pappabearbooks Chapter 809 The key to solving the puzzle
Chapter 809 The key to solving the puzzle
This is a game, rather than letting the craftsman open the door where he doesn't know.
It's better to tell them that a retreat has been prepared.
In this way, when they leave, they can be caught in one fell swoop.
Ancient people liked this kind of intrigue.
Lin Ran's words made others shudder, as if the ancient nobles were murderous demons.
But it is true that in the feudal era, servants were just accessories to their masters and had no freedom throughout their lives, including death.
While Liu Jingfeng admired Lin Ran's knowledge, he also began to think and asked, "Brother Lin, according to what you said, shouldn't the exits be sealed more tightly?"
"Most of the cases are like this." Lin Ran replied, "But there is another possibility..."
They had previously determined that the owner of the tomb was an extremely ambitious person. He designed the tomb above the dragon veins so that future generations could look like emperors.
To build such a luxurious mausoleum, the internal mechanisms must be maintained regularly.
Therefore, it is very likely that this door has a key to open it, allowing craftsmen to enter and maintain it.
The mechanisms in the tomb are so secret, and it has been at least 600 years since there was no large-scale damage to the internal structure.
Maintenance potential is high.
"So I speculate that this door must have an activated mechanism, but... it may have been destroyed after the tomb was sealed."
If the tomb is not sealed, there should be a simple way to open the door.
But now, unless the tomb owner's men are fools, they will never leave the activated mechanism behind.
Various previous agencies have shown signs of this.
"Then you said a lot of nonsense, didn't you?" Lao Hei's men curled their lips dissatisfied, thinking that Lin Ran said something useful, but in his opinion, it was all nonsense.
"Stop talking." Lao Hei was deeply touched by Lin Ran's words.
The previous leg would never tell them this, so they followed him to the grave for many years and did not learn any knowledge about the mechanism from him.
Although Lin Ran's explanation could not directly give them a solution, it opened up a new horizon for them.
When encountering similar agencies in the future, you can consider it from this perspective.
This alone made Lin Ran's level much higher than his previous legs.
Lin Ran didn't mind his abruptness. When he gave explanations in the museum before, he had seen many unreasonable people and was already used to it.
The others also glared at Lao Hei's men. With such useful knowledge, they actually thought Lin Ran was talking nonsense.
After conjecturing, the others began to take action.
"Let's look for the activation switch." Although the possibility is unlikely, we have to try our luck after all.
Lin Ran stopped talking and carefully observed the floor in front of the stone door.
There are no traces of friction on it, which means that the stone door was not pushed from this side.
The stone door is closed from the opposite side, and this is the way out.
So Lin Ran's guess was correct. He used a mechanism to push the stone from the other side to its current position.
After searching for a long time, there was no other conspicuous object except the stone statue.
"How about we give it a try?" Lao Hei asked.
He thought turning the statue or reaching into its eye sockets would be the solution.
"I don't think so." Lin Ran categorically rejected, "This is a designer who understands human nature well. He will definitely design traps."
Lao Hei asked: "Is it possible that he deliberately set up the stone statue as a trap, but it was actually the trap?"
This speculation is not unreasonable. The previous agency only gave them a warning, but when they got to the real intersection, they started to play conspiracy with others.
Lin Ran smiled, he was not sure about this.
He said, "How about we go back first and you try to turn on the machine?"
"Forget it..." Lao Hei was unexpectedly frightened. This was something he had never done before.
It also meant that he began to completely trust Lin Ran.
If the solution isn't here...
Lin Ran suddenly remembered the way they had just come. If stone pillar No. 15 could keep descending, where would it end?
"There was something wrong with the stone pillar just now." Lin Ran said, "We only regarded it as a road. Maybe he is the key to unlocking the mechanism."
Lin Ran's bold speculation shocked everyone.
The rising and falling stone pillars are a nightmare for them. They can't see the scene next to them at all. They can only see the stone pillars in front and behind, and they don't know how deep the abyss is in the darkness.
If the mechanism was up there, they wouldn't have the courage to touch it.
"Mr. Lin, why don't you speak more frankly?" Lao Hei asked.
"I think you have to step on a certain stone pillar to unlock the tomb door." As he said that, he looked back at the cliff.
Then he walked over alone, Wang Jinpeng followed first, followed by the others.
Lao Hei was about to follow. At this time, his subordinate asked again: "Boss, how about we try it ourselves?"
Another person had already reached the stone statue and said, "I suspect he is just pretending to be a ghost. The switch should be inside the stone statue."
Just as he was about to turn the stone statue, suddenly there was a crisp sound from the tomb chamber.
"Snapped."
With a loud slap in the face, Lao Hei knocked the man next to him to the ground. The man who was about to turn the Buddha statue was too frightened to move.
"If you dare to disobey me again, don't blame me for being rude to you." Lao Hei said in a cold tone.
He believed that Lin Ran would not deceive him, and these two men, as well as the guy who died and ran away before, had only caused trouble for him, and he was already a little angry.
"I'm sorry." They were frightened and quickly got up and stood behind Lao Hei.
Lin Ran and others looked back, but they still didn't understand what happened.
Lao Hei said: "It's okay, they want to make their own decisions again, and I have dissuaded them."
"Oh, okay." Lin Ran smiled slightly. They were a team now, and teamwork was more important than individual strength.
They had already lit torches, illuminating the stone pillars in front of them.
The secret to unlocking the mechanism is on the stone pillar.
Lin Ran decided to take the lead and was about to tie a rope to himself.
But Lao Hei took the lead and tied the rope.
"It's time for me to show off my skills." Lao Hei said, having been hiding behind him for this period of time, Lao Hei felt that he had never been so useless.
Seeing his serious look, Lin Ran smiled, he was a man.
He nodded and said: "Okay, but this is a very risky thing."
"You have to stand on No. 15 stone pillar, and then let it sink all the way to see where it sinks."
This was a big gamble. According to the previously discovered rules, the stone pillar would sink at least two to three meters. In that case, he would not be able to jump back to the platform and would have to hold on to the edge of the cliff to climb up.
Lao Hei made a no problem gesture and immediately jumped onto the stone pillar.
The stone pillar began to sink at a speed visible to the naked eye... Moreover, the falling speed of this stone pillar was somewhat beyond Lin Ran's expectation.
They quickly leaned to the edge of the cliff and looked down.