Volume 2, The Lost Trail of the Sand Sea Chapter 189, The Hall of Corpses
"No, you can't!"
In Balohad's somewhat frightened shouts, Yan's hand grabbed the rat-headed mask on the figure's head, and his hand had even touched the figure's dry hair.
At this moment, Yan's hand suddenly stopped, and his face changed from disdain at the beginning to horror.
He turned his head and glanced at Balohad with an extremely complicated look, then sneered at the corner of his mouth and gently withdrew his hand.
"Listen, everybody, don't touch any part of the portrait, or die!"
Looking at Yan's somewhat stern expression, some small whispers of discussion sounded in the team.
Balohard breathed a sigh of relief, and O'Annk had a look of displeasure on his face, as if he was a little unhappy with Yan's overstepping warning.
Chen Tao was a little surprised by Yan's changes, but looking at his and Balohard's expressions, he knew that these figures were not as simple as they seemed.
Yan has a lot of say among those people, and although the faces of those people in Oulenc are full of greed and unwillingness, no one dares to touch those rat-headed figures.
The team cautiously made their way through the passage and into the porch.
On the stone walls on both sides of the porch, there is a strange beast on the left and right.
A large one, with limbs as thick as an ox, with wings on its back, claws and fangs, beneath it was an endless sea of corpses and blood, and the entire mural was filled with countless twisted human faces and corpses.
The other, like a snake and a crocodile, was covered with scales, and its long body was coiled, and there were nine heads, each of which was extremely ugly, and most notably, a grimace on each head.
The grimaces are hideous and distorted, and the expression on each face is different.
As if crying and laughing, a pair of bloody eyes stared at everyone present, with a touch of weirdness in their eyes, and the hearts of those who watched were furious.
I don't know what technique is used in those eyes, no matter which angle you look at, those eyes are staring at you.
At each of the four corners of the gallery roof was a humanoid creature with wings and fangs, with a slender tail coiled behind it, and a twisted skeleton on one claw, the other clung to the stone wall, and arms against the stone roof, as if leaning against the corner.
The monster's eyes were set with two large rubies, and in its mouth was a thick blackened iron chain, and at the bottom of the chain hung a large stone plate used to make fire oil.
The stone plates are beautifully carved with a gilded edge and set with a ring of orange-red gemstones, each the size of a thumb.
Looking at the golden stone lamp plates, some people in the team couldn't hold back the greed in their hearts, and wanted to go up and detain the gems on the stone plates, but they were kicked back by Ah Cheng.
At this time, Chen Tao noticed that Ah Cheng's discarded arm turned out to be a mechanical arm.
It's a little sluggish, but it's amazing enough.
At the same time, Chen Tao's heart also swelled with a touch of vigilance, to be able to equip Ah Cheng with such an almost perfect replacement arm, the force behind Yan must be unusual.
This, from the equipment of his men he carried
You can see it.
In front of them, Orangk's people were not worth mentioning at all.
With Yan's warning, none of those people dared to act rashly, and one by one they looked at the glittering gems and gold on the stone wall, and the greed on their faces was undisguised.
Chen Tao and several people walked at the front of the team.
The two giant beasts in the mural greatly impacted Chen Tao's vision.
Those glittering gems, decorative utensils engraved with gold and silver, each one is worth a lot of money, and he and Ah Jun can eat it for a lifetime if they are taken out.
Chen Tao is not a saint, looking at those things is also full of temptation in his heart, and he wanted to take one down a few times, but he held back again.
Because he knows that there are things more important than these treasures.
The crowd quickened their pace, each eager to know what kind of surprise would lie in the depths of the tomb.
Passing through the porch, there was a darkness in front of me, and the flashlight shone through, and I could faintly see a huge shadow in the darkness, like some kind of tall building, and there were many other golden lights flashing, and it seemed that there were a lot of things inside.
Balohad took a torch from the stone wall and lit it, lit one of the lamps on the right with the torch, then went to the other side and threw the torch into the front one, and the flames jumped in the lamp pans, and suddenly lit up and lit the oil in the lamp pan.
Call.......
The two fire dragons swooped out of the stone trough behind the lamp plate, and quickly burned along the stone wall, and finally converged on the top of the stone, and suddenly twenty-five thicker fire dragons burst out, like fireworks, swooping down in all directions.
The fire dragon roared on the stone wall, instantly illuminating the darkness ahead.
Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them.
In front of him was an incomparably glorious underground palace, and the black shadow that Chen Tao saw before was a tall altar in the center of the main hall, each step seemed to be made of jade, and the armrests were carved with exquisite ornaments, reflecting a dazzling pale cyan white light under the light of the fire.
There are many stout stone pillars around the altar, each of which seems to be plated with a layer of gold powder, and is carved with giant beasts and human statues that Chen Tao has never seen before, and each stone statue is decorated with gold, silver and jade.
The most striking thing is that on the stone wall behind those stone pillars, there are stone windows that resemble oriental shrines, each the size of a room, with exquisite carved window sills and stone pillars on the outside, and a large bed made of gold and silver mats on the inside of the stone window.
On the bed lay a corpse of a corpse peacefully.
Those dried corpses wore crowns, the corpses had undergone special treatment, and each skeleton was inlaid with various jewels and jade, and almost every bone had a corresponding jewel and jade as decoration. Under the light of the fire, the jeweled corpses took on a strange beauty.
Everyone's eyes were attracted by the luxurious jewels on those dried corpses, and they even forgot about the road for a while
Let's go.
"It's ....... Is this the king of Tatunan? Chen Tao's mouth was open for a long time, his heart was twitching violently, and he was almost speechless.
Along the way, the magnificence was surprising enough, but he didn't expect the luxury in the king's tomb to wash over his every nerve again.
"I'm fucking, these people are so rich!"
"Rich! I've made a fortune! ”
"So many treasures, in this life, no, hundreds of lifetimes can't be spent!"
The group was full of exclamations, and several of his men tore open their backpacks and dumped everything in their bags with a bang, even the black gems that had been detained from the top of the stone were thrown out and scattered on the ground one by one.
Some people have already cursed and want to rush forward, eager to carry the whole body back.
"This ...... This ......." Liang Shaokai trembled, his hands were turned into chicken feet, and tears were about to come out.
"Is this still human!"
Ye Rong and the two sisters have no one, the woman already has a natural fascination with these gold, silver and precious jades, and a touch of excitement that is difficult to hide appeared on her face, and her eyes are shining with little stars.
Ye Rong held Ye Ling'er's hand tightly, and the expression on her face was extremely incongruous with the face dressed as Uncle Long.
Haozi pinched his thighs while shouting Chen Tao's name incessantly.
Even Yan and the others were shocked by the luxury in front of them, and they no longer had the previous arrogance and emptiness.
There was only one person, and his expression was sad.
Ballohad walked into the hall in a distraught and knelt down with a pop, his eyes full of tears, and his whole person aged several years in an instant.
He didn't say a word, just kept kowtowing to the corpses on the stone wall, like a sinner.
His head was shattered, and blood was running down his forehead.
Chen Tao walked over and gently patted him on the shoulder.
He could understand Balohard's feelings.
These guards waited in the desert for more than 3,000 years, but they were never able to reawaken Tatunan.
Now, Balohad is the only one left here, and he has no way to stop this, but to silently plead guilty.
Everything may have been predestined for a long time, and it was already over the moment Tatunaan was engulfed by disaster thousands of years ago.
The thugs at the door could no longer bear the greed in their hearts, and rushed to the bottom of the stone wall, stepping on the statues and reliefs on the stone wall to climb up the stone windows, but the stone windows were too high for them to climb without the help of tools.
People kept slipping off the stone walls, breaking their heads and bleeding, but they didn't care, still trying to climb up the stone windows with red eyes.
Some people even go so far as to pull out knives against their peers in order to prevent others from getting ahead of them.
Chen Tao watched all this blankly, Balohard's grief and the distorted faces of the thugs constantly magnified in his mind.
This is human nature.
Desires can never be filled.
In the absolute
In the face of temptation, nothing exists.
Chen Tao glanced back at the monster-like reliefs on the porch, and then looked at the people who were desperately climbing up to grab the jewels, and a trace of sadness rose in his heart.
This door blocked the survivors in the sandstorm, but let in a group of devils.
Yan took Ah Cheng with him, followed by Ou Lunk and Hay Morton.
The four of them passed past Chen Tao and walked towards the altar in the center of the main hall.
O'Ranke looked at the dried corpses around him, his eyes flickering, and his expression was very excited.
Hay Morton glanced at Chen Tao and Haozi viciously, and made a head-killing gesture with his hand.
Haozi spat and raised his middle finger at the four people who went up, turned around and touched Chen Tao's arm with his elbow.
"Taozi, let's go up too, we must not let these people take the lead."
Chen Tao nodded, looking at the stone pillars around him and the white jade altar in the center, a strange feeling surged in his heart, as if he had seen it somewhere.
A few people were not to be left behind, and walked a few steps quickly to catch up with Yan and the others in front, and the two sides did not speak, but the look in their eyes was indeed self-evident.
From a distance, there is a delicate pedestal in the center of the altar, on which there seems to be a huge crystal coffin, and around the crystal coffin, there are twelve figures wearing robes and rat head masks.
At this moment, a thunderclap sounded in Chen Tao's mind, and goosebumps arose on his body.
He finally remembered where he had seen it all!
(End of chapter)