159 Life to death
There is no way back.
It's still a dead end.
When the golden rooster came out of the ground, the area around the tomb shook a lot, and then when the tomb fell, the whole tomb shook violently. The cave robbery was originally a tofu scum project made by the tomb robbers, and it could not withstand the shaking of the ground and the mountains repeatedly, and it was naturally easy to collapse. This is not an unusual thing in the first place. How many tomb robbers have died in the cave-in-cave. Therefore, if Liu Shuya dies because of this, then he is definitely not the first to die like this, and it is estimated that he will not be the last.
Although the quality of the work is not good, the distance is not short, and it is impossible to dig it out again with one person with empty hands. What's more critical is that at this moment, the environment in this tomb is in dire straits, and I don't know what kind of situation will change after the meeting.
From this point of view, it is completely impossible to return from the way you came.
It was so easy to come up with a way out, but it was blocked again. No matter how much Liu Shuya encouraged himself before and how determined he was to live to die, he was still a little discouraged when he encountered such a blow.
Looking back, the water in the tomb had risen to the wings of the golden rooster. If he kept rising like this, Liu Shuya would definitely be drowned.
Thinking of this, Liu Shuya actually showed a wry smile on his face. When I first entered the tomb, I was afraid that there would be zombies and cut them to death; Then a fire-breathing rooster emerges and may be burned to death; Then the floor tiles of the cemetery collapsed, probably for fear of falling to death; I didn't think that I would be drowned in the end.
If you look at it according to the law of the five elements, slashing and killing is a "golden" game; Spitting fire and burning to death for the "fire" bureau; Falling to the ground and dying can be regarded as a "soil" game; Drowning can be regarded as a "water" bureau, and the arrangement of this tomb road mechanism actually implies the way of the five elements, but I don't know where the remaining "wood" bureau falls.
Liu Shuya thought to himself, "Maybe I didn't drown in the end by water, and I was probably killed by a big log, but looking around this underground cemetery, where is the shadow of the wood?" ”
After thinking about it for a while, the water level rose a lot, and it seemed that his life was dead, so at this moment, Liu Shuya was no longer busy looking for a way out, but stared at the crisis in front of him with a little numbness.
"If the water rises to the height of the golden rooster's mouth, I don't know what will happen? It stands to reason that water overcomes fire, and if the water extinguishes the fire, it seems to be a good thing. He thought to himself.
This little bit is not enough to change the benefits of life and death, and it can be regarded as a small comfort to Liu Shuya.
With this idea, Liu Shuya wanted to see what would happen when the water flooded the golden rooster's mouth.
But the entrance to the thief cave where he was facing the back of the golden rooster, and he could only see its big buttocks, but not the mouth of the golden rooster, so he set off and swam towards the tomb gate.
The more he swam to the tomb gate, the higher the water temperature, but for Liu Shuya, who was facing the test of life and death, it didn't matter, he experienced too much physical and mental pain in a short period of time, and he was a little numb, he resolutely swam between the golden rooster and the tomb gate, avoiding the fire dragon spewing out of the golden rooster's mouth, sticking to the side wall of the original tomb road, staring at the golden rooster's mouth, as if waiting to see a good show.
The water surface continues to rise, not over the wings, not over the neck of the chicken, and finally over the mouth of the golden rooster, the moment of the fusion of water and fire, there is a violent "tearing, tearing, pulling" sound of water boiling, water and fire at the corner of the golden rooster's mouth fierce confrontation, where the water waves roll, countless water vapor bubbles gushing out of the water, while bringing out the flames of struggle, but the flames only appeared on the surface of the water, and were immediately flooded by the flowing water around them.
More and more water vapor was formed, and the mist filled the remaining space of the tomb.
Although the game of water and fire is really fierce, some of the expectations that Liu Shuya originally had were destroyed by reality again.
He originally thought that water entering the chicken's mouth could directly extinguish the fire, and then rushed into the chicken's mouth, and poured water into the chicken's body, into the iron pillar of the coiling dragon, and even into the stone pillar under the iron pillar. Extinguishing the fire, the water temperature will decrease, which is more comfortable for Liu Shuya.
But the fact is that the water is not enough to resist the flames spewing out of the chicken's mouth, although the chicken's mouth is flooded, but the fire is like a crater under the sea, it does not stop for a moment, and it is still spewing flames, and the extremely high temperature of the flame vaporizes all the water at the chicken's mouth, and then the bubbles emerge from the water, becoming steam, constantly filling the remaining space in the tomb.
The temperature of the air is getting higher and higher, 60 degrees, 70 degrees, I'm afraid there are 80 degrees.
Liu Shuya was originally exposed above the chest outside the water, but he couldn't stand it because of the high temperature in the hot and humid air, so he had no choice but to sink into the water, curling up and submerging his whole body in the water, but it was more comfortable, and from time to time he came out of the water and took a breath of the little oxygen left.
At the moment he would rather drown in the water than be steamed alive.
But even so, it still didn't work out as he wanted.
After flooding the chicken's mouth, the water and fire are in direct contact, and the water temperature is gradually rising. Liu Shuya hid in the water and obviously felt the change in water temperature, although the temperature change in the water was not as obvious as in the air, but Liu Shuya felt that even in the water, his body was getting hotter and hotter.
He deeply understands what it is like to boil a frog in warm water, and of course, he plays the role of a boiled frog.
In this way, even if it is not steamed to death, it will also be boiled to death.
Liu Shuya felt that this was very ironic, "Could it be that someone is planning to eat me as a big meal?" That's why such a trap was arranged, and you were invited to put it into the urn and become a steamed delicacy. ”
Self-deprecation is self-deprecation, no matter where people go, as long as they do not surrender to fate, then they will unconsciously seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
In a very short period of time, Liu Shuya figured out that he had two options to alleviate the pain caused by the current heat, first, try to stay away from the golden rooster and go to the end of the cemetery, where the water temperature may rise more slowly. Second, if you can't stand it anymore, or the space in the tomb is completely filled with water, then dive into the deep water, this time you don't need to reserve room to turn back, dive all the way to the bottom, enter the turbulence under the water, if you can survive down the river, if not, you can also walk the same Huangquan Road with the other three.
After setting a strategy, Liu Shuya began to feel where the temperature was relatively low.
Flooding the golden rooster's mouth, although it did not extinguish the flames, but also cut off the fire dragon at the golden rooster's mouth, without the fire dragon, plus flooded, the temperature near the tomb door, regardless of the water temperature and temperature, but a little down.
In fact, at this moment, the lowest water temperature in the original tomb is still the entrance of the robbery hole behind the golden rooster, but Liu Shuya is no longer willing to swim past the golden rooster, and the water near it is about to boil, so Liu Shuya's first choice is to swim to the tomb gate.
The water was still rising, and it had already submerged the top of the golden rooster's head, leaving only the rooster's comb glittering with golden light outside the water.
Liu Shuya, who swam to the tomb gate, knew that it was the last moment, he made up his mind, took a deep breath slowly, and then dived into the water again with a generous attitude of death, intending to dive all the way to the deepest part of the water.
But after diving three or five meters, Liu Shuya suddenly felt that something was wrong.
To be more precise, it should be that he seemed to see some strange phenomena when he dived just now, and he didn't pay attention to them when he saw them for the first time, but the vitality signal brought to him by that phenomenon was too strong, so after he dived a few meters, the phenomenon suddenly magnified and cleared in his mind.
It's a bubble!
Bubbles are coming out of the tomb door!
Not one or a few bubbles that appear by chance, but strings of bubbles that bubble up in a row!
And there are a lot of skewers!
What does this mean?
It shows that there is a hole in the door of the tomb, and there is more than one. Air came running through the burial chamber across the hole.
The bubble size is not small, indicating that the hole in the tomb door is also very large.
Where did the hole come from?
At that time, Liu Shuya and Weiwei carefully studied the tomb door, and the whole piece was complete and smooth. They couldn't move the tomb door even if they stabbed them with their hands, so they came to the conclusion that it was a very complete and thick stone tomb door, and it was impossible to open it by manpower unless the door opening mechanism was found, or it was blown up with explosives.
At that time, both of them were researching whether there was a mechanism near the tomb door.
The final discovery is: there are mechanisms, but they are not the ones that open the door, but the ones that kill people!
A golden rooster erupted from their backs, and the two of them were almost burned to death.
The door, but it didn't move.
How could such a heavy stone door have holes for air to pass through?
The more Liu Shuya thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he felt that this tomb door could be studied again, anyway, there was still some space in the tomb that had not been flooded, that is to say, the air was still there, and the water temperature was still within a tolerable range, so it was okay to work hard that night.
Liu Shuya, who had dived more than ten meters, paused, turned around, and swam back to the surface.
He first got out of the water to change his breath, then submerged in the water, and carefully inspected the tomb door by the dim light of the golden rooster's mouth under the water.
There are not only obvious holes in the stone door, but also cracks.
The complete tomb gate, which was originally made of a whole stone, was actually dilapidated.
This made Liu Shuya's heart suddenly have a burst of indescribable excitement.
There is a glimmer of life again!
Break the door of the tomb and rush into the tomb, there is a good chance. Although I don't know what the future holds, after all, the current dead end may be able to delay some time.
As for why cracks and holes suddenly appeared in this big stone tomb door, Liu Shuya thought about it for a while and figured out the reason.
It is very difficult for you to break such a strong and powerful thing with external force, but if there is an insoluble torque and contradiction within it, it is easy to cause cracks.
The most susceptible factor for something to crack from the inside is thermal expansion and contraction. Pour boiling water into a cold glass, and it will crack immediately, which is the truth, and the same is true for other hard things, unless it is something that has been tempered from the fire, such as blue and white porcelain, which has been fired at thousands of degrees, so that the thing is not easy to break due to thermal expansion and cold contraction.
This ancient tomb stone door is made of naturally obtained stone, the thermal conductivity is very poor, and there is no history of fire calcination, this time it was calcined by the extremely high temperature of the golden rooster for a long time, the stone door inside and outside the cold and hot are completely different, the outside expands, the inside remains unchanged, it is easy to produce cracks in the inside, plus after the fire calcination, it is immediately quenched by cold water, where can it be eaten? Naturally, it is riddled with holes and vulnerable.
The stone gate can still block here, and the difference is this blow.
The mission of completing the final blow naturally falls on Liu Shuya.
After thinking about the cause and effect, Liu Shuya was very excited, and he couldn't wait to wave his hand in the water and punched the tomb door. The surface of the tomb door was smashed and many stone chips fell, but the tomb door did not completely crack. Liu Shuya smashed a few more punches in the water, but it was still the same effect, and the surface of the tomb door was constantly injured, but there was no movement on the whole.
Liu Shuya was a little anxious, seeing that the opportunity was in front of him, he couldn't delay the fighter plane and delay himself and his partners who were uncertain about life and death.
He stopped, surfaced, and breathed a change. The steaming air became more and more scorching, but Liu Shuya didn't care too much about this matter except for the feeling that his throat was burning when he inhaled. He focused entirely on the tomb door.
The tomb door was not completely submerged. About a fifth of it is also exposed above the water.
Liu Shuya summed up the failure just now and felt that it might still be a lack of strength. The force in the water is easy to be blocked by the water, and the force is dissipated, and each punch is hit, only about sixty percent of the force can fall on the stone gate. Or you can try attacking the exposed part of the tomb door, so that all the force of the punch can fall on the stone door.
Looking at the tomb door to be smashed, Liu Shuya also remembered the window glass of the long-distance bus. The glass is made of very thick tempered glass. When passengers encounter danger in the car, it is difficult to break the glass with their fists to escape. Usually to break this plexiglass, it is necessary to use a special sharp hammer to smash, and the part of the smashing is very particular, it is not easy to smash the middle of the glass, to smash the four corners, as long as the strength is enough, the whole glass can be broken into slag.
Thinking of this, Liu Shuya planned to try this method of smashing corners.
With his left hand in the shape of an eagle's claw, he grabbed a point of focus above the tomb door and used it to borrow strength. The right hand clenched his fist tightly, and all his strength was transported to this hand, and he raised his fist and smashed it hard at the upper right corner of the tomb door.