The food and other supplies we brought with us this time were very sufficient, and in addition to the fact that quite a few people had already died, not only were there a few mouths missing, but their belongings were also divided by us.

We continued to look down, through a zigzag of passages, and at the end we saw a shaft. I held the edge of the well with my hand and looked down. There's a big space underneath, and it's lit by light.

I turned back to the others and said, "If the map is correct, here's the core of the building." Don't touch anything for a while, the consequences of these triggers are unpredictable. ”

I could hear the majesty in my own tone, and so could the others, so they all nodded.

"So what to do? We don't know what is going on below, what it is like, so are we going to wait for death on top? Boss Li asked.

I didn't answer, thinking about what had happened in the very center of the Mirror Palace before, and now I knew with my toes that it would be the same place. Liu Guang blew up the red-eyed man who came out of the stone gate, and the mechanism I stepped on - the toilet system. None of this can be predicted.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Wang Ziyue threw over her backpack, picked up the rope and said, "I'll go down and explore, and use the rope as a support." ”

"No, I'll go."

"I'm light."

"Let Du Hao go." Boss Li spoke, "The one I don't worry about the most is you, Du Hao." Don't play any tricks with me. ”

I thought to myself, could he have discovered my plan? But he doesn't look like him, I guess he caught me to explore the way, but he kept having accidents along the way, so he doubted me.

Wang Ziyue divided a few strands of rope on my waist, thighs and shoulders, so as to stabilize my body's balance and not dangle in mid-air.

The rope descended slowly, and gradually I saw the whole view of the core space: the stone walls were also painted with a black light-absorbing substance, and the pitch-black macro was hung with bright, shining stars, and a shiny disc the size of a fruit bowl. This represents the sun, moon, stars, and the black night sky.

Down, at first glance it looks like a huge sand table, with peaks, canyons, volcanoes, and rivers. I used to hear that the Mausoleum of the Qin Emperor is a huge Chinese sand table, rivers, lakes and seas, the sun, the moon, mountains and rivers, there are 28 stars in the sky, and there are countless dragon veins and treasures on the ground. And the rivers, lakes and seas are full of mercury, so am I not far from death?

The sand table is nearly the size of two basketball courts, and the details of the workmanship make me suspect that it is an army sand table. Even which piece is the city and which piece is the countryside is marked on it.

Almost immediately, I became alarmed that these cities and villages did not belong to any of the existing countries, and that there was no such power in the Pacific. I looked at the strange coastlines, cities, and post roads, and only then did I remember the lost Eighth Continent that Liu Guang had told me about before, the Hess Civilization Continent.

This is consistent with the content analyzed on Boss Zhao's gold leaf, and it seems that the truth is going to come out.

My musings were interrupted by a rapid sound of "Dididi", which was the walkie-talkie hanging from my chest. I picked it up and said, "I've seen the situation below, there is no danger for the time being, and I will continue to go deeper." ”

Wang Ziyue said inside: "Understand, big brother. You have to be careful, one wrong step here will be doomed. ”

"Got it, down."

I continued to descend and gradually saw the whole continent in its entirety. On the six corners, there are six buildings, and in the very center there is a coffin trimmed with gold trim. This is probably the coffin of the emperor of the Hestian Kingdom!

In less than a quarter of an hour, my feet were on the ground, which was so soft that I stepped on it with my shoes, and it was made of mounds of earth. There happened to be a "river" flowing beside me, and I have nothing unusual until now, I guess this is not mercury, but the underground river was rerouted.

I lifted the pickaxe and tried to pry it, but the lid of the coffin was so heavy that I lost my strength after just a small crack. There's no rush for this, just wait for those people to come down and get it together.

Confirming that there was no danger here, I sent a signal for them all to come down. I told them what I had just speculated, and most of them nodded, and it seemed that my words were useful.

It's just that Wang Ziyue frowned and retorted: "Big brother, your guess is wrong, there is something illogical. ”

I said, what's the problem, you name it. She said, "According to you, this place is buried with the Emperor of the Hestian Kingdom!" ”

Or else? I said in my heart, is it the emperor and his father? I thought so in my heart, but I didn't say it, and I still raised my hand to signal her to continue.

Wang Ziyue coughed lightly, pointed to the six buildings around and the coffin in the middle, and asked me: "Think about it from another perspective, if you were the emperor, where would you choose to build your tomb?" ”

Wang Ziyue woke me up with a word, if I were the emperor, I would definitely bury myself in the middle, gathering the essence of heaven and earth, aura, sun and moon.

Wang Ziyue shook her head again and said, "Big brother, why are you getting more and more stupid?" If you were the emperor, would you want to die so much? Don't choose immortality? ”

I was stunned, not understanding what it meant.

Wang Ziyue sighed and said, "We have all seen it before, these buildings are built for immortality, and it can be said that with the six-pointed star, the entire continent has become a huge formation. We are not sure of the rest, but we can prove that the emperor's immortality exists, and the emperor's construction of the six-pointed star formation for immortality exists. ”

"And who is lying in this coffin?"

Everyone was silent, and it was Boss Li who spoke for a long time. Regardless of his three-seven-twenty-one, open it first and then talk about it. The female zongzi just now was burned to slag by us, what can this be?

Several subordinates heard Boss Li's words and waved an iron pickaxe to pry open the coffin. "Huh? Why is there no one in this coffin? One of his subordinates said.

"That's a lot of nonsense, isn't there a ghost in the coffin?" Boss Li scolded, pushed the man away with one hand, and leaned over to look, "You have to make it clear, otherwise you will scare us to death-"

Boss Li was also stunned when he saw the coffin, Wang Ziyue and I glanced at each other, there was no corpse in the coffin at all, but a square Nanmu box. Boss Li carefully picked up the box, took it out, and placed it on the side of the coffin.

After Boss Li put it down, he wiped a handful of sweat and said, "This box is not sinking, and the contents are not big." "The design of this treasure box is not very precise, Wang Ziyue and I are on one side, one person holds the box with his hand, and the other person opens it.

With the strength of my hand, the box clicked open, and I pulled out a yellowed piece of paper from inside. Suddenly, dozens of flashlights were pointed at it.

"Be careful, don't break it!" Wang Ziyue admonished on the side.

I mumbled and began to watch. There was a sentence written on it, in a crooked font: the first of the thirteen to pick up the prophecy was the owner of the coffin.

At first, I didn't realize the meaning of these words, but the people around me retreated with a "bang", and even Wang Ziyue's hand holding my shoulder kept shaking.

"Du Hao!" Boss Li didn't know whether he was angry or frightened, and pointed at me with a trembling hand, "Okay!" What are your intentions? ”

I looked at everyone a little overwhelmed, and at this time I didn't explain, and I didn't explain it. I don't know if it's a ghost? But it is useless for me to explain, the Tao has a sense of a thief shouting to catch a thief.

"No, I-"

"No wonder you have been so obedient to our coercion along the way, it turns out that this is the purpose. No wonder everything happens to you. As soon as Boss Li's words fell, the others raised their guns. A woman in the team also pulled Wang Ziyue over.

This was one of those times when I felt very helpless, comparable to entering the examination room without an admission ticket. How do I prove my identity? To stay calm when panicked, I breathed a long sigh of relief and secretly memorized the multiplication mantra in my heart.

Something written on this piece of paper is strange, thirteen is an unlucky number, but how would the builder of this coffin know that we will come in thirteen people? Is it really a prophet?

The whole curse, or prophecy, is directed at me. We all entered the same space, did the same things, breathed the same air. Did I do anything special?

I was the first to enter this place, the first to get to the coffin, the first to pick up the box. Then he is aimed at the person who wants to open the coffin and open the box? I should have told them that maybe this was a bureau of builders.

I looked up and suddenly felt that the atmosphere around me was very abnormal. Supposedly, what would be the reaction of a ghost who met a ghost or followed them all the way? If I had been shooting it out by now. But they just raised their guns and stared straight at me.

Countless thoughts rushed into my mind in an instant, and I suddenly remembered the tone of Boss Li's voice, as well as the frightened performance of these people after opening the box, knowing that there were one or two women among them.

What should it be like to see a ghost? It shouldn't be the way it is now, anyway. Otherwise, when I saw zongzi and ancient trees before, I wouldn't have jumped chickens and dogs.

Now I look at the other people's straight eyes, and my heart is furious. I cleared my throat and raised my gun while they were unprepared: "I don't think we're in the right place. ”