Masha turned on the lighting on the power armor.
New light beams illuminate more of the space.
"This place is really huge." He turned around, letting the beam of light from his armor sweep through the surrounding darkness. "It's estimated to be about 100 to 200 meters long and wide. In ancient times, without super powers, it would have been impossible to build something like this."
"Yeah." Chihiro responded, "Now I think that those ancient ruins that are difficult to build with modern engineering technology may be masterpieces of super powers."
League Secretary: "The air composition is normal. There is oxygen here. I think the presence of oxygen here means something is wrong here."
"Maybe there is a ventilation system that contains ancient wisdom." Masha joked as he walked to the pillar he saw at the first time, activated the shooting function of the power armor camera, and took a picture of the relief on the pillar.
The relief looked like a group of ancient people holding some ceremony.
Masha walked around the pillar and took pictures of the reliefs on each of its four sides.
"Go take a look at the reliefs on the other pillars and take pictures for archiving," Masha ordered.
So the girls ran to other pillars separately.
Masha took a step forward and walked towards the stone gate guarded by two huge statues.
Masha observed the statues as he walked. Although he had seen many tomb-raiding movies and read quite a few stories about archaeological discoveries, this was the first time he had seen the shapes of these two statues.
He couldn't help but think of the setting of the "First Civilization" in Assassin's Creed.
However, the first civilization in reality should be the "gods" of the mythological era before Nuwa sealed the spiritual energy.
——By the way, if these two stone sculptures are gatekeepers created by the gods, they should be more than just decorations, right?
Masha pondered.
——According to the routine of general tomb-raiding movies, this guy should move.
——The plot in tomb-robbing movies usually goes like this: archaeologists enter a tomb without any warning, and are so excited about their great discovery that they don't notice that the stone sculptures in the tomb are shaking slightly and that sand is constantly falling from them.
——Then, when the archaeologists were about to find the most precious treasure in the tomb, the stone sculptures began to move with a creaking sound, and the soil at the joints collapsed with a crash.
——Generally speaking, in this kind of scene, there will be a miser or a traitor who will suffer first, thus moistening the sword of the statue.
Masha was thinking about it when Chihiro's voice came from behind him: "Don't get too close to those things. According to the routine of archaeological movies, those two things might move."
"I think so too." Masha took a step back, "But if they really move, it means we have made a fortune. The movement of these stones must be due to spiritual energy, so the probability that there are treasures hidden in this damn place has greatly increased."
League Secretary: "In fantasy stories, this kind of thing should be called a golem, right?"
"In Japanese fantasy, it's called Gram... but this is probably the transliteration of the English word for golem."
As soon as Qianxun finished speaking, Baiquan poked his head out of the car and said, "Asha! Can I go down and play?"
"No! Xiao Shi, take good care of Baiquan." said Masha.
So the organization's second-in-command, Baiquan, was grabbed by the scruff of the neck by Xiao Shi and dragged back into the car.
Masha: “Have you taken the photos?”
"Okay!" the girls replied.
"Okay, let's go see what's on the other side of this door. Guigui, come here and break the door!"
As soon as Masha finished speaking, he heard a "cracking" sound from the stone statue in front of him.
——Shit, is this really what you are going to do?
Masha looked at the stone statue and stepped back repeatedly.
The stone statue was shaking and the dirt on its body was falling off.
Finally, the stone statue on the left broke free from the shackles of time and began to move.
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Chapter 500 Wu Bai (Part )
Masha started to retreat without saying a word. Power armor usually has an auxiliary program designed for retreating, so that it can retreat like a tank while keeping the most defensive front facing the enemy.
But this is a Soviet-made power armor. It does have an auxiliary program for retreating, but the upper limit of the retreat speed set by the program is 4 kilometers per hour.
Because the invincible Soviet Red Army would never retreat, reversing performance could be ignored.
When playing War Thunder, when the version of M1 had just been updated, Masha was fed up with the ridiculous situation where after he destroyed the enemy's breech block with a shot, the enemy would retreat and disappear in the smoke.
Of course, later Masha suddenly discovered that the Soviet grenade of justice could punish all the imperialist running dogs.
Now, Masha is also in the ammunition selection interface of the power armor, loading his electromagnetic cannon with grenades of justice.
A shot hit the moving statue.
The explosion echoed throughout the space.
A lot of sand was shaken off the ceiling.
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On the ground, some Soviet soldiers seemed to sense something, but they stopped what they were doing and listened carefully. What they heard was the faint sound of artillery in the distance, so they continued to do their work.
Soon, the self-propelled howitzers of the Bedouin coalition forces, whose positions were nearby, began to counterattack the Jewish artillery fire.
Because of the Bedouins' backward equipment and poor training, the speed of their counterattack was really not satisfactory, but they were fighting back after all.
The Jewish artillery group has probably been moved.
The Soviet Union lagged behind in electronic equipment for a long time, and for a long time the Soviet army's firepower counterattacks were not necessarily better than those of the Bedouins. But now the Soviet army's self-propelled artillery has been strengthened by technology transferred from China.
So now, the Soviets could frown at the speed of the Bedouin's counterattack, and dislike the useless artillery fire that disturbed their work.
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Masha was surprised to find that his attack actually worked.
A piece of the armor on the stone statue's chest was actually blown off.
He turned off the retreat assist and controlled the power armor to retreat in big strides - this was much faster than retreating controlled by the assist system, but the disadvantage was that he might fall if he was not careful.
As Masha ran, she ordered the other girls, "Fire, fire! Live ammunition is effective against them!"
Just as he finished speaking, a tracer bullet flew over his head and hit the slowly accelerating stone statue, blowing off a large piece of earth from the statue.
At this time, Masha discovered that the stone statue was solid!
He thought that the stone statue was actually driven by a machine, which meant that it was actually something like a mechanical puppet, and it would stop moving if a key part was damaged.
But that's not the case! This thing is just a stone!
——It’s Graeme after all!
"Hit the joints!"
In the blink of an eye, a bullet shot from the car and hit the joint of the stone statue on Masha's left hand, causing the statue to lose balance and kneel on one knee.
Masha saw from the rearview camera that Shelley put the Barrett against the car window and fired at this side.
She fired again, and the knee joint of the other leg of the stone statue, which was about to stand up, was also hit, causing the statue to almost fall down.
But the other statue had accelerated to the point where it could catch up with Masha.
Shelley turned the gun and fired, but the statue temporarily tilted its body and the bullet only hit the side of the joint - with the statue's mobility, it seemed impossible to completely avoid the attack.
At this time, the eyes of the kneeling stone statue began to glow.
——No way, do you have long-range weapons?
In the blink of an eye, light shot out from the statue's eyes and shone on Shelley's skin.
Shelley was fine and fired another shot at the running statue.
This time the statue also fell to its knees.
The stone statue immediately decided to use its own ranged attack, its eyes glowing!
Shelley's skin was suddenly focused by four beams of light.
But still nothing happened.
——You didn’t expect it, ifrit’s skin is resistant to high temperatures!
Seeing that their attack was ineffective, the two stone statues began to focus their fire on Masha.
Masha's power armor computer issued a warning: "Laser rangefinder detected, re-estimating the ranger's position."
——What the hell, so the beam weapons of these two guys are only as strong as the laser of a laser rangefinder?
——Is it because the spiritual energy is still relatively thin now, so their attacks are weakened?
At this time, Guigui suddenly jumped out from the sides of the two stone statues!
Only then did Masha realize that Guigui had been using his skills to transform into a puppet, so he was ignored by the two stone statues.
——Wait, the stone statue’s “AI” can also be affected by cognitive interference abilities?
——That’s not right. We have tested it many times before. The computer’s facial recognition and other things are not affected by cognitive blocking and Guigui’s skill of turning into a puppet!
——Could it be that the AI on the stone statue is actually the soul of a person that was forced into it?
Guigui yelled, "Ola!"
A punch hit the shoulder of the stone statue that looked like it weighed several tons.
This punch directly caused the power armor's glove to crack, but the stone statue's shoulder was completely blown off.
The stone statue immediately turned its head and focused its eyes on the cracked part of Guigui's boxing gloves.
"Hot!" Gui Gui shouted and punched the stone statue on the head.
With this punch, the stone statue's head was blown off.
Masha discovered that this stone statue actually had a tongue - wait!
Masha suddenly discovered from the corner of his mind some little-known knowledge he had gained from reading a novel.
"There must be something on his tongue! Guigui, smash his tongue to pieces!"
Gui Gui smashed the guy's tongue with one punch, and the statue suddenly stopped moving.
Masha continued to give orders: "Shelley, there should be words on the forehead of the statue, Ameth! Knock off the A!"
"Understood." Shelley opened fire. The bullet streaked through the dusty air caused by the battle, hit the forehead of the still-moving stone statue, and then ricocheted away.
But that strike clearly met Masha's request.
The letter A was erased.
The statue stopped moving.
The whole space fell into silence.
The league secretary asked, "What happened? Why did they stop?"
"In Hebrew legend, these are stone statues made by great sages to protect their people. Legend has it that the souls of sinners are sealed inside them. Ameth means truth in ancient Hebrew. Sinners have violated the Ten Commandments, so they must fight for God's truth. But if you erase the A, the remaining Meth means eternal peace, and the souls of sinners will rest forever."
"The first stone statue's head was knocked off, but it's still moving!" Chihiro asked.
"Because the words are still intact. However, there is another requirement to make this stone man move, which is to put a tablet with a spell on the tongue. The tablet has probably merged with the tongue after such a long time, but if the tongue is removed, it will naturally stop."
Masha spread his hands, as if he was saying something that everyone should know.
Shelley's voice came from the headset: "How do you know these things?"
"I've read a short story called '221 Oak Street', which is a supernatural version of Sherlock Holmes's detective story. It contains this little-known fact. Let's stop talking nonsense and move on."
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Oak Street is a short story I wrote. It was initially picked up by Atun, the editor-in-chief of Jiuzhou Fantasy. Unexpectedly, it was shelved for two years. When it was finally about to be published in the magazine, the editor-in-chief of Jiuzhou Fantasy was replaced by Barrel Rider.
If it had been published back then, given Oak Street’s quality, it would have been possible to write it into a series of stories.
Now this short story can be seen on my public account "Noah Noah No". Specifically, go to the menu below, select novel, and you can see the second-level directory.
Oh, and the recommendation tickets! The number of recommendation tickets per day has dropped to 8000. I have a bad feeling! Recommendation tickets!
Chapter 501: Which boy doesn't like the buzzing lightsaber?
