Chapter 13: Eight Exits
Li Huiyan's sudden awakening suddenly relieved me, for some reason, every time I see this delicate beauty school girl, I can't help but feel a sense of steadfastness in my heart.
And many facts have also proved that the delicate-minded Li Huiyan can often think of some issues that I did not expect and were overlooked.
"Ah......h
I was shocked when I saw this, thinking that she was also injured, but fortunately, it was only a moment before Li Huiyan returned to normal.
Although her face still looked a little pale, at least I could see that she was not injured, she should have just accidentally hit her head against the wall of the coffin just now, just like me, when the coffin was shaking and sinking.
Soon, Li Huiyan, who gradually recovered her consciousness, noticed the situation on my side, after all, it was pitch black all around, and the flashlight I was holding in my hand was the only light source in the darkness, and it was difficult not to attract her attention.
"Xiao Yue......" Li Huiyan got up and trotted over quickly, shouted at Xiao Yue on the ground, and when she saw that there was no reaction, she turned her head to me and asked, "Zhang Sansan, what's wrong with Xiao Yue?" ”
"I guess she's poisoned." I said with a solemn expression.
Immediately, Xiao Yue's body was slightly flipped over, leaking out the shocking dark red blood stains on her back, as well as the five wounds that made people chill all over her body and kept bleeding.
"You have to find a way to stop the bleeding right away, or even if she doesn't die of corpse poison, she will die of excessive bleeding." Seeing the shocking wound on Xiao Yue's body, Li Huiyan couldn't help but be startled, but immediately reacted and said.
"Well, that...... You help her stop the bleeding, and I'll help you light the light next to you. I nodded, a little embarrassed.
In fact, if Li Huiyan hadn't woken up so soon, I would have thought about doing some measures to stop the bleeding for Xiao Yue, but there is a difference between men and women after all, and now this matter is handled by Li Huiyan, which is naturally better.
"Be careful, it's best not to touch those blackened blood stains, in case you get the corpse poison again, it will be troublesome." I was still a little uneasy, and reminded Li Huiyan.
Li Huiyan snorted, and continued to move her hand without raising her head.
Since Xiao Yue is now in a state of coma and doesn't feel pain at all, Li Huiyan's movements on her hands are not too scrupulous.
After a while, Li Huiyan used a few strips of cloth torn from her clothes to entangle Xiao Yue's wounds, and finally stopped bleeding out like before.
But both of us know that this is only a temporary solution to the superficial problem, and if we don't find a way to completely remove the corpse poison from Xiao Yue's body, her situation is still not optimistic.
"Qin Dong, Xu Hao, and Lu Cheng, what about the three of them?" After taking care of Xiao Yue's wounds, Li Huiyan finally remembered that there seemed to be something wrong with the number of people present, and the three of Xu Hao, Qin Dong, and Lu Cheng, who were supposed to be with us, didn't know where they were.
I shook my head, saying I didn't know.
Originally, I thought that everyone could escape by hiding in the coffin, and when the villagers of Yaojia Village heard the sound of the ancestral hall collapsing, they could rescue us safely.
Who knew that this scene had happened, the ancestral hall of Yaojia Village not only collapsed, but even the ground sank, and now we came to this unknown underground palace inexplicably, and even the other three people have completely lost their traces.
"What kind of place is this? How could there be an underground palace under the ancestral hall of a small mountain village. "I used my flashlight to look around, and the dungeon was empty, and there was not half a figure.
"I don't know, let's get out of here quickly, if you don't find a way to find out about the corpse poison on Xiao Yue's body, your life will really be lost." Li Huiyan shook her head and said.
I don't need to be reminded by Li Huiyan, I also know that the situation is urgent.
But how do you get out?
This dungeon is like a closed and independent space, I used a flashlight to shine it up, and found that the top of the dungeon was intact and unusually flat.
There is no sign of damage above the dungeon, so how did the bronze coffin fall here with us? If you don't figure out this problem, how can you dig an escape route in the hard stone wall with your bare hands in the underground palace surrounded by rocks.
"There must be an exit." Li Huiyan said unusually firmly: "There is not a single corpse here, since the person who built the underground palace can leave here, it means that there must be an exit here that can lead to the outside world." ”
Li Huiyan's words also won my agreement, since this underground palace is artificially built, then it is definitely not a fully enclosed space, but we have not yet found an exact escape exit.
I originally planned to leave Xiao Yue where I was, and I would work with Li Huiyan to find an exit on the walls of the dungeon. I suddenly remembered the female corpse that had been lying in the bronze coffin for an unknown number of years, and now where has it gone?
In such an unfamiliar environment, unexpected things may happen at any time, and I was a little worried that it would be dangerous if I left Xiao Yue in place, so I had to carry it on my back.
With the help of Li Huiyan, I carefully carried Xiao Yue on my back, and at this time her head rested on my shoulder, the faint breathing like a gossamer still made me a little frightened, and I was even a little worried that if I walked too violently, it might cause her to suffocate and die.
Hand the flashlight in his hand to Li Huiyan, and the two of us began to look for clues to escape in this strange dungeon, since this dungeon is artificially built, the exit must be in a corner.
"What is this?" As soon as the two of them walked to the stone wall of the underground palace, I heard Li Huiyan's voice that seemed a little surprised.
"What's wrong?" I asked suspiciously, I didn't know why.
What appeared in front of the two of us at this time was a mural that was more than a foot long and two meters high. After an unknown number of years of corrosion, as well as the destruction of the damp underground environment, most of the colors on the murals have disappeared and faded, but the general appearance of the murals can still be seen.
"This ...... It seems to be a picture of life deeds. "Soon, I saw the clue that the mural was about someone's life.
Just talking about the mural in front of us, it seems to paint a picture of two armies facing each other.
The mural depicts hundreds of soldiers armed with halberds fighting each other, as well as chariots and horse archers, the most conspicuous of which is a general-like figure riding a tall horse in the military array on the left, whose body size is twice as tall as that of ordinary people.
With such an exaggerated close-up, I guess this person should be the owner of this picture of life deeds. Although the characters on this mural are somewhat exaggerated, it can also be seen that the owner of this mural is a brave and good fighter, and he should belong to the kind of tiger with a bear's waist and natural divine power.
After looking at this mural for a moment, Li Huiyan's eyes and I turned to another mural again.
Unsurprisingly, the mural also depicts the life of the general, but the fresco moves to another place, like inside a palace.
After a moment of closer inspection, I was surprised to find that the palace in this mural actually looked a little like Xianyang Palace.
Could this be a general of the Qin State?
I withdrew my gaze from the mural and looked at Li Huiyan, and saw that she was looking at the mural in front of me intently, looking thoughtful.
"What do you think of this mural?" I couldn't help but ask her.
"As expected, we should be in a tomb now, this mural depicts the life deeds of the owner of this tomb, judging from the palace appearance in the mural, this person should be a certain general of the Qin Dynasty who can fight well." Hearing my question, Li Huiyan withdrew her gaze from the strokes and said.
"Well, the same as I thought." I nodded, and continued: "It's just a little strange, under normal circumstances, the life and deeds of the tomb owner should be drawn in the main tomb, but this place is empty, there is neither a coffin nor a burial object or anything like that, it is obviously not a tomb. ”
Li Huiyan obviously knows a lot about ancient tombs as well, so I don't have to worry that she won't understand what I'm saying.
Because I was worried about Xiao Yue's situation, Li Huiyan and I looked at the murals much faster. The entire dungeon adds up to a total of sixteen murals, and we were able to see them all in three or four minutes.
While looking at the murals, Li Huiyan kept knocking on the stone wall with her hands, and at the same time pricked up her ears to listen carefully to the sound coming from the stone wall.
I immediately understood what her intentions were, if there was a passage out of the stone wall, then the sound she made when she knocked on the stone wall would inevitably be that hollow sound, and vice versa, it would be no different from an ordinary stone wall.
"There are eight exits to this stone wall." After looking at all the murals along the stone wall and knocking on the stone wall, Li Huiyan turned around and said to me with a strange expression.
"Eight exits?" Hearing Li Huiyan's words, I couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and thought I had heard it wrong, so I asked her, "How can there be eight exits?" Could it be that you heard it wrong? ”
"No, there are indeed eight exits." Li Huiyan shook her head and said in an extremely affirmative tone.
Seeing that she was so sure, I also knew that Li Huiyan naturally had no reason to lie to me about this kind of thing, after all, both of them were trapped here now, and they definitely didn't have the intention of making such a joke.
"There's no way to tell the way here, but if I'm not mistaken, the eight exits should be above the eight directions. It's just that based on the sound reflected back before, I guess that the thickness of the exit of the stone wall should be no less than two feet, and it is impossible to open the stone wall of this thickness without anything else. Seeing that I didn't speak, Li Huiyan said again.
The so-called eight directions actually refer to the four directions of east, west, north and south, plus southeast, southwest, northeast and northwest.
"If you say that, won't we be able to get out? The two-foot thick stone wall, even if it is drilled with steel, will have to be excavated for half a day, let alone with bare hands. Hearing Li Huiyan's words, I suddenly said with some discouragement.
"No, there must be another way to open these eight exits, but we haven't thought of them yet." Li Huiyan said.
After Li Huiyan said this, I suddenly raised my head and stared at the eight huge stone pillars standing tall in the underground palace.
As early as the beginning, I had noticed that these eight stone pillars looked a little out of place in the dungeon.
Eight exits, eight stone pillars, there should be some kind of connection between them.