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Seeing the reversal of the situation, Li Cha Yi's face was obviously shocked and angry.

Surprised by the sudden mechanism in the main hall, everyone who had just arrived in the main hall was caught off guard; angry at the fact that there were so many people in the group led by Zhong Zhe, he didn't notice for a while, allowing these tails to take advantage of the opportunity to steal Come in, causing him to lose one of his vitality.

Li Cha Yi said with a gloomy face: "Don't forget, the hostage is still in my hands, and the things are with me. Anyone who dares to act rashly, I will kill the girl first."

He said that he personally grabbed Cocoa and pressed it in front of him. For a moment, Zhong Zhe needed all his strength to suppress his emotions. He had never hated so much with gritted teeth.

A few steps away, Zhong Ke held back his tears and looked at Zhong Zhe with his big eyes open.

Zhong Zhe's eyes turned red immediately, "Ke Ke, it's fine, brother will take you home soon."

Li Cha Yi smiled grimly, and said: "You and Gao Jianye should study the situation in this sacrificial hall carefully first, and discuss how to move forward."

Uncle Gao glared at him and said, "Let them let me go first, so we can do things."

Li Cha Yi waved his hand nonchalantly, signaling his subordinates to let go of the man, and at the same time, his guns did not let go, pointing tightly at the hostage.

"Both of you, let me know." Li Cha Yi turned to Uncle Gao and Zhong Zhe again, "Work hard, if you don't obey and break your hands and feet, it won't affect the next thing, don't you think?"

Uncle Gao turned his head away, half of his beautiful beard flew up in anger, and cursed in a low voice, "You're a guy who can be hacked into pieces."

Zhong Zhe had no choice but to give the old man a smooth ride, and then the two started again and continued to survey the hall.

"Uncle Gao, I think there may be another mechanism." Zhong Zhe put forward his guess as he walked around the main hall.

Uncle Gao agreed, "I think so too. The entire underground building, especially this hall of enjoyment, was extremely important to the ancients at that time. This can be seen from the fact that they still did not forget to seal the door to the hall of enjoyment when they evacuated in a hurry. .

Since such an important sacrificial hall has been set up to prevent people from intruding, it will not only house one type. "

"It should be multiple, even serial, similar to those in ancient tombs." Zhong Zhe echoed.

"It's just that the trigger conditions should be different. You see, we didn't encounter any obstacles when we entered from the front hall. You also passed through the Shinto before. Although it was a bit eerie, you didn't follow any ultimate moves. But once you step on the sacrificial steps of the Xiangdian It was different, the mechanism was triggered immediately.

The organ settings here should all have specific trigger conditions, and the organs in the tomb will attack people indiscriminately almost from the time of destroying the tomb passage and attempting to enter. "

"Indeed." Zhong Zhe finally concluded, "This proves even more that the altar above the stairs is the key."

Several of the bright lights on both sides were shattered in the previous chaos, and only one was left in normal use at this time.Shoot the light to the high platform, and every other high step of the light seems to be swallowed alive.By the time of the eighth giant tripod, there was only a faint light left.

The range of the strong light searchlight, in extreme cases, is not a problem at a distance of three to five hundred meters. No matter how tall the hall is, it is impossible to exceed this distance, but it is visible to the naked eye, and the light is insufficient at the eighth highest level.

Everyone turned on all the tactical flashlights in their hands without calling, but the top of the altar was still hazy, and they couldn't see their faces clearly, but at least they could see some clues at this moment, the air in the hall seemed to be filled with some kind of substance on the upper floor It is deposited there, appearing like a mist, blocking the light from entering.

This is consistent with what Richard Yi and Uncle Gao observed with a telescope when they first entered the palace.

"I still can't see clearly. It seems that we can only know when we go up." Uncle Gao sighed again.

"You guys, find someone to go up and try again!" Li Cha Yi said to Cheng Ling and the action team.

Before Cheng Ling could speak, Zhong Zhe said angrily: "Look at how many steps these stairs have, there are a total of 81 steps, if you send all the people here, even if they are all dead, it will not be enough for you to try!

You have to find the right path. "

Zhong Zhe said that he couldn't try it lightly, but when he finished teasing Li Cha Yi, he walked towards the stairs by himself. Seeing this, Cheng Ling almost stepped over to his side.

Cheng Ling blocked Zhong Zhe's path and said, "What are you going to do?"

The place that was not hit by the lightning was dim, and Zhong Zhe couldn't notice Cheng Ling's sullen frown.

"I have to take a closer look to see if there are any clues around the stairs." He slightly turned towards Cheng Ling and said, "Don't worry, I will try my best to be careful."

Cheng Ling didn't make another sound, but just followed Zhong Zhe closely, showing no intention of retreating.

Someone wanted to push Cheng Ling back to the other side of the confrontation, so Uncle Gao couldn't help standing up and saying, "If Zhong Zhe is in danger, what good will it do you?"

Li Cha Yi raised his chin, and the man backed away completely.

Zhong Zhe had already started searching around in the area in front of the stairs, and soon, he found two layers of cases on the right side of the main hall near the stone wall.When people got close to the desk, a faint scent of golden nanmu wafted in the dark, and Zhong Zhe took a flashlight again. The red paint on the outside of the desk was deep and well preserved, and it was as bright as blood under the white light.

The two deputy cases are tall and short.

There are two kinds of sacrificial utensils on the high table, which have been oxidized to bronze over the years, and they are two kinds of sacrificial vessels. If you look closely, you can see that the huge copper plate with a diameter of nearly one meter is covered with copper fish of different sizes. The fish bodies are exquisitely carved and have different postures. , Some are crouched, some are straight swimming, some are bending over, some are probing, and they are placed in different groups according to groups, some are single and some are gathered, and the depiction is lifelike.

Looking at the water pot next to the copper plate, in Cheng Ling's eyes, it looks like an Aladdin's magic lamp magnified countless times, but in Zhong Zhe's eyes, the lower part of it is completely a pig's belly, neck The head is like a sheep, the head is a dog's head, the cover is decorated with ox horns, and the four feet are horseshoe-shaped. The typical shape is a mixture of fantasy mythical beasts, and the six animals created by Nuwa are used.

After looking at the tall cases, Zhong Zhe continued to move his gaze to the slightly shorter cases, on which were placed incense boxes, copper spoons and other auxiliary items.

So far, Zhong Zhe has walked back and forth through the entire area in front of the altar, and all the decorations have been observed.

Unable to find anything special, after some hesitation, Zhong Zhe decided to give it a try according to etiquette.

He opened the top cover of the water tank, and shouted to Richard Yi who was staring at him like a poisonous snake in the distance: "Give me some water, a little more."

Soon someone threw a water jug ​​up, Cheng Ling caught it, Zhong Zhe motioned him to pour it directly into his body, the whole jug of water was poured down, and it only covered the bottom of his belly with a thin layer.

Cheng Ling asked Zhong Zhe, "Do you want more?"

"Try and talk."

Zhong Zhe closed the cover tightly again and handed it to Cheng Ling, "Now you and I will cooperate to perform the ritual of fertilizing the wash before the sacrifice. The specific method is that you hold the 匜 and pour water into my hands, and then it will naturally fall into the dish middle."

Before offering sacrifices, the ancients had to wash their hands cleanly to show caution.

Now that they have found the Emperor Wa's Xiangdian, let's try to worship the ancestors first.

Cheng Ling began to do what Zhong Zhe said.

As the poured water column passed Zhong Zhe's hands and fell into the bronze plate, the water began to slowly seep into the small holes under the bodies of many bronze fish. After a while, there was a clear sound of mechanism turning from the bottom of the plate.At this moment, seeing that there is not much water left in the 匜, the engine clicks and clicks, as if it has failed to start many times.

Before Zhong Zhe could speak, Cheng Ling said to the two teams: "Quick, throw some more pots of water up."

Two jugs were thrown up one after another, and Cheng Ling and Zhong Zhe caught them respectively. At this time, they didn't care about the etiquette procedures, and they unscrewed the lids and poured them into the plate.

After a while, a shallow layer of clear water finally accumulated on the bottom of the plate, and the mechanism made a smooth mechanical sound, and the two watched the various copper fish on the plate happily swimming along the established route.

Suddenly, there was a huge sound of mechanism coming from a distance outside the sacrificial hall, and then a gust of wind blew by, and everyone suddenly realized that some level had been cleared.

Where the wind passed by, the main hall lit up layer by layer, as if an invisible hand cast a magic spell that blinded people's eyes and ears, turning the dark and gloomy temple into bright lights with a flick of a finger.Up and down the broad stone walls on both sides, hundreds of long-burning lamps are all lit up in one piece. In the brilliance, the swaying countless wicks seem to be dancing with thousands of spiritual lights.

The cold and gloomy air in the hall was also expelled by the fire, but this feeling was fleeting, and everyone immediately felt the thorns on their backs. The lights seemed to be turned on not to deliver light, but to better monitor the people in the hall. All action.

Goosebumps appeared on Zhang Yu's body, he couldn't help but turned to Uncle Gao and said, "Why did this light turn on by itself?"

Uncle Gao said unhurriedly: "The ancients used yellow phosphorus and many flammable substances to fuse together and twist them into a wick. Just now Zhong Zhe activated the mechanism, and the flint lit up the first ever-burning lamp. This lamp is like a domino. The first card, after collapsing, can drive a series of subsequent dominoes.

After the first lamp is lit, it will be transmitted to all the permanent lamps through the pre-set invisible flammable oil circuit, and then with the strong wind blowing in, a large amount of oxygen will be brought into the room as an oxidant, and the two can be ignited The ever-burning lights of the entire hall. "

"It's amazing, it's amazing." Zhang Yu looked at Uncle Gao with bright eyes. He didn't know whether it meant that the wisdom and skills of the ancients were unparalleled, or that Uncle Gao, an expert, was really invincible in his analysis.

"Look there!" Xiao Na, who had successfully sneaked into the main hall with her teammates before, was also attentively listening to Uncle Gao's explanation, at this moment she suddenly spoke from behind the two of them, pointing to the steps of the altar in front of the hall.

Everyone saw that the ever-burning lamps on the stairs were only burning from bottom to top at this moment, forming a special zigzag route on the narrow stairs on the left and right sides.

The flames illuminated the entire altar more and more, and the nine giant cauldrons in the center of the high steps finally fully revealed the terrifying pattern of animal heads amidst the brilliance of thousands of flickering lights in the hall. Bloodthirsty aura, flashing green light.

The nine beast heads on the belly of the bronze tripod all have fierce eyes and huge fangs, lined up vertically from top to bottom, as if they could jump down and swallow people at any time.This attitude of condescending and subduing all living beings makes people involuntarily fearful.

Li Cha Yijian Zhongzhe made such a big battle, his iconic weird smile finally appeared on his face, "It seems that we can send someone up to try it. Then, except for Uncle Gao and you, the rest Which one should go up?"

"It's better, it's you."

Li Cha Yi pointed at Cheng Lingdao.