Tomb Raiders I Can Hear Antique Talk

Chapter 188

Xiao Ran heard the constant "chi chi" sound above his head, and puffs of white smoke continued to emerge from the hole above, guessing that the yin-yang fish mechanism just now should be some kind of anti-theft measure for the room.

He heard from his second uncle that shark oil is not only resistant to burning, but also has the characteristics of being easy to solidify and having a low melting point.Presumably the designer of the mechanism created a time difference through the melting of the shark oil based on the temperature of the room.If the mechanism is released within a fixed time, or the temperature is lowered, the poisonous gas on the top will definitely be stopped.

In other words, in this room, there must be a switch known to the owner or the designer, which can stop the current danger.

He first took out three Red Cannon Miaoxin Pills, distributed them to Liu Shengli and Xu Er, and then forced himself to calm down and seriously think about the possible position of the switch.

He first returned to the bookshelf and removed the entire bookshelf, looking for possible doubts.But the three of them quickly checked one side of the wall. There was neither a hollow sound of knocking, nor abnormal protrusions and depressions, or abrupt decorations and wall tiles.

Xiao Ran slapped his head and suddenly felt that he had made a very stupid mistake.Using this low-melting shark oil to set up the mechanism requires temperature as the prerequisite for opening.Just now when he and Liu Shengli approached, coupled with the temperature of the torch, the mermaid oil started to drip and melt and flow at an accelerated rate, which triggered the mechanism.

Therefore, the designer will definitely not design the switch near the yin-yang fish, but should be far away from the yin-yang fish.

"Let's search separately. I'll go to the bed, Liu Er, go to the door, and Xu Er, go and look at the table."

After Xiao Ran assigned the tasks, the three of them hurried to their positions.Xiao Ran picked up the dusty tattered bedding and rummaged carefully on the stone bed, no matter whether it was the pillow or the wall.

But this stone bed is not at all like in the alchemy room, where the whole pillow can be pressed down.He took a careful look with a flashlight, and there were no suspicious gaps at the connection between the pillow and the stone bed, the wall beside the bed, or the stone bed itself.

Liu Shengli at the door was already in a hurry, and it was his turn to knock the engineer shovel everywhere, wishing to knock down the entire wall.But apart from the numbness of the tiger's mouth and the dust all over the sky, his desperation didn't yield anything at all.

Seeing that the potentially poisonous white smoke was getting closer and closer to the three of them, Xiao Ran didn't care too much, and quickly pulled Liu Shengli to the ground, put out the torch, and then dragged Xu Er.

His idea is that, after all, the smoke is relatively light, and it is always suspended above.Maybe the three of them waited for a while, and the temperature of the room dropped, and the switch of the yin-yang fish would return to its original state.This can only be regarded as a method that is not a solution, it is better than really desperate or waiting for death.

Xu Er was tugging on the table to compete, looking under the table from time to time, his face full of doubts.Xiao Ran pulled him to lie down, then extinguished the torch, and told the two of his thoughts.

Liu Shengli nervously looked at the white smoke that was getting closer and closer above his head, and saw that the white smoke covered the broken pages of Dan Fang on the wooden table, and the shriveled paper immediately shrunk and turned black, he asked Xiao Ran nervously: "Manager, did I see those The paper is blackened by the white smoke...couldn't it be some kind of sour..."

Xiao Ran knew that he thought of the Persian green alum oil in the secret passage of Xia Niang Temple, and felt a little uneasy. The white smoke might be some kind of specially made acid mist.Once covered by this acid mist, or sucked in, it is really impossible to live or die.

Xu Er didn't panic, but still grabbed the legs of the table, kept shaking the corner of the table, and let out a doubtful sound of "Huh?"

Xiao Ran asked: "Did you find the switch?"

Xu Er shook his head and said, "I didn't find it. But Xiao Gang, this table is a bit strange. The side next to the wall is built into the wall, but one leg of the table seems to be movable."

Xiao Ran stared at Xu Er with wide eyes, Xu Er pointed to the table leg he mentioned, and then shook the table vigorously.

Under the light of the flashlight, with the slight shaking of the table, two shallow gaps were exposed between a small section of the table leg near the wall and the connection between the upper and lower parts.

Xiao Ran was overjoyed, he hurriedly crawled over and grabbed the small table leg and pulled it, the table leg was pulled out, and there was a thin iron chain connected to the inside of the stone wall behind.

He hurriedly pulled hard, only to hear another series of sound amplifiers in the wall. The small hole in the roof that was spraying smoke suddenly began to inhale in reverse, and the white smoke suspended above his head was quickly sucked in. The temperature also plummeted.

At the same time, the iron door of the living room also bounced open with a bang.Liu Shengli hurriedly pushed the door open and ran out, holding on to the door and standing up, gasping for breath.

"... Manager, let me watch the door... I won't go in..."

Xiao Ran heard a "click" on the wall behind him, and saw that the yin-yang fish mechanism turned around, turned the solidified black shark oil to the top, and then returned to the original place.

Only then did Xiao Ran heave a sigh of relief, patted Xu Er on the shoulder and said, "You're a good boy, thank you later!"

Xu Er twitched his nose and said with a smile, "Xiao Gang, you just treat me as an outsider."

Xiao Ran was no longer polite to him, and for safety's sake, asked him to retreat outside the door and wait with Liu Shengli, while he continued to check carefully.

This living room should belong to the owner of the main hall, maybe it is the "Tianling Sanren".With such an inhuman organ arranged, there must have been something important hidden in this room, and it might even still be there.

I checked the bookshelf and the stone bed area just now. There may be some secrets behind this table embedded in the wall.He looked carefully at the surface of the table, and made sure that the acid mist had completely dissipated and there was no residue on the table, so he picked up a rag and swept all the soil-covered paper on the table to the ground.

The original appearance of the table was revealed, and a depiction similar to the clay statue in Xia Niang Temple appeared on the table.In the painting, Xia Niang is still sitting cross-legged, but one of the six hands is placed on the lap, and the other five fingers are stretched out from one to five, pointing in different directions.

Following the directions pointed by these hands, Xiao Ran checked the edge of the wooden table, and found that there were a few inconspicuous protrusions under the edge of the wooden table, and they could be pulled like the table legs.

If you are the owner of the living room, you must know the order in which these protrusions are pulled.But he carved a picture on the table, and marked the order with hand gestures. Could it be that he deliberately told strangers how to open a certain mechanism?Or is he not very good at thinking and can't remember the sequence?
In any case, as the old saying goes, when something comes, there is no reason to miss it.

Following Xia Niang's gesture, Xiao Ran pulled the protrusions on the edge of the wooden table one by one. Sure enough, with the last pull, the sound of the mechanism was transmitted from the wooden table all the way to the stone wall in front.

Xiao Ran saw a burst of dust shaking off the stone wall in front of him, and instinctively felt that there was some danger.He had just tilted his head a few inches when he saw a brick in front of him bounce off, and a sharp steel thorn thrust out from behind the brick.

(End of this chapter)