Card Room - 267. Chapter 373-374

【Chapter 373, General Tomb】

The corridors of the underground tombs were damp and cold, and the ears were so quiet that there were only the sound of people’s footsteps. This kind of environment is weird, especially when everyone does not speak, the atmosphere becomes even more weird.

It was pitch black in front, and everyone quickly took out Ye Mingzhu. With the light of Ye Mingzhu, one could see clearly that there was a pavement of dirt under the feet, and the surrounding walls were also earthen walls, without a brick.

This should be the entrance to the ancient tomb?

Sure enough, after walking for a while, everyone saw a stone gate in front.

There are strange totems painted on the door. There are two lights next to the stone gate. The lights are always on. Although the light is dim, the oil in it seems to be incombustible forever.

After everyone approached, the wick began to sway gently, casting strange ghost images on the surrounding walls, like two ghost fires floating in the dark night.

Ye Qi is not afraid of these illusions, and curiously said: “This underground tomb has been hundreds of years, right? Can lamp oil burn for so long?”

Just as Lu Jiuchuan wanted to step forward to take a look, Yu Hanjiang was worried that he might be injured and might not be able to avoid it if he encountered the agency, so he stretched out his hand to stop his brother, and walked to the front to check the two lights.

After careful observation, Yu Hanjiang said, “The lamp oil added here should be a special material, which is not the same as the oil lamps we have seen.” After he said, he looked at Xiao Lou, as if waiting for Xiao Lou’s explanation.

Xiao Lou walked to his side and observed for a few seconds, and said, “This is a’eternal light’, the light can burn for hundreds of years without going out. In addition to lighting the underground tomb, there is also a kind of special attention to placing an eternal light in the tomb. If a Buddha wants to seek liberation after death, he should use his body as a lampstand and his heart as a lamp holder, add precepts, think of adding fuel, wisdom and understanding, and metaphors like a lamp.”

The teammates are listening attentively. Several times before, Professor Xiao led everyone to lie down to win. He has a wide range of knowledge, so the teammates didn’t find it strange at all to hear him say the meaning of the bright light. On the contrary, they felt that Professor Xiao knew that it was normal. After all, Xiao Lou is a student who “others are still looking at the question, he has already submitted the answer”.

But the four of Lu Jiuchuan and Xiao Lou’s team are working together for the first time.

Hearing him quickly uttered the meaning of the ever-bright lamp, Lu Jiuchuan admired “The person my brother saw is indeed smart”; Chu Huaying was expressionless, but he listened very seriously; Tang Ci looked indifferent; Mr. Gui smiled lightly. He laughed, did not interrupt him, and continued to listen to his explanation.

“It’s also the first time I have seen a real ever-bright lamp. The oil added in it should be the legendary beeswax.” Xiao Loudao.

“Beeswax?” Lu Jiuchuan raised his brows slightly, “is it the secretion of bees?”

“Yeah. To be precise, it is a fatty substance secreted by worker bees, and it is also the material used to build honeycombs. The ancients were very wise. They melted the honeycombs with hot water and refined them into’beeswax’, and burned them with kerosene made of beeswax. The speed is very slow, and it can be burned for a long time as long as the oxygen is constant when placed in the tomb. This is also the origin of the ever-bright lamp.” Xiao Lou explained earnestly.

“Professor Xiao is right.” Mr. Guilao said suddenly, with a low voice, “Archaeologists discovered the ever-bright lamp in the Ding Tomb of Emperor Wanli and determined that the material used to make the lamp oil was beeswax. As for the so-called’in the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shihuang’ The mermaid anointing lamp oil’ has not yet been concluded in the scientific community.” Gui Yuanzhang looked at Xiao Lou, “Unexpectedly, at a young age, you would also be interested in history and archaeology?”

“…” Xiao Lou realized that he had met a real expert, and his ears became enthusiastic, saying: “Senior, I just love to read some miscellaneous books, and I have learned about this knowledge. Compared to you, I know only these things. It can be regarded as fur.”

Gui Yuanzhang is a master of calligraphy and a professor of history with profound knowledge. Xiao Lou’s father is a fan of Gui Lao, and he also collected a cursive work by Gui Lao at home. Xiao Lou was too embarrassed to behave in front of his seniors.

Gui Lao said gently, “Don’t be humble. The square secret room encountered this time is not necessarily an ancient tomb that actually exists in history. It is more likely that the gatekeeper has referenced some historical books and set it casually. For the tomb of an ancient general, we don’t have to worry about dynasties and history. We will find the exit of the ancient tomb first.”

Lu Jiuchuan was an activist, and when he heard this, he stepped forward and knocked on the stone door lightly.

There was a muffled sound in the ear, which showed that the stone gate was very thick and could not be destroyed or pushed by manpower. It must be opened by a mechanism.

Lu Jiuchuan asked: “Will the agency be these two lights?”

Xiao Lou currently scanned the surroundings and found no other organs, so he said: “Let’s see if the two permanent lights can turn?”

When Yu Hanjiang heard this, he stretched out his hand and tried to rotate the eternal light in front of him. Lu Jiuchuan, who was standing on the right, also walked over, learning his brother’s movements, and spinning the eternal light in a circle.

Shimen did not respond.

Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan looked at each other and tried to turn in the opposite direction… Shimen still didn’t respond.

Xiao Lou stepped back and looked at the totem on the Shimen carefully.

The patterns of those totems were very messy. He was puzzled, and Gui Yuanzhang suddenly said: “The totems on this stone gate are half inscribed and half inscribed. They are combined to form a pattern similar to Tai Chi.”

After all, he is an expert in calligraphy, and he sees the characters of Yin and Yang carvings more clearly than ordinary people. If Xiao Lou remembered correctly, on the calligraphy and painting his father had collected, Gui Yuanzhang’s own seal was inscribed.

The inscribed pattern will be recessed into the plane, while the positive engraved pattern will bulge out of the plane. It will be more obvious if you touch it with your hands, but if you just look at it with your eyes, it is easy to confuse the two types together.

With a reminder from the seniors, Xiao Lou quickly understood the meaning of the pattern.

There are many animal patterns in the Tai Chi picture, all of which are interfering factors. The whole picture looks like a scene of ancient people offering sacrifices. Excluding the distracting items, you can see a man and a woman with two thumbs. In the pattern on the left, the woman’s left hand is facing up, which is clockwise; in the pattern on the right, the man’s hands are facing up, but it is counterclockwise.

Xiao Lou quickly analyzed the mechanism’s solution: “The permanent light on the left turns clockwise once, and the light on the right turns counterclockwise twice. The rotation speed on the right is twice that of the left. Try to ensure that the two lights turn to the right position at the same time.”

Upon hearing this, Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan acted.

If you make one turn, you need to slow down. If you make two turns, you need to speed up the movement so that the two lights can be synchronized.

It is not certain whether Xiao Lou must be synchronized. He only feels that the dance movements of a man and a woman in the pattern are synchronized. If the flashing lights are turned fast and slow, the mechanism may not be turned on.

It turns out that there is nothing wrong with his carefulness.

When Yu Hanjiang turned the permanent light on the left one round, the long light on Lu Jiuchuan’s right turned exactly two times, and they clearly heard the “click” sound of the counterpoint of the two sides at the same time. Immediately afterwards, the surrounding ground suddenly began to vibrate, and everyone heard a loud “bang” sound, and the heavy stone gate slowly rose in front of him, revealing a dark corridor.

Yu Hanjiang glanced at his brother and said, “Go in?”

The door just now was just the entrance to the maze. If it weren’t for Mr. Gui and Xiao Lou to analyze the mechanism’s opening method together, maybe they would spend a lot of time just in front of this stone door.

Shao Qingge thought with a smile—In the past, Professor Xiao was used to solve the labyrinth problem, and there was Lao Mo who knew the way. Now, a Mr. Gui Yuanzhang who understands history has been added. This week’s Zhou Chang is the theme of the ancient tomb. It seems, The following customs clearance will be much smoother.

Anyway, Shao Qingge always lay and win in Fang Pian, and he couldn’t help too much. He simply followed Xiao Lou silently and didn’t speak.

As a result, as soon as he walked a few steps, Ye Qi suddenly said, “Look behind you!”

Everyone suddenly turned their heads. The heavy stone gate that was slowly opened just now was suddenly let down after they entered the maze. The loud sound of “boom” was like a heavy hammer hitting everyone’s hearts. .

Yu Hanjiang frowned slightly: “As soon as we entered the maze, we blocked our back road. This is really a common tactic for Square A.”

Lu Jiuchuan simply said: “Regardless of it, anyway, we can’t go back and go out of this door and move on.”

Xiao Lou looked down at his feet with the light of Ye Mingzhu.

Unlike the muddy soil in front of Shimen just now, after entering the ancient tomb, the ground is covered with bluestone bricks.

This stone brick looks old, but it is very clean. In the cold underground environment, people seem to feel a bit of chill when they step on the stone bricks with their feet. Xiao Lou humbly asked Gui Yuanzhang: “Senior, do you know this kind of brick?”

The reason why he asked this was that there were many strange patterns on the bricks on the ground and walls. He was afraid of what mechanism was hidden under the bricks. What if a bunch of poisonous arrows were shot on the wall if he accidentally stepped on it?

Gui Yuan Zhang squatted down after hearing this, Xiao Lou held Ye Mingzhu to lend him light.

The old man knocked on the brick on the ground with his hand, listened to the sound, and carefully touched the lines on it, and said: “The bricks are simply carved with moiré and dragon patterns, and the lines have clear edges and corners. In terms of craftsmanship, it is likely to be a tomb brick after the Eastern Han Dynasty. This kind of brick is more common in Han dynasty tombs, and the patterns are only decorations. There is not much reference significance. It is unlikely that there are institutions hidden under the bricks.”

Xiao Lou relaxed, looked at the dark passage ahead and said, “Everyone pass here as soon as possible.”

Confirming that there is no mechanism under the feet, everyone’s speed immediately increased.

After walking for half a minute, this dark passage came to an end, and a fork in the road appeared in front of it.

Everyone lifted Ye Mingzhu and took a closer look. The same corridor to the left and right is too deep to see the end. In the dark underground environment, with gusts of wind and wind, there is always a kind of anxiety in everyone’s heart, for fear that ghosts and the like will pounce from the darkness in the next moment.

Although this is a square secret room, who knows if the gatekeepers will deliberately set up some “accidents” to scare them?

After all, the four gatekeepers have always been unreliable.

Xiao Lou took a deep breath-go left or right?

In case the area of the maze is very large, and if you go the wrong way, it will waste a lot of time to go back and start again.

Lu Jiuchuan turned back and asked: “We twelve, why split into two teams?”

Xiao Lou also liked the team. Firstly, the team can explore two roads at the same time, saving half of the time; secondly, the twelve of them gather together and appear very crowded in the narrow passage, in case they encounter a formation like “poisoned arrow” , On the contrary, they will collide with each other because they can’t move their hands and feet. Squad action will be more convenient.

As for how to team up…

Lu Jiuchuan looked at Xiao Lou with a gentle gaze: “You can decide Xiao Lou. You know everyone better. The four of us obey the allocation.”

Xiao Lou didn’t get entangled either, and quickly said: “I’m on the team with Han Jiang, Brother Nine, Mr. Tang, Lao Mo, and Liu Qiao; I belong to the team of Senior, Sister Huaying, Mr. Shao, Xiaoye, and Mr. Long Qu. Mr. Shao There is Zhang Li Qingzhao in his hand, you can leave a mark, and you can send it back to the mark when you encounter a dead end. In addition, everyone takes out the [four-way arrow] card and makes an arrow mark every time you pass a fork to avoid getting lost.”

In fact, Xiao Lou has considered a lot of this arrangement.

Li Qingzhao’s card, he and Shao Qingge each have a card, and the two naturally score the team. Mr. Shao’s Insect King card cannot be used in the square secret room. The combat effectiveness is average, so Chu Huaying, who has a very strong combat effectiveness, is assigned to him. This sister and Lu Jiuchuan have killed many hunters, and she is there, in terms of safety. Do not worry.

Mr. Guilao knows about history and archeology very well, so their team can solve the puzzle of the institution smoothly. Long Qu and his wife can be responsible for investigation when necessary, and Ye Qi is responsible for control. The configuration of the entire team is very comprehensive.

As for Xiaolou’s team, Yu Hanjiang’s combat power needless to say, Brother Nine was injured, and Liu Qiao’s witch card could save lives at critical moments. Mr. Tang’s legs can’t walk, so it’s easy to take care of them here.

He added Lao Mo in to draw the map of the maze as soon as possible. If their team is in the right direction, he can use Li Qingzhao’s mark to pass the other six directly; if they are in the wrong direction, they are guided by the maze of Lao Mo. You can go back quickly and find Shao Zonghui.

The team must take care of all aspects. After all, he is now the captain of the contract and must be responsible for each team member.

Everyone has no opinion on his arrangement.

If you think about it carefully, you will find that Xiaolou’s arrangement is the most reasonable plan at present.

After the team was divided, Xiao Lou took out the reward card of the previous level [Voice Headphones], gave one to everyone, and exhorted: “Everyone wear this in your ears, press with your fingers and then talk, the teammates in the distance can do it. Hear. The effective range of this headset is 10 kilometers. No matter how big the tomb is, it will not exceed 10 kilometers. We will keep in touch at any time.”

Everyone quickly put the earphones on and tried a voice call, and everyone’s earphones were normal.

The team is also the best way to save time in the dungeon of the maze. After all, the four of Lu Jiuchuan are all A-class secret rooms, and they have also experienced nightmare secret rooms. They were very calm about Xiao Lou’s decision to return to Yuan Zhang and Chu Huaying.

Xiao Lou looked at Mr. Gui and said, “Senior, please lead the team first.”

Gui Yuanzhang nodded: “Okay, you guys also be careful.”

Lu Jiuchuan waved his hand altogether: “Split up and make voice contact when there is a problem.”

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【Chapter 374, Labyrinth in Distress】

The voice headset is a very useful team communication device.

Usually, everyone speaks without interfering with each other. Only when you gently press the headset with your fingers, will the voice be transmitted to the team. The two teams act separately, and as long as there is no emergency, there is no need for frequent calls to communicate with each other.

After the division, the six Xiaolou walked towards the fork on the left.

Tang Ci was in a wheelchair and had limited mobility. Liu Qiaoben wanted to help him push the wheelchair, but before her hand could touch the wheelchair, Tang Ci calmly refused: “No trouble, my wheelchair is electric, I can walk on my own.”

When Lu Jiuchuan heard it, he chuckled and looked at Liu Qiao and said, “Little girl, don’t worry. This wheelchair is made by himself. There are control buttons on the armrests. It can walk straight and turn. It is almost comparable to an intelligent robot. Of course, if you encounter stairs or steps, there is no other way. If you can’t get on the wheelchair, you can help at that time.”

Liu Qiao retracted his hand, nodded lightly, and said, “I have a light power card here. If Mr. Tang needs to meet a step, he will fly up with the light power card.”

Tang Ci glanced at her, his expression still indifferent, but his eyes softened slightly: “I’m sorry about your sister’s affairs. The Intelligence Bureau has no information about her. What does this mean, I think you should Clear. Don’t think too much, first clear Zhou Chang and the S-class secret room behind.”

Liu Qiao lowered his head and said nothing, and lightly clenched his fist on his side.

Lu Jiuchuan wondered: “Sister?”

Yu Hanjiang glanced at him, he immediately understood and didn’t ask more.

At exactly this moment, a downward step appeared in front of him.

With the light of Ye Mingzhu, the end is invisible at all, and the steps do not know where to lead. The deep black hole is like a beast with its mouth wide open, swallowing everyone up.

Old Mo said: “Steps down? This shouldn’t be a three-dimensional maze…”

The plane maze is naturally much simpler than the three-dimensional maze. The three-dimensional maze should not only pay attention to the change of direction, but also pay attention to the interlacing in space. It is also unknown how many layers the maze has.

There was only this road in front of him. Everyone looked at each other, and Yu Hanjiang said decisively, “Go down and take a look.”

At the same time, the old gentleman’s voice came from the six-person earphones: “We found a step here, leading to a deeper underground.”

Xiao Lou replied: “We too, let the predecessors be careful.”

After exchanging information, the twelve people slowly descended the steps.

The steps are very narrow, and each floor can only hold half of an adult’s foot. Moreover, the water on the bricks does not know where it comes from, and it will be very slippery to step on. Of course, Tang Ci’s wheelchair is not convenient to move on such steps. Liu Qiaoben wanted to hand over the card of [Light as a Swallow] to Tang Ci, but Tang Ci refused: “With a good intention, you can protect yourself. I have a way.”

I saw that he summoned two mechanical ants, about 20cm long mechanical ants, although they are too bulky compared with normal ants, but their appearance is lifelike. There are two cameras on the two antennae of the ant, which can feed back the surrounding scenery you see at any time, and it can’t be more convenient to find the way.

Under Tang Ci’s instructions, two mechanical ants quickly climbed down the stairs.

Immediately afterwards, a wire flew out of the armrest of Tang Ci’s wheelchair, and the front end of the barbed wire was firmly sucked on the stone bricks of the wall. The wheelchair seemed to have found a track and followed the wire to the steps. The black hole below slipped down, but it was faster than Liu Qiao’s light work.

Liu Qiao looked at him blankly.

Xiao Lou, Yu Hanjiang, and Lao Mo also looked at each other.

Lu Jiuchuan’s eyes darkened, and a trace of hoarseness appeared in his voice: “I have never seen his wheelchair so versatile, Xiao Tang… In order to go to the S-class secret room with us, he made a lot of preparations.”

Naturally, I also endured more pain than everyone thought.

It is not a day or two for this complicated wheelchair to be successfully developed. In the course of the experiment, will he fall all over his body with cuts and bruises? Nobody knows.

Tang Ci spent half a year in the underground factory researching machinery. In order to avoid revealing his identity, he rarely communicates with the outside world. After losing his legs, he did not give up on himself, and rarely showed sadness and sadness. Instead, he relied on his own technology to develop intelligent robots in reality, studied hard, and made such a smart wheelchair with his own hands.

The strength of this man made Xiao Lou admire and distressed.

Even if he loses his legs and sits in a wheelchair-he has never been weak and does not need the protection of his teammates.

He will protect himself.

Lu Jiuchuan took a deep breath, resisting the tingling pain from his heart, and quickly followed.

Yu Hanjiang, Xiao Lou and others also quickly walked down the steps. Liu Qiao and Lao Mo walked at the end. She handed the handkerchief that came with the Kongming Lantern card to Lao Mo, and whispered: “Uncle Mo, this handkerchief, you can draw pictures directly on it with your fingers.”

She just wanted to help a little.

Mo Xuemin remembered that his daughter was only a few years younger than Liu Qiao, he couldn’t help but smiled, patted the girl on the shoulder, and said, “Okay, you will give me this handkerchief in the future, which is convenient for me to draw pictures at any time.”

Tang Ci’s wheelchair stayed on a flat ground.

His mechanical ant was exploring the road ahead and gave him feedback-no touching or trampling organs were found on this downward step. At a depth of about 10 meters, a relatively wide platform appeared. This is also the reason why Tang Ci dared to hook the wall directly with the iron cable to let the wheelchair slide down.

At this time, Tang Ci and his mechanical ants were all staying on the platform.

There is a door on each side of the platform, and there are still lights on the left and right sides of the door, but the lights here are off.

The beeswax did not burn out, and I don’t know why the two lights went out.

With the light of Ye Mingzhu, Xiao Lou quickly saw the pattern on the door—similar to the stone gate that entered the ancient tomb. It also painted scenes of ancient priests with men and women dancing. According to the dancing movements, Xiao Lou Lou analyzed the opening method of the agency.

“The permanent light on the left makes two turns clockwise and one turn counterclockwise on the right.”

Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan quickly went over to open Shimen.

This is a closed stone room of about 4 square meters. The whole room is empty, but there is a compass hung on the wall. Tang Ci let the mechanical ants enter the house to find the way. After confirming that there is no mechanism, Xiao Lou walked in and looked at the compass carefully.

There are many spell-like things on the compass. Ignoring the messy patterns, you can clearly see the east, south, west, and north signs on it. Xiao Lou said: “This is the compass used by the ancients to identify directions, and it is the ancient version of the compass. ”

Old Mo excitedly said: “Great, there is a compass, we can accurately pinpoint the location of the underground, and it is also convenient for me to draw a map of the maze, so that I won’t get half lost.”

Xiao Lou took down the compass.

But strangely, he put the compass in his hand and turned it left and right, but the pointer on it didn’t move at all.

Yu Hanjiang wondered: “Is it bad?”

Xiao Lou thought for a while, and said, “Open the Shimen on the opposite side and take a look.”

Everyone returned to the platform, Xiao Lou continued to analyze the opening method of the organ based on the pattern on the door.

There is a wooden box in the stone chamber on the other side, which is not locked.

After opening it, it was found that there were some broken clothing and a bronze mirror inside. Xiao Lou picked up the bronze mirror, and as a result, his face in the mirror showed a strange distortion, which looked like a ghost, which shocked him.

In the dark secret room, suddenly seeing my face distorted and deformed, it really made my back feel hairy.

Yu Hanjiang immediately took his shoulders lightly, grabbed the mirror in his hand with the other hand, and took a picture of himself.

The same is distorted appearance.

Lu Jiuchuan came over and asked, “Do you look at the demon mirror?”

“…” Yu Hanjiang frowned and looked at his brother: “What do you mean? Xiao Lou and I are both monsters?”

Lu Jiuchuan laughed, “Adjust the atmosphere, otherwise it will be pesky.”

Xiao Lou: “…”

Before, I thought Brother Jiu was handsome and gentleman, but after contacting him, Xiao Lou found that this brother’s personality was completely different from that of Yu Hanjiang. Yu Hanjiang never jokes, looks serious and indifferent on the surface, but is actually very good at taking care of others. Lu Jiuchuan likes to joke and ridicule. No matter what trouble he encounters, even if his arm is cut abruptly by a knife, he has a very relaxed appearance.

The only thing they have in common is probably the blood in their bones. Both of them are not afraid of death, and they are very attached to the identified goals.

Xiao Lou took the bronze mirror back from Yu Hanjiang’s hand, looked at himself in the mirror with weird appearance, and said seriously; “This should be… a yin-yang mirror.”

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As the Tomb Raiders team continues to explore, the protagonist group is getting stronger and stronger, okay! See you tomorrow.