Chapter One Hundred and Nine: The Tomb of King Tuo
A long and secluded road leads to a mausoleum located deep in the mountains.
On both sides of the road are various statues of Buddhist figures such as Buddha, Shura, Arhat, etc., sitting on lotus flowers. Of course, Ye Feng didn't recognize any of them, in his opinion, these guys looked similar, but they just changed their clothes.
Ye Feng and the others marched forward with torches, and the air was a little dull, as if it had never flowed through for more than a thousand years.
"Follow me, don't mess with anything here. It's full of murderous traps. Ye Feng turned his head and said solemnly to Bai Zhanji and the others.
Several people nodded hurriedly.
Ye Feng didn't scare them, through his spiritual power, he did see a large number of traps distributed in the passage of the mausoleum. There is a trap almost every ten meters.
As we walked, everyone finally saw a huge underground cavern.
It's huge, it's really huge.
The oval cave has a diameter of about 1,500 meters and a height of more than 200 meters. In the center stands a huge funnel-shaped pagoda, like two pyramids with the tips stacked on top of each other, the outside is flat and closed, paved with Baise limestone, and painted with Buddhist murals. There is only a five-meter-sized stone gate in the lower part of the front.
Entering this giant cave, Ye Feng and the others immediately felt that the air suddenly changed, mixed with a strong fragrance.
The fragrance clearly wafted from two giant stone lamps with a diameter of two meters on both sides of the stone gate. The stone lamp didn't know how long it had been burning in this cave, and the pale blue flames, silent, like the ghostly fire of hell, lit up most of the huge cavern. On the four walls of the cave, a huge amount of manpower was spent to excavate the Buddha relief, the expression is solemn, and it seems to have a ghostly atmosphere under the light blue light.
Rao is Bai Zhanji, a few experienced tomb robbers, couldn't help but feel a little creepy when he saw such a scene, and all kinds of legends of gods, demons and monsters flashed in his heart, and he was a little hairy, and he couldn't help but get closer to Ye Feng a little.
"Lao Bai, is this blue the legendary 10,000-year-old lamp? It can't have been burning for more than a thousand years, right? Ye Feng asked Bai Zhanji curiously.
Bai Zhanji nodded: "That's right, it's a 10,000-year-old lamp, also called a longevity lamp." The ancients believed that this lamp could suppress the soul, make the soul immortal, and even biomorphize into an immortal Buddha. Lamp oil uses many extremely precious essential oils and spices, burns slowly, and can indeed burn for thousands of years if well ventilated. Many Buddhist monarchs preferred to have such lamps in their mausoleums. "Journey to the West" once said that a place called Jinping Mansion would raise funds to buy expensive sesame oil every year, light lamps and offer them to the Buddha, which is probably also this kind of sacrificial lamp oil. ”
"Third uncle, I didn't know that there was such a thing in the story of Journey to the West." Bai Xiaofei smiled, stretched out his head and interjected.
Bai Zhanji grabbed his ears and scolded in a low voice: "You kid, you don't learn and don't know how to learn, you don't listen to the more books you read, now you're an idiot, right?" If you are not proficient in archaeology, history and all kinds of allusions, how can you do a good job in tomb robbing? Learn a little, understand it or not! ”
"Oops, it hurts, it hurts! Uncle, I know it's wrong. Bai Xiaofei hurriedly begged for mercy.
Bai Xiaofei made such a fuss, and the gloomy aura surrounding Ye Feng and the others also dissipated most of them, but everyone's mood was no longer so depressed.
The stone gate that entered the mausoleum was still set up with a deadly mechanism, and for the sake of safety, Ye Feng had to go and unlock it himself.
It didn't take a few minutes for the stone door to click open. Seeing this, Bai Xiaofei gave him a heartfelt thumbs up: "Brother, you are so good!" It's a lock picker. In the future, if I lose my house key, I will definitely find you to unlock it. ”
Ye Feng chuckled lightly and didn't speak.
Before entering, Ye Feng first used his spiritual power to carefully probe the situation inside the funnel-shaped giant tower, and his face changed several times.
Bai Zhanji and the others had been following Ye Feng for a while. Every time you look at him standing still, you know that he is probing the situation in a unique way. For the four of them, this "Mr. Gu", who wore a wooden mask from beginning to end, was almost a god-like existence, which made them feel awe from the bottom of their hearts - they only slept four hours a day, they could control plants, they could predict dangers, they could also unlock locks, crack mechanisms, and subdue wild people with their bare hands! Nima, what else can't this masked brother do?
"Damn, I really doubt that the game 'Magic Tower' could be invented by the Burmese?" Ye Feng couldn't help but complain after learning about the structure of the giant tower.
Inside, it is comparable to a sheep's intestine-like twisting and complex passage, with layers of stairs and all kinds of traps, it is simply a real version of the magic tower. Ye Feng really had to doubt that even if he held the map, he might not be able to find the passage to King Jiang Xituo's coffin from such a complex multi-layered labyrinth.
Under such circumstances, Ye Feng felt more deeply how practical the ability of "mental power release", which has various effects such as radar, perspective eye, ideological communication, and spiritual remote control, is very practical.
In addition to the complex passages and traps in the maze, Ye Feng also found some interesting things.
Not only was it interesting, but it also made Ye Feng have some faint expectations.
With an inexplicable smile on his face, Ye Feng said lightly to Bai Zhanji and the others: "Follow closely, I was stepped on the trap." ”
Ye Feng's warning made Bai Zhanji and the others nervous, and their attention was concentrated at a high speed, carefully stepping on his footprints.
The base of the Funnel Tower is square, and the side length is about 800 meters. Combined with the roof of the cave, the height reaches more than 200 meters, and it is difficult to imagine how the ancient Burmese built such a huge structure. Even with today's construction capabilities, it is not easy to build a giant tower 200 meters high.
Ye Feng and the others walked in the long and narrow passage, except for Ye Feng, the rest of them were full of apprehension, and they had a claustrophobic sense of depression. The internal passage of the giant tower is very downloaded, it is a square corridor with a side length of two meters, and there is no end to the darkness, you have to turn a corner without taking a few steps, and you frequently go up and down the stairs, like an endless staircase to hell, which makes people have a sense of depression that will never end.
"Ouch!"
Bai Xiaofei suddenly slipped and fell.
"Senior brother, it doesn't matter, right?" Gao Luck behind him hurriedly helped him up and asked worriedly. Others also cast concerned glances.
"I'm fine. I wanted to step on something, slippery. Bai Xiaofei wondered, and everyone lowered the torches and looked at the ground.
I saw that the culprit was a gray-black lichen-like thing, slippery and sticking to the ground.
"What is this? Moss? Bai Xiaofei wondered.
"There's that too."
"I'm here too."
Bai Zhanji and the others exclaimed in a low voice, and suddenly found that the four walls of the passage were covered with this kind of black slippery thing.
"Let's go, just some lichens." Ye Feng said a word and moved on.
Although these things looked a little weird, they didn't feel any danger to Bai Zhanji and the others, and after wondering for a while, everyone didn't pay attention to them anymore, just pay attention to their feet and don't slip again.
It's been a few minutes since you entered the tower. There were more and more black lichens in the passages, and then gray-green moss, bewitching colored mushrooms, and cotton-like mold appeared on the walls.
A dark red vine began to appear on the walls, and the blood vessels generally attached to the walls made it even more unsettling.
The crowd felt like they had stepped into the belly of the devil.
"Hell ・・・・・・"
Bai Xiaofei looked at the things in front of him, his eyes widened and he was stunned.
A large dark red vine burst through the wall and lay in the middle of the passage, blocking the path of the group. The vines are rough and fleshy, shiny and creamy, and they are more like tentacles of some kind of animal than plants.
The dark red vines rustled back a little, and the part that lay in the middle of the passage was a little smaller, revealing a gap that could be climbed over.
"Mr. ・・・・・・・ Gu, did you control it just now?" Bai Zhanji was silent for a while, and suddenly asked Ye Feng.
How did he think that this dark red vine was a little weird, and its movements were nimble like the tentacles of an octopus.
"What do you say?" Ye Feng glanced at him and took the lead in turning over the vines through the gap.
Bai Zhanji and the others stubbornly turned over the slimy, fleshy vines.
On the road after that, Ye Feng and the others encountered more and more vines, destroying the interior of the mausoleum. It seems that a huge plant has taken root in the mausoleum, and with his huge root system, it has broken through the constraints of the walls and grows wildly.
The passage becomes wide, reaching a height of five meters. But Bai Zhanji and the others were still depressed, because the ceiling and the four walls were crawling with that dark red fleshy vine.
After turning around in the tortuous passage for nearly half an hour, Bai Zhanji and the others had completely lost their sense of direction, and could only rely on Ye Feng to lead the way, completely believing in him.
After a period of ascending disintegration, a shiny exit appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and they couldn't help but lift their spirits and speed up their pace.
"Is that sunshine?"
Bai Zhanji and others are looking forward to it.
Walking to the bright exit, everyone's eyes lit up, and they felt that the world suddenly opened up.
"Oh, [***]! Bai Xiaofei opened his mouth wide, his eyes full of shock.
"I haven't lived in vain for decades." Bai Zhanji was emotional, with tears in his eyes, took off his reading glasses and wiped the corners of his eyes.
"Grass. I really regret that I didn't bring my big three Malaysians, it's a pity. Gao Luck looked at the prospect in a daze, and couldn't help but scold in annoyance.
"It's lucky that you've got a fat man, and you're lucky to see this scene with your own eyes." Concubine Man Ren glanced at him and said with emotion.
Compared with the shock of Bai Zhanji and the others, Ye Feng seemed relatively calm. Brightly staring at the scene in front of him, he smiled and whispered to himself, "Actually, it's not bad to come out once in a while to explore the danger." ”
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