Nuqing Xiangxi Chapter 13 Dissolving (I)
Everyone was waiting anxiously, when suddenly an arrow broke through the clouds, wrapped in a sharp sound, and shot straight into the air, and it was the two people who visited the tomb who sent a signal - there was no poisonous mirage in the deep valley under the top of the mountain.
The group of thieves cheered, and each rolled up their arms and sleeves, asking them to go down to rob the tomb. Chen Blind has been a thief for a few years, and he knows that in this year, it is not Song Jiang's time, if you want to convince the public, you can't just talk about it, in addition to fighting righteousness and squandering money, you must also take the lead and share weal and woe, when robbing the tomb, you must do it yourself, not hesitating to risk yourself, only in front of your subordinates to show the real excellence, this head of the golden chair can sit firmly. Twenty or thirty good hands were immediately selected, led by themselves, and carried the centipede down the ladder.
The poison in the deep valley may just be afraid of the sun, or temporarily driven back by the lime and hidden somewhere in the tomb, it is still too early for all of them to enter the underground palace to carry treasures, only to bring some elite people who dare to die first, and go down to completely sweep away the hidden dangers in the deep valley.
These dozens of people use soft rope hooks and centipedes to hang mountain ladders together, climb the cliff, go down through the clouds and fog, and the gravel and soil in the cracks of the turquoise stone are scraped down by the bamboo ladder and continue to fall. The cliffs on both sides are narrowly spaced, a small pebble can also make a big movement when it falls, the ears are full of bursts of echoes, there are many slippery mosses on the stone wall, the vines are vertical and horizontal, as long as there is a careless, slipping and falling, or the bamboo ladder is not hung firmly, it will fall into the deep valley and fall to death. This is a double experience of psychology and body, but the thieves are all outlaws, and they follow the leader to hold their breath and climb to the bottom of the valley without a sound.
After passing through several layers of clouds and mist, the light became more and more dim, the walls were seeping with water droplets, the cold was pressing, and the thieves estimated that the closer they were to the underground palace, the heavier the yin qi would be, and the ancient tomb was hidden in sight, but the spirit was lifted.
At that time, the main lighting methods in the mountains were burning bamboo chips and pine candle torches, and not everyone could afford to use horse lanterns using foreign oil. However, in addition to horse lanterns and gas lanterns, the thieves also bought mining lamps from the owners of the Oriental mines, and there were all kinds of them, and there was no unified equipment. At this time, they turned on the miner's lamp and horse lamp tied to their bodies, and for a while on the damp and dim mountain wall, dozens of fireflies seemed to be lit up, and the light was dotted, up and down.
Only Chen Blind has night eyes, and he doesn't need lights and candles to explore the way, he should go down first, and he has already reached the end of the deep ravine. This crack on the mountain of Bottle Mountain, the narrower it is the lower it gets, and the narrowest place is that the two people can't turn around side by side, although it is said that it is to the bottom, but the crack cuts through the belly of the mountain, and it continues to extend downward.
The belly of the mountain is exposed in the cracks, is a large karst cave, the cave is extremely deep and wide, only smell the evil wind and drums, although you can't see the distance, but you can feel that the obscure atmosphere inside is particularly deep. A large hall with heavy eaves is under the cracks, this hall is tall and solemn, paved with glazed tiles like fish scales, and a hole has collapsed under the cracks of the mountain, and the wooden rafters under the tiles are exposed, and many limes have just been thrown on them. There is a layer of mercury frost hanging on the roof of the cave, and it seems that there used to be a lot of mercury stored in the local officials, but because the mountain was cracked, it had already volatilized, leaving only many black mercury spots. Chen Blind landed lightly on the rafters, caught his footsteps and walked to a stable place, and then whistled, wanting to contact the live monkey and the two people who jumped in the ground.
But the top of the main hall of the underground palace is full of clouds and mist, how can there be the shadows of those two people. At this time, Hua Maogui and the rest of the people followed one after another, and Hua Maogui looked at the situation left and right, and asked, "Big shopkeeper, how is it?" ”
Chen Blind said: "It's a side hall." The whereabouts of the two brothers who came to visit earlier are unknown, so you should be careful and search the roof of the temple first. Hua Ant Kui knew that there was danger in the underground palace, so he hurriedly made a gesture, and the group of thieves showed their weapons, carried horse lanterns, and leaned over the glazed tiles to grope for the two missing accomplices.
The group of thieves scattered and platooned to touch the past, from the side of the collapsed temple roof, straight to the other side, and there was no one to see, two big living people were born without seeing people, dead without seeing the corpse, but not long ago they also shot arrows from the bottom of the valley as a signal, if there was an accident during the time when the group of thieves came down, with the sharp ear of Chen Blind, it was impossible not to hear the movement in this rift valley of the sound, and he couldn't help but curse the ghost in his heart. This bottle mountain is a medicine mountain, you can't wait to ignore it, there is nothing in the ancient tomb, once there is something, it must be ruthless, thinking of these, I feel that the gloomy teaching in the underground palace is explosive.
To the edge of the top of the hall, you can see that the cave behind the hall is all built with stones, and there are some wells and corridors all around, and there are rockeries made of lake stones, like a garden, and there are many foul-smelling sewage in the recesses, and there are many rotten woods. There are many stone troughs built on the roof of the cave, but I don't know what they are used for. The thieves saw that the entrance to the side hall was blocked, so they had to return to the place where the roof of the temple collapsed. The flower ant turned and threw an inch of phosphorus down, burning the dark hall to the snow, only to see the vermilion lacquer in the hall hugging the pillars, golden and brilliant, compared to the palace is not much more than that, but the inch of phosphorus can only illuminate for a moment, before the time to take a closer look, it will be extinguished.
Chen Blind made a move, and immediately two thieves dragged a bamboo ladder and hung down the wooden rafter hole under the tile, and a few bold people carried the German-made twenty rings, opened the head of the machine, and went down the bamboo ladder to the palace.
Although they knew that the air was well circulated and could protect against a mirage, the thieves brought a pigeon cage with white pigeons. As soon as they came to the temple, the pigeon in the cage seemed to be frightened by something, and fluttered endlessly, and everyone looked at each other, and their hearts hung in their throats, and they carried a lantern in the temple, and immediately found that the situation was different, and hurriedly asked the chief to come down and check it.
Blind Chen shook Xiao Shenfeng upside down and led people down the bamboo ladder, only to see a few thieves who came down first, all of them colorless. It turns out that there is no coffin in this side hall, and on the ground paved with purple stone bricks, there are weapons such as armor, knives, spears, bows, shields, axes, and arrows, as well as dozens of sets of saddles.
I saw that the clothes, shoes and socks of the monkey and the two people jumping in the field were spread flat on the ground, and the buttons of their clothes were not unbuttoned, and the pigeon cage they brought was thrown aside, and the cage door was closed, and there was no damage, but the pigeon inside was gone. Seeing this situation, Chen Blind and Hua Ant and others immediately remembered the legend of the corpse removal site in Bottle Mountain, the corpse will turn into a stream of yin qi when it enters this mountain, could it be that there is such an evil thing?
Chen Blind Man's mind moved, and he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to pick up the lamp to illuminate, and flicked the pile of clothes with his feet, and suddenly saw the light of the little Shenfeng knife flickering, knowing that it was ominous, and he was afraid that there was something strange in the hall, so he hurriedly looked around, raised his ears and listened carefully, although he didn't notice anything different, but a piece of cold chestnuts grew on his skin, but he seemed to be urging silently: "Escape!" Run! ”
Chen Blind has encountered many thrilling incidents, and this intuition of danger in his body is the experience of taking his life in exchange for death again and again, not to mention that he is seventy or eighty percent accurate, where can he still care about looking at those clothes, whistling, and leading the crowd to reflexively retreat. He was in the center of the temple to check the clothes of the two missing thieves, but at this moment he turned and retreated, and just took a step, he suddenly felt someone grabbing him by the shoulder behind him......