Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 170
Xiao Ran looked at the bronze statue that was slowly turning towards him, and suddenly felt nervous, and couldn't help but hold the handle of the knife at his waist.

Could it be that this mechanism is like those quicksand poisonous arrows in the tomb, if it is not opened in the correct way, it will kill the person who opened the mechanism first?Or is this Xia Niang really so evil, because I just turned around to look at her because I was groping around her just now?

The two people at the gate of the temple also looked panic-stricken, holding shovels to advance or retreat, they repeatedly waved for Xiao Ran to come out.

Xiao Ran suddenly jumped, jumped over the stone platform and the bronze statue, turned around and stared at the rotating bronze statue.But in the next second, the bronze statue suddenly fell and rolled aside.

In the place where the bronze statue was originally placed, copper pillars of different heights rise from the stone platform.Seeing this, the three of them also relaxed.It turned out that these things hit the base of the bronze statue during the process of rising, causing the bronze statue to lose its balance, spin and fall down.

Xiao Ran waved his hands to let the two of them relax, and walked to the stone platform by himself, carefully observing those small copper pillars.

Before placing the bronze statue, he discovered that there were lines arranged vertically and horizontally in this circular position, and it turned out that these copper pillars were underneath.The base of the bronze statue also has dents of different shades, which must be consistent with these copper pillars.

He picked up the bronze statue and compared it, and found that he had placed it in the wrong direction.According to the fact that the bronze statue must match the copper pillar, the bronze statue should be facing the right wall of the temple.

He carefully placed the base of the bronze statue on the copper pillar, then quickly took two steps back and carefully looked around the temple.

1 minute passed and nothing happened.Xiao Ran squatted down and looked at the bronze statue curiously. Did he spend a long time just to fix the bronze statue on this stone seat?

He wanted to pick up the bronze statue to have a look again, but with a little effort, he found that the bronze statue turned a little bit, and at the same time made a muffled sound of "clicking" gears.

It turned out to be such a design, let the bronze statue and the copper pillar fit and fix, and then rotate to trigger something.Xiao Ran looked up at the statue behind the stone platform, thinking that the easiest way is to make the bronze statue face the same direction as the statue, so he gently turned the bronze statue to the position facing the temple gate.

But apart from the rattling sound of gears as they turned, nothing else happened.Xiao Ran thought that this shouldn't be, this is obviously a deliberately designed mechanism, and it must be of some use.

He knelt down and looked at the bronze statue carefully, wondering if it wasn't for the front facing the temple gate, but the back facing the temple gate, so that the bronze statue and the clay statue should stand facing each other?

Thinking it would be better to do it, he stretched out his hand to try to turn it again, but at this moment the bronze statue suddenly and quickly turned back to its original position, and then there was a sound of machine wheels turning from the statue in front of him.

"Danger!" Achilles Jiugui suddenly shouted.

Relying on instinct, Xiao Ran bent his knees and kicked vigorously with both feet while Yau Jiukuo was speaking, and did two consecutive backflips out of the temple gate, pulling Xu Er and Liu Shengli back a few steps.

Almost at the same time as he jumped out of the temple gate, steel thorns broke out from the stone platform. If Xiao Zun hadn't retreated in time, he would have been stabbed into a sieve from bottom to top.

At the same time as the steel thorns pierced out, more than a dozen arrows shot out from the belly of the statue of Empress Xia.Perhaps it was because the mechanism was a bit blunt after a long period of use, and the first few sticks fell limply on the ground, but the last few sticks flew out of the temple gate, just in front of the three people's feet.

Both Xu Er and Liu Shengli were sweating coldly, and Xiao Ran also felt lingering fear.If it hadn't been for the timely reminder by Yi Jiukui just now, and his own reaction was fast enough, not to mention that he himself would have been pierced, and Xu Er and Liu Shengli might have been shot to death at the gate of the temple.

Xu Er stammered and said: "I, I... I have been here before, and I have never made a fuss about these things, but it scared me to death..."

Liu Shengli also wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "This dilapidated village is full of dilapidated temples and mud lumps. I didn't expect there to be so many high-tech hidden in it..."

Seeing that the statue had calmed down, Xiao Ran saw that the dozen or so steel thorns protruding from the ground retracted back to the ground with a click, so he went back to the temple with the two of them, carefully looking at the ground in front of the stone platform.

Those steel spikes were still glowing coldly under the holes on the ground, but the small holes were all the same size, with flat edges, and there were scattered clay fragments smashed by the steel spikes nearby.This was obviously designed while the temple was being built.

He explained to Liu Shengli and Xu Er that the Mongolian Yuan established the country with force, and ruled the world on horseback. Even Kublai Khan, the founding king of the country, said that "the Han people only use their poems and poems, so what's the use of it?"While emphasizing martial arts and suppressing literature, an atmosphere of "emphasizing industry and despising literature" was formed.

In the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, literati were called "Confucian households" and were listed alongside all kinds of craftsmen, which allowed craftsmen to have the highest treatment in all dynasties.These craftsmen with practical ability and professional skills are called "craftsmen", and there are special institutions responsible for subdivided management, including medical treatment, bow making, iron forging, knife casting, armor making, veterinary medicine, etc., as well as war and Mongolian traditions. All kinds of related craftsmen may even be exempted from all taxes and corvees if they are highly skilled.

In this context, the handicraft industry has been greatly developed. As a carpenter of Luban's family, he will naturally carry forward various mechanical techniques.It is said that Emperor Yuan Shun, the last emperor at that time, was known as the "Son of Luban". He was not only good at building houses and palaces, but also made exquisite models with his own hands. A mechanical dragon boat with a width of 120 feet and a width of [-] feet moves on the surface of the water, and the claws and eyes of the head and tail move as if they were real.

With the support of national policies and the emperor as an example, it is not uncommon for this temple built between Emperor Shun and Zhengzheng of the Yuan Dynasty to be equipped with such low-level anti-theft tomb-level organs as flying arrows and ground needles.

When Xu Er heard Xiao Ran's explanation, he was full of praise immediately, and praised Xiao Ran for being smart and knowing so many things.

Xiao Ran said: "I can only know these things by reading books and visiting museums, but you have never driven a car before, and you can learn how to operate it just by watching others drive it. You have a high IQ. Maybe you will be born in that The era is also a living Luban."

Xu Er laughed and said, "What is IQ..."

Xiao Ran sighed and said, "That means you have a good brain."

After chatting for a while, how to operate the knob of the bronze statue, and what can be turned on, has become something that Li Ran is eager to solve.The organs in this temple are designed so terribly, maybe there is really some kind of underground palace and treasure house under the temple. blow.

Besides, it was also said in the letter left by Heixiazi that he was asked to come to Futou Village to look for the Xu family.Futou Village is dominated by Gai's surname, Xu Er's family is really the only one with the surname Xu, and Xu Er's younger brother gave him the copper lump to open the knob. He always feels that these are God's will.

Now that he came to Xia Niang Temple with Xu Er and discovered these institutions, there was no reason to turn around and leave.

But the question is, how to open this mechanism?
Xiao Ran didn't dare to turn the bronze statue easily, so he could only circle around the statue and the stone platform, trying to find something more.

Xu Erbai wandered around in front of the mural in boredom, and occasionally reached out to touch the little figure on it, muttering: "Two...three...one..."

Xiao Ran turned his head and saw Xu Er was standing in front of the mural, counting something with his hands raised.

(End of this chapter)