Volume 2 Sand Sea Dragon's Lair Chapter 184 Dry Corpses Alive
Bai Yang thinks that the most important thing now is to find Tie Niu and the others quickly, so as not to put them in a desperate situation, and if the rescue is too late, they will regret it too late.
He tried to communicate with the Golden Pupil Condor, wanting it to fly to find Iron Bull and the others.
The golden-eyed condor didn't know if he understood his words, but after a few chirps anyway, he spread his wings and flew away.
And the higher and higher it became, and then it got out of nowhere.
But this proves that even if Tie Niu and the others can't be found above, at least there must be a not too narrow exit there.
So the three of them also walked up the passage that surrounded the stone wall of the cave.
Although the passage is not very narrow, after all, it is close to the stone wall, and the bottom is not deep, and people walking on it will still feel scared, for fear that if they step on the wrong step, they will fall into the abyss.
Even if all three of them have practiced kung fu, they walk cautiously as if they were walking on thin ice.
Along the way, they never saw any other holes, but there was a torch halfway through, which attracted the attention of the three of them.
It seems that the tip of the torch is not a real flame, but a translucent jade carved in the shape of a flame.
This jade is not precious, and it is unlikely to emit a flame-like light.
The reason why it glows is obviously that inside the jade, some kind of treasure that will glow is installed.
It won't be an ordinary night pearl, because the light of the night pearl is already relatively dim, and then it is emitted through this translucent jade, it will never be as bright as fireworks.
Bai Yang first thought of a treasure, he turned his eyes to look at Ding Lingling, and it happened that Ding Lingling was also looking at him, and the two said two words in unison: "Hanging beads!"
Ding Lingling nodded and said, "Yes, it should be the hanging bead, and only the hanging bead can still be so bright after thousands of years!"
"But hanging beads are also extremely rare, there are at least a dozen torches here, and if there is a hanging bead hidden in each torch, then where did they get this treasure?" said Poplar.
"This is not difficult to explain!" Ding Lingling quickly replied, "Although the hanging beads are extremely rare, they are just an inorganic mineral body, I estimate that the King of Vientiane once got a very large hanging bead rough stone, and he used this rough stone to polish a batch of hanging beads." The reason why Ao Jian replaced the dragon ball with the hanging bead may be precisely because in their celestial realm, the hanging bead is not extremely rare!"
Her analysis made Poplar nod again and again, but Poplar still had a question: "But the hanging bead in your hand is white light, if the hanging bead in these torches is polished out of the same rough stone as the one in your hand, why are these torches red?"
"That should be inside this translucent jade, color treatment, this should not be difficult to do!" Ding Lingling replied.
Poplar was right when he heard it, and if he looked carefully at the jade that emitted red light, because it was not red itself, and it was not completely transparent, it would feel like a real torch when he looked at it from afar.
"Let's take a torch down and see if there is really a hanging bead hidden in it!" Chu Changjiang said.
"Don't!" Poplar hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him, "I think it's best for us not to move anything, lest we touch any more mechanisms, but there is no place to escape in this kind of place!"
"Poplar is right, let's be careful!" Ding Lingling said.
"But if nothing moves, then why should we venture in?" Chu Changjiang said.
"I just think the most important thing for us now is to find Lao Hei and them first, and after meeting with them, there are two experienced people, Old Man Chen and Little Fat Brother, and then we can discuss it!" Bai Yang said.
Chu Changjiang thought that what Bai Yang said was reasonable, so he no longer insisted.
The three of them cautiously continued to move forward, until they walked to the opposite stone rock that protruded beyond the cliff, only to find that the stone rock was more than three meters away in the air, and there was indeed a coffin on the top of the stone rock.
On the rock wall at the back of the rock, there is suddenly an open stone cave, the stone cave should be artificially carved, the cave wall is smooth, and the ground in the cave is also very flat.
Two bronzes and some gold and jade antiques are neatly placed against the cave wall, and on the cave wall, they are also painted with patterns.
The color of the pattern has been quite damaged, but it is still clear what each picture is trying to convey.
One of them is a man wearing a crown directing a group of craftsmen to carve a large stone.
And beside the man, there was also a man dressed as a scholar.
Another image shows the scholar and the crown man, standing side by side in front of a huge alchemy furnace.
On the three stone tablets above the tomb before, I had seen the record of King Cheng assisting Grand Master Ao Jian to build the Immortal God Furnace, and the two patterns in front of me were obviously telling about this matter.
So the three of them immediately decided that the man with the crown was naturally King Chengda. And what was in the coffin must be the remains of King Chengda.
Chu Changjiang looked up and down at several murals on the cave wall, and said: "This big stone carved into the Immortal God Furnace is naturally the meteorite depicted on the mural of the cylindrical room above! According to the several major events recorded in the notebook of Yunlang City, it is inferred that after the Immortal God Furnace was completed, there was no big explosion immediately, otherwise even if the Immortal God Furnace was not mentioned in that notebook, it would not have been without mentioning the fireball falling from the sky!"
"That's good!" Ding Lingling nodded in agreement, "We have already speculated before, after the completion of the Immortal God Furnace, there should still be a batch of immortal medicines, and Ao Jian Archmage has been able to live until now, I am afraid it is the effect of this batch of immortal medicines!"
"So my question is, has King Cheng ever taken immortal medicine, and since he is buried here with the Celestial Elephant King and Master Ao Jian, will he also be immortal?"
Bai Yang and Ding Lingling both felt that this was very possible, but Bai Yang was worried about the safety of Tie Niu and the others, and didn't want to dwell on this issue, so he just said: "Let's hurry up and ......."
Suddenly, there was a "squeak" sound, which made Poplar close his mouth suddenly.
Ding Lingling and Chu Changjiang also heard the voice, and the three of them turned around at the same time, looking at the big rock outside the stone cave that protruded into the cliff.
Even though the three of them have had many adventures, they can't help but feel creepy at this moment.
Because the sound came from the coffin placed on the top of Shi Yan, and with the "squeak" sound, the three people clearly saw that the lid of the sarcophagus was being slowly removed.
"It seems that this King Cheng is really immortal!" Ding Lingling said, and couldn't help but take out two short swords and grab them in his hands.
Two jade hummingbirds were resting on her shoulders, but at this time they also seemed to sense the danger, and "squeaked" and hid in her arms.
Bai Yang also grabbed the black sword, and Chu Changjiang took out his pistol, held the designated coffin with both hands, and said in a low voice: "If this King Cheng is similar to Master Ao Jian's skills, then the three of us are far from opponents! Fortunately, Master Ao Jian is afraid of guns and bullets, and if a living person comes out of the coffin later, you two get out of the way, and I will shoot him directly and continuously." In such a narrow place, no matter how good he is, he can't dodge bullets. β
Bai Yang nodded, but thinking that the light of the "torches" around him was not bright enough, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to turn on the light on his head, and said in a low voice: "Later, if someone really comes out of the coffin, I will project the light on his face, Boss Chu, you can see clearly, if he is in modern attire, he must not shoot!"
"How can it be a modern attire, could it be a modern person who ran up and lay down in the coffin?" Chu Changjiang followed, "Even if it is a modern attire, it is possible that King Cheng stripped off the clothes of a tomb robber and put it on himself!"
What he said was actually reasonable, but Bai Yang still answered: "I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm just afraid of just in case, in short, it's better to shoot after seeing clearly!"
Chu Changjiang was about to answer, but saw that the lid of the coffin had been removed a little bit, and a figure was standing up from the coffin.
Sure enough, he was dressed in a gorgeous ancient costume, and suddenly wore a shining gold crown on his head.
Chu Changjiang wanted to shoot as soon as his fingers moved, but at that moment, the pillar of light on the poplar's head was projected on the man's face.
According to common sense, when a person is suddenly hit by a beam of light on his face, he will instinctively close his eyes or turn his head.
But the man didn't, he didn't seem to feel the beam of light at all, and he was still facing Poplar and the other three.
And that face of hisβ
Chu Changjiang's hands trembled in fright, and the pistol almost fell to the ground.
Ding Lingling even exclaimed in surprise.
Poplar was also taken aback, and a chill instantly flowed through his body.
It was clearly a living person, otherwise he would not have removed the lid of the coffin and stood up from the coffin.
But his face didn't look like a living man, not even like a dead man, but a dried corpse.
Yes, dry corpses!
The face was shriveled and thin, without the slightest blood, nor the luster, nor the slightest plumpness.
It was a dried corpse, not much different from the one they had seen in the desert before.
It's just that the dried corpse in front of him has been hidden in the coffin and has not been exposed to the scorching sun, so his complexion looks dark, but not black.
The most terrifying thing is his eyes.
The eyes were sunken because of the shriveled skin, but in the deep sunken sockets, there were two shriveled eyeballs that had no luster at all.
The pillar of light was projected on the two eyeballs, obviously without the slightest charm, but on the contrary, these two shriveled eyeballs turned slightly in the empty eye sockets.
"It's ...... The legendary living corpse, it is said to be a hundred times more powerful than the red-haired zombie!" Ding Lingling exclaimed, her voice trembling slightly because of fear.
(See Chapter 185 "Cliff Battle")