Chapter 1213: Ingenious Mechanism

He crawled out of the depression, crouched down, and hid with the help of the steps.

Then, he reached out and touched the cross, but no matter he pushed or pulled it out, it still didn't move.

What the hell is this?

Shi Lei was actually very sure that the cross must be where the mechanism was, but why couldn't it move?

From the side, the footsteps of the guard came over, and Shi Lei was startled, and hurriedly crouched and crawled into the depression again.

When he crawled in, his toes stepped on a stone slab outside the depression, and his hand was still holding the cross. The stone slab at his toes seemed to shake slightly.

Shi Lei didn't dare to stop, and still crawled in, but he suddenly had an idea in his mind.

This mechanism is a linked mechanism, and it is necessary to move two places at the same time to open the mechanism.

He waited patiently until the footsteps of the guards completely disappeared. According to his experience of the previous two nights, Shi Lei knew that this was the last patrol of the guards. In more than half an hour, he would change shifts with his colleagues. Generally speaking, at this time, the guards returned to the guard room and should have closed their eyes and waited for the guards of the morning shift to take over.

After waiting in the depression for another two minutes, Shi Lei came out again.

This time, he was almost sure that he could do it. He stepped on the stone slab with his toes and used all his strength, but the stone slab did not move at all.

Then, he reached into the depression and grabbed the cross. While bending the cross, he exerted force with his toes...

There was a slight clicking sound beside his ear, and the stone slab under his feet tilted down, and the cross in his hand was finally pulled out of the crack in the stone.

Looking at the intact cross in his hand, Shi Lei heard extremely slight clicking sounds coming from the temple. He was very worried that these sounds would alert the guards.

He stood up and hid behind a huge stone pillar. He waited patiently for a while, but the guard did not appear. Shi Lei probably estimated that either the guard did not hear the sound, or he did not think that the sound had anything to do with the temple. Perhaps, he thought that it was a sound coming from outside the temple.

In any case, this was Shi Lei's last chance in May. He did not care about many things and entered the temple in a cat-like body.

Shi Lei entered the temple with his head raised. He intuitively thought that the mechanism should be opened somewhere on the arch above his head. He was actually a little worried, because even if the arch was opened, with his current skills, he might not be able to climb up smoothly with the gecko wall.

He couldn't help but regret that he should have brought some tools such as flying tiger claws earlier.

But soon, he found that the arch had not changed at all.

With doubts, Shi Lei retracted his gaze, but he could still clearly hear the slight but continuous clicking sound in his ears.

Shi Lei lowered his head, and suddenly, he found that there was a dent on the marble floor in the center of the temple.

Walking over quickly, there was indeed a depression.

That depression was a carved pattern on the floor of the original temple.

It was perfectly sealed before. Shi Lei studied it for two nights and did not find any problems on the floor. There was almost no gap.

However, now the carved pattern is clearly sinking slowly.

Oh my! This technology! Awesome! Such a tight fit, even modern technology may not be able to do it, right?

Shi Lei could not care about too much emotion, because the depression was getting deeper and deeper, revealing a black hole inside.

Taking out the flashlight and shining it down, Shi Lei found that there was something like a staircase on the wall on one side, but the staircase was directly carved on the wall.

He ran over quickly and climbed down along the staircase.

It was not too deep. After about five or six meters, Shi Lei reached the ground.

A narrow but long passage appeared in front of Shi Lei.

He took out a lighter, lit it and shook it slightly. Under the ground, the air was obviously rotating and circulating. The flame of the lighter was very healthy, without any sign of lack of oxygen.

Shi Lei used a strong flashlight to illuminate it, and found that the corridor was really long, at least hundreds of meters.

After a simple judgment of the direction, Shi Lei found that the end of the corridor must have been beyond the scope of the temple.

If he explored forward now, Shi Lei might not be able to return to the original place before the guards changed shifts and insert the cross he pulled out back to its original place, so this place would soon be discovered.

But if he didn't go forward, Shi Lei could only choose to withdraw.

In any case, Shi Lei didn't dare to take the risk of moving forward. He didn't hesitate too much and retreated directly.

Returning to the ground from the stairs, Shi Lei stood behind the stone pillars of the temple and observed carefully. There was no figure outside.

He ran down the steps and inserted the cross in his hand back into the previous stone crack.

A slight clicking sound was heard again. Shi Lei knew that this was the mechanism recovering to its original state. Soon, there was no gap on the floor of the temple.

Apart from anything else, the fact that there was no gap at all made Shi Lei feel impressed by the miraculous achievements of the ancient Greeks in architecture.

Unwilling to give up, he returned to the temple and saw that the depression was recovering little by little.

A bold idea came into Shi Lei's mind.

This place below was obviously not an underground palace, but more like the entrance to an underground palace.

According to the direction of the corridor, the underground palace seems to be outside the temple.

Based on the size of the corridor, Shi Lei feels that the underground palace connected to the other end of the corridor does not seem to be a place to hide things.

After all, if you just want to hide something, you can just build an underground palace under the temple.

Either the thing to be hidden is too big and it is not easy to hide under the temple.

Or, this underground palace has the function of hiding people in addition to hiding things.

If the hidden thing is too big, this underground palace must not have only one exit. After all, the size of this gap is absolutely not enough to put in something too big.

This means that the underground palace has other exits.

And if this underground palace also has the function of hiding people, then there must be a way to open the mechanism from the inside of the underground palace, otherwise, people can only wait for people outside to open the passage after hiding in it. What if the person outside dies? Wouldn’t he be buried alive?

Once this thought appeared, it was like planting grass in Shi Lei's heart. He could no longer bear such temptation. Without much hesitation, he rushed over while the floor had not yet fully recovered and went down the stairs to the ground.

Not long after, there was no light above his head. Shi Lei climbed up the stairs and searched for a long time with the strong light flashlight in his hand. Even from the inside, he still couldn't find any gaps.

Once again, Shi Lei sighed at the achievements of the ancient Greeks in architecture. He went underground and walked forward carefully along the corridor.

After walking more than 150 meters, Shi Lei found that the end of the corridor was not connected to any underground palace, but formed a turn.

After turning around, Shi Lei continued to move forward. After walking more than 100 meters, the front of him became more and more open, and finally, it had become a stone room.

Looking up, Shi Lei used the light of the flashlight to see that the entire stone room looked like a trapezoid.

The walls on both sides were at an angle. Opposite was a wall more than ten meters high, and behind was an exit that could only accommodate two or three people walking side by side.

Shi Lei knew that he had arrived!

After walking along the three walls, Shi Lei carefully recalled the direction he had walked from, and he made a surprising discovery.

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