Chapter 9: The Gate

Fan was so frightened that he ran and climbed into a tunnel, and after running for a long time, he was already tired and out of breath, only to suddenly find a series of braziers without lamp oil around him. He heard a shrill hissing behind him, and once again ran madly towards the front. There were a few more forks in the road ahead, and he didn't have time to see the road, let alone consider the safety of the fork, so he plunged into a tunnel and stepped into the darkness. He was about to stretch out his hands to probe the road ahead, but he hit his head against the wall, fortunately he slowed down when he entered the tunnel, he turned around and tried to walk, but after a few steps, he heard a sudden "ah" in front of him, and he was knocked to the ground by a force.

He wanted to stand up, but suddenly there was a blinding white light in front of him, making him unable to see the scene in front of him.

"Big brother, it's this kid." A voice came from ahead, and a hand pulled him up from the ground.

"Where have you been?" The light of the flashlight shone elsewhere, and when he saw a toad face, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, although the ninth brother was an outlaw, he would not eat him now.

"When I fled, I took a fork in the road, and I groped for a long time to find this place, and the temple in front of me was dark, which scared me enough to run over." Fan Li didn't dare to mention the ruby temple, he knew that if the ninth brother learned that there was such a ruby, even if there were ghosts inside, he would have to go to explore it, not to mention the destruction of cultural relics, and he might even lose his own life.

Brother Jiu moved his lips, but didn't say anything. Fan Li suddenly felt that something was wrong, he found that Brother Jiu only brought two subordinates, and neither of them turned on the flashlight, but each of them held the flashlight tightly.

"What? You don't turn on your flashlight? ”

"I just ran into something unclean, and one person died, and then I met you running over, we don't know what it is, temporarily turn off the lights and hide, who knows it's you kid." The ninth brother replied. Fan Li looked at the other two, their faces were pale, as if they had seen something particularly terrifying, and then looked at Brother Jiu, sure enough, Brother Jiu's face was not as ruddy as before, and his fingers trembled slightly.

"You ...... this"

"Don't ask, let's go." The ninth brother interrupted Fan Li's words, and Fan Lifu was embarrassed to ask any more, so he followed them and continued to walk in the tunnel, the hissing sound behind him disappeared after being impacted, and his heart was a lot more relaxed.

About twenty minutes later, he heard the two men behind him gasping for air. These two guys are much stronger than themselves, they are all bodyguards hired by Brother Jiu, how can they be worse than their own physical strength. Fan Li thought of their appearance just now, and felt that they should have encountered something very tricky.

Suddenly there was a big stone gate in front of them, Fan Li and Jiu Ge were the first to walk out of the tunnel, and before they had time to sigh the scenery in front of them, they only felt a gust of wind in their ears, and then a wooden arrow was nailed to the wall next to their necks.

"Wow!" Fan Li was so frightened that he drew his waist knife, and Brother Jiu also raised his pistol, and two flashlights followed, but when they saw the appearance of the attacker, they all put down their weapons one after another.

"Why are you so slow!" Jialan put down her bow and arrows and complained. "What? What difficulties did you encounter? "Sure enough, it's a witch, and I saw the strangeness of Brother Jiu and Fan Li's appearance at a glance.

"It's a long story." Brother Jiu thought that Jialan was just asking him again, so he preemptively said, and then walked in front of the stone gate and looked up at the stone gate.

Fan Li also walked in front of the stone gate, looked up at the inscription spell on the stone gate, stood like a chicken for ten minutes, and then closed his eyes and listened to the secret behind the stone gate, hoping that listening to the sound of the spirit would come in handy at this time, but he was angered by the sudden noise in his ears.

"Look at the symbol on this stone door, there must be countless treasures inside!" Brother Jiu stared at a pair of greedy eyes, staring at the inlaid thing on the stone door, and restlessly touched the pickaxe on his waist. Just now he was still frightened, but now he has become like this in an instant, he has not been in the army for a few years in vain, and his psychological quality has been trained very well, and then look at the two bodyguards, his face is still as pale as paper, his legs are trembling, and one of them takes out the equipment in his bag and is about to put it on the wall.

"No way!" With a wave of his hand, Fan Li's thoughts were broken, and he turned his head to look carefully at the symbols on the stone door. "For some years, the ancients liked to make a fuss on the side of the door, if they were forced to take it, there would be problems, and if they could open it, they might be able to find something valuable from the door." He glanced at Xiao Yun who was standing behind Jialan, and he nodded, as if he would realize something. At this time, Xiao Yun and Kai Crossbow were both standing beside Xiao Xiao, looking at Xiao Xiao's calm appearance, guessing that they had not encountered any thorny problems.

"Listen to Fan Li, you can't force it." Jialan put away her longbow and pulled out the frogbone bracelet.

"River?" Fan Li said to Mai, and suddenly found that Mai was long gone, he recalled that there was no signal of Chu Jianghe when he entered the underground palace, and then as soon as he entered, he was chased by monsters again and again, and it is estimated that he had long forgotten that there was such a thing as a headset.

"The signal has long been cut off, this tomb is not simple." Brother Jiu's voice came from behind him. "You'd better figure out how to open this door."

Fan closed his eyes again and listened to the sounds around him. He felt that the sound of breathing around him gradually faded, and some whispers followed, most of them were warning words, no different from other whispers in the tomb, but the tone of the speech was something he had never heard before, as if the human voice was mixed with the sound of metal rubbing, with a little resentment, with a little anger, sometimes excited, sometimes flat, he couldn't hear the content of the speech, he could only figure out the tone of the other party, but how could the other party's tone be so complicated.

In confusion, a clear word suddenly sounded in his ears.

Most of the treasure hunters who come here are not immune to the relentless wrath of the abyss of death, but there are still people who find their own destiny here......

It was still a metallic grinding sound, the first half of the sentence was like a woman's voice, and the second half of the sentence suddenly changed to a child's voice. Fan took a step back and opened his eyes.

"What? Your little trick is useless? Brother Jiu took out his pickaxe, and the bodyguard behind him was preparing to install the equipment on the door. If I had used my high technology, I might have opened the door. ”

Haven't you always wanted to get rid of these unscrupulous grave robbers? Then promise him that my wrath will consume their souls, and you know better than I do that they are dead so that you and your companions can leave safely.

Fan Li smiled easily. "Okay, then let me see what you've learned over the years, Brother Jiu." He sat on the side, turning his head to look at the three people in the distance, one by one installing high-tech, some of them were placed one meter away from the stone gate, and some were attached to the stone door. Brother Jiu is a greedy person, he had a long history of greed before he became a gravedigger, and becoming a tomb robber may be his last career, because in the eyes of a spirit thief like Fan Li, such a person will not live long.

"Fan Li, what did you hear just now?" Jialan sat next to him, she was also a cynic, but after seeing Fan Li's indulgence of the ninth brother so much, she felt that there was something strange in it, so she asked.

"It's just some whispers, it sounds like the sound of metal being cut, slurred, but the tone of the other party is very tough."

"What about the others?" Jialan continued to ask, but Fan Li just shook his head, Jialan understood what Fan Li meant, it was inconvenient for him to say this at the moment, but stared directly at the back of the ninth brother, Jialan seemed to understand his thoughts, so he turned his head to the side and stopped making a sound.

"There won't be any danger, will it?" While a weak girl's voice came from the side, Fan Li turned his head to look at Xiao Xiao with a worried face. Fan Li thought several times that girls like Xiao Xiao should not come to such a dangerous underground palace, and people like them should graduate early and find a stable job to enjoy their youth.

"Brother Jiu, with the thickness of this door, I suggest blasting." One of them fiddled with the instrument for a while, and finally ran to Brother Jiu's side.

Brother Jiu was still looking at the stone gate in distraction, he nodded, looked left and right, and finally set his eyes on a round object on the stone gate. He took out his pickaxe and walked over there, knocked on the round object on the stone door, and the sharp blade pierced through the stone layer to reveal a few points of light, which seemed to blind his eyes and pierce the last line of defense in his heart, so that he could not suppress the greed in his heart, and knocked the stone layer off the round object with brute force without consideration.

The light under the stone layer almost illuminated this dim place, attracting everyone's attention, and the cautious Xiao Yun stared at the round object in front of the ninth brother, blocking Xiao Xiao behind him with one hand. And the ninth brother, his eyes seem to have been blinded by greed. He stared at the round object, unconcerned about the glare and an ugly smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Baby! Baby! We're going to send it! If this thing is put in the market, we don't have to worry about it in the next life, the next life, and the next life, and we don't care about what kind of gold boss he is, what danger of going to the grave, we will never have to live a frightened life in the future! He couldn't help but sigh loudly.

The two people behind him were also touched by this light, and nodded vigorously in praise.

"The duck and the black monster didn't die in vain! The day of our turnaround is approaching. Brother Jiu turned his gaze to the pickaxe in his hand, then looked at the round object in front of him, and raised the pickaxe again.

Xiao Yun on the side turned his head to look at Fan Li, who once rejected the destruction of antiquities, but now raised the corners of his mouth slightly, as if waiting for something exciting to happen. Jialan, who was sitting next to him, did not draw her bow and arrows when she encountered anything new as before, but sat quietly beside him. Just as Xiao Yun was thinking about their thoughts, there was a sudden loud noise from Brother Jiu's side, followed by two screams, he turned his head violently, only to see Brother Jiu hitting the wall beside them like a cannonball, his neck was twisted strongly, and he fell to the ground like a marshmallow, and the two people around him were collapsed to the ground by this force, at this moment, he saw blood, pieces of broken flesh and a series of broken beads, and of course, broken arms and legs.