Chapter 753: Sixty-Nine Boxes
The tremors continued for a long time before they died down, and dead silence returned to the cave.
Shen Yingjie's eyesight gradually could distinguish the general outline of the surroundings, and it was no longer so difficult to follow Li Tianji's steps, she saw the huge stone frame on the right side of the cave wall, there were indeed obvious traces of artificial excavation, and she couldn't imagine what it was for.
"Doesn't it look like a grotto dedicated to Buddha statues?" Li Tianzhen remembered several famous grottoes in the scenic spots, artificially excavated on the mountain cliff, the diameter is very shallow, and the Buddha statues or other sculptures are embedded in them, large and small, with different shapes, the small one is a book-sized square, the large one is tens of meters square, and the diameter depth is five or six meters. It's spectacular.
These big stone frames in front of you are one by one, leading to the depths of the cave, and they are also embedded in the cliff, but there are no ornaments and statues in them, giving people an extremely contradictory look, both empty and monotonous, and there is a feeling of dense squeezing, in Li Tianji's view, there should have been something in the stone frame, I don't know why they are all gone, and there are sixty-nine in total, what does this number mean?
Shen Yingjie also felt the same way, but what she thought of was not the grotto, but the granite base that fixed the mountain on the side of the train track, which was also a large stone frame, one by one, but the overall shape was arch-shaped, artificially built and poured with cement, but the large stone frame in front of her was artificially excavated in the mountain.
"Attention, the front is a little more complicated. Li Tianqi reminded that he had already seen a shallow light, and there was a huge stone chamber that his divine sense had explored, and there would be bones not far away, and there would be a lot of bones.
"How do you know?" Shin Yingjie wondered.
"Guess, watch your step. ”
But the reminder was still a step too late, and Shen Yingjie kicked on a hard object, and the thing seemed to fall apart with a bang, and then a bone thing rolled out a long way.
"What's that?" Shen Yingjie felt pain in his feet, and his heart was even more inexplicably terrifying.
"One...... A head. ”
"Ahh Shen Yingjie looked around.
"A corpse, the bones were very black, and there were signs of poisoning. ”
"Liar, it's so dark, can you see it at a glance? "Shen Yingjie knows that Li Tianji has all kinds of abilities, but he just doesn't show weakness in his mouth, and his abilities are just fine, why is his eyesight so bad?
Li Tianqi smiled, "Follow me closely, there are many more ahead." ”
Shen Yingjie immediately followed suit, did not step on the bones on the ground again, and soon after, she also saw the faint light in front of her, "There is light ahead." ”
"The light came from a strange stone house. ”
"You know again?"
"Guess...... No, my eyesight is especially good at night. ”
"You just say that your eyesight is better than mine...... Oops, so many people. With the faint light in front of him, Shen Yingjie finally understood the piles of black shadows, which were actually the bones of the deceased, and the further he went, the clearer he could see, and the more bones there were.
"There's a stone gate in front, and there's more to it next to it. ”
"How strange is their death?" Shen Yingjie found that there were very few individual bones, most of them were hugged together, or stacked in a pile, as if they were thrown together after death, or committed mass suicide in a carnival.
The tall stone gate is in front of you, the height of five or six zhang already has a strong sense of visual oppression, the width spans the entire section of the cave, the stone gate is very heavy, just like what Li Tianqi saw in his divine sense, it is half-open, the hazy and dim light shines from inside, the threshold is very high, there are three steps below, there are many corpses nearby, or crouching, or lying, or half-kneeling, and there is a skeleton simply lying on the threshold.
With the help of the light, Li Tianzhen carefully observed the bones blocking the way, this person was very tall before his death, his head was even larger than ordinary people, his spine was broken, his cervical vertebrae were broken twice, and the lower half of the lumbar vertebrae were all cracked, as if he had been hit by a heavy object, one arm was holding on to the threshold, and the other arm was propped up on the ground, as if he was about to climb out of the stone room.
Li Tianyi stretched out his hand and gently touched the arm of the corpse supporting the ground, but he didn't expect the upper body of the skeleton to fall apart, and the big skull rolled down from the steps, rolling out a long way, and the two black eye holes appeared and disappeared in the tumbling, and Shen Yingjie felt furious in his heart.
"I'm sorry to bother my dude. Li Tianqi shrugged apologetically, ready to raise his legs and enter the stone room.
"What if the door is closed?" Shen Yingjie was nervous.
"Oh, it doesn't matter. Li Tianzhen nodded, but still walked in.
"Hey. Shen Yingjie had no choice but to keep up quickly, but he couldn't resist this stubborn donkey.
The stone chamber is brighter and more spacious, but the top is gradually lowered, and the overall width of the stone chamber seems to be much narrower than that of the cave, and it seems that the mountains on both sides are partially sealed, except for a few skeletons in the room, there are many large wooden boxes stacked on the left side, and there is nothing else.
As soon as Shen Yingjie came in, he was curious to look for the light source, but unfortunately he couldn't find it, the light was very uniform, and he was in a daze, but he was frightened by Li Tianji's words, "Look at the direction of the shadow." ”
There is no shadow at all! Shen Yingjie suspected that there was something wrong with his eyes, but no matter how he looked at it, he couldn't find his shadow, but Li Tianji was casually looking through the box.
The style of the box is extremely old, it is the kind of stupid guy with a heavy flap and lock, there is a seal between the flap and the box, but it has long been torn to see only some outlines, and the colors painted around the box have been unrecognizable, and it can be inferred from the blurred ornamentation and pattern texture that this thing is not ordinary, and there is a sense of brilliant atmosphere.
The wood was all rotten, but it still remained relatively intact because it was covered with cowhide, the cowhide was full of shriveled cracks, the text on it was extremely illegible, and the inside of the box was hay, which had become flocculent because of age, and the general outline of the encased object could be faintly discerned, like a sculpture or some kind of vessel. But everything is gone.
Li Tianqi looked through the three boxes in a row, and counted them roughly, including the three boxes scattered on the ground, there were a total of sixty-nine such identical boxes, which were completely consistent with the number of the huge stone frame outside, could it be said that each box was stored with statues? They were originally stored in the stone frame?
But if you think about it carefully, it's very wrong, although the box is big, but it is not small when placed in the stone frame, not to mention the utensils inside, it is even more disproportionate, is it just a coincidence in numbers? Or, these boxes are the legendary royal treasures of the Zhang family, after being transported here, they were plundered and basically looted, so where did the treasures go? Who did it? The Zhang family insisted on stealing by themselves?
A series of questions made Li Tianchou's head hurt, and Shen Yingjie's head was about to explode, isn't a human body without a shadow a ghost? Not only did she and Li Tianzhen become ghosts, but even the box and bones had no shadows, what kind of place was this? She immediately pulled out a dagger and wanted to pry off a stone to take a closer look, but how hard the basalt was, and every rock on the stone wall was amazingly big, and it was not something that human beings could pry at all.
Shen Yingjie got angry and was about to use a gun to deal with it, but was stopped by Li Tianji, "It's not the rock's problem, I think it's that kind of small bug, as omnipresent as the Soul Eater Worm, and they will glow on their bodies." ”
"Another bug?" Shen Yingjie was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly threw himself all over, but he still couldn't seem to see his shadow.
"It's useless, it's a very old bug called the jade grasshopper, and it is not harmful to us. Li Tianzhen explained, naturally, he relayed the statement of the 'big earthworm', and the knowledge of the blood demon old demon was extremely complicated, "This object is extremely small, comparable to particles suspended in the air, and the human eye cannot see clearly, and it is a natural enemy with the soul eater, I don't know why I was trapped in this stone room." ”
"Comparable to suspended particles in the air?" Shen Yingjie was dumbfounded, standing here and breathing for a long time, wouldn't he have poured a stomach full of small worms?
Li Tianji didn't care about Shen Yingjie's fuss, and unhurriedly took out the small glass bottle from his pocket, "These are all rare good things, since you are here, bring a little." ”
As he spoke, Li Tianzhen put the small glass bottle in his pocket of the air, and then screwed the lid tightly and put it back in his pocket.
Shen Yingjie saw that his pocket was bulging, and asked unconsciously, "Did you also bring a little bit of that disgusting soul eater?"
"That's right. Li Tianzhen took out a small glass bottle from his pocket, the transparent bottle was dark and black, as soon as it appeared, the surroundings instantly became bright and dazzling, many jade grasshoppers saw the mortal enemy and immediately surrounded him, Li Tianzhen was caught off guard, and quickly put the bottle back in his pocket.
"What's your hobby?"
"Maybe I'll use it in a while. Li Tianji's eyes at this moment were fixed on the other end of the stone room dozens of meters away, where there was also a round arched stone door, but it was much smaller than the front door, it was closed tightly at the moment, he noticed the abnormality behind the door, specifically a supernatural person, he should have been standing there until this moment slowly released his breath.
Li Tianji's heart jumped wildly, with his perception, he didn't even notice the existence of the other party, this is something he has never had since the cultivation of Liuyunguan, the strongest opponent he encountered was Zhang Zhiqiang, but he could be found from miles away, and there was a battle outside the nameless mountain, when this person was far from recovering his peak, this supernatural person was definitely not Zhang Zhiqiang, could it be that mysterious life?
"What's wrong with you?" Shen Yingjie saw Li Tianji's abnormal expression, and immediately became a little nervous.
"There's a terrible thing outside the door, it's hard to judge whether it's friend or foe, and I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of you. Li Tianqi wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, from such a long distance, such a thick stone gate, the terrifying pressure of the other party was still rolling in, which was very terrifying.
"What do you mean?"
"Go the same way, and slowly exit the cave yourself. ”
"No, I'm going to be with you. ”
"Don't be angry, wait until I'm done dealing with ......" Li Tianji's words were only halfway through, and with a rumbling and dull sound, the stone door was slowly opened, and a dazzling light rushed into the stone room, making it difficult for people to look directly, and vaguely saw a huge body standing tall in the light and shadow.