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After a while, everyone felt the vibration under their feet getting stronger and stronger.

Chris didn't have to look to feel it—a series of rhythmic thumps, like thunder in the distance.

Dust fell from the green bricks of the ceiling, and even the walls hummed from the resonance.

"It's coming. The old man with the green beard whispered beside Wang Xu.

Not far from the platform, there was a swishing sound on the side wall, and the wall loosened and shifted, and a huge iron ball fell and slammed into the ground.

Everyone was stunned, even Teng Chuliang didn't expect that it was not a wooden ball that fell, but an iron ball.

Then, without waiting for everyone to react, the iron ball slowly rolled in the canal in the established direction. Chris exclaimed anxiously, "What now?"

Seeing the iron ball jump out of the canal, Teng Chuliang shouted: "Blue flag, rise! ”

These two flags were in Gao Liang'er's hands, and she raised the blue flag in her right hand above her head and shook it twice. The indigo flag in the left hand is kept 90 degrees flush, half-raised at the side.

The blue flag corresponds to the basalt pillar, and when they saw the signal, the machine operators were in a hurry. Although Teng Chuliang spoke in detail, it was the first time for them to operate. The basalt pillar is a three-person mechanism, the huge stone pillar is in the middle, tattooed with a water wave stripe, the basalt shape is also very bizarre, the turtle head and snake tail stand upright on both sides, the snake head is exposed from under the turtle shell half of the body, the snake's mouth is closed, and the eyes of the two black holes look upward, as if looking at the turtle head. The three of them pressed down the glans, the snake's tail, and the snake's head at the same time. With a "bang", the stone slab with water waves on the stone pillar slowly fell, and a huge iron arm popped out of it.

Seeing the iron arm, the machine man paused because he was stunned, forgetting to press down the mechanism again. The iron ball passed them and went straight to the next place.

The Indigo group was raised with a heavier iron handle, and although a lot of advance was given, when the mechanism was pulled down again, only the top of the iron handle rubbed against the iron ball. The iron ball did not slow down, but was lifted high, out of its proper track, and jumped into the waterway of the West District in three or two times, and after a few rolls, it fell into it with a loud bang, splashing high, and then the iron ball sank to the bottom and disappeared into the water.

Chris looked at the ripples in the river and thought, "This is a ditch wash."

"Black flag up!"

Mai Xiu's hands are black and white, the black flag represents everyone stopping, and the white flag represents everyone getting ready.

Wang Shu said worriedly: "How can such a big iron ball be good? Not everyone is as powerful as Jiada. ”

Wiping a handful of sweat on his forehead, Chang Yu channeled: "This time it fell into the water, if it is not controlled well next time, this iron ball will fly around, not to mention smashing the buildings in this city, it will be bad if it hits people." ”

Teng Chuliang said: "Don't worry about the weight of the iron ball. ”

"Huh?" the people on the high platform let out a sigh of surprise.

"I thought so too. Chris strongly supported Teng Chuliang's statement, and said, "You also saw just now, although the iron ball is heavy, the iron handle just gently rubs it, and it pops out so high, there must be a lot of force attached to the mechanism, and there is no need for the person who operates the mechanism to be powerful." Chris thought to himself: these arms, handles, and hubs must have springs, gears, and other things. Although she thought so, she didn't say it, and she was afraid that she would have to explain it to everyone.

Teng Chuliang naturally understood, and he said in his heart: Brother Xian is really smart, although he doesn't understand the technique, he can know the key points at a glance. He said faintly: "Xiao Yi is right, although I only saw the first two mechanisms running, but it is not much different from the wooden box game I said, we must try it down, and the most important thing is to make people have no fear of the iron ball." ”

At this time, the old man with the green beard suddenly said: "What Teng Zhuangshi said is true, give everyone in the city a process of adaptation, maybe it will become smooth." ”

Wang Shu saw that he had spoken, so he nodded and said, "Okay, continue!"

When everyone saw that the white chess was played, they were still faintly afraid.

Chris folded his hands on his back, his brow furrowed. In the first few rounds, there were no surprises in all kinds of "ditch washing", and mistakes and coordination confusion often occurred. But the people of the city gradually realized one thing: that is, it did not seem to take much strength to deal with the iron ball, but they often used force to manipulate the pivot and the hinge, so that the ball fell into the gutter and groove where it should not go. The fear of the crowd was indeed due to the terrifying momentum of the iron ball, and sure enough, in response to the words of the old man with the green beard, with a few attempts, the situation was improving.

At the same time, Teng Chuliang made a new discovery, and he loudly announced: "There must be a magnet in that iron ball." ”

"Magnets?"

"After observing it a few times, the path of the iron ball after each time it comes out of the orbit is extremely regular, and there are traces to follow, presumably there must be a hidden track made of magnets under the floor. Once it gets out, it will only travel in a dark track because it is being towed, and will not run aimlessly, let alone destroy the city, or hurt people. ”

Wang Shu let go of his hanging heart. He didn't realize he had been holding his breath just now, and that's when he breathed a sigh of relief. "Good," he said, "good." ”

At this time, the iron ball bounced again, and Chris kept an eye on it, and after a few flicks, he saw the iron ball go straight to the building next to the road, but it was jerked back, back on the cobblestone pavement, and finally rolled into the ditch again, and sure enough, it was in the same position as the last time.

Chris immediately became agitated - as Brother Teng said, the iron ball will disappear according to the established route. It was more complicated than she imagined, and whoever built it was already completely convinced of the ancient mechanics.

The leadership strengthened its confidence.

Immediately after, the red flag flew again.

Hong Qili exerted his strength, and the "City Order Hall" turned half a circle, and a strong sense of vibration came again.

The iron ball slid down the canal with a loud bang, and everyone who was close to it felt that the eardrums were extremely uncomfortable. Everyone endured the loud noises and focused on the mechanism. I saw that the iron arm on the left side was obliquely raised, and the right side of the handle was blocked, and the iron ball flew on several sets of mechanisms, and the angle and speed were just right.

The machine operation is smooth, and Teng Chuliang is more handy in commanding. "Yellow flag, rise!" he shouted.

This is a two-person white tiger stone pillar, the white tiger stone beast has two wing-like arms on its shoulders, and they rotate hard together, and the direction in which the iron ball is going is slowly rising a huge stone slab, and when the iron ball hits it heavily, the two machine hands are shocked by the strong force, and their feet are unstable. The iron ball suddenly changed direction and flew towards a land temple. It is said to be a temple, in fact, it is a stone niche, in the middle sits the white-bearded land man, and the stone walls on the left and right sides are engraved with the upper and lower couplets are "the soil can send a thousand blessings, and the earth can give birth to all things." Horizontal criticism is "responsive".

Just when the ball was about to arrive, the crutches in the hands of the land lord fell down, and the stone niche also quickly moved downward, and the iron ball rolled over after it, if it was slow for a second, the idol of the land lord would be smashed to pieces. After the disappearance of the Land Temple, a square passage appeared in that position, but because the iron ball was too big, it was stuck in the mouth of the passage.

Chang Yutong pointed to the passage and said excitedly: "I really got right, I found the exit so quickly." ”

"Not true. Teng Chuliang muttered, "This is not the location of any gate. ”

The captain of the guard frowned, looked at the high platform, and thought: Why didn't he give the order when he had a way? Time had taken too long, he couldn't wait any longer, and he whistled, and all the guards looked at him. I saw him point with his hand and make a few more gestures.

The middle-aged man on the island could see it, and the captain ordered him to come forward and investigate. It was clear that he and the Yellow Flag group in charge of another person were the closest, but the captain asked the Orange Flag group a little farther away to check, and it seemed that he still couldn't believe himself as a prisoner.

The group of orange flags is also the white tiger stone pillar in the western district, and in teams of two, they touched it and tried to push the iron ball, but they didn't push it away with all their might. The two of them beckoned to them, and the same group turned to the middle-aged man and said, "You stay here, I'll take a look." ”

Before the soldier could walk over, the iron ball suddenly slid a little. The first two people looked at each other for a moment, and then began to exert force at the same time, and with a loud "bang", the iron ball slipped out.

This alarmed everyone in the city and on the high platform. Teng Chuliang and Chris looked over, and the two soldiers were pushing away the huge iron ball.

They rejoiced when they saw the exit revealed. One leaned in, it was deep, and the other turned around and signed with the captain: "Exit!"

"Great!" someone cheered.

The soldier who went in didn't take two steps before he heard something. It was a faint, water-clear, slippery sound that came from all directions of the passage at once. He saw a stream of blue glowing gas gushing out from it, and he didn't know why he suddenly remembered the group of blue scorpions, and unconsciously drew his knife, and the blade was immediately surrounded by a layer of gas, emitting a faint blue light.

The surprise lasted only a few moments, and then ended with a scream.

Chris felt a chill, and she was the first to say what everyone felt: "I have an ominous premonition......"

Before the second soldier could react, he fell. His eyes widened as he stared at the exit he never wanted to find.

There was silence all around, except for an intermittent voice, which was hard to determine. "Hiss......" followed by an extremely high-pitched sound that everyone heard, in fact, it sounded more like a scream than a scream. This sharp sound makes people want to plug their ears, but they can block their ears, and it seems that it can also penetrate into the eardrum, making people's tongues numb and their eyes sour, which is unbearable.

"Huang Qi, get up!" Teng Chuliang shouted, and he didn't care about letting Chris pass the word, he turned his head to Huang Jingjing who was in a daze and shouted again, "Huang Qi, get up quickly!"

Chris stepped over in two steps and raised her hand, the yellow flag in her hand waving in the air.

When Hong Qili saw it, he was angry and roared: "Yellow flag, rise!"

The roar of the lion was heard.

The middle-aged man on the island shouted at the same group: "Come back and open the mechanism!"

Only then did the man come back to his senses, he sprinted two steps back to the White Tiger Stone Pillar, and the middle-aged man shouted, "Turn!"

The soldier was stupid and turned in the wrong direction.

"It's the other way around!" waited for the middle-aged man to remind him, only to realize that he had turned the wrong way, and when he turned again, the mechanism made a "bang" sound, and the stone niche of the land temple was only exposed a small part, and then it was stuck, and they could not move again.

The middle-aged man had spent most of his life in the army before he was escorted to Salmon Island, and it would not be wrong to say that he had been in a hundred battles, and at least he had more combat experience than anyone in the guards. On the island, he had seen many strange poisons of all kinds, but none of them were as terrible as the blue scorpion he had seen today, and he had thought so—but the scorpion swarm did not seem to be as good as the scorpion in front of him: it flashed out of the exit, skimmed over the half-raised stone niche, and crawled towards them.

He saw a huge white scorpion, several times larger than the blue scorpion. Its clawless claw, the ears on it are also white. It skimmed across the ground, leaping a dozen feet at a time.

"Beware!" the middle-aged man shouted, pointing to the shadow behind the soldier. Then he heard a dull thud from a crash.

The soldier screamed in pain, and a needle-like organ pierced his leather armor, his skin, and pierced his organs. Almost in a panic, he pulled out his waist knife and shook it frantically back and forth, trying to cut off the long stab in his back.

The soldier's face was contorted with extreme fear, and his cry was quickly drowned out by the scorpion's chirping. "Hiss!" the scorpion roared. The soldier was thrown into the air, he only felt that his eyes were blurred, and he fell heavily on the ground with his head down, but the scorpion did not let him go, and as soon as his body fell to the ground, the thick scorpion tail of the bowl stabbed down again, and kept tearing on the ground, and the soldier spread his whole body on the ground and did not move.

The scorpion seemed to prefer live prey, and the dead soldier made it lose interest at once. It stepped over the corpse that had fallen to the ground, the spikes of its tail clearly visible, and it roared again, trying to intimidate its prey.

The middle-aged man dodged behind the stone pillar and dodged the blow. He didn't rush away, and giving his back to this murderous creature was no different from death. He had no weapons at hand, and wanted to go around the pillar and pick up the waist knife of the dead soldier.

While the middle-aged man was circling the pillar with the scorpion, the captain of the guard gave another order, and he personally led three capable men to prepare to round up the giant scorpion. How to say, as soon as the white scorpion came out, he killed three of his subordinates, he couldn't bear it anymore, and this thing was terrible, but it was just a lonely, and it was much easier than dealing with the scorpions. He commanded his men to flank him, ready to chop the beast to pieces.

Although they felt that the captain of the guard was a little reckless, Xiong Daiying and Hong Qili couldn't sit idly by, they left the organ they were guarding and rushed in the direction where the scorpion appeared. Seeing Brother Hong and Dai Ying acting, Ning Yifei couldn't help but move his steps, but he glanced at Yin Chen, the two were the same age, but Yin Chen had a calmness that he didn't have, Ning Yifei knew that it was not his turn to make a move, so he settled down and continued to observe the situation.

"Idiot!" Wang Shu scolded, his voice a little hoarse. As soon as he looked at the scorpion, he knew that it was not easy to deal with, and the captain of the guard rushed forward without waiting for his own deployment, making him angry and anxious.

Chris saw Xiong Daiying and Hong Qili acting together with the captain of the guard, and wanted to stop it, but after thinking about it, she didn't say anything. She chose to trust both of them and believe in their abilities.

The tragedy just now happened so fast that the people on the high platform were stunned, and the female Taoist priests were even more frightened by this sudden monster. Zi Ling timidly asked, "Is it a scorpion spirit?"

Among the sisters and sisters, Zi Ling is the least courageous, and when she encounters this situation, she is always comforted by Huang Jingjing. And now Huang Jingjing was also frightened, Zi Ling was scared, and he didn't know who he was asking this sentence, and his tone was trembling.

There was no answer, and Gao Tai was enveloped by a suppressed emotion.

Bei Sanqi stared at the white scorpion tightly, his eyes didn't blink, such a unique poison, Rao had never seen it.

Glancing at Zi Ling, Chris couldn't help but take a deep breath, she didn't want to say it, but she couldn't help it when she saw that everyone on the high platform was suppressed by the momentum of the scorpion—no matter how intimidating that thing was, it was just a creature.

"Look at the size of this scorpion, I'm afraid it's the queen of the scorpion group. This was only her own preliminary guess, and she estimated that she had become pale because she lived deep in the cave and did not see sunlight all year round, just like other albino animals.

When everyone was paying attention to the scorpion, Teng Chuliang's eyes kept falling on the statue of Master Chu in that square square. Only he noticed that when the iron ball hit the square passage of the Earth Temple, the right hand of the statue of Master Chu slid down three copper plates and fell into the large plate held by the child. This is a mechanism that is not in the wooden box game, and Teng Chuliang couldn't understand the meaning for a while: if the scorpion was not counted, what would happen if the iron ball hit the exposed passage behind the stone niche?

Tuwa let out a low whine in her throat, and the old man grabbed his hand tightly, for fear that he would break free and run to make trouble. Although he was worried about his companions, this monster was more infiltrating than the group of blue scorpions just now, and he had never been so afraid of it in all his years on the island.

At the same time, the white scorpion screamed, its hard claws striking the stone pillar, and the middle-aged man already held the knife in his hand. The captain of the guard made a series of gestures, and the other soldiers silently surrounded the scorpion.

After making an attack gesture, the captain of the guard charged forward, and the soldiers did not hesitate to pounce on the scorpion, the desire to fight seemed to drive away the spreading fear in their hearts......