Rebirth 81: Being forced into marriage by my sister’s best friend at the beginning

After a short rest, everyone finally calmed down.

Continue walking along the door that was just opened.

Unexpectedly, what appeared in front of them was a suspended stone bridge.

The stone bridge is only about 100 meters long, and you can see the end at a glance.

In order to prevent traps, Lin Ran walked at the front of the team, followed by the others.

Unexpectedly, the stone bridge turned out to be a loop structure. When it reached the end, it suddenly began to separate in two directions.

One side goes up, the other side goes down.

Lin Ran hesitated for a moment and thought he should go up and take a look first.

With the consent of the others, they walked up the stone steps.

The stone slabs get narrower and narrower as they go up, and they are winding and winding, like a mountain road.

Because they were worried about hidden traps, everyone was extremely careful along the way.

Fortunately, they were not in danger. After walking up more than 30 steps, a platform finally appeared in front of them.

When I got to the top, I realized that it was not narrow, but an open space.

The floor is paved with bluestone tiles, as flat as a mirror.

There are also stretched stone pillars on the four sides, supporting the disk about 20 meters above.

And inside the square, there are two pools on the left and right.

Just like a modern fountain landscape, there are two stone statues placed in the center of the pool.

It looked sinister, exactly like the evil statue they saw outside.

It's just that these two stone statues are half-kneeling like the ancients, holding a jade vessel in their hands.

Both statues are not high, only about half a meter in length.

The pool is actually sunken. Looking from below, I thought it was just a mountain, but I didn't expect it to be hollowed out.

"There seems to be something inside." Wang Jinpeng had sharp eyes and shined a flashlight on it. He could see obvious reflections in the jade.

They all decided to see what was inside.

Since the place you go up to is actually at the edge of the square, standing on the last step and looking down, you can see that there is a height of more than ten meters from the platform just now, and you can continue to go down.

The next step is an abyss.

"Be careful." Lin Ran reminded everyone, got off the stone bridge and walked slowly into the square.

After Wang Jinpeng stepped onto the platform, he quickly walked to one of the pools.

He looked at the vessel in the statue's hand.

Professor Liu also followed with great interest, "What did you see?"

There was some sticky liquid inside, and it was dark red.

"It's so disgusting. It must be blood." Wang Jinpeng frowned.

Lin Ran came over to check after hearing this. There was indeed some dark red liquid inside, but he didn't dare to confirm that it was blood because he couldn't smell blood.

He looked at the others discussing and did not speak.

The situation before him reminded him of the tomb robbery movies he had seen before.

There is no opening because the key evidence has not yet been found.

suddenly.

The sound of "click" seemed so clear in the dark underground world.

Lin Ran and everyone else raised their heads and looked in the direction of the sound.

It came from the end of the square.

"What sound!" Wang Jinpeng's ears stood up.

Before he finished speaking, everyone felt the ground beneath their feet began to shake.

"Crack, click."

Another series of sounds, this time coming from beneath them.

And this sound, Lin Ran and the others were all too familiar with it. It was the sound of the mechanism operating.

As the shaking on the ground finally calmed down, the two previous statues turned around and faced each other back to back.

And in the middle of them, a bronze tripod suddenly appeared.

They were extremely convinced that before this, there was absolutely no such bronze tripod in the square.

Everyone gasped, and Wang Jinpeng's hand holding the searchlight finally stabilized.

After holding the searchlight firmly, everyone finally saw clearly. The bronze tripod in front of them was engraved with the inscription that Professor Liu was looking for.

Xu Ning looked at Wang Jinpeng reproachfully: "I told you not to touch it, why did you activate the mechanism again?"

Wang Jinpeng had a helpless expression on his face: "Xu Ning, this really has nothing to do with me."

He just stood by the pool and took a look, without touching any mechanism with his hands.

"It's a mechanism on the ground." Lin Ran said.

But he doesn't blame Wang Jinpeng, he just needs to remind others that this is not a playground, and any carelessness will lead to the destruction of the group.

Wang Jinpeng was silent.

Lin Ran said: "But don't worry too much, it seems like it's just a switch."

Wang Jinpeng was still muttering in a low voice: "The ancients were too careless in hiding things. They actually put the switch of such an important bronze tripod on the ground."

After learning that there was no danger, Professor Liu's interest in research was aroused.

He came to the bronze tripod and observed the words on it.

Lin Ran and the others carefully observed the surrounding environment. After all, they didn't know if there would be other mutant creatures in this ghost place.

"Strange, this bronze tripod is not a sacrificial item, but an ancient timekeeping device." Professor Liu frowned.

He confirmed the words above again, and the bronze tripod in front of him was indeed a timer.

"Can this thing still keep time?" If Wang Jinpeng hadn't been worried that the mechanism would be triggered again, he would have wanted to go up and knock on it.

He really didn't understand how the bronze tripod kept time.

Lin Ran said: "None of this matters, Professor Liu, this should be the tomb we are looking for, right?"

"Yes." Professor Liu's face now lost the joyful expression at the beginning.

Lin Ran was actually very surprised. He didn't expect that the Gui family during the Warring States Period had mastered such sophisticated mechanical manufacturing technology.

It's definitely not out of date now.

Professor Liu followed Lin Ran's flashlight and looked towards the end of the square.

There is another set of stone steps going up.

The ghost family, rather than being like the ghost clan, it is better to say that they are really very proficient in this.

Worship the ferocious monster as a totem.

These two pools are probably the wine and meat pools of the past, but the meat and wine in them may have come from people.

Standing here to worship, you can still see the abyss below.

It's like being literally on top of hell.

Lin Ran felt that this was not everyone at all, in today's terms, they were completely terrorists.

He didn't speak anymore, since this is the base camp of the Gui family, and they will become crazy, basically because they come into contact with the bronzes specially forged by the Gui family.

Perhaps, the key to solving the problem can be found here.

Lin Ran walked forward and saw a human-shaped groove on the wall behind the bronze tripod.

It looks funny at first glance, like a scene staged at a crime scene.

And judging from the shape, it’s really not easy to achieve this look.

However, the groove was completely black.