Chapter 166 [Mercury Cave] (I)
Arnold saw the beast fleeing, but also shocked into a cold sweat, he and Zhang Longbow seized the opportunity to turn around and flee, although the beast was scared away, but soon understand that the explosion did not happen, it will inevitably be tracked again, for the two of them to win time is to win life, as long as they fight for these time, they can escape to a safe range, and then Arnold can activate the explosives that have been ambushed in advance, destroying the way the beast is tracking.
Sure enough, the beast soon found out that he had been deceived by Arnold, and the anger made the beast go crazy instantly, and the scale armor on its neck also stood up one by one because of the anger, and it burst out with a wild roar, and rushed towards the disinfection room again at an alarming speed.
Arnold and Zhang Longbow supported each other to escape from the disinfection room, and as soon as they escaped from the disinfection room, Arnold caused an explosion in the disinfection room, but they had not yet escaped to safety. However, the situation is so urgent, only by triggering an explosion in advance and blocking the road behind can it be possible to stop the pursuit of the beast.
An earth-shattering explosion occurred behind him, and the air wave set off by the explosion wrapped the two people in the smoke and dust and threw them forward, and the two of them were like two leaves in the autumn wind tumbling and floating forward, and as if they were grabbed by an invisible hand and thrown in the air, and then fell to the ground fiercely, so that they were paralyzed all over their bodies, and even lost their sense for a short time, lying motionless on the ground, and after a while, the pain slowly returned to them.
Zhang Longbow slowly got up, shook off the dust, he found Arno from the rubble around him, although Arno also survived but broke his right leg in the explosion, Zhang Longbow picked up the unlucky companion, and with great willpower, he continued to flee with Arnold.
Although Luo Lie believes that Bai Yunfei does not dare to harm himself at present, he is not clear about what is hidden in the mercury cave, Lan Ximei gave him a lot of information, which marks several locations that are most likely to hide the safe, and the mercury cave is one of them, but the specific location of the mercury cave is not marked in detail, but it is indicated that among the hundreds of caves around the Yongzheng statue, he and Bai Yunfei should be considered smooth, and they found the mercury cave by mistake.
Bai Yunfei didn't guess wrong, Luo Lie was indeed deliberately killing time, he didn't want his every step to be under Bai Yunfei's surveillance.
The gas mask was just just in case, after taking the wisdom seed, all aspects of Luo Lie's body had been greatly improved, and the breathing and breathing method taught to him by Wu Jie had also entered a new realm, he could keep holding his breath for a long time, so that he could avoid inhaling toxic gases from the outside world.
Luo Lie had quickly slid to the front of the machine during the time when Bai Yunfei left to ventilate, turning the rudder-like winch counterclockwise, although the winch had been shelved underground for a long time, it was still running well, Luo Lie had already turned the winch without much effort, the winch only turned half a circle, and Bai Yun flew away and returned.
Luo Lie chose to rest at this time, and waited until Bai Yunfei left to ventilate again, and then quickly turned the winch.
Bai Yun flew outside and took a few breaths hard, his heart was angry and funny, this Luo Hunt really took himself as a thief, he was about to sneak in quietly to fight Luo Hunt and was caught off guard, but suddenly there was a gunshot outside.
Bai Yunfei couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, only the four of them entered the dungeon today, they were divided into two groups, he and Luo Lie naturally couldn't shoot, that is to say, the people who shot could only be Lu Weilin and the gopher, Bai Yunfei initially thought that it might be one of them who went out of fire, but it didn't take long for the gunshots to sound again, but this time it was one after another.
Bai Yunfei hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to go outside, compared to what Luo Lie was doing, the unknown crisis outside affected his heart even more.
Luo Lie naturally heard the gunshots from outside, at this time he had already twisted the winch to the end, because his body was close to the rock wall, so he could clearly feel that the rock wall under him was emitting a low vibration, in a rhythmic vibration, the mercury liquid level with a diameter of about ten meters below quickly began to fall, and it didn't take long to reveal twelve black heads, Luo Lie saw it clearly, these twelve heads corresponded to the twelve zodiac signs, and the twelve zodiac signs of the Old Summer Palace Water View Law were almost exactly the same.
Most of the beast heads of the Water Viewing Method of the Old Summer Palace were lost in 1860 when the British and French troops invaded, and the building hidden deep in the underground of the Old Summer Palace actually has 12 zodiac signs, how can it not be breathtaking.
Luo Lie soon discovered the difference between these animal heads, because these zodiac signs are all standing statues, and as the mercury surface drops, the bodies of the twelve zodiac signs are revealed, and they are all animal heads and human bodies, naked and topless, with strong and muscular bodies.
With the decline of the mercury surface, in the central part of the zodiac surrounding, an erected sarcophagus rises, the sarcophagus is a common shape in the West, the position of the sarcophagus is not due south and north, but placed east and west, there is a stone sculpture on the coffin lid, the stone carving is a lying Western warrior, wearing armor, hands placed on the chest, holding a long sword, the sword body is wide, the hilt is narrow, and the end is engraved with a cross.
There have been too many strange scenes in the underground before, so this time there is a Western-style sarcophagus appeared in the underground of the royal garden did not make Luo Hunt feel too much surprise, as the sarcophagus rises, the speed of the mercury liquid level is also accelerating, and soon it has been lost cleanly, the bottom is completely exposed, the bottom is a triangular yellow slab spliced together, the whole forms a funnel with high outside and low inside, Luo Hunt is not far from the bottom, sliding down, carefully falling on the metal plate at the bottom, close to see that the metal plate is made of pure gold。
Luo Lie secretly sighed at the royal luxury, but soon figured out the truth, gold and mercury will not have a chemical reaction, the real reason for the use of gold lies in this, there are a total of twelve gold plates, each of which is engraved with words, Luo Lie took a cursory look, it recorded some information about the underground alchemy of the Old Summer Palace, and the caves around the statue of Yongzheng are called Bailian Caves.
Lying in the sarcophagus above is a famous alchemist Melo in the West, who also participated in refining pills and worked with Zhang Taixu, but this alchemist obviously did not live as long as Zhang Taixu, Emperor Yongzheng died in a Dan furnace explosion accident when he was alive, and Zhang Taixu secretly buried him here because of his friendship with this person.
Luo Lie patiently read the inscription on it by the light of the flashlight, and secretly marveled in his heart, he couldn't imagine that there were so many twists and turns in the underground of this royal garden.
Bai Yunfei had already returned to the edge of the cave, looking out from the entrance of the cave, but saw that Lu Weilin and the drill gopher had retreated to the ground, and behind them dozens of rabbit-sized creatures were chasing after them, but if you looked closely, there were dozens of giant rats.
Lu Weilin and the gopher searched from the other side, but their search didn't start long before they encountered a swarm of rats, and the two had to retreat from the cave, shooting as they ran.
Although Lu Weilin's marksmanship is very accurate, there are many rats, and the nickname of the gopher does not let these rats treat him as the same kind, he is short in stature, his running speed is backward, and he has been bitten by the rats a few times in succession, fortunately, Lu Weilin rescued him in time, otherwise he would have been surrounded by those crazy rats. Rao is like this, and the rat group is getting closer and closer to them.
Bai Yunfei naturally couldn't stand idly by when he saw the situation in front of him, he took out a grenade and threw it into the group of rats, condescending and naturally in his hands, the grenade fell into the middle of the group of rats, and with the sound of Peng!, more than a dozen rats in the explosion range were blown to pieces.
Bai Yunfei then raised his submachine gun, aimed at the surviving rats below and began to strafe.
Lu Weilin and the drill gopher only relieved at this time, they got strong reinforcements, stopped and fled, stood firm, picked up their guns and aimed at the rear rats and began to shoot, with Bai Yunfei's air support, they quickly took control of the battle, the rats suffered heavy casualties, and the surviving rats realized that the general trend had gone, and they turned around and fled.
The battle was decided, and only a bloody corpse of a rat was left at the scene.
The gopher spat at it, and for the first time in his life he was so disgusted by the word mouse.
Lu Weilin gave Bai Yunfei a thumbs up to show his gratitude to him.
Bai Yunfei said: "How's it going?" In fact, he didn't need to ask to know that the two of them had not searched anything of value, and among the four of them, only Luo Lie had mastered the information here, and this kind of separate action did not have any practical significance, Bai Yunfei believed that during the time he came out to help, Luo Lie should have discovered something.
The gopher shook his head, sighed and said, "I didn't find anything, I don't think we'd better be separated, and we should take care of each other." What happened just now still made him feel uneasy, if they hadn't withdrawn in time, or Bai Yunfei hadn't appeared in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
The proposal to drill the gopher was exactly what Bai Yunfei meant, and the three of them reunited, and Lu Weilin was curious: "What about Luo Hunt?"
Bai Yunfei pointed inside, and reminded the two of them to hold their breath before entering the mercury cave, Lu Weilin heard that there was poisonous gas inside, and also took out a gas mask from his backpack. Bai Yunfei saw it in his eyes, and sighed secretly in his heart, Luo Lie and Lu Weilin were really a gang, and the two of them had already prepared for this.
Returning to the mercury cave, the three of them used flashlights to illuminate the bottom, although Lu Weilin and the gopher were dazzled by the yellow gold at the bottom of the mercury cave, the shock in their hearts was still not as good as Bai Yunfei. Bai Yunfei has only been out for a while, and the mercury cave has undergone earth-shaking changes, and there is no longer a trace of mercury in the mercury cave.