Chapter 21: The Bronze Gate with a Thousand Faces
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Liu Xiaoge lowered his head and looked along the blood-colored earthen wall, and five or six corpses appeared inside, which were exactly the same as the corpse that had just fallen out, not only was the death image extremely terrifying, but there was hardly a complete piece of skin on his body. As if it had been delayed by a sharp blade, the blood stained the ground red, and the blood flow was so great that it was as terrible as killing animals in a slaughterhouse and letting them bleed.
Li Xinwen took off the compound bow on her back, put on an attacking stance, and at the same time squeezed her eyebrows at Liu Xiaoge, signaling Liu Xiaoge to continue digging and expand the gap. Liu Xiaoge was also nervous when he saw this posture, the sapper shovel in his hand was waving fast, and the soil was not strong.
After exhuming several more corpses, a large hole about a person tall and a meter wide was finally dug up. After digging, Liu Xiaoge dared to look up and look inside along the big hole, and then the picture that Li Xinwen saw just now came into Liu Xiaoge's eyes. It was a turquoise human face, almost identical to the human-faced ghost fire just now.
However, unlike the human-faced ghost fire, this face has a more realistic expression, and it is motionless, indicating that there is no blue-green flame burning, and after seeing it clearly, it is found that this is a bronze carving. Li Xinwen took out the cold fireworks, lit them and threw them in directly, and at the same time signaled Liu Xiaoge to pay attention to concealment.
Liu Xiaoge didn't dare to hold it up, so he immediately hid behind the earthen wall, leaned out half of his head and looked inside. As the cold fireworks burned completely, the orange light illuminated the space inside, and a huge bronze door appeared in front of the two of them, the bronze door was more than three meters high and more than five meters wide, and the thickness could not be estimated at all.
What is terrifying is that the bronze door is densely carved with countless reliefs, all of which are human faces with hideous and strange expressions, which are roughly the same as the human faces that have just been seen through the cave. Li Xinwen repeatedly confirmed that after finding that there was no threat, she put away the compound bow and walked towards the bronze gate.
Liu Xiaoge followed, the space in front of the bronze door is not small, and the structure is an artificially built stone room, but this stone room is not made of bluestone slabs. Rather, it was made of countless bronze clay pots that were almost identical to the hanging bronze clay pots just seen in the burial pit.
Seeing so many bronze clay pots, Li Xinwen's complexion changed slightly, and the pace of progress came to an abrupt halt. Liu Xiaoge looked at the extraordinary scene in front of him and was also very puzzled, and he took the opportunity to look towards the inside of one of the broken bronze clay pots.
I saw that a pair of eyes suddenly appeared in the bronze clay pot staring at Liu Xiaoge, and it was a blue and purple human head that was not blind, thinking of the large number of headless ancient corpses outside, Liu Xiaoge's scalp exploded. The mouth of the bronze clay pot is not large, and it is estimated that it can accommodate the neck of a normal person to pass through, and after observation, the bronze clay pot does not have any traces of assembly and splicing at all.
Completely in one go, how did the ancients stuff human heads into bronze clay pots? Suddenly, a very cruel picture appeared in Liu Xiaoge's heart, stuffing the head of the living into the grinding tool, and then pouring the red-hot bronze water into it, while the person was not dead, cutting off the head of the living sacrifice, and then sealing the bronze clay pot where the head was placed.
The pain of dying like this is unimaginable, Liu Xiaoge trembled and said, "What should we do? Look at these dead people, the death is so miserable, and there is no trace of the thousand-faced bronze gate opening. Li Xinwen directly interrupted Liu Xiaoge's words: "Don't jump to conclusions, the current situation is not clear, and random speculation is not good for us." ”
After the words fell, Li Xinwen glanced at Liu Xiaoge and continued: "It's not a way to continue to stalemate here, you go up to check the bronze gate, and I will be responsible for giving you the queen of the palace." When Liu Xiaoge heard this, he immediately vomited blood angrily, and after a long time of emotion, he still asked Grandpa Liu and me to go to Lei.
But there is really no other way at the moment, if Li Xinwen has an accident, she really doesn't have the ability to save her, and what she can do may really be the same as the previous wave of people, sealing the mouth of the cave and running back. Thinking of this, let's die, Liu Xiaoge took out the wine bottle on his waist, took a sip of soju, and stepped on the bronze clay pot with a brisk step.
Bronze clay pots have been corroded for thousands of years, and they are already a little fragile, and today they may not be as hard as ceramic jars. The squeaky sound of stepping on it is at risk of being broken at any time, which makes Liu Xiaoge walk on thin ice. He didn't want to step on the head of the ancient corpse, and then the ancient corpse's head would burst and his brain would splatter...... The picture is too beautiful to think about it.
Fortunately, the door of the thousand-faced bronze tomb is not far from the entrance of the cave, that is, a few meters away, and there are several stone steps in front of it. The moment he stepped on the steps, Liu Xiaoge couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, and then walked quickly to the door of the thousand-faced bronze tomb. Looking at the huge bronze door, I was a little at a loss for a while, and this kind of bronze door knew that the weight was amazing at a glance.
Liu Xiaoge stretched out his hand and wanted to push and push, but the moment his fingertips touched the bronze door, he instantly withdrew his fingers as if he had been struck by lightning. His face changed drastically and he pointed to the bronze door and said, "Damn, why is it so cold!" "That's right, this bronze gate seems to be carved out of ice, and the surface is unusually cold.
But the cold air was locked on the bronze door, and it didn't overflow at all, so Liu Xiaoge didn't feel the temperature change when he got close. Li Xinwen saw this situation, took a few steps back, and with a run-up and dexterous jump, she directly crossed the bronze clay pot area and fell on the stone steps.
Walked quickly to the bronze gate, put on gloves and stroked carefully, but also felt cold all over his body. But Li Xinwen endured the cold and kept groping on the bronze gate, trying to find the mechanism to open the gate. Because through the gap in the bronze gate, it seems that the bronze gate is not completely closed, because the layer of leather-like objects covered by the gap shows signs of cracking.
Apparently someone had entered this bronze gate, and it was opened peacefully, otherwise there would have been signs of destruction on the bronze gate. Liu Xiaoge was staring at the reliefs on the bronze gate at the moment, and he felt that these reliefs were carved on the bronze gate and looked extremely weird.
In general, there are also reliefs on the doors of the tombs in the tombs, but even if they are carved dragons and phoenixes, or other patterns of wild beasts. Liu Xiaoge has really not heard of the tomb door with a human face as a relief, such a design is obviously an invisible intimidation, indicating that the door is dangerous and abnormal, if there is no certain courage, in this dark tomb, seeing this lifelike human face relief may be directly frightened.
Looking at Liu Xiaoge, he felt as if something had changed, but after careful observation, he didn't find anything abnormal. Liu Xiaoge stroked his chin with one hand and stared at one of the bronze faces, this time finally allowing Liu Xiaoge to discover the abnormality.
This discovery made Liu Xiaoge take several steps back, because his eyes moved when he saw the human face relief on the door of the thousand-faced bronze tomb. Damn, could it be that this bronze tomb door is a living thing! Li Xinwen also discovered this anomaly almost at the same time, and also took a few steps back.
As the two of them pushed it open, there was a sound of metal grinding through the thousand-faced bronze door, and countless pairs of eyes began to rotate continuously. It was as if countless unjust spirits covering the bronze gate were moving on the bronze gate, and the eyes turned faster and faster, and finally all stopped.
The pupils were fixed on the location of the two of them, and an inexplicable sense of fear came to their faces. Liu Xiaoge can't tell whether this feeling is nervous or scared, as if he is standing on the stage to perform, and everyone in the audience is staring at you, and everyone in the audience is dead, and the feeling of performing in front of the dead and then the dead are staring at you.
Li Xinwen calmed down, pushed the stiff Liu Xiaoge, and the two moved their positions. Before the two of them could stand still, the eyes in the countless pairs of bronze faces adjusted their perspectives again, looking at the two of them precisely. Different from Liu Xiaoge's panic, Li Xinwen suddenly smiled mysteriously.
Pulling Liu Xiaoge to move a few positions again, without exception, these eyes were always staring at the two of them. Liu Xiaoge's spirit was about to collapse, and Li Xinwen said at this time: "I think I know how to open this door." After taking Liu Xiaoge to change a few more positions, he walked quickly to the door.
At this time, the door of the thousand-faced bronze tomb actually made a more intensive sound, and with the sound, the bronze door slowly opened little by little. Revealing the pitch-black tomb inside, the feeling is as clear as a giant beast opening its mouth and waiting for its prey to fall into a net.
The moment the door of the tomb opened, Li Xinwen beckoned to Liu Xiaoge and said, "Don't be in a daze, go in and explore the way." Liu Xiaoge wanted to lift his legs, but he found that his legs were shaking almost uncontrollably without knowing when, and he couldn't take a step now.
Li Xinwen looked at Liu Xiaoge's unproductive appearance and scolded: "What are you afraid of, do you really think these bronze reliefs are living creatures?" Those eyes are presumably a special kind of sensory mechanism that is used to open gates. I wondered why there were a few stone steps in the burial chamber full of bronze pots, which had a special meaning, like a combination lock. As long as you can go up and down the steps in the correct order, and touch the eyes in the bronze relief, you can open the bronze gate. ”
What Li Xinwen said is straightforward and easy to understand, but Liu Xiaoge always feels that everything is not so simple, but he can't find fault with it at the moment. He could only laugh dryly a few times, and walked towards the tomb, and when Liu Xiaoge turned the bronze gate, he couldn't help but look at these bronze reliefs again.
I saw a slight change in the facial expressions of these thousands of people, as if they were laughing again, and they seemed to shout again. Suddenly his scalp exploded, and he walked quickly through the gate and into the tomb. As Liu Xiaoge entered the tomb, the thousand-faced bronze tomb door behind him made another noise and slammed shut, completely locking the two in this dark tomb.
Liu Xiaoge and Li Xinwen turned around to look at the bronze gate again, and were surprised to find that behind the bronze gate, there was also an almost identical bronze human face relief, the difference was that the eyes of the bronze human face relief on this side were blood red. If it can still be used as a human face on the outside, it looks like it has completely become a man-eating ghost.
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