Chapter 32 Brick Picking
I couldn't help but take two steps back and shouted Tang Linlin's name, who knew that this sound, the entire passage was full of responses, and it kept echoing Linlinlin...... Under the effect of the echo, the original voice changed, becoming extremely dull, as if some ghost was calling Tang Linlin's name.
I couldn't help but slam my mouth, my mind in a mess.
How could a living person suddenly disappear?
Don't...... Is there any mechanism? I'm reminded of some episodes in TV dramas where the floor tiles suddenly flip over and take the main character behind a wall or something. Although it's a bit nonsense, I can't help but wonder if Tang Linlin has fallen into some trap.
If that's the case, then it's a bad situation, because that kind of trap is usually a sharp iron vertebrae or something like that.
Thinking of this possibility, I immediately crouched down and followed the example of the main characters in the TV series, hitting the tiles on the ground with my hands, trying to hear the sound to tell if there were any hollowed-out traps under my feet. However, the sound that came out was very crisp.
Zhou Xuanye on the side understood my thoughts, and also squatted on the side and knocked on the floor tiles, knocking and knocking, his face suddenly became happy, and said, "I found it, there is a situation down here." "I saw the brick he had struck, and when I heard the sound, I knew that it was empty underneath.
The two of us were overjoyed, and we got together and pressed cautiously, but there was no movement at all, and judging from the gaps in the floor tiles, they were also very close.
Could it be that we are wrong?
But it's obviously empty down here, huh?
Zhou Xuanye frowned slightly, and decided: "Dig it up first." "Luckily, we had climbing tools in our kits, which came in handy, and the two big men worked together to quickly pry the floor tiles up.
When you pry it open, it's really empty underneath, but it's not a lot of space, and at best it can fit a cat, but definitely not a person.
However, at this moment, there is still something buried in this space.
It was in the state of a pipe, buried underneath and sunk into the tiles on both sides, and it looked quite long.
What is this?
Zhou Xuanye and I glanced at each other, both confused, what is this buried?
"Boss." I wanted to ask Tan Jian if he knew, so I turned around and called him, but when I turned around, I almost went crazy and screamed, because Tan Jian's girl was gone. I didn't care so much, I turned on the searchlight with the most power, and the whole passage was illuminated in an instant, only to see that at the end of the passage was a huge stone door that was closed, and the figurines on both sides extended to the outside of the stone gate.
There is nothing else in the entire tunnel except for the figurines, what happened to Tan Jian and Tang Linlin?
Oh my God, even if there is a mechanism like what is written in the TV series, then there should be a little sound when the mechanism is activated, right?
But we didn't hear anything!
Zhou Xuanye's expression changed greatly, and he jumped up suddenly, and the two of us couldn't care about the thing buried in the ground, and our four eyes kept searching the surroundings, almost staring at a hole in the wall, but we still found nothing.
Zhou Xuanye took a deep breath and said to me, "You stay close to me, we can't be separated anymore." I nodded, and walked to the position next to Zhou Xuanye, in fact, this is exactly what I thought in my heart.
Immediately afterwards, Zhou Xuanye said: "There is no sound of the mechanism activating, the people disappear too quickly, and there are only these figurines around, I suspect it has something to do with them." ”
They?
I stared at the nearest figurine, except for the facial features on the face that were painted a little weirder, the rest really didn't see anything powerful, could it be that the two big living people were not seen by these figurines?
After he finished speaking, he stood up, drew the Ghost Sword from behind him with his backhand, and aimed it at the figurine closest to us.
I was startled, knowing that Zhou Xuanye probably wanted to test if there was anything wrong with these figurines, so although my heart was pounding, I didn't stop it.
Zhou Xuanye's sword was very fast, from top to bottom, and it slashed down from the chest of the figurine. The sword was quite sharp and heavy, and as soon as the sword fell, the upper part of the figurine was cut in half, and a large piece of the shoulder fell to the ground, and the clods of earth on the surface also peeled off.
Coupled with this impact, the figurine failed to stand firmly, fell forward, slammed to the ground, and fell apart.
Although the figurine fell into a pile of soil, a cylindrical thing emerged from the center of the figurine. I subconsciously pried open the position of the floor tiles before, and saw that the things buried in it were exactly the same as the things in the body of the figurines.
And with the fall of the figurines, the thing tightened like a rubber band, accompanied by a piercing sound of the machine, and before Zhou Xuanye and I could understand what was going on, I suddenly smelled a pungent smell in my nose.
How do you describe the smell, it's weird, it's not bad, but it's definitely not good, it's similar to the smell of burning coal.
In the light of the flashlight, I saw that the figurine was originally standing, and in the cracks of the floor tiles, there were puffs of white smoke, and the smell was emitted by these smokes.
Now, even a fool knows that there must be something wrong with the smoke, and judging by the smell, it may be something similar to carbon monoxide.
The smoke came quickly, Zhou Xuanye and I hurriedly covered our noses, he took advantage of the situation to pull my arm, and said, "Quick, go out first!" ”
At this time, we can't take care of Tan Jian and the two of us for the time being, so we turned around and ran back, escaping from this damn place first. At this moment, the feet of the figurines who had not fallen were also smoking, but in a matter of moments, the place became foggy.
If this is carbon monoxide, I estimate that Zhou Xuanye and I will die, but it should be just something similar, and the damage doesn't work so quickly, so I don't feel anything at this time yet, it's just that there is too much smoke, and my eyes are hot.
Due to the thick smoke, our vision was also blocked, and we couldn't see the situation behind us at all, and when we ran a few steps to the corner before us, we realized that the passage was gone, and only a wall covered with stone bricks was left behind us!
I was dumbfounded and said, "This is the path that Master Zu let us take?" His old man is cheating on us! ”
Zhou Xuanye raised his arm to cover his nose and said, "Maybe the situation at the other end of the passage will be worse?" ”
I said, "Can it be worse than now?" "Damn it! I immediately pounded the wall with my hand that popped up in front of me, but it didn't move. In a hurry, I pulled out the mountaineering pry to smash it, and just about to get off the first pry, Zhou Xuanye grabbed my hand violently and said, "Don't move, you see, the real brick is wrong." ”
He motioned for me to take a closer look, and I saw that the place where the green bricks met, it was a little red, as if it was still filled with some red substance.
Just now, we searched for Tan Jian and Tang Linlin, and in order to find the mechanism, we also carefully checked the floor tiles, and the brick joints at that time were not red!
Thinking of this, I immediately ran back some distance and noticed that the brick joints in other places had also turned red.
That's right, there's definitely something wrong with that.
I put down the prud, smashed but couldn't smash, went out and couldn't get out, and the poisonous smoke was still increasing, and if we continued like this, even if we weren't poisoned, the oxygen here would run out sooner or later.
What to do?
In the smoke, Zhou Xuanye's face appeared and disappeared from time to time, and the expression on his face was even more obscure, and finally he said: "We have to think of other ways, and besides, Senior Brother, they are probably still trapped somewhere, we can't just go."
"So what now?" I heard that carbon monoxide poisoning is severe, and I also have incontinence, and I feel my scalp tingle just thinking about it. Even if it's not carbon monoxide, it's probably pretty much the same.
Zhou Xuanye didn't speak, as if he was thinking.
In my frustration, I remembered the strange tubes buried in the ground. All of this seems to have something to do with the stretching of the tube, and it is clear that it is the key to the control mechanism, and perhaps, we can start with it?
Thinking of this, I immediately covered my nose and told Zhou Xuanye my thoughts, there was no other way at this time, but to be a dead horse as a live horse doctor, so he didn't have any opinion, and immediately followed me, and the two of us returned to the pipe, and began to try, intending to find out how to control this thing.
Reaching out and touching it, the outer layer of this thing was wrapped in a layer of silk cloth-like things, cold and cold, and the inside seemed to be a very thin chain, and the ends were sunk into the floor tiles. I tried to pull it out, but I felt that the other end was very heavy, and the figurines around me seemed to be driven, and they shook with a crumbling appearance, and I quickly let go.
Zhou Xuanye seemed to have discovered something, and said with a thoughtful look on his face; "It's buried in the ground, and the end is in the figurines. Move it and you'll get smoke coming out of the ground...... I understood that the key point was underground, and the figurines were just an opportunity for the mechanism to be activated. We're going to have to put this thing back in its place to stop the smoke. ”
The surroundings were white, and I was already starting to feel dizzy, and said, "Brother Zhou, it's too late to block it now, it's all smoke." ”
Zhou Xuanye said: "Let's do it, you can't sit still." "Immediately, we started to pry the other tiles.