Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Eye in the Dark
After the group of people came to the tomb, they looked at the coffin in the middle and the coffin lid and the dark coffin lid on the ground, and one of them said, "Ninth Master! It seems that someone has taken a step ahead of us and opened the coffin. ”
The man who was called the Ninth Master was a little fat, with a beer belly, a gold chain around his neck, a somewhat round face, and his eyes were deep, and he looked like an old man.
He turned his head to look at the man, pointed to the black coffin lid on the ground with his left hand and said, "That black coffin lid seems to be a fine black jade, worth a lot of money, let's see how to make it small and bring it out." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, four people began to study the coffin lid around it, and he walked straight to the coffin in the middle, staring at the dark coffin, there was nothing at the bottom of the coffin, it was an underground entrance.
He said thoughtfully: "This coffin is also a good black jade, come a few people, solve it, this time we haven't arrived at the main tomb, we have a bumper harvest, God has eyes!" ”
"Ninth Master...... The Ninth Master...... Help me......"
He turned around in response, and there were four people lying around the dark lid of the coffin, their eyes were wide open, their eyes were full of despair, and they kept shouting: "Ninth Master...... Save me...... I don't want to die......"
Their hands were dark, and the black was spreading along their arms at a very fast pace, and in a few seconds it was spreading over their bodies, and they let out a heart-rending scream.
One of them got up from the ground and threw himself at the Ninth Master, seeing this, he stretched out his right leg and kicked the man back, he shouted, "What's wrong with them? ”
The other three people flashed behind him at once, away from the four people on the ground, and after a while, the four people turned black all over, and the miserable screams stopped immediately, and the three people behind the ninth master turned pale with pale faces, and beads of sweat flowed down their foreheads one by one.
At the same time, their legs were trembling, and they almost knelt down, Jiu Ye looked at the four people on the ground, and then looked at the dark coffin lid, and a sense of foreboding gradually rose in his heart, and blurted out: "Jade!" They have been jadeized, this black jade can't be touched, you must not touch it. ”
The three people behind him nodded again and again: "We didn't touch!" ”
The person standing in the middle spoke: "Ninth Master! What's next? Now it's just the three of us! ”
The Ninth Master turned his head to look at the three of them and said calmly: "It's okay, what is our goal?" ”
The man immediately said, "Look for the legendary elixir!" ”
Jiu Ye nodded slightly and said: "That's right, when we find the elixir, after the immortality, the jade is not enough to worry about, they die here, it can only be said that they have nothing to do with immortality, the jade coffin is a fellow Taoist, we go inside, maybe we can find the elixir." ”
The person standing on the left hesitated a little and said, "Ninth Master! I don't want to go any further, there were more than thirty of us when we came, and now there are only four of us left, and the price of this long body is too great, I want to go home. ”
The Ninth Master looked at him and said angrily: "Nonsense, we have gone through a lot of hardships to get here, how can we go back?" Their death here is their fate, which means that God has chosen the four of us, as long as we reach the main burial chamber, open the coffin, and get the elixir, we will live forever. ”
The man still hesitated a little and said, "But ......"
The Ninth Master continued: "Xiao Ding! Don't be afraid, we are one step away from success, the coffin is set under this aisle, many people will not succeed, because they are not persistent enough, they give up when they are only a few steps away from success, such people are pathetic and pitiful, we don't want to be such people, since we have chosen, we will go to the end, God will always favor the people who can persevere to the end. ”
After hearing this, the person named Xiao Ding nodded slightly, and the other two were originally a little retreating, but after listening to their ninth master's words, they decided to move on.
Jiu Ye opened his mouth and said: "Your good package, let's continue to move forward, let's jump down directly, don't touch that jade coffin, Xiao Ding, you go down first, and we will arrive later." ”
Xiao Ding was impressed by his words, and now he hurried up, after carrying his backpack, he held his breath and jumped down, and after the end, he shook the flashlight in his hand up a few times.
Seeing this, the ninth master also jumped down, and after a while, the four of them jumped into the underground entrance, and the entire tomb fell into darkness, and it was quiet in an instant, and two minutes later, I saw bright green eyes into the tomb.
The eyes walked up to the four jaded men, and their eyes were filled with excitement, longing, and joy, and they pounced on one of them.
"Click...... Click...... Click......"
Those eyes seemed to be on something, and after a while, they devoured all the four jadeized people on the ground, and then jumped down the underground entrance and disappeared into the tomb.
Zhang Ju and the three of them walked along the current tomb road, and the tomb road on this floor was similar to the one above, and it was also dug out of the rock.
The stone walls on both sides of the tomb are polished very smooth, but they are not like the upper layer, and there are no words and patterns engraved on the stone walls of this layer, which looks a little strange.
Zhang Ju opened his mouth and said: "Looking at the situation of this tomb, Li Zhongge is suspected of occupying the magpie's nest." ”
Su Ce wondered, "How can you see it?" ”
Zhang Ju explained and pointed to the stone wall on the right and said: "You see, this stone wall is extremely smooth, without any words and patterns, but there is a layer above, and there is only one possibility, that is, he has not had time to finish carving, and went west." It's just that we don't know the Tangut script, otherwise we can study what is written. ”
Xu Yuling said curiously: "The upper layer is carved, but the lower layer is not carved, can there be such a coincidence?" ”
Su Ce opened his mouth and said, "It's really possible, maybe it's just such a coincidence." ”
Zhang Ju turned his head to look ahead, opened his mouth slightly, and said: "These don't mean much to us, let's go quickly, I hope the main tomb is on this floor." ”
The three of them continued to move forward, and after walking a few hundred meters, a stone gate appeared in front of them, and there were still two statues on either side of the stone gate, exactly the same as the two on the previous floor, and they were staring ahead.
There was a pattern carved on the stone door, and Su Ce stared at the pattern and said, "Do you think this pattern is a little familiar?" ”
Zhang Ju opened his mouth and said: "This pattern is the pattern on the turtle shell in the stone wall on the upper layer. ”
Su Ce looked puzzled and said with some curiosity: "What does this pattern represent?" ”
Zhang Ju said lightly: "I don't know!" ”
He looked up at the top of the stone gate, where a rectangular circle was carved with four large characters - Gates of Hell.
Zhang Ju blurted out: "Look at those big characters, they are actually Chinese characters, not Xixia characters!" ”
Su Ce and Xu Yuling raised their heads almost at the same time, and Xu Yuling read out: "The Gate of Hell, is it hell inside?" ”
Su Ce replied, "Everything is possible, and Li Zhongge can always surprise us. However, the Western Xia language is not used here, does it confirm the fact that Li Zhongge and the dove occupy the magpie's nest? ”
Zhang Ju nodded, but shook his head again and said: "But judging from the pattern on the door and these two statues, it is a little different, I don't know what tricks this Li Zhongge is playing." ”
Su Ce was a little displeased and said: "No matter what tricks he plays, let's go in and take a look, we can still be afraid that he won't succeed." ”
Xu Yuling echoed: "That's it! Let's go in first. ”
The three of them walked straight through the "Gate of Hell" and walked in, and what appeared in front of them was a tomb, which was also square and empty.
"Hahaha......"
Su Ce couldn't stop laughing, almost out of breath, Zhang Ju patted his back, finally gasped, and said with a smile: "This is hell?" Has this hell been emptied by King Jizo? ”
Zhang Ju suddenly said: "I don't think so, it seems that there is nothing, but in fact, there is a hidden mystery......"
"Huh...... Swish...... Who......"
On the stone walls on both sides of the tomb, nearly a hundred arrows were shot at the same time, Su Ce reacted extremely quickly, sat cross-legged on the ground, used the unicorn cover, and covered the three of them in it, and the arrows flying from both sides hit the golden cover together.
"Bell...... Clang...... Bell ......"
Those arrows fell down one by one, and all of them fell to the ground, which lasted for about half a minute, after everything calmed down, Su Ce withdrew his hands, the unicorn cover gradually disappeared, Su Ce stood up from the ground, and patted his pants.
As soon as his body was stable, he spoke: "It's so dangerous, this Li Zhongge is really cunning!" ”
Xu Yuling followed: "Yes! Most of the grave robbers have come here, and basically they have not returned. ”
After Zhang Ju looked around, he immediately said, "Su Ce! Light the candles, and take a closer look at this room, we can't rush forward yet. ”
After Su Ce heard this, he bent down and picked up the candle on the ground, lit it with his hand, and the tomb lit up all of a sudden, Zhang Ju turned his head to stare at the wall on the right, only to see that the wall, more than a few centimeters above the ground, was full of rows of holes, like honeycombs.
He looked at the holes and blurted out, "If Su Ce had reacted a few beats slower just now, we would have been shot as hedgehogs." ”
Su Ce held the candle and was about to walk forward, but Zhang Ju immediately stopped: "Su Ce! Don't move! Let's not move, the floor here is not like anywhere else. ”
As soon as Zhang Ju's words fell, Xu Yuling and Su Ce looked down at the floor under their feet, on the floor, there was a layer of bluestone blocks, and when they stepped on it, the bluestone blocks would sink down.
"That's how we triggered the trap just now, right?" Xu Yuling asked.
Zhang Ju nodded and said, "It should be, if we hadn't stepped on a few pieces and made the bluestone sink, we wouldn't have seen that there were stones on it." Do you look at the rocks in front of you, do they look like the floor above? It's like carving circles one by one. ”
Su Ce gritted his teeth and said, "Why is Li Zhongge so disgusting? The floor of the upper floor is probably deliberately carved like that, in order to confuse the tomb robbers who come in, when they get here, they basically have to be fooled, it's too similar, who cares? ”
Zhang Ju took a deep breath and said: "This tomb is really not simple, if we can't blur and bypass the stone gate, it is estimated that it is still hanging outside." ”
Xu Yuling was puzzled: "We were obviously virtual just now, how could we still trigger the mechanism?" ”
Zhang Ju explained: "Blurring does not mean that our weight or anything will disappear, if this is the case, we will walk on the ground, there will be no friction at all, so it is impossible to move forward." ”
Su Ce asked rhetorically: "If the weight is still there, won't we keep dropping?" ”
Zhang Ju went on to explain: "Because there is an invisible force in the soles of our feet, this force makes the soles of our feet as if we were not in the void, and that's why we can trigger the mechanism. ”
Xu Yuling was a little anxious and said, "Are we going to stand like this all the time?" ”
Zhang Ju said: "At present, we can only do this, we must find out where the exit is, logically speaking, to get here, it should be not far from the main tomb, this should be the only way to go to the main tomb, the more important the place, the more important the mechanism." ”
After Su Ce pondered for a few seconds, he opened his mouth and said, "Why don't we break through, anyway, I have a unicorn cover." ”
After hearing this, Zhang Ju's heart was a little shaken, and he immediately spoke: "This method is indeed feasible, but what I am most afraid of is that there is a self-destruction mechanism in it, so that we can break through it, and the result will be in vain." ”
Su Ce nodded slightly: "You're right, everything is possible here, but otherwise, we don't have a better way now." ”
Zhang Ju stared at the bluestone blocks on the ground with his eyes, fell into deep thought, and remembered the eighty-one crossroads before, he began to count silently in his heart, Su Ce and Xu Yuling did not speak, and the surroundings suddenly fell silent.
At the same time, the man named Jiu Ye walked on the tomb road with the man, and they held the flashlight in their hands to shine ahead, and in front of them was a straight tomb road, and there was no end in sight.
The man named Xiao Ding opened his mouth and asked, "Ninth Master, this tomb road is really long, we have been walking for half an hour, and we have not reached the end yet." ”
Jiu Ye looked up at the narrow tomb road in front of him, with some fatigue in his eyes, stretched out his left hand and touched his belly, and said: "It shouldn't be far, the general tomb road can't be too long, everyone is persistent, victory is just around the corner." ”
The four of them quickened their pace and continued to walk forward, the graveyard resounded with the footsteps of the four people, and about a hundred meters behind them, the faint green eyes kept staring at them, following their steps forward.
In the tomb in front of him, a glimmer of light flashed in Zhang Ju's eyes, and he said: "There are eighty-one bluestone blocks under our feet, and we returned to the original point after crossing eighty-one crossroads outside, all of this is not as simple as a coincidence, there should be some kind of law in it." ”
Su Ce on the side muttered, "Ninety-nine-eighty-one, could it be related to nine?" ”