Volume 18 Chapter 211 Mysterious Mission

Chapter 211 Mysterious Mission

"This should be the right place." The mage said after comparing the map for a long time.

The strong man looked around and said, "But this place is not small! Doesn't the map say where it is specifically?"

"You don't have to bring so many people here if you know it." Cook said and threw a shovel to the strong man. "Go dig around. Since there is a mission, there must be clues nearby."

"Hey, it's true. I, Big Bear, actually ended up working as a miner!"

"What? Do you despise miners?" Cook asked in a bad tone.

"Hey, I'm not talking about you." The strong man said, raising the shovel in his hand and laughing: "Dig a hole, dig a hole!"

After the strong man and Cook started digging the hole, the mage also asked other people around him to start digging the hole. This is the first time I have seen the scene of more than 400 people digging trenches together. Although there were more people than now when Essinger was digging trenches, I was looting materials all day long and did not see the scene of digging trenches at all. .

I have to say that although the method of these Russians is a bit silly, the effect is quite good. After digging for more than two hours from afternoon to evening, the group finally found the clue at the last moment as the sun set.

Suddenly, an NPC shoveled down and did not shovel out the stone. Instead, the shovel bounced up, and there was an echo similar to the sound of metal impact coming from the ground. "Leader, there's something going on here." The NPC shouted immediately after realizing something was wrong.

After digging for more than two hours, Cook and the others were already bored. Now when they heard about the situation, everyone immediately threw their shovels and rushed to the shouting NPC.

"Did you find anything?"

"I don't know yet, but I just put the shovel down and it didn't move. It seems to be metal underneath."

"Metal?" Upon hearing this, the mage quickly called the strong man over. "Big Bear, you come and dig."

"Okay." The strong man agreed and quickly took the shovel and started digging. However, as soon as he shoveled down, he also hit the metal. After Cook reminded him to dig along the topsoil, he dug a large area around it. All lifted up.

Originally, Cook and the others thought that what they dug would not be too big, but what they did not expect was that as Big Bear cleaned up, the exposed piece of metal under the ground turned out to be part of a door panel.

"This seems to be a door?" Big Bear said looking at the small area he dug out.

"There must be a tunnel below, and this is probably the entrance to the tunnel." The mage said, "It seems we have found the right one. Everyone, go ahead and dig out the entrance, quick."

Under the order of the mage, the stronger people around began to dig the soil, while the mage who was fine lit the lighting spell to illuminate them next to them. With the efforts of several people who started digging, a large area of ​​the ground was soon opened up, but the more they dug, the more frightened they became.

Originally, the mage and the others thought that what they had just dug out was just a part of the door. Everyone thought that they would be able to dig out the entire door and open it soon. However, as everyone dug, the exposed part showed that the door was actually a part of the door. The area is a bit scary. The reason why they thought it was a door before was mainly because they found the door knocker, but now they discovered that it was not a door knocker at all, but the decoration on the door. This huge pure copper door panel is inlaid with huge door knockers neatly arranged horizontally and vertically at intervals of one meter, just like the copper nails inlaid on the doors of ancient Chinese palaces, except that the copper nails here are all hung ring.

"Is this thing for giants? Isn't it too big?" Looking at the dug out part, Big Bear said in surprise: "Based on this volume, this door is at least thirty meters wide!"

"No, we are standing in the wrong direction." The Master said: "Thirty meters is the height of a door panel. The doors in China are all double door panels, and the door height is generally slightly shorter than the width. This door panel should be Thirty meters high, and the width of a single door panel should not be less than forty meters, otherwise it would not be in line with Chinese architectural habits."

"Isn't this door more than eighty meters wide?" Big Bear asked in surprise.

"This is not necessarily true." Cook said: "Although construction habits generally do not change much, this thing is a thing from thousands of years ago. Who knows what specifications it was built to? But one thing is for sure. This door is definitely not that small.”

In fact, as Cook said, the door was indeed not much smaller, and after they completely cleaned it out, they discovered that the door was not built as they imagined. In fact, this door opens neither horizontally nor vertically, but in four directions. After confirmation, the entire door was composed of four door panels. The door gap in the middle happened to be an H-shape lying horizontally. Moreover, this door was not an ordinary opening and closing door panel, but a retractable one. At the bottom of the gate is a whole door panel that is one hundred meters wide and thirty meters high. The door panel can be opened by descending, rather than opening inward or sliding left and right. Above this bottom door panel are two door panels fifty meters wide and thirty meters high. When these two door panels are combined, they are exactly the same as the door panel below, but they are composed of two panels, and the opening method is to slide open on both sides. As for the top panel of the door, its structure is exactly the same as the bottom panel, except that it opens upward.

Such four door panels form a rectangular gate that is one hundred meters wide and ninety meters high. However, this door is not vertical on the ground, but is tilted at an angle of thirty degrees according to the trend of the hillside where it is located and the horizontal plane. It is also covered with a layer of soil and rock. What the NPC dug before was actually the top of the door, which is where the soil layer is thinnest, so after digging two shovels, it hit the door panel, while the bottom of the door below was almost buried more than two meters deep. If the upper door panel hadn't been extended all the way down, it would have been difficult to spot it from the bottom of the door.

In order to dig out the door completely, Cook and his friends kept digging from the time the sun went down until past ten o'clock in the night, thanks to the large number of people they had. Otherwise, it would not be that easy to completely dig out such a large door.

After finally opening the door completely, the mage immediately took a map and searched for it on the door. In the end, he found a small hole in the middle of the top of the door. This small hole that can't even fit a human arm is so small compared to the size of the entire door that you can't even notice it without paying attention.

After discovering the small hole, the mage immediately rolled up the map in his hand and turned it into a scroll. Then he looked down and faced the hole and stuffed it in. When the scroll was completely submerged in the hole, there was only a sound of metal banging, and the copper rings hanging on the copper nails on the entire door suddenly stood up collectively.

"Okay, the door has been activated, now it's a matter of unlocking it." The mage stood up and said.

"Don't tell me this is a combination lock." Cook said with a bitter look on his face as he looked at the standing copper rings. However, although he didn't want this to happen, the mage still told him an answer he didn't want to hear.

"That's right, this is a combination lock, but it is also a three-dimensional combination lock. It is much more difficult than opening a safe." The mage said, pointing to the copper rings: "These copper rings are all standing up now, but We can manually tilt the rings up 90 degrees, or tilt them down 90 degrees, or we can twist the copper rings to make the copper nails under the copper rings rotate at a certain angle. There are also scales on the copper rings themselves. Turning the copper ring so that the scale shown on the connection point between it and the copper nail changes is also part of the code."

Daxiong looked at one of the rings and exclaimed: "Holy crap, isn't it? The three angles of the top, middle and bottom of the door knocker are equal to three possibilities. The rotation angle of the copper nail has six gears. The combination of the two is 3 Multiplying by 6 equals 18 possibilities. The copper ring itself has a circle of thirty-six scales, corresponding to the previous 18 possibilities, a total of 648 combinations can be formed. This copper nail has 648 combinations, and there are a total of 648 combinations on the entire door. 89 times 99, there are a total of 8811 copper nails. Even if the door does not need to be turned in sequence, these 8811 copper nails alone can create more than 5.7 million combinations. Even if we do nothing, try it here Don’t expect to open this door in your life!”

"It's not just a quilt, you can't count on it even for a thousand lifetimes." The Master said, "Because this door requires copper rings that need to be rotated in order, and the order is crosswise. You want to turn from which side to where in the same order. The sides are useless.”

"Such a complicated lock? How do we open it?"

The mage smiled proudly and took out another roll of bamboo slips from his body, then asked two NPCs to fully unfold it and said with a smile: "In complex locks, it is not a problem if there is a password."

"Damn, if you didn't tell me the password earlier if you had the password, I thought I would have to try them one by one!"

Cook said next to him: "If I really don't have the password, I won't try one by one. If I have that time, I might as well blow the door open as quickly as possible."

"I can't blow you open." The mage said: "This door is connected to a security array. To crack it violently requires the cooperation of three beings above the main god level to have any hope. We will definitely not be able to destroy it. If there is You can consider the Eternal Sword of Purple Sun. I heard that there is a cutting law on it, which can cut off everything."

"Damn, his sword itself is worth a treasure house. With that thing, there is no need to open this door." Big Bear urged: "You'd better read out the password quickly, and I will open the door."

"Don't worry, this door can't be opened by one person. Wait for me to line up the people first."

What the Master means by platooning people is to have 200 people stand on the door respectively, and then instruct them to guard a few copper nails around them and then follow the order to turn the copper ring. Although there are more than 8,000 rings on this door, most of them are useless. Only a thousand of them are needed to open the door. On average, each person needs to turn five rings, so the workload can be smaller, and because some The rings need to rotate at the same time, and some have time intervals, so even if one or two people know the password, you won't have time to open the door.

After seeing that everyone was standing, the mage stood in the distance with a big loudspeaker and shouted at the code book: "Tok, go forward and grab the ring on your left. Harveys, come down one space, yes, That's the ring, grab it. I'll count one, two, three, and you two work together to push the ring down to a level with the door panel. The door ring should lock automatically. After the rotation is completed, Harveys, you have to take the ring off immediately. Turn the copper nail two steps clockwise, and stand up as soon as you finish turning it. Tok, as soon as you see Harveys standing up, immediately adjust the scale of the ring in your hand to eighteen, and you can turn it forward or reverse. But you only have five seconds. After timeout, all the door knockers will automatically return to their initial state, and the previous ones will be turned in vain. That Locker, pay attention to the ring next to your feet, that's right. When Tok finishes turning, You should immediately push the ring up until it is parallel to the door panel, then quickly turn the scale on the ring to thirty, then stand up and tell Harveys loudly that you are done. Harveys, when you see Locker's signal, immediately Return the ring you just turned to the zero-scale state, and then push the copper ring up again to make it stand up. Only you have to run as fast as possible to the ring one spaced apart on your right, and then push it up Push it down, and then tell Xi Wei loudly. When Xi Wei hears it..."

The mage guided these players step by step, and it took nearly an hour to figure out the sequence. However, it may be that the actions were too complicated, and since it required the coordination of 200 people, the error rate was really high. Even though they knew the order, they still failed to open the door after trying more than ten times in a row. Moreover, every time someone made a wrong turn, all the previous steps would be reset to zero. The complexity was simply abnormal.

At first, when someone made a mistake, the mage could still use a loudspeaker to call people to correct the mistake. But later, his voice became hoarse, and the more than 200 people were all made dizzy. Big Bear complained from the side: "If I had known better, I shouldn't have agreed to separate teams. Otherwise, we would have a thousand people standing up, each responsible for a knocker, so the steps would be much simpler."

"You're right, even if we don't have a separate team, we will have to lose at least several hundred people when we pass through the forest before. However, more people will indeed make it a lot faster." The mage said and sent all the remaining people up. He had only sent 200 people before because he thought it was a good arrangement. Unexpectedly, he underestimated the unexpected error rate caused by the large number of people, so he has not completed it until now.

After all the people still present are sent into battle, each of the more than 400 people only needs to be responsible for two or three rings, which makes it much simpler for everyone. But even so, they still struggled five more times before completing the correct steps. When the last person successfully turned the copper ring, there was a bang, and the gap in the middle of the door suddenly opened, and then the four doors began to rumble and slide in all directions.

"Come down, come down!" Seeing the door finally moving, the mage shouted excitedly in his hoarse voice. But even if he didn't scream, these people wouldn't just stand still. After all, the vibration was very obvious when the door was opened, so only fools would stand there in a daze.

As the door slowly slid open to all sides, a puff of light purple smoke rose from inside the door, and then quickly spread to all sides. Cook screamed as soon as he saw the color of the gas. "Stay back and cover your noses. There may be something wrong with this smoke."

I don’t know if there was nothing wrong with the smoke itself, or if Cook shouted more promptly. In short, when the smoke completely dissipated after ten minutes, no one among the Russians fell down.

"It looks like there should be no problem, let's go in now?" A player said to the three of them, the mage and Cook.

Daxiong originally planned to go in immediately, but before he could speak, the mage said: "No, pay attention now. NPC troops will immediately set up a defense line to be on guard. Players will be divided into two groups to go offline to eat and use the toilet. , and then come back and camp here to recover from fatigue, and we will explore the underground passage tonight."

In fact, the mage himself has no choice in making such a decision. They went through a lot of hard work and finally found this place. Now they just have to go in and explore to complete the mission. At this time, who doesn't want to go in and complete the mission right away? But the mage couldn't make this decision. He had to forcefully suppress his desire and let everyone go offline to rest. After all, the original plan was for them to enter this underground passage last night, but due to many accidents, they have been struggling until now. Although the sun has not risen yet, it is not far away. In other words, these people have been online for more than sixteen hours continuously, and there will definitely be various dangers waiting for them when they enter the underground passage. It would not be worthwhile if someone was forcibly kicked out of the game by the system because their physical fatigue reached the warning line in real life during the battle. So even though he knew that waiting here would be one more day of danger, the mage still gave the order for everyone to rest. As for why we camp in the game instead of sleeping directly in reality. Although the camping state is sleeping, people are still online, and the NPC responsible for vigilance can wake them up at any time if they discover the situation. Secondly, the auxiliary sleep system of "Zero" itself is better than sleeping in reality. Even if camping in the wild cannot achieve the same effect as sleeping in the city, it is still much better than sleeping in reality.

Standing on a distant mountain peak and seeing the Russians building a camp, I immediately understood their plan. After all, I have been following them for more than twelve hours. People like me don't need to sleep. It doesn't matter if they are online for a long time. They are ordinary people. If they are not offline for such a long time, they must have reached the physiological warning line. It is estimated that if they don't sleep, at least half of this group of people will be kicked offline by the system within an hour.

Originally, when I saw this group of people preparing to camp, I planned to sneak into the underground passage before them while they were sleeping to check out the situation. After all, that thing had such a complicated lock, and the thing inside was definitely not. General stuff. However, before I could take action, I discovered a group of sneaky Russians who were cautiously 'touching' towards the camp.