Chapter 407: Passage
Time waits for no one, leaving behind the timid fat man Kebby, Hansen continues to move forward with his men.
According to the progress of the project, it is already close to the "door", and the tunnel structure here is the same as the construction drawing in Hansen's hand, these engineers seem to be very responsible, and everything is carried out in accordance with the arrangement of the Deacon Department of the Liberation Society.
Sure enough, after more than 200 meters in the cave where the bones were piled up, everyone's eyes suddenly opened up, and the cave suddenly became much wider than the outside, and a metal gate appeared at the end of the cave, and the ground was wet, which was used to cool the water left by the drill bit.
The door had a silver-like sheen, though Hansen was sure it wasn't made of silver. It's been more than five thousand years since the last time Gam was resurrected, and this door is probably left behind back then, and if it was silver, it would have oxidized and blackened by now.
On the gap in the center of the gate, a red mark the size of a basin was glued to it. Hansen stepped forward and reached out to touch the circular sigil lightly, and found that the thing was not metal, and that it was obviously not cast in one piece with the door, but someone had poured it back after the door had closed.
The red sigil looked like a seal, covered with ancient Sanskrit that even Hansen couldn't read, and it had an eerie and eerie feeling when it looked at it.
He stretched out his finger and gently picked at it, and a piece of red earth-like thing peeled off slightly.
There was some residual red material left between the fingernails, and Hansen put it under his nose and sniffed.
"Cinnabar?" He made a closer look, and his keen sense of smell told it that there was not only cinnabar in the red dirt residue, but also a rancid smell, apparently mixed with something else that had melted and poured onto the door.
Cinnabar, also known as cinnabar, is a natural ore of mercury sulfide, bright red, with diamond luster to metallic luster, belonging to the tripartite crystal system, in ancient times, this is a necessary thing to suppress demons and write spells. Judging by the Sanskrit text on this strange seal, it is clear that the arrangement here has a deep connection with the Buddhist mantras of ancient India.
Hansen drew his dagger, inserted it into the crack in the door, and swiped it from top to bottom. With a snap, the cinnabar seal split in half from the middle.
"Push it away!" Having cut the seal, Hansen took two steps back and ordered the seven or eight men behind him.
Four guards in black combat uniforms, one on the left and one on the right, divided into two groups, and stepped forward to hold against the metal door on one side.
"Hey!"
Several people worked hard together, and the green tendons on their necks burst out.
The gate remained untouched.
"Wait!" Hansen waved his men back, stepped forward again, carefully examined the two metal doors for once, and finally took out his dagger and stuck it in the crack of the door to test it up and down.
Dingββ
When the blade landed under the door, it ran into an obstacle, and something like a latch was caught inside.
Sweat took out a tin box from his backpack and opened the lid, revealing a metal cylinder like a flashlight. This is a high-tech cutting knife, which is the latest scientific and technological achievement. by the U.S. military and; The company is jointly developed.
Put one end of the cylinder on the position of the latch, press the red button, and a magnificent red light about 15 cm long erupts from the top of the cylinder, and countless metal particles that are burned red are sprayed out from the position of the metal door, and the high-temperature beam of more than 4000 degrees shot out of the cylinder quickly melts the metal latch inside.
Click-
It took less than a minute for the cutting to be complete.
Hansen raised the metal canister, and several guards stepped forward again to slam the door hard.
This time it went well, and the door creaked open in both directions. A heat wave rushed out of the face, and a strong, pungent smell of sulfur immediately filled the entire cavern, and the temperature in the passage rose by several degrees.
Behind the metal doors, what appeared in front of us was no longer a cave passage, but a spacious rotunda, with a total of eight arched doors in front of it, each of which was completely black and could not see anything clearly.
Hansen and his men pulled down the night vision devices on their helmets and carefully observed the environment in the rotunda before cautiously entering the hall.
"Which door should I go through?" Fadi stood stunned in the empty hall, looking at the eight doors in front of him, he had no choice.
"Set up the ultrasonic equipment and probe the channel right away." With a wave of his hand, several guards stepped forward with a camera-like thing, set up a tripod on the ground like a professional photographer, and fixed the strange camera-like thing on the tripod.
They were very skilled, and they had clearly planned for the difficulties they would encounter in the cavern.
"Ultrasonic detectors?" Fadi immediately recognized the thing, which was mostly used for scientific research and to detect underground cavern structures.
The Guards lifted the ultrasonic detector to the first hole and lowered it, aimed the spiral "muzzle" at the hole, and pressed the start button. The PAD in Hansen's hand immediately reacted, and a strange snake-shaped pattern appeared on it, and it continued to extend.
Fadi looked from the sidelines and realized that it was ultrasonic waves shot into the hole, and then bounced back into the receiver to map the hole through a software program.
The ultrasonic detector was so good that it quickly surveyed all the structures and topography of the cave, leaving a complete map on Hansen's PAD.
Obviously, this hole is more than 700 meters deep, but it is only more than 700 meters, and then it has come to an end.
"Not here." Hansen shook his head and pointed to the second hole.
The guards drew the gourd in the same way, set up the machine and repeated the operation.
A few minutes later, Hansen, who was staring at the PAD screen, shook his head in disappointment.
Until the fifth gate, the instrument only used the same amount of time to map out the terrain of the cave for more than 300 meters.
"Is it broken?" Fadi stared at the still, but visibly finished map on the PAD, and asked, "It seems that there is no movement, and I can't detect the deepest part." β
"That's right." Hansen tapped on the PAD a few times, walked over to the probe and checked it again, confirmed that the instrument was fine, looked at the dark unknown area at the end of the map on the PAD, and said, "We have found the entrance to the Abyss of Eternal Calamity." β
"You can't see the terrain up there, how are you sure it's the way to the Abyss?" Fadi was a little strange.
"Pack your things and move on!" Instead of answering Fadi right away, Hansen looked at his watch, checked the time, and waved his hand to lead his men towards the fifth door.
"Fadi, you're still a dwarf, no one told you that you have to go through the alchemy passage to go to the Eternal Tribulation Abyss?" He didn't look back, didn't look at Di, and said as he walked: "Only the alchemy channel can't be detected by ultrasound." β