It's a dragon.

A potential water dragon.

This is also a tomb beast, with the heat of spirit stones emitting from its chest, metal reflections on the horns of its head, and parts such as gears and clockwork are exposed in the broken limbs - the craftsman who made it was Qin Beiyang's grandfather, or great-grandfather, or grandfather's grandfather......

Qin Beiyang quickly gave it a name - Tomb Beast of Qianlong Town.

It had just wiped out the soldiers who had invaded the dungeon, but it was also subjected to machine gun fire and even cluster grenades. This dragon-shaped tomb beast was completely defeated, it was invincible in the era of cold weapons, and even in the Qing Dynasty, where both cold and hot weapons were used, it was indestructible. But in the twentieth century, it could only be the object of slaughter.

If Qin Beiyang and Li Longsheng had seen this beast ten minutes ago, they would have been torn to pieces by it. But at this moment, the tomb beast of Qianlong Town is already at the end of its strong crossbow, and it can only coil its body on the coffin it guards, which is its last dignity.

Another tomb beast climbed up the coffin, its snow-white antlers, its scales, and its eyes glowing with a greedy glass.

"Nine colors!"

Qin Beiyang scolded loudly, but Jiuse became more and more disobedient and couldn't curb his desire for spirit stones. It pierced the chest of the Tomb Beast of Qianlong Town with its two horns, dug out a spirit stone that was getting cold, and chewed it up and swallowed it in its belly, like a wild dog that had been hungry for three days. It is impossible to count, this is the first few spirit stones devoured by the nine colors.

"Beiyang, this is the number of days." Li Longsheng comforted, "This mausoleum, as well as the tomb beast, was built by your ancestors themselves, and it is also the location chosen by my ancestors, and it is destined to be doomed." ”

Wherever the light of the glass fireball went, in addition to the six coffins on the water, there were many wooden chests floating on the water, and as for gold, silver and jewelry, most of them were hidden under the water and deep in the mud.

There was a wooden box that happened to float next to the bamboo raft, and Qin Beiyang brought it up and opened it, taking out a lot of huge scrolls.

Li Longsheng opened the first one and spread it out on his knees, but it was a black-and-white picture, full of precipitous mountains and rivers, and dozens of pillboxes, all guarded by men and women armed with muskets. The besieging soldiers were dressed in Qing Dynasty clothes, and most of them also used muskets, as well as Hongyi cannons, mixed with cold weapons such as knives, guns, bows and crossbows. Each figure is vividly painted, the details are lifelike, and there is a three-dimensional sense of relief, which is completely different from traditional Chinese painting.

"This is a Western copper engraving!" Li Longsheng saw the doorway, "It must be made by a Western painter in the Qing Palace." For example, Lang Shining, a Jesuit at the time of Emperor Qianlong, was a court painter. ”

Qin Beiyang flashed a certain picture in his mind: "The watchtower in this picture, when I was a teenager, I saw it in Xiangshan, Beijing. The old banner people there said that this was the Qianlong Dynasty to pacify the Jinchuan Rebellion, simulating the construction of Jinchuan watchtowers, and turning to train the soldiers of the Eight Banners. ”

"In this way, this copper engraving is "The Battle Map of Jinchuan in Pacification". Li Longsheng opened a few more scrolls, all of which were similar copper engravings, and they were all in the offensive and defensive battles of watchtowers in the mountains, "The battle of Jinchuan was an important war of the Qianlong Dynasty, and it pacified the rebellion of the Tusi of Jinchuan in western Sichuan. Jinchuan is full of watchtowers, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it lasted for decades before and after, tens of thousands of dead and wounded, and 70 million taels of silver were consumed. ”

Qin Beiyang opened a few more scrolls, still copper engravings of the same style, but the content was completely different, and it became a battle between large groups of cavalry. Both sides were armed with muskets, camel cavalry and artillery, reminiscent of the great battles of Europe in the 18th century. It's just that the clothes of the characters are oriental, one side is the Qing Dynasty clothes, and the other side is the Mongolian and Western Regions clothes.

"Is this the battle to pacify Dzungaria and unify Xinjiang?"

"Not bad." Li Longsheng opened several scrolls from the wooden box, "These copper engravings depict the 'Ten Perfections of Martial Arts' of Emperor Qianlong. ”

"Two battles of Dzungaria, one battle of Huibu, two battles of Jinchuan, one battle of Taiwan counterinsurgency, one battle of Burma, one battle of Annam, two battles of Gurkha, a total of ten wars."

"The Qianlong Emperor, who was so happy, therefore called himself the 'perfect old man' and ordered the court painters to make copper engravings."

Qin Beiyang slowly put away the scroll and put it back in the wooden box, so as not to fall into the sewage: "Is there a copper engraving artist in China?" ”

"Emperor Qianlong ordered that it must be completed in the style of the Augsburg copper engraving sculptor Lugendas. Lang Shining and other court painters first painted small-scale sketches, sent them all the way to France, where they were engraved and printed by Parisian craftsmen, and then sent back to China along with the engravings – all of which my father, a royal feng shui master, told me. ”

"The master here must be Emperor Qianlong, no doubt." Qin Beiyang looked at the nine colors on the huge coffin, "He's inside." ”

Li Longsheng said by the light of the glass fireball: "As for the other five coffins, they must be the concubines of Emperor Qianlong, such as his two queens and three imperial concubines. ”

"I'm curious, what is the true face of Emperor Qianlong? There is a folk legend that Emperor Qianlong was originally a Han Chinese, but the son of Chen Ge Lao in Haining, and was raised by Emperor Yongzheng before he succeeded to the throne after he was born. ”

"Just like someone said that Chengzu Zhu Di is really the son of Emperor Yuan Shun, it is all nonsense. The portrait of Emperor Qianlong, in recent years, has also been banned from the palace to the people, Emperor Qianlong is a typical Manchurian: long face, white skin, slender eyes, sparse beard......"

"Just let the rumors turn into martial arts." Qin Beiyang simply lay down on the bamboo raft and said, "I heard that in the tomb of Emperor Qianlong, there is also a cadre Mo Xie Sword." ”

"Don't overthink it! Now that Emperor Qianlong's underground palace has been destroyed and the tomb beast has been killed, how can we get out? ”

"I'm here to seek revenge on Ah Hai, and if I don't see Ah Hai, I won't leave here."

Before Qin Beiyang's words fell, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the underground palace, as if dozens of people and horses were coming, and there was the sound of guns colliding back and forth.

Li Longsheng lay on the bamboo raft and said, "They are here to open the coffin!" ”

Nine colors stood on the floating coffin, with antlers on their heads, ready to fight to the death.

The soldiers outside began to scream: "Oh my god, someone is talking in the dungeon!" Shouldn't it be the manifestation of Emperor Qianlong? ”

There was a noise outside the dungeon, and two more gunshots rang out, perhaps because the coward had gone off the rails. The bandits of this group of warlords, before they even stepped into the dungeon, they were already in a mess, gunshots were fired one after another, and even a few screams were heard, it must have been a black light that hit their own people.

Qin Beiyang made a plan, and simply spoke loudly to Li Longsheng: "We are trapped in the underground palace, how can we escape?" ”

"I don't know, is it hiding in this coffin?"

"You people who came out of Taibai Mountain like to hide coffins!"

Qin Beiyang naturally remembered the stabbing of Xiangshan Snow at night, as well as the past when Ah Hai and Tuhuan hid in the coffin of the little prince of the Tang Dynasty and assassinated General Xiao Xu. The sound in the dungeon and so much stagnant water form a wonderful resonance effect, like the singing of the devil, melodiously floating into the depths of the tomb.

So, there was a rush of running outside. These soldiers are really useless. It is conceivable that Ah Hai is not in the mausoleum of Emperor Qianlong, otherwise this situation would never be the case.

Li Longsheng held a bamboo raft in the underground palace, just like rowing a boat on the Cam River in Cambridge, and quickly rushed out of the tomb. Qin Beiyang used a Russian cross bow to protect his chest, and the nine colors also spewed out a glass fireball to open the way.

The fireballs flew up and down, and several screams were heard in front of them, and the soldiers retreated even more. Qin Beiyang and Li Longsheng passed through the two tomb doors and were blocked by the dense rain of bullets. Can't rush out anymore, once out of the tomb and exposed to broad daylight, Jiu Se will revert to the appearance of a big dog, and Qin Beiyang and Li Longsheng will also be beaten into a sieve by machine guns.

The two of them were a beast, desperate, but a rope hung down from their heads, which dangled right in front of Qin Beiyang's nose.

"Who?"

Qin Beiyang looked up vigilantly. Above his head is the thief hole that he just jumped down from. He grabbed the rope and tugged at it, and there was a force from above.

It was really a rescue from heaven, Li Longsheng climbed the rope first, then Qin Beiyang, and finally the nine colors with four legs.

They climbed up to the dome of the tomb along the thick ropes and returned the way they came. Climbing up from the hell of the ancient tomb, Qin Beiyang's eyes were almost blinded by the sun. The attention of the tomb robbers was all in the tomb tunnel, and no one noticed that there were people on the top of the tomb.

In addition to Qin Beiyang and Li Longsheng, there is a third man, he is Qi Yuanshan.