From the first crossbow shot to the two people falling to the ground, the whole process took only two seconds. In the space of these two seconds, at least ten crossbow arrows were fired from each rivet, while many more were shot from them.

Fortunately, at this time, the vast majority of the people in the team were surrounded by the wordless monument, a little farther away from the city gate, so they did not suffer from the storm of crossbow arrows.

Because the crossbow arrows fired at the same time were too dense, several crossbow arrows collided with each other after being fired, and several of them changed direction in mid-air and shot directly into the crowd.

The crossbow bolt came very suddenly, and the people in the team were caught off guard, and they didn't react at all, until the crossbow arrow hit the front of them, and they found out that it was not good.

The unlucky one was Jada, because he was so fat and so large that half of the crossbow arrows that were fired at the crowd were shot at his body.

Xu Xiaoyuan, who was standing next to Jada, reacted very quickly and moved very quickly. She threw out a bronze mirror with her left hand, directly blocking a crossbow arrow, and at the same time, her right hand pulled out a bronze tripod the size of a football like a juggle. Then Xu Xiaoyuan shook his hand and threw the bronze tripod out.

The bronze tripod spun rapidly in mid-air, drawing a graceful arc that slammed the rest of the bolts fired at Jada into a place where no one was around. Then this bronze Xiaoding was like a boomerang, turned back and flew back into Xu Xiaoyuan's hand, and was caught in her hand.

......After a series of dangdang sounds, the rest of the crossbow arrows shot at the crowd all fell to the ground mixed with silver-white darts, and at this time, Zhen Hao was holding six darts between the fingers of his hands, looking in the direction of Jada, with surprise in his eyes.

At this critical moment, Zhen Hao's reaction was also very fast, he used darts to shoot down the crossbow arrows that were shot at everyone, but when he wanted to continue to intercept the darts shot at Jada, he found that those darts had been blocked by Daogu and had been solved, it can be seen that Xu Xiaoyuan's shooting speed is comparable to his own, no wonder he was surprised.

At this time, the crowd reacted, and the team quickly retreated, away from the range of the city gate.

After a while, no more crossbow arrows were fired from the rivets of the city gate, but the sound of the machine was constantly ringing behind the city gate and inside the city wall near the city gate, and because the city wall was separated from the city gate, the heavy impact sounded particularly muffled.

"What is this for? Loaded with bullets? Ready to continue the attack? Listening to this frightening voice, Yang Lei said with palpitations.

After the sound of the machine stopped, the entire underground Imperial Tomb City fell silent again, and everything returned to the way it was when everyone first arrived here, except that at this time the ground was full of crossbow arrows, and there were two more corpses that had been stabbed into hedgehogs.

Miserable! It's miserable! This was the thought that the people in the team had together when they saw the two corpses on the ground after the catastrophe they had just experienced.

There were almost 200 rivets above the gates, and each rivet shot a dozen crossbow arrows. Although these crossbow arrows were not large, they could not hold a large number, and two or three thousand crossbow arrows spread a thick layer in front of the city gate.

There are two places in this carpet of crossbow arrows that stand out, and the crossbow arrows in other places are flat on the ground, but the crossbow arrows in these two places are all upright, faintly showing two human figures, which are the two dead team members who can no longer be transparent.

Saying that these two team members are like hedgehogs is already a little conservative, and the current tragic situation of these two people reminds Yang Lei of the straw men with bows and arrows on the warship when Zhuge Liang borrowed arrows. After having this thought, Yang Lei stuck out his tongue in embarrassment, he felt that this was a bit disrespectful to the deceased.

Although Xu Xiaoyuan and Zhenhao shot very timely just now, blocking all the crossbow arrows flying towards the team, there were still three people in the team who were injured.

The three men were scratched by crossbow arrows that had bounced off the stony ground. The force of the crossbow arrows is very large, and a large number of crossbow arrows are shot on the ground and rebound, radiating around, there are not a few such crossbow arrows, and they can't be stopped at all.

These three team members can be regarded as being hit by the splash damage of the crossbow bolt mechanism, but fortunately, after the rebound from the ground, the speed and power of the crossbow arrow have been greatly reduced, so these three people only suffered skin injuries, which can be regarded as a blessing in misfortune.

The tomb of the Taoist holy land is very safe, and everyone has not encountered a trace of danger at all, so it is a little careless. In addition, the people in the team were deeply shocked by the grandeur of the Imperial Tomb City, and all of them forgot about the danger, so they paid a heavy price of two dead and three wounded.

Originally, there were not many people in the team this time, and there were three old guys who needed to be taken care of, so Liu Cong's troops could be described as stretched. Now that he has lost two team members for no reason, Liu Cong is heartbroken.

After ordering the team doctor Yasheng to bandage the three people, Liu Cong took a few steps forward and stared at the city gate. At this time, the rivets on the city gate have been restored to their original state, and the dark holes on them have disappeared, and it seems that after the wave of crossbow arrows just now, the mechanism has been reset, but I don't know if there are any bullets in these rivets on the city gate, and how many crossbow arrows can be fired.

Liu Cong discussed with the people around him, and it seemed that it was the rivets on the city gate that triggered the crossbow arrow mechanism, and if he shot these rivets with a rifle from a distance, it was very likely that the mechanism would be triggered again and the city gate would shoot crossbow arrows.

If this method is feasible, then this method will always be used to consume, after all, the number of crossbow arrows in the mechanism is limited, even if there are more crossbow arrows in the reserve, it will not be able to withstand the continuous consumption of everyone, there will always be a time to shoot, and then find a way to open the city gate, which can minimize the degree of danger.

"Er Yang, you kid lied to me, didn't you say that this is some kind of Taoist holy land, and there should be no deadly organs? So what are these in front of us, the house wine? Chopsticks to coax children to play? Looking at the crossbow arrows all over the ground, Yang Lei said fearfully for a while.

After listening to Yang Lei's words, Chen Ziyang stared thoughtfully at the thick layer of crossbow arrows on the ground. Then he picked up the nearest crossbow bolt and looked at it carefully.

This kind of crossbow arrow is about ten centimeters long, the thickness of chopsticks, it should be made of fine iron, and it is very textured in the hand. The end of the bolt has a circular plane similar to the cap on a nail, and there is a clear mark of scratching on this plane.

This trace also revealed a trace of white light under the reflection of the flashlight, which should have been just ground out, and it seemed that this trace was left when the crossbow arrow was hit by the machine when it was fired.

The body of the crossbow bolt is not an iron rod, but a spiral, and the distance between the rings of the spiral is very close, making this crossbow arrow look a little like a spring, and a little like the bit of an electric drill.

As soon as he saw this strange crossbow arrow, Chen Ziyang opened his mouth in surprise, and then he quickly covered his mouth with his hand, so he didn't shout. Then he waved his hand to Umbrella Shishuai.

"Brother Umbrella, look at this thing, do you know?" Chen Ziyang asked in a low voice to the umbrella stone handsome beside him.

"I'm going to be obedient, isn't this a snake nail? It turns out that this kind of thing really exists! After receiving the crossbow arrow, Umbrella Shi Shuai said in surprise.

"Is it the same as it says in the book? As soon as I saw this kind of crossbow arrow, I also thought that this was the coiled snake nail, exactly like the one described in the book, absolutely not running, this is it. ”

"If this is really a snake nail, we will be in big trouble......" Umbrella Shishuai looked solemn.

There is a record of snake nails in the "Civil Engineering Collection". The fifth owner of the Civil Engineer's Collection once entered a tomb. According to him, that tomb should be the mausoleum of General Zuo Weiwei from a certain period of the Tang Dynasty.

The robbery procession was going well, and they soon came to the front of the main burial chamber, but they were blocked from a bronze door.

This bronze gate is not too tall, only three or four meters wide, two or three meters high, and the heads of fifty or sixty tomb beasts are cast on the gate.

Because the journey was relatively smooth, the tomb robbers did not look at the gate and wanted to use violent methods to break the door, but one person inadvertently triggered the mechanism.

The heads of dozens of tomb beasts on the bronze gate opened their mouths at the same time, and countless crossbow arrows shot out of their mouths. These crossbow arrows are extremely penetrating, and the number of them is also very large, and the frequency of shooting is also very fast, and the entire team of tomb robbers suffered heavy casualties in an instant.

If it weren't for the quick opportunity and the corpse of his teammates in front of him, it is likely that there would be no fifth master of "Civil Engineering Collection".

Even with the corpses of their teammates in front of them, the few who survived were no better, and the crossbow arrows that shot through the bodies of their dead teammates were still powerful, piercing a dozen bloody holes in their chests, but they managed to save their lives.

The few people who survived couldn't swallow this breath, and didn't want to let go of the owner of the mausoleum, so they thought of an idea similar to Liu Cong, and touched the mechanism in the distance, so as to constantly consume crossbow arrows.

But what they didn't expect was that the crossbow arrows in the tomb gate seemed to be endless, and no matter how many times they tried, there was always a steady stream of crossbow arrows shooting out of the tomb beast's mouth. Even the crossbow arrows fired later in the tomb had blocked the tombway.

After trying for a whole day, the fifth owner of the "Civil Engineers" finally gave up, he felt that it was the heavens who did not let him disturb the owner of the tomb, otherwise why would the crossbow arrows be endless?

Later, he recorded this incident in the book, because the whole crossbow arrow looked like a nail, and the body of the crossbow arrow looked like a coiled spirit snake, so he named this strangely shaped crossbow arrow, called the coiled snake nail.

Chen Ziyang and Umbrella Shishuai both know Gongji very well, they have both read this story more than once, and the crossbow arrows in the hands of the two people at this time are clearly the snake nails recorded in the book.

Whether it is in terms of scale, or in terms of the identity and status of the buried person, a general who commands tens of thousands of horses is no match for Wu Zetian, it is simply a heaven and an underground.

From this point of view, if Liu Cong's method is really used to consume crossbow arrows, such a high city wall, such a thick city gate, the number of crossbow arrows hidden in it is staggering, maybe even if it takes a year, it will not be exhausted.

Thinking of this, Umbrella Shishuai said to Chen Ziyang with some worry: "There should be nothing wrong, this is a snake nail, I have to think of a way to persuade Liu Cong to find another way." ”

Chen Ziyang nodded. Liu Cong is the godson of his fifth grandfather, and Chen Benzhong is also familiar with the "Civil Engineering Collection", but it is very likely that Liu Cong does not understand the situation of this book, so if he wants to persuade him, he can only make a small detour. Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang walked to Liu Cong's side.

"Liu Cong, I don't think the method you just thought of is feasible, there must be a lot of this kind of crossbow arrows hidden in such a tall city wall, if you keep using this method to consume crossbow arrows, it will probably take a long time. We don't have too much food, and time is precious, so I think we should take a different approach. ”

"Do you have any great ideas?"

"I don't know if you've noticed, but before we came to this city, the ground here was very clean, and there were no crossbow arrows left on the ground at all. In other words, the mechanism on the gate was not triggered before we arrived.

As you saw just now, the mechanism on the city gate is very sensitive, and it was triggered by just a light touch, according to this, Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian, who entered here, must not have touched the city gate.

This section of the city wall that we can see is almost a few kilometers long, and on this section of the city wall, there is nothing else at all except this city gate, so how did Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian get into it in the first place? ”

"That's right!" After listening to Chen Ziyang's words, Liu Cong's eyes suddenly lit up, which made too much sense. Although this was the first time that everyone had come to the Taoist Holy Land, after all, Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian had come in before, and the traces of these two people were likely to provide important clues to the team.

The two of them didn't trigger the mechanism on the city gate, which means that they didn't go through this gate when they entered the city of imperial tombs. Thinking of this, Liu Cong raised his head and looked above the high city wall.

Following Liu Cong's gaze, Chen Ziyang instantly understood Liu Cong's thoughts, and it seemed that he wanted people to climb over this tall city wall.

The walls are more than 20 meters high and are made of huge strips of stone bricks filled with a mixture of lime and volcanic ash, some say the early prototype of cement.

This mixture also acts like cement, not only does it stick to objects, but it also hardens over time, and now that it has been so many years, the hardness of these mixtures in stone bricks is almost as hard as that of stone.

But even so, there are still uneven spots in these stone cracks in the city wall, which can be borrowed by people, and it seems that it is not too difficult to climb up.

Thinking of this, Liu Congmeng turned his head and shouted, "Li Linzhi, come here." ”

? Comrades, you must be slow when driving, last night I borrowed a car along the Yalu River to enjoy the beautiful scenery, but in a sharp turn when the speed is a little faster, coupled with the body of the car is light, directly led to the vehicle rollover, now one of my fingers has been fractured, fortunately in other places are fine, you can continue to code words, today all day busy repairing the car, on this one, we must pay attention to safety.

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