Volume 10: Ancient Battleship Chapter 495: A False Alarm
"Then there is still hope! Maybe... I mean, maybe we have found the exit? While the big guy at the bottom of the pit hasn't moved, let's quickly--" Before the Hound finished his words, the green fluorescence reflected on the ground suddenly disappeared. He turned around and found that the emerald green light column that had risen from the bottom of the pit had completely disappeared, but the crystal columns that had sunk did not rise again.
"Why did the light column... disappear?"
"Could it be that something from the bottom of the pit is trying to climb out?" With a nervous look on his face, Layton held his heavy machine gun, placed it on the ground, and aimed the muzzle at the edge of the huge pit.
"Old dog, Qianye...if something really climbs up later, I'll help you hold it back, and you guys quickly take Ke Lan to find the exit."
"What kind of hero are you trying to be!" The Hound kicked Layton on the butt angrily, "Drag? Do you think you can drag a 100-meter-long lava leech with just this pile of scrap metal?"
"At least delay it for a second - hurry up and leave, what are you doing here?!" Layton roared, his face flushed red, and the mechanical arm holding the gun handle creaked due to excessive pressure.
"No!" Unexpectedly, the hound's expression suddenly changed, "It seems not right... The situation is not what we imagined..."
"What's wrong?"
"Those crystal pillars have disappeared for so long... Now the green light has gone out, but why is there no movement?" The hound squatted on the ground, squinting his eyes and staring at the huge pit not far away. "Those little bugs climbed up so quickly before. Even if the big guys are a little slow, it's been several minutes..."
"Something's wrong." The hound simply lay down, "The noise made by a big guy moving should be much louder than those little bugs!"
He lay down, put one side of his helmet on the ground, and listened carefully.
"Did you hear anything?" Layton asked.
"Quiet!" The Hound didn't even raise his head, but raised one hand and gave Layton the middle finger, "Be quiet! Turn off your damn machine gun engine, it keeps spinning and I can't hear any sound!"
"Oh oh." Layton quickly turned off the machine gun engine that was in the preheating state. Without the friction sound between the metal balls and bearings, the power room suddenly became extremely quiet.
"Old dog... did you... did you hear anything?" After holding his breath and waiting for nearly ten seconds, Layton could not help but ask the hound.
"I can't hear anything... Damn, I almost forgot that there are more professional people in the team than me. Why am I wasting my time here!" The Hound jumped up from the ground and looked at Asano Akira with shining eyes. "Brother Asano, you have the best ears among us. You were the first to hear the sound of those little bugs crawling up just now. Can you hear the movement at the bottom of the pit now?"
Layton, Ivan... and the agents who were supporting Aya all fixed their eyes on this young man who had his eyes closed and a calm expression throughout.
"Some sounds are very subtle and difficult to capture..." Asano Akira said softly.
Everyone else's breathing suddenly stopped, and the atmosphere, which had just eased a little, instantly became tense again.
No one dared to interrupt, and everyone was waiting for Asano Akira to continue speaking.
"But it doesn't sound like the sound of limbs scraping against rocks." Asano Akira said again.
"What...what kind of sound is that?"
"I don't know how to describe it." Asano Akira said honestly.
"I..." The Hound suddenly had the urge to curse, but he swallowed the curse words hard. "Then can you imitate it? Roughly, roughly, and simply imitate it... Or think carefully, among those familiar sounds in daily life, are there any similar ones that can be used to compare with the sound you heard?"
"You can imagine what would make the sound you heard, no matter how outrageous it is." Aya also induced, "For example, the sound of thin iron being torn, the sound of nails scratching a blackboard, etc...."
"It sounds a bit like..." Asano Akira paused and continued, "The sound of several huge and heavy polyhedral glass balls rolling slightly on the rocky ground."
“???” Hound and Aya looked at each other in confusion. They could indeed imagine this kind of sound in their minds, but they had no idea why such a strange sound would come from the bottom of the pit.
Asano Akira's description was not abstract, but the sound was too special. They racked their brains but could not imagine what else could make a similar sound besides a glass ball crushing against rocks.
Not to mention the picture, I can't even think of a specific concept.
"Damn it, if I can't figure it out, then forget it. I'm going to go over and use my eyes to take a look. I don't believe it can blind me a second time! " said the hound angrily, and walked towards the edge of the giant pit.
But Layton stopped him and said, "Old dog, how about I go? Your eyes haven't recovered yet, and my reaction speed is faster than yours. If there is any danger..."
"Bullshit." Hound broke free from Layton's hand. "You're a broken cyborg, most of your body is cyborg. If we encounter that damn resonance field, the most we can do is destroy our equipment. If your artificial heart stops working, who will save you?"
"..." Layton opened his mouth slightly, but couldn't come up with a reason to refute - what the Hound said was right, among all the people present, the resonant force field was most restrained for mechanical bio-humans like him who had a large number of cyborg prostheses installed. If the important life-sustaining organs in the body exploded like the movement of the drone, the consequences would be absolutely fatal.
"Well, you better be careful, old man." Layton said, watching the hound lean over and touch the edge of the huge pit step by step.
However, the hound just poked its head out to take a look, then burst into laughter -
“Hahahahahaha what the fuck hahahaha—”
"Old dog? What's going on? What did you see?" Leighton asked hurriedly.
"Hahahaha, I'm dying of laughter. I think I know why those big guys can't climb up. Hahaha. Come and take a look for yourself and you'll know. Hahaha..."
After the hound said this, Layton walked to the edge of the pit curiously and looked into the pit carefully.
