Chapter 711: Someone Is Coming
When the people came before, they had to follow a "T" shaped passage and turned 90 degrees before arriving here. Now the seven men had returned the same way, and the fork in the "T" passage to the right had been blocked by a wall. What was originally a T-shaped path has been turned into a straight path.
This sudden appearance of the wall and the surrounding walls look almost identical, there is no sense of disobedience at all, if it is not for the people who have marked the ground in advance, they may not have noticed it at all, and they thought that the passage was originally like this.
Thinking about it this way, if there was another wall blocking the passage in front of the crowd, the whole team would be locked up, and the wall here was unusually strong, and if that were the case, things would not be easy.
The three Chen Ziyang brothers thought of this at the same time, and Chen Sanjin, who was following behind the three people, also thought of it. All four of them had serious expressions on their faces, thinking to themselves, I hope this worst thing doesn't happen.
With this apprehension in mind, the seven men continued to walk forward. After a while, two forks in the road that turned left and right appeared in their field of vision.
Seeing that a new fork in the road appeared, Chen Ziyang breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the people who designed the mechanism didn't want to trap them here completely, but after a little thought, he understood why.
It's not that the designer of this mechanism can't do this, it's that he doesn't dare to do it, or rather, he doesn't want to.
In addition to the fact that several movable stone walls are built very strongly, the walls here are very special and are built with a very special structure, if the walls are destroyed, there will be a chain reaction, and the bricks on the walls will collapse one by one, resulting in the collapse of the entire underground palace.
The builders of the labyrinth did this to protect the dungeon and prevent the poachers from violently destroying the dungeon. However, this structure also limits the variety of mechanisms in the labyrinth.
Once the builders of the labyrinth have trapped the diggers in one place, these people will definitely destroy the walls of the dungeon in order to find a way to escape, although the chances of escaping are very small, and it is better than being trapped here.
If the trapped people do this, the entire labyrinth will collapse, and the result will be that the dragon veins will be destroyed, and the treasures buried in the labyrinth will also be buried, and at the same time take the lives of some poachers, which is an outcome that the builders of the labyrinth do not want to see.
Because of this, when designing the mechanism, the builder of the labyrinth did not dare to use the kind of mechanism that completely trapped others, although it was very simple for him to do so, but there was really no way to do it.
What the builders of the maze want to see most is to use the constantly changing passages in the maze to slowly divide a whole large team into several smaller teams, and then use the mechanisms in the maze to eliminate these people little by little.
Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang knew that they would not be blocked in the dungeon, and every time the walls of the maze changed, they would leave a passage to walk through, or open a new passage.
While this may seem reassuring, it means that the more you get to the center of the labyrinth, the more murderous the mechanism becomes, the more powerful it becomes, and the more difficult it is to dodge.
After a few hours, all seven of them couldn't walk. Over the course of several hours, everyone took turns to find their way ahead, and four traps were triggered during this time.
The triggers were essentially the same as the first, with a wall suddenly appearing at the back of the party and the labyrinth's passages changing. However, due to the relatively small number of people in the team, the seven people were not divided again.
When the last trap was triggered, the wall suddenly appeared very close to the last member of the party. Judging from the distance from the starting point of the team to this team member, Chen Ziyang knew that the mechanism that divided the team had basically been triggered.
Judging from the distance of these walls that suddenly appeared, even a team of hundreds of people, after triggering so many traps in succession, would be divided into a few small squads, and if the traps were triggered next, it might be a killer move.
Exhausted, the team had no choice but to stay in the passage to rest. They had already searched the resting place several times, and there was no way there was any mechanism on the ground. As soon as they stopped, all the people were so tired that they fell to the ground like a puddle of mud and could not get up.
The ground here is very cold, and there are bursts of cold air, and the stone bricks on the ground still smell of musty from time to time. Chen Ziyang estimates that this is due to the relationship between groundwater and groundwater.
This underground palace was originally under the ground, and through the previous observation outside the underground palace, and the water in the deep well trap that suddenly appeared, the area of groundwater under the entire underground palace should be very large, but fortunately, the mountains here are all stone mountains, and the underground palace is built unusually strong, otherwise, in such an environment for nearly 400 years, the underground palace would have collapsed long ago.
The seven of them didn't sleep very comfortably that night, and the moisture on the ground seemed to enter the bodies of the seven people, making their muscles even more sore. However, it was a night's rest, and the seven of them regained some strength.
The labyrinth in front of you still seems to have no end, and walking here can only see the same stone walls on both sides moving backwards little by little.
After only walking for more than a day, the mood of the seven people has changed a lot, they are eager to leave here quickly, or reach the end of this trip as soon as possible, the pressure from this underground palace is really very great, making people anxious.
It was on this day that there were casualties in the ranks. First, one of the team members accidentally hit the trap and fell into a deep well that suddenly appeared, and was impaled through the body by several spears. Later, another member of the team was smashed into a meat pie by a stone carved into the shape of a brick wall that fell from the top of the dungeon, and slept in this dungeon.
Fortunately, the remaining five people are very experienced, and the speed of reaction is also very fast, they have avoided the trap several times, but Yang Lei and Umbrella Shishuai still suffered some minor injuries.
The mechanisms in the labyrinth are getting denser and denser, and at the same time, the lethality is getting stronger and stronger, and the end point seems to be non-existent, even Yang Lei, who has always been a fan of money, retreated and kept muttering that he wanted to leave. However, Chen Ziyang found that the current maze seemed to be a little different.
Up to now, the team has walked dozens of kilometers. Forks in the maze appear more and more frequently, and the passage seems to have narrowed a lot. All of this means that the team is already close to the center of the maze. Because the area of this area is not large, the maze will have such a change.
Although Chen Ziyang did not see any stone carvings carved into the shape of a giant dragon to attract dragon qi along the way, with the help of the compass and the sketch of the maze he had drawn, he felt that the center of the maze was really not far away.
"Dash...... Da Da ......" A strange sound faintly came. For more than a day, the most heard sound of a few people was their footsteps, and now suddenly mixed in with other sounds, and everyone knew that something must have happened.
"That's ...... Gunshot? Hearing the sound coming, Umbrella Shi Shuai said with great certainty. The sound was a little small, so he didn't really hear it.
"Gunshots? How can it be? The stone walls here are so thick that there is no way to hear them before. After we were separated, I leaned on the wall and banged hard, but I didn't hear a sound coming from the other side. Chen Sanjin said with some disbelieving.
Although Chen Sanjin's judgment has some truth, he is not very sure. The sound that came just now was indeed a bit like a gunshot, so he leaned on the stone wall and listened attentively.
"That's right, it's supposed to be gunshots!" After also lying on the stone wall and hearing such a sound again, Chen Ziyang said with great certainty.
"We should have approached the center of the labyrinth, limited by the area area, although the passage here is still very complicated, but the thickness of the stone wall should have been reduced a lot, the stone wall has become thinner, which is why the gunshots can be heard."
"Oh?" After thinking about it for a while and feeling that it made sense, Chen Sanjin hurriedly turned on his communicator and shouted loudly into the communicator, but only the noise of electricity came from the communicator, and he did not answer.
"Old man Chen, Liu Cong." After shouting a few times in all directions, but without getting an answer, Chen Sanjin slapped the wall with his steel gloves, hoping that the sound could be transmitted farther through the wall.
"Da Da ......" Another series of gunshots rang out. Because this time everyone was listening carefully, everyone listened more clearly.
"It's indeed gunshots, is it Old Man Chen, why do they shoot? Is there any danger? Chen Sanjin muttered to himself, and then his eyes widened sharply, and he said in surprise:
"Something is wrong! The sound of the gunfire is a little different, although it sounds like the sound of an automatic rifle, but it is not coming from such an automatic rifle in our hands at all, it should be someone else shooting, is it ...... It's the Dragon Diggers! How did they get here? ”
Hearing Chen Sanjin's words, Umbrella Shishuai frowned, and then he also nodded. Although he has been discharged from the army for many years, he still knows the sound of gunfire very well.
Liu Cong's team members use standard equipment, and every time they go out to perform a mission, they are issued with automatic rifles of this type, and Umbrella Shishuai has used it many times, so he is very familiar with the gunshots emitted by this automatic rifle.
Although the sound of gunfire was a little dull through the thick stone walls, he could still make out the difference between the two gunshots.
The frequency of the gunshots now seems to be faster, which means that the rate of fire of this automatic rifle should be slightly higher, and the gunfire seems to be more crisp, and the gun that fires should be of a different caliber than the gun in the hands of everyone.
"It's a disaster, Old Man Chen is in danger, hurry!" After discovering that other people had entered the labyrinth, Chen Sanjin suddenly became anxious, and at his urging, another member of the team hurriedly ran forward, and the two of them rushed forward one after the other, trying to find the source of the gunshot.
"Don't run around, watch out for the traps!" Chen Ziyang hurriedly reminded him that Chen Sanjin was now concerned and had forgotten where they were. Maybe it's because he hasn't been in the tomb for a long time, Chen Sanjin actually made such a low-level mistake.
After a few steps forward, there was a sudden rumbling sound from behind the wall on the side, followed by the sound of metal rubbing against stone.
At the side of the two men, several neatly arranged spikes like iron bars pierced the soil used to bind the stone bricks, and suddenly stretched out.
After hearing Chen Ziyang's reminder, Chen Sanjin had suddenly woken up, but at this time, the mechanism had been triggered, read the book
Fortunately, Chen Sanjin also crawled on the tip of the knife, his reaction speed was very fast, and he was very good at crawling on the cliff, and suddenly after seeing these spikes, Chen Sanjin put his steel gloves on the wall on the other side, and with a fierce force, he jumped forward for a long distance.
Perhaps the people who designed this mechanism didn't expect someone to be so fast, so the area of these iron bars is not too large. The sudden acceleration saved Chen Sanjin's life, and almost grazing the edge of the last iron bar, he rushed out of the range of the trap.
However, the team member who followed Chen Sanjin was not so lucky, and several sharp iron bars pierced his body, nailing him to the wall on the other side. Blood slowly flowed down the cracks of the stone bricks, gathering into a large pool on the ground.
However, the team member was not completely dead, his eyes showed despair, he wanted to open his mouth, but he couldn't speak, he wanted to raise his hand, but his arm was firmly nailed to the wall.
The crunching ...... slowly retracted backwards, and the player's body moved with it, until the bar was completely retracted into the wall, and the team member fell to the ground, motionless.
The "da-da" gunfire rang out again, this time the gunfire was particularly noisy, and it was obvious that it was the sound ......of two different automatic rifles firing at the same time.
"Old man Chen, they're fighting back! Fast! Although he lost a team member just now, after hearing the gunshots again, Chen Sanjin still couldn't hold back.
However, he also learned the previous lesson, and after jumping upwards violently, Chen Sanjin was lying on the stone wall, jumping forward like a huge gecko, and disappeared from the field of vision of the three Chen Ziyang brothers.