Chapter 986 Comrade?
Chapter 986 Comrade?
After the snake statue drank enough blood, it slowly sank into the ground. At the same time, the door in front of Qin Yu slowly rose up.
It was pitch black inside again, but with his previous experience, Qin Yu had figured out that there shouldn't be any traps set up in this magic palace.
He walked in boldly and lit the brazier at the door. Just like before, all the braziers in the room were ignited at the same time.
The room was not very big, only a few dozen square meters. There was a huge basin-shaped object in the center. It was very high, and Qin Yu could not see clearly what was inside.
He and Prince Qingping walked around the giant basin. Apart from the basin, there was only a groove connecting the basin to the wall.
Qin Yu didn't understand what it was for, so he prepared to jump up to see what was going on. Just as he was about to jump, Prince Qingping grabbed his shoulder.
"Brother Qin, wait a minute, let me do it this time"
Prince Qingping looked confident. Qin Yu was about to say that it was too high and he couldn't jump up, but the other party didn't plan to go up at all. Instead, he threw the torch in his hand high into the giant basin.
Then a flame rushed directly to the roof, and a heat wave swept through the entire room. It was obvious that there was a lot of fuel in the basin.
"Brother Qingping, what is this?" Qin Yu was a little surprised. How did the other party know what kind of device this was?
"Come, Brother Qin, look here." Prince Qingping pulled Qin Yu to the ditch and squatted down. Qin Yu squatted down with him.
The two looked at the ditch, but there was no movement for a long time. Instead, they were sweating profusely.
"Brother Qingping, what's going on?"
"Brother Qin, don't you understand yet? This is obviously a blast furnace for smelting iron."
As soon as the words fell, hot molten iron slowly flowed out of the groove, along the road and into the wall.
"So that's how it is. Brother Qingping actually knows how to make iron!" Qin Yu exclaimed. When he was in charge of the army, he was also in charge of equipment manufacturing, but he had never been on the front line.
"Haha, in my spare time, I learned from the tribe's weapon refiner for a while. If I'm not mistaken, this molten iron will eventually flow into the mold in the hall just now."
"Then let's go back and take a look!" Qin Yu hurriedly called Prince Qingping back. He really wanted to verify the other party's guess.
After returning to the hall along the flattened path, as expected, the originally sunken area in the pool in the middle of the hall had begun to slowly fill up with molten iron.
However, the other half that the little witch was in charge of had not made any movement, and it seemed that they had not passed the test yet.
Just as the two were discussing whether to go over there to check the situation, they suddenly heard the sound of a machine wheel under their feet, and then the other half of the molten iron began to be poured into the pool.
"Ling'er and the others succeeded!" Qin Yu said excitedly
Soon, the little witch and Mo Shisan came back from the opposite gate. After seeing Qin Yu and the others, the little witch first quickly checked the pool, then made a surprised expression and asked: "When did you come back?"
"We just got here too, just a little earlier than you." Qin Yu immediately understood what the other party meant and quickly explained.
Even so, the little witch still showed a hint of dissatisfaction, "Tsk, you're lucky, if it weren't for this guy holding me back, I would definitely be back before you!"
As she spoke, she glanced at Mo Shisan, who nodded quickly, pretending to feel guilty.
At this time, Prince Qingping, who was standing by the pool, shouted, "Come and see!"
When Qin Yu came to the pool, he looked into it and saw that clear water was flowing into the pool rapidly. Along with a hissing sound and bursts of white smoke, the originally red-hot molten iron was rapidly cooling and solidifying.
After a while, the two keys were cast. Qin Yu jumped down, took them out, and handed them to the person standing above.
These two metal keys have a strange shape, each is more than half a person's height, and at first glance they look like two weapons.
"What is this? I've never seen it before." The little witch looked at one of them curiously.
Qin Yu looked at the crescent-shaped head and the slender handle of the key, frowned slightly and said: "This seems to be in the shape of a sickle."
"Sickle? What kind of weapon is that? I've never seen anyone use it before." The little witch heard of this thing for the first time.
Qin Yu explained: "The sickle cannot be said to be a weapon. It is mainly used in agricultural production. Of course, if it is really used in combat, it can also be used."
As the princess of the Red Demon Clan, the little witch naturally had no contact with the lives of the lower-class peasants, so it was normal for her not to recognize the sickle.
Prince Qingping held up the tool in his hand and said, "This should be the shape of a hammer. Although there are many differences in the details, it is generally similar to the tools used by my demon clan."
Qin Yu nodded. He looked at the two newly forged sickles and hammers, and wondered in his heart, "Am I overthinking? Could it be that this Supreme King is also a 'comrade'?"
Holding two keys, they came to the door at the end of the hall. There was a groove on each of the two huge doors, and its shape naturally corresponded to the shape of the sickle and hammer.
Without further ado, Mo Shisan and Qin Yu stepped forward and inserted the keys into the grooves respectively. After a crisp sound of springs and the sound of gears turning, the two doors slowly opened outwards.
Just as the little witch and Prince Qingping were excited to go in, Qin Yu, who was walking in front, quickly raised his arm to signal them not to move.
The other three immediately became alert, "What's wrong?" As soon as the little witch asked, she smelled a faint smell of blood!
Because it was pitch black in front of them, no one could see clearly what was going on inside, so they stopped in front of the door and did not dare to move.
Qin Yu focused his attention and looked into the darkness with all his strength. With his enhanced vision, he could barely see some vague outlines.
There were three tall black shadows standing in the center of the hall, motionless, like statues or stone tablets.
Below the shadow, there are some scattered things on the ground, but I can't see what they are.
Qin Yu observed for a while, but did not see any other objects or living things except the tall object in the middle.
He signaled others not to go in yet, and went in first to explore the way, then walked in carefully holding a torch.
This room is about the same size as the hall just now, and is also very spacious.
After Qin Yu walked dozens of steps, he suddenly felt something wrong under his feet. He lowered his head and shone a torch, and saw words and symbols he had never seen before engraved on the ground.
Then he looked around to make sure there was no danger for the time being, then turned around and waved the torch at the three people at the door, signaling them to come in.
When the three of them walked to the middle, Qin Yu had already begun to study the three black shadows - three stone tablets nearly ten meters high.
The stone tablet was also engraved with symbols similar to those on the ground, but none of the four of them could recognize them.
"What is this?" the little witch asked first
"I don't recognize these words." Qin Yu shook his head
"It seems to be some kind of sacrificial ceremony," Prince Qingping said suddenly, "Look, there are human remains here."
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