Chapter 177: The Gate Opens
?“ Hey! Hey! "Wait until all the people in the camp are here. The sixteen people on Xiao Na's side, plus the six people on Chen Ziyang's side, a total of twenty-two people stood in a straight line, shouting slogans together and pulling out the hemp rope tied to the circular stone plate.
But I don't know if it's because the three civil engineers didn't exert their strength, or because the stone plate is too heavy. Under the pull of more than twenty people, the disc was motionless, not to mention the heavy gate.
Could it be that my judgment was wrong? Chen Ziyang hesitated a little, and then when everyone was resting, he stepped forward again to carefully observe the round stone plate. All signs show that his judgment should be correct, and it seems that he should be able to lure out the snipers that Xiao Na is hiding at this time. So Chen Ziyang called Xiao Na aside and told her that these people couldn't pull this mechanism at all, and asked her if there was any other way.
Xiao Na's eyes rolled, and then asked everyone to pull together, and tried again, but she still couldn't pull the stone plate, so she called Wang Dawei aside, and the two of them discussed something, and then Xiao Na nodded helplessly, said something to the walkie-talkie, and then let everyone rest.
Chen Ziyang obviously didn't expect this disc to be so heavy, originally he just wanted to test it and take the opportunity to see if he could lure out a few of Xiao Na's snipers, but looking at the current posture, even if there are a few more people, it will still be very laborious to pull this disc.
In this case, three of these small trees are definitely not enough, because after the disc is pulled to a certain angle, the rope tied to the wooden stick will fall, so it is necessary to insert a wooden stick at the top of the disc again.
About an hour and a half later, six people came to Shawna. Chen Ziyang secretly looked at these six people, these six people were dressed basically the same as the others under Xiao Na's hands, except that three of them were carrying sniper rifles, which should be three snipers, and three other people should be observers, this turned out to be the configuration of army snipers, and I don't know what kind of background this Xiao Na is, he can command such a very professional force.
Chen Ziyang became more and more cautious, it seems that it is not feasible to play with these people, it is easy to put his life into it, it is better to honestly help them find the treasure and retire quickly. This Xiao Na is also hidden deep enough, before Chen Ziyang thought that Xiao Na was hiding at most two snipers, but he didn't expect that six people would appear at once, and I don't know if these people are all the people outside, maybe Xiao Na still has a back hand until now.
After another half hour or so, Wang Dawei and his party also returned, and this time they brought back enough tree trunks. The people started to pick out some trunks of similar thickness, sawed them all to the same length, and then inserted them into the holes of the disc one by one, except for some holes at the bottom of the disc that could not be inserted into the sticks for the time being due to angle problems, the other holes were filled.
Chen Ziyang nodded at Yang Lei and Umbrella Shishuai, meaning to tell them that they could use their strength. This time, everyone still stood in a long row, one by one like a tug-of-war, shouting slogans and pulling the rope vigorously.
"One-two, hard, one-two, hey!"
With each slogan shouted, everyone pulled back together, and after five or six strokes, suddenly, everyone felt the rope in their hands move, and at the same time saw a large piece of dust coming out from the junction of the disc and the mountain, and with the dust drifting, everyone heard the sound of gold and iron rubbing. The sound was very harsh, like the sound of an old bearing that had been rusted for many years and suddenly began to turn.
Just when everyone was overjoyed because they had pulled the mechanism, suddenly everyone felt that the rope in their hands was loosened, and everyone fell backwards in unison, and fell down in a row, and the rope tied to the disc fell off the trunk.
Everyone quickly stood up and patted the ash on their buttocks, and then Xiao Na arranged for someone to go up and tie a rope to the top stake again. In this way, everyone pulled the hemp rope again and again, with the slow rotation of the disc, the harsh sound of metal friction gradually became smaller, after the disc rotated for a whole week, everyone felt that the force on the rope suddenly increased, and there was no effort to pull up before.
After a one-time pull, the huge bronze gate rumbled and opened a small crack inward. A gust of wind mixed with the smell of mildew and dust hit the face, and everyone couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses. When there was no more air flowing from the crack in the door, the group continued to pull the circular stone plate until a gap opened between the two gates that could accommodate a person.
Xiao Na sent someone to go into the gap and take a few looks, it was dark inside, and there was nothing else to see, and there should be a passage behind the door. In this afternoon, everyone's physical exertion was very strong, and it was not suitable to continue to go deeper now, so Xiao Na asked everyone to camp in the stone crevice away from the gate, and rest briefly for one night, and at the same time arranged for people to guard the gate in shifts to prevent anything unexpected from happening.
After the door opened, Shauna went to the place where the golden gear had been placed again, trying to retrieve it. However, she found that with the opening of the gate, and with the rotation of the circular stone plate mechanism, the circular iron ring inlaid with golden gears no longer knew where it had been turned, and it was estimated that it had entered the mountain and formed an indispensable part of the mechanism.
It seems that the only way to recover this golden gear is to wait for the gate to close, but it took so much effort for everyone to open the gate, which is obviously impossible, and the task of the golden gear has been completed, so it doesn't matter if you can get it back or not.
After dinner, Yang Lei and Chen Ziyang gathered around the fire, and Yang Lei asked Chen Ziyang: "I said Er Yang, why do I feel that this tomb is different from other eyes?" Other tombs are sealed and dead, why did this tomb deliberately leave a key outside? It's as if I'm afraid that others won't know. ”
"Theoretically speaking, this Bohai Palace is not a tomb, although it was built to be used as a tomb, but later it was changed to a place to hide treasures. Since it is a place where treasures are hidden, future generations will definitely come to collect them, so the design here is very different from that of the tomb.
The tombs are all sealed, for fear that others will enter, but in this kind of treasure hiding place, there will definitely be some passages and other things, just so that the person who buried the treasure can go back and get it. But equally, the anti-theft measures here may be much more powerful than in ordinary tombs, and they are much more abundant, just to prevent someone from straying into this place and taking the treasure inside. ”
"You mean there could be a lot of traps in there?"
"I guess it will be like this, take today's opening of the gate as an example, if there is no golden gear, we may not be able to open this gate with much effort, so I estimate that there must be a lot of organs in this Bohai Sea, and according to the state of this gate, although the mechanism in this one is a little old, but it is still very smart, we should be careful after entering."
But in the same way, all the mechanisms must have their way to crack it, and there will be a shortcut that will not be blocked, otherwise, it will cause a lot of trouble to the people who take the treasure later. ”
"Then can you crack it, we don't have anything but this gold disk, and now we don't even have this gold disk."
"Let's take one step at a time!"
"Why is this sentence ......" Every time he was in a desperate situation, Chen Ziyang said this sentence to Yang Lei, which made Yang Lei feel uncomfortable when he heard this sentence now.
"We don't have any reliance now, the rest is to rely on Brother Umbrella, he has been a sapper, he has a keen intuition for danger, and his bomb disposal technique is also very useful when used to crack the mechanism, and he also learned the content of the work set, with him by our side, he is somewhat confident, go back and tell Brother Umbrella, be careful after entering, and the two of us should not be too far away from him."
After the two of them finished discussing, they fell asleep.
Early the next morning, the noisy sound woke everyone up, and Xiao Na was arranging the team. Originally, Xiao Na still wanted a few irrelevant people to take the lead and avoid casualties among their own people, but Chen Ziyang stood up, and he very much disagreed with this approach.
Untrained people are more likely to panic in case of an emergency, which makes it easier to trigger the mechanisms in the dungeon. At the same time, let them walk in front, and they will not find anything strange, and it is easy to miss some details, so it is better to let the trained soldiers walk in front. After all, the two sides are now in a cooperative relationship, and Chen Ziyang doesn't want his people to be used by Xiao Na as a substitute for the dead.
Xiao Na and Wang Dawei discussed for a while, and the two of them accepted Chen Ziyang's suggestion. Chen Ziyang and the other six people were also issued some basic equipment, and then Xiao Na still left the six snipers and observers, letting them stay on guard outside the cave, and at the same time facilitate the response, and the others walked behind the huge bronze gate one by one.
The first to go were four of Xiao Na's soldiers, followed by Chen Ziyang and Umbrella Shishuai, because Xiao Na needed these two people to deal with the organs in the dungeon. followed by Xiao Na and Wang Dawei, Yang Lei and others.
Almost everyone in Xiao Na's people has a huge flashlight in their hands, and Chen Ziyang also divided one, this kind of flashlight is very heavy, it is estimated that the battery is too large, it seems that the battery power of this kind of flashlight can be used for a long time. At the same time, the light emitted by this flashlight is also very strong, and if it is set to high beam mode, it shines very far.
The two soldiers at the front of the line each held a hand-held air quality monitor. The green light on the instrument tells everyone that the oxygen content of the air here is relatively sufficient, and at the same time, there is no harm to the human body. Looking at the professional equipment of these people, Yang Lei and Chen Ziyang really admired the five-body casting.
Having entered the two tombs, they know the importance of these instruments, and the instruments carried by Xiao Na's team are not only very small and practical, but also indispensable.
After entering the tomb, Chen Ziyang looked at the stone walls on both sides, between all the stone bricks and the joints of the mountain, they were cast with molten iron, and after the molten iron solidified, a fixed iron cage was formed, and the stone bricks and stones and the mountain were sealed to death, strong and abnormal, this is really the tomb style of the Tang Dynasty, the underground palace was built very strong, if it was not for the entrance of the bronze gate, even if these people carried more explosives, it would not be enough.
The floor of the passage was not very clean, there were shriveled mud lumps one by one, and the stench of the dungeon was emanating from it. The whole passage is not very long, only twenty or thirty meters. By the time the last two men in the line had crossed the stone gate, the two soldiers at the front of the line had already reached the end of the passage.
A few people looked along the flashlight, and the place behind the passage was pitch black, and the flashlight couldn't shine anything, obviously there was a lot of space. And a few people saw that the ground in front of them suddenly rose a large block, and in front of them it was something like a huge stone platform, as if there were some patterns carved on it.
Because the situation was unknown, a few people stopped, and then the people behind followed one after another, all of them stopped at the exit of this passage. In order to find out what was going on, Xiao Na ordered a flare to be fired, and when the flare was raised, it suddenly illuminated the space unusually brightly, a huge space inside the mountain, and it was impossible to tell whether it was man-made or naturally formed, as if the entire mountain had been hollowed out of it.
However, because everyone's vision was blocked by the stone platform, they didn't have time to see the things in this space clearly, but everyone was startled by a noisy clattering sound. Then the clattering sound grew louder and louder, and the crowd realized that the sound was coming from the top of their heads.
Looking up, through the light emitted by the flares, everyone saw a surprising scene, only to see that the top of the inner space of the mountain was densely hung upside down countless bats, probably frightened by the flares, these bats fell from the top of the mountain one by one howling, and then spread their wings in mid-air and flew everywhere.
In just a few seconds, the space inside this mountain was filled with countless flying bats. Subsequently, one after another bats flew to the heads of Chen Ziyang and others, and from time to time, a person was attacked by bats and was scratched.
At this time, Chen Ziyang realized that those on the ground were not mud at all, and the ones in front of them were not stone platforms, they were bat droppings accumulated over an unknown number of years.
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