pappabearbooks Chapter 2489: Looking for the secret passage
Chapter 2489: Looking for the secret passage
Lin Ran asked the troops to stop advancing, while he touched his chin and faced the wall, thinking.
He vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Because what was lying in the tomb was obviously two groups of people.
Some of them have East Asian faces, while others are purely European and American.
It is absolutely impossible for European and American archaeological teams to bring so many East Asians, and their equipment and weapons are completely different.
The question is, in the passage of the robbery cave, most of the people who fell were members of the European and American archaeological teams. What about the other team?
Why did the feeling suddenly disappear?
If he was eaten by a monster, then the monster was too picky. It would be unreasonable to eat only one of the tomb robbers.
If they were not eaten by monsters, why would the number of people in the tomb be completely different? It is impossible to say that the number of people sent by the Asian archaeological team would be less.
Where did the missing body go?
Based on the above judgments, Lin Ran believed that there must be a secret passage in the robbery cave, and the other archaeological team members would disappear out of thin air.
And these two groups of people here, the wounds on their bodies are not only caused by monsters, but most likely due to internal fighting between the two teams.
If there is a secret passage, where will it be?
Lin Ran frowned and glanced back and forth on the wall, ceiling, and ground.
The entrance to the secret passage cannot be born out of thin air, so it must be attached to a certain location, but where will it be.
He looked back and forth several times, using the light of a flashlight to check everything in the cave.
At this time, he also discovered something. After entering the corridor, the light in their flashlights returned to its original warm yellow color, and was no longer the green color in the main tomb chamber and corridor.
With the help of the flashlight, Lin Ran was carefully observing the situation in the burglar's cave.
What he is looking for is a secret door.
The entrance to the secret passage is the secret door.
Lin Ran thought in his heart that although there were many unreasonable things about this ancient tomb, its structure still followed certain rules.
If there is a secret door in the secret passage, the structure of the secret door must ensure that the secret door is not easily destroyed.
To open the secret door, you definitely need a mechanism to activate it. Although ancient mechanisms were also made of metal, the most commonly used ones were made of wood and stone.
If it is necessary to keep the mechanism from decaying for a long time, mercury or stone is most likely to be used.
The mechanism must be a stone slab, but in the passage of the Robbery Cave, there are stone slabs carved with strange symbols on both sides. I want to find the stone slab...
He quickly scanned the stone slabs on the wall with his eyes. He couldn't understand the meaning of the words on it, so he didn't go into it further.
Just like playing a number game, it is difficult to find the unchanging number among a group of constantly changing numbers. It is difficult to find the answer by scanning line by line. The best way is to use dynamic vision.
Lin Ran quickly turned his head and spun around in circles.
Sure enough, he saw it. Although it was somewhat similar to other symbols, it was heading towards a completely different stone slab.
That's it!
Lin Ran came to the wall on the right and used a flashlight to shine on the stone slab that he had noticed was abnormal.
This should be the trigger device.
He didn't touch it directly with his hands because he didn't know whether it was a secret door switch or a mechanism. He wanted to check the nearby environment first to see if there were any arrow holes or falling rocks.
Of course, the inspection agency can only start from these two angles. If it is a trap, there is nothing he can do.
Tomb robbing is a game between the question maker and the solver. If it is just an ordinary ancient tomb, later generations of solvers can rely on the gradually developing natural science to explain it. However, for this kind of ancient tomb, the scientific and technological level is compared with today's science. , I really can’t tell who is higher and who is lower, so I can only try my luck.
Lin Ran put his hand on the stone slab and tried to press it down, but to no avail.
This stone slab was carved into the wall and has been completely fixed.
He tried again by grabbing the raised text and turning it, moving it slightly to the left, and sure enough he felt it was loose.
No wonder this group of European and American tomb robbers failed to find the switch of the secret door, even though they had arrived at the target location.
Without a brain, there is really no way to crack the mechanism in front of you.
Lin Ran followed this idea and began to turn the stone slab in front of him.
"squeak"
The stone slab made a sound when it was rotating, which startled Wang Jinpeng and the others.
"Brother Lin, what did you do?"
"I'm looking for the entrance to the secret door." Lin Ran replied, but after turning half a circle, Lin Ran found that he needed a lot of strength to continue turning.
Calling Wang Jinpeng to help, after earning about three-quarters of the position, he could no longer move.
"Xu Ning, come and help." Wang Jinpeng shouted to Xu Ning. He thought that with the strength of their two strong men, they could forcibly turn the direction of the stone slab.
"Don't do it yet." Lin Ran stopped their thoughts of forcibly turning.
Although this mechanism looks tough on the surface, it has not changed after thousands of years.
In fact, if it is forcibly twisted, the structure inside is probably already loose. Adding more force will only destroy the mechanism, and may even trigger other potential mechanisms.
"What should we do?" Wang Jinpeng asked anxiously. In normal times, Lin Ran would have to slowly crack the mechanism, and he would never complain at all. But now, there are monsters approaching step by step outside the tomb passage, and death may occur at any time. It's dangerous. They don't want to bet their lives on a secret door that they don't know exists.
Lin Ran forced himself to calm down.
One thing he noticed was that the light of the flashlight began to gradually turn into a cold color.
Just like the situation outside, it won't take long before it turns dark green.
This strange phenomenon can only explain one thing.
The monster outside is already approaching. Although I don't understand the principle, there is no need to explain the principle in this kind of ancient tomb. As long as you know that the light will change color when the monster approaches.
Under this circumstance, different voices finally began to appear in the team.
"Brother Lin, boss, how about we run forward first." Huang Hao was so frightened that he was not afraid of rice dumplings. The corpse of the foreigner in the coffin and the miserable state of the corpse made Huang Hao feel scared for a while.
"No! Going forward will definitely lead to a dead end!" Lin Ran whispered.
"why?"
"Didn't you notice that they are all hiding in this place? If there was a way out, why would the two groups gather in this place?" After Lin Ran finished speaking, he stopped explaining. He understood that the people in Liu Jingfeng's team must understand his good intentions. Be careful.
Huang Hao hesitated to speak, but finally bit his lip and said no more.