Murano Momo is a cunning doctor

Chapter 1258: Observation, Listening, Questioning and Palpation

"There's a secret here!"

"Withdraw your hand," Jiang Xiaochuan said cautiously.

"What tricks can a bunch of animals who cultivate by sucking human blood possibly pull?"

Clearly, the sixth brother also realized something was amiss. He grumbled and cursed, but dared not slacken his actions in the slightest.

He took out a bronze compass, fiddled with it a few times, and placed it on the ground in front of the stone gate.

As soon as the compass hit the ground, the needle started spinning wildly and couldn't be stopped.

"Oh shit……"

Seeing this, Old Six's fat face broke out in a cold sweat. "Last time I came, the atmosphere here was like a stagnant pool, with only cold, deathly energy accumulating. How come now..."

He stared intently at the erratically rotating scales, muttering to himself, "The metallic aura is bone-chilling, and the murderous aura is overwhelming, which means there's a poisoned mechanism inside, the kind that explodes at the slightest touch."

However, as a seasoned tomb raider, Lao Liu quickly came up with a solution.

He crouched down and pulled out a black probe with a dull copper sheen at the tip, three inches long, from his waist belt.

This is no ordinary probe, but a "Dragon-Suppressing Needle" made with meteorite iron, which is exceptionally sensitive to metal and stone mechanisms and yin energy.

"Damn, they've really gone all out."

Old Liu cursed and bit his left index finger, smearing a drop of blood on the tip of the probe. The blood quickly seeped in, and the needle body faintly glowed with a bloody halo.

Then, he carefully inserted the probe into the gap between the stone door and the ground.

The probe had just gone in three inches when a soft "click" sound was heard.

Immediately afterwards, a dark red light suddenly shone from one of the blood-red bat wings on the stone gate. The red light spread rapidly along the ravine and soon covered the entire bat wing!

"not good!"

The sixth brother's expression changed drastically, and he let out a low shout.

Before the words were finished, the hidden slots on both sides of the stone gate suddenly popped open.

With a whooshing sound, hundreds of crossbow bolts coated with black venom shot out, accompanied by a whistling, eerie wind.

The rate of fire is astonishing, leaving almost no time to react.

At the same time, a pungent, sour smell instantly filled the air.

Jiang Xiaochuan was startled. The smell was the sap from the vines he had touched before coming in. These guys were really malicious.

"careful!"

The sixth brother yelled and shrank back. Even though he was agile, he lost his composure in the face of the dense barrage of arrows.

Jiang Xiaochuan reacted extremely quickly, instantly circulating his spiritual energy.

He spun to the side to avoid the first few crossbow bolts, and at the same time grabbed Lao Liu's wrist with his other hand, using the momentum of the turn to pull him sharply to the side and back.

The two had barely taken three steps when the ground where they had been standing and the stone wall behind them were riddled with crossbow bolts!

The arrow struck the stone wall, producing a dull, chilling "thud."

Even more terrifying, some crossbow bolts, fired at tricky angles, would bounce off the ground in a bizarre way and come back from unbelievable angles!

Jiang Xiaochuan's steps remained perfectly steady. He grabbed Lao Liu and twisted his body again in a strange manner, squeezing through the gap between the two crossbow bolts that bounced off the ground.

Then, using the strength of their waist and abdomen, they leaned back sharply, pressing their bodies tightly against the cold stone wall.

"laugh!!"

The last volley of crossbow bolts, fired from the most dangerous angle, barely grazed Jiang Xiaochuan's back and entered the stone wall, just half an inch away from his spine!

The arrow trembled incessantly, and the black venom at the arrowhead reacted violently with the stone wall, emitting hissing white smoke and rapidly corroding a fist-sized black pit.

The stone at the edges melted into a viscous paste under the influence of the venom, which slowly dripped down.

"so close!"

Old Six patted his chest, his face still covered in cold sweat from shock. "Those bastards from the Crimson Blood Cult have actually combined modern military technology with ancient mechanisms!"

Jiang Xiaochuan frowned as he looked at the expanding corrosion marks on the ground.

He thought that if the sap on the vines could be utilized, it would be a powerful weapon. He never expected that these guys had already thought of this.

"We can't force our way in; we need to find the core of the mechanism."

Looking at the panting sixth brother, Jiang Xiaochuan said in a deep voice.

"Nonsense! Don't I know?"

The sixth brother rubbed his face, forcing himself to calm down, "I just don't believe it."

He picked up the Dragon-Suppressing Needle again, but this time he was smarter.

Instead of probing the cracks, they carefully followed the patterns of the blood bat relief on the stone gate.

"The four essentials of tomb raiding are 'observation, listening, questioning, and palpation.' Observe the aura to determine the location, listen to the sound to find gaps, ask about the past to understand the present, and palpate the pulse to determine the key points."

As the sixth brother probed, he spoke quickly in a low voice, as if explaining or organizing his thoughts, "The core of the Blood Bat Sect's energy is 99% hidden in the bat's eyes. But these two gems..."

He opened his eyes and stared at the pair of bat eyes that emitted an ominous red light. "The red light is condensed and does not dissipate, the baleful aura is contained within and swirling, and it is also wrapped in a layer of negative magnetic barrier..."

"Prying it open by force or using yang fire to break it could directly trigger the self-destruct mechanism below..."

"Snapped."

After muttering to himself for a moment, Lao Liu suddenly slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "I've got it!"

He took out a small jade box from his pocket. Inside were two stones, each the size of a longan, with natural spiral patterns on their surface, and a faint magnetic field.

“The ‘Yin Magnetite Gallbladder’ nurtured by the earth’s veins over thousands of years is of the Yin and cold nature, and can temporarily absorb and interfere with a single energy field that is either pure Yang or pure Yin.”

He carefully put on thin, gossamer-skin gloves, picked up one, and with his other hand took out a thin yellow sheet that was neither paper nor silk, on which intricate runes were outlined in silver powder.

“This ‘Taiyi Zhensha Talisman’ uses runes to harmonize Yin and Yang, temporarily neutralizing the negative magnetic barrier outside the gemstone.”

The sixth brother gently placed the talisman on the surface of the gemstone in his left eye, muttered incantations, and quickly made light taps on a few nodes of the talisman with his fingertips.

One by one, the silver powder patterns on the talisman lit up with a soft white light, which, upon contact with the red light of the gemstone, emitted a slight "sizzling" sound, and the two lights began to slowly merge.

Just as the ruby ​​red light dimmed to almost imperceptible!

The sixth brother's eyes sharpened, and his right hand moved with lightning speed, precisely pressing the Yin magnetic stone into the center of the gemstone!

"Buzz!"

A sharp, grinding sound came from inside the gemstone!

Then, the entire stone gate trembled slightly.

The spiral patterns on the surface of the stone glowed with a faint light, fiercely contrasting with the remaining red light of the gemstone.

After a few breaths, the red light went out completely, and the stone chalcedony made a soft "click" sound, slightly embedding itself into the surface of the gemstone.

At this moment, Lao Liu had already grasped a uniquely shaped bronze tool with a small barb at the front in his left hand. He aimed at a tiny gap where the gemstone and the stone door connected, and suddenly inserted it, then skillfully flicked it with his wrist!

"Crack!"

The gem in his left eye fell off with a thud and rolled to the ground with a dull thud.

Where the gemstone fell, a deep hole was revealed, and at the bottom of the hole was a short metal rod about the thickness of a little finger.

Jiang Xiaochuan and Lao Liu knew perfectly well that this was the main trigger of the crossbow formation.

Without hesitation, Lao Liu grabbed the metal bar and pulled it to the side!