Chapter 43: Soft Silk
It's not a tunnel, it's a boxy stone chamber that is empty and empty.
I couldn't help but be vigilant, and sniffed the air carefully, in case there was biogas or something like that, of course, the same mechanism, I believe that the ancestors of the Zhang family don't need to use it a second time, but God knows if they will replace the biogas with poisonous gas?
Immediately afterwards, the fat man stayed behind to light the lights for us, and the other six of us entered in a column, stepping on every step as usual where the people in front of us had stepped on, in order to be foolproof.
Soon, we had reached the center of the stone chamber, and everyone was nervous, but until this time, nothing had happened. On the eve of a storm, the sea is always exceptionally calm, and this calmness is not what we expected.
This stone chamber definitely has a mechanism, and it is an active attack mechanism, which will not wait for us to touch it, but will take the initiative to pounce and kill us. But at this time, seeing that we were about to reach the fourth stone door, there was still no movement.
It's like a sheep waiting to be slaughtered, with a knife hanging over its head, but it just doesn't cut it down, so that the sheep is always in a state of heart twitching.
Soon, we were only a few steps away from the fourth stone gate, and I began to lose the bottom of my heart, and my heart said that it would be difficult to achieve this level, and the ancestors of the Zhang family began to release water? Or is it that the fat man was standing outside the door, so it worked, and the personnel were not gathered, or that the stone gate was not closed, and the mechanism was not activated?
If that's the case, then God help me. Because if that's the case, then there's a very simple way to get the rest of our journey going all the way.
For example, the current situation.
When we open the fourth door, we will also leave one person in this stone chamber to guard it, so that the third and fourth doors will be open. Immediately afterwards, the fat man came in again, and at this time, there were two people left in this stone room, and one person stayed behind, and one person advanced, so that the weight on both sides of the stone door would always show an unequal tendency, so that they would never be attacked.
In fact, it's a very simple math problem.
Come to think of it, reality is always cruel, and just when we were almost one step away from the fourth stone gate, a mutation suddenly happened.
The wall tiles in front of us began to move like a jumping keyboard, especially the stone bricks overhead, almost all of them were turned over, and the stone chamber was instantly filled with the clicking sound of the stone bricks in operation.
I don't know what came out this time, but at the moment when the stone bricks changed, I subconsciously took a few steps back, and opened a certain distance from the person in front of me.
And at this moment, the movement of the stone bricks stopped, and at the same time, in front of my eyes, something extremely small, like a steel wire, appeared.
These things were stacked on top of each other, so tiny that they were linked to the wall left and right, and I could barely see them if they weren't too close. These things should have been hidden inside the floor tiles, and as soon as the mechanism was activated, the stone bricks were flipped over, exposing all the dense steel wires of these hair thicknesses.
The process took almost a few seconds, and it was so fast that I could see the wires for a split second, and before I could make any other guesses, the wires had disappeared from my eyes.
I was instantly reminded of a very bright mechanism in history.
Its first appearance was unearthed in an ancient tomb in the Qinling Emperor's Valley, when the archaeologists touched the mechanism due to ignorance, resulting in the tragedy of two deaths and one disabled, and the archaeologists called this kind of mechanism 'soft wire buckle'.
Its principle of action is that it is very fine and can be buried behind the brick joint, and when it starts, the stone bricks are all turned over, revealing the steel wire inside. Of course, it is not made of complete steel wire, but a peculiar forging technique in ancient times, which makes the soft wire extremely flexible, as thin as a hair, and very strong.
When the trap is activated, these soft filaments form a spider web-like structure, and then move quickly as a whole under the impetus of the trap, so that the soft filaments become extremely sharp under the impetus of speed.
And because of the dense layout, once you fall in, from top to bottom, from left to right, it is all this kind of soft silk, so that people have no place to hide.
Therefore, the two archaeologists at that time, at the moment when the mechanism was activated, were directly cut off their heads, because the heads were relatively high, and they were the first to contact the soft wires.
The last one was closer to the exit, and then the family reflected quickly, so he immediately rolled on the spot and climbed out, but the speed of the mechanism was too fast, and he was still cut off by the soft wire, and became disabled.
I immediately understood how this fourth mechanism works, but I understand that it's too late to say anything, the mechanism has been activated, and the speed is amazing, and the reason why the soft silk disappeared from my sight just now is because it has begun to move, and the small soft silk like a hair, moving quickly, my eyes, of course, can't catch it.
I yelled, "Run!" "But it was too late, and it was Ha Ming who was at the forefront, he was the closest to the stone gate, and therefore the closest to the mechanism, and the moment the soft silk disappeared from my sight, a stream of blood spurted out, and a human head rolled to the ground with a gurgling face.
This speed is too fast, although the speed of the internal push of the soft filament is not comparable to the speed of the bullet, but it is not something that a normal person can dodge.
A person who was alive a moment ago, and his head fell to the ground the next moment, the impact of this scene was too great, but I couldn't think of anything in my head, and subconsciously pulled my legs and ran, and then thought that the higher the person, the first to hit, so I immediately lay down and crawled forward.
At this time, Zhang Tangrui and the others obviously understood that no one cared about Ha Ming, in fact, it was superfluous to even express their grief now, because if they couldn't climb out when the soft silk swept to the bottom, all of us would end up with him.
At this time, the Zhang family and his party all lay on the ground, no one dared to line up in a column, and the group climbed forward in embarrassment, bringing the speed to the extreme, however, it was still too late, and the speed of the person was not as fast as the launch mechanism after all, especially in this kind of situation where you can't run, can't jump, and can only be afraid.
I felt like I had only climbed a few steps before suddenly a soft thread appeared in my eyes again, and it was pressed down from the top of my head, and there were countless lines in total, but once it was pressed down, I would definitely be cut apart in an instant.
At this moment, I couldn't think of anything in my head, because it was too fast. From the activation of the mechanism, to now, it is almost less than forty seconds, forty seconds, from life to death, where else can I think of anything, I only feel that my mind is blank, and only the soft filament that is pressed down on me is left in my eyes.
Then the picture seemed to freeze, and the soft silk stopped when it was almost twenty centimeters away from me.
My whole brain was stiff, and I instinctively wanted to get up, but suddenly I heard a shout: "Don't move!" It was Zhang Tangrui's voice, so I immediately stopped moving.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Tangrui said again: "The mechanism has stopped, everyone be careful." ”
Stopped?
How did it suddenly stop?
The danger of this mechanism is almost like killing a group of people, and we have no hope of survival, but at this time, the mechanism has stopped? The scene was so dramatic that I couldn't react to it.
At the other end, the fat man standing behind the third door shouted, "Damn, what's going on!" How did Ha Ming's head fly out! Listening to the voice, the fat man was obviously terrified.
The fat man was far away, and the soft silk was only the thickness of a hair, coupled with the high-speed operation, the fat man estimated that he couldn't see these soft wires at that time, and only saw that we were on the way forward, the stone bricks turned over, and then, Heming's head flew out.
And at this moment, not only the head, but also because He Ming was at the forefront, all the soft filaments pressed towards him first, these soft filaments were fast and dense like spider webs, and the moment He Ming's head flew out, the corpse that had not yet fallen was also instantly cut into pieces of fist-sized meat.
The ground was full of blood, all blood and flesh.
After the fat man finished speaking, I realized that the smell of blood in the air was terrible.
No one answered the fat man, so we carefully got up, or avoided, or climbed, or rolled, using various postures, avoiding the slender soft wires, and slowly moved towards the safety of the fat man.
The mechanism apparently stopped suddenly, and I don't know if it was because it had been malfunctioning for too long, or for some other reason, so the soft filaments were densely packed all over the stone room.
As for the flesh on the ground, according to my estimate, after the mechanism is activated, the floor tiles on the ground should also be flipped, and if my estimate is correct, there is probably a big pit under our feet, and when the floor tiles are turned, all the flesh and blood on it will be dumped.
But now, something went wrong with the mechanism, so the blood quickly stained the ground, and the baby's fist-sized pieces of flesh could be seen everywhere, the only intact being the head that flew farther away, which had not yet been cut by the soft wire.
No one spoke, we cautiously finally entered the safety zone, everyone's faces were pale, Ha Ming's own brother Ha Qing, the whole person seemed to be hit by the sky, looking at the head of his brother in the distance, stunned like a puppet.