Chapter 23: The Three-legged Bronze Tripod on the Altar
"No, then you should leave it to yourself, you let the girl accompany me, you know, men and women are not tired of working, and I can still be a little energetic with my sister. ”
Wushuang smiled and said: "Okay, Ya, you follow him, he is too reckless, I don't have you to worry about him, you two be careful." ”
At the moment, the three of them were divided into two teams and walked into a fork in the road. At first, it was okay, the distance was not far, and the mine was empty, so the two teams could hear each other clearly and report the situation. But as they farther and farther away, Musou soon became unable to hear their voices clearly.
The flowers bloom two and one branch each, Lu Haotian is rare to be able in front of Ma Ya, whistling in front of him to give himself courage, and his mouth does not stop.
"Sister, it's right for you to go with your brother, haven't you heard a word? There is no hair on the mouth and no work, you see that kid has fine skin and tender meat, and his stomach is bad, so it's not good to go with him. ”
"Brother Mouse, can't you stop there? You've been muttering since you came in. Do you think if my brother hadn't asked me to go with you, I'd be willing?"
Ma Ya followed Lu Haotian while holding the cave wall on one side with her little hand, and as she walked, she felt that the cave wall had become much cooler and smoother. She took a closer look, and there were artificially polished turquoise stones on both sides of the cave wall, and they were not small, each one meter square.
"Brother Mouse, go slowly, we seem to be getting to the place, this is a tomb brick. She shone it with a flashlight, and clearly saw a goshawk totem on the tomb bricks.
The goshawk roc carved on the tomb bricks spread its wings and soared in the sky, and its poignant eyes were vivid, as if every intruder could not escape their discerning eyes.
Lu Haotian said: "No, sister, this is a goshawk on the desert, don't you think it looks like Hai Dongqing? This is definitely not the ancient tomb of the Qing Dynasty, how can there be a tomb brick engraved with Hai Dongqing? This is not in line with the funeral customs of this Gada in our northeast." ”
Further on, the cave became more and more open, and traces of manual excavation appeared. A tiny spot of light appeared at the end not far away. The two of them quickened their pace and ran over, here was a heavy copper door covered with patina, the copper door was more than three meters high, one on the left and one on the left. They are engraved with the vigorous and powerful Haidong green holy birds.
A large crack opened in the middle of the bronze door, and the light was emitted from the space inside the door. The space inside the bronze door was filled with a dead air, and the two of them looked at the crack in the door, and inside was an empty underground cave, and the four walls were full of lamps with human and animal heads. The cave has been silent for centuries and no one has ever reached it, but the strange lamps are still on, and the flames inside are blown by the gloomy wind, and the atmosphere is very strange.
"Brother Mouse, should we call my brother to come over and have a look?" Ma Ya said.
"No, it's a big deal, you just rely on him too much, you look at my brother's big muscular body, I don't feel more secure than him. Lu Haotian was able to say.
Lu Haotian hurriedly went in, all he thought about was the gold and silver mountains hidden inside. Ma Ya grabbed him and said that this Gada, which is full of weirdness, it is better to be cautious, and it is not too late to see the shape clearly before probing.
The crack between the two copper doors is just too good, but you can also see that there is a heavy steel lock hanging in the middle of the copper door, the lock is very ancient, the surface looks like a metal gada, but to the thick finger of the keyhole, it is not difficult to find that the inside is full of mechanisms, if you don't use the unique key, not only can you not open the lock, but will activate the anti-theft device inside, the surface of the giant lock is distributed with many needle-like size pores, compared to the anti-theft device once activated, it must be a highly toxic rainstorm pear flower needle volley, so that the thief died on the spot。
But there was a bent iron wire stuck upside down in the keyhole of the old steel lock, and the steel lock had been pierced open by the bent wire. There is a clearly visible handprint on the deputy hand of the copper door, which is estimated to be the focus point of the unlocker's internal force pushing the door after the unlocker opened it.
"This is a thousand machine locks!" Ma Ya is also a descendant of thieves, he has never eaten pig's trotters and seen pigs run, and when he was a child, his grandfather Ma Sihai often talked about the strange things he encountered when he followed Wu Gongyao across the rivers and lakes. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the Western machinery industry had just been introduced into the land of China, and China's ancient craftsmanship combined with Western mechanics gave birth to many strange plays. The Thousand Machine Lock is one of them, it is a lock with a key, this key cannot be copied, unique in the world.
"My grandfather! It must be my grandfather who has entered, and no one in the world can open a thousand locks except for the master of door theft. Ma Ya said excitedly.
The two of them drilled through the crack in the bronze door.
"Grandpa, grandpa, are you here? I'm Xiaoya, can you reply to me?" Ma Ya's call echoed through the hollow underground cavern, but no one else answered.
The intrusion of the two broke the inherent calm in the cave, and the oil lamps on the four walls above their heads moved with the wind, and a huge black shadow instantly swallowed them.
Lu Haotian shone with a flashlight, and a huge oval altar appeared in front of him, and a row of stone steps under the altar led to the top, leaving a few footprints on the stone steps.
"Damn, this altar is too big, isn't it?" Lu Hao was tall and tall, but he couldn't see the scene on the altar when he raised his head.
Ma Ya had no intention of reasoning with him, and rushed up the stone steps of the altar in a few steps and called out to grandpa.
"Grandpa...... ...... Why don't you speak?" he asked, standing on the edge of the altar, which was more than five meters high.
Lu Haotian ran up to take a look, there was a blood-red carpet on the entire oval altar, and in the middle was a three-legged giant tripod, which was unattainable, and it was bubbling hot. Directly below the giant tripod is a stone tablet similar to an ancient tomb epitaph, on which there is no inscription, but a colorful painting.
A burly and sturdy old man dressed in animal skin, kneeling on his knees in front of the stone monument with his back to them, motionless, that person should be Ma Sihai.
Ma Ya knew that there was something strange in this, and she didn't rush to get close to her grandfather, shouting for her grandfather, while looking left and right with the fire.
His grandfather Ma Sihai was a great figure, who once followed the troubled hero Wu Gongyao to the Northeast, which made little Japan fearful. And the old man has a smiling and proud treasure secret technique, he has always been a lonely and arrogant person, he doesn't kneel on the ground, why did he kneel down against a stone tablet today?
"Brother Mouse, go and call my brother over!
Lu Haotian said: "What's wrong, sister, it's not that my brother is lazy, should we drag the old man back first?"
Lu Haotian stepped forward step by step, and tried to shout a few more times at a distance of five or six meters from Ma Sihai: "Old man, you see that you are so old, how cold is it on your knees?"