Wang Kai dashed forward and forcefully pressed down on the raised end of the seesaw, restoring its balance. Fortunately, the seesaw hadn't tilted too much, and Tony only slipped, preventing him from falling down.
"OMG, that was too close! The ancients were really too cunning."
Tony scrambled back, using both hands and feet. That moment of weightlessness had left him shaken. Although he didn't know what the trap beneath the seesaw was, he was sure it wasn't something beneficial.
"This is to deal with greedy people. Once they're attracted by that golden figure, they definitely won't pay attention to their feet. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and gold doesn't fall from the sky. Let's move these stones and enter from this side."
Wang Kai said. This trick was common in many ancient tombs, designed to target greedy tomb raiders. People who do this kind of thing have great greed in their hearts. No one would ignore a piece of gold lying there. Even ordinary people would be curious and want to take a look. Tony is a prime example.
After confirming that the other side was a trap, Tony obediently stayed by Wang Kai's side, moving the stones. He had figured it out: in this dangerous place, only being near Wang Kai was safe.
This time, because Tony brought some manpower, things went quickly. The group quickly moved all the stones from the entrance, revealing a passage. They continued forward.
After passing through a relatively rough tunnel, the group arrived at a relatively spacious area. The path here was interrupted. Twenty or thirty meters below was an underground river. The distance between here and the opposite side was about ten meters. Wang Kai didn't care; he could cross with a single jump, but there were others.
There were several vines in the middle, with stones hanging below. It was easy to understand that the ancients used these vines to cross. Of course, Wang Kai and the others were modern people. How could they use such a method? Tony's men took out a special gun, pointed at both ends. They raised it above their heads and pulled the trigger. Two arrows shot out from both ends of the gun, with ropes attached, and hit the rock walls on both sides, forming a zipline. The gun body was the pulley of the zipline. The group grabbed the gun body and easily crossed the deep ravine one by one.
After crossing this deep ravine, there were no obstacles ahead. Except for occasional murals and carvings on the walls, there was nothing else. Soon, the group heard the sound of water ahead, which surprised Tony. Could there be another underground river ahead? But Wang Kai knew they had arrived.
Sure enough, after turning a corner, the passage reached its end. Coming out of the passage, the group was a little stunned. Under the light of the powerful flashlights, they saw a waterfall ahead. After releasing the illuminating drone, everyone's eyes were dazzled.
This was a huge cave. There was a gap in the top of the cave, and the waterfall flowed in from there. The cave was filled with a pool of water, but beneath the clear surface, they saw golden buildings.
"Kai, aren't those buildings all made of gold?"
Tony couldn't take his eyes off them. Even though he was a billionaire, he had never seen so much gold.
"That's right, this is the City of Gold. Every building material below is gold. All the buildings here are made of gold. How about it? This treasure makes your trip worthwhile, right?"
Wang Kai was also very excited. This was far more shocking than in the movies. Sure enough, gold was the thing that could stimulate the eyes.
Skye and the others also breathed heavily. Everyone was seeing so much gold for the first time. Even seeing piles of gold in the vaults of the US Federal Reserve in photos was not as shocking as this.
While excited, Wang Kai also paid attention to the reactions of the others. After all, they only had an employment relationship with Tony. If they were blinded by greed and did something bad, Wang Kai would not be polite.
"Then how do we get this gold? We can't just send divers to get it, right?"
After the excitement, Tony began to consider how to move the gold. He wanted to build a museum to exhibit these things.
"It's simple, drain the water. Didn't you see that it's constantly filling with water but never overflows? There's a drain below, but it hasn't been fully opened, which keeps the water at a certain level. Find someone to dive down and enter from below the central altar, open the drain. Also, there's an entrance below the trap you triggered, leading to the level above us. There's also a switch there to shut off the water flow, but there's a problem: after shutting off the water flow, the water pressure will slowly increase until it breaks the mechanism, and then the water will continue to flow. You'll need to solve that."
Wang Kai said to Tony, believing that with Tony's means, completing these two tasks would be no problem.
"That's easy. Did you hear that, guys? Let's get to work."
Tony turned to his men and said. Tony trusted these people very much. They were all his confidants. Tony wasn't so stupid as to bring just anyone. Since knowing this was the City of Gold, Tony was sure there must be a lot of gold here, so he only brought people he trusted. What Wang Kai could think of, he could also think of.
Immediately, someone went out and soon brought back two sets of diving suits. Then, they and their companions changed into the diving suits on the side. According to Wang Kai's instructions, they dived into the water under the central altar. After entering below the altar, they turned the sluice gate. The drain below was opened, and a vortex slowly appeared on the surface of the water in the cave, proving that the drainage was accelerating.
Soon the water level had dropped significantly, and some of the taller golden buildings had emerged from the water. However, if the waterfall above didn't stop, there was no way to work here.
Soon the two divers returned here. They had already used equipment to secure the sluice gate, meaning the water here was likely to gather again. Now they had to deal with the water inlet above.
Of course, people with high-tech equipment naturally didn't need to enter from the seesaw trap, but directly from below, using rope guns to build a passage and make a rope ladder to climb from the lower level to the upper level.
Sure enough, when they came to the upper level, they saw four outlets in four directions, respectively. In the middle, there was a millstone-like turntable, which was the drive button for the mechanism to start.
"Kai, the water flow here is big enough. It seems that blocking it won't be an easy task."
Tony observed it and calculated the approximate strength of the water flow in his mind. Blocking these water flows would not be an easy task.