Chapter 17 of the main text opens the coffin
The atmosphere seemed to freeze as if it were so cold, and I could already smell the thick smell of gunpowder in the air.... I looked at Cai Wen nervously: "Why do you have to make it like this?" Let's have a good talk. ”
"There's nothing to talk about..."Cai Wen said coldly, "We are not partners in the first place, we just take what we need." ”
I really didn't expect Cai Wen to make such a ruthless move. The vivid use of the dark glass cup really makes the affection of the partner disappear so that there is no slag left.
"Pillar, let him go." Old Uncle Li said softly, and handed the glass cup to Cai Wen, and his yellow old face showed a light and breezy appearance.
But I think that the more Uncle Li doesn't care, the more it shows that the glass cup is important to him, he deliberately conceals his importance to the glass cup, and in order to open the coffin, everything promised Cai Wen, so the things in the coffin must be more important.
And Cai Wen has undoubtedly driven himself to a dead end, once he makes a mistake in this dangerous move, he will fall into the abyss of no return....
Tie Zhu snorted coldly and shook off his arm vigorously. It can be seen that he Cai Wen has challenged his bottom line, but because of the master's face, he has been suppressing his anger.
Cai Wen lowered his head and arranged his collar, and his chest rose and fell a little rapidly...
I just stayed quietly on the side, didn't say a word, tried to maintain a neutral position, at this time standing on the side of Uncle Li and his apprentice is of course the wisest choice, but Cai Wen made this decision after all for his mother's medical expenses, and I really can't do it to isolate him like this.
What's more, after so many days, I almost understand the personalities of several of them, and Cai Wen is definitely not the kind of ruthless and unrighteous person. His mother's life was ..... to him Can be very important.
Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and my life-saving purple tomb moss still doesn't know if there is anything in this coffin...
Cai Wen put the glass cup into his backpack expressionlessly and gently pursed his lips.
Although he tried his best to hide his expression, I could see a hint of trepidation in his eyes. With his always cowardly character, he must have mustered up great courage to break the kettle like this.
"Alright, let's do it." There was a hint of impatience in Old Uncle Li's tone.
The four of us walked slowly to the four sides of the bronze coffin, east, west, north and south.
"Put your hand in the trough first, don't touch it." Old Uncle Li reminded.
The two grooves in front of him were the size of fists, and the black hole didn't know what was inside, and it looked a little crazy.
I swallowed and spat, cautiously reaching inside.
It was as cold as an ice cave, and I couldn't help but shiver.
"Bronze is easy to gather cold air, here is adjacent to the cliff lake in the north and the inferior ditch in the south, and the cold is difficult to resolve." Uncle Li explained.
I was a little relieved, curled up in my palms and slowly stretched in... It wasn't until the wrist didn't enter that I encountered a layer of hard iron barrier, and I was surprised that this groove was so deep.
Tie Zhu and Cai Wen also looked at the groove with strained faces.
"This is the Eight Mysterious Coffins of the Heavenly Machine, which is a common artifact for anti-tomb thieves. We have to cooperate well to open the coffin. Now, touch your finger upwards. ”
Uncle Li's words rang in my ears, and I bent my fingers upwards according to the guidance, and suddenly my two hands touched a bulge.
I didn't know what it was, but it was slender and stiff, like a bicycle handlebar.
"Now you've all touched the mechanism, right?" Old Uncle Li asked.
"Hmm." I nodded, this must be the thing.
"Yes." The iron pillar also responded.
“.. That ....." Cai Wen looked at us with a blank face.
"Did you touch it?" Old Uncle Li frowned and asked Cai Wen.
"Good.... It seems to have touched it..."Cai Wen's face was very ugly, as if he was a little unsure.
"That's good." Old Uncle Li glanced at him suspiciously, and continued: "I'll count one, two, three later, and we'll pull the switch down together." ”
"Are you ready?"
"Alright."
"One ....." my heart pounded.
"Second ......" For some reason, I suddenly felt a little nervous.
"Three!" I gritted my teeth and pulled down the handle.
To my surprise, there was no movement at all in the coffin....
"Ah!!h Cai Wen's face changed suddenly, and his eyes widened in horror.
I was frightened by his appearance, and hurriedly asked, "Cai Wen, what's wrong with you?!" ”
"Li..... Inside... Thing...."Cai Wen's voice almost had a hint of crying, "It's moving!!" ”
Hearing this, a chill jumped on my back, this coffin is a thousand years old, how could there be a living creature inside!
"Don't talk nonsense! What the hell are you trying to do?" Tie Zhu glared at Cai Wen fiercely, with deep suspicion in his eyes, it seemed that he had disgusted Cai Wen to the extreme.
"There's really something moving in there!" Cai Wen's face was pale, trembling all over, and he was trembling and ready to pull his hand out.
"Don't move!" Old Uncle Li hurriedly shouted, "Don't pull out your hands!" Now that the switch has been activated, as soon as someone withdraws, the blade inside will quickly pop out, cutting our hands! ”
"What?!"
Cai Wen trembled, and hurriedly put his hand in again.
"It.... It's moving again! Cai Wen's tone was trembling, and it was obvious that he was about to collapse.
"You flip the switch first!" Tiezhu shouted at him anxiously.
Indeed, if Cai Wen doesn't flip the switch, all of us can't move!
What exactly did Cai Wen come across? It won't be... The corpses inside, right?!
No, how can something that has been dead for thousands of years move?! I secretly comforted myself, but when I thought of the zombies I encountered in the dead man's room before, I felt bottomless again...
Everyone's faces turned unnatural....
"It.... Looks like it's coming out! Cai Wen exclaimed in horror.
At this time, I caught a glimpse of something sticking out of the groove of Cai Wen's left hand...
I take a closer look, and this is ..... Two tentacles!
Then, a piece of black shiny armor the size of a thumb was revealed.
Looks like this should be a centipede!
Old Uncle Li also noticed Cai Wen's wrist, and hurriedly said: "Don't move, this is a purple ghost centipede, which is highly poisonous, and if you are bitten, it will be difficult for the gods to save you." ”
"Then I... What should I do?" At this time, Cai Wen also forgot the tense situation with Uncle Li before, and put down his face to ask Uncle Li for help.
"Hmph, you know you're scared now." Tie Zhu looked at Cai Wen with a mocking look.
"If I get bitten, I'll just pull out my hands! Let's finish together! Cai Wen shouted.
"Don't mess around!" Old Uncle Li said sharply, "The purple ghost centipede likes to eat animal blood, if you drop a few drops of blood on the ground, it will naturally climb down." ”
"But I can't move my hands!" Staring at the centipede on his wrist, Cai Wen said anxiously.
"Idiot!" Old Uncle Li couldn't help but scold, "You just bite your lip and spit blood on the ground!" ”
Cai Wen nodded suddenly in realization, bared his teeth and pulled his lower lip into his mouth, and bit it hard, his mouth instantly became bloody.
This amount of bleeding is a bit heavy, and it seems that Cai Wen bit a little hard.
"Phew!"
Cai Wen spat a mouthful of blood foam on the ground.
The tentacles of the centipede immediately swayed from side to side a few times, and hundreds of calves swayed, crawling up along Cai Wen's arm.... Its entire black body was revealed.
I was a little surprised: the centipede was the length of an index finger, and the black carapace glowed brightly, but the two huge double chelae on its head told me that it was not a good species, and that a single bite was fatal.
It's just that there's something wrong with the direction it's climbing... It doesn't seem to want to climb to the ground, but to climb up....
This direction is ....
Not good! It's going to crawl into Cai Wen's mouth and suck blood! Apparently there's more blood there!
"What to do!" Cai Wen also realized this and shouted in panic.
"You flip the switch first, let's free up our hands to help you!" Uncle Li Li shouted.
"Hurry!"
"Good..... Good. Don't lie to me...."Cai Wen only did so, his left hand pulling down hard.
"Click!"
The coffin board jerked half an inch to the left.
It's done! The coffin is open!
At the same time, Uncle Li quickly pulled out his hands.
"Quick! Help me! Cai Wen shouted in despair. The centipede has crawled up to his neck!
"Don't move!"
After speaking, Uncle Li brushed away the centipede on Cai Wen's neck at an astonishing speed, and pinched it hard, and the centipede was directly broken into two!
Old Uncle Li immediately threw the two bodies of the centipede on the ground and stepped on them fiercely.
"Whew.... Whew..."Cai Wen gasped in shock, and a layer of fine beads of sweat oozed from his forehead....
Tiezhu and I also breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew our hands.
"I've always said I did." Old Uncle Li looked at Cai Wen calmly, and the corners of his mouth raised a trace of arc.
Cai Wen stirred his cheeks and didn't say a word.
We finally opened the coffin without any danger....
Along the gap in the coffin, wisps of black smoke escaped from the coffin....
"What a heavy yin qi." Old Uncle Li said with a solemn face, "I've never seen such a situation..."
The coffin board has been moved half an inch, so we just need to pull the coffin board and remove it.
Old Uncle Li said: "I don't know what the situation is here, everyone must be very careful when they do it for a while." ”
"Okay." The iron pillar should arrive.
I nodded uneasily, and inadvertently I glanced at the stone pillars around me again....
I was amazed to find that the candle went out again!
Li ..... Uncle Li. I looked at Uncle Li worriedly, "Two candles have been extinguished..."
Before he finished speaking, Uncle Li waved his hand and said resolutely: "We have come to this step, we can't go back anymore, we have already walked through the ghost gate a few times, and we don't care if the things in the coffin are willing!" ”
Truly... We have no way out, what we each want is right in front of us, how can we pat our butts and go back.
"Come on."
The four of us reached out and grabbed the side of the coffin board and decided to pull it to the right.
This bronze coffin was really heavy, and we gritted our teeth and tried our best, but we could only move it inch by inch.
"Snort--- Snort--- Snort---"
The coffin board made a heavy grinding sound, and it struggled to hold on to its post for thousands of years.
"Boom!"
We slowly place the coffin board on the ground.
This time, I clearly saw that the candles on the stone pillar in the northeast corner were shaking violently, and the orange-yellow ground flames condensed into blue-purple....
"Huh!" The one went out ....