Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 448 Siguniang Mountain ([-])

448 Chapter 448 Siguniang Mountain ([-])
My brother led me to slide down the iron chain at the entrance of the cave. We quickly landed smoothly. There was a strong metallic smell floating in the air in the cave. It was the smell of blood mixed with the smell of metal. The smell was strong and constant. It poured into my nose, making me frown.

It feels very crowded down here, and we don’t have much room for people coming down from behind.

My brother looked around with a flashlight. After looking around, I found that the hole was narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. I thought it was very similar to the shape of the Erlenmeyer flask in Sister Yujing's laboratory, except that the neck section was a little longer.

The metallic smell should be from the iron chains all over here, and the smell of blood is also very strong. It should be because the entrance to the cave was opened with a blood sacrifice, but there is no blood left around the entrance, not even the newly painted blood. As if coming in.

The surroundings were quiet, and there seemed to be no danger. However, in the tomb of my brother's house, this situation always felt like an illusion.

The structure here is very complicated. There is a long shaft under the disc, and countless iron chains are tied to it. The iron chains are connected to something that has many teeth or gears that bite together. It is a kind of uneven teeth. It was distributed in a shape, like a precise combination lock with an interlocking mechanism. I asked him in a low voice: "Brother, which part of the mechanism is this?"

He said: "Organization message space."

I muttered: "Look at what these chains are connected to in the stone chamber opposite. That is to say, there is also this interlocking structure on the opposite side. Our side is in a closed state, and the one over there is in an open state. What we have to do is to When that side is closed and this side is opened, will the painting on the wall change?"

We could hear the sound of surging water here. We followed the sound and looked over. At the lower part of the stone chamber was something like a water wheel inserted into a well mouth at the bottom. I said: "The metal disk above rotates because of this water." Bar."

When I first came down and took a quick look, I thought there was only one passage directly opposite, but after I turned on the light, I discovered that there are two passages to the left and one to the right. There are three passages in total, and they are very deep. They are said to be passages, but they actually feel more like gaps. .

I looked at the passage in front of me and sighed and said, "The passage here is too narrow. It's very difficult to get in there."

Immediately after Bai Hao landed next to us, the land immediately seemed tight. I heard Bai Hao say to me: "This kind of passage is normal in a place like this. After all, there is no plan for this place." Letting too many outsiders in, compared to those who don’t leave any way at all, seems pretty good, doesn’t it?”

I thought about it and said, "That's right. Logically speaking, if you want to enter this place, the patriarch can just come and stroll around alone. The design is also designed so that one person can pass through at a time. Everything is just right."

I thought to myself, I had no choice but to come down now. If my brother knew what the password was, there would be no need to go down to this institution to crack it. There would be no need to come here at all.

Then I said with a helpless look: "But aren't there a lot of people coming now? I can't see the jars under my feet being pressed back and forth by a living person weighing more than [-] kilograms. They are all living landmines. If one of them breaks, it will be a disaster."

This height is not bad, there are always five or six meters, but it seems to be of no use. There are still a lot of feldspars connected to the pile of iron chains, which is probably a mechanism. "

As he spoke, Gou Wuye also climbed down the chain. He looked in and said, "You are real tigers. You didn't even try to see if it was safe before you all came down." Then he listened to his "yo" Someone said: "Look at this road, it's a clay pot floor again." Looking up in that direction, he said "Ouch" and said: "Stone bar, this is still a "head", this stone bar is It weighs over a ton, and these two designs alone clearly leave no way for people to survive."

I looked at the stone bars above and asked him: "What's "rising up"? Is it the name of the agency? Do those stone bars really fall down?"

Gou Wu also said: "Smart, if we make a wrong step, those things will "swish...pop...". If nothing else, let's talk about the layers of clay pots under our feet." If it cracks like that, the scene will probably be even more tragic than before."

I was still staring at the stone bars and said, "Even if there weren't those jars and there weren't the bugs inside, just if the stone bars fell directly from a height of several meters, people would be dead."

Looking at the depth of the crack, the crack that goes deep into the darkness with no end in sight, is covered with stone bars hanging above the head. I don't know how many there are. They are so densely packed that the more I look at them, the more terrifying I feel.

Then my focus turned to the stone wall again, and I asked, "You can't touch those raised metal blocks, right?"

Bai Hao said: "Those are staples. The design seems to be for people to walk, but there must be some mechanism mixed in. It should be something regular, but we don't know. In short, if you make the wrong step, you will be dead." , they are too densely distributed from bottom to top, it is not easy to pass through without touching them."

I said: "Those three murals, three cracks, and three mechanisms, is there any order in which to decipher them?"

Bai Hao said: "There is still a sequence, just ask him."

I looked at my brother and he said slowly: "The first group, the lowest group."

Qi Tiezui, who was still stuck on the chain, said to us: "Don't just talk, move and squeeze to give me some space."

Bai Hao turned his head to look at him, and then moved towards us. Qi Tiezui took two more steps down, looked down and said, "Look at the entrance. It's set up like this. There might be something in here." "

I said to him: "Master Ba, everything you said makes sense, but it can't change anything. Now we have to go in no matter what. Instead of complaining all the time, why not save your energy and study how you are going to get over here."

I turned to look at my brother and said, "Brother, I'll take you in quickly. I promise you won't touch any of those things. How about leaving?"

Qi Tiezui was still thinking about my words and said: "Qilin, ask the clan leader if there is an easier route. Even if you find a way to get past this route, it may not necessarily be passable."

Bai Hao returned his hand and patted him who barely landed and said, "Master Ba, it's okay. This is nothing. It's actually very easy to get over it."

Qi Tiezui said "Huh?" and glanced at him in confusion. Suddenly he felt his body loosen up and the space around him became much larger. Then he heard a little girl in the distance say: "Call Zhang Rishan to come down." Qi Tiezui looked over when he heard the sound. Only then did he realize that there were two people missing from his side. He looked at Bai Hao next to him and asked with a look of disbelief: "No, where did the patriarch and Qilin go?" Already?"

Bai Hao smiled and said "Ah" and nodded. Qi Tiezui pointed at the crack and said, "When did you go there?"

Bai Hao told him: "I was talking to you just now, when you came down."

Qi Tiezui said: "But in the time it took to say a word, this... this is a road of dozens of meters, and the two of them passed by quietly?"

I said "Hello" to the other side and said, "Do you hear me? It will take a lot of effort for you all to come here, so stop being so long-winded."

Bai Hao said slightly louder: "Okay, I heard it."

Soon Zhang Rishan came down, said hello into the gap, and followed his brother and said to me: "Rope."

I took out a Qilin City spiritual power rope that could be extended as long as I wanted. As soon as I took it out of the bag and unfolded it, he said to me: "Throw it over."

I nodded stupidly and held the end of the rope, but suddenly I thought, no, the road here is not only narrow and dark, but also dozens of meters long. It is also a technical job to throw it directly. I looked at him and said: "Just throw it away." Throw it over? That’s far away.”

He looked at me slightly seriously, and the majesty of his leadership really made people tremble. I immediately said: "I promise to complete the task."

I spotted the location of the gap, then held the end of the rope and shook it. After I made the gesture, I heard a "swish" sound, and a rope as thick as my thumb, like a long snake, rushed all the way towards the gap in front of me.

Soon, at the entrance of the passage a few meters away, Zhang Rishan was already squatting in the center of the entrance. He raised his hand to catch the rope. When he saw the end of the rope flying towards him, he immediately waved his hand and wrapped the end of the rope around his arm. , tightened the rope.

I felt the rope being pulled tightly
He said to his brother: "You caught it over there, how do you fix it?" Zhang Qiling directly took the rope.

Bai Hao on the other side saw that we were all ready, so he grabbed the rope and said, "I'll go there first, and everyone behind me will follow my instructions. It will definitely be fine, but I remind you, it's best to hang on the rope and don't touch the jar." , if you have no choice, you must lie down gently."

As he said that, he lay down face up at the entrance of the passage. His whole body was as close to the ground as a piece of paper, leaving almost no gaps. He grabbed the rope, kicked off his feet, and dived in like a fish. When he reached the gap, he saw his body slightly lifted up, hanging on the rope and moving quickly in without touching the crispy jars. In the blink of an eye, he had gone far away.

Qi Tiezui looked at him again, dumbfounded and said, "He must be going too fast."

After a while, Bai Hao disappeared from his sight and quickly joined us. As soon as Bai Hao landed on the ground, he said to the gap: "Ba Ye, come here."

Zhang Rishan signaled him to hold on to the rope and said to him: "Let's hold on to the rope. You can hold on. If you can't hang on, just lie down and gently rub against it. Here."

Qi Tiezui was still hesitating, so Gou Wuye patted him and said, "I said, Lao Ba, stop inking. I'll be able to get over it if I have the time."

Qi Tiezui muttered: "Right away, right away." Then he lay down carefully, put his hands and feet on the rope, and then carefully moved towards us little by little.

As soon as Bai Hao came over, he took the rope from his brother's hand and said, "Give it to me. You can go and see yours. By the way, I just saw something in the passage that was not made of hanging stone bars, but looked like the skins of some animals." .”

I asked him: "Can you see this?"

He looked up at the entrance of the passage and said, "You should take a photo inside. There should be a certain number of them."

My brother took a flashlight and shined it into the entrance of the passage. He tried his best to shine it into the middle of the passage. It seemed that it looked a little different from the opposite side. I don’t know how many meters away it started. The things hanging above my head were not only stone bars, but also unknown objects. What kind of animal skin was it? It felt like it was already dried, so I asked him: "Brother, the living creature that sheds its skin in this cave is a snake, right? Does that thing look like a snake shed?"

He looked at it, but did not answer. He just stared blankly and turned back to look at the center of the tomb. Regardless of the rope, we looked at the situation in the stone chamber more carefully.

At the end of the gap here is a pool with very clear water. The water is very deep, and the water level reaches my thighs. My brother is much taller than me, and the water is already up to my knees.

We walked a few steps toward the center, and then we found that the ground was sloping, and there was a huge thing in the center of the stone room soaked very deep in the water. It felt like it was shaped like a funnel.

By the time we could fully see the thing in the water, the water level had reached my brother's waist, and I had already been unable to stand due to buoyancy and was floating.

At first glance, that thing is made of bronze. At first glance, it looks a bit like a melted oval metal lump. However, if you look closely, it actually has some irregular and strange patterns and countless holes. The iron chains are connected to the holes in the underwater stone wall, and the iron chains connected from the bearing are also connected to the holes in this thing.

I asked him: "This weird thing should be the combination lock, right?"

The brother said: "This is a cryptographic module."

(End of this chapter)