Chapter 162: Broken Arm
Tian Ji followed the general and began to dig in the place we found, Gong Jue wanted to help and was pulled back by me, sitting lazily on the side gloating and watching, I have been beaten and scolded by the general for more than ten years, and let Tian Ji taste the hardships I once suffered.
The ability of the field chicken to dig the grave fell in the eyes of the general, of course, he looked down on it, while digging and counting, the field chicken looked at me with full eyes and begged, I pretended not to see it, this is good, when I was a child, I was basically digging a shovel and being slapped.
"Hands! Hold your hands like this. The general stared at Tian Ji with a serious face. Wang Ba calf, I can't dig a few times like you, my hands are all blistered, I really don't know how you ate this mouthful, if you follow me, maybe ......"
"You killed me a long time ago." I answered with a smile.
"You still have the face to laugh at him." The general glared at me and said sharply. "Get down and dig."
"It's not about giving you the opportunity to mentor him." I'm used to being scolded by him anyway, said with a hippie smile. "Where can I dig to show your ability, my tricks are all trained by you, your old arms and legs will squeak if they are tired."
"Lao Tzu has a strong ......"
While!
In the middle of the battle between the general and I, we heard a heavy crash from the unambiguous field chicken, and we immediately looked over, and the field chicken dug too hard, the shovel fell to the ground, and the hands were estimated to be numb and could not be closed.
"Didn't you say that for such a large underground complex, the entrance must be more than ten meters deep, to say the least." Tian Ji looked at me with grinned teeth. "It's been less than three meters of digging, why is there a slate underneath?"
I stood up from the ground and was puzzled, judging from the drawings of the Vientiane Shrine left by Lingxiao Pavilion, the seven-day building was amazing, and I said to Tian Ji that I had to dig at least ten meters It is a conservative estimate, and I dug up the stone slab in less than three meters, which seems to be a little wrong.
I jumped into the excavated pit and cleaned up the stone slabs exposed under the broken soil, which turned out to be sealed stones, and I worked together with the general to pry it open, revealing a dark passage underneath, and when the flashlight shone down, I saw steps leading to the depths of the earth.
I beckoned the others to light the torches, and the general cautiously walked in front, and we followed closely down the passage, which was shorter than I had imagined, with about a few dozen steps, and a height of more than ten meters from the ground.
This height is absolutely impossible to build the Vientiane Shrine, and suddenly I saw the general in front of me stop and pull out the sword from behind, I was shocked, and heard the general's voice: "Someone has been here." ”
The general dodged away, and in the firelight we saw several corpses lying under the steps in front of us, and from these bones it was not a short time to die here, because the dry corpses in the ground had been completely dried up to now, and there were still tattered clothes on them.
I crouched down to inspect the corpses, all dressed in the same clothes, brown crewnecked suits with bicarat over them, small white pointed-toe shoes underneath, pointed hats on their heads, and pale-faced shawls behind them.
"There are knives here." Tian Ji picked up a knife from a corpse.
Ye Zhiqiu took it over and lowered the light of the fire to check, the knife found by Tian Ji was very peculiar, it was not the same as our common one, the blade was about five feet long, and the handle of the knife could be exchanged with one or both hands.
"This is a long knife from the Ming Dynasty." Ye Zhiqiu quickly recognized it. "When the enemy is used, the tossing and turning combo is fast and the sword is like a bamboo, and the killing power is extremely great."
"Could it be that these people who came before us were people from the Ming Dynasty?" Ling Zhihan looked around in surprise.
"Judging from the costumes of these corpses, they should be the fans of the East Factory of the Ming Dynasty." Ye Zhiqiu nodded with extreme certainty.
When I heard this, I suddenly raised my head, and it was recorded in the document found in Lu Qiao's tomb that Lu Qiao had commanded more than 100 elites from Dongchang to go deep into Mobei, and it seemed that Lu Qiao and they had found it here.
"These people are dying strangely." The general in front turned around and said.
We walked over and saw the general pointing to the neck of a corpse, the dried wound on which was still visible because it had become a dried corpse.
"I've examined every corpse here, and the fatal wounds are all on the neck, and the knife is all from left to right, and it is neatly slashed." The general looked up at me.
"These people are Dongchang fans, who dared to move Dongchang at that time, there must have been a fight here." Ye Zhiqiu said suspiciously.
"It's not like a fight, if it is, there should be traces of a fight here." I raised my torch and looked at the stone walls around the steps. "There are no knife marks on the stone walls."
"These people all have the same wounds, and it wouldn't be like that if they were killing each other." Gong Jue frowned. "How the hell were these people killed?"
The general stood up and walked behind me without saying a word, and suddenly felt his head being clamped from behind, and just as he wanted to struggle, the knife with cold light was already against my neck, I almost didn't catch my breath, and patted the general's arm hard before he let go.
"It's all from behind." I bent over and panted.
"It looks like infighting, these people were killed from behind when they weren't looking." The general said with a cut of the iron.
"These people are all Dongchang fans who came with Lu Qiao, why do they have infighting?" Tian Ji asked in surprise.
"Judging from the wounds of these people, it doesn't look like it was caused by a long knife in the Ming Dynasty." Ye Zhiqiu re-examined the wound and shook his head and said. "These wounds are thin in front and thick in the back, and they should have been wounded by an extremely sharp knife with a thick back and a thin blade."
"Embroidered Spring Knife!" Gong Jue turned his head and said in surprise. "We saw the embroidered spring knife on the dragon chair in Lu Qiao's tomb, which happened to be shaped like a razor with a thick back and a thin blade."
Lu Qiao recorded in the document that he followed the lord deep into Mobei, and the identity of the lord happened to be Jinyi Wei...... "My heart lit up and I looked at these corpses on the ground." Extinguish! It's to extinguish the mouth! Lu Qiao's subordinates found this place, presumably because the mysterious lord didn't want the secret to leak out, so he took advantage of his unpreparedness to kill the people who entered here. ”
"Then that's not right." Tian Ji frowned.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"You think, Lu Qiao was able to find this place because he learned the secret of the Vientiane Divine Palace from Ling Wuchen's mouth, but we cracked the Tui Bei diagram, found Mai Jishan to get the picture scroll, and then found the bronze mirror behind the mural through the picture scroll, and finally found this place." Tian Ji said seriously. "These clues are interlocking and indispensable, the question is that we have found these things, so how did Lu Qiao find here?"
Tian Ji said this, he was thinking about these corpses before, but now he thinks that something is wrong.
"The things left by the ancestors are well preserved in Wuyi Mountain, which shows that Lu Qiao only heard the secrets of the Vientiane Divine Palace back then, but he didn't know anything else." Ling Zhihan was also stunned. "Without these clues, it stands to reason that no one will be able to find this place, right?"
"You only think about what you want to believe, why don't you think about maybe there is another possibility." The voice at the back was Zhuo Mingfeng.
"What else is possible?" I asked back.
"Perhaps, the person you are talking about, like you, has found something to guide here." Zhuo Mingfeng replied unhurriedly.
"You followed us all the way, according to what you say, Ling Xuan left clues and backups, whoever finds it will take the same?" Tian Ji disdainfully tilted his head away.
"And what if they put these things back in?" Zhuo Mingfeng looked careless.
"Put it back?" I frowned and looked at Zhuo Mingfeng. "Now that the place has been found, why put these clues back in?"
"I'm here to find the Vientiane Shrine, I don't know anything else, and I don't want to know." Zhuo Mingfeng smiled faintly.
"You're not......
"I don't know if anyone has put these clues back, but it seems that there are not many people who have been here." The general's puzzled voice came from the front.
We reached the end of the steps, a leveled passageway, and the general crouched in front of the two corpses with torches.
I walked up and took a look and was stunned, these two corpses were completely different from the Ming Dynasty Fanzi outside, dressed like decades ago, and there was a dusty backpack next to it, and there were ropes, shovels and kettles and complete exploration tools inside.
These two people had been here decades ago, and so many people had come to the place we had worked so hard to find, and I couldn't understand how they found this place.
"You didn't find these two bodies strange?" Tian Ji squatted on the ground and looked at it for a long time, then lay on the ground parallel to the corpse. "These two are not low."
Tian Ji is no longer short, he looks like he is 1.85 meters, but he is lying next to the corpse, a head short of the height, Ye Zhiqiu poked his head closer, and carefully looked at the corpse's face: "This corpse has a very high nose bridge, and the eye sockets are very deep......"
Ye Zhiqiu suddenly picked up the left hand of a corpse, there was something shining in the firelight on his ring finger, Ye Zhiqiu gently wiped the dust on it, and a ring appeared on his shriveled finger.
Ye Zhiqiu carefully took it off the finger of the corpse, I handed over the torch, it was a pure gold round ring, Ye Zhiqiu turned the ring over, and there was a string of English in the inner circle.
Evie!
Ivey...... This, this is a wedding ring! Ye Zhiqiu was stunned for a moment, looking at the two corpses on the ground. They...... Are they foreigners?! ”
I didn't react with my mouth open for a long time, I can still figure it out when Dongchang Fanzi appears here, but two foreigners appear here, I just rack my brains and can't think of a reason.
The general slowly looked up, and I noticed that his expression was shocked, and he licked his lips and said to us, "No matter what these people do and how they found here, I can be sure that someone left here alive!" ”
The general slowly raised his hand from behind the corpse, and in his hand was a shriveled severed hand.