Chapter Seventy-Two: The Chain of Chains
After a few hours of rest, Huzi began to slowly regain his strength, although not as vigorous as before, at least he could walk on his own.
I was packing up my equipment and preparing to go, but the seventh master waved his hand at me and said, "Below is the main coffin, there are too many organs here, don't bring all unnecessary equipment, just bring lighting things and sabers for self-defense." ”
No one knew more about the traps in the tomb than the Seventh Master, he said that he was not allowed to bring equipment, and none of us objected, so he followed his wishes, only brought torches, flashlights, sabers and some climbing ropes, and even did not bring a backpack, and set off.
After walking around the dungeon for half a circle, he began to come into contact with the first chain chain.
I used to look at it from a distance, but now when I got very close, I found that this chain was really unusual, it was connected by a ring with a notch, one after another, and then the gap on the ring was sealed with molten iron, and then a hair-thick gold wire was drawn out, one end was connected to the ring, and the other end was extended outward, probably connected to a mechanism somewhere.
Because this gold wire is too thin, if you don't look carefully at the flashlight, you can't detect it at all, and this kind of gold wire is not flexible at all, and it will break almost at the slightest touch.
The seventh master carefully reminded us: "This golden thread is not only very brittle, but also very sharp, if you are accidentally scratched, even if you dodge the mechanism, you can't escape the poison on this line." ”
As he spoke, the seventh master lay down, his face almost on the ground, his feet straightened, and he crawled forward with the strength of his upper limbs.
I turned on the flashlight, carefully illuminated, and found that although the seventh master had controlled the angle of his body very accurately, it was still less than a centimeter away from the gold thread, when he climbed over this chain of chains, I really pinched a cold sweat in my heart, and turned my head to look at Huzi, "Huzi, can you hold it up?" ”
At this time, Huzi was just walking simply, and a layer of cold sweat was already oozing from his head, and he looked very weak.
Huzi's face turned pale, looked at the seventh master who had just climbed the chain, smiled bitterly, and said to me, "I won't go, I'm waiting for you here, what are the good treasures, don't forget to get more for me." ”
I patted Huzi on the shoulder, many years of friendship, I know him very well as a person, is the kind of person who can fight hard to achieve his goal, and now seeing that the main coffin is below, but he doesn't want to bother us, he chose to wait where he is, and now he must be aggrieved in his heart.
"Don't worry, Huzi, after touching the artifact and coming back, I'll let you see it first!"
Huzi nodded, sat down on the ground, leaned back against the wall of the dungeon, and said, "Good luck to you." ”
After that, Wang Chuyi and I cautiously walked through the chain and set off towards the next floor of the underground palace.
The chains of this dungeon are getting denser and denser the further down, almost a full hour, we just go down a layer of the dungeon, the distance we walk is only more than 20 meters, after passing through more than a dozen iron chains, there is no gap in front of us to drill, only to see that the gold thread on the iron chain is dense like a spider web, and the light of the flashlight emits a burst of refraction.
"There should be no road further on, so we can only pass through the tomb." The Seventh Master pointed to a burial chamber on the left.
The door of this tomb is arched, and the inside of the tomb is pitch black, I looked at it and said, "Seventh Master, there are many mechanisms outside, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no other mystery inside, and how can you guarantee that this tomb can lead to the bottom?" ”
The seventh master said, "Based on my experience, every tomb here should be connected, the underground palace has a total of five floors, each floor has three tombs, we have now reached the fourth floor, that is to say, from here to enter, there are at most ten tombs to reach the bottom of the underground palace." ”
I turned around and looked at the chains outside, and then at the dark burial chamber in front of me, although I was very reluctant to enter this kind of tomb that had not yet been explored, and I could only nod my head in agreement with the current situation.
I glanced up, waved at Huzi, and told him that we were about to enter the tomb and told him to be careful.
Huzi gave me a thumbs up and signaled that it was okay and that we should be careful.
Then, I followed the Seventh Master into this tomb.
As soon as I entered the burial chamber, I felt an inexplicable panic that I had never felt before, as if something was holding my neck and I was about to suffocate.
I turned on my flashlight and looked around, and suddenly I noticed that around the wall of the tomb, there was a row of bronze statues, the height of the bronze statues was less than my knees, all of them looked like children, and they looked like they were two or three years old.
The Seventh Master lit the torch and walked towards the bronze statues, and I followed closely behind him to observe the situation.
I saw that the kneeling bronze statues had smiling faces, but the skull seemed to have been cut off, which should have been the part of the brain, but now it was filled with some liquid.
The Seventh Master probed forward with a torch, and in an instant the liquid burned, and then the tongue of fire flickered, and the bronze statues in the entire tomb burned one after another.
Looking up, there were about a hundred and ten of these bronze statues around the tomb, both boys and girls, with flames on their heads.
This is the first time I have seen this style of bronze lamp, it looks very scary, and then look at the expression of the bronze statue, everyone laughs, and I feel that the picture is very weird.
At this time, Wang Chuyi looked at these bronze statues with a nervous face, his body trembled slightly, and said, "It turns out that this legend is true. ”
I saw that her expression was not deliberately faked, so I quickly asked her what was going on.
Wang Chuyi walked in front of the bronze statue, squatted down, and said, "In ancient times, there was a legend that as long as you eat the brains of 700 boys and girls raw, you can live forever. ”
When I heard her say this, I only felt a chill on my back, and then looked at these bronze statues kneeling on the ground, and I couldn't help but ask her, "You mean that the bronze statues here are full of children's corpses?" ”
The Seventh Master said coldly, "Yes, this kind of legend has existed for a long time, and it is very cruel, you need to split the shell of a living human brain, and then pour a layer of hot oil on it, and dig it directly with a spoon to eat." ”
I gasped when I heard this, and the people of ancient times were too ignorant to believe in such superstitious statements, and all these boys and girls died tragically because of a superstitious rumor.
I really couldn't bear to look at it anymore, so I wanted to leave this tomb quickly, but after looking for a long time, I didn't find any other exit. Is this burial chamber a separate space? If this is the case, then the main coffin can only look like this, and it is almost impossible to go down to the bottom of the underground palace over the iron chain outside.
At this moment, Wang Chuyi suddenly said, "Here, come quickly!" ”