Chapter 16: Ashes

Lu Tie grabbed the lid of the teapot fiercely and said, "Mr. Chuqi, what's wrong with you?!" ”

I slowly calmed down the excitement in my heart, grinned, and said, "I'm fine, by the way, now the entire mausoleum has been cleaned up, check to see if there are any incomplete places." ”

Lu Tie frowned and said: "It's hard to say, with my experience for so many years, it seems that there is no complete place here after a rough week, as if every corner has traces of being pried, I estimate that someone must have been here!" ”

My face tightened, since Lu Tie could see something, then Tang Xiaohao and Deputy Director Ding would definitely not be far from ten, but I couldn't tell what I had experienced last time, the archaeological team represented the government department, and the last time Master and I came in just to find the Eight Treasures of Zhenshan, if I said it, no one would believe it, and it would inevitably cause a lot of trouble, so I planned to hide this matter from the beginning, and now that I know that Master is not dead, then I have to hide it even more, and I can't let Master bear the responsibility of stealing ancient tombs!

Seeing that I didn't speak, Tang Xiaohao on the side also stepped forward and said: "On the seventh day of the first month, according to the townspeople of Tongyao Town, the time when this ancient tomb collapsed coincided with the last time you came here. ”

"This ......" I smacked my lips, hesitated, and said, "Brother Hao, it's not that I don't want to explain, but I'm worried about what I'm saying, alas! I'm afraid none of you will believe it. ”

Tang Xiaohao glanced around, and finally glanced at the nearest Lu Tie, Lu Tie nodded knowingly, and immediately beckoned Yang Xiaojun and Sun Daling to call the other team members to the other side, Yu Han took the wind, I smiled bitterly, and followed Tang Xiaohao to a quiet corner.

"The seventh day of the first month, you saved my life, and you can be regarded as saving my father's life, I can't repay it, no matter what you say this time, I will carry it for you, just say it!"

Looking at Tang Xiaohao's appraisal eyes, I sighed lightly, and helplessly told Tang Xiaohao everything about how to break into the tomb last time, how to seize the treasure, how to fight the old way of the Xuan Demon, and so on.

After listening to what I said, Tang Xiaohao first opened his eyes questioningly, and then lowered his head silently, presumably acquiescing to my words, perhaps it was just a life and death accident, so that Tang Xiaohao had to believe that there are still some things in this world that modern knowledge cannot explain at all, a Qing imitation black flower porcelain jar can stir up his family, not to mention the huge tomb here, Tang Xiaohao said in an almost affirmative tone: "Your master is really a strange generation!" He is worthy of being a Dao Sect Master......"

Immediately after, Tang Xiaohao asked again, "Are you sure your master is still alive?" ”

I nodded heavily, took out the piece of fabric, and said, "I think Master should have found some other exit to escape, but I have checked here, and there is no trace of any passage or the like, alas! ”

Tang Xiaohao thought for a while, suddenly raised his head and said: "The ancient tombs of the ancient princes and generals are all 120,000 points of caution, most of the craftsmen who come in are generally the end of the funeral, but the storm of tomb robbery has not stopped for thousands of years, indicating that not all the craftsmen who come in have died inside, the more seamlessly built the underground palace, the more likely it is to leave a secret passage for themselves to escape, since your master successfully escaped, then here, there must be other passages, but we didn't find it!" ”

Suddenly, I remembered another person who was buried at the same time as Master, Gu Tan of the Manifest Sect!

His corpse was not seen, and not even a trace was left, thinking of this, I think the hope of the master's survival is much greater, the secret master can defeat the Xuan Demon together, can't he work together to break through?!

The dragon coffin was slowly opened, and I was surprised to see a corpse in a dragon robe, which turned out to be two mules! This...... That's weird, isn't it? The second mule was obviously dead at the time, and the body was lying outside, why was it lying in the coffin at this time? It's hard to figure out......

Yang Xiaojun suddenly ran over and said in a low voice: "Brother Hao, after the cleanup is completed, all that remains is a temporary blockade, and we will soon be invited out to rest!" ”

Tang Xiaohao looked at me anxiously: "The seventh day of the first month, what do you think?" ”

I scratched my forehead, and just as I was anxious, Lu Tieden pointed to the corpse of the second mule and shouted, "Look at it! There's a dark compartment down there! ”

Sure enough, I reached out and picked up the corpse, and there was indeed a secret pattern revealed, it turned out that the back road left by the craftsman was actually here, I didn't have time to think about it, I looked up at everyone, and said, "No matter what, I must go down this passage, only here, maybe it can guide me to find the trace of the master, or maybe ...... He had expected me to come back......"

Tang Xiaohao rolled his eyes and looked around, grabbed my wrist, and said, "I'll go down with you!" ”

"This, how can this work? If people outside knew that there were two of us missing, it would definitely attract attention from many quarters, and it seemed that there was something wrong with this! ”

Tang Xiaohao waved his hand and said, "I don't care so much, although the organs outside have been destroyed, it is difficult to ensure that there is no secret box below, I haven't reported your kindness to our family, how can I rest assured that you are taking risks alone?!" ”

Lu Tie didn't hesitate, and said directly: "Brother Hao, you are going to ...... I'll go too! ”

"I'll go too!" "I'll go too!"

When they landed, Yang Xiaojun and Sun Daling both shouted to follow Tang Xiaohao down, but Yu Han, who was not far away, did not shout, but frowned and said: "We are all going to the target is too big, we can't get through Ding Suo alone, if we really want to go down, I think there can only be two people at most!" ”

Tang Xiaohao nodded approvingly: "Yu Han is right, don't fight, although I don't let you follow, but you still have a task to do, after I go down with the seventh junior high, I don't know if I can find the exit, if you have the heart, you will pick us up in the back mountain, and ...... Ding is going to bother everyone to communicate more! ”

Lu Tie smiled innocently: "Don't worry, we didn't do much behind Ding's back before?" Don't look at others old, don't be confused in your heart, most of them still talk to us, he will help us carry it, just Brother Hao, you, you have to be careful! ”

When it comes to this, if I still insist on not letting Tang Xiaohao follow, it will be too much to say, no longer hesitate at the moment, I took the lead in the dark passage, and then Tang Xiaohao followed in with a flashlight, the dark passage was very dark, and it was also very damp, and a faint smell of corpses permeated it.

"Ahem!" Tang Xiaohao coughed twice in the back, and then scolded: "Fuck it!" This smell is unpleasant, I guess it has been stuffy for at least a hundred years, I feel a little sick to my stomach, dry ......"

I frowned, I also felt that the smell was really unbearable, it should not have such a pungent smell, groundwater is living water, even if there is corpse water seeping down, it will flow away with the groundwater, there will be no such smell in the dark passage.

When I stepped into the water, I immediately understood, the reason is that the bottom of this dark passage is a funnel, if it is in the big river, it is a whirlpool eye, dare to love This funnel is specially placed at the bottom of the dark passage to receive corpse water, Niang! The braincase of the ancient people was almost turned upside down, and it was not enough to make a hole in a hole above, and a funnel to get a funnel below, which was really tightly blocked in the front and back doors.

However, this is done to prevent the corpse water from leaking out and polluting the underground water source, and the second is to ...... Gather yin!

When the yin qi condenses to a certain limit, it has the ability to break the dragon's den, presumably this is also the method that the feng shui master Yuan Qingyi secretly handed over to the craftsmen, if the centipede eats the silkworm hole and something goes wrong, then the following funnel is a fatal breakthrough, I suddenly thought of an old saying, "There are sores on the head and pus under the feet, and it is very bad......"

Tang Xiaohao took a look at the front and back, and said, "On the seventh day of the first month, which way should we go?" ”

When he said this, Tang Xiaohao's body was bent in the dark passage, this secret passage was not as tall as a person, and it was quite difficult to walk, I stared at the water flow, nodded and said: "Let's follow the water flow, I believe we will find the exit!" ”

The groundwater is very cold, very icy, at the beginning it was just over the instep, gradually, the water level overflowed the knees, the cold feeling was a little biting, we had to speed up the pace, as much as possible to mobilize the heat in the body, sometimes carelessly, the top of the head suddenly touched the rock above, the pain made people shiver, just along the dark road bends and walked for a long time, the sense of direction has long been lost.

"Look at the seventh day of the first month! It's like a cave in front of it! ”

Tang Xiaohao excitedly pointed to the front and shouted, but no, the dark passage in front gradually widened and became taller, and a semicircular natural cave appeared in front of us.

This is the first time I have seen this kind of underground cave, and I was surprised to observe the waterhole that was laid out in front of me, and there was not even a rat hole around the cave, only such an underground pool, and it was so narrow that it could only accommodate one person to enter, and I did not know where the waterhole led.

Tang Xiaohao stretched out his hand to test the temperature of the water, immediately withdrew it, and said with a bitter face: "The temperature is enough to freeze, dry ......"

We decided to rest before we planned, so we found a piece of high ground, and by accident, I found a small pile of ashes in a corner, as if it had been burned or left, I bent down and pinched a small handful, sniffed it, and nodded, "This is the ashes of the burned clothes!" ”

Tang Xiaohao looked down and said with great certainty: "The ashes are very new, they seem to have been burned not long ago, could it be ......?"

"It must be Master!" I laughed excitedly, it must have been the master who couldn't find anything to keep warm, so he burned one of his clothes, but there was only a pile of ashes here, so it can be seen that there should still be Gu Tan at that time, and most of the two of them escaped together!