17 Dragonstone
Xie Yixiang woke up suddenly, only to find that she was still in the tent, and the scene was terrifying, naturally she had a nightmare. She calmed down, thought back to what she saw in her dream, and couldn't help but say: "With the help of that little Taoist priest that day, although I digested the wisdom left in my mind, I was never able to use it. In the past two days, I have been investigating the mystery of the tomb with the head of the merchant, and all the details have been seen in my eyes, in fact, I already have the answer in my mind, but I don't know it myself, so I dreamed of that scene. ”
At that moment, she hurriedly went to the tent opposite to find Shang Buqi, but saw that Shang Buqi was haggard, and his hair, which was already a little gray, had clearly turned white at this time, and it was piled up on top of his head, as if he had suddenly aged ten years. Seeing that Xie Yixiang was looking for him, he just asked lightly, "What are you calling a ghost just now?"
Xie Yixiang knew that he was troubled by the puzzles in the tomb, so he told him about his dreams, and his face twitched when he heard it. Finally, he slapped his thigh and shouted, "It's not wrong! The mystery must be the nine stone slabs on the top of the tomb!"
So the two of them did according to the experience in Xie Yixiang's dream, and it was exactly the same. When the nine stone slabs on the top of the tomb were covered, the two stepped into the sarcophagus, and the sarcophagus began to sink slowly, without making any sound. Shang Buqi couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Shang has been conceited all his life, but this time he is convinced. The difficulty in saying that this mechanism in the tomb is not complicated at all is that the designer can understand people's hearts and use our blind spots to conceal the mechanism. It's like a real martial arts master, who never relies on the ingenuity of martial arts, and often makes a mediocre move, but it can make the opponent unable to resist, which is the truth. In this way, the little bit of organ information I learned is just a scratch of the surface, and it's far from it!"
Xie Yixiang couldn't help but ask: "It is said that the roots of the Mo family are in this Tianshan Mountain, could the mechanism in this tomb be designed by the Mo family?" Shang Buqi shook his head and sighed: "It's not impossible. The Mo family has always been elusive, and I don't dare to assert it. ”
As he spoke, the sarcophagus had sunk to the ground two or three feet deep, and then it was a little different from what Xie Yixiang saw in his dream. As the sarcophagus sinks deeper and deeper, the four walls of the sand and gravel pile have gradually become smooth stone walls, and when the sarcophagus stops at a depth of three or four zhang underground, the stone wall on the left is clearly a black stone walkway, both horizontal and vertical are about the size of zhang, forming a square. It is conceivable that Sadiq, who mysteriously disappeared, also followed the sarcophagus all the way down the sarcophagus last night, and then walked into this walkway.
Xie Yixiang was still a little worried, so he asked Shang Bu to break off, and he jumped out of the sarcophagus and entered the aisle first, and Shang Bu Qi followed, but fortunately, the "wax corpse" in the sarcophagus did not move in the end, it seemed that it was indeed just a corpse. When both of them stepped into the stone walkway, the sarcophagus seemed to sense that the weight had returned to normal, and rose back on its own, bringing up the whole rock at the lower end, and sealing the entrance to the walkway in the future tense. Xie Yixiang panicked and asked, "How should we get out?"
Shang Buqi sneered: "It's okay. Now that I'm in, the mechanism here won't be difficult for me. As he spoke, he used the light of the fire fold in his hand to carefully search for the entrance of the walkway, and then reached out and pressed a square brick on the wall, and with a little force, the whole square brick was sunken inward. In this way, the boulder blocking the walkway sank, allowing the sarcophagus above to descend again.
After figuring out the design of the mechanism here, Shang Bu gave up this and really breathed a sigh of relief. Then the two of them went back to the ground, packed all their belongings, dismantled the two tents, gathered the wooden strips that supported the tents and tied them into six or seven torches, and then went down to the aisle under the burial chamber again. Then Xie Yixiang and Shang Bu gave up holding a torch each and walked along the stone walkway.
It is said that the style of this walkway is the same as that of the tomb above, although it is only paved with ordinary boulders, but it is very smooth and exquisite, and there is no decoration in it, not even a pattern. The two of them walked about seventy or eighty steps, the front was a vertical corner, and after a short walk, it was another corner, and the whole walkway was a zigzag layout, but fortunately there were no other forks.
The two of them didn't know where this walkway led, and they seemed to be approaching the "Suritang Peak" outside, which was close to the center of the mountain's underground. In this way, it confirms Shang Buqi's previous speculation that this walkway is very likely to be the secret passage leading to the top of this "Sulitang Peak".
But what kind of secret is hidden in this "Suli Tang Peak", and why did Ning Cui attract the two of them here? The two still don't know anything, and now they can only take one step at a time, maybe Ning Cui will wait for the two of them at the top of the "Suli Tang Peak", and maybe even she will wait at the end of this walkway.
After traveling like this for half an hour, under the light of the torches, the two suddenly noticed that on the ground in front of the walkway, there was clearly a pair of crossbow arrows, which were the same one that Sadiq carried with him. You must know that Sadiq is not skilled in martial arts, and crossbow arrows are his only thing to defend himself, but now he is discarded in the aisle, could it be that he has an accident?
The two of them quickly became alert, and took a few steps forward, and suddenly found that Sadiq was carrying a bag, including shovels, torches, dry food, and other items, all of which had fallen into the aisle in front of them. Looking at the stone wall in front of him more than a dozen steps away, there was clearly a large blood stain, which was obviously contaminated not long ago.
Seeing such a appearance, it can be seen that Sadik has an accident ahead. The two stopped and called out Sadiq's name deeper down the hallway, but received no response. Shang Buqi thought for a moment, frowned and said: "Judging from the appearance of the tomb above, it is not to say that it has a history of hundreds of years, and it may even be thousands of years. Therefore, this walkway buried deep in the ground under the tomb should not be accompanied by others. If Sadiq was in distress in front, he would most likely have crashed into some kind of murderous mechanism. ”
At present, the merchant did not give up, so he referred to the brick mechanism found on the stone wall of the entrance earlier, and carefully searched for it on the stone wall on both sides. It was just a meal, but after listening to Shang Buqi's exclamation, he found the same square brick mechanism on the stone wall more than a dozen steps behind the two.
Xie Yixiang didn't dare to go to the front to pick up the crossbow arrows and bags that Sadiq had fallen, and hurriedly retreated to Shang Bu's side. Shang Bu gave up and gently pressed the square bricks on the stone wall, thinking of seeing what kind of mechanism was set up in front of him, but who knew that the square bricks did not move at all. At that moment, he pressed the palm of his hand hard, and the square brick finally moved, and fell slightly into the stone wall by an inch deep, and then he heard a vibration from the aisle in front of him, and then a large piece of sand and gravel fell from the top of the aisle, and with the falling sand and stones, there was clearly a stone wall with a thickness of a few feet falling slowly, which was to completely cut off the aisle in front of him.
In fact, it was said that it was a stone wall, but rather a whole square boulder with the same width as the walkway, Xie Yixiang didn't come back to his senses for a while, so he listened to Shang Buqi and scolded secretly, and said: "It's wrong, it's completely wrong! What kind of harmful mechanism is this, it's clearly the 'Broken Dragon Stone' here!"
It is said that when Xie Yixiang was in Poyang Lake, Jiangxi Province before, he had heard the sister-in-law Wang under Lu Santong, the "Corpse King of Xiangxi", say that all underground tombs or underground fortresses usually have designs such as "Broken Dragon Stone", and their purpose is to seal the entrance of the underground construction to protect the secrets. Just like the tomb of the prince and general, after the burial, the 'Broken Dragon Stone' will often be put down, and the entire tomb road will be sealed, if the tomb robbers want to enter, they can only bypass the barrier of the "Broken Dragon Stone" and open another "side hole" from elsewhere to enter the tomb.
And at present, the organ that Shang does not abandon is similar to the role of "Broken Dragon Stone". If the aisle in front of them was blocked, wouldn't the hard work of the two of them be in vain? In a panic, Shang Buqi hurriedly withdrew his hand, not daring to continue pressing the bricks on the wall. However, seeing that the "Broken Dragon Stone" in the aisle in front of him only dropped about three feet high, and then stopped and no longer fell, Shang Buqi was stunned for a while, and then said: "I understand! If you want this 'Broken Dragon Stone' to fall completely, you need to completely press this square brick into the stone wall." With such a design, it is natural to worry that someone will accidentally not touch the mechanism, so the entire aisle will be blocked. ”
Xie Yixiang breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be just a false alarm. However, since the mechanism that Shang Buqi found was the "Broken Dragon Stone" design in the corridor, what was the mechanism that murdered Sadiq in front of them? Just as the two of them were thinking, they suddenly heard a burst of laughter like silver bells in the corridor behind them, and then a young woman's voice sounded, and said with a smile: "Thank you two for your help." Shang Shen Catch, Sister Yixiang, if it weren't for your help, I really wouldn't have been able to find this place. ”
Hearing this voice, Xie Yixiang and Shang Buqi's faces changed dramatically at the same time, and they turned around one after another and exclaimed, "Ning Cui?"