Chapter 441: The Phoenix Rises and the Dragon Descends
The man in black looked carefully into the dark cave, but there was no light inside, and the situation was unknown. He was about to shout when he heard Li Lanru's moaning from inside.
"How are you?" The man in black spoke coldly, without a hint of concern in his tone.
There were a few moans from Li Lanru in the darkness, and he responded intermittently: "Ouch, it hurts our family, ouch ......"
The man in black heard Li Lanru's moaning and knew that he was free of life, so he took out a fire breaker and blew it and threw it into the deep hole below.
The fire folded and rolled in the hole a few times, and finally stopped next to the stone wall, and the light inside immediately brightened, and the man in black saw that there was a not very deep hole below, because there was no light in it before, so he couldn't see the bottom, but its depth was actually only more than one person high, and there was a slanted downward step from the position where the sarcophagus was located, but because the lamp slave boulder fell down, the steps were all smashed.
Li Lanru sat next to the lamp slave boulder, constantly rubbing his calves, the blood red in his eyes had faded, and the Gu venom giant scorpion was pressed under the lamp slave boulder, and a broken chela was exposed under the boulder, presumably it was absolutely impossible to get out from under the boulder if he didn't die.
The man in black took a deep breath and jumped straight onto the lamp slave boulder in the cave, followed by another leap and landed on the ground inside the cave. He stretched out his hand to help Li Lanru, who stood up with a grinning expression of pain and limped to the ground two steps.
"This ...... Could it be ...... here" Li Lanru asked with a surprised look as she looked around.
"There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get them." The man in black didn't answer directly, but his words had already given the best answer.
Li Lanru laughed out loud when she heard this, and said with a twisted posture: "Lafayette bless, little Li Zi will come today to fulfill your old man's unfulfilled wish and restore my Qing Dynasty's foundation!" As he spoke, he waved his hand to break free from the support of the man in black, bent down to pick up the fire fold from the ground, and staggered towards the depths of the hole by himself.
Here is a relatively narrow road, but the stone wall decoration is more exquisite than all the stone walls outside, the relief is concave and convex, the carving is all the pattern of the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing, the texture is delicate, extremely prosperous.
"Tut-tut, the phoenix before and after the dragon, the phoenix on the dragon and the dragon down, the phoenix dances with the dragon, this is really the mausoleum of Lafayette, just ask the whole world, who else will have this ability to make the phoenix above the real dragon?" Li Lanru stopped in front of a stone wall, stretched out her hand to caress the relief on the stone wall, and admired in surprise.
The man in black also looked at the relief on the stone wall, and didn't think it was very strange, but when he heard Li Lanru's praise, he found the clues of the pattern carved in this relief. It turns out that the folk legend that the Empress Dowager Cixi dared to break the royal customs of China for 5,000 years and put the phoenix above the golden dragon, which is actually true, and the pattern on the stone wall can be corroborated.
The emperors of the Chinese dynasties boasted of the true destiny of the Son of Heaven, is the incarnation of the golden dragon, and the queen is the mother of a country, in the phoenix position, is for the phoenix, since ancient times, there is a dragon flying phoenix dance said, involving the dragon and phoenix carving pattern must be the dragon play phoenix, the dragon in the upper phoenix below, the dragon in the front of the phoenix in the back, although this is an unwritten rule, but under the strict hierarchy system, if there is a violator will definitely cause the crime of rebellion and cause the disaster of killing, the light one is full of beheading, the heavy one is even the nine clans, can not do child's play, and the Empress Dowager Cixi actually risked the world's disapproval, Breaking the royal tradition since ancient times and riding the phoenix on the dragon's head cannot but be said to be a kind of courage.
The man in black was pondering, when he saw that the light in front of him dimmed, and Li Lanru continued to walk towards the inside of the cave along the road with a fire fold in his hand, and he could see that he was very anxious.
The man in black had no choice but to follow. If he didn't owe anything to Li Lanru, he would never hide his identity, help him resolve the danger all the way, and do this thing of digging graves and robbing tombs for the way of heaven.
The two of them quickly disappeared into the darkness of the underground cave corridor, and at the same time, Wu Zhiyuan and Moon Shadow Fuxian and the other four people outside the stone gate outside were already waiting a little anxiously. The four of them had been listening quietly to the movement inside the stone gate, and when they heard the loud sound of the lamp slave boulder smashing through the sarcophagus, they guessed that there must have been a thrilling battle inside the stone gate.
Moon Shadow Fuxian had great confidence in the giant scorpion of the King of Gu Scorpions, unless the other party was a disciple of the Black Descending Sect and knew the art of corpse Gu, it would be difficult to get rid of the entanglement of the Gu Poison Giant Scorpion, and in fact, this was indeed the case.
"I haven't moved for a long time, has that sissy and the man in black been bitten to death by a scorpion?" Sun Haozi pressed his ears against the stone door, a little out of breath.
Wu Zhiyuan and Li San set their eyes on the Moon Shadow Fuxian at the same time, after all, the Gu Scorpion was released by her, and her inference about the situation inside was the most accurate.
Moon Shadow Fuxian pondered for a moment and said, "Even if they don't have the poison on the Gu Scorpion's body, they must have already suffered a lot of damage at this time, and it shouldn't be a big threat for us to go in now." ”
Sun Haozi couldn't bear it anymore, and when he heard Moon Shadow Fuxian's words, he rubbed his hands excitedly, greeted Wu Zhiyuan, and turned around to push the stone gate behind him. Wu Zhiyuan and Li San had no choice but to go over to help together, only to hear a bang, and the stone gate was pushed open again through a gap that could accommodate one person.
The four of them looked at each other and smiled, and the first person to enter the burial room was Wu Zhiyuan, who saw the body of the shriveled meerkat on the ground at a glance, his eyes moved, and he immediately saw the black hole that had been smashed out of the stone bed.
Wu Zhiyuan walked to the black hole on the stone bed, leaned over to take a look, and immediately understood. It is no wonder that the passage to the main burial chamber depicted on the treasure map has not been found, and it was not hidden behind the stone wall, but under the stone bed. Although this design seems simple, it is actually ingenious, and it is not easy to think of if the brain is not flexible.
Moon Shadow Fuxian, Sun Haozi and Li San also stood beside Wu Zhiyuan, looking at the dark cave together, and the four of them looked at each other.
"Damn, could it be that this is the passage to the tomb of the thief's mother-in-law?" Sun Haozi scolded with a stunned face, and without waiting for the others to answer, he continued to ask, "The man in black and that sissy are gone, could it be that they have already gone down to this hole?" ”
It is obvious that although the Gu poisonous scorpion under the Moon Shadow Fuxian is powerful, she doesn't know that Li Lanru is still possessed by a mountain ghost, when Wu Zhiyuan beat Li Lanru, who had been possessed by a mountain ghost, in Jinan Marshal's Mansion and fled, but the mountain ghost has always been attached to Li Lanru.
"Since this is the passage, we need to hurry down and make sure we get to the main burial chamber before they do." Li San said with a hint of concern.
Sun Haozi had a suspicion of Li Sanzi, and when he heard this, he glanced at him, and said sarcastically: "Li Sanxia, I can't see that you are quite trustworthy, and you still talk about this with Li Lanru's gang of chaotic parties, isn't it a bit pedantic?" The thief and invincible swallow Li San in my impression is not like this. ”
When Li San heard Sun Haozi's sneer, his anger suddenly rose, and he was about to attack.