Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 145 Gear Kingdom
The rocker in the octagonal coffin was very laborious to shake. Enduring the pain in his chest, Chen Ziyang slowly shook the handle. Every time he turned the handle once, the octagonal coffin would drop down more than ten centimeters distance.Just after Chen Ziyang turned the handle and lowered the octagonal coffin for a few meters, he suddenly felt that the handle in his hand loosened, and the handle became effortless to shake.

This feeling made Chen Ziyang's heart skip a beat. He felt that the crank had been disconnected.Then the octagonal coffin's descending speed suddenly accelerated, and the sudden weightlessness made everyone tremble.Could it be that the falling mechanism caused the stuck gear to loosen because of too long time?If it fell like that, it might be smashed to pieces.

But then Chen Ziyang discovered that this was not the case. Although the descending speed of the elevator suddenly increased, and the crank handle in his hand had no effect at all, he found that the descending speed of the elevator was always constant. And within the controllable speed range, this kind of descending speed should be normal. Maybe this mechanism was designed like this at the time. Otherwise, it would only descend a dozen centimeters after turning a circle. People are exhausted.

Moreover, Chen Ziyang found that as the speed of the elevator descended suddenly increased, the golden gear next to the crank disappeared again, and he didn't know where it turned. Xiao Na also saw the disappearance of the golden gear, revealing A very helpless expression.

"The grandson who designed the underground palace is really good. I knew he would design this kind of elevator. Why didn't he install such an elevator in that rotating passage? It made us walk for so long, and I was dizzy." Yang Lei supported Wang Ming, and kept on cursing.

As the elevator descended, a strong smell of blood rushed over, Xiao Na asked everyone to put on gas masks again.Smelling this familiar bloody smell again, Chen Ziyang's curiosity was aroused. It seems that the answer to this bloody smell should be below. Such a strong smell proves the source of this bloody smell It should be below.

The elevator descended at a constant speed for a few minutes, and I don't know how far it fell. Then it clicked, and the elevator stopped suddenly. The sudden shaking made everyone stand unstable. Yang Lei supported Wang Ming and almost fell on the ground. On the ground, Wang Ming grinned his teeth in pain, and he even felt a wound on his leg that seemed to break free after this meal.

The elevator suddenly came into contact with the ground, kicking up a lot of dust. At the same time, because the dust from the previous elevator shaft also fell, everyone was surrounded by a cloud of dust. In an instant, everyone's heads were covered with a layer of dust. turned white.Fortunately, everyone was wearing a gas mask. The smoke and dust did not cause much harm to them, but their vision was temporarily limited.

Two team members with guns led the way, and the others followed. Yang Lei supported Wang Ming and walked at the end of the team. A group of ten people walked out of the octagonal coffin elevator and entered the front passage.

The passage is very short. After walking out of the passage, there is no obstruction of smoke and dust. The flashlights in everyone's hands can clearly illuminate objects within a range of more than 100 meters.Chen Ziyang and Shan Shishuai at the back of the team lit torches, illuminating the surroundings very brightly.

Under the illumination of the flashlight, everyone saw that they were on a semi-circular stone platform. The place where everyone stood was the center of the stone platform. The edge of the stone platform was pitch black, and it was estimated that there was an At the same time, the sound of water bursts filled the entire space.

Several flashlight beams irradiated the left and right circles, and everyone was surprised by what the flashlights illuminated. On the stone walls around this underground space, there were rows of neat shrines. These shrines were densely packed, from bottom to top, covered with I don't know how many stone walls there are in the entire space.Inside the shrines, there are exactly the same things similar to King Kong sculptures.

These King Kong sculptures are about one meter high, only slightly smaller than the shrine. At the same time, each King Kong sculpture holds a different weapon in its hand, some are axes, some are swords, in short, whether it is a weapon that you have seen or not. , almost all of them are included here, and every King Kong sculpture has a hideous face.

In the middle of this semi-circular stone platform, there is a stone road connected to this stone platform, which has been connected to the edge of a stone platform in front.This stone road is not suspended, and the bottom is still a mountain wall, extending into the deep stream.

This stone road is relatively wide, about two meters long, and can accommodate two or three people walking side by side.Under the illumination of the flashlight, everyone can see that this stone road is at least tens of meters long, and because of the limitation of the flashlight beam, they can't see much.

On both sides of this semi-circular stone platform, there are still two stone mortars. Xiao Na asked Chen Ziyang and Umbrella Shishuai to go over to check separately. The difference between the stone mortars is that the two stone mortars are relatively small in size, and the stone grooves connected with the stone mortars are also relatively thin.Chen Ziyang and Shan Shishuai simultaneously lit the two stone mortars with the torches in their hands.

The stone mortar still burned with flames, but the flames were much smaller than the flames in the coffin array before. The flames extended to both sides and divided into countless branches. In front of each row of King Kong sculptures, there was a tiny fire dragon It was burning, and after a while, the walls of the entire space were covered with rows of flames.The flames flickered, and the black shadows behind these King Kong sculptures were moving left and right. It seemed that these King Kong sculptures were all alive.

The entire underground space was brightly lit. At this time, everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them. The entire underground space was a circle with a diameter of about 500 meters.The height is about 100 meters, and the edge of the [-]th platform is indeed an abyss, but I don't know how deep it is below.

On the walls more than 100 meters high, there are all shrines with King Kong sculptures.Everyone looked up along the rows of sculptures until they could see clearly what was on the top, and all of them opened their mouths in surprise.

In the space more than 100 meters above everyone’s head, there is no imaginary stone roof. The top of the entire space is composed of countless large and small gears intertwined. It is only the size of a fist, and all the gears are either horizontal or vertical, locked together and rotating.

The stone bridge leads to a platform in the middle of the entire space. The platform is full of condensed red mist. The red mist moves slowly there. It is impossible to see what is in the middle of the mist. Fog completely blocked everyone's sight.

In the middle of the air on the left and right of the entire space, near the top of the space, there is a waterfall more than [-] meters wide. The water in the waterfall gushes out from the drain. There are more than a dozen huge waterwheels lined up side by side, and these waterwheels are slowly turning under the impact of the water of the waterfall.

These twenty or so waterwheels are actually the same size as the huge waterwheel that Chen Ziyang and the others encountered before, but such a huge waterwheel is so small that it is not so conspicuous in this underground space.

On these water wheels, there are some horizontal or vertical bearings, which are also slowly rotating with the water wheels, and at the same time, the bearings extend to the gears at the top of the space.

Chen Ziyang thought about it, and it seemed that his previous guess was correct. The power of these organs in the entire underground palace came from these huge waterwheels.After the water in the waterfall passed through the waterwheel, it dispersed into countless thin lines, and these water lines fell into the abyss below, never to be seen again.

Suddenly, a huge object passed in front of everyone, startling everyone. Chen Ziyang looked over and found that what slid in front of them turned out to be a lever suspended in mid-air. There is a huge bucket, and the other end is connected to a huge gear placed horizontally.

Because one side of the gear is heavier, the end of the lever where the gear is placed sinks below, and the bucket at the other end is lifted high.With the rotation of the lever, the bucket was turned under a waterfall.

When the bucket passes through the wide waterfall, the moving speed of the lever slowly decreases. The water in the waterfall fills the bucket slowly, and at the same time, the lever on this side of the bucket slowly descends. Lift another huge gear high, this gear slowly rises, and then rises to the countless gears in the entire space, and engages with several relatively large gears, the lever also follows It doesn't move.

With the insertion of the gear on the lever, some stationary gears at the top of the space turned together with the embedded gear.After about a few minutes, a huge horizontal wooden bar, driven by a huge gear, swept across slowly and touched the huge bucket.

Under the touch of this wooden stick, the bucket rotated 180 degrees, and the mask that became the bucket hung upside down on the lever, and then the water in the bucket poured down and fell into the abyss. Because of the weight loss at one end, it slowly rises again.

The huge gear connected to the lever quickly descended and disengaged from the countless gears on the top. At the same time, the gears driven by it before also stopped at this moment.Then another horizontal wooden bar turned and struck the empty bucket, bringing the fallen bucket back over the lever, while the lever was slowly moving again under this section of the wooden bar. Rotate, and bring the bucket to the bottom of another waterfall again, repeating itself.

Seeing the scene in front of him, Chen Ziyang instantly understood that this is the key to those rotating channels. This huge lever is like a timing device. Every time the water in the bucket is filled, the end of the lever connected to the gear will It will rise into the mid-air and interweave with other gears to become the middle link, so that the gears that have rotated will drive the gears that will not rotate. Those gears should be connected to the rotation channel.

Then when the wooden stick turned the bucket down, due to gravity, the gear on the lever would drop down and disengage from the other gears, and the gear connected to the rotating channel would also stop, so the upper channel would also be It won't spin anymore.

It’s no wonder that when passing through those revolving passages before, everyone could hear a sound similar to a waterfall through a crack in the wall, and the strangest thing is that this sound is intermittent, there is a moment, there is no moment, think about it, it’s This lever mechanism using water and gravity is at work.

Chen Ziyang wrote a big word in his heart. The ancients more than 1000 years ago were able to use gears to such an extent. These gears are not so much a mechanism, but a kingdom of gears. The design of this underground palace The author actually used the gears to such a skillful level, it is really admirable.

While sighing, Xiao Na ordered the two team members with guns to grope along the stone bridge, wanting to see the origin of the red mist in the middle.The two walked up the stone bridge carefully, and found that the stone bridge was very strong, but the bottomless abyss on both sides of the stone bridge made the two of them a little nervous, and they walked cautiously.

Chen Ziyang also focused on the red mist that smelled of blood. He had seen this kind of red mist before, in the pool of the alligator gar, when the red mist floated against the water surface , was sucked clean by the huge alligator gar, and the big cloud of red smoke in front of him was much more than what he encountered in the alligator gar pool, and the fog was much thicker.

The red smoke seems to be very heavy, and it gathers but does not disperse. Chen Ziyang thought of the backflow incense from the red mist in front of him. When the backflow incense is burned, the density of the smoke is higher than that of the air, and the white incense mist will not float upwards. On the contrary, it flows downward like water, which is why it got the name of Backflow Incense. Backflow Incense is often used in indoor landscapes, and the fairyland-like feeling it creates is quite interesting.

And the red mist in front of him is like backflowing incense, neither dissipating nor floating upwards, just moving slightly against the middle stone platform.Just when the two team members were about to step onto the most central stone platform, suddenly, there was a sound of staggered activation of organs in the stone room. At the same time, Chen Ziyang saw the stone platform on the edge of the red mist On the ground, several hidden doors slowly opened.

Seeing the changes in the stone platform in front of them, the two soldiers quickly stopped, squatted on the stone bridge and raised their guns, watching the cloud of red mist carefully.

It may be because of the suction generated inside after the secret door is opened, or it may be because the density of the red mist is too high. In short, no matter what the reason is, when the secret doors are opened, the red mist in the center of the stone platform will quickly disappear. Surge down along these hidden doors.

Looking at the direction in which the red mist was scattered, Chen Ziyang estimated that there should be quite a few of these secret doors, at least seven or eight.As the red mist continued to decrease, the scene of the center of the stone platform and the parts behind the stone platform that were previously covered by the red mist gradually became clear.

When the red mist on the stone platform dissipated, the secret doors closed slowly again. Looking at the thing exposed on the stone platform in the center of the entire space, Chen Ziyang's eyes widened. He finally knew why Before, he thought that the smell of red mist would be so familiar, but it turned out to be because of the things on the stone platform.

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