The Ruins of the Immortal Mountain Chapter 32 The Tomb Beast
The doorway was not very long, and although it was laborious to climb through, it was less than ten meters, and the three of us and Lao Bai quickly passed it. We stood up, and before we could see what we were seeing, we could feel that it was an extremely large space. Lao Bai looked very uneasy at our feet, and kept patrolling back and forth. It didn't scream, but it kept growling in its mouth, as if warning something, but the three of us were too busy checking our surroundings to notice it.
In front of our eyes is a huge cave, long and deep, with a visual width of more than ten meters, and a height of at least five meters, which is very open. The floor of the cave is very flat, but the walls are uneven and protruding.
"It seems that this cave must have been formed naturally, and it was later repaired by man to become what it is now." Glasses analysis.
Tanzi and I also nodded in agreement with the glasses, after all, people are professionals. But just as we were about to look further, there was a sudden muffled sound of "bang" in the doorway behind us. It sounded like the sound of something heavy being pushed to the ground.
Hearing that voice, I chuckled in my heart and screamed, "Not good! He hurriedly turned around and burrowed back to the doorway, and quickly crawled back to the thick iron door, but what he could see was that the door was shut. I desperately tried to push open the thick iron door, but even though I used the strength to feed, the door still didn't move. This passage is narrow and can only accommodate one person, so the jar can't help at the same time.
I hurriedly withdrew, let the jar go in and try it, but the same to no avail.
The altar asked me what was going on, so I told my guess: "The iron door opens to the right, and the coffin is also pushed to the right." I still remember that when we pushed the coffin, as soon as we let go, it would automatically return to its original position as if it had been installed. But when we push it to a certain angle, it seems that there is a card slot that can get stuck there and no longer reply. ”
"That's right, it should be!" Jars and glasses also agreed.
I continued: "The slot is not supposed to be a brake, but a delay device, and when the coffin is stuck, the slot will gradually begin to loosen, and when it is fully released, the spring in the mechanism will jerk the coffin back into place, and at the same time bring the iron door shut, and block the doorway, and at this time the people who infiltrated the tomb and discovered the mechanism should also enter the main burial chamber...... This will allow people who come in to come and go! ”
The altar couldn't help but shudder: "Poor ghost, don't scare me, what is there to come and go, what you say is too scary, right?" ”
I'm also a little listless: "So what? Shut down the door and hit the dog? Catching a turtle in an urn? ”
The altar picked up the axe and rushed back to the doorway: "I don't believe how strong the iron gate can be." Then my glasses and I heard a "clang" in the doorway, and the jar was desperately smashing the iron door with an axe. But after a while, he walked back dejectedly. I went to the doorway to see that the jar had really taken a lot of effort, and the small iron door had been cut by him and was "scarred". One of them was particularly deep, as if it had been cut dozens of times, and the rest of the scars were around that wound. But even the deepest scar was only the red rust that had just broken through the iron plate, and it was far worse than the half-foot-thick iron door.
"What to do? Are we going to die here? The altar looked sad, "I haven't even pulled a girl's hand!" Wouldn't it be too unjust to die so early! ”
I was a little speechless, and rolled my eyes: "It's all at this critical juncture, you can still think about this nonsense, I really convinced you." If you look at other people's glasses, although he is an intellectual, he is much stronger than you, a strong man with five big and three thick. ”
"So what do you say you should do?" The jar didn't have the courage to ask.
I said, "Since there is no way out, I can only go one way to the dark, and see if there is any other way out in front of me, I don't believe that there is only one entrance and exit in a huge ancient tomb?" ”
"The poor ghost is right." "Let's look forward, maybe there's an outlet." Although he said this, he knew in his heart that most tombs in ancient times had only one entrance, because the more entrances and exits, the greater the possibility of being stolen and excavated, and this was a tomb, so there was no need to leave a vent, so the possibility of us finding an exit became very small. But he couldn't say it at the moment, otherwise the altar would be even more devastated and disheartened.
The cave is not as deep as we think. We walked about half a mile along the cave and turned a corner to the end. A pair of black tomb doors about three meters high appeared in front of our eyes. There are some strange patterns carved on the door of the tomb, and the glasses say that this is the pattern of the Khitan people. He had also read books about Khitan tombs, and knew that this ornament was a side branch of shamanism, which was used in tombs and was very common, and its symbolic meaning was to pray for the favor of the gods in order to qualify for heavenly status.
This tomb door seems to be not small, but it is not heavy, and there is no obstruction inside, so it can be easily pushed open by me and the altar. But just as the door opened, a large black shadow stood in front of us.
The three of us were startled and hurriedly took a flashlight to take care of it, and it turned out to be a huge stone statue. Glasses explained that this was the more common tomb beast in the tombs, and was used to deter tomb robbers. The statue was a cow with a peculiar face, with three eyes and fangs, as if it was about to devour all the intruders, with a very vicious expression, and two lines of text were engraved in the most prominent part of the statue. It's a pity that the glasses don't know the Khitan script, so they have to draw it down and want to take it out to find someone to translate it. However, the glasses guessed that these lines were either warnings or curses. Actually, the glasses guessed correctly, these lines of text translate to - "Entering the tomb to disturb the soul of the dead is difficult for the people of the world; The gods of the nine heavens are angry, and the bottom of Wanshan Lake sinks. Of course, these are all afterwords, and we didn't know the specific meaning of these words at the time, but in that situation, even if we knew the meaning of those words, we could only move forward, because we had no way out.
Bypassing the Tomb Beast, we were taken aback by what the tomb looked like. I thought it should be the main tomb where I couldn't see my fingers, but at this moment it was brightly lit.
This is a circular burial chamber with an area of more than 2,000 square meters. In the middle of the burial chamber is a stone platform, on top of which stands a huge stone turtle. The stone turtle was as tall as a two-story building, and the coffin bed was built on the shell of the stone turtle. The coffin of the tomb owner was placed on it, as if it had been carried on the back of a stone turtle. The tomb is very empty, except for the stone turtle and coffin on the stone platform in the middle, there are only four stone lamps more than one person high. These stone lamps stand at the four corners of the stone platform, emitting red, blue, yellow, and purple lights respectively, which are extremely strange.