Chapter 40 Section Thirty-ninth Chain Organs and Gunshots

Ling Ning's anger had dissipated long ago. She just didn't turn the corner at first, but when she turned her head and thought about it, she figured it out a long time ago with her cleverness, and spat lightly: "Hmph! Machismo !" It's just that the girl's inherent reserve made her unable to show her kindness for a while.Of course, at this time, she didn't know that the group of men outside had already made a decision not to let her follow him. After plunging headlong into the ancient pagoda, she was staring blankly at a mural on a wall and thinking about something out of anger. Now that she had figured it out, she suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the mural she was staring at blankly. .

What is wrong, she will not be able to say for a while, but she just feels that something is wrong.The mural facing her on this wall is about Prince Xudana walking into the forest with his wife and children.Ling Ningzai looked at the characters in this mural carefully, and finally found out where the problem was? It's the hand, the hand of Prince Sudana.Although he led his wife and children to the forest, one hand was behind his back, and his four fingers were curled up while his index finger was stretched out. completely different.Ling Ning had seen the photocopies of this kind of story mural, but he didn't notice this kind of detail at the first time, until he stared at the mural for a long time and accidentally found something wrong.

Following the direction of the finger in the mural, Ling Ning looked for it. The mural was the content of four Brahmins asking for alms from Prince Sudana.This time Ling Ning learned his lesson, she was looking for the details of the figures in the murals, and soon she found a clue on the first Brahman on the far left. At this time, Sangbu just came in to fix the safety rope, Ling Ning was concentrating on his new discovery and didn't have time to greet him, but Sangbu understood that he was still acting petty.When Sangbu fixed the rope on the copper pillar and went out, Ling Ning's thoughts were all on the mural, and the secrets in the mural made her heart itch.

The eyes of the first Brahman on the left were slanted. He was not looking at the person he was asking for alms—Prince Sudana, but on the other side. The eyes of the other three were fixed on the benefactor Lord's. What the eyes were pointing at was the mural on the second floor, which was the eagle in the story of "Cutting Meat to Feed the Eagle".Ling Ning immediately discovered that there was something wrong with the eagle's wings. Its wings seemed to be a little high and low, and there was no balance, but the imbalance was so slight that it couldn't be seen without looking carefully.Further down, Ling Ning couldn't find anything. The eagle's wings, whether it was the tall one or the low one, didn't have any clear references.

Does the clue stop here?Ling Ning was not reconciled.She felt that the ancients would not be so boring, leaving some unknown clues, are these hints? Thinking of this, Ling Ning's heart became excited again. She went back to the original mural and confirmed once again that apart from the prince's hand, there was really nothing special about it. "Index finger?" Isn't this "index finger" just used to point the direction, but does it actually point to something?Ling Ning thought hard, and she always felt that there seemed to be some key point that she hadn't grasped. Sometimes there seemed to be some clues, but they disappeared in an instant.

She once again connected the three murals that she believed to be related in some way, and then she looked around the entire ancient pagoda, "Four people, four copper pillars, index fingers, wings, could it be?" Ling Ning corresponded to the copper pillars in the ancient pagoda and the statue, and kept turning various thoughts in his mind. She decided to start with the nearest copper pillar.These four copper pillars were carefully looked at by everyone yesterday. They are four smooth pillars cast in cooked copper and covered with tree bark. Ling Ning touched the copper pillars painted with tree varnish inch by inch with his hands. , focusing on the first copper pillar on the left hand.

But unfortunately, she touched them one by one, but found nothing. Ling Ning was not discouraged, and looked up at the statue thoughtfully, not knowing what he was thinking. Soon, she made up her mind, turned around and walked out, calling in a soldier who was staying by the bridge.Originally, according to Da Qi's intention, there should be at least four people left, two to guard the single-plank bridge, and two to keep watch on the cliff.It's a pity that they really didn't have enough people this time. Both Chu Feng and Sangbu thought that there should be more people in the past, so they had to leave one person on the bridge and one on the cliff.This soldier was originally unwilling to leave his post without authorization, but he couldn't help Ling Ning's soft-heartedness. In addition, he was also a little curious about the new discovery she mentioned, so he finally agreed to help her.

The warrior who had received special training was indeed extraordinary in his skills. He climbed up to the almost eight-meter-high shoulders of the statue in two or three moves. He reached out to shake the wings on both sides of the statue, but he did not move even an inch with all his strength. The soldier quit. Due to his duties, he couldn't leave for too long. After all, the bridge was related to the life and death of several people on the other side, so it was no joke at all. Deep down, Ling Ning was actually more worried about the safety of those people on the other side than he was. She didn't know that the bridge was of great importance, but she still wanted to give it a try.

"Wait for me for a minute!" She pleaded to the warrior, and then quickly jumped onto the base of the idol, and found the right index finger of the idol. Sure enough, the right hand of the idol was slightly behind the side of the body, and the fingers were slightly open. It hangs down naturally, but if you look closely, you can find that the distance between its index finger and other fingers is wider. Seeing this, Ling Ning's heart skipped a beat, she knew that she had found the right place. She tugged at that and the index finger, but there was no response for a long time. After a closer look, the root of the index finger seemed to be movable. After thinking about it, she held that index finger and broke it with the same strength as breaking a bamboo pole as thick as an index finger!

quiet!Deathly silence!There was still wind just now, but now there is no wind at all. The moment Ling Ning snapped off the index finger of the statue, the little soldier sitting on the shoulder of the statue and Ling Ning felt cold at the same time!Both of them shivered involuntarily!what happened?How can it be cold in the desert on a hot day? At that moment, it may not even be a few seconds, but both of them seem to have passed for a long time. The index finger of the idol was bent at an incredible angle, and the little soldier sitting on the shoulder of the idol suddenly felt his body sink. Panicked, he quickly stabilized his body.Hearing the sound of "Crack! Crack! Crack!", the wings on the right shoulder of the statue sank, revealing a small box. The little soldier was overjoyed when he saw it, and he reached out to take it, but Ling Ning stopped him: "Wait!"

"What?" Just when the soldier didn't know what happened, he heard the sound of "Ka Ka Ka" again, and the first copper pillar on the left actually moved! That's right, it's moving, the entire copper pillar is rotating, and it's gradually rising upwards. These 15-meter-high, 30-centimeter-diameter cooked copper pillars may not weigh tens of thousands of kilograms each. Just such a "big mac" tens of thousands of kilograms moves in front of your eyes. Think about it, then what will it feel like scream! A high-pitched scream proved that the person was greatly frightened. Of course the scream was not from the soldier, but Ling Ning's scream made the little soldier startled, and he felt very embarrassed.Why?People who don't know think what he did to her? At this moment, Ling Ning couldn't even think about what she had or didn't. After the initial shock passed, an expression of ecstasy appeared on her face.Facts have proved that her guess is correct, she found the mechanism in the tower, this mechanism is a linkage device, one link after another, seamless! About 10 minutes later, just as the little soldier was impatient and was about to take the box on the statue's shoulder and come down, the rotation of the copper pillar finally stopped. The copper pillar is probably hollow as a whole, and this passage is turned upwards, exposing the base of a vertical pillar at the bottom. The outside of the base of the column was not covered with tree varnish, and the raw copper was exposed in the air, perhaps because it had been buried for a long time, and it was a little crimson. This is a special color variation that copper objects will have in the desert.Generally, ancient copper collections with a long time will have more or less green rust. Only in the desert, this thing can turn crimson. At the same time, this color often means that this thing is in the underground. The time will not be short, at least two thousand years. At this time, Ling Ning and the two of them didn't know whether this mechanism had any intention of hurting people. If there was, Ling Ning had no doubts about its power.She stopped Xiao Gao from going directly to take the box protruding from the statue's shoulder, for no reason, just because of intuition.She intuitively believed that since there were three pictures on the mural that foreshadowed this mechanism, there was no reason why the key to the mechanism would appear so soon.Moreover, she always felt that there was something wrong with the mechanism on the statue's shoulder.This intuition saved the two of them, which Ling Ning only found out later. She jumped off the base of the statue and walked towards the copper pillar. The base of the copper pillar rising from the ground is not high, only about 60 centimeters.There is a door on the side facing the tower door, but there is no lock on the door, and it is tightly fitted. I don't know how to open it.Ling Ning's cleverness is really not a cover, she immediately thought of the key point of this chain mechanism - that jade carving! That jade carving should definitely be a key to triggering this chain of traps, but what it triggers is not the two traps at the beginning, but the trap that opens the door. At this time, the previous traps have been triggered, so it should be the jade carving that plays a role It's time. Fortunately, Ling Ning saw the cute shape of the jade carving yesterday, so he borrowed it from William to play with.William generously lent it to her, and it is at Ling Ning's hand right now! Ling Ning did as soon as she thought of it. She took out the unicorn-shaped jade carving from the backpack on her back, climbed onto the base of the statue again, held it and placed it on the spot that Chu Feng let go of yesterday! Sure enough, the placement worked this time, only the sound of the mechanism sounded, the hole on the statue's shoulder gradually closed, and the statue's wings gradually returned to their original positions.The little soldier had already been reminded by Ling Ning, so he didn't take the box rashly, and watched it disappear before his eyes. Just when the little soldier was still feeling sorry for the treasure that might have disappeared under his nose, the change occurred again, and there was a "cracking" sound, and the wing on the other side of the statue lowered slightly at a very strange angle. It sank a bit, this time there was no box exposed on the shoulder of the statue, but Ling Ning, who jumped off the base and rushed to the copper pillar, let out another exclamation, but this exclamation was short and clear, very Contains some elements of joy in it. At this moment, a thin figure quickly passed the single-plank bridge connected to the sky moat from the opposite bank.He seemed a little surprised to see that there was no one guarding the bridge, but he didn't stop, and quickly ran to the rope ladder.Just when he reached the middle of the cliff, another figure appeared on the opposite bank. He was very surprised to see that there was no one on this side of the bank. When he looked again, the black shadow in front of him was almost at the top of the cliff, and he was shocked. He blurted out: "'Skinny Monkey'! What are you doing?" It was too late to say so, just half a second after he yelled, a "snapping" gunshot pierced the quiet sky of this afternoon. In the depths of the quiet yellow sand, the gunshot seemed so abrupt. Although Sangbu was surprised at the reason for the gunshot, the enthusiasm in his heart made him unable to stop. He stretched out Shisuo's hand There was only a moment's pause before continuing his journey to pick the lock.On the contrary, the expressions of the soldiers around him changed, and one of them quickly left after winking at the other three. The little soldier on the statue's shoulder was almost knocked off the ground by the gunshot. This time, without saying anything, he quickly got off the statue without looking back, and ran out at a very fast speed. The man on the opposite bank was shocked when he heard the gunshot, so he didn't fall off the single-plank bridge. He grabbed the safety rope and quickly stabilized his body. The little soldier glanced at him, and then handed him a backpack in his hand: "You stay here, watch the things, I'll go up and have a look! Don't leave your post without authorization!" The little soldier who was complained by his comrades couldn't open his mouth even though he was full of grievances. He answered "yes" in a deep voice, and stared at the bridge deck without blinking to be vigilant. The soldier who complained was named Zhang Guozhu, and he was one of the older soldiers in this group.After he quickly climbed up the high cliff, his heart-piercing voice soon came: "Manzi! Manzi! What's wrong with you?! Wake up! Wake up!"