[Tomb Raiders Notes Sand Sea] Into the Red Dust

If it is not a last resort to consume energy, Gu Ran will not do it.

Fortunately, this method has been tried and tested, and Gu Ran unlocked the mechanism.

This mechanism is similar to the previous few stone walls, and it is also necessary to press the relief buttons on the stone plate in a certain order. Gu Ran presses them one by one in the calculated order, and the stone plate rises, revealing a dark hole below.

The opening of the hole is very small, and it takes excellent bone shrinking skills to pass through.

Gu Ran is not afraid, which means that he has come to the right place. There are not many people who can shrink their bones now, and the Zhang family will definitely do it. It is completely unnecessary to use a hole that needs to shrink their bones as a cover-up.

Below this must be the ancient building of the Zhang family.

Gu Ran moved the joints of his whole body, almost reduced himself to the minimum size, and threw the backpack down first. There was only a muffled sound, and he jumped down again without any movement.

Copy of Zhang Family Ancient Building 5

The space below is not small. Just as Gu Ran wanted to restore the shrunken body, he found a dense silk thread and bells in front of him.

"Damn it!" Gu Ran couldn't hold back and cursed to himself.

After finally finding the entrance and coming in, there is a bronze bell facing you. The ancestors of the Zhang family really designed the ancient building to death.

Gu Ran walked in and carefully observed the density of the bell and the silk thread, only to understand the significance of the design of such a small hole: if the bone cannot be shrunk to this size, it is absolutely impossible to pass through the bronze bell.

Gu Ran is confident in his own skills. In terms of bone shrinking skills and body flexibility, he may be slightly better than Zhang Qiling. Even if he finds it difficult to pass the bronze bell, let alone others?

Not every Zhang family has Zhang Qiling's skills.

But it is impossible for Zhang Qiling to come to the ancient building of the Zhang family alone.

Obviously, the place he bumped into by mistake should be a relatively secret place in the ancient building of the Zhang family. Perhaps in the design of the ancestors of the Zhang family, only Zhang Qiling could come here.

It was absolutely impossible for him to pass with a bag on his back, so Gu Ran simply took the dagger, explosives and medicines on his body, left the bag where it was, and went into battle lightly.

Passing the bronze bell requires 12 points of care, and the distance is less than ten meters, but Gu Ran walked for 10 minutes.

When he twisted his body into a strange angle and passed the last silk thread, Gu Ran heaved a sigh of relief and sat on the ground to rest for a long time.

After confirming that there was no such mechanism in front, Gu Ran released the bone shrinkage, and walked forward with a flashlight.

Not far away, he saw a wooden door, and when he opened it, there was only a square table and a coffin inside.

The name on the coffin was Zhang Qiling, an ancestor of the Zhang family. Gu Ran quickly scanned the life stories engraved on the coffin, only to find that this Zhang Qiling was no small matter. The Zhang family wise man I was looking for.

It was this man who cracked the baby house set up by King Mu of Zhou, got the dead baby and the password, and also knew the ins and outs of King Mu of Zhou's pursuit of longevity.

It was he who turned the Zhang family into the current structure, and it was he who created the Qiling system.

Gu Ran had mixed feelings in his heart.

Without this Zhang Qiling, King Zhou Mu's wish for immortality might come true one day, and the order of the whole world would be different again, even more terrifying than the current dispute between Zhang and Wang.

But it was also Zhang Qiling who brought the Zhang family into the fateful cycle of longevity, and made the Zhang family, who already had the destiny of longevity, shoulder the mission of protecting longevity. The current Nine Gates all started from this.

There is a book on the square table in the room. It is not known how to preserve it, but the handwriting is still legible.

Gu Ran's hands couldn't help trembling a little. The book placed in this room should be Zhang Qiling's notes, and it is also the most likely thing to solve Gu Ran's problem.

Just as Gu Ran thought, some speculations of this Zhang Qiling were recorded on it.

He proposes a possibility of ending fate.

As the medium connecting the longevity of the Queen Mother of the West and the Zhang family, the bronze gate is the last trace of longevity in this world. If one day this world does not need the gift of heaven and the Zhang family, then the meaning of longevity will be gone.

The last resurrection of the Zhang family was buried with the Bronze Gate, ending the destiny with the burial of the last immortal, and there will be no trace of the immortal in this world anymore.

The rest of the Zhang family will only live as mortals, and will suffer from birth, old age, sickness and death just like mortals.

This has a premise that everything is over.

There is no longer a Wang family, and there is no longer a historical process that needs to be influenced by the Zhang family.

Gu Ran understands why the mechanism for entering here is so complicated. If one of the Zhang family becomes unhappy and has a tendency to destroy, and enters the bronze gate to be buried, then the Zhang family will stop working.

The bronze bell is a major obstacle, Gu Ran guessed that the mechanism he figured out is also a major obstacle, and Zhang Qiling may not be able to untie it, and let him, a half-fairy with a strange bloodline, break it by mistake.

It turns out that the bronze door is the joint that ends everything.

This ending is more thorough than Gu Ran originally thought, not only can it end the fate of Zhang Qiling and the gatekeepers of the Nine Gates, but it can also end longevity and make all immortals become normal people.

This is a good deal. As long as longevity is completely ended, the ultimate goal of the Wang family's camp will no longer exist, and the ultimate belief will disappear. There will be no eggs under the nest, and the Wang family will be very happy. Easy to solve.

Gu Ran continued to flip through the notes. The matter of the burial of the immortal is simple to say, but there is definitely a mystery.Otherwise, if Zhang Qiling was unlucky and died inside while guarding the gate, everything would be over.

But there are blanks at the back of the note, only this incident is recorded.

Gu Ran read it several times, and recalled his experience of entering the Bronze Gate, and suddenly realized.

As the medium connecting the upper realm and the lower realm, the bronze gate does not have death. Life is guaranteed in the bronze gate, and time is suspended.

Then how to kill yourself?

Gu Ran thought about it for a long time, staring at the notes before suddenly realizing that Zhang Qiling, the first generation, said that it was the burial of the immortal, which was equivalent to a self-sacrificing death, and regarded himself as a sacrifice. What Gu Ran thought of was blood sacrifice, which is also in line with ancient times the habits of the ancestors.

In order to ensure that the Zhang family would not be killed in advance, this Zhang Qiling even played word games in his notes.

If it is not someone who really wants to end his longevity, even if he reads the notes, it will be difficult to figure out the meaning of the sacrifice behind the burial.

The place and the method have been answered, only time is left, Gu Ran is unable to open the bronze door, and has to wait for the time of the bronze door.

But it's not a big deal, Zhang Qiling, as the guardian of the Bronze Gate, must know the exact date, so don't worry about it.

After figuring out all this, Gu Ran only felt relaxed, put the notes in his pocket, and walked out of the room.

As soon as he went out, Gu Ran could smell something wrong in the air, a strong smell of alkaline water flooded in, and Gu Ran even felt a burning sensation in his respiratory tract.

"Damn it, what the hell is dumb Zhang doing?" Gu Ran muttered to himself as he quickly shrank his bones and passed the bronze bell again.

He was sure he didn't trigger the trap himself, otherwise he wouldn't have the smell of alkaline water when he left the house, not to mention that his activities were all inside the house, so there was no reason for the trap to be outside.

And according to his feeling, the smell of alkaline water should come from afar, so it could only be Zhang Qiling.

Even Gu Ran felt a burning sensation at such a long distance, but what about the people who were closer?

According to experience, Gu Ran thinks that it should be sprayed with strong alkaline water, and if this thing touches it, it will kill.

Gu Ran felt his hair stand on end for a while.

But the space he was in seemed to be independent of the ancient building of the Zhang family. He didn't find any traces of the ancient building, and even if he wanted to help, there was no way.

What's more, at the moment when the strong alkali was sprayed, Zhang Qiling could survive if he could save his life, but if he couldn't save his life, Gu Ran could only collect his body when he went.

Now it should be a matter of life or death in the ancient building of the Zhang family, and it won't help if he goes in alone.

If they can survive, they must have found a refuge, so it is not a problem to support them for a few more days.If Gu Ran went in alone, he would definitely not be able to bring them out, not to mention others, it would be difficult to bring Zhang Qiling out alone, so he had to go out to rescue soldiers no matter what.

After making up his mind, Gu Ran climbed up the hole he came from.

As soon as he probed, Gu Ran felt something was wrong, a strong wind swept over, Gu Ran rolled out, and saw the surrounding situation in a hurry.

It's all Miluotuo, he just stabbed Miluotuo's lair!

In any case, I can't die here, not to mention that the problem of longevity has not been solved, Zhang Qiling and the others are trapped in the Zhang family's ancient building, and he needs to go out alive to report.

In this life-and-death situation, Gu Ran was very calm. There were too many people entering the ancient building of the Zhang Family, which had already become a source of heat, attracting too many Miluotuo. The strong alkali just now might have driven Miluotuo away. One way, Mi Luotuo backed away from the ancient building of the Zhang family, and happened to gather nearby, allowing Gu Ran to run into him.

Although the current situation is not good, as long as he leaves here, the way out of the mountain will be smooth. Mi Luotuo's speed in the mountain is not fast, as long as Gu Ran stays away from the ancient building of the Zhang family, the way out of the mountain will be unimpeded.

After clarifying everything, Gu Ran took out the remaining explosives from his bag, looked in the right direction and threw them all in one go, while he jumped into a hole by the blast of the explosives, completely ignoring the wounds on his body , ran forward desperately.

Because he didn't know the concentration of strong alkali in the ancient building of the Zhang family, Gu Ran ran out almost without sleep.