Chapter 405: The Curse of the Sundial 2 (Part II)
Wang Xingguo heard the rolling stone rolling overhead, and quickly lay down, and after a while, the sharp blade swept over his head, Wang Xingguo dodged the attack of the blade, and after everything was quiet, he slowly got up and continued to move forward, searching for the characters left by Xia Ruobing as he walked.
When the silence fell again, a pin could be heard on the ground, and it became a frightening silence.
"It's a hell of a place." The bearded man muttered, unbuckled the jug from his belt, and poured several sips into his mouth before his thumping heart returned to normal.
"Xia Ruobing, which way to go?" Chen Badai found another fork in the road, and he asked in front.
"Huh? It should be this side. This is a Y-shaped fork, but there is nothing next to it, Xia Ruobing thought for a while and pointed to the fork on the left.
"Are you sure?" Dick saw Xia Ruobing's hesitation.
"Dick, this is the royal tomb built by your ancestors, I'm not sure what I am." Xia Ruobing glanced at Dick: "Then do you go in or don't you go in?" β
βGODοΌ You're my chief advisor, and your life is in your hands! Dick thought of what had just happened and felt a little afraid.
"I'll take the lead." Chen Badai felt that instead of hesitating here, it was better to walk in and know everything.
"Hey, Min, you've got to say something?" Dick saw that Mr. Min also got in, and felt that something seemed wrong with being led by Xia Ruobing's nose all the time.
Mr. Min didn't answer him, Dick thought for a moment, pushed the beard forward, and reached out to touch the pistol hidden in his pocket.
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Chen Badai had already seen the end of the passage, he turned on the strong flashlight to shine through, the flashlight was swallowed up by the darkness, and it looked like a small stone room.
"The one behind catches." Chen Badai shouted, ready to step into this new stone room.
"Click!" Chen Badai walked into the stone room a few steps and felt something under his feet, the scene of being attacked by the blade just now made him learn to be obedient, and he quickly took a step back and shouted, "Get down!" β
But the front was empty, and Chen Badai felt that there seemed to be wind on the left, and as soon as he quickly lowered his head, he felt that something cold was passing by his head.
"Don't step on that place...... Chen Badai saw clearly a stone figure standing on the edge of the hall under the strong light, holding a long knife in his hand, after stepping on the mechanism, the long knife slashed horizontally, just where it hit his neck, Chen Badai felt that his neck was cold - if he hadn't reacted quickly just now, his head would have moved at this time.
After the stone statue was slashed, he put the knife back in place and continued to stand expressionlessly, Chen Badai saw that there was another stone figure by the door on the right, and he was holding a hammer high.
"Don't come here yet." Chen Badai felt that this stone statue was not so simple.
Chen Badai tried to step on the mechanism just now, and the standing stone statue was reactivated, Chen Badai dodged to the side and stepped on another mechanism, and the hammer held up by the second stone statue smashed directly towards the Tianling Gai, but fortunately, Chen Badai was prepared and avoided these two blows.
With Chen Badai's "test the law", everyone moved along the side of the passage without touching the mechanism.
"There's no treasure here." The bearded man was a little disappointed, the area of this stone chamber is not small, but it is not full of poplar wood boxes like the previous one, but there is a stone platform in the middle of the stone room, on which there are several boxes stacked in the shape of a zigzag......
Xia Ruobing approached the stone statue and found that there was a line of words engraved on the stone statue.
"The intruder will die before Betelgeuse rises...... Xia Ruobing said softly.
It's the curse of the sundial again, and this sentence seems to be written very clearly, but what is the meaning behind dying before Betelgeuse rises? Xia Ruobing felt that there should be some kind of connection between Loulan and Orion, in the heart of the red dragon, those Loulan immigrants used braziers to establish an underground starry sky underground, and in the stone chamber just now, the bronze mirror formed an Orion constellation, and the curse of the sundial was mentioned again.
There was no sunlight in this stone room, and the bearded man saw the brazier next to him, and there were some braziers hanging on the roof of the cave, and the bearded man felt that there should be a little light, and he looked at the fuel in the brazier, and it was very sufficient, and he lit one of the pots......
There was a circle of straw ropes around the brazier, and the bearded man did not pay attention at first, but when he lit the core, the rope also burned, and these straw ropes woven from poplar bark and camel thorn cores were extremely flammable, and the bearded man watched the straw rope burn and jump, and then the next brazier lit, and the next one.
"Xia Ruobing!" Mr. Min pulled Xia Ruobing, this way of continuously lighting the brazier, they had also seen it in the Red Dragon Heart.
Xia Ruobing raised his head, and the brazier hanging in the stone chamber was lit one after another, and there was another Orion hanging on the top of the cave!
"Ah, that's so much brighter!" The bearded man felt like a genius, and in the light of the brazier he could see what was piled up on the stone platform in the middle.
The chests looked like they were from the West, reinforced with heavy copper nails and copper sheets, which was a way to preserve valuables, and the bearded man finally opened one of the boxes and was overjoyed......
"Hey, hey......" the bearded man grabbed a handful of rubies. Dick ran up and picked one up, and put it under the headlamp, and the ruby was in good color.
"Rich...... Hey, hey......" The bearded man opened another box, and it was a whole box of opals......
"One stone chamber holds gold and silver, and another stone chamber contains precious stones...... "Did Mr. Min whisper "did they sort the treasures?" β
This is a relatively new way, in other royal tombs, the treasure is usually not so carefully divided, the tomb owner wants all the treasures around him, but this royal tomb has its own set of rules, they classify different kinds of treasures and store them in different stone chambers, but where should the tomb owner's tomb be? Mr. Min looked around and found no other passages.
After the brazier was lit, there was a sweet smell in the air, and Chen Badai was inspecting the murals on the cave wall, and the bearded man and Dick were of course more interested in the treasure.
Those murals are not finished, they seem to be the king of Loulan receiving foreign caravans, those with high noses and blue eyes, wearing Western-style clothes, leading camels and horses, camels and horses are piled up with goods, Loulan was precisely because of the development of commercial circulation, it was accumulated a lot of wealth.
However, the second half of the mural was painted in a hurry, and the lines were not as delicate as the previous ones, and in the end it was not completed at all.
Xia Ruobing was inspecting the mural on the other wall, which was a picture showing the heroic battle of the Loulan people, the yellow sand rolled up by the enemy's war horses was all over the sky, and the knights of Loulan bravely met the enemy, and in the distance were some infantry, armed with spears and halberds and other long-pole weapons, ready to support the cavalry at any time......
For Xia Ruobing, this is the treasure of Loulan, these murals show the life, production and combat of the Loulan people back then, and every detail is a priceless treasure.
After a while, Xia Ruobing felt a little dizzy, and Mr. Min also felt a little tightness in his chest.
"Wang Xingguo?!" Xia Ruobing saw that the man standing in front of her was Wang Xingguo, and she asked suspiciously.
"Bing'er, what's wrong?" Mr. Min replied, he was also very confused, it was obviously Shi Yingbing in front of him, but hadn't Shi Yingbing been dead for 20 years?
"No......" Xia Ruobing shook her head, she felt that something was wrong, but her brain seemed to be chaotic into a mess.
Chen Badai's murmur sounded in his head again, he saw that the people on the mural seemed to be moving, he couldn't help but stretch out his hand, he saw two people whispering: "Ouch...... Ma Ying actually entered the royal tomb......"
"He's going to die here...... Will definitely ......."
Chen Badai was very angry, he wanted to smash the two whisperers to death with one punch, but he felt that his body was soft......
Dick and Bearded were working together to remove the top chest of gems to see what else was down there, when Bearded looked up and stared at Dick with wide eyes.
βHATοΌοΌβ Dick looked at the bearded man's pupils dilated, and he looked terrified, very puzzled.
"Ghosts! Phantom! The bearded man screamed, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the box fell to the ground, and the gems were scattered all over the ground, and the bearded man sat down on the ground and stepped back, rolling down the stone platform.
"Ghosts?!" Dick looked back suspiciously, and a dark green shadow came to his face, and the long knife in his hand was raised high and slashed at his face.
"Huh?!" Dick also rolled and climbed and fell off the stone platform.
The screams of the bearded man and Dick woke up the others, and Xia Ruobing shouted, "Don't touch things!" β
As soon as Xia Ruobing's words fell, she felt the soles of her feet vibrate violently, and she saw Chen Badai's feet on the other wall slip and disappear from the ground.
"Chen ......" Mr. Min just opened his mouth to shout a word, and he didn't know when his feet cracked, he grabbed a few handfuls of sand in vain, and his body also fell......
The ground rumbled and cracked, everything on the ground was gone, and the two stone figures looked blankly at the treasure room they guarded, and after a while, the ground came back together as if nothing had happened......