Chapter 295: Gone Astray
Güell's handwriting was ugly, but fortunately his memory didn't deviate too much. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Under the guidance of the sketch, the three of them passed the first half of the elevator peacefully, and Lin Qiu specially observed the chain of gears, most of which were already rusty.
From the first day the bell tower was built, these elevators have been working non-stop until now, and their durability is staggering enough. However, no matter how good the craftsmanship of the old craftsmen is, I am afraid that they will not be able to make materials that will never wear out. But the black smoke man said that in the last words of the old craftsman, there was never a mention of how to maintain and maintain the bell tower.
Not only that, but he didn't even explain what kind of mechanism he had installed. Two maps of the correct way to the top, and some strange little inventions, this is the last thing he left to the people of Spitane. As an outsider, Lin Qiu could not comprehend the significance of the bell tower to the people of Spitane - everything about it had been plunged into a fog with the death of the old craftsman, and for the past few years not even the most interested thieves would have frequented it.
No one can leave alive without a design sketch.
"Instead of caring about that, take a good look at the map. ”
The black smoke man reminded that the sketch was in his hand, so he knew that if he went a little further, there would really be only a cloud of fog. They went up and down on these elevators many times, but the actual height did not increase much, and under such a complicated route, if there were no drawings, he probably wouldn't even remember how to go back.
This was countless times more complicated than the route that could reach the fourth floor with just a few turns, so much so that he looked forward to the secrets left by the old craftsman even more.
"I hope your metaphysical methods work. The black smoke man could only hope for Lin Qiu at this time.
He didn't expect Prince Richard, but he believed that even if Richard stabbed the big basket, that guy would be able to make up for it - the clock tower claimed to have many mechanisms to kill the Templars, but in his opinion, Lin Qiu was clearly not among them.
As the elite of the Secret Sector, it is inevitable that they will encounter Templar-level enemies in past missions, and it is not for nothing that the Secret Sector members have the strength to come close to the Templars - they may not be the Templars' opponents in one-on-one combat, but if they are two against one, it is completely different. As long as he and Kelly teamed up, including the sneak attack, it would not be impossible to kill the Templars.
But to be honest, they'd never seen a Templar with a single sword that could smash such a behemoth to pieces, and they hadn't even thought about it.
Fear as an enemy is now all transformed into trust as an ally.
"Can you fly?" Lin Qiu replied with a sentence that made the black smoke man scratch his head.
"Fly?"
Being able to stand in the void is almost a sign of the Templars. The strength of his scoring force was far from breaking through that boundary, and if he used the mark to make his body turn into black smoke, he could only float for a short period of time.
So he honestly replied, "No." ”
"Then you should be careful, look carefully! These axles are connected to other chains, and if one of them breaks, probably most of the elevators here will fail...... In a moment, if anyone breaks these chains, jump off themselves. "To make sure nothing goes wrong, he even confiscated all the 'Unstable Crystals' in Richard's pocket before triggering!
The further up the road went, the more he marveled at the skill of the old craftsmen.
In terms of technique and concept, he surpassed the craftsmen of this era by at least a century, which completely subverted his perception of the craftsmen of this era - if he hadn't seen these chains with his own eyes, he would have thought that the craftsmen of the imperial capital and the group of people who met in the tower really built the "Armstrong Gyro Acceleration Jet Amstel Cannon" as a house.
If it weren't for the fact that the old man would have braided his hair a long time ago, he would have even wanted to pay a visit. He didn't expect members of a similar spy organization like Black Smoke Man to understand the meaning of the old craftsman's cross-era, so he told the other party more bluntly that if he didn't want to fall to his death, he must take it easy in case of a battle.
"Look!"
Richard lived up to expectations and discovered some details that others would overlook. I saw him squatting on the edge of the high platform, and solemnly pointed to a reddish-brown mark on the edge. The blood had dried up, leaving only faint traces.
Of course, this is not because Richard suddenly gained a 360-degree view without blind spots, but ...... He tripped over a pebble as he came down from the platform, and happened to fall next to the bloodstain. Lin Qiu didn't know if he was lucky or unlucky.
"There is only one truth. Lin Qiu raised his head and pointed to a high platform above the heads of the three of them—this should have dripped from above. The bloodstain was so inconspicuous that if it hadn't been for Richard's almost fall, no one would have noticed the small reddish-brown mark on the edge of the platform.
It's a delicate position, whether Lady Luck favored Richard and allowed him to discover important clues, or whether she tried to make him fall to his death, but failed.
The elevator to the upper platform was nearby, and they could reach it by just taking it.
The black smoke man took out the sketch suspiciously, and after comparing it, he gave a clear answer: "But that's not how it was drawn on this sketch." ”
Of course, Lin Qiu knew that this path was not right.
There are only a few possibilities for the current state of affairs - the first is that Guell has a wrong memory of his old age, but in fact going up is the right path; the second is that Grant is actually a sinister madman, and he deliberately leaves such a mark when he has the correct sketch in his hand, trying to kill his companions who came to him later; and the third is that some irresistible factors happened when Grant came here at that time, causing him to take the wrong route.
"The first two are unlikely. ”
The black smoke man and Richard gave the same opinion.
Lin Qiu glanced at the high platform that was suddenly dyed with an ominous color, and he had the feeling that he knew that there were tigers in the mountains and were biased towards the tiger mountains. He really didn't want to do that, but the full sketch was still in Grant's hands, and it hadn't fallen from the platform with his corpse.
At best, he stayed somewhere on the road to guide him to find his companion when he was on the wrong path and knew he was about to die, and at worst, when he was carrying the sketch gank monster, the sketch was bitten by the monster with him.
Lin Qiu hopes to be the former.
His real concern wasn't how many traps he encountered, but that they simply didn't have time to go down the wrong path.
"Let's go up. ”
After weighing the pros and cons, the black smoke man agreed to Lin Qiu's proposal.