Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Death of Six Officers
Shi Dewa and his group of twelve people walked to the foot of the eastern peak of the Broken Soul Mountain, and saw the cloth mark left by Feng Yi, the king of Nanling. The next cloth band mark appeared at the foot of the mountain on the other side of the west peak, and then the next cloth band mark appeared under a side peak more than 20 zhang away next to the main peak of the west peak, and the last cloth band mark appeared behind the side peak.
The cloth band mark is a side peak of 100 zhang upward, and there are mountains and forests on both sides. Shi Dewa and his group of twelve people searched around the side peak, but they never saw the cloth belt mark again.
A gust of mountain wind blew, and after a while, a light rain began to fall in the mountains. The soldier lord Da Ran chose a place far away from the big trees, with steep stone walls on both sides, and asked several officers to set up small tents.
Shi Dewa and the others hid in a small tent, and everyone walked for most of the mountain without eating, but they did not feel hungry. Where did Feng Yi, the king of Nanling, hide? Where is the palace in the cave? Where are the four princes, Zhou Huan and Feng Rui, hiding? These questions weighed heavily on the hearts of all people.
The two officers watched the movement around them with a worried gaze from outside the small tent, and neither of them spoke.
The light grew darker and darker, and the people in the small tent had finished their only meal of the day.
The rain continued from early afternoon until dark. As soon as it got dark, Feng Dewa and Mu Jianduo, who were the most observant, came out of the tent and replaced the two officers who were standing guard outside.
Rainy nights are a good time for tired people to rest, but the people in the small tents do not fall asleep on the rainy nights in the mountains.
The rainy night is a good night for the rich children and eunuchs to enjoy. On this rainy night, Feng Yi, the king of Nanling, took the emperor Zhou Tian, the senior monk of the Luo Danpo Dynasty, the four princes Zhou Huan, and Feng Rui to admire the painted murals on the fifty-zhang corridor of the lower palace of the cave.
The rainy night left the Broken Soul Mountain, and the people in the small tent outside the cave were dozing, and the five people in the cave palace were already asleep.
By the time Shi Dewa and the others had finished breakfast, the charming and moving sun of Broken Soul Mountain had already risen in the middle of the sky.
The sun had passed through the middle of the heavens and descended to the half of the middle heavens to the west, but they still could not find the entrance to the cave.
When it was nearly dusk, Mu Jianduo was behind the side peak next to the main peak of the East Peak, which was the last place where the cloth mark appeared, under a big tree on a ten-zhang high slope, and carefully looked at the stone wall behind the big tree. After coming over for a while, Mu Jianduo used Tan Mi Gong, and his arms used enough strength to push the stone wall. The stone wall was pushed and a gap appeared in the middle, and the whole stone wall turned out to be made up of two huge stones standing side by side. Two large boulders standing side by side, each weighing hundreds of pounds, can only be pushed by people with extremely high force. Mu Jianduo pushed the two boulders diagonally back for a distance, revealing a copper door inside the boulders.
Mu Jianduo went down to the bottom of the side peak and brought Shi Dewa and the others to the bronze door.
Shi Dewa excitedly pushed the bronze door, he pushed it twice with one arm and didn't push it open, and he used sixty percent of the force of internal and external forces to push open the bronze door with both arms. As soon as the thick copper door opened, a slight cool air came to the face, and a cave appeared in front of me.
Several people exclaimed, and finally found the cave. There must be a palace in the cave, and a few people such as Feng Yi, the king of Nanling, and Zhou Tian, the emperor, are inside.
In a few moments, twelve people gathered at the mouth of the cave.
Shi Dewa said: "If it weren't for Feng Yi, the king of Nanling, who led us here with a cloth belt mark all the way, coupled with Mo Shi's unique ability, it would be difficult for us to find this cave even if we looked for a year. From the top-secret location of this cave, and the momentum of this huge stone and bronze gate, we can imagine that the excavation of the cave must have been a huge project, and there must have been many traps to prevent outsiders from entering. That's why I decided that Windwa and I would go in and investigate, and you would be guarding the cave entrance. Besides, it's useless if there are too many people, and if there is danger, the two of us will come up. β
After saying this, Shideva lit the torch and was the first to go into the dark cave, and Windwa also took the torch and followed him into the cave.
The ten people outside the cave stood outside the entrance of the cave, looking at each other, and they were all stunned for a while.
After a while, Butterfly walked into the cave with a torch. The soldier master Daran followed Diedeva into the cave, and the soldier lord Daran was taking care of Diedewa, if there was no Diedeva, he would have followed Didwa into the cave a long time ago.
Bitter Herb and Mu Jianduo glanced at each other, both nodded, and entered the cave as well.
When the remaining six officers saw that the leader had gone down, they went into the cave with them.
Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Death of Six Officers
Shideva carried the torch into the cave, and the light of the torch illuminated a tunnel two feet high and one foot wide.
With a shield in his left hand and a torch in his right hand, he walked along the tunnel with smooth rocks on all sides, and walked for a long time, and the end of the tunnel could not be seen.
Windwa walked forward after Shidewa, and he keenly felt that the air in such a long tunnel was the same as the air outside the cave. This shows that there is a ventilation hole connected to the outside in the tunnel, and the technical requirements for such a long tunnel with ventilation space can be excavated.
As he was praising the tunneling technique, the torch in his hand burned and went out, and it immediately became dark. Windwa looked ahead, and the light of Stonewa's torches dimmed. Within a few paces, Stonewa's torch was extinguished.
Fengdewa asked Shidewa, "Brother, this place doesn't look like a palace, this tunnel shouldn't be so deep!"
Shi Dewa said: "It won't be wrong! Feng Yi, the king of Nanling, could only leave through this tunnel. β
"Right now, it's dark, and we can't defend against traps," said Windwa. Why don't we go back first, get a few more torches, and come back. β
"The tunnel is surrounded by rocks, and the space is narrow, so it's not easy to set traps. We've come this far, let's go a little further and find out!"
Shi Dewa raised his shield to protect his head, and led Feng Dewa to grope his way forward step by step in the darkness.
I don't know how long I walked, but a faint light appeared in front of me. The light grew brighter and brighter, and finally Shideva and Winddeva saw the light source at the end of the tunnel.
The light source came from a stone chamber nearly five zhang high, ten zhang wide, and twenty zhang long, and Shi Dewa and Feng Dewa came out of the tunnel into this bright stone room.
In the middle of the stone chamber there is a stone trough five zhang long and half a zhang wide, and the stone trough is filled with whale oil, and the whale oil is burned with lamps and candles. This is where the light comes from, and the burning candles illuminate the entire stone chamber.
The stone chamber is surrounded by stone walls, and there are three bronze doors on one side of the stone wall facing the tunnel entrance.
Shidewa and Fengdewa pushed open three bronze doors, all of which were wide, straight, and identical passages inside.
Shi Dewa and Feng Dewa hesitated for a moment and walked into the bronze door in the middle.
As soon as Shi Dewa and Feng Dewa entered the bronze gate in the middle, the soldiers Da Ran and Diedewa came to the stone room, and then the bitter endive and Mu Jianduo also came to the stone room.
The four of them discussed it and walked into the bronze door on the right.
After the four of them entered the bronze gate on the right, after some time, six officers entered the stone chamber through the mouth of the tunnel.
The six officers studied for a while, and then walked through the bronze door on the left.
When the six officers entered the bronze gate, they saw a straight passage ten zhang wide in front of them. There were also stone trough lamps and candles filled with whale oil in the passage, so the six officers walked in the passage with a very safe heart, and they all came in fear in the dark tunnel just now.
As he went, one officer said to the other five, "You say, does this passage lead to the palace? There must be many treasures hidden in the palace, and we shall pay more attention to it later, and each of us shall take two treasures and go back." β
Another officer said, "So it's the right thing we've come to the cave!"
The six officers walked faster and faster, and the moment they reached the end of the passage, they were stunned by the sight of the hall before them.
An officer broke his voice and shouted: "Look at thatββ! that's the Jade Buddha! Who of you has seen it? No, who of you has heard it and thought of it? There is a three-zhang tall Jade Buddha in the world!"
Another officer's voice trembled and said: "This is a priceless treasure! We just get even one ear of the Jade Buddha and a jewel on the body of the Jade Buddha, and we will make a fortune, a great fortune, a wealth that we will never use up in our lifetime!"
At the end of the passage is a large and tall square hall, in the middle of which stands a three-zhang high jade statue of Shakyamuni Buddha.
The six officers looked at the jade Buddha statue at the entrance of the passage for a while, and then walked into the hall through the entrance of the passage together.
As soon as the feet of the six officers stepped onto the floor of the hall, the movable stone slabs on the ground collapsed instantly.
The four officers fell into a pit a few feet deep covered with sharp stones under the stone slabs, and several screams were muffled by the bouncing stone slabs.
The two officers who jumped forward directly from the entrance of the passage felt their feet soften, and their hands subconsciously grabbed the ground a few inches in front of the movable stone slab. The two officers crawled and crawled, and they were too frightened to stand up. It wasn't until they felt their hands rubbed together that the two officers stood up.
The two officers walked to the front of the Jade Buddha - the back of the Jade Buddha faced the stone wall where the passage was located, and there was a one-zhang high stone platform under the three-zhang high Jade Buddha, and in front of the stone platform was a stone table three feet high and several zhang long.
In the middle of the feldspar table is a three-foot-high golden tripod incense burner, and from the bottom of the furnace is cast a dragon, and the dragon's body is inlaid with nine pieces of jade.
On either side of the Jinding furnace are eight exquisite colored porcelain bowls for tribute.
The two officers who had stopped in front of the stone table of the Jade Buddha for a long time had already forgotten all about the four officers who fell into the stone pit and fell into the stone pit and their lives were unknown. First take off the jade on the dragon of the Golden Tripod Furnace together;Then climb up to the Jade Buddha platform,Take off the gold beads and accessories on the Jade Buddha;Finally, each person takes away two colored porcelain bowls;The precious Golden Tripod Furnace is too heavy, and the two of them can't move it out of the tunnel and the Broken Soul Mountain;After taking these treasures, they leave here, leave the Broken Soul Mountain, and go back to the Nine Desolate Mountains to go away with their families and go incognito, those golden beads and agate can make them live a life of eating, drinking and merrymaking all their lives.
The two officers came to the Jinding furnace, the dragon head of the golden dragon on the Jinding furnace protruded on the edge of the furnace, and the eyeballs of the eyes on the dragon head were two round jade. The stone table under the Jinding furnace is three feet high, the Jinding furnace itself is also three feet high, and the faucet is one foot higher than the Jinding furnace. The two officers reached out to the seven-foot-tall dragon eye at the same time, grabbed the two jade eyeballs, and pulled them out hard.
The two jade eyeballs were pulled out, and almost at the same time that the jade eyeballs were pulled away from the dragon's head, two bronze arrows shot diagonally from the two small copper coin-sized holes five feet high in the Jinding furnace, and shot right on the chests of the two officers.
Two small bronze crossbow arrows are installed in the Jinding furnace, and those two jade eyeballs are the hanging knives (triggers) of the crossbow machine, and the crossbow arrows can be replaced at any time.
The two officers fell to the ground in pain when they were shot, and they drew their short arrows, and what they saw was a short arrow with a black-green triangular arrow.
Two leaky poisonous arrows killed two officers, who clutched the jade in their hands and died with hideous faces......