Chapter 33: The Flame Trap

I knelt in it for a long time and saw the exit, but because it was too high above the ground, I didn't think that the perfect solution could go down safely.

As a result, the fat man behind me suddenly startled me, and I had to slip my hand and fall directly from the hole.

The fat man lifted me up from the ground, and before I could check the geography around me, I suddenly heard the smoke man in front of me shouting into the distance, and I was startled to look ahead.

And the cigarette man in front of me shouted and ran forward quickly. At the same time, I noticed that the place where I fell was a square stone chamber, which was about the same as the previous stone chamber, except that it was very wide. And the Liu brothers and the others were standing not far in front, and a group of people seemed to be turning a thing that was placed on the ground, like a wheel.

The smoke man's voice was a step late, and someone had already turned the round wheel on the ground, and then he heard an abrupt clicking sound in the stone room, and when he heard it, he knew that the mechanism was touched.

The first thing I noticed above my head was that the exit of the square cavern where I had just fallen was sealed by a sliding stone slab. As a result, before I could scream, in the distance in front of us, that is, on the stone wall in front of us where Liu Da and the others were, a small square-shaped stone door suddenly appeared, quickly slashing to the left and right, and then there was a football-sized fireball, which rolled down in an instant, and smashed on the ground with a bang, and the fragments immediately ignited the ground.

It turned out that on the stone floor around the circular wheel, a very shallow ditch was exposed at some point. It was filled with flammable fuel grease similar to fire oil, and pieces of the fireball crashed and splattered everywhere. Immediately, the oil and grease in the ditch were ignited in an instant, and a raging fire burned around the square ditch with round wheels, trapping the Liu brothers, Yannan and others in the center of the stone chamber.

The fat man and I stood on the periphery of the ring of fire, and before we had time to get inside, the flames burned like hellish fires. Separated the two of us from the Liu brothers and others in the central position.

The originally dim and damp burial chamber was burned by blazing flames. The lights are bright, and the temperature is gradually rising. If you continue to stay in this confined space, even if you are lucky enough not to be burned to death by the fierce flames now, you will be choked to death by the billowing smoke. Or be roasted to a dry corpse by ferocious flames. Or eventually die of lack of oxygen, anyway, there are thousands of ways to die, but the hope of survival is gone.

The fat man and I moistened the scarf that had been soaked in the potion with water, tied it to the nose and mouth again, and then pressed our bodies against the cold stone wall, trying to stay away from the raging flames, and at the same time cooling down the hot body.

The furrow was more than three feet wide, and the flames that danced like demons were more than three feet high. Fire and water are the most ruthless. They don't hesitate to devour precious lives. At this time, there were people in the crowd surrounded by flames, who couldn't wait. They wanted to break out of the encirclement of the flames, but the moment they crossed the ditch, the flames in the ditch ignited it, and the burned people immediately fell into the ditch, letting out a terrible ghost crying wolf howl.

The painful experience of defying the law made other people in the encirclement no longer dare to act rashly. And at this moment, a person in the flame encirclement suddenly spontaneously combusted. The merciless flames devoured it in an instant, and before everyone could react, they left only a terrible wail, and they were burned alive by the flames.

In the blink of an eye, a body of charcoal lay horizontally in front of everyone.

The inexplicable spontaneous combustion made everyone in the flame circle immediately have an epiphany, the grease in the ditch seems to be very flammable and volatile, and can attach to the human body's clothing, and the static electricity generated inadvertently will immediately cause the flame to burn.

The fat man and I stood in the distance, stunned and looked at the sudden events in the fire circle, we were stunned and had a chill down my spine, I couldn't help but worry immediately, the smoke man was also surrounded by flames, and his life was in danger at any time, how is this good? What should I think of to save the cigarette man safely?

However, just as I was anxious to think about a plan, the smoke man who was surrounded in the middle of the fire suddenly flew and jumped, and stepped over the raging ring of fire unharmed, and rushed straight towards us. I looked at the smoker, who was blackened by the smoke, and when he came up to us and said to us, "Get out of here." ”

The people in the flame encirclement saw that the smoke man had escaped safely, and then they also wanted to step out of the fire circle, but they were immediately swallowed up by the demon-like flames in an instant, leaving a scream in the air.

I marveled at how the smoke man could have the function of fire prevention, and I couldn't help but wonder: Is it because of the 10,000-year-old cold poison on his body, so ordinary flames can't harm him. At this time, the fat man standing next to me had already opened his backpack and found the tools for climbing, intending to return to the square hole above.

The cigarette man held his iron rod in his hand and said to the fat man, "The original road has been sealed, find another exit." Then he leaned sideways to the stone wall in front of him and began to search around the walls around the perimeter of the ring of fire.

The fat man was about to show his dissatisfaction again, so I left and pointed to the sealed square hole above my head and explained to him: "It won't help to go back to the square cave from the beginning, the place is now sealed, and I can't get out at all." Or hurry up and find a way out of the outer perimeter of the flame encirclement. ”

The ferocious fire in the ditch did not abate, and the people in the flame encirclement began to shout loudly "help", because the fire was more fierce at this time, now from the outside, it was impossible to see the situation inside. But I knew in my heart that it would not take a moment for both the people in the flame encirclement and those of us on the periphery to be buried in this sea of fire.

The temperature in the bright stone room is already like a hot summer, the cold stone walls are baked hot, I and the fat man and I are groping side by side in front of the stone wall in the stone room, the beads of sweat are crackling and dripping mercilessly, and the exposed skin has become more and more ruddy, as if it has been severely sunburned.

I saw that the smoke man in the distance had turned and walked to the other side of the stone wall. The iron rod in his hand thumped against the walls and the ground from time to time. There are still people in the flame encirclement, trying to break out of the fire ring with a fluke attitude. But they were all swallowed up by the merciless flames, and at this time, there were no more living people left in the encirclement of the flames.

The ditch where the flames burned was close to the stone wall where the fireball was rolling, and there was no way to inspect the stone slab, and we had all checked the three stone walls on the periphery, and we didn't find any mechanism. The large stone slabs in the stone chamber are decorated with ornaments. There is also no carving half a point. I was clueless, and the fire in my heart was as strong as the flame burning in this stone room.

The wall of fire formed by the flames was burning. The temperature in the stone room was even higher than the "steam room" in the bathhouse, and the clothes on his body were already soaked with sweat. I put my backpack on the ground weakly, and the water in the kettle had turned lukewarm, which did not quench my hot thirst in the slightest. Looking at the flames burning in the distance like demons with fangs and claws. His eyes began to drift. At this point, the time of death has entered the state of the countdown.

The fat man was so hot that he took off all the clothes on his upper body, and asked me shirtless, "Lao Zheng, have you thought of a way to get out?" I think we still have to find a way to smash open the exit of the closed square hole above our heads, return to the square hole from the new, and climb back, it's better than being roasted here. ”

I heard the fat man's words, and the words "return from a new life" sounded like thunder in my head, and I hurriedly stood up. He took a few steps forward, then shouted into the flames, "Is there anyone else inside?" ”

Outcome. A sonorous reply immediately came from inside: "Yes." ”

I hurriedly said to the person who replied, "Go and turn that round wheel on the ground again." ”

The person inside didn't answer, and I was afraid that he wouldn't hear clearly, so I hurriedly shouted again, "Go and turn that round wheel." ”

The fat man got up from the ground, leaned over and said to me, "Lao Zheng, what bad idea do you have?" That's the mechanism where the fireball fell, and if another fireball drops later, it won't fuel the fire, and we'll not die faster. ”

I stared at the flames intently, but I couldn't see the situation inside, so I had to helplessly explain to the fat man: "You don't understand, this is called doing the opposite." It is possible to bring a qiē back to the original point from the beginning. ”

However, I waited for a long time before the encirclement of flames, and there was no answer or movement from inside. I felt dizzy as the air in the confined space was so thin that I paced restlessly that I wondered: Are the people inside dead, or do they not believe me? In the face of the only chance to avoid death, I could only pacing around the perimeter of the fire ring in a frenzy, and my inner torment was worse than the burns of the fire.

At this time, the cigarette man came over, handed me the backpack and said, "I'll go in." ”

Although the smoke man was able to escape from the fire ring intact just now, who can guarantee that there will be no problems next time, if the last time was lucky, it was just luck, and the next consequences would be unbearable, I couldn't let him take this risk, so I hurriedly stopped him and said: "Wait a minute, I'll shout again, the people inside probably don't believe what I say, I'll explain and communicate with them again." ”

The smoke man frowned slightly, and just wanted to say something, but suddenly heard a clicking sound echoing in the secret room, above the burning ditch, a stone slab suddenly appeared, and slowly slid out horizontally, blocking the fiercely burning flames in the ditch little by little.

When I saw this, I couldn't help but exclaim excitedly: "Great, successful." ”

The raging flames were gradually submerged by the stone slabs, like autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and disappeared without a trace, and the closed stone room returned to darkness again.

I turned on the flashlight and saw that there were less than ten people left in the flames, and it seemed that half of the personnel had been consumed by the relentless fire, but some of them had been chronically poisoned, and it was estimated that it would be difficult for them to get out of here alive.

The person in the center of the flame encirclement began to walk outward one after another, while I pulled the fat man inward.

The fat man swaggered forward with a proud attitude, I knew that he was demonstrating to the Liu brothers and others, and the meaning was obvious: Uncle Ben, who is not valued, saved your lives, and you dare to look down on me again?

I looked at the fat man's swaying strong and fat body, and felt inexplicably amused, so I said to him, "Are you crazy about being violent?" Why aren't you ashamed to walk through the market naked without clothes? ”

The fat man is a character who doesn't care about the image at all, where will he pay attention to these, he put on his clothes with martial power, and when he passed by the Liu brothers and others, he tilted his head, snorted coldly with his nose, and then walked over without looking back.

I smiled and nodded politely at the Liu brothers and the others, but the thoughts in my heart were the same as the fat man, secretly ridiculing these dogs who looked down on people.

The Liu brothers and the others smiled back awkwardly, and I walked quickly to the innermost stone wall and examined it carefully. I noticed that the whole large stone slab was only the bottom right corner, which seemed to be slightly different in the dimness, so I kicked it.

As a result, in the middle of the stone wall in front of me, suddenly a thin square stone slab swooped upward, revealing a rectangular niche inside.

At this time, the surrounding crowd also found that I had opened the mechanism on the stone wall, and they couldn't help but stop to watch, and some curious people had already gathered around.

The fat man looked at the alcove on the wall in surprise and asked, "Lao Zheng, what's the matter?" (To be continued......)