But what they have to do now is figure out how this thing works.
Because there are no patterns similar to those in the photo around the iron plate, the three walls of the cave are full of rough pits where bamboo slips are placed.
"What should I do?" Xie Yuchen asked.
"First press the direction in which it rotates. Let's push it clockwise to see if we can make the iron plate rotate faster." Wu Xiaoxie said.
Once you get started, you will find that it is very easy to push like this, but there is no machine expansion activation.
The two pushed against each other again, and immediately felt resistance. Although it was difficult, they could clearly feel the feeling of winding the chain when applying force.
The two of them looked at each other and increased their strength at the same time, until their faces turned red and their necks thickened. The iron plate finally started to rotate in the opposite direction. At the same time, there was a dull sound of the iron chain gears rubbing against each other from below.
Unfortunately, the rotation was less than 90 degrees, and Wu Xiaoxie felt that he could not use any strength anyway. When he saw that Xiaohua on the other side was similar to him, the veins in his arms were stretched, but the iron plate seemed to be stuck. Still motionless.
Xie Yuchen gave up first, "We don't have enough strength, you have to bring in a cow."
Wu Xiaoxie collapsed from exhaustion. He lay on the iron plate and was turned back clockwise. He gasped for air and waited for a long time before he got up.
Jie Yuchen was about to throw him a bottle of water, but his hand suddenly stopped and asked, "What's that on your chest?"
Wu Xiaoxie lowered his head in confusion, and when he took a look, he found that there was a large piece of cinder-covered black on his chest. Because the protective suit was green, it looked very dirty. When he looked at it, there was also something on his gloves. .
Wu Xiaoxie was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and turned to look at the big iron plate. He rubbed it with the back of a clean glove. When he saw that the back of his hand had turned black, he frowned and said, "Why is the paint on this thing still peeling off?"
Taking a closer look, I found that the black color was mixed with many small particles, which turned into powder when rubbed with my fingers.
Wu Xiaoxie suddenly felt that something was not good, and immediately used a dagger to scrape off an area as big as a fingernail in the patterned groove on the iron plate. After crushing it, he walked over to Jie Yuchen, put it on the ground, and asked him to unscrew the bottle cap and pour water. Give it a shot.
Although Xie Yuchen didn't know why, he still did it.
Soon, the black powder was soaked with water, and Wu Xiaoxie stirred it again with a dagger, turning it into a pool of black and reddish mucus.
"Take a closer look." Wu Xiaoxie dipped the tip of the dagger into it and showed it to Xie Yuchen.
Jie Yuchen frowned and took a look, his expression immediately changed, "Is this... blood?"
"Yes, it's blood." Wu Xiaoxie nodded, "Someone poured a lot of blood on the iron plate, more than once."
"The layer of dried blood on it is very thick, and the patterns on the iron plate are not patterns, but blood channels." Wu Xiaoxie continued, "So, this is not an ordinary iron plate, but a sacrifice. plate."
Xie Yuchen took a water bottle and poured some water on the iron plate. Sure enough, he saw the water stains starting to spread along the lines on it.
It seemed to be alive, flowing slowly to the edge of the iron plate, and then it did not drip to the ground. Instead, it flowed along the side of the iron plate to the bottom of the iron plate, and began to flow towards the bottom pattern, and gradually towards the bottom. The axes converge. ….
Jie Yuchen was also a little surprised, and then smiled and said: "This is how this thing is used. It seems that we really need to get a cow."
Wu Xiaoxie's expression was a little weird, "Tell me, is the blood on this human blood? People from the Old Nine Sect shouldn't be so perverted."
Hearing this, Jie Yuchen was strangely silent, "I can't tell."
Wu Xiaoxie grinned, "What should we do? I think it would be too much for us to bleed. With our small bodies, it would be good if the two of us can have a cup together."
"Don't worry about your cow. The blood is too silky. Why not try it with pig blood first." Wu Xiaoxie came up with an idea, "Pig blood is the most similar to human blood. I don't think this ancient machine can be precise." You can tell such subtle differences as the type of blood."
Xie Yuchen nodded, "It's too troublesome to get blood, so just get a pig."
Wu Xiaoxie wholeheartedly agreed, it would be too exciting to do pig blood directly.
Those hairs on the face might cause some uncontrollable situation in the end, but it would be easier to whole pig, and it can also ensure that the blood does not coagulate.
But the problem is, how to get the pigs in.
Wu Xiaoxie looked at Xie Yuchen, compared their arms, and gave up the idea of carrying the pig.
At this moment, he missed the fat man who was responsible for the physical strength of the team, and the two guys who carried more than a hundred kilograms of ancient swords on their backs and ran faster than rabbits in the ancient tomb.
He realized very clearly that without those three guys, the only advantage he could show was that his brain was quite flexible.
In this case, let's use the method that mental workers are best at to come up with ideas. He looked at Xie Yuchen and said: "We have to put a row of pitons on the top of the tunnel and use ropes and pulleys to transport the pigs in."
Xie Yuchen immediately agreed. The blood stains on his body had dried. I didn't know if the effect would be compromised. The two of them smeared blood on their bodies again and came to the entrance of the cave.
Xie Yuchen used the intercom to notify the people below.
When the waiter first heard that his boss was asking them to find a way to hang a pig, he almost thought there was something wrong with his ears.
After confirming it several times, I bought a big pig from the nearest village with a question mark on my forehead.
Fortunately, some of the local guys had herded pigs in the mountains before and knew how to drive them so that the pigs would be obedient and not run away. Otherwise, transporting a pig to the deep mountains would be beyond the reach of ordinary people.
While waiting for the pig, Wu Xiaoxie and the others got most of the equipment outside the cave into the cave after getting the pitons and transportation devices.
Then he started to clean off the original blood stains on the sacrificial plate. The lines on the iron plate became clearer. It looked like the shape of an unknown flower, and there were traces of repairs.
Wu Xiaoxie couldn't figure out what was going on for a while, so he took it with his camera and planned to pass it on to Banai for his brother and Muyu to see.
The next day, the background sound of pigs grunting came over the guy’s intercom.
Wu Xiaoxie and the other two also built a pulley device on the cliff above.
The waiter below was afraid that the pig would be difficult to handle if it struggled up high, so he used anesthesia to temporarily paralyze the pig, then tied its limbs and hung it up.
As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the cave, an unbearable stench hit their faces, making the two of them roll their eyes.
The two put on their gas masks again and transported the pigs into the cave like cargo. ….
There was a stone hook on the roof of the cave directly above the iron plate, and the two of them hung the pig upside down.
The ceiling of the cave is not high. Once you hang it there, the pig's head will be very close to the iron plate and you can start it directly.
Seeing the pig rolling its eyes in confusion, Wu Xiaoxie raised and put down the hand holding the short knife, and handed the knife to Xie Yuchen's hand, "It's too bloody. I'm still a child. I can't cut it off. I want to You don’t have to come.”
Jie Yuchen didn't answer and took a step back with a smile, "You are more suitable. This knife is very sharp. Just wipe it on your neck and blood will come out."
After the pig was hung up, the anesthetic had gradually worn off. When he saw two guys sharpening knives standing next to him, he was immediately frightened and howled with a sharp and harsh sound, and he kept struggling.
Jie Yuchen pushed Wu Xiaoxie from behind and said teasingly: "Let's fight quickly, mistress."
Wu Xiaoxie was furious, "You are so experienced, why don't you come?"
Xie Yuchen smiled softly, "I usually don't make the other person bleed when I use my hands. I'm not used to it."
As soon as Wu Xiaoxie saw the unquestionable expression on this guy's face, he knew that it was impossible for him to take action.
The pig screamed like a slaughtered pig. Wu Xiaoxie made two gestures on its thick neck, and he felt a little broken. He thought to himself that it would be great if the fat man was here, but he didn't know if he would kill him. similar.
But Fatty likes braised pork so much, so he probably won’t mind.
After a moment of stalemate, Wu Xiaoxie still couldn't make a move and asked, "Are any of the guys below you good at killing pigs?"
Jie Yuchen clicked his tongue in disgust, "Why are you so good at this?"
Wu Xiaoxie said confidently: "The dignified Jiujia Master Jiu is a well-known person in Taoism."
You don't even dare to kill a pig, you don't have the right to criticize me. "
Jie Yuchen looked at him strangely, shook his head with a smile, and went out to inform the guys below.
Wu Xiaoxie was left face to face with the poor pig in the cave.
As soon as the people below heard the request, the guy who had been driving the pigs volunteered and was hung up.
The guy was a cruel man. He chopped up a wine bottle without saying a word. After cutting off the bottom of the bottle, he cut a very sharp bevel on the mouth of the bottle. He found the right place and stabbed it, and the red blood flowed down the bottle to the altar. On the plate, countless blood stains began to crawl rapidly on the pattern.
The pig howled for several minutes. With the loss of blood, it had no strength to continue struggling and closed its eyes as it was dying.
After three or four minutes passed when all the patterns on the sacrificial plate were filled with blood, the originally rotating iron plate suddenly got stuck, and a series of "click-click-click" sounds of friction and dragging of the iron chains came from below.
Then, after several muffled sounds, friction sounds began to appear on the walls of the cave.
Wu Xiaoxie and the others held their knives and looked around cautiously in case something unexpected happened. Suddenly, the expressions of the three of them became a little shocked.
On the cave walls in three directions, there was a sudden movement in the pits that were originally filled with bamboo slips. All the bamboo slips were pushed out from the inside, revealing strange protrusions, filling the cave wall into a complete wall.
The thing protruding from the cave wall looks like part of some kind of relief.
Wu Xiaoxie immediately took out the photos for comparison and carefully identified them. He found that the relief modules in front of him had many similarities with the details in the photos. However, it was obvious that the relief paintings in front of him were more detailed, except for the key parts of the stone wall. Knocked out artificially. ….
Obviously, the iron plate in front of you is the mechanism that drives the reliefs on the three walls.
The three holes in the photo, in order, seem to represent the hole behind him.
After carefully comparing the blood-stained iron plate with the photo, Wu Xiaoxie immediately discovered the above problem.
At the intersection of the two largest patterns on the iron plate, there is a cross-shaped bump, but the position of this bump is different from the one in the photo.
He hurriedly told Yuchen about his findings.
Xie Yuchen frowned when he heard this, "It seems that the photo from Guangxi is an instruction manual. It shows us how to proceed with the next step. If the bump is regarded as a pointer, push the iron plate to the position in line with the photo. If you go to the same location, it is likely to trigger the next mechanism."
Wu Xiaoxie nodded, "But we have already activated the mechanism just now, and the iron plate can rotate, so even without this photo, it is easy to deduce the position in the photo by pushing the iron plate randomly. If this is some secret tip If so, it would be too easy to be tested and has no practical significance.”
Jie Yuchen agreed with his opinion, "The reason why the code is called a code is because it is complex enough. No matter what the iron plate is, if it is combined with the surrounding reliefs, there are only four pitiful possibilities for testing it. It is a personal You can try it all.”
"Have you ever heard of the Law of Contraction?" Seeing Wu Xiaoxie shaking his head, Xie Yuchen patiently explained, "When there are not enough things to choose from, and you want to ensure the effectiveness of something, you will reduce the number of choices you make."
"For example, defusing bombs." Xie Yuchen gave an example. "When there are only three colors of red, yellow and green fuses in front of you, then you may only be able to cut them once at most, because if you cut them wrong, it will explode."
After hearing this, Wu Xiaoxie looked at the four surrounding walls, then at the iron plate, and took a sharp breath, "You mean, if we want to turn this iron plate next, we will probably only have one chance." !」
He suddenly thought that the Nine Sects had suffered heavy losses here. It was probably because of their trial and error, which triggered an unimaginable fatal mechanism.
What is dangerous is not the hair outside that is attracted to human blood, nor is it the group of corpse turtles inside the clay pot, but another layer of things that even the well-informed Old Nine Sect people cannot understand.
After all, their team was extremely large at the time, and they had no shortage of manpower and material resources. They could burn these hairs with fire, or use special techniques to move all the pots out without alerting the Corpse Turtle King. As long as
Plenty of time.
Obviously, being able to fly over walls and climb over walls like Xiaohua is a basic skill for the people of Jiumen to survive, so in their opinion, there is no need to pay attention to the things outside, and they don't take them seriously at all.
Jie Yuchen's tone was heavy, "Once we make a mistake and the agency is activated, we can't predict what will happen next. There have been more than one tragedy here. We are not qualified to make mistakes easily before we are fully sure and prepared."
Wu Xiaoxie looked at Xie Yuchen, who had a condensed expression in front of him, as if he had suddenly changed into a different person, and was a little dazed, "Do you often solve problems in such a meticulous tone?"
"This is the code for Xie's family to do things. Rigorousness has been engraved in their bones since childhood." Xie Yuchen looked at the iron plate full of blood with a calm expression.
Wu Xiaoxie suddenly thought that his grandfather had said before when he was a child that Master Jie Jiu from the Old Nine Clan was the most thoughtful person among their group. He seemed to be able to see through the future one step ahead and his behavior was completely leak-proof and cautious. Incredible.
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Taibai Nineteen
