Chapter 122: The Land of Bones
Xie Zhenliang led the way in front and led everyone through one stone chamber after another.
It was getting closer and closer to the mausoleum of the First Emperor in the center of the labyrinth, and everyone felt a little nervous, and no one spoke, just tightly crumbled in the back.
Ye Feng looked up at the back of his second brother Xie Zhenliang, who was walking in front, and suddenly had a very strange feeling.
He and Xia Xuan, Xie Zhenliang and Zhang Fatzi, the four of them have been friends since childhood, have a deep friendship, and they are also married to Jin Lan, and they are very familiar with each other.
Among them, the eldest brother Xia Xuan is scheming, always looking preoccupied, the third fat man has a cheerful personality, and he is not serious all day long, but he also loves to cause trouble.
And the second Xie Zhenliang, although he is more introverted and usually a little taciturn, he is also a pure heart, and he has never talked about anything and has nothing to hide.
However, this time, Ye Feng felt that he seemed to be hiding something from everyone.
Looking at the way he led the way in front, there was no nervousness of other people, and he walked unhurriedly, looking confident.
He was so familiar with these stone chambers here and the route he was traveling, and he looked very familiar with it, Ye Feng naturally would never believe that he had been here before, so the only explanation was that he must have calculated countless times about the strange characters and symbols before, and he was already familiar with it.
However, he had clearly told everyone just now that he didn't know what these strange symbols were calculating, and it was only after coming to the labyrinth that he found that it was secretly in line with what those symbols were calculating.
So why did he have to study these strange text symbols repeatedly?
By the way, he also said that the meaning of these words and symbols was all taught to him by his father, the university scholar Xie Jin.
Xie Jin, known as the world's first genius, is able to recognize these strange text symbols, and even can deduce the exact time of the occurrence of the Seven Stars Alignment, which is not surprising.
It's just that Zhang Fatzi silently wrote these strange text symbols to Xie Zhenliang, which happened after they came out of the secret cave of Huashan.
Since then, Xie Zhenliang and everyone have been together, and they have not been separated, and Ye Feng has never seen him tinkering with these text symbols, so Xie Zhenliang has repeatedly studied these strange text symbols and is familiar with the mysteries in them, which should have happened before Huashan.
However, at that time, where did he and his father Xie Jin learn about these words and symbols?
Moreover, Xie Zhenliang said just now that he received a letter from his father in Xi'an City, and learned the specific time when the vision of the Seven Stars Alignment occurred.
Is it really such a coincidence?
Since they got the guidance of Master Ning Ran Reform in the Shaolin Temple, a path straight to Xi'an City, at this time, thousands of miles away in Huazhou, how did Xie Jin, who knew their itinerary? How could the letter he wrote be so accurately delivered to Xie Zhenliang in Xi'an City?
Moreover, is it really just a coincidence that the strange celestial phenomenon of the seven stars mentioned in the family letter has such a significant relationship with the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, the destination of their trip?
Ye Feng felt a little uneasy in his heart, too many coincidences together, it would never be just a coincidence, but more like a chess game that had already been calculated and ordered, and he was just a chess piece in this chess game.
Ye Feng hated this feeling of being manipulated.
Thinking of this, Ye Feng could almost conclude that Xie Zhenliang didn't tell everyone the truth, at least, what he said was not the whole truth, and he was hiding a lot of things.
Looking at Xie Zhenliang's back, Ye Feng's heart suddenly swelled with a feeling that maybe he had never really understood this righteous brother.
He remembered the scene when the four of them burned incense and swore an oath to marry Jin Lan, perhaps compared to that time, they had all changed.
After all, after all these years, they have all grown up.
Just when Ye Feng's thoughts were flying, Xie Zhenliang, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped and said lightly: "It's here." ”
Everyone was stunned, and then began to look at the stone room they were currently in.
This stone room is no different from the ones I passed before, almost identical, but in the center of the stone room, there are no funerary goods, and there are no murals on the surrounding stone walls, which looks empty.
Xie Zhenliang pointed to the stone door in front of him and said, "Behind this, is the road that leads to the center of the labyrinth, that is, the mausoleum of the First Emperor. ”
After this journey, everyone has long been convinced of what Xie Zhenliang said, and since he said so, no one doubted it.
It's just that facing the last stone door in front of them, everyone's hearts feel an inexplicable nervousness, and there is a trace of excitement in it, everyone looks at this stone door quietly, and no one moves.
In the end, it was Zhang Fat who couldn't hold his breath anymore, and was the first to step forward and stretch out his hand to push open the heavy stone door in front of him.
As the stone door was slowly pushed open, looking at the scene in front of them, everyone was stunned.
The room they saw was different from the previous one, the walls of the room were a jet-black color, making the whole room look dark, and the floor seemed to be a little uneven.
Zhang Fatzi leaned into the room with a torch, and the light of the torch illuminated the room, but everyone couldn't help but gasp.
Because under the light of the fire, everyone could see clearly that this uneven ground was not actually the ground at all, but covered with a thick layer of all kinds of mutilated human bones!
The mutilated bones covered the floor of the room, and it was so shocking to look as if you could hear their wails before they died, like hell.
Zhang Fatzi couldn't help but shudder, and said tremblingly: "Where did so many bones come from?
Even Tang Da, who had always been calm, couldn't help but feel a throbbing in the face of such a scene, he settled down, squatted down at the door, carefully observed the broken white bones on the ground, and then raised his head and carefully looked at the entire stone room, and suddenly let out a surprised "puff".
Fat Zhang turned his head and asked, "What, what did you find?"
Tang Da said in a deep voice: "These bones were not transported from other places, but were gathered here before their death and slaughtered in this stone room. ”
Everybody was taken aback.
Tang Da pointed to the bones on the ground and said, "The fractures of these bones are very smooth, and they are clearly cut off by extremely sharp blades. ”
"And you see," he said, standing up and looking at the black-brown walls of the stone chamber, "the walls around this place should not have been of this color, but were stained with the spills of the slaughter of these men
Flesh and blood, over time, will become such a black-brown color. ”
Listening to his words, everyone's faces changed.
There are nearly a thousand corpses here, not to mention that there are nearly a thousand people, and it is not easy to hit so many people in such a small stone room, and it is necessary to slaughter them all, what a cruel scene it must be?
Looking at the scene in front of them, everyone's minds came to mind the scene of these crowded people in this stone chamber being cut by sharp blades, letting out heart-rending screams, and falling in pieces.
Their splashes of crimson flesh stained the entire stone room, making the room reflect an almost eerie scarlet light, and the bloody scene was like the legendary hell of a pool of blood!
Zhang Fatzi was stunned, looked at the bones on the ground in a daze, and muttered, "Who are these people who would be subjected to such an inhumane massacre?"
Tang Da shook his head, signaling that he couldn't guess either.
However, Sun Lao Er, who was on the side, spoke at this time: "They may be the craftsmen who participated in the design and construction of this labyrinth and the mausoleum of the First Emperor." ”
After a pause, he sighed again: "It is recorded in the historical records that after the burial of the First Emperor, these craftsmen were closed in the imperial tomb by the fallen Broken Dragon Stone Gate, and no one could walk out of the mausoleum. Unexpectedly, before the Broken Dragon Stone fell, they were all slaughtered here. ”
Looking at the mountains of white bones in front of him, these were the most famous craftsmen at that time, but they were captured by the First Emperor to build this underground mausoleum for him.
Just from this huge labyrinth and the mysterious mechanism underground, you can imagine what kind of superb skills these skilled craftsmen have, I am afraid that even the skills of the present world can hardly be compared, but unfortunately, they ended up like this, and all of them became martyrs in the tomb of the First Emperor.
If they had survived and their skills had been passed down, perhaps the level of technology would have exceeded what everyone could have imagined.
Ye Feng couldn't help but think very regretfully.
Beyond the bones, at the other end of the chamber, there was a stone platform, on which a portal was open, too far away to see behind the door, but from inside the door there was a bright light.
That should be the passage to the mausoleum of the First Emperor in the center of the labyrinth in Xie Zhenliang's mouth.
It's just that if you want to reach the location of that portal, you must step on the white bones all over the ground, Zhang Fat Man looked down at the white bones on the ground, and couldn't help but hesitate for a while.
Tang Da smiled faintly at this: "What's the matter, scared?"
Zhang Fatzi has always hated others saying that he was cowardly, and when Tang Da was so provoked, his neck stalked, and he reprimanded: "It's just some rotten bones, what's so terrible!"
He seemed to be emboldening himself, and he spoke in a particularly loud voice.
After finishing speaking, he didn't give himself time to hesitate, and immediately stepped back towards the thick white bones on the ground.
There was a sound of white bones shattering under his feet, and Zhang Fatzi turned his head a little proudly, wanting to show off to everyone, and said: "How is it? Who said I was scared?"
But before he could speak, he felt the whole ground under his feet sink slightly, and his face changed in an instant, becoming pale and pale.
Because he understands that he has touched the mechanism!