Chapter 91: Running away in vain
In this imperial mausoleum, except for two huge stone carvings of strange sword-wielding warriors on both sides of the tomb gate, there is nothing related to the town tomb.
"Maybe there was no tomb beast in this tomb in the first place." A scholar-like man laughed dryly twice and said, "Mr. Richard's too worried. ”
"No, Mr. Chamberlain. It turned out that there were tomb beasts here. The scholar named Richard pointed to the four corners of the high platform under the sarcophagus, "The tomb beast should have been placed here, but now only the pedestal is still here." ”
Everyone gathered around and stepped forward to take a look, and sure enough, as Boss Lu said, there were four square white stone seats at the four corners of the high platform.
"Mr. Yevgeny, has this place already been stolen?" The SS colonel named Waddell, who was at the head, frowned slightly, and asked the Russian scholar named Yevgeny.
What he wanted to excavate was an intact mausoleum, and if the mausoleum had been excavated, the original information would have been destroyed, and its research and academic value would undoubtedly be greatly reduced.
"No way! You've just seen it, Mr. Waddell, we came in through the main entrance of the tomb, and the sealed earth and stone gate are all good, how could it have been dug up? Yevgeny secretly gritted his teeth and scolded that Richard in his heart for being troublesome.
"Don't come in with another hole." An SS officer pointed to the far corner, where there was indeed a hole.
At the sight of the hole, Waddell's brow furrowed even tighter.
"Colonel Waddell, you don't want to transport everything here to Berlin, do you?" Another SS officer, seeing Waddell's disgruntled look, said with some amusement.
"My original plan was to transport everything in this underground palace to Berlin." Waddell looked at the incomparably huge hall and sighed, "Now it seems that this is impossible, I can only take the main thing here." ”
"Something you want to take with you should include this sarcophagus, right?" The officer asked, pointing to the large sarcophagus.
"Of course." Waddell nodded.
"If this Mr. Richard is right, there are four great grave beasts here, and you can see how big they will be by looking at the base, and they must be huge stone carvings. You must know that this sarcophagus is not solid, and it will take a lot of effort for us to transport it, and if you add these four huge stone beasts, this task is simply impossible. The officer looked at Waddell and said, "So I don't think you need to think about the existence of these four stone beasts, don't forget that your purpose is to unlock the secret of that magical legend for the leader." ”
"You're right, Captain Redman." Waddell snapped to his senses and nodded, "We have more important things to do, and we need to hurry." He waved his hand and motioned for his men to move.
A few locals were about to insert the crowbar in their hands under the lid of the sarcophagus, when Richard glanced at a thick candle placed in the corner, and found that the flame of the candle suddenly turned from red to blue, shook a few times and then extinguished, and his face could not help but change greatly.
"Stop!" He yelled, "Don't move anything here!" Hurry out, everyone! ”
"What happened?" Startled by his roar, Waddell turned his head and asked.
Just as he finished speaking, a cold wind blew, and the torches in the hands of several Russians were extinguished.
"Watch the top of your head!" Someone shouted, and Waddell saw what appeared to be a large watery mass falling from above his head in the darkness, falling into the crowd, followed by the sound of bones shattering and heart-rending screams.
Waddell's heart sank suddenly.
Another thing leapt from the dome and landed just in front of an SS officer, and it was only then that Waddell saw that it took on an exaggerated human-like image, and with a roar, it bit off the SS officer's head with one mouth.
Waddell was frightened for a moment, and he wanted to run to the tomb, but many people were crowded there in a hurry, unable to move, and when he turned his head, he suddenly saw the hole in the corner of the wall, and began to move there quietly.
At this moment, the hall was in chaos, and the SS opened fire one after another, but they could not hit the thing, and suddenly screams came one after another, and the chaos of Russian slave labor intensified the confusion. Waddell swayed through the crowd with agility, and soon came to the mouth of the cave and plunged headlong into it.
The cave was much wider than he had imagined, and allowed him to bend forward, and he hunched over and ran forward, and soon came to the end of the cave, where a wall of earth blocked his way.
He stretched out his hand and touched the earthen wall, and then buckled a piece of mud from the earthen wall with his hand, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, and found that the soil of the earthen wall was not hard, and his heart relaxed slightly.
Waddell took off the small military shovel from his waist and began to dig on the earthen wall, he moved skillfully, and the shovel flew like a fly, and the dirt around him accumulated, and the hole became larger and larger, but the earthen wall seemed to be very thick, and he dug with all his might, but he never saw the end.
I don't know how long it took, when he felt weak and his back was cold, he stopped shoveling and wiped his face, his face was covered with sweat, only to know that his whole body was already soaked with sweat.
There was a roar like a beast behind him, and sporadic screams, and he knew that if he quickly dug through this wall, he would be as unlucky as those in the main hall, so he gritted his teeth and stood up, and picked up the shovel again.
There was a rush of footsteps behind him, and he was startled, stopped his movements, and leaned against the edge of the cave, and in a short time, with a flash of fire, the face of a panicked young soldier appeared.
Seeing this face, he breathed a sigh of relief.
This was one of his subordinates, an excellent engineer whom he had specially transferred from the Wehrmacht.
"Colonel?" When the young man saw him, he couldn't help but salute him with great surprise.
He stretched out his finger to his mouth, motioned for the young man to silence, and then shook the shovel in his hand, and the young man understood, and without asking much, he also untied the shovel from his waist and dug it up desperately with him.
Finally, the earthen wall was dug through for the two of them, and it was late at night, when a ray of moonlight shone through the mouth of the cave, accompanied by gusts of icy cold wind, he gasped heavily, and felt like he had been reborn.
He crawled out of the cave first, and then stretched out his hand and pulled the young man out.
The young man was also too tired, and just wanted to sit down and rest, he pulled him up again.