Chapter 81: The Witch King's Revelation (I)

Chen Badai didn't care much about which remnant of Loulan was built here, he didn't have any other gains after finding a few Loulan crystals, and when he heard the argument between Xia Ruobing and Mr. Min, he felt that they had overlooked the most important point.

Even if what Xia Ruobing said was right, the north was the entrance of the living, and the south was the entrance of death, but how did those dead people come all the way from the Ghost Gate Pass to the death cemetery? There is also the beetle mentioned by Wang Xingguo, Xia Ruobing said that it was a ghost eye, what is a ghost eye? What does it have to do with those "walking dead people"?

Chen Badai thought about a very practical problem, this underground tomb group has been almost destroyed in the earthquake, those theoretically passable passages basically do not exist, and listening to their stories, these passages cleverly avoid the death cemetery, those seemingly regular thin routes, either unfinished dead ends, or the road to the dead graveyards.

"What do you have a good suggestion?!" Mr. Min was a little annoyed.

"Mr. Min, didn't you say that you should follow the path with cinnabar? Are those rough-lined passages the roads with cinnabar? Chen Badai remembered this question.

"Huh?" Mr. Min thoughtfully took the route map in Wang Xingguo's hand, and sure enough, the passages sprinkled with cinnabar matched the rough lines on the stone carvings.

"Chen Badai, what do you want to say?" Xia Ruobing was confused by Chen Badai.

"Well, with my clever head and strict logic, those bones have bite marks, and I don't know what they bite for the time being, so it won't be a good thing! But why weren't the bones of the wizard gnawed? Chen Badai asked, "Those cinnabar are not only for guidance, it is also guarding against something." ”

Wang Xingguo remembered that in the tomb of Yuzhi, the cinnabar paved on the ground and the stone platform where the sarcophagus was held, and the bones of Yuzhi did not have any traces of being bitten.

"Hell knows what ate the corpses like that, but they're sure they're afraid of cinnabar!" Chen Badai added another sentence.

In ancient times, cinnabar also had the effect of driving away ghosts and sending gods, but Chen Badai went around in a big circle, and Xia Ruobing and Mr. Min didn't know what he wanted to express.

"So I'm afraid that the night will be long and dreamy, let's go west, pick up the line protected by cinnabar, and since it's the exit, if the mechanism you said can also come in handy, we can go out!" Chen Badai said, shaking the passage to the west with the flashlight in his hand, "The stone gate is open, why do you want to risk going north?" ”

"There's the tomb of the Great Wizard to the north!" Xia Ruobing shouted, "We're one step away from it!" ”

"We've been trapped underground for two days...... Maybe three days! Chen Badai was a little annoyed, and shouted at Xia Ruobing, "I have no obligation to work for you for nothing!" You didn't pay me a dime! ”

"But I paid for you!" Mr. Min said, "More than a dime! ”

"Well, don't you want to go out early?" When Chen Badai heard Mr. Min say this, his attitude softened a little, after all, Mr. Min is the uncle who paid the money!

The dispute was over, so he had to vote to settle it, Chen Badai raised his hand: "The minority obeys the majority, I suggest going west, where the line is the closest." ”

"To the north!" Xia Ruobing raised her hand.

"To the north!" Mr. Min said.

"Uh...... To the west. Sherpa hesitated for a moment, then spoke.

Everyone looked at Wang Xingguo in unison, and he held a crucial vote in his hand.

"Why don't we flip a coin, heads to the north, tails to the west?" Chen Badai felt that something was wrong and tried to change the voting rules before Wang Xingguo spoke.

"I ...... I think it's still ...... North. Wang Xingguo looked at Chen Badai and then at Xia Ruobing, I don't know why, the words became "north" when they came to their mouths.

"That'...... Let's go north. Sherpa saw that Wang Xingguo was on Xia Ruobing's side, and also changed his words.

"Ha, Mr. Xia, you wall grass!" Chen Badai had no choice but to accept the voting rules he had set.

“SO?! Friends to the north, do you want us to chisel this stone gate open? Chen Badai was a little gloating, watching Xia Ruobing and Mr. Min pull the mechanism next to the door, but the door didn't move for a long time.

"Looks like we're missing something...... These organs are linked, open on one side and close on the other side......" Wang Xingguo recalled the distribution map of those organs.

"Or maybe these institutions have been destroyed...... Chen Badai said, "don't waste time, let's go west." ”

"Hey! Here's another one. Sherpa shouted from outside the passage, where there was a stone handle with marks of someone having pulled it.

"I just tried, and it didn't work...... Mr. Min explained.

When Mr. Min ran here alone just now, he knew when he saw the Sun Temple that it was impossible for him to leave alone, so he wanted to go back to find Chen Badai and Sherpa, but he didn't expect to run into Wang Xingguo and Xia Ruobing.

Mr. Min's explanation did not arouse everyone's suspicions, Chen Badai just wanted to leave this ghost place quickly, and urged: "It's useless, let's go quickly." ”

Sherpa tentatively flipped the handle, and Xia Ruobing, who was working hard in the passage, heard the sound of water flowing overhead, which seemed to work.

This stone door needs both handles to be pulled into the correct position, deflecting the water flow, flowing into the stone trough to take effect, after a while, the stone door "rattling" sounded, the stone door that had not been opened for a thousand years vibrated and slowly rose......

A long corridor appeared in front of him, this is a long corridor, there are a few centimeters of water accumulated in the corridor, Wang Xingguo shined a flashlight inside, and there was a stone gate not far away.

"Or two switch controls?" Xia Ruobing looked at the handle in front of the stone gate, it was the same here as there just now.

"Give it a try!" Wang Xingguo pulled the handle at the far end hard, and the handle carved from the stone did not move at all, and it seemed that it had been stuck in a certain part for too long.

Sherpa came up to help, the two of them used up their strength to feed, and finally the handle showed signs of loosening, Chen Badai, Mr. Min and Xia Ruobing worked together, and finally pulled the handle next to the door.

Xia Ruobing heard the clear sound of the water, the sound of the water was loud, just behind the stone gate, and after a long time, the stone gate was slowly lifted, but it was only half the height and did not move.

"I'll go take a look first......" Mr. Min didn't wait for Xia Ruobing to answer, leaned down and got behind the stone door on his stomach.

"Hey......" Chen Badai and Xia Ruobing pressed hard against the handle, and he found that as soon as he relaxed the handle, he would move back, and the stone gate would also fall back.

"Mr. Min, what do you see?" Xia Ruobing asked, she had to help Chen Badai resist the handle.

"Oh my God...... This is it! Mr. Min exclaimed in his heart! This is the tomb of the great wizard that I have always dreamed of finding!

Hearing Xia Ruobing ask him, he replied: "There is some stagnant water, it's quite dark, I'll take a look at ......"

"Mr. Min, don't act alone!" Wang Xingguo ran over to help and shouted inside.

"I'll come in and take a look, Mr. Min, don't worry." With Wang Xingguo's help, the handle was slowly pushed up, and the stone gate was slowly raised.

"No need to ......" Mr. Min glanced at the sarcophagus in the middle, and saw the stone door slowly lifted, a little flustered, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a handle next to the stone door.

The wall on the side of the stone chamber was cracked in the earthquake, and the lever and the canal used to control the mechanism were partially exposed, and the water leaked out of the crack in the canal, and Mr. Min saw that the mechanism was holding the stone trough for diversion, and diverted water to the stone trough responsible for pressing the lever, which was an ingenious mechanism, when the stone trough was filled with enough water, he would fall down and open the stone door, and this handle could just connect the other diversion trough to the past, drain the water in the stone trough, and the stone gate would close again under the effect of gravity.

Mr. Min didn't want to share it with others, but he knew the principle of the mechanism, so he quickly stepped forward and pulled off the handle suddenly.

The stone door had been opened for the most part, Xia Ruobing bent down and was about to drill in, and the moment he bent over, he vaguely saw that there was a high platform in the middle of the stone room, and on the high platform was a sarcophagus!

When Xia Ruobing was about to get in, he suddenly felt a chill in the back of his head, and the stone gate, which was still slowly rising just now, seemed to have unloaded its strength and slammed it down.

"Be careful!" Wang Xingguo's eyes were quick, he let go of the handle, and pulled Xia Ruobing back suddenly, and the stone gate slammed back to the ground with a bang, almost hitting Xia Ruobing's feet.

"Mr. Min! Mr. Min! Wang Xingguo pulled the handle again, but there was no reaction at all.

"I'm fine...... I looked for the mechanism again, and it seemed to be a little out of order. Mr. Min replied in the stone room, but he hung his backpack on the handle, and the handle could not be brought back into place, and no matter how much he pulled the handle outside, he could not move the water guide to the correct position.