Chapter 624 Chain Bridge!
Chapter 624 Chain Bridge!
Through the perspective function of the Eagle Eye skill, Jia Dongming saw iron arrows everywhere in the corridor, and immediately realized that the mechanism in the corridor had been triggered, and then led everyone into the corridor.
After entering the corridor, Jia Dongming used his Eagle Eye skill to clearly see that the walls and the dome were covered with densely packed small holes, and then shone the flashlight on the surrounding walls.
When everyone saw Jia Dongming's actions, they all looked in the direction of the flashlight. When they saw the small hole hidden in the wall, they all showed expressions of surprise on their faces.
Seeing the small holes on the wall, Yang Kaihua immediately looked towards the skeleton on the ground. When he saw the small arrows stuck on the skeleton and the ground around it, he muttered to himself with lingering fear: "Fortunately, the mechanism here has been triggered, otherwise, with the density of those small holes, we would probably be shot into hedgehogs by these small arrows."
Jia Dongming heard Yang Kaihua's mumbling and saw the horrified expressions on everyone's faces. He smiled and said to Yang Kaihua and others, "Deputy Captain Yang! Comrades, although this mechanism is terrible, the ancients' technology cannot do a second reload. Besides, we have Zheng Ming, the tomb-raiding lieutenant, in front of us to help us explore the way. As we move forward, as long as we don't touch anything and walk carefully, there shouldn't be any accidents."
As he spoke, Jia Dongming led everyone into the corridor.
After walking for about two or three minutes, a bright light suddenly appeared in everyone's sight. Jia Dongming used his Eagle Eye skill to immediately find that at the end of the corridor was a very spacious hall. There were many stone statues carved on both sides of the hall, and in front of the stone statues there was a raging flame, illuminating the entire hall like daylight.
"Hey! Why is there a light in front? Would Zheng Ming be so kind as to deliberately light a torch and wait for the Li family to arrive?" Zhou Hua muttered to himself curiously when he saw the light in the distance.
With full of doubts, everyone quickly came to the hall. When they saw the tall and majestic stone statues on both sides of the hall, everyone's face showed shock. Zhang Wei couldn't help but ask: "Why is the shape of this stone statue so strange? And what's the matter with the flame in front of the stone statue?"
After Jia Dongming walked into the hall, he discovered that in addition to the twelve stone statues standing in the hall, there were also many exquisite murals painted on the walls on both sides of the hall.
Jia Dongming walked to the mural, looking at the still brightly colored, Tang Dynasty-style murals and the lifelike figures in the murals, and muttered to himself: "If I'm not mistaken, the content of this mural describes the life of the tomb owner."
"Director Jia! There is an iron chain bridge at the other end of this hall. If I'm not mistaken, it should be the Naihe Bridge mentioned by the Li family." Just as Jia Dongming was carefully looking at the contents on the mural, Yang Kaihua walked to Jia Dongming and told Jia Dongming the results of his investigation.
After hearing what Yang Kaihua said, Jia Dongming turned his attention away from the mural, turned his head to look at the other end of the hall, and immediately saw the iron chain bridge that Yang Kaihua mentioned.
When Jia Dongming saw these iron chain bridges, he thought of the Li family's conspiracy against them, and he couldn't help but mutter in his heart: "Since the Li family chose to set a trap here, will Zheng Ming also choose to set a trap here to deal with the Li family?"
Yang Kaihua and Jia Dongming walked to the iron chain bridge together. Looking at the iron chain bridge across the water in front of them, Yang Kaihua asked Jia Dongming with a serious expression: "Director Jia! Since the Li family wants to use this so-called Naihe Bridge to trap us completely in it, does Zheng Ming have the same idea and use the Naihe Bridge to avenge his father?" Jia Dongming was in deep thought. When he heard Yang Kaihua's words and looked at the iron chain bridge in front of him, he immediately used the Eagle Eye skill to check the situation on the iron chain bridge. As a result, he found that some unknown powder was sprinkled on the deck of the iron chain bridge.
Seeing these unknown powders, Jia Dongming remembered a scene from Ghost Blows Out the Light, and quickly ordered Zhou Hua: "Zhou Hua! Hurry and bring me a torch without fuel."
When Zhou Hua heard Jia Dongming's instructions, a puzzled expression immediately appeared on his face. Although he didn't know why Jia Dongming wanted a torch, he still followed Jia Dongming's instructions and ran to his colleague who was carrying supplies to get a torch without fuel.
"Deputy Captain Jia! Here are the torches." Zhou Hua walked up to Jia Dongming with the torch and handed it to him respectfully.
Jia Dongming took the torch handed to him by Zhou Hua, walked to the edge of the chain bridge, and threw the torch in his hand towards the center of the chain bridge.
When the torch thrown by Jia Dongming touched the mysterious substance sprinkled on the bridge surface, sparks suddenly flashed on the bridge surface, and a flame instantly spread rapidly to both sides of the bridge with the location where the torch fell as the center.
The people standing behind Jia Dongming saw the torch touching the bridge surface and a flame quickly spread across the cable bridge. This made everyone shudder and wonder why the bridge surface would automatically catch fire as soon as the torch touched it.
The flames soon enveloped the entire iron chain bridge. Yang Kaihua looked at it and asked Jia Dongming in shock: "Director Jia! What is going on? Why did the iron chain bridge automatically catch fire as soon as the torch touched the bridge surface?"
When Jia Dongming heard Yang Kaihua's question, he thought of the plot in Ghost Blows Out the Light and said to Yang Kaihua with a smile: "Deputy Captain Yang! Didn't you just remind me that the Li family planned to plot against us at Naihe Bridge? Would Zheng Ming also choose to plot against us here? So I carefully observed the bridge in front of me, and found that some mysterious unknown substances were sprinkled on the bridge surface."
"Seeing these mysterious unknown substances reminded me of when I went to see Grandpa Guan before leaving Sijiu City. Grandpa Guan told me some knowledge about how the ancients prevented theft. So I suspected that the mysterious substance should be the white phosphorus powder used by the ancients to prevent theft. That's why I asked Zhou Hua for a torch specifically for the experiment."
Yang Kaihua couldn't help but secretly sweat when he heard what Jia Dongming said. He said to Jia Dongming, "Director Jia! Fortunately, you did some research before coming to Dayong City, and you were more careful and used torches to do experiments. Otherwise, once we got on this iron chain bridge, we would probably fall into the trap set by Zheng Ming."
(End of this chapter)