The white steel door in front of them looks perfect. Except for the keychain on the door, not even an ant can get through. However, this is not a problem for everyone, because Ma Tao and the others have a secret weapon in their hands. , that's the high-tech wrench they found in Pat Harbor.
The wrench had always been kept in Xiao Jinzi's backpack. Now it was time to use the wrench. This kid liked to be in the limelight, so of course he was the first to come forward and start looking for the wrench in the backpack.
This thing has not been used for a long time. It has been pressed at the bottom of the backpack. It is a bit difficult to turn it out. As a last resort, Xiao Jinzi can only pour out the other things in the backpack first, and then start to open the door with a wrench.
The magic wrench is really a must-have tool for breaking out of jail, robbing homes, and stealing. It only took more than ten seconds for the white steel door to open with a "snap".
This is the first time Su Lanyu has seen a wrench. He is much more surprised by such a thing than Ma Tao and they have ten tanks. In comparison, although the wrench has no offensive or defensive properties, this thing breaks the door. The effect is simply too powerful. You know, how many excellent bounty hunters or heroes have ended up because of various doors when they found good objects. If you can't get in, no matter how good the things inside are, they will be the same. You don't have a dime. In other words, if you have a wrench, you may really have ten tanks, but on the other hand, even if you know the positions of these ten tanks, you can't drive a single tank. That is equal to zero. From this point of view, we can see the importance of the wrench. If this thing is placed outside, it will definitely cause an uproar and even trigger a war, because once you have a wrench, as long as you have enough strength, Nowhere in this world can trap you.
Xiao Jinzi used a wrench to open the lock and everyone could enter.
The space in the room is very spacious. There are some bookcases on the right side. Because there is no wind here, the various books on the bookcases are still well preserved. Ma Tao flipped through a few books at will, and there was a musty smell of dust and books. Coming at you.
They are all books on chemistry and physics, and the handwriting is a bit blurry, so they are of no use at all.
The desks placed in front of these bookcases should have been places reserved for people to sit and read in the past, but it is impossible for anyone to sit here anymore. There is nothing on the right side, it is empty.
"Look at the ground"
Everyone else had gone in, and Xiao Jinzi was squatting to pack things in his backpack. He rolled his eyes and saw the footprints on the ground inside the door.
There are many footprints, but one of them is special. The size of the footprints is obviously smaller than that of normal people, and the footprints are very new. The important thing is that only this row of footprints runs directly towards the left side where there is nothing after entering the house. It was precisely because there was nothing here that her footprints were so clearly visible.
“I’ve seen it a long time ago”
Gao Han turned around and glanced at Xiao Jinzi, and then didn't care about his discovery because after she walked over, she found that behind the opposite wall was a staircase. Needless to say, the little girl Li Ke must have walked there.
At this time, Xiao Jinzi had also packed up his things. In fact, he just randomly stuffed all the things on the ground into his backpack and trotted to Gao Han and the others. Ma Tao also put the dusty book he had just taken out. He put it back and gathered with the three of them.
"You don't have to go downstairs, you can go directly to the fourth place."
Su Lanyu just came up from the stairs. It seemed that she should have gone down just now.
"Is there any trace of that girl?"
Ma Tao asked.
"No, this girl is haunted. I'm afraid she won't let us find her easily."
Su Lanyu shook his head and replied.
Indeed, from the first time they saw the little girl Li Ke, this ghostly girl has been testing them. First she pretended to be a ghost, then she pretended to be pitiful, then she pretended to be ignorant, and even pretended to commit suicide. Everything was pretended to be watertight, which is enough to show the girl's caution. Now it seems that these are all calculated by her. What she did is not like what an eight or nine-year-old child can do.
"Then let's go upstairs"
Ma Tao also knew that that girl must be more familiar with the terrain here than they were, and it would be impossible to find her so easily.
The four people went upstairs. Unexpectedly, the scene upstairs was exactly the same as downstairs. Even the bookcases and desks were exactly the same. The four people looked at each other. Ma Tao was the first to run to the book he had taken before. In the place where the book was placed, I found that the same book was still placed in the same position.
Fortunately, this book is full of dust and has not been touched. If his fingerprints appeared on this book like the one downstairs, Ma Tao would be completely confused.
"Strange, why is the layout here like this?"
After muttering to himself, Ma Tao turned around and looked elsewhere.
"This must have been arranged like this deliberately by someone to create an illusion."
Gao Han walked around every corner of the room and found that it was really no different from downstairs.
"No! There is still a difference."
At this time, Xiao Jinzi suddenly looked happy, then looked at everyone and quickly called them over and said, "Come and see here!"
The three people hurried over to take a look, and then they discovered that there was a white steel door at the same location as on the fifth floor, but the difference was that this white steel door was in the opposite direction, which meant that they were in the room at this time, but What we are facing is still the keyhole instead of the door handle.
“Well done”
Ma Tao also walked past that door, but he didn't pay attention to the door and went directly to the bookcase.
"Let me open this door and see what's behind."
When Xiao Jinzi received Ma Tao's compliments, a bright smile filled his face, and he continued to rummage through his backpack.
But just now, the kid's backpack was stuffed indiscriminately, and now he was looking for a wrench and had to dump the contents of the backpack on the ground again.
It took a minute or two for the white steel door to be opened. It was dark inside and there was no light source. After Ma Tao took out his handheld lighting device and opened it, he saw a wooden box inside. , Gao Han also saw it, went up and opened the wooden box directly.
The space here is sealed, there are no windows, and the only door is always locked. Naturally, there is no danger, so Gao Han didn't hesitate at all before he dared to go up and open the box directly.
"Is there something? What is it?"
I squatted on the ground again, and the little gold that I had packed in my backpack was gone. When I saw Ma Tao and the three of them opening the wooden box, I was curious and asked at the same time.
"Put it in, it's all G"
Ma Tao looked at Gao Han and Su Lanyu beside him, and then he was the first to take off his backpack. The two of them also took off their own backpacks and started loading things into their backpacks.
That's right, this piece of wood is filled with all G. After a rough look, it should be around 1,300 to 1,600 G. The final result is almost the same, a total of 1,531 G, which is considered It's not a big gain. There is only such a wooden box in it. It has the same layout as the next floor. The difference is that there is no elevator on this floor, but there is an elevator shaft, but there is no door.
After loading more than a thousand G, the four people were about to leave when suddenly, a rustling sound came from the other side of the stairs.
"There is movement..."
Xiao Jinzi was the closest and could hear it most clearly. He immediately picked up the sonar gun on the side. Ma Tao and the other three quickly put on their backpacks and picked up their weapons and came to meet Xiao Jinzi. Then they divided into two groups and guarded both sides of the wall. Because the wall was blocking them, no one could see what was happening on the other side of the stairs, so they had to do this.
Soon, a ray of golden light shot out from the corner of the wall, then circled in the air, and then rushed towards Su Lanyu, who was closest to it.
It's a gold ant!
This little thing is not very threatening, it is just more difficult to deal with. Su Lanyu has dealt with golden ants, so he naturally knows how annoying this thing is, but he does not hesitate. When he sees this golden light flying towards him, he stabs him in the head. It struck diagonally, but the golden ant turned in mid-air and flew towards Xiao Jinzi again.
Xiao Jinzi was waiting for it. The sonar gun he had been holding in his hand was pointed at it with a sonic attack that directly stopped the golden ant in the air, and then fell to the ground.
Ma Tao and the others had just finished the battle. It turned out that when the golden ants appeared, Ma Tao had just wanted to help solve it as soon as possible, but a pink light flashed on their side, and two venom guns actually appeared. Although This kind of garbage monster is not worth mentioning at all, but we can't ignore it. As a last resort, Ma Tao and Gao Han can only kill the two venom guns first. As soon as the battle is over, Xiao Jinzi also solves the golden ant.
"You see, this thing works better."
Seeing that the body of the golden ant was broken by the shock wave of the sonar gun, Xiao Jinzi proudly picked up the body of the golden ant and grinned at Su Lanyu.
Su Lanyu didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned around and left directly.
Two venom guns and one golden ant earned a total of 280 G, which is not bad.
"It seems there are monsters in this building."
Ma Tao lifted the broken glass shell of the venom gun with his feet and said.
"Be careful"
Gao Han's expression also became much more solemn.
From this point of view, the little girl Li Ke must have known that there were monsters in this building, so she didn't run around. She probably only moved among the floors she was familiar with, but since there were monsters, it was not a bad thing. At least it means that this building is normal. If you really can't meet a monster, it will be troublesome. You know, the more terrifying the monster, the more territorial it is. Even if they are monsters, they will not show mercy. .
In this way, the four people climbed to the seventh floor again. The layout of the seventh floor was still exactly the same as that of the one downstairs. People who didn't know it thought they had been wandering around the same floor or encountered supernatural phenomena.
The seventh floor also has that white steel door. Xiao Jinzi learned smartly this time. Because he needed to use a wrench one after another, he put the wrench on the top of his backpack so that he could take it out as soon as he opened the backpack. Turned inside.
However, after opening the white steel door this time, there was nothing inside. There was also no elevator, so a few people continued to climb to the eighth floor.
When we got to the eighth floor, it was still the same as before. When I opened the white steel door again, there was still nothing. Xiao Jinzi didn't even bother to put the wrench back into his backpack. He just put it in his hand and held it, with a sonar gun in one hand and a wrench in the other.
Then on to the ninth floor, they repeated the previous actions. The four people even took the same route. They hurried as if they were mechanized. There was still nothing behind the white steel door.
The tenth floor, the eleventh floor, and when they climbed to the twelfth floor, the four of them were a little tired. Although they didn't climb all the way from the first floor to the twelfth floor, their legs were still a little sore. You know, Climbing stairs is a strenuous exercise. Ma Tao and the others are in good physical condition, but in order to maintain sufficient physical strength to prepare for unexpected situations, it is essential to have a cushion for their legs.
After a short break of ten minutes, everyone climbed up the stairs again. Several people were a little strange along the way. Except for the golden ant and two venom guns they just encountered, no monsters were found again. Could it be true? Is it such a coincidence, or monsters also like to climb stairs.
When we arrived on the thirteenth floor, the layout of the building finally changed a little. This was discovered when the four people came out, because they didn't see the bookcases and seats when they came out of the stairs. They discovered this situation. In an instant, everyone's nerves immediately became tense.
The four people were divided into two groups, Gao Han and Ma Tao went to the left, Xiao Jinzi and Su Lanyu went to the right and groped together, but their caution was not dangerous. After checking the floor, they found that the elevator wall on this floor looked like a horizontal one. Just like the number 2, the elevator appeared in one gap of the number 2, and a wooden box appeared again in the other gap. There was no shadow of the monster on the whole floor, but the elevator appeared again.
Seeing the elevator door, Ma Tao also remembered that the buttons in the elevator were indeed for the thirteenth floor, but there was only one floor, and the ones directly above were the twenty-first and twenty-first floors. In other words, from If you want to detect the floors above the thirteenth floor, you can only walk up there.
Xiao Jinzi went up to the dusty wooden box and opened it. There was only one thing in the big box, and Xiao Jinzi took it out.
"What is this? Is it gold?"
The boy looked at the golden irregular metal rod in his hand and was a little confused.
What this boy is holding at the moment is an irregular metal rod about ten centimeters long and two or three inches in diameter. It is golden in color and the material does look like gold, but this is too much of a joke. The metal rod looks like it was formed naturally, with no artificial traces on it at all.
“You’ll know it after you take a bite.”
Gao Han teased him, but he didn't expect this boy to actually open his mouth and bite the golden metal rod hard. Seeing the two women, Su Lanyu and Gao Han, felt nauseated.
I don’t know what this metal rod is, and this kid is not afraid of being poisoned.
"It seems to be really gold."
After finishing the bite, Xiao Jinzi looked at the teeth marks he had bitten in surprise and said.
"show me"
Ma Tao stretched out his hand as he spoke, and Xiao Jinzi handed the thing over to Ma Tao without paying any attention.
Not to mention, the thing in his hand was quite heavy. It weighed about two to three hundred grams and weighed half a catty. After carefully examining the strange-shaped metal rod, Ma Tao suddenly thought of where he seemed to be. I had seen such a metal texture, and after thinking for a while I finally figured out what the thing in my hand was, so I gave it back to Xiao Jinzi and said to him, "Congratulations, you found a good thing."
"Do you know what this is?"
Gao Han became interested and looked at Ma Tao.
The metal rod that Xiao Jinzi found looks very similar to gold, but there are differences. Everyone has seen gold. Xiao Jinzi also killed a golden ant. That thing feeds on gold, and its body structure It is also made of gold. The color of the metal rod in Xiao Jinzi's hand is obviously different from that of the golden ant. Even if it is really gold, it is probably not pure.
"If I guess correctly, this thing should be gold nugget."
Ma Tao replied.
"Dog head...gold"
After hearing this, Gao Han didn't know what nugget gold was. Is there any gold or nugget? The reporter said that this thing doesn't look like a dog's head.
"The so-called nugget gold is a kind of gold-rich ore. It is a naturally produced nugget gold with impure texture, large particles and irregular shape. It is usually composed of natural gold, quartz and other mineral aggregates. Some people Because its shape resembles a dog's head, it is called dog-head gold. Some people call it horse-hoof gold because its shape resembles a horse's hoof. But most people generally call this natural nugget gold dog-head gold. I only know this much."
Ma Tao briefly talked about the information about nugget gold that he had seen on TV in his previous life.
"What...is this thing for?"
Xiao Jinzi said as he fiddled with the nugget of gold in his hand.
"Honestly... apart from selling money, it has no use."
Ma Tao smiled, but actually he didn't say something.
In his last life, Ma Tao remembered that nugget gold, a natural gold, had been hyped to an astonishing price. It was said that there were several types of nugget gold, but the most common nugget gold was estimated to cost more than 1.9 million to 1.9 million yuan at that time. The price is around 3 million yuan, but the original stone is much cheaper, and can only be sold for a few hundred thousand yuan, but this is still a lot of money, and there are some special ones that have been speculated to sell for 4 to 5 million yuan. , is definitely a very scary number. The golden nugget in Xiao Jinzi’s hand is definitely not a rough stone, it should be gold nugget. But as Ma Tao said, no matter how good this gold nugget is, at certain times in this world, Not as valuable as a piece of bread. After all, gold is indeed a good thing in the eyes of some people, but it can neither be eaten nor drunk. It cannot save lives at all. It only relies on its beautiful appearance to win everyone's favor. , so that gold became a hard currency circulating around the world, and even led to the saying in later generations that "antiquities in prosperous times, gold in troubled times".
This was the situation on the thirteenth floor. There was nothing else except some broken chairs and this wooden box. Several people started to climb up to the fourteenth floor.
The situation on the fourteenth floor started to repeat again. Except that there was no elevator entrance, everything else including the layout was the same.
This situation was also expected by several people, so they were not too surprised.
They walked around in a circle, because it was really empty, and they could see clearly after a brief look, so they continued to climb to the fifteenth floor, then the sixteenth floor, the seventeenth floor, the eighteenth floor, and the nineteenth floor in one go. After reaching the sixth floor, they found another box in the corner of the elevator shaft on the 19th floor. After opening it, they only found a mask. When they returned, the four people encountered three more golden ants, because the sonar gun's attack range was They also happened to be three sonar guns. It was easy to kill the same three golden ants.
But on the 19th floor, a corner of the ceiling collapsed and the entire floor fell. The ceiling on the 20th floor could be seen directly from below.
When they reached the twentieth floor, the scene in front of them changed again.
The layout of the 20th floor is different from the one below. After coming out of the stairs, there is a pile of old tables, chairs and benches on the right hand side, and several round tables and round stools on the left side. After reaching the 20th floor, the four people immediately went to check the cave-in.
The location of the collapse of the 20th floor was in the northwest corner of the building. The collapsed area was about 20 square meters. What was suspicious was that the cuts in the cement and steel bars at the breaking point of the floor slab were very smooth. It looked very much like it was caused intentionally.
"Do you smell anything?"
Xiao Jinzi on the side suddenly sniffed his nose, then raised his head and looked around a few times.
When he said this, Ma Tao also smelled a faint pungent smell in the air. It seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had smelled it.
"It's brimstone!"
Gao Han suddenly spoke.
Ma Tao reacted immediately, isn't it? This pungent smell is the smell of sulfur, or the smell of pure sulfur.
Sulfur is an important variety of inorganic pesticides. It is a yellow solid or powder with a distinct smell and is volatile. The sulfur aqueous suspension is slightly acidic and insoluble in water. It reacts with alkali to form polysulfides. When sulfur burns, it emits a green flame. Sulfur dioxide gas is produced along with combustion. In production, sulfur is often processed into a suspension to prevent and control pests and diseases. It is safe for humans and livestock and does not easily cause phytotoxicity to crops. This is not the point. The point is that sulfur is a must-have for making gunpowder. , and gunpowder……………………………………………………………….
Thinking of gunpowder, a faint smell of gunpowder suddenly came from Ma Tao's nostrils, and it was a smell that could only be produced by burning gunpowder.
