Chapter 31 The Real Underground Palace Plan
The bodies lay on the ground. I looked around www.biquge.info there were about fourteen corpses, dressed in the same way as the one we had seen in the burial chamber before, and these must be the ones who walked ahead of us.
Judging by their pupils, these people have been dead here for at least a day. Cassia walked over and grabbed the wrist of one of the corpses and looked at it, and sure enough, it was tattooed with that kind of character.
"So many people?" I couldn't move my legs for a while.
"It's all dead." Cassia stepped between the corpses, drew the golden sword from their waists, and handed me one.
"The knife is still on the waist, these people can't even defend, it seems that they have hit a hard stubble. We'll have to be careful, maybe the shadow did it. β
I nodded, looking around warily. These days, I've found that my tolerance has improved a lot, and I don't know if it's numb or really improved. At this time, I suddenly heard the monk shouting from the side: "Come here, there is a living one!" β
Hearing his shout, a few of us hurried over.
"This man is still angry, do you want to see if he can be saved?"
Right now, this person is covered with a black scarf on his face, and his figure is a little thin, like a teenager. The monk took off the man's scarf, and his eyes immediately widened.
"How? It's a woman! β
I looked down. Sure enough, the person in front of her turned out to be a young woman, with a little blood stains on her white and pure face. Cassia "tsk" and said incredulously: "It's the first time I've seen a woman fight." β
The monk said: "It is a big taboo to let women fight, no wonder they died so miserably." He said it right, and reached out to search her. Cassia slapped him on the hand and said, "How did you become a monk?" Damn, why do you start when you see a woman?
After the monk was recognized, he smiled: "I didn't see that you couldn't wipe your face, so I searched your body, didn't I?" β
"The devil believes in you." Cassia scolded.
At this time, the master had already checked her injuries, and the injuries were not serious, but because of the violent blow to the head, she passed out. The guard suddenly pressed her on the neck, and I asked him what he was doing. The guards told her to sleep a little deeper so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.
At this time, the monk found something interesting on her left wrist. It was a rather elaborate crossbow, about the length of a forearm, strapped to the gauntlet. The crossbow wings are made of a special material, which are now pulled up on either side of the crossbow. The entire crossbow machine was hidden in the cuffs, and the guards plucked the crossbow strings, and the crossbow wings on both sides ejected with a "bang", and at the same time, the crossbow strings were hooked by the brackets on the crossbow machine, revealing the arrow box inside. The string of the crossbow is taut so tightly that you can see that a steel cluster has been wound on the crossbow machine.
The monk said with interest that this is a cross-shot short crossbow that has no actual combat value and is generally used as a hidden weapon. Although this short crossbow looks bluffing, it is actually not very powerful. Even with a good crossbow string, its maximum effective range is only twenty paces. However, when this thing is used in hand-to-hand combat, it often has a surprise effect when used to sneak attack. The convenience of this short crossbow is that the crossbow machine is short, easy to hide, can be operated without too much force, and has excellent continuous firing, and can continuously shoot more than 20 steel clusters at one time. In actual combat, in order to compensate for the lack of power, the steel arrowheads in the arrow box are generally coated with poison.
As he spoke, he carefully removed the arrow box from the crossbow and pulled out the steel axe inside with a golden barb. Sure enough, it can be seen that on the head of the steel arrowhead, there is less black object than similar to grease scale. But if they were so well prepared, why did so many people die? I asked the guards how these people died?
The guard pointed to the bronze coffin in the center of the shrine with his eyes. I reached over to the torch, looked closely, and let out a "pop" in my heart. I saw that the coffin had been opened, the outer coffin was scattered on the table, and the jade coffin inside had also been lifted. It seems that this bronze coffin should be the one they are looking for, I pulled Cassia up and took a look, the jade coffin was already empty, there was nothing.
The guard stared around vigilantly, and he said that the Lord should be nearby, so let's not go too far apart.
"Guys, come and see what I've found on this guy?" The monk shouted excitedly not far away: "I said how come these bastards are so familiar with this place, and they have the plan of this underground palace." β
"The plan of the dungeon? How do you know? β
The monk said that before he went down, he found out that Liu An, the king of Huainan, was able to enter the tomb of the Lu family, all thanks to the underground palace planning map provided to him by the doorman. It is said that this planning map is divided into two parts, the first part is the underground palace planning map of his daughter Liu Ling, which Liu An added later in order to hide people's eyes. The second part of the plan is the main part, which shows the shortcut out of the labyrinth, the mechanism of the heavenly temple, the Chengtian shrine of King LΓΌ's sacrifice to the sky, and the location of the tomb of the LΓΌ god. It was with this picture that Liu An broke into the tomb of the Lu family.
I said in my heart that this plan is such a source, and the previous part of the plan that the monk said is still in Cassia Ming's arms.
Cassia asked, "Then where is the tomb of the Lu Clan?" β
The monk spread the plan flat on the ground, looked back and forth on the map, and then pointed to the map and said, "We are in this position now, the tomb of the gods. I looked for it, and it was still behind the rooftop. Looks like we're going to have to go on and keep going. β
I leaned in to take a look, and the picture was very abstract, and I couldn't see it very clearly.
"Wait." Cassia suddenly found something on the map at this time? He pointed to a location on the plan and asked the monk, "You mean, where are we now?" β
The monk glanced down and nodded yes.
"Then what does the word 'Liu' mean?"
The monk was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly looked down at the picture, "Is there one?" Why didn't I see it? Before he finished speaking, he immediately changed his words and said, "Yo ho, there really is." He dipped his hand in it and found that the handwriting was still very new, and it must have been written during this time.
Cassia guessed that the word "Liu" would mean that Liu An's old thief buried himself on this Chengtian God Platform?
I shook my head and said unlikely. Now that he has arrived here, the Divine Tomb is close to him, and he can completely bury himself in the Divine Tomb. No matter how you say it, Chengtian Shentai is just a place for King Lu to worship the sky, what is the matter with him burying himself here?
The monk suddenly said, "Everyone, I have thought of a possibility. It is said that this tomb of the Lu clan cannot be entered at any time, and its entrance will only appear at a certain time. You say, could that be the case? When Liu An came in, he found that the entrance to the tomb had not yet appeared. And he didn't expect this situation, so he had to bury himself on the altar in the end. β
When he said this, several people were stunned.
"If you say so, aren't we coming for nothing? Hell knows when that entrance will appear. Cassia was a little deflated.
The monk said: "That's not necessarily, we don't know, it doesn't mean that the group of people lying on the ground don't know." If you want me to say that they are so well prepared, they must be coming for the tomb of the gods. This group of people must have found clues from somewhere, but unexpectedly, they capsized at the gate of the tomb of the gods. β
Something suddenly occurred to me. When the guard woke up before, he said "it should be over". At the time, I wondered what he meant, but now that I think about it, I immediately understand. In other words, he had long known that the entrance to the tomb would appear in the next few days, and "end" should mean that the entrance was about to disappear.
I looked at the guards. He was staring in the direction of the Divine Tomb at this time, and the expression on his face was unpredictable.
"What's the grind then? Maybe we can catch up now. The guard prepared to move as he spoke. The monk told him not to worry, he had come up, and he had to take something down.
Cassia sarcastically mocked him, saying that you should not comfort yourself, you can see everything clearly here. What treasure is there but a corpse in one place?
The monk was more energetic, he said that he had to climb up so hard, saying that he would have to make some hard money to go back, and he got up to search for another corpse. But at this time, a black shadow suddenly came up from under the altar and grabbed the monk's feet.
The monk couldn't react, so he just lay on the table. The guards reacted extremely quickly, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they grabbed a knife from the ground and rushed over. Cassia also rushed forward and outflanked the guards left and right.
"Hurry up, hurry up! Lao Tzu's leg is going to break! β
The monk lay on the ground, hugging the waist of a corpse and screaming desperately. The black shadow was extremely powerful, and when he saw the guards rushing over, he directly picked up the monk and smashed it at the guards. The guards didn't dare to dodge, and as soon as he dodged, the monk was estimated to roll off the table. There was no way, he had to catch the monk stiffly.
On the other side, however, Cassia was no match for the dark shadow at all. Just as the guards caught the monk, the black shadow shook off Cassia and suddenly sped up and rushed in my direction.
"Run!"
Cassia yelled at me, but I didn't have time to run, and Master was still behind me, what if I ran away, Master? In this stunned moment, the black shadow had rushed in front of me. I didn't even have time to see the monster's face, the man had already been knocked away. It felt like being kicked in the chest by the hind legs of a horse, and I was pushed straight out of the platform, and then I felt my back slap against the rock wall. I was so suppefied that I almost fainted.
The sound of the wind whirring in my ears made me realize that I was falling rapidly. I knew I was going to die this time, and if I fell from here, my bones would be shattered.
But as soon as I had this thought, before I could estimate how high it was, I heard a muffled "bang", and my back touched something, and the person was already in the end. Suddenly a sharp pain came, and I thought it was strange at the time, how could my heart be so quick to the end? When I looked at it, I didn't fall to the ground, but into a black sarcophagus on the rock wall. I was scared to death, and I said that when I go back, shouldn't I be like a monk and find a Buddha to worship?