The passage to the east was pitch black, and nothing could be seen, and the steps were still pointing downward.

From the perspective of the feng shui of the tomb, it is true that you should walk from the east to find the main burial chamber.

The judgment of the tomb robber line on the direction is not to be missed, once the judgment is wrong, not to mention that the main tomb cannot be found, it is very likely to die in Huangquan. Because many of the mechanisms in the tomb are also arranged according to the orientation.

A good tomb robber has an extremely accurate grasp of the direction, from the beginning of entering the robbery hole, he has been remembering the direction, turning a few times in the middle, and changing several directions are clear.

What's more, if you encounter a mechanism that confuses you in the tomb, you can still rely on your strong memory to remember the location.

Because once you enter the ancient tomb, you will no longer be able to find a place to judge the direction.

As for using Sinan (compass) to determine the direction, it is basically impossible, some large tombs have magnetic interference, and Sinan will be completely useless.

Therefore, from the moment I entered the thief's cave, I kept the direction firmly in mind.

At this time, I felt that I could not see clearly, so I hurriedly took two more sips, and once the alcohol went down, my night vision would also disappear.

And Niu Meng didn't show any nervousness along the way, perhaps because the tomb had been stolen.

Yao Weimei and Tang Jinghong didn't wait for me to analyze, they directly entered the east passage, and asked me and Niu Meng to hurry up.

The two of us didn't hesitate and hurriedly followed.

Along the way, I kept going down, and found nothing other than the traps and bones that had already been triggered.

In the middle passed through three burial chambers, all of which had coffins, but were also opened.

There was only a pile of bones left in the coffin, and even the clothes had been stolen, and each of the three burial chambers was deeper than the other, and the frescoes never appeared again.

The wall lamps in the tomb have been chiseled away, and it is really impossible to tell which dynasty it is.

Coming out of the third burial chamber, the passage continued to face down, and after walking down for almost a stick of incense, the sound of running water came from below.

After going down to the bottom, the surroundings suddenly opened up, and it was an underground cave again.

There is a natural stone bridge in the cave, and an underground river flows under the stone bridge, and the current is not very fast. On both sides of the riverbank are many braziers, Luoyang shovels, hoes, saws, baskets...... These tools are scattered all over the place.

The oil in the brazier was new, and Niu Meng and I lit all the braziers.

At this time, I found that the color of the groundwater was black, and in order to confirm, I also took a handful, and it was indeed black water.

Niu Meng suddenly patted me on the shoulder, "Brother Jiu...... Look at ...... over there", his voice sounded a little shaky.

I looked in the direction of the cow's point, and saw that the stone wall on the other side of the river was covered with skulls, and these skulls were nailed to the stone wall.

At a glance, it is densely packed with all of them, let alone thousands.

"Are they all funerals?" Tang Jinghong, who hadn't spoken for a long time, finally took the initiative to ask.

I was also stunned for a long time before replying to her, "Well, the burial methods of princes and nobles in the past were very cruel. During the Warring States Period, there was a martyrdom system, and in the Qin Dynasty, human martyrdom was abolished.

Until Qin Shi Huang ruled the world, and once again invoked the martyrdom system, there are thousands of women who were martyred for Qin Shi Huang alone.

Later dynasties and generations also had people martyred, some of which were recorded in historical materials, and some of which were not recorded in historical materials.

Martyrdom of this magnitude is uncommon, but not unusual. However, I think it's more of a sacrifice. ”

"Sacrifice?" Tang Jinghong looked at me suspiciously.

I nodded, "Well, since this tomb is related to the Three Kingdoms period, and the person in the mural looks like Zhuge Liang, which reminds me of an incident in the Three Kingdoms period." At that time, Shu was often harassed by Meng Shu, the lord of the Nanban cave, and Zhuge Liang personally led a large army to fight in order to pacify the Nanban. When crossing the Lushui, he encountered miasma.

Meng Huo said that this was the anger of the Lushui River God, and as long as he sacrificed a living person, he could be pacified.

Zhuge Liang couldn't bear it, so he thought of a way to make a head with noodles, wrap beef and mutton inside, and then engrave the facial features, and finally use it to sacrifice to the river god. At that time, the southern peoples were called Nanban, and after this custom was preserved, it slowly spread to the north.

Later, everyone thought that the brute head sounded a little scary, so they changed their name and called it steamed buns.

Regardless of the truth of the matter for the time being, but there were many tribes in the south at that time, and there were indeed many sacrificial ceremonies. And the sacrifice first originated from witchcraft, and the origin of witchcraft was also from tribes.

It's just that I don't understand, why do we need sacrifices underground? There are no tombs here, but there are so many tools for robbing tombs, and there are no traces of excavation around, could it be that the tomb is underwater? ”

"The tomb is underwater, how do they dig the earth?" Niu Meng suddenly asked a difficult question to answer.

I thought about it and replied, "Maybe the dirt was dug from the other three passages." If it is dug underwater, there is no need to transport it at all, and it is not good to throw it directly into the underground river and float away? ”

"Could it be that there are more than just Soul Burial Sect people who rob tombs?" Tang Jinghong pinched his chin and pondered.

"Possibly, I even think that those who dig the earth were brought here in a centralized manner and used for sacrifice. According to what Uncle Shi said, the people of the Soul Burial Sect are very strong, and it is easy to do this. ”

Yao Weimei walked to the river and stared at the dark river for a while, and asked coldly, "Is it possible to build a tomb underwater?" ”

"Yes, yes...... However...... "I was a little hesitant to say because building a tomb underwater would involve youkai.

"But what?" Yao taunted me and turned her head to stare at me.

"There is a saying about the tomb that few people know, the sacred mountain demon water demon is half empty. Meaning, the tombs of the gods are often chosen to be built on the mountains. Monster Crypt, choose underwater. And the tomb of the devil is built in mid-air. My grandfather didn't talk much about demons, and I didn't know much about them.

However, it is not known whether this statement is correct. It is also possible that there was no water in the area, but the water table rose and the original tomb was submerged. ”

After I finished speaking, Yao Xiaomei's brows furrowed, "The Divine Mountain Demon Water Demon is in the air, and there are indeed many tribes who worship the Demon Clan as a god. If these skeletons on the walls are really used for sacrifice, then this underwater is probably really a tomb for youkai, and the demonic energy is emitted from underwater. The tomb of the monster, can you steal it? ”

I pinched my nose and nodded reluctantly, I can't let others look down on me at this time. Anyway, they are all ancient tombs, where can the tombs of youkai be dangerous? Put a nine-tailed demon fox zombie in the coffin? Not......

But there is a very important problem in the middle, I have not studied the underwater tombs, and I have very little knowledge in this area, and I don't know if there is air in the tombs.

"I'll take a look at the water separately." Yao said mockingly.

"Huh?" I was a little surprised.

After thinking about it, Tang Jinghong could make the magpie change back and forth with a wave of his hand in Jinling City, and it was not difficult for them to divide the water or something, right?

After Yao finished speaking, she squatted down and put her hands into the black Hanoi. She had words in her mouth, and her voice was so small that she couldn't hear what she was saying.

I saw that the river was suddenly split in half and slowly separated to both sides.

Tang Jinghong didn't know where to find a ball of light and threw it into the river.

This ball of light slowly descended, illuminating the scene under the river.

Niu and I were dumbfounded, they have such a skill to move mountains and seas, why do they spend so much effort? Wouldn't it be nice to just remove Cheng Fu from the ground......

After the water curtain was opened, I was even more shocked by the scene that appeared.

There is a large bronze door on the underwater wall, and although the material cannot be determined, it looks like a bronze door, and the door is covered with black algae, which looks like it has been scraped by someone.

What shocked me the most was that the pattern on the bronze door was a nine-tailed demon fox. This nine-tailed demon fox is lifelike, with fierce eyes, and nine tails curl behind him.

It was as if a living nine-tailed demon fox was directly imprinted on the bronze door.

There is also a line of text in the middle of the bronze door, like some kind of charm, and the words written on it are written that I have never seen before.

The whole bronze door is almost three zhang high and one zhang wide, inlaid on the stone wall, and it is tightly seamed.

When you see this huge bronze door, you can't help but feel a sense of oppression.

Under the bronze door, there are a lot of white bones, all of which are at a glance, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this is a mass grave.

Just as I was thinking about how to open this bronze door, Tang Jinghong sighed heavily, "Go back, wait for Nan Ya to come." ”

Yao mocked "um", and the disconnected river began to slowly gather again, and the ball of light gradually flew back into Tang Jinghong's hand.

As the river completely merged, the sense of oppression suddenly disappeared.

Niu Meng estimated that his bearing capacity was too weak, and he gasped for breath.

I saw that Tang Jinghong's expression was not quite right, and asked her, "Miss Tang, do you know something?" ”

After all, the bronze door is engraved with a nine-tailed demon fox.

Tang Jinghong nodded, "The inscription on the door is the text of our Nine-Tails clan, the Tiangang Compass, which changes his life against the sky." If you want to open this bronze door, you must have a Tiangang compass.

The Tiangang compass is also something we have been looking for, saying that if we find the Tiangang compass, we can know the origin of our nine-tailed demon fox. I didn't know it before, but I know it now. ”

"Tiangang compass, change your life against the sky." I silently recited a sentence in my heart, and I didn't have time to ask Tang Jinghong anything more.

Suddenly, I felt something wrap around my legs, and with a hard pull, my whole body soared into the air.

Immediately followed by Yao's mocking shout, "Shocking, don't move." ”

By the time I reacted, the whole person was already hanging in mid-air, head down, less than a fist away from the surface of the black water.

It was the tomb vines that were pestering me, sticking out of the Blackwater River and entangling my entire lower body.

There was a pair of red eyes under the water, looking at me, eyeballs the size of fists, and they seemed to be behemoths.

"Nan Gongzi, don't exhale." Yao told me, and I quickly held my breath.

The eyes were getting closer to me, my scalp was starting to tingle, and I tried to get the dagger at my waist to cut off the tomb vine wrapped around me, but I didn't have any strength at all.

Just when I didn't know what to do, a bloody mouth suddenly appeared in the water, and I was so frightened that I quickly closed my eyes, and I didn't even have time to see what kind of monster came out.

I secretly shouted in my heart, it's over, it's over, I'm going to die here.