Covered in armor and pedaling on the drums of war. He has six arms around his body, and he holds a golden sword. One head and four sides, all angry.

On each side of the stairs stood bronze armored men more than three meters high, leaning forward in a sword-wielding posture, looking down at the three people at their feet.

The three of them saw the bronze armor man from a long distance, and they couldn't help but admire it when they looked closely.

The bronze man wears a saucer-like hat, his eyes and mouth are hollowed, and he looks up very scary.

The upper body of the bronze armor man is a stout main shaft with three thick copper rings, and the copper ring has gears in it to bite the main shaft. Each ring contained two arms, holding large steel knives, but with a thick layer of gold forged on the blades.

In the middle of the war drum at the feet of the bronze armor man is also a copper ring with a gear inside, and the ring is cast with a steel body and a golden blade of saber teeth.

At this time, the sun was right behind them, and the sunlight shone on the bronze armor man's body with a halo of light, making people feel that the top of the ladder was a fairyland, and the two were the divine guards of the heavenly realm.

The three of them believed that the bronze armor man was a machine armor person used to defend against the demon thorn, and once it spun, six pairs of golden knives blocked the mountain road, and the demon thorn was cut into several pieces like a broken crusher. If you want to attack a Armor, you will be shredded by the saber teeth on the drums of war.

The three of them couldn't wait to see the scene on the top of the mountain, but as soon as they showed up, their eyes stinged, and the top of the mountain was shining with gold!

The three of them stretched out their hands to cover their eyes, and could barely see through their fingers that there was a golden temple in the center of the peak.

The top of the treasure cover, eight pillars and four gates, is like a Taoist temple.

There is a three-layer circular stone altar in the open space in front of the golden hall, the altar surface is made of cloud-white solid stone, and a round copper tripod is placed in the middle, which weighs a thousand catties. In the center of the tripod stands a copper pillar about six meters high and thick with a thick cup, and a copper ball the size of a volleyball is installed at the top. Next to this copper pillar are three copper pillars about three meters high and thick bowls.

On the edge of the stone altar, in each of the eight directions, stands a bronze armored man with three sides and four arms, about two meters high, with different postures and the same blade.

Seeing that this formation was like some kind of big array, the brother and sister were excited, and they were about to step up, but they were stopped by Gongsun Zhi.

"Wait a minute, the light is strong and not good for us, and it is not easy to detect if there is a mechanism. The sun soon sets behind the mountain, and then rises again. ”

The brother and sister agreed and sat down on the steps to rest.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, there was only a blush left in the West. The golden light at the summit faded and turned orange-red, no longer as dazzling as before.

The three of them remained vigilant and walked slowly.

There was no bright light to obstruct the view, and it was discovered that most of the stone slabs on the ground were copper, and it was almost impossible to find the joints as if casting. These copper plates are centered on the stone altar, connected like spider webs into a web, extending to a distance of three feet from the cliff edge. And there are many nodes, breakpoints, points or squares or circles, arranged evenly, all of which are slate surfaces.

Looking at the appearance that there were five or six people standing on it, the three of them guessed that there was something on the point, or it was used to stand people and line up troops. When I saw the network connecting the bronze armor guarding the mountain and the bronze man by the stone altar, I thought that the network might be the control joint of the mechanism, and there was a mechanism hidden under the point.

The strange thing is that the copper tripod on the stone altar is solid, and the copper pillar in the center is integrated with the copper tripod. The other three have gaps at the bottom that look like they can be pulled out. There are also six round holes on the copper tripod, which correspond to two by two, and the caliber is consistent with the three copper pillars.

The three of them had no intention of studying it carefully and went straight to the Golden Palace.

The architectural style of the Golden Palace is simple and simple, without much fancy, but it is big enough and bright enough. I don't know what technology was used, but the copper was not oxidized to turquoise, and it was still golden.

The door plaque reads "Lingzhen Golden Pavilion", which can be described as worthy of the name.

Although the four doors are closed, you can see the golden light in the hall through the panes, and there is nothing that is not reflective. Even the ground is made like a bronze mirror, which can reflect clearly.

The hall houses four golden full-length statues, all of which are more than three meters high.

On the far left is a middle-aged man wearing a plain robe, a scarf crown, and a bamboo slip. The next one was an old man dressed in a long beard with a long sword pinned to his waist. On the right is a middle-aged man dressed like a nightgown, sitting on a chair with his head disheveled, his legs broken at the knees. On the far right is a beautiful and dignified woman dressed in Hanfu, wearing a hair ornament like antlers on her head, and dragging a lingzhi with a long stem in both hands.

On the wall behind the four statues, there is a stone bust of an old man carved in relief, which is very large, almost occupying the wall eight meters high. The texture of the stone statue is delicate, and the whole body is beige without variegation, but it can also be seen that it is a crane-haired and childish, kind elder.

His left hand was spread flat, and a flame was suspended in the palm of his hand, but a circular plane was carved into the flame, and I don't know what it meant. With a long beard in his right hand, his wide sleeves spread out like a cloud, and when he approached the ground, he rolled up to form an offering platform for the four statues.

It is clear that the four statues are the four saints mentioned in the record, and the elders behind them should be their masters.

At this time, the sky was dark, but the light in the hall was still bright.

Each statue is flanked by a lotus candlestick, but instead of a candle, a tube protrudes from the mouth of the tube, from which a slender flame erupts. Every time the flame swayed, the golden petals sparkled brightly, and it was very dazzling.

The three of them wanted to go in and take a closer look, but all four doors were bolted.

This was difficult for the three of them, Qin Zhaoyun picked up the door bolt with a dagger, and the three of them entered the hall.

The main hall can be seen through at a glance, and there is no palace. Gongsun Zhi turned around and found that there was a step leading to the ground on each side of the offering platform, but the passage collapsed and could not be entered. However, he didn't find Jiang Jinjiu, and he felt very bad and lost the mood to visit the Golden Palace.

Qin Zhaoyun came to the statue to study the candlestick, and when he reached out to get it, he couldn't pick it up, only to find that the candlestick was fixed on the stone platform. I found that half of the flame was blue, and I smelled a choking smell, and I couldn't help but admire, "The cow is on a plane, and the bull is in the sky!" Using natural gas as a long-lasting lamp is capable. ”

Qin Xuan jumped on the altar after saluting, originally guessing that there was a word or something behind the statue, but there was nothing, and he was very disappointed.

Suddenly, there was a swishing sound outside the hall, and at first I thought it was the sound of the wind, but gradually it was mixed with the sound of broken wood and rolling stones, and the three of them felt abnormal, so they wanted to go out of the hall to take a look.

But as soon as he walked out of the door, he heard a bang, and the door closed by itself. Before the three of them could react, several double-edged steel rulers and gold forging blades were drilled out of the outer door frames of the four doors, and some blades were forged into jagged shapes, inserting left and right into the door frame, forming a sharp door barricade.

"Hey! There is an ambush! ”

Qin Xuan blurted out, turned around and took out a fan to put on the defensive. Gongsun Zhi and Qin Zhaoyun also took out their weapons and stood with Qin Xuan's backs to each other, vigilant around.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and a brown mass fell from the sky on the stone altar, the size of a van. Its fur is long and curly. I don't know if it's because of the difference in the color of the coat, or if there is dirt on the hair, there seems to be a pair of eyes on the top, and the nose and mouth are not visible below, but there is a pinch of white beard.

The three of them guessed what it was, and it suddenly writhed, as if it were a wink. Who knew that the next moment a head popped out of its body, and its body became taller, and it was actually a sheep!

It is said to be a sheep because it has a sheep's head and a pair of spiral horns. But what kind of sheep is the big sheep in the van!? And the head is not proportional to the body, as if the head of a sheep is placed on a cow.

When it turned its head, the three of them were even more surprised, it was actually wearing a golden mask! Even the tip of the horn is wrapped in gold, and the sharp edge is polished, like a mountain beast.

At this moment, it stepped on a bronze pillar with its front hooves and looked up at the sky. And the copper pillar it stepped on was one of the round tripods, and it was inserted into the round hole in the round tripod at some point.

Gongsun Zhi saw that it was too large, and his heart was uneasy. I also muttered in my heart, the giant sheep should know about their existence, but ignore it, what does it mean?

In any case, safety comes first for now. It was obviously unsafe on the flat ground, so he came to the side of the golden temple lightly, and found that although the wall was high, there were many edges and corners that could be climbed, so he beckoned the brothers and sisters to climb up to the room together.

After three or two strokes, the three of them went to the roof. Seeing that there were no decorations or statues on the main ridge, but a top-like metal object was fixed at both ends, the size of a basketball, and a copper ring neatly inlaid with it, I was a little puzzled, and I couldn't say anything strange.

The three of them also saw the whole picture of the peak, and there was also an identical stone altar behind the hall, as well as corresponding things, and there was also a giant sheep standing next to Yuanding, standing with his head up.

The giant sheep at the back of the palace faced east, and its ears kept swinging towards the east. The three of them looked at its head, and some trees in the dense forest in the distance below the mountain kept shaking, and there was an intermittent sound like broken wood and rolling stones.

The three of them understood that the giant sheep was waiting for the arrival of the enemy, most likely the Demon Thorn.

Gongsun Zhi whispered, "The situation is unclear now, the purpose of the black shadow that led us up the mountain before is not simple, maybe it is to let us interfere with these two giant sheep in order to create a gap, we had better stay honestly now." ”

Qin Xuan whispered, "But senior brother, I feel that the roof is not safe, you see that these tiles are all copper, fixed together and inseparable, isn't this obviously a protective shell, there are still many scratches on it." ”

Gongsun Zhi said, "I understand, but now I can only choose here." ”

Qin Zhaoyun said, "I think the house is the safest, otherwise we won't seal the house when we come out." ”

Qin Xuan said, "I want to say that I want to come too, but I can't get in now." ”

Gongsun Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Not necessarily, these organs can't be made by giant sheep, people will leave a back hand for themselves, even if the house is sealed, there will be a secret door for their own people to enter and exit...... In this way, if there is a real fight, Zhaoyun, you can take advantage of the chaos to find the secret door. ”

Qin Zhaoyun nodded, "Leave it to me." ”

At this time, more and more trees shook in the dense forest, and the noise became more and more frequent, but when it was dark, there was no foreign object to appear.

Looking at the watch, it was almost eight o'clock, and there was only a faint afterglow in the west.

The peak was dim, and with the light from the golden hall, you could barely see the outline of the things in the front hall. And the apse was so dark that it was completely invisible.