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cpa300_4; I rushed to the entrance of the cave to see that the mercenary's blasting technique was really not blown, locking the destructive power of the explosives into a small range, blowing up a fairly neat hole. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Looking down, the cave is not deep, only two or three meters at most. There is a flight of stairs further ahead, and only one corner of the stairs can be seen due to the view.

Merry walked up to me unhurriedly, glanced down, pointed his finger and asked, "What's that?"

I shone my flashlight in the direction he was pointing, and underneath the cement block, something reflected the sheen of metal. But only one corner can be seen, and it is impossible to determine what it is.

"What else are you looking at, hurry up!" Bogang urged.

The mercenary also said, "Wait a little longer for these strange snakes to wake up, and it will be troublesome." ”

Professor Zhang was still more rational and asked, "Little brother, is there a problem?"

I can't say it well, but tell me directly that this place is not simple, so many white bones, and the strange snake that lives in the spine, there must be some kind of purpose. It is a bit reckless to go down blindly, and there is a price to pay for taking risks.

"I'll go down and have a look. "It's the safest way to do it.

Safe for the time being, and still having time, I took out the blazing oil lamp from my backpack. This is one of the pieces of equipment that the old god stick gave me.

The oil lamp is made of bronze and is very heavy. The appearance is a few years old, and the lamp body has a layer of slurry, which is the result of long-term play.

As soon as I took out the oil lamp, Professor Zhang's eyes straightened. He is engaged in archaeological research, so he naturally knows the value of this oil lamp.

The name of the Fierce Fire Oil Lamp sounds very powerful, but it is actually a half-naked woman, holding a wick in both hands, surrounded by a windproof cover. Such a beautiful thing is indeed a must-have for tomb robbers.

Ancient tombs are sealed for long periods of time, which may lack oxygen and produce toxic gases such as carbon monoxide. If a man trespasses, he will surely die.

After many of their peers died, the tomb robbers concluded their own rules and found that before entering the tomb, they had to use living creatures to find out if the air in the tomb could breathe. All sorts of small living creatures were thrown into the tombs, chickens, ducks and even dogs.

After a period of experience, the tomb robber found that the living creatures were not necessarily safe, and some of the living creatures would arouse the resentment of the undead in the tomb, or touch the mechanism in the tomb. The fierce fire oil lamp came into being!

According to the old god, this fierce fire oil lamp came from a family of tomb robbers who had been secretly inherited for a long time, and for some special reasons, this fierce fire oil lamp came into the hands of Task Force Zero. The old god stick believed that these old objects had special powers and could shelter their owners, so they were in my hands again.

Professor Zhang's eyes on the oil lamp showed that this thing was really valuable, so I pretended to light the oil lamp very casually and put it down with a thin steel wire.

The fierce fire oil lamp reached the bottom, and the fire flickered a few times before returning to normal, and the color of the flame was not abnormal.

This was a bit of a surprise to me, as the wick and polish were made of a special material, and the slightest change in the composition of the air would trigger a reaction. In my imagination, the wick would turn an eerie green, or even a terrifying red.

I was mentally prepared for nothing! There is only one explanation for this, the bottom is not completely sealed, there is a passage connected to the outside world, and there is no poisonous gas in the air circulation.

Bo Gang asked, "Can you go down now?"

The mercenary also said: "The strange snake is about to wake up, we still have a little explosives, do you want to blow it up again?"

"Explosives are used sparingly, and maybe they will be used later. I put away the blazing oil lamp, climbed the edge of the cave, and jumped.

Fell on the cement shard, slanted under his feet, and almost fell.

Seeing that I was fine, Bo Gang and the mercenaries then jumped down, and the three of them helped Professor Zhang down again. No one cared about Merry, and she jumped off herself.

We were in a similar hall, with a downward staircase straight in front of us, winding downward, with no end to the flashlight, and we were expected to go deep underground.

Professor Zhang touched the wall and said, "Something is not right. These rock walls show signs of artificial excavation. It's been a long time!"

"How long?" asked the security guard.

"A hundred years may be a fraction of what time is. Professor Zhang said: "At least a thousand years, how long will it take to measure with an instrument!"

"There used to be a very powerful local civilization in this part of the Yunnan-Burma jungle?" I asked.

Professor Zhang nodded and said, "There used to be a very powerful ancient Dian kingdom in this place, and then it mysteriously disappeared and became a big mystery in the archaeological world. ”

According to documentary records and archaeological discoveries, the Dian Kingdom existed in Yunnan for about 390 years, appearing in the middle of the Warring States period and disappearing in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Sima Qian called it "Yunnan" in the "Historical Records". However, not long after Sima Qian put it into the classics, the Dian Kingdom disappeared, there was no trace, no legend, no one knew where its subjects went, like an eternal mystery, and no one mentioned this splendor in the ancient history of Yunnan.

My nerves are a little nervous at the mention of the Warring States, don't have anything to do with the State of Chu!

After thinking about it, the purpose of Professor Zhang's trip was to find the tomb beast of Chu State, and the nine corpses said that this place must have something to do with Chu State.

I asked tentatively, "Then do you know that the state of Chu has something to do with all this?"

"Chu Guo?" Professor Zhang looked at me in surprise.

Looking at Professor Zhang's expression, I probably got to the point again. I have a bad premonition, maybe it really has something to do with Chu again.

"Historical records say that around 339 BC, the state of Chu wanted to expand its sphere of influence to the southwest, and sent the Chu general Zhuang into Yunnan. The Chu soldiers have been fighting until the area of Kunming now. However, soon after, the Qin state destroyed the Ba and Shu states, Zhuang Ji lost contact with the Chu state, and Zhuang Ji became the king of Dian. This is a generation of Dian kings clearly recorded in historical materials, and it is impossible to verify whether there was a Dian king before him. ”

Sure enough, it had something to do with the state of Chu, and the king of Dian turned out to be the general of the state of Chu, so the scope of his rule at that time could be called the second state of Chu. After that the country disappeared, and there must have been a conspiracy in between!

Bo Gang waited on the side for a while, and quickly lost his patience. He took the initiative to say, "Why don't you talk first, I'll go down and have a look first." ”

"Let's go together!" It turned out to be related to the state of Chu, so it must be very dangerous down there, and if you go down alone, you are looking for death.

"You'd better take a look at this first. Merry bent down to pull something out of the pile of rubble. It's the metal object we saw earlier, it's a round object.

I glanced at it, and with a chuckle, Merry was holding a bronze mirror that was a little distorted by the explosion. In other words, the mirror was previously under the cement that sealed the hole.

The ancients believed that mirrors could reflect human figures and had peculiar effects. It can illuminate the soul of people, and this bronze ancient mirror has the effect of warding off evil spirits. Hanging at the entrance of the cave, the purpose is obvious, it is to suppress something inside.

"You haven't looked over here. Merry turned the mirror around.

There was a patina on the back of the mirror, but there were a few words that were so clear that I immediately recognized the top two words - pardon!

These are the two most commonly used words in Taoist talismans, and this ancient mirror is still a treasure of Taoism. Maybe it still has a magical effect, but unfortunately it has been damaged.

We inadvertently broke a seal, hoping not to open Pandora's box.

"Questions?" asked Professor Zhang.

"It's all right! "I wanted to get the damaged bronze mirror out of the way, not wanting to attract the attention of others.

Teacher Zhang took it from my hand, glanced at it and said, "It's only a hundred years old, and it can barely be regarded as an antiquity, and it doesn't have much bleak collection value." "The master is not much interested in things that are less than twice his age.

The bronze mirror is not contemporaneous with the cave, and the hundred years of time suggest that it may have been placed by the treasure-hiding people, who left the bronze mirror when they sealed the cave with cement.

"What do you think this mirror is for?" I asked Merry tentatively.

"Actually, you already have the answer!" Merry sneered in my ear, "There is not only treasure down here, but also something particularly terrifying, perhaps awakened from a deep sleep." ”