Chapter 447: Expedition to the North
Beibi Mountain, located in the north of Luoyang City, the south bank of the Yellow River, belongs to the remaining veins of the Qinling Mountains, because of its excellent geographical location, after the Yellow River is located in Pingchuan, plus Luoyang is the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, since ancient times the emperors will be countless, resulting in countless tombs on the Beibi Mountain, there are ancient poems: "The Beibi Mountain is less idle soil, all the old tombs of Luoyang people", and there are poems: "What not follow the Dongluo water, who is buried in the Beibi Mountain".
The place where the "thousand-handed monkey" took the grandfather and a few people to go is not the place where the tombs in the north mountain gather, on the contrary, this place is in the back mountain, a very inconspicuous, very barren deep pit, the surrounding mounds are towering, the bottom of the pit in the middle is dimly lit, and there is no grass, it can be said that the feng shui is extremely poor.
At this time, under the feet of everyone, there was a path that was stepped on, and the traces of the path were not too obvious, it should be stepped out by the "thousand-handed monkey" every day, except for him, there may not be a second person who has come.
Follow the path to the bottom of the pit, surrounded by ginger soil, occasionally mixed with a few jagged strange stones, looking around, people feel very depressed.
Xiao Laodao asked the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" suspiciously: "Old brother, this place is poor and stubborn, sitting on yin and back to yang, can there be an ancient tomb?" ”
The "Thousand-Handed Monkey" also looked uncertain, raised his hand and pointed to a boulder in the soil, and said: "This is what Xia'er said, I come to see it every day, and to be honest, I can't see any doorway......
Xiao Laodao looked at the boulder, this boulder can be more than one zhang high and six feet wide, standing upright and embedded in the loess, Xiao Laodao walked closer, knocked the boulder with the dust back handle in his hand, smiled, and said: "I think this stone looks like a stone door." ”
"Thousand-Handed Monkey" hurriedly said: "Does my brother think so too?" ”
Xiao Laodao nodded, and then beckoned to the grandfather, took out the guy who was digging the pit, bypassed the boulder, and dug it along the loess at the edge of the boulder.
An hour later, the boulder was completely dug out. The boulder was not only tall, but also unexpectedly thick, four or five feet thick, and behind the boulder was an arched stone brick wall of similar height, and the brick wall looked like a tombway.
Xiao Laodao also instructed everyone to leave this boulder alone, carve out a space from the brick wall in the soil, and make a gap in it.
Although the brick wall is strong, it is much easier to deal with than the boulder, as if it was built with a three-way earth barrier, and everyone even pried and smashed it, and it took half an hour to make a hole more than two feet wide and waist-high.
While everyone was resting and breathing, Xiao Laodao lit a candle and tried it at the mouth of the hole, the candle was placed at the mouth of the hole, and the wind outside poured into it, and the candle flame was extinguished after a few beats.
Seeing this, the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" said to Xiao Laodao: "Brother, don't be in a hurry first, wait and then enter." ”
Xiao Laodao glanced back at the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" and said, "Judging from the candle fire, it is extremely deep here, and the place is not small. ”
"Thousand-Handed Monkey" smiled, "It seems that Xia'er is not wrong. ”
After the effort of having two incense sticks, the candle was placed at the mouth of the hole and no longer extinguished, which means that the air inside is saturated, which is consistent with the outside. The people cleaned up their stuff, lit two torches, and got in.
Inside the arched brick wall, it really looks like a tomb road, slightly narrower than the boulders blocking the outside, but compared to the tombs that the grandfather has stolen in the past, this tomb road is very tall and spacious.
Walk along the tomb road to the inside can be twenty or thirty steps away, a closed stone door blocked the way, everyone was stunned at this time, this stone door looks like there is no trace of the old, as if it has just been installed, brand new, the stone door is also engraved with a word: "Yuan".
What does it mean that everyone looks at each other? In the past, there were words on the stone door, all of which were threatening, what "the person who enters died" and so on, what does the word "edge" on the stone door mean?
Xiao Laodao turned his head and asked, "Thousand-armed monkey", "Old brother, have you ever seen such a tomb gate?" ”
The "Thousand-Handed Monkey" shook his head, puzzled, and after hesitating for a moment, guessed: "Mo is not...... Can someone open this door? ”
Xiao Laodao suddenly laughed, "Is the owner of the tomb waiting for someone destined to come and rob his tomb?" ”
When the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" heard this, he also laughed awkwardly, who would want others to come and rob their tomb.
Xiao Laodao gave Xiao Shiyi a look, Xiao Shiyi understood, picked up the sledgehammer, walked to the door, and smashed it.
Boom, boom, boom, Xiao Shiyi smashed more than thirty times in one breath, and then looked at the stone gate, not only did not move at all, but even the stone chips the size of a fingernail did not fall.
Xiao Laodao and the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" were shocked when they saw this, and the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" said in disbelief: "This stone gate is so hard, could it be that it was built by a meteorite outside the sky?" ”
"Extraterrestrial meteorites?" Xiao Laodao looked at the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" in astonishment, and the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" hurriedly said: "In the past, I took out a meteorite sarcophagus, which was not only extremely hard, but also very heavy, and in the end we only took the objects in the ear chamber, and the sarcophagus was never opened. ”
Xiao Laodao blinked his eyes twice, "Since it is extremely hard, how did the tomb owner make the meteorite into a sarcophagus?" ”
The "Thousand-Handed Monkey" shook his head, "I don't know about this, maybe those stonemasons who built the sarcophagus have some secret skills, and I have only encountered them once over the years." At present, if this stone gate is also made by meteorites, then we will have to find another way. ”
Xiao Laodao had heard of the loss, but he had never encountered it, he was a little unconvinced, and gave Xiao Twelve and Xiao Thirteen another look, and the two of them immediately took the hammer from Xiao Shiyi's hand and smashed it in turn.
I don't know how many times I smashed it, until the two of them couldn't lift their arms, Xiao Shisan said to Xiao Laodao with a depressed face: "Master, you really can't smash it open, this stone gate is harder than iron." ”
The "Thousand-Handed Monkey" persuaded Xiao Lao Dao, "Brother, let's go out, bypass this stone gate, and make a vertical hole from the outside." ”
Xiao Laodao sighed, he didn't want to give up, but there was no other way, "The mountains and soil outside here are extremely thick, and if you want to dig a vertical hole from the outside, I'm afraid it will take a lot of hands and feet, but I didn't expect that the door in front of me would stump the two of us grave digging veterans......"
When the master heard this, he asked for a hammer from Xiao Shisan's hand and walked towards the stone gate, and the "thousand-handed monkey" hurriedly said to the master: "Brother Liu, don't smash it, save some effort." ”
The master was a little unconvinced, "I haven't seen a loss, and since I encountered it today, I also want to try how hard it is." As he spoke, the master poured true qi into his arms, picked up a sledgehammer, and smashed it towards the stone gate......
"Poof", Xiao Laodao and the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" exclaimed at the same time, and the stone gate actually fell straight backwards, slamming heavily on the ground inside, and the master was stunned with a hammer.
"A hammer?" The "Thousand-Armed Monkey" exclaimed in disbelief: "Only one hammer smashed open? ”
When the master heard this, he looked back at the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" and Xiao Laodao in astonishment, and said something that almost didn't startle the jaws of the two: "I didn't hit the ...... at all."
"What?" Everyone looked at the grandfather, and after a long pause, Xiao Laodao smiled bitterly and said to the "Thousand-Handed Monkey": "Old brother, I'm really right for you, this door can only be opened by someone who is destined, obviously, our Brother Liu is the one who is destined......"
The second monk of the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" was puzzled, "This, this...... I understand, when I asked Xia'er about the tomb before, I told her, this is the last one I asked, not for anything else, but to repay your kindness, this, this must be the tomb that Xia'er deliberately chose. ”
When Xiao Laodao heard this, he blinked his eyes twice, "It is very likely that Ling Qianjin knows everything, and he should not point us to a tomb that cannot be opened." This tomb door has such mysteries, and the tombs inside are only afraid of more mysteries. Xiao Laodao immediately greeted the master, "Brother, it seems that this tomb has a great relationship with you, you come to take the lead, go in with your own heart, and we will follow you behind." ”
The master nodded, handed the shovel to Xiao Shisan, took a torch, stepped on the stone door that he had turned over, and was the first to walk in.
Behind the stone gate, it was not what the master imagined, there was no hall, and it was still an arched tomb made of brick walls, but there were three tomb roads on the left, middle and right, which were much smaller than the tomb roads that came in.
The master held a torch and looked at the three tombs separately, and then glanced back at Xiao Laodao, wanting to ask Xiao Laodao's advice, but Xiao Laodao hurriedly said: "I have already said it, we follow you, and you are in charge of everything." ”
When the master heard this, he turned his eyes back to the three tomb roads, and saw that these three tomb roads, except for the location, all looked the same, Xiao Laodao let him choose, which one should he choose?
The master looked at the three tombs several times, he couldn't make up his mind, and finally, put his heart sideways, just go one, if it doesn't work, and then come back, the master chose the one on the left.
After walking about fifty steps in the tomb on the left, a little light suddenly appeared in front of him, and the master turned back to Xiao Laodao and said, "Brother Xiao, the light in front of you won't be an exit, right?" ”
When Xiao Laodao heard this, he squinted his eyes and looked into the depths in front of him, and said, "I don't see it, but it looks like something is glowing." ”
The "Thousand-Handed Monkey" also looked ahead and said, "It's a bit like the light of some beast's eyes, there won't be any beasts in this tomb." ”
Xiao Laodao looked at the "Thousand-Handed Monkey" and said, "Even if there are fierce beasts, these are all tombs hundreds of years ago, and they are starving to death. ”
The Thousand-Handed Monkey said, "If there is another exit, this beast can come in and out...... We'd better be careful. ”
When the master heard this, he didn't say a word, and walked straight to the depths, the light in front of him was not amplified because everyone was approaching, except that it was getting brighter and brighter, and the size did not change much.
Seeing that they were about to come to the front, everyone saw the glowing thing clearly, and suddenly gasped......