Chapter 009: Monk's Legacy (3)
Darkness was very efficient, and a hundred dead men stood at the bottomless hole early the next morning. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
In fact, they had arrived at the village the night before. After eating a meal, I fell asleep. Early in the morning, after breakfast, I came here.
Now it seems, everyone is in good spirits.
If it weren't for the tattered clothes on their bodies and the marks of execution on their exposed skin, this would be a group of capable guards.
Among these people, most of them are third-rate masters, and only a few are not in the stream, and there are even a few second-rate masters mixed in.
They lined up in ten rows, looking at the half-grown boy in front of them, who seemed to be only fifteen years old.
"You all deserve to die. As soon as the boy spoke, everyone was frustrated, and there was an indescribable atmosphere that lingered around these people. It seems to be fear, and it seems to be anger.
"Your family, including your wife and children, deserve to die. The boy's second sentence is also a big truth. The fear of the crowd unconsciously turned into despair, and the anger also metamorphosed into murder.
"You may have seen this black hole behind me, it's bottomless. The young man smiled, but his words were very harsh: "If you are all thrown in, you can only occupy a small corner." Even if you add your family, it's far from enough. Don't look at the hole is very small, but there is a hole below, it's very big. ”
The crowd, which had been dead silent, began to stir. Many people began to look at the people around them, exchanging decisive glances with those they knew. There are a few people who are impatient, and they even cry out in a low voice: "Kill him, kill him!"
The sound was small, but it was clearly audible to those present.
Emotions of despair and murderous intent rose and slowly transformed into substance.
"If I were you, I would have listened to two more words before deciding whether to move or not. The young man's voice was still calm, but those present heard the panic.
"Kill him, kill him. No matter how powerful he is, he is just one person. His bodyguards were no more than three. Some shouted quietly but firmly.
"Wait, wait, just two sentences, can't we afford to wait?" More people have not yet been overwhelmed by fear and murderous intent to the last bit of reason.
"When you got together, you had two meals. It's hearty, isn't it?" The boy even smacked his lips when he said this, "Do you know how much these two meals cost?"
Then, without waiting for the dead to come to their senses, the young man raised a finger: "One million taels, a whole million taels!"
"Do you need to spend this money if you want to kill you? This is the most expensive poison, colorless and odorless, and it takes five days to attack. Moreover, there will be no damage to your force before the attack. ”
All the dead men were stunned. Despair and murderous intent gradually turned into confusion. Seriously, of course, the value of these people is more than a million taels. But it is not easy to earn so much money for the owner. Maybe you will return to your roots in one battle, maybe you won't get it back in three years or two, or maybe you will be destroyed by someone else in one battle, it's all normal.
"Do you know what's underneath this hole?" saw the dead men stir up again. The boy laughed, "I can't afford to build this hole." So, don't be sentimental and think that I built it to kill you. ”
"This is the treasure cave of the Tong Sword Master!" the young man exclaimed.
"Hiss......" A few people who understood this sentence gasped. But more than 90% of the dead did not understand the true meaning of this sentence.
"My father was known as Zhao Bancheng, and he was rich enough to rival the country. He is an old man with outstanding martial arts, and he can be called the top master of the top masters. However, our family's wealth is not as good as that of the Tong Sword Master, and my father's martial arts can't last three moves under the Tong Sword Master. ”
Suddenly, everyone was in an uproar. Even the two or three people who had heard of the prestige of the Tong Sword Master a hundred years ago were stunned.
"All you have to do is dig out the treasure in the hole. As long as you do this, each of you will receive a million taels of silver, and you will take your family and go away from home. Follow me, and everyone will become a confidant and be reused. ”
The great joy filled the minds of these dead men at once, and even the most calm people could not help but show a trace of joy.
"Although the Tong Sword Master has fallen for more than a hundred years, the mechanism of the treasure cave is not vegetarian. Each of you needs to be careful. Also, I repeat. After the treasure is unearthed, everyone who lives is rewarded. Whether one person lives or a hundred people live, the reward for each person is the same, not a single point or a single subtraction. A million silver rewards for personal and family freedom. I can go away, or I can stay and be my confidant. ”
"Don't do cannibalistic stupidity. The weapon is in the hole, and everyone chooses their own weapon. ”
One by one, the dead men entered the cave. Although it has been baptized for more than 100 years, the wooden ladder is still strong and durable. It was full of people hanging under the hole, but there was not a trace of damage.
"Ironwood, it turned out to be Ironwood!" someone who knew the goods couldn't help but exclaim in a low voice. Everyone's spirits were lifted, and they all shouted in their hearts, it turned out to be true, it turned out to be true.
When the last man entered the cave, the entrance to the cave was covered by a heavy iron cover. Then, a boulder slid staggering onto the iron cover, blocking it.
However, out of the way, the wide, discreet vents were retained. There is absolutely no air in the cave.
The young man looked at the boulder, returned to the village with a few guards, entered Fan Tongshan's mansion, and never showed up again.
The entrance to the cave was very deep, and everyone went down more than ten feet before they came into contact with the ground. A few feet further on, a huge stone hall appeared in front of everyone.
Sure enough, this hall was large enough that after a hundred dead soldiers entered, it only occupied a very small area.
In one corner of the hall, a dozen or so huge tallow candles burned silently, illuminating the rows of weapon shelves and the sophisticated weapons on them.
At the beginning, when they saw the sophisticated and handy weapons, a few people rushed up to grab them, for fear that they would fall into the hands of others when it was too late. However, as time went on, these people discovered that almost everyone could easily find the weapon they had at their disposal.
Moreover, as long as you can hold it, each person can hold more than three sets.
In addition, there are enough things like fire folds and rope claws.
There are even more than a hundred treasure room maps. Some of the places above are very clear, but more places are full of shadows, and they are painted as phantoms, which means that they have not been confirmed, but are just speculations.
There is also a lot of water, but there is no food.
This means that the crowd cannot afford to procrastinate below. If a result is not found within a few days, everyone will starve to death. What's more, after five days, everyone will be poisoned to death.
In the middle of the hall, there are several doors. There were seven left, besides the one who had come in.
Among the 100 dead soldiers, there were only four second-rate masters, and each of them took a dozen or twenty people and chose a door to enter.
The rest of the people are all third-rate or even unpopular, they are not familiar with each other, and it is difficult to find the three leaders for a while. In addition, everyone is wearing a black night suit and a mask, and it is difficult to even identify people. So, with only a slight hesitation, they went through one door to the other.
These three gates are the least number of people who enter. The largest one had eleven people entering, and the least one had only seven people.
A Humpty Dumpty man walked in the front.
The passage is very wide, two zhang long, two zhang wide, and two zhang high. But the seven didn't walk side by side, and everyone tried to keep a safe distance from others, but they saw as many 'teammates' as possible.
Although the young man, most likely Zhao Xiaogongzi, had said that cannibalism would not gain any benefit from him, any benefit in this treasure cave would eventually belong to him. He can only get one million taels of silver, and the opportunity to fly away.
However, if you can't keep it, there will be crazy people who will kill you inexplicably. What's more, the ubiquitous danger may make others feel good and take down themselves as human shields or the like, which is still very possible. So, don't get too close to others.
However, inside the treasure cave, danger lurks. If you are far away, you can't see the situation where others touch the mechanism, and it is possible that the mechanism triggered by others will be triggered again by yourself, which is more dangerous.
Although everyone tried to walk as slowly as possible, it didn't take long for them to reach the first mechanism. It was an ordinary-looking mechanism, as long as someone walked by, the stone walls on the left and right would open small holes, and deadly poisonous arrows would be fired from them.
I can't say anything about this level, I can only break through. Be agile, dodge every poison arrow, or knock out the incoming arrows, rush through the passage, and you will survive. Otherwise, it's death.
Of course, if you practice your external skills to the top, become a first-class master, and bounce off the arrows that shoot at your body, you can also pass the test.
However, there are not even second-rate masters here, so let's talk about first-class foreign masters.
The seven people consciously distanced themselves and rushed into the passage one by one. It turned out well, only one unlucky man, when one of the people in front of him dodged the poisoned arrow, his figure shook and appeared in his path.
The unlucky guy didn't get out of the way and bumped into the man with all his might. The man was knocked into the air, but he was in the air and could swing his sword to block the poisoned arrows. The unlucky man failed to avoid the poisoned arrows one after another, and was shot as a hedgehog.
In the end, it is not known whether he was shot or poisoned.
The people who passed this level, looking at their hedgehog-like companions, couldn't tell what it was like.
On the contrary, the person who was knocked away by the unlucky bastard, the first to come to his senses, rushed to the treasure spot, reached out and clicked a few times on the corresponding position on the wall, and a stone cabinet rumbled out.
The man opened the wooden box, tore off the cloth, and took out a short sword, which he pinned to his waist.
The stone cabinet slid back with a bang. The wall in front of them crashed into the ground with a thud, revealing the next passageway.
After walking for a short time, the passage ahead turned into a pool. More than a dozen feet away, the passage becomes a wall, jutting directly into the pool, separating the inside and outside.
This level is not so much for killing the enemy, but as a barrier to prevent the enemy from attacking with poisonous smoke and fire.
The dead soldier who had just obtained the short sword was the first to jump into the pool. Swimming to the wall, he dived. Underneath is an underwater passage that leads to the other side of the wall.
The other five people watched him quietly, and when he disappeared into the underwater passage, no one moved, let alone entered the water.
They just waited quietly.
It didn't take long for a dull thud to come from under the water, and the water receded. One by one, the people went down to the pool—the pool was several feet deep, but there were steps at the edge of the pool, and everyone walked down the steps in silence.
Walking through the passage under the stone wall, everyone saw the person who had swam first. He fell in front of a stone chest, his body twisted, his face hideous, and he bled to death. In his hand, he was holding a jade bottle.
Everyone sighed in unison.
When it comes to exploring, there are always people who are impulsive. This kind of person, Debao has the greatest chance, but the probability of death is also the greatest.
The person in front of him is a typical example.
However, this time, the crowd is not your average treasure hunter. Everyone, as long as they survive, can get a rich reward.
It shouldn't have been so desperate.
"He may want to stay and be the confidant warrior of the Zhao family. Humpty Dumpty said in a hoarse voice.
No one said anything, although everyone knew that he was right.
A small man quietly walked in front of the crowd and was the first to come to the deceased. He took the short sword that the deceased had just gotten and had not yet been heated. He opened the jade bottle again, sniffed it, shook out a pill and took it. Then cover the jade bottle and gently place it on the ground.
The remaining 4 people took the next bottle of pills one by one. The last person to take the medicine was Humpty Dumpty, who left the bottle.
Seeing him do this, almost everyone immediately felt a trace of remorse, and everyone seemed to be secretly complaining that they should have left the bottle and the pills in it.
Humpty Dumpty immediately noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly took out a piece of paper, wrapped a few pills, and handed them to the nearest man in black.
Ma Pole shook his hand, blocked the paper bag, and took the jade bottle: "I'll come by myself." ”
He took out a piece of oiled paper and wrapped a few pills in it, but passed the jade bottle to the rest of the people.
In the end, everyone wrapped a few pills, and the bottle fell into the hands of the little man who took the medicine first.
The stone cabinet slides into the stone wall and becomes part of the passage. The wall in front of the five people fell with a bang, and everyone continued on.
Before you know it, the passage becomes a cylindrical shape and extends upwards. In everyone's heart, there is a trace of uneasiness. The more you walk, the slower your pace becomes.
No one really dared to stop, though. If you don't have anything to eat, you have to be vigilant at all times. In less than a day, everyone's physical strength will be severely reduced. Within two days, it will be difficult to resist a possible crisis.
The only way to do this is to move forward and end it all quickly.
Eventually, the stone wall reappeared.
The little man stepped forward and clicked on the gem wall on the side stone wall. This time, there was no stone cabinet, but an inverted gap appeared, which could only accommodate one person.
Everyone was stunned, Humpty Dumpty seemed to think of something, roared, and rushed towards the little man.
Before the remaining three people could react, the stone wall fell with a bang, and a huge stone ball rolled out.
Before the fat man rushed to the little man, in the inverted gap, a sharp arrow suddenly stretched out, and the little man was about to be pierced into a hedgehog.
Humpty Dumpty was stunned again, and his body couldn't help but slow down. The boulder didn't wait for him, and it rumbled straight down. The passage already has a large angle, and the initial speed of the boulder is very fast.
Humpty Dumpty's face changed drastically, and he chose to turn around and flee.
The four of them ran so much that they couldn't wait for their parents to have two more legs. Finally, as he was about to run up the square passage, a terrible scream came, only half of which was heard. It's Humpty Dumpty who has lost the opportunity.
The remaining three people, I don't know if it was luck, or the fat man used his body to block it, and they all passed the corner. Listen to the loud sound of the stone ball when it is stuck, and look at the blood stains on the stone ball. Everyone who was wheezing turned pale.
Then, there was another loud bang, and the stone ball suddenly sank into the ground. All three fell to the ground, and their bodies were completely devoid.