Ling'er stayed in the corner for a while, and then everyone came back with the stone bowl.
Ling'er didn't dare to turn her head and only heard Zhao Xinghe say apologetically: "I didn't drink much water along the way, that's all."
"It's okay, please fall down, please!" Ji Cangyu said.
Ling'er couldn't help but look up and saw everyone pouring the contents of the stone bowl into the gap in the stone wall one by one.
Although Ling'er didn't pay special attention, he also found clues.
The stone bowls of Zhao Xinghe and others, especially Zhao Xinghe, were almost empty, and among the others, only Qi Yang poured a lot.
Ji Cangyu saw everything in his eyes and looked at Qi Yang thoughtfully. Qi Yang is no stupider than anyone else, doesn't he know he has to keep some for himself?
After everyone poured the things in, there was still no movement at all from the mechanism inside.
Ji Cangyu said to Qi Yang: "Qi Shaoxia, please control the roller." Then, he took a step forward and asked everyone: "Who has a dagger that Ji can use?"
Jiang Yu quickly took out the fake "Wuchen" he had picked up from the bronze man from his pocket and handed it to Ji Cangyu like a treasure.
"Isn't that my 'Wuchen'? Why is it here with you?" Zhao Xinghe asked Jiang Yu in surprise.
Zhao Xinghe originally thought that Qi Yang wanted to steal "Wuchen" for himself, so he used the excuse that the dagger was a fake. He was still thinking about asking Qi Yang to get the dagger back after he got out of here.
"Second Senior Brother, this is not 'Wuchen'! You were deceived by its appearance." Jiang Yu said with a smile.
"Whether it's 'Wuchen' or not, it's all mine!" Zhao Xinghe couldn't help but reach out and touch his newly swollen face. He paid a lot of price, even if it was a fake, he had to keep it.
"Just give it to you. I just saw the dagger lying on the ground and no one wanted it, so I picked it up. Although it is not 'dustless', it is still a sharp dagger!" Jiang Yu explained.
While they were talking, Ji Cangyu had already slit his wrist with a dagger.
Qi Yang raised his left hand to grab the wheel and listened carefully to the movement inside the mechanism.
After a while, everyone heard a "clang" sound, as if something fell down.
Qi Yang reacted very quickly and turned the wheel, and saw that the wheel that had been stuck was finally turned.
Immediately afterwards, with the sound of the mechanism opening, the stone door in front of everyone slowly rose.
"Successful!" Zhao Xinghe and others shouted in surprise.
Ling'er quickly took out the medicine that had been prepared to stop Ji Cangyu's bleeding.
After a while, the stone door was completely opened.
"Wait! Did you hear anything?" Liu Chuyuan said suddenly.
Everyone fell silent, and sure enough they heard some movement, like something rolling. The sound came from inside the stone door and continued.
Ji Cangyu signaled everyone to take torches and continue walking forward.
When they stepped through the first stone door, they heard the voice coming more clearly, as if it was right in their ears.
Everyone shined their torches towards the source of the sound, and were shocked to find a palm-sized rolling stone rolling down the sloping slope.
What is shocking is that the surface of the rolling stone is somewhat uneven, and there are some scarlet blood stains on it, which have not been wiped off due to rolling friction.
"Is this the rolling stone in the agency?" Liu Chuyuan said in surprise.
Although Zhao Xinghe and Jiang Yu couldn't quite understand the machine diagram, they also knew that there was probably such a rolling stone.
"So is this rolling stone going to roll all the way to the next door?" Zhao Xinghe guessed.
"That's what it looks like!" Qi Yang looked around with a torch and frowned.
"There are torches on the stone wall!" Jiang Yu shouted, and then volunteered to light the torches on the stone wall one by one.
"Young Master Jiang, pay attention to the ditch under your feet!" Ji Cangyu reminded.
It turned out that the poisonous water flowing in the previous ditch also came through the gaps in the stone wall and flowed into this stone chamber, forming another ditch across the stone chamber.
After Jiang Yu lit all the torches on the wall, everyone could clearly see the layout of the entire stone room.
This is a square stone room. Except for the ditch in the middle, the most surprising thing is the strange stone walls on all sides.
There are no longer murals carved on the stone wall, but small ramps that turn left and right are densely arranged, which is where rolling stones may roll.
The small ramps intersect and connect with each other, and there are occasional gaps, so no one knows where the rolling stone will roll next.
"A rolling stone always rolls from high to low, so does it have to stop when it rolls to the bottom?" Jiang Yu asked.
"He won't stop. If you don't believe it, just look!" Liu Chuyuan said, pointing in the direction of the rolling stone.
I saw that the rolling stone had rolled to a relatively low place at this time, but suddenly fell straight down from a gap.
Then, under the anxious eyes of everyone, the rolling stone was bounced up by something as soon as it hit the bottom slope, and was thrown diagonally to the top slope.
"So that's it! It seems that the mechanism designer has already designed the trajectory of the rolling stone." Zhao Xinghe sighed.
"I finally understand why it takes a day or two to pass through these six gates. It turns out that all the time is spent on the rolling of the rolling stones." Qi Yang said, looking at Ling'er.
Ling'er was keenly aware of the annoyance and anxiety in Qi Yang's tone, and was even more sure that he was eager to leave this secret realm.
"Looking at the speed, it would take two or three hours for the stone to roll from the first stone gate to the second stone gate, right?" Jiang Yu said.
"When blood is needed to open the second stone door, the person who died in front will probably be stiff and won't be able to shed much blood anymore, right? So the remaining six people need to choose one more person to die." Zhao Xinghe speculated.
"The designer of the mechanism really has good intentions!" Jiang Yu said with emotion.
"Then what should we do now?" Ling'er asked Qi Yang.
Qi Yang replied: "Wait! Wait until the rolling stone rolls into the mechanism of the second stone gate."
"Is there no other way? Take down the rolling stone and send it directly to the second stone gate?" Ling'er said anxiously.
"That won't work." Qi Yang shook his head.
Qi Yang knew that Ling'er wanted to help him leave here early, and he was moved and explained: "Girl, please look at the second door! We can't decide which ramp to throw the rolling stone into."
Ling'er looked in the direction Qi Yang pointed, and then discovered that there were many slopes on the stone wall on the left side of the second stone gate, but the other ends of those slopes were hidden inside the stone wall, making it impossible to judge where the rolling stone was rolling. Which ramp will lead to the mechanism of the stone gate.
"All we can do now is wait." Qi Yang said helplessly.
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