Chapter Eighty-Six: White Bones

"Partridge Whistle" strain quickly, in the shaft to see suddenly a gold-armored warrior holding a mountain axe to split himself, immediately shouted, the body popped back, pasted on the stone wall behind him, at the same time open the gold steel umbrella to protect the head and face, twenty rings of mirror box also pulled out from the waist, the gun body forward, with the left hand holding the gold steel umbrella rubbed the nose of the machine, put on a posture of both offense and defense, with the muzzle of the gun aimed at the opposite side of the gold armor warrior.

"Partridge Whistle" just why did you want to scream, because of the practice of foreign kung fu to a certain extent, if you do fierce movements, you will involuntarily make a special sound from the mouth, which is related to human breathing, if you don't shout out, you are prone to internal injury, not because you are afraid to shout.

But the "Partridge Whistle" roared at this voice, which startled Father Thomas, who had not yet climbed down the ladder, and slipped and fell off the ladder.

"Partridge Whistle" listened to the sound of the wind above his head, knew that someone had fallen, hurriedly raised the gold steel umbrella, and held the American priest who fell, fortunately, the distance was not too high, Father Thomas was surrounded by the arc of the golden steel umbrella top, before falling to the ground, although the fall hurt his waist and legs, but it was not a big problem.

At the same time, the "partridge whistle" also through the blue phosphorescent light, see clearly that the golden armor warrior holding the mountain axe, it turned out to be a false alarm, the warrior is painted on the stone wall of the evil painting, but this painting is too realistic, the color is also bright and dazzling, the warrior body is similar to ordinary people, the face is fierce, the eyebrows are open, wearing gold armor and wearing a golden helmet, extremely powerful, and the painter's craftsmanship is exquisite to the extreme, the action of the gold armor warrior is full of tension, although it is a static avoidance of painting, the kind of courage in the painting is about to come out, At a glance, it really seems that it will break through the wall of the painting at any time.

At this time, Elder Chenchen also climbed down from the shaft, and looked at the murals of the warriors and praised them again and again, Elder Chenchen and the "Partridge Whistle" two, carefully looked at the characteristics of the warriors on the murals, and it can be concluded that this Jinjia General was a member of the Qin State in that year, named "Weng Zhong", extremely brave, legend has it that even the gods and ghosts are afraid of him, since the Tang Dynasty, the first tomb wall of the large aristocratic mausoleum has the portrait of the general "Weng Zhong", just like the role of the door god, guarding the safety of the mausoleum.

But this kind of color portrait exposed to the outermost part of the main body of the mausoleum, it is easy to be eroded by the air, and after a long time, the color in the air painting will volatilize, and the tomb robbers such as "partridge whistle" are mostly from the bottom or side of the ancient tomb when they are upside down, and rarely pass through the front tomb door, so they have only heard of this legendary tomb guard general "Weng Zhong", and today is the first time to see it, so I can't help but take a few more looks.

"Partridge Whistle" said to Elder Chen: "Master, this tomb of the Xixia people is really deeply influenced by the Central Plains culture, and even the generals of the ancient Qin State have copied it. ”

Elder Lichen raised the lantern, looked at the stone wall with "Weng Zhong" painted on it, nodded and said: "There are door nails on the wall, which are indeed tomb doors...... Elder Chen's words did not fall, only to see the golden armor Weng Zhong on the stone door flashed twice and disappeared.

Father Thomas entered this eerie tunnel, and was nervous, when he suddenly saw that under the light of the horse lamp, the golden-armored warrior on the wall suddenly disappeared under his nose, and he was so shocked that he drew a cross on his chest again and again.

Elder Lichen said to Father Thomas: "Monk Yang don't need to panic, the air here is gradually circulating, and the oil paints on those paintings have volatilized, and they are not the work of ghosts and gods. ”

Father Thomas was shocked, only felt that this place was full of mysterious and strange atmosphere, even the omniscient and all-powerful God probably did not know what the world behind the stone gate was like, today was forced into by these two Chinese, but it was really unlucky, maybe this underground world is the territory of Satan, or there are werewolves, vampires, zombies and the like in it, although Thomas is a priest and has a firm faith, but he can never change the fear in the face of darkness, and he often blames himself in his heart, I think that my faith is not strong, and today's encounter may be a test for God to himself, and he must find ways to overcome the darkness that he fears, but this innate psychology is difficult to overcome in a short period of time.

"Partridge Whistle" didn't have time to pay attention to the complicated mood of the American priest at the moment, carefully checked the Xuanmen of the ancient tomb, and knew that this was a quicksand door, the design principle of this tomb door is very ingenious, there is a lot of sand behind the tomb door, after burying the tomb owner, close the stone door from the outside, there is a track under the stone door, when the stone door is closed, drive the mechanism behind the door, there will be a large amount of sand flowing out, automatically backfill the tomb behind the door, use the power of quicksand to kill the stone door, and the whole tomb is also filled with quicksand, so that while backfilling the tomb road, It also added a safety to the tomb door, and although the stone door was not thick, it could no longer be pushed open from the outside.

But then the "Partridge Whistle" and Elder Chenchen discovered a small detail, this detail is easy to ignore, that is, the gap under the stone door, there is no sand leaking out, because no matter how ingenious and precise the Xuanmen is, there must be a little gap under the door because there is a slide rail, and when the quicksand door is closed, there will always be a small amount of fine sand squeezed out in the gap.

This situation without fine sand obviously shows that the quicksand mechanism behind the door is not activated, if it is said that it is according to the burial of the deceased, this is a little incredible, but there is no burial in this tomb, it is full of treasures of the Xixia court, and the Xixia people are ready to take out these things after the restoration of the country in the future, so the tomb door cannot be completely sealed.

This saves a lot of hands and feet, no need to steal the hole to enter, directly push open the stone door can enter the treasure cave of the tomb from the tomb road, "Partridge Whistle" with Elder Chen and the American priest, together with the three of them, push the Xuanmen.

The Xuanmen was not sealed, and the quicksand mechanism behind the door was artificially closed, although the stone gate was heavy, but this stone gate was not the kind of thousand-pound giant gate in the emperor's tomb, it was just a barrier at the entrance of the tomb in the noble tomb, and it was only a few hundred catties of strength.

"Partridge Whistle" held a golden steel umbrella when the first Xuanmen, and then shot out a fire spirit child, the fire flashed, the whole tomb road to see clearly, between the two sides of the sand storage pond is not loaded with sand at all, the inside is empty, the tomb bricks on the ground of the cemetery are paved flat and neat, "Partridge Whistle" knows that the more smooth and orderly the tomb road, the more hidden dangers, there are likely to be hidden arrows, flying knives, poisonous smoke and other organs ambush.

Elder Lichen also instructed the "partridge whistle" to be more vigilant in the back, the quicksand gate was not sealed, it may be because the Xixia people were in a hurry to run for their lives, and they had no time to take care of it in a hurry, anyway, this big Buddha temple has been swallowed up by the deteriorated natural environment, there is no mark on the ground, and people who don't know the end can't find it at all, it may also be a trap, so that the tomb robbers who enter the Xuanmen have a relaxed mood, as the saying goes, the Xuanmen is easy to enter, and the Xuandao kills, although some Xuanmen is thick and huge, there are stone balls and quicksand behind to block, but those are stupid kung fu, As long as there is enough external force to intervene, it can be opened, and the real hidden weapon is first in the tomb, followed by the tomb road, both of which are places where tomb robbers must pass.

"Partridge whistle" naturally did not dare to be careless, after all, he had never entered the tomb of the Xixia people, he was concentrating on his spirit, stepping on the tomb bricks, the length of the tomb road was about twenty-three zhang, and there was a gate at the end.

The situation near this gate is extraordinary, the gate is high and wide, resulting in a round arch like the city gate, occupying the entire section of the tomb, the gate as a whole is carved with white jade, without any patterns, there are a lot of Xixia characters engraved on it, although "partridge whistle" and others do not know what these words mean, but it is speculated that it should be some kind of Buddhist scriptures, there is a copper beam across the jade door, a huge lock is hung in the middle, there is no key, the back of the door must be the tomb of the treasure cave.

Strange is that on both sides of the white jade gate on the front, there is a deep arched round hole, which looks very deep, and the "partridge whistle" includes the fact that Elder Chen has never seen this form of cave in the tomb road, but it is obvious that these two are exactly the same size, the symmetrical round holes on both sides are artificial, and the repair is very solid, and the stone slabs on the four walls are smooth as mirrors, and the height and width are all zhangxu, which is by no means done in a hurry, it should be designed in advance when the entire mausoleum was designed, and the mausoleum is a whole.

Judging from Elder Chen's experience, this may be a Dao organ, and after analyzing it with the "Partridge Whistle", the "Partridge Whistle" said to Elder Chen: "There is a copper lock on the jade gate, and the disciple will break the lock, but I am afraid that once the copper lock is destroyed, it will trigger an ambush ...... the mechanism."

Elder Lichen waved his hand and said: "It seems that this lock can't be opened, a copper lock is installed on the jade door, it is inevitable that there is a suspicion of painting a snake, and the person who can enter the tomb before, how can he be stopped by this copper lock, it is said that there is a core lock in the Northern Song Dynasty, you can see if this lock is connected with the jade door, and this lock will definitely start with a mechanism such as poisonous smoke." ”

"Partridge Whistle" didn't dare to move the lock body, carefully looked at it repeatedly, sure enough, the copper lock and the copper beam on the jade door were connected, not to mention unlocking the lock, a touch of the lock would trigger some kind of bracket, was shot in front of the door, "Partridge Whistle" saw this and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, he has always been cautious, today I don't know why I was anxious, if it wasn't for Elder Chen's recognition of the mechanism, the corpse would have been on the spot at this moment.

Elder Lichen has already seen the end of the eyes at this moment, and said to the "partridge whistle": "It seems that the jade door is a disguise, don't look at the materials so exquisite, but it is a fake door, absolutely can not break in, the arch on both sides must also have organs, this Xixia tomb is not large, but the layout is wonderful, if you want to enter the tomb only from the bottom of the tomb to enter, no matter how eccentric the Xixia people are, they can't get rid of the influence of the feng shui five elements yin and yang theory, the theory of this tomb road is just the use of the four doors and four phases, according to the cat and the tiger, The stone slabs on our heads and feet must be movable, and the burial chamber can be accessed from below, and if nothing else, it should be the only entrance. ”

"Partridge Whistle" followed Elder Chen's instructions, and opened the tomb bricks under the tomb road one by one, and sure enough, a big hole was exposed, leading directly to the tomb behind the jade gate.

Still by the "Partridge Whistle" holding a gold steel umbrella in front of the way, the three of them drilled into the tomb from the tunnel, there was a huge black stone hanging in the tunnel, like a black beehive, "Partridge Whistle" and Elder Dust didn't know what it was, looked at it through the phosphorescent tube, it looked like a stone and jade, I don't know what it was, I felt that it was better not to touch it, and slowly rubbed it from the side.

As soon as I entered the tomb, I felt that my eyes were bright, the pearls in the six-zhang wide tomb, all kinds of treasures piled up like a hill, in the blue light of the phosphorus cylinder, it looked strange and dazzling, the most conspicuous of which was a coral tree embedded with various gems in the middle, the secret treasure of the palace, it was really not a vulgar thing, and there were countless scriptures and classics, large and small boxes, and the good things in the Xixia Palace may be here.

Father Thomas, an American priest, saw both eyes straight, and discussed with Elder Chen, whether he could take out one or two things, and build a few church schools outside with just one thing, so that the homeless children could find a place to eat, go to school, and believe in religion.

Elder Lichen said to the American priest: "Why not do such a good deed, but these things are national treasures, and they can't be alarmed, and the old man also had some property before he became a monk, if he wants to build a school, the old man can help him, anyway, the four major monks are empty, and it is useless to keep those yellow and white things." ”

"Partridge Whistle" was only concerned about the "Dust Bead", although other rare treasures were exquisite, in his eyes, they were only like grass and paper paste, and he stepped on the jewels all over the place and walked a few steps forward, suddenly stopped, turned his head and said to Elder Lichen behind him: "Oh no, there is a dead man in this treasure cave." ”

Before, it was judged that there would be no dead people in this empty tomb, and suddenly heard the "partridge whistle" say this, Elder Lichen was also taken aback, and hurried to the front to watch, only to see a white human bone in the corner of the tomb, the skeleton was much taller than ordinary people, the white bone held a bunch of keys in his hand, and there was a black thousand-armed Buddha behind him, not stone or jade, the phosphorescent tube shone on it, there was no light at all, and the white bone in front of it was contrasted, and it was even more black and white, which made people shudder.

Seeing this situation, Elder Lichen's heart sank: "The big thing is not good, tonight the moon is broken, the Bodhisattva closes his eyes, all the magic weapons will lose their effect, if there is a ghost in this Xixia treasure cave, I will die and have no place to be buried, what is even more strange is that there is a statue with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes here...... Black Buddha? ”