Chapter 112: Water Prison Bureau
Murphy was dumbfounded, and raised his voice a few decibels in disbelief.
"There's the real entrance to the tomb right in front of you, and you're going to let me go back!?"
"Yes."
I said calmly, "Mother said that the Wen family's tomb is a lifetime of death."
"For Fusang, for the secret of my Zhuge family, even if I die, it's worth it."
"But it's not worth it for you to risk your life for such a thing."
My words stunned Murphy.
She glanced back at the exit behind her, then at the dilapidated wooden door in front of her, and was stunned for a long time before she said firmly, "I want to go in with you!"
I wondered, "Why?"
"There are so many whys, I just want to go in!"
Murphy has a straightforward personality and a clear heart, and he says everything he can.
She was stubborn and close, and I was grateful that I didn't stop it.
After the discussion, I walked in the front, and Murphy followed not far behind, so that she could be less in danger.
The dilapidated wooden door creaked and shattered all over the floor with a gentle push.
Inside the wooden door, there is a square room.
The room is about 20 square meters in size, two meters high, and there is a very special, but not pungent copper smell after entering the door.
The moment I stepped on the floor, I was keenly aware of the gravitational snap of a spring.
The moment he sensed it, there was a sound of breaking wind overhead.
I hurriedly dodged in, only to hear a thud, and a copper plate about three feet thick clicked down.
The bronze hit the ground, the humming sound echoing through the iron-clad room, and I curled up in a ball covering my ears, almost stunned.
Damn, it's good that I dodge fast, otherwise this thing would be better than a knife.
As soon as I entered the door, before Murphy could enter, the copper plate on top of it fell vertically.
In the endless darkness, I didn't panic, but knocked on the copper plate and shouted outside, "Murphy, Providence won't let you follow me, go back the way you came!"
Suddenly, a familiar voice came from beside me, "Mom, it's good that I dodge fast, otherwise this thing would be better than a knife."
I turned on the flashlight and looked at Murphy lying beside me with a confused expression.
"How did you get in!?"
"I came in before the copper plate fell."
Murphy was so bold that he shook off the dirt on his body and took out a kerosene lamp from his backpack and lit it.
In the dim light, I was able to see my surroundings clearly.
The four walls, the top and the floor, are made of bronze and covered with strange patterns.
There were some white bones piled up haphazardly on the ground, and in the center was a golden box with no rust.
Murphy took a few steps back, away from the messy bones on the ground, "Are they the ones who were buried?"
"It's not."
I crouched on the ground and shone my flashlight at the broken bones on the ground.
"There are seven corpses in total, and in terms of the degree of oxidation, they belong to different eras."
Murphy was surprised, "If you look at a pile of broken bones, you can tell that they were left by a few people, and your eyes are hotter than forensic medicine!"
"Nonsense, there are seven skulls in total, and anyone can see it."
I stared at the skull for a moment, then took out a rusty, mottled iron object that shattered at the touch of my fingertips.
Murphy: "What is this? It seems like...... It's a vernier caliper."
"It's a dragon ruler."
I looked solemnly at the corpse on the ground, and my heart was heavy.
"They are tomb robbers belonging to different dynasties, and they all came here in unison, and they have been trapped and killed as skeletons."
Murphy was clever and trembled, "I...... We're not going to die."
"Probably not."
I looked at the golden box in front of me and said in a deep voice, "If you enter the door, the first thing you will care about is not the bones, but the pure gold
chests, most likely with them."
Listening to my words, Murphy was frightened and took a few steps further away from the box.
"Is there a hidden weapon in the chest?"
"It's not a hidden weapon, it's a mechanism."
I looked at the corpses on the ground, "It's just a hidden weapon, only the first person to open the box will die, and the rest should be safe."
"If I'm not mistaken, the agency here is called the 'Water Prison Bureau.'"
"As soon as we open the box and touch the mechanical water valve of the mechanism, water will pour upwards and drown us alive."
Murphy was both horrified and curious, "There is no writing on the box, how do you see it?"
I said, "If you look closely at the bronze walls around you, what is the difference between them and the bronze plates when we first entered?"
As I spoke, I pulled out the dagger from my waist and began to pry the bottom of the box little by little, connecting it to the bronze floor.
The location where the trap is triggered is connected to the floor by the gold chest.
As long as we take the whole box off, find the spring that triggered the mechanism, and hold it down, we'll be safe.
Murphy is worthy of being a person who has studied criminal investigation, and soon discovers the clues of the wall.
"The walls are rusty and layered, and it can be seen that they have been flooded many times."
"As for the location of the water outlets...... It should be in the gap above the head of the southeast wall, and the drain should be in the southwest."
The glued part at the bottom of the box has been successfully pried open by me.
After tossing the gold chest aside, I held down an arched stone elasticator at the bottom and removed the ground peg from the package, setting it into the bronze plate.
Priing open the gold chest, I breathed a sigh of relief, and then remembered to ask, "How do you tell the difference between a water inlet and an inlet?"
Murphy raised his chin and said with some smugness, "There are still things you don't know."
"Actually, it's very simple, there must be a trap card slot at the water outlet point, so the rust around it will be rubbed off a bit."
"The same is true of the water inlet, if you look at the southeast and northwest positions, there are traces of a square groove."
I looked closely for a while, and it was really like what Murphy said, the walls had obvious signs of peeling skin.
I nodded appreciatively, "Good job."
Murphy squatted in front of the golden chest, rubbed his hands and said excitedly, "I want to see what good things are in the pure gold chest!"