Chapter 53: Nine Stone Gates
Ning Xi sneered, "If you say it well, it's a gang, and if you don't say it well, it's a group of notorious and mercenary tomb robbers." ”
"The crown prince actually cooperated with these people!" Uncle Ning was also very indignant when he heard it, "Did he want to destroy the emperor's tomb?"
There are countless treasures in the imperial tomb, and it is not difficult to imagine what this group of tomb robbers will do once they enter the tomb.
In order to keep his position, the prince is too unscrupulous.
Ning Xi rubbed his face, what kind of person his brother is, didn't he already know very well, he could kill himself before, let alone treat an elder who is no longer alive?
"Now that it's dark, my suggestion is to go up the mountain early tomorrow morning, and try to find the entrance to the underground palace before the prince. The skinny monkey fiddled with the rope in his hand.
Everyone had no objections, and it just dispersed.
After Ning Xi returned to the room, Uncle Ning came in after him and poured him a cup of tea.
"Master, do you really want to go down to the underground palace in person?" Uncle Ning handed him the teacup, his voice full of deep sorrow.
Ning Xi took the teacup and drank it all.
"It's really too dangerous there, our lives are small, in case you have anything to ......"
"Uncle Ning, this matter is too important, I don't feel at ease if I don't watch it in person. Ning Xi stopped Uncle Ning's dissuasion, "And I have a wide range of knowledge, I have read through the deeds of the previous dynasty, and I still know a little about the imperial grandfather, I may be able to help everyone." ”
"Then I'll follow you into the underground palace too!" Uncle Ning said, his expression resolute.
Knowing that if he didn't nod, Uncle Ning would never give up, taking into account the mood of this old loyal servant, Ning Xi had no choice but to accept it.
Thinking that the prince's minions had arrived at the imperial tomb, Ning Xi was in a anxious mood, and it was difficult to sleep until the middle of the night.
When everything was quiet, he turned over, and just as he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly caught a muffled sound in his ears.
The muffled sound seemed to come from a long distance, and it was not loud here, but it was still very prominent in the open mountains.
The voice...... It's like something blew up.
Because of the prince, Ning Xi was extremely sensitive now, and when he heard this voice, he was shocked, and he rolled up directly from the bed and ran outside the house.
It was pitch black all around, the forest was lush, and he saw nothing.
"It's explosives, in the direction of the Imperial Tomb. ”
The familiar sweet female voice sounded behind him, and he turned back suddenly, only to see Bang Xi standing by the door behind him.
With one hand behind his back, there was a faint green glow between his fingers that had not had time to completely disappear.
Ning Xi believed her without hesitation, and immediately called everyone.
When they rushed to the emperor's tomb in a hurry, they found that all the people guarding the tomb on the ground were gone.
"It must be the crown prince!" Uncle Ning asserted.
"Over there. Bang Xi pointed to the southeast, and the strong smell of gunpowder in the air came from there.
The direction she gave was correct, to the southeast was a relatively gentle hillside, where there was now a large crater, and there were countless debris scattered around it.
"I didn't expect Miss Feng to be a cultivator. In the interval, Ma Laosan praised it.
Bang Xi only smiled and didn't say much.
Ning Xi couldn't wait to jump into the pit, but was pulled by Uncle Ning, and in the process, the thin monkey had already jumped first.
"No one, you can come down!"
It wasn't until the sound of the thin monkey came up from below that Uncle Ning let go of the hand that was holding Ning Xi.
"Uncle Ning, it's dangerous down there, and you're a little old, so don't go down with us. Ning Xi was bitter.
Uncle Ning naturally refused.
couldn't help it, Ning Xi had no choice, so he had to order a few clever guards to guard it.
"You just stay here, don't step into the emperor's mausoleum, if you don't see me come out, you ......" He thought about it, he didn't seem to have any rescuers, even if he could invite them, he was afraid that it would be too late by then.
He smiled bitterly and waved his hand, "You can go back and tell your father the truth." ”
Several of the guards looked at each other a few times, their faces were in love.
Ning Xi walked towards the cave, but only took two steps, and thought of another question.
"My brother the crown prince, didn't you leave someone here to guard it?"
The prince was anxious for quick success, and he found the entrance to the imperial tomb, and he definitely didn't want to attract other brothers to get a piece of the pie.
"Yes. He tilted his head forward, "But it's already a corpse." ”
"Be careful!" the thin monkey warned at the same time.
Everyone paused.
The sealed thick door of the dungeon had been opened, revealing a wide hall behind it.
In the hall, the ever-bright lanterns made of shark oil are brightly lit, the murals are exquisite, and the twelve gold-inlaid jade pillars in the center are lifelike to carve twelve gods.
The men and horses left by the prince lay quietly under the jade pillar, and some of them still held a piece of gold in their hands.
"There's a mechanism here, so be careful. The thin monkey walked slowly into the hall, looking around warily.
Bang Xi silently observed the posture of those people who died, as if they had touched the mechanism because they wanted to take the gold from the pillar.
The thin monkey walked all the way to the end of the hall to make sure there was nothing out of the ordinary, so he also turned around and said, "Don't touch anything else here, it's okay to just walk around like this." ”
Because the prince opened the way in front of them, they quickly passed through this hall and went to the next stone room.
"Nine Gates?"
Ning Xi frowned, unlike the hall that had been cracked in front, these nine stone doors were all tightly closed, and it was completely impossible to see which way the prince and the centaurs in front had taken.
"Look, these nine gates are also painted with the totem of the dragon nine sons. "Sanshen Mountain also has a mural of Long Jiuzi, so Bang Xi recognized it at the first time.
"The Labyrinth of Nine Sons. Ma Laosan looked at it a few times, touched his beard and said.
"Have you seen it before?" Ning Xi's eyes lit up.
Bang Xi also pricked up his ears.
"I've seen similar ones before, but they're all three-gate or six-gate. Ma Laosan frowned, "Nine Daomen, this is the first time I've seen such a complicated one." ”
"How do you crack it?" asked Bang Xi.
"These nine doors need to be opened and entered at the same time to activate the final birth gate, but ......" Ma Laosan paused, his face hesitant.
"But what?" Uncle Ning couldn't wait and urged.
"But we have few people, so if something happens to one of us, there will be no rescue. Ma Laosan sighed.
Bang Xi counted, here Ning Xi, Uncle Ning, Thin Monkey, Ma Laosan, Ma Laosi, Ning Zhong, her, plus the ten guards brought down by Ning Xi, there are a total of seventeen people.
In this way, they can only be divided into groups of twos and twos, and one of them is destined to break into the door alone without teammates.
(Xiao Xia has something to say: Tomorrow on the shelves, the first order to rush the duck!)