The Ancient City of the Desert Chapter 56 The Jade Bed
"The fourth master, they ...... I'm afraid that there will be more bad luck! After the scholar finished speaking, there was silence around him again.
"Now we can't wait here, pack up, let's go up! After reaching the third floor, the car will stay for about ten seconds. We must hold out for more than ten seconds, and then take the opportunity to search for the fourth master, no matter what the result is, we must see it with our own eyes. "I resolutely don't believe that something happened to the fourth master. With the skills of the fourth master and Ah Shun, it is impossible to wipe out the whole army. I've made up my mind that if I don't see them on the third floor, I'll follow the elevator to the fourth floor.
We have no way back but to give it a go, and everyone present supports my decision.
The five of us entered the car again, and with a rumbling sound, we got closer and closer to the third floor. We all clenched our machetes and daggers in our hands.
The third floor arrived, and the door was wide open. The hall is in chaos! The mutilated limbs, the red and black blood stains all over the ground mixed with the smell of blood rushing to the nose, made people sick. At a glance, in addition to those swarthy monsters, there are many of them dressed the same as us. That's the mutated Cao guy, who has become the walking dead. Linglong's tears poured out again.
I looked around, but there was no shadow of the fourth master and Ah Shun, and my heart was a little more stable. Ali and the scholar desperately swung the machetes in their hands, slashing and kicking away the monsters that pounced.
After barely holding on for more than ten seconds, the car began to shake and rise upwards again. Although I don't know why the fourth master didn't go down to the first floor to meet us as agreed, at least I can be sure that they are okay and should have gone up.
From the third to the fourth floor, it only took more than ten seconds. The door on the fourth floor is open, I don't know if the fourth master opened it.
This level is not the same as the next few layers. The overall environment is dark, which may be intentional by the designer, as if in a bedroom with the curtains drawn, there is a hazy feeling. Darkness and quietness, that's the first thing I feel.
We stepped out of the car, on guard. For the time being, he didn't find a problem, so he shouted in a low voice, "Fourth master? Ah Shun? "As soon as I finished my first shout, someone immediately covered my mouth from behind. This man's hands were extremely strong, and a smell of blood rushed into his brain, making his stomach tumble for a while. Out of my eye, I saw the scholar being dragged down behind me. Anger arises from the heart, and evil is born on the side of the guts. I stretched my hands back, grabbed the collar of the person behind me, and quickly squatted forward, using both hands to make an over-the-shoulder fall.
"Xia Ye is so skilled!" A suppressed voice came from his throat in a low voice. Now I hear it clearly, damn it, it's Ali's voice!
The body escaped the restriction, and I turned around and squinted to see that it was indeed the fourth master who put down the scholar. I was about to ask a question, but I saw Linglong and Ali in the back shaking their hands and making silent movements. At this time, Ali also got up and came to my side and whispered, "Master Xia, don't ask yet, come here."
Confused, I followed Ah Shun and walked with the others to a corner on the fourth floor. Walking to the corner, the fourth master motioned for several of us to squat down, and then said: "I know you have a lot of questions, but the situation here is complicated, let's make a long story short." First, Ah Shun and I were in a critical situation when we were on the third floor, and we lost several brothers, and only the two of us and these two brothers escaped. Second, we were going to make sure that the situation on the fourth floor would go to the next level to meet you, but we found some circumstances and delayed it. Thirdly, there may be a dormitory here, and there are many mechanisms. ”
After the fourth master finished speaking, he took out the standard silent expression again. Ali answered and said, "Master Xia, I was offended just now. There is something unusual here, everyone tries not to speak, and if you have to speak, you must use a very low voice. Seeing that we were confused, Ah Shun lowered his voice and explained for a while before we understood.
It turned out that after the fourth master and Ah Shun escaped from the third floor with the two surviving Cao guys, they followed the elevator to the fourth floor. They planned to confirm the environment on the fourth floor before meeting us, but they didn't expect that this was probably the dormitory of the Tsumi! Yes, not a mausoleum, not a temple, but a dormitory! In other words, it is very likely that the Tsui is not a corpse, but a living body! More than 2,000 years of living body, beyond human imagination.
When the fourth master and they arrived on the fourth floor, due to the dim light, they vaguely saw a "person" lying on a bed with green light directly opposite. The four of them were very surprised, and when they were talking, they suddenly shot random arrows from all directions, fortunately, the fourth master and Ah Shun are both battle-hardened and extremely skilled people, even blocking and dodging, they just pulled the two guys and dodged the whole wave of attacks, but a stone wall suddenly fell, enclosing the "person" inside. The floor began to shake and tilt, and the arrows on the floor would gradually slide and collect in the opposite corners, and then tumble under the floor. The fourth master hurriedly rushed over, and after searching for a long time, they couldn't find the switch of the stone wall, nor could they find the mechanism of the stone arrow recovery channel. After the arrows were recovered, the floor was restored to its original state. After tossing for a long time, I found the condition for the stone arrow to be triggered, that is, the sound! If the sound is too loud, it will immediately trigger the trap, and then there will be a rain of stone arrows. The arrows were all sharpened from stone, but they were black, and needless to say, they must have been coated with poison. Ah Shun also talked about another important situation, before the stone wall fell, the lying "man" actually raised his head and made a smile on them.
After listening to Ah Shun's words, the next few of us also understood the key. Behind the stone wall, it may be Zhu Li himself, but people more than 2,000 years ago can actually live to the present? But the fourth master and Ah Shun both saw it, could it be that they hallucinated at the same time?
In order not to trigger the mechanism, we talked almost verbally, I approached a few people closely, and said in a mosquito-like voice: "This stone tower cannot be regarded as a mausoleum at all, but it has a tight mechanism, which shows that this place is not used to completely block the future generations, but to leave a passage for the convenience of future generations." It's just that we don't know the safe route. If so, the wall will most likely open automatically. Let's wait and see. "Everyone discussed it and agreed with my judgment. Everyone rested in silence and waited for the stone wall to restart.
Although there are many long-lived people recorded in ancient books, such as Peng Zu, who is more than 800 years old, these are only records, and there are two possibilities: one is made up by later generations, and the other is that the length of time the ancients marked the age of one is different from that of modern times. Even if Peng Zu really lived for more than 800 years, wouldn't this Zhu Li be more than 2,000 years old if he lived to be now, this is simply unimaginable. It's just that the fourth master and Ah Shun are not scholars who like to babble, they both saw the person on the bed looking up and smiling, it should be true. The specific situation can only be found out after the stone wall is restored.
After about twenty minutes, I saw that the stone wall in front of me began to rise slowly, very slowly, but without sound.
Our curiosity had already been aroused, and we all looked at the widening gap under the stone wall, not knowing what would be behind it.
Although it was only a dozen seconds of effort, it seemed like a long time later, and the damn stone wall finally slowly rose. Behind it was a large, greenish-glowing bed-like thing. There is indeed a "person" lying on the bed, but the light here is really not strong, except for the outline, the others are not clear.
After waiting for a while to see that the stone wall was completely submerged into the roof, we decided to touch it together and find out. Everyone was headed by the fourth master, and a long dragon quietly touched it. The bed with a faint green glow was close at hand, and I reached out and touched it, and it was round and cold, but it was made of jade! Everyone obviously found out that this was a jade bed, and they were all extremely amazed. If it weren't for that damn mechanism, I'd have everyone screaming. A really large bed made of jade is rare in the world, and it is definitely a national treasure!
It's just that now is not the time to appreciate the baby, and there is still a "person" on the bed. The thought of wet zongzi, which may be more than 2,000 years old, makes my heart furious. The man was lying upright on the jade bed, wearing a metal mask with a strange expression on his head, tightly wrapped in a long robe made of linen, but his hands and feet were bare. I noticed that the man was wearing a jet-black wrench on his left thumb and a dark green cane more than a meter long in his right hand. This shape is very weird, which makes people feel very scary when they see it.
I thought of the painting engraved on the first layer of the big ding, isn't this person's costume the last king of the chieftain tribe - Zhuli? The bare hands and feet were just a few folds like lost water, but they didn't decompose, could it be a wet corpse? But the fourth master and Ah Shun both saw a strange scene, how to explain it? What kind of face is under this mask? Is the black wrench on the hand of this zongzi a legendary treasure that can communicate with the gods? What does the dark green jade scepter do? I have too many questions in my mind, but I can't ask them because speaking out will trigger the mechanism.
Everyone stared at the masked man, what kind of face was there under this mask with a smiling expression? Lao Xu was particularly excited, knowing that even experienced archaeologists who have been on the front line all year round are difficult to see the intact wet corpses. Lao Xu gently put his hand on the metal mask, and was about to take it off, when suddenly a large shriveled hand pinched Lao Xu's wrist. Lao Xu and Linglong shouted "ah" together.
We didn't react, the fourth master's face changed, and he even pushed and pulled a few of us to push to the side of the jade bed, and then took out an unknown object from the bag and threw it the wall near the elevator, this series of actions was completed like lightning. Then the rain of arrows fell, first at our side, and then towards the elevator entrance. The stone arrow crackled when it hit the ground, which showed the great force. The stone wall of the roof was closed again, and we were safe for the time being.
"This ...... What the hell is this?! Lao Xu looked at the shriveled hand and said tremblingly.