Everyone was startled by this sudden sound, and Situ Fang conditionally stepped forward and pulled Professor Chen back, and at the same time took out the gun, pointing the muzzle in the direction of the sound.

"Hahaha."

In a burst of laughter, a middle-aged man in his 40s walked over from the darkness. He has a Chinese face and is wearing black clothes, although he is smiling, but it can be seen from his eyes that this is a practitioner. When he got closer, he stared at the gun in Situ Fang's hand, then looked at the others, and said, "If there is really danger in this place, do you think the gun can work?" ”

After Situ Fang put away the gun, he asked sharply, "Who are you?" How did you get in? ”

The man smiled and said, "Ask me? Hehe, I'm the grave keeper you're talking about. ”

After hearing the words "grave keeper", Professor Chen hurriedly walked in front of Situ Fang, stretched out his hand to the visitor and said, "Hello, I am Chen Lianshan from the Institute of Archaeology, and I am really disturbed to come here." ”

The grave keeper generously stretched out his hand to shake Professor Chen and said, "My name is Wang Zheng, and I know that you are from the Institute of Archaeology, and you are not the kind of person who sells dog meat on the head of a sheep, so I didn't embarrass you, but secretly helped you." ”

Professor Chen asked tentatively, "Then how do we get out of here?" And how to move forward? ”

"Get out of here, you just said, there's an exit over there, go ahead, I suggest you don't think about it, it's a forbidden area."

"Forbidden area? What do you mean? ”

"It's something we've been not allowed in for generations."

"Can we then?"

"There have been many dynasties, and the things here also belong to the state, and we understand your purpose, so you are willing to go to us without interference, but remind you that the front is very dangerous."

"Thank you for your understanding! So which dynasty is this tomb from? ”

"In order for history to no longer be questioned, I won't talk about the specifics below; At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a certain Taishou secretly felt that the situation was going to change, but he was loyal to the government, but the political chaos at that time, the surrounding heroes were everywhere, so he visited friends under the pretext of enjoying the tour, and came here thousands of miles away, in order to be able to form an alliance, in order to avoid losses and preserve financial resources, he discovered this place together with the local thorn history, at that time it was still a barren place, and the surrounding hundreds of miles were desertedIn order to alleviate the homesickness, he brought thousands of skilled craftsmen from his hometown, and they brought their families here, so you can see the peerless town in front of you; Later, when he was old, the matter here was handed over to his descendants and a few henchmen, so there were us grave keepers. ”

"Oh, it turns out that the legend of the peerless town is true! What a shock! Then why is there a monument to Concubine Xiaochu at the entrance of the cave? ”

"That is a fictitious thing, and it has been spied on here during the Sui Dynasty, so I made up a tomb of Concubine Xiaochu to deceive those people."

"It doesn't look like such a big project can be built in decades, but how long has it been built?"

"It's been repaired intermittently for hundreds of years, I don't know the specifics, and if you maintain it, it hasn't stopped until now!"

"And how many grave keepers are there now?"

"Alas, the old people are just staying in the village on the side, regularly changing shifts to do cleaning and sacrifices, and the children are no longer willing to play our role, and have gone out of the mountains, alas, there are not many people now."

"You guys are amazing! Guarding this mountain and this tomb with loyalty, preserving this civilization for us and future generations! ”

"You're wrong, it's not one mountain, it's three!"

"What, is it that big?"

"Further on, there is the junction of the two mountains, and further onto a big stone gate, which is our forbidden area."

"So, what about the grave robbers? How are they now? ”

"They're right above you, the hole is round, we can't do anything to them, we can only trap them, and they have explosives, sooner or later they'll blow them up, so I'm here to tell you, you go quickly."

"Thank you! So what are the dangers you are talking about? ”

"It's a cemetery of Taishou, there are many institutions inside, and there are special people to maintain it, just like us, except that they are only responsible for the back of the door, and we are only responsible for the stone gate, and we do not interfere with each other."

"Oh, then we're not in danger before the stone gate, right?"

"There are dangers, there are many ** formations like here, there are also rolling stones and flaps, but don't worry, I will take you around those traps directly."

"Is it far from here to the mouth of the cave? If we want to enter the stone gate, we need to go back to replenish the supplies. ”

"It's not far, in fact, if you go further inside the hole you enter and exit, you can pass through the crack in the stone, and half an hour is enough to arrive."

"Then let's go to Shimen first, and let's see what it's like."

"I suggest you go back to the peerless town first, it is said that the key to open the stone gate is in the peerless town."

"Keys? What kind of key? ”

"Three-faced Buddha!"

As soon as they heard the Three-Faced Buddha, Zhang Gong and Professor Chen's faces immediately changed, it turned out that many wild history legends about this place were true! Then the secrets here must be all behind that stone gate.

But where is the Three-Faced Buddha? So Professor Chen continued to ask, "If the Three-faced Buddha is in a peerless town, where is it placed?" ”

"We don't know this, we only know that people who are destined to find the Three-Faced Buddha in the peerless town, and all the secrets are also hidden in the Three-faced Buddha."

"Okay, then let's go back to the Peerless Town first, but I want to ask, how many foreign tomb robbers are there, and how did they come here?"

"There are more than 30 of them, and there are more than 20 left, they came on the same day as you, but they didn't go underwater, but came in directly through the top, they should have been here quietly before."

"And what are you going to do with those people?"

"They won't make it to the stone gate alive, and we'll get rid of them all when you get out of here."

"Well, we're not going to interfere with your duties, thank you for your advice! Then please take us to the lower stone gate first, and then take us out from there after we have a look. ”

"No problem."

After speaking, under the leadership of the tomb keeper, they walked a few steps forward, and two meters away from the place where Situ Fang picked up the paper ball, the tomb keeper touched the cave wall, and hung down a ladder from above, and after the group climbed up one by one, they followed back to the burial pit. In front of the grave pit, the grave keeper pressed the mechanism on the steps in front of the small platform, and the side steps were retracted inside, and a passage about two meters wide appeared.