Chapter 72: The Water Prison (1)
I just ran, and all I remember ten minutes ago was that horrible scene.
Sitting in front of the stone tablet of the Moro Hall again, the blood-red side has been flashing in front of me, those people, those monsters, the blood marks on their bodies, continue to drill out of the long black worms, these insects crawl very fast on them.
"What should I do?" I muttered to myself at the stele.
"Jiang Baichuan is crazy." I touched the stele, and the thought of retreating grew stronger.
Taking out the three rings from the socks, the green ones seemed to have a calming effect, the nervous mood improved, and the IQ seemed to return.
I was lying in front of the stele, thinking of the scene just now, I saw the people who came out of the glass pillar, saw the black worms crawling out of their arms, saw Jiang Baichuan threaten me with the lives of Jiang Yuan and the four of them, and asked me to hand over the three rings and the bronze key on my body, I ran, turned around and ran lifelessly, and I didn't care if I could run away, and I didn't care if those people would chase me, anyway, I ran out in one go, and after drilling out of the thief hole, with my sense of direction here, I ran all the way back to this place, and the moment I saw the stele, The strength of my whole body dissipated instantly, and I could no longer move a single step.
Cold, the only feeling I felt when I was lying on the ground was cold, I sat up and covered my forehead with my hands, the cold feeling was very comfortable.
When I came here an hour ago, my first impression of this hall was that it was empty, but now, I suddenly felt that behind the emptiness of this hall, it was not so simple, because I noticed this stone tablet.
Although the stele is damaged, the part of its base is revealed, because the stone slabs around the base are of different materials from other places, because when I was lying on the ground just now, these slate slabs gave me a different feeling, a difference in temperature.
There were no tools to dig with my bare hands, and after a few minutes, the first stone slab on the side of the stele base was forced to buckle down for me, and when I lifted the slate, I saw some very fine ash, and when I pinched it with my hand, it felt like grass ash.
The second and third slabs were lifted one after the other, and soon I realized that the base of the stele had been buried in a mass of grass ash and then covered with slates.
"Why bury the base in the ground?" I looked at the stele and muttered to myself. L
I can't estimate how long it took me to dig out the base, but I just remember that my hands were swollen and painful, not like a hard wound, but like a bite or sting from something.
Half a meter deep pit, I actually dug half a meter deep with my hands, and jumped into this small pit with a mining lamp to observe carefully, there is nothing special in these grass ashes, and the pattern of the base of the stone tablet is also very clear, it is a unicorn, and the unicorn surrounded by fire is a cloud of white clouds at its feet, and there is a thing on the front paws of the unicorn, I recognized it for a long time to understand, it is a magic staff.
"Huangquan Staff?" My voice is loud.
Covering his mouth and curling in the grass ash pile for a long time, he didn't dare to make a sound, and after confirming that there was nothing unusual around him, he squatted in front of the stone tablet again, and the remaining three sides of the base had no patterns, but there were three words, although I couldn't understand it, but I could guess a rough idea.
Roll up your arms and sleeves, move the muscles and bones of the whole body, and then push the stele hard, with a muffled sound, this stele and the base together with the reclining edge of the grass ash pit, I held the miner's lamp to check the bottom of the stele base, it was a very flat slate, there is a pull ring on the slate, this pull ring has gone through so many years without any rust, I pull the pull ring, the slate moves parallel to my side, there is a secret grid below, this dark grid I took out a very delicate treasure letter, I know this is an extremely important thing, It was also an extremely dangerous thing, and I jumped out of the pit with it, and the ghost sent it to fill in all the grass ash that had been dug up, and then put the stone slab back in place.
I didn't have time to open the treasure letter, I held it and returned to the outside of the main cemetery along the way I came, I made a bet with myself, if this is a ring, then I will take these things to negotiate with Jiang Baichuan, if not, then I will give up on them, find the Huangquan staff on my own, and then return to the ground to think about it in the long run.
The treasure has three layers, gold, silver, and jade.
In the jade letter, there are three small round boxes, I remember Jiang Yuan said, the red rings in the Moro Hall should be two, but now there are three boxes here, I remember a friend told me before, he said that ancient people often placed some poisonous insects or design mechanisms next to the precious burial goods, if someone tampered with them, one would be accidentally hit and killed on the spot.
I looked at the three small round boxes in the jade letter, and said in my heart, it is difficult to do it, one of the three has a mechanism inside, in case I choose the wrong one, after opening it, a strange insect or something pops out of it, and it is also unjust to lose my life.
Thinking of this, my hands suddenly began to tremble, I subconsciously looked at my hands, the red and swollen parts of the ten fingers began to turn black, and I didn't feel it when I pinched it hard, I immediately covered the jade letter and hid it in my clothes, and then drilled down the thief hole, I wanted to leave this choice opportunity to Jiang Baichuan.
As I cautiously got out of the tunnel, I saw that there was no one in the main burial chamber, but there was a lot of water, and I don't know where it came from, and the water level was rising, and soon it was up to my ankles, and I lay down on the water and walked in, feeling dangerous with every step.
I carefully observed the surrounding situation, there were no water outlets on the four walls and the dome, and I could be sure that the water did not come from the ground from the fluctuations of the water surface, I suddenly thought of the seated statue, and the back of the sitting statue was directly opposite the joint burial coffin and the small coffin that Jiang Yuan said, and I suddenly thought of a question, why this seated statue should be set up with its back to the coffin, and why did such a sitting statue be placed in the main burial chamber.
When I came to the seated statue, the base was a very ordinary stone, at least I didn't see its particularity, while climbing the base, I heard a very light sound of water, this sound was very small and very slight, I looked at the wall, but found that the water was flowing from above the seat, because the water was flowing down against the wall, so it was difficult to find from the water surface.
There seemed to be movement in the water, I jumped back on the pedestal of the statue, squatted on it to carefully observe the movement of the water, and suddenly, a touch of red jumped out of the water, flashed in the air and fell back into the water, and the water surface returned to calm.
The movement in the water is getting bigger and bigger, and there is even a splash in some places, I took advantage of the height to observe carefully, and I found that in the water, there is a similar thing like a water snake, they are very fast in the water, but after observing for a while, they found that something is wrong, these red water snakes are not good at carrying in the water, they have to jump out of the water every once in a while to breathe, I suddenly thought of a fact, that is, these waters are deliberately released, because they have been attacked by this red snake, Want to use water to cope with them.