Chapter 36: Thirteen Years Ago
At that time, in addition to them, there were several other people in the tent dressed differently, who looked like they should be the team leader. Pen, Qu, Ge www.biquge.info They speak Yi language, and Master doesn't understand it. The person who brought Master in translated for Master and asked Master if these people were still saved.
Master went up and looked at the ones who were still angry. Although these people are not dead, their pupils have begun to dilate, and they have not reacted to the master's movements. The master shook his head and signaled that there was no help.
Seeing that the master shook his head, the team leader said a few words to the interpreter. The interpreter nodded thoughtfully, and then led Master out of the tent. Master looked at the faces of several of them at that time, and said in his heart that it was not good, these people should not want to kill people and kill their mouths, right? But he couldn't run, so the master had to follow the interpreter out of the tent.
After he went out, Master asked him, where was this taking him? The previous translation only goes to the place.
There are three types of tents in the camp, one is used for people, one is used for the dying sick, and the other is for all kinds of miscellaneous items. The interpreter took Master into a tent where the miscellaneous items were kept, and then selected a set of equipment from it for Master. When Master looked at the equipment, he realized that this group of people was actually tomb robbers.
However, this group of people does not look like scattered thieves, looking at the scale, it seems to be official thieves. But even if it is an official thief, they do not dare to do it too blatantly. At that time, it was the yellow bandits, and there were constant disputes between large and small forces in various places. Once the news leaks out, it is likely that before they have time to leave, another force will quietly wipe them out and take their place.
After getting the equipment, Master was taken to a tent in the center of the camp. As soon as Master entered, he saw a group of people in the tent preparing to leave, and it was the guard who led the team.
However, at that time, Master didn't feel that there was anything special about this person, except for very few words, and his appearance was no different from other people. And at that time, Master was thinking about how to escape? Therefore, the first impression of him at that time was not very deep. It wasn't until later, when an extremely strange thing happened to the Master, that the Master discovered that there was something unusual about this person.
The interpreter who brought him in said a few words to the guards and then went out. Master was assigned to be the team doctor. I listened to it and said that this official thief is different, and there is even a team doctor in the team. Although the master was forced to stay, this also shows that this group of people is indeed not an ordinary bandit.
Where they were going, Master didn't find out at the time. However, the entrance to their lower bucket is in a water cave under the mountain of the "Prince Corridor". And just as they were about to leave, a group of people who had entered the cave before had already come out.
The people in the camp hurried over to pick them up, and Master watched from the sidelines. The condition of the group of people who came out of the cave was very bad, half of them were dragged out with ropes, and most of them had already lost their breath on the way. After dragging them out of the cave, Master discovered that there was a kind of tin box strapped to them.
Master could see very clearly that the people who were tied up and the tin box were covered in a layer of slime, and a kind of putrid acid mixed with a variety of smells came to his face. The tin chests looked very heavy, and they were all carved with a strange ornament.
Those who came up to answer were fast. They quickly separated the men from the tin boxes and placed them in separate tents. The whole process lasted about half an hour, and after the group of people and boxes were cleared, the guards led the team into the mouth of the cave.
When Master said this, I hurriedly asked Master to stop, because I had a place that I couldn't understand.
"Master, what was that slime you saw at that time? Why are all of them covered in a layer of slime? ”
Master said, "Judging by the smell, that mucus is very similar to a digestive juice. Based on the circumstances, they must have been attacked by something while looking for the tin box. ”
"So many people died, what were in those boxes?" I was very curious.
The master shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, but after those boxes were shipped out, they were quickly taken over by others. But I do remember the kind of ornament on the chest, the kind of ornament you see in the Dushan Underground Palace. ”
I was stunned for a moment, and my heart suddenly began to mess up again. What does that ornamentation mean? How did it suddenly appear in such a remote place?
I really don't have a clue about this kind of ornamentation. The master speculated that the pattern that appeared on the box should be a pattern used exclusively for the royal family of Yelang, just like the dragon and phoenix patterns of the Central Plains court.
"Then Master, after you went in, you weren't attacked by that kind of thing?"
Master nodded and said, "What happened to me at that time was another strange thing. ”
According to Master, the water karst caves near Guanziling are very complex, with nine out of ten caves, and some caves are even dozens of miles long, just like a labyrinth. Moreover, the terrain in the cave is completely unpredictable, and in some places the locals call it "a line of sky", and people can't squeeze through it even if they unload their equipment, so they need to bring in some gravel equipment. In short, this is a big project, and it is absolutely impossible to complete it with the strength of a few thieves alone.
However, because these people used the method of going deep in echelons, they only needed to follow the marks left by the previous echelons along the way, and quickly went deep into the underground palace hidden in the cave.
The architectural style and regulation of the Guanziling underground palace are indeed very different from the underground Xuangong in the Central Plains, and many decorative elements in the underground palace are indeed unique to the local style. Judging from the regulations of the underground palace, it should be the tomb of the Yelang royal family, but it is not clear which of the Yelang king's tombs is for the time being.
And not long after entering the underground palace, a strange event happened that the master couldn't understand at all.
As soon as I heard that the main event was coming, I hurriedly sat up straight and listened carefully.
At that time, the ranks of the guards were resting in the front hall, and the master did not notice anything unusual around him, so he prepared to rest for a while. Unexpectedly, when the master woke up, he found that there was no one around, and the guards and those people seemed to have left. But the campfire was still alive and well, and it was clear that they hadn't gone far yet.
The master didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly got up and chased after him. But before he could leave, two people walked in outside the door. These two people were in their ranks, and Master hurriedly went up and asked where they had gone. But the two men were very strange, they didn't seem to notice the master at all, and they ignored the master's questions, and when the two men came in, they sat by the bonfire with a gloomy face, silent.
The master said strangely, what the hell are these two people doing? Just as he was about to ask them, the others also walked in through the door. Before the master could speak, they hurriedly asked the two people sitting by the campfire, "Did you find it?" ”
The two men shook their heads and said, "I've searched for the place where I should be, but I still haven't found it." You didn't find any clues either? ”
The men shook their heads too.
The master was listening a little confused, what were they looking for? Has anyone lost it? But when I looked at the number of people, there was no one missing in the team.
Those people were going to continue to go out to look for them, and Master was about to stop them and ask them what was going on. But then, an extremely strange scene happened, the master reached out to stop them, but suddenly he was empty. When he came back to his senses, he found that his hand had passed directly through them!
The master suddenly came back to his senses, and those people didn't seem to feel the master's presence at all, and they continued to walk out. The master was in a hurry, ran up to them, and opened his arms to stop them.
However, it was as if they couldn't see the Master at all, and they went straight through his outstretched arms!