The stone wall was only ten or twenty meters away from us. Liu Dong in front of us had already arrived in front of the stone wall. He stretched out his hand to rub the stone wall, bent his fingers to tap, and then kept shaking his head. Obviously, the stone wall was
Really, it made him feel very puzzled.
Fei Fan and I also came to Liu Dong. Liu Dong turned around and said with a confused look: "It's evil. This... I don't know what's going on."
Fei Fan laughed sharply "Hey hey" a few times and did not answer Liu Dong. Instead, he stretched out his hand to rub the stone wall. He also told me to focus the flashlight on his hand and move it with the movement of his palm.
I nodded in agreement and pointed the flashlight at his moving hand, while Liu Dong looked at our actions in confusion.
As Fei Fan kept rubbing the stone wall, after a while I saw a proud smile on his face and took his hand off. I asked expectantly: "Uncle Fei, how are you? Find out any clues
Yet?"
Fei Yifan nodded, then asked me for a flashlight, shined a spot on the black stone wall and said, "There is a hole here, as thin as a pencil, but I can tell where the mechanism is from just this small hole."
Everyone came over at this time, and Fei Fan continued: "These two mountains are guarding the left and right. When I was in the distance, I saw the mountains were like two black dragons, winding up and down. In addition, Mr. Liu said
The ancient city of Jingjue is located in the valley, so I concluded that there must be two houses of Yin and Yang in this mountain col. Now that I see this stone wall actually cutting off the valley from it, I must have made it by man."
Minister An took a flashlight and shined a light on the hole Fei Yifan mentioned, and asked Fei Yifan in confusion: "Is this small hole the mechanism that opens the ancient city of Jingjue?"
Fei Fan said with a proud smile: "That's right! From this mechanism, I can imagine why the army of one-eyed creatures attacked Jingjue Ancient City many times and returned without success. If my guess is right, this Jingjue Ancient City has two sides.
With such a mountain wall mechanism, when closed, the castle is hidden behind the stone wall. Even if you have thousands of troops, there is nothing you can do."
Liu Dong asked again: "Then how to activate this mechanism?"
Fei Fan blinked mysteriously, then bent down, grabbed a handful of white sand from the ground, put it in front of everyone and said, "Just rely on it."
Seeing everyone's confused look, Fei Fan explained: "Old Liu, you once said that when you came here a few years ago, you entered the mountain from the south and encountered a big sandstorm, and saw the ancient city of Jingjue emerging.
, then the emergence of the ancient city must be directly related to that big sandstorm."
He shined a flashlight on the hole and continued: "Everyone knows that the Taklimakan Desert is a world of yellow sand, but why does this kind of white sand made of weathered white limestone appear here? Maybe this is what the Jingjue people did specially.
These white sands are artificially stuffed or blown into the holes by big storms, and then the mechanism will be opened under certain effects. This kind of mechanism was used a lot in ancient times. As long as suitable things are stuffed into the holes, or pushed in or pushed in.
The mechanism can be opened by rotating it left or right or using the specific gravity of the inserted object to press down on the device in the hole."
Liu Dong was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "Then what are you waiting for? Let's stuff the white sand in and see if the ancient city of Jingjue will appear."
Fei Fan snorted coldly and said: "Old Liu, if my judgment is correct, the unknown creature you encountered must be the guardian of Jingjue Ancient City, because it was you who saw Jingjue Ancient City first and then that thing appeared.
Planting things. It is not difficult for us to open the mechanism now, but once we open the mechanism, each of us will inevitably face that terrifying unknown killer."
Liu Dong was stunned by Fei Yifan's words, and then said: "Then we have to go in?"
Minister An patted Liu Dong on the shoulder, and then said: "Old Liu, now that we are here, we must go in. Jingjue Ancient City is the only way for us to find the underground cave entrance, but we must be prepared and take precautions. This
Along the way, we have lost several team members, and even the guide, the old man Maimaiti, is missing. We must ensure the safety of the remaining team members. I don’t want to repeat what happened when you brought Xiao Yi and Pang Ran here.
Same mistake."
Liu Dong couldn't help but look sad after hearing Minister An's words, lowered his head and remained silent.
Fei Fan also patted Liu Dong on the shoulder at this time, and then said: "Old Liu, now I need to ask you a few questions. You must carefully think about the situation at that time before answering me."
Liu Dong raised his head and looked at Fei Yifan, then nodded.
Fei Fan asked: "First question, did you see Jingjue Ancient City before or after the big storm?"
Liu Dong thought for a moment and said with certainty: "Of course later, the storm was very strong. We took shelter from the storm behind a huge rock in the mountain pass. We couldn't open our eyes and we definitely couldn't see the ancient city. Until the storm stopped.
, we just saw a broken city appear in the valley."
Fei Fan nodded and asked: "Second, how far away were you from the ancient city when you saw it? Was it the first time you encountered an unknown attack outside the city or inside the city? How many times were you attacked in total?
"
Liu Dong lowered his head and thought for a while, then replied: "After the storm passed, we stood up behind the boulder. Then we turned around and saw the ancient city inadvertently, less than a hundred meters away from us. We encountered giant sand lizards and unknown unknown creatures.
The biological attack was outside the city, about tens of meters away from the ancient city. The two times before and after were both outside the city. Of course, the location where Zhuoran was attacked was after we left the city to the north. But...I was in the city
The Triangular Temple was also suddenly attacked, but I don’t know what it was, because I was only hit on the head and fainted, but I didn’t suffer any damage.”
Fei Fan asked again: "So, can you tell us about the situation of that thing in general when it appears? For example, what will be the omen, breath or other things when it appears? Also, if you encounter some kind of situation in the city,
What happened after the attack by the things and the fainting caused your team members and guides to escape from the ancient city of Jingjue?"
Liu Dong replied: "When it appeared, first it felt like a gust of wind blowing, then there was a fishy smell in the air, and then the team members fell down, and the rest...it was nothing. About the guide, including me
The guide did not elaborate on the reason why our team members left the ancient city. He just said that when they saw me fainted, my team members didn’t know what to do anymore, so they took me away from the ancient city, and because they were afraid of the people outside the city gate when they came.
Unidentified creatures attacked again, so we chose to leave the ancient city through the north gate."
Liu Dong's answer was a bit vague, which made me feel that the situation in the ancient city was definitely not as simple as Liu Dong said. First of all, how could Liu Dong not ask about the activities of his team members and guides in the ancient city after he fainted?
, In addition, regarding that experience in the ancient city, what we all heard was only Liu Dong's side of the story. I am afraid only he himself knows the true situation.
Fei Fan didn't seem to have thought of this, but nodded and said: "So I understand. First, this unknown creature is active within fifty meters outside the city. This kind of creature does not appear in the ancient city.
Something; secondly, the appearance of this thing has certain omens; thirdly, there was also an attack in the city, but I don’t know what it was.”
Speaking of this, Fei Yifan looked around us all and said: "Let me tell you my opinion. First, the mechanism is turned on. Our current location should be about thirty meters away from the ancient city. This is from
That... Zhuoran's body position is calculated based on it. In other words, it is still within the attack range of the unknown killer, but as long as we wait for the mechanism to open and run into the city as soon as possible, it should be safe. Second, enter the city,
Especially in the Triangular Temple mentioned by Old Liu, we all need to be more vigilant, as we may encounter unknown attacks."
After listening to Fei Yifan's analysis, everyone agreed with him.
After Fei Fan saw that no one had any objections, he smiled proudly and said: "I will turn on the mechanism now, but... everyone must be prepared to run forward with all their might."
Everyone nodded repeatedly. I believe that everyone was beating a drum in their hearts at this moment. No one wanted to be attacked by the unknown creature.
Fei Fan squatted in front of the stone wall, then grabbed the white sand from the ground and stuffed it inside with the tip of the dagger. The rest of us stood nervously behind him, waiting for the moment the mechanism was opened.
As the white sand was stuffed into the hole bit by bit, until it reached the edge of the hole and could no longer be pushed in, Fei Fan quickly stood up and said: "Okay."
Everyone stared nervously at the stone wall and the hole in front of them. Whether it was because of the extremely high temperature of the space we were in now or because of mental stress, there was a layer of sweat on everyone's face.
But more than ten seconds passed, and nothing happened to the stone walls or holes.
Half a minute passed, but there was still no movement or change in the stone walls and holes. Everyone couldn't help but start to wonder, was it Fei Shen's misjudgment?
At this moment, a faint sound came into our ears, and Fei Fan exhaled and said: "Everyone is ready, the mechanism is about to open."
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, a burst of dazzling white light flashed on and off. In less than half a second, in the blink of an eye, the towering huge mountain wall in front of us that could block the sun turned out to be a miracle.
It disappeared as if, and a majestic but dilapidated city outline appeared dozens of meters in front of us. At the same time, the sun's light also appeared above our heads.
At this time, I heard Fei Fan yelling: "Run!"
I immediately kicked off my steps and ran forward, and the others were not slower than me. They all ran forward together without hesitation, towards the ancient city.
Just as we were running, just as Liu Dong described, a gust of wind suddenly rose from behind us and came towards the direction we were running, carrying a faint fishy smell. The only thing that was different from what Liu Dong said
Yes, we also heard a low and terrifying "whoosh" sound.