Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Stinky Mural
Gailu held a peachwood sword, approached the crack in the door, took a deep breath, took a step abruptly, quickly drilled in sideways, waved the peachwood sword, the tip of the sword brought out the fire, found that there was an oil lamp in the distance, stabbed hard, and hit the flames over.
The oil lamp was lit up, but black smoke came out, and Gailu was startled, rushed over with bated breath, extinguished the oil lamp with a sword, and quickly retreated.
Hua Wu saw it clearly outside the door, and sighed: "Little deer, you are too hasty! ”
Gai Lu panted roughly, his face full of shame: "Doing things on the lamp is really vicious." ”
According to the general structure of the ancient tomb, the tomb behind the gate is the Hades Temple, which will place some daily necessities of the tomb owner during his lifetime, and the tomb thieves are called the Underworld, but just now with the help of the light, the deer swept around, and did not find any furnishings, which shows that this is not the Hades Temple, but the place equivalent to the entrance.
Hua Wu located through the dragon search, and the robbery hole she hit went down directly to the gate and avoided many traps, but the gate did not lead to the Hades Temple, which shows the huge size of this ancient tomb.
The age of the existence of this ancient tomb should be a long time ago, Zhou Gui has lived in Wuxin Town since he was a child, he only knows that there is a phoenix in Phoenix Mountain, and he has never heard that there is an ancient tomb under Phoenix Mountain, and the history of the existence of the ancient tomb is too long, and it will be forgotten by the world.
Gailu touched the fine iron gate, the gate was black and shiny, and the casting process reached perfection, but it was very ancient, and it may have existed for hundreds or even thousands of years.
It wasn't until the poisonous smoke in the tomb cleared that Gailu went in first, and after confirming that there was no danger, the rest squeezed in.
Where a torch can't illuminate much, Tie Fuxue wanted to light another one, but was stopped by Gailu, the air in the ancient tomb was thin, and the more open flames, the easier it was to suffocate to death.
The light of fire can drive away the fear in people's hearts, but compared with death, fear is not terrible, the iron blowing snow thief is an expert, but it is the first time to fight on the ground, and he doesn't know anything about it, even if he is dissatisfied, he can only listen to three little children.
With the torch in Hua Wu's hand, she walked around the tomb to find a secret passage, but she saw that there were exquisite murals on the stone walls around her, even on the stone walls above her head.
If you want to find out who the owner of the tomb is, it is most important to understand the mural.
On the square side of the tomb, except for the side of the gate, there are actually only three murals on three sides, a total of three.
The first mural depicts a mountain, looking at the shape of the mountain, it is this Phoenix Mountain, there is a person standing on the top of the mountain, covering his eyes and looking into the distance, the corners of his white robe are blown by the wind, like an immortal.
The second mural depicts people, many, many people, most of them dressed as slaves, being beaten by some soldiers, carrying stones in the mountains, and the strange thing is that the white-robed man, also mixed in with the slaves, carries a log on his shoulder.
The third mural is more vague, and it can be vaguely seen that it is in a dark burial chamber, with a flurry of arrows and many dead, including slaves and generals.
These three murals are easy to understand, this is the basic process of building a tomb, the white-robed guest is undoubtedly Mr. Feng Shui, who chose Phoenix Mountain as an excellent treasure land, and then the slaves dug up the ancient tomb, and after the ancient tomb is built, all the participants will be obliterated, in order to keep it secret, so that any information about the ancient tomb will not be known to the world.
Gai Lu and the others are naturally most interested in the white-robed guest, but unfortunately there is no word on the mural, so there is no way to know who he is, but in the third mural of the massacre, the white-robed guest was not found, and the white-robed guest may not have been executed, but with the urine of the people in power, the white-robed guest will never be allowed to leave the ancient tomb alive.
Judging from the clothing of those slaves, the age of the construction of this tomb is really surprisingly long, and it is very likely that it was during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Hua Wuchang breathed a sigh of relief and said in a low voice: "There is another one above my head." ”
Tie Fuxue took the torch and raised it as high as possible to illuminate the stone wall overhead, which was uneven, so the mural was particularly hideous and difficult to distinguish.
Several people raised their heads, the more they looked at it, the more they felt inexplicable, and scolded their mothers in their hearts, this painter was too lazy, and he cleaned and leveled the stone wall in order to draw a good-looking painting.
But after looking at it for a long time, I can always see something, the vague places around, like mountains and rivers, and there is a building in the middle, or it may not be a building, but a dead tree, but in front of the building that looks like a building, there is a person squatting, who is, and it seems that there is a smell rushing down.
"The old lady relies on his ancestors!" Hua Wu saw it first, and couldn't help but want to vomit in disgust, it was naturally normal to, but it was too disgusting to put it in the cauldron.
Gai Lu smiled: "This painter is too naughty, I guess he is painting himself." ”
After looking around, there was no secret passage, but there must be a mechanism, and a few people had no intention of thinking about the mural, and they would be disgusted when they thought about it, so they began to try to find it.
The yin qi in this tomb was extremely heavy, which made Zhou Gui's hands and feet weak, and he sat down weakly against the stone wall, but he felt that there was something under his buttocks, which made him extremely uncomfortable, and he scolded in his mouth, and got up with a kick.
But I heard a boom, and in the corner of the side, a stone was removed, revealing the steps that spiraled downward.
The stone slab, once closed, is seamlessly connected with the stone wall, and no matter how sharp-eyed people are, they can't find it, but Zhou Gui accidentally bumped into the mechanism that opened the door, and it seems that it was right to take him down to the tomb.
Sometimes, it takes a rude gesture to break the deadlock, but sometimes, it kills everyone.
Gai Lu walked over and patted Zhou Gui's arm and instructed, "The road ahead is very dangerous, don't touch things again." At the same time, he said this to Tie Fuxue and Yan Qi, but they had already reached the entrance of the steps and were hesitating whether to go down.
The steps were high and low, wide and narrow, high at one end and low at the other, and the steps spiraled into the darkness, eerie and chilly.
Hua Wu said: "This is a soul ladder, inexperienced, it is easy to get lost, leading people to a deadly trap. ”
Tie Fuxue handed the torch to Hua Wu and said with a smile: "Then you please first." ”
Hua Wu scratched her cheeks with disdain, and told Tie Chuixue not to be like Zhou Gui, touching things when she was unhappy, and then stepping on the steps first, slowly descending, staring at her feet with her eyes, not looking ahead.
This tomb from the beginning of the mural, it reveals the strange, the general tomb owner dares to paint that kind of mural in the tomb, then the structure of the tomb must break the convention, which shows that the ordinary knowledge of tomb robbery may not come in handy here, and the danger will increase exponentially.
Gailu crosses the iron blowing snow and follows closely behind Hua Wu to protect her in case of accidents.
Hua Wu stopped, looked back at Gailu, smiled slightly, and lowered her head again, with Gailu behind her, the panic in her heart dissipated in an instant.
When Gai Lu saw Hua Wu's smile, his heart fluttered, and his cheeks turned red, but fortunately, Hua Wu focused on looking at the road, so he didn't notice Gai Lu's embarrassment.
Zhou Gui, who walked at the end, always had cold sweat oozing out of his body, as an ordinary person, the first time he went to the tomb, he was able to follow, in fact, it was already remarkable, but his vigilance was obviously not enough, so that there was suddenly one more person behind him, and he didn't notice it.