This is an institution that leaves us helpless.

Whether it is unknown radiation or an unexplained layout, there is nothing related to it in the thousands of years of cognitive accumulation of the ritual officials. It is all up to us to explore by ourselves. Suddenly something unusual comes to mind, and I

His spirit was instantly excited and passionate, and even the side effects of using the Earth Spirit Pearl were diluted a lot.

After hearing this, Lao Bai, who was already busy and covered in sweat, sat up from the ground and looked at me eagerly.

"I'm afraid the answer lies in the living dead!"

I got up and ran under the altar. I accidentally missed my step and rolled down the steps. Brother Yaozi grabbed me and winked at Lao Bai. Without any explanation, the two of them lifted me up and carried me all the way.

Go down.

When we stood in front of countless living dead again, Lao Bai asked me impatiently where the agency was.

I glanced around, gently closed my eyes, and once again recalled the scene I saw when I fell into hallucination.

The pottery figurines here are arranged very neatly and evenly distributed.

However, when I fell into hallucination, the living dead below were not evenly distributed. There were a few empty places in the middle of the crowd of black heads!

It's like... a person with very thick hair has a few patches of bald spots on his head, which is very eye-catching!!

At first, I didn’t think much about it at all. It was Zhang Xinya who reminded me!

If it is really the weird radioactive material that makes me unable to see anything except dead people and radioactive sources, then the answer is already obvious - there are no dead people in the pottery figurines in the open space.

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I was trying to review those positions. After a while, I opened my eyes and walked forward.

In the hallucination, under the altar, there is the fourth row of living dead, counting from left to right, and starting from the eighteenth living dead, there is a small linear blank area there!

When I arrived, the situation here made me smile involuntarily.

The empty space in the illusion, but in reality there are four pottery figurines standing there!

Moreover, these pottery figurines are very interesting!

The other pottery figurines have their heads lowered, as if they are worshiping the snake god on the altar, but this pottery figurine has its head raised!

I walked up and tapped the pottery figurine with my fingers, and it made a "dong-dong" sound. It was empty inside!

Out of caution, I took a closer look with a flashlight and found that the pottery figurine was not a whole piece. There were obvious joint marks under the neck. Judging from the marks, the head of the pottery figurine was obviously movable!

After thinking about it, I held the head of the pottery figurine with both hands and pulled it down. There was an obvious mechanical sound of "click-click" on the other person's neck. When I pulled the other person's head completely off, there was obviously a slight tremor on the ground.

, followed by a "clatter" sound coming from under the altar, like an iron chain shaking.

Sure enough!

Several of us looked at each other, but no one could laugh.

After holding it in for a while, Lao Bai gritted his teeth and said, "Isn't this too crazy?"

Zhang Xinya nodded with deep understanding: "Same feeling!"

To be fair, this mechanism is not too complicated!

As long as the characters can be named in ancient times, they all have the financial resources to build it!

In terms of sophistication and the ink mechanism, they are not on the same level. In terms of the doorway, it is not as sophisticated as the slide mechanism, let alone compared with the weird and unpredictable methods such as Huang Laoshenjishu. There is no skill at all, it is just simple.

The use of mechanics, relying on iron cables, gears, levers, etc. to directly open the iron gate on the altar, is simple and crude, and can even be said to be rough. Even if it is carefully designed by a half-hearted ritual officer like me, it will be much better than this.

It’s just that the mechanism is too cheap to hide!

They are scattered and hidden among a densely packed mass of pottery figurines. Who has the time to explore these things one by one when their lives are at stake?

If I hadn't accidentally triggered the mechanism in the stone statue's eyes, I'm afraid we wouldn't have thought of this even if we tried hard!

Next, relying on my memory, we found more than ten similar pottery figurines with similar mechanisms one after another. After climbing up the altar, we saw that the iron gate was still motionless. As a last resort, we had to turn back down again.

When I fell into the hallucination, after all, I just turned around and took a cursory glance. It was impossible to remember all the key points. It was expected that such a thing would happen.

However, after going back and forth like this, our mentality has completely exploded.

These pottery figurines are basically similar in appearance. Although the heads of the pottery figurines with mechanisms are held high, their bodies are three points shorter, making them look the same height as those of the living dead pottery figurines. In other words, we must have

We went to investigate one by one, and found that this place was densely packed. In our irritation, we were delayed here for several hours before we found more than ten pottery figurines of government agencies...

When we pulled off the head of the last pottery figurine, a deafening roar came from inside the altar. Amidst the clattering sound of the iron chains, the ground even trembled slightly. The feeling was very clear.

"Should this be opened?"

Lao Bai sat down on the ground, bared his teeth and said: "If you let me catch this old fox, I will definitely cramp and skin it!"

I kicked him and said that the outcome was still undecided. When the confrontation came, we still didn’t know who would live and who would die.

We rested for a while and set off again when our strength recovered a little.

When we climbed up to the altar again, our legs were shaking constantly, especially me. My energy was already damaged and my body was weak. I climbed up and down the 100-meter-high altar several times. My eyes were straight and I was panting.

Like a cow.

On the altar, the positions of the two stone statues have undergone some changes.

The statue of the Coiled Snake God moved slightly to the left, while the statue of the Green Fox God simply turned around.

The most bizarre thing is that the corners of the mouths of these two statues are slightly upward, seeming to be smiling.

I felt irritated just looking at it, and I couldn't help but mutter to myself: "It is a sin to stare at the gods. When all living beings bow their heads, the gods will naturally smile. Is this what you mean?"

It seems that these two evil creatures are quite capable of showing off!

Under the statue, a thick and heavy iron gate has been opened, revealing a square secret passage, which is supported on all sides by thick stone slabs. The secret passage slopes downward, like a slide. It is very cramped and narrow. Normal people would probably have to squat to walk.

Go in.

Because of the moisture and darkness, the dark passage was covered with moss.

When you shine a flashlight, you can see obvious traces of friction on the moss. It seems that someone came in and out not long ago, especially at the entrance. There are still a lot of shoe prints on the moss there. Judging from the texture of the soles, they are definitely worn by modern talents.

shoe.

"Finally I found some traces."

Zhang Xinya squatted at the entrance of the secret passage and watched for a moment, then smiled and said: "With so many footprints, all the people who were kidnapped in the pastoral area should be down there! Shall we go in too?"

Brother Yaozi stared at it for a long time, and just to be on the safe side, he gathered all the climbing ropes we had on us, tied them together with knots, and tied one end of the rope to the statue of the Coiled Snake God next to him.

On his lap, he threw the remaining rope in.

There is no way, a secret passage like this is typically easy to get in but difficult to get out, so you have to leave a way out for yourself.

I was exhausted and in poor condition. This time, Brother Yaozi, who had some experience in fighting, took the lead, followed closely by Lao Bai, Zhang Xinya came third, and I followed at the back.

However, when it was Zhang Xinya's turn, the girl's legs and feet were weak. She grabbed the rope and slid down a short distance before her soles slipped. She sat down in the dark passage and slid down. It was like knocking over dominoes. The three of them

They crashed into a pile, and with a burst of exclamations, they all slid down and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, I could only let go and sit down. The moss under my butt was sticky and slippery, just like the mucus left by a snail. I figured it would be more than enough as lubricant, so I immediately rushed down the secret passage, gaining speed.

Faster and faster, I rushed back and forth along the direction of the secret passage. Because the secret passage was too low, I would bump my head from time to time. I simply lay down and let it go. Soon I reached the end of the secret passage and plunged into a ball of wet thatch.

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Lao Bai and the three of them had already come down and were looking around at the moment.

This is a cave-like place, a few square meters at most. The ground is covered with damp thatch. There is a musty smell in the air, mixed with an unpleasant fishy smell. There should have been wild beasts inhabiting it.

Lived there.

Lao Bai found a large amount of fluff in the thatch. Most of the fluff was fiery red and looked like fox fur.

It is already obvious what kind of place this is.

We have entered the old fox's den!

It should live in this place with its descendants.

However, the place is empty now, and we can't help but cast our eyes ahead. There is a pass there. The back of the pass should be extremely empty and dark, and the flashlight cannot find the end. It seems to be a rather wide corridor.

Brother Yaozi waved and we immediately followed.

However, the moment we passed through the pass, there was a loud "bang" sound suddenly coming from the side, and a pale hand came out without any warning and grabbed me...
Chapter completed!