Chapter 7: Treasure Hunting
There was a candlelight in the dark cave, and the candlelight was very gentle but extraordinarily bright, illuminating a radius of dozens of feet.
Jin Ning looked at the dilapidated chests and rotten weapons in the cave, and his expression was extremely disappointed. Li Xuanji had a knowing expression and was not surprised.
Originally, the two of them saw from the animal skin map that there was a hidden cave in this place, which should be a special place for burial goods. Jin Ning pulled Li Xuanji with great interest to find the fantasy treasure cave where the gold shines, but he didn't expect to see such a dilapidated scene when he entered the cave.
I didn't see the fantasy of gold everywhere and beautiful jade like mountains, and I didn't see the fantasy heirloom magic soldiers and magic weapons that reached the sky, and only a broken chest, a broken mantle and a weapon that had been rusted and rotted were left on the ground, and it was the kind of standard weapon used by soldiers.
"My treasure of gold and silver...... My magic weapon......" Jin Ning said sadly as he kicked and smashed a wooden box.
"You don't think it's so good. Look at these things that have rotted into ashes, this ancient tomb ruins have a history of more than 5,000 years even if they are not 10,000 years old, although they are guarded by the dangerous insect tide before, but it is just to stop ordinary people, and there must be many capable people who have a way to come in and patronize it. With such a long history, if this place was really full of gold and silver treasures, it would have been stolen by the ancients long ago. Didn't you hear from people outside that they had found a lot of broken weapons inside? I think it meant here, didn't they get any precious treasures?"
"Why didn't you say it earlier if you knew it?" Jin Ning looked at Li Xuanji hatefully, this person was definitely here to see his own jokes.
"I don't know your temper yet, I won't give up until I don't see the Yellow River, how can you be willing? I don't understand why you are so keen to find gold, silver and jewelry. It seems that your Jin family can also be described as rich in the secular world. As the genius eldest lady of the Jin family, how could you be short of money and other things outside your body?"
"Where do I care about gold and silver jewelry? That's what the laity think. I just like to feel the joy of finding the treasure, and I feel a sense of accomplishment when I look at the mountains of gold and silver jewelry!" Jin Ning crossed his waist, his face full of excitement, and held his chest high.
“......”
Li Xuanji was speechless about Jin Ning's fanaticism. Since he became an orphan, he has been brought into the Qingzhumen to practice, and he has never cared about money or anything like that, so he doesn't feel anything about these things outside his body at all now.
Looking at the unwilling Jin Ning, Li Xuanji smiled, squatted down, inserted his fingers into a stone crack under his feet, felt out a round and flat thing, and threw it to Jin Ning next to him.
"Give you your gold and silver treasures!"
"What?"
Jin Ning saw a bright light fly over, and took it casually. When I opened my palm, I saw that it was a golden coin!
"Cut, it's just a gold coin. Are you a beggar when this girl is?" Jin Ning was about to throw the gold coin back, but then thought, "This means that since there are gold coins left, it means that this was really a treasure cave?"
"yes! I've never denied it. ”
"So this is really the tomb of a big man, so there must be more and more precious treasures?" Jin Ning became excited again.
"I guess so. The treasure drawings are too rudimentary, and the labels are very vague. However, the one who can use such a large cave as a tomb must be a big man. There must be other precious treasures hidden in it. ”
"So what are you waiting for? Look at what's on that map. Let's go on a treasure hunt together!"
Maybe it's because of age.
Li Xuanji and Jin Ning searched for two caves in succession but found nothing, the scene was as dilapidated as the first cave, and even the cave collapsed caused by man.
"Well, it seems that it was a trip for nothing. Not only did I delay the time, but I almost died here, and I didn't get anything. Jin Ning sat on a stone and muttered to herself a little dejected.
"Something is wrong!" Li Xuanji's face became slightly solemn at some point.
"Cut, what's wrong? If you haven't found a treasure, it's wrong? So you're so greedy! You said before that you couldn't find the treasure for granted, and someone had already stolen it. ”
"You stupid woman, I didn't mean that. Didn't you notice that we had been in for so long and had not met a single one! and that so many people had disappeared inside, and that we had not seen a single corpse!"
"It seems to be true. What's going on? Could it be that there are man-eating ghosts in this cave?" Jin Ning was frightened by his own thoughts, and shook his head.
"I don't know, I don't know if there's a ghost, but there's definitely something out of the ordinary. ”
"Don't scare me. You definitely did it on purpose. ”
Jin Ning walked to Li Xuanji's side and pulled his arm and refused to let go, the silent cave made people's hearts furious.
I don't know how far I walked forward, and a faint ray of light appeared in the silent darkness in the distance.
"Is it really a treasure?" Li Xuanji muttered to himself, but his heart became more and more insecure.
The two men cautiously approached the faintly glowing cavern.
The entrance to the cave is small, located above the stone wall. The two of them quietly came to the bottom of the stone wall, glanced at each other, were on guard, and then jumped up lightly.
The caves that come into view are only a few dozen zhang in size, much smaller than those caves where the treasure is hidden. Inside the cave there is no guessed gold and silver treasure and night pearl, but a lantern flower and a sun stone.
The lantern flower is a very peculiar and beautiful flower. The flowers are no more than a foot high, with thick branches and large leaves, and they grow in some abysses or caves and other places, and they are highly poisonous. When the lantern flower reaches adulthood, it will grow a head-sized flower bud, the flower bud is light and can emit a bright light, just like a lantern, and the flower blooms all year round. In the dark, many animals that like bright light will involuntarily approach it, and if they touch it a little, they will be poisoned by its poison, and the blood will seal their throats, and eventually turn into its nourishment. However, there are still many practitioners who like these exotic flowers and plants, and they are specially kept indoors for lighting.
The Sun Stone is a type of ore that is often associated with Spirit Ore, and it can emit a bright light like the sun for hundreds of years after it is dug up, and then it will gradually turn into an ordinary stone. Although the sunstone is very rare, it is not expensive, and many women like to use a little sunstone with gemstones to create dazzling jewelry, which appears at some dinner parties, which can attract people's attention the most.
However, the lantern flowers and sun stones that Li Xuanji saw here made his face change greatly.
The lantern flower was not grown in a grotto, but in a special pot, and the walnut-sized sunstone was clearly set into a quaint walking stick, and there were several extinguished torches on the ground.
"Who threw away such a cherished lantern flower and such a large sun stone here? It's really a loser! If these two things were to be sold outside, each would be worth at least a thousand taels of gold. Jin Ning was excited to see two things, and was about to take them, but was grabbed by Li Xuanji next to him.
"Look at it. Jin Ning was about to ask, but when he saw Li Xuanji looking at the top of the cave with a pale face, he couldn't help but look up. This look made Jin Ning shocked.
"Ah......" Before Jin Ning's cry could be shouted, Li Xuanji's palm had already covered his mouth. However, Jin Ning's undulating chest and round eyes could see how frightened she was.
Under the light of lantern flowers and sun stones, there are more than 100 silkworm cocoon-like things hanging upside down on the roof of the cave that is no more than ten feet high.
The cocoons are made of white filaments and are hung upside down on the top of the cave like the fruit of a tree. Each cocoon is encased in an object, and on closer inspection, it is in the shape of a human being. Some of the cocoons were soaked with bright red blood. The lantern flower and the sunstone were probably brought in by these hapless intruders.
"This ...... This is ......," Jin Ning said in a trembling voice in horror.
"Cave ghost spider!" Li Xuanji replied in a low voice.
"What is a cave spider?"
"A giant spider that lives in caves and caves. Larger than a cow, it is extremely dangerous! It specializes in preying on large animals that have accidentally broken into caves, biting prey with its fangs and anesthetizing it. The prey is then rolled up with silk, which is more tenacious than the hardest, and carried back to the nest, where it hangs upside down on the roof of the cave as reserve food. The most important thing is that the cave ghost spider is a very strong spirit beast! Don't say anything about the cultivators of the Spirit Realm or the True Martial Realm, even the cultivators of the Manifestation Realm are rarely able to escape its magic web. ”
The more Jin Ning listened, the more pale her face became, and she looked at the white cocoons on the top of the cave in fear.
"How can there be such a thing in this ancient tomb? It doesn't seem to be marked on the map at all!"
"Maybe it was a later move-in. It may also be a trick played by the person who drew the map, fearing that the map would fall into the hands of outsiders, so he hid a trap. Regardless, encountering cave spiders is a big problem. ”
"Then let's get out of here. Don't wait for it to come back, it's really over. Jin Ning pulled Li Xuanji back and didn't want to linger for a moment longer.
"I'm afraid I won't be able to leave. Li Xuanji was about to get out of the hole, but his body was shocked.
The narrow hole had somehow been blocked by a huge object......