Chapter 13: The Iron Gate

After reading all the depictions at the bottom of the pit, Wang Lung carried the searchlight and walked towards the only passage.

The drawings on the stone carvings do not describe the function of the passage, the passage is of average height, Wang Lung can just stand and walk, lift his toes to touch his head, the width is narrower, and his arms cannot be extended, fortunately the passage has not changed from the effect of the reflection of light.

The passage was very long, and along the passage, slowly Wang Lung had deviated from the position of the Sun Temple.

Wang Lung had walked nearly a kilometer along the passage, and under the illumination of the searchlight, there seemed to be no end ahead, and Wang Lung was extremely nervous about the unknown dark journey.

It's close!

Under the reflection of the light, there was a faint refraction ahead, and because the distance was still far away, Wang Lung couldn't see what was in front of him.

He slowed down with his searchlight, his eyes staring ahead, hoping to see better.

An iron door, fully enclosed, without any locks.

Just now the light refraction is that there is a gold cast badge on the door, the badge is relatively large, buckled on the door like a plate, the badge is carved with a monster, only a head shape, like the dragon head in Chinese mythology and legend, but there is no dragon horn, the mouth is very open, but unfortunately there is no body, I can't tell what the monster is!

Wang Lung gently stroked the badge on the door with his hand to see if an iron door without any locks contained a mechanism.

Under the caress of Wang Lung, the dust of the badge fell, and the color of gold was completely revealed.

Four thousand years of wind and rain erosion is still intact, if there is still no discovery this time, Wang Lung wants to cut it off and take it home and sell it.

There was nothing suspicious on the badge, and Wang Lung looked away from it, carefully searching for traces on the door under the light of the searchlight.

The corner of the door was full of cobwebs, Wang Lung squinted and cleaned all the cobwebs with his hands, and the entire iron door was smooth without a trace of protrusions or depressions.

According to the history of scientific research, it is impossible to have such exquisite iron casting skills 4,000 years ago, when was this iron gate installed? What is the meaning of the badge on the door? And it is made of gold, who is so extravagant?

Wang Lung rubbed his temples that were a little swollen, he couldn't figure it out now, it would be good if the door could be opened, he could see what was inside, but there was no mechanism on the door that could be opened except for the badge.

Wang Lung didn't give up, he turned his attention around, hoping to find clues from the walls, and just as he was about to look around, he shouted out in the air.

"Wait...... I seem to have seen this species from there!"

After taking a few steps forward and walking to the door to look at the badge carefully, Wang Lung was still wondering, and he spoke again.

"Brother, you can come and see it too!"

"Huh...... Strange, dragon-headed, beardless, hornless...... Well...... Can't remember!"

After looking at it for a long time, he didn't say a result, he still stared at the badge carefully, afraid that he couldn't see it clearly, and touched the badge with his hand to sense it carefully, and still shook his head for a long time.

"I also feel familiar, but unfortunately I don't have a whole body, I must have seen it from there, and I can't remember it for a while. After finishing speaking, he continued to frown and ponder.

At this time, the entire passage was silent, and the two brothers were bored thinking, Wang Lung did not dare to move on the side, and the beam of the searchlight in his hand was condensed on the badge, anxiously waiting for the other party to come up with a result.

"Forget it, I can't think of it, the races related to the dragon clan have thought about it all over again, but unfortunately they can't get it right!" he spoke first.

"Well, find a way to go in and see if there are any hints that might solve the mystery. He turned his head to Wang Lung and said.

Wang Lung exhaled heavily, and when he heard the two of them say that the was useless, the roots of his teeth hurt from hatred.

Wang Lung didn't bother to pay attention to the two idiots, and searched around the iron gate with his searchlight again.

The entire walls of the passage are still cemented with stones, and there are no switches or other handles except for the gaps. After looking at the wall, Wang Lung raised his head and took a picture of the top of his head, except for the stone beam, there was not even a carving.

Wang Lung took a few steps back, gathering the light of the searchlight at his feet.

Finally, it was discovered that there was a stone slab where Wang Lung was standing just now, which was revealed by Wang Lung after cleaning the sand with his hands, and there was a groove in the stone slab.

There was another line of words next to it, it was Egyptian characters, Wang Lung didn't know any of them, he looked up at the two brothers and asked if they knew each other, but unfortunately what he saw were two idiots shaking their heads.

Wang Lung ignored them, squinted his eyes and blew all the sand in the groove with his mouth, stroked around the groove with his hand, looked up at the badge on the iron door, and smiled.

If the badge on the door is removed, it can be inlaid in the groove, and it seems that the mechanism is here.

Indeed, as Wang Lung expected, the badge was attached to the iron door, like a magnet, and it was placed on the groove to fit each other.

When the badge was embedded in the groove, there was originally a little bulge, and before Wang Lung could make any movement, the badge automatically sank.

I only heard the "click... Click... click...", and the iron door slowly began to sink into the ground.

Wang Lung swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and got up with a searchlight in his hand to condense the light towards the front of the passage, without any light refraction, and there was still a long distance in the passage ahead.

Wang Lung glanced at the two brothers beside him with his spare eyes, and did not see a trace of emotional fluctuations on their faces, Wang Lung reluctantly withdrew his gaze and stepped into the iron gate.

If one of the three of Wang Lung's three could read Egyptian characters and wouldn't enter casually, the back of the door would not be a good place to go.

Wang Lung's entry was slow, and he had just walked about ten meters, only to hear a "dang" sound from behind.

He immediately turned the searchlight in his hand behind him, and the iron door that had just entered had closed automatically, and the sound was the sound of the badge re-attaching to the iron door.

Finding that there was no danger behind him, although the entrance was resealed, Wang Lung did not worry too much, and he was safe when he came.

Just as he promised to accept this dangerous test, there was no turning back from the bow, and he could only move forward bravely.

Wang Lung withdrew his gaze and put the searchlight back in front of him, but his body froze there as soon as he took a step forward.

"We were also confused, the sound just now masked the spatial fluctuations, it seems that this kid has broken into that illusion without knowing the way, wait, I hope he can wake up soon. He said in surprise.

"Don't talk about Wang Lung, if it were you and me, I would definitely be recruited, be more vigilant in the future, now we are watching his jokes, in case we are trapped in it, it is not as simple as being seen as a joke by others. A reminder of the void.

After listening to Yi's words, he just nodded and didn't continue to pick up, for Wang Lung's current situation, they could only wait.

Wang Lung didn't know whether to be happy or sad, he had just opened the iron gate and fell into an illusion, and he had come to the same place and era.

In front of him was a larger sacrificial scene, many people gathered in front of the sacrificial platform, and there were people dressed in strange clothes chanting on the stage, and Wang Lung did not even know Egyptian characters, so it was impossible to understand what the other party was saying.

He ignored everything that happened here, and ran towards the outer pillar hall as fast as he could, the last time he entered the illusion realm, he didn't find the pharaoh's bedroom because of his own negligence, and this time he finally came in Wang Lung Of course, he didn't want to give up such a good opportunity again.

When he rushed into the main hall of the outer pillar hall, he found that there was no one in the hall, and the pharaoh's seat was empty, and there was not even a cleaning uncle.

Wang Lung slowly walked to the pharaoh's seat in confusion, and looked around at the hall, yes, it was the same as the last time he came, there was no change, but I don't know where everyone went, since there are still sacrificial activities outside, how can I say that this is also the place where the pharaoh accepts the pilgrimage of his subjects, why will there be no one?

Could it be that this sacrifice has nothing to do with the pharaoh?" Wang Lung guessed wildly in his heart.

Since he couldn't figure it out, Wang Lung decided to take a closer look at the pharaoh's chair, and he crouched under the seat to look and touch, hoping to find the existence of a mechanism or something.

Wang Lung circled around the entire Pharaoh's seat for a long time and still didn't find any suspicion, he not only looked at the seat platform, but also the back wall and the surrounding area of the seat were all touched by him, tightly fitted, without any mechanism or handle.

Wang Lung reluctantly walked out of the outer pillar hall hall.

Since he couldn't find any clues about the Pharaoh's dormitory in the main hall, he felt that he still had to grasp what he could grasp now, and in reality he was already deep in the passage of the altar pit, and he could explore it in advance in the illusion.

When Wang Lung walked out of the outer pillar hall and looked at the altar, he found that the sacrifice had ended.

Although there are still people walking around, looking at the costumes should be members of the temple.

Wang Lung walked slowly to the altar, where the pit was beneath the altar and was now blocked by stones.

Wang Lung knew that he was in a fantasy realm, and everyone around him regarded him as air. But he didn't know what to do, if he pried open the altar to close the stone face and enter the tunnel, wouldn't those people find out?

After all, it was in full view, Wang Lung had never done this kind of test, and he didn't dare to guarantee it.

Just when Wang Lung was entangled in his heart, the stone face of the altar slowly separated from both sides, and two people walked out from the bottom of the pit, although the two did not notice Wang Lung, but they exuded a thick bloody aura that made Wang Lung smell uncomfortable.

When the stone surface was about to close, Wang Lung jumped down the tunnel, watching the stone surface above his head close again, Wang Lung shook his head with a wry smile, he knew that the altar of the road was equipped with a mechanism, why bother to pry it open.

Wang Lung noticed that there was a small water tank on the ground around the bottom of the pit, which should have contained combustibles such as kerosene, and it had been extending far along the passage, and the flames in the entire stone tank were surging, forming two parallel lines of fire.

Wang Lung didn't delay long, glanced at the stone carvings he had seen, and confirmed that he had not entered the wrong place, and the reason why he did not find the stone trough on the ground in reality was mainly because the sand had buried it.

Wang Lung quickly ran down the passage to the depths, counting his steps as he ran, testing the approximate distance, in reality he knew how far he had advanced, so that he could make some references.

There was no one else in the passage, and the more Wang Lung ran inside, the stronger the bloody aura became.

He stopped at the iron gate, in reality there was an iron gate that Wang Lung had just opened, but there was no in the illusion, for which Wang Lung had doubted.

Four thousand years ago, it was impossible to have such a superb iron casting technique, and that door was indeed installed later, but I don't know how much time it took to be from reality.

Wang Lung didn't continue to think, raised his legs and continued to walk forward, this time he didn't run again, in reality he stayed in front of him for more than ten meters, and he didn't know what the road was going to be.

The bloody breath that came into his nose became thicker and thicker, and a trace of dangerous aura entered Wang Lung's mind.

Wang Lung slowed down to the position he was in reality, and just wanted to continue walking, when there was a sound of "dang" behind him, Wang Lung unconsciously looked back, and startled him at a glance.

There was no iron gate in the place where I had just passed through the iron gate in reality, but now not only was the iron gate erected there, but it was also sealed.

Just when Wang Lung was puzzled, there was the sound of iron tools beating stones outside the iron door, and there was an old man muttering words.

Wang Lung couldn't hear what the old man outside the door was saying, but the meaning that he could understand came very clearly in his mind: "There is a vicious beast in front of you, and you will die for life if you enter this door." ”

As soon as the warning word sounded in his mind, there was no sound behind the door, Wang Lung swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, slowly calmed down his nervous mood, and prepared to ignore the iron door and continue to investigate.

But when he turned around, he found that there was no parallel line of fire in front of him, only the light of a searchlight ahead, and he returned.

Wang Lung entered the illusion twice in a row, and returned to reality in the same location, if he didn't take the same route, he would never be able to leave the illusion.

Wang Lung now didn't know if his thoughts were correct, and if he could enter the illusion again, he might try it.

Wang Lung didn't talk to the two brothers immediately after he returned, he was thinking about some of the things he had encountered in the illusion.

Wang Lung only pondered for a moment, and then took the initiative to confess everything he encountered in this illusion to the two brothers.

As the saying goes: "Three stinkers beat Zhuge Liang." ”

The last time he entered the illusion, he caught two points that Wang Lung didn't notice, and this time he confessed that he wanted to gain something again, but unfortunately he didn't give any constructive advice.