Chapter 11: The Great Qin State Fortune Map
This time, I didn't need to say anything, the moment I saw the dry palm, everyone present was completely dumbfounded, and they all gasped.
This...... Really cheated the corpse?
The timid Xiao Yue even closed his eyes, not daring to look at the female corpse again.
Just as everyone was stunned, another equally withered palm climbed up the edge of the bronze coffin, followed by a shriveled head with messy hair, and a pair of eyes with deep sunken pupils that made people feel chills in their hearts.
Although I had seen the female corpse in the bronze coffin open her eyes before, at this time, when I saw her really crawling out of the coffin, I still had some hairs standing on end, and my legs became weak.
"What now?" Seeing that the female corpse came back to life, Li Huiyan's face also turned pale and asked me.
I shook my head and didn't speak.
The door of the ancestral hall had been shut, and I knocked the wall of the ancestral hall and found that although the ancestral hall was a wooden structure, it felt extremely thick, and it was impossible to knock my body into the wall to make an escape.
The next moment, my eyes fell on Li Huiyan. No, to be exact, it should have fallen on the bronze box that Li Huiyan was holding in both hands.
I had a slight suspicion in my mind about the sudden resurrection of the female corpse and the sudden closure of the door of the ancestral hall because I had suddenly taken the box out of the coffin.
Although there is not the slightest evidence to support my suspicions, I can be sure that there must be some kind of mysterious relationship between them.
The female corpse in the bronze coffin was still moving, and at this time she had crawled out of her small body.
Maybe because the body is too stiff, the female corpse's action of crawling out of the coffin seems a little funny, but none of us can laugh when we see this scene, and we are full of fear from beginning to end.
"Why don't we put this bronze box back?"
Li Huiyan is naturally delicate, and when she saw my gaze fall on her, she immediately understood what I was thinking and spoke.
"I'm going to put it back, I've been tossing for a long time, I have to open it to see what's in the box." Xu Hao said.
Seeing that the female corpse in the bronze coffin had crawled out of most of her body, Li Huiyan was a little embarrassed holding the box.
"Zhang Sansan, it's better for you to decide, the box was taken out of the coffin by you, do you want to open it and see if you have the final say." After Li Huiyan finished speaking, she handed me the bronze box in her hand.
I took the box in Li Huiyan's hand, and there was a heavy feeling in my hand, maybe I was too nervous in the coffin before, but I didn't feel this at all.
The moment I saw the bronze box, I couldn't help but be stunned again, only to see that the lid of the bronze box had a grimace pattern that was exactly the same as the one on the coffin lid.
Because of the dream and the birthmark on the back when I was a child, I was particularly sensitive to the grimace pattern.
The moment I saw the grimace pattern, I was still a little hesitant, and immediately made a decision to open the bronze box.
To my surprise, the bronze box didn't have any security against theft, and I easily opened it.
However, when I opened the bronze box and saw what it contained, I was a little disappointed.
As far as the eye could see, the bronze box did not contain any of the treasures we imagined, but a yellowish parchment roll wrapped like a pancake.
"What is this?" Seeing the contents of the box, everyone immediately came up.
The contents of the box were so unexpected that I thought it was at least a rare treasure or something, but I didn't expect it to be just an inconspicuous-looking parchment roll.
I took out the parchment roll in the box, and the rope that had been tied to it had already become decayed, and as soon as I got it in my hand, it spread out, revealing the true face of the parchment roll.
I handed the box back to Li Huiyan and spread it out on both hands, trying to see what was written on it.
It's like a map.
"It's such a broken thing, let's put it back quickly, or the female corpse will really crawl out." Xu Hao pursed his lips, glanced at the female corpse in the bronze coffin, who had already crawled out of most of her body, and hurriedly said in fright.
"Wait!" Seeing that he reached over to take the map, I quickly stopped him.
Originally, I was disappointed when I saw the map in the parchment scroll, but after thinking about it, I felt that it was wrong. If the map in this parchment scroll is really useless, how can it be enshrined in the Yao family ancestral hall together with the spiritual seat of Qin Shi Huang, and there is a thousand-year-old female corpse in charge of guarding.
Great Qin National Fortune Map!
With this in mind, I re-read the map of the parchment scroll, and soon found that directly above the parchment scroll, there seemed to be several large ink-colored characters written in small seals, which had long since faded.
Because the handwriting was so faded, I didn't pay much attention to it before, so much so that I ignored it as part of the map.
"Great Qin National Fortune Map, what is this, have any of you heard of it?" I asked the crowd.
Hearing this, the others were all confused, obviously not understanding what I was talking about.
And I noticed that Li Huiyan lowered her head and looked like she was thinking about something after hearing what I said, and then she raised her head, and the expression on her face became extremely excited.
"Quick, three years, take a picture of it with your mobile phone, and you must take the most complete photo." Li Huiyan said to me with an excited expression on her face.
I was stunned for a moment, not knowing what she was trying to do.
Seeing that I was stunned and didn't move, Li Huiyan no longer urged, but took out her mobile phone and took more than a dozen photos of the parchment map from all directions almost as fast as possible.
"Alright, let's find a way to put the map back in the coffin, and I'll tell you what is drawn in this parchment scroll after I get out of here, and I'm sure it will surprise you." Li Huiyan put away her mobile phone, wrapped the parchment roll and put it back in the bronze box, and said to us after gently closing the box.
Although I still have many questions in my mind, I also know that this is not the time to say this.
"Look over there!" Before I could speak, Xiao Yue's excited voice suddenly sounded in the crowd.
I turned my head to look at her, only to see her raise her right arm and point to a corner on the right side of the ancestral hall.
"That's ......"
Everyone ran to the place Xiao Yue pointed to, and it turned out that in this corner half a meter above the ground, there was a small ventilation hole that looked like a tic-tac-toe.
Before, because it was too dark in the ancestral hall, I didn't notice that there was such a place in this corner of the ancestral hall since I entered the ancestral hall. At this time, the moon was about to set, and the moonlight passed through this small hole and just shone obliquely on the ground, which was discovered by Xiao Yue.
I mentally estimated the size of the hole, and was soon disappointed that it didn't seem to be a way to get through.
"Either we'll tear down these sticks and we'll be able to get out." I took a closer look and saw that the wooden strip of the tic-tac-toe vent was only the thickness of a baby's arm, and it didn't seem to be sturdy because it had been built for an unknown number of years.
"No, you can't." As soon as I was about to walk over, Li Huiyan immediately ran over and stopped me in front of me.
"Why, this is the only way to get out of here now, although it is a little ugly to get out of the ancestral hall from here, it is better than risking the danger to put the box back in the coffin." Li Huiyan's behavior was a little abnormal, I couldn't help frowning, and said.
"Look at the inside of this ancestral hall, what's so special?" Li Huiyan did not answer my question directly, but said to us in turn.
"This ancestral hall seems to be built haphazardly with wooden strips, which is so strange, and it is a little different from ordinary ancient buildings." I took a flashlight and took a picture of the ancestral hall, and I was a little surprised, because it was the first time I had seen such an architectural style.
"No, it's not built haphazardly, it's built according to the principle of Luban locks." Li Huiyan's expression was solemn, and she paused slightly before saying, "Buildings built on this principle can be more stable and solid than other buildings under normal circumstances. But there is a disadvantage, such a building is actually at an extreme equilibrium point, as long as brute force damages any part of the house, even if it is just an inconspicuous wooden bar, the balance of the entire building will be completely broken, and the frame will fall apart and collapse in an instant. ”
"If we stay, we may all die, but it is also possible that we will all be fine after putting the box back in the coffin. But if we choose to smash this vent, only one of the six of us will be able to leave, and the others will be buried alive by the ancestral hall that collapsed in an instant. What to do, decide for yy. After Li Huiyan finished speaking, she handed me back the bronze box.
Just then, the unexpected happened.
I was just about to reach out and catch the bronze box handed over by Li Huiyan, when a figure suddenly burst out of the darkness, snatched the bronze box from Li Huiyan's hand, and knocked Li Huiyan to the ground when he fled.
The figure didn't stop after taking the box, and rushed directly to the corner on the right side of the ancestral hall.
Not good!
I immediately guessed what the guy wanted to do, and immediately his face changed wildly, and I chased after him without thinking about it.
But even so, my movements were a little slow, and as soon as the figure rushed to the corner of the ancestral hall, he raised the bronze box in his hand and smashed it at the tic-tac-toe vent in the corner. There were a few crisp sounds from the corner of the ancestral hall, and the wooden strips of the tic-tac-toe vents were all broken.
"It's him, it's Teacher Feng, stop!" I shouted loudly, and Xu Hao, Qin Dong, and Lu Cheng, who had reacted, also chased after me at the same time.
In the dark, I only heard Teacher Feng sneer, and instantly drilled out of the smashed vent, which was unusually flexible.
Boom, as if the ground was thinking of thunder, and at the moment when Teacher Feng's figure drilled out of the ventilation hole, the entire hall of the Yao family ancestral hall suddenly shook violently, and it felt like a huge earthquake had occurred.
The wooden strip of the vent was smashed by Teacher Feng with a bronze box, and the ancestral hall that imitated the structure of Luban lock was also out of balance in an instant, obviously about to collapse.
The sudden crisis made everyone's faces change drastically, and in an instant, they all ran to the vent, trying to escape through the vent.
However, when I shone my flashlight into the vent, I was instantly disheartened.
"Thank you for helping me take out the things I dreamed of, and for finding me such a good escape, don't worry, I will definitely burn you more paper money after you die." I saw that Teacher Feng hadn't left yet, holding the bronze box in his hand, grinning and smiling.
"Woooooooooo......oo I don't want to die yet, I don't want to be buried alive, Zhang Sansan, hurry up and think of a way! Xiao Yue's voice was crying.
"What else can I do now, the only way to leave the ancestral hall is this, and now he is blocked by him outside, and it is impossible to get there." I shook my head and said.
If you want to go out through this vent, you must be the first to show your head, if you are smashed by Teacher Feng with a bronze box a few times, it is impossible to get out alive, and now he has made up his mind to kill people and kill his mouth.
Although he didn't do it himself, but with the help of the structure of this ancestral hall, it was obvious that his previous conversation was heard word by word by him hiding in the shadows.
Right now, all of us are cornered, even if this ancestral hall does not collapse, the female corpse that crawled out of the bronze coffin will not let us go.
Bang...... The ancestral hall sank down with a loud bang.
The roof tiles were also sprinkled with dust, making people a little unable to open their eyes.
Just when I was about to despair in my heart, my eyes suddenly fell on the bronze coffin in the middle of the ancestral hall, and I had a bold and even crazy idea in my mind.