Wuxia Coffin Mountain Chapter 42 Emergency Exit
In the cannon temple above, the ground-to-ceiling flowering cannons continued to explode in the hall, the sulfur flew sideways, and the old rotten wood in the tomb was impacted, and they broke apart, and the bricks and trees collapsed for a while. I fell to the ground in a thick cloud of smoke, feeling that the tomb would collapse completely at any moment, and I had no time to get up, and in the confusion I rolled and touched the door of the tomb, and I couldn't tell which one it was when I bumped into my companion, so I could only push him out desperately.
In the panic, I didn't have time to distinguish it carefully, but I saw that outside the wooden coffin room, there seemed to be a narrow tomb road full of blue bricks. I rushed out, my head was covered with bricks and mud, and I saw that everyone around me was there, except for the fat man, who had been hit on the head by a stake, and although he was wearing a mountaineering helmet, he still had a cut on his face. He didn't care, and he smeared a handful, unable to tell whether it was mud or blood. Didn't wait for me to check on the others. The coffin in the rear has been completely buried by broken wood and soil, and you have to suffocate to death if you take half a step slowly. Just when everyone was in shock, they suddenly saw clusters of ghost-like bleak light in the distance of the dark tomb, reflecting people's faces turning green.
The tomb bricks of the blue brick tomb road are engraved with the name of the craftsman, the name of the kiln that produced the bricks, and the "four Gengchen" - this is the old saying, according to the current saying, the year, month, day, and hour should all be the things of the Ming Dynasty. The entire tomb road is narrow and long, with no end at both ends. We had just come out of the coffin where the stake had collapsed, and before we could gain a foothold, we saw a faint ghostly fire at the end of the tombway.
The fire was not much bigger than the flame of a lit match, and it was probably phosphorus powder in the combustible, and the light that lit up was a dull green color, like a row of candles, but the glow of the green light was dim. We were about twenty meters away, beyond the illumination horizon of the tactical spotlights.
Then there was a strange movement of wooden teeth biting, but I don't know what was wrong. Shirley Yang then folded a fluorescent tube and threw it towards the far end of the tomb, and the dark suddenly glowed green, and this time he finally saw it clearly.
Originally, the end of the tomb road changed from narrow to wide, and a gatehouse leaned out, among which were two stone arch tomb doors full of copper nails and copper rings, and the scale and shape were no different from those in the world. It was six wooden faucets poking out from under the dripping eaves in front of the door, and the eyes of the faucets flickered like candles, it may be that we suddenly broke into this place, and in the chaos, we unintentionally triggered something to make the phosphorus and nitrate hidden in the eye sockets of the wooden dragon burn.
The five of us, except for the fat man, can probably guess the origin of this thing, only to hear the movement of the wooden dragon, plus the phosphorus fire burning inside the dragon's head, we know that there is an extremely sharp rocket pin - a swarm of bees.
That swarm of bees is the Ming Dynasty army in the battle to defeat the enemy's weapon, the shape of the crow, the shape of the fire dragon, the overall shape is a long wooden box, the use of gunpowder or machine spring launch, when shooting like a group of peaks out of the nest, hence the name of a swarm of bees. Sometimes the arrows are on fire or poisoned, so that the range and power of the damage become greater, and later some people also used it to prevent tomb robbers, the most insidious way is to install a few swarm of crossbows inside the coffin, if the person who opens the coffin is not careful, he will be killed on the spot. Hidden in such a narrow cemetery, it is even more difficult to guard.
From Shirley Yang throwing a fluorescent tube to illuminate the tomb door, to seeing the wooden box faucet under the eaves, in just a moment, the rockets hidden in the swarm of bees have been shot out. There was no room for thought and reaction at all, only to see the flames at the head of the wooden dragon's head flickering, the flames in the tomb were shining like fireflies, and hundreds of chaotic arrows were just like a group of peaks coming out of the nest.
Countless rockets flew in the narrow tomb, the sound was particularly amazing, whining and whistling, and the skin of the human brain tightened, thanks to Shirley Yang's quick eyes, the King Kong umbrella was opened when it shook and covered behind everyone, separating all the flying locust-like arrows.
The King Kong umbrella can withstand water and fire, rotten poison, knives and guns, and although the swarm of rockets is strong, and the arrows are burning, but there is no way to do this King Kong umbrella. It's just that the tomb is very narrow, and if you get close to the tomb door, it is difficult for a vajra umbrella to protect the five people lined up, so everyone has to keep retreating to the other end of the tomb road.
The nest box rocket has a simple structure and is easy to conceal and camouflage, which is a common pin used in the mausoleum to plot tomb robbers, but it is also a relatively stupid method. Although the crossbow arrows are powerful, they can cover and block, and the most important thing is that the arrows in the box are limited, and after all, they are ignorant dead things.
But the wooden dragon arrow box hidden in this tomb seems to be endless, and the arrows are like rain, and the momentum has never weakened, and the chaotic arrows blocked by the Vajra umbrella are burning on the ground. We kept retreating into the distance, leaving arrows everywhere in our wake, as if a layer of dry wood had been laid in the graveyard, and half of the graveyard was set on fire.
Our rear team turned into the front team, retreated dozens of steps away, and saw that we were about to leave the range of the rocket, and everyone couldn't help but secretly rejoice. If there were a swarm of bees or other rockets and crossbows hidden in the tombs at both ends, forming a front and rear flanking momentum, we would inevitably be shot into hedgehogs at this moment.
But at this moment, in the darkness at the end of the retreat, there was a dull roar, like the sound of gold and wood, and the thunder rolling, and it was like some giant beast was "shouting, shouting, shouting, and panting". I thought to myself, "It's a big problem, this is really bad luck, and you have to stuff your teeth even when you drink a sip of cold water." ”
Before I could throw out the illumination to see what was hidden in front of me, I heard a rumbling sound in the tombway, getting closer and closer to our position, and in an instant I rushed in front of me. In the light of a few spotlights and flashlights, I saw a huge white bull emerging from the black, with a round head and a square body, unusually strong, the head of the bull alone was the size of a bucket, and the two horns on the head flashed with coldness, sharp and sharp to prevent the sword halberd. The bull's eyes were round and wide, staring straight ahead, but it was neither lifeless nor bright, only to hear the "clucking" sound in the cow's belly, it was actually a wooden cow with a pin to move.
This narrow blue brick tomb is full of mechanisms, and every step is a trap for people's lives, and everyone who sees the wooden ox rushing towards them let out an exclamation.
Now this tomb road is narrow and depressing, the width is only less than two meters, there is no room for people to dodge and move, and the wooden cow is heavy and strong, listening to the sound is through the guò collapse spring ejection, the impact of the impact is extraordinary, Vajra Arhat also has to teach it to knock over, not to mention the cold on the horns, I am afraid that if you encounter it, you will have to pick a belly on the spot, and die.
At this moment, a strong wind was blowing, and the wooden ox had rushed to the front in an instant. There is a way that people are in a hurry, I grabbed the Guan Gong knife dragged by the fat man, the two shouted in unison, pressed the handle of the knife, picked the knife head, dozens of catties of the Qinglong Yanyue knife turned over one by one, smashed on the head of the wooden cow, and suddenly heard a "snap" sound, and smashed the wooden ox cart in front of him.
The head of the ox was cast with a brass lid and iron horns, which shook me and the fat man's hands and cracked our hands, and our arms were numb. I looked down at the wooden cow that had been split by Guan Gong's knife, and saw that there were several skins hidden in the cow's belly, and wisps of yellow smoke came out of them, which were so thick that they couldn't be dissolved.
Everyone hurriedly held their breath, hurriedly put the gas mask on their faces, and in a moment, the thick yellow smoke had spread, and the burning arrows and flames in the tomb were pressed by the rising poisonous smoke, and they were suddenly dimly extinguished, and the fire was extinguished, and the wooden dragon crossbow box at the gatehouse also stopped.
I think the things in this tomb are all from the Ming Dynasty. In the Yuan and Ming dynasties, copper cattle and wooden cattle appeared in the tombs where women were buried, while most of the men's tombs were rhinos. If the tomb robbers avoid its collision, the wooden ox will hit the tomb door head-on, so that the poisonous smoke hidden in the body can also kill people.
The thick yellow poisonous fog in the tomb was condensed, and the gas mask in front of him almost lowered people's vision to the lowest point, and the situation in front of and left and right was no longer recognizable. In order to get out as much as possible, the five of us had to stay close together, touch the stone wall in the tomb, and walk forward step by step in the thick fog.
I had just taken a few steps in the direction where the wooden ox mechanism had appeared, when I suddenly noticed a faint vibration in the distance of the tombway, and it seemed that a heavy mechanism such as a rolling stone or a jack hammer had fallen. This kind of machine is to use huge stone balls, stone hammers and other objects to block the tomb road that has been dug by the tomb robbers to steal the hole, and it is called a bone crushing pile in the inverted bucket row, and if a person is crushed into it, it can be turned into meat sauce on the spot.
I secretly complained, and quickly turned around, and patted the rest of the people on the shoulders, so that they quickly turned around and ran back, and ran to the arched tomb door to fight for a chance of survival.
Everyone also noticed the abnormal movement in front of the tomb, and immediately changed the rear team to the front team, turned around and walked back to the way they came, fortunately, the terrain was more familiar when they came, and they didn't need to grope for action step by step, but there were many scattered arrows and planks on the ground, and someone ran a few steps and tripped over. At this time, it was impossible to tell who had fallen in front of us, so the fat man and I arrived from behind, dragged the man up from the ground and fled. The vibration in the tomb behind him became more and more violent, and the oppression of death was like a big limit, and he only hated his father and mother for missing two legs.
In the thick smoke, I went straight to the tomb door, saw the copper lock hanging between the two wooden doors, and didn't think about what the situation would be in the tomb here, so I directly used the Guan Gong knife to cut off the big lock, and everyone worked hard to open the stone door, and at the same time as the tomb door opened, a thousand catties of stone grinding rolled in the tomb road have also come to the ground.
I saw that the tomb door had just been pushed open to a gap, and people could enter, so I pushed the companions who were pushing the stone door one by one, and I also followed and dodged in, and the huge stone stone immediately hit the tomb door, and the four walls of the earthquake trembled, completely blocking the way.
Fortunately, no one was left behind in the chaos, and they all fled into this tomb. I was bleeding all over my body, and I lay down in the tomb and gasped for a few breaths. Because some of the poisonous smoke has flowed into the tomb, no one took off the gas mask, looked up, and saw the sparse smoke wafting in the dark bucket, and the entire tomb of the Ming Dynasty was also narrow and low, only slightly larger than the area of ordinary houses. There is no coffin inside, among which there is a nine-colored golden bull, the size of an ordinary buffalo, the whole body is chiseled with silver and gild, it looks thick and luxurious, and there is a female corpse lying on the back of the cow, probably because it is carried here after being stolen from outside, the ancient corpse-shaped remains dissipated, the face is somewhat unrecognizable, and the funeral clothes worn by the body also look dirty and ragged, and the dry corpse is holding a refined wooden box painted with gold in his arms, which looks like a jewelry box.
I have heard Sun Jiuye mention many times before, Guanshan Taibao secretly excavated ancient tombs in various places, and finally the earth immortal sealed the ancient and hid all the things in the tomb in the yin house of Dixian Village, so I was not very surprised to see dry corpses, Ming weapons, crossbow poisonous smoke and other things underground, maybe the entire Dixian Village was buried, all of which were ancient tombs of previous dynasties. I just can't understand why Feng Shigu took such pains to build such an ancient tomb museum in the coffin mountain. Judging by what he did, he was no different from a madman.
After a little distraction, the eyes of the nine-colored golden bull in front of me suddenly blinked, and I was dizzy and dazzled, but I saw the golden bull carrying the dried corpse on its back and crashing forward.
We hurriedly dodged, the nine-colored golden bull flashed in front of me, the tomb was square on all sides, the arch blocked by the stone mill was on one side, the head of the ox was originally facing the tomb door, and when it rushed to a stone wall, it immediately hit it. However, the golden bull did not fall over because of hitting the wall, and the dried corpse on his back did not even move, but turned the tomb wall over, and there was another secret room behind the wall, and the golden bull carried the corpse and sank into the dark room behind the wall.
I am very curious, is it possible that the nine-colored Taurus can understand the inspiration? Seeing that an outsider entered the tomb, he was able to flee to another hidden tomb with the remains of the tomb owner? I was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered the record in the "Dao" scroll of "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", and immediately woke up. It turns out that this ancient tomb anti-theft machine is launched in a row, once an outsider invades the tomb and triggers the pin, this golden bull is like a walking movable coffin, and immediately transfers the tomb owner's bone to another area, and after the tomb wall flips and falls, the tomb where we are will immediately appear poisonous smoke, ambush fire and other mechanisms.
The tomb wall that is opened by the nine-colored golden bull, there is a famous hall called the overturning of the sky, this wall overturned, the tomb will immediately become a death trap, now the stone arch tomb door has been blocked by a thousand huge stones, if the dark room behind the tomb wall is closed again, there is no way to live.
When I woke up, the golden bull had already lifted the canopy, and it seemed that it was about to rush into the dark room, as long as the nine-colored golden bull carrying the corpse got in, and after the tomb wall fell to the ground, I would never want to open it again. But after all, I woke up later, and no matter how fast I reacted, it would be too late to rush from behind.
In the blink of an eye, I saw the fat man who was a little closer to the wall, slamming Guan Gong's knife forward, and poked it obliquely into the stone trough on the ground, just pinning the hooves of the nine-colored golden bull. Although the golden ox is a heavy object, it can only move according to a fixed route, and cannot leave the stone trough, let alone break the cast iron handle of the thickness of a goose egg, and is stuck under the canopy, and can no longer move forward.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly said that I was lucky, but I don't know which tendon Wang Fat Man was wrong, why did he suddenly become so wise and decisive? It is really poking out of the sea and turning the river, and turning the tide of the tide. At this time, I saw him get up from the ground, broke the lid of the box and took a look, and then stuffed it into his carrying bag.
I then understood what was going on, it turned out that the fat man didn't think about anything else just now, but he saw the nine-colored golden bull fleeing with the corpse of the tomb owner, and saw that there was a golden box hidden in the corpse's arms, so naturally he couldn't let it slip away lightly from under his nose, and he didn't even have to think about it through his brain, out of conditioned reflex, he quickly handed out the Guan Gong knife to block the nine-colored golden bull that had entered the secret room, and then immediately touched the gold and copied the Ming weapon in the arms of the zongzi.
At this time, Shirley Yang had already helped Professor Sun up, and I found that there was still poisonous smoke pouring into the tomb from the cracks at the door of the stone arch tomb, so I gestured to everyone and let everyone get into the dark room from under the belly of the nine-colored golden ox.
Behind the canopy is a dark and narrow burial chamber, above which hangs a heavy sandwich wall, between which are paved with several layers of animal skins, and after the dark wall is turned over and closed, it will fall down and top the wall of the sky, and the solid double tomb wall will trap the tomb robbers alive in the previous burial chamber. Even the tombs of princes and nobles are rarely so ruthlessly and ingeniously arranged, and I don't know what the origin of the tomb owner carried by the nine-colored golden bull was.
I didn't care about thinking about anything, I looked around in the tomb after turning the sky overturned, and saw that there was a stone step on the side, presumably it was the Yang Mansion on the ancient coffin mountain, we wanted to touch the old house of the Feng family from the underground tomb, but now it seems that there are many mechanisms in the ancient tomb, and the tomb is low and narrow, and the five people are crowded in it and can't do it at all.
I pointed to the stone steps in the burial chamber and motioned to leave the so-called tomb museum and act from above, and Shirley Young and the others immediately nodded in agreement. The fat man took the lead in front of him, lifted a layer of copper cover, and five people drilled out one by one. Look around, it is in a private house, the furniture in the house is readily available, each piece is exquisite and exquisite, look at the scale, although it is not a luxurious aristocratic mansion, it can also be regarded as a rich family in the world, and the people's homes will not be like this.
The exit of the dark passage was under a carved waterwood tooth bed, and it was dark and silent, and there was no one around. I struck a match, and when I saw that the flames were all right, I took off my gas mask, and my nose smelled a cold smell, and it was evident that no one had moved around the room for a long time.
This time I learned to be obedient, and without waiting for the people behind me to come out of the secret passage under the bed, I first pushed open the door and let the fat man drag a chair in front of the door, so as not to be locked in the room again.
The wound on the fat man's face had stopped bleeding, but because he was worried that he would break his appearance, he looked a little anxious. He asked me inexplicably: "Commander Hu, you see that this bed is really exquisite, and it is worth silver if it is dismantled and dragged to Panjiayuan, which is enough to shock Second Master Qiao." Do you think this is the landlord's mother-in-law sleeping and lying? I said, "The furniture is good, but the courtyard is not big, it may be the outhouse of a large family, and I think it looks like the bed of the old landlord and his aunt's wife." The fat man said indignantly: "There may not be more men and fewer women in this world, but why are there so many singles?" In the final analysis, the rich landlord class is full of lust and lust, and every family has three wives and four concubines, so when it comes to our proletariat, even monogamy is not enough, why? As a result, the singles rose up and fought the landlords of the whole country. I think it is necessary for us to carry forward this fine tradition, and there is nothing polite to the grandsons of the Guanshan Taibao......"
I didn't have a good impression of the Guanshan Taibao, so I told the fat man: "You don't have to make excuses around the bush, the Daming Guanshan Taibao is the eagle dog of the imperial court, and there have been many inverted craftsmen in the past. But those old feuds have long been the dust of history. We still have to do our best to do the right thing this time, just find the Danding Book of Heaven, if it falls short, it's not too late to calculate the general account, and when you leave, you will set it on fire and not leave a single tile. ”
As he spoke, the other three people also came out of the dark path one after another, Sun Jiuye seemed to be extremely tired, and sat on the water and wood carved tooth bed to rest, but after he sat down, he didn't move, and he didn't even take off the gas mask on his face.
I saw that he was behaving differently, so I held the sapper shovel tightly and walked to the bed, and reached out to remove the gas mask for him. When everyone saw Sun Jiuye's face hidden under the gas mask, they were all surprised, and they all stepped back together.