Chapter 278: Caught in a maze
"Greedy dreams, your high imitation is moving!" Chen Xiao shouted.
"What kind of high-imitation version, is it obviously a low-profile version?"
"Did we activate the mechanism of the ancient tomb?" Yun Xizi looked at Wang Lei and asked.
"I'm afraid, maybe those stone chests are mechanisms, and as soon as the lid is opened, the mechanism kicks in. Wang Lei frowned.
"Are we going on a tomb adventure now?" Hee-hee asked excitedly, straightening her wig.
"It's understandable. Lin Xiaoxiao nodded, and then took out a pistol and shovel from her bag.
"Don't bother. Looking at Lin Xiaoxiao's left hand with a shovel and a pistol in his right hand, Yun Xizi said.
"You go to the stone archway!" Yun Xizi shouted to the crowd.
Everyone hurriedly dodged the statues that attacked them and ran into the stone archway, while Yun Xizi stood in the center of the room, opened his arms, and turned his hands into peach branches again, and then attacked in all directions.
Like a serpent, the peach branches wrapped around the statues and stopped them from moving.
"Bang bang bang..."
Yun Xizi concocted the same method, and as before, he used one force to blow up the peach tree branches, and then, the statue also shattered into pieces and fell to the ground in piles.
"There's a door!" Hee-hee shouted at the crowd as he stood at the end of the hallway.
Everyone immediately ran to Xixi's side, and Yun Xizi followed after recovering his hands.
"It's a double stone door again. Lin Xiaoxiao tried to push, but didn't seem to move.
It is similar to the stone gate of the tunnel, but it is higher and narrower.
"Is it also a stone gate on the other side?" said Wang Lei, and ran to the other end of the corridor.
"It's also a stone door, does this stone door lead to another room?" Wang Lei shouted to everyone.
"Which way?" Sun Ting looked at Yun Xizi and asked.
"Hee Hee finds this side first, let's go this way. Yun Xizi said.
Then, Yun Xizi blew up the stone gate with a peach branch.
"It's all coffins!" Hee-hee was the first to walk in, and under the light of the Netherfire, he saw a room full of humanoid coffins.
"It's not a coffin, it's a stone figurine. Wang Lei stepped forward and said.
The group then entered the room, and found that this room was much smaller than the outside, but the design and construction were similar, but, unlike the empty space outside, there were many stone figurines placed here, and they fell to the ground horizontally, and when they looked at it, they really looked like coffins.
Hee Xi jumped on top of a stone figurine and leaned down, listening to the movement inside.
"Be careful! Wang Lei hurriedly reminded.
"There is movement inside, what could it be?" Xixi looked at Wang Lei and asked.
"It is said to be a white insect. Wang Lei said.
"Will Xiaolongbao be locked up inside?" Zhu Xiaolong hurriedly asked.
Hearing Zhu Xiaolong's words, everyone also felt that these stone figurines looked strange.
"Bang!" Hee-hee raised his small fist and smashed it towards it, and it was a small hole.
"It's really not strong!" Hee Hee sighed as she withdrew her small fist.
"Ahh
"What?" Hee lowered his head suspiciously, only to see some small white flesh worms like maggots crawling out of the hole.
"Damn, is it a maggot? Is there a corpse in it?"
Jumped down from above.
"Break them all and see. Yun Xizi suggested.
Then, Xi Xi smashed the dozens of stone figurines in three or two clicks.
However, there were neither corpses nor living people inside, only dense white worms crawling out of the broken stone figurines.
After regaining their freedom, the worms began to crawl around the room, wriggling and crawling towards the crowd standing in the doorway.
"Hey! it's disgusting. Lin Xiaoxiao covered her mouth and exited the room.
"Burn them with fire talismans!" After speaking, Wang Lei threw out the fire talisman.
With the "crackling" sound of burning, the insects were gradually burned to the ground, but a foul smell also filled the room with the smell of burning.
The crowd couldn't stand any longer, and ran to the other end of the corridor with their mouths and noses covered.
"What do you think is going to be something disgusting in this room?" Hee Hee wondered.
"Smash the door open and you'll know. With that, Yun Xizi blew the door open with a peach branch again.
Then, Hee Xi took the lead in running in with his little short legs.
"Ahh
"What's wrong?" the crowd wondered.
I saw Xixi do a backflip and turn back into the corridor.
"There's no way!" said Hee-hee patting his little chest after standing firm.
The crowd craned their necks and looked out, and found that outside the door was a sloping cliff, and looking down the cliff, there was a large sand and gravel pit, two or three times larger than the room outside.
There are a lot of bones embedded in the pit, which have basically been ossified, but there are also corpses that have not yet been completely **, they are embedded in the pit, which is very similar to the bones embedded in the mud wall, but more **.
The cliff is about forty or fifty meters high, and on the opposite side is a platform, which seems to be a deep tunnel, and it is pitch black, and it is impossible to see the specific situation.
It was about fifty or sixty meters from here to the platform on the opposite side, and there was no road between the two, not even a rope to connect them.
Above is a rounded dome with many strangely shaped boulders, which look pitted.
"Boom, boom..."
While everyone was debating whether this was a mass grave, there was another shake, and then the boulders on the dome began to fall one after another, and smashed into the pit.
Immediately afterward, cracks appeared in the floor of the hallway, and bricks fell from the roof.
"Bang bang bang bang ..."
The bricks fell quickly, accompanied by a huge amount of dust, enveloping the entire room in a cloud of dust.
"Quick, it seems that this place is about to collapse, I summoned the white mist and went to the other side!"
Then, everyone rode the white mist and passed through the opposite platform in seconds.
When they landed on the platform, the room opposite them began to collapse and topple into the pit, as if they had experienced a great earthquake.
"Let's go, maybe this place will collapse too!" Yun Xizi said.
The crowd hurriedly followed the Nether Fire and ran towards the platform, entering the deep tunnel.
"It's a mud wall again!" Zhu Xiaolong said as he ran, touching the wall next to him.
At this time, everyone found that the mud wall here was very similar to what they had seen in the pit before, and there were also bones of different degrees embedded on it.
"It's a cannibalistic tomb. Wang Lei said as he ran.
"But where did so many people give?
Besides, I haven't heard anyone say that a large number of people are missing in Yumen Pass!" Lin Xiaoxiao said.
"I'm afraid it's not a day or two, it's many years, even thousands of years, you see how these people dress. Yun Xizi stopped, pulled the clothes and fabric on a corpse and said.
"This... It seems to be linen, like it was worn by poor people in ancient times. Wang Lei touched the cloth and said.
"There is another question, wasn't the Jade Gate Pass a fortress in ancient times? How could someone build a mausoleum under it? and blatantly eat people!" Lin Xiaoxiao asked.
After Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty established Yiwu County, the Silk Road opened up a new northern road from Jinchang to Yiwu, which is now the National Highway 312. Since then, Yumen Pass has gradually been taken into disobedience, and in 1036, the Western Xia occupied the Hexi Corridor, and Yumen Pass has since disappeared. Wang Lei said.
"Does that mean that this ancient tomb only existed after Emperor Yang of Sui?" asked Chen Xiao.
"Possibly. Wang Lei nodded.
"How do you feel like there's no end in sight?" Hee Hee wondered.
After walking for more than 20 minutes, I felt that the road did not seem to have changed, and the most important thing was that the front was always dark and deep, as if there would never be an end in sight.
"Will we enter the maze?" Yun Xizi looked at Wang Lei and asked.
"It's hard to say..."Wang Lei only knows a little about these because his grandfather is an archaeologist, but he only knows about the skin.
"If I run like this, I feel like I can't walk out even if my leg is broken. Lin Xiaoxiao gasped.
"Let's take a break, everyone!" Yun Xizi shouted.
Everyone was very tired, and as soon as they stopped, they simply sat down against the mud wall.
Sun Ting took out mineral water from his backpack and distributed it to everyone to replenish some water.
"There has been no news from the taste dog, could it be that like us, he has entered a place similar to a maze?" Yun Xizi asked after pouring a few sips of mineral water, looking at everyone.
"Possibly, otherwise it's been so long, why hasn't there been any news from a taste dog? You see, the receiving dog didn't react at all. Wan Meng pointed to the receiving dog squatting next to Sun Ting with his elephant trunk and said.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, the receiver dog opened his eyes with a cute face, as if to say, I really didn't hear from my friends!
"So, as we walked, we left something to mark so that we knew if we were going around in circles. Yun Xizi suggested.
"Well, yes, the mud walls are full of corpses, and we can't remember what they look like, so we might as well leave a mark so that we can find the way. Sun Ting nodded and said.
Originally, everyone was remembering the iconic bones at the beginning to determine whether they were lost or going around in circles, but there were too many dense bones, and it was dazzling to look at.
"What are you left behind?" asked Hee-hee, scratching her head.
"Peach tree, every ten meters we walk, I conjure up a peach tree in the middle of the road. Yun Xizi thought for a while and said.
Everyone thought it was a good idea, and after a short rest, they moved on.
Yun Xizi walked at the end, and when he calculated that it was about ten meters, he conjured up a small peach tree and planted it in the middle of the road.
"We're really going around in circles!" After walking for more than twenty minutes, Xixi, who was walking in the front, pointed to the peach tree in the middle of the road ahead and said.
After seeing the peach tree, everyone realized that they had returned to the original point, and everyone was indeed going in circles.