21. Terracotta Army

There were a lot more mechanics along the way than I had expected, crossbow arrows, huge ceiling knives, and floors that would collapse and spin, and beneath the floor was a mountain of needles with corpses.

We walked around the dungeon for about two hours, and there were seven mud men destroyed by the traps in the dungeon. Although the road was tortuous, we finally reached the seemingly end point without much risk.

In front of us was a huge stone door more than four meters high, and a corpse fell on the wall more than five meters to the right of the gate. Like the corpse we saw before, he had turned into a dry skeleton, but the difference was that I didn't see how he died, no crossbow arrows, no signs of being cut by a sharp blade.

Sister Qiao tried to ask the mudman to push the door, but she couldn't push it at all, and even the mudman smashed his fist on the door, but still didn't open the door.

Brute force does not help to open the door, which means that a mechanism is needed to open the door.

It's not hard to find the mechanism, just contact the location of the corpse, and we can easily find a movable brick on the wall. However, finding the trap and activating it are two completely different things, and the dead man on the ground clearly indicates that when the trap is activated, other things will happen.

The mud man can't do too precise movements, and Qiao Wei can't open the mechanism for us by any of the talisman immortals in their hands.

But we still have Ye Hong, an expert in chasing corpses. The last thing that lacked in the ancient tomb was ghosts and corpses, as long as these two things were there, Ye Hong could create a bone tool that could be driven by her.

Together, we helped move the skeleton in front of the stone gate machine to the passage we entered, and it was there that Ye Hong used her corpse chasing skills to make a corpse that had turned into white bones stand up again.

Because there is no longer a trace of flesh on the skeleton, this kind of dried corpse does not have any attack power, and it will fall apart almost when touched hard, but it is enough to use it to open the mechanism next to the stone door, and all we have to do is hide from the side and observe the subsequent changes.

The skeleton corpse followed Ye Hong's command to the wall of the movable bricks, and took the bricks out of the wall.

There was no movement at the stone gate, and no mechanism was triggered.

Ye Hong let the dry corpse put his hand into the wall again, and soon there was a sound of stone bricks grinding against the wall, and at the same time, a crackling discharge sound also came from the direction of the wall, and the dry corpse that opened the mechanism for us was also pierced by a strong current.

I can even clearly see the arc of light created by the current jumping rapidly across the skeleton.

The rapid current was fleeting, and several pieces of rune paper attached to the corpse's body were also ignited by the electric shock, and the skeleton instantly scattered to the ground.

A shock trap from a thousand years ago!

It's hard for me to imagine how ancient people mastered this high-end jishu, and how they knew how to use electricity? Where does this electricity come from? Where is it kept?

If you really want to study this question, it is estimated that you may not be able to find the answer in a lifetime, but what is behind the stone gate seems to be easier for us to discover. After the shock trap killed the stand-in, the stone door slowly opened inward with the sound of rattling, leaving a fan-shaped mark on the ground.

When I cast the beam of the flashlight into the door, I saw a picture that I would never have imagined - behind the door was a huge dark space, which felt like the main burial chamber, and in which rows of terracotta warriors with swords stood neatly.

I haven't seen the terracotta warriors and horses with my own eyes, but I have seen some of them on TV and in movies, but the terracotta warriors that appeared in front of my eyes are completely different from the terracotta warriors and horses on TV!

They had no armor or any clothing, they were just slickly carved. Their faces are carved vividly, even the wrinkles at the corners of their eyes and mouth are perfectly presented, and even their hair is carved with a very layered effect.

It feels ...... It's as if they weren't carved, but an army that has been petrified by some kind of magic!

"Is this the burial warrior of King Tusi? How much can this one sell for? ”

I'm a layman, so I opened my mouth and asked a very vulgar question.

Qiao Wei and Ye Hong were also stunned, they walked up to one of the terracotta warriors and touched the face of the terracotta warrior with their hands.

"I don't know, it should be able to sell for millions, the value of this thing is not easy to estimate." Qiao Wei replied.

We marveled at the terracotta warriors as we passed them and continued our way deeper into the tomb.

Suddenly, Ye Hong let out an exclamation: "There's blood on the ground over there!" ”

"Where?" Qiao Wei immediately went to Ye Hong's side.

"That!" Ye Hong said as he fixed the beam of the flashlight in front of her right.

I looked over the flashlight, and there was a real pool of blood on the ground between the two terracotta warriors. The blood is still dark red, and it hasn't turned black, so it doesn't take long to leave this bloodstain.

"It seems to be over there!" Ye Hong spoke again, and at the same time moved the flashlight towards the inside of the tomb.

Sure enough, the blood stains gradually stretched towards the inside of the tomb, as if someone had been injured here, and then insisted on reaching the inside of the tomb.

Is it Sister Qiao's grave keeper friend? She was stabbed here and left a trail of blood?

Wrong!

As soon as this idea came to my mind, I dismissed it. If the grave keeper had been stabbed here, how did she leave the tomb? There isn't any blood on the outside, unless there's another exit. But even so, it would take at least a day and a half to get out of this ancient tomb and go to the hospital for treatment, which is impossible for a person with twelve stabs in his body.

Sister Qiao had said that her friend who was a grave keeper had been treated at the hospital in the town where she was home, but she didn't mention the knife.

I guess she wasn't attacked in the tomb, but outside, or just stabbed in town.

In order to prove my guess, I also went to ask Sister Qiao.

Sister Qiao replied that her friend who was a grave keeper had been left at the entrance of the hospital by a van with no license plate, and that she was almost dead when the hospital found her.

So it can be determined that Sister Qiao's grave keeper friend was stabbed in the town where the hospital is located, and then he was also thrown at the gate of the hospital to die, and the blood here in the tomb has another owner.

The four of us followed the bloodstain all the way to the innermost part of the tomb, and at the end there was an exaggerated sarcophagus, if the coffin was built according to the proportions of the deceased inside, then the one who rested in the sarcophagus was definitely a giant more than five meters tall.

The bloodstain extended to the edge of the sarcophagus and vanished, and strangely no bones were found around.

In view of the mechanism that had come all the way before, none of the four of us dared to approach the coffin easily, but carefully inspected the surroundings.

Soon we found something new at the edge of the wall behind the sarcophagus, which was littered with bullet casings, and it seemed that a lot of people were gathering there, and there was a fierce shootout.

"Your grandfather probably fought with Luo's blind man here, right?" Qiao Wei said to Ye Hong as he squatted in the middle of the bullet casings all over the ground, and used his hands to remove the dust accumulated on the ground.

The ground was dark, for so much time had passed, and even though there had been a bloody battle here, it was impossible to find any traces of blood.

I then moved the flashlight beam to the wall near the bullet casing.

Most of the walls are gray, but there are also patches of dark black stains. I walked over and took a closer look, and there were no bullet marks on the walls, and if they were blood, they didn't look like bullets had hit a human body. The area of the stain was very large, and it is conceivable that the amount of bleeding at that time must have been more, and if I had to say it, I think it would have been the blood that collapsed after the head was cut off with a knife or cut off in the waist.

There was no shootout here, but a duel of guns and broadswords.

But the question is, where did the bodies go? We could see a large number of bones along the way, but we didn't see any bones in this tomb.

What about this weishenme?

My imagination could provide me with a bizarre answer - the tomb robbers had been transformed into terracotta warriors standing in the tomb hall, and the hundreds of terracotta warriors we saw along the way were actually living people.