Chapter 653: The Jingkou Pull-Rings! The Marvelous Use of Balance!

【Cut the crap, he's already past sixty — even getting him to turn a cage would be a struggle.】

【Not only that, this guide is always acting all mysterious and twitchy — he definitely won't do it.】

【Forget any high-difficulty moves — I reckon the first two trigger mechanisms won't be that hard, right?】

【Why don't you go try it yourself — easy to talk standing up when it doesn't hurt your back.】

【If it were operated personally by Yang the Chief, it probably wouldn't be too hard, but you and I are both mortals living in this mortal world.】

【Stop stringing lyrics together here — everything follows Yang the Chief's arrangements.】

After all, only she could make the final call on this matter.

Whereas for the second archaeology team, it was just a word.

Yang Lu said to keep waiting for news to come back — everything still had to wait until they knew the specific difficulty before it could be decided.

But what no one knew was that at this moment, Young Master Zhao inside the tent had also heard the relay come back over the walkie-talkie. He looked at the wound on his leg, and a hint of delight flashed in his eyes.

He even felt that whether he could finally hold his head high might depend on this one chance!

The one receiving the information up top was a young girl, and Shen Qiong was up there watching over their guide. From the moment this guide first arrived, he had fully displayed his rebellious streak.

Always thinking about running away — by his understanding, going any further would bring down the curse of their so-called deity.

So fear drove him to want to flee.

Although Young Master Zhao didn't have much upstairs, at this moment his thinking was crystal clear.

He understood that the only people available right now were himself and Shen Qiong.

If it were only one layer of mechanism, he'd definitely argue it out with Shen Qiong — but with two layers, there's no need to hesitate.

Although cooperating with Shen Qiong felt deeply frustrating to Young Master Zhao.

After all, Shen Qiong hadn't been shy about giving him a hard time along the way, and every word out of her mouth stabbed right at his sore spots.

Young Master Zhao instinctively despised Shen Qiong as a person!

But having a chance was still better than none — right now he was dying to prove himself, to clear his name.

If this impression only lingered within the second archaeology team, even if it got out later, not too many people would know.

But this was a livestream — even though he hadn't seen those bullet comments, he knew exactly how they'd discuss him.

This was something Young Master Zhao absolutely could not accept.

So he had to properly prove himself in front of these viewers in the livestream room.

Thinking of this, Young Master Zhao was bursting with energy — even the wound on his leg didn't hurt as much anymore.

At this moment he was also quite relieved that what had grabbed him just now had only caught his muscle and not touched the bone, so enduring a certain amount of pain, he could still move.

And then in the next second, Young Master Zhao's eyes actually reddened — he suddenly fell into a deep state of self-moved emotion!

Thinking to himself how truly strong he was — to have reached this point and still not given up!

Fortunately his state wasn't exposed on the livestream, otherwise everyone would probably hurl all kinds of contempt and abuse at him.

The internet never forgets — especially when so little time has passed.

Inside the Crescent Moon Restaurant, Zhang Lin didn't keep them in suspense any longer either.

He said directly: "Everyone don't need to be nervous. Actually, the hardest part of these three cooperating mechanisms is inside the tomb chamber. Relatively speaking, the mechanisms at the wellhead and inside the prison cell aren't that difficult."

"Let's go through them one by one. The wellhead requires strength — you can rewind the livestream footage just now."

"In the room holding the wellhead, there's an obvious notch on the wall, and right at that notch, as long as you knock away the surrounding yellow earth, a pull-ring will be revealed."

"The first checkpoint's difficulty lies right here."

Zhang Lin was about to continue, but at that moment someone suddenly raised a hand and asked: "Mr. Zhang, if it's purely a matter of strength, aren't there camels up there with the archaeology team? And not just one — however much strength is needed, they can provide it."

This person didn't think much of it and directly posed his question.

But Zhang Lin merely smiled faintly and said: "The problem you can think of, the Gumo Prince naturally could think of too — and camels already existed back then."

【Damn it! If you don't know, don't freaking guess blindly — wasting time!】

【Yeah, don't act so clever, you idiot!】

【Don't scold him either — probably someone guessed something before and got Mr. Zhang's praise, so now they can't wait to show off.】

Zhang Lin continued: "I hadn't finished what I was saying. The difficulty lies in balance — there's not just one pull-ring, but two."

"These two pull-rings are perfectly symmetrical — after finding the first, you'll find the second on the diagonal. You can picture a scene: a person pulling the two rings with their left and right arms respectively."

"And these two pull-rings will raise a certain mechanism inside the prison cell. Under the premise that this mechanism is activated, the people inside the prison cell can continue with what comes next."

"This state has to be maintained. Although the mechanism below involves gear movement, a normal person can pull it up — but how long they can hold it depends entirely on that person's physical fitness and willpower."

"If they let go before the mechanism in the second prison cell is solved, then all the previous effort will have been wasted."

These words made everyone draw a sharp breath. Someone hurriedly asked: "Mr. Zhang, you mean they only get one chance?"

What Zhang Lin had just said had already revealed this information — all the effort would be wasted, which proved they only had one chance.

Zhang Lin nodded slowly and said with certainty: "Correct — one and only one. If they fail, the Mumen Society will open on its own, and the tomb chamber's self-destruct program will also begin. This is also the Gumo Prince's final chance for everyone — a chance to escape."

"Of course, as long as they escape through the prison cell door, all the crisis naturally resolves itself. Conversely, they can forget about getting anything from the tomb."

"Unless they bring large equipment down through the well above and dig everything out from below — even if such an engineering scale could be supported now, the time cost would simply be too high."

Everyone couldn't help but nod.

Exactly — why use brute force when the mechanism can be opened with wisdom?

And the Gumo Prince left some things precisely to convey this meaning: if one lacks the wisdom to open the mechanism, even with the key, upon reaching the Jingjue Ancient City—

—they probably wouldn't find any way out, nor obtain anything useful.

Even though the final puzzle hadn't been revealed yet, no matter which angle you considered it from, the answer was probably this.

Suddenly, a split-screen appeared from the second archaeology team's side.

It was those people up top — after hearing Zhang Lin's confirmation, Young Master Zhao had already become unable to wait!

…….