Chapter 16: The Key

There are two ways for this bronze man to save zài.

Either it's a religious ornament, in order to reflect what the owner of the tomb believes, or the world after death that the owner of the tomb hopes for.

Either it has an important role, controlling the organs inside, and there are some things that we can't think of for the time being.

I'm more inclined to the latter, the craftsman doesn't go to such a great deal of effort to make a candle for viewing, right?

If you think about it carefully, if the candle goes out and triggers the mechanism, then the candle will definitely be easily extinguished, and the builder wishes that the intruder would quickly trigger the mechanism and bury the tomb owner.

Nowadays, the candle is set up so exaggeratedly that it can be seen that it is very afraid that it will be extinguished casually, and the deadly mechanism behind the guide zhì will fail, and only those who have mastered the correct extinguishing method can enter the tomb smoothly, which must be the case.

If there is something wrong with this candle, it will definitely affect the path we will take in the future, and it must be beneficial to us.

We must extinguish this candle, which will be necessary for us to take the first step successfully.

I asked Jiang Rou: "This candle is not afraid of wind or water, is there a way to extinguish it at the bottom?" Think about it, as long as you can destroy it, we can arrange it for you. ”

Jiang Rou tilted her head and asked me, "Why are you so good at a candle?" It's a good candle, it's burned well, and it can still illuminate us. ”

I will tell you my theory: "The builder did not want the candle to be extinguished, and he must have turned off the mechanism when the candle was extinguished, and whether we could enter it safely or not depends on the candle." ”

Jiang Rou wiped her hands on her body and said, "Yo roar, it seems that extinguishing this candle is still a difficult task, don't worry, I will definitely live up to everyone's expectations." ”

So we watched Jiang Rou and carefully picked up the candle, as if she was holding an explosive bag in her hand now, and she would blow it up at any time.

Without waiting for all of us to get ready, Jiang Rou stretched out her arms to the ground at a very fast speed, like catching shrimps, and directly extinguished the candle.

It took everyone a long time to come back to their senses, and they shouted at the same time: "Damn." ”

Jiang Li hurriedly stopped everyone from talking, and listened with his ears pricked up for a while.

I knew she was listening to the sound of a mechanism in the graveyard.

We all understood what Jiang Li meant, and we all listened with our ears pricked up.

It was quiet for about five minutes, and there was no sound in the graveyard except for the sound of nervous heartbeats and trembling breathing.

In the end, I finally lost my patience and was the first to speak: "Jiang Rou, Jiang Rou, you just play tricks, can you twist it up, don't you say it earlier, what are you pretending?" I thought you had to open the altar. ”

Jiang Rou smiled and said: "Waterproof and windproof do not mean anti-twisting, don't you who can smoke cigarette butts like this?" ”

Maybe it's because there are too many things to think about in my head, and I didn't even think about such a simple method, and I didn't touch it at all.

But it turned out that I was thinking too much, and not only did I miss the correct way to extinguish the candle, but even the mechanism didn't show up at all.

Maybe the ancient people were just bored, and made a candle that was difficult to extinguish, just to show off their wisdom, like those useless murals, made into tiles just to look good.

The fat brother stood up and urged everyone to hurry forward.

I looked at the dark corridor in front of me, and I was really a little impatient, and I didn't know when it would be a head? I'm guessing everyone else would be like me, otherwise they wouldn't have wasted so much time on this boring bronze statue.

In order to vent my irritability, I said to the fat brother, "What's the hurry? There is still a long way to go, so let's walk slowly step by step, and be prepared for a long-term struggle. ”

The fat brother said: "If you want to go, hurry up, you see this candle, it didn't burn for a long time, it means that the person who lit the candle is in front, let's move quickly, maybe we can catch up." Now we have to get the inside story and ask, otherwise it's a bit of a mess. ”

This is such an important point that all of us have overlooked.

That's right, when we came, the candle had just burned at the beginning, and when it was extinguished, it was still only the top, and I thought about how long the candle didn't burn, but I didn't expect that the person who lit the candle didn't go far.

Jiang Rou listened to the fat brother's words, broke off a little burned and solidified candle residue from the bottom of the candle, put it in her mouth and sipped it, then quickly spit it out, stretched out her tongue for a long time, spit out a few more mouthfuls of foam, and then said: "Don't worry, this candle is also special, don't say it for a while, if you burn it for a few hundred years, it won't burn half an inch." ”

I couldn't believe that there was such a candle, my eyes widened, and I asked Jiang Rou: "Are you sure?" How much energy can be saved by this process? Why don't you spread the spread? ”

Jiang Rou glanced at me and said with a smile: "You are still not convinced, which candle factory made such candles, doesn't you want to go out of business?" A family burns a candle for several generations, who buys the candle? There is this process, and no one does it. ”

Yan Qiu also smiled and said: "En, let's let the wax torch turn into ashes and start to dry this sentence, and pass it on to a few more generations." ”

Ever since I exposed my shortcomings, Su Rina has become very little talkative, and I have been enduring to be a bystander, watching the rest of us communicate, and I only occasionally say a word or two, which I am still a little unaccustomed to.

At this time, she was holding a flashlight, taking pictures of herself everywhere.

I asked Su Rina: "Hey, you don't say anything, what are you doing?" When did you become so stable? Have you changed everyone's beautiful style? ”

While continuing to shine on the wall, Su Rina said to me: "If you say too much, you will lose, and if you don't say anything, you will provoke me again." I think this bronze statue is a bit too abrupt, see if there are any other clues, how to set up a bronze statue alone, not even words or anything. ”

"Don't look for it, I see that the decoration team invited here is idle and has nothing to do, and it is estimated that the brain is not bright, and it belongs to obsessive-compulsive disorder." I said jokingly.

Ignoring me, Surina walked towards the wall on the side of the bronze figure, and stood below to shine up.

Our eyes were drawn to the light of the flashlight, and we went to observe the illuminated corridor wall.

Unexpectedly, there was a round hole on the wall of the road.

Even the candles were so cumbersome, and there was a hole in the wall, such a low-level mistake must not be accidental.

After careful observation, I found that the hole was about the same thickness as the candle.

I didn't say a word, took the candle in Jiang Rou's hand, and patted the fat brother on the shoulder again.

The fat guy immediately understood what I meant, crouched down and let me ride on his neck, and then struggled to stand up and raised my position.

This hole is too torturous, one person can't reach the height, and I'm a little tall on the fat brother's shoulder.

I had to bend down hard to insert the candle into the hole.

The effect was very obvious, and there was an immediate sound in the walls, and a chain reaction of the mechanism seemed particularly crisp and loud in the empty corridor.

With the sound of noise, the hateful-looking bronze dwarf next to him also slowly turned to our side. Sitting on the fat brother's neck, I can also feel the vibration of the ground, and the other people should feel the vibration more strongly than me.

It was as if I had opened a pirate's treasure, and I felt a burst of joy in my heart, it seemed that my guess was correct, this candle did have something to do with the mechanism, but it was not a button to control the mechanism, but a key to open a certain door, if it weren't for Su Rina's professionalism, we would have almost missed it.

The joy only lasted a few dozen seconds, and then our spirits entered the torment again.

The bronze figure only turned forty-five degrees, and the mechanism in the wall seemed to be stuck by something, as if a half-flushed toilet was suddenly blocked by something, and the sound stopped abruptly.

I pressed the candle hard with my fist, but nothing happened.

The fat brother carried me for a long time, tired enough, and slowly squatted down and put me back on the ground.

I looked at everyone helplessly and said, "No way, this organ is in disrepair, and half of it won't turn." ”

The fat brother ran to break the bronze statue again, trying to manually help it rotate, but unfortunately he didn't have enough strength, and it didn't work for a long time.

The deformed little man was still smiling at us, and now it looked more like a mockery.

Jiang Rou thought for a while and said, "No, listen to the sound, the mechanism inside is not rusty, I guess it's the wrong way you inserted it." ”

The fat brother smiled and said to Jiang Rou, "What? Would you like to change to another position? ”