Section 41 The Strange Gate of the Warring States Tomb is a Cold Ice Array
When Zhang Xianyun stretched out his hand to push me awake, the fire had melted all the ice beside the bronze door, and another tall bronze gate was revealed in front of us. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It has become a habit for me to encounter the bronze tomb door in the underground palace, and the powerful ancient man-made tombs will choose to use bronze as a permanent underground door, so that they can ensure that the underground palace is permanent for ten thousand years. It's just that there are two bronze tomb doors in a row in a dungeon, which is very rare.
The mechanism of the first bronze-eyed tomb door was so powerful, which made me have to be on guard, everyone temporarily avoided the front of the tomb door, and Zhang Xianyun and I approached the tomb door and began to study how to open the door under the light of the fire.
This bronze door has a unicorn engraved on the left side and a tiger on the right, and the carving is very fine, and the pattern is lifelike like in size, which makes people admire. On the left and right sides of the tomb door, there are two sentences written in small seal font: "Resist the Huns and attack the strong Qin, do your best, and die with the country with the lonely army!", and there is an inscription on the top of the bronze door: "The lips are dead and the teeth are cold".
After reading it, I frowned and Zhang Xianyun said: "I have fought the Huns and dealt with the Qin State, it seems that the owner of this tomb is really Li Mu, a famous general of the Zhao State!"
Zhang Xianyun asked suspiciously: "Ah, uncle, how did you see it, was he the only one who fought the Xiongnu and Qin during the Warring States Period?"
I replied, "Yes, he is indeed not the only one who has fought the Xiongnu and Qin, but he is indeed the most famous and the most beautiful one, and he has won more than 100,000 battles." The situation at that time was that Zhao Hao and Lin Xiangru were both dead, and the powerful Lian Po also left Zhao because he was not reused, and in the end, only Li Mu, a heavy minister, was left in Zhao State. In the end, King Zhao fell into the tricks of the Qin people and killed Li Mu, and then the Zhao State was quickly destroyed by the Qin State, which also happened to be the last martyrdom with the country!"
Zhang Xianyun sighed and scolded angrily: "What kind of bullshit is this King Zhao, the only important minister has to be killed, because his stupidity alone has harmed the entire Zhao Kingdom, how did his parents teach him, what a fool!"
I was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and said in surprise: "Yo, Sima Qian also scolded King Zhao's mother when he wrote this history, you have Sima Qian's style!"
Zhang Xianyun smiled and said, "How can there be, uncle, don't make fun of me!"
I looked at the thick ice wall in the burial chamber and suddenly thought of something, so I asked: "Xianyun, you don't think it's strange, this is only the boundary of Shuozhou and not very far north, although the temperature underground is indeed slightly lower than outside, but it will not be below freezing." But why is this Li Mu's tomb so cold, it seems that something is very wrong here!"
A colleague behind him replied, "Captain, you said that there should be a legendary thousand-year-old snow demon hidden in this dungeon, right?
I'm an atheist and don't believe in the existence of any demons in this world, although there are many legends about demons circulating among the people, but I know that those are all hallucinations, in fact, they are just scary people.
But when I heard the word thousand-year-old snow demon in the underground tombs, I couldn't help but shudder, since I saw the various witches inherited by the great wizards, I began to suspect that something might really exist, this world is not as simple as we seem, and there are more mysterious things that we have not yet discovered.
I coughed and said with composure: "I don't know if there are snow demons in this world, but I've heard of Thai ladyboys!" After saying that, everyone laughed happily, this joyful atmosphere also relieved my nervousness, I continued: "Let's see how to open this big bronze door, I don't know if there will be any hidden weapons, everyone should be careful to stay away from the copper door!"
Under my reminder, my colleagues collectively moved away from the bronze door, moved to the corner of the ice cave and stood together, watching us open the bronze door seriously.
I looked at this mighty bronze tomb door seriously, and I didn't dare to touch it casually because I had encountered a hidden weapon before, so I had to stand aside and examine it carefully.
Soon I found some ni dots under the unicorn statue carved from the bronze gate, and the copper ball under the unicorn claws seemed to be independent and not connected to the bronze door. I cautiously reached for it and pressed it, but there was no response. I thought about it, and then I tried to twist the copper ball by spinning it, and turning things on is usually counterclockwise, so I held the copper ball and turned it to the left.
I heard the click of the bronze door, and I immediately jumped to the side, avoiding the front of the bronze door, so as not to shoot out a hidden weapon.
I don't know why, I suddenly realized that my movements were so fast, so fast that I couldn't believe it, even Zhang Xianyun's movements were a few tenths of a second slower than me. Our vigilance is very useful, because before the sound has passed, the mechanism in the bronze door is opened! Countless copper arrows flew out of the newly exposed hole in the bronze door, and shot deep into the ice wall opposite, and the force was shocking.
Then there was a rumbling sound of chains from the stone walls on both sides of the bronze gate, and the copper door was slowly pulled into the wall, revealing a tomb road half a meter thick with ice.
Judging by the thickness of the ice in the tunnel, it is clear that the temperature inside is even lower, because the ice is so thick that it almost blocks the tunnel, leaving only a narrow passage in the middle. With such a thick layer of ice condensed in the tomb, there is no need to worry about what mechanisms will be in the tomb, because such a thick ice will not be able to shoot out any hidden weapons.
We went into the frozen tunnels and crawled through the narrow passages, and after a hundred meters we came to the exit, and after knocking off the ice picks that were blocking our way, we came to another burial chamber.
This burial chamber is more open and brighter than the previous one, and it is unknown how the tomb builder transmitted light into the underground palace, making the burial chamber hundreds of meters underground as bright as day. However, this burial chamber is somewhat different, in the center of the burial chamber there is an open square platform, the tomb passage leading to the main burial chamber is just behind the square platform, and in front of the tomb is blocked by a third bronze ground door that condenses ice.
Zhang Xianyun was just about to walk into the square platform quickly, I immediately grabbed him and said: "Don't, don't step on it!" This square platform reminds me of the gossip copper platform in Jincheng, I don't know what kind of strange formation is placed here, everyone don't mess up!"
Although I explained so carefully and clearly before going to the grave, there were still colleagues who were as bold as cattle, and one of them didn't listen to what I just said, and swaggered directly into the square platform.
Before I could order him to come back, suddenly a violent cold wind blew out of the Sifang Taizhong, and this strange cold wind rotated rapidly, instantly rolling the colleague who had accidentally entered the Sifang Tai into the air and throwing it out.
The colleague lost his center of gravity and screamed and struggled in the air for a few moments before becoming unresponsive, being tossed aside like a puppet by the gale.
Everyone rushed over immediately, and the colleague lay motionless on the ice, his whole body was stiff and his expression was terrifying, as if the whole person was frozen in an instant.
I reached out and touched his clothes, who knew that the clothes were as hard as steel, what a strange array this Nima, even the clothes were frozen.
I didn't know if I could save him, so I immediately asked my colleagues to take alcohol and boil hot water to see if I could thaw him and save this stupid guy who was not afraid of death.
I reprimanded me again, saying, "Before I went down to the grave, I said, don't mess around, and obey the command!" I knew that this would happen, you all saw it, right? If anyone is not afraid of death, even if he is on his own initiative, I will not stop him if he wants to die!"
Everyone looked at me in fear, and they all fell silent, and now they finally knew why I was so cautious.
I suddenly felt that this was a strange circle, every time the members of the cemetery team would have this kind of accident, no matter how you explained and told me before, it seems that all the preparations are useless, there are always people who are not afraid of death and dare to do it. But there is no way to do it, because the archaeology of the tomb is very dangerous, the people in the team often change, the scared people leave, and the curious newcomers rejoin the queue, and there are always a large number of newcomers in the queue every time, and it seems that they can't avoid making this mistake repeatedly.
I have a headache when I think of this, although there are often casualties in our joint archaeological team, but there has never been a situation where a member of our second joint archaeological team has died in the tomb, which is why Director Wu values me, because safety is the most important thing.
Don't die, buddy, this will affect the reputation of our entire archaeological team, if something happens to me, how can I explain to the director!
I don't believe in God, but I also prayed silently in my heart at this time, begging Avalokiteshvara to bless him through this calamity!
With the full rescue of our whole team, the body of the recruited player finally thawed and softened, but he never woke up, no breathing and no heartbeat, and it seemed that he had already frozen to death.
The death of someone naturally brought a lot of fear to the archaeological operation, and after the death of one of the six people, the other five members of the team huddled together in fear, apparently looking forward to leaving and retreating immediately.
This can't work, you have to explore and understand before you come here, the strange illusion set up by this square platform seems to be a bit like the secret technique in the Qimen Dunjia technique.
Zhang Xianyun looked at me who was contemplative, and asked curiously: "Uncle, this seems to be a formation, it is somewhat similar to our Jincheng underground palace, could it be the legendary ice array?"
"Ice Array?", I'll go, what the hell, I asked, "Xianyun, it seems that you know a lot! What is the Ice Array?"
Zhang Xianyun pointed to the thick ice around him and said: "You see that this tomb is full of thick ice, and the temperature is ridiculously low! Uncle you also told me a similar problem, it should be warmer underground, the temperature will not be below 10 degrees, but now the temperature here is at least more than ten degrees below zero, which is too unreasonable!" But just now, everyone saw with their own eyes, and our colleagues were instantly frozen into ice men by the cold wind in the array, so I guess this formation is the ice array, and the cold in the tomb is caused by the extremely cold wind blowing from time to time in this ice array!"
One of the colleagues said: "No, Xianyun, this person walked in and it blew a cold wind, but usually no living creatures come here, how can it keep blowing a cold wind if nothing triggers it, and make the tomb cold?"
Zhang Xianyun didn't answer, obviously what he said still had some truth.
Everyone fell silent and pondered why. At this time, a gust of cold wind flowed gently, and some broken ice chips fell from the top of the tomb, scattering from mid-air towards the square platform.
This is just some small pieces of broken ice, who knew that the square platform could also be perceived, and countless cold winds blew out in an instant, rolling the broken ice on the square platform and spinning wildly.
Because there were several cold winds, which were more violent than just now, it felt like the temperature had dropped several degrees in an instant. The same cold wind swept the ice chips and threw them to the side, blowing ice slag all over us.
Zhang Xianyun patted his clothes and said, "See, anything will blow a cold wind, so this tomb will freeze half a meter thick!"
With my experience, I called on everyone to knock down the ice on both sides of the exit of the tomb to see if there was an inscription on the stone wall to remind the owner of the tomb.
The ice on the tomb wall is very thick, and it hasn't been smashed much for a long time, so it's too laborious.
Suddenly, a colleague asked me, "Captain, do you want to chop it without the sword in your hand, it's much faster!"
Under the reminder of my colleague, I noticed that I was still holding the Demon Slayer Sword given to me by Wen Yuan in my hand, this ancient sword I had never used before, and I didn't know if it was sharp or not.
I remembered that there is a trick called Fairy Scattered Flowers in the swordsmanship, which is actually a crazy slash with a sword, regardless of him, let it out, this ice is so thick that I don't know if I can cut it in.
According to the sword routine, I kicked and swung my sword without hesitation, and finished all the moves in one go!
Then there was an amazing scene, there were countless holes in the ice wall, as if they had been pierced by my demon slaying sword, and then the ice began to fall with a clatter, revealing a neat stone wall!
But unfortunately, there was not a word on the stone wall, so I switched to the other side and chopped it, and there was still not half a word on the wall after the ice fell.
It's troublesome now, there is no hint, how to crack this ice array?
I swung my sword and turned it on the ice as I thought about it, and when I lifted the ice foam, I found a well-preserved corpse in the ice on the ground, and the expression of fear was exactly the same as that of our colleague who had just died.
It seems that someone has been here before, but they failed to break the ice array, and finally froze to death, and then the ice blown by the cold wind was frozen here.
Could it be that a cold ice array has completely separated us here, and we can only go home?