Chapter Twenty-Three: Trespasser Dies

Looking at the white bones on the ground, I felt a little shocked in my heart.

What is there in this tomb that can make so many people die here, and everyone's death is so miserable, it is difficult to find a complete corpse among the dozens of corpses in the tomb.

As I walked through the tomb, I took a slight look at the bones on the ground and found that the age of these bones was extremely old.

The few people who have recently died should have looked like they were only six or seven years old, and some of the bones that had already decayed were presumably hundreds or even thousands of years old.

I thought to myself, could it be that the owners of these bones are tomb robbers from the past and present, and for some reason they all died tragically in this narrow cemetery. Or, among these bones, the oldest ones are actually the tomb builders who built the tomb at that time, and finally became the burial goods of the tomb owner when the tomb was completed.

I carried Xiao Yue on my back, with countless questions in my mind, and carefully stepped over one corpse after another.

The further we walked, the more bones there were in the graveyard, and after walking more than 20 meters, there was no place to put our feet down.

In desperation, everyone had to step on these bones. Listening to the sound of bones breaking from under my feet from time to time, I couldn't help but feel a little hairy in my heart, this can really be called walking in the mountain of corpses.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but I always feel that in the dark and long tomb behind me, there is a pair of invisible cold eyes staring at us, and even the cold sweat behind my back is rubbing up.

"Do you ever feel like you're being stared at from behind?" The inexplicable coolness behind me made me can't help but shrink my neck, and turned my head sideways to ask Li Huiyan.

"Nope." Hearing this, Li Huiyan replied with a strange expression.

With that, she shone the light of the flashlight back, and as far as her eyes could see, there was nothing in the tomb except for the bones.

"Maybe I'm thinking too much." I replied with some embarrassment.

I shook my head, trying my best to restrain myself from thinking about the inexplicable things, maybe it was really the hallucination that I was in too much danger and too much stress tonight.

Liu Laoqi and his group led the way in front, and from time to time they could hear a few exclamations and laughter from their mouths, as if there were a lot of treasures on these bones in the tomb, and they all stuffed their waists bulging.

Along the way, I saw that many corpses were scattered under the body of some antiques, although some of them were slightly damaged, but if they were taken out of this place and sold, they could be worth the income of ordinary people for most of their lives, which had to make people feel a little excited.

At this moment, Liu Laoqi, who took the lead in walking at the front of the tomb, suddenly stopped.

Since Li Huiyan and I were walking at the back, we couldn't see the situation in front of us even though we straightened our necks.

"Seventh Master, this corpse on this ground seems to be King Zhao Yan." Ahead, the voice of the grave robber nicknamed Monkey was heard.

"Monkey, are you sure it's him? Zhao Zitong, an old bastard, has always been cautious in doing things, how could he fall here? Liu Qiye's tone sounded a little suspicious.

The conversation between the two immediately aroused my curiosity, and I squeezed through the crowd with Xiao Yue on my back, just in time to see the monkey crouching down, groping for something on a skeleton in front of him.

After a while, the monkey stood up, and there was an extra rectangular piece of milky white mutton fat jade pendant in his hand, which at first glance belonged to the very valuable kind, and could be sold for at least 180,000 yuan.

"Seventh Master, this piece is King Zhao Yan's personal jade pendant, when the little one was still working under him more than ten years ago, he had seen it countless times, and he would not be wrong." The monkey said, and respectfully handed the jade pendant in his hand to Liu Laoqi.

"In this way, the corpse on the ground is indeed Zhao Zitong, the old bastard. Unexpectedly, this old bastard acted cautiously all his life, and every time he went to the tomb to fight, he wanted to burn hundreds of pillars of incense and wear ten pieces of eight body armor, but he still died here. ”

Liu Laoqi's voice sounded a little emotional, this is a kind of same-disease connection between tomb robbers. After all, no one who often goes down to the tomb to fight will be buried alive in the tomb one day.

After speaking, he directly threw the jade pendant in his hand on the ground again, as if he didn't care about this valuable jade pendant at all.

"Ah......h

I said no, and hurriedly ran back past the crowd, and the scene in front of me suddenly made me gasp.

I saw that Li Huiyan's face was red at this time, and her back was stuck on the tomb. In the cracks in the walls of the originally empty tomb tunnel, dense red roots drilled out at some point, tying Li Huiyan from head to toe, as if tying up zongzi, leaving only one head still exposed.

Shocked by this, I ran up and tore at the roots, but they were so tough that I couldn't break them with all my might.

At this time, the attention of Liu Laoqi and the others was also attracted by Li Huiyan's screams, and they all gathered around.

"Virtuous nephew, you get out of the way first!" Liu Laoqi saw Li Huiyan's appearance at this time, the expression on his face was also wild, and he immediately took out a dagger from his waist without hesitation, shouted at me, and then waved his hand at those tree roots and cut them over.

Click......

I only heard the sound of a knife cutting the roots of the tree, and the dagger in Liu Laoqi's hand was made of something of material, it was unusually sharp, and the roots wrapped around Li Huiyan's body were cut to pieces in an instant.

The rest of the tree roots also seemed to be aware of the impending danger, and before Liu Laoqi could continue to attack, they had already automatically retracted into the stone crack.

Li Huiyan, who had escaped the catastrophe, was a little pale, and there were more than a dozen blood holes the size of rice grains left on her two arms, which were obviously caused by the spikes of those tree roots piercing into her arms to suck blood.

"You all cheer up Lao Tzu, this tomb is weird, if you don't want to die here, don't be careless." Liu Laoqi put the dagger back into his waist, looked at the blood flowing from the ground after the tree roots were cut off, and shouted loudly to his tomb robbers.

"Yes, Seventh Master." Everyone responded at the same time, and no one was giggling anymore, and the atmosphere in the tomb became a little depressed for a while.

"Are you alright?" I glanced at Li Huiyan, who was a little pale, and said with concern.

"It's fine!" Li Huiyan shook her head and smiled at me with the corners of her mouth pulled, the smile seemed a little far-fetched.

"Well, be careful, then." I gave Li Huiyan a warning, and then turned sideways to let her walk in front.

The group walked for a moment again, and the tomb in front of them suddenly became extremely spacious.

At the end of the tomb, a huge stone door carved with hideous reliefs appeared at the end of the tomb. On either side of the front of the stone gate, two bronze swordsman statues with burly figures at least two meters tall stood silently, their cold expressions as if to warn the tomb robbers who came here.

"General's Mansion, death to trespassers!"

Li Huiyan and I stepped forward at the same time, and when we saw the eight small seals carved on both sides of the stone gate, we couldn't help but read them softly.

"Virtuous nephew, do you also recognize the words on this?" Liu Laoqi's tone sounded a little surprised, and he asked me.

"Well, I majored in archaeology in college, and I learned a little bit of these ancient characters, and later Master and his old man also taught me some." Hearing this, I replied half-truthfully.

With that, I began to look up and carefully examine the two bronze swordsman statues in front of the stone gate.

These two statues give me a strange feeling, the whole body of the statues is clearly carved in bronze, but it makes people feel like they are alive, as if they are watching all of us every move.

As for the reliefs carved on the stone door, there is nothing too special, just some ordinary ghost heads, which are obviously carved to intimidate outsiders to protect the tomb owner in this tomb.

The two heavy stone doors are as high as one zhang, and they look like they are at least a thousand catties, and it is impossible for ordinary people to push them. Fortunately, Liu Laoqi has many subordinates, and it is not too difficult to push open these two stone gates.

"Hmph, pretending to be a ghost, I Liu Laoqi has dug up the dead man's grave in his life, there are not a hundred but eighty, just with these few broken words, I want to bluff Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu wants to see how to die when he enters this door." After observing Shimen for a moment, Liu Laoqi snorted coldly and said.

After speaking, Liu Laoqi waved his hand to the people behind him, signaling everyone to work together to push open the stone door.

Because I was carrying Xiao Yue on my back and Li Huiyan was a girl, this kind of thing naturally wouldn't be our turn.

As for Liu Laoqi himself, as the leader of this group of tomb robbers, it is naturally impossible for him to do such rough work.

Watching everyone gather at the stone gate at the same time, I suddenly had a bad premonition in my heart, and I always felt that something bad was about to happen.

Out of caution, I whispered a reminder to Li Huiyan, and the two of them took a few steps back at the same time.

When they walked to the stone gate, everyone began to push the stone gate hard, only to hear a dull rumbling sound, and the stone gate, which was as high as one zhang and weighed thousands of catties, was pushed open by everyone with a gap more than a foot wide.

Standing at a distance with Li Huiyan, I kept watching the situation in the field, and when everyone pushed open the stone gate, I noticed that the arms of the two bronze guard statues in front of the stone gate seemed to move slightly. When I tried to see it closely, the statue stood motionless as if it hadn't moved.

Am I dazzled?

I'm a little puzzled, it seems that it's because of so much going on today, I'm getting a little suspicious.

"Zhang Sansan, did you notice that the two bronze statues seemed to move just now?" Just when I already thought that I was too suspicious, Li Huiyan's voice suddenly sounded in my ears.

Hearing this, I was suddenly shocked in my heart, didn't I see it wrong just now?

"You saw that too? I also saw that the arms of the two statues holding swords seemed to move, and I thought that I was dazzled by the mistake. I whispered back, and the atmosphere became more and more eerie.

Just after everyone worked together to push the stone door open one foot again, the arms of the two bronze statues suddenly rose up, and they waved the bronze giant swords in their hands and slashed at everyone.

"Watch your back!" Seeing this, I was taken aback and shouted loudly to everyone.

But I was obviously too late, and the two bronze statues, though they looked extremely clumsy, swung the bronze greatsword in their hands with great speed, and almost before I finished speaking, the bronze swords in the hands of the two statues had already landed on the backs of two of the tomb robbers.

With a click, the bronze giant sword seemed to chop melons and vegetables, and before the two tomb robbers could react, they were cut in two with a single sword.

For a while, blood and internal organs were splashed on the ground, and the entire tomb was immediately filled with an unpleasant smell of blood.