Chapter Twenty-Seven: There is no danger
Hearing this, the tomb robbers looked at each other and did not have the slightest intention of leaving.
Although Liu Laoqi's previous words were full of confidence and sounded very reasonable, he would not dare to let people take the lead in crawling through the middle of the tomb.
The devil knows if these traps will fail if they have existed in the tomb for thousands of years, and if one of them accidentally shoots a crooked arrow, it will be a small life.
After all, tomb robbers enter the ancient tombs to seek money, but no one is here to play with their lives.
No one would be stupid enough to joke with their own lives, even if those tomb robbers were very afraid of Liu Laoqi, they still stood motionless at the moment.
"A bunch of life-hungry waste." Seeing that the tomb robbers under his command were all cowering, Liu Laoqi suddenly felt that his face was dull, and he scolded.
Hearing Liu Laoqi's scolding, several tomb robbers all shrunk their necks weakly, and no one dared to say anything.
"Whoever takes the lead in passing through the tomb first, the burial goods in the tomb can choose the two most valuable ones at will." Seeing that the coercion was ineffective, Liu Laoqi began to choose inducement.
Sure enough, there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, and soon a tomb robber stepped forward, the previous tomb robber nicknamed Monkey.
This man has a sharp beak and monkey gills, and his two small eyes are always bone-turning, and at first glance he belongs to the kind of person who is unprofitable and cannot afford to be early.
"Hehe, Seventh Master, this is what you said, if there are good treasures in the tomb for a while, you must let me pick two things first." The monkey grinned, revealing a mouthful of big yellow teeth, and said to Liu Laoqi with a grin.
"Yes, I, Liu Laoqi, speak well, and everyone present can testify." Liu Laoqi replied expressionlessly.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel some sympathy in my heart for this grave robber named Monkey.
Not to mention whether he will encounter any danger when passing through the tomb, even if he really chooses the two most valuable burial goods in the tomb at that time, I am afraid that this person will be doomed in the future.
is so blatant that Liu Laoqi's face is gloomy, it is strange what can be a good end, even if Liu Laoqi is forced to do nothing due to the situation now, he will definitely not be able to eat and walk around afterwards.
The monkey obviously didn't realize this, and after hearing Liu Laoqi's affirmative answer, the whole person smiled on his face. He could give preference to the two most valuable funeral goods, which he could not have imagined before.
"Okay, I believe that the Seventh Master will definitely speak and count, and I will take the lead for the brothers." The monkey said.
After saying that, he walked straight to the middle of the tomb, then fell down, and began to crawl straight forward along the two rows of crossbow arrows in the middle.
At first, the monkey's movements were a little slow, and he was a little frightened to move forward as he listened to the sound of crossbow arrows whizzing through the air above his body.
The monkey continued to climb forward for some distance, and when he found that there was no danger in the slightest, he became bolder, and crawled forward at a much faster speed, and soon he was halfway up the graveyard.
Seeing this, the other tomb robbers also began to crawl along the path that the monkey had crawled before towards the other side of the grave road.
In the blink of an eye, only me, Li Huiyan and Liu Laoqi were left without any action.
"Virtuous nephew, then I'll take the first step, you remember to hurry up and keep up." Liu Laoqi turned his head to me and said a word, and then turned around and followed the tomb robbers and crawled over from the middle of the tomb.
I nodded, didn't speak, glanced at the nearly twenty-meter tomb, and couldn't help but feel a little headache.
If it were just me, it would be no problem to crawl through the tomb like Liu Laoqi and those tomb robbers, but the key is that I still have an incapacitated Xiao Yue on my back, which has become the most headache.
"Why don't you go over first, and I'll figure out a way." After putting Xiao Yue off her back and gently helping her, I said to Li Huiyan.
"If I leave, how can you go over with Xiao Yue alone? I'd better stay and help you. Li Huiyan stood still, glanced at the tomb and then at Xiao Yue, and said with a frown.
"I don't know, maybe I'll be able to figure out a way in a while."
I glanced at Liu Laoqi and the others, and at this time they were all at the other end of the tomb.
Among the six tomb robbers, except for the winter melon, who was too fat and seemed to have been injured by a crossbow arrow, the others were all fine.
This also proves that Liu Laoqi and Li Huiyan's previous statements are correct, and this small area in the middle of the tomb road is indeed the dead angle and weakness of these anti-theft crossbows.
"Alright then, then I'll go over and see if there's any mechanism to close these crossbows on the other side of the graveyard, and if not, I'll come back to help you later." Hearing this, Li Huiyan finally nodded and said.
Immediately, Li Huiyan quickly climbed to the other end of the tomb, and in a blink of an eye, I was the only one left.
I saw that after Li Huiyan arrived at the side of the tomb, she began to knock on the stone walls on both sides of the tomb, probably looking for a switch that could turn off these dark crossbows, as she said before.
However, it is obvious that there could be no such crossbow switches in the tomb, since it was to prevent tomb robbers from entering and leaving the tomb, how could the owner of the tomb and the tomb builder be stupid enough to set up the mechanism in a place where it could be found.
From afar, I saw Li Huiyan groping on the wall for a while, and then shook her head at me with a disappointed face.
It seems that there is no other way, and in the end, the stupidest and stupidest way to get through here will be used.
Thinking of this, I first took off my clothes and put them under Xiao Yue's head, and then flattened her body and face upwards, facing the safe passage in the middle of the tomb.
After doing this, we took a deep breath and climbed backwards.
So far, there is only one way to bring Xiao Yue to the other end of the tomb.
I stepped back and turned back from time to time to try not to deviate from my direction. The landing point of the dark crossbow is almost no more than twenty centimeters on the side, and if you are not careful, you are very likely to be stabbed by those crossbow arrows.
Every time I moved a foot or so back, I would reach out and pull Xiao Yue over.
From time to time, there was a terrifying sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air.
In the process of constantly moving my body, I twice accidentally lifted my head too high because I was too hard to drag Xiao Yue, and even felt a few crossbow arrows fly over my scalp, which made me break out in a cold sweat and had to be more careful.
Because I took off the clothes on my body and put them under Xiao Yue's head, I had to be naked at this time. Coupled with the fear of the crossbow arrows flying from above, I didn't dare to prop my body too high when I moved backwards, and at this time my abdomen and chest were already slightly painful, probably from the skin on the stone slab of the tombway.
In the graveyard where arrows rained, I used this stupidest and most helpless method to drag the unconscious Xiao Yue. Nearly ten minutes had passed, and I had only moved to the middle of the graveyard.
By this time, I had already lost my strength.
Nerves like this, dragging Xiao Yue backwards, and beware of the crossbow arrows flying overhead from time to time, are too exhausting.
Zhang San...... Are you running out of energy, or you come here first, and I'll replace you? Li Huiyan almost slipped my name, she had already seen that I was in a bad state at this time, and stood on the side of the tomb and shouted loudly.
"No...... No, I'll just take a break. I replied weakly.
The falling crossbow arrows splashed dust on the stone slabs of the tombway, and I quickly shut up after saying this.
Li Huiyan saw that I didn't agree, and she was a little confused.
On the other hand, Liu Laoqi's group of tomb robbers sat on the ground one by one, without the slightest intention of helping. Especially this Liu Laoqi, who was a virtuous nephew before, called him so affectionate, but now he suddenly became dumb, as if he didn't see my difficult situation at all.
After a little rest for two or three minutes, I finally regained some strength and dragged Xiao Yue to move slowly again.
Finally, after about ten minutes again, I finally dragged Xiao Yue through the tomb safely.
When I stood up and looked down, my chest and abdomen were faintly red, and in some places I could even see a trace of blood oozing from the worn skin.
On the other hand, Xiao Yue's body was tightly wrapped up and down, and the only head that might have been injured was also padded by me with clothes, but there was nothing at all.
Take off the clothes that were under Xiao Yue's head, and at this time my clothes have already been ground out of a big hole.
"Virtuous nephew, you finally came safely, and all of us are worried about you." Seeing me passing through the tomb, Liu Laoqi hurriedly stepped forward, looking extremely concerned about the cold and warmth.
I despised the old fellow again. I thought that since you were so worried about Lao Tzu, why didn't you come to help before, but now I stood up and said some useless.
Of course, since I am still in this strange general's tomb, before I find Xu Hao and the three of them, it is best for me not to have a stiff relationship with Liu Laoqi for the time being.
"Thank you Uncle Seven for your concern." Hearing Liu Laoqi's words, I replied quietly.
Hearing this, Liu Laoqi smiled, and seemed to hear some dissatisfaction in my tone, and turned his gaze to the stone gate behind him.
Passing through the previous tomb full of crossbow mechanisms, another stone door appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
The size of the stone gate is basically the same as the previous one, and the patterns carved on it are also similar, and there is nothing special about it.
The only difference is that the stone door in front of me is made of a whole piece of granite with excellent texture, and it cannot be pushed open directly like the previous stone door.
If you can't find the stone door switch in this tomb, I'm afraid you can only rely on brute force to open it, and there is no other way to get through this stone door.
It's just that the whole stone gate made of granite boulders in front of me is about three meters wide and one foot high.
Even if it was only twenty centimeters thick, this stone gate weighed at least several thousand catties, and it was impossible to break it with brute force with ease, unless there was explosives.
We are unarmed, but Liu Laoqi has a dagger on his body, but that thing is obviously not enough to see against this stone gate.