Deep in the dark cliff, a group of people crawled slowly on the two iron chains as thick as buckets, like two earthworms that had been cut into countless pieces and were struggling and squirming.
The chain was about a hundred meters long, and soon everyone climbed to the other end of the cliff.
"I support it, why is it gone? Yan Zai! What's going to happen next!"
Looking at the bare cliff at the end of the chain, everyone had to stop.
Yan stood up on the iron chain and reached out unsteadily to touch around on the stone wall.
"strangeness……"
There was a murmur in his mouth, and then as if he thought of something, he thrust the backpack into Boss Zhang's hand behind him, and his legs were hooked upside down with the iron lock and it fell down.
Click, click, click...
I don’t know what Yan was doing down there, but I heard the rotation of the machine and the friction of the boulders. A piece of the rock wall above the iron chain collapsed, and then there was another crackling sound, and the dented piece of rock was heard. The sealing stone was slowly pulled up, revealing the dark passage behind it.
"There are stone steps inside!" Chen Tao pointed his flashlight at the depths of the passage.
"Is there any agency?" Boss Zhang held on to the stone wall with one hand and leaned forward to look inside.
"Don't go in if you're afraid of death!"
Yan turned it up at some point, took the backpack from Boss Zhang's hand, bent down and climbed into the passage.
"Uh..." Boss Zhang looked slightly embarrassed, staring at Yan's back with a sullen face, an imperceptible look flashing in his eyes.
"What are you doing, waiting for me to pull you in one by one?" Yan's voice came from inside the cave, saying that I am the best in the world and you are all noobs.
"Let's go, come on, Ah Cheng, you go first!" Uncle Long took care of Ah Cheng, who was carrying Uncle Wang on his back, climbed into the cave, and greeted Chen Tao and others behind him.
The cave is very dry, not as humid and dark as expected, and there are no vines or black insects around. There is also a faint breeze blowing from the depths.
The diameter of the cave is about three meters. There are still traces of manual excavation on the surrounding cave walls. It is full of pits and is covered with large and small chisel marks.
The ground is covered with a layer of large and small stone slabs, and there is no pattern at all. A few meters ahead are the stone steps leading upward, about one meter long, which are directly cut out and do not look dangerous.
When Chen Tao and the others came in, Yan was squatting on the ground and tapping the stone slabs on the ground with the back of his hand, making a dull sound.
"Is there a mechanism down here?" Chen Tao thought.
It is really strange that such a deep hole is paved with such stone slabs only in this section. He had seen it more than once in TV novels before. The ancients always liked to hide mechanisms under such stone slabs. As soon as a person stepped on it, the mechanisms below would be activated, and they would die without knowing how.
"How's it going? Can you go there?" Uncle Long asked.
"These stone slabs are all solid underneath... What are you doing, playing psychological warfare?" Yan frowned and looked at the stone slabs.
One after another, people crawled in from the entrance of the cave, including Ye Rong and the others, and there were more than a dozen people. The space inside the cave was too small to accommodate them.
"If there is no mechanism, then leave, be careful." Uncle Long said.
Chen Tao looked at the stone slabs and hesitated to take a step. These stone slabs made him feel very strange. They were put together in large and small sizes. Why did they feel like a bird's eye view of some place?
After hesitating, Chen Tao took out his mobile phone and took a photo with the light. For some reason, the arrangement of those stone slabs was very attractive to him.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Suddenly there were several sounds of breaking through the air, and several spears were shot out from the stone wall beside the cave entrance. The two people at the end of the crowd were instantly stabbed to the core. The spears penetrated their bodies, and as the two He groaned, vomited blood and fell to the ground.
There was a commotion in the crowd.
"Don't move! It's a trap!" Yan stood on a stone step and shouted, "MD, you're careless! That boy from the public loser is about to break it!"
"Hey Yanzi, come down and save me quickly! Is that Maotouzi reliable?"
"He can't move." Haozi said from the beginning, "It's because he was there that we didn't get stabbed like hedgehogs by spears."
"The mechanism here is not under a certain stone slab, but the entire ground and the stone staircase."
Haozi pointed to the stone staircase where Yan was standing and said: "As long as someone gets on the stone staircase, the mechanism will start quietly. The stone staircase and the stone slab on the ground are like a balance beam. As long as someone leaves the stone staircase or the stone slab area, Those spears will kill us all instantly."
Hearing this, Chen Tao looked at the two corpses on the ground. Perhaps they shouldn't be called corpses yet. They were still breathing, but they couldn't live much longer.
The position of the two of them was just outside the range of the stone slab. Now the few people on Yan's side and Haozi's side just maintained a balance. No one dared to move, not even to breathe.
The only one who was not in the agency was Chen Tao, who was still dazed at the entrance of the cave just after taking the photo.
"There is only one way to break this mechanism. If we ignore the environmental interference here, we are now like stones on both sides of the seesaw. Don't move, Hongmao. You follow my steps and maintain balance. He can't do it alone. I You have to go out and help him. Taozi, do as I say and find the crack switch."
Everyone looked at Chen Tao at the entrance of the cave.
Damn...
Are there any other options?
Is there a possibility that this mechanism has been broken due to disrepair?
One might kill someone, brother! ! !
I, my concubine, can’t do it! ! !
Looking at the 20 or 30 people in the cave, Chen Tao suddenly felt so stressed that sweat broke out on his forehead.
"Okay, Taozi, listen to me. If I guess correctly, there are two control mechanisms here. They are located in the stone walls on both sides of the cave entrance. Look for them carefully."
Looking at the bumpy stone walls on both sides, Chen Tao couldn't help but feel a little dizzy.
How do you find this?
Chen Tao's eyes lit up when he thought of the sunken sealing stone on the stone wall when he came in.
Is it possible...
He walked to the stone wall on the side and stretched out his hand to touch the stone wall carefully. The stone wall is very cold and feels slightly moist to the touch. I don’t know what kind of stone it is.
If the so-called switch is really under the stone wall, then it must have a gap, no matter how big the gap is.
When Haozi unlocked the Bagua chain lock, there was almost no crack on it.
Chen Tao didn't have Haozi's ability to sense the gaps in the mechanism with his fingers. He could only use the most basic and most effective method to find them.
Dong Dong...
Chen Tao knocked on the stone wall inch by inch, piece by piece. Finally, in a very inconspicuous corner, a hollow muffled sound came from the stone wall.
This is a slightly concave stone, with pits and pits on it, just like the surrounding stone walls. There are faint traces of cutting around it. If you don't pay attention, you won't notice it at all.
Chen Tao gritted his teeth, pulled out the folding shovel, inserted the shovel blade into the thin cracks in the stone, and pulled out the stone bit by bit.
really……
This stone is just an empty shell, with nothing behind it!
By the light, Chen Tao saw a depression inside, and in the depression was an iron ring the size of a fist.
"Yes, that's it! If I guess correctly, the other one is at the same position on the opposite side. Go find it." Haozi shouted from behind, "Hongmao, come down the steps, Uncle Ghost, get ready to go out!"
People with common sense in physics will definitely understand that if two objects, one heavy and one light, want to maintain balance on both sides of the fulcrum, they can only make the lighter end farther away from the fulcrum and the heavier end closer. This is the so-called lever principle.
This principle was mentioned by the Mohists thousands of years ago.
It is said in "Mozi·Jingxia", "A balance must be correct, and it is said that it is obtained. If the weight is added to one side, it must be beaten. The weights are not the same. If they are balanced, then the original is short and the long is long. How can the two be added? , if the weights are similar, then the bid will be placed and the bid will be right."
While Chen Tao was looking for authorities, Haozi and Yan had been estimating how many steps Yan would have to go down after someone went out. The mountain ghost is closest to the edge and is about the same size as Yan, so he is the best candidate.
On the other side, Chen Tao found an identical iron ring at the same position on the opposite stone wall.
The mountain ghost came out of the stone slab and walked to the opposite wall. He bent down and pulled the iron ring: "Little boss, I count one, two, three, let's pull it together!"
Chen Tao nodded, holding the iron ring tightly with both hands.
one
two
three
Click...
As the two of them worked together, the iron ring buckle was pulled out of the depression. An iron chain was connected under the iron ring, and the control mechanism's machine expansion was connected inside.
Cluck cluck cluck...
The cave resounded with the sound of the machine's rotation and the rubbing of boulders. Along with a loud rumbling sound, the original sealing stone at the entrance of the cave fell down again, blocking the entrance of the cave again.
"Depend on!"
