my cube kingdom

Chapter 329 The Redstone Machine Leading Deep Underground

"Crack! Crack——"

"Crack-"

The soldiers gathered around the periphery of the central platform of the huge pit, holding crossbow bolts or shells in their hands, and staring closely at the place where the sound came from.

Judging from their previous encounters, triggering the redstone mechanism is not a good thing.

Don't you see, Iron Nose is still watching them from a distant unknown place.

"Crack! Crack——"

"Crack-"

"Crack-"

"..."

The frequency of the sound of the piston became louder, and the soldiers held their weapons more vigilantly, ready to meet what appeared from the ground at any time.

But when the soldiers' nerves were tense, the sound of the piston rang and began to slowly decrease, and finally disappeared.

"The redstone signal has been transmitted to the end. The unknown redstone mechanism under the central platform may have started, but it may not have fully started..."

The button in the cube world is a momentary switch. It cannot maintain the redstone signal for a long time like a lever. It can only maintain the redstone signal for a short time, and it will disappear automatically when the time is up.

But the momentary switch does not affect the activation of redstone machinery.

Logically speaking, after contact with the redstone signal, the unknown redstone machine below should have started, but why did it stop suddenly after it was ringing?
"This redstone machine is very broken!"

Soldiers generally think that this situation is just that the redstone machine is secretly accumulating power, and when they are not paying attention, it will release danger and cause them to suffer losses.

So the nerves are still tense.

1 minutes, 2 minutes, 3 minutes...

Time is gradually passing between the crossbows and cannons of the soldiers ready to go.

"what happened?"

So much time has passed, but there is still no response on the platform in the center of the pit.

It seemed that the violent piston sound ten minutes ago was just a fantasy.

"Is there a problem with the redstone machine?"

"It's possible. How many years have passed, even a simple redstone circuit will be corroded."

The top brass of the main force are still watching the wide central platform from a distance, hesitating whether to send soldiers up to check the situation.

"Could the switch not just have one?"

A grassroots military officer who had been exposed to basic redstone education in school raised his hand and made a bold guess.

This grassroots officer just graduated from the Cube Academy last year, and like many classmates, he devoted himself to the military industry of the Cube Kingdom.

Because of his professional and systematic study, he has a little understanding of redstone, a technology that drives the development of Cube Kingdom in all aspects.

"There are some complex redstone mechanisms that require multiple switches to be activated at the same time. Is the redstone mechanism below the same?"

[Article [-] of the Cube Kingdom Military Law] clearly stipulates that every soldier is equal, has the right to make reasonable suggestions and requests to his superiors, has the right to participate in internal elections within the group, and has the right to conduct affairs with dignity... …

Because of this, this grassroots cadre dared to stand upright and say this to the high-level officials.

"It is indeed possible."

"You can try."

"According to what this comrade said, the position of the remaining switch may have a lot to do with the position of this switch."

Press the switch again, and there is still a violent piston sound from the central platform of the huge pit, but there is no actual response.

At this time, the senior leaders of the main force agreed but looked for other switches.

As for where are the other switches?

Already obvious.

The known button is located at the end of the largest tunnel just south of the central platform of the giant crater.

And there are one such large tunnel on the north, west and east sides of the central platform of the huge pit, and none of them have been explored by the action team yet.

If the builder of this ruin is a highly intelligent creature, then such a layout can be imagined without guessing.

"Notify the action team on standby to explore the large tunnels in the north, west, and east directions of the central platform."

"Yes!"

Action Squad No. 11, Action Squad No. 62, and Action Squad No. 98 received orders to act quickly.

The efficiency of the operation was very fast, and the news spread separately after a while, which verified the conjecture of the grassroots officer.

"Report! Buttons and carvings found at the end of the northern tunnel!"

"Report! Buttons and carvings found at the end of the western tunnel!"

"Report! Buttons and carvings found at the end of the eastern tunnel!"

"Sure enough, no matter what era it is in, obsessive-compulsive disorder will always be a neutral buff that intelligent creatures will have."

Looking at the others with a smile, Rong Huang immediately ordered the entire army to enter a state of alert, and then sent personnel to the four places with buttons to wait for his order.

"start up button!"

This time, four buttons were pressed at the same time, and after a moment of redstone delay, a more intense piston sound came out from the central platform of the huge pit.

"Crack! Kick!"

The ground that was originally covered with stones was pushed away by several pistons, and the pistons that pushed away the stones were pushed away by the lower layer of pistons.

Then it is pushed up by the next layer of pistons.

In short, after repeating the matryoshka five times, the direction of the upward-push piston finally changed to push-back.

Anyway, countless pistons pushing back and forth dazzled the soldiers.

They couldn't tell whether the redstone machine was for function or entertainment.

"Crack! Kick! Kick!"

After 1 minute, the piston finally ceased functioning and was dragged back under the original hidden stone.

A well-shaped entrance leading to a deeper underground also appeared in front of the soldiers.

It looks like it should be a 25×25 square entrance, but looking down from the top, all that can be seen is thick black.

Fear and curiosity about the unknown spread to many fighters.

"Is this... a portal?"

To the south of the well-shaped entrance there is a ladder leading to the darkness, but the ruins have existed for a long time, and this wooden ladder has been dilapidated.

"I can't see clearly, there may be something below that we don't understand that blocks the light."

Throw down a burning torch. At first the light from the torch can illuminate a little darkness, but after reaching a point, the torch simply disappears in the darkness.

This unbelievable phenomenon did not arouse the surprise of the soldiers, on the contrary, the soldiers all showed the expressions they should have.

"Obviously, there's something down here that we don't understand."

So now they had another problem, what to do with the darkness below.

Some officers believed that it was necessary to fight steadily and record the situation around the surface of the clearing well first.

Another group of officers believed that the periphery of the well-shaped entrance was forcibly cut off by unknown darkness, and observation was useless, and they should send people in to obtain first-hand information.

There are also some who believe that the Cube Kingdom's army can't stand the toss now, and they should focus on preserving their strength, and don't explore things under this entrance.

(End of this chapter)