The sarcophagus is five feet wide, inserted into the cliff cave, the gap is less than an inch, it is impossible to see how long it is, and only about two feet of foothold is left on the three sides of the stone platform.

The erosion of the wind and rain made the surface of the sarcophagus cracked, and the fine lines were like spider webs intermingled and coiled, and careful inspection did not find anything wrong, Qiu Xingchen still did not rush to the platform, took out the snake-proof water, grasped the rope with one hand, kicked the cliff with both feet, leaned out and quickly sprinkled the snake-proof water to the sarcophagus, grabbed the rope with both hands, and turned over in the air with the help of force, and the head and feet were attached to the cliff.

Patiently waiting for half a pillar of incense, there were no expected mosquitoes in the cracks of the cave, Qiu Xingchen secretly scolded that he was really afraid of grass ropes after being bitten by a snake for ten years, the sarcophagus was dozens of feet above the ground, and the strong wind blew day and night, how can mosquitoes live here?

"Stupid!"

Qiu Xingchen couldn't help but scold, and sprinkled snake-proof water outside the cave, if there were really mosquitoes, how could they run out and send them to death, Fang Cai's caution was pure stupidity, fortunately no one saw it, or where to put his face in the future, let Gao Yuan know that he would not die of laughter.

Bypassing the platform, sliding down the rope, looking up, the premonition was confirmed, the stone platform stretched out of the cliff and hung in the air, and then looked down, the scar on the face twitched, and the curved stone wall returned to its original state a few feet away, straight into the ground. Digging a semicircular cave in the cliff, leaving a lone stone beam in the middle to place the sarcophagus, the huge project is unimaginable, the ancients painstakingly built a steep burial place, for theft or other plans?

"Lao Tzu is bloody!"

After waking up from the shock, crawled back along the rope, tried a few times and felt that the coffin lid was strong enough, took out a short knife and stood up, stayed close to the cave gap one step at a time, stopped four or five feet away, cut the wrist and stretched out the arm, let the bright red blood drops drip down, open the water bladder and pour the water, the blood flowed down the coffin lid to the cave gap, grabbed the rope with one hand, held a short knife in the other, and stood on the coffin lid to be careful and guarded. If there are mosquitoes hidden in the cave, if you smell blood, you will have to come out to snoop, whether there is danger at a glance, the gap is only an inch wide, even if there are mosquitoes, Qiu Xingchen is confident that he can get out in an instant, step on the ground, and if necessary, he may as well kill it, it is not a threat to safety.

The triangular head poked out of the gap, not as thick as a thumb, but there were dozens of them, Qiu Xingchen saw it and retreated sharply, and saw three steps down, the cave turned out to be a nest of poisonous snakes, he remembered Gao Yuan's advice, three steps will hold a grudge, the cliff looks like there are hundreds of sarcophagus, if they are all three-step nests, how many poisonous snakes must be hidden in them, rashly shoot to kill, don't want to explore the ancient tomb again, and can't get the strange stone powder, it will delay the old captain's plan to defend the city.

Grasping the rope and kicking the coffin lid, he put on a posture of escaping along the rope at any time, looked back at the cave, fell on the coffin lid in three steps and slowly swam away, his movements were more cautious and cautious than he had just gone to the cave, the blood flowed over, the triangular head was close to the coffin lid, and he didn't seem to find any danger, crawling out along the bloodstains, dozens of poisonous snakes stopped at the end of the bloodstains, coiled up two or three feet long snake bodies, and confronted Qiu Xingchen at the other end of the coffin lid.

Seeing that the poisonous snake no longer crawled out, the idea of fleeing was dispelled, Qiu Xingchen slowly descended, and stood beside the sarcophagus with his feet, but instead of attacking, the poisonous snake retreated a few feet back, and some small snakes even turned their heads and crawled back into the cave.

"The potion is really good. ”

The anti-snake water emitted an unpleasant smell, Qiu Xingchen understood, and just sprinkled medicine in the air, only let the half of the coffin under his feet be covered with the potion, the mountain wind blew, the closer to the cave, the lighter the smell, it was to dare to climb out in three steps, but the more the potion worked, the stronger the effect, the poisonous snake could only stay halfway.

took out the medicine bottle, sprinkled all the remaining potions on the sarcophagus, completely isolated the attack route of the poisonous snake, Qiu Xingchen tried to lift the coffin lid with one hand, the strength of the martial arts school, the strength of one arm was nearly a thousand catties, but the three-inch thick coffin lid did not move at all, and even the poisonous snake crawling on it did not notice the abnormality.

"Lao Tzu doesn't believe in evil!"

Qiu Xingchen put away the short knife, clasped the edge of the coffin lid with both hands, and used all his strength to lift it up, trying several times in a row, the coffin lid still did not loosen, but the action alarmed the poisonous snakes, more than a dozen climbed out a few feet, and then coiled up in cringe, the little head kept stretching and contracting, and kept spitting out scarlet cores, as if demonstrating, warning not to disturb the peace of the sarcophagus again.

Tossing for a while can not open the coffin lid, Qiu Xingchen and the poisonous snake The distance is closer, the people and the snake are staring at each other, no one has attacked, but the poisonous snake has clearly been provoked, there are constantly snakes trying to crawl out, one of the thickest poisonous snakes swims the fastest, the snake body is not careful to stain the potion on the coffin lid, a pungent smell came, black smoke came from the poisonous snake's body, turned his head and fled in, but fell from the coffin lid to the stone platform, the snake body twisted and fell off the cliff, so that the other poisonous snakes all retreated, away from the anti-snake water sprinkled on the coffin lid.

"Oops!" Qiu Xingchen secretly exclaimed, fell off the cliff in three steps, and the snakes did not write the account to him, looking at the poisonous snake on the coffin lid nervously, and there were words in his mouth: "Three steps down, Lao Tzu didn't want to kill you, it was it that wanted to run over by itself, but it fell down with the potion, it's none of my business." ”

It is true that all things have spirits, but Qiu Xingchen looked at the wisdom of poisonous snakes, the enemy did not move when he stood still, and his companion stuck to the potion and fell down in pain, he could only blame it for wanting to come out too much, and the frightened snakes all crawled on the lid of the coffin, and the snake letter in his mouth also vomited slowly, and soon several poisonous snakes swam away to the cave.

"Yes, go back to the nest, Lao Tzu just wants to see if the sarcophagus is in danger, even if there are gold and silver treasures, my old enemy swears that he will not move, you can't stay outside, heh-"

Qiu Xingchen's oath is equal to nothing, and he found that the baby is absolutely immovable, but he can go up and shout Gao Yuan to collect it, the benefits are still indispensable, and before he finished the oath, the poisonous snake reminded Qiu Xingchen that the gap is narrow, and it is normal to not be able to lift the coffin lid, why not try to push it in, and if it doesn't work, then there is a way to pull it outward, but the coffin lid has a snake and can't try.

"Three steps, Lao Tzu kindly gave you a ride and went back to the nest. ”

Holding the rope with both hands, his heels kicked outside the coffin lid, Qiu Xingchen felt afraid of Fang Cai lifting the coffin lid with both hands, he didn't know if there was any danger in the sarcophagus, he really wanted to lift it up and emit poisonous gas, so he stood on the edge of the stone beam, caught off guard how to dodge, and when the people above found that the rope was pulled abnormally, it had already turned into a corpse.

Qiu Xingchen is bold enough, but his movements are very cautious, it is not advisable to kick the coffin lid violently, the poisonous snake that will alarm the coffin lid, if he really wants to make the stone wall bounce back a few times, he can't eat and has to walk around, his heels are slowly strengthened, when he feels that the coffin lid has signs of sliding, he hurriedly unloads the force, holds his breath and hangs on the rope to watch.

The lid of the coffin slid three or two inches into the cave, the edge was still pressed against the side wall of the sarcophagus, and he couldn't see the scene inside, Qiu Xingchen tried to sniff, but there was only the strange smell of anti-snake water, and it seemed that he had to push it in.

The poisonous snake noticed the movement of the coffin lid and coiled himself again, but Qiu Xingchen already knew that the potion could be restrained, as long as he didn't make a big noise, the poisonous snake didn't dare to crawl over, he focused his attention on the sarcophagus, and after standing firm on the stone platform, he grabbed the rope in one hand, held the knife in the other hand to guard, and slowly pushed the coffin lid with his right foot.

A faint red mist floated out from the gap, Qiu Xingchen quickly climbed up to Zhang Xu when he saw this, hanging in the air to take a closer look, the red mist rose less than a few feet, and let the mountain wind blow and swirl towards the cave, the poisonous snake on the coffin lid climbed into the cave in a moment as if it saw the natural enemy, and the red mist was still unwilling, under the mountain wind, it kept drilling into the gap, but no poisonous snake escaped from it.

Qiu Xingchen rose a few feet along the rope again, completely leaving the cliff depression, the red mist continued to emerge from the sarcophagus, without the coffin lid poisonous snake attracted, struggling in the mountain wind as if to gather into a group, when the mountain wind was less resting, the red mist on the coffin lid condensed, fluttering back and forth on the coffin lid, and as the fog in the sarcophagus continued to join, the fog became more and more condensed, and the scar on Qiu Xingchen's face that was watching obliquely above turned crimson, raised his arm and rubbed his eye sockets, wondering if he was wrong.

The red mist condensed into a humanoid shape with all four limbs, jumping back and forth on the coffin lid, the huge head dangling, like a five or six-year-old child who had just begun to practice fists and feet, Qiu Xingchen grabbed the rope and didn't dare to move, but it still made the fog man notice, raised his head and looked over, there was no facial outline on his face, but Qiu Xingchen's heart was inexplicably tight, and he clearly felt the anger of the fog man, as if someone had imprinted emotions into his mind.

Looking at each other for a moment, the mountain peaks blown were more violent, the fog man let the wind blow to the stone wall, and every time he collided with the body, the body became a little lighter, and the fog in the sarcophagus gradually changed from thick to light, and the replenishment could not catch up with the consumption, but the fog man never fled out, fighting with the raging mountain wind on the coffin lid, and the body became smaller and smaller, making Qiu Xingchen feel sad for no reason, as if seeing the evil young man bullying the child next door.

"Drill back!"

Regardless of the danger, Qiu Xingchen fell down the rope to the stone platform, and used his back to block the mountain wind blowing the sarcophagus, regardless of whether the fog man could understand it or not, his mouth kept shouting. The fog man was about to be blown away by the mountain wind, anger, resentment, fear, and emotions rushed to Qiu Xingchen, and when he saw him temporarily blocking the sun and mountain wind, he turned into gratitude and joy in an instant, and his weakened body was pulled into a red fog belt, and the gap in the sarcophagus was drilled, Qiu Xingchen did not dare to slack off, his hands clasped the coffin lid, and pulled it back in a muffled voice, restoring the sarcophagus to its original airtight appearance.

Without the provocation of the fog people, the mountain wind swirled and stopped, Qiu Xingchen realized that his face was full of sweat, and he was busy looking at the cracks of the cave to prevent the poisonous snake from taking the opportunity to sneak attack, but he didn't find three steps, remembering the red fog that had been drilled into the cave before, Qiu Xingchen was puzzled, if the fog was poisonous, he just got into the sarcophagus from his arms, and carefully checked his luck around, except for the heartbeat was a little fast, there was no discomfort, if there was no poison, why did the poisonous snakes feel frightened, and they didn't show their heads after burrowing into the cave.

Freed from the threat of poisonous snakes, Qiu Xingchen breathed a sigh of relief, the cold sweat on his forehead flowed faster in the blink of an eye, and he could turn into a human-shaped mist, whether it was a demon or a ghost, and when his brain turned, he only felt that his legs were weak, but fortunately, there was a rope tied to his waist, and he stopped the falling momentum after falling off the stone platform a few feet, and he didn't dare to stay on the suspension beam again, and climbed up along the rope while sending a signal to the top.

Climbing back to the city wall, Qiu Xingchen poured half of the skin water in one go, and then completely suppressed the frightened heart, the inspection team will continue to investigate, the truth cannot be hidden, lest someone can't help but be curious and still open the coffin lid, and the disciple Gao Yuan will definitely be the first to open it to investigate.

What is a dead soldier? An elite soldier who puts life and death aside in order to complete the task! Qiu Xingchen said that the mist will turn into a human form, and more than a hundred people almost took a breath of cold air at the same time, and when he said with palpitations, the fog man can affect people's emotions, and it seems that he can understand the language, and the faces of more than 100 dead soldiers are even more ugly than the failure of the mission, and looking at the cliff is like someone ordering him to jump down and die.

Gao Yuan grew up hunting in the mountains and forests since he was a child, and the strange legends of Changqing Village made him have the ability to resist, Qiu Xingchen said it mysteriously, he felt that it was very likely that he had an illusion in panic, even if the fog can gather into a human form and have spirituality, it seems that there is no malice towards outsiders, as long as the sarcophagus is not opened, the threat of the fog people is not as good as the snake group of cave dwellings.

"Zifeng, send someone to give an order, let the doctor rush to make anti-snake water overnight, the more the better, and in the future, up and down the cliff, remember to sprinkle medicine on the sarcophagus first. ”

Before Yan Zifeng could reply, Gao Yuan had already slid down the rope, and he didn't even tie the rope to prevent accidents, and the hundreds of people on the city wall all had bitter faces, and no one dared to follow to investigate, Qiu Xingchen sighed when he saw this.

"Wait for the standard captains to come up and see if there are any new discoveries, don't worry about your captain, Lao Tzu can come back alive, he will definitely not die." (To be continued.) )