Chapter 54 - The Ruins of the Wax Moon (I)
When returning to the sea, Ruo listened to Tsukimi's description of the lower layer of the Layue Ruins, thought for a while, drew a sketch on the sand, and opened his mouth to analyze: " According to the information we have now, the source of the demonic qi has not been found in the three passages in the ruins tomb, but just now there is indeed demonic qi overflowing from below, so I deduce that the source of the demonic qi is likely to be hidden in the dark passage on the left that is guarded by the two-headed dog, but if we want to go down to that secret passage, we must first find out whether the sand thieves in the right passage are directly related to the demonic qi. My opinion is that after we go down, we should first stun the two-headed dog on the left, and then go and catch the sand thief on the right and ask about the situation. ”
After returning to the sea, everyone looked at Chi Muyan together, but Chi Muyan stood up and patted the sand on his body, tilted his head at everyone, and stretched out his finger to Guihai Shiruo, "The strategist is striking today, and everything is under his command." ”
So everyone looked at Guihai Shiruo again, saw that he blinked his eyes first, then stood up as well, and glanced at everyone to confirm, "Then if everyone has no other opinions, let's go." ”
Everyone nodded in unison and got up, and followed Shiruo to quietly dive down the huge stone staircase together, and came to the area where there were three forks, and when he returned to the sea, Ruo made a few gestures, asking Tsukimi to go to the left corridor to place the smoke first, and he took the rest of the people to sneak into the right corridor.
If the remaining six people followed all the way back to the sea and quietly walked into the corridor on the right, the beginning of the road in the corridor was still gloomy. When the group reached the first turn, the leader of the group was suddenly pulled by Chi Mudie when he returned to the sea, and told him with gestures that this place seemed to be different from when they came in to explore just now, and after the comparison, they pointed to the corner they were close to, and the corner on the other side and above the top of the cave, and asked Canglan to come over to confirm it.
Cang Lan also carefully inspected the three places pointed out by Chi Mudie, and found that the stones in those places were indeed a slight distance higher than when they came in just now, and they couldn't be found at all if they didn't look closely.
So Cang Lan nodded to Chi Mudie to confirm, asked the others to step back a little first, and then pointed to Chi Muyan and the place in front of him, made a gesture to him, and pointed to the top of the cave, meaning to let Chi Muyan ask him to go up and have a look.
Chi Muyan's eyes widened in surprise and pointed at herself, and said with an expression, Why me? Cang Lan glanced at the others, tilted her head and raised her eyebrows at him, and also asked with an expression, who else do you think I can find besides you? Chi Muyan glanced at the president first, and found that he was pretending not to see it, squatting on the ground to study the stone slab on the ground, and then glanced at Shiruo returning to the sea, although he was watching from the sidelines, it was obvious that Canglan didn't want to look for him, and with Canglan's personality, this kind of thing would never be done by a girl, so he was the only man left.
Chi Muyan had to shake his head helplessly and sigh lightly, walked to the place he was pointing at just now, arched one leg and folded his palms upwards on his knees, Cang Lan retreated a few steps back, accelerated and stepped on Chi Muyan's palm with one foot, Chi Muyan also took advantage of the momentum with both hands to support upward, and Cang Lan's body jumped towards the top of the cave with this force.
At the same time, Cang Lan also took out two sharp daggers while jumping up, and when he was about to touch the top of the cave, he silently inserted the daggers into two gaps in the rock wall that were not far apart, and then hooked one dagger with his feet, and held the other with one hand, hanging himself horizontally on the top of the cave.
Chi Mudie watched Cang Lan actually hang herself on the top of the cave with two small daggers, and couldn't help but be a little worried, although he was thin and dexterous, he was also a tall man, and those two daggers didn't know if they could bear his weight.
Cang Lan also saw Chi Mudie's worry, smiled at her, made a reassuring gesture, and then raised her head and began to carefully check the mechanism.
After Cang Lan looked at it carefully for a while, she made a series of quick gestures to the people below, explaining to them the principle of this mechanism and how to crack it:
It's a trap to prevent outsiders from entering again, and the first time we infiltrated it, it didn't trigger it, but when we returned to the place after exploring, it was quietly touched, and Fluttershy said to hear a slight noise, but we looked back and didn't notice the slightest clue. This mechanism is connected by a hair-thin thread, and in order to crack it, three people must cut the lead at all three points at the same time, otherwise it will trigger a trap that we don't expect.
After reading Cang Lan's explanation, Chi Mudie nodded, pointed to herself, walked to one of the points again, squatted down and began to look for the lead that Cang Lan said, and when she returned to the sea, Ruo also walked to the other point, and after looking for a while, they both raised their heads and gave Cang Lan a thumbs up, indicating that they had found it.
Cang Lan also nodded in confirmation, and then pointed at Chi Muyan again, asking him to stand in the middle to give orders, Chi Muyan walked helplessly to the middle of the three with an expression of 'you are still addicted to me', stretched out his finger and began to compare numbers, and the moment Chi Muyan's finger became three, the three of them cut off the thin line at the same time.
After the trap was lifted, Cang Lan also took advantage of the situation to pull out the dagger in his hand, and gently twisted his feet, and brought the other dagger down, at this time, Yuejian, who went to another corridor to place the smoke, also caught up with the team, and just saw Cang Lan jumping down from the top of the cave, so he gestured puzzled and asked Chi Muyan: What are you doing here? Why are you still playing on the top of the cave.
Chi Muyan replied with a smile: It's nothing, the three of them are playing with the trap removal technique.
Chi Mudie saw Cang Lan turn over lightly, and just wanted to say something to him with a gesture, but when he returned to the sea, Ruo immediately made a gesture to continue to move forward, so everyone followed him and continued to move forward.
After walking out of a distance, a second corner appeared in front of him, and there was an orange fire faintly revealing inside, if he first asked everyone to stop when returning to the sea, he pointed to the three points where the trap was just now, and asked the three people who came in to investigate to confirm whether there was the same mechanism, the three of them squatted down and looked at it carefully, and they all nodded to the sea when they were sure, Canglan took out the dagger just now and was about to jump on the top of the cave, but was stopped by the return to the sea.
When you return to the sea, you should first ask everyone to step back a distance, and then make a series of gestures to explain your plan: according to the information you have discovered, there are only five sand thieves left behind, but it cannot be ruled out that there will be more of their accomplices behind the door hidden in the depths of the tunnel you mentioned, so I want to trigger this mechanism first to lure them out to find out the truth.
Everyone nodded in agreement, and they all took out their weapons and were on full alert, and when they returned to the sea, they also cautiously took two steps back, and used the tip of their sword to cut the lead that triggered the mechanism.
However, to everyone's surprise, at the moment when the lead was broken, there was no imaginary poisonous arrow smoke attacking them, but they heard a crisp bell from inside the corridor, and then only heard one of the sand thieves shout impatiently, "Who?
Another sand thief next to him whispered, "Eh, be careful when you speak, maybe our boss is back drunk again and has run into those mechanisms! ”
The impatient sand thief rolled over, "You have to go yourself, I still have to sleep, we have been tossed to death by that strange man surnamed Yin these days, if I hadn't seen him holding our boss's warrant, I really wanted to pull off his ugly mask head and stuff it into his own crotch." ”
The other sand thief got up and walked out, sighing helplessly: "Alas, who knows when our boss made that kind of friend, if it weren't for the authenticity of the order talisman he took, I would have wanted to clean him up, who does he think he is......"
The sand thief walked to the turn of the road while talking, and when he wanted to probe to check the situation, he was suddenly strangled by a strong arm, and when he wanted to shout for help, he was covered again, and he couldn't make a sound at all.
Only then did the sand thieves see the appearance of this group of invaders clearly, and after struggling a few times to no avail, they had to beg for mercy with both hands, and then they only heard Guihai who captured him whisper in his ear: "Don't be afraid, we won't harm your lives, we are just here to investigate the source of the demonic energy, and the person surnamed Yin you just mentioned, as long as you cooperate, we will leave immediately after the investigation." ”
After speaking, he let go of the sand thief, and the sand thief saw that the situation in front of him was outnumbered, and seeing that the weapons in the hands of these people were also extraordinary, he naturally did not dare to make a casual mistake, so he obediently took these eight people into the cave inside the corridor, and then kicked his companions one by one with his feet.
"Wake up, there's a hero to investigate. ”
The remaining four sand thieves were all asleep, and reluctantly got up and complained to him, "What a hero, you kid took the wrong medicine, just bring a few people from anywhere and say it's a hero." ”
At this time, the chairman walked out unhurriedly, took out a golden token inlaid with white jade dragon teeth from his body, and flashed it in front of the sand thieves, "We don't dare to be heroes when it comes to being heroes, but you should know this thing, and if I'm not mistaken, you should be the team of the Hong Kite-Sand Kite." ”
The five sand thieves looked at the order of the leader of the War Dragon's Fang, their faces were shocked at the same time, and they all got up and hugged their fists and said: "I don't know if the Lord of the War Dragon's Tooth came in person, I was offended just now, and I also invite Haihan, our boss is Hong Kite, I don't know what a few people are here to investigate." ”
The chairman found a place to sit on the ground at random, and waved his hand at a few people, "Okay, you don't need to be so restrained, let's sit down and talk slowly." ”
After everyone sat down, if they cast an inquiring glance at the president when they returned to the sea, the president would understand and explain: "Hong Kite, the master came out of Hongmen, and he was also one of the orphans raised by Master Hong since he was a child. However, although he is a sand thief, he is also a person who values love and righteousness, and the past caravans in the desert know that this team of sand eagles will never rob the finances of ordinary people, but only pick on the ill-gotten gains of those profiteers and corrupt dealers......
When the president said this, he paused, obviously forgetting the words again, so he simply threw the conversation back to Guihai Shiruo, "That's pretty much it, that's all for my explanation, and you can ask the rest yourself." ”
Although several sand thieves didn't know the mystery of this, the others all glanced at the president with disdain, and when they returned to the sea, Ruo also cleared his throat helplessly, and continued to ask: "The strange man you just said surnamed Yin, is it called Yin Mo?
A sand thief just nodded and replied, "It's called Yin Mo", but was smashed by the sand thief next to him with his elbow, "Are you a little bit cultured, that weird guy didn't say that his name was Yin Mo, but that he called himself Yin." ”