Chapter 125: The Bronze Giant
Only Huang Hailin can answer Wu Zhongyuan's question. "There are two possibilities. One is that they found the way to the altar and are continuing to go deeper at this time. The other is that they retreated and are still wandering in the maze at this time."
After Huang Hailin said that, Wu Zhongyuan asked, "Which kind of possibility do you feel is great?"
Huang Hailin shrugged, "This is not good."
"Look around and look." Wang Xinran turned around and walked towards the row of corpses on the right. Wu Zhongyuan also followed, Yang Yi and Xiao Qin observing and looking at the stone wall.
There are eight hanging corpses, five of which are mummies, and the other three are mercenaries. Because the stone chamber is very dry, the five mummies have been dehydrated and turned into mummies. Due to the death for many years, their clothes have been rotten, and their dark and brown skin is exposed. The five mummies are all men, and they have no tattoos on them. Without exception, the hanging people will open their mouths and have a painful and ferocious expression.
There were some debris scattered below the corpse, including debris of clothes, weapons and some small objects. Although there were five mummies, there were only four weapons, two knives, a sword, and an axe. The debris were several shells that had been melted and a few jade pieces.
The currency before the Shang Dynasty in my country was not gold, silver or copper coins, but shell coins. These shells were the currency of a certain era before the Shang Dynasty. All weapons were made of bronze. The hardness of bronze was average, and the weapons made of it were not considered magical weapons.
Jade is the most research-oriented. Jade wares of different periods have different characteristics. These jades are smooth on the surface, ancient and cleverly carved, and are regular but have a sense of layering. This carving method is a very obvious method of retrieval, which is a prominent feature of jade wares in the Xia Dynasty.
Let’s look at the materials, including green jade, Dushan jade, and turquoise. People in different periods had different preferences for jade. The Xia Dynasty people valued color and type of jade. The so-called color is the color of jade, and the type of jade is the texture of jade. The Xia Dynasty people only looked at whether the color of jade was good or not, and didn’t care much about whether the texture of jade was delicate and clean.
"The five of them should have lived in the middle of the Xia Dynasty." Wu Zhongyuan said.
Wang Xinran was inspecting the bullet casings on the ground at this time. The three hanged mercenaries had fired in panic before they died. Some bullet casings were scattered on the ground. When Wu Zhongyuan said, Wang Xinran looked up and asked, "Can you tell which warrior is here?"
"The Xia Dynasty has existed for about five hundred years, and these jades obviously have the characteristics of the middle Xia Dynasty. According to time, the most likely warrior who went to 1947 BC." Wu Zhongyuan said.
"What's going on with this warrior?" Wang Xinran asked.
Wu Zhongyuan recalled, "This man was a young man named Wu Ji. He was twenty-five years old when he set out. This man was very skilled in light skills and was good at using bows and arrows."
"What is this person's personality?" Wang Xinran asked.
Wu Zhongyuan shook his head.
Wang Xinran looked at him in confusion. She knew what was written on the little wizard's sheepskin. In order to facilitate Wu Zhongyuan to find and distinguish, the appearance and personality of each warrior were described.
"This person is a mute and should be relatively introverted." Wu Zhongyuan said.
After nodding, Wang Xinran reached out and grabbed the belt of one of the mercenaries and wanted to pull the body of the man down, but the twist was very tough and she failed to try it again and again.
"If it were so easy to break, they wouldn't have died back then." Wu Zhongyuan said, pointing to the mummies, carrying weapons on them when they were trapped, and they would not try to cut off the buckle before being hanged.
Wang Xinran used the light to illuminate the bodies of the mercenaries, "Their backpacks are still on their bodies, and their weapons are not taken away."
"The surviving people may have gone in a hurry." Wu Zhongyuan said casually.
"No," Wang Xinran pointed to the rifle* on the waist of the corpse, "Look, * is still there. They had spent a lot of bullets before. Even if they didn't take the supplies and guns, they should at least take them away."
"What do you mean?" Wu Zhongyuan tilted his head to look at her.
"I mean they may not be able to see the real scene in the stone chamber." Wang Xinran climbed onto the corpse while speaking, and took off the backpack and guns and ammunition from the corpse.
"It shouldn't be," Wu Zhongyuan pointed to the miscellaneous items on the ground. "These things have been turned over, and there are traps behind the stone platform. Someone has gone down there. If they can't see the real scene in the stone chamber, how can they turn over and look for them?"
Wang Xinran still felt that his view was correct, but there was no sufficient reason to refute Wu Zhongyuan.
Two of these three corpses were carrying automatic rifles. Wang Xinran took off all the rifles and *, carried one of them, and the other one was given to Huang Hailin, leaving six *, one person and three.
Everyone only had pistols, and the accident made up for everyone's lack of firepower. Unfortunately, there were too few bullets, each with less than one hundred rounds.
Xiao Qin and Yang Yi had already circled around the stone chamber at this time, but did not find a potential exit.
Huang Hailin was not surprised by this result, "You guys take a break first and leave it to me for the exit."
"How are you studying?" Xiao Qin pointed to the copper plate that Huang Hailin held in his hand.
"It can be confirmed that this round bead is the bone of a dragon-like creature. If nothing unexpected happens, it should be the nose bone of a mirage dragon," said Huang Hailin. "The function of the copper plate is not only fixed, but also amplifies the breath emitted by the round beads. If you use an instrument to detect it, this thing may be radiation."
The instrument for detecting radiation is not large in size, Xiao Qin brought one with her. The test results are as Huang Hailin said. Although after years of decay, the beads are still very radiant. This special radiation will produce electromagnetic interference and indirectly affect human brain waves.
"Has their scientific and technological development reached this level?" Wu Zhongyuan was a little surprised.
Huang Hailin shook his head, "This has nothing to do with science and technology. They just know the reason, but don't know the reason. Just like many people eat steamed buns and rice, they just know that rice steamed buns can satisfy their hunger, but they don't know that they mainly provide carbohydrates."
Wu Zhongyuan nodded, then asked Xiao Qin, "Can you confirm their previous movement trajectory in the stone chamber?"
"I've checked it carefully," said Xiao Qin. "There are eight people's footprints in the stone chamber, seven of which are concentrated near the entrance, and one person's footprints are scattered all over the stone chamber, but this person's footprints are relatively messy, and it's difficult to tell the specific trajectory of his movement."
"What shoes is the man walking around in the stone chamber wearing?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.
"Flat shoes, only this one of the eight people has a unique shoe print." Xiao Qin said.
Wu Zhongyuan knew it in his mind that the person walking in the stone chamber was Lin Qingming.
Wang Xinran took over the conversation, "Your senior brother can do magic?"
Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, but after shaking his head, he suddenly remembered something. The ghost painting talisman was in Lin Qingming's hands. Lin Qingming probably wrote some kind of talisman, which temporarily eliminated the influence of the mirage bones on him. It was not difficult to guess the purpose of his entry into the stone chamber. One was to look for spirit stones, and the other was to find an exit.
Seeing Wu Zhongyuan's expression was abnormal, Wang Xinran asked, "Is it possible?"
"He doesn't know how to spell, but he can draw talismans. He may use some kind of talisman to temporarily eliminate the impact of illusions on him." Wu Zhongyuan said, and after saying that, he asked Xiao Qin, "The footprints of others are concentrated near the entrance. Does this mean that they have retreated back to the passage we just walked through?"
"It should be like this." Xiao Qin nodded.
Seeing Wu Zhongyuan's face feeling worried, Wang Xinran said from the side, "You don't have to worry too much. The mechanisms in the passage cannot kill them. They can only force them back here. As long as we find the exit, they can also get out of trouble."
The work of finding an exit can only be handed over to Huang Hailin. Huang Hailin did not look for the edge, but focused on checking the left and right sides of the entrance and near the stone steps.
People trapped here all see illusions, so the mechanism that opens the next channel should not be set up very secretly. Based on the situation of the previous few levels, the mechanism that opens the exit should be set up in a place within reach of the priests, and they will open it while moving forward.
After the inspection, no abnormal protrusions were found in the stone wall, and then the ground was checked.
Xiao Qin is good at tracking, and the people who are good at tracking are good at observing details. With Xiao Qin's help, Huang Hailin quickly found a suspicious position, just behind the first stone steps, where there was a fist-sized depression on the ground that was slightly lower than the ground.
"This is probably caused by the sacrificial scepter hitting the scepter." After Huang Hailin finished speaking, he stomped his foot into the depression. After one kick, the mechanism was indeed activated. The originally rising stone steps began to slowly sink, with the shortest step sinking at the smallest step and the highest step sinking at the largest.
After a while, all the upward steps sank into the ground, and a right-hand passage appeared on the right side of the downward steps. Xiao Qin went down several steps and shone it with a flashlight, "There is no footprint in the passage."
Everyone nodded when they heard this. The lack of footprints in the passage means that Zhao Ying and others did not find the exit, but returned to the passage when they came.
"Now we are ahead, be careful." Wang Xinran removed the rifle and checked the bullets.
Huang Hailin and others were checking the guns. When Wang Xinran said this, they all responded casually.
Worried that the steps would rise automatically after everyone went down, Wu Zhongyuan took half a bottle of mineral water in his bag and put it in the depression.
When he did this, he did not be afraid of everyone. Everyone knew why he did this, and they did not stop him. The mechanism was always in the process of changing when everyone passed the passage. Zhao Ying and others were in it, so naturally they knew that they had come down.
It was Wang Xinran and Huang Hailin walking in front, Wu Zhongyuan was in the middle, Xiao Qin and Yang Yi were walking in the end,
Going down to the bottom of the steps, everyone shone it in with a strong flashlight. There was another wide stone chamber inside, which was round and had an area of about 800 to 1,000 square meters. It was not very large or small. In the middle of the stone chamber, two bronze giants as high as three meters high, holding two swords and slanted with their arms, making it.
There are three bronze giants in the stone chamber, but one of them is lying on the ground and is visually damaged.
Chapter completed!