Chapter 52: The Tomb of King Yelang
"What a toss!" I sighed, "and look again, if I don't dig this hole again." ”
I didn't want to jump high and low, I was already exhausted all the way down, and I hung all in one breath. Besides, the earthen walls of this cave are not very soft to the touch, and even if this has already opened a mouth, if we want to expand it to the size that people can pass through with our hands, it will definitely take a lot of effort.
The two of them fumbled in the cave for a few more minutes, but unfortunately they did not find anything else.
"Come on, Brother Dao, otherwise it's too late. "I don't know which immortal left us with the dead grass that Zhang Lao blindly lit, but there are not many of them, and most of them have been burned at this time, and the light is starting to be insufficient, and the smoke has become more.
I nodded helplessly, Zhang Lao Blind leaned against the wall very tacitly, arched his back, I was unceremoniously, stepped on him against the wall and began to dig the soil. Fortunately, this hole is against the edge of the wall, and if it is in the middle, it will be troublesome.
The soil on the four walls of this cave is relatively compact, but I didn't expect that the top of the head is relatively soft, and probably due to dampness, it can be broken off piece by piece. I used both hands together and learned to be a groundhog, and in a few moments the hole was big enough for the same person.
I got off Zhang Lao's body, patted the soil on my body and said, "Okay." ”
Zhang Lao blindly straightened up and grinned and said, "Okay, Brother Dao, you are young and strong, send me up first, and then I will pull you up." ”
The two of them threw the rest of the dead grass into the hole above, and then gathered to light the fire.
Although Zhang Lao Blind said that he was empty, he was quite relaxed when he went up.
I shouted from below, "What's going on, what's going on up there?"
"It's the end of the calf. Zhang Lao blindly underestimated it.
I didn't understand, so I noisily asked him to pull me up.
When I entered the top, I realized what Zhang Lao was excited about.
The hole above the cave just now is connected to a thief cave that can only be crawled by one person. The cave appeared very abruptly, the back was blocked, and the entrance to the front of the cave was slightly downward, and after a small climb, you could enter a chamber of an ancient tomb.
Zhang Lao Blind and I were standing in this ancient tomb at this time, with a small thief hole behind us, breaking through the brick wall. In front of him is a stone gate. The room was empty, and there should have been murals on the walls, but at this moment it should have been oxidized, leaving only mottled traces. There is still a candlestick attached to the wall, which has been lit by Zhang Lao.
"Isn't it just a tomb, you didn't see the coffins in the dungeon just now. I said.
"Fart, this thing is going to eat guns. I don't think I've done anything illegal or undisciplined, at most I saved the business of two women who have lost their footing......"
I hurriedly stopped Zhang Lao's broken mouth: "Why is this place empty, it looks like it should be an interauricular room." Look at this brick, can you know what age and place it is, could it be that the underground palace just now is not the tomb of King Yelang, this is the place that the mandrill said? What's going on with the thief cave, why is it connected to that cave?"
Zhang Lao waved his hand blindly, touched his head around, and said, "It should be both places, but now we are in a more internal place." This Yelang Tomb may be the key to the formation, and the descendants of Yelang have no way to get close to the formation, so they may not know this place, so the age will definitely not be short, it should be the first generation of Yelang people to come here. As for stealing the cave, I'm not a Tufuzi, so it's useless for you to ask me, Brother Dao. ”
Zhang Lao's Taoist skills are good, but when facing this kind of thing, he is the same as me, he is purely blind walking at night, and his eyes are black.
"It seems that the whole tomb must have seen the light, the overall air circulation is smooth, and the murals on the walls have also been oxidized. Let's go, let's see what's going on. ”
Zhang Lao and I came to the front of the stone gate, if this place has been looted by Tufuzi, why is this stone gate closed again. Now the whole room is empty, and if there is a mechanism, it must be hidden in the wall.
The two of them looked separately, and I suddenly felt that something was not right, and said: "No, if this ancient tomb is the tomb of King Yelang, then ordinary people must have no way to get close, could it be that this Tufuzi is a fat man of King Hu Bayi, not only can he dig a pit, but he will also fail to use spells?"
Zhang Lao blindly groped for the wall and said: "It may not have been emptied, this hole may also be dug from the inside out, it is a back road left by the construction craftsman for himself, or it is not artificial at all, this place is so evil, anything is possible." And the reason for the air circulation, maybe it's because of the two of us, or simply because we have been keeping pores. ”
I understand the meaning of Zhang Lao's nonsense, but it's useless to think about it at this time, so it's better to find a way out with peace of mind.
"Bang", there was a sudden sound under my feet, and before I could react, I heard a clanging sound coming from the wall, and the stone door began to rise slowly.
This tomb is quite friendly and doesn't bother us much.
There should be a hall outside the stone gate, but due to the lack of light sources, only half of it can be seen vaguely at this time, and it is not real.
The candelabra in the transept where we were was was made of stone, connected to the wall, and there was only a small amount of lamp oil available, so there was no way to walk with the light source at this time, so we could only use the dead grass left over from before as a primer, and pour it back and forth to light the candlesticks in the hall one by one.
This hall is said to be a hall, but it is actually not a few circles larger than the previous ear room, and it is basically empty inside, except for a shadow wall standing in the middle. The three sides of the hall were connected to the other rooms, and the one directly opposite the ear room from which we came out was supposed to be also an ear room, and at this moment the door was opened, and it was pitch black inside. The door on the other side was closed, presumably leading to the depths of the tomb. And behind the shadow wall, on the side where the door is not open, the floor near the wall is not ordinary bricks and tiles, it is carved with patterns, surrounded by a circular pattern, just one glance, I can see that this pattern is a routine with the coffins of the stone house and the underground palace.
I pointed to the pattern on the ground and said, "Does this thing look familiar?"
Zhang Lao narrowed his eyes blindly: "Our club should be the outermost part of the entire ancient tomb, and this room should be the first burial chamber." The formation on the ground is the entrance, and if we didn't come over with the illusion we made ourselves, but came from one layer to another, we would definitely pass through this formation and go directly to this room. ”
At this moment, hope ignited in my heart, and how many times I twisted and turned, I finally took the right path.
"Let's go, look at the shadow wall. "I dragged Zhang Lao Blind to the shadow wall, trying to find some clues from above.
This shadow wall is made of several stone slabs, and the material is also very ordinary. Leaning on the side of the formation, there are some strange words carved on it, and we simply don't recognize it at all. Fortunately, on the other side, there were carved pictures, and the two of them tried to distinguish them, and they could see a rough idea.
The picture is made up of three parts. The scene painted in the first part is a sacrifice, this part is easier to identify, because the whole is very similar to the sacrifice of the Yelang people we saw before, there is a person who is self-harming, it seems that this method should have been passed down, this image is for the two of me to determine that this is the tomb of King Yelang.
The second part seems to describe some kind of catastrophe, the dead and the living are carved in a mess, although the carving is not very detailed, but the distorted fear on the faces of the living characters can be faintly discerned.
As for the pattern of this third part, it is more difficult to understand, the whole is composed of two almost identical pictures on the left and right, the characters inside, the position of the scene, and the overall structure are almost the same, but the left one is carved with solid lines, while the right one is carved more blurry, the lines are relatively light, and it is impossible to see what it is trying to express.
"Isn't this unfinished?" I said.
Zhang Lao Blind didn't reply, and shook his head in a deep way.
Suddenly, the sound of something falling to the ground came from the dark ear chamber, and there was a "plop".
Zhang Lao Blind and I are both agitated spirits, and the two of them looked at each other, ready to touch and take a look.