C702 B to B
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It was a false alarm.
Xia Lei circled around the territory of the snake and continued walking forward. About ten minutes later, he finally arrived at the bottom of the hill. He finally saw the tombstone. It was hidden in the grass, with only half of it remaining. The dense weeds covered it up, and the broken section was filled with bird droppings. The missing half of the tombstone was lying in the grass beside him, and he could just make out the carved half of the cross. The stone was covered with moss, and there were Italian words carved on it with stones or knives. Things like Alice, I love Leonardo, and Pidd is a pig.
Italians seem to like doing this sort of thing.
The marks showed a problem. Even though this place was quite remote, there were still quite a few people who had come here before. Perhaps the reason this tombstone broke was due to these heartless visitors.
Behind the broken tombstone was a mound, not very high, perhaps to the knee. The mound was overgrown with weeds and nests of birds. Other than that, there was nothing special about this place. At first glance, it was just an ordinary grave. It couldn't be that the person buried here was a nobleman, maybe a carpenter, a butcher, or a farmer.
However, with such an ordinary and unremarkable ancient tomb, Xia Lei couldn't help but become excited the moment he saw it. This was because it was almost 90% similar to the tomb that Da Vinci had left on the canvas.
A few hundred years had passed, and although this ancient tomb had undergone great changes, the hillside and the river on the other side all matched each other. Adding on the cross carved on the tombstone, the remaining ten percent was negligible.
"The map Da Vinci left on the canvas is so complex that it's like a maze. The entrance to the map was under this stone tablet. It seemed that I really had to dig a grave. But before I do that, I have to observe the situation below. " Xia Lei thought in his heart. After this thought, his left eye twitched and awakened the clairvoyance.
Little by little, the dirt disappeared from his field of vision, and after a depth of about 1.5 meters, a marble slab blocked his view. He tried to see through the marble slab. Unfortunately, it was only halfway there before he was unable to expand any further. A meter and a half deep earth, coupled with a large density of marble slabs, was the limit of his clairvoyance.
Everything had its limits, and so did his clairvoyance. If there was no limit, he would be able to see the situation on the other side of the Earth. He would even be able to see the situation on the distant planet, but that was obviously impossible.
Although he didn't clearly see the situation below, the existence of the marble slab was a hint. There was no coffin, only a marble slab. It was obviously a fake tomb. Its secrets were hidden beneath the marble slab.
Xia Lei looked around, the surroundings were completely silent. There was no one anywhere he could see. Such a situation made his actions more convenient. He took off his rucksack, took out an engineer shovel from it, and began to dig.
The earth in the tomb was soft, and his excavation was not difficult. He shoveled and shoveled. The pit in front of him grew larger and deeper. The mound behind him grew bigger and bigger.
An hour later, the marble slab was revealed. It was much larger than the pit he had dug, and when he looked around, he soon saw that the marble slab looked like a door laid flat in the dirt. To his dismay, though, the marble slab was astonishingly thick, and even with his feet on it he could not fully see what was going on below.
He estimated that this marble slab was at least one meter thick and weighed hundreds of tons!
The conclusion startled him. Hundreds of years ago, there was no tool in Europe to carry a hundred tons of marble here. However, it still appeared here. It was inconceivable.
"I'm going to faint. How am I going to get off such a big piece of marble?" Xia Lei was worried.
Using an explosive device to blow up a town was the easiest way to solve the problem. However, the vibration caused by the explosion was not a good thing at all. It would attract the attention of the residents of the town and even attract the attention of the police. However, if the explosive device was not used, even the strongest person in the world would not be able to smash it with a hammer.
This was a dead end?
Xia Lei frowned, his gaze landed on the marble stone slab again. Soon, a white object with a horn sticking out from the soil attracted his attention. He squatted down and used his hands to clear away the clump of dirt.
Hidden in the dirt was a round ball of white marble about the size of a basketball. Half of it was embedded in the marble, and when he lifted it up he could see a pit. There was a gear in the pit. It was made of bronze, but the strange thing was that the upper teeth of the gear were not ordinary teeth, but letters.
"Could this be some sort of mechanism?" Xia Lei's heart was filled with curiosity, he used his hand to push the gears. The tentacle felt heavy and clogged, but it moved slightly. A letter B on the gear slid part of it into the marble and became two-thirds B.
There had to be an article in it.
Xia Lei then pushed the gears further into the marble. As new letters appeared one by one, the feeling of obstruction lessened. A few minutes later, he pushed the gears in a full circle, from B to B. However, the marble had not been opened, nor had any secret doors been opened. This gear was like a clever joke, specially designed to flirt with explorers.
"Impossible, I must have missed something." Xia Lei thought in his heart, then he pushed the gears forward a whole circle, from B to B. There was no movement this time.
At this moment, a thought struck him, and his line of sight suddenly shifted to the opposite side of the gear. His left eye jumped slightly, and the soil that was blocking his view disappeared from his left eye. Then, he saw another stone orb made from white marble, exactly the same as the one he had just picked up.
Xia Lei couldn't wait and walked over. He cleaned up the soil at that place and then picked up the White Jade Sphere. Sure enough, underneath the stone orb was the same pit, the same bronze gears. The only difference was that the bronze gear from before had a letter B at the top, and this one was W.
Xia Lei used his hands to push the gears, and this Bronze Gear was quickly moved too. He pushed the bronze gears from W to W. The marble remained motionless.
These two bronze gears were obviously the mechanism and the letters were also the key to activating the mechanism. However, he had already tried every letter, so why was there still no movement?
As he thought about it, the image of Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" suddenly appeared in Xia Lei's mind. In that instant, he seemed to have understood something, and the corner of his mouth couldn't help but curl into a smile. Then he got up and walked over to the first bronze gear, pushing it to move the letter A to the top of the bronze gear. After that he went to the second bronze gear and moved the letter E to the top.
Ka ka ka ?
A strange sound rang out, and the marble tiles beneath his feet began to shake.
The letters A and E were indeed the codes to open the marble slab. Da Vinci had long ago left this code in the smiling eyes of Mona Lisa!
The vibrations grew stronger and stronger, as if hundreds of gears were turning, generating the energy to open the heavy marble slab.
Xia Lei did not dare stay any longer on the marble slab, and leaped into the pit. As soon as his feet touched the ground, the marble slab suddenly opened with a boom, revealing a gap about two feet wide. Only then did he realize that it was not a piece of marble, but rather a piece of a piece that had been pieced together. The patchwork was so exquisite that he did not see the gap where the two marble slates met.
The two marble slabs suddenly shrank to the left and right sides of each other. The soil on the walls of the pit began to fall down and hit the ground with a splashing sound. Xia Lei retreated a little and stuck his head out to look at the gap between the two pieces of marble.
The space beneath the marble was pitch black. The light that shone through the cracks seemed to have been swallowed up by darkness, making it impossible to see the bottom.
Xia Lei circulated his strength to his left eye and pierced through the darkness, following that, he used the light from the gaps to explore further. This time he saw the bottom, and it startled him. The space under the marble slab was not very deep, but the floor was filled with bones, human and beast. No matter what the bones were, they had all been painted black. The light rays had actually reached the bottom, but a large amount of black bones had formed a black 'vortex'. Their existence made it seem as if the light rays had been devoured.
Not only were the bones black, even the stone walls were black. Black bones, black stone walls, the space under the marble slab was a black world, as if it would devour everything, not even light could escape from it.
Xia Lei suddenly remembered Princess Young-mei's description. She was trapped in a dark world with no sound, no light, no temperature, nothing! She didn't want to be there, not even for a second.
"Such a design, could it be that Da Vinci has also studied the space within the box? He knows more than I do? " Such a conjecture appeared in Xia Lei's heart.
No matter what, since he had come, even if he had to go to a place that he was afraid of, he still had to go down and investigate.
A few minutes later, Xia Lei slid to the bottom of the backpack where he used to climb the rocks. Standing on top of the pile of black bones, he could see the gaps between the marble slabs, as well as the faint light that scattered from the cracks. Judging by the height from the ground to the bottom, it was only twenty meters, but it was not to the point where the bottom couldn't be seen. Moreover, he quickly discovered that the coating on the bones and stone walls was no ordinary coating, it had the ability to absorb light.
Sssii! * Xia Lei lit up a fluorescent stick. Using the light emitted by the glowing stick, he quickly discovered the entrance to the tunnel that was hidden on a stone wall.
The tunnel extended forward, and the stone that made it was dyed black by the black paint. There was no end in sight. This corridor was filled with a terrifying aura.
Just as Xia Lei was observing the passage, the two marble slabs above his head closed with a rumble.