We returned to the Phoenix Stone Gate and continued the marking work with our own thoughts, without anyone saying a word.

The firing angle of the arrow hole covers the entire space, but it seems that our ancestors took some arrows for us, and many of the holes are empty. Some of them have been loosened from the firing mechanism behind them, probably due to the tempering of two thousand years.

, we can pull out the moving hidden arrows with a little effort. Moreover, there are not many marks from the wall to the ground. The focus is only on the back of the mouse and the Phoenix Stone Door, which are almost covered with dense tape.

.

The design of the mechanism is not only to shoot the people in the secret passage, but also to focus on the person who opens the door. Whoever opens the door has the greatest chance of death.

The mouse was holding the stone plate so tightly that his knuckles were swollen and shiny. Our lives were all in his hands. As soon as he relaxed a little and regained his strength, everyone confessed.

Maybe he was too mentally exhausted, or maybe he was frightened by the tape mark on his back. He had completely lost the energy he had before, and he no longer made noises and jokes. He had a depressed face and said nothing, with his head against the stone door.

sit there.

"Do we really need to draw lots to decide who will stand behind the little mouse?" We finished all the marking work. Brother Monkey held up a fluorescent stick and inserted it into his armpit, pretending to be shot to death. "I would have known if I had brought some bricks down here.

Build a wall to block it!"

"If I had known, I would have brought an explosion-proof shield down!" Glasses replied angrily, "Let's think about something practical. With the resources we have, how can we block more arrows?"

The weirdo said silently: "Maybe it can block 70% to 80%. We still have human shields."

"No, Dr. Lin was joking just now. How can we kill each other just to open a door?" Brother Monkey was startled and patted him on the shoulder.

"No, I'm serious, we can really try a human shield."

"If I want to fuck you, I won't do it anyway!"

"We have a guy who was shot and unconscious."

Glasses hurriedly rushed to Donghuang: "My eldest cousin is injured and is just sleeping! You are not allowed to have any ideas about him!"

The weirdo looked at him aggrievedly and said, "I'm talking about the eighth person."

I was stunned for a while, very puzzled. There were 4 people in Donghuang’s group, and 7 people in total including Dr. Hou Gelin and me. Where did the eighth person come from?

Brother Monkey jumped up, and from my angle, I could just see a pistol flashing out of his waist!

Why does this man have a gun on him? Does he have a gun license?

The weirdo was even quicker than him and swung around to grab his hand.

He pointed to the top of his head: "What are you excited about? I'm talking about the mummy above."

Brother Monkey changed his face faster than flipping through a book, and immediately returned to his smiling expression. The pistol was hidden in his clothes again in a second. He broke away from the weirdo's hand and laughed with a sloppy look.

Glasses let out a long sigh of relief: "Brother Dao, you almost scared me to death..."

"The muscle tissue of mummies is very tight and tough, making it easier to use than living people." Dr. Lin agreed with this proposal.

I recalled the texture of beef jerky. It was indeed chewy, but it was not enough to block the metal arrows! I asked: "Besides that, what else can we use?"

"All of us." The weirdo picked up the backpacks of several people and threw them into a pile. "Use them all. As long as the impact of the hidden arrows is not strong enough to hurt the mouse, it doesn't matter if you use anything to block them."

"Okay, nothing in the bag is worth my brother's life!" Brother Monkey moved his neck, hugged the weirdo, and called Dr. Lin, "Let's go, fight the human shield!"

After the three of them walked out of our sight, they looked around for a while, then suddenly came up to me and asked in a low voice: "Who are these two people?"

I thought it was right. When they were delivering water to save lives at the entrance of the Bat Cave, Brother Glasses was unconscious. As soon as he woke up, he got into a big trouble. We were so cruel that we didn’t dare to say anything, so we only briefly introduced them.

.In his eyes, there should be only the thin concept of "the people behind are his own".

I explained: "Brother Monkey is Mouse's senior brother, and the cold one is Dr. Lin. The purpose of their treasure hunt is a small object, and they say they don't want anything else except that one. If we hadn't met them, we would have died of thirst.

They both foolishly thought that we were following the rats to rob the tomb, and they stumbled in by mistake!"

"That's all? No more?"

I thought about it and found that there was nothing more to say. That was all I knew about them.

The glasses frowned and thought for a while, then came closer, the lenses of the glasses reflected the white light and said, "Didn't you, Brother Dao, and Dr. Lin run out just now? Only Brother Monkey and I are left here to continue working. He took a rest.

My son took out a bottle of wine and took a few sips. I was afraid that his eyesight would be blurred after drinking too much and he would miss something, so I reminded him. Unexpectedly, he actually said: "You think I can drink mung bean roast as much as I can drink."

drunk?'"

"What? Is the degree of heat of mung beans very low?" I thought what the glasses said was quite inexplicable.

"The point is, when the rat got Mr. Zhang drunk and set up the letter, he used mung beans to cook it!"

"So what? Do you want to say that Mr. Zhang's wine is bad?"

"But what he is holding is basically Erguotou's wine bottle." The voice in the glasses was so low that I could hardly hear it, "Who do you think a normal person would talk so carelessly?"

I still don’t quite understand what he meant. I just drank a few sips of wine. What’s so strange about that?

"That monkey brother seemed to have said this sentence unintentionally because he subconsciously knew that these key words of mung bean cooking, drinking, and Mr. Zhang are related to us!"

I thought about it for a long time before I came up with a possibility: "You mean, they knew that you had drunk Mr. Zhang with mung bean roast? Then didn't they also know that you were coming here?"

"I'm not sure. Anyway, I always feel a little weird. Everything is too coincidental. For example, that Dr. Lin..." The glasses suddenly stopped talking and winked at me, "Shh, they are back."

I quickly pretended to be calm, suppressed the turbulence in my heart, and welcomed the arrival of beef jerky.

It huddled helplessly on the ground.

Several people poured out the contents of the package and tried to stack it into a soft shield between the human shield and the rat.

We took out the water, wrapped everything else in our clothes and sleeping bags, folded them into squares and put them in our backpacks, then packed several wraps together to form two large squares, and finally evenly distributed sturdy items that could withstand the impact.

is covered in the outermost layer.

The weirdo lit a cigarette and brought it to the mouse's mouth. He took a few puffs and told him about our shield plan.

The mouse let out a long sigh, curled up into a small ball and sat cross-legged, with a look of death on his face as we tied two layers of large iron armor blocks to his back.

Beef jerky's body could no longer be put into any other shape. We worked together to fix his twisted body tightly on the outer layer of the cube. The mouse, luggage shield, and human shield combined to form a hidden arrow target, which was formed under the illumination of our flashlights.

A monster-like shadow was reflected on the stone door.

The glasses guy weighed the hidden arrow, measured the thickness of the combined shield, and listed a speed formula that he seemed to have learned in physics class.

After the calculation was completed, he made an "ok" gesture, and the mouse muttered a few words to the weirdo Monkey as if giving his last words.

I finally leaned over to cheer him up for a while, and then followed the large troops, supporting the bleeding Donghuang, and retreated to the Han Dynasty portrait stone.

We all raised our ears and waited quietly.

Buzz.

The fatal turning lock sound sounded again!

"Brother Mouse, how are you?" Glasses yelled.

"It's okay, it shot into the wall!" the mouse responded on the line of life and death at the other end.

Buzz.

"how?"

"Too fucking scary!"

"Shrink up a little more! Be careful!"

After five or six rounds, the mouse is still alive, which shows that our combination shield is effective.

"I want to count the laps. Stop yelling. I will report when you open the door. If you hear screams, you are dead. Come and collect the body after the arrow is released!" the mouse roared.

"Shut up, everyone, don't let him be distracted..." Dong Huang lay on the ground in a daze and gave the order.

We had no choice but to hold our breath and listen to the movement of the lock with anticipation and nervousness. This feeling is difficult to describe: we are trying our best to protect him from harm, but we push him to the edge of life and death, allowing him to create the possibility of killing himself.

own actions.

The wretched mouse in my heart suddenly became noble and great. In an unexpected situation that no one could control, he was willing to hand over his back and life to our protection and open up the way forward for his companions.

If it were me, at the end of the lonely secret passage, I would definitely be shaking with fear and bursting into tears. Looking at the other people, although they also had anxious looks on their faces, they all stood silently, and no one walked like me.

A coward who walked back and forth, stamped his feet and slapped the wall.

I'm really weak!

"Fuck!" came the rat's voice, and my heart suddenly rose to my throat.

"Are you okay?" Glasses shook his whole body in shock, "Brother Mouse?"

"I've been hit by an arrow in the heart. It seems to have been blocked by your computer. I'll pay you another one when I get out!"

We all breathed a long sigh of relief, and Brother Monkey laughed and scolded: "A computer can change your life, so you have to pay for a more advanced one!"

"There are a lot of things to pay for. Isn't Mr. Dong's engineering shovel on my left shoulder? Whose stainless steel lunch box is on my back? I've been hit by a lot of arrows in my back, like a Transformer!"

I heard his tone return to a serious tone, and gradually relaxed, waiting for victory to come.

Buzz buzz.

"Ugh...it hurts so much."

My heart tightened as I just let go: "Did the shield pierce?"

"Don't come here, there's still one last bit to go...it's so heavy...I'm almost out of strength."

We all heard that the tone of these words was completely different from the tone just now, and we hurriedly shouted to him to stop first and wait for us to go over.

But the sound of the turning lock didn't stop. The glasses and I had just taken two steps before we were forcefully pulled back by the weirdo Monkey.

Buzz.

"Well……"

"Mouse! Stop first!"

There was a loud "Kara" sound, as if some mechanism was operating.

"I'm... done... you guys come in."
Chapter completed!