Chapter 180: Awakening the Corpse
Liang Houzai also came to the entrance of the cave, he looked at the armored corpses in the depths of the cave, and wondered: "Are these armored corpses placed here by the tomb builder?" ”
Master nodded: "It should be." ”
Liang Houzai looked even more puzzled: "Since they are used to guard the tomb, why do you want to suppress them?" ”
"This is normal," Master explained, "Although the corpses are more susceptible to the nourishment of Kun Qi in the ancient tomb, they cannot absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, and the corpse qi on their bodies will be quickly depleted, and the tomb builders suppress them in order to reduce the consumption of corpse qi." Generally speaking, such a tomb guard corpse will be reactivated under certain conditions, and the grave builder will often set up some mechanisms in the tomb, and once the mechanism is touched, the tomb guard corpse will burst out and hurt people. Thanks to someone who pried open the bluestone bricks on the ground and made such a hole in the ground, otherwise these armored corpses would be buried in the ground, and we might not be able to find them. ”
I couldn't help but interject and ask, "Who dug this hole?" ”
The master thought for a while and said, "It is likely that Su Santong dug it up when he went to the tomb for the second time, probably to remind us descendants." ”
"But how did Su Santong know that there were armor corpses underground? How did he know that after him, there would be people who would enter the evil tomb? Liang Houzai asked again.
The master shook his head and said, "Who can say this kind of thing clearly. ”
When the master was talking to the two of us, the people of the old Huang family never interjected, they just listened silently on the side, and Liu Shangang didn't dare to talk nonsense because he had been trained by my master before.
At that time, I had the illusion that in this huge tomb, there were only three people left: Master, me, and Liang Houzai.
Finally, Master took another look into the cave and asked me to continue to lead the way, and everyone headed in the direction of the stone tower.
When we were about to reach the stone gate at the end of the tomb, the smell of blood mixed with anger made everyone present a little breathless, the anger was easy to say, but the extremely pungent smell of blood in the air made it difficult for people to breathe normally.
Fortunately, Huang Yulian was also prepared, she took out a few gas masks from her backpack and distributed them to everyone.
The old Huang family's things look very high-end, and the kind of mask that Huang Yulian sent me I think would be more appropriate to call it a gas mask, that thing is about the same size as a mask, and after putting it on your nose and mouth, you can breathe, and the smell of blood in the air will be very light.
And this thing doesn't affect speech after wearing it, but the sound coming out of the mouth will sound a little rougher than normal.
When everyone was wearing masks, Huang Yulian said to us: "The air purifier only works for two hours. ”
Her voice sounded like that of an old lady at this time, and there was a buzz in her voice.
The buzzing sound, though faint, was very high, like some kind of insect vibrating its wings at an extremely high frequency.
At first, I thought that the sound was coming from Huang Yulian's gas mask, but after careful identification, it didn't feel right, the sound seemed to come from behind me.
I turned to look and saw Huang Changsheng standing behind me, and the buzzing sound was coming from him.
When I looked at him, he was untying the Feng Shui compass from his belt.
When he opened the lid of the compass, I realized that the needle in the center of the compass was turning wildly at a very high frequency, which caused the friction between the needle and the axis to become a rapid humming sound.
Huang Changsheng glanced at the frantically rotating pointer and couldn't help smacking his tongue: "This place is too evil." ”
I looked at the compass in his hand, the pointer on it turned faster and faster, and I was not far from Huang Changsheng, and I could feel the heat generated by the friction between the pointer and the axis.
A moment later, there was a sudden rapid "click" sound at the axis of the compass, and then the needle of the compass flew out and nailed straight to the stone door behind Huang Changsheng.
After a few seconds, there was a muffled "clang" in the burial chamber behind us.
My heart tightened, and I looked into the tomb, and the light of the fox fire passed through the stone door, just enough to illuminate the hole near the center of the tomb, and I saw a cloud of dust rising above the hole.
I immediately reacted that the sound was coming from inside the cave.
The master also saw the dust floating above the cave, and after being stunned for a moment, he suddenly shouted, "Close the stone door!" ”
At that time, Liang Houzai and Liu Shangang were closest to the stone gate, and both of them reacted quickly, and as soon as the master's voice fell, they pushed a door panel to close the stone door.
A moment before the two door panels closed completely, through the gap in the door, I vaguely saw a figure crawling out of the hole.
My worst fears have happened, the corpses that have been suppressed at the bottom of the cavern have awakened! Since entering the tomb, I don't feel anything wrong except for some abnormalities in Huang Changsheng's compass, and we don't seem to have touched any mechanism.
Could it be that the problem lies with Huang Changsheng's compass?
These thoughts flashed through my mind for a moment, and in the next moment, a series of footsteps could be heard in the burial chamber on the other side of the stone door.
At that time, the footsteps in the tomb were already very close to us, but as soon as the soul sealing talisman came out, the aura inside and outside the tomb was suddenly isolated, and the footsteps of the corpse finally stopped near the stone gate.
The reason why the evil corpse hurts people, whether it is for cannibalism or not, boils down to the reason, in fact, it is disturbed or attracted by the yang energy on the living person.
The function of the soul sealing talisman is mainly to dissolve and isolate the aura, after the soul sealing talisman is pasted on the stone door, I can no longer perceive the corpse qi on the opposite side of the door, and the corpse on the opposite side cannot perceive the yang qi on our body.
But in this place where we are, in addition to the yang energy on the seven of us, there is also extremely heavy yin energy, and the rich vitality from the bottom of the abyss, the yin energy and the vitality are mixed together, forming a very powerful special aura, which is consuming the spiritual charm on the soul sealing talisman at an extremely fast speed.
I remember when I was in the tomb of the Dragon King, Shi Bo pasted the soul sealing talisman on the Jiao bone, which could suppress the yin qi on the Jiao bone within three years, but in this place, after only ten seconds, the cinnabar sigil on the soul sealing talisman began to show signs of falling off.
The cinnabar used by Master to draw the soul sealing talisman is idiosyncratic, and under normal circumstances, as long as the spiritual rhyme on the spirit talisman is not exhausted, there will be no problems within a hundred years.
But I never dreamed that Master's soul sealing talisman would run out of spiritual charm in such a short period of time in this place.
At this time, the master also had a solemn face, he pondered for a moment, took out three soul sealing talismans and pasted them on the stone door, and then turned his head and looked in the direction of the extension of the bronze chain.
When Master's eyes fell on the dark area that the fox fire could not illuminate, he suddenly said to me, "While the spiritual rhyme on the soul sealing talisman has not been completely exhausted, hurry up and go to the tower."
With the abyss under our feet and the corpses behind us, we don't seem to have any other choice but to go up the tower at this time.
I didn't talk nonsense anymore, I rushed two steps, made eight steps of footwork, three steps to kick the wall, and then turned over and landed on the chain, the chain in front of me was not completely covered by rust, and the lock ring was not glued together by the patina, when I landed on it, the whole chain shook slightly, making a low "whoosh" sound.
I first climbed forward for a while, and then the master followed and turned over the chains, and then the people of the old Huang family, Liu Shangang and Liang Houzai were still behind, and among all of them, except for the elderly old lady who needed someone to help, the others hardly had any effort when they turned over the chains three meters above the ground.
What surprised me the most was Liu Shangang, who hadn't seen him for more than a year, and this guy's skills had become very agile.
When I crawled on the chain, there was no cracking sound on the chain, but as I moved, the connection between the ring and the ring kept shaking, making it difficult to keep my balance.
I looked back at the stone door under the chain, and the light of the fox fire illuminated the soul sealing talisman on the stone door, and I saw that one of the soul sealers was swaying violently by the wind, and it was about to fall off the stone door.
Master patted me on the ankle and urged me, "Hurry up, don't hesitate. ”
I glanced at Liang Houzai again, who was staring at the abyss not far away, with a nervous look on his face.
But I couldn't take care of him in this situation, so I gritted my teeth, turned around and climbed in the direction of the stone tower.
As I climbed directly above the abyss, a strong current of air blew through me from top to bottom, pouring straight into the abyss.
When the wind blows from the outside to the bottom of the abyss, it means that the temperature inside the abyss is much higher than outside.
It was already difficult for me to stabilize myself due to the presence of this strong air current, so Xian'er got out of my shoulder, took the fox fire lantern in my hand, and I held the chain with both hands and began to move forward little by little.
Not to mention Liang Houzai, even I didn't dare to face the abyss below me, just seeing the darkness at the bottom from the afterglow, I faintly felt a little dizzy.
The chain was shorter than the one we had climbed before, and after ten minutes, we were in the middle of the chain.
The weight of the stone tower stretched the entire chain in a straight line, but it was not too tight, and by the time we reached the middle section, the chain had begun to shake slightly due to the wind, and as I moved, the junction between the lock ring and the lock ring shook even more violently.
I hugged the chains and couldn't help shouting behind me: "Liang Houzai, can you hold it?" ”
Liang Houzai first said "um", and then I heard him shout: "Those armor corpses have come out!" ”
Behind Liang Houzai's voice, his voice was completely trembling.
I immediately looked towards the stone gate, and at this time the light of the fox fire was no longer able to illuminate the area near the stone gate, and I could only vaguely see a few figures on the platform outside the stone gate.