Chapter 48: The Xuanwu Tomb
When I looked back, there was nothing, and the whole burial chamber was dead silent. As we pushed open one door after another, there were more and more coffins and tripods inside. Wei Feng picked up the map and compared it to the tomb, only to find that if the entire tomb was built in the shape of a turtle.
Then our current position is exactly in the center of the turtle shell, and the tripod here has reached six legs, if it is not for the faint sight of the gold flag engraved inside. I didn't want to stay in this kind of place for a minute, and Lin Qi suddenly stopped at this time.
Looking back at Wei Feng and said, "General, do you feel as if something is staring at us?" Hearing Lin Qi say this, Mrs. Zhou and Tan Mengqiang also agreed, Wei Feng stopped and said, "Indeed, I feel this way too." Especially the coffin and tripod here, why do you want to tie the tripod to the coffin. And why is this burial chamber tortoise-shaped?"
Tan Mengqiang thought for a while, gasped and said, "Big brother, I don't know if I should say the following words." Wei Feng replied: "It's all here, what else should I not say." Tell me everything you know."
Tan Mengqiang recalled: "After I took the map given to me by the Golden Flag, I felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't find anything wrong. When I heard my eldest brother say that this tomb is shaped like a turtle, I remembered a legend."
He walked over with a torch and lit the lights around the tomb, and it was then that we realized that the entire floor tile was completely made of turtle shells. Hurriedly asked, "What legend?" Tan Mengqiang said
"This tomb is a Xuanwu tomb, and Xuanwu is one of the four sacred beasts. Sex likes water and has the longest life. Therefore, there must be a thousand-year-old Xuanwu trapped in this tomb. And those tripods must contain the blood of the living.
The position of each tripod must also be placed according to the position of Qimen Dunjia, and the coffin corresponding to the tripod is explained. The people inside must never be reborn, and the best thing about the Xuanwu Tomb is that there is no mechanism. But the worst thing is this, because the owner of the tomb has no intention of letting the people who came in here leave alive, so ......".
He didn't continue, but I understood what he was trying to say. Maybe we shouldn't have been here at all, but we're halfway there. It was impossible to go back if I wanted to, so I just kept going. Then the four of us followed the marker and continued on our way, and we didn't come across anything like a trap along the way.
The only mechanism is probably this labyrinthine hole, and while Wei Feng is studying what is painted on the wall, "General Beware". When I heard this, I looked back, only to see that Mrs. Zhou and Lin Qi had already fought with the python in front of me. The snake's waist was four feet thick. It was covered in fiery red scales, and it had something like a rhinoceros horn growing on its head.
Tan Mengqiang recognized at a glance that this was the so-called corpse control snake, but this should be at the level of the snake king. Lin Qi's iron spear stabbed the snake like a wall, and it had no effect at all. Wei Feng hurriedly threw the Xuanyuan sword in his hand over and said, "Mrs. Zhou takes the sword."
Mrs. Zhou threw away the sword that had been cut out of the gap in her hand, and slashed at the snake king at once. Like a knife cutting tofu, the snake eats pain and is animalistic. rushed towards Zhou Tai desperately, seemingly wanting to swallow him directly.
Lin Qi used all his strength to nail the most vulnerable place on the snake's tail with the tip of the spear, and Zhou Taiyi was optimistic about the opportunity. jumped onto the head of the snake, and the snake desperately wanted to throw Mrs. Zhou down.
But Mrs. Zhou just grabbed the horn of the snake, and then stabbed the snake head with a sword in one hand, and the snake king fell directly to the ground and did not move. Zhou Tai slashed twice with the Xuanyuan sword to make sure the snake was dead.
Only then did he respectfully return the sword to Wei Feng, and our group bypassed the dead snake and walked forward. Finally, he found the golden flag in an ear room, and lay down with the five people who came with him. However, several people have passed out at the moment.
And the foot of this aural has become eight, and there are eight bronze coffins around it. Wei Feng squatted on the ground and was about to wake up Jin Qi when he found that there was actually a blood-red line on the ground, in fact, there was a blood-red line in each ear chamber.
It's just that we didn't pay attention at the time, and after waking up Jin Qi, he looked at me and said, "General, why are you here?" Then he said why he passed out here, and as for the two corpses in the cave, they were indeed touching Captain Jin.
It's just that the two of them disappeared suddenly, and then Jin Qi took out a real map of the tomb. It marked some of the places they had been, and now there was a clue. Anyway, they were in a hurry to go to the doctor, and then Jin Qi told me about their speculations and conjectures.
We looked at the tripod and the coffin in front of us, walked out of this ear chamber again, followed the red line on the ground, and walked forward against the map, but when we reached the end of the red line, there was suddenly no way. We took a closer look at the wall in front of us and touched it with our hands. Knocked again, empty. The main burial chamber must have been behind this wall, and the golden banner looked around.
Then a few people began to look for the mechanism inch by inch, only to hear the click. I don't know where I ran into it, but the stone wall in front of me suddenly made a loud noise and retreated to both sides. Behind the wall is indeed the main burial chamber, in which a nine-legged dome is placed in the center. There are quite a few stone statues standing on either side, but strangely enough, there is only one coffin in this burial chamber.
And the whole coffin, if I'm not mistaken, should be made of jade, how much jade does this big coffin cost. Seeing this, I was thinking, if the conditions allowed, I really would. Send my thousands of elites and let them transport this coffin out for me.
But this is just a thought, after all, tomb robbing is not very glamorous in the first place. If the world knows about it again, then I will be finished, just as we are close to the jade coffin. The dozens of stone statues around us seemed to move towards us as if they were alive, and if I had been a few days ago, my first thought would have been to run.
But now Lao Tzu doesn't care what you are, pull out the Xuanyuan sword and go up to cut it. Then he said, "What are you doing in a daze?" A few people copied each other, and everyone dared to kill them, not to mention these broken stone statues. I didn't want to use this to scare Lao Tzu, so I cut down a lot of stone statues for a while.
The stone statues looked at each other and then retreated, as if they were afraid of the Xuanyuan Sword in my hand. Also, the ancient artifact Xuanyuan Sword is the nemesis of all evil things. I threw the sword to Zhou Taidao, "I'll leave the rest to you." I saw that Mrs. Zhou took the Xuanyuan sword and began to chase and chop the stone statue, just like a person who was about to touch porcelain suddenly met a driver who did not want to die.
Wei Feng looked at the words engraved on the jade coffin and asked, "Which of you can see and understand what is written on it?" For a while, several people shook their heads, seeing that it should be engraved with dark script. I'm afraid that only a dead person can read it, and that's when I noticed that there were murals on both walls.
There were some strange birds and beasts carved on it, and several people had already opened the coffin at this time. Then several people screamed and took a few steps back, because there was a dead man lying in the coffin. What is terrible about a dead man lying down after a few people who have also come through strong winds and waves? What is terrible is the turtle under the dead man, and the turtle is the size of a van.
It's just that four feet were chained to the coffin, and only one head was left outside to watch a few people. To be precise, the turtle is still alive. According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Xuanwu is a spiritual creature composed of a turtle and a snake. The original meaning of Xuanwu is Xuanwu, and martial arts and underworld are interconnected in ancient texts. Wu is the consciousness of black, and Yin is the consciousness of yin.
Xuan Ming was originally a description of turtle divination, which is usually manifested in the form of divination. Therefore, the earliest Xuanwu was a tortoise, and then it developed into a divine beast in people's hearts.
However, the owner of this tomb took so much trouble to build such a strange-shaped tomb, and caught a thousand-year-old Xuanwu and lay on it after his death. Could it be that he wants to become an immortal, but obviously there is no detailed record of this in the jade coffin. I stopped Mrs. Zhou's desire to slash Xuanwu with the Xuanyuan Sword, and I have lived for a thousand years.
And it didn't offend you, what did you kill it for, everything that is a thousand years old must have spirituality. Wei Feng just ordered them to take the contents of the jade coffin away, and the turtle should not be killed. Then a few of us looted the tomb and left. As for the Xuanwu, let it fend for itself, and it was already early the next morning after our group left the ancient tomb. In other words, we spent the whole night in the cemetery, and when we parted, I shouted the golden flag alone, and said, "Don't let them tell me who I am."
Jin Qi nodded in understanding, and then made another killing gesture. In his opinion, there is nothing better than a dead man to keep a secret, not to mention that only two of these people are trustworthy to him, and it doesn't matter if the remaining three want to be or not.
Wei Feng naturally understood the gesture he made, but he didn't dissuade him. Then he returned to Linyi City and entered the city. Ma Huayun found me, "General, we don't have a few days left for grain and grass."
Wei Feng was puzzled, "Didn't I ask you to go to Jufu?" Ma Huayun Dao, I sent someone yesterday, but they said that the shopkeeper was not there, and they couldn't make a decision. So I remembered that Tan Mengqiang, this kid, was dragged to the tomb by himself yesterday.
Then he directly gave Tan Mengqiang a letter and asked him to hurry up and send the food hoarded in Jufu to the barracks. By the way, buy more grain and grass, and don't worry about money. Anyway, I already have four cities now, and then I repaired the book to Bai Yi in Wind Dance City.
Let him find someone to escort some grain and grass over, Linyi City is now equivalent to a turnover station between various cities. Therefore, relatively speaking, it is naturally relatively prosperous, and for a while, grain and grass were transported from Xudu City and Yingdu City to Linyi City.
After Wei Feng, Ma Huayun and Zhou Mingyang discussed, it was decided to let Hong Zhentian take charge of Xu Ducheng. Li Jin and Qian Qi were stationed in the shadow capital. Originally, he planned to let Hong Zhentian take over the Shadow Capital City, but after Hong Zhentian killed the general Zhang Hu and his subordinates in the Shadow Capital City. The reputation is really not good.