The three of us looked at each other for a long ti, but there was no denying the fact that a wall had really appeared in that place.
"Whats your period (1) doing here?" Fatty asked .
"Its your fucking period," I retorted as I walked to the rock wall. I found that there was a continuity between the mural and the wall. It wasnt an extra wall that appeared out of thin air, but the wall of the tomb passage that had suddenly opened like a door. The opened "part" had just sealed the tomb passage, aning this was a chanism.
It was just like walking down a corridor and a gust of wind suddenly slamd the door shut, locking you out. If the chanism was good enough and the pivot point of this wall was in the right position, the tomb passage would be sealed without making a sound.
"Is this the Five Ghosts Transportation ritual?" Fatty looked at . We all rembered the things Qianjun Wanma had said to us. I patted the wall and found that the rock was very thick. If it was really carried by the five ghosts, then they must have graduated from Lanxiang (2).
I took a deep breath, stepped back, and started kicking the wall. If it could open, then there had to be a structure like a door shaft that shouldnt be too strong. I kicked it a few more tis, but the door still didnt budge.
Fatty tried pushing it for a long ti, but was a little depressed when it didnt move for him either. Now we were completely trapped and the only way out was this hole.
But I didnt panic because we already had a way to deal with this situation. There were cracks in the rock and we still had detonators, so this wall couldnt stop us. I was just a little upset that we had fallen for this kind of chanism. Considering how this was the most obvious kind of chanism, it seed that our skills had really beco a little rusty.
"Do you think this hole is a trick to draw us in so were trapped to death by the chanism?"
I shook my head. This kind of tomb-sealing chanism was very common and had nothing to do with trapping people to death. It was mainly used to close the tomb passage whenever soone invaded. But there would be at least three such chanisms in such a long tomb passage, so soone could be trapped to death if they ended up between two of them.
We didnt care too much since we had enough experience and preparation, but Fatty knew sothing had gone wrong sowhere and was a little displeased. When we went back to the hole to discuss what to do next, Fatty said, "Theres no need to guess what's going on. We'll just go ho if we can't figure it out. I'll blow the wall up.
I touched the words on the stone tablet. Sure enough, I cherished my life too much to make this kind of decision. At this mont, I saw Poker-Face touch the ground. I looked back at the stone wall and suddenly found that it had moved. It was moving so much, in fact, that it looked just like it was sliding on a track. By the ti I had looked back at it, it had already moved several feet towards us.
The stone wall suddenly got stuck and I could hear the sound of it grinding against the outer walls of the tomb passage. Its movents gradually slowed until it finally stopped.
We had just breathed a sigh of relief, when the portion of the wall that got stuck cracked violently and then the wall rushed towards us again. At a speed visible to the naked eye, it was slowly pressing towards us.
"Well be squished in about three minutes," Fatty cursed.
I couldnt understand how the stone wall was moving, but I figured this abandoned tomb passage had a slight incline to it. Fatty had just finished cursing when the stone wall suddenly sped up and ca right towards us, as if it were coated in so kind of lubricant. Luckily, it got stuck again when it was only a ter away from us.
Both sections of the walls that were stuck cracked violently and pieces of the mural went flying. Poker-Face grabbed and said, "Go."
Without an ounce of hesitation, I crouched down, lay on my stomach, and started crawling into the hole. Poker-Face lay down and kicked the stone wall with his feet, followed by Fatty.
I kept crawling forward to make room for them, but I couldnt go any further after ten ters. "Fatty, are you in yet?" I asked loudly.
"My detonators stuck," Fatty replied.
Just as he said this, I heard a loud boom, as if the stone wall had pressed up against the entrance of the hole.
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TN Notes:
(1) He ans like your nstrual period. First he said Wu Xie was going through nopause, now hes saying Wu Xies period is here lol.
(2) Its a vocational and technical college in China that offers courses in subjects like cooking, auto repair, construction equipnt operations (mainly excavators), and computer skills (so say computer hacking). More info here but the Chinese version is more in depth.
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