Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but swallow, feeling like this wasn't as simple as it seemed.
As they approached the outline, they finally saw clearly.
It was a horse, a steed clad in armor.
Of course, this horse was just a stone sculpture, its exterior covered in a thick layer of armor.
“Playing tricks!”
Zhang Nian said coldly.
As he was about to approach, Xiao Guan and Zhang Bei stopped him.
“What do you two mean?”
Zhang Nian, already full of resentment, was now even more irritated.
Zhang Bei said coldly, “If you want to die, don’t drag us down. You're going to die anyway with your attitude.”
Zhang Nian was furious and about to attack, but Zhang Haike grabbed him.
“Did you two find anything?” Zhang Haike asked.
Zhang Bei took a step forward and held up his lantern.
It was then they discovered that there were transparent threads in front of them.
These threads were extremely fine, and one could easily touch them without noticing.
Moreover, all these threads were connected to the horse.
Even a fool would know there was a mechanism.
“Go over the top!”
Zhang Haike said in a deep voice.
Looking at these densely packed threads, even they felt a sense of difficulty.
Although they considered themselves skilled, it was almost impossible to pass.
The gaps between these threads were too narrow. Anyone would trigger them with the slightest movement.
“Come with me!”
Zhang Bei pointed to Zhang Hai Xing and said.
“Me?”
Zhang Hai Xing was a little surprised.
“Are you scared?” Zhang Bei asked.
Zhang Hai Xing said, “How could I be afraid?”
“Alright! Do you see the stone walls on either side of the horse? Create a path for them by pulling a line.”
Zhang Bei looked at Zhang Hai Xing and said.
Among them, except for Xiao Guan, who was the youngest and smallest in stature, Zhang Bei and Zhang Hai Xing had the smallest bodies.
“Alright!” Zhang Hai Xing nodded.
Xiao Guan grabbed Zhang Bei and said, “Be careful!”
In the past, Zhang Bei would never have taken such a risk.
But now, with his enhanced attributes, Zhang Bei no longer cared.
Most importantly, practicing Bone Shrinking Technique with Xiao Guan these past days had yielded some results.
“Swoosh!”
With a step, Zhang Bei, like a swallow, easily passed through the threads.
He drew his dagger and stabbed it firmly into the crack on the wall.
Seeing this, Zhang Hai Xing also used the Zhang family's martial arts and went to the other wall.
“Catch!”
Zhang Bei took out a rope from his backpack and threw it to Zhang Hai Xing.
With a dagger as their fulcrum, they pulled a rope over the horse.
“Alright, watch me now!”
Zhang Jiu Ri said confidently.
However, before he could move, Xiao Guan, like a fallen leaf, passed through the dense threads.
He quickly grabbed the rope that Zhang Bei and Zhang Hai Xing had pulled.
Immediately, Xiao Guan hung himself from the rope with his feet.
“Acting tough?” Zhang Nian said discontentedly.
Xiao Guan ignored Zhang Nian and carefully moved the saddle on the horse's back.
A hole was revealed on the horse's back.
The hole wasn’t big, just the size of a person's head.
“What do you see?” Zhang Haike hurriedly asked.
Zhang Hai Xing said, “There are many threads inside the horse's body. It should be the trigger of the mechanism.”
“Be careful,” Zhang Haike said hurriedly.
At this moment, Xiao Guan made a gesture to silence everyone.
He carefully placed his lantern at the hole.
Sure enough, a bunch of dense threads appeared inside.
There was an iron plate wrapped in the threads, with dozens of iron rods on the plate.
The Eighteen Strings, the most complex type of mechanism.
It uses eighteen fine threads as the basis to create countless variations.
Zhang Bei also knew this mechanism. The eighteen variations can be evolved into three hundred and twenty-four variations.
In other words, this small room hides more than three hundred mechanisms.
If you touch any one of them, you will trigger a mechanism, one of the most dangerous mechanisms.
Even the Zhang family members had to be careful when dealing with this type of mechanism.
One mistake and it would be irreversible, so when they learned that it was an Eighteen Strings mechanism, their expressions changed drastically.
“Little ghost, can you do it?” Zhang Nian asked.
Xiao Guan said, “This is a variant of the Eighteen Strings. If I move, I will definitely touch one of the strings, be careful.”
A variant of the Eighteen Strings, meaning it was completely different from the Eighteen Strings they knew.
“Little ghost, be careful,” Zhang Jiu Ri said.
Xiao Guan said nothing and took out a small magnet from his backpack.
He carefully put it into the hole.
“Clank!”
As expected, Xiao Guan touched the mechanism as soon as he put his hand in.
“Whoosh!”
From somewhere, several throwing knives flew out of the tomb chamber.
These throwing knives were extremely fast, like bullets. Ordinary people would not be able to dodge them.
Fortunately, they were all skilled members of the Zhang family, and Zhang Haike and the others easily avoided them.
The knives did not stop and continued flying towards Xiao Guan.
But Xiao Guan didn't move at all. He just turned his head slightly and dodged them.
But it was indeed a struggle for Zhang Hai Xing and Zhang Bei.
“Little ghost, be careful!” Zhang Hai Xing exclaimed.
However, with the Zhang family's martial arts, they still managed to dodge the knives.
Zhang Bei naturally dodged them as well. He was sweating coldly. If he hadn't been careful, he would have been hit.
Xiao Guan remained calm and collected, completely unaffected.
“Inside is a balancing mechanism. Don't move,” Xiao Guan reminded.
Zhang Hai Xing tightly grasped the rope, trying not to let it sway.
After all, the most important thing for a balancing mechanism was balance. Any mistake would trigger the mechanism.
And this Eighteen Strings mechanism has hundreds of variations. Once triggered, they would surely die.
Fortunately, Xiao Guan's hands were steady, and he finally used the magnet to draw all the beads out of the horse.
“Whoosh!”
As Xiao Guan succeeded, they clearly heard a series of whistling sounds.
Dense threads appeared on the ground.
Fortunately, they had discovered this before, so they knew that touching even a single thread would be disastrous.
“Bang!”
Xiao Guan jumped off the rope.
Zhang Hai Xing and Zhang Bei also came down from the stone walls.
Looking at the beads in Xiao Guan's hand, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
It was hard to imagine that they had just walked past death's door.
It seemed simple, but only Zhang Hai Xing and Zhang Bei knew.
If they had moved, everyone here would have died from the mechanism.
“These throwing knives are poisonous!”
Zhang Jiu Ri said, standing in front of a fallen throwing knife.
“Let me have a look,” Zhang Hai Xing said.
As they studied the throwing knives, they discovered that the poison was almost certain to kill anyone who came into contact with it.
“Click click!”
Just as they were still studying the poisoned throwing knives, they suddenly heard a grinding sound.
An opening appeared in a corner of the tomb chamber, which made everyone overjoyed.
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