When Xiao Meng spoke, Bei Qin just walked back and snorted coldly, "I'm pretending? Yes, I'm pretending! Come, let's all go with you, okay? ”

Xiao Meng was a little speechless for a while, and Chu Tianyi made a round, "Okay, don't worry, everyone." Xiaobei, do you have any discoveries ahead? ”

Pei Qin shook the thing he was holding, which was covered with green rust, "This is something similar to a connecting rod, which was often used in the pre-Qin period for the connection of door bolts, or the connection between the two ends of a bridge. ”

Gu Xiaoqian took it and looked at it, "You mean, there was originally a bridge on the river?" ”

"No," Bei Qin shook his head, "it's not that there's a bridge on the river here, it's that there's a bridge above." ”

"Above?" Chu Tianyi raised his flashlight and shone it upward, the top of the river was very high, and the light was quickly engulfed by darkness. And on the stone walls on both sides, it was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly. He thought for a moment and said, "You mean that the stone walls on both sides of the river were connected by one after another, in other words, there should be a previous passage on the stone wall. ”

Bei Qin gave Chu Tianyi a thumbs up, "That's right! However, now I have to go up to judge the direction of this passage, if it is towards the river beach, it is fine, in case it is opposite, then we have to cross the river and climb up, then it will be troublesome! After saying that, he beckoned to the guy next to him, "Come, bring the rope and the pickaxe." ”

Gu Xiaoqian walked over quickly, "Xiaobei, the stone walls on both sides are too steep, can you do it?" ”

Bei Qin raised his eyebrows in a little surprise, "Hey, little cousin, you care about me!" ”

Gu Xiaoqian smacked him, "Phew, who cares about you, I'm worried that if you make a mistake, no one will find us a way, not to mention, and we have to add a burden!" ”

Bei Qin knew Gu Xiaoqian's character, smiled and didn't speak.

Gu Xiaoqian continued: "I remember that there are guys in your people who are particularly good at climbing? If you let him go, you can get it, and if there is any accident, you will shoot again. ”

Bei Qin nodded, "Yes, there is a guy who is good at climbing. ”

"Who is it?" Gu Xiaoqian looked at the guys around her.

"Don't look for it," Bei Qin said with a bitter face, "that fellow is called Zhuzi." ”

"I'll go!" Gu Xiaoqian subconsciously said a dirty word. Bei Qin smiled and spread his hands, "Climbing with bare hands in such a steep place, I don't feel at ease with the other guys, who let them call me Little Bei Ye, so this kind of thing can only come to me." ”

Chu Tianyi finally knew why Pei Qin's men obeyed him and cooperated so tacitly. He thought for a moment, walked up to Bei Qin, and said, "Why don't you let me try, I have practiced rock climbing, and I should be able to handle it." ”

For Chu Tianyi's initiative to ask for help, Bei Qin and Gu Xiaoqian were very surprised. Looking at their expressions, Chu Tianyi smiled, "What? Are you afraid that I will go up and run? ”

Pei Qin also smiled, "How come? I said that we are cooperating, and Brother Tianyi comes and goes freely. However, since you are willing to help, of course I can't ask for it. It just so happens that some things are more troublesome for me to go up alone, so why don't you ask Brother Tianyi to go with me? ”

Xiao Meng quietly leaned over and said in Chu Tianyi's ear: "Brother Yi, he wants to go up with you, does he want to play any tricks?" ”

Chu Tianyi shook his head slightly at Xiao Meng, and then said to Bei Qin: "No problem, let's go." ”

Chu Tianyi put on the equipment, and he had to admit that Bei Qin's team was much more professional than the bearded ones in terms of climbing equipment alone.

Bei Qin made a gesture of please to Chu Tianyi, and the two of them began to climb.

Chu Tianyi waved his mountaineering pickaxe and quickly went up. He originally thought that he was semi-professional. But he found that although Bei Qin's movements next to him were not as standard as his own, he didn't expect that the speed was not slower than his own at all. As a last resort, he once again quickened the movement of his hand.

Unconsciously, what was originally a cooperative climbing turned into a competition, and the two of them didn't say anything, but they were secretly competing in their hearts. Xiao Meng even cooperated and shouted cheers below, and was reprimanded by Gu Xiaoqian.

Soon, the two of them reached the edge of the passage, Chu Tianyi was inexperienced, and he poked his head up without stopping, and then the flashlight flickered, and he saw a white thing in front of him.

When he looked closely, it was a skeletal head. Chu Tianyi was unprepared, he was startled by the sturdy, and his hand almost fell off as soon as he loosened it.

Bei Qin also looked over and smiled at Chu Tianyi, "Don't be nervous, just get used to it, it's inevitable to encounter this in this kind of place." ”

Chu Tianyi nodded, reached out and grabbed the edge above, and just wanted to climb up, when suddenly the mouth of the skeleton head opened.

This scene made both of them instantly show surprised expressions. At the same time, Chu Tianyi suddenly picked up the mountaineering pickaxe and smashed it at Pei Qin......

The people below couldn't understand it at all, and some guys even exclaimed, "Little Bei Ye be careful!" ”

But before they could finish their words, the pickaxe was already nailed in front of Bei Qin. At this time, everyone saw that there was still a big mouse nailed to the pickaxe, a big mouse that originally pounced on Bei Qin.

Everyone exhaled lightly, and Bei Qin looked at Chu Tianyi, "Thank you!" ”

"It's okay," Chu Tianyi pulled back the mountaineering pickaxe and threw the corpse of the mouse into the river, "Didn't you say it, we are cooperating." ”

The two people turned over and jumped into the passage, they couldn't see clearly just now, and now they were standing in it, and the scene in front of them surprised the two people very much. Inside the passage, there are more than a dozen skeletons.

The shape of the bones is a little distorted, obviously these people have gone through a painful process before they die, and some are even a little mutilated, Chu Tianyi speculated that this may have something to do with those ubiquitous rats, after the Xu people left, this place has obviously become their world.

Chu Tianyi told Pei Qin about the attack he had encountered before. After hearing this, Pei Qin pondered for a moment, "Given the rat-congested cave you encountered earlier, I even have some doubts about whether they were kept here. ”

"Raising these big rats?" Chu Tianyi was a little puzzled, "For what?" ”

"There are many possibilities," Bei Qin said as he carefully examined the stone walls on both sides, "it may be to defend against those qinworms, or it may be to be used as a weapon of war." The ancients liked to use the power of animals to fight, such as the fire bull array during the Three Kingdoms period, and even legend has it that animals such as tigers, leopards and bears were used when the Yellow Emperor fought with Chiyou. ”

Chu Tianyi looked at the bones on the ground, "Why did these people die here?" Was it bitten to death by a rat? ”

"No, the mutilations on the bones were left behind after they died," Bei Qin thought for a moment and sighed, "I think these people are trapped and died here." ”

At this time, Gu Xiaoqian, who was waiting below, shouted, "Hey, are you two okay?" ”

"It's all right," replied, "we'll check for something up there, and we'll put down the rope in a moment, and you'll come up." ”

Chu Tianyi didn't speak, Bei Qin's speculation made him feel a little shocked, he groaned slightly, and then said: "You mean, when they wanted to leave, someone destroyed the bridge outside and trapped them here. ”

"Yes," Bei Qin looked at the bones with some regret, "It can be seen from the traces left here that these people have been dead for quite a long time, they should be the people of the Xu Kingdom back then, and the reason why they were killed," Speaking of this, he showed a strange expression, looked into the depths of the passage, and slowly spit out a sentence, "Someone doesn't want them to leave here." ”

"Don't want them to get out of here?" Chu Tianyi was a little puzzled, "Why is this?" ”

Pei Qin looked at him curiously, "Brother Tianyi, have you ever been to the tomb, or participated in the archaeological excavation of the ancient tomb?" ”

"Of course not," Chu Tianyi shook his head repeatedly.

Bei Qin smiled slightly, and then said, "Generally speaking, ancient tombs, especially those of the pre-Qin Dynasty, most of them will have a burial ditch on the outside. Do you know what that thing was used for in the first place? ”

"What?" Chu Tianyi asked.

"Kill!" Pei Qin said briefly, "It is to kill the craftsmen who built the ancient tomb to ensure the secrecy of the location of the ancient tomb." And if there is no burial ditch, there is one place in the ancient tomb with the most bones, that is, the inside of the sealing stone of the cloister in the back room. ”

Chu Tianyi listened to Bei Qin's explanation, it was the first time he had heard such a thing, so he listened very attentively.

Pei Qin continued: "Because the last step in the closure of the ancient tomb was not the closure of the main tomb door, but the sealing stone of the cloister. All the craftsmen involved in the construction of the tomb will be sealed in the tomb at this step. All the trapped craftsmen will come here to make a final struggle before they die, hoping to escape, but how can they push the several tons of sealed stones, coupled with the large amount of stones and sediment on the outside! In the end, he can only be trapped alive. After saying this, Bei Qin let out a long sigh again, "Thinking about those craftsmen in ancient times, it is also quite miserable, every time I see such a scene, it makes people feel very uncomfortable, it is really an era when a person's life is like a mustard." ”