0124 The riddle of the dragon's head in relief
The people who tensed their nerves and were vigilant did not breathe a sigh of relief until the secret door was completely lowered, behind the secret door was a square room about ten meters long, probably because of the large number of giant rats, one of the walls was completely shattered.
The soil layer behind the wall collapsed and piled up in the house to form a small dirt slope that took up half of the house, and even half of the adjacent wall was submerged, except for the wall opposite the small dirt slope that was in decent condition.
Hugo only checked it roughly, and beckoned everyone to enter, this room has been in such a bad condition, even if there is a trap or something, it will be ineffective a long time ago.
The wall that has been kept intact is also covered with ornate reliefs, on which is carved a very powerful and majestic red dragon, although it is not colored, but different varieties of dragons, its dragon capital has different characteristics, people who know a little about dragons, can distinguish it by their appearance alone.
The mercenaries were obviously not in this case, and Jialan even wondered if they had seen the dragons with their own eyes, or if they had learned about the dragons, so they just glanced at the red dragon on the relief and began to search the room that looked a little strange.
Because according to the structure of architecture, the passage in the north direction often leads to a more important area, and the circular hall just now, if you are not mistaken, should be a regional hub hall, and there is no reason why such a location is just a hidden secret room.
However, Hugo and Old Jimmy, two experienced thieves, groped for a long time on the red dragon relief that was obviously a stone door, but they did not find either the trap nor the mechanism to open the stone door, which made the two thieves a little helpless... No matter how good their lock-picking skills are, they have to have locks.
I saw sweat on the foreheads of the two thieves. Jialan couldn't help but say, "I'm afraid this is a secret method... Uh, Might & Magic!"
Because after wearing the invisible "Ryan Mask", the "Ryan Eye" effect of Jialan's eyes is enhanced, not only does it obtain a stronger "lightless vision" than "dark vision", but it can also have "a vision range like bathed in Ryan's moonlight" in an absolutely dark and lightless environment.
Moreover, the "Eye of Ryan" also gave him the ability to "penetrate any hidden objects and things within 10 meters, ignoring the hazy, hidden, and stealth effects", so in fact, along the way, it was he who first discovered the secret door, not the two thieves.
But in order not to look so outstanding. Jialan had been waiting for the professionals to deal with it, and it was only now, when the two thieves were helpless about the stone door without a keyhole, that they couldn't help but open their mouths to warn.
Hearing that it was the "Magic Gate", the two thieves breathed a sigh of relief. There is a specialization in the art industry, something related to magic. If you can't open it, you don't lose the face of these "lockpicking professionals". The two hurriedly got out of the way, and Jialan, a "magic professional", took care of it.
Jia Lan looked carefully at the relief on the stone door, and then ventured her finger into the relief dragon's mouth and groped for a while, and her finger touched a small, slightly concave secret magic circle.
Tapping the raised red dragon head with the wand in his hand, Jia Lan shook her head regretfully and said, "Unless you find a special 'key'." Otherwise, we're afraid we'll have to invade ...... violently."
Violent incursion?
The mercenaries looked at each other, a stone gate like this was at least a foot thick, even if it was the great sword master of the Kenmet regiment. I'm afraid I won't be able to destroy such a thick granite door with a two-handed sword in my hand in a short period of time.
What Jialan didn't tell them was that this stone door had been reinforced by a secret method, so not to mention a foot thick, even if it was only an inch, it would be difficult to smash it open with violence.
The reason why he would be regretful was because of this kind of "secret method", if he had the realm of a "mid-level mage", he only needed to release a second-order transformation spell "percussion technique", which could be easily opened, but now they had to find a way to find that special secret method door key.
Everyone was at a loss, and the head of Kenmet frowned and said, "Why don't we try to open the other three secret doors?"
In the previous ruins exploration, they have not encountered this kind of special door, which even the gold-level thieves known as the "lock picking master" can't open, and in this case, they can only choose to take a detour, or simply "violent invasion" as Jialan said.
Jialan thought for a moment and said, "Maybe we should try to find the secret method door key nearby?"
"Do you mean these coins?"
With an innocent face, Hugo took out a handful of old-looking gold and silver coins from his pocket: "This is what I found from where they were lying......"
As he spoke, the gold thief suddenly found his head glaring at him, and couldn't help but laugh dryly: "Hey, boss, I don't plan to hide my smuggling, don't you put it away first, and then divide the spoils when you go home!"
It turned out that he didn't know when he had secretly looted the loot, Jialan took those ancient coins and identified them one by one, looked at the relief dragon head, shook his head, and returned the ancient coins to Hugo.
Although there is a saying that the dragon clan loves gold coins, Jialan doesn't think that stuffing gold coins into the dragon's mouth will make it take the initiative to open this secret method, those ancient coins do not have any secret method fluctuations, and the shape and size of the coins do not conform to the small concave secret magic circle in the dragon's mouth.
Jialan's eyes inadvertently swept over the bronze spear carried by a silver swordsman on his shoulder, which was handed over to him by Hugo because he wanted to search for traps, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "Show me the spear!"
The users of the spear weapon are usually mostly soldiers in the army, adventurers and mercenaries rarely use this long weapon, and in this kind of underground temple building with a relatively narrow space, the spear can be used by the temple guards.
In addition, Hugo opened the secret door with a bronze spear just now, and Jialan was very suspicious that the four golden skeletons outside were probably the guards of the four secret doors in the east, south, west, and north of the circular hall before his death!
Although he was a little surprised, the silver swordsman immediately handed the bronze spear to Jialan, this weapon was quite heavy to start, the whole body was made of bronze, and the spear head and spear body were carved with quite exquisite patterns.
In particular, the spearhead, which is still very sharp, has intricate patterns that make it look less like a weapon, but an ornament that is intimidating, symbolic rather than practical.
Jialan tapped the bronze spear, which was indeed solid, until he groped for the end of the spear, only to find that the tail of the spear was inlaid with a copper ball with the same intricate pattern!
Twisted hard, the copper ball was inlaid on it without moving, and the patina had made it completely embroidered on it, but it was not difficult to overwhelm Jialan, and a "repair technique" was thrown up, not only to remove the patina on the copper ball, but also to make the entire bronze spear bright.
This magical scene made the mercenaries' eyes widen, if they could do this trick, they wouldn't have to worry about maintaining their equipment, and they would have to spend a lot of effort to maintain it.
Gently unscrewed the copper ball at the end of the spear, Jialan compared it on the embossed dragon head, the size was just the same as the corner of the dragon's grinning mouth, and after the copper ball was stuffed in, the sound of bone rolling was heard, and the copper ball rolled along the root of the tongue in the dragon's mouth to the tip of the tongue, making a "knock" wedge sound!
A glimmer of light flashed, and the dragon's head looked as if it had come to life, and suddenly a strange language containing a large number of qi sounds came out of the dragon's mouth!
Everyone was startled by the sudden speech of the dragon head, and invariably raised their weapons to aim at it, and the old Jimmy, who had been standing beside Jialan, said curiously: "What kind of language is this?"
"Don't be nervous, it's just an ancient magical device to store sounds..."
Jialan nodded: "This is a dragon language, it is saying, 'What is too heavy to pick up, what is so light that it does not exist, what makes everything nothing, what is the gentlest and most cruel.' 'It's a riddle! You can guess ......."
The mercenaries were collectively dumbfounded, but Jialan didn't tell them the answer, but directly recited a dragon language, and heard a muffled roar, and the ground under everyone's feet began to shake violently, so that the dirt slope began to roll down a large amount of dirt and gravel.
Under the surprised gaze of everyone, the entire wall cracked in the middle and retreated to both sides, leaving only a one-person-high stone stele, but it happened to be the red dragon relief that everyone thought was a stone door!
This situation made Hugo and Old Jimmy, who were thieves, look at each other very awkwardly, and Jialan stretched out his palm in front of the dragon's head relief, and the copper ball was spit out by the dragon's head again and rolled down into Jialan's stretched palm.
"Let's go, this magic door will only be open for a minute. ”
Jialan said, and took the lead in stepping into the long passage behind the secret method gate, and everyone hurriedly followed.
It was a rather long passage, and it seemed to have been closed for so long that the quality of the air was rather bad, and the ground was covered with dust large enough to cover the soles of the feet, and each foot stepped on it, as if it had stepped on a flour bag, and exploded into a cloud of ash.
As a last resort, Jialan injected the water element into the spell model on the wand, releasing one by one "blister spells" to wrap everyone's heads and avoid inhaling dust, but they didn't care about their bodies.
This long winding passage, every once in a distance, there will be a staircase descending to the ground, the drop is about ten meters, when Jialan and they carefully came to the end, they have almost gone deep into the ground for nearly a hundred meters or so.
The only good thing is that there are quite a few pedal traps on this passage, but they have all been scrapped due to disrepair, and the hidden arrow holes in the walls can only spray puffs of dust, but no arrows can be fired.
Until they reached the end of the passage, there was another stone door, and this time without any riddles, Hugo simply broke the two broken mechanisms on it, and opened the stone door, and a wide and magnificent hall appeared in front of them...... (To be continued......)
PS: Lao Sao: Who can guess that riddle? Well, by the way, ask for a ticket!