Murano Momo is a cunning doctor

Chapter 1261 Asking for Directions with Copper Coins

Strangely, the dim green light could only illuminate a spot about ten feet in front of it.

Further on, there was an impenetrable darkness, seemingly separated by an invisible barrier, making it impossible to see anything.

"Hehe, Fatty, I wasn't wrong, was I!"

The sixth brother's voice echoed in the empty tomb passage, "This is the main tomb passage of the Crimson Blood Cult's Holy Tomb. We've officially entered!"

Having made a fool of himself in front of Jiang Xiaochuan earlier, Lao Liu is now in a familiar place and is eager to show off his skills.

He straightened his back, ready to take a step forward and show off his ability to know the way.

But his foot had just been lifted, before it even touched the ground—

"its not right……"

Old Six slammed on the brakes, his nose twitching rapidly like a hunting dog's. "The smell is wrong...it's fucking wrong!"

He moved closer to Jiang Xiaochuan and sniffed hard again. "This tomb passage used to be filled with the pungent smell of blood. One whiff would make you choke for half a day."

"But now smell it, the bloody smell has almost disappeared, and instead there's a... a rusty smell mixed in."

Jiang Xiaochuan's perception was already more acute than Lao Liu's, and he noticed the abnormality of the tomb passage the moment he landed.

Besides the rusty smell that Lao Liu mentioned, the air also seemed to be bound by something, no longer flowing.

His gaze swept across the darkness ahead, and he tentatively took half a step forward to see if there were any clues hidden in the darkness.

"Click."

A very faint, crisp sound came from the stone slab beneath my feet, like a needle dropping to the ground in the deathly silent tomb passage.

Old Six felt a chill run down his spine and shouted urgently in a low voice, "Don't move!"

Jiang Xiaochuan's movements came to an abrupt halt, and all the muscles in his body tensed instantly.

He could clearly feel the bluestone slab under his feet sink slightly by less than half an inch as it made a crisp sound, and then quickly bounced back, as if it had triggered some extremely precise mechanical structure.

At this moment, he dared not make the slightest move, and even his breathing became long and shallow.

His weight was suspended on that foot, fearing that the slightest exertion would trigger even more terrible consequences.

The sixth brother dared not delay any longer and immediately bent down and lay on the ground with his ears pressed against the ground.

He quickly stood up, his face pale. "I stepped on the scale!"

The sixth man spoke in a very low voice, almost in a whisper, “The entire floor of this path is made of ‘step-by-step’ mechanisms! That sound was the first lock being engaged!”

As he spoke, Lao Liu's eyes darted around rapidly from side to side.

Staring at the bluestone slabs on the ground, the rock walls on both sides, and the bronze lamps flickering with eerie green flames, he tried to find traces of the mechanism.

Looking around, all the stone slabs were perfectly sealed, and the bronze lamps were burning quietly, showing no signs of anything unusual. But the more this was the case, the more uneasy one felt.

"Damn it, these kinds of traps are the most insidious,"

Old Liu swallowed hard. "Each stone slab is a precise weight; the force you apply when stepping on it will trigger the corresponding latch."

"The latches are linked. Once the first latch is engaged, the second latch will build up momentum. When you step on the third latch, or stay on a stone slab for too long, all the latches will explode at the same time!"

He paused, as if recalling some terrible past event, and then forcibly shook his head.

"It shouldn't be..."

After a long silence, Lao Liu's voice rang out again, "The Crimson Blood Cult has always only known how to use Yin Sha and Blood Array, these evil and crooked methods. They even make crude imitations of mechanisms. How could someone be so proficient in ancient mechanisms?"

This 'step-by-step scale' isn't something you can just learn to make casually...

As he spoke, he slowly moved sideways like a crab, making sure the stone slab beneath his feet was stable and not loose before daring to put his entire weight on it.

Immediately, Lao Liu pulled out three old copper coins that were polished to a shine from his pocket.

Three strands of red thread were twisted together in the square hole in the middle. The red thread wrapped around the hole three times and tied a tight "soul-locking knot". The end of the thread was firmly held in his palm.

"Don't move, let me ask for directions first."

After giving Jiang Xiaochuan his instructions, Lao Liu pinched the edge of the copper coin between his thumb and forefinger and gently twisted it.

The three copper coins obediently spun in my palm, guided by the red thread, and fell to the ground with a soft "tap," forming an equilateral triangle.

"Go away!"

The sixth brother gave a low shout, exerted a little force on his wrist, and gently pulled the red thread forward.

As if guided by his pull, the three copper coins rolled forward along the dark blue stone slab.

Jiang Xiaochuan's eyes followed the copper coin's trajectory closely, watching it disappear straight into the impenetrable darkness ahead, and he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

He wasn't worried as long as Lao Liu had a solution. At the same time, he remembered the underground tomb he had explored in Guangzhou, which was also full of traps.

That being said, he managed to handle it alright last time, so with Lao Liu, an expert, around now, it probably won't be any more difficult than last time.

Just as Jiang Xiaochuan was pondering, the red thread in Lao Liu's hand suddenly became taut, as if it were being pulled hard by an invisible force!

It even had a forward pulling force, almost causing Lao Liu's wrist to tilt forward.

Immediately afterwards, the red line trembled violently.

"Oops!"

The sixth man's expression changed drastically; the vibration frequency of the red line was sending him a danger signal.

Before he could think, Lao Liu suddenly pulled his wrist back.

In the darkness, the three copper coins instantly changed direction and flew back at several times the speed they had rolled out, landing precisely at his feet with a "thud".

Jiang Xiaochuan looked closely and saw that there were several fine scratches of varying depths on the three copper coins.

"Thank goodness, we didn't break inside."

Contrary to his usual behavior, Lao Liu didn't have time to feel sorry for the precious copper coin; he quickly picked it up and put it back in his pocket.

"what happened?"

Jiang Xiaochuan asked in a deep voice, "Judging from Lao Liu's reaction and the scratches on the copper coin, the danger ahead is probably greater than expected."

"The area ahead is heavily fortified with hidden weapons; it follows the 'Thousand Thread Poison Needle Formation' strategy."

The sixth brother said with a bitter face, "The vibration of the red thread just now was wrong. It was too fast and too dense, and the force with which the copper coins flew back had a 'cutting force'."

"This means that the poison needles hidden in the cracks of the stone slab are very fine and dense, coated with blood-fiend poison, and can be activated at the slightest touch."

"That thing is much more powerful than the poisoned arrows in the stone chamber before. Once it sticks into your body, it leaves a hole, and there's nowhere to hide."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Xiaochuan's heart sank. He knew how to use silver needles to subdue enemies and was well aware of the dangers involved.

"Is there no other way?"

After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Xiaochuan asked.

As Lao Liu collected the copper coins, he felt another tremor beneath his feet.

It's clear that the hidden mechanism Lao Liu mentioned has been triggered. Retreating now will likely trigger an even more dangerous series of deadly attacks.

"Well, there are solutions, that's for sure."

The sixth brother rubbed his hands together unconsciously, "As long as there's a mechanism, there's a way to solve it!"

"Just now, the copper coin rolled over, and through the feedback from the red thread, I have figured out the layout of this section of the tomb passage."