The Ancient City of the Desert Chapter 54 The Elevator
I saw Ali holding an ancient jade in his hand, and this jade was indeed different from other jade. Compared to the emerald green of other ancient jade, this jade is white as a whole, and it looks like an eye, with a little black in the middle of the eyeball.
"This piece of jade is indeed something special, the shape of the eyes. It seems that the chieftain tribe worships the eyes very much. The fourth master took this piece of jade and said.
Everyone took turns to play for a while, and when they didn't find anything else, they gave it to Linglong. Everyone went to explore the stone crystal coffin again, but there were still no clues, so they began to look for the passage to the third floor.
The hall on the second floor turned around several times, but there was no passage to be found, which made us wonder if this stone tower had only these two floors. But it was quickly denied by us for two reasons. First, we have seen the height of this stone tower from the outside, although we can't see a few floors, but it is definitely not just these two floors. Second, Atu's escape must have found some way out.
We searched for a long time, and even knocked on the stone wall inch by inch to try to find the dark room, but we still didn't find anything. After tossing for so long, I was a little tired, so I had to take a rest first.
I smoked a cigarette and carefully relived the details in my head. My instinct told me that there was something wrong with my previous train of thought. The Chieftain tribe is very mysterious and weird, and in many places it cannot be speculated according to common sense. This stone tower has a lot of traps, and these traps must be guarding something. Obviously, there are more than just these two floors. So where is the entrance to the third floor?
I was thinking about it, when the scholar suddenly came over, spit out a smoke ring, and said, "Mr. Xia, the bones of the sprinkler family are almost scattered, I really want to take a hot bath and sleep well." There should be only two floors of this stone tower, if there are more than 20 floors, climb it with two feet, and don't vomit blood from the sprinklers. ”
"Wait, scholar! What did you just say?! "Something suddenly occurred to me, but the thought was like a slippery little loach that fell out of my hands.
"The Sprinkle family is so fucking tired, and the bones are going to fall apart."
"What else?"
"Fortunately, the stone tower only has two floors, if it is more than twenty floors, it will collapse."
"Yes, that's it." My heart moved, and I suddenly remembered that thought.
If the chieftain had built this stone tower, and had built it so tall, it would never have been possible to have only two floors inside, and no treasures had been put in. Then it is likely that there are multiple layers, and at least a third layer exists. We've been looking for an entrance, but we haven't found anything, so it's probably the wrong idea. The civilization of the chieftain people is very developed, so it must be amazing in terms of construction. The reason why I can't find the entrance to the third floor is that the method is wrong. We subconsciously think that the entrance to each floor should be at the corner of the staircase steps, but what if there are no stairs?
"What do you mean by Brother Nan? I didn't get it. After listening to my thoughts, Linglong was a little confused.
"I mean, what if the chieftains only use the stairs between the first and second floors, and the elevators above the second floor?" I explained further.
"Elevators? Will the chieftains also generate electricity? The scholar asked.
Faced with the scholar's tendons, I was also speechless. "I'm not talking about elevators, I'm talking about something akin to elevators. What if the third floor was led by an elevator mechanism? This explains why we couldn't find the steps leading to the third floor. ”
"Master Xia, then according to what you said, where is the elevator?" Ali asked.
Just now, a group of our minifigures carefully searched the hall on the second floor, but found nothing. So I reasoned that if there was an elevator-like mechanism, it would probably be somewhere on the first floor. In fact, this also hides the wisdom of the chieftain. The vast majority of people think that multi-storey buildings must be built layer by layer, and they use this psychology to make outsiders unconsciously fall into a dead end of thinking. As long as the mechanism is set on the first floor, it can be a good way to prevent outsiders from prying eyes on the secrets guarded by the stone tower.
Through my analysis, everyone felt that there was some truth, so a group of people went down to the first floor together and began to search the first floor.
The hall on the first floor was also very large, and everyone searched in groups of threes and twos, and found nothing other than the door being sealed. Everyone turned around and gathered together, and there was no darkness in the whole hall, and I also deliberately went to see the location of the dark room in the dream when I fell into the consciousness space, and knocked on it, and the wall was solid. Everyone looked at the big tripod standing in the middle. If there's anything out of the ordinary, it's the only one.
This time, the scholar also learned to be obedient and did not touch it without permission. Lao Xu walked around Dading, hoping you could see something. This Dading is now quiet and does not make any more sounds. On the side facing the gate, the mural is still engraved.
On the Dading mural, the person wearing an ornament on the left side and holding a cane is very stylish. It's just that I found that the person in this portrait is a little weird. After looking at it for a while, I finally knew what was weird. Both of this man's eyes are delicately depicted, but the left and right eyes are not the same. To be precise, it should be that the eyes are not quite right. The man's left eye was looking down at the prostrating crowd below, like a general reviewing his troops. But his right eye stared upwards blankly, empty and blank. This is a bit intriguing. Generally speaking, if the mural is treated with a photorealistic technique, the most taboo is the inconsistency between the body and eyes of the portrait figure, which makes the viewer very uncomfortable if the sense of disobedience is very heavy.
I tried to press my finger on the right eye of the man in the portrait, and sure enough, something was wrong. The position of the right eye actually slowly recess inward. As soon as I exerted my strength, I heard a click, and my right eye was completely sunken. Everyone present, including me, couldn't help but think of the ghost falcon, and immediately stepped back, huddled, pulled out guns, and went into a state of high alert. It was just that there was nothing but that click.
The scholar said, "We probably have killed all those things. Relax, everyone. By the way, Mr. Xia, this time it's your fault. didn't say anything in advance, which made the family tremble. ”
I just pressed it, but I didn't expect the blind cat to touch the dead mouse, and I really triggered the mechanism. It seems that there is indeed something wrong with this ding. I saw that the right eye was partially sunken, and it actually showed a hollow in the shape of one eye, and I suddenly remembered the special shape of white jade I saw on the second floor. I was shocked, and hurriedly called Linglong over.
"Linglong, give me the jade that looks like an eye." I think that since the second floor is a special floor, it is not only used to confuse outsiders, especially the special style of jade hidden at the bottom of the stone crystal coffin at the end, it must have its special role.
Although Linglong felt weird from the first meeting, she experienced this series of strange journeys and unconsciously began to get along with a few of us. Especially for me, I was very obedient. After listening to me, he immediately handed me the eye jade in his pocket.
I carefully inserted the jade stone into the hollow place of the big ding, and it actually fit perfectly! The jade was embedded, and the Dading made another sound, and then the floor began to shake.
"Fuck, Mr. Xia, have you lifted the Seagod Needle? This place is going to collapse, the Sprinkle family is not married yet, and the Sprinkle family doesn't want to die here! "The scholar just grabbed me and Lao Xu and brought us together.
My heart was also shaking with my body, and when I saw that Cao was staggering, Linglong fell to the side, and I was anxious, so I tried to lean towards Linglong and grabbed her hand.
When the fourth master shouted, they all squatted down and lowered their center of gravity. We had to do it, and it felt so much better.
After about three to five minutes, the shaking finally stopped. Dading moved to the side, revealing a big hole!
To be on the safe side, we waited a little longer, and indeed there was no longer any sound from the mechanism, and then we rushed in. The entrance to the cave was diagonally downward, connected by steps. The steps are all made of bluestone, smooth and neat, and it can be seen that they are artificially finely designed.
The light below is not good, so we turn on the tactical flashlight and can only explore slowly step by step. Fortunately, the steps were not too long, and we reached the bottom quickly.
Underneath was a narrow stone house, with nothing in it except a door embedded in the wall on one side. The shape of this door is very simple, with only two knockers on the left and right.
Ah Shun went over, motioned for us to step back, and then pulled the knocker hard, but there was no pull. He was a little annoyed and pressed harder, but the door still didn't open.
Since Lao Xu came down, he began to knock on the wall everywhere, but he didn't find anything, and when he saw that Ah Shun didn't pull away, he shook his head at everyone.
The fourth master said: "Since there is no switch, then you can only rely on strength."
So Linglong asked Cao to count several of them. They divided into two groups, pulled the knocker, shouted the trumpet, and forced the door open with their strength! The door opened, it was very dark inside, I adjusted the spotlight and looked, the depth was only more than two meters, but there was a passage above, it was pitch black, I don't know where it leads.
"Master Xia, it seems that you are really right. This should be the 'elevator' we are looking for. Ali said after reading it.
"So, what about the car? Can we climb up? But the shaft was so smooth on all sides. Even when the gecko comes, it has to cry and faint in the toilet. The scholar tried it with his hands and came to the conclusion that it was impossible to climb up.
"Don't worry. Since my inference is correct, then I am the one who is the Queen. If I were to design a door like this, it wouldn't be for people to climb up. Most likely, an elevator-like device will be installed. It's just that we don't know how this mechanism works. Now, it's best to wait a while and wait and see what happens. "I think there should be switches or mechanisms that can drive the car.
Lao Xu and I took a closer look, and there was no mechanism at the low end of the narrow stone house and the "elevator shaft" behind the door. I was depressed, wondering what was going on, when I suddenly heard the scholar mutter. I didn't hear too clearly, so I asked again.
The scholar shook his round head, which had few hairs, and said, "The Sprinkle family just said that the lifting device of his mother's chieftain was pulled up as a thatched house, right?" Just now, the Sprinkler family was inspecting the shaft, and a few drops of water actually fell on it, which fell on the head of the Sprinkler family, which was really unlucky. ”