Chapter 22: The Human Key
Seeing that the fat bear seemed to have made some discoveries, I put down my face and humbly asked him for advice, and the fat bear pointed to the severed leg on the ground and said proudly: "Look at you mountain cannon, hasn't it already told us?" ”
This amputated leg has been told us? I looked at the fat bear's sly smile and felt a little overwhelmed, feeling that if he didn't take me for a fool, he was a fool himself, because there was no information about the passage on the amputated leg.
Seeing that I was at a loss, the fat bear laughed a few times, and said to Uncle Dao on the side: "I see that you still have some ability, why is this nephew as stupid as a wood, and he has no talent at all."
I listened to the fire, what does it mean to have no talent at all? I'm selling antiques and I'm not inverted, do you know if you specialize in the art industry? What's more, your job is not a serious job, and you may be invited into the bureau for tea one day.
So I pointed to the broken leg on the ground and scolded: "You were hit by an arrow in the ass and your head is also broken?" How do you find your way with this thing? ”
As soon as my words fell, Uncle Dao said to him: "It can really find the way."
Looking at me with a look of surprise, Uncle Dao continued: "Do you know why this Japanese soldier was hanged? ”
Without even thinking about it, I said, "I must have stepped on some mechanism." ”
Uncle Dao nodded: "Yes, there is a mechanism, but it is not accidental, but he is voluntary." ”
Voluntary? The more I listened, the more confused I became, and I felt that Uncle Dao's words were insulting my IQ, and someone actually voluntarily stepped on the mechanism and was hung upside down, and finally ended up being dismembered?
I shook my head again and again to express my disbelief, not only did I not believe it, but Zheng Tianweiyin and the others also looked unconvinced.
At this time, the fat bear grabbed Uncle Dao's words and said hurriedly: "What a group of mountain cannons who don't understand anything!" This mechanism is called the "human key" in the jargon, and as the name suggests, it uses the person as the key to open the mechanism. ”
"Use people as keys to open mechanisms?" It's the first time I've heard such a mysterious statement, and I always feel that this unreliable fat man is talking nonsense again.
Seeing that it aroused our interest, the fat bear nodded with satisfaction and continued: "Actually, this thing is not complicated, to put it bluntly, if you want to open the secret door, you must first trigger the mechanism, and that mechanism is the hanging rope on the top of the pavilion." So this little devil must have carried forward their bushido spirit of allegiance to the emperor, and was willing to trigger the mechanism to hang himself, and his companions passed through the passage smoothly. ”
"According to what you said, this little devil has triggered the mechanism, and the secret passage has been opened, so why didn't his companion rescue him first and go together? This place is not high, just cut it with a knife. I wondered.
"This mechanism is like a lever balance setting, there must be a gravity traction like the human body to pull the rope on the top of the pavilion to keep the passage door open, once the gravity traction is lost, the secret door will automatically close." Uncle Dao explained.
"I've been talking here for a long time, but where is the so-called secret door? That's the point, after all! Zheng Tian asked.
Uncle Dao pointed to the floor tiles under our feet and said, "The whole mechanism is designed with this pavilion as the core, so the secret door is close at hand." ”
I used a flashlight to carefully shine on the floor tiles under my feet, but I couldn't see anything special, then Wei Yin was worried: "In this way, do we also have to be like those Japanese soldiers, sacrificing a person to trigger the mechanism?" ”
Uncle Dao waved his hand to indicate that he didn't need to: "Under normal circumstances, this kind of mechanism is one-time, and the Japanese soldier has already waded through the thunder for us, so we only need to pull the rope on the top of the pavilion to open the secret door now." ”
Uncle Dao said lightly, according to what he said, if you want the secret door to be open all the time, wouldn't you still have to tie someone up and hang it on the top of the pavilion? Otherwise, where did the gravitational pull come from? At this time, I glanced at the fat bear beside me, and my eyes rolled and sneered: "Fat man, why don't I give you a chance to behave, tie you to that rope, and save you when we return." ”
The fat bear snorted unconvinced and asked me why he was, and I shrugged and pointed out a very realistic and objective reason: "This is your fattest place, so you can keep the secret door open for a longer time." ”
Of course the fat bear didn't want to, so he scolded me and got into all kinds of theories, and even said that I was the most useless pure soy sauce in the middle, and the chances of letting him go down and find the treasure of heaven might be better...... At this time, Wei Xuzhi, who was standing outside the pavilion, pointed to the dark place behind him and said, "Maybe none of us have to stay here." ”
Fat Bear and I stopped arguing, and shone our flashlights in the direction that Wei Xuzhi pointed at, and the light gathering place illuminated the same puppet that we had mistaken for the masked man.
"It weighs about the same as a real person, and should be able to be used as gravity traction on a rope." Wei Xuzhi then spoke.
That's right, the stones of other mountains can attack jade, why don't you use ready-made tools?
At that moment, we brought the puppet here, took off the rope that was originally wrapped around the little devil's feet and tied it to the puppet's feet, and then the seventh brother climbed the pillar with the puppet in his arms, and connected the broken rope back to the rope at the top of the pavilion.
Sure enough, with the traction of gravity, a small door slowly opened up in the place where the floor tiles were originally under our feet, and I leaned over to look down, it was pitch black and unfathomable.
Uncle Dao immediately took out the bathymetric ruler from his backpack and slowly lowered it, and when he took it back to check the reading, he found that the bottom was fifteen meters deep.
Apparently this time I was going to make a big move, so I sighed and saw that everyone else was already getting ready, so I unzipped my backpack as well.
After getting ready, the seventh brother took the lead, took the lead in tying the climbing rope around his waist, and then descended along the rope little by little, and after a few minutes he stepped on the ground and shouted safety to it.
The fat bear asked loudly if the pit where Seventh Brother went down was wide, and whether his size would be stuck halfway through, and Seventh Brother laboriously shouted three words: "Non-usual-wide!" The fat bear was relieved, and immediately tied a rope and drilled into the dark passage, grabbing the second position.
After all of us went down, the most intuitive feeling was that Brother Qi was not exaggerating, it was really wide here, and the flashlights couldn't shine on the head, such a huge space, it looked like there should be a lot of things on display.
I walked a few steps when Uncle Dao suddenly said that he wanted to brighten this place, and then he flipped up his backpack.
At first, I thought he had some treasure, who knew that he only turned out a lighter for a long time, I felt funny, thinking that the light of the flashlight is still incomplete, what can the sporadic light of your lighter do?
I was just about to ask if Uncle was trying to smoke and there was no good excuse when I heard a "whoosh" in my ear, and suddenly a fire burst into flames, and burned down the fire trough on the wall like dominoes, illuminating the entire hall.
I looked at the flames burning in the four walls of the fire, and immediately swallowed the words back into my stomach.
"Everywhere you go, you must first pay attention to the environment around you, and use all available resources, just like this fire trough, which you can't see at your hand? Where are the eyes? If you are like this, you will definitely suffer a lot in the future......"
Uncle Dao usually speaks concisely, but when I am educated, I am like a gossip, nagging endlessly, and I am also very helpless about this, I feel that he was not like this before, smoking and drinking were all taught to me. It's true that the older a person gets, the more he talks.
Sufficient light makes the whole hall unobstructed, the scene in front of me is not spectacular, there is a huge unicorn stone statue in the four corners of the hall of about 500 square meters, with teeth and claws, angry eyes.
There were eight stone doors around the hall, and the characters "ink" were printed on the doors, and I thought to myself that this must have something to do with the organization called the Mo Sect.
In the center of the hall are thirty-six figurines of soldiers armed with spears, which should be the same as the familiar Qin terracotta warriors and horses, all of which are ordinary terracotta figurines made of yellow clay.
I was amazed, although the scale of these figurines is not as grand as the Qinling Terracotta Warriors, but the degree of fineness is definitely comparable, and for some reason, whether it is facial features or body limbs, there are no traces of erosion and corruption, it is really incredible.
There is a stone tablet standing in front of the figurines, the words engraved on it are much more complete than the one I saw before, I took a look, it should be a meritorious monument, and it is engraved with the deeds of Xiao Qing, the king of Nanliang Ning.
I took a closer look, and it said that in the battle of Xiangping Road with the Northern Wei Dynasty, Xiao Qing faced the 100,000 troops of the Northern Wei Dynasty with 8,000 armor soldiers, and after half a month of fierce fighting, the grain and grass were cut off, and the crossbow arrows were shot out, leaving only 36 armor soldiers to retreat to the pass.
At this time, the Northern Wei sent envoys to persuade him to surrender, promising that as long as Xiao Qing handed over the pass and surrendered to the Northern Wei Dynasty, he and his subordinates would be spared, but King Ning would rather die than give in, and the thirty-six of his subordinates were also loyal and brave, all of them were one enemy and one hundred, and they held the pass to the death for three days, and finally waited for the reinforcements of the Southern Liang.
The inscription at the end of the stele reads: "Before his death, the tiger served the Southern Liang, and after his death, he was still busy with the war." ”
I sighed in my heart, it seems that it is another heroic history that can be sung and cried.
At this time, Wei Xuzhi walked past me and suddenly asked, "What do you think of these figurines?" ”
I was amazed: "It's well preserved, it's in a variety of forms, and it looks so real." ”
Wei Xuzhi nodded and said meaningfully: "Yes, it's just a little too real." ”
Something overdone? I was about to ask him what he meant, when I heard a dull closing of the door overhead, and I immediately looked up, only to realize that the secret door we had come down had been closed.
"Is it that the rope that tied the puppet is too old and therefore broken?" I asked anxiously uncle.
Uncle Dao said with a solemn face: "That's the most optimistic situation."
"What about the unoptimistic situation?" Zheng Tian on the side asked scaredly.
Uncle Dao said quietly: "The situation is not optimistic, that is, someone above deliberately put down the puppet and closed the secret door. ”