nashuaworldcup Chapter 748 Living Wall Maze
Chapter 748 Living Wall Maze
Naitang suddenly started chirping, moved his little body forward, and kept muttering "front, front".
It slowly explored the way forward, but when it reached a fork in the road, it suddenly stopped and kept barking at the passage on the left.
Milk tea beside him translated: "There is a trap here. The passage below is empty and contains quicksand."
Bai Wanwan immediately looked at the personal guards behind him who were familiar with the mechanism and said, "Go and take a look. If there really is a quicksand trap, find a way to dismantle it first."
Several bodyguards came forward holding fluorescent stones, squatted at the edge of the passage and knocked on the ground tentatively. The surface stone slabs looked solid, but there was a faint hollow sound underneath.
One of them used a dagger to pry open a piece of rubble, and sure enough, he saw a thin layer of camouflage soil underneath, and underneath the soil was fine quicksand.
As long as someone steps on it, the stone slab will break and the person will fall directly into it, being swallowed up by the quicksand bit by bit, without even a chance to struggle.
Sure enough, there were quite a few mechanisms in this ancient tomb. Just after bypassing the quicksand and taking a few steps forward, Naitang started chirping again, and his little paws kept scratching the stone wall next to him, as if to remind him that there was danger.
Everyone stopped immediately and looked in the direction it pointed. They saw that the stone walls on both sides of the tomb passage were densely packed with small holes. The holes didn't look big and no one knew what was hidden inside.
Old Li, who was familiar with the mechanism, leaned over and touched the stone wall. His expression suddenly changed:
"This is a poison arrow trap! The most sinister kind! As long as someone touches the stone slab next to it, poisonous arrows will be shot out from these small holes.
The poison on the arrowhead will kill you if you touch it, it's hard to dodge!"
Everyone quickly stepped back. The mechanism was hidden so secretly. If Naitang hadn't reminded them, they might have really fallen into trouble.
Milk tea shrank her neck, her voice filled with fear:
"Wanwan, I didn't expect that there were really the traps you mentioned in the ancient tomb. What was said in Ghost Blows Out the Light is actually true.
So, there really aren't any Zongzi in this ancient tomb, are there?"
Bai Wanwan shook her head and said:
“I don’t know if there are any rice dumplings, this is just the most basic trap.
There are still many strange things hidden in the ancient tomb! We can't be careless at all."
Just as they took two steps forward, a sharp whistle suddenly came from deep in the tomb passage. The sound was so thin and sharp that it hurt people's eardrums.
Before anyone could react, they saw a black mass flying out of the darkness ahead, and the buzzing sound was getting closer and closer. It was a swarm of bees!
Bai Wanwan's pupils shrank, and she immediately shouted, "These aren't ordinary bees, they're killer bees! Quick, use something to block them!"
Those killer bees have already pounced close. They are a circle larger than ordinary bees, with a black and yellow abdomen and a stinger flashing with cold light. Once they set their sights on the target, they will sting it to death.
In a blink of an eye, two bodyguards were stung and fell to the ground rolling around in pain.
Black gas instantly emerged from the face of the stung soldier, his lips turned purple, and his body twitched twice before he became motionless. It was obvious that the poison was extremely strong.
Just when everyone was panicking, Milk Bottle suddenly yawned a little and rushed out flapping its wings.
It was surrounded by a faint glow like a firefly, flickering in the dark tomb passage, and flew straight towards the killer bee swarm.
The killer bees that were so ferocious just now, when they saw the bottle, their buzzing sound instantly weakened as if they had seen their natural enemy.
It turned around and fled back, flying faster than when it came. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared without a trace, not even a single one was left.
Bai Wanwan looked at it and said, "Can these two personal soldiers be saved?"
Milk bottle nodded and rushed directly into the body of the personal soldier. After a long while, the expressions of the two men gradually returned to normal.
Batu stared with his eyes wide open, and sighed in his heart that Bai Wanwan was so powerful that she could even control this kind of insect.
He stared at the bottle that flew back into Bai Wanwan's arms and muttered softly, "What the hell is this? It looks like a firefly, but fireflies aren't this big, and they're not this powerful!"
Bai Wanwan didn't explain much, just waved her hand and said, "Let's keep going forward. Be careful, the dangers here are getting worse and worse."
Gu Sinian nodded and said, "This is just an appetizer. I'm afraid there will be something more dangerous later."
Just as he finished speaking, the ground beneath his feet suddenly shook. It wasn't a slight tremor, but a violent tremor, as if something was crashing underneath, and the dust in the cracks between the stone slabs fell down.
Before everyone could stand firmly, they saw the tomb passage in front of them suddenly "click" a few times, and the stone walls on both sides moved towards the middle, and several forks were formed.
The team was suddenly divided into several groups, with newly emerged stone walls separating people, and the road ahead was like a maze.
"Wanwan! Wanwan!" Gu Sinian was separated on the other side and shouted anxiously.
Fifteen, who was standing nearby, scratched his head, puzzled. "How could this tomb passage change so much? It's too weird!"
Gu Sinian sighed, and his voice came through the cracks in the stone:
"This is called a living wall maze, a mechanism in the ancient tomb.
It must be that the shaking of the ground just now triggered the gears underneath, causing the stone wall to move, deliberately separating us so that they can trap us one by one."
Ah Zhi nodded repeatedly, with a hint of agreement in his tone:
"Yes! The Eighteenth Prince is right. This is a living wall maze, and the most troublesome one at that.
The wall moves in an irregular pattern, and the fork in the road changes. If you take a wrong step, you might get stuck inside and can't get out!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the ground beneath their feet suddenly made a "boom" sound, and the stone slab in the middle actually sank down. Ah Zhi, Gu Sinian and another personal soldier didn't have time to hide, and fell down with a "thump".
When they stood firm, they discovered that there was another tomb passage below, which was much colder than the one above.
The wind came in from a gap from somewhere, making people's backs shiver, and the air was filled with the smell of stale rotten wood.
"Ah - coffin, coffin!" Fifteen suddenly screamed, pointing his finger forward, his voice shaking.
Everyone looked in the direction and saw a dark nanmu coffin at the end of the tomb passage, with intricate patterns carved on it.
Fifteen was so scared that he rushed over and hugged Gu Sinian's arm, his whole body trembling.
Gu Sinian frowned as he was strangled, and couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Isn't it just a coffin? What are you afraid of? Get out of here quickly, my arm hurts."
Fifteen made a bitter face, but did not loosen his grip: "I have been afraid of these things since I was a child. They are dark and scary to look at. Gu Sinian protected me..."
Gu Sinian said helplessly: "Fifteen, you are already a grown-up, isn't it just a coffin? Not a zongzi! You..."
Before he could finish his words, he heard thumping sounds from inside the coffin. Shiwu hugged him even tighter. Gu Sinian pushed him away and said, "How can I walk like this? Not to mention if Wanwan sees it, how embarrassing!"