dognovel Chapter 890 Floating
Chapter 890 Floating
The buzzing sound of the bronze cocoon echoed in the cave, and Lin Yuan felt that his eardrums were about to be broken. He stared at the figure of his father in the cocoon, his nails digging deep into his palms. Aina's hand was still holding the corner of his clothes, and the cinnabar totem was particularly glaring on her pale skin. "Don't move!" Zhou Yan's voice suddenly came from behind, with a kind of joy that had been suppressed for many years. Lin Yuan turned around and saw Zhou Yan's mountaineering pick against Batur's throat. A dozen masked people walked out of the shadows. They carried backpacks with professional archaeological equipment and had daggers on their waists that shone with cold light. Ayi Na's amulet red string snapped, her pupils shrank suddenly: "You are..." "The top brokers in the international cultural relics black market." Zhou Yan sneered, pulled off the scarf around his neck, revealing the bronze tattoo on the back of his neck, "When Professor Lin discovered the bronze code, we targeted him. Unfortunately, he was too stubborn and insisted on protecting the secrets of ancient civilization." He waved his hand, and two men immediately stepped forward and tied Lin Yuan and Ayi Na's hands behind their backs. Lin Yuan felt that his blood had solidified: "You...you have always been a spy?" "To be precise, a hunter." Zhou Yan picked up the bronze fragments that Lin Yuan dropped, put them to the tip of his nose and sniffed them, "Three years ago, I deliberately revealed the wrong clues to lead your father into the forbidden area. When he discovered the truth about the living sacrifice array, it was too late." His voice suddenly rose, "Those bronze artifacts can repair themselves and change the material structure. If they were put on the market, they could be exchanged for hundreds of millions!" Batur suddenly jumped up and hit Zhou Yan's nose with his head. Zhou Yan stepped back in pain, and the mountaineering pick scratched Batur's cheek, and blood splattered. "Run!" Batur roared, turned around and hugged the smuggler closest to him, and the two of them crashed into the cave wall together. With a "bang", the bronze stalactites fell one after another, and smoke and dust filled the air. Ayi Na took the opportunity to cut the rope with a Tibetan knife, dragged Lin Yuan and ran deep into the cave. The bullet flew past the rock wall, splashing sparks on the bronze surface. Lin Yuan felt that his lungs were about to explode, and Ayi Na's rapid panting was in his ears: "Star map! According to the direction of the star map!" They rushed into a circular stone room, and the bronze star map on the dome was slowly rotating. Ayi Na's cinnabar totem suddenly glowed red, and she staggered and held the wall: "This is... the last code array. But it needs to be activated..." Her words were interrupted by a gunshot, and a bullet grazed her shoulder, and blood stained her Tibetan robe red. Zhou Yan and his men chased in. There were still traces of blood on his face, but his eyes were crazy and excited: "Hand over the password! Do you think you can escape?" He raised his hand to signal, and his men immediately dispersed and surrounded the two. Lin Yuan suddenly noticed the bronze altar in the center of the stone chamber. There were seven grooves on it, and the shape was exactly the same as the bronze fragments they had collected along the way. But the edge of the altar was engraved with a warning rune: "Those who dare to move will be shattered." He looked at Ayi Na and found that she was also staring at the altar, with fear and determination in her eyes. "I'll give you ten seconds." Zhou Yan raised his pistol and pointed it at Lin Yuan's forehead, "Otherwise I will open a hole in your father's cocoon and see if the thing inside is dead or alive." Ayi Na suddenly laughed, she pulled open her collar and let the blood drip onto the altar: "Do you think we have come all this way for nothing?" As the blood seeped into the altar, the bronze star map began to rotate faster, and countless cracks appeared on the ground of the stone chamber, and hot air came from below. Lin Yuan took the opportunity to grab her hand, and the two slid down along the ice cracks. There was a roar of water below. When the headlamp swept across the rock wall, Lin Yuan's breathing suddenly stopped. The rock walls covered by ice were densely engraved with the same symbols as the bronze fragments. In the ice-blue reflection, it seemed as if countless eyes were watching them. "This is..." Lin Yuan's fingertips touched the ice surface, and the symbols suddenly glowed, and the ice began to crack. Ayi Na's amulet red rope suddenly straightened and pointed to the depths of the crack: "There are living things below, the spirits guarding the bronze code!" At the bottom of the crack was a dark river, the river water was golden like liquid bronze, and broken bronze vessels were floating on the river. When Lin Yuan's hiking boots stepped into the water, the burning sensation instantly spread to his ankles - the river water was actually over 60 degrees high. Zhou Yan picked up a piece of bronze debris. Under the magnifying glass, the lines on the metal surface were slowly growing: "The molecular structure of these bronze artifacts is self-repairing, which completely violates the laws of physics!" Batur suddenly grabbed Lin Yuan's backpack strap and pulled back. A piece of ice as big as a millstone brushed his nose and fell into the river. The golden water splashed on the rock wall and corroded a pit with white smoke. The sound of iron chains dragging came from the upper reaches of the dark river. Ayi Na's cinnabar totem began to heat up. She tore open her collar and blood flowed along the totem lines: "It's the bronze guard, run deep into the cave!" Everyone stumbled into the cracks in the rock wall. Lin Yuan's headlamp swept across the top of the cave. The stalactites were all bronze, shining coldly under the beam of light. Ayi Na suddenly pressed his wrist, and the beam of light was fixed on a certain place on the rock wall - there was a half-astrological map engraved there, which matched the incomplete sketch in her father's notebook perfectly. "This is a star map used by the ancient Qiang people to observe the sky," Ayi Na's fingertips brushed the cold bronze, "but the key parts have been deliberately erased." Her eyes were suddenly attracted by the shadow on the cave wall, where there was a curled-up human figure, wrapped in bronze like a cocoon. When Lin Yuan got closer, he found that the cocoon was actually wearing his father's research institute uniform. "Dad?!" Lin Yuan's shout echoed in the cave, and the bronze cocoon suddenly buzzed, and blood-colored lines appeared on the surface of the cocoon shell. Ayi Na pushed him away violently, and a bronze arrow rubbed his temple and nailed into the rock wall: "Don't touch it! This is a living sacrifice formation, and your father's body has become part of the formation!" The howling of wolves came from outside the cave, and this time there was an ear-piercing sound of metal friction in the sound. Batur poured kerosene on the rock wall and ignited it, and the fire illuminated the depths of the cave-countless bronze wolf heads poked out from the ground, and green flames danced in the empty eye sockets. Lin Yuan clenched the bronze fragment tightly. The fragment suddenly became hot and resonated with the symbols on the rock wall. The entire cave began to tremble violently. A greater crisis was approaching.
Before he could finish his words, a wolf suddenly leaped up, its sharp teeth brushing against his earlobe. Lin Yuan picked up his mountaineering pick and smashed it against the wolf's head. Amid the sparks of metal collision, he caught a glimpse of lines in the wolf's eyes that looked like bronze fragments. Ice cracks were faintly visible in the blizzard, with sharp ice edges. Batur slid down first and secured the fulcrum with a safety rope. Just as Aina was about to catch up, she heard the sound of cloth tearing behind her - a wolf had bitten the hem of her Tibetan robe. Lin Yuan turned around and swung his pick, but was knocked to his knees by another wolf.