Explore Changbai Mountain

Chapter 391

From the time the first crossbow arrow was shot, to when the two people fell to the ground, the whole process only took two seconds.During these two seconds, at least ten bolts were fired from each rivet, and more bolts were shot from it at the same time.

Fortunately, at this time, most of the people in the team were surrounded by the wordless stele, a little farther away from the city gate, so they were not attacked by the crossbow arrows like a storm.

Because the crossbow bolts fired at the same time were too dense, several crossbow bolts collided with each other after firing, and some of them changed direction in midair and shot directly into the crowd.

The crossbow arrows came very suddenly, and the people in the team were caught off guard and didn't react at all. They didn't realize it was wrong until the crossbow arrows shot in front of them.

The most unlucky one was Jia Da, because he was too fat and too big, and half of the crossbow arrows shot at the crowd were shot at his body.

Xu Xiaoyuan, who was standing beside Jia Da, reacted very quickly and moved very fast.She threw out a bronze mirror with her left hand, directly blocking a crossbow arrow, and at the same time pulled out a bronze tripod the size of a football with her right hand like a magic trick.Then Xu Xiaoyuan shook the bronze tripod and threw it out.

The small bronze tripod spun rapidly in mid-air, drawing a graceful arc, and smashed the rest of the crossbow arrows that were shot at Jada to a place where no one was there.Then the small bronze tripod turned back like a boomerang, flew back to Xu Xiaoyuan's hand, and was caught in her hand.

"Dangdang..." After a series of dangdang sounds, the rest of the crossbow arrows shot at the crowd fell to the ground mixed with silver-white darts, and at this moment Zhenhao was holding six darts between the fingers of both hands , looked in Jada's direction, with surprise in his eyes.

At this critical moment, Zhenhao's reaction was also very fast. He shot down the crossbow arrows aimed at everyone with darts, but when he wanted to continue to intercept the darts aimed at Jia Da, he found that those darts had been blocked by Taoist Xiaoyuan It has been solved, it can be seen that Xu Xiaoyuan's shooting speed is comparable to his own, so it is no wonder that he is surprised.

Only at this time did the crowd react, and the team retreated quickly, away from the range of the city gate.

After a while, there were no more crossbow arrows shot from the rivets on the city gate, but the sound of machine guns kept ringing from behind the city gate and inside the wall near the city gate. The heavy impact sounded particularly dull.

"What is this for? Loading bullets? Ready to continue attacking?" Hearing this startling voice, Yang Lei said with lingering fear.

After the sound of Ji Kuo stopped, the entire underground city of the Imperial Tomb fell silent again, and everything returned to the way it was when everyone just arrived here, but at this time the ground was full of crossbow arrows, and there were two more people who were stabbed. It became the corpse of a hedgehog.

awful!It's too awful!This was the thought that came to the people in the team when they saw the two corpses on the ground after experiencing the catastrophe just now.

There are more than 200 rivets on the city gate, and each rivet shoots out more than a dozen crossbow bolts.Although these crossbow arrows are not big in size, they cannot hold up to a large number. Two or three thousand crossbow arrows are laid in a thick layer in front of the city gate.

In this carpet woven by crossbow bolts, there are two places that are particularly conspicuous. The crossbow bolts in other places are all laid flat on the ground, but the crossbow bolts in these two places are all upright, faintly showing the figures of two people. , it was the two dead players who couldn't be more transparent.

Saying that these two team members are like hedgehogs is already a bit conservative. The tragic situation of these two people reminds Yang Lei of the straw man who was full of bows and arrows on the warship when Zhuge Liang borrowed arrows from the straw boat.After having this idea, Yang Lei stuck out his tongue in embarrassment. He felt that this was a little disrespectful to the deceased.

Although Xu Xiaoyuan and Zhen Hao shot very timely just now, blocking all the crossbow arrows flying towards the team, but three people in the team were still injured.

The three were scratched by crossbow bolts that bounced off the stony ground.The force of the crossbow arrows is very strong, a large number of crossbow arrows hit the ground and rebounded, and radiated to the surroundings. There are not a few such crossbow arrows, and they cannot be stopped at all.

These three team members were considered to have been hit by the splash damage of the crossbow mechanism, but fortunately, after the rebound on the ground, the speed and power of the crossbow arrows have been greatly reduced, so these three people only suffered skin trauma, which is considered unfortunate. Fortunately.

The tomb passage in the Taoist Holy Land is very safe, and no one is in any danger at all, so they are a little careless.In addition, the people in the team were deeply shocked by the magnificence of the imperial mausoleum city, and all the people forgot about the danger. Only then did they pay the heavy price of two deaths and three injuries.

Originally, there were not many people in the team this time, and there were three old guys who needed to be taken care of separately, so the strength of Liu Cong's men can be described as stretched.Now that two players have been lost for no reason, Liu Cong is heartbroken.

After ordering the team doctor Yasheng to bandage the three, Liu Cong took a few steps forward and stared at the city gate.At this time, the rivets on the city gate have returned to their original state, and the dark holes on it have disappeared. It seems that after the wave of crossbow arrows just shot, the mechanism has been reset. If there are no bullets, how many crossbow arrows can be shot.

Liu Cong discussed with the people around him. It seemed that it was the rivets on the city gate that triggered the crossbow mechanism. If these rivets were shot at from a distance with a rifle, the mechanism might be triggered again, causing the gate to shoot out the crossbow.

If this method is feasible, then use this method to consume it all the time. After all, the number of crossbow arrows in the mechanism is limited. At that time, we can find a way to open the city gate to minimize the danger.

"Er Yang, you lied to me. Didn't you say that this is a Taoist holy place, and there should be no deadly mechanism? Then what are these in front of us, playing house wine? Chopsticks for children to play with?" The crossbow arrows on the ground, Yang Lei said in fear after a while.

After listening to Yang Lei's words, Chen Ziyang stared thoughtfully at the thick layer of crossbow arrows on the ground.Then he picked up a crossbow bolt closest to him and looked at it carefully.

This kind of crossbow is about ten centimeters long and as thick as chopsticks. It should be made of refined iron, and it feels very textured in the hand.The end of the crossbow arrow has a round flat surface similar to the cap on a nail, and there is an obvious scratch on this flat surface.

Under the reflection of the flashlight, there was still a trace of white light on this trace, which should have been ground out just now. It seemed that this trace was left when the crossbow bolt was hit by the machine gun when it was shot.

However, the crossbow body of the crossbow bolt is not an iron rod, but a spiral shape, and the distance between the spiral rings is very close, making this crossbow bolt look a bit like a spring, and a bit like a drill bit of an electric drill.

Seeing this weird crossbow arrow, Chen Ziyang opened his mouth wide in surprise, and then he quickly covered his mouth with his hand, so he didn't shout out.Then he waved to Shuai Ushiki.

"Brother Umbrella, look at this thing, do you recognize it?" Chen Ziyang asked in a low voice to Handsome Umbrella beside him.

"Hold me, isn't this a coiled snake nail? It turns out that such a thing really exists!" Said Shuai Shi in surprise after receiving the crossbow.

"Is it the same as the one recorded in the book? When I saw this kind of crossbow, I also thought that this is the coiled snake nail. It is exactly the same as the one described in the book. It has never escaped. It is this thing."

"If this is really a coiled snake nail, we will be in big trouble..." Ushishi Shuai had a solemn expression on his face.

In "Civil Engineering Collected Records", there is a record about the coiled snake nail. The fifth owner of "Civil Engineering Collection" once entered a tomb.According to him, the tomb should be the mausoleum of General Zuo Weiwei in a certain period of the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, the tomb robbery team went well, and soon came to the front of the main tomb, but they were blocked by a bronze gate.

This bronze gate is not too tall, only three or four meters wide and two or three meters high. There are fifty or sixty heads of tomb-slayer beasts cast on the gate.

Because the journey was relatively smooth, the team of tomb robbers didn't think highly of the gate, so they wanted to use violence to break the gate, but one person accidentally triggered the mechanism.

The heads of dozens of tomb-slayer beasts on the bronze gate opened their mouths at the same time, shooting countless crossbow arrows from their mouths.These crossbow bolts had extremely strong penetrating power, were numerous in number, and shot very quickly, causing the entire tomb raiding team to suffer heavy casualties in an instant.

If he hadn't been quick to see the opportunity and used the corpse of his teammate to block in front of him, it is very likely that "Civil Engineering Collection" would not have a fifth owner.

Even if there were the corpses of teammates standing in front of them, the survivors would not be much better. After the arrows shot through the bodies of the dead teammates, their strength remained undiminished, and more than a dozen people were stabbed in their chests. Bloody holes, but they somehow saved their lives.

The few survivors couldn't swallow this breath, and didn't want to let the owner of the tomb go, so they thought of an idea similar to Liu Cong's, triggering the mechanism from a distance, so as to continuously consume the crossbow arrows.

But what they didn't expect was that there seemed to be endless crossbow arrows in the tomb gate. No matter how many times they tried, there would always be a steady stream of crossbow arrows shot out from the mouth of the tomb-suppressing beast.Even the crossbow arrows fired later blocked the tomb passage.

After trying for a whole day, the fifth owner of "Civil Engineering Collection" finally gave up. He felt that God did not allow him to disturb the owner of the tomb. Otherwise, why would there be endless crossbow arrows?

Later, he recorded this matter in the book, because the whole crossbow looks like a nail, and the body of the crossbow looks like a coiled spirit snake, so he named this strangely shaped crossbow. A name, called Coiled Snake Nail.

Both Chen Ziyang and Shan Shishuai knew Gongji very well, they had read this story more than once, and the crossbow bolts in their hands at this time were clearly the coiled snake nails recorded in the book.

No matter in terms of scale, or the identity and status of the person buried, a general who commanded tens of thousands of horses was no match for Wu Zetian, and he was simply a heaven and an underground.

From this point of view, if Liu Cong's method is really used to consume the crossbow bolts, the number of crossbow bolts hidden inside such a high city wall and such a thick gate is astonishing. Can't run out.

Thinking of this, Shuai Shanshi said to Chen Ziyang worriedly: "There should be nothing wrong, this is the coiled snake nail, I have to find a way to persuade Liu Cong to find another way."

Chen Ziyang nodded.Liu Cong is the godson of his fifth grandfather, and Chen Benzhong is also familiar with "Civil Engineering Collection", but it is very likely that Liu Cong does not understand the situation of this book, so if he wants to persuade him, he can only make a detour.Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang walked to Liu Cong's side.

"Liu Cong, I don't think the method you just thought of is feasible. There must be a lot of this kind of crossbow bolts hidden in such a tall city wall. If you keep using this method to consume crossbow bolts, it may take a long time. Our Food is not too much, and time is more precious, so I think we should change it."

"Do you have any good ideas?"

"I don't know if you have noticed, but before we came to this city, the ground here was very clean, and there were no crossbow arrows left on the ground at all. That is to say, before we came, the organs on the city gate were not blocked. people triggered.

As you saw just now, the mechanism on the city gate is very sensitive, and it is triggered with just a slight touch. From this point of view, Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian who entered here must have never touched the city gate. .

The section of the city wall that we can see is almost a few kilometers away. There is nothing else on this section of the city wall except the city gate. Then how did Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian get inside? "

"That's right!" After hearing what Chen Ziyang said, Liu Cong's eyes suddenly lit up. What he said was so reasonable.Although this is the first time for everyone to come to the Taoist Holy Land, after all, Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian have entered before, and the traces of these two people are likely to provide important clues to the team.

The two of them did not trigger the mechanism on the city gate, that is to say, they did not walk through this city gate when they entered the city of imperial mausoleums.Thinking of this, Liu Cong raised his head and looked over the high city wall.

Following Liu Cong's gaze, Chen Ziyang instantly understood what Liu Cong was thinking. It seemed that he wanted someone to climb over this tall city wall.

The city wall is more than 20 meters high and is made of huge long strips of stone bricks. The gaps between the stone bricks are filled with a mixture of lime and volcanic ash. Some people say that this mixture is the early prototype of cement.

This mixture also acts like cement, not only can stick objects, but also the mixture will gradually harden over time, now after so many years, these mixtures in stone bricks are almost as hard as stone The hardness is the same.

But even so, the cracks in the stones on the city wall still have uneven places, which can be used by people. It seems that it is not too difficult to climb up.

Thinking of this, Liu Cong suddenly turned his head and shouted: "Li Linzhi, come here."

　Comrades, you must drive slowly. I borrowed a car to enjoy the beautiful scenery along the Yalu River last night, but the speed was a little faster when I made a sharp turn. The vehicle rolled over, and now one of my fingers has been broken. Fortunately, there is nothing wrong with other places, and I can continue to code. I have been busy repairing the car all day today, and this is the only update, everyone. Be sure to pay attention to safety.

　　His grandma's tricycle is really hard to drive...

　　
　
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