[Tomb Raiders Notes Sand Sea] Into the Red Dust

the other side. "

Copy of Zhang Family Ancient Building 2

Gu Ran glanced at it with his buddy's camera. There was an astrolabe-like cluster on the stone slab, surrounded by many small patterns, which made people confused for a while.

Gu Ran's strength lies in his skills, and he is not good at tricks at all, not to mention the Zhang family's weirdness, even Zhang Qiling can't handle it, so Gu Ran simply doesn't bother to use his brain to do useless work.

Huo Xiangu immediately arranged for a staff to develop the photos and send them to Sichuan.

It would take a few days for the letters to come and go, not to mention leaving time for Jie Yuchen and Wu Xie to solve the riddle, so they simply set up camp by the lake.

Both Zhang Qiling and Fatty led teams in here and there a few times, but each time they were stuck at the organ, and they had nothing new to discover, so they could only wait for a reply from there.

A few days later, a photo was sent from Sichuan. It was a strange jigsaw puzzle. Some parts of the stone wall were joined together, but some parts were not. It was still a hole.

Xie Yuchen not only sent a message to learn how to open the mechanism, but also sent a letter to Gu Ran.

This is what Gu Ran deliberately told Xie Yuchen before he left. He was very worried about this trip, especially Xie Yuchen's side. Back then, Zhang Qishan's nine sects gathered so many people and died. Now it's just Xie Yuchen and Wu Xie. .Therefore, Gu Ran asked Xie Yuchen to send him a letter every once in a while to talk about the situation in Sichuan.

Xie Yuchen's literary talent is average, and he narrates straightforwardly, but he is quite honest. He even explained that he did not return to rescue Wu Xie in the first place in order to complete the task of cracking the mechanism.

This is within Gu Ran's expectations. Xie Yuchen has been the head of the Xie family since he was a child, and his life is not going well. Even with the help of him and the blind man, he can only rely on himself most of the time. It is not that Xie Yuchen is alone, but the entire industry.

Tu Fuzi is not in the habit of desperately rescuing his companions.

Except for Wu Xie and his group.

Gu Ran can't criticize Xie Yuchen for anything. In the final analysis, Wu Xie and Xie Yuchen are just childhood playmates. In reality, they might not be as close as they are with him.

Besides, sooner or later, Wu Xie will really enter the industry. He should understand what Wu Laogou once said: What is more terrifying than ghosts and gods is the human heart.

Gu Ran thought with emotion, Wu Xie and Xie Yuchen went to Sichuan this time, and I don't know how much their fighting skills will increase, but they should understand one thing anyway, it is very difficult for Tu Fuzi to have friends.

This is a blow to Wu Xie, but also a growth.

But Gu Ran believes that no matter how much Wu Xie understands people's hearts, he will always be innocent. After all, Fatty, Dumb Zhang, Pan Zi, and him are all friends who can be entrusted with their lives.

Maybe people tend to think wildly after being idle for a long time. Gu Ran didn’t look at the photos sent by Xie Yuchen. If the information was in place, Zhang Qiling would naturally be able to untie the mechanism. He didn’t need him. He just idled around in the camp all day. A letter from Xie Yuchen was enough for him to read for a long time. .

The first mechanism was unlocked, but there was a second one, and photos were taken, developed and sent to Sichuan.

It’s okay not to work once or twice, but when the cracking method of the third stone wall was sent back from Sichuan, Gu Ran was still lying dead in the camp, and the fat man came to make trouble for him.

"If you take the money and don't work, it belongs to your uncle. Look at my little brother, how hardworking he is. He didn't lead the team in."

"Okay, okay, I'll go this time too." Gu Ran slowly got up from the bed, and took the equipment bag that hadn't been opened since arriving here from the tent door.

According to Xie Yuchen's letter, this should be the last organ. After passing through this stone wall, the Zhang family's ancient building is to be entered.

"It can be regarded as seeing you come out." Huo Xiangu said nonchalantly.

Gu Ran didn't feel any guilt at all, and said directly: "Behind this wall is the Zhang family's ancient building, let's go."

With the experience of deciphering the first two stone walls, this last stone wall is easy to navigate. Zhang Qiling pressed the four reliefs one by one, and the stone wall opened, revealing the corridor behind.

The corridor is very narrow, and you can almost crawl forward. This is the way to dig a hole, and it is straight as far as you can see.

Looking at the deep darkness by the light of the flashlight, Gu Ran felt his heart pounding, which had never happened in any previous fight. He had an intuition that there was an unmanageable danger ahead.

But this is unreasonable. There is no mechanism for them to pass the two stone walls in front. Logically speaking, as long as the third stone wall is opened correctly, the front should still be safe.

Gu Ran suppressed the doubts in his heart for the time being, and attributed it to the fact that he had not recovered from the after-effects of Banai last time, so he followed the large army into the tunnel.

This corridor was very strange. After walking for a while, they found a faint light in front of them. Gu Ran was the first to see it, and immediately stopped in his tracks.Because both he and Zhang Qiling were in the lead, when he stopped, the fat man behind bumped into him directly.

"Why don't you go?"

Gu Ran said: "There is light ahead."

"Where is it? Why can't I see?" The fat man pulled Gu Ran away and looked forward.

"Go a little further and you'll see it. My eyesight is better than yours." After Gu Ran finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Qiling and walked forward cautiously.

Fatty Zi and Zhang Qiling both saw the light one after another, and they walked more cautiously. It took nearly three hours to explore the last 100 meters of road.

The light was not the danger they imagined or the Zhang family's ancient building, but sunlight.

They come out.

The fat man said: "No, what do you mean, little brother, your ancient building is a mountain without farts?"

A rare puzzled expression appeared on Zhang Qiling's face.

"Go, go up to the top of the mountain and see where we are." Gu Ran was the first to calm down, and patted Zhang Qiling on the shoulder.

There can be no mechanism on the barren mountain, Gu Ran and the others moved very fast, and they climbed to the top of the mountain in less than an hour.

"We are still in this area!" Fatty said, looking at the familiar mountain scenery nearby.

Gu Ran pointed to a mountain not far away, and said calmly: "We came in from that mountain, which is equivalent to passing through two mountains."

Zhang Qiling frowned.

Huo Xiangu arranged for her staff to search the nearby mountains to see if there were any other entrances, Fatty and Gu Ran also chose a direction to find the entrance.

Gu Ran's perception of the path is very strong. When he walks out of the tunnel, he will pass it. There is no other road nearby except the one they took, but he still has a ten-thousandth hope. The mechanism of the house is so delicately set up that he can't even find it?

After searching for a while, he discovered that something was wrong.

Zhangjialou's organs must be set up meaningfully, especially the stone wall organs they encountered that needed linkage between Guangxi and Sichuan, and it was impossible to connect a mountain passage.

Then the only explanation for them coming out of the Zhang Family Ancient Building and not entering is that the password is wrong.

But this is also very strange. The first two stone walls passed smoothly and encountered the third one, indicating that the codes of the first two stone walls are correct.The puzzle-solving methods of the three stone walls are the same, and the photos sent back by Jie Yuchen and the others are also similar, which shows that the way they obtained the password is also the same.

Thinking about it this way, the first two times were right, how could it be wrong the third time?

For a while, Gu Ran wondered what happened to Xie Yuchen.

But judging from the letters he sent three times, his side is safe, and there is no possibility of mistakes.

Gu Ran's mind became more and more confused, so he couldn't help but stop and reorganize what happened after entering the mountain.

No matter what happened in Sichuan, now that they have come out of the mountains, it means that the password of the third agency should be wrong.

The strange thing is that they just came out of the mountains and didn't encounter any danger. This is not in line with the Zhang family's style.According to the information obtained by Gu Ran, the ancient building of the Zhang family should be the mass burial of the Zhang family. Such a family with a long history cannot be merciful to grave robbers.

According to common sense, if the password of the agency is wrong, what they should face is a dead end, not a safe escape from the mountain.

Not to mention anything else, Gu Ran just thought of the heavy responsibility and cold fate of Zhang Qiling, the head of the family, and he knew that the Zhang family was definitely not a good person. The setting here must be a dead end with ten deaths and no life.

Wait... Zhang Qiling?

Gu Ran suddenly thought that this might be the Zhang family's protection mechanism.

The Zhang family ancient building is a mass burial, and someone always needs to come to the funeral. For the Zhang family who are going to the funeral, the ancestors can't kill them. Considering the Zhang family's ancestral soul-lost disease, Gu Ran guessed that after the third stone wall password was wrong The exit may be to prevent some omissions in the Zhang family's password inheritance during the historical changes.

It's like asking Zhang Qiling to go back to the ancient building of the Zhang family every 100 years. He will never remember the password to live in the building. He must be given a chance to make a mistake. Time to play.

But in the same way, the Zhang family's error protection mechanism will not be infinite. After all, ancient institutions are not as infinite as modern computers. After permutation and combination, as long as you have enough patience, you can try out the correct password, and you don't even need to cooperate with Sichuan. , this is impossible for the ancestors of the Zhang family to allow.

Now the question is, how many times is there an error protection mechanism?

The number of times should not be too small. Considering Zhang Qi's attribute of losing his memory if he doesn't move, Gu Ranneng made such a judgment.

After figuring this out, Gu Ran didn't bother to search the mountain anymore. When he returned to the top of the mountain, Zhang Qiling was still there, but everyone else was looking for the entrance.

"You shouldn't have come." Zhang Qiling said flatly.

Gu Ran only felt a series of question marks on his head, why should he not come?Zhang Qiling's assertion proves at least one thing, he has a certain understanding of the ancient building of the Zhang family, he knows what's inside, or how dangerous it is inside