Origin

Only Huang Hailin could answer Wu Zhongyuan's question. "There are two possibilities. One is that they found the way to the altar and are continuing to go deeper. The other possibility is that they retreated and are still in the maze. Wandering.”

After Huang Hailin finished speaking, Wu Zhongyuan asked, "Which one do you think is more likely?"

Huang Hailin shrugged his shoulders, "That's hard to say."

"Look around." Wang Xinran turned around and walked towards the row of corpses on the right. Wu Zhongyuan also followed. Yang Yi and Xiao Qin clung to the stone wall to observe and search.

There were eight hanging corpses in total, five of them were mummies and the other three were mercenaries. Because the stone room was very dry, the five mummies had dehydrated and turned into mummies. Since they had been dead for many years, their clothes had long since decayed. , the dark brown flesh is exposed, the five mummies are all men, and there are no tattoos on their bodies. Without exception, those who were hanged will have their mouths open, with painful and ferocious expressions.

There were some debris scattered under the corpse, including scraps of clothing, weapons and some small objects. Although there were five mummies, there were only four weapons, two knives, a sword and an axe. The debris is a few shells that have softened and a few pieces of jade.

The currency of our country before the Shang Dynasty was not gold, silver or copper coins, but shell coins. These shells were the currency of a certain era before the Shang Dynasty. The weapons were all made of bronze. Bronze has average hardness and is made of it. The weapon is not considered a magic weapon.

Pei jade is the most valuable for research. Jade articles from different periods have different characteristics. These pieces of jade have smooth surfaces and clumsy carvings. They are quite regular but have a sense of layering. This carving method is an obvious outlining technique. This is the Xia Dynasty. Distinctive features of jade.

Looking at its materials, there are sapphire, Dushan jade, and turquoise. People in different periods have different preferences for jade. People in the Xia Dynasty paid more attention to color than species of jade. The so-called color refers to the color of jade, and species means Regarding the texture of jade, people in the Xia Dynasty only looked at whether the color of the jade was good-looking, and did not care much about whether the texture of the jade was delicate and clean.

"The five of them should have lived in the middle of the Xia Dynasty." Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran was checking the bullet casings on the ground at this time. The three hanged mercenaries had fired in a panic before they died. Some bullet casings were scattered on the ground. After hearing Wu Zhongyuan say, Wang Xinran raised his head and asked, "Can you Can’t you tell which warrior is here?”

"The Xia Dynasty existed for about five hundred years. These jades clearly bear the characteristics of the middle Xia Dynasty. Judging from the time, the most likely one is the warrior who went to 1947 BC." Wu Zhongyuan said.

"What's going on with this warrior?" Wang Xinran asked.

Wu Zhongyuan recalled,

"This man is a young man named Wu Kui. He was twenty-five years old when we set out. This man is very good at lightness and is good at using bows and arrows."

"What kind of character does this person have?" Wang Xinran asked.

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head.

Wang Xinran looked at him in confusion. She knew what was written on the little wizard's sheepskin. In order to facilitate Wu Zhongyuan's search and identification, the little wizard had a description of each warrior's appearance and personality.

"This man is mute, and his personality should be relatively withdrawn." Wu Zhongyuan said.

Wang Xinran nodded and then reached out to grab the belt of one of the mercenaries to pull down the man's body, but the noose was very tough and she tried repeatedly to no avail.

"If it was so easy to break, they wouldn't have died back then." Wu Zhongyuan pointed at the mummies and said. These mummies had weapons with them when they were snared. They would not fail to try to cut the noose before being hanged.

Wang Xinran illuminated the corpses of the mercenaries with a light, "Their backpacks are still on them, and their weapons have not been taken away."

"Those who survived may have left in a hurry." Wu Zhongyuan said casually.

"No," Wang Xinran pointed to the rifle* on the body's waist, "Look, the gun is still there. They have spent a lot of bullets before. Even if they don't take away supplies and guns, they should at least take away the gun."

"What do you mean?" Wu Zhongyuan tilted his head and looked at her.

"What I mean is that they may not be able to see the real scene in the stone chamber." Wang Xinran clung to the body as he spoke, and took off the backpack, guns and ammunition from the body.

"Probably not," Wu Zhongyuan pointed to the debris on the ground, "These things have been turned over before, and there are also traps behind the stone platform. Someone has also gone down there before. If they can't see the real scene in the stone room, so what?" Can you flip through it and find it?”

Wang Xinran still felt that his view was correct, but he did not have enough reasons to refute Wu Zhongyuan.

Two of the three corpses were carrying automatic rifles. Wang Xinran took off all the rifles and guns, carried one on his back, and gave the other to Huang Hailin, leaving six guns, three for each person.

Everyone only had pistols, and this unexpected gain made up for their lack of firepower. Unfortunately, there were too few bullets, less than a hundred rounds per person.

Xiao Qin and Yang Yi had already circled the stone room and found no potential exit.

Huang Hailin was not surprised by such a result, "You guys take a break first and leave it to me to find the exit."

"How's your research going?" Xiao Qin pointed to the copper plate Huang Hailin held in his hand.

"It is certain that this round bead is the skeleton of a dragon-like creature. If nothing else, it should be the nasal bone of a mirage," Huang Hailin said. "The role of the copper plate is not only to fix it, but also to amplify the breath emitted by the bead. , you use instruments to test it, this thing is probably radioactive."

The instrument for detecting radiation is not large. Xiao Qin brought one with him. The test results were as Huang Hailin said. Although they have experienced many years of decay, the beads are still highly radioactive. This special radiation will produce Electromagnetic interference indirectly affects human brain waves.

"Have their science and technology developed to this extent?" Wu Zhongyuan was a little surprised.

Huang Hailin shook his head, "This has nothing to do with science and technology. They just know it but don't know why. Just like many people eat steamed buns and rice. They just know that rice and steamed buns can satisfy their hunger, but they don't know that the main thing they provide is carbohydrate."

Wu Zhongyuan nodded, and then asked Xiao Qin, "Can you confirm their previous movement trajectory in the stone chamber?"

"I have checked carefully," Xiao Qin said. "There are eight people's footprints in the stone chamber. Seven of them are concentrated near the entrance. There is another person's footprints scattered throughout the stone chamber, but this person's footprints It’s quite messy and it’s hard to judge the specific trajectory of his movement.”

"What shoes is the man walking in the stone room wearing?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"Flat shoes, among the eight people, only this person's shoe prints are different." Xiao Qin said.

Wu Zhongyuan knew by heart that the person walking in the stone room was Lin Qingming.

Wang Xinran took over the conversation, "Does your senior brother know magic?"

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, but after shaking his head, he suddenly remembered something. The ghost-drawing talisman was in Lin Qingming's hand. Lin Qingming probably drew some kind of talisman to temporarily eliminate the influence of those mirages on him, and his purpose of entering the stone chamber was also It is not difficult to guess that the first is to find the spirit stone, and the second is to find the exit.

Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan looked abnormal, Wang Xinran asked, "Is it possible?"

"He can't do magic, but he can draw talismans. He may have used some kind of talisman to temporarily eliminate the influence of the illusion on him." Wu Zhongyuan said, and then asked Xiao Qin, "Other people's footprints are concentrated near the entrance. Does this mean that they have retreated to the passage we just walked through?"

"That should be the case." Xiao Qin nodded.

Seeing the worried look on Wu Zhongyuan's face, Wang Xinran said next to him, "You don't have to worry too much. The mechanism in the passage can't kill them. It can only force them back here. As long as we find the exit, they can escape with us."

The task of finding the exit could only be left to Huang Hailin. Huang Hailin did not look for the edge, but focused on checking the left and right sides of the entrance and near the stone steps.

What the people trapped here see are illusions, so the mechanism to open the next passage should not be very secretive. Based on the previous levels, it can be inferred that the mechanism to open the exit should be set on the tentacles of the person offering sacrifices. Wherever they could, they opened it as they moved forward.

After inspection, no abnormal bulges were found on the stone wall, and then the ground began to be inspected.

Xiao Qin is good at tracking, and people who are good at tracking are people who are good at observing details. With Xiao Qin’s help, Huang Hailin quickly found the suspicious location, which was behind the first stone steps. There was a hidden spot on the ground there. A fist-sized depression below the ground.

"This is most likely caused by the priest hitting it with a scepter." After Huang Hailin finished speaking, he stamped his foot on the depression. After one kick, the mechanism was indeed activated, and the stone steps that were originally going up began to slowly sink. The steps have the smallest sinking range, and the highest steps have the largest sinking range.

After a while, all the ascending steps sank into the ground, and a right-going passage appeared on the right side of the descending steps. Xiao Qin went down a few steps and slanted his flashlight, "There are no footprints in the passage."

Everyone nodded after hearing this. The absence of footprints in the passage meant that Zhao Ying and others did not find the exit, but retreated back to the passage from which they came.

"We are walking in front now, so be careful." Wang Xinran unloaded the gun from his rifle and checked the bullets.

Huang Hailin and others were checking the guns. When Wang Xinran said this, they all responded casually.

Worried that the steps would rise automatically after everyone went down, Wu Zhongyuan took half a bottle of mineral water from his bag and placed it in the depression.

When he did this, he did not shy away from everyone. Everyone knew why he did it, and they did not stop him. The mechanism had been changing when everyone passed through the passage. Zhao Ying and others were in it, so they naturally knew that they had come down.

Wang Xinran and Huang Hailin walked in the front, Wu Zhongyuan was in the middle, Xiao Qin and Yang Yi walked in the end,

Going down to the bottom of the steps, everyone used strong flashlights to shine inside. Inside was another wide stone chamber, circular in shape, with an area of ​​about 800 to 1,000 square meters. It was neither too big nor too small. The stone chamber stood in the middle. There are two bronze giants with a height of three meters, holding two swords, arms tilted, doing.

There were three bronze giants in the stone chamber, but one of them fell to the ground and was visually damaged.

After a brief observation, Wang Xinran said in a deep voice, "Don't get close, just scatter it..."