Chapter 165: The Man in the Sarcophagus

On my own, even if I am not injured, it is not easy to lift the lid of the coffin, not to mention that I am almost at the limit now?

The seven gems arranged on the coffin are somewhat eye-catching, such a valuable thing is exposed to the outside, isn't it shouting that thieves are coming to steal? The role of gemstones is definitely not only for decoration, not to mention, it does not match this unsightly sarcophagus.

Now we can only hope to find the mechanism and open the sarcophagus.

Why do you suddenly want to do a good deed every day and save the people in the sarcophagus? It's all because of what Blue Eyes said before.

I asked him, what are you going to take me for?

His answer was: "Take you to the person you want to meet, of course."

The people I want to see are none other than those few, grandma, Bu Chou, and Wu Qianqian. If it was one of them in the sarcophagus and I couldn't save it, it would have become a pimple in my heart.

The seven gemstones are arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper, from top to bottom, they are Shaguang, Kaiyang, Yuheng, Tianquan, Tianji, Tianxuan, and Tianshu. The first three make up the bucket handle, which is called the dipper, and the last four make up the bucket body, which is called kui. If you look at it this way, the seven gems are divided into two parts.

But knowing all this doesn't work at all, and I don't know anything about astronomy without studying it, and there may be some mystery hidden in it.

The sound of the beating inside the coffin became weaker and weaker, and I knocked on the coffin a few times, trying to tell the person inside that if you hold on, I will definitely find a way to save him.

But the movement inside stopped abruptly, and I was stiff when I was lying on the coffin just now. A cold sweat broke out on his forehead, no, was it too late?

I couldn't care so much, so I directly took the dagger and chiseled it in a hurry, but it didn't seem to have much effect on this sarcophagus, and it didn't cause any damage to it.

I don't know what kind of mood it is, both afraid of what is inside and worried about what is inside. I was at a loss, relying on brute force to do useless work, and that huge helplessness and sorrow involved every nerve in me. What else can I do?

Just when I was feeling discouraged. Voices came from inside again. Unlike the previous beating, it was a different rhythm, and I jumped up and pulled a stick that resembled firewood from the campfire. Extinguished the fire above. Record the sound of the bang on the ground.

I've always believed in it. The people inside were sending me some kind of message, maybe it was the way to open the sarcophagus.

Well, the sound is strange this time. It is also mixed with the sound of long scraping, which is recorded as follows: three, two, one plus one scrape, one scrape, one scrape, one scrape plus two.

At this pace, I repeated it many times, and I couldn't memorize it in a hurry, but what does this mean? Morse code? No, no, no...... It's impossible, this is not a spy war movie, how can I always use Morse code to transmit messages, even if it is, I can't crack it.

Thinking about it from another angle, there must be other ways to interpret it, but the main question is still in those scratches, what does the sound of the scratches mean?

Focusing on those seven gems, could it have something to do with the order of these gems?

One voice represents one, except for the three scraping sounds, the other three sound represent 3, 2, and 1 respectively. This is not right, if you calculate it this way, there are only six numbers in total, which only represent six gems, but there are obviously seven on the coffin.

Sitting on the floor, leaning against the sarcophagus, biting his fingernails, staring at the marks on the ground, the sound of the scratches can be either independent or combined with the sound of beating, and these sounds must be able to match the gemstones.

A thought flashed through my mind - Roman numerals!

If the scratch represents the Roman numeral 5, which is V., then a blow followed by a scratch is IV., which represents 4, and the last one is VII., which represents 7.

Then the order of the connection is 324517, and there is less than 6.

The sixth gem represents the Star of Celestial Xuan, but it does not appear, so does it mean that it is the mechanism that opens the sarcophagus, or is it the one that must not be touched?

The answer is still a trap, and if there is a slight mistake, it may be a catastrophe.

In the end, the idea that the sixth gem could activate the mechanism was ruled out, and if that were the case, there would be no need for the person in the coffin to sort the other six gems. No matter what the mechanism is, there needs to be a punishment, either guess it right or die.

I don't know when the coffin will be quiet again, and the people inside are almost to the limit, I am about to do it when I lie on the coffin, in fact, I don't have any bottom in my heart, everything is just my guess, right or wrong, life or death, it all depends on God's will.

324517……

I thought silently in my heart, and moved all six gems in order, but after waiting for about a minute, nothing happened, because of nervousness, my back was covered with cold sweat, and my eyes were sour. Does it have anything to do with these gems at all?

Just as I tried to fight and touch the sixth jewel, my feet trembled, and the sarcophagus trembled, so startled that I took a step back, and the pores of my whole body were on alert, and the dagger in my hand tightened again, staring intently at the sarcophagus.

The sarcophagus shook violently, and even my feet were a little numb from the shock, and suddenly stopped again, and after about half a minute, the lid of the coffin was suddenly flipped up, and a black shadow quickly jumped out and rushed straight at me.

Subconsciously raised his arm to block it, and shook it off, realizing that it was a creature similar to a small man. At the same time, five or six meters above the ground, the coffin lid turned around and fell again, making a loud noise.

Could it be this kind of that is sending me a message inside?!

After such a thought flashed through his mind like lightning, he saw the black shadow pounce again.

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang in my ears, my eardrums ached, and I even had a tendency to tinnitus, half of my face was splashed with fishy and sticky blood at that moment, and in the blink of an eye, the black shadow had fallen at my feet, convulsing, and in the gap exposed by the sarcophagus, there was a person lying on his stomach, still holding a gun in his hand.

Wu ...... Wu Qianqian......? ”

It's actually Wu Qianqian?! But it is indeed unexpected and reasonable.

She lay on the edge of the sarcophagus, visibly weak, her face pale, her breathing weak, covered in cold sweat, her hair messy against her face. If it weren't for those pair of heroic eyes, I would never believe that the embarrassed person in front of me would be Wu Qianqian.

When I approached with a limp, she was obviously startled by the way I looked, and then she had the strength to let me drag her out of the coffin, and I realized that her legs were tied, and her wrists were full of bruises.

"Why are you here?" I asked her when she had recovered a little.

Why was she locked up in a sarcophagus? What the hell do they want to play, the first thing I found was Wu Qianqian, looking at his previous performance, he should be eager for me to meet Bu Chip, right?

"That's the question I want to ask you, too." She leaned against the sarcophagus, tilted her head, her brow furrowed, and said this to me. (To be continued......)