novelraw Chapter 329 Sand Sea 10
Chapter 329 Sand Sea 10
Chapter 10
When they walked to the opposite side, there was a huge abacus on the closed stone door, and a ferocious beast was carved on the abacus.
"Isn't this just a big plan!" Li Cu couldn't help complaining.
Wu Xie ignored him, looked at Meng Qi who was standing on the edge after coming over, and said to her, "Why don't you come, you are most familiar with this thing!"
Meng Qi smiled and pushed his hand towards him, "Don't tell me, it's better for you to come!"
Wu Xie used the Zhang family's mechanism to let her break it, obviously to test her. Do you really think she is stupid?
Wu Xie didn't expect to use Zhang's mechanism to find out anything, even if he could crack it, so what, Meng Qi can be said to be the one who taught her, anyway, he has already determined from the bottom of his heart that Meng Qi has a great relationship with that person.
Asking her is just trying to get skinny~
"Acupuncture in all directions, the position is from the sky, the count is from the distance, and the south distance is one..." Wu Xie recalled the formula in his mouth, and began to move the beads in the big abacus on the door.
"Southwest Kun is two, Zhengxi Dui is three..."
Li Cuo raised his hand to help Wu Xie turn on the light, and slowly moved towards the blind man, sighing: "This Wu Xie is too good at planning! How can he know everything?"
"The beads on this gossip abacus all have a fixed number of hits. It won't work if you tap more or less. In the end, the beads will form a gossip. This is a mechanism that only the Zhang family can crack."
After explaining to Li Cu, the blind man took a look at where Meng Qi was standing, and saw that Meng Qi was taking all the time to take care of her skin, holding a bottle of something that she didn't know what it was, and smeared it on her face. Twitching/twitching, quickly look away.
"The Zhang family?" Li Cu was confused, "Isn't his surname Wu? And he just asked Sister Qi to make a deal, but isn't Sister Qi's surname Meng?"
The black blind man turned his head and glanced at him. Even through the sunglasses, Li Cu could feel his gaze as if he was looking at a fool, but...you are the fool, and your whole family is a fool. son! !
"Put up and point to the sky..." Wu Xie pulled down the last bead, looked at Qiongqi's head above his head, Qiongqi's eyes glowed red, and Wu Xie smiled.
Everyone took a step back, and saw that the yin-yang gossip plate in the center of the big abacus was spinning rapidly, and only heard a click, and the secret whistle inside the mechanism fell, and the stone gate slowly opened to both sides.
When all five of them walked in, the stone door was closed immediately, and if they wanted to open it again, they could only look for a new mechanism from the inside.
The furnishings in the stone room are similar to what they saw in the underground palace before. The stone carvings, inscriptions, and round platform all give people a familiar feeling.
In the center of the stone room were placed three copper lampstands, and the three lampstands were placed in an equilateral triangle. After Wu Xie observed carefully, he asked Li Cuo, Wang Meng, and Heixiazi to stand in front of one of the lampstands, and let them Follow his instructions and light the lamp at the same time.
After Li Cu and the other three were ready with matches, Wu Xie calmly gave an order: "One...two...three, light!"
Three clusters of flames were ignited by them at the same time, and the faint flames reflected on the three people. The originally silent and empty stone room made the sound of mechanical gears turning, creaking, creaking—the flat and smooth stone wall began to sag inward, and one face The stone wall engraved with ancient and strange characters slowly protrudes.
Li Cuo counted, there are sixteen newly carved stone walls, eight sides are engraved with strange characters, and eight sides depict characters with strange shapes. Li Cuo carefully observes the clues of these calligraphy and paintings Li Cu heard Wu Xie calling him.
"Li Cu, come here!"
"what happened?"
Wu Xie pointed to the stone wall and motioned him to read the content on it: "Do you see the characters of Tian Geli familiar?"
Li Cu read every word very carefully, and nodded: "You really look familiar when you say that."
Wu Xie held back her smile, trying to put on a reliable and serious look, and raised her chin towards a stone wall, "Go, take off your shirt, follow the pattern on the wall, and pose exactly like him."
Along the way, Li Cuo has long been used to the rhythm of Wu Xie giving an order, and he will follow it, so after Wu Xie finished speaking, he subconsciously took two steps forward, and only put his hand on the zipper of the leather jacket. will react. "ah?!"
Wu Xie turned her head and gave a muffled laugh, then turned back immediately, and said with a cold face on purpose: "Ah what, do you still want to go out, hurry up and do as I say!"
"oh oh."
Wu Xie holds the Shangfang sword of "going out", Li Cu can only listen to what he says, obediently walks to the mural carved with snakes and people, poses the same poses according to the shapes of the characters in the painting, and strives to achieve Wu Xie's request.
After Li Cu posed in the same shape as the figure on the stone wall, for some reason there was a tingling pain in his back, and Li Cu moved back and forth in pain, wanting to change his posture.
"Don't move!" Wu Xie pressed Li Cu's shoulders, restraining him from moving back and forth, carefully identifying the raised words on Li Cu's back.
"What the hell are you going to do? I'm dying of pain now!"
"Persist a little longer, the words written on your back and on the wall are all Gutongjing characters, this is the key to unlock Gutongjing." Wu Xie patted Li Cu on the shoulder, called Wang Meng, and pointed at Li Cuo The raised text on the back said: "Write it down!"
After Wang Meng wrote down the raised words on Li Cu's back, Wu Xie patted Li Cu's arm with a smile, "Okay, let's go, next one."
Knowing that the pattern on his back is the key clue to get out, no matter how unwilling Li Cu is, he can only obediently learn the poses of the characters on the eight walls.
Wu Xie took the words written down by Wang Meng, walked to the wall of grid text, and pressed the corresponding text symbols in order according to the order recorded in the notebook.
Press the first one, the stone room is quiet, nothing happened.
second, third...
The third one pressed down, and there was a rustling sound from the stone wall above the head. The five people looked back, and saw countless black vipers with thick wrists, spitting snake letters that made the scalp tingle, and quickly swam towards the five people.
"Hurry up, something went wrong, hurry up and redo the third one!" Wu Xie took Li Cu, who hadn't reacted yet, and ran to the third pattern, asking Li Cu to do it again.
"Does it hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt yet?"
"Raise it higher, does it hurt now?"
"Ah, it's starting to hurt, hurry up!"
Meng Qi, who was killing snakes with Heixiazi and the others, for some reason, heard the conversation between Li Cu and Wu Xie, and wanted to laugh very much in her heart, an evil smile~ It must be because her thoughts are not pure, and she watched too much before coming to the desert. What an inappropriate cartoon!
"Wang Meng, you missed two points!"
After comparing the patterns on Li Cu's back and the notebook, Wu Xie kicked away a black/hairy viper that fell from the pillar, and dragged Li Cu to run back quickly.
"Hold it for me!" Wu Xie gave Li Cuo the flashlight in his hand, focused on comparing the text, and pressed it quickly.
"Ah!" Wang Meng whispered, his arm was bitten by the viper, and enduring the pain, he counterhanded the black snake that bit him.
Wu Xie, who was pressing down the mechanism over there, was bitten by the viper because he was careless when he pressed the last mechanism accurately. Li Cu, who was standing next to him, hurriedly pulled the snake off for him.
"Open, let's go!"
Everyone entered the open stone door, and after entering, the stone door closed in response, blocking those disgusting black/haired vipers from the door.
After getting rid of the entanglement of those black/hairy snakes, everyone is now in the mood to see what kind of weird place they have entered.
An ancient tree statue that can't be seen at a glance, so thick/strong that it takes eight/nine people to hold hands to surround it, it stands tall and majestic in the center, in front of the ancient tree is a round altar, on which is placed Incense cases and altars for worship.
"This is the place we've been looking for, isn't it just a temple? Nothing special!" Only now did Li Cu have time to put on his clothes.
Regarding what Li Cu said, the blind man beside him smiled, "Nothing special? How many of you went into the desert, and how many of you are left alive to see it?"
"How about Boss Wu, did you find anything?"
"There are traces of burning all around the snake cypress statue, which shows that this snake cypress is used for worship, and there must have been people from other races who paid homage here." Wu Xie said a few words, dragging the ancient The hemp rope hanging from the tree sculpture climbed onto the sculpture nimbly, glanced around, and jumped down again.
"A layer of scaffolding was set up on the top of the temple. Except for those who came to worship, modern people after thousands of years seem to have visited this place. That is to say, we are not the first to discover this place, but they are The scaffolding from top to bottom looks...different from us, it didn't come in through the door."
"I guess they blasted at the top, because the time is at least 70 years from now, so the entrance of the blast should have been submerged by wind and sand erosion."
Li Cu didn't believe what Wu Xie said, "People 70 years ago, their technology and equipment were not as developed as ours, how did they do it?"
Heixiazi and Wu Xie looked at each other, who said it was impossible?Any one of the old nine doors can be done easily.
But these Li Cus don’t need to know, Wu Xie continued the topic he just said: “In those days, all projects were made of bamboo scaffolding, and metal steel pipes were inserted/inserted inside, which consumed a lot of manpower and labor at that time. Material resources, so this must be a fairly large-scale project overseas."
"What is this project for?" It has to be said that Li Cuo is really a curious baby, and it is time to be curious!
Wu Xie was silent for a while, and then said: "I don't know yet, but what is certain is that modern people after thousands of years, they once wanted to explore, develop, utilize, and protect this place."
"Yes! Explore, develop, utilize, and protect this place." Wang Meng suddenly dropped his flashlight and backpack, stared forward with dull eyes, walked back and forth on the altar with his hands and feet, and kept repeating Wu Xie's words just now. .
"Yes! Explore, develop, utilize, protect here."
Just when everyone was wondering why Wang Meng was like this, Wu Xie also started, "You are right, they want to explore, develop, utilize, and protect this place."
Wang Meng: "Explore, develop, and protect this place."
Wu Xie: "You're right, they want to explore, develop, utilize, and protect this place."
Li Cu looked at those two, dumbfounded, "What's wrong with them? Are they stuck?
"There are so many agencies here that you can't tell when you will be recruited." The black blind man still looks calm. From the time we met to now, he has never seen him show an expression other than calm.
Li Cu scratched his head: "It shouldn't be, we all came in together, why are only the two of them recruited!"
Meng Qi couldn't stand it anymore, "They were bitten by the black/hairy vipers here, and if they want to save them, they must be injected with serum."
"Serum, what serum?" Li Cuo asked.
Meng Qi didn't explain the serum to Li Cu, but instead approached him step by step, forcing him to the fence of the altar, with no way out.
Looking directly at Li Cu's uneasy eyes, he said, "This is not something you should care about. Your living map is no longer useful here. There are two roads in front of you now."
"One is to let Wu Xie and the others leave from here; the other is to help Wu Xie and the others find serum and save them, and then leave with them. Of course, as the purpose of my trip, I will let you know where you are." Where will it be, if you want to leave now, I will take you away without saying a word."
For some reason, when Meng Qi said that he could leave, Li Cu felt a little uneasy and dignified.
Sure enough, Meng Qi continued.
"Finally, I have a piece of friendly news for you. I saw in the previous pile of documents that there was only one tube of serum, which was in the hands of the previous Four Fingers. But Wu Xie and Wang Meng are two people, so... "
So you can only choose to save one of them, her meaning is self-evident.
Li Cuo thought for a long time before saying in a hoarse voice, expressionless: "Can you take me out of here?"
Meng Qi, who was questioned about her strength, pulled out the dagger she had never sheathed from her belt, and put it in her hand to play with. The sharp cold light on the blade pierced Li Cu's eyes sorely.
"I thought you had clearly seen my abilities."
On the return train, Li Cu and Meng Qi sat face to face.Meng Qi was wearing a facial mask comfortably, reading a book while leaning against the quilt of the sleeper bed. Unlike Meng Qi's leisurely attitude, Li Cuo on the opposite bed was holding a glass of white water and staring at Meng Qi.Ever since he got out of the desert, whenever he was free, Li Cu would stare at Meng Qi with this look.
"Ask what you want to ask!"
What Li Cu was waiting for was Meng Qi's words, "Who are you? From the previous underground palace to here, no matter what strange things we encounter, you can handle them with ease, and you are not surprised at all, just like you once came here. It’s the same as passing here!”
"Don't look at me like that, I promised Zhang's family to keep it a secret, and I won't tell anything about this place."
Does that mean you really know everything?Li Cu thought, "Then you still come in with us?"
Meng Qi said in disgust without raising her head: "If it weren't for the fear that you would be reckless and crash into death inside, you would think I would be happy to come down! Besides, I didn't say anything about Gutongjing, and everything is your own. I found out, anyway, I did not break my promise to him."
"Who is he?" Li Cu was very good at focusing.
"Old man." Meng Qi looked away from the book and glanced at him, "Ah...you don't need to know about that."
"But..." Meng Qi stared at the slightly uncomfortable Li Cu with her smiling eyes, "You still care about Wu Xie, at least you didn't leave until you helped them get the tube of serum of."
Li Cu's face was a little hot, and he wanted to refute but couldn't open his mouth, only to hear Meng Qi say again: "Would you say that Wu Xie used the serum or did Wang Meng use it?"
There was only one serum... Li Cu's eyes darkened.
The author has something to say:
Keep going, everyone, the next chapter will be online, and when the chairman is online, I will make them sweeter!Make up for those days!
Let's stand against the cp first!It's too late to change the cp, who told me to give away the chairman's bracelet from the very beginning.
Don’t worry, I’ll write at least fifteen or sixty-seven chapters for this article, because I really watched this show from beginning to end, even though I watched it at 2x speed...