When I entered the second layer of the ice cave again, I found that around the entrance to the cave below, those who had not had time to cut had been killed, and many of them had melted a lot under the heat of the morning fire, and three of the corpses had completely broken free from the ice and were lying on the ground. Professor Chen lay on the ground, leaned into the cave and sniffed gently, in addition to the smell of rosin and sulfur in the air, there was also an indescribable stench mixed in with it, and he thought to himself: Where did this smell come from? The corpse below was burned? But it's not right, the corpse should not smell like this when it is burned, so how does this smell come out?

Seeing that Professor Chen did not give any warning or instructions, Zhang Gong and a few other people moved the three corpses to the periphery of the martyrdom. He then measured the temperature of the lower cavern, and apart from a few degrees of temperature rise, there was no significant temperature difference, and it seemed that the heat of the ferocious fire was quickly absorbed by the mountain and ice due to its persistence.

After Zhang Gong replaced the ones that had been broken by the fire with new ropes, several people slid down again.

After the fire in the morning, the cave walls were no longer covered with ice, and under the light of flashlights and headlamps, the cave walls were no longer strangely white and slightly wet, devouring a large number of light sources that shone on them.

Zhang Gong and the others took a general look around, and found nothing unusual except for the obvious chisel marks on the cave wall, so he walked directly to the stone slab, ready to find the last piece of jade.

Professor Chen kept thinking about the strange smell, and although he was a little suspicious that it came from the corpse, he didn't think it was like it, so he walked straight there after coming down. When he got closer, Professor Chen saw a strange thing in front of him: although the cave was burned by a raging fire, the corpse was still intact, and he was still sitting there with a strange smile; But now the corpse's arms were no longer pointing forward, but naturally lowered, and its head drooped.

Professor Chen was stumped by this phenomenon, and he called Zhang Gong over and asked, "How hot did you say the fire was in the morning?" ”

"I can't tell how many degrees of sulfur and rosin will burn together, it should be hundreds of degrees," Zhang Gong suddenly reacted to why Professor Chen asked him about the temperature, he pointed to the corpse in front of him and asked: "You mean that the temperature of the fire is so high, why didn't he burn it, right?" ”

"Yes, I'm a little confused now, why the hundreds of degrees of heat didn't make this corpse good."

"Maybe it's not burned here, the high temperature airflow is upward, if it is simply burned on the edge of the cave and over there, as long as there is no open flame here, it shouldn't pose any direct threat to this corpse."

"But have you noticed, when we came down in the morning, the corpse's hand pointed forward, and the head was raised, and now you see, his arms are naturally drooping, and his head is hanging down, don't you think it's a thing?"

"It may be that after he died, he was supported by a shelf and placed in the shape of a finger, and then frozen here with ice, and after the heat of the fire, the ice was melted, and the arm came down naturally, and the head drooped down is understandable."

"It is very likely that you say this, then a new question arises, if he is the designer of this tomb, that is, the legendary Zongbo, then who made the guiding shape for him?"

"Ahh Lao Chen, are you saying that this person is not the legendary Zongbo at all, but an impostor? ”

"The impostor is not necessarily correct, I now think that he is the one that the uncle deliberately put here to give us some hints, or it may have been used to induce us to light the fire."

"That's not right! Lao Chen, I seem to understand what's going on! In fact, this person is just a prop set up by that Zongbo, and his purpose is not only to burn the people who come in, but also to convey a signal to us in the way that there are no silver three hundred taels here, which is the real secret here! And that secret should be over here! ”

"You mean there's a trap or cave hidden somewhere in the cave wall behind this corpse?"

"Yes, it should be that Uncle Zong, after laying everything out, locked himself in it and waited for death to come."

"In this way, you take a look at this corpse first, and if there is nothing abnormal, move it to the side, and you can also probe the hidden space around here."

After Zhang Gong nodded and accepted the task, he let Professor Chen and the others leave the straight line of the corpse. He took off his gloves and stood on the side of the corpse, then reached out and slowly groped his way up the corpse. He didn't find anything unusual through his clothes, and when he touched his hand inside and was just about to swim away, his face suddenly sank, and he shouted loudly: "Get down!" ”

As soon as he spoke, countless dark arrows flew out from the corpse's body and shot forward.

Zhang Gong was startled by this sudden mechanism, and when he saw that there was no movement, he shouted loudly: "Is anyone injured?" ”

After learning that everyone was safe and sound, he said to Professor Chen angrily: "Old Chen, this corpse is wooden, not flesh at all. ”

When Professor Chen heard that the corpse in front of him was a wooden corpse, he felt even more incredible. He walked up to the corpse and said to Zhang Gong: "You take off his clothes first, and use the corpse's parts to make wood, this is the first time I've seen it, since this is the case, it means that there must be something in here that he wants to deliberately hide, that is to say, he doesn't want those things to be taken out of here." ”

"But what could those things be? It took so much effort for him to do so. ”

"It's not good, it's definitely not gold and silver jewelry anyway, I think it has something to do with the gold key you found."

"Let's not talk about it yet, I'll see if there is any threat, if not, I'll move him out, and save him from making trouble."

After Zhang Gong carefully took off the clothes on the corpse, everything was displayed in front of everyone: as Zhang Gong said, the body inside was made of wood, and it was densely covered with holes in the hidden arrow mechanism, and the place where the corpse combined with the wood was sewn into the movable tenon with wood and gold wire. After Zhang Gong's careful examination, no threat was found in this corpse, and he was completely quiet.

Through Ma Kai's detection, a hidden space was found directly behind the corpse, the size was only 10 square meters, and there was a small gap in it leading to the bottom of the corpse.