As the sound of coughing came again, they figured out that it was not the sound of soldiers, so they felt relieved and put away their fighting posture.
Yue Guanchao looked at these dead soldiers. They were undoubtedly Du Yinzun's escorts, but he really didn't know why they were turned into such a terrorist mechanism.
"My benefactor, these soldiers are all driven by agencies behind them. Which one is the life gate of the agency?"
Yue Guanchao had no idea about this. He only saw that behind the corpses of the puppet soldiers there were square-edged copper pillars as high as the top of the gallery. The tops were uneven and covered with various copper gear bars, round-hole iron shafts, machine spring secret keys, and countless The telescopic and rotating machine hums and rotates between the copper pillars, seemingly never getting tired!
"Let's go to the city gate tower and take a look!"
Yue Guanchao lay on the crenel and gestured to Song Siyuan opposite, indicating that they should go to the city gate tower.
When Song Siyuan and Mao Ye agreed, they walked through the corridor and came to the towering tower in front of the Shangjing City plaque.
This city tower is one size smaller than the Wengcheng Gate. It can be seen to the naked eye that it is narrow and low. The roof used for the palace is also lower-grade than the double eaves Xieshan, which is just an ordinary gray tile Xieshan.
If you look closely, you will see that the walls of the palace are painted red, decorated with gold-patterned pillars, and the cornices, owls, window panes, and compound arches are all decorated with ancient animal totems outlined in colorful paint. It looks like there are hundreds of ferocious beasts floating on the surface, and the evil spirits are rampant.
When they pushed open the palace door, they were shocked by what they saw. The strong smell of clear oil in their noses could not be dissipated.
The exterior of the Capital Tower is gorgeous, but the interior is not decorated. It is completely different from the golden decorations they imagined. Half-tall bronze ferocious beasts, bronze standing soldiers, and bronze kneeling women can be seen everywhere. There are countless scripture boards with strange texts shaking on the top of the palace. Trembling, shadowy in the dim candlelight outside, like a ghost that lingers!
Yue Guanchao glanced around and roughly estimated that the interior space of the palace was about the size of five or six private houses, with a brass mechanism platform in the middle.
The machine platform in front of you is as thick as an alchemy furnace, made of brass, with stone slabs for your feet and the roof of the hall. It is wide at the top and bottom, and narrow at the waist and abdomen.
Cast on the top are eight golden macaques with buttocks facing upward, lying on their backs and extending their claws. Their postures are completely imitated in the design of macaques. They are vivid and have clear hair. Their two arms are the bronze arm springs of the mechanism.
But the copper railing at the bottom is not empty. There is a golden toad as big as a basin crawling on its knees!
This toad's hind legs are on the ground, its front paws are propped up, and its belly swells like a ball as if it's angry. It bites the copper ball and lies on the lotus bronze platform. It looks fat and bulky, but its back is inlaid with more than a thousand gold coins, as if The body is full of pimples and bumps!
Once the water washes the gear behind the buttocks, the golden monkey will raise its arms as if it is alive, and then the water sprayed from the giant mouth of the golden cicada will move up and down, thus driving the mechanism table to move, and the millions of copper-shaft rocking arms will reciprocate in dislocation. The power of the water wheel is transferred to the pool at the bottom.
Yue Guanchao had never seen such a precise instrument before. He walked closer to the pool and looked down. He saw that the bottom was about five steps wider than the copper platform. The water inside was only about half waist high and not very deep. There were no living creatures, only the pool was full of crackling sounds. Thousands of copper spring gears.
The rotational force generated by these gears continues to be transmitted outwards, driving thousands of auxiliary copper pillars to operate accurately!
Judging from the buzzing and vibration under their feet, the floor under their feet is probably full of gears. If so, it can also explain why the Centipede Star Hammer can operate. As long as the main mechanism is not damaged, they will do so for thousands of years!
"My dear, if they are turned by gears, why do these things never rust?"
Just as Ma Chang was about to open the fire seal, Yue Guanchao quickly stopped him, picked up the dagger and stabbed it into the pool. He took it to the tip of his nose and smelled it. He knew this smell all too well:
"The water in this pool is not water, but tung oil that can maintain gold. I feel like there is tung oil under our feet, otherwise the palace wouldn't have such a strong smell. Don't use fire to prevent it from igniting the oil vapor here."
The two of them looked at the mechanism table with flashlights. The entire mechanism used the flow of tung oil to drive the copper shaft gears. After the oil vapor evaporated, it produced gas that lingered in the palace, which was equivalent to indirectly delaying the corrosion of the copper utensils. The brass utensils here It's brighter than outside, probably for this reason.
"If this is a trap, where is the gate of life?"
Yue Guanchao carefully observed the machine platform in front of him. When it was originally manufactured, tung oil had been considered to run it. Except for the exposed gears, all the parts were sealed in the copper platform. The tung oil was both a protection and a lubricant for the parts. He looked around. I couldn't find any flaws.
"Could it be that this mechanism can't be stopped? What kind of ingenuity is this? It's so strangely made."
Ma Chang carefully touched the copper railing of the pool, but neither of them could find the direction, let alone the situation.
"We couldn't find it for a while, and we couldn't help ourselves. I felt that as long as the tung oil was gone, the mechanism would naturally stop. But how on earth can we get out so much tung oil?"
Yue Guanchao was puzzled, so he had to withdraw from the palace and stand in front of the city gate tower, shouting down:
"Master Cat, we found the trap, but there are no gaps or grooves on it. It's not easy to break the trap."
"Young friend Yue, please describe it to the old man. I'll listen to you on how to sell it, so I can discuss countermeasures with Song Qianjin!"
