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Chapter 394 The Killer in the Night

Since the team came under the city wall, no one has crossed the city wall in front of them from the beginning to the end.And now the camera clearly captured a wrist-thick hemp rope tied to the crenel on the other side of the seven or eight-meter-wide city wall, which meant that someone should have reached the top of the city wall before.

"It seems that your previous guess was correct. Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian should have crossed over the city wall, so there is a rope tied there." Finally, Liu Cong found a way to cross the city wall and enter the city. This is a sigh of relief.

Seeing this hemp rope, Chen Ziyang also felt relieved, at least he found the right path, proving that his previous guess was correct, otherwise Chen Xin would have died in vain, and he might really be the one who killed him. He is a sinner.

After getting the picture he wanted, Liu Cong asked Xu Xiaoyuan to come down from the city wall. After all, it had been a long time, and her physical strength should have been exhausted.Although it seems that Zhenhao now knows what is going on with the mechanism on the city wall, it still takes time to figure it out, it is impossible for Xu Xiaoyuan to hang on the city wall all the time.

Xu Xiaoyuan, who heard the retreat order for the second time, made a terrible mistake.

She was very nervous when she was lying on the city wall, but when she finally heard Liu Cong's order to retreat, Xu Xiaoyuan's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, but before she could move down, Liu Cong But told her not to move, and continued to hold the camera.

At that time, everyone saw the rope at the other end of the city wall from the screen, so Xu Xiaoyuan was asked to readjust the angle of the camera, although the people standing under the city wall did not think it was such a dangerous thing.But they overlooked one point, that is, Xu Xiaoyuan above the city wall didn't know what was on the city wall.

She didn't know that what Liu Cong and the others wanted to see was just a rope tied to the city wall, and they thought that there was some danger approaching her.

It was in this state of mind that Xu Xiaoyuan was nervous and did not move, for fear that her slightest movement would trigger the mechanism or be attacked by a giant python.In this state of forced stillness, her physical strength was expended at an accelerated rate, and at the same time, her hands felt cold.

When a person is nervous, the blood will naturally flow to the legs. The blood entering the legs can make the legs more powerful, so that they can escape quickly. This is the result of the body's self-regulation when people feel fear, and it is human instinct reaction.

I don't know if it's because a lot of blood flowed to the legs, resulting in brain ischemia, or because the tense state turned to relaxation, and then became tense again in the relaxed state, Xu Xiaoyuan actually forgot the shock before. Hao's instructions.

When she was about to go down from the city wall, she naturally put her hands on the city wall between the two crenels, hoping to use this to make her descent easier.

Just when Xu Xiaoyuan's hand touched the city wall, she suddenly felt as if she had pressed something soft, and this thing moved down a short distance under the pressure of her fingers.

This sudden fright made Xu Xiaoyuan break into a cold sweat instantly. She remembered what Zhen Hao said before, but it was too late now.A gust of cool wind rushed towards her face, and Xu Xiaoyuan saw a huge shadow appearing in front of her in an instant.

If it were someone else at this time, they would definitely be swallowed up by this black shadow in an instant, but Xu Xiaoyuan's reaction speed was very fast.

When she just pressed the soft thing on the city wall, she was shocked in her heart, and she knew it was not good at that time.Although the matter was irreversible, she was already prepared at that moment.

Seeing the sudden black shadow, Xu Xiaoyuan knew that it was too late to dodge down at this time, but the black shadow in front of her came very quickly, and she didn't give her too much time to think, so Xu Xiaoyuan immediately let go of herself Holding the rope tightly with his hands, his legs slammed hard, and he jumped a long distance across the city wall in a horizontal direction.

The moment she let go of the rope, she had already figured out how to deal with it, so Xu Xiaoyuan didn't completely let go of the rope, but slightly relaxed the strength in her hand, making a circle around her fingers. "O" shape, the rope is still in her hand.

After moving horizontally for a certain distance with the force of kicking her legs, Xu Xiaoyuan felt that her body was no longer moving to the side, but was about to fall. At this moment, a black shadow appeared dangerously Rubbing her body, she fell to the position she was in just now.Immediately afterwards, the black shadow retracted into the city wall in an instant.

From the beginning to the end, Xu Xiaoyuan didn't see clearly what was attacking her.After feeling that she was wandering between life and death, she hurriedly grabbed the rope in her hand again, and used the power of the rope to prevent herself from falling below the city wall.

Then Xu Xiaoyuan stared vigilantly at the city wall above, while quickly going down the rope, and quickly left the dangerous area.

After her feet landed on the ground, Taoist Xiaoyuan felt that she was weak all over, and the feeling of collapse hit her.After her feet softened, Xu Xiaoyuan fell to the ground.Chen Ziyang hurried over, picked her up with both hands, and carried her back to the team.

"Go away, Xiao Yuan, are you okay?" After snatching Xu Xiaoyuan from Chen Ziyang's hand, Jia Da cursed, then ignored the others, and cared about the injury on Taoist Xiaoyuan's body .

The thankless Chen Ziyang ignored Jia Da, as long as Xu Xiaoyuan was fine, the woman who can stand up at this time is already very admirable.

Xu Xiaoyuan has already won the heart of Chen Ziyang and the respect of others. At this time, everyone felt that those annoying words that Jia Da said before were not so important. After all, his apprentice helped everyone a lot. busy.

Seeing that Xu Xiaoyuan was just overly frightened and didn't suffer any injuries, Chen Ziyang hurriedly gathered with Liu Cong and the others. The group surrounded Zhenhao and interrogated him like a prisoner.

"I saw just now that the rope on the crenel on the other side of the city wall was tied to the upper edge of the crenel, and you said that to Taoist Xiaoyuan at that time, you must let her tie the rope to the upper edge of the crenel, don't How did you know you hit the lower edge and the wall between the two crenels?
Also, how do you know that the mechanism on the city wall is hidden in a blind corner under the crenel? "Liu Cong couldn't wait to ask this series of questions.

If the person being interrogated at this time was Yang Lei, he would definitely put on an inscrutable expression, then light a cigarette, and talk slowly, but he would not be able to get to the point.However, Zhen Hao's personality is exactly the opposite of Yang Lei's. This person is very steady, doesn't talk much, and just gets the point straight.

"Speaking of this matter, you should not thank me, but Chen Xin."

"Chen Xin? He... isn't he dead?" Yasheng heard Zhenhao mentioning Chen Xin, thinking that Chen Xin had come back to life, but felt a chill down his back, and hurriedly turned his head to look at the stone platform in the distance. Go, when she saw the three corpses still parked there, she let out a sigh of relief.

"He is dead, but after he died, he helped us find important clues." After saying this, Zhen Hao broke through the crowd and led a group of people behind him who were eager to get answers. Next to Chen Xin's body.

"Look here." After saying these words to Chen Xin's headless neck, Zhen Hao stood aside without saying anything, and other people surrounded him.

Although it is scary to stare directly at a headless corpse, everyone wants to satisfy their curiosity.

Beside Chen Xin's corpse, there was a large pool of blood. Part of this pool of blood seemed to flow out of the corpse naturally, while the other part was of different shades, showing finger-wide marks, which should be from Zhen Hao. It was smeared with uncoagulated blood, and there were several regular lines on this pool of blood.

A long series of "ji" characters are connected together, which looks like a stack of mahjong tiles, but everyone knows that this pattern should represent the crenels on the city wall.

There are four side-by-side rings behind this line, two of which are complete circles, and the other two are missing a small piece, which looks like the ring has opened its mouth.

Staring at this pattern, Chen Ziyang feels that this pattern is like the Pac-Man in the Pac-Man game he played on the Nintendo red and white machine when he was a child.

At the same time, there are small dots on the series of "ji" shapes. These small dots are all over the lower edge of the crenel and the city wall between the two crenels, but there are no ones above the crenel.

After staring at the pattern for a while, all the people looked up at the city wall again, and they all figured it out.

The meaning of this pattern is to tell people who watch the pattern that there are balls hidden in the dead corners behind the crenels, and it is a ball placed on the lower edge of the crenels and the wall between the two crenels that touches the mechanism of the balls. button.

Perhaps because the placement of these buttons requires space, there is no way to place them on the crenel that is only [-] to [-] centimeters wide. This is why Zhenhao asked Xu Xiaoyuan to tie the rope there, because there is the only button safe place.

After resting for a while, Taoist nun Xiaoyuan, who had recovered, also walked into the crowd.Chen Ziyang told her all the ins and outs of the matter.Knowing that it was the rope tied to the city wall that frightened her, Xu Xiaoyuan couldn't laugh or cry.

Although the whole thing was a false alarm, it was this false alarm that almost killed her, and almost made her end up like Chen Xin. Thinking of this, Xu Xiaoyuan really felt worthless for herself.

"It is estimated that after Zhang Taixu and Wang Dingqian cracked the mechanism on the city wall, they carved the reminder on the base below the wordless stele. A thick layer of dust, so we didn't notice the patterns before.

But by chance, we put Chen Xin's body here, and his blood revealed this secret for us, so he died well. Staring at the pattern in the pool of blood beside Chen Xin, Guo Huaxing said thoughtfully.

"Okay, the mechanism has been cracked, the rope has been tied, and there is still some time, enough for us to climb over the city wall.

It's really too cold here. There are many houses inside the city wall. Maybe we can find a warmer place. Let's hurry up and enter the city, don't waste time here. "Zhang Linfu reminded Liu Cong.

The mechanism on the city wall has been cracked, and the rope has been pulled. It is only a matter of time before the team crosses the city wall.

There was no way to take away the corpses of Chen Xin's three people. The group bowed three times to the three corpses, and then let them rest on the stone platform under the wordless tablet, with the towering wordless tablet as companions.

Li Linzhi still didn't wake up.The previous collision was too severe, and it is estimated that she would not be able to wake up in a short time.Yang Lei kept muttering, and he didn't know if he had knocked her out of the concussion all of a sudden. It would be a disaster if she became crazy after waking up.

Soon, the people in the team climbed to the top of the city wall one by one by means of the ropes on the city wall, and everyone took care to avoid the mechanism above when they crossed the crenels of the city wall.

A row of square buttons of the same color as the city wall are placed on the inner side of the lower edge of the crenel and on the wall between the two crenels. Each of these buttons is not too big, and they cover the entire city wall when they are connected together. As soon as someone puts his hand on the city wall, it will definitely be touched.

Although they knew that as long as these buttons were not touched, the dark spheres under the crenels of the city wall would no longer be lethal, but everyone was still cautious when stepping over these spheres.

Looking at the thing that almost killed her before, Xu Xiaoyuan felt that she was not injustice for being frightened.The design of this mechanism is very ingenious, and at the same time the mechanism is also very powerful. Although I know that these iron balls are hollow, even the hollow iron balls should be relatively heavy.

However, such heavy iron balls did not make a sound when they stretched out of the city wall after the mechanism was triggered. They could only feel a gust of cool wind blowing. Under the cover of the dark environment, these iron balls could really be called hidden Killer in the dark.

Two of the four iron chains protruding from the ball should be used for the ball to attack downwards, and after the ball attacks, the other two chains protruding into the city wall will pull the ball back.

It seems that this mechanism can be used repeatedly, and it is still effective after so many years. Everyone admires the designer of the mechanism, and also knows that the team may face even greater dangers.

Countless iron balls are next to each other, extending into the darkness.Liu Cong guessed that Chen Xin's head was inside a certain iron ball, but he didn't intend to look for it, after all, Chen Xin was dead.

It would be bad if other people were involved if they touched some mechanism while searching.So he turned his attention to the thick hemp rope tied to the opposite crenel.

(End of this chapter)