Chapter Seventy-Four: The Stone Box

After only five minutes, my hearing returned to normal, I was about to ask, Tong Qin went to the fat man's side, I went over to look at Emma who was giving Li Mei artificial respiration, Emma's injury was gradually revealed, bright red blood flowed out of my nose, I was just about to go up to take over, I heard Li Mei suddenly take a deep breath, and then kept coughing dryly, this breath was smooth. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 I picked Li Mei up, took out the kettle from her bag, and gave her a few sips.

The fat man's ears were almost recovered, Tong Qin hurriedly came over to stop Emma's bleeding, and began to press on her tragus.

The fat man asked in surprise, "Doctor Tong, what kind of kung fu are you?" Teach me, maybe I can use it myself while you're away? ”

I laughed and scolded: "Chubby, you haven't been blown up enough, and you want to do it again?" ”

The situation had just stabilized, and before we had time to worry about the current situation, new problems arose. The so-called zero city is to dig a huge pit in the tricolor mountain, the edge of the pit is supported by glass, although the underground palace is extended in all directions, but it has been hollowed out, just like a huge hollow stone, thousands of years, the underground palace has long been fragile, just the explosive force generated by the explosives hit the entire mountain, even if there is a huge glass support, I am afraid it is difficult to continue.

After the rejuvenation of Tong Qin's skillful hands, our hearing has also recovered in a short period of time, and the sound of falling gravel caused by vibration is not heard in our ears, and the glass on the ground has been covered with cracks, which is gradually expanding, and there is a tendency to intensify.

The road behind him has been blocked, and this dark passage is estimated to not last long. I stood up and beckoned the fat man to pick up Li Mei on his back, and told everyone to leave here quickly and go all the way down the dark road. Every time I walked out of the section, I was filled with rubble, and if I waited a little longer, I would have to be buried alive.

The glass on the ground has been completely shattered, and some places are even just enough to accommodate a person to pass through, our bodies and hands are scraped everywhere to the flesh and blood, one by one shortness of breath, I feel that the whole heart is about to jump out, I don't know when it started, the downward road has come to the end, it has become a ramp upward, with a bunch of equipment, and two wounded people on our backs, several of us have long been tired and collapsed, and it is even more laborious to go up, and finally we really have no strength, we can no longer move our steps, and simply lie on the ground with our eyes closed, The head has a scar the size of a bowl, so let's die.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the shaking of the mountain stopped, and about three meters behind us were buried, and we fell on the spot panting, wanting to drink saliva, but we were a little reluctant.

After a while, the fat man spoke: "Old Zou, are we dead or alive now?" How do I feel that there is water everywhere, are we transferred to the Lechuan River? ”

I looked at the dark mountains and broken glass around me and said, "I think it's all the same, it's just a matter of time, there is glass everywhere on the ground, I guess the kettle is broken." ”

The fat man may have been tired and prostration, and his mind was a little unconscious, and he said to Li Guohua on the side: "Boss Li, I will say goodbye to you in advance, let's go to Lord Yama's point in a while, you don't have to pay back the money you owe me, just help me fight some little ghosts." ”

Li Guohua said: "Don't worry, I will definitely not lose the money I owe you, but let's think about what to do now." ”

The fat man said reassuringly: "That's great, I can walk with peace of mind." ”

I opened my mouth and moved up and down, and my hearing was basically fine, except that the wounds on my body hurt when I moved. Let everyone count the kettle and equipment, my kettle doesn't know where it went, Li Mei and the third child were injured, neither of them brought anything, and the rest added up to less than three pots.

I gave a pot of water to each of the two wounded, and the remaining pot was drunk separately for the four of us.

Li Guohua took two sips and sighed: "If we really die here, it seems that my Li family really has nothing to do with the things in here, but I'm sorry for you, I have affected you, your kindness, Li Guohua can only live again..."

I interrupted him with a wave of my hand: "You can't say that, people die for money, birds die for food." The fat man and I came here for the money, Miss Duan for her archaeological career, and you for your family's secrets. But then again, we're all dying people, and you can always tell us what the secret is that you spend so much money and generations to find? ”

Speaking of which, everyone also came to the spirit, no one wanted to be a fool, Li Guohua may also realize that time is running out anyway, and it doesn't hurt to say it, sighed and said: "To be honest, I really don't know what it is, but the ancestors have words, and what is hidden on the map is a treasure of the country, if you find it, it is definitely not a city and a place that can be exchanged." ”

The fat man said disdainfully: "What you say is equivalent to saying in vain, you don't change a city or a place, is it a elixir?" ”

Li Guohua said: "Fat brother said with a smile, where is the elixir of life in this world, even if there is, the owner of this tomb would have swallowed it a long time ago, so that we will not come to this destruction now, according to my grandfather, this treasure can make people thousands of miles away The ability to decide life and death." ”

The fat man said strangely: "Thousands of miles away to decide life and death? Isn't that a strategic missile? There was this guy thousands of years ago, and I guess it's useless if you get it. ”

Before the words fell, there was a cracking sound in the corridor, and the glass gap on the ground was getting bigger and bigger. We thanked for a while, and we also had some physical strength, and now that we are on the verge of life and death, we will naturally not be reconciled, and those who are about to die will have to struggle.

The fat man carried Li Mei on his back, Li Guohua carried the third child on his back, and Emma and I led the way forward with flashlights.

The more I walked on the ground, the more humid it became, and I couldn't help but wonder, could it be that there was also a water source here? But why didn't we notice it when we walked that downhill road, we hadn't seen the situation clearly, we only felt a rumbling sound coming from the front, and the bronze thought it was a collapse in front of us, and kept muttering, it's over, it's over.

The fat man kicked him in the back and scolded: "You intellectual, you are stupid when you read too many books, it is the sound of running water." ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard a rumble behind me, and the entire dark passage collapsed in response, blocking the way out.

Seeing that the way I had come was cut off, I beckoned the crowd to quicken their pace, and as we walked in, the sound of the water became louder and louder. As the fat man said, there is a platform at the top, and behind the platform is a waterfall from top to bottom, which splashes on the edge of the platform, and makes the road very slippery.

Everyone rested at the platform for a while, cleaned up the wounds, and looked around, it turned out that this was a small square room, the entrance and exit were slightly smaller than the wall, the length and width of the platform were about eight meters, the space was relatively large, but the small room was very special with us in this underground palace, there was neither a glass wall, nor a black stone, except for the ground, there was a wet blood red everywhere, adding a terrifying atmosphere to this dark space.

I walked to a wall and was about to reach out to touch it, when suddenly the fat man shouted, "There are zongzi!" ”

I subconsciously put my right hand on the bronze sword, and under the light of the flashlight, I found that there were several corpses in the corner of the wall, which looked vaguely recognizable, as if they had been dead for a long time, only the complexion was too dark.

I pulled out the bronze sword and approached the corpse step by step, Emma grabbed me and said, "Don't try it, it's not a zongzi, if the zongzi would have had a seizure a long time ago, this is a wet corpse, looking at the costume should have been dead for a thousand years, it is strange that such a damp place can be so well preserved." ”

The fat man said, "I've only heard of dry corpses, how can there be wet corpses." ”

I said, "This is like Mrs. Xingchai in Changsha Mawangdui, after more than 2,000 years, the body is still finished, the skin is intact, and the muscles are elastic. However, this is only in a specific situation, completely isolated from the air, and the probability is extremely low, the space here is wide, the air is circulating, how can there be a wet corpse? ”

"I don't know, but we'd better be careful, I don't think these wet corpses were buried here by natural death, it is estimated that thousands of years ago, someone broke into this place and touched some mechanism." Emma glared at me, "But then again, you're pretty good at fooling people, robber-tomb-thief. ”

Listening to her finish these three words word by word, I felt a sigh in my heart, but fortunately, her voice was not loud, no one should hear it, I still looked at the others with a weak heart, and saw that they were all doing their own things, and I breathed a sigh of relief.

hurriedly whispered his defense: "Don't talk nonsense, how did we become tomb robbers, kindly took you into this barren sand sea, trapped here, life and death are uncertain, and you still slandered us, and you scolded us as tomb robbers, do you still have a conscience." ”

Emma didn't argue either: "Okay, let's not talk about it, let's go out and worry about you first." ”

I was even more suspicious of the origin of this girl, who studied in the UK and worked as a consultant for the British Museum, who led the archaeological team into the desert with us, knowing that my real surname was Mao, and also knowing that we were touching gold and fighting. I thought: "If you can't get out, it's okay, if you can get out, I will teach you that there is nowhere to find me at the ends of the earth." Then he thought about it: "No, since this girl knows my family's surname Mao, then she must know... Ay... Forget it, it's been so many years, it's useless to think about it, so let's go out first and talk about it now. ”

The fat man shoveled the wall a few times with a sapper shovel in his hand, picked off a little red and said, "Hey... Look, why is this thing red on the wall, could it be bloodstone? Ay... If it really we'd be able to send such a big piece."

Emma walked in and looked, "Bloodstone can make you shovel off the powder so easily?" It should be some kind of specially processed ore. ”

Li Guohua's eyes straightened when he saw it on the side, and he couldn't help but say: "This is not bloodstone, nor is it a specially processed ore, this is phoenix blood, the phoenix owl has the same nest, the owl killed the phoenix, occupied the phoenix's nest, here is all red by the phoenix's blood, look for it, there should be something behind." ”

After listening to Li Guohua's words, we started to knock and beat around, and I couldn't help but ask strangely: "Boss Li, I didn't expect you to believe in myths and stories so much, but this phoenix blood is here, how can you be sure that there will be something behind?" ”

Li Guohua said: "My ancestors said that if you can find a house full of blood, you will definitely find something inside, open it..."

This guy said half more, and he just held back. The fat man knocked and knocked on the top of each of these wet corpses and found a bird-shaped pattern, and after careful counting, it was exactly nine. If we're right, these bird-shaped motifs should be nine chicks.

If you have to find patterns in them, you must recognize their order, which is bigger and which is smaller, and you must be able to find them in these abstract paintings, and then make plans.

Feng breeds nine chicks, the eldest wood spirit, the second fire phoenix, the third Ziyan, the fourth King Kong, the fifth prophet, the sixth peacock, the seventh peng, the eighth thunderbird, and the nine winds. The attributes are different, and their appearance is also very different.

The first five are wood, fire, earth, metal, and water are also very easy to identify, the peacock's tail screen is scattered, and the thunderbird is surrounded by lightning, which is relatively easy to recognize, but the Dapeng and the wind are relatively complex, and the two birds have very similar places.

It is also a sharp eye, with a body of the same size on the wall relief, and the color is also very similar. After watching it for a long time, Emma finally saw the difference, Gale had a very small hole in his body and nine slender feathers on his tail.

The hole should have been shot through the body by Hou Yi, and the Dapeng bird was more like the eagle we see now, without those slender tails. The fierceness in the eyes is more precise, and the gale is ferocious.

After determining the order of the nine birds, it was easier to do next, starting with the wood spirit, exerting all his strength, pressing down, and as expected, a basin-sized square was recessed into the wall, and the bird was right in the middle.

I took turns pushing the block where each bird was. The sound of a click rang out as the last wind pressed down, and a circular hole appeared out of thin air in the ground, and a square stone box rose from the bottom. I noticed that the water of the waterfall behind me also became smaller at this moment.

It turns out that this so-called waterfall and the stone box below are connected, there is a hole in the waterfall connected to the bottom of the stone box, once the shelter on the stone box is opened, because of the water pressure, the stone box will rise, and the waterfall will naturally become smaller at this moment.

However, it was only a matter of moments, and the cassage went up, and the water of the waterfall returned to its original state.

Emma turned on the flashlight, looked at the rising stone box, and suddenly there was a little more fear in her eyes, I had never seen her have such an expression, so I asked her what was wrong, what she saw. (To be continued.) )