Chapter 16 The Tomb of the King of Shanyang The Ancestral Tomb is empty
When night fell, everyone came to Wugong Temple, which is an abandoned and dilapidated ancient temple, which is said to have been built to commemorate Wu Zixu's construction of the ditch.
There used to be incense for hundreds of years, but after the war, it has long been deserted, and there is no fireworks in this world.
Although the temple is not large, everyone looks at it very carefully.
Yi Xue, Zhou Rong and Murong Jia all learned the art of mechanism from the real person in Yushan, and they carefully explored and inspected the places where the mechanism could be designed, such as the base of the statue, the candlestick, and the incense case, and knocked on the walls and floor tiles to make sure that there were no mechanisms and dark rooms in the temple before leaving.
Everyone took advantage of the night to come to the tomb of King Shanyang again.
I saw that this cemetery was repaired on the high-pitched slope, and the door, Shinto, stone elephant, and Shinto pillars that had been built on the periphery of the cemetery were all broken with the years and war, and a large monument was erected in front of the tomb, and the tombstone was composed of the stele base, the stele body, and the stele head, the stele head was wavy, and the stele body was engraved with the inscription, which was about the life of the owner of the tomb, Mu Yixue roughly took a look.
At this time, two plain-clothed envoys flashed out from the stone elephant and walked in front of Gu Rong: "Subordinates, see the lord." ”
"Has anyone been here in the past two days?" Gu Rong asked.
"Back to the Lord, there has been no movement in the past two days."
"Have you ever gone in this tomb?"
"I have explored, and my subordinates have found that the underground palace is empty, I don't know if there is a dark room, and my subordinates are afraid of touching the organs in the tomb and startling the snakes, so they don't dare to move, and they have been waiting for the lord here." The plain-clothed messenger replied.
"Well, you're doing the right thing, it's been hard work for the past two days, go and open the tomb."
I saw the plain-clothed messenger walk behind the tombstone, twist a protrusion on the wave of the monument, and the door of the tomb opened.
Qinghu, Zhou Rong and two plain-clothed messengers stood outside, while Sima Jingwen and the others lit torches and entered the tomb.
The tomb of King Shanyang is a brick and stone multi-chamber tomb structure, everyone in the tomb along the corridor, check the Ming Hall, the back room, the toilet room, the Zi Palace, the whole tomb is finished, the inside is indeed empty.
"This tomb is really completely robbed, and there is not even a single burial item!" Murong Jia spoke first.
"This tomb is so empty, it is very strange, even the greedy tomb robbers will not even steal the terracotta figurines that accompany the burial, this Zigong has been opened, and even the corpse is missing, it is really strange." Sima Jingwen wondered.
"This huge tomb is indeed a good place to store grain, if the grain is really hidden here, this empty room outside, I'm afraid it's just to confuse people!" Yi Xue opened her big beautiful eyes and looked around at the empty tomb and said.
"What does senior sister mean that this tomb is a suspicious tomb?"
"I see that this tomb has two floors, and what we see is a fake tomb on the upper floor, and there should be a floor of the underground palace below to be the real tomb."
"That's right, when Master taught us the art of the mechanism, he told us about this kind of tomb structure and tomb mechanism." Murong Jia agreed.
"Yes, the epitaph records that the owner of the tomb is the king of Shanyang who was sealed when Liu Heng of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the tomb system of the kings in the Eastern Han Dynasty can be mostly made up according to the emperor's yellow intestine inscription, but we did not find the main Tibetan and outer coffins composed of the yellow intestine inscription, and this underground palace is a brick room structure, indicating that there is still a layer in this underground palace." Yi Xue looked around the tomb and said confidently.
"What Yun'er said is good, although the regulations of the upper tomb can also be regarded as the regulations of the general king, but there is no main and outer coffins. Everyone carefully stepped under their feet and carefully tapped to see if there were any empty slates. Sima Jingwen reminded everyone after listening to it.
So the people went their separate ways and struck all the stone slabs in the entire burial chamber.
"Lord, listen!" Xiu Wuji knocked on a stone slab near the Azusa Palace, and found that the sound was empty.
Jingwen came over and knocked on it, turned the stone slab open, and a leopard head was revealed inside.
Jingwen twisted down, only to see that the coffin actually moved, and slowly turned sideways, revealing the steps of the lower floor of the underground palace.
Xiu Wuji and Sima Jingwen were just about to go in, only to hear Yi Xue shouting: "Wait!" ”
Yi Xue walked over and looked at the torch at the entrance of the dungeon steps, stepped on the first step with her feet, and then threw the torch down the stone steps, only to see that a lot of arrows flew out of the walls on both sides.
Sima Jingwen looked at Mu Yixue with appreciative eyes, and Murong Jia gave Mu Yixue a thumbs up and winked mischievously.
"That's it!" Seeing that the last arrow was sent out and there was no other mechanism, Yi Xue said that he was the first to walk down the stone steps.
The others walked down the dungeon with Yi Xue.
Everyone came to the bottom of the underground palace, and two large blue and black stone doors were firmly blocked in front of them.
Yi Xue, Jing Wen, and Murong Jia shone torches against the smooth walls, banging around trying to find the mechanism.
Gu Rong and Xiu Wuji also knocked on the ground and steps seriously, but the walls on both sides were very smooth, there was no sign of any mechanism, and there were no hollow stone slabs on the ground.
Just when everyone was worried, Murong Jia seemed to have discovered something, suddenly bent down to look, and then picked up an arrow on the ground and handed it to Yi Xue: "Senior sister, look! ”
Mu Yixue carefully looked at the arrows and arrow tails, and a smile appeared on her face: "These organs are newly established, this tomb is more than two hundred years old, and the arrows set up back then are still today, and the arrows have long been rusted and unusable, but this arrow is very sharp." ”
Jingwen and Gu Rong also picked up the arrows and looked at them carefully.
Gu Rong picked up a few arrows one after another, and asked Sima Jingwen carefully: "Lord Wang, do you recognize this mark?" ”
"I don't know the king."
Mu Yixue also noticed a phoenix mark at the arrow at this time, and she asked Gu Rong for confirmation: "Lord Gu, this mark is the symbol of Luofeng Villa?" ”
"That's right, this mark is the symbol of Luofeng Villa."
"Luofeng Villa?" Sima Jingwen looked dazed.
"This Luofeng Villa is known as the world's first Xuanji Villa, which was established by the descendants of Pang Shiyuan, who was known as the phoenix during the Three Kingdoms. Famous for its mystical techniques, the mechanism set up by Luofeng Villa will definitely leave this phoenix mark. Gu Rong said.
"I thought it was a stone carving decoration, but it turned out that this stone gate was also set up by Luofeng Villa." Mu Yixue re-observed the two stone gates in front of him, and found that the middle of the stone gate was also a phoenix pattern.
Murong Jia patted the stone gate: "It seems that behind this stone gate is the real hidden mystery."
"Maybe there is not only food behind this stone gate, but also a bigger world! Boundless, put these arrowheads back on top of the crossbow machine, and restore everything to its original state. ”
"No." Xiu Wuji handed the torch in his hand to Gu Rong, and then picked up the arrow on the ground and loaded it on the crossbow.
And Murong Jia also handed the torch to Yi Xue, and he was ready to help Xiu Wuji install the arrow arrowhead together.
Mu Yixue took the torch, her eyes were brighter, she re-observed the phoenix mark on the stone door, and found that the phoenix's eyes actually had a hole, she handed a torch to Sima Jingwen, touched the stone hole with her hand, frowned slightly: "This mechanism turned out to be a tap stone." ”
"What is a tap stone?"
"Tap stone, just dig a stone trough behind the stone gate of the underground palace........" Mu Yixue just said, when he heard the sound of "choking, banging" from outside.
Murong Jia and Xiu Wuji flew out of the dungeon directly following the sound of the fight and rushed out of the tomb......
Mu Yixue, Sima Jingwen, and Gu Rong withdrew from the underground palace, "Lord Gu be careful, just got on the arrowhead, don't step on the first stone steps." Yi Xue reminded, and after hearing this, Jingwen directly pulled Gu Rong and flew out of the underground palace.
Mu Yixue came to the leopard's head next to the Zi Palace, quickly restored the Zi Palace, and covered the stone slab.
At this time, two masked men had already broken into the tomb, Mu Yixue and Sima Jingwen stepped forward, killed the two masked men in a fight, and then withdrew from the tomb with Gu Rong.
Outside the tomb, I saw the bodies of several black-clothed masked people lying on the ground, and Murong Jia, Qinghu, Zhou Rong and others were fighting with the remaining masked people.
Mu Yixue was just about to step forward with her sword, but was stopped by Sima Jingwen: "Master Gu doesn't know martial arts, you take care of Lord Gu." After saying that, he rushed forward and fought with the masked.
Gu Rong hid at the entrance of the tomb, Yi Xue was on guard sideways with the Xiuyu sword, and suddenly saw a masked man pounce, and the blade poked directly at Yi Xue, while Yi Xue faced the sword horizontally, flicked the masked man's knife away, and then flew up and kicked the masked man with a kick, followed by a sword that picked the masked man's throat, and the masked man fell down with a muffled sound.
At this time, two more masked men attacked Yi Xue and Gu Rong, and Sima Jingwen saw that he stopped him with a horizontal sword, and together with Yi Xue, he took no less than dozens of rounds to solve the masked man.
After everyone's sword and sword shadows, more than a dozen masked people lay on the ground in all directions.
The two plain-clothed envoys looked at the corpses on the ground, and found a waist card on one of the corpses, and the plain-clothed messenger handed the waist card to Gu Rong: "Lord, this is the waist card of the twelve halls of Caoyun." ”
Gu Rong took the waist card and flipped it, Wang Yang was written on the front, and a line of small characters Huaishui Caoyun Twelve Halls was written on the back, and there were three big characters "Qing'en Hall".
Gu Rong looked at the waist card in his hand, and couldn't help frowning: "It seems that these masters of the rivers and lakes are people from Caoyun Wharf." ”
Then he raised his head and ordered the plain-clothed messenger, "You two have disposed of the corpses here. ”
"No."
"I don't have to deal with it." Sima Jingwen stopped.
"These people have not returned to their lives, their master will surely send someone, and they will know that we have come. It's just that they're not sure if we've found the underground palace of the cemetery, and if they dispose of the corpses, it makes them suspicious. ”
"The prince is right, don't close the tomb door, let them think that we only saw an empty tomb, and left in a hurry after being attacked, and didn't have time to clean up the scene." Yi Xue added.
"Just do as the prince said, and you go to rest first." Gu Rong said to the plain-clothed envoy, "You come back tomorrow, no matter what kind of people come to check, you only need to observe, and you must not show your whereabouts." ”
"Yes, my lord."
Murong Jia looked up at the night sky and said, "It's already past the third watch, and there are still two hours before the sky is bright, it seems that we can only go to Wugong Temple to make do with the night and wait for the dawn." ”
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