Prelude: Mysterious Mist
In the vicinity of the Yanling Mountains, there is a small group of mercenaries stationed, in front of a black hole cave mountain pass, guarding two people of different skin colors, one yellow and one black, and not far away there are several Europeans wearing field military uniforms who are camping, looking at their expressions, they are all old oilmen who have been in and out of the death area all year round, and there seems to be no big emotional fluctuations in life and death.
"Hey, I heard that this time the company hired a Qi practitioner from the Zhang family to lead the team, so there shouldn't be any more accidents, right? It is said that he is a thaumaturgical master who has just stepped into the Third Spirit 'Qi Cultivation Realm', and with him, we may be able to complete this mission unharmed." A mercenary from an ancient country wearing a camouflage uniform whispered to the black mercenary who was looking around next to him.
The black mercenary glanced back at him, turned his body slightly, and replied with an expressionless face, "Who knows the ghosts of your ancient country, those souls or something, as long as you can complete the task this time, it will be fine...... Hey~ Kevin, help me get a bottle of wine, thank you" shrugged his shoulders and beckoned to a mercenary in the distance who was tidying up his tent.
"Hey, Gullian, you want wine, be careful not to be discovered by the captain, otherwise you will be punished. Handing over a can of beer, the mercenary named Kevin turned and left, fearing that someone would find out.
"Cut, I'm not afraid of that F countryman, what's so great about him, if it weren't for his back...... Hum. Gulian whispered indifferently, opened the jar and drank it.
A few people camping on the side were also talking in a whisper, "Three teams of people have disappeared, and now they don't even know what is inside, why hasn't the upper echelons of the company died yet, even if we are not afraid of death, we can't die in vain." One of the Europeans said, and the other echoed, "That is, it is said to be a monument more than 2,000 years ago, but the problem is that there is no information about Mao, let alone a building, just an underground passage." β
"What do you care so much, just take the money and triple the pay!" a young European man in his 20s said to him nonchalantly.
"Alas, you hairy boy, you don't know the horror of the unknown, and when you realize that you can't die if you want to die, and you can't live if you want to live, you will know that you regret it," said an older Gu Guoren.
"I'm afraid of death and still be a mercenary of P, if my head is not tied to the waistband of my trousers, I will be able to soar one day. The young European lad mocked unabashedly, arrogantly patting the pure black weapon box on the ground. The mercenary of the ancient kingdom shook his head when he heard this, and did not say anything more. The other glanced at the young white guy with a sneer, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly after retracting his gaze.
After a while, the sound of 'rustling' leaves sounded, and the mere sound of it could make ordinary people creep. Suddenly, three people came out of the woods, and the one who walked in the front shouted "Assemble", and all the mercenaries quickly lined up in front of the three of them when they heard the order.
Captain Chris glanced at the people standing in a row, waited for everyone to finish counting, nodded in satisfaction and twisted his neck, his head tilted back slightly, and his strong chest muscles rose and fell obviously, highlighting the ups and downs of his heart. said to the middle-aged man wearing silk next to him, "This time, a total of 12 people plus me will obey your command, I hope you can't just talk about it." I don't know about the so-called Qimen Dunjia in your ancient country, but we are not bad at intuition about danger. After speaking, he turned his head and paused, stretched out his left hand and gestured, and introduced the middle-aged man to everyone.
"This is Zhang Yuchang, a thaumaturgical master hired by the company with a lot of money, and the top attaches great importance to this operation, if someone disobeys me halfway, don't blame me for being polite. Okay, pack your gear and go down the cave with me. The tone of the whole process of speaking was heavy and light, which was a good grasp of everyone's psychology, so that Zhang Yuchang on the side glanced at Chris, but did not speak.
After the rectification, the group was followed by Zhang Yuchang in front of Chris, an assistant with a detector and electronic equipment followed by the two people, and then the team members armed with infrared automatic rifles.
In the first twenty minutes, under the careful leadership of Zhang Yuchang, there was nothing to do, avoiding some small coffins, although there were some corpses and bones along the way, but for mercenaries who were used to seeing life and death, it was commonplace. After a period of time, everyone was slightly relieved, and even a little lighthearted.
Along the way, Zhang Yu often used the exquisite Qimen Dunjia to skillfully avoid some coffins that had fallen into disrepair, but in front of a three-way crossing, everyone had to stop. Zhang Yuchang leaned down and touched the surrounding rocks and land, and stepped forward to sniff it, and instructed everyone, "Take the place I walked, don't step on other areas." After saying that, he walked forward, and everyone staggered to follow his footsteps and crossed the dilapidated bluestone road in front of the fork.
Halfway through, the white man from Europe, who accidentally hung up the nameplate around his neck and landed on the ground, looked up the moment he picked it up, only to find a strange, half-serpentine creature staring at him affectionately, and this creature was only one step away from his head. He cursed in a low voice 'damn it', and just as he wanted to get up, he only heard the sound of 'si~', and the serpentine suddenly burst out and bit him fiercely on the neck. The people who were moving forward only heard a heart-rending voice of 'ah~ah~'. All of them stopped and turned around, several of them shining spotlights at him. In the faint light, Zhang Yu often saw the animal on the young man's neck, and actually followed his wide open mouth and got into it in an instant. Zhang Yuchang's eyes widened in vain, and he immediately shouted loudly, "Leave him alone, rush forward, don't look back." β
Everyone was shocked, looking at Zhang Yuchang, who had already rushed to the middle cave, and they all followed in a panic, because of the reason for stepping on it, a lot of coffins were triggered. And in the holes in the rock wall at the fork in the road, many of the same animals sprang out everywhere. Among them, the two who were unfortunately injured by the coffin were immediately dragged to the ground by a large group of serpentine creatures after firing a few shots and fell to the ground. There was also an unlucky ghost, who was shot in the left leg by the man who shot him, and several large striped creatures, dragging his legs and pulling them back. After being put down, he was buried under the group of strange snakes with the white young man just now. All that remains of the underground cave is the sound of some kind of mollusk 'hissing~hissing'γγγγγγ
The survivors of the aftermath gathered together, and Chris grabbed Zhang Yuchang by the collar and asked, "What is that, like a snake but very short." Zhang Yuchang took a deep breath and slapped his hand away, "This is a creature that lives in underground rock formations, called 'beetle snake', it doesn't like light, it will only appear in very few monuments, it should be an ancient species, and I have seen it for the first time." After speaking, he looked at the people behind him and said, "Look at who is missing", and while counting, there were 6 people left. When he calmed down and saw the somewhat wet stone wall, Zhang Yuchang was shocked again.
"It's not good, we're in the formation" I didn't feel any difference just now, the terrain here can actually confuse people's senses. When Chris heard this, he immediately asked his assistant to take out the infrared scanner, and carried out terrain exploration of the surroundings, and the computer constructed a three-dimensional map, only to find that this was actually a rock formation like a Rubik's cube, they were on the upper left, and the rock layer was changing at any time, and there was water flowing in the rock formation, changing the direction at any time. Zhang Yuchang found that the wetness of the stone wall was not the same, and then glanced at the computer view, and said, "There is a water source around here, we ......" Just about to speak, suddenly a black shadow dragged a team member to disappear quickly, and he heard a shout, and there was no sound. "Oh no, there's something following us, there's no time to break the formation, let's go forward and drag it first, let me figure out a way." The five people moved forward quickly, holding their rifles tightly in their hands, and Zhang Yuchang deduced the change of formation while looking at the changing computer graphics.
The black shadow flashed again, and the two team members swept wildly, and the sound of the egg splashing drove away the black shadow, and when the light shone on the black shadow, it was discovered that the black shadow was actually a giant ape with black hair all over its body. ", what the hell is this, uh heart," called Gulian, the black man, with a wide grin as he rolled his eyes. The assistant on the side also slandered in his heart, "Isn't this your relative, you still dislike it." β
"Be careful, he's injured and will probably attack us again. The soldier of the ancient kingdom was named Qing Jue (Jie), and he looked at the hidden giant ape and said with palpitations. While vigilantly surviving, about the time of a pillar of incense, Zhang Yuchang finally broke through the coffin formation and said to everyone, "Go, now our location is in the southeast, go all the way down the left, just enough to get out of the formation." The five people moved quickly, and when they saw the faint light in front of them, the sudden change of the stone wall hit the running assistant against the wall, and the instant impact caused him to break his left leg, right arm and a few ribs, just as Gulian and Qingjie wanted to help him up, the black shadow rushed out, and the two hurriedly shot while dragging the assistant. However, the rumbling sound of the stone door closing stunned everyone, the exit actually began to close, the two looked at each other, decisively gave up the assistant and rushed to the stone door that was about to close, the assistant was frightened by the actions of the two, and hurriedly shouted, "Help me, help me, don't leave me!" With the stone door closed, only the assistant's screams sounded, and soon there was no sound.
The four people who survived the catastrophe scanned each other's stone chambers with a sigh of breath. Zhang Yuchang looked up at the faint light around the rock wall and found that it was the bright light produced by the refraction of the crystal. "I didn't expect that there was such an underground secret room in Xiling, and my Zhang family had never found out. While sighing, he walked towards the center of the stone chamber in front of him, and found that there were other passages on the way to this place.
In front of the stone door in the center, there is a square sarcophagus, which is said to be a sarcophagus, but there is no gap on the surface, and the whole sarcophagus is integrated. Standing next to it stood a stone corpse in bronze armor, with both hands pressed on a bronze greatsword and plunged into the ground. Looking to the right, there is a turquoise stone pillar with some words carved on it.
Zhang Yuchang first touched the sarcophagus, then approached the stone pillar and began to carefully observe the words on it. But the more he looked at it, the more ugly Zhang Yuchang's face became, and when he finished reading the words on the stone pillar, he suddenly turned to Chris, and shouted hoarsely, "You bastards, you actually tricked me into the examination of the Ancient Emperor's Mausoleum." Damn it. Zhang Yuchang's crazy appearance was reflected in the eyes of the three of them, and Zhang Yuchang trembled and turned around to look at the bronze corpse figurines, his eyes were full of despair.
Suddenly, the sarcophagus beside Zhang Yuchang somehow released a burst of light, and a map appeared on the surface of the sarcophagus.
After a few breaths, Zhang Yuchang suddenly laughed and said, "Heh~~~ Hahahaha, the ancient map of the land of Jiuzhou", Zhang Yuchang's eyes widened, staring at the mapping light map that appeared on the surface of the sarcophagus, and his fists were faintly clenched, "The location of Shenzhou Jiuding is actually real~~ It's really nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it." ...... Hahaha~~~"
When all the people focused their attention on the sarcophagus, the stone corpse figurines that were shaken next to the sarcophagus, the dust on their bodies began to shake off, and slowly the terracotta warriors took half a step back, just when Zhang Yuchang was about to make a move, the terracotta warriors suddenly pulled out the bronze ancient sword inserted in the ground, and threw the bronze sword out in an instant. And the bronze long sword pierced, the mercenary of the ancient kingdom who didn't have time to react, Qing Jue's body, the entire long sword from the left rib in front of him completely penetrated the left lung lobe, making him 'bang' on the stone wall, blood gushed out from his mouth in large quantities, and everyone immediately split up to dodge when they saw this.
Gullian rolled to the stone wall on the right, picked up his rifle and shot at the bronze terracotta warriors who were fighting with Zhang Yu, Zhang Yu often scolded in this scene, "Bastard thing, you can't find death", and hurriedly took out a piece of steel from his arms and shot it at Gullian, Gullian dodged in time, and the steel piece that disappeared in a flash, but 'groan~', half of it disappeared into the stone wall. In a hurry, Gurion rushed into the stone wall passage beside him.
On the other hand, the captain Chris was very calm, and almost all the pictures of the underground secret room and the words on the stone pillars were taken and posted. It's just that when I was collecting the computer, I accidentally touched the corner of the stone table next to me, and was swallowed by a sudden underground tunnelγγγγγγ
Gullian, the black man who had successfully exited the stone chamber, stumbled down the tunnel, only to come to a criss-crossing cave.
The faint light dotted the cave, and the sound of falling water was particularly clear in the emptiness of the entire cave. Gullian leaned against a stone pillar and sat down slowly. His gasping sound added a kind of weirdness to the whole cavern. Gulian, who was slightly steady, stretched out his head to glance at the road he came, and the moment he turned around, there was a 'whew', and Kevin, whose face was covered with black blood and no skin, appeared less than an inch in front of him, and Kevin's body was on top and his head was indeed facing down. Gulian looked at the head in front of him, swallowed, and did not dare to go beyond the slightest.
But after waiting for half a sound, there was no response, and when he quietly breathed a sigh of relief, he screamed, "Ah... Belch~~.. Yes~~... After that, the whole cave fell silent.
Ps: (What happened to Zhang Yuchang after that?And what is the secret of this underground labyrinth?What kind of turbulent waves will a map of Jiuzhou set off?Please see the ancient gold album below)