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Chapter 531 A Clever Psychological Mechanism

After being pulled out of the trap, Chen Ziyang turned his head and saw that besides the three of himself, there were four people left behind. One was Chen Sanjin, and the other three were Liu Cong's subordinates. team members.

It seems that more than half of the people in the team are separated on the other side of the mechanism wall. I don't know what's going on there. Is there a trap like this on the other side of the wall? I don't know if anyone has been caught. .

Yang Lei and Shan Shishuai were so tired that they collapsed on the ground, while Chen Sanjin walked to the front of the deep well, stared at the closed mechanism wall in front of him carefully, and at the same time raised his ears to listen.

But I don't know if it's because the wall is so thick that Chen Sanjin can't hear a sound at all.

The trap deep well is almost three meters wide, and it is directly connected to the bottom of the closed trap wall.Chen Ziyang reckoned that the trap wall would not be opened again, and this road was probably impassable, so it seemed that he could only choose another road to go.

But Chen Sanjin didn't seem to give up. In addition to ordering the other three team members to search nearby to see if there was any mechanism that could open the mechanism wall, he was also slowly adjusting the sharp steel gloves and the spikes on the front of the boots so that these The spikes were slightly bent downwards, and at the same time, their eyes kept sweeping back and forth on the walls on both sides.

Seeing Chen Sanjin's actions, Chen Ziyang knew that the old man was going to climb over the walls on both sides, and wanted to search the organ walls.

Even though the results of Chen Sanjin's search are not yet known, Chen Ziyang is very sure that the closed walls will never be opened, because the purpose of this mechanism is to divide this passage into two sections.

The person who triggered this mechanism should be the pathfinder team member who was at the front of the team. At that time, after triggering the mechanism, this team member hurriedly turned around to remind him.

Although the person who stepped on the mechanism was the person at the front of the team, the place where the mechanism wall appeared was in the middle of the entire team, a long distance away from that team member.

From this point of view, the purpose of this mechanism is to divide a long team into two sections, so as to completely separate the teams on both sides and weaken the team's strength.

Therefore, after such a mechanism is triggered, it is absolutely impossible to retract it. In that case, this mechanism will be meaningless.In addition, this mechanism also has a killer, that is, the deep well near the wall of the mechanism.

Although he couldn't see the situation on the other side of the trap wall, Chen Ziyang estimated that there should be a trap door on the ground on the other side. When the trap wall is completely closed, the trap door will also open, and there should be an identical deep well below. .

This mechanism is set up very insidiously, taking people's psychology into consideration.Suddenly a wall appeared, separating the entire passage, and dividing a team into two sections. Then the two teams separated by the wall would definitely rush to the wall, wanting to take a look at the team members on the other side I want to see if there is a way to open this wall.

And just when the people on both sides of the mechanism wall gathered near the wall, the delayed opening door suddenly opened, and the people near the wall would fall into the deep well and be stabbed into a hornet's nest by the sharp objects below.

Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, when the wall suddenly appeared before, he chose to run towards Yang Lei and Shuai Sanshi.If I had rushed to the other side of the organ wall for safety reasons, then Yang Lei and Shan Shishuai would have come to the wall, slapped the wall, and shouted their names loudly.

At that time, the floor valve, which was delayed for a few seconds, would open, and the two people would fall into the deep well below.Maybe I, who was separated by this wall, would do the same thing, and it would be three people who were unlucky, and there was no one there to help me hold the red rope.

Unexpectedly, his unintentional choice saved the lives of the three brothers, Chen Ziyang became cautious.From the point of view of this mechanism alone, this underground labyrinth is not easy to deal with. The first mechanism that appeared killed everyone by surprise, and divided the entire team into two sections, unable to take care of each other.

Fortunately, the main purpose of this mechanism is to divide the team. If the ultimate move is the first, the larger the collapsed area on the ground, it is likely to cause more casualties.

Taking these into consideration, Chen Ziyang felt that the road ahead should be difficult.It seems that the designer of this mechanism expected that there must be a large number of people who can enter here, so he adopted the method of dividing first. After such a mechanism is activated many times, a team with many people will be destroyed Divide into several small teams.

At that time, the mechanism that is activated again will not be so benevolent, it will definitely be full of murderous intentions, so as to eat away the divided team little by little, that is to say, the further you move forward, the greater the danger.

At this moment, Chen Sanjin was ready and started to move.After standing on the edge of the deep well and jumping, Chen Sanjin was already lying on the side wall, and the spikes on his gloves and shoes were firmly stuck in the cracks in the stone bricks.

Immediately afterwards, with the help of the spikes on the gloves and shoes, Chen Sanjin jumped again, and lay directly on the organ wall that appeared suddenly.After moving up and down on the wall for a while, Chen Sanjin found that there was no organ or the like on the wall.

He put his ear against the wall, listened carefully for a while, and then tapped the wall with his gloves, trying to send a message to Chen Benzhong and others on the other side, but all of this seemed to have disappeared without any information. answer.

After returning to the safe area, Chen Sanjin showed a serious face, and said to the six people in front of him: "This road has been completely blocked, and the stone wall here is very thick, our communicator can't work, and we can't There is no way to communicate with the other side.

What we can do now is to look for other ways out to see if we can meet them halfway, or find the center of the maze.

I am older than you and have more experience. You juniors will follow me. In case I get into some mechanism or something unexpected happens, you will choose another talent. "

So the seven people turned around and walked back along the path they came from. This time, Chen Sanjin asked Chen Ziyang to be the pioneer of exploring the way.

The other three team members had already been vanguard soldiers, and their highly tense nerves had not yet completely relaxed, and Chen Ziyang had relatively rich experience, so this arrangement was reasonable.

Because everyone had already passed the way they came, there should be no mechanism, so Yang Lei and Shuai Shanshi were not too worried. The two of them followed Chen Ziyang a few meters away.

Looking at the reading of the pressure pointer on the oxygen cylinder, Chen Ziyang frowned.It has been several hours since entering the underground palace, and now half of the oxygen in the oxygen cylinder has been consumed.From the looks of it, everyone is still active on the periphery of the underground palace, and there is still a long way to go from the central area, and it is not known whether the oxygen can last.

"Huh? No!" Thinking of this, Chen Ziyang suddenly woke up. He suddenly thought of the person who committed suicide in front of the steel gate.

Judging from all the signs, that person should have entered the underground palace and walked out of the maze. Otherwise, he would not have worn off the hint on the jade seal, and the items that the person carried with him did not have oxygen at all. bottle.

Thinking about it from another angle, when this underground palace was built, in addition to protecting the dragon veins, it was also used as an underground palace for hiding treasures, and these treasures should be taken out, so the designer must have considered the oxygen problem.

The construction period of this underground palace should be when Kangxi was the emperor. At that time, I don’t know if there were oxygen cylinders. Even if there were, they must be very scarce, and it was impossible to equip the entire team.

And there must be a lot of treasures buried here. If you want to take out the treasures inside, you need a whole army to carry them. What's more, in that era, the transportation was all done by manpower, and the efficiency should be very low. The time should be very long.

With so many people and it takes such a long time to move out the treasure, it means that the underground palace should have been built with ventilation in mind, and it is impossible to make it completely sealed. In that case, no one will be able to take out the treasure .

But why does the flame of the dog oil candle hanging on Chen Benzhong's waist turn green?And the air detectors in the hands of Liu Cong's team members also sounded the alarm?what is this……

An idea appeared in Chen Ziyang's mind, but because the team members carrying the air quality detectors were separated by the mechanism wall, he had no way to verify his idea.However, he felt that his idea should be correct.

While walking forward, Chen Ziyang took off his gas mask.

"Zi Yang, you're crazy!" Seeing Chen Ziyang's actions, Yang Lei who followed behind hastily shouted loudly.

"Don't take off your gas masks yet." After saying this, Chen Ziyang took a deep breath.Although the air here smells very bad, full of musty and dusty smells, but after taking a few breaths, Chen Ziyang didn't feel any abnormality in his body, that is to say, the air here should be is breathable.

After walking forward for a few minutes, Chen Ziyang asked the others to turn off the valve of the oxygen tank and took off the gas mask.

"What... what's going on here?" After taking a few deep breaths, Chen Sanjin showed doubts on his face.

"We have all been fooled by the designer of the underground palace. Although I don't know who the designer of the underground palace is, this person is really scheming. The mechanism he designed has taken into account what the people in the central mechanism will think. Other than that In addition, he has considered very comprehensively, even the air here is a trap set by him."

"Air? The air here is breathable, but why is the flame of the dog oil candle green?" Chen Sanjin asked in confusion.

"Humph, this is precisely the ingenious design of this underground palace. Dog oil candles have been passed down for a long time. Ever since the business of tomb robbery began, dog oil candles have been invented and have been passed down from generation to generation.

That is to say, tomb robbers with certain experience will light dog oil candles after entering the underground palace to see if the air there can breathe.But now this thing has been slowly eliminated by air quality detectors.

But there were no air quality detectors in the Qing Dynasty.The person who built this underground palace made full use of the psychology of tomb robbers. He must have mixed something into the walls when he built the underground palace, and this thing would evaporate little by little.

If my guess is correct, after the volatilized gas comes into contact with the flame of the dog oil candle, it will turn the flame green, so as to create the illusion that the air here cannot breathe, and scare away the grave robbers . "

"What about the air quality detector? Everyone heard the siren. That thing should not be deceived."

"The real air quality detector is very large, and it takes a long time to analyze the gas composition. Such a thing is not easy to carry, even if it is brought here, it is useless, so the air quality detector carried by the team The device is actually a simple product.

This kind of air quality detector is relatively poor in precision, and if a large amount of impurities are detected, it will also sound an alarm.The results of the detector can only be used as a reference.

First there was the flame of the dog-oil candle that turned green, and then there was the alarm sound from the detector. Both the old and the new detection methods were deceived by the air here, and we were also deceived.

After seeing the flame of the dog oil candle change color, the siren sounded again, so a deep-rooted idea appeared in our minds, that is, there is no way to breathe the air here.

Alright, I don't have time to worry about these things anymore, let's save all the oxygen, maybe it will be really useful later. "

While speaking, Chen Ziyang led the team back along the mark left on the ground before, but after walking for a while, he suddenly stopped in place.

The traces that had been left on the ground and had been guiding the path to go back suddenly arrived in front of a stone wall.

Chen Ziyang was taken aback by this discovery, and then he understood what had happened.It is estimated that after the mechanism wall was activated just now, the mechanism here was also activated. A wall that should not exist here suddenly protruded, cutting off the passage that everyone had walked through before.

What used to be a "T"-shaped passage has now become a straight road, and it seems that the team can only move forward.

"This..." After seeing the stone wall in front of the trace, Yang Lei and Shan Shishuai were also stunned, with cold sweat oozing from their heads.

An ominous feeling permeated the hearts of the two of them. What they were most worried about now was whether everyone was completely sealed off here.

(End of this chapter)