Chapter 424: Tumbling Bugs
Chu Yaocen didn't have time to think about it, he said such a sentence to Disappearing and Finishing, and after speaking, he picked up Xiaohu and ran over quickly. As they ran, they kept hearing the sound of the suspension bridge behind them breaking, and a few of them had just stepped on the ground on the opposite bank, and the suspension bridge was completely broken.
Chu Yaocen put Xiaohu down, glanced back at the suspension bridge that had been completely broken, and couldn't help but twist his brows, after getting the treasure later, he couldn't go back the same way, hoping that there would be another way back.
He didn't have time to think so much now, so he hurriedly went to look at the thing that was biting the little tiger's foot tightly, and the thing was covered with a layer of mercury, and he couldn't tell what it was. He stretched out his hand to take the thing off her leg, but grabbed his hand without a trace and said, "Second master, are you crazy?" Don't you know that mercury can seep into your body through your hair and skin and cause you to be poisoned? ”
Chu Yaocen reacted suddenly, indeed, mercury can cause poisoning, and the poisoned person will not get sick at that time, and after a period of time, and it is not necessary to eat it in the stomach to be poisoned, inhaled into the nose, through the skin, it will be poisoned.
Fortunately, Chu Yaocen still had gloves made of wolf skin with him, so that if he encountered something that could not be touched with his hands, he would take it out for emergency use. He quickly took out the glove strap and went over to carefully inspect the things on the little tiger's feet, which turned out to be an iron clip. It stands to reason that the iron must have floated on top of the mercury, but they didn't notice it when they passed by just now, and it must have been hidden somewhere in the coffin.
Thinking about it, gold is heavier than mercury, and it should sink into the pool of mercury, and the gold ship is still floating on top of the mercury, and if it is real gold and not gold-plated, it proves that there must be something different at the bottom of the ship, and it should be a mechanism. This mechanism may be linked to the drawbridge, and when something goes wrong with the drawbridge, the iron frame on the ship will shoot out automatically. But fortunately, there is only one clip, and if there are too many, they may not be able to dodge.
Chu Yaocen buckled the gap in the middle of the iron frame and broke it open, and took a closer look at Xiaohu's ankle, the injury was not light, fortunately, the quality of her clothes was good, she was caught by such a tight clip, and there was no broken skin, but the bone was broken, and now she has to rest for two or three months before she can continue walking.
Chu Yaocen dealt with her briefly, and also carried some emergency medicine for the treatment of fractures, and after getting it done, he said, "Let's get out of here quickly, we may be poisoned if we inhale here." ”
Everyone nodded, Xiaohu was still unconscious, and Wan Kill wanted to go up and pick her up, but stopped Wan Kill without a trace and said, "Are all her hundreds of guards here to watch the play?" Their princess had an accident and wanted you to save her, and now she has a foot injury and can't walk and wants you to carry it, are you her father? ”
"But......" After finishing the killing, he opened his mouth to speak, and some of the guards behind him were already scrambling to step forward and carry Xiaohu. Seeing this, Wan Kill had no choice but to give up, and said to Shadowless: "Without a trace, you can't blame them, Xiaohu must be closer to us." ”
Shadow rolled his eyes without a trace: "You think you are right?" ”
Qingdi couldn't stand it anymore, so he gently tapped the head of the shadow and said, "Are you eating other people's little girl's vinegar?" Such a small thing has to be taken care of. ”
Shadow rubbed his head without a trace: "No, madam, this is not a trivial matter, we don't know how big this underground palace is, and we don't know when we will get the treasure, so our physical strength is extremely precious." If you let Wan Kill waste her physical strength all the time carrying her, how can Wan Kill run away when there is danger in the future? And they are different, it doesn't matter to us whether they die or not. ”
"Shh," Qingdi hurriedly motioned to Shadow not to speak, "You be careful, no matter what, we need these people for the time being, we are all a team." ”
Disappearing without a trace, what kind of team, calling so many people to come, doesn't it just want them to be a pioneer and stand in the way of everything?
Everyone set off to the Xianyang Palace in the underground palace, and saw many ravines along the road, all of which were built by Yingzheng at that time to be used for drainage, no wonder for so many years, this place can still remain the same, the construction of this underground palace is really too complete.
Walking further, all of a sudden, I don't know what was going on, the torches in everyone's hands were suddenly extinguished one by one, and some people took out the fire fold and wanted to light it, but they couldn't light it at all.
Seeing this, Chu Yaocen said, "It's normal, you won't be able to light the fire when you get to this place." ”
Everyone had no choice but to give up, and walked inside in the dark for a while, and the surroundings gradually became brighter again, and it turned out that there were many crystal stones embedded in the stones on the surrounding walls and ceilings.
Wan Kill touched these crystal stones and asked happily: "Second Master, is this crystal stone valuable?" ”
"This should be part of the treasure, it's worth a lot, but it's all inside the walls, and it takes a waste of time and manpower for us to dig it out, and maybe it will trigger the mechanism. What's more, we can't take everything away at once, if we take away all these crystals for lighting, when we come in and get the treasure in the future, we will need to move forward in the dark when we pass through this road. ”
Wan Kill felt that he was right, so he nodded.
The crowd took a few more steps forward, and suddenly someone in the crowd let out an exclamation, and everyone was startled and looked at the source of the sound.
The exclamation was made by the guard who was carrying the little tiger on his back, and when he saw that everyone was looking at him, he was obviously a little shocked, and said in horror, "It's moving, just now...... The ground seems to be moving! ”
"Is the ground moving?" Chu Yaocen asked others suspiciously, and when he saw that everyone shook their heads, he said, "Maybe it's an illusion." ”
"But ......" The man looked at the crowd, as if they had not noticed, and closed his mouth and said no more.
Maybe it's really an illusion, although I haven't foreseen any danger yet, but this underground palace is definitely not so easy to break into. Although everyone didn't take the man's words seriously, they were all shocked, and they slowly groped step by step.
"Ahh
"What's wrong?" Chu Yaocen hurriedly asked.
"I seem to be ...... too"
Qingdi just wanted to say that she seemed to feel the tremor of the ground as well, but before she finished speaking, the vibration of the ground became more and more violent, and everyone felt it at this moment.
Before Chu Yaocen could let everyone be careful, the ground under his feet suddenly cracked, and insects the size of eggs came out of the ground, crawling up their bodies along their feet, and someone wanted to trample them to death, but when they stepped on them, they found that these insects were harder than stones, and they couldn't be stepped on to death at all.
"Everyone run out of this way, don't waste your energy fighting these bugs, run!" Chu Yaocen shouted loudly, and then explained to the guards who were beside Xiaohu: "You take Xiaohu away first, go quickly!" ”
Those people hurriedly escorted Xiaohu to run forward quickly. Chu Yaocen pulled out his sword with one hand to block these insects, and with the other hand to protect the green flute, he also quickened his pace and moved forward. There is nothing wrong with killing and disappearing without a trace to protect yourself.
After walking for a while, the bugs gradually decreased, but looking back, there were several guards behind them who were crawling with bugs, and it was difficult for them to get rid of so many bugs.
After walking for a long time, this section of the road came to an end, and a stone gate appeared in front of me. Everyone hurriedly ran to the other side of the door, and some people behind them who couldn't get rid of the bugs were also slowly moving in this direction, and they kept making suppressed painful sounds, the bugs must have been hurting them.
"Close the stone door quickly, don't let them bring the worms in."
One of the guards said suddenly.
Qingdi hurriedly reached out to stop her hand that wanted to close the door, and said angrily: "Are you crazy? Don't let them in, they'll be eaten by bugs. ”
"Each of us is ready to die, as long as we can protect the princess from harm, it is also the honor they deserve to be eaten." The guard spoke loudly, and those who wanted to run behind him could obviously hear it, and they hesitated for a moment, but instead of going forward, they retreated. As they retreated, the bugs stopped crawling this way, and went back after them.
"Hey ......"
Qingdi still felt unbearable and wanted to call them back, but Chu Yaocen grabbed her arm and said, "It's useless, they want to lure all the insects to the opposite side to protect Xiaohu from being harmed." They won't come back. ”
Qingdi put down his hand in a dejected manner, and someone immediately closed the stone door.
Chu Yaocen looked at Qingdi and sighed, he didn't have time to comfort her for the time being. He asked the crowd, "How many people didn't escape just now?" ”
They looked around each other, and after a long time, one of the guards replied, "Forty-five." ”
Chu Yaocen quickly twisted his brows, he didn't expect so many people to be sacrificed this time, and he didn't know how many organs there would be in the back, and how many people would have to sacrifice, let alone that when they found the treasure, there would be a few people who had the strength to move the treasure out.
Chu Yaocen was silent for a long time and said, "Let's continue walking." ”
The crowd answered and went on.
Chu Yaocen walked at the back, and he obviously felt that Qingdi's mood was starting to be wrong. He sighed and said, "I said that I would bring so many people here so that this situation would occur, and the dead people would not be you and me, nor would they be completely killed and disappeared. ”
"Then if you don't bring them over, just a few of us, when we encounter this situation, don't we estimate so much, we can escape?" Qingdi asked puzzled.
Chu Yaocen was silent. After a long time, he said: "Do you believe it, the land that was turned over just now is now turned back again, and after those insects eat people, they will also return to the ground below?" ”
Qingdi twisted his brows: "What do you mean?" I'm just asking you, if it's just a few of us, wouldn't anyone need to die? ”
"This insect sleeps under the ground all the time, and when someone passes by, it wakes up and gets up to feed." Chu Yaocen said: "This insect didn't come to chase us, it was someone who fed them." If it was just a few of us, we would never be able to get rid of these bugs. ”