diskusbooks Chapter 751 Living Puppet
Chapter 751 Living Puppet
Bai Wanwan and the others waited until the smell of the Deinosuchus's blood faded a little before they dared to step on the slippery stone slabs to the water's edge. They simply wiped the stains and blood spots on their faces with clean water.
Lexi took out a small pot from his backpack and placed it on a stone. He then took out the sealed pieces of meat and dry firewood, lit a torch to ignite the firewood pile. The water in the pot soon began to steam, and the aroma of meat mixed with the smell of firewood slowly spread in the tomb.
Even when this group of people entered a dangerous ancient tomb, they did not forget to bring food with them.
Bai Wanwan sat by the fire and whispered to Naitang who had come to her feet:
"Go ahead and ask your guests if you can get any information.
We need to know where the main burial chamber is."
Naitang squeaked twice, wagging its tail and dived into the darkness.
After a while, it was seen running back with a group of sleek mice, which had been digging holes and building nests in the tomb all year round.
He knew the structure of the place very well and kept chirping around Naitang.
Bai Wanwan took out some small pieces of meat from her backpack and handed them to the mice.
Milk tea, who was perched on the stone beam, flapped its wings twice and translated:
"Wanwan! They said this tomb is divided into five floors! We are now on the bottom floor, and this floor is full of gatekeepers.
Besides the giant crocodile just now, there are also poisonous scorpions hiding in the cracks of the rocks, and there are blind fish in the water that bite people. They are all blocking the way!"
It paused, tilted its head and pointed to the stone steps on the left that were covered with vines:
"You have to go up those stairs! There are a lot of bottles and jars of funerary objects piled up there.
There are paintings on the walls, maybe we can find the way to the main tomb!"
Bai Wanwan raised her hand to signal the people behind her to follow, and took the lead to walk towards the stone steps hidden in the shade of the trees.
The stone steps are never exposed to sunlight all year round, and the stone surface is covered with dark green vines. There are rotten leaves stuck under the wet vines, so you have to be extra careful when stepping on them.
The people around her stepped forward and used their hands to push away the tangled vines. The stone surface was covered with densely packed tiny holes, no bigger than a fingertip, and there was a little rust on the edges of the holes.
"Let's go." Just as Bai Wanwan finished speaking, there was a slight "click" sound, and cold light suddenly burst out from those tiny holes!
Countless iron arrows shot out like a torrential rain, attacking everyone's faces and hearts. Some people in the team screamed and swung their swords to block, and the iron arrows hit the blades, making a sharp and crisp sound.
At the moment when the rain of arrows was about to hit him, Chu Yi lowered his wrist, exerted force with his arm, and swept the blade across like a gust of wind.
"Dang! Dang!" With a few crisp sounds, all the arrows shot towards him were knocked away by the back of the knife.
The other guards immediately surrounded Bai Wanwan, protecting her in the middle, with swords flying in their hands, barely blocking the dense rain of arrows.
Suddenly, more than a dozen gray-haired mice jumped out from the cracks in the stone steps. They squatted on the steps, hugged their chests with their front paws, and made a strange "chirp chirp" sound. Their expressions clearly showed mockery.
"Wanwan! They are laughing at us!"
Milk Tea said angrily, "They said we were courting death, and that entering the main tomb was impossible. It's not something that foolish people like us can break into!"
Bai Wanwan's face darkened as he stared at the rats and said, "Kill them all!"
The two guards immediately stepped forward with swords drawn. Seeing this, the rats' eyes changed instantly. They bent their bodies and rushed deep into the stone steps, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Naitang lowered his head and looked at Bai Wanwan with guilt on his face.
Bai Wanwan looked at it and said:
“This has nothing to do with you.
No one expected these rats to be so cunning. We were careless."
As they walked up the stone steps, the stones beneath their feet became colder and colder, and the light around them dimmed. They could only rely on the torches in their hands to illuminate the way forward.
After walking for about a cup of tea, the view in front of them suddenly opened up and they had indeed reached the second level of the mausoleum.
This floor is a square stone chamber with intricate patterns carved on the walls, which look like patterns used by soldiers fighting in the past.
Looking towards the middle of the stone chamber, he was stunned. Dozens of soldiers were standing there in a neat row, all wearing rusty iron armor and holding long spears in their hands.
These soldiers seemed motionless, but if you looked closely, you would find that their feet were embedded in the grooves of the ground, and copper parts were exposed in the gaps in their armor, which were obviously made of machinery.
Chuyi took half a step forward, the light of the torch reflected on the iron armor, and suddenly there was a "click", and the arm of the "soldier" in the front moved.
The tip of the long spear slashed towards him, scaring him so much that he quickly stepped back.
The dozens of armored soldiers suddenly started moving with a "click-click" sound, the copper parts at the joints made a harsh sound, and the long spears in their hands stabbed towards the crowd.
They were so fast that they didn't seem like machines. Their feet made a "thump thump" sound on the stone slabs. They took several meters in one step and surrounded the crowd in a blink of an eye.
One of the guards failed to dodge and was hit on the arm by the long spear, which cut a hole in his armor and made him groan in pain.
Bai Wanwan's eyes widened as she watched the scene. She couldn't help but mutter, "How can this be a mechanism? This is clearly a living puppet!"
She stared at the soldier's face carefully, and could vaguely see his blackened skin under the armor mask.
Chuyi couldn't help but say:
"How can these things move? They clearly look dead.
But the force with which he swung his spear and the rhythm of his steps were more flexible than those of ordinary guards, and it didn't seem like a mechanism driven by gears at all."
A soldier suddenly bypassed Chuyi's knife and stabbed Bai Wanwan's chest with a long spear.
Chu Er quickly raised his shield to block it, and with a "bang", a small hole was poked on the shield.
Chu Er was shocked and took two steps back. He said in a deep voice: "Miss, retreat quickly! These things are extremely powerful. Ordinary swords and knives can't cut them at all!"
These soldiers were truly extremely powerful. No matter how hard the guards attacked them with knives or guns, they couldn't hurt them at all.
The armor on their bodies looks like ordinary iron sheets, but when bullets hit them, there is only a "clang" sound and not even a mark is left. No one can tell what they are made of.
Seeing that everyone was about to collapse, Bai Wanwan suddenly remembered that there must be a way to break the living puppet, and quickly shouted to the side: "Nai Ping! Don't sleep anymore, get up and think of a way!"
Milk Bottle was sleeping soundly curled up next to him. When he heard Bai Wanwan's voice, he rubbed his eyes. When he saw the living puppet in front of him, he suddenly became excited and his wings shook.
It flew around the top of the stone chamber, its eyes rolling around, and suddenly "whoosh" it rushed directly into the iron armor of the living puppet in front.
Everyone stared at the living puppet, only to see it swaying in place, its arms and legs twitching a few times, and then the other living puppets also slowed down.
After a long while, the bottle finally flew out from the gap in the armor, flapping its wings rapidly, panting, and sweat on its forehead.
Looking at those living puppets again, they all stopped moving, their arms drooping, and their long spears fell to the ground with a clang, as if the power had suddenly been cut off.