Chapter 39: Opening the Coffin
The side room on the right, in a triangular shape, with a candlestick on each corner, and the image of a tiger carved on the wall, but unlike the common white tiger, this tiger has a human face and nine tails.
Garmi quipped: "Big beautiful girl, you see that your white tiger looks like this"
Caitlin replied, "Get out of the way", but when she saw the shadow of a tiger in the picture, she couldn't help but be curious, so she asked Xi Zhou, "Xi Zhou, do you know what this painting is?"
Xi Zhou explained: "This is Lu Wu, legend has it that he is the great butler of the Yellow Emperor, who helps the Yellow Emperor manage the boundaries of the Nine Domains of the Heavenly Realm, and is also in charge of the season of the Heavenly God Garden, and it is said that no matter which way of the gods or demons, if anyone violates the rules of the Heavenly Realm, or inadvertently violates the laws of the entire universe, it will unceremoniously expel you from the country or be punished according to the law."
"If you're not right, the so-called Nine Domains of the Heavenly Realm are the corresponding Nine Star Continents on the Nine Star Chart?" Tashi said
"For the time being, I can't be sure yet, but the appearance of Lu Wu in the Crossbow Ancestral Tomb must have something to do with the Nine Domains of the Heavenly Realm or its management duties," Xi Zhou replied.
"Look at this, does it resemble the pattern on Xi Zhou's body?" Gami pointed to the pattern carved on the top of the coffin.
Everyone gathered to observe this pattern carefully, and Caitlin took out the pattern on the chest of the crossbow ancestor that she described, and compared it repeatedly, "It should be the same as the pattern on the crossbow ancestor."
"Could it be that this coffin is the crossbowman, or someone very close to her?" said Garmi
Finding this sarcophagus with a pattern very similar to that of the Western Zhou Dynasty, everyone was a little excited, and everyone rubbed their fists and palms to explore the inside of the sarcophagus. Xi Zhou said calmly, we are taking a closer look to see if there is anything else to find, and we must not make decisions randomly. The three nodded. After searching in the side room for a long time, I still found nothing. This is Xi Zhou, suddenly thought of something, hurriedly ran in the direction of the stone gate, the three of them saw this, also chased out, the four of them came to the end of the road, Xi Zhou found that the stone gate that was originally opened just now is now closed again.
Xi Zhou couldn't help but be a little nervous, so he said to everyone: "After we came in, the stone door was open at first, when we walked out of the right ear room, Catelyn and I found that the stone door was closed, at that time, in order not to affect the atmosphere of the team, Catelyn and I were silent, until we went to the side room on the left, and after exiting, I found that the stone door was open, and now the stone door is closed again." ”
"Could it be that it's Jikuo?" said Garmi
"Before opening the coffin, I think it is necessary to clarify the theory of the closure of the stone door. Because I always feel that the things in the sarcophagus are not easy to deal with," Xi Zhou said cautiously.
"Xi Zhou, if you have any ideas, just arrange it, we will listen to you," Tashi said dryly
Gammy and Caitlyn nodded in agreement.
Seeing everyone's statement, Xi Zhou began to arrange: "You three, go to the entrance of the stone gate, first, Gami will go to the left ear chamber first, and then exit, and then Tashi will enter the right ear chamber, and then exit first."
According to the arrangement of the Western Zhou, Gami and Tashi walked all over again, but the stone gate did not move.
So Xi Zhou said again: "Gami, go into the left ear room, stay in it and don't move, Tashi is the same as just now, go again" The two followed Xi Zhou's instructions and rehearsed again, at this time, only heard the stone door behind Caitlin, there was a clattering sound of the machine wide crashing, and the stone door opened.
Gami also heard the sound of the stone door opening, so he involuntarily came out of the ear chamber, but as he took a step, he heard the stone door clatter, and the stone door closed again. By the time Gami reached the entrance of the stone gate, the stone door had been closed tightly.
The three of them looked at Xi Zhou from a distance, Xi Zhou sat down on the ground, the three of them rushed over, and asked with concern: "What's wrong Xi Zhou, are you not feeling well?"
Xi Zhou said weakly: "It's not that I'm not feeling well, it's that we have now fallen into the trap designed by the crossbow ancestor."
"What?trap??, what do you mean?" asked Garmi, flustered.
"The entire antechamber of the underground palace is a calculation trap, two states caused by a trigger key, and the intertwined calculation logic, to put it simply, is the lighting game often played by the people of the earth," said Xi Zhou
"Oh, the lighting game is a game that the people of the earth rock have been playing since childhood, you say so, I understand, it means that after turning off a lamp, the state of the other lights is determined by this lamp, and the switch of this lamp determines the state of the other lamp groups, so the total lamp is pressed and will never be lit again. That is to say, if we are in danger and we have to go back, one of us needs to make the lamp that can no longer be lit, as just now, when the stone door is opened, we have to go out, and it can only be the three of you, and I need to stay in the ear chamber on the right side all the time," said Garmi
Xi Zhou nodded, agreeing with Gami's analysis.
"So what now?" asked Tashi
Xi Zhou suddenly smiled and said: "Since the crossbow ancestor has the intention not to let us go out together, then let's go and meet the things in the sarcophagus for a while, it's a big deal that everyone will be wrapped in horse leather together, how about it?"
Gami, Tashi, and Caitlin saw that Xia Xizhou was not distressed by who stayed, and his mood was relieved. The four of them came to the right side room again.
Everyone looked at the lid of the sarcophagus, Xi Zhou gave Tashi a look, and the three of them stepped back, Tashi propped his hands on the side of the coffin lid, his feet on the ground, and the sound of "Drink!"
The lid of the coffin did not move at all, and everyone burst into laughter.
Gami clutched his stomach and said, "Tashi, hahaha, we....ready...... After a long time, you're going to show us this?"
Gami said with an embarrassed face, he didn't expect the coffin lid to be so heavy, and then said to Gami unconvinced: "You can do it, you come"
Gami rolled up his sleeves, folded his engineering shovel into an angle, inserted the shovel head into the gap between the coffin lid and the coffin, and then pressed down the shovel handle, only to hear a "crack" sound, and the shovel handle was folded into two sections. If you know that the engineering shovel of the real estate is made of refined iron, its sturdiness and toughness are still good, although it is not a magic weapon, but it is a high-quality weapon.
Gami was also embarrassed, and Tashi smiled and said, "Fifty steps and a hundred steps, you are also half a pound and eight taels."
"It seems that it is not possible to come by force, this coffin must need to be clever to open," Xi Zhou said. The four of them continued to search the side room, but found nothing. Xi Zhou touched the sarcophagus, thoughtfully, and then said, the four of us try it together. The four of them worked together, and the sarcophagus remained unmoving.
At this time, Xi Zhou suddenly laughed and said: "The so-called Lu Wu's divine power is just a magnet, Gami, a cooling bomb"
Gami didn't react for a while, and Xi Zhou said, "Quick, give me a few"
"Oh," Gami panicked in his backpack, took out 3 cooling bombs and handed them to Xi Zhou, who didn't say a word, and threw the three cooling bombs on the coffin lid, and after a while, the coffin lid was attached to a thin layer of ice. Seeing this, Xizhou said to Tashi, "Try again." Tashi put his hands on the lid of the coffin, and with a slight effort, the lid slashed forward and fell to the ground, revealing the coffin inside.
Tashi, unable to believe that the scene was of his own making, looked at his hand stupidly.
"Don't look at it, this sarcophagus is made of magnets, and it can't be opened at all through external force, so I lowered its temperature through a cooling bomb, so that its properties have changed temporarily, so that it can be easily opened," Xi Zhou explained
In the coffin, a coffin was placed. The inscription carved on it, no one knows what it means.
"Open?" asked Tashi
Xi Zhou nodded, everyone thought in their minds whether this coffin was lying on the Yellow Emperor's great butler Lu Wu, if it was in front of them, it should be a monster corpse with a human face and a tiger body and nine tails, maybe if it didn't die, it was estimated that it would inevitably be another vicious battle. Tashi grabbed the coffin board with his hand and lifted it with force, and the group fell backwards and immediately prepared for battle.
However, the coffin was not a living monster or Lu Wu's body, but a human skeleton. Physiologically, this is supposed to be a male skeleton with a narrow pelvic bone, shoulder blades, and wide ribs. There was nothing else in the coffin, except for a small iron sign written on it in the mouth of the skull, which was unknown to everyone, except for the sight of two horseshoe shapes with the front and back reversed, and the symbols behind them, as if deliberately erased.
Tashi put away the small iron plaque and said: "There must be a door to the front hall of the underground palace here, the ear room and the side room just now constitute the entrance of the underground palace, the side room on the left, you can't go in, if I don't have the side room on the left and the side room on the right, you can enter the front hall of the underground palace." ”
"It's not a big place, we've searched two or three times, and we haven't found any mechanism," Gami said
"No, we still have something we don't need," said Xi Zhou, pointing to the three candlesticks in the corner, which Gami lit with flint and steel, and the room was filled with the smell of lamp oil.
"After thousands of years," said Gami, "I don't know what this candlestick is made of. ”
"Whale oil, the legendary kun," Xi Zhou said.
After the candlestick was lit, Lu Wu's eyes on the mural showed a luster that was inconsistent with the material of the stone wall, and the light of the candlestick was gradually absorbed by Lu Wu's eyes, and the color of his eyes gradually changed from green to red, and then to blue, as if charging. On the opposite side of the sarcophagus, I heard a sound, and the wall was torn apart, and a corridor appeared. But this corridor is not as spacious as the hallway, and the space is so small that only one person can bow in and out. Gami just wanted to get in, but was stopped by Xi Zhou and said, "Wait, the corridor is sealed all year round, and we may not be able to adapt to the air inside, so let it be ventilated first" Gami thought that what Xi Zhou said made sense, so he took out the rock cake from his bag, passed the time, and replenished his strength by the way.
Half an hour later, Xi Zhou poked his head into the Yongdao, took a few breaths and said, "Let's go!" So Xi Zhou pedestrians entered the Yongdao one after another.