Chapter 14: The Megalithic Arch
I found a glow stick from my bag, lit it up and pestle the net, under the faint blue light, the black net shook a little, and there was no movement, I immediately felt curious, and put the glow stick through the net, trying to hook it up to see it clearly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
As soon as I saw it, the previous section of the glow stick hooking the net was silently broken, and I was startled and quickly took a step back.
The fat man also saw it clearly from the sidelines, and exclaimed: "My mother, so powerful, did you already know it?" After speaking, he looked at his hand again: "Fortunately, I didn't reach out, what is this?" ā
I looked at the big net in front of me, and was about to think about what to start with, when the fat man said, "Hey... Your grandfather's book doesn't contain anything, does it? ā
I said, "Crow's mouth, you're really right." ā
Seeing that I answered, he hurriedly asked, "What does the book say?" Shouldn't it be invulnerable, invulnerable? ā
I glanced at the fat man and wondered, "Chubby, what kind of monster were you in your last life?" Whatever comes and goes, this thing is not only invulnerable, but also moves. In the book, this thing is called a 'wire net worm', and it can strangle people to death..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the big black net moved towards us little by little, and the fat man and I glanced at each other, flung the equipment to the opposite side, and hurriedly jumped over, although the gap was not large, I had skipped it again before. But in the panic, something went wrong, and the fat man pulled his hands on the edge of the trap and shouted at me.
I hurriedly turned around to pull him, and it took me a lot of effort to pull him up with a weight of about 200 pounds, and we both gasped and said to him while standing by the trap: "Little fatty, if you can lose weight, it is estimated that you can live for 50 more years." ā
The fat man said disdainfully: "Don't be so exaggerated, you were fifty pounds thinner than me before, and I want to see if you will live fifty years longer than me." ā
I said, "If that net had run faster, you'd have become a foamer." ā
When I looked back at the net with a flashlight, my heart was half cold. The book says that iron net insects are not terrible alone, and if they form a net in groups, no sharp weapon can help it.
Each mesh hole is a knife, and as soon as something passes through it, it can be cut in two in an instant.
Since jumping over, the net has been advancing towards us at a constant speed, and it is only a matter of time before we are cut into pieces. Although the book mentions this strange bug, it does not mention how to deal with it.
The fat man said, "It's really not good, let's go back, it hurts to be cut into pieces." ā
I kicked him in the ass unceremoniously: "You stupid, it's not a dead end to retreat, unless someone blows open that stone door at this time..."
I was interrupted by a loud bang, and the dust was falling on the top of our heads, neither of us knew what was happening, and when the flashlight shone again in the panic, the big black net had collapsed, and most of it had fallen into the trap.
I was overjoyed, and hurriedly beckoned the fat man to jump over, and when they gathered together in a net again, there was really no chance. The fat man didn't dare to hesitate at all, threw the bag over with one hand, jumped over, and jumped over.
Picking up the bag on the ground and running forward desperately, we were relieved and held up a flashlight to shine back, and the bugs were long gone. There were a few raised barbs on the top of the passage, just like the previous trap, but they fell on top.
Perhaps because of the age, the mechanism has also lost its effect, and the trap on the ground is different, the passage has been unpatronized for thousands of years, and there is no force on the ground, so it will naturally not sink.
The fat man was very curious about the insects holding the iron net, and how they survived in the passage, not to mention that there were no creatures in the passage for thousands of years.
The fat man always called himself bold, and I wanted to scare him: "As long as there is water and its kind, this thing can live, and if there is nothing to eat, they will kill each other, and they will reproduce very quickly." Just the net that blocks us will only take two or three days at most. ā
The fat man said curiously: "According to this, how many such big nets are there in this cave?" Then we will not be fish in the pond, waiting to be caught in the net at any time. ā
I asked him, "How?" Still stealing treasures? ā
The fat man said: "I didn't say that we came to steal treasures, we came to find a way to survive for Old Man Sun's grandson, well... But if you have a treasure, it's not impossible to take two out by the way. ā
I have a deep understanding of his brazenness, but then again, we haven't found a decent clue related to the tiger talisman, and I don't know where Old Man Sun's companion got half of the tiger talisman back then.
Walking all the way down the passage, we never encountered those invulnerable iron mesh insects, and from this I knew that although the thing was invulnerable, it was only afraid of the sound, and the reason why it was not recorded in the book was perhaps because the ancients had no way to make such a big movement except for thunder.
I was both glad and worried about the explosion, because the sound could reach here, it meant that it was not far away from us, or it was extremely destructive. In addition to being thunderbolted to the mountain, there are also people using explosives to carry out blasting operations.
I'm more inclined to the latter, after all, we're in the depths of the mountain.
The two of them walked a long way one after the other, and suddenly heard a rumbling sound of flowing water coming into their ears, and gradually the space became wider, and the pace under my feet began to speed up, and I looked at the cage hanging on my waist from time to time, and the two birds in the cage were still jumping around. It seems that there is nothing wrong with the air in the cave.
As the field of vision and space widened and we deepened, there were more things around us, and the road under our feet became a bridge, under which there was water, and there was a water outlet every two meters on the walls on both sides, and the water was constantly catching up.
On both sides of the stone bridge, there were also more stone towers and armored samurai, each holding a spear in his hand, standing straight between the two stone buildings. The costume and style are completely different from those of the ancient Central Plains soldiers. They all looked at us with a smile on their faces, as if they couldn't escape their gaze from any angle.
I call them because I can't find a word to describe them, but they look a little like them, and they are topped with a stone carving that is not just a flower, and each one is more than two meters tall. There is a small horizontal ditch in the middle.
The fat man said that there must be something in this flower, and he had to go up to see it, but I forcibly stopped him. No matter how peculiar this flower is, if you rush up to it, you may trigger some mechanism, and then you will be doomed on this bridge.
At the end of the stone bridge there was a huge closed arch carved with all sorts of strange paintings, and on both sides there were some strange words, if the one-eyed dragon was here you might be able to see a clue or two, the fat man and I were both half-illiterate, and this ancient thing was no different from a blank sheet of paper before us.
Seeing that the bird in our hands was fine, we took off our gas masks, found a random place to light a cigarette, and ate some dry food and drank some water by the way.
Originally, we came here on a temporary basis, and if it weren't for the fact that those guys brought enough things, we wouldn't have come in so easily. Years of battlefield experience have taught me that I don't have to fight unprepared, and I have always kept this sentence in my heart, but I still suffered.
After eating and drinking, the fat man and I put on the gas masks again, ready to go to this gate, the arch is about eight meters high, about five meters wide, and the two huge copper rings on the door are forty or fifty pounds, so it can be seen that if you want to push it open empty-handed, the fat man and I alone will never be able to do it.
The fat man looked at the gate and was amazed: "Oh, you said that this ancient man is really good enough, such a big door, how big a hinge it must be, I guess I may not be able to do it if I go to a blacksmith now." ā
I said, "Well, not only the hinge should be big, but the nails should not be small, otherwise how could you afford to live with such a big door... Gate... Hinge... Nail. ā
When the fat man saw me muttering to himself, he thought it was strange and asked me what was wrong. I said that I remembered the contents of the book again, and it seemed to have something to do with this door.
There are a lot of strange things recorded in the ancient seal, and many things are rarely heard of in the official history. In the first three years of the reign of King Chuzhuang in the Spring and Autumn Period, he ate, drank and played all day long, ignoring the government and politics, and there were a group of slanderers and courtiers around him all day long.
One of the courtiers is a child of the Mo family, very knowledgeable, and can be regarded as a name in the Mo family system, but he didn't take the right path, and finally met a monarch like King Chuzhuang, so he served left and right all day long, and tried all kinds of ideas to have fun.
In the book, he is trying to achieve his ambitions in another way. In ancient times, the city gates were all huge wooden gates, and the manpower used to open and close them was very large, and if there were large siege weapons at that time, they could not be stopped at all.
One day he was traveling with the king of Chuzhuang, and when he came back, the city gate was closed, and he couldn't enter the city for a while. King Chuzhuang was annoyed, he should have agreed with the people in the city in advance if he knew this, and he would not end up staying in the wilderness overnight.
After he returned, he had been thinking about this matter, so he studied it at home for more than a few months, and presented the design of this door when he saw King Chuzhuang again.
The original wide wooden door was changed to a thicker stone door, and the bottom of the stone door was set up with pulleys, and there was a mechanism inside, as long as the mechanism was pryed, the door came naturally, but it also required several people to open it inside.
If you want to open it from the outside, it is much simpler, one person can complete it, just like the combination lock we see today, a huge sandbag hangs inside the stone door, connected to the stone door by pulleys, as long as the combination lock is opened correctly, the sandbag hanging in the air will fall, thus opening the stone door.
originally thought that King Chu Zhuang would be very interested in this matter, but unexpectedly, King Chu Zhuang did not take his suggestion, and just laughed it off.
It wasn't until later that King Chuzhuang quelled the civil strife and conquered a series of measures of the Jin State that he realized that he had lost his eyes and left the Chu State with his own invention and design.
Although this kind of large stone gate has not been published, there are relatively detailed records in the ancient seal. I just don't know how far the door in front of me is from what is recorded.
The fat man and I knocked on the two doors respectively looking for clues, some of the reliefs on the doors were fixed real reliefs, some of them could be pressed, and we looked around on the unruly reliefs, and pressed everything that could be pressed, and then there were more than three meters, and our arms were out of reach.
Looking further away, the pressed relief formed a human figure, almost identical to the statue of the soldier behind us, with wide eyes and grinning.
We don't see the same thing uncommonly, but I don't really understand why there are so many soldier statues, the fat man also asked me if I was so happy to be a soldier, could it be that the ancients were popular to be a soldier and the whole family was glorious?
This is obviously nonsense, but many soldiers do have some inseparable connection with the tiger talisman, maybe we are getting closer and closer to the truth.
After taking four or five steps back, I had just made a clear look at the outline when a few clicks came from inside the door, and the dust could be seen through the gas mask, and the door was slowly opening to both sides.
The fat man said happily: "I really didn't expect that the ancestor still has such a hand, you said that if there is no book from you, we can only sit here and wait." ā
I said, "Don't be too happy, maybe it's a dead end, please enter the urn." ā
The fat man will always be like this, and no matter how much cold water I pour on him, it will do almost nothing to him.
The arch was already huge, and the flashlight in our hands didn't work anymore when it was opened, the battery was almost drained, and the distance we could light up was very limited, so we hurriedly replaced the battery.
It took too long to come in, and the little bulb of the flashlight barely rested, and the one in my hand could no longer bear the load and burst out.
I didn't expect this to happen before I came, so I hurriedly asked the fat man to extinguish the flashlight, took out the glow stick from his bag, and lit it up. The faint cold light could only reach a range of two meters, and we both felt a little uncomfortable with the sudden change, and waited in place for a while before continuing to walk inside.
The fat man asked all the way: "Old Zou, what do you say this place is for?" It's still buried in the ground. ā
I said, "If you want me to say that it must be a princely tomb, Brother Si has already said it." In the past, when these people died, they always hoped that they would still enjoy the treatment they had when they died. Look at the tomb of Wu Zetian, it is all built by opening the mountain, there are countless gold and silver treasures, and there are countless figurines of all kinds, so that you can enjoy this kind of majesty in the world after you die. ā
The fat man sighed a little and said: "Oh, I can't imagine that the kings of this ancient country are so superstitious, and they go to hell with thousands of troops and horses, this is planning to start a war with Lord Yama." ā
The fat man was talking nonsense all the way, and I don't know if he was weak enough to give himself courage, or if he really had so many complaints.
Suddenly, there was a commotion behind him, and the fat man and I both stopped, and looked back at the dark gate... (To be continued.) )