CHAPTER 416: CHAPTER 281 WHO OPENED THE MECHANISM?

Chapter 281

"It’s no use being formidable, the layer above is filled with Bewitching Fragrance... otherwise, we would all have been knocked unconscious!"

Flower Demon’s face was so ghastly that cold sweat appeared on her forehead, oozing out layer by layer.

If it weren’t for her physique having been cleansed by Sui Yi using his Inner Strength at the start and consuming a good number of poison-resistant potions, she might have fainted immediately upon smelling the Incense Smell and feeling something was amiss with the incense burner in the wall cavity... she might not have managed to crawl to the staircase entrance at the very end.

But how long had it been since they ascended, and yet despite some of them practicing Inner Strength, they still passed out after just a few breaths.

How deadly was that poison?!

Could Sui Yi be invulnerable to all poisons despite his formidable skills?!

"Bewitching Fragrance? No wonder I felt dizzy when I was standing just below the staircase entrance... It must be the fragrance drifting down with the air..." Ye Changan’s face also turned pale as he looked up towards the blocked passage....

How much longer could she last?

"Everyone, get out! Get out of this tower!" Xiao Yu had already taken out a hand grenade and came to the bottom of the staircase...

It was undoubtedly a difficult spot to throw from because the snake’s body was blocking the staircase entrance. If the grenade wasn’t thrown properly or timed right, it could bounce off the snake’s body and explode on them instead.

Hence, Xiao Yu directly ordered everyone to leave, especially those like Professor Ye with low combat power; they definitely needed to retreat first...

Just when Professor Ye and others uniformly retreated.

"The snake’s body has moved!" Ye Changan suddenly shouted!

"What?"

Looking up, indeed, the snake’s body had moved...

Whoosh!

Sui Yi, covered in blood, rushed down, and with a leap, he landed on the floor, grabbing Gong Jiu who was at the front.

"Run!"

Behind her... was a ferocious snake head that had burst through the perfectly fitting opening.

The Gate was already open; Professor Ye was being dragged out by Yueh Xiangnan and others...

Running at the back, Sui Yi and Gong Jiu pulled the door shut when they exited...

Bang!

The snake head fiercely struck the door...

The force sent both persons flying backward!

Plop, Gong Jiu rolled up from the ground and seeing the blood-soaked Sui Yi turned pale with fright, "Sui Yi, what happened to you..."

Sui Yi shook his head without answering, just staring at the door that was being violently hit...

The Gate wasn’t broken!

The door was clearly very sturdy and had a direct locking mechanism; it could be bolted by lifting the lock when they closed the door, a simple but effective design which the snake wouldn’t manage!

But... how long could it hold?

"This is terrifying... This is even more monstrous than the giant python in ’Anaconda’! It’s like a snake demon!"

"We’ve had two people eaten..." Xiao Yu’s expression was indescribably somber; the other soldiers were red-eyed, and if not for the urgent mission, they would definitely rush in to fight the enormous snake to the death. Professor Ye sighed in distress, "I never anticipated this archaeological expedition would be this dangerous... The responsibility is mine, if I hadn’t brought it up..."

"Professor, this isn’t your fault... The Nation needs this... We won’t back down, nor do we regret," Xiao Yu said solemnly, reloading his gun as he spoke.

But she realized...

"Our ammunition is running low"

"Not just you guys... us too..." Feng Sha checked his backpack and also looked towards Gong Jiu.

The bullets weren’t enough to harm the giant snake, let alone with insufficient ammunition.

The situation was extremely critical!

"I only went to Indonesia when I was younger, faced a reticulated python over thirteen meters long... only half a meter less than the largest recorded python, that thing was terrifying, it could swallow a person whole. We went with over thirty people, more than twenty died... But though it was large, it wasn’t as evil as this thing... impervious to guns and blades," Brother Ma picked up his pipe, wanting to smoke, but his hands trembled too much to light it.

Now thinking back, those things he encountered before couldn’t compare to the terror of this giant snake, at least those could be killed with bullets and ammunition, not so with this creature...

Everyone looked towards Sui Yi.

A creature even Sui Yi couldn’t withstand... none of them could.

"What do we do now?"

"Leave this place?"

They could forget about ascending the Divine Temple, knowing that the giant snake was lurking there....

"I never heard of a ’snake guardian’ culture in Loulan..." Professor Ye and Ye Changan both smiled bitterly, "Actually, this Loulan can’t really be understood through the records of the historical Loulan... It’s too detached from history."

Displaying corpses, the empty ancient city, bodies sealed within walls, for nine thousand years, those bizarre creatures, and the main hall mechanism with the Divine Temple Tower, not to mention the mysterious Underground Palace dug out by Anayi...

So many mysteries!

They didn’t even have the ability to solve these mysteries...

Who created all this?

Suddenly, both Sui Yi and Gong Jiu thought of Anayi...

Suddenly!

"Did any of you feel that something is different now...?" Han Gao asked.

"What?..." Brother Ma turned and asked him, "You, the slowest runner, that snake demon will eat you first if it comes out, and now you’re saying something odd!\u2026"

"No, on the contrary, I think this ’fatso’ said something constructive for the first time..." Flower Demon murmured faintly.

Huh?

"The main hall," she said slowly.

The main hall...

The black armor... was gone!

Whoosh!

Every person with a gun suddenly gripped their weapon... it was too late!

Dodge!

Bang bang bang!

Wei Feng’s group and Old Goat Monster’s gang had already charged out from both sides...

Bullets whirled!

Poison Meteor spurted out~~~

Boom, boom, boom!

Explosion!

Dodge, dodge, dodge!!!

Gong Jiu and the others awkwardly dodged, but they still got hit!

They could only hide behind the side chapel...

Of course, Ye Changan and Professor Ye seemed to be spared by those people, clearly because they still wanted to use them.

As for the others...

Kill them all!

Just as they were about to be driven into a corner...

Sui Yi suddenly dashed out!

He charged directly toward the Divine Temple Tower!

Old Goat Monster and Wei Feng, who were most wary of Sui Yi, saw him suddenly make a move and were both on their guard, and at this moment, they struck out together...

Combining forces to kill him!

Crisis! An absolute crisis!

Wei Feng’s knife! Old Goat Monster’s eagle claws...

Bang!

Sui Yi was struck by the two of them and thrown into the air, and in midair, swung his right hand!

What was that?

Both intuitively dodged...

It was Demon Que!

He had actually thrown his own weapon!

"Seeking death!" Old Goat Monster directly clawed toward Sui Yi’s head~~~ Wei Feng’s knife was indeed a fraction slower...

In mid-air, where it was hardest to control one’s body, but Sui Yi...

Twisted his body, raised his hands, accurately grabbed the eagle claw arm coming from Old Goat Monster, twisted again, and propelled himself behind him, grabbing his neck with both hands...

The internal strength of judo was taut!

The agile Old Goat Monster was unprepared in that instant...

He was thrown away by the twisting Sui Yi!

All this happened in the span of two breaths. Wei Feng turned his head after Sui Yi landed...

The thrown Old Goat Monster’s back~~~

The Demon Que, flying at high speed through the air like a Spiral Disc, whoosh! It directly entered a crack in the door...

It lodged in the door bolt!

Crack!

The door bolt was chopped off, and the door opened as if it was unobstructed...

Bang!

The great doors of the Divine Temple burst open!

A massive snake head surged out~~~

"Master, be careful!!!" Old Goat Monster’s subordinates cried out in terror...

Old Goat Monster twisted his body...

And saw the emerging snake head.

The gaping maw...

Damn, he had been set up by Sui Yi! He immediately flicked his eagle claw!

Swish, a hooked chain was thrown! It hooked onto the third floor of the tower in the blink of an eye...

He leapt upward... and with his other hand, he threw down, and the Black Meteor exploded on the snake’s head, sparkling like fireworks~

Impressive!

Even Gong Jiu and his group, who deeply loathed this old man, had to admit his remarkable strength...

But Sui Yi was impressive too, having managed to trap the old man into falling into the pit...

Now this giant snake clearly bore a grudge against the strongest, Old Goat Monster. The snake’s head swayed, then its massive body slid out from the tower to chase after Old Goat Monster on the third floor!

Seeing that even the Black Meteor was useless against this giant snake, Old Goat Monster dared not fight head-on and could only dodge and flee...

Wei Feng and the others also had to retreat, not daring to approach.

"This thing is really powerful," Liang Qing and the others, although they had just heard some noises outside and seen the giant snake hitting the entrance, had not expected it to be so substantial...

Impervious to knives and spears,

"It guards the tower. Once you enter, it will fix its gaze on you!" Wei Feng’s words made everyone frown, knowing that the greatest secret was inside the tower, yet they couldn’t enter...

This feeling was too frustrating.

"I think those who feel the worst are those who entered the tower but were forced out, and also us, who were clearly locked up... yet allowed to escape," Liang Qing looked at the beleaguered Gong Jiu and the others.

At this moment, Gong Jiu and his group were indeed feeling extremely troubled.

Not just because of the giant snake but also because Wei Feng and his people had inexplicably escaped the blockade.

"Could there be a mechanism to open inside the main hall?"

"Perhaps, but they couldn’t have found the mechanism so quickly. I’m more inclined to think someone from the outside opened it. Have you forgotten about Anayi?"

"That’s not possible, opening the mechanism requires seven people, right? Where would she get seven people to open the mechanism? Even if it could be opened, we only came in and out recently. Where are those seven people now? Gone?"

Gong Jiu and Flower Demon’s conversation undoubtedly touched upon everyone’s confusion, but... Xiao Yu suddenly asked a few soldiers nearby, "You guys didn’t need to use much force earlier, right?"

"No need, just pressed it..." one person replied.

Does this matter? Gong Jiu and others were puzzled, then suddenly had a realization.

"So... it doesn’t necessarily have to be people..." Ye Changan raised an eyebrow.

"A snake could do it, as long as you control seven snakes to crawl to the precise area, they could open the mechanism! And they could leave quickly and silently... it really is that freak," Flower Demon sneered coldly..looking around, trying to spot Anayi’s figure...(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)