After finishing speaking, the old lady picked up the pocket watch again and said to us: "The third master's pocket watch was handed over from a foreigner, and this scratch on it was scratched with a knife when I was six years old, and this is it." ”

As he spoke, the old lady pointed to the case, and there was indeed a short, deep notch on his finger.

Just imagine, the old lady is already 100 years old, and he still remembers the things when he was a child, if it is not because of his amazing memory, it is because the two things in front of him left too deep an impression on him.

Recalling that every time he mentioned Su Santong, there was a bit of warmth in his tone, and it could be seen that the relationship between the old lady and Su Santong should be very good.

Master took the pocket watch from the old lady's hand, looked at it carefully, and then gave it to me.

I looked at both sides of the pocket watch, and there was a five-clawed cloud dragon engraved on the front, and a line of small characters engraved on the back: "Ten years of Tongzhi, Yu Heng Qing Officials".

In ancient times, words were generally arranged from right to left into sentences, but this line of words is very special, arranged from left to right.

At that time, I only knew that the tenth year of Tongzhi was about an era name, and as for the Yu Heng Qing Officials Division in the back, I didn't know what it meant.

I couldn't help but ask Master, "What is Yu Hengqing's Division?" ”

Master was examining Su Santong's bones at the time, but he didn't respond to me.

Huang Changsheng on the side explained to me: "This is an institution in charge of manufacturing all kinds of official utensils in the Qing Imperial Court, and it belongs to one of the four divisions under the Ministry of Industry. ”

At this time, the master stood up, and said to Old Lady Huang with a solemn face: "There is a change in the bones, it seems that when Su Sanye committed suicide, there was already a corpse change on his body. ”

Hearing Master's words, my heart twitched.

Before death, the corpse changes, isn't that the corpse of a living person, my eyes stayed on the chest of the corpse, the master just opened the horse coat, I saw a scar-like protrusion on its sternum, "The Walking Corpse Record" said, this phenomenon is called corpse spots into the bone, this kind of marks are not found on ordinary evil corpses, only seen in some mutated armor corpses. The armor corpse cannot become a corpse naturally, and must be refined by a special corpse keeper.

In other words, there were people who tried to train Su Santong into an evil corpse. Moreover, Su Santong died with a broken skull, and the corpse with a destroyed brain could never be transformed, he was refined when he was alive, what is this not refining a living corpse?

Thinking of this, the image of Luo Youfang resurfaced in my mind.

The old lady looked at Su Santong's corpse and was speechless for a while, my master sighed and said to him, "Let Su Sanye be buried in peace." ”

My master's intention was probably to let Mrs. Huang bury Su Santong's remains on the spot.

But the floor of the tomb is paved with bluestone, and it is impossible to say that a pit was forcibly dug to bury the bones, and in the end, the old lady decided to take Su Santong's bones out and find a place to bury them in a beautiful manner.

Huang Changrong took out part of the things in his backpack and put Su Santong's bones into it, the old lady originally wanted my master to help Su Santong do a practice, after all, it is disrespectful to the ancestors to move the bones at will, and the old lady's requirements are not excessive, but my master will not do such a ritual at all, and there is no such inheritance in the upright lineage.

After that, the master still suggested that the old lady leave the tomb and find Li Daochang and the great monk Chengyun to do things, and then said that time was running out, urging us to continue to march towards the depths of the tomb.

It has been about two hours since we went down to the grave, and we will find our way out tomorrow afternoon, and the time is indeed a little short.

Xian'er still walked in front with the lights on, I followed her closely with the green steel sword, and the master walked behind me.

As it went deeper, the anger in the air became more and more intense, and even the corpse qi was much stronger than before, and the master was afraid that everyone would not be able to hold it, so he distributed the candy again, but he couldn't stand the crowd, and after the second time the sugar was distributed, there was not much left in the master's pocket.

The cracks on the walls and top of the tomb became denser, and when you reached the second half, some of the bluestone slabs on the ground were broken.

In the rubble scattered on the ground, I could still faintly see some dark powder, because everything in the tomb was green under the background of the fox fire, I couldn't tell what color those powders were, only that they were very dark, and should be closer to pure black.

Huang Changsheng sniffed a pinch of powder on his nose from the ground and said, "It's black powder, there was an explosion in the tomb." ”

Master nodded: "It seems that Su Sanye wanted to blow up this tomb back then." ”

At this time, Xian'er suddenly said: "What is that?" ”

My attention had been on Huang Changsheng and my master, and when I heard Xian'er shout like this, I turned my eyes to Xian'er's side, and I saw Xian'er pointing directly in front of us.

Looking in the direction of her finger, I saw a large black object on the ground in the distance.

Master told me to come over and have a look and told me to be more careful.

Xian'er and I walked forward for a while, only to see that it was a black cannon, about the thickness of my waist, it was the kind of ancient cannon with a wide tail and a narrow head, the wooden base had rotted, and the whole cannon body was lying on the ground lifelessly.

And in the direction directly opposite the muzzle of the gun, there was a stone wall that had been blown away.

Seeing that there was no danger, I beckoned to the master.

When Master came to me, he first looked at the cannon that had fallen to the ground, then at the stone wall that had been blown up, and said to me, "It seems that Su Santong originally wanted to enter the other side of the stone wall, but why did he blow up the tomb?" ”

There was no inquiry, but rather a discussion with me.

I said, "I guess I found something in there that I couldn't deal with, so I blew up the tomb when I fled." But how did Su Santong become a corpse, was it because he came into contact with something in the tomb, so that the evil qi entered the body and the corpse changed, or was it calculated? Also, Master, how did you say this cannon was brought in, and the bronze chain we walked through shouldn't be able to bear the weight of the cannon, right? ”

After so many years of following Master, it is the first time I have talked to Master like this.

Master reached out and grabbed the edge of the muzzle of the cannon, and lifted it vigorously, but did not move.

After that, the master pondered for a while, and then said: "It's too heavy, Su Santong can't be transported in alone, and there must have been other people who followed him to the tomb at that time." ”

I continued with Master's words: "But there is only the body of Su Santong in the tomb. And the purple stiff in the tomb is also very strange, why do I think the python robe on his body is so similar to the one left by the old eunuch Huang. ”

The master said "um" and said, "Something must have happened when Su Santong went to the tomb back then. He had been dead for so long that all the souls in his body had been dissipated, and he could no longer use small arithmetic to deduce what had happened in the first place. ”

The small calculation method includes a calculation method called "acting spirit", which can deduce what happened before the death of the person through the residual spirit of the dead person, but unfortunately I was not good at learning at that time, and I have not fully mastered this calculation algorithm.

After a while, Master raised his chin at the blasted stone wall and said to me, "We don't have much time, let's go explore the road first, and be careful in everything." ”

I nodded at the master, and walked with Xian'er into the hole in the wall that was blown open by the artillery, and the people behind me were once again blocked out of the hole by the master.

At the other end of the wall hole was a large burial chamber, in which a violent wind was blowing, and after I entered, the sharp sound of the wind passed through my ears, making my eardrums stir up continuously, and I could feel a large amount of corpse qi on the other side of the wind, but those corpse qi was blown away by the wind, and only a very small part of it was emitted along the hole in the wall, and at the same time, a familiar chill surged from the black water corpse coffin behind me, preventing the corpse qi from entering my body.

With the help of the fairy's fox fire, I could see that many holes of various sizes had been carved into the walls around me, and the wind was blowing from those holes.

Embedded in the ceiling of the chamber was a thick chain that radiated a lot of life, stretching from the top of the blasted wall to the stone door at the end of the chamber.

Xian'er deliberately slowed down her pace, and walked slowly forward close to me, and after the two of us passed through the wind-covered area, an incomparably strong corpse aura mixed with a large amount of vitality permeated the second half of the tomb.

Not far away, I saw a stone brick on the ground that seemed to have been lifted, piled up in one piece, and where there was no stone brick cover, a huge hole appeared in the ground.

I glanced at Xian'er, and then slowly approached the hole, Xian'er seemed to be a little frightened, and handed me the fox fire lantern, after which she burrowed back into my body.

At that time, I could already detect that the corpse in the burial chamber was coming from the cave, and I was very nervous, and when I approached the edge of the cave, I took a lantern and shone inside, and I saw dozens of evil corpses in armor.

Judging by the intense corpse aura emanating from them, I knew that those things were evil corpses, they were lined up in several rows, standing neatly in the deepest part of the cavern, and I made a cursory visual inspection, and each one was much taller than normal, and there was a metallic sheen on their exposed skin.

These evil corpses turned out to be all armor corpses, they seemed to be suppressed by some kind of force at this time, and their bodies did not exude the evil aura that armor corpses should have, except for the corpse qi.

I didn't dare to linger near the burrow, and after taking a general look, I walked lightly to the stone door on the other side of the tomb.

After learning that there were a large number of armored corpses in the burial chamber, I became extremely cautious in every movement, for fear that one would disturb the armored corpses by paying no attention, and I had to look back from time to time when I walked.

At the end of the burial chamber, I tried to push the stone door, and to my surprise, the stone door was very light, I just gently put my hand on the door panel, and the door slowly opened.