Chapter 166: The Living Tomb Beast
In addition to the unfinished house walls, there are also various stone carvings scattered on both sides of the road. Judging from the remaining heads, many of these stone carvings should have been stone statues that should have been placed on Shinto, including stone horses, stone tigers, and stone figures. In addition to the military generals in the attire of Tang officials, many of these portraits have some foreign Rao characteristics from the facial features, ornaments, crowns and braids, which may be the very common statues of the chieftains in the Tang Dynasty, mainly to reflect the prestige of a great country.
Seeing these things, there is no doubt that this should be a mausoleum. But according to common sense, these Shinto stone statues should have appeared on Shinto, which is above the surface of the earth, before the mausoleum. In addition, there are many Shinto stone carvings that have been preserved to this day, and there are really not many that have been damaged to such a state. It seems that this pile of stone slag appeared here, probably to dismantle all the Shinto stone statues that were originally on top of it, and the reason for this is nothing more than to cover up the evidence of the mausoleum on the surface.
It's no wonder that the complex they found on the surface has been destroyed to the ground and nothing else, probably at the same time as the stone statues were destroyed, a fire or some other method was also destroyed.
Gurao's productivity was far less than it is now. The construction of such a luxurious underground mausoleum consumes a lot of manpower and financial resources. But the reason why he was able to stop the work and abandon it in such a decisive way is probably ...
The road wasn't very long, and soon we were approaching the tall building in the middle. The closer you go, the more you feel that it is tall and majestic, and the height of the first floor is five or six meters, and the column made of fine thick nan wood must be chosen.
We walked up the high bluestone staircase to the door of this tall building. Different from the previous ones, this door can be a cultural relic within a cultural relic, a fine product among fine products. I saw that the big wooden door painted with vermilion lacquer had two pure gold beast-faced rings on the head, shining under the illumination of the oil lamp, and the door was inlaid with various patterns with gold wire, and even inlaid with precious stones in the tactful place, which was really luxurious. Not only the door, but even the threshold is glittering with gold, I don't know if it is pure gold or gild.
I looked at the doors of the other two buildings from a distance, and the others couldn't see clearly, at least one pair of gold shops could see clearly, and I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: I am really rich.
I glanced at Ye Lin'an, meaning that we should go in? He immediately understood, nodded his head, and carefully looked at the upper and lower parts of the door with the oil lamp before he was ready to open the door and go in.
However, just as Ye Lin'an put his hand on the door and was about to push it open, I leaned towards him, and I saw a pair of fiery red eyes quietly appear behind the pillar next to us.
"Heart!" I shouted, and dragged Ye Lin'an to my side, and by the way, I pulled his body around, just in time to see the direction of those eyes. I had to, Ye Lin'an, who was an old man, reacted very quickly, and when he turned around, one hand had already drawn out the dagger. I couldn't help but take out the improved judge pen that Ye Lin'an gave me from my body, no matter what I encountered, at least I had the capital to fight.
The speed of that thing was also extremely fast, and with my shout, it had disappeared without a trace, and Ye Lin'an didn't see anything when he turned around.
Don't think about it, it must still be around us. The fiery red eyes just now look very evil, is it the demon we are looking for? Ye Lin'an, isn't it not dangerous?
We were vigilant for a while, and there was really no movement around us, and Ye Lin'an asked me, "What's wrong?"
"There's something, my eyes are fiery, and my body can't see clearly." I also spoke to him.
But I know that no matter how loud I speak, the enemy is in the dark, and I am in the light. This feeling makes me very uncomfortable, especially in such a demonic space.
After a while, there was really no movement around us, and we really couldn't continue to consume here, Ye Lin said to me: "I'll open the door and go in directly."
I nodded to him, my feet were angled, and as soon as the door opened, I stepped in.
Ye Lin'an is not a fool, this time he didn't turn to look at the door, anyway, he checked it just now, his body didn't move, he just stretched out a hand to open the door.
Who knows, it was the moment his hand just touched the door, and the fiery red eyes quickly appeared less than ten meters away from us again, this time I saw the whole picture of it, simply the long hair with horns, the body of the human-faced beast with wings, the body size is about the same as mine, and the whole body is painted red, green, and green.
This is... Gravemon?! And this time the situation looks even worse than before, and there are three other faces at the same time, all with fiery eyes, but... There are only three of them, because there are two people whose faces share a long worm-like body, which looks like a strange species. The other one, on the other hand, had a very hideous beast face, and his body was much larger than the other two, and the whole thing looked a bit like a tiger.
Seeing these three things appear at the same time, shaking their bodies over there and staring at us intently, my back broke out in a cold sweat, damn, this thing, I don't know how to come back to life, I don't know how to deal with one, and it's too tricky to come out three at the same time.
Ye Lin'an must not have expected such a scene, and his hand to open the door stopped very consciously. I could hear his breath change visibly, and he must have thought about something and suffocated back. He doesn't know that what can be held back is nothing more than tone words like national scolding.
Obviously, Ye Lin'an has no way to deal with this kind of thing, and he will continue to maintain the battle strategy of not moving the enemy and not moving with me.
There was a stalemate for a while, although I don't know what Ye Lin'an thought, but I began to wonder if this thing was alive? Or some kind of phantom or something. After all, they all look fierce, and they shouldn't be in the mood to spend time here with the two of us.
"Uncle Ye," I called Ye Lin'an softly, but my eyes didn't leave the three tomb beasts, seeing that they didn't have any extra movements, I continued: "You take your hand back." "Because I think back to every time they appeared, it was when Ye Lin'an was about to open the door.
Hearing this, Ye Lin'an slowly withdrew his hand from the door, but he didn't put it down, still maintaining the best posture.
As his hands slowly left, the Tomb Beasts slowly retreated at the same time, and the color of their bodies became dull, and then gradually disappeared.
"Someone must have placed a spell on the door, as long as someone wants to open the door, the tomb beast will appear." Ye Lin'an.
"Do you think they're entities? Or is it just an illusion with no offensive capabilities? ”
Ye Lin'an was silent for a moment: "The person who can cast spells here must be very powerful." So there's no reason to just put a few fake grave beasts here. ”
"Then let's go out, a few things here don't seem like we can solve." I'm right to Ye Lin'an.
"No, the Tomb Beast is not the source of demonic energy here, if we are blocked by these things, we can't figure out what happened inside."
"Uncle Ye..."
Without waiting for me to finish, Ye Linan preemptively said: "I just saw that there should be no mechanism on this door, and after a while, I opened the door, rushed in directly and blocked the door, and I was improvising inside." ”
I haven't refuted yet, Ye Linan is already holding a lamp in his left hand and a dagger in his right hand, raising his hand to make a posture: "Ready!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he was already pressing his elbow against the door very hard. However, the two-meter-high door did not move at all, but the three tomb beasts appeared at the same time in an instant, and pounced directly in his direction.
Ye Lin'an was also prepared, seeing this scene, he hurriedly turned around and fell to the side, and when he was about to touch the ground, he kicked his legs, and the person jumped out like a toad. This time, the three tomb beasts were in vain.
However, they couldn't let us go so easily, the one with the human face and the beast body and the two-headed conjoined one turned their heads to chase Ye Lin'an, and the one with the strongest body turned their heads and pounced on me.
I cried out to myself, and hurriedly clinged to the nearest pillar beside me, went around the pillar, and used it as a shield to confront the Tomb Beast. King Qin's walking around the pillar is really a great wisdom, this scientific method can pay attention to the opponent's every move, and if the reaction is fast enough, he can always stay at both ends of the pillar, using the pillar as a defense. In this way, I played left and right with the hideous-looking tomb beast, dodging its two attacks.
However, this is also risky, and it won't work if your opponent is more agile than you, or if the pillar can't protect you at all.
I had encountered such a problem today, I thought that I could rely on the pillar for a while, but who knew that the tomb beast that failed to succeed in several attacks became furious, and suddenly jumped up and crashed directly into the large pillar thicker than my hug, and with a loud click, the pillar was actually broken by it in the middle.
This was something I didn't expect, I stayed in place for a while, and the moment the pillar broke, I subconsciously put my hands in front of my chest. Fortunately, the pillar helped me absorb most of the impact, and when its head hit me, the force was like the force of a fat man of about 200 pounds, which was no longer enough to knock me down, and I held it with both hands, and my feet retreated sharply. After separating from it, he withdrew more than ten meters in a row, and finally stabilized his body again.
However, the beast didn't give me a chance to breathe, and pounced directly after spotting its position. Fortunately, the face of this ancient building is wide enough, and there are still many pillars, and I thought to myself, although I can't completely block its attack, as long as I can save my life. I hurriedly turned around and ran towards the second pillar.
But when I was running, I heard that the tomb beast landed behind me this time, and I felt the temperature behind me rise sharply, and I was not good, so I quickly looked back, only to see a wall of fire equal to me flying towards me, this monster will also breathe fire?