong at all, after all, the dark crossbow is hidden in the wall, and my ghost eye has no perspective ability.

At this time, I remembered the sound of gears turning from under the ground, judging from the previous sound, the position of Lao Zuo and I now should be in the center of the entire gear array.

Thinking of this, I immediately pointed to the ground and made a "cut" gesture.

Lao Zuo immediately understood, and used the green steel sword to cut an eighty-centimeter square cut in the floor.

Luckily, this place is indeed the very center of the gear array, and below this boxy incision, large sections of delicate gear arrays are arranged together, and in between, you can see some gold wires for connecting devices and valves for holding the gears in place.

Probably to prevent oxidation, these things are simply made of gold.

A rough estimate shows that the weight of gold must be three or four hundred catties.

If I had seen so much gold three or four years ago, I would have gotten carried away, but now these things don't interest me.

The gears made by the ancients are actually different from the gears we are familiar with now, this kind of gear looks more like a waterwheel in the early years, with many teeth and very narrow, and the fit between the teeth is not very high.

It's also because of the slightly lower fit that this gear array is very sensitive, and sometimes you don't touch the trigger, just a strong vibration can make the trap activate.

It is estimated that it was the metal door panel that caused a concussion that shook the lock of a certain gear, causing the crossbow to be launched suddenly.

I looked at the gear array repeatedly, and sure enough, I found that the lock next to one of the pinions was half pried up, but it was only half pried and not fully opened, otherwise, more than one crossbow would have been missed.

Then I counted them carefully, and found that there were twenty-four pinions of the same size, and next to each pinion there was a lock that was not as big as the pinky cap.

The twenty-four pinions are arranged according to the orientation of the twenty-four mountains, and there must be the same number of triggers in the stone hall, which are also arranged around the stone hall according to the orientation of the twenty-four mountains.

I took the bearing, and roughly estimated where the triggers would be placed.

This estimate doesn't matter, but I was really scared into a cold sweat, Liu Shangang, Li Huaishan, and Huang Yuzhong were all standing very close to the trigger, and a careless one would trigger the trigger.

I quickly took out my tools and snapped all the latches before beckoning the three of them to come over a bit.

At first, I didn't particularly care about the fact that the ancestral witch wanted to use the infant spirit in the food spirit to reduce our luck, but now that I think about it, fortunately my father came in time at that time, otherwise it would have been a real break.

That is, lucky, Li Huaishan and the three of them didn't directly touch the trigger, and a crossbow loss almost killed me, if the four crossbows were lost together, I guess I would now be sitting in the underworld, chatting with the lord of Hades about life ideals.

Li Huaishan and the others got a little closer, I breathed a sigh of relief, and then estimated the location of the dark crossbow just now.

The size of the siege crossbow is quite large, and it is impossible to place twenty-four crossbows at the same time in such a small stone hall, and the crossbow just now was shot from the dry position, so I speculate that there should be four to eight dark crossbows.

The four crossbows are fired together, and if you are lucky, you can barely avoid it, but if the eight crossbows are fired together, in such a small space, the gods will have to rest.

Thanks to the fact that a dark crossbow has already been launched in advance, even if it is eight crossbows, we can find a dead end that the crossbow cannot cover due west.

Thinking of this, I immediately beckoned everyone and walked lightly in the direction of the western wall.

When we got to the base of the western wall, I first asked everyone to hug in a circle, and then spread the yang line, and threw the gossip money into the nearest trigger.

The so-called trigger is actually a pressure plate embedded in the ground, which is perfectly disguised as a stone brick, and if I hadn't calculated its position in advance, even if I looked closely, I wouldn't have seen the slightest flaw.

Table tennis!

The gossip money was heavily smashed on the stone brick, and the brick surface was cracked because of the excessive force.

Immediately afterward, seven stone bricks were lifted from the surrounding walls, and the sound of rapid chord tremors was incessant.

For a while, the seven crossbows went out in unison, and there was the sound of the puppet being broken and the pieces of meat splashing to the ground, and the sound of the wall being hit by the crossbow and the rubble exploding.

Flesh and dust flew together, and the visibility of the naked eye suddenly shrank to about three meters.

But by the ghost's eye, I could still see that a crossbow had broken through the hall door directly, and at the moment when the hall door was shattered, the net made of diamond thread snorted and swung towards the door, the net covered a huge area, and the diamond wire was extremely sharp, if we hadn't hid on the west wall in advance, I am afraid it would have been cut into pieces.

It's a shame that I didn't touch that door just now, and it definitely took a bit of luck to be able to pick up a life.

No, I have to find a Taoist temple and do a good job for the infant spirit that I killed.

Fortune is such a thing, sometimes it really can't be without it.

When everything returned to calm, Lao Zuo also let out a long breath like the rest of his life after the catastrophe, but when he said it, it had nothing to do with the four words of the rest of his life after the catastrophe: "What are we running to this stone hall for?" ”

For what? We came in in the footsteps of our predecessors, and didn't we come here to find those people?

But the question is, what about those people?

(End of chapter)