Chapter 42 Emergency Exits
Chapter 42 Emergency Exits
In the "Cannon Temple" above, one by one the "Falling Flower Cannons" continued to explode in the temple, the sulfur and soil chips flew sideways, the old rotten wood in the tomb was impacted, and they were broken, and the bricks and trees collapsed for a while, and I fell to the ground in a thick smoke and dust, feeling that the tomb would completely collapse at any time, how could I get up, rolling and "touching" towards the tomb door in the chaos, and I couldn't tell which one it was when I hit my companion, so I could only push him out desperately.
I rushed out, full of bricks and mud, and saw that the people around me were also there, only the fat man was hit by a wooden stake on his head, although he was wearing a mountaineering helmet, but he still made a cut on his face, he didn't care, he wiped it all around, and couldn't tell whether it was mud or blood, and before I went to check the situation of others, the coffin room behind it was completely buried by broken wood and soil. Half a step slower had to be suffocated inside, and just when everyone was frightened, they suddenly saw a cluster of ghost-like bleak light at the far end of the dark tomb, reflecting the "color" of the human face.
The tomb bricks of the blue brick tomb road are engraved with the name of the craftsman, the name of the kiln out of the brick, and the "four Gengchen", this is the old saying, according to the current saying is "year, month, day, hour", it should be the things of the Ming Dynasty, the whole tomb road is narrow and long, and both ends are endless. We had just come out of the coffin where the stake had collapsed, and before we could gain a foothold, we saw a faint ghostly fire at the end of the tombway.
The fire was not much bigger than the flame that lit the match, and it may contain phosphorus powder in the combustible, and the light that lit up was a dark green "color", like a row of candles, and the glowing green "color" was dim, and we were about 20 meters away, which was beyond the lighting horizon of the "tactical 'spotlight'".
Immediately there was a strange movement of wooden teeth biting, but I don't know what was wrong, Shirley Yang then folded a fluorescent tube and threw it towards the far end of the tomb, and the glowing green light suddenly flourished in the darkness, and this time I finally saw it clearly.
It turns out that the end of the tomb road is narrow to wide, leaning out of a gatehouse, among which are two flashes full of copper nails and copper rings of stone arched "tomb door", the scale and shape are no different from the world, six wooden dragon heads poked out under the dripping eaves in front of the stone door, the dragon's head eyes flickered like candles, it may be that we suddenly broke into this place, and there was no intention to trigger what kind of mechanism in the chaos of "chaos", so that the scales hidden in the eye socket of the wooden dragon burned.
The five of us, except for the fat man, can probably guess the origin of this thing, just listen to the action in the wooden dragon, plus there is a phosphorus fire burning inside the dragon's head, we know that nine times out of ten it is an extremely sharp rocket pin "swarm".
The "swarm of bees" is the Ming Dynasty army in the battle to defeat the enemy's weapon, the shape has the shape of "crow, fire dragon", the overall shape is a long wooden box, the use of gunpowder or machine spring "shooting", "shooting" when there is like a swarm of bees out of the nest, so the name "a swarm of bees", sometimes the arrow with fire or poison, so the killing range and power become greater, later there are also people to use it to prevent tomb robbery, the most insidious way is to install a few "swarm bee" crossbow inside the coffin, if the person who opens the coffin is not vigilant, immediately killed on the spot. Hidden in such a narrow cemetery, it is even more difficult to guard.
From Shirley Yang throwing a fluorescent tube to illuminate the tomb door, to we seeing the wooden box dragon head under the eaves, it was only in an instant, the rockets hidden in the "swarm of bees" had been "shot" out, and there was no room for people to think about the reaction.
Countless rockets flew in the narrow tomb passage, the sound was particularly amazing, "woo" whistling, listening to the human brain melon skin tightened, thanks to Shirley Yang Yanming's quick hand, the "golden steel umbrella" shook when it was opened, covering behind everyone, separating all the locust-like "chaotic" arrows.
The golden steel umbrella can withstand "water and fire, rotten poison, knives and guns", and although the rocket of "swarm" is strong and strong, and the arrows are burning, but there is nothing to do with this golden steel umbrella. It's just that the tomb is very narrow, and if you are close to the tomb door, a golden steel umbrella can hardly protect the five people lined up, and everyone has to keep retreating to the other end of the tomb.
"Nest box rocket" is simple in structure, and easy to conceal camouflage, is a common "pin" used in the mausoleum to plot tomb robbers, but it is also a relatively stupid method, although the arrow is powerful, but can cover and block, and the most important thing is that the arrow in the box is limited, and after all, it is an ignorant and ignorant dead thing, experienced tomb robbers can be triggered by constantly triggering, so that the machine is completely extinguished.
But the "wooden dragon arrow box" hidden in this tomb seems to be endless, the arrows are like rain, and the momentum has never weakened, and the "chaotic" arrows blocked by the golden steel umbrella are burning spontaneously on the ground, and we continue to retreat into the distance, leaving arrows all over the ground behind us, as if laying a layer of dry firewood in the tomb, and half of the tomb road has been set on fire.
Our rear team turned into the front team, retreated dozens of steps away, and saw that we were about to leave the range of the rocket's "shooting", and everyone couldn't help but secretly rejoice, if there were "swarms of bees" and other rockets hidden in the tombs at both ends, forming a front and rear flanking momentum, we would inevitably be "shot" into "hedgehogs" at this moment.
But at this moment, I heard a dull roar in the darkness at the end of the retreat, as if "the sound of gold and wood and the rolling of thunder", and as if some giant beast was "snorting" and panting, and I said to myself: "It's a big trouble, this is really a bad luck, and even his mother stuffed his teeth when he drank cold water." ”
Before I threw out the lighting to see what was hidden in front of me, I heard the sound of "rumbling" in the tomb resounding endlessly, getting closer and closer to our position, and rushed to the front in an instant, in the light of a few "spotlights" and flashlights shaking, I saw a huge white cow emerging from the black, the head was round and square, the strength was abnormal, the head of the cow alone, it was enough to be the size of "Ba Dou", the two horns on the head flashed cold, sharp and sharp did not let the "sword halberd", the bull's eyes were round, staring straight forward, but lifeless, There was no brilliance, only the cow's belly was "gurgling", and it was a wooden cow with a pin move.
This narrow blue brick tomb is full of mechanisms, and every step is a deadly trap, and everyone who sees the wooden ox rushing towards them let out an exclamation.
Now this tomb road is narrow and depressing, the width is only less than two meters, there is no room for people to move around, and the wooden ox is heavy and strong, listening to the sound is through the collapse of the spring bullet "shooting", the impact is extraordinary, the golden steel Arhat also has to teach it to knock over, not to mention the cold on the horns, I am afraid that if you encounter it, you will have to be picked by it on the spot, and die.
At this time, a gust of wind blows, the wooden cow has rushed to the front in a blink of an eye, there is a way to be desperate, I grabbed the fat man dragged the "Guan Gong knife", the two shouted in unison, press the knife, pick the knife head, dozens of pounds of the Qinglong Yanyue knife turned over, smashed on the head of the wooden cow, and suddenly heard the sound of "snap", and smashed the wooden ox cart in front of him.
The head of the cow is cast with copper cover and iron horns, the shock of me and the fat man's hands are broken, both arms are numb, I looked down at the wooden cow that was split by the "Guan Gong" knife, only to see that the cow is hidden in the belly of a few skin bags, from which a wisp of yellow smoke comes out, so thick that it seems to be impossible to dissolve, I shouted that it is not good, beckoned the other four to wear gas masks.
Everyone hurriedly held their breath and hurriedly put the gas mask on their faces, and within a while, the thick yellow smoke had spread, and the burning arrow flames in the tomb were pressed by the rising poisonous smoke, and they were suddenly dimly extinguished, and the fire was extinguished, and the wooden dragon box at the gatehouse also stopped.
I see that the things in this tomb are all from the Ming Dynasty, in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the burial of the woman's tomb "hole", there will be "copper ox, wooden cow" appeared, and the man's tomb "hole" is mostly "rhino", just rushed out of this wooden cow, not only has a copper cover iron horn can hurt people, and the cow belly hides poisonous smoke, if the tomb robber avoids its impact, the wooden ox will hit the tomb door headlong, so that the poisonous smoke hidden in the body attacks, can also kill people, it is really a serial killing machine, teach people to take advantage of the gap.
In order to get out as soon as possible, the five of us had to stay close together, "touching" the stone wall in the tomb, and moving forward step by step in the thick fog.
I had just walked a few steps in the direction where the wooden ox mechanism appeared, and suddenly noticed that the tomb was faintly vibrating in the distance, and it seemed that there were heavy mechanisms such as "rolling stones" or "jack hammers" falling, such as using huge "stone balls, stone hammers" and other objects, to block the tomb road that had been robbed by the tomb robbers.
I secretly complained bitterly, quickly turned around, and patted the rest of the people on the shoulder, so that they quickly turned around and ran back, and ran to the arched tomb door to fight for a chance of survival.
Everyone also noticed the movement in front of the cemetery, beware of the rear team to the front team, turned around and walked back to the road, fortunately, the terrain was more familiar when they came, and there was no need to "grope" the action step by step, but there were many scattered arrows and planks on the ground, and someone ran out of a few steps and was tripped and kicked, at this time it was impossible to tell who fell in front of him, I and the fat man arrived in the back, dragged the man from the ground and fled, the vibration in the tomb behind him became more and more violent, and the oppression of death was like a big limit, and I only hated my father and mother for having two legs.
Running to the tomb door in the thick smoke, seeing the copper lock hanging between the two tomb doors, I didn't care about what the situation of the tomb inside would be, and directly cut off the big lock with the Guan Gong knife, and everyone worked hard to open the stone door, and at the same time as the tomb door opened, a thousand catties of stone grinding rolled in the tomb road have also exploded.
I saw that the tomb door had just been pushed open a crack and people could enter, so I pushed my companions who were pushing the stone door one by one, and I followed closely to dodge in, and the huge stone grinder immediately hit the tomb door, shaking the walls and completely blocking the way.
Suo Xing in the chaos no one left behind, all fled into this tomb, I whole body blood surged, lying in the tomb gasping for a few breaths, because the tomb has part of the poisonous smoke flowed in, so did not dare to take off the gas mask, look up, see the sparse smoke in the dark bucket "swing", the whole Ming Dynasty tomb is also narrow and low, only slightly larger than the area of ordinary houses, there is no coffin inside, among which there is a nine-color "color" golden bull, like the size of an ordinary buffalo, the whole body is chiseled silver and gold, it looks thick and luxurious, There is a female "sex" corpse lying on the back of the cow, probably because it was stolen from the outside and carried here, the ancient corpse dissipated, and the face was a little unrecognizable, and the clothes worn also looked dirty and ragged, holding a delicate wooden box painted with gold in the arms of the dried corpse, which looked like a jewelry box.
I have heard Sun Jiuye mention many times before, "Guanshan Taibao" secretly excavated ancient tombs in various places, and finally the earth immortal sealed the ancient, and hid all the things in the tomb in the yin house of "Dixian Village", so I was not very surprised to see "dry corpses, bright weapons, and poisonous smoke in the nest" underground. I just don't understand why Feng Shigu took such pains to build such a "tomb museum" in the coffin mountain? Judging by what he did, he was no different from a madman.
Just a little distracted, the eyes of the "nine-colored" golden bull in front of me suddenly blinked, and I said that I was dizzy and dazzled, and then I wanted to take a closer look, but I saw the golden bull holding the dry corpse on his back and hitting it straight ahead.
I hurriedly dodged and dodged, the "nine-colored" golden bull flashed in front of me, the tomb was square on all sides, the arch blocked by the stone roller was on one of the sides, the head of the bull was originally on the side of the tomb door, a rush was rushed to a stone wall, immediately hit a square, but the golden bull did not fall over because of hitting the wall, the dry corpse on the back did not even move, but the tomb wall was flipped over, there was another secret room behind the wall, the golden bull carried the corpse, and it was submerged in the dark room behind the wall.
I wondered in my heart, could it be that the Nine 'Color' Taurus could be able to understand the inspiration? Seeing that an outsider entered the tomb, he was able to flee to another hidden tomb with the remains of the tomb owner? I was stunned, and suddenly remembered the record in the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" "escape" scroll, and immediately woke up, it turned out that this ancient tomb anti-theft machine was launched in a row, once an outsider invaded the tomb and triggered the "pin", this golden bull was like a coffin that could walk and move, and immediately transferred the tomb owner's bones to another area, and after the tomb wall was flipped and fell, the tomb where we were immediately appeared "poisonous smoke, ambush fire" and other mechanisms.
The tomb wall that is opened by the "nine 'colored' golden bulls", there is a famous hall called "turning the sky cover", this wall is overturned, the tomb will immediately become a "death trap", now the stone arch tomb door has been blocked by a thousand huge stones, if the dark room behind the tomb wall closes the door again, there is no way to find a way out.
As long as the "nine-colored" golden bull carrying the corpse gets in, after the tomb wall falls to the ground, I never want to let it open again, but after all, I am waking up later, no matter how fast the reaction is, it will be too late to rush over from behind.
In the blink of an eye, I saw the fat man who was a little closer to the wall, and suddenly sent the "Guan Gong knife" forward, and poked it obliquely into the stone trough on the ground, just pinning the hooves of the "nine 'colored' golden bulls", although the golden bulls were heavy, they could only move according to a fixed route, and could not leave the stone trough, let alone break the cast iron handle of the thickness of the goose egg, and they were stuck under the "overturning cover", and they could no longer move forward.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly said that I was lucky, but I don't know which tendon Wang Fat Man was wrong, why did he suddenly become so wise and decisive? It is really "reaching out to the sea and turning the river, and turning the tide is about to fall". At this time, he saw him get up from the ground, walked to the golden bull with his arms dangling, stretched out his hand and pulled out the gold box in the arms of the dry corpse, broke the lid of the box and looked at it, and then stuffed it into his carrying bag.
It turned out that the fat man didn't think about anything else just now, but he saw the "Nine 'Color' Golden Bull" fleeing with the corpse of the tomb owner, and saw that the corpse had a "Ming Weapon" gold box hidden in his arms, so naturally he couldn't let it slip away easily from under his nose, and he didn't even have to think about it through his brain, out of the effect of nerve reflexion, he quickly handed out the "Guan Gong Knife" to block the Nine "Color" Golden Bull that had entered the secret room, and then immediately started to "touch" the gold and copied the "Ming Weapon" in the arms of the zongzi.
At this time, Shirley Yang and his sister had already helped Professor Sun up, and I found that at the door of the stone arch tomb, there was still poisonous smoke pouring into the tomb from the cracks, so I gestured to everyone and let everyone get into the dark room from under the belly of the "Nine 'Colors' Golden Ox".
After the "overturned cover" is an obscure and narrow tomb chamber, there is a heavy sandwich wall hanging above, and several layers of animal skins are paved between the walls, after the dark wall is turned and closed, it will fall down and die of the "overturning cover", the solid double-layer tomb wall will trap the tomb robbers alive in the previous tomb, even if it is the tomb "hole" of the princes and nobles, there are few such ruthless and ingenious arrangements, I don't know what the tomb owner carried by the "nine-colored" golden bull "used to be.
I don't care about thinking about anything, I looked around in the tomb after the "overturning the sky", and saw that there was a stone step on the side, presumably it was the yang house leading to the "coffin mountain", we wanted to "touch" into the "old house of the Feng family" from the underground tomb, but now it seems that there are many mechanisms in the ancient tomb, and the tomb is low and narrow, and the five people are crowded in it and can't do it at all.
I pointed to the stone steps in the burial chamber and motioned to leave the so-called "Tomb Museum" and act from above, and Shirley Yang and the others immediately nodded in agreement. The fat man took the lead in front of him, lifted a layer of copper cover, and the five people drilled out one by one. Look around, it is in a private house, the furniture in the house is readily available, each piece is exquisite and exquisite, look at the scale, although it is not a luxurious aristocratic mansion, it can be regarded as a "rich family" in the world, and the people's homes will not be like this.
The exit of the secret passage was under a carved wooden tooth bed, it was dark and silent, empty, I struck a match, and when I saw that the flames were all right, I took off my gas mask, and my nose smelled a cold breath, and it was obvious that no one had moved around in the room for a long time.
This time I learned to be obedient, and without waiting for the people behind me to come out of the secret passage under the bed, I first pushed open the door and let the fat man drag a chair in front of the door, so as not to be locked in the room again.
The wound on the fat man's face has stopped bleeding, but because he is worried about breaking his appearance, his mood seems a little anxious, and he asked me inexplicably: "Commander Hu, you see that this bed is really exquisite, and it is worth silver if it is dismantled and dragged to Panjiayuan, which is enough to shock the second master Qiao, do you say that this is the landlord's mother-in-law sleeping and lying?" I said, "The furniture is good, but the courtyard is not large, and it may be the outhouse of a large family, and I think it looks like the bed of the old landlord and his aunt's wife." The fat man said indignantly: "There may not be more men and fewer women in this world, but why are there so many singles?" In the final analysis, it is the rich landlord class who keep warm and think about "lewdness", and every household has three wives and four concubines, so when it comes to our proletariat, even monogamy is not enough, why? As a result, the singles rose up and fought the landlords of the whole country, and I think it is necessary for us to carry forward this fine tradition, and there is nothing polite to the grandsons of the Guanshan Taibao......"
I didn't have a good impression of the "Guanshan Taibao", so I told the fat man: "You don't have to make excuses around the bush, the Daming Guanshan Taibao is the eagle dog of the court, and there have been many inverted craftsmen in the past. We still have to do it tightly this time, and it's just a matter of finding the Danding Heavenly Book, if it's too late...... It's not too late to settle the ledger again, and when you leave, you set it on fire and don't leave a single tile behind. ”
While speaking, the other three people also came out of the dark path one after another, Sun Jiuye seemed to be extremely tired, and sat on the water wood carved tooth bed to rest, but after he sat down, he stopped moving, and he didn't even take off the gas mask on his face.
I saw that he behaved differently, so I held down the "sapper shovel" tightly and walked to the bed, stretched out his hand and took off the gas mask for him, everyone was surprised when they saw Sun Jiuye's face hidden under the gas mask, and they all stepped back together.