I expressed the doubts in my heart, and Wen Qingshan explained to me: "According to the records on this stele, Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, was indeed killed in Tongcheng, Hubei, but after his death, his subordinates sent it here in order to prevent the corpse from being trampled by the Qing soldiers. ”

"But instead of burying the body, they will hide it in this cave! Doesn't it say that it is safe to go into the earth? "I'm still puzzled.

Huang Yixian said: "This is an ancient and mysterious funeral method - cave burial, the reason why they want to do this is actually for another purpose!" ”

"For what purpose?" I asked.

"This place is Tai Chi**, which is the place where yin and yang aura gather, so people have clouds: 'Yin and Yang incarnate all things', so they believe that placing the body of King Chuang here can make King Chuang reborn."

"Reborn!?" I was taken aback, "That's ridiculous!" ”

Wen Qingshan added on the side: "Not only that, but they also brought a phoenix egg, in ancient mythology, the phoenix is a divine bird that can be reborn in Nirvana, and they hope that King Chuang can use this divine bird egg to resurrect from the dead." ”

"What phoenix egg?" I was slightly stunned at first, but suddenly reacted and exclaimed, "Wait! Do you ...... That's what you're talking about...... The serpent's egg? ”

Wen Qingshan nodded and said, "Now it seems that as we guessed wrongly, the giant snake in the cave is the black water snake that hatched from a heterogeneous egg!" ”

As soon as I mentioned the Black Water Snake, my heart suddenly became nervous again, and I subconsciously looked around, but I didn't see any trace of the giant snake, but I found that around this cave hall, there were several other holes, maybe the giant snake was hiding in one of the holes!

I couldn't help but shudder, and after I settled down, I suddenly thought of the treasure again, and hurriedly asked, "Is there any mention of treasure on the stone tablet?" ”

Wen Qingshan frowned and said: "The stone tablet mentions that when King Chuang reaches Nirvana and the treasure is opened, it will be the time for the Qiankun to be recreated, but where will this treasure be hidden?" ”

Huang Yixian sighed: "Hey! What a treasure! In my opinion, in the minds of Li Zicheng's cronies and dead, his body is a treasure! ”

"But according to historical records, King Chuang's army almost plundered the entire city of Beijing at that time, as well as the treasury of the Ming Dynasty, such a large treasure, if not hidden, where did it go? It's not like it's going to just disappear into thin air. Wen Qingshan asked rhetorically.

Huang Yixian was speechless for a while.

Wen Qingshan pondered for a while and said, "Based on my understanding of this text, the clue to the treasure should be in King Chuang's coffin, otherwise, let's open the sarcophagus and take a look." ”

Huang Yixian agreed, so we immediately started to get busy.

It was not an easy task to open the sarcophagus, we first held on to the corner of the coffin lid and tried to lift the coffin lid, but the coffin lid did not move.

So Wen Qingshan took out a few crowbars from his backpack, and we all stood on the left side of the sarcophagus, inserted the crowbars into the slit, and then used force together, this time, the coffin lid was finally pried open a little bit.

We were about to make more efforts to open the coffin lid completely, but at this moment, there was a sudden "bang" sound from the side, which startled us all a lot, and as soon as our hands were released, the coffin lid closed again.

We quickly turned our heads to take a look, and couldn't help but be surprised, only to see that there were three people standing at the entrance of a hole not far from us! I don't know when they came in.

These three people were wearing caving suits and caving backpacks on their backs, dressed more like scientific expeditioners than us, and looked very professional, and what was surprising was that all three of them were holding guns in their hands, and just now one of them fired a shot into the sky. I took a closer look at the guy who fired the shot, and it looked familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere, but I couldn't remember it for a moment.

The three guys walked towards us with guns, and the one who shot just now seemed to be the eldest of the three, and he said as he went, "You guys really have some skills, I didn't expect to find this place before us." ”

As soon as I heard him speak, I immediately knew who this guy was, it was the guy named Liu Qiang who used to be with Bai Xiaowu, but now he has changed his image, not only cut his hair short, but also dyed his hair black again, so I didn't recognize it for a while.

Wen Qingshan also seemed to recognize the guy in front of him, smiled slightly, and arched his hand and said: "This brother, we should have met when we were in Qiping Village, there is no enmity or grudge between us, so why bother to use knives and guns!" If you have anything to say, let's talk about it. ”

"Humph! Don't let me play tricks, I won't eat this. Liu Qiang said as he shook the muzzle of the gun towards us, looking at the muzzle of the black hole, my heart couldn't help but beat wildly.

Wen Qingshan's face did not change, he still maintained a calm smile on his face, and he said calmly: "Hehe, the matter has come to this point, there is no need for us to beat around the bush, you must also be here for the Dashun treasure, but you have also seen the current situation, the legendary Dashun treasure may not exist at all." There's nothing to fight with each other, so why don't we make friends? ”

Liu Qiang raised his head and smiled: "Hahahaha! Of course I knew the treasure wasn't here, and I didn't say we were here for the treasure! ”

"Hehe, if it's not for the treasure, is it still for the archaeology?" Wen Qingshan asked with a smile.

Liu Qiang snorted disdainfully: "Hmph! You guys won't live long anyway, and I'm not afraid to tell you the truth, we're here to ......" He was just halfway through his sentence when suddenly a loud shout came from behind him: "Shut up! ”

He shuddered in fright and hurriedly closed his mouth.

It was obviously not his other two accomplices who spoke, that is, in addition to these three guys, there was a guy in the back.

I looked up behind the three guys, and I saw a burly man dressed in black coming out of the cave behind them. The three guys immediately stood aside respectfully and made a way, as if they were in awe of the big man in black, it seemed that this guy was their boss.

When the big man in black approached, I couldn't help but be startled when I saw his face.

It was definitely the most disgusting face I'd ever seen in my life, it was full of furrows, as if someone had been splashed with sulfuric acid, and it even seemed as if something was squirming on that horrible face.

The guy glanced at us with a pair of blood-red eyes, then looked at the crowbar in our hands, pointed his hand towards the sarcophagus, and said coldly in a commanding tone: "You pry this sarcophagus open!" ”

I couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and said secretly: "This guy didn't even look at the stele, how did he know that this was a sarcophagus?" Could it be that they just heard our conversation? ”

Just as he was thinking, the guy shouted in a deep voice, "Don't do it yet!" ”

Wen Qingshan turned his head to look at me and Huang Yixian, and said calmly: "Just as he said, pry open the sarcophagus!" ”

So we got busy with the crowbar again.

However, because the guys were staring at us, and they were pointing guns at us, my heart was very nervous, and my hands kept trembling, and I couldn't pry the sarcophagus open for a long time.

The guy with the scars on his face seemed to be a little impatient, he turned to Liu Qiang and said, "You go over to help, hurry up and open the sarcophagus!" ”

Liu Qiang immediately pinned the pistol to his waist, took out a crowbar from his backpack, and walked over quickly.

With Liu Qiang's joining, the coffin lid was quickly pried up, and we all worked together, the coffin lid was lifted aside, the sarcophagus was finally opened, and immediately a refreshing fragrance wafted out of the coffin, which made me feel a little surprised, curiously probed to look into the sarcophagus, and caught a glimpse of a dry corpse wearing armor that had become a mummy. A sword rests on the corpse's chest, and underneath his head, there appears to be a black wooden box.

I was about to take a look, when suddenly Liu Qiang, who was standing next to me, let out a miserable scream, I turned my head to look, it turned out that Wen Qingshan had attacked him and inserted a silver nail into the back of his neck. and quickly jumped behind him and grabbed him by the neck.

Liu Qiang was completely restrained and couldn't move for a while, Wen Qingshan stood behind him and said to Scarface: "Let them all put down their guns!" ”

Rotten Scarface sneered, "Hehe! Do you think that if you catch him, you can blackmail me? He turned his head, winked at the other two, and said coldly, "Kill them all!" ”

The two guys immediately pointed their guns at us, and Liu Qiangqiang was shocked and hurriedly shouted, "No...... Don't ......" Before he could say a word, there was a "bang", the gun went off, and the bullet hit Liu Qiang's chest, he opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't speak anymore.

We were all amazed, we didn't expect these guys to be so ruthless! Even his own accomplices did not spare, and it seems that they are determined to put us to death. Huang Yixian and I hurriedly squatted down and hid behind the sarcophagus, Wen Qingshan didn't dare to use Liu Qiang as a shield anymore, so he hurriedly pushed his body forward and quickly squatted down.

The two guys walked towards us slowly, although their steps were very light, but in this very quiet environment, they could hear very clearly, I hurriedly took out the fish intestine sword, Wen Qingshan also took out a few silver nails and pinched them in his hand, although Huang Yixian said that he had a set of weapons to deal with ghosts and demons, but he did not have a weapon to deal with people, and could only hold the crowbar used to open the coffin just now.

Listening to the footsteps seemed to be getting closer and closer to us, my heart was extremely nervous, and the subtle footsteps sounded to me almost indistinguishable from the footsteps of death.