But what they have to do now is to 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 that when applying force, there was a feeling of winding up the chain.
The two looked at each other and at the same time increased their strength, 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 is 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.
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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 indeed turned black, he couldn't help but frown and said, "How come the paint on this thing is still peeling off?"<
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When I looked carefully, 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 pattern groove on the iron plate. After crushing it, he walked over to Xie Yuchen, put it on the ground, and asked him to unscrew the bottle cap and pour water.
Give it a try.
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 for Xie Yuchen to look at.
Xie 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.
Disk."
Xie Yuchen took a water bottle and poured some water on the iron plate, and 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.
Axis convergence....
Xie 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 Clan shouldn't be so perverted, right?"
When Xie Yuchen heard this, he was strangely silent for a moment, "I can't say for sure."
Wu Xiaoxie grinned, "What should we do? I think it would be very difficult 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 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 bring up a pig."
Wu Xiaoxie wholeheartedly agrees, except that directly making pig blood is too exciting
Those hairs on the face might cause some uncontrollable situation in the end, but it would save trouble 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 knives 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 walkie-talkie to notify the people below.
When the waiter first heard that his boss wanted them to find a way to hang a pig, he almost thought there was something wrong with his ears.
After checking 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 have herded pigs in the mountains before and know how to drive them, so that the pigs will be obedient and not run away. Otherwise, transporting a pig to the deep mountains is really not something that ordinary people can do.
While waiting for the pigs, 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, and the lines on the iron plate became clearer. It looked like the shape of an unknown flower, and there were signs of repair.
Wu Xiaoxie couldn't figure out what was going on for a while, so he took a photo of it with his camera and planned to pass it on to Banai for his brother and Muyu to take a look.
The next day, the background sound of pigs grunting came from the clerk's intercom.
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Wu Xiaoxie and the two also built a pulley device on the cliff above.
The guys below were afraid that the pigs would be difficult to handle if they struggled up high, so they used anesthesia to temporarily paralyze the pigs, then tied their limbs and hung them 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 as 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."
Xie 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 effects gradually wore off. When he saw two guys sharpening knives standing next to him, he was immediately frightened and howled with a shrill voice, 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 move 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 as if it were being killed. Wu Xiaoxie made two gestures on its thick neck, feeling 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?"
Xie Yuchen clicked his tongue in disgust, "How come you are so good at this?"
Wu Xiaoxie said confidently: "The dignified Jiujia Master, the ninth master, 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.
Leave Wu Xiaoxie face to face with the poor pig in the cave.
When 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 the bottle, and the red blood immediately flowed down the bottle to the altar.
On the plate, countless blood stains began to crawl quickly 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 the patterns on the sacrificial plate were completely filled with blood, another three or four minutes passed. 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.
Immediately afterwards, 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 faces 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 off artificially…
Obviously, the iron plate in front of you is the mechanism that drives the three walls to display the reliefs.
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.
There is a cross-shaped bump at the intersection of the two largest patterns on the iron plate, 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 sent 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.
The same location as above is likely to trigger the next mechanism."
Wu Xiaoxie nodded, "But we have 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."
Xie 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 explained patiently, "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."<
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"Such as defusing bombs." Xie Yuchen gave an example, "When there are only three colors of red, yellow and green leads in front of you, then you may only be able to cut it once at most, because if you cut it wrong, it will explode."
After Wu Xiaoxie listened, he 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."
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He suddenly thought that the Nine Sects had suffered heavy losses here. It was probably because they had made a trial and error, which triggered an unimaginable fatal mechanism.
What is dangerous is not the hair outside that is attracted to human blood, nor the swarm of corpse turtles inside the clay pot, but another layer of things that even the well-informed old Jiumen people cannot understand.
After all, their team was extremely large back then, and they had no shortage of manpower and material resources. They could burn the hair with fire, or use special techniques to move all the pots out without disturbing 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.
Xie 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." p>
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.
