Chapter Seventy-Three: Crisis Strikes
I carefully led the way in front, and walked about a dozen meters, with a right angle to turn left in front of me.
After turning the corner, we walked a few more meters and saw a small tomb door half a meter wide in front of us.
Walking to the tomb door, I looked up and down a few times, and found that on the right side of the tomb door, there was also a small protruding cylindrical switch.
I don't know if there are any hidden weapons or anything like that on this tomb door, but for the sake of prudence, I reminded the people behind me to return to the previous tomb first.
When everyone had retreated, I took a deep breath and reached out to press the switch on the right side of the tomb door.
Without encountering any obstacles, the switch on the right side of the tomb door was easily pressed by me, and a snapping sound suddenly sounded, causing the whole person to squat on the ground in fright.
After a few moments, the danger did not happen. I heard a rumbling sound in my ears, and the door of the tomb in front of me gradually opened, and a faint light shone through the gap in front of me.
"Come out, everything is fine." I shouted to the crowd and walked out of the tomb first.
On the stone wall directly opposite the tomb door, a bronze lamp of exquisite craftsmanship and extremely primitive flickered with a flickering light, and I stepped forward to observe it a few times, and it turned out to be an everlasting lamp that we had seen a long time ago.
Although I have seen many lanterns, because the oil used in the lanterns is extremely special, nine times out of ten it is made from the legendary mermaid oil, I still can't help but take a few more looks.
"Brother Three, you're also here to rob the tomb, right?"
After everyone walked out of the tomb gate, Yang Baichuan saw me staring at the ever-bright lamp on the wall, and couldn't help asking.
I was stunned for a moment when asked, and then I couldn't laugh or cry, feeling that Yang Baichuan had always regarded a few of us as tomb robbers, and this misunderstanding was really a bit big.
Tomb robbers are not all three big and five rough men, how can anyone bring two delicate girls to rob the tomb.
"No, we got here by mistake." I shook my head and said.
Then I told him a rough idea of how we got here.
As I spoke, we happened to be in front of the door of another burial chamber as I spoke.
As in the previous case, the door was also broken by brute force, and we easily entered the tomb.
Once inside, I took another hard look at the new burial chamber.
All in all, this tomb is about the same size as the one we have seen before, but the difference in the interior of the tomb is huge.
As soon as I walked into the tomb, I saw a lot of burial goods in the corner of the tomb, including animal bones, pottery, and some extremely exquisite lacquerware.
Perhaps the tomb robbers who entered this place thought that these bronze tripods were too heavy, and did not take them away, leaving them to pile up in the tomb in a mess.
Unlike the previous burial chambers, the stone walls of this burial chamber are no longer slick, but are elaborately depicted with many beautiful frescoes.
Because they are so well preserved, many of the frescoes have not even faded, so you can clearly see what they depict.
I walked around the chamber and roughly scanned all the frescoes, most of which were related to the soldiers going on the expedition, which was also very consistent with the identity of the owner of the general's tomb.
Judging from the construction style of this tomb and the grade specifications of the burial goods, the people buried in this tomb should be very close to the owner of the general's tomb, and it is likely that they are the retinue of the adjutant general.
Because of the previous lesson, this time none of us touched the coffin rashly.
"Do you think there are any green-haired zongzi in this coffin?" Yang Baichuan walked to the coffin and glanced at it a few times, then turned back to us and asked.
"Probably not, although I don't know much about these, but presumably zongzi is not so easy to form." Seeing that no one else meant to speak, I finally thought about it and said.
I don't know if what I'm guessing is right, but it's not without reason.
Just imagine, there are so many ancient tombs on the land of China throughout the ages, and there are so many tombs that have been stolen and destroyed.
Of course, there is another reason why I say this, because the coffin in this burial chamber is not an upside-down coffin, but a normal one.
Because of the previous lesson, I carefully observed this coffin for a long time after entering the tomb, and made sure that there was no problem with the placement of this coffin.
Yang Baichuan didn't speak again, he stared at the coffin placed in the middle of the tomb, a little eager to try.
"Let's hurry up, more is better than less." Seeing that Yang Baichuan seemed to have the idea of opening the coffin again, Li Huiyan hurriedly said.
Except for Yang Baichuan, everyone else obviously had no intention of continuing to stay here, and Yang Baichuan finally had to leave the coffin in a huff.
"Sister Lizi, rice cake, do you think Qin Dong, Xu Hao, and Lu Cheng will leave the tomb?" Xiao Yue, who had not spoken, suddenly asked in an extremely serious tone.
Xiao Yue's words were like a bolt of lightning, hitting my heart.
Yes, we have always thought one-sidedly and simply that Xu Hao and the three of them fell into the tomb like us, but we never thought that the three of them would not enter here at all?
Originally, I was still a little skeptical, but not long ago, after seeing the white shadow that was very similar to Qin Dong, I gradually decided that the three of them were in this tomb.
However, since we encountered the Yin corpse in the cave before, there has always been a lingering confusion in my heart, whether the Qin Dong we saw before was real or an illusion created by the Yin corpse.
Because I was in too much of a hurry when I left the cave before, I didn't have time to ask the Yin Corpse, and the matter became a difficult mystery to solve.
At this time, Xiao Yue's words reminded us once again, we stayed in the tomb to look for the other three, what if the three of them were really not in the tomb?
"Let's take a step at a time, if we don't see them in the main burial chamber, we'll have to leave here." Li Huiyan hesitated for a moment and said.
I nodded secretly, it was indeed the safest thing to do.
If nothing else, after successfully reaching the main burial chamber, there is a good chance that we will reunite with Liu Laoqi and them again.
With these experienced grave robbers around, I believe our chances of leaving the chamber will be greatly increased.
If there were no Liu Laoqi and them, and the Yang family brothers and sisters also chose to leave after reaching the main tomb, in this dangerous tomb, the three of us would become headless flies again, and it would be difficult to leave the tomb again.
As she was talking, the light of the flashlight in Li Huiyan's hand suddenly dimmed, and it became blurry in the blink of an eye, and it was about to completely lose its effect.
Seeing this, I felt a pang in my heart, and finally encountered this kind of thing.
The flashlight in Li Huiyan's hand was taken from Teacher Feng, and it has been used for at least three or four hours, and it is reasonable that the power is exhausted.
It's just that this is the only thing left on our group is the flashlight in my hand, and we don't know how long the battery will last.
The flashlight that Liu Laoqi gave us belongs to the kind of strong flashlight, the light is very bright, but the same power consumption is also surprisingly fast.
Only then did I notice that the Yang brothers and sisters did not bring any lighting equipment with them, could it be that the two entered the tomb in the dark?
"Brother Baichuan, didn't you bring a flashlight?" I asked Yang Baichuan.
"That's right." Yang Baichuan replied as a matter of course.
"There are no flashlights, so how do you see the road when you enter the tomb?" I was a little speechless and said.
"We don't need to see the road, we can go into the tomb just like eating and drinking and going back to our hometown, we can do it with our eyes closed." Yang Baichuan said again.
"yes, how did you end up in the cave before?" I teased.
"Ahem...... Small accidents, small accidents. Yang Baichuan was extremely embarrassed, obviously my words just poked at his sore spot.
I'm not in the mood to joke with him anymore, although Yang Baichuan looks good, it doesn't look like he's lying, and the Yang brothers and sisters really don't seem to have any lighting tools on them.
As a result, we have to face a new crisis, and if this flashlight in my hand is out of power, we may not be able to move an inch in the future.
I had to find a way to do it, and I kept thinking of possible ways to do it, such as finding a pearl or two of the night pearls from the funerary goods, or cutting the coffin into strips to use as torches.
Soon, I ruled out these methods one by one.
How precious the night pearl is, finding the night pearl from the funeral goods is purely a matter of luck. Let's not talk about whether there is a night pearl in this burial goods, even if there is, I am afraid that it has already entered the pockets of those tomb robbers throughout the ages.
Although the use of coffins as torches can be realized, the only drawback of this method is that the feasibility is too poor, and it also damages yin morality.
After all, the wood is still burning too fast, and we can't walk around the grave with a coffin lid, right?
"Rice cake, how much electricity do you have for your flashlight?" Xiao Yue grinned greatly, and at this time he also realized the problem and asked me.
"I think it will last for about an hour." I said with a rough estimate.
"Huh? What can I do if the power runs out for a while! Xiao Yue was taken aback by my answer.
"What a big deal, if there is no electricity, there will be no electricity, and when the time comes, I will close my eyes and lead the way for you, and you will just follow us." Yang Baichuan said on the side.
"The black light is blind, beware of the ghost eating you." Xiao Yue didn't have a good face for Yang Baichuan, and rolled his eyes and snorted.
Yang Baichuan was bored with himself, so he had to step aside to see the murals on the stone wall of the tomb. And Yang Yuqing seemed to be more interested in the burial goods placed in the corner of the tomb, and ran to the corner of the tomb long before Yang Baichuan.
"Okay, now it's just the three of us, let's think about what to do." After the Yang brothers and sisters left one after another, I said to Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue.
Yang Baichuan's words just now were relaxed, and we all know that he has no malicious intent. But it is obviously impossible for us to walk in the dark tomb without any light like the Yang brothers and sisters, in case of any danger, we don't have the skills and reflexes of the Yang brothers and sisters, but I am afraid that we don't know how to die at that time.
"If only I had known that, I would have brought those candles with me." Hearing this, Xiao Yue tilted his head and looked at the tomb, then sighed and said.