The Black Card - Chapter 1215

[Chapter 1213 Clever Mechanism]

He got out of the depression, squatted down, and used the steps to hide.

Then, he stretched out his hand and touched the cross, but no matter whether he pushed or pulled it out, it still didn’t move.

What the hell is this?

Shi Lei was actually quite sure that this cross must be where Ji Kuo was, but why couldn’t it move?

From the side, the footsteps of the guard could be heard. Shi Lei was startled and hurriedly ducked into the depression again.

When he got in, his toes stepped on a stone slab outside the depression, and his hand was still holding the cross.

The stone slab at the toes seemed to shake slightly.

Shi Lei didn’t dare to stay and still got in. However, he suddenly had a formed idea in his mind.

This mechanism is a linked mechanism. It needs to move two places at the same time to open the mechanism.

Wait patiently until the guard’s footsteps disappear completely. Based on the experience of the previous two nights, Shi Lei knows that this is also the last patrol of the guard. In more than half an hour, he will change shifts with his colleagues. Normally, at this time, When the guard returned to the guard room, he was probably closing his eyes and relaxing, waiting for the guard from the morning shift to take over.

After waiting in the depression for another two minutes, Shi Lei got out again.

This time, he was almost completely sure. He stepped on the stone slab with his toes and used all his strength, but the stone slab did not move at all.

Then, he put his hand into the depression and grabbed the cross. While twisting the cross, he exerted force with his toes…

There was a slight clicking sound next to his ears. The stone slab under his feet tilted down, and the cross in his hand was finally lifted. He pulled out from the crack in the stone.

Looking at the complete cross in his hand, Shi Lei heard extremely slight clicking sounds that continued to come from the temple. He was very worried whether these sounds would alert the guards.

He got up and hid behind a huge stone pillar, and waited patiently for a while. The guard did not appear. Shi Lei probably estimated that either the guard did not hear the sound, or he did not think that the sound would be related to the sound of the temple. what is the relationship.

Perhaps, he thought it was the sound coming from outside the temple.

In any case, this was Shi Lei’s last chance in May. He didn’t care much and entered the temple in cat form.

Shi Lei entered the temple with his head raised. He intuitively believed that this mechanism should be opened somewhere on the vault above his head. He was actually a little worried, because even if the vault was opened, with his current skills, he might not be able to open it. Climb up the wall successfully with the gecko.

He couldn’t help but regret a little. If he had known better, he would have brought some tools like flying tiger claws.

But soon, he discovered that the vault had not changed at all.

With doubts, Shi Lei looked away, but he still clearly heard the slight but continuous clicking sound in his ears.

Shi Lei lowered his head, and suddenly, he discovered that there was a depression on the marble floor in the center of the temple.

I quickly walked over and saw that it was really a depression.

That depression turned out to be a carving pattern on the original floor of the temple.

It was a perfect fit before. Shi Lei studied here for two nights and didn’t find any problems on the floor. He could hardly find any gaps.

However, the carved pattern here is clearly sinking slowly.

I go!

This technology!

That’s awesome!

Even modern technology may not be able to achieve such a tight fit, right?

Shi Lei couldn’t think too much about it, because the depression was getting deeper and deeper, revealing a dark gap inside.

Taking out a flashlight and shining it down, Shi Lei discovered that there was something like a staircase on one side of the ground wall. However, this staircase was carved directly into the ground wall.

Shi Lei quickly ran over and climbed down the stairs.

It wasn’t too deep, about five or six meters away, Shi Lei reached the ground.

A narrow but lengthy passage appeared in front of Shi Lei.

He took out a lighter, lit it and shook it slightly. Under the ground, the air was obviously rotating and circulating. The flame of the lighter was very healthy, without any sign of lack of oxygen.

After taking a look with a strong flashlight, Shi Lei found that this corridor was really long, at least a hundred meters long.

After simply judging the direction, Shi Lei discovered that the end of this corridor must have been beyond the scope of the temple.

If he continues to explore now, it is very likely that Shi Lei will not be able to return to the original place before the guard changes and insert the cross he pulled out back into its original place, and people will soon discover this place.

But if he didn’t move forward, Shi Lei would have no choice but to quit.

In any case, Shi Lei did not dare to take the risk and retreated without much hesitation.

Returning to the ground from the stairs, Shi Lei stood behind the stone pillars of the temple and observed carefully that there was no one outside.

He then ran down the steps and inserted the cross in his hand back into the crack in the stone.

A slight clicking sound came out again, and Shi Lei knew that this was the mechanism returning to its original state. Soon, there were no more gaps on the floor in the temple.

Apart from anything else, the fact that there were no gaps made Shi Lei sigh with emotion at the miraculous achievements of the ancient Greeks in architecture.

Unwilling to be reconciled, he returned to the temple and saw that the depression was recovering bit by bit.

A bold idea appeared in Shi Lei’s mind.

This place is obviously not an underground palace, but more like the entrance to an underground palace.

According to the direction of the corridor, it seems that the underground palace should be outside the temple.

Based on the size of the corridor, Shi Lei felt that the underground palace connected at the other end of the corridor did not seem like a place to hide things.

After all, if you just want to hide something, you can just build an underground palace directly under the temple.

Or, the thing to be hidden is too big to be hidden under the temple.

Or, in addition to the function of hiding things, this underground palace also has the function of hiding people.

If the hidden things are too big, there will definitely be no way for this underground palace to have only one exit. After all, the size of this gap will definitely not allow anything that is too large to be put in.

This means that there is another exit from the underground palace.

And if this underground palace still has the function of hiding people, then there must be a way to open the mechanism from inside the underground palace. Otherwise, if people hide in, they can only wait for people outside to open the passage. What if the people outside die? ?

Wouldn’t that mean he was buried alive?

As soon as this idea appeared, it was like planting grass in Shi Lei’s heart. He could no longer bear the temptation. Without much hesitation, he rushed over while the floor was not completely restored, and descended from the stairs to the ground. .

Not long after, there was no light at all above the head. Shi Lei climbed up the stairs and searched for a long time with the strong flashlight in his hand. Even from the inside, he still couldn’t find any gaps.

After feeling once again the achievements of the ancient Greeks in architecture, Shi Lei went down to the ground and walked forward cautiously along the corridor.

After walking for more than 150 meters, Shi Lei discovered that the end of the corridor was not connected to any underground palace, but formed a turn.

Turning around, Shi Lei continued to move forward, walking more than a hundred meters. The area in front of him became more and more open, and finally, it turned into a stone room.

Lifting his head, Shi Lei used the light of the flashlight to see that the entire stone chamber looked like a trapezoid.

The walls on both sides are angled, opposite is a wall more than ten meters high, and behind, is an exit that can only accommodate two or three people walking side by side.

Shi Lei knew that he had arrived!

After walking around the three walls, Shi Lei carefully recalled the direction he had walked, and he made a surprising discovery.

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(End of this chapter)