Chapter 106: Under the Nine Tombs
"It's so hard to finally find the real way. Hua Xiangrong sighed, a long sigh of relief, even if she was watching from the side, she was thrilling, worried, for fear of accidents, and afraid that they would speculate on the way of life but the distance between life and death is a wall, how many in this world are more unacceptable and desperate?
Fortunately, what Hua Xiangrong was worried about did not happen, even though there were some small episodes, but in the end the real entrance to the tomb was found.
"Do you want to rest for a while, and then move on?" Mu Peiying looked at the four strong men who were panting, they really had the most effort, from finding and cutting the chain to moving the stone tablet, they also rested for a while, and they were tired at this time. The others were fine, not as strenuous as they were, and had a short period of rest, which wasn't a challenge to them, and a little recovery was pretty much enough.
"Don't, let the expedition team go to explore the way, the strong ones in better condition follow them in front, and then send a few smart ones to cut off the road in the back, they are all here, don't drop the chain, be careful, the Lord of the Heavenly City may move here with any hands and feet, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years." As for the few of us, it would be nice to recover a little bit on the road, and I have a hunch that the road could be quite long. Shangguan Yi rejected Mu Peiying's kindness, and was about to let people set off, and the hearts of those who watched it as if every second was counting.
Xiao He also agreed with his decision next to him, it would be better to rush out of this tomb in one go, who knows if there will be an accident if it is too late? Even if there is no accident in the cemetery, what about the outside? They have been missing here for a long time, and they have no contact with the outside world, he is very uneasy. A country cannot be without a king for a day, and a soldier cannot be without a general for a day, this sentence also applies to mercenary groups. After all, this time, the leaders of the mercenary group at the top of the black list are almost all lost, and even most of their core forces, if someone does something outside, everything will become quite bad, and maybe they will not be able to clean up the situation when they go back later.
"Then let's go, I'm talking ahead, my physical strength, internal strength recovery speed, but the top, everyone knows this, as for you, I don't know, if you start a fight for a while, don't hold back." Linguang decided on the plan of action to set off immediately, and then did not forget to mock others, a very low-end agitation method, but for these mercenaries, it was extremely effective, and they laughed back one by one like doping, full of enthusiasm.
The expedition team was naturally dispatched as soon as possible, and the situation they faced had always been so dangerous, and it was not so simple to take a road that no one else had taken, and to fight wits and courage with the designers of the mechanism with experience and skill? They also wisely chose to recuperate, and at this time they were in full condition, which just came in handy.
Shangguan Yi had a hunch that he was not wrong, this staircase was indeed very long, so long that it made people wonder if they could reach the legendary capital if they could go all the way like this. Along the way, they didn't encounter any danger, but they triggered a lot of traps, and the role of these traps was not to kill the enemy, but to hide secrets.
Yes, hiding secrets, a generation of emperors, the lord of the Megatron Celestial City divided his heart little by little, hid it on this road, hidden behind a thousand strange organs, deliberately hidden but deliberately exposed a little tail, just like a young man's heart, obviously I want to tell you, but the words have changed when they come to my mouth, and the heart has become a daily greeting, and the sorrow between the eyebrows has also brewed into a knot in my heart.
Such a twist is a bit surprising, but it reflects the unusualness of the fourth level from the side.
"Huh, how many pictures are there?" Shangguan Yi rubbed his eyebrows, the expedition team can always find an abnormal place, even if they can't open it, but there are others, the three stinkers are always better than Zhuge Liang, not to mention the same Mu Peiying, her "Smelling Mountains and Rivers" is really easy to find a switch, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as easy. As the mechanisms were cracked, the contents were exposed, and the pictures were handed to them, and the obscure puzzles tested their various knowledge, and the only things that were solved were about the lord of the heavenly city and the owner of the tomb, no longer the kind of legend known to the world, but real life.
For the world, their lives are legends, the collision of two legendary figures, as if they have been creating legends that people look up to, starting from the end of the micro, dominating the world, and all kinds of halos have been added to achieve their myths. But for them, it's just a life full of disasters and hardships, and they are mortals after all.
The Lord of the Heavenly City wrote his memories of the owner of the tomb in various parts of this cemetery, nine false tombs filled with half of his life's splendor, and the last secret tomb contained the coldness of his life, and his warmth, nowhere to be found.
These drawings record the shortcomings of some of the tomb owners, as well as their unpleasantness. Yes, even if they seem to have a good relationship, even enough to entrust their lives to each other, they will still have differences, and they are not small. When I was young, friendship was stronger than gold, love was the most beautiful thing, and the owner of the tomb at that time was a merry boy, who liked to read, was eager to learn martial arts, and was self-motivated, except for a little romance, he was simply the perfect husband. There can't be more girls like him there. The Lord of the Heavenly City was just a rich man who was recuperating and trying his courage, and the two had a good relationship at that time. One day, the lord of the tomb said that he had a girl he liked, but he was afraid that the girl would not like him, and wanted the lord of the city to help him test it, but the lord of the city didn't care too much, but unexpectedly, the lord of the city knew that the girl also liked the lord of the tomb, but there was a strange disease in her family, which was fulfilled by this generation, and she could only live to be sixteen years old, and that year, she was fifteen years old. She begged him not to tell the Lord of the Tomb, but to say that she had something else in her heart.
The Lord of the Heavenly City agreed, but he couldn't match the sensitive heart of the young man, and later, when he was like him, and when he was having an affair with other girls, he was beaten by the drunk Lord of the Tomb, and his nose was blue and his face was swollen. For the first time, he understood that the prodigal son also had a heart, and after he endured his beating, he sat on the roof with wine and drank for a night, and the next day he told the master of the tomb what he knew, including the fact that he used his connections to secretly find a way to save his life to no avail, which was a rare violation of his own principles in his life, and did not keep the promise he made to the girl.
After all the truth is revealed, the cruelty of reality is unacceptable, they love each other but can't stay together, it will end before it begins, and God will make people. The Lord of the Tomb did not personally go to someone to save her, because everything that could be done, the Lord of the Heavenly City had done it, and those scenes that made him misunderstand were just what he did for them as a brother. He and the girl finished her last days, and promised to find someone who loved him to go home, and sent her away with a smile, and she burst into tears. At last, when they rose to prominence and fame, he married a maiden as his dead wife, and promised her things, and the Lord of the Tomb never broke his promise.
Since then, the Tomb Master has become more and more aloof and ruthless, and at some times even whoever it is, seems to be a tool he can use. In the past, he was certainly ruthless, but he was not so terrible, at least he was still very good to those close to him, and he was so terrible at that time that the lords of the heavenly city were afraid of him. Later, when they completed their unification, his mood improved, but he began to feel compassion for others, questioning the decisions of some of the lords of the Heavenly City, and the differences between the two grew bigger and bigger. Later, after a lifetime of fighting horses, he finally couldn't stand it anymore, people were about to die, and their words were good, and they seemed to have returned to their youthful moments, even if it was very short.
Later, no one questioned his decision-making, no one quarreled with him, and no one drank with him, and his lifelong friend left him like this. The Lord of the Heavenly City looked back on the past, but found that the Lord of the Tomb was changing, and how could he not be changing? The higher he stands, the more difficult his mind becomes, and the more suspicious he becomes, sometimes killing people is not because you have done wrong, but I am afraid that you will do wrong. What is the difference between such a monarch and a tyrant? Even if he creates a prosperous era, he is still far from the Ming monarch he longed for when he was young, and it is no wonder that the Lord of the Tomb has all kinds of opposing opinions.
Through the death of his best friend, the lord of the heavenly city also reflected on himself, in this life, he thinks that he is worthy of the people of the world, he still formulated a unified rule after all, so that the world is peaceful; he is worthy of his parents, because they are sorry for him; he is worthy of his friends, even if he violates the principle, but let the girl no longer be sad; he may only feel guilty about his young dreams and lifelong friends, he does not know how to compensate, he can only make a piece of phoenix jade pendant, left in the cemetery, if there is fate, can solve the girl's unsolved disease.
In the end, when they solved the mystery to the last place, they got a question from the Lord of the Heavenly City:
What is it that can not be changed by time?
This question, maybe the Lord of the Heavenly City thought about it for a long time, but it was not the answer he wanted, he hoped that the Heaven of the future would give an answer, even if he no longer existed.
Shangguan Yi pinched the picture, looked up at the huge round platform in front of him, and looked at it from this angle, the layers of bluestone steps spread to the top, and he felt his own insignificance for a while. Cross the round platform to look at the opposite stone wall, there are two lines of words along the outline of the round platform: I take thousands of miles of mountains and rivers as chess, waiting for you to play for thousands of years.
Thousands of miles of mountains and rivers chess!
Mountains and rivers chess: the duel of kings!
This was the final showdown that the Lord of the Heavenly City had prepared for them.
"I didn't expect that the real tomb was hidden in such a deep place. Hua Xiangrong frowned, this time except according to the rules, I'm afraid I can't play any means.
"Is this the final level?" Shangguan Yi muttered, the pomp and circumstance of the game in the previous level was much better than this, if the chess game was on the round table, even if the round table was very large, it was far less than the appearance of the game of generals.
"Back to basics, back to ordinary?" Lin Guang was also a little surprised, according to the design of the Lord of the Heavenly City, it should be more magnificent and imposing.
"Let's take a closer look, there seems to be a small stone tablet there, what can you guess here?" Xiao He shook his head and pointed to the place where the bluestone steps began.
"Let's go, let's see. Shangguan Yi raised his feet and walked to the front, and it was a little strange to erect a monument under the round platform.
"I'm happy if someone can come here. This is the last level, I don't know if you have experienced the game between the general and the general, this time it is a duel between the king and the king, so you can only go to it alone. Don't worry, there's no danger here, as long as you can hold on, you can solve it for as long as you want, if you really need a little help, you can choose to bring a trusted companion to go up, but your companion must come back here before you start solving the problem, this is the same kind reminder as suggesting that you go alone, don't think about it. Linguang read these words word for word, his brow furrowed. What is this? It's foggy, I can't see it.
"It seems that there is an endgame up here, which is not good news, and there seems to be no danger under this stone tablet, but when you go up, if there is more than one person, something will happen. Xiao He pondered the information in these words and analyzed the meaning little by little.
"So, who is on this time?" Hua Xiangrong was actually reluctant to go to Shangguan Yi, and the woman's sixth sense told her that this matter was a bit bad.
"The king is the king, who else is me?" Shangguan Yi pretended to look up at the round platform deeply, looking very forced.
"So, Mr. Qian still wants to be called the king?" Hua Xiangrong sarcastically mocked him disdainfully, if the real princes and nobles still have this ability, how could they be mixed with them?
"Maybe?" Shangguan Yi used a question word, then changed the topic and said, "Why don't you go up with me, help me translate the possible fonts on it, and then come down." ”
Compared to Hua Xiangrong, Shangguan Yi really can't trust the other people present, although he also thinks that the muddy water in this fourth level is not so easy to go, not only to solve the chess game, there may be any impact in the future, but it may really be that no one can solve it except him, he doesn't want to wait for others to rub against the sky, and it is better to go up and rub it himself.
Everyone knew what he meant by this. If the Lord of the Heavenly City is not a prank, he said a kind reminder that if you don't take it to heart, I'm afraid it will end badly. Will the Lord of the Heavenly City lie to them at such a time? The answer is undoubtedly no, then it is best to go up alone, but who makes Shangguan Yi illiterate? Can only bring a tool man to go up, and it is not clear who to choose between the small couple and the outsiders?
At least in the eyes of others, Hua Xiangrong's eyes moved, and he nodded and agreed to Shangguan Yi's request. What she didn't expect was that Shangguan Yi was still wary of Linguang, even now.