Indiana Jones

Chapter 246: Entering the Mausoleum for the First Time (01)

The stone bridge seemed to be peaceful, but when they got closer, they found that some stones were missing, leaving only black holes one by one, as if these stones had fallen due to years of disrepair.

"Can I still walk by this bridge?" Stan scratched his head, "Don't walk halfway and then collapse."

"This is the mechanism that was dismantled." Lin Feng said in a tight voice, "These stones should be able to be turned out automatically after being turned in, but after the mechanism was removed, the mechanism spring was stuck, so these holes were left; see Those people who came here are not experts, they only know how to destroy, but they don’t know how to close it.”

"Looking at the footprints, there should be quite a few people here." Li Siming pointed to the messy footprints on the ground and whispered to Si Xuanyi. Although it was impossible to tell how many people there were, there were more than a dozen people at a rough look.

"I don't know if this group of people will be easy to deal with." Si Xuanyi was a little worried.

"Damn, what kind of mechanism is this? A flap made of stone?" Guo Zhongxiao followed the past to watch the fun, feeling a little strange, he didn't know anything about these things.

"This is more complicated and more effective than the flip mechanism. If you step on the wrong place, you will fall directly." Lin Feng knelt down and tapped the stones on the bridge with the short knife in his hand.

"Didn't you say demolition?" Zhao Chenggong felt that his behavior was a bit strange, and there should be no danger if it was demolished.

"Then you can go there first." Lin Feng said without raising his head.

Zhao Chenggong scratched his head, obviously he didn't have the guts.

The woodcutter squinted his eyes and looked at the surroundings for a long time. He said to Si Xuanyi, "Walk sixty steps to the east and west to see what's there."

"Grandpa, are you confused? We are underground, how to divide the north and the south?" Zhao Chenggong asked, with some gloating meaning in his tone.

The woodcutter snorted disdainfully: "What do you know? The buildings of the imperial mausoleums all face south. Even if the emperor died, he had to face the south and his back to the north. This bridge is the main road leading to the mausoleum, and of course it was built from the north to the south. , now you should know which side is the thing?"

Only then did a few people realize that it was not that the woodcutter was too good, but that he knew a lot and knew how to judge.

There was an unquestionable momentum in the woodcutter's words, and everyone subconsciously began to prepare to move.

"Siming." Si Xuanyi winked at Li Siming, then called Guo Zhongxiao to go west.

Ten minutes later, people on both sides came back. There were terracotta figurines on the west side, and two giant stone statues on the west side.

The woodcutter heaved a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, we didn't go in the wrong direction, otherwise we would have to go through the dilemma of the pottery figurines again. The eight-door trapped dragon formation is ever-changing, and it would be troublesome if we were really trapped inside."

"Didn't you bring us out just now? What's so scary about that place?" Stan asked a little puzzled.

The woodcutter sighed: "Just now it was just one of the eight formations, there should be eight large formations here, with the main mausoleum inside as the center to guard the eight directions. We only encountered one formation before. There is nothing to be afraid of in a certain part, if it is a few large formations in the right direction of southeast, northwest, I am not sure I can come out."

Everyone in Qimen Dunjia didn't understand these formations, five elements and gossip, but they were curious about these things, so they asked what was going on.

The woodcutter explained for a long time that his family still vaguely understood, and finally he went to a simpler and easier to understand example, that is, Zhuge Liang trapped Lu Xun with a few piles of stones. It was just a simplified version of the Eight Diagrams array. , and what they encountered now, this is the enlarged version of the simplified version, just replaced the stone with Tao Yong, and took advantage of the dark environment here. In ancient times, the lighting equipment was very simple, except for candles at night. Torches, in this kind of dark environment, can’t achieve long-distance lighting. In fact, even today they have flashlights and flares, they can’t see the whole picture of the terracotta warriors, so they have no way to observe how to get out. On the contrary, it will go deeper and deeper into the entire formation.

"Actually, this formation is far behind Zhuge Liang's back then. You must know that Zhuge Liang trapped Lu Xun with only a few piles of stones, and it was still in the daytime. If there is enough light in this underground cave, you only need to understand what's inside. It is not too difficult to go out. In fact, these terracotta figurines take advantage of some habits of people when they walk. If there are two people standing in front of you, which direction would you go from? Most people will choose the gap. The larger side goes through, and these terracotta figurines that are not in the queue serve this purpose, you will go through the larger side of the gap without knowing it, and the direction left by these gaps is exactly for you to go The way back, of course, is not to make you turn around directly, but to make you unknowingly deviate from the original direction and walk back in a circle in a daze through more of these terracotta figurines."

"Then what if I keep walking around? Wouldn't there be a chance to crash out?" Guo Zhongxiao asked.

"People's habits are hard to change, especially some subconscious actions, which are subconscious choices made without thinking. It is possible for you to go out blindly, but it is very small. Large gaps will go around, and you will also be caught if you deliberately walk through smaller gaps. This is a double-designed trap. In fact, the terracotta figurines standing there are not terrible. The terrible thing is that you can’t get out. , coupled with the psychological pressure caused by the mummy inside those pottery figurines, you will unconsciously think that you have bumped into a ghost." The woodcutter's explanation made everyone understand what was going on.

To put it bluntly, this Eight Gates Trapped Dragon Formation is actually not that mysterious. It is just a simplified deformation, or an enlarged version, of the Eight Diagrams Formation used by Zhuge Liang, and then gave it a more awesome name, but compared with Zhuge Liang's Eight Diagrams Formation, it is not so mysterious. There is a world of difference, the woodcutter is right, and then Lu Xun was almost trapped in it in broad daylight with a few stones, and this place is to make full use of the dark environment to achieve this purpose, it seems that this formation is not arranged The people here are not very good, at least they are incomparable with Mr. Zhuge.

At this time, Lin Feng had removed all the traps on the bridge, and now the entire bridge surface was full of holes, which looked like a large long sieve.

"I dismantled all the mechanisms that could sink in." Lin Feng said, "The people in front are very smart. They know that it is difficult to find the controller of this mechanism. It is easier and more straightforward to dismantle than to find the mechanism."

"You can just go as you say? Why bother?" Guo Zhongxiao felt that his behavior was a bit strange, and it could even be said that it was superfluous.

Lin Feng glanced at him coldly: "Originally, I wanted to tell you, go single, not double, left, right, front, not back, but I'm afraid you won't understand, and if you don't listen to your feet, it will harm others and yourself .”

What he said made him speechless, because they couldn't quite understand what Lin Feng said.

It is estimated that if they are allowed to walk by themselves, they may not know where to go.

"Is the river below here?" Zhao Chenggong looked into those holes, "If you fall from this height, you should not die."

"There are fish in the river, the big salamander that attacked you before, and giant catfish. It's not so easy to come up if you fall, even if you don't die, you will be bitten into a sieve." The woodcutter has already explained to them lazily, these people Basically nothing but curiosity.

Hearing what he said, everyone trembled in their hearts. If you walk on this colander-like bridge, if you pay attention, you will fall off. Wouldn't that be fatal?Thinking about it carefully, this is considered normal. After all, these organs are designed to prevent tomb robbers, and the main purpose is to kill these tomb robbers who try to enter the mausoleum.

After walking up a few steps, they found a problem. All the positions dealt with by Lin Feng basically formed a very regular circle, and they could only jump forward in it. If you walk, no matter how you step, you will step on the organs. If you don't understand the settings of these organs, no matter how capable you are, you will not be able to pass.

"Which bastard's design is this, it's clearly killing people?" Stan scolded.

"The original intention of this mechanism is to kill people. Anyone who breaks into the mausoleum without permission will be damned." Lin Feng jumped up and down the bridge like a monkey, and soon reached the opposite side. He was so daring, it took more than ten minutes to cross the stone bridge in fear.

"We are already approaching the inner city. The architectural pattern here is different from your ordinary tombs. If I guessed correctly, this place should be built according to the real imperial city, so don't take it as an ancient tomb. It's an imperial city, it will make you feel better, but there must be countless traps here to prevent tomb robbers from digging. The degree of danger in this place is absolutely extraordinary. Everyone, be careful. Naturally, if you can't find it, don't force it, we can find a way by ourselves." The woodcutter told everyone in a low voice.

"It seems that the tomb robbers really came in from here. It should be easy to find if we follow the traces." Lin Feng looked at the footprints on the ground and said in a low voice.

"If we don't go through the robbery hole, we really can't get out?" Stan asked, "Is there really no way out of such a big place? Can't it?"

"The two of us checked and found that the entire space is surrounded by waterfalls in all directions. This is an underground tomb surrounded by waterfalls. It should have been specially built in this way during design, so these waterfalls may be artificial, so from Judging from the current situation, even if you can get out, it will not be so easy, unless you can fly to the top of the cave." Lin Feng said.

It wasn't until now that they really realized that their situation was worse than they had imagined before. At first they thought it wasn't that there was no way but that they couldn't find it, but now it seems that there is really no way here. Maybe they can only hope that the tomb robbers will come in Now, everyone's mood became worse for a while. Before, they were just worried that they could not find a way out before losing the lighting equipment. Now the problem is that there seems to be no way to leave here, even if they use up all the lighting equipment. It may not be possible to find a way out.

"Grandma, it's such a mess." Zhao Chenggong cursed to himself, "I came to fight devils, but now I can only deal with tomb robbers. It's a fucking embarrassment."

(End of this chapter)