Chapter 558: The Trap of the Underground Palace
Curiosity kills people, and there's nothing wrong with that, Mizter and Weeks are leading their advance team, those soul guardians, into danger step by step.
Mizter himself was not sure whether his judgment was correct, whether there was really some kind of force driving those skeleton corps, he had only learned the secrets of ancient legends from some ancient forbidden books, and the scholarly spirit naturally wanted to understand it thoroughly.
Unable to resist the repeated demands of Diego and others, Ross agreed to Mizter's statement and launched a survey of the mountain.
Since those skeletons like the night, are afraid of the day, and are afraid of the sun, then all the actions will be carried out during the day.
First of all, thousands of people were mobilized, and it took a few days to cut down all the trees, shrubs and vines around the hill, so that the entire area of two or three square kilometers became bare, so that this land, which was originally a miasma bed, was completely exposed to the sun.
They worked during the day, and at night they were guarded by the advance team, because they did not alarm the hill itself, and they did not find anything unusual.
Mittez personally surveyed the area around the hill to find possible entrances and exits to the mausoleum. A mausoleum of this size should have a very strong underground palace, and it is too difficult to enter the underground palace from somewhere else, and although the entrance of the underground palace is relatively weak, after the tomb owner is buried, it will also be sealed by the broken dragon stone, generally speaking, the method of sealing the gate of the underground palace of the broken dragon stone is irreversible, one is that the broken dragon stone is too large and too heavy, and the other is that the designer of the underground palace will also use mechanisms to make the broken dragon stone unable to be moved. But for the stonemason, this is not a matter, after all, there will be a gap between the broken dragon stone and the overall underground palace, and if there is a gap, the stonemason will have a way, or demolish and destroy the palace gate of the underground palace, or destroy the broken dragon stone directly. But there is one point, if the owner of the tomb is noble, he will definitely set traps at the entrance of the underground palace and inside the underground palace, so that the tomb robbers will be trapped or even killed, so that the tomb robbers will retreat!
However, the setting of traps has not scared tomb robbers since ancient times, but has made tomb robbers more interested in this underground palace, more yearning, the living challenge the dead, and the final victory must be the tomb robbers, such traps will only attract higher-level tomb robbers, until the national level!
It is not difficult to find the entrance and exit of the underground palace, according to the setting of the hill bag and the surrounding feng shui arrangement, Mizt quickly determined the location of this mausoleum, so as to get the location of the entrance and exit of the underground palace.
Mizter didn't want to be a tomb robber, he wanted to dig this mausoleum blatantly, instead of drilling a tomb robber hole into the underground palace like a tomb robber. He didn't dare to be careless, knowing that it was too dangerous to make a hole, and he had to expose the whole hill to the sun, not even a little shade.
Hundreds of people excavated and transported the soil layer of this small hill during the day, and camped on the hill to the north at night, and the advance team was on duty to keep a close eye on the situation of this small hill.
It is true that the surface of these hills is made of filled earth, and there are no large rocks, and it is clear that the soil is mixed with lime and other things, and then compacted, so that the whole mountain is not suitable for large trees, and there are only grass and low bushes on the top soil. These lime-mixed soils are extremely dense and hard, making excavation difficult. This was difficult for these natives, dozens of ploughing oxen, ploughing the land in turns, after ten days of excavation and transportation little by little, finally dug up the rocks, and the whole hill was dug out by a third.
After three more days of tidying up along the rock wall, a huge stone chamber wall was exposed to everyone, everything was similar to Mizt's conjecture, and the Broken Dragon Stone almost merged with the rock wall. It is conceivable that the identity of the owner of this tomb is by no means ordinary, and if you don't look at the fact that you have a mausoleum keeper, just looking at the scale of this underground palace is already amazing.
It took two days for Wicks and a few advance team members and indigenous stonemasons to finally chisel through the Broken Dragon Stone, and a huge entrance to the underground palace was revealed to the people, even if it was noon, the sun was strong, but everyone still felt that there was a dirty and eerie atmosphere from the entrance, which made people shudder.
Some people go in, some people go outside, that's the rule. Tomb robbers who go in, who is outside, this is a rule, many tomb robbers have always been close to the two of them cooperate, such as father and son cooperate with tomb robbing, son to the tomb, father on top, don't ask why, father will never harm his son! If the father goes down and the son is outside, the father ties the treasure to the rope and lets the son pull it up, and after the son gets the treasure, he will often swallow it alone, leaving the father inside and unable to get out, therefore, the father and son rob the tomb, it has formed an unwritten rule, the son goes down, and the father is on it! But the actual collaborators of tomb robbers are generally not fathers and sons, brothers, but nephews, uncles and nephews! One theory is that because the nephews, uncles and nephews are related but not so close, they will calmly analyze the situation when they encounter danger, while their fathers and sons and brothers will be hot-headed, and they will be confused when they encounter the situation, resulting in one party being in distress, and the other party is in danger because of blind rescue; Another theory is that because tomb robbery is a felony, and the tomb robber will be beheaded if he is caught, even if the combination of nephews and uncles and nephews is caught and beheaded, no matter which family they are, they will not be wiped out, that is, everyone still has a man in the family, so as not to cut off the incense; Of course, there are other sayings, such as nephews and uncles (life and salvation) and so on...... (Say something off-topic, verbose)
Mizter verbally refused Wicks' request to bring twenty advance team members into the dungeon, for Wicks, he still had important things to do, and Mizt's own guide role no longer existed, so the leader became him, plus Diego led twenty natives, into the tomb together.
Of course, Mizt's purpose in entering the tomb was not really to rob the tomb, but to find out what caused the skeleton corps to move around the tomb, which was actually a very dangerous act.
Twenty advance team members lit fireballs and entered the gloomy dungeon. The foul air, I don't know if it has been sealed in dust for hundreds or thousands of years, is suffocating, everyone is careful, no one is in the mood to look at the exquisite mural reliefs in the passage, because everyone's heart is almost in the throat, and the most daring people can't help but shudder, many people who originally thought they were brave enough to swear to come in now want to turn around and go out.
Even the forty-two people, including Mizette and Diego, no one made any noise, everyone could hear the breathing of the people around them, and it seemed that as long as anyone shouted loudly, the whole team would collapse with fright. No one knows why there is such a terrifying atmosphere, the dead have seen a lot, and they have never been so timid as they are now, this is simply scaring themselves!
The passage is not long, more than twenty meters, and came to the real tomb underground palace, which is three or four thousand square meters, except for the huge pillars made of stone blocks, the entire underground palace is almost empty, and the light emitted by more than a dozen fireballs does not have any light in the tomb.
The advance team members increased the infusion of magic and burned the fireballs, illuminating the tomb as if it were daylight......
In the center of the underground palace, there is a coffin, around the coffin, neatly placed many gold and silver treasure chests, the box is open, but because of the long time without the light, these treasures also lose their luster. No one was interested in these treasures, not for the time being, they knew very well the purpose of the trip.
The goal of tomb robbery is treasure, and the body of the tomb owner will never be touched, which is taboo, but Mizter and others are just the opposite, they are not robbing the tomb, but checking the identity of the tomb owner.
"Click...... Click...... Click......" Almost someone almost screamed, just entered the main hall of the underground palace, there was a creepy sound under the feet, everyone looked at it, there were many white bones under their feet, because of the age, it almost turned into powder when touched, making a dull sound. The bones were apparently killed and buried in the burial chamber, and these people, usually from the side of the tomb owner, or the laborers and designers who built the tomb, tricked them into coming here to kill them all in order to avoid revealing the location of the tomb.
Miz took his heel, avoiding the bones beneath his feet, and headed for the stone coffin in the center of the main hall, followed by everyone......
"Boom-" There was a loud bang, and he was about to order someone to open the coffin, and Mizt, who had ended this not very pleasant journey early, was shocked!
This loud bang blocked the light coming from the doorway, and a huge broken dragon stone fell heavily!
All the people turned pale with fright, and the way back was completely sealed, and together with the faint sunlight shining from outside, they were also blocked out of the underground palace.
Mizter was originally curious, such a large tomb, did not encounter any mechanism, but unexpectedly, this mechanism turned out to be a broken dragon stone, completely blocking the door of the tomb, forty-two people, trapped in the underground palace. This broken dragon stone is in the middle of the underground palace passage, even if it can be cleaned up, it will take a few days, because there are not many working surfaces in the passage to accommodate the advance team members and stonemasons to operate, if the passage cannot be opened in time, the air here is already dirty, thousands of square meters of hall, dozens of people, at most half a day, will be suffocated by lack of oxygen.
After the surprise and despair, all the people calmed down, and now the Broken Dragon Stone has fallen, and the situation is critical, but compared to the unknown danger before, now that they know the existence of the danger, they are not so nervous, because the tension is useless, the rescue depends on the people outside, and they have no tools in the tomb, and they can't do anything.
"Not good!" The people in the dungeon were calm, but Wicks outside the dungeon was shocked, the fall of the broken dragon stone, and the mausoleum was resealed, and he began to secretly regret not digging a life-saving emergency channel in advance, always thinking that there was any danger, and the people of his hero magician group were enough to deal with it.
"Commander, what should I do?" The rest of the team panicked.
"What else can I do, organize rescue immediately!" Wicks shouted, then turned to Rose and said, "Patriarch, please cooperate with your people, the passage must be reopened outside before dark!" ”
"Before dark, this can't be!" Rose shook his head and said, "It took two days for the first broken dragon stone before, and now the stone is in the middle of the passage, and it can't accommodate a few people to work at all, how can it be opened?" Diego and my people are also inside, and it's useless for us to be in a hurry! ”
Wicks hurriedly said: "If you can't open it for half a day, it's dark, who knows what will happen inside, and what will happen here after dark?" ”
"Aren't you guys doing this professionally?" Rose was surprised, "Why are you helpless now?" ”
"You guys, immediately look for the giant tree, and within three hours, build the first siege vehicle here!" Wicks thought for a while, gave an order to the advance team members beside him, and then said to Rose: "Patriarch, please your people, immediately build a road in the direction of the doorway, I will only give you three times to disappear!" ”
"Good!" Ross didn't understand what Wicks was going to do, but he had no idea what he was going to do!
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