Ripples appeared in the mercury pool for no reason, and everyone was surprised.
Wen Qingshan hurriedly asked Fatty Niu: "Jun Yaozi, are you sure something didn't fall into the pool?"
Fatty Niu stammered: "I...I seemed to see something swimming in the water."
"How is this possible! This is mercury! Nothing can survive in mercury. Are you dazzled?"
Jianjian saw a broken floor tile on the floor nearby. He stepped forward to pick up a small brick and threw it into the mercury pool. Unexpectedly, the brick hit the mercury pool and after touching the mercury
, it immediately bounced up again, and finally floated on the surface of mercury.
Jianjian was a little surprised: "What's going on?"
I glared at him and said, "How did you learn physics before!? The density of mercury is greater than that of copper and iron. Copper and iron can float on mercury, let alone floor tiles with lower density!"
As soon as I finished speaking, Jianjian turned to look at me and said, "Brother, what are you talking about? Of course I know that floor tiles will float on mercury, I mean what happened to that ripple just now! If it is really floor tiles or something else
If it falls into a mercury pool, it should float, but just now I only saw ripples, but nothing floating on the mercury. Don't you think this is strange?"
After listening to what Jianjian said, I couldn't help but be a little surprised. I didn't expect that he could think so deeply this time, and it seemed to be very logical.
Wen Qingshan nodded in approval: "Bianjian is right, this matter is indeed a bit strange."
"What do you mean? Is it possible that what Fatty Niu said is true? Is there really something in this pool?"
"This is unlikely. Maybe something denser than mercury fell into the pool..."
Before Wen Qingshan finished speaking, suddenly there was another wave of ripples in the pool. This time everyone could see it clearly. It really looked like something was swimming in the pool!
Seeing this situation, everyone was shocked. Even the experienced old ghost's face changed. He said in a hurry: "This ghost place is not a place to stay for a long time. Let's leave quickly!"
Everyone didn't bother to explore what was in the mercury pool. The group of people rushed across the arch bridge. After walking through the arch bridge, there was another staircase. After walking up the stairs, a large palace appeared in front of us. The palace was almost
It is fifteen or six meters high, and there is a row of giant pillars with a diameter of nearly one meter in front of it. I counted, there are exactly nine of them, and there is a dragon coiled on each giant pillar, which looks vivid and lifelike, just like a real dragon.
.
The whole palace looks quite majestic. Just looking at it, the palace does not have a single window. There is only a closed wooden arched door about five or six meters high. On the left side of this door, there is a window.
The cylindrical stone platform is about 1 meter high. The diameter of the cross-section of the stone platform is about fifty centimeters. In the center of the cross-section of the stone platform, there is a round hole about five centimeters in diameter.
On the right side of the gate, there is a weapons rack. There are many weapons on the weapons rack, such as knives, swords, spears, guns, halberds, bows, crossbows, etc. There are almost eighteen types of weapons, and one of them is
The appearance of this weapon seems a bit strange. This weapon
The whole body is made of bronze and has a long handle. One end of the long handle is a hemispherical bowl. At first glance, it looks like a dung ladle used to scoop out cesspools in the countryside. Of course, this
It couldn't be a dung ladle, maybe it was some special weapon.
Everyone didn't pay much attention to the purpose of this weapon. At the moment, everyone only had one thought, and that was to quickly open the door in front of them! The old ghost walked forward slowly, and first pushed the door hard, but it was
Not moving at all.
He focused again on the stone platform on the left side of the gate. According to previous experience, this stone platform would never be set up next to the gate for no reason. It must have some purpose, and it was very likely to be **
It was the mechanism that opened the door. The old ghost walked to the stone platform and inspected it carefully, and the rest of us gathered around it.
However, everyone looked around the stone platform for a long time, but they did not see any mystery. The stone platform was very smooth and there was nothing carved on it. The old ghost tried to turn the stone platform, but the stone platform was fixed and could not be turned.
It can't be moved. The only thing I don't know is the round hole in the cross section of the stone platform.
I looked into the round hole with the searchlight on my helmet and found that the inside of the round hole was in the shape of an inverse cone, and there was a very thin hole at the bottom of the cone. The diameter of the hole was only a few millimeters. What was inside?
The situation is unknown.
Jianjian stared at the round hole and said, "Could it be that this is also a Qi Ling Lock, and the object that triggers the Qi Ling Lock is an inverted cone-shaped object?"
Wen Qingshan nodded and said: "I think it is possible, why don't we look for it first."
Everyone immediately split up and started looking for it.
However, after searching for a long time, they could not find the so-called inverted cone-shaped object. Everyone felt puzzled. Wen Qingshan stared at the round hole for a long time, and suddenly seemed to think of something. He turned around and said to everyone: "Tell me,
Is it possible that what triggered the Qi Spirit Lock was not something tangible?"
"Boss Wen, what do you mean by this?" I heard a little confused.
Wen Qingshan pointed to the inverted cone-shaped round hole and said, "If you look at this round hole more carefully, I think it looks more like a funnel!"
"Funnel!?" Everyone was a little surprised, but after listening to what Wen Qingshan said, I took a closer look at the round hole. Not to mention, it really looked like a funnel. But if this thing is really a funnel, it is used for
What's missing?
Wen Qingshan pondered for a moment, then suddenly slapped his forehead and said: "I know! I should pour the mercury into this funnel!"
"Boss Wen, how do you know?" I asked in confusion.
"Because we only saw two ready-made liquids along the way, one was the strong acid solution in the moat, and the other was the mercury in the mercury pool. Therefore, one of the two liquids must have been poured into it.
kind."
"Then how can you be sure it's not a strong acid solution?"
Wen Qingshan did not answer me directly, but turned around and walked towards the weapons rack on the right side of the door, and asked: "Don't you think it's a bit strange to place a weapons rack at the entrance of a hall?"
After hearing what Wen Qingshan said, I thought the same thing, why put a weapons rack in front of a main hall?
Wen Qingshan stepped forward and picked up the strange-looking weapon from the weapons rack, and continued to ask me: "What do you think this is?"
I shook my head: "I haven't seen it before. I think it must be some kind of weapon."
"No! This is not a weapon, but a ladle used to scoop up mercury."
Hearing what Wen Qingshan said, I couldn't help but feel startled. No wonder I thought this thing looked a bit like the ladle used to scoop out cesspools in the countryside. It turned out to be really a ladle.
Wen Qingshan continued: "This thing is made of bronze, and the strong acid solution in the moat will corrode bronze, so it is unlikely that this thing is used to scoop up those strong acid solutions, and it is more likely to be used to scoop up mercury!
"Having said this, Wen Qingshan turned to the old ghost and asked: "Senior old ghost, my humble opinion, do you think it makes sense?"
The old ghost neither agreed nor objected to Wen Qingshan's analysis, but said lightly: "Since you think so, then give it a try!"
Wen Qingshan handed me the long bronze ladle in his hand: "Shi Yu, go and scoop up a spoonful of mercury."
I nodded, took the long ladle and walked towards the mercury pool.
I walked to the mercury pool, put my ladle into the mercury pool, scooped up a ladle full of mercury, turned around and was about to leave, when suddenly there was a "crash" sound from the mercury pool.
I turned my head suddenly and saw that the mercury in the pool was swaying violently, and there was a ripple, as if something had just scratched across the surface of the mercury.
I couldn't help but feel nervous. It seemed that there was really something in the pool! What kind of monster could it be that could survive in mercury?
Although I was very scared, I also wanted to find out what was going on. I took a deep breath, bravely put the ladle into the mercury pool again, stirred it in the pool, and then scooped it up.
He took a scoop of mercury and quickly took two steps back.
I stood by the pool and waited for a while, but this time nothing came out.
Just when I was feeling puzzled, Wen Qingshan shouted: "Shi Yu, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, I'll be right over."
I turned around and was about to leave, when suddenly there was another "crash" sound behind me. I quickly turned my head and looked, and was shocked. Something jumped out of the mercury pool at a very fast speed. Under the light of the search light,
The dazzling silver light is reflected from below, and at first glance it looks like a fish!
The thing suddenly jumped more than two meters high and actually hovered in mid-air. When I took a closer look, I couldn't help but be surprised. What jumped out of the mercury pool was actually a dragon!
This dragon was silvery white in color and looked like it was made of metal. What's strange is that it clearly jumped out of a mercury pool, but not a drop of mercury was stained on its body.
The appearance of the silver dragon is different from the giant dragon I saw in the fantasy. It is much smaller, about one meter long, the diameter of the thickest part of the body is only a dozen centimeters, and there are no horns on its head.
Forked. It felt like it was just a baby dragon. But even so, it still shocked me to the point of death. Everyone else was also shocked. Fatty Niu couldn't help but let out a loud cry.
The silver dragon circled above my head, staring at me with a fierce look in its eyes. Judging from its posture, it seemed that it would pounce on me at any time.
Although I am a descendant of the Dragon Veins and claim to have dragon blood flowing in my body, this is the first time I have faced a real dragon. I don’t know whether it is an enemy or a friend.
He threw the long bronze gourd in it to the ground, quickly reached to his waist, pulled out the dragon's tooth and held it tightly in his hand.