The slight hum of the fresh air and air conditioning equipment had stopped, the whirring and crackling of the flames could be faintly heard, and the wind blew out of the vents, carrying the stench and heat, and they could feel their lungs trembling and vomiting with each breath.

The four children returned to the beginning and the end, and opposite the corridor from which they had come, a wall covered with hard metal, on which red and gold flames were originally depicted, black arms, pale bearded hairy faces, and cold-blooded animal-like eyes—which were twisted and cracked by the tremors above and below, revealing the inner part of the black hole—empty and cold, like a bear hollowed out, and seven ugly gray pillars supported a strange object that seemed to magnify a watch movement hundreds of times, The walls and pillars were all stone, only it was bronze, mixed with a little black iron, every gear and chain was polished shiny, and the air was filled with a strong smell of olive oil.

On the other side of it was piled up with fresh rubble, where there used to be a passage for escape, but now it was tightly blocked. The researchers must have left here, and when the last person walked into the corridor, he controlled the door that they thought was a wall and moved to seal the place, and finally they blew up the corridor.

When the rolling sound sounded, they were all startled.

Something was rustling, the chain was tinkling, the gears were tightly snapped, and then they heard the crisp sound of a snap, which almost everyone in the world had heard, and it was the joyful song that the key sang when it opened the lock, and the pins of different lengths were pushed into place by the key, and then they turned slightly, and the door opened.

Something huge and heavy was turning, just above their heads, rumbling. Muffled, accompanied by a kica sound (seven turns counterclockwise, seven turns clockwise).

"Come on," shouted someone behind Sasha, "I won't be able to support it for long." "Marianne" exclaimed in a faint voice, "It hurts so much, come on, let us take you up." She was half-lying in the hallway: "I really want to drink water, cool, clean, don't put anything - let Lila's little prostitute die, we can deal with her - if you stand again, we will die here together." ”

Beelzebub lay beside Charlie, his face bloodied and his eyes drowning in a towel-like pile of skin. His mouth and nose were still open and he was breathing rapidly, but he couldn't find his teeth and tongue, his limbs were strangely elongated and flattened, fortunately there were no extra siblings for the time being, and Sasha walked over. Stroking his face, Beelzebub's eyes slid under his palm, and he pushed it back into his socket with two fingers.

"Will 'Billy' hold on a bit?" He asked.

"It should be," said Marianne, "but he had been tortured enough for the first few minutes—he had to rest, and he had to deal with that crazy woman, and it was only me and Lulu, not Lila." ”

"I have an idea." Sasha said, "If it works, then we don't have to worry about that Lila." ”

"Marianne" was silent for a moment, and then "Lila" was replaced: "Let's talk about it." She said.

Two and a half thousand years ago, when the land was still ruled by murderous and bloody polytheists, they built a huge temple dedicated to one of the greatest gods among them. The doors of this temple are capable of displaying the miracle of the five-body casting that stunned mortals—as long as the priest at the head stood in front of the door and chanted incantations aloud, the two doors were cast in bronze and wrapped in gold. The gem-encrusted door, which took fifty men to push open, slowly opened on its own with a loud bang - it would take 2,500 years for fooled humans to finally figure out the trick - a hydraulic linkage older than the existence of a savior, and they found hydraulic cylinders and accessories such as corroded and broken rods that were still intact after more than twenty centuries and were still used for a definite purpose.

More than a thousand years after the temple was built, it was not uncommon for the abbey to be more sophisticated - the abbot told the chief that the entrance to the crypt was under the baptistery, and he was not lying, and when the abbots and monks wanted to take out and put their possessions in, they would come to the baptistery and push the marble baptismal font in the right way—perhaps this arrangement was to prevent some monk who had been tempted by the devil out of greed to quietly open the treasure house that belonged to the whole monastery.

When they pushed the baptismal font in the wrong order, the trap was set in.

Perhaps it was the sound of the subtle mechanism returning to its original position as Sasha heard, so would the door have been opened if someone had pushed the baptismal font again in the correct order? Little Hopkins could almost imagine the surviving monks coming to remove the stones, clear the ruins, wait for the mechanism to be reset, push the baptistery, go down and take out shiny silver and copper coins, and invite craftsmen to rebuild the baptistery after thieves and looters were buried in the collapsed baptistery.

"And how do you know what order is correct?"

"Let's try," Sasha said, "we still have time." ”

"Only once," said Lila, "if it doesn't work, I'll take you up first, then Beelzebub, and then Charlie." ”

Charlie looked at them, and the arrangement made perfect sense for Lila, Sasha was her boyfriend, and Beelzebub was a close friend of her boyfriend, and she and Charlie had not known each other two days ago.

Sasha didn't argue with Lila, and Dr. Hopkins would never have implanted Ebezebub in Lila's mind. than the mulberry for the priority object of the seed.

"How?" Lila looked up at the metal levers and connecting rods, "Where did you pull it from?" Or drag? ”

"We can be tricky," Sasha said, "we don't need to put the key in the keyhole, we just need to press those pins." He said, looking up at the layers of the compass, "Can you still float?" ”

"Can you hold my waist? Give me some strength, be careful not too much. Lila said, and when Sasha took her waist and her feet lightly touched the ground, she was floating. Her shoes and pants were still in place, and Sasha struggled to keep herself from thinking about what it was like inside.

"Did you touch the pins?" Sasha pointed in the direction of the groping: "It could also be round beads." ”

"I touched the pins," said Lila, her body moving in the air, and Sasha followed her, "a circle of pins, the baptismal font is the key, and it will press those pins down as it turns." The question is, do you really know the right order? ”

"I don't know," Sasha said, "but it's better to do than not to do well." ”

Seven clockwise circles, seven counterclockwise turns, the abbot said, and in the church he said, "Seventy weeks,' know and understand that from the time of the decree to rebuild Jerusalem until the time of the anointed king, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.'" In times of trouble, the city of Jerusalem will be rebuilt even its streets. And he said, "After sixty-two weeks, the anointed one will be cut off and will have nothing." And a king's people shall come and destroy this city and its sanctuary, and it shall be washed away like a flood. There will be wars to the end, and desolation has been decided. Within 17 he will establish a covenant with many.

In the seventeenth and a half, he shall cease the sacrifices and offerings. As the abomination of destruction flies in, and wrath is poured out on the body of the destroyer until the appointed end—seventy weeks. ”

What kind of numbers would it be? Seven, Six, Ten, Two, Seven, One, Seven...... How many combinations can they list? They can only try once.

"Seven clockwise, ten counterclockwise, seven clockwise."

***

The regimental commander knew that he was about to die.

He was amazed at how long he could hold on, he couldn't feel the injured leg, only the eye sockets and the inside of his cheeks were still a little trace of jumping pain, and during this hour, he continued to bleed, and he could feel that his body had become shriveled and hollow, like a caterpillar that had been sucked dry by a spider, but he still insisted on dragging the leader out and burrowed into the small shelter himself.

The small stones fell through the cracks in the bronze branches, causing new wounds and bruises on him, and the captain didn't care about that, he was worried about the large stones, which were trying to destroy the makeshift little shelter without stopping, the metal lamps creaking and creaking up, leaving less and less space for him.

The sunlight could already shine unhindered, but the only thing in front of the leader's eyes was a dark and dreary mass, like the slime of a monster, and like an invisible devil.

His body was spinning, spinning, he had been spinning for a long time—he didn't realize he was really spinning, the marble baptismal font spun sideways in a brisk gesture inversely proportional to its weight, and the rock that landed on the pedestal was partially pushed away by it—there were so many rocks that the mechanism rattled unwillingly, and stopped, the gap it left was so small, but it was enough for a fifteen-year-old boy to crawl out.

The first is Beelzebub (who has recovered a lot, at least he doesn't look like a slime anymore), the second is Sasha, the third is Lila (who has passed out), and the fourth is Charlie.

The bright sunlight pierced their eyes, and tears welled up in their eyes.

Charlie covered his eyes with his hands, he lowered his head and stared at the ground, where there were sharp stones.

He saw jet-black blood, familiar mountain field boots, pants ...... "Daddy!" He shouted.

(To be continued)

ps：

The next chapter will be a little later.,Maybe it's past 12 o'clock.,If you don't want to stay up late, you can come and see it early tomorrow morning - sorry.,Please don't say that I broke my promise.,Because I wrote it at home.,Plus revisions.,It's easy to time out if you're not careful.,But it's not wrong to be sure it's two chapters a day!

Thank you Shen Randa for catching insects, and I will change it together after I finish writing the next chapter!