Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 473 Siguniang Mountain (33)

473 Chapter 473 Siguniang Mountain (33)
After the chain affected the mechanism at the bottom of the lake, the surrounding rumblings and vibrations continued. In just ten seconds, the originally calm lake water under the ice was already turbulent, and ice water was rippling from the cracked gap. It rushed to the ice and caused countless water splashes.

Seeing the underwater movement becoming more and more intense, I didn't dare to breathe, and both hands were tightly clenched on my brother's arms. At this moment, everyone was nervously staring at the ice surface to observe the situation, for fear that the cracks on the ice surface would crack. Jump to your feet.

Qi Tiezui's heart trembled slightly, and his facial features were tangled together. He whispered: "There is such a big movement, what must be under the ice."

Gou Wuye said in an understatement: "With those angry eyes of yours, take a good look at the changes around you and see what's different between now and just now."

Qi Tiezui looked at the cracks in the ice that were getting wider and wider and said: "The water on the other side of the cracks is rising upwards, which means that the direction of the water flow below is very chaotic and will collide with each other."

He looked at his feet again and continued with a puzzled expression: "But under the ice under our feet, in addition to the relatively smooth sound of water flow, there are also some "gurgling" sounds. The color of the ice seems to be darker than before. It has become a lot shallower. This is because the water level is declining, and the water flow conditions on the two sides are different."

Zhang Rishan carefully observed the ice surface, squinted his eyes and looked deep into the ice layer and said: "The water near us is indeed being sucked away. It seems that there should be a complete water circulation system here."

Qi Tiezui muttered: "Water circulation."

Zhang Rishan said: "From the time I came in to now, I can see that the overall environment of this tomb is quite humid. There is a lot of water in some places, but there is hardly any large water source, but the water level on the wall is very high. Obviously there was a lot of water inside, but where did the water go?

I think that when the patriarch opened the passage mechanism, he also opened the mechanism that controls the water flow. When the door is opened and the road is open, the water in the tomb will be pumped away and transferred to other places, so that we can easily enter the tomb. middle.

There must be a fairly complete large-scale water circulation system here, and different areas are controlled by different agencies. The chain pulled by the patriarch must be connected to the switch of the water release gate. "

Qi Tiezui said: "I asked why the patriarch and Qilin were competing with Binghu. I thought it was not for no reason." He laughed while saying this.

Just listen to Mr. Gou Wu saying to him: "Come on, you were so frightened that your liver was trembling just now. If you think about it, you will be putting money on your face."

Qi Tiezui grinned stupidly and said with a "hehe" smile: "But this water is underground living water, and it has its own flow direction. Now that the lake water level has dropped, the direction of the flow of water has also changed, so let's reverse it. If the water flows away, you can see the exit exposed after the water level drops."

He looked at the lake and continued: "Now go in the direction of the countercurrent. Isn't that the center of the lake? The lake area is not small. Even if the water is pumped away, it will only be part of it and cannot be drained completely. Yes, even if there is a road, it is still submerged in water. Besides, it is still icy water. Water roads are not easy to walk in the first place. If the ground freezes, half of your life will be frozen. If you still have to soak in ice water, Pao, let’s not even talk about whether we can find a way out or not. Just getting into the water is a life-threatening situation.”

Gou Wuye snorted softly and said: "It is better to hope that the road will be easy to walk, it is better to hope that the water will be shallower, or that you can see the exit."

Qi Tiezui said: "If you ask me, leaving such a dead end for Zhang's family is just to punish people."

Seeing that the cracked ice has become as wide as a small river, there are large and small, thin and thick ice slabs floating on the broken ice. The ice slabs are distributed in the shape of cracks. As the water waves sway back and forth, the collision of fine ice crystals will make a crisp "sharsh" sound.

The breaking of the ice surface has basically stopped, but the water level visible to the naked eye is still falling. The surrounding ice is getting whiter and more translucent, and the broken ice falls with the water into the newly opened ice cracks like a small river.

I wanted to ask my brother something, but my mind suddenly went blank and I said: "This...it..."

My brother started to take steps, and we carefully walked to the edge of the crack, watching the water level still falling, but gradually becoming slower.

Most of the broken ice was carried to the edge of the ice crevice by the water waves, and gradually stacked together. The upturned water washed away the broken ice, and the broken ice soon showed signs of freezing together again, and the entire edge of the ice crevice quickly solidified. There is a path out, and the shape looks like a gravel beach.

The water finally stopped when it reached a depth that was almost the same as the thickness of the ice we were standing on.

But before it had calmed down for a while, a whirlpool suddenly appeared on the water in the middle of the lake. The broken ice plates on the ice tumbled into the lake with the whirlpool and gradually sank.

What makes people tremble is that after the ice cubes sank a lot, the water level suddenly began to rise again, and at the same time, something else surged up together.

I shook my brother's arm and said with a trembling voice: "Water... something is coming up in the water."

It was a group of black things that surged up from the water and rushed out of the ice crevice. They were round and round, like seals coming ashore. One after another, there was a steady stream. Soon there were two piles on both sides of the ice crevice. Big slip.

I thought to myself, there was another big wave of black hair balls, and the things in the frozen ice might "come to life". This was a big wave of loose balls. I said to my brother: "This is two rows of time bombs."

At this time, everyone gathered over. Brother Bai Hao said with a look of disgust on his face: "These..." I looked at him and said nervously: "Water eggs, the most dangerous type of eggs, wait until they thaw. We’re done.”

His eyes suddenly widened and he looked at Zhang Qiling beside him. Qi Tiezui said "ah" and asked, "What do you mean, this thing can fake corpses?"

Zhang Qiling did not deny the girl's statement, but he did not answer the question clearly. He just said to everyone immediately: "Go quickly, don't touch her."

We walked along the cracks in the ice towards the center of the lake. We didn't dare to walk too fast for fear that the ice would break, but we also didn't dare to slow down for fear that the watery eggs would suddenly move. It was very contradictory, but we had enough time. There are indeed fewer and fewer, and I am always on tenterhooks all the way.

A small lake has cracked in the center of the lake. It can be estimated to be about [-] square meters in area. Most of the nearby ice has sunk into the lake due to the whirlpool just now, but there are still a few large pieces floating on the water. Each ice board can accommodate a few people, and there are some scattered small ice boards around. But this seems to be normal. What's terrible is that there are also ice boards stuffed in the gaps between the ice boards. Watery eggs one by one.

We saw the chain that had just pulled the mechanism on the water, still floating diagonally in the water as before. At the junction of the cracked river channel and the small lake, Zhang Qiling avoided the watery egg and held the chain again. In hand.

The water level dropped now. After lifting the chain, he could see that it was still sinking very deep under the water. He stretched the chain as straight as possible and tugged hard. There was no reaction on the other end of the chain this time, but he did. Suddenly I stepped on the ice floe.

He said he wanted to go down and have a look. Sister Liyue also went together. I also knew that none of us could escape from going down to the Ice Lake. Although the water in the Ice Lake was extremely cold, they themselves were in good health. I gave it to them. They all use dragon scales to protect their bodies, so the cold shouldn't be a problem, but the situation at the bottom of the lake is worrying.

I got waterproof lights for them, and there were also goggles in their equipment. After putting them on, they jumped in.

When they arrived in the water, Zhang Qiling gestured to Li Yue to swim with him in the direction where the chain extended.

There is white and crystal clear ice in the ice cave, so the overall appearance is quite bright and the scene is beautiful. However, it is a completely different scene under the ice lake.

The lake water here is indeed clear and translucent, but the bottom of the lake is full of black hairy balls, standing in an orderly row at the bottom of the lake. The mountain walls without ice themselves are also black, without a trace of bright things. It seems that the bottom of the lake It's a black hole like a bottomless abyss.

The two of them swam over the black hair ball and dived towards the other end of the chain. When they dived to a depth of about ten meters, a dark stone door appeared vaguely in the direction of the light.

The whirlpool on the lake just now was related to the opening of the stone gate, but the stone gate seemed to be stuck and was not fully opened. It was only opened about one-third, which was not enough for a person to pass through.

Zhang Qiling groped around the stone door to find the place where it was stuck. He soon discovered that what was holding the sliding track of the door was actually some chains entangled with black fungi. He only needed to cut off the black fungus and pull the chain out. .

So he took out a knife and cut the black fungi, but this thing was like cutting steel bars. It didn't work very well after cutting it a few times. If it was on the shore, burning it with fire would be the simplest and most effective method, but this was on the water. He couldn't hold his breath for long, so he still used the most effective old method. He used a knife to cut his arm with a "swish".

When the knife went down, his blood immediately dispersed in the water. The blood and the lake water quickly merged. The black hair fungi soaked in the lake water with his blood and immediately started to move as if life had been injected into it. There was no need to cut or remove it. The things began to untie themselves, and soon the chains were loosened, swaying like kelp soaked in water. However, they were afraid of Zhang Qiling's unicorn blood, so they quickly escaped and shrank away. .

Zhang Qiling asked Li Yue to pull the chain with him. It was a bit difficult to pull the thing in the water, but after a few times, the stone door still started to move.

They did not dare to let the stone gate open too fast, because the water in the lake was flowing into the stone gate, just like opening the sluice. The water flow became fast again. They had to hold on to the chain and put their feet on the frame of the stone gate to stabilize it. Stay safe, otherwise it will be easy for the water to rush directly into the stone door.

When the two of them got into the lake, I kept staring at the chain. After a while, we on the shore noticed that the water level began to drop again. We knew that it was the two of them who were working on the underwater mechanism.

However, as the water level dropped again, the originally beautiful ice cave became completely dark. There were black hair balls everywhere. Many hyphae were washed by the water and floated on the water. The temperature was low, and some washed up on the ice. The ones were already frozen on the ice, and there was a layer of frost on the black hair balls, but they looked much larger than when they first came out of the water.

At this moment, I heard Qi Tiezui say: "Are these things different from just now?"

We all looked at the black hair balls around us. I swallowed in horror and said, "Do you think they are getting bigger?"

Qi Tiezui hurriedly replied: "Yes, yes, it's like a big fat sea. The one on my right just now was only 1.5 meters tall as I remember, but now I think he's as tall as Adjutant Zhang. No." That’s right, Qilin, what did you say they would do just now?”

I said "Ah", stared at a water-poached egg and said with a trembling voice: "Water... the water-poached egg has thawed, and we're done."

As soon as I finished speaking, I felt the water ball I was staring at tremble slightly. At that moment, I hoped that it was my eyesight. However, at the same time, I was not the only one to see the water ball shaking its body. It was gradually expanding, but everyone saw it.

(End of this chapter)