Chapter 51: Something Else

Is there really a burial chamber?

Jiang Yao was surprised to see the scene in front of the passage, but he soon discovered something even more surprising.

"This coffin...... It looks like the one we saw being carried by the villagers?"

Jiang Yao stepped forward cautiously, but he didn't dare to step into the tomb rashly, but just stood next to the bluestone remnant wall at the end of the passage, and looked up at the huge coffin hanging in the tomb behind the wall.

Sure enough, the overall style of this hanging coffin was very similar to the one seen in the villagers' coffin carrying procession before, but the whole coffin was much larger than the one that the villagers had seen carrying before, and it was the size of a small yacht. The whole coffin is cyan, densely covered with charms, and is hung by several arms-thick bronze chains, and the ground directly below the coffin seems to be carved with a complex magic circle, like a spider web with the coffin as the center of the entire tomb, I don't know what purpose it is.

"You say such a big coffin, what will be inside?" Zhou Wentao walked to Jiang Yao's side, looked at the huge hanging coffin, and didn't dare to act rashly for a while. "And it looks like it's sticking and chaining, as if to prevent a living creature from escaping inside......"

"What is sealed in the ancient tomb like this, even if it is a living thing, it will be hung up a long time ago, right?" Jiang Yao comforted Zhou Wentao while carefully examining the ancient tomb behind the remnants of the wall by the faint light of the torches around him.

Looking in from the remnant wall, the walls on both sides of this tomb are arcing inward, and the whole tomb seems to be an oval shape; the furnishings in the tomb are quite simple, at first glance it seems that there is nothing except the central hanging coffin, I wonder if it has been emptied, and the walls around the tomb seem to be carved with some patterns, and then to the rear, due to the lack of light, you can only see some shadows, I don't know what kind of structure the other side of the tomb is. The atmosphere of the whole tomb is simple and mysterious, from the style of the tomb and the shape of the coffin, the sense of age is quite obvious, but Jiang Yao was stunned and didn't see which dynasty and which generation of tomb this was, maybe it was a more ancient relic beyond the scope of Jiang Yao's cognition.

Jiang Yao's eyes scanned around the tomb and found nothing noteworthy, so he finally focused his gaze on the huge hanging coffin in the center. The yellowed spells were plastered all over the body of the cyan coffin, combined with the strange magic circle under the hanging coffin, which gave people quite a visual impact, making people subconsciously nervous and afraid to look directly.

There seems to be space at the back of the burial chamber, do you want to go in and have a look?

Jiang Yao stared at the depths of the tomb, but out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a bronze chain hanging from the coffin suddenly moved.

Well?

Jiang Yao was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked at it again, and this time, he found that it was not only the chains moving, but to be exact, the huge cyan coffin, which was trembling slightly, as if there was really something alive inside that was trying to break out.

"W-This coffin!?"

Jiang Yao's face changed, he turned his head to look at Zhou Wentao and Qing Yu beside him, and found that the expressions on their faces were also quite shocked, obviously they also noticed the movement in the tomb, but at this time, they heard a calm and low male voice suddenly sounded from behind everyone:

"Stand back! Don't go too far. ”

Jiang Yao was stunned, and when he looked back, he found that Mu Jianyun, who had led away the guards alone, had rushed behind everyone at some point, only to see his cold gaze past the three people in front of him and stab straight into the tomb behind the remnant wall.

"It's you......" Jiang Yao took a few steps back, glanced at Mu Jianyun, who was holding his chest beside him, and his face was not very good-looking, and said. "Are you alright?

"It's okay, let him fall asleep for a while. Mu Jianyun replied expressionlessly, put down the hand covering his chest, and put on a calm appearance as always.

"Yo, I thought you were quite rigid, but I didn't expect you to have an enlightened side. Jiang Yao's eyebrows were raised, but he was quite surprised.

"I have a thousand ways to subdue people without supernatural abilities, and I don't need to explain them to you one by one. Mu Jianyun said coldly, his pale gray eyes were still staring at the hanging coffin in the tomb, and his expression was serious.

Since he is so capable, how could he be tied up by the old man Huang and thrown into the basement ...... before?

Jiang Yao sneered, but this was obviously not the time to quarrel, so he didn't say anything more, and once again moved his gaze back to the huge hanging coffin in the center of the tomb. Since Jiang Yao and the others retreated a few steps back just now and distanced themselves from the tomb, the hanging coffin fell silent again, but Jiang Yao still didn't dare to take it lightly, the sudden change before was really heartbreaking.

"What's going on with this coffin?" Jiang Yao said, turning his head to look at Mu Jianyun, looking at the other party's previous reaction, obviously knowing something.

"I don't know what's inside this coffin, but it's clear that it's not a good thing to be locked up in. Mu Jianyun said, stretching out his finger and pointing to the strange magic circle on the ground of the tomb with the hanging coffin as the center and spreading around.

"This circle is called the 'Evil Array', which is specially used to suppress demonic beings such as fallen monsters, and those charms on the coffin should be used to block the demonic aura in the coffin, so I can't identify the contents inside. Fallen demon monsters are the most sensitive to the anger of living creatures, and the breath on your body when you approached before should have been sensed by the evil thing in the coffin, so there was a movement, if you get closer, I'm afraid that this 'evil array' will not be able to suppress it. ”

"In other words, in order to avoid stimulating the evil things in the hanging coffin, we can't get close to it at all?" Jiang Yao said, but he was a little concerned about the situation behind the tomb, he thought about it, and suddenly remembered that Zhou Wentao gave his bracelet a lighting function, so he hurriedly turned on the bracelet flashlight on his wrist and turned it to the brightest, and illuminated the tomb in front of him again at a distance, and the situation behind the tomb finally came into everyone's eyes.

I saw that the curved walls on both sides of the front of the tomb began to shrink sharply as soon as they extended to the back, and the walls on both sides meandered and gradually approached, and finally converged on a stone door in the distance, which made the whole tomb not present a perfect circle, but like the shape of a drop-shaped magatama, and the strange hanging coffin was in the middle of the abdomen of the "magatama".

"Look, that stone door seems to be open?" the sharp-eyed Qing Yu immediately noticed the situation and pointed ahead. When everyone took a look, they found that the stone door at the top of the "Magatama" was ajar, and in addition, there were some hand tools scattered at the stone door, and there were some faint messy footprints on the ground, which seemed to have been left recently.

"Since the living creatures in this burial chamber can't be approached, what about the tools and fresh footprints used by humans?" Jiang Yao said, pointing to the footprints in the distant burial chamber. "You don't have to be alive to move here and leave footprints...... By the way, those villagers!?"

Jiang Yao was halfway through his words, and suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly turned his head to look at Mu Jianyun.

"The villagers who followed us before didn't have any breath of living people on them, could it be them!?"

"It should be. Mu Jianyun nodded. "It seems that this is a 'forbidden place' that only those who claim to be villagers of 'Chiquan Village' can enter. ”

"It's weird enough that such an ominous tomb appeared in the deep mountains and old forests, and those villagers seem to be moving in this tomb, otherwise they wouldn't have sent someone to guard the entrance of the cave, I always feel that they are planning something, and the people who mysteriously disappeared in the nearby mountains before may also be inseparable from them......"

Thinking of the previous experience, Jiang Yao's heart became heavier and heavier. "We were attacked by fallen monsters in the forest outside, and the forest was also filled with miasma, if this hanging coffin is really a fallen monster as you said, will there be any connection between the two?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out. Mu Jianyun's face was serious. "This tomb will not be as simple as this tomb, I heard that you have seen villagers carrying similar coffins out of the village before, I am afraid that the coffin is also similar monsters, and there may be more tombs behind this tomb. Although I don't know who locked so many monsters in this mountain forest, this tomb has been opened at present, and the slightest mistake will be a catastrophe. ”

"I wonder if the miasma in the forest outside is also leaking out from here, but...... Speaking of which, miasma is quite harmful to the human body, and those of us who have cultivated have it to forget it, why can he last so long?" Qing Yu suddenly remembered something, pointed to Zhou Wentao on the side with a blank face, and asked Jiang Yao.

"Well, what's this...... Maybe he's stronger......"

Jiang Yao was stunned and began to play Tai Chi again, he really couldn't explain the matter of 'Zhu Rong's power' in front of Zhou Wentao, but Zhou Wentao himself seemed to be accustomed to Jiang Yao's attitude, anyway, he had made up his mind to wait for the matter to come to an end and ask Jiang Yao clearly, so he was not in a hurry at this time, and Qing Yu obviously saw Jiang Yao's scruples, so he didn't ask again.

"The miasma is a big problem, and it must be reported to the chief as soon as possible. In addition, I found that the villagers did not seem to be afraid of miasma, and it was unusual for ordinary humans to live in such a miasma environment for so long. Mu Jianyun said with a serious face. "In any case, judging from the current situation, it is still too dangerous for a few of us to rush forward without preparation, let's retreat for the time being, and wait until we return to the headquarters to report to the leader before we discuss. ”

Qing Yu nodded, she had never had an opinion on Mu Jianyun's decision; although Jiang Yao had the intention to continue to try to investigate, but considering Zhou Wentao's safety, he also agreed to evacuate temporarily; and Zhou Wentao saw that there was no reason to continue to insist, turned around and prepared to follow the rest of the people to honestly prepare to go back, but after only a few steps, he suddenly felt a sinking under his feet, and when he looked down, he saw that the floor next to his right foot had strangely sunk in.

"......?" Zhou Wentao was stunned, and before he could say anything, he heard an ominous roar suddenly coming from the exit of the passage behind him.

"What's the sound?" Jiang Yao looked at the slightly trembling ground and the rocks that had been shaken down on both sides, and an ominous premonition suddenly came to his heart.

"This is ......" Listening to the loud roar from far and near, Mu Jianyun's face changed suddenly.

"Not good!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a shadow suddenly appeared in the passage in the distance, and a huge rock ball large enough to fill both sides of the passage was rushing towards everyone along the thief hole that zigzagged down.