Chapter Thirty-Four: The Mysterious Device
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Li Xinwen saw Liu Xiaoge's worries, patted Liu Xiaoge and comforted: "Don't worry, you, I'll climb over first and fix the rope, and you two just climb along the rope." But her words obviously didn't have any effect, looking at the drop of at least more than 20 meters, even climbing the rope was definitely not fun.
But Li Xinwen didn't give Liu Xiaoge a chance to give advice, put on her mountaineering equipment, took out a pair of mountaineering pickaxes, adjusted them simply, and climbed along the steep cliff towards the huge bronze chain. This distance of five or six meters was obviously not a difficult thing for Li Xinwen, and soon Li Xinwen approached the bronze chain.
First, he knocked with the mountaineering pickaxe in his hand, making a dull knocking sound, and the whole bronze chain did not move at all, it seemed that it was not hollow, it was all real, so that the load-bearing capacity did not need to be doubted. Then Li Xinwen climbed onto the bronze chain, according to the usual Li Xinwen needed to check the entire iron chain, this inspection, immediately attracted attention by something at the interface between the bronze chain and the rock wall.
After watching it for a long time, he didn't speak, no matter how Liu Xiaoge shouted and responded, he was silent. Seeing that Li Xinwen picked up the mountaineering pickaxe and knocked it several times on the interface of the bronze chain, this abnormal behavior frightened Liu Xiaoge. But fortunately, Li Xinwen didn't knock too much and stopped quickly, she regained her composure again, fixed the rope, and threw it back.
Liu Xiaoge grabbed the rope, still recalling Li Xinwen's strange behavior just now, and his intuition told him that Li Xinwen must have discovered something, but why didn't he say it after discovering it, but destroyed it immediately? Could it be some kind of organ? The more I thought about it, the more itchy it became, and since curiosity overrode fear of heights.
When Liu Xiaoge climbed onto the bronze chain, he was surprised by his adaptability, but at the moment he was not most concerned about this. Liu Xiaoge looked at Li Xinwen, Li Xinwen was still thinking about something expressionlessly, and when Li Xinwen was thinking about it, Liu Xiaoge hurriedly picked up the flashlight and went to the place where Li Xinwen had just tapped.
It was a bronze pedestal, buried deep in the rock wall, with several fresh scratches in the middle of the pedestal. It was obviously Li Xinwen's masterpiece just now, Liu Xiaoge reached out and touched it, it was very hard and definitely not a mechanism, this scratch mark must have been engraved with something here, something that Li Xinwen didn't want them to see.
But looking at Li Xinwen's slightly frowning brows, Liu Xiaoge didn't smell much. When the little monkey had also crawled over, the three of them set off again, crawling along the bronze chain towards a bronze gear that was hanging. The closer I got, the more I realized that this bronze installation project was huge, and because it was blocked by a bronze water windmill, there was no way to see the whole picture of the entire installation.
Now climbing along the bronze chain, the whole picture of the entire device began to appear in front of the three of them little by little. It is a long device with countless gears, and when you look around the whole device, it looks like the coiled dragon that was originally seen on the relief on the top of the burial chamber.
Looking at the huge gears running one after another and making a dull friction sound, I suddenly felt that this sound was incomparably magical, and then I thought that this device had been running for more than 2,000 years and had not been damaged, and a sense of heaviness of the times came to my face. It makes people awe-inspiring, and I have to sincerely admire the craftsmanship of the ancients.
Such a complex device may not be able to be replicated today, and even if it is made, it may not be able to guarantee that it will run for thousands of years without mistakes. With this kind of awe, the three of them climbed out of the dozens of meters again, and they were about to approach the nearest bronze gear.
Li Xinwen suddenly stopped and said, "Sure enough, I knew that they wouldn't let us approach so easily, this device that they had worked so hard to make." Although I didn't understand who Li Xinwen was referring to, but looking in the direction of Li Xinwen's gaze, countless tiny copper wires appeared in front of her, and the copper wires were hung with the kind of bells that I saw in those clay pots when I entered the burial chamber before.
Thinking of the strange ringing of these bells, Liu Xiaoge's cold hair suddenly stood up. And these copper wires are set up very secretly, if you really can't find it. Li Xinwen took a closer look, this copper wire was too dense, and it was really impossible to climb over it without triggering the bronze bell.
Liu Xiaoge said timidly: "Otherwise, let's change the jump road, it seems that this road will not work." Li Xinwen smiled coldly and said, "Do you think that these ancient craftsmen have the same IQ as you?" If you can arrange bronze bells here, won't there be traps on the walls? ”
After that, he turned his head and shone the flashlight at one of the rock walls, and sure enough, he saw a bronze clay pot densely inlaid in it on the rock wall, and Liu Xiaoge felt sick when he thought of the head placed in this vicious clay pot. Li Xinwen continued: "I've been thinking about how these human faces came about, so many of them, and such a well-trained feeling. Apparently someone deliberately used witchcraft to make it, and the heads in these bronze clay pots are the key to making these ghosts. ”
After that, she took out a rusty bronze fragment from her waist bag and handed it to Liu Xiaoge, Liu Xiaoge took the fragment and took a closer look, and sure enough, she saw a mysterious symbol carved on these fragments. Looking at the shape and texture of this symbol, it is very similar to the runes on the charms in the Taoism.
Based on Liu Xiaoge's understanding of Taoism, Li Xinwen's statement is not groundless. If it is said that the head of a person is not dead, seal it like a bronze jar, and then seal it. In this way, the three souls and seven spirits of a person will be locked, and if it is combined with the baptism of the leyline qi of the dragon vein for thousands of years, it may indeed become a ghost thing like a human-faced ghost fire.
Thinking of this cruel practice, Liu Xiaoge couldn't help but shudder, this kind of witchcraft is too vicious, it is unimaginable with the thinking of a modern person like Liu Xiaoge, to slaughter innocent people in order to do one thing. The little monkey suddenly interjected: "Then eldest sister, you mean, if you follow the wall, you may touch these ghosts." ”
Li Xinwen continued: "I'm afraid it's not just that simple, there are probably traps under this water. In my opinion, the closer you get to this device, the safer it is, and in order not to destroy such a delicate device, it is impossible for them to set up too powerful mechanisms near it. The little monkey admired: "It is worthy of being the head of the eldest sister, the analysis is meticulous and there is no flaw." Little brother, you learn more, tell you to read more books, but you don't listen. "I also put on a sad expression of hatred for iron but not steel.
Liu Xiaoge, who was watching, was itchy and wanted to kick this thing down, but he did find that Li Xinwen actually cautiously stretched out her hand to touch these bells. Hurriedly grabbed Li Xinwen and said, "Are you crazy?" It's not like you've never seen the weirdness of these bells, and we're all going to be doomed if we get caught here. ”
Li Xinwen glared at Liu Xiaoge dissatisfiedly and said, "Then what should you tell me?" If you want to die, just jump off, and don't be afraid to get here. Besides, if you don't try it, how do you know that these bells must be unsolvable. was reprimanded by Li Xinwen, Liu Xiaoge was a little speechless, touched his nose and didn't dare to speak.
Li Xinwen continued to adjust her breathing and reached out to touch the bells again. Li Xinwen carefully opened her hands and gradually brought them together, touching the bronze bell lightly with the palms of her hands, and then without waiting for the bell to react, she directly closed her hands and wrapped the bronze bell in her palm. At the same time, he beckoned Liu Xiaoge to take out the dagger and stab it through the gap in his palm.
It was also the first time for Liu Xiaoge to participate in cracking such a sophisticated mechanism, and he was suddenly nervous, and he was afraid that he would make a mistake, so he was nervous. Liu Xiaoge inserted the dagger into the slit of his palm, and soon came across the bronze bell that was tightly covered by Li Xinwen. Under Li Xinwen's explanation, she pierced into the gap of the bell, and then heard the sound of something cracking.
Liu Xiaoge knew that it was done, and sure enough, as Li Xinwen's palm was released, the bell actually snapped into two halves, revealing the delicate pinion in the bell. The little monkey came up and looked at it and exclaimed, "Am I still a bell by this?" The gears here are more complicated than my watch. ”
Unlike Liu Xiaoge and the little monkey's joy, Li Xinwen was still worried, she knew that the key to cracking this mechanism was not these bells, but these copper wires tied to the bells. At this time, the copper wire that had just been removed from the bell suddenly broke down.
Li Xinwen hurriedly shouted: "It's not good, cover your ears quickly." Then a series of bells rang and clanged. That strange feeling of blushing and heartbeat reappeared, and just when Liu Xiaoge felt a little chest tightness and dizziness, and his body was shaking, the ringing of the bell stopped.
Once again, everything returned to calm, and the three of them looked at each other with a sigh of relief. The little monkey covered his forehead and said, "It seems that this mechanism is not as powerful as imagined, let's hurry up, don't cut the bell, just cut the copper wire." After his words were finished, Li Xinwen shook her head and said with a pale face: "I'm afraid we'll get into trouble, let's wait and see what happens." ”
As the string of broken bells fell into the water, the mountain wall with the bells not far away shook violently, and a huge rock hanging from the mountain wall suddenly fell. With a sharp pull of the bronze chain hanging from the boulder, the bronze gears in front of them, which had been fixed in front of them, made a violent clicking sound, and then the bronze gears began to rotate.
Because it has not rotated for a long time, the bearing is a little rusty, and it makes a tooth-sore noise under this turn. Li Xinwen covered her ears and said, "We can't stay here anymore, we have to run quickly." "In fact, without Li Xinwen's reflection, Liu Xiaoge also knows that they are afraid that they are really in trouble, and they are still in big trouble.
As more and more bronze gears began to spin, the whole cavern began to tremble. One after another, the boulders that were originally fixed on the rock wall slipped down one by one, and more and more bronze chains were driven, and the movement became more and more terrifying. Li Xinwen didn't say a word, snatched Liu Xiaoge's dagger, and cut off all the copper wires in front of her with a knife.
At the same time, he said calmly: "Since the mechanism has been triggered, don't hide it, let's run, it's best to run there." With that, he swung the flashlight and pointed to a black shadow wrapped around the top of the deep cavern among the countless gears. Although I don't know how Li Xinwen judged that it was safe, she could only try it now.
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