Chapter Twenty-Three: Self-Casting Nets and Koji-style Imperial Tombs (9)

Lao Zhangtou had been standing for nearly two hours, his physical strength had been seriously overdrawn, and he didn't dare to turn his head back, and said, "I can't catch the silver needle like this, you have to stand next to me." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 Info "Standing next to him means standing on the flipper, Nangong Yu asked himself that he could do it, but he thought of a better way. He saw that there were two people in the Tongtian Gang with short guns, so he borrowed them and put them on the flap next to Lao Zhangtou, and stood up with one leg in one step. The ghost-headed man said "hey" and said with a smile: "This kid is smart. ā€

Nangong Yu slowly handed over the silver needle. Lao Zhangtou raised his hand and put it down again. Nangong Yu saw that his physical strength had reached the limit, his body was stiff, his legs were trembling, and his face was covered with sweat. Lao Zhangtou said: "I can't do it, baby, pull me back." Xiao Zhang responded, pulled the rope suddenly, and dragged the old Zhang head back, and the flap under his feet turned five times in an instant.

Xiao Zhang picked up Lao Zhang's head from behind and said, "Grandpa, are you okay?" Lao Zhangtou let out a sigh, wiped the sweat on his face, and said, "It's old, it's useless." After speaking, he turned his head to look at Nangong Yu and said: "Boy, listen well, there are nine small holes between the two silver needles, you have to insert the silver needle into the middle hole, and the door will open." If you plug it incorrectly, the quicksand on it will come down and you'll die. ā€

Nangong Yu said "um" and was about to try, when he suddenly saw Ouyang Ye take a step forward and stood behind Lao Zhangtou and made a look. Nangong Yu saw that he wanted to kill the ancestors and grandsons of the Zhang family, as long as he threw away the silver needle again, their operation would be in vain. If you do it perfectly, you can wait for yourself to open the stone gate, enter the stone gate first, Ouyang Ye killed the ancestor of the Zhang family and immediately jumped in, and then sealed the door from the inside. But the possibility of such a situation is too slim to succeed. Nangong Yu saw that Xiao Zhang was filial and rubbing his stiff thighs for Lao Zhang's head, sighed, did not reply to Ouyang Ye, and turned his head to study the keyhole.

He inserted the silver needle between the two silver needles, gently fiddling with the tip of the needle, and sure enough, he felt a small hole smaller than the eye of the needle. The tip of the needle was gently moved down, and there was a small hole, and then there was another one moving down, and sure enough, it was a vertical three. Then he began to move sideways, and he felt three small holes as well. Such a small hole is difficult to see even in the blue sky and white sun, let alone test it with the tip of a needle, which requires a great feeling between the fingers. Nangong Yu quickly found the small hole in the middle and inserted it with a silver needle. Suddenly, I heard a few sounds of "cluck, cluck" in the white marble door, and calm was restored. Lao Zhangtou said: "Boy, push and push in the middle, don't touch the handle." Nangong Yu pushed hard in the middle of the stone door, and with a "hum" sound, the stone door opened. The pitch-black space inside is revealed. The officers and soldiers and the Tongtian Gang cheered in unison. Nangong Yu used too much force, and the short guns under his feet rolled to both sides, so frightened that he hurriedly entered the door, but fortunately there was no flap in the door.

Everyone jumped in one by one, and under the light of a dozen torches, the pattern inside the door was also reflected, and everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them. The space inside is huge, like the garden of a mansion, with several pavilions and pavilions, a square cloister surrounding the whole complex, and a small pond in the middle. There are two rows of stone statues displayed on the side of the road, the left row is full of camels, and the right row is full of horses, both of which are carved lifelike and have very different expressions.

As they walked along the road, they saw that every building was gorgeous and exquisite, and the inside of the house was not empty, and there were many tables, chairs, screens, calligraphy and paintings, as if there were real people living there. The painting on the cloister is made of moisture-proof and anti-detachment dye, and the outside is protected by a layer of lime, so it is not clear what is painted.

Lao Zhangtou said: "The building here should be the same as a part of the koji-style royal garden, it seems that King Gaochang of Xiuling wants to live in a familiar environment." Nangong Yu was walking, Ouyang Ye in front of him suddenly turned around and walked towards him quickly, Nangong Yu was surprised: "What?" Ouyang Ye suddenly shot like lightning, stopped in front of Nangong Yu's face, and grabbed a red snake in his hand. The red is biting Nangong Yu with a big mouth, the fangs inside are sharp, and the snake letter is spitting, but the seven inches are pinched, and the snake body swings back and forth, and it is difficult to break free. It had been lying on the camel stone statue next to it just now, Nangong Yu didn't pay attention and was almost bitten. Ouyang Ye said: "Be careful. As he spoke, the red snake's red yellow eyes turned white, and he lost his breath in an instant. Lao Zhangtou glanced forward and said strangely: "This is the Fire Cloud Spotted Snake, it is rare, I didn't expect there to be it here." After speaking, his brows furrowed, revealing a worried look.

At the end of the "garden" is an arched stone walkway, and the ground is paved with flat yellow sand, and I don't know the depth. Lao Zhang said: "There are many yellow sand in the Western Regions, and the organs of this imperial tomb will make full use of this innate advantage, and most of the organs should be related to yellow sand." Tan Mian said: "Uncle, is there a mechanism on this road ahead?" Lao Zhangtou said: "It should be a kind of trampling mechanism, stepping on the soles of the feet will give birth to a feeling, and people with good skills may be able to dodge, and this layer of yellow sand is to make this feeling disappear, making people unguardable, the person who made the mechanism is amazing, even this kind of detail has been taken into account." ā€

Xiao Zhang said: "Grandpa, I'll go open the way." Lao Zhangtou said: "Go, everything that goes to the ground in the future is yours." Xiao Zhang said excitedly: "Yes." "When I came to the edge of the road, I stepped lightly and left a footprint on the yellow sand. The yellow sand is very shallow, and there are stone bricks underneath. After Xiao Zhang had a bottom in his heart, he bowed up, stepped heavily on the stone brick in front of him, stepped on it and hurriedly retracted his foot, carefully observed the surroundings, and stepped back on the footprints just now after seeing that there was no movement. The first three steps were without danger, and as soon as the fourth step was stepped on, there were a few "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" sounds, and five wolf-toothed arrows shot out from the wall on one side, and the force was fast enough to penetrate the shield. Xiao Zhang had already prepared, and his body suddenly made an extremely twisted and complicated movement in the air, and the wolf's tooth arrow flew through the gap he had dodged, and one even swept through the crook of the arm holding his head, almost touching his cheek, and it was almost dangerous. Xiao Zhang made such an accurate prediction in an instant, which shows that he has been strictly trained.

Five wolf's tooth arrows "clanged" on the ground, everyone just wanted to clap their hands and applaud, who knew that the falling arrows touched the mechanism again, "whoosh" and a series of flying arrows, two of which were one before and one behind, the distance was closer, Xiao Zhang made a difficult action similar to "Chang'e to the moon", and at the same time the bones "gurgle", the body actually shrank five inches, and in an instant used the "bone shrinking skill", just avoiding the two closer arrows. There was another "clanging" sound of flying arrows falling to the ground, and after half a sound, seeing that no more arrows were fired, Xiao Zhang breathed a sigh of relief and restored his body.

Most of the Tongtian Gang and the officials and soldiers were reckless, and they applauded in the silent corridor, and Xiao Jiu glared at him before he quieted down.

Xiao Zhang calmed his breath and tried to step on the stone bricks next to him, but who knew that another rain of arrows came, but he still used the old method, he didn't move, and only used unbelievably complex movements to resolve the crisis. When he tried the third stone brick again, when no arrow came out, he took out a small bag of phosphor and put it on it, leaving it as a mark, and continued to test forward.

Xiao Zhang is the most potential tomb robber master of their Zhang family's generation, with good skills and high understanding, as long as he has more experience in going to the ground, he can provoke the beam. When Lao Zhang Tou took this job, he had expected that this imperial tomb was not ordinary, so he intended to bring Xiao Zhang to exercise, and he himself could have a perfect curtain call.

After a while, Xiao Zhang was already in the middle of the corridor, and his way of traveling was still to step forward heavily, crack the mechanism if it was triggered, and then put down the fluorescent bag as a marker. At this time, the fire in the place where he was could no longer shine, and he could only move forward by feeling, and the series of fluorescent bags behind him looked like stars in the night sky.

Who knew that Xiao Zhang's next kick had an accident, not to say how powerful the hidden weapon was, but that he stepped on the air. There were no stone bricks at the bottom of the foot, but a hidden quicksand pit, and the whole ground was paved with yellow sand, so you couldn't see it at all. He stepped heavily into the quicksand pit, and the situation can be imagined, and half of his body immediately sank into the sand pit, as if a hand was dragging it down. Although Xiao Zhang was not in a panic, he hurriedly lay down without moving, increasing the part of the force, which slowed down the momentum of sinking.

At the same time, the old Zhang Tou on the edge of the road walked quickly to the first three rows of stone bricks without traps, holding a rope that had been prepared in advance, and the front end of the rope was tied with a circle of "living and dead buckles", pinched it in his hand and threw the circle up, looked at the position where Xiao Zhang fell, and shouted "Look!" The rope circle flew out far away.

They used a kind of hemp rope wrapped around the iron chain, which was used for tomb robbers, wrapped around the waist without fear of scratching the skin, and was double-layer protection, with toughness, only the strength was large enough, and it could be thrown far away. Seeing that the rope loop was about to fly over Xiao Zhang's head, Lao Zhangtou saw the opportunity to pull the rope, and the rope circle hit Xiao Zhang's body impartially. Xiao Zhang raised his arms, faded the rope loop to the ribs, tied the live buckle at the front end into a dead button, and tightened his body, and then pulled the rope three times to show that he was ready. With the help of Nangong Yu and Ouyang Ye, Lao Zhangtou pulled Xiao Zhang out together.

Xiao Zhang seems to have experienced a lot of this danger, and after crawling out, he stood in the position where he had just lost his footing, and continued to test without wasting a little time and energy. The path behind was very smooth, and in a short time Xiao Zhang passed through the corridor and stood in front of the door of a tomb and beckoned to them.

Ouyang Ye, Nangong Yu, and Lao Zhangtou followed Xiao Zhang's marks one by one. When Nangong Yu passed by Yongdao, he saw that there were a few places on the black walls on both sides that were not quite the right colors, and when he looked closely, he found that those places were the launch ports of hidden weapons, and when he wanted to take a closer look, he saw that the launch ports were submerged in black. He thought it was strange, and when he looked up to see that the other walls of different colors had also returned to normal, and turned back to black, as if the flowing ink had filled the last blank space on the paper, he thought he was dazzled, and he did not care.

At the end of the corridor is a large space, in front of which is a tomb, the old man looked at it a few times, saw that there was no mechanism and pushed open the tomb door, the probe glanced at it, "Huh", and said strangely: "It's not quite right." In order to wait for the followers, he did not venture in, touching the goatee and thinking about something.

At this time, Tan Mian, Lu Zhongjing, Xie Qiuhua, Xiao Jiu and others had already come over, and only the Tongtian Gang and the official army were left. Suddenly, Nangong Yu's heart jerked, because he saw that the dark walls on both sides moved, and the situation was like a breeze blowing up the wall creeper on the wall, and then the wall returned to calm, and then it moved again, and finally the speed of movement became faster and faster, like the undulating surface of the river, and the sound of the wind faintly sounded. Nangong Yu hurriedly pulled Lao Zhangtou over, and pointed: "What is that?" Lao Zhangtou squinted his eyes and looked at it, his face instantly changed color, and said: "Vampire bat! Bat wall! Don't mess up, slowly retreat into the tomb gate." ā€

At this time, the first bat had flown up, it seemed that it had not flown for a long time, and it was a little shaky at first flying, and then the bats on the two walls flapped their wings at the same time, revealing the red yellow wall, and a gust of wind immediately shook in the corridor, and the scene can only be described as shocking. Bats can accurately determine the location of their prey in the dark, and they become targets for prey. The people in the corridor were immediately covered with bats, the sharp teeth of the bats were embedded in their scalps, faces, necks, limbs, and crotch, and everyone let out screams like killing pigs, all of them took out their weapons and danced wildly, running forward like crazy, no matter what marks were on the stone bricks, all the hidden weapons on the wall were activated, and countless wolf tooth arrows shot the people inside into hedgehogs. The wind howls in the dark, the figures hissed and danced, and the bats flapped their wings in the black holes, the scene was truly a hell on earth.