Chapter 48: The Sinking Cave
I looked at the empty burial chamber.
The coffin was about thirty or forty meters in front of us, but it was clear that we were still in such a large open space in the middle of the coffin.
The tomb was built underground, and such a huge project left such a large blank space, no matter how you look at it, you feel that there is a problem.
"Wait, don't go over yet."
I grabbed Cui Hao and dragged him to my side.
"Look, how can there be nothing in such a large open space in front of you? If this were your tomb, wouldn't you set up a trap here? ”
Cui Hao was stunned by my question, and muttered after a moment.
"It seems to make some sense."
Cui Hao looked left and right, picked up a stone on the ground, and smashed it against the ground in front of him.
There was a loud bang.
A hole in a radius of one meter suddenly appeared at the foothold of the stone, and the stone leaked directly.
After three seconds, the hole was sealed again, and it quickly disappeared without a trace.
“……”
Looking at the scene in front of him, Cui Hao was dumbfounded.
He took a few steps back in horror and stood behind me.
"I'll go, little man. If you go down, you won't have to carry this thing and mix dumplings, this thing is too scary, right? ”
I nodded and waved at him.
"Anyway, be careful, there must be more than one mechanism in front of this. If you accidentally fall down, you will definitely have no bones left. ”
Cui Hao couldn't help but shudder, looked around and picked up a few more gravels.
"Try again, I don't believe there is no safe place in this place?"
Cui Hao didn't believe in evil, so he picked up those stones and smashed them at the ground in front of him.
The results were unsurprising.
There are hollows everywhere in front of us.
The stones smashed on it, and not a single one of them could stay on the ground, and all of them leaked down through the holes in the ground.
Just for a moment.
The stones were gone.
Cui Hao opened his mouth wide, dumbfounded, and looked down in disbelief.
I grabbed him by the arm and shook my head at him.
"It's useless, don't look for it again. No matter how many rocks you find, it's useless to throw them over, and we won't be able to find a safe way out. ”
I pointed to the empty ground.
"You see, you've lost so much, but you haven't been able to locate the exact path, and when you're done throwing away the rocks here, I don't think we can find it."
Cui Hao was full of anxiety, rubbing his hands and asking me.
"What then? Are we just staying here, watching and not being able to get by? ”
I shook my head.
I found that several tombs under the stele of this coffin are quite interesting.
I've made a brief summary of the previous tombs.
"Cui Hao, do you remember those tombs we went to a few times ago? Although there are chain bridges, icy underground palaces, lamas and monks, strange creatures and so on. But they all have the same thing, and they all have one very important point, that is, any door to the catacomb can be opened. ”
Cui Hao nodded at what I said, and quickly remembered the green dragon den we had encountered underground before.
"Yes, I still remember the seven-star green dragon lair, where the mechanism can indeed be activated, what do you mean by that?"
I gestured to the clearing in front of me.
"Most people set up these traps to keep the tomb robbers from entering. But this place is different, have you noticed that they seem to be inviting you in. It's also not accurate, or that these places are luring us in and trying to make us one of them. ”
I remembered the underworld and the heavenly palace at that time.
Those terracotta figurines and monsters we encounter below, as well as living figurines possessed by spiders.
None of them are telling us that if these things are attached to our bodies, they will leave us completely underground and become part of them.
Other than that, the same goes for that Green Dragon Cave.
As long as the opening conditions can be met at the same time, then you can enter the door, and even we have obtained the treasure.
I shook the Shang Fang sword in my hand.
"You see, I don't think this place is as weird as we thought, and although there are mechanisms here, there must be a way out. At first, I thought that this place must have been the tomb of some emperor for himself, but now I don't think so. ”
When a tomb is set up for oneself, eight stone tablets are erected for oneself.
Even if one's relatives are included, then the tombs of these relatives should be buried elsewhere and cannot be buried with the emperor.
That's why this place looks weird.
If you look at it in another way, if this place is set up specifically for the palace after the emperor's death, and you want to set up an underground kingdom for the emperor.
And not just a tomb for him, then everything makes sense.
The palace underneath the ground, the study at the back, the long tunnel behind it, and the heavenly palace and the underworld that appear inside.
There are also the monks we met before, the heavenly coffin hanging on the top, the strange parasites we encountered later, and the Qinglong Stone Cave underground.
None of this is intended to convey the same message to us.
This place has Vermilion Bird Xuanwu, Green Dragon and White Tiger.
There is even the emperor's dormitory, the heavenly palace and the earthly mansion.
It doesn't look like a tomb, but rather like a place for the emperor to enjoy himself after death.
I looked at the two huge coffins in front of me.
This tomb must have its own meaning, and it is unknown what exactly is buried in it.
But we'll definitely be able to crack the mechanism here and open the coffin in the back.
Because the emperor who set us up here wants to invite us to be one of them, not to prevent us from entering the depths of here.
Hearing my analysis before and after, Cui Hao also felt quite reasonable.
He looked at me and nodded.
"That's right, but it really makes some sense. So what do you think we're going to do next? ”
I pointed ahead and said to him.
"Since the ground can't be walked, let's think about it and see if we can walk on the wall."
I went to the stone wall next to it, reached out and patted the wall.
"If we could climb over this wall, we wouldn't have to walk down the passage at all, and we wouldn't touch the mechanism on the ground."
Cui Hao's eyes suddenly lit up.
He slapped his head and snorted softly.
"Frog at the bottom of the well, I didn't even think of that."
After saying that, he immediately turned around and carefully touched the surrounding stone caves.
"It's not a good place, the walls are too solid, it's all hard rock, and it's a bit hard to dig holes in it."
I nodded and pointed behind me.
"But if this is a place where you can't get through, then how did the person who was locked up in the crack just now, how did he get there? According to this guy, he wasn't locked in the crevice in the stone in the same grave we just had, so he must have passed through this place. ”
As soon as these words came out, Cui Hao suddenly became interested.
"When you say that, I think it's really possible, and it's not so difficult and complicated to get through this place."
As he spoke, he smiled and looked ahead, and quickly pulled out ropes and soul settling nails from his body, and even a few hooks.
"Little Manye, you wait by the side for a while. I'll see if there's any room for hands and feet on this wall, and since you've said so, I'm going to have to get the two of us over today. ”
He pulled out a chisel and began smashing it down the wall.
It seems that he wants to smash the nail in his hand into the wall.
I don't have many illusions about that.
Looking at the hard walls, I suddenly thought that maybe I was wrong.
"Isn't it that we are not walking on the wall, but still letting us walk on the ground?"
I looked carefully at the ground in front of me, thought for a moment, and took out Shang Fang's sword from my body.
"Knock on the edge and maybe find a safe spot."
Thinking of this, I immediately walked to the left and walked from left to right.
I knocked down on the ground one by one, carefully judging each position.
As I moved, new openings appeared.
Almost all the way around, I didn't find any safe path.
Everywhere I struck, there were huge round holes.
Choi Ho was nailing nails there.
Saw me pounding the ground here until I got to the far right.
"Have you found a way through?"
I shook my head helplessly, pointed to the ground and replied.
"No, nothing was found. It's just a row of long, circular holes, and there is no safe passage at all. ”
Cui Hao muttered.
"Strange, do you mean let's walk the edge of the round hole? But in that case, why did the mechanism be triggered when it was knocked on just now? ”
His words suddenly made me feel a sudden realization.
"Perhaps, I misjudged before."
I immediately took out the Shang Fang sword again and continued to hammer around.
This time, I used my sword to carve scratches into the ground before each strike.
Draw a circle around the exposed part of the round hole and wrap the round hole in it.
Then I would tap around the hole, looking for a safe place to stay.
I thought I was on the right track, and I was sure to find my way forward this time.
But I didn't expect that.
I banged for a long time, and almost smashed the entire tile again.
But even so, there is still no right path.
Even around the circle, even if it is against the front of the inside, there is no safe place to stay.
"What's going on? Is it really a dead end? I was all wrong about my previous judgments? ”
I stared incredulously at the circular hollows in the ground, unable to believe that I had made a wrong judgment.
It seems that if you want to pass through this place, do you really have to walk through the wall?