Chapter 96: The Tomb Door Opens
The bandits and the soldiers were all horrified when they saw this, and they got into a mess. Luo Laowai was even more frightened, and he sat down on the spot in the muddy water.
Chen Yulou, who was beside him, was so quick that he swung out the small magic blade in his hand and chopped the corpse head into two halves with one strike.
But a black centipede crawled out of the melon, and it was chopped into two pieces by the sharp blade.
When everyone saw this, they knew it was not a monster, and they immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Chen Yulou stepped forward, picked up the small sharp edge, turned the centipede over and took a closer look, and saw that there were dozens of pearls the size of fingernails inside its body.
Chen Yulou is well-informed and knows that this thing is called a centipede spider and should not be placed near the mouth or nose.
But if you have scabies poison on your body, you can use it to rub the affected area repeatedly to pull out the poison. It is a rare medicinal material.
But before Chen Yulou said anything, Luo Laowai thought it was Ye Mingzhu and hurriedly asked his men to dig out all the corpse heads from the ground and dig them out one by one for inspection, but found nothing.
Luo Laowai was so angry that he couldn't help but lost his temper and had no intention of doing his dojo anymore. He ordered the engineers to continue working. If the door of the Pingshan Ancient Tomb was not dug out today, his grandma would not allow him to stop and rest.
However, most of the soldiers in these engineer digging camps were heavy smokers. After digging all night in the rain, they were exhausted and had rested for days. Some of them couldn't help but became addicted to cigarettes and collapsed on the ground on the spot.
When Luo Laowai saw this, he asked his adjutant to lead the pistol battalion to drag him to the forest and kill him.
Seeing this, Zhang Lin stopped Luo Laowai, called with his hand, and a stream of fire shot out from his hand. Everyone was frightened and shouted to the gods for mercy.
Luo Laowai, who had earlier planned to leave Pingshan to trouble Zhang Lin, couldn't help but break into a cold sweat. The proposed adjutant was so frightened that he left his body and did not dare to come within ten steps of Zhang Lin.
The two of them stopped thinking about causing trouble for Zhang Lin. They also knew that Chen Yulou did not panic and offered his position as the second-in-command of Xieling to invite Zhang Lin to join the team.
Zhang Lin didn't know that he had just casually wiped away the unnecessary trouble. He just didn't want Mr. Luo to kill people based on his temperament. After all, these people were related to his mission evaluation.
What if just these few are missing, and the task evaluation will be improved by one level? Who can say clearly about this kind of thing?
Moreover, Zhang Lin's move was much more effective than Luo Laowai's killing as a warning. Seeing the immortal speak, these people who were afraid of even digging up a corpse dared to slack off. They started digging desperately.
They were working for the gods, so many people boldly came forward to buy the peace talisman from Zhang Lin.
After a wave of money, thousands of silver dollars came into the account, which no one expected.
Zhang Lin has gained a lot even though he has not yet obtained any wealth.
Seeing this, Chen Yulou was even more fortunate that Zhang Lin did not agree to be the second in command of Xiling.
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However, it was said that the soldiers of the engineering battalion were ordered by Zhang Lin to dig until noon. Sure enough, they dug out a majestic large stone gate deep in the ground where corpses were living.
It turned out that there was wind, rain, thunder and lightning last night, and Blind Man Chen was able to use his method of listening to the wind and thunder. During the thunderstorm, he heard endless echoes from the ground, and concluded that the tomb door was at the foot of the mountain.
Although it is buried very deep, as long as you dig all the way, you will definitely find something.
If ordinary tomb robbers did not have the ability to "listen to holes to find hidden objects", they would not have been able to dig out the tomb door so quickly even if hundreds of engineers were exhausted and vomited blood.
Luo Laowai was overjoyed when he saw that he had dug the tomb door. He ordered each of the engineers who dug the stone door to be rewarded with two taels of high-quality "luck and longevity ointment". While talking, he and Chen Yulou led the group of thieves to go over and push away the
The engineer, who was staggering due to fatigue, carefully looked at the tomb door.
I saw that the tomb door was dark green, divided into two doors, both three people tall and nearly two feet across, and looked like a closed city gate.
The stone door buried deep in the ground is extremely heavy, probably weighing no less than three to five thousand kilograms. The gaps between the doors were poured with lead and molten iron, and the seams were cast so tightly that the thieves couldn't even use steel drills to pry them open.
This ancient cemetery palace is very large. Although there were no jewels or jade in the side hall that I went to yesterday, it was all burned down by Zhang Lin in the end.
But according to local legend, the rare things that the Taoist Lords and Emperors offered to the gods in the sky were all hidden in a deep well in the main hall. Luo Laowai was so greedy that when he thought of this, his throat felt dry and he couldn't even swallow it.
A few mouthfuls of saliva.
At this time, a sharp-eyed person noticed ancient characters chiselled on the stone door. After clearing the soil, he looked at them, but he didn't recognize them.
The group of thieves in Xiling were all thieves in the forest, and most of them came from poor backgrounds. Although some of them had ink in their bellies, they had little knowledge and could not recognize the ancient seals carved on them.
But everyone is curious. The more they can't understand, the more they want to know what's on it. In the past, many ancient tombs were stolen, but they have never seen any inscriptions on the tomb door. This is not in line with the burial system.
At present, only Chen Yulou and Zhang Lin, the chief thieves, are well-educated people, but Zhang Lin is silent all day long and does not communicate with others. Only when they buy things from him, he will tell a thing or two about the usefulness of things.
Moreover, he came by invitation. According to the rules of the road, Mr. Chen is his employer, and others can have no control over him.
Therefore, at this time, only Chen Yulou, who always boasted that he was full of economic allusions, could answer everyone's questions. At this time, he was invited to the front by the group of thieves.
Chen Yulou felt it was his duty to look at the ancient seal script on the stone door. After just one glance, Chen Yulou felt like fifteen buckets were used to fetch water, rising up and down eight times.
It turns out that the line of large characters on the door of the tomb is not a seal inscribed on a stele, but a 'curse' from the owner of the tomb against people like them who have made great fortunes.
Although the people buried in the tomb were Tatars, the tomb robbers were always Han Chinese, so these words were all engraved in Chinese characters.
The seal script on the door of the tomb is not an ancient seal script. The content is a lot of vicious and sinister curses on the tomb robbers who dare to touch this tomb.
Chen Yulou thought that he was the leader of the Xiling Mountains, and he had dedicated his life to visiting ancient tombs and tombs in various places. He had never believed in the nonsense that robbing tombs would lead to retribution, but standing in front of the big stone gate of the tomb passage, he felt strange and ominous in his heart.
Born spontaneously.
I vaguely feel that there is a huge danger hidden in the darkness behind this door. Once the door is broken in, a nightmare awaits everyone.
There is a saying: Heaven cannot be deceived. Think before you act. Everything will be rewarded in the end. Just try to come early or come late.
Having done so many tomb robbing activities, even a giant Xiling thief who is rampant all over the world will inevitably feel guilty sometimes.
But how could he turn his head when he opened his bow? At this moment, hundreds of pairs of eyes behind him were staring at him, which did not allow him to hesitate or fear in the slightest.
As soon as these thoughts crossed his mind, Chen Yulou pointed to the tomb door and said to the group of thieves: "Chen tried to read this seal script, but it was just an inscription from the past... These are the names, official titles, and life stories of the owner of the tomb, which are carved on the stone door.
It's just the custom of those in the Western Regions, so don't be surprised by it."
After hearing this, the group of eavesdroppers nodded repeatedly and secretly praised the boss in their hearts for being really knowledgeable and knowledgeable.
Luo Laowai laughed when he heard this and said: "Sure enough, Mr. Chen is the leader. You are knowledgeable. I can't even recognize half of the bird characters in these ghostly drawings."
After speaking, he called the engineer battalion commander: "Brothers, prepare explosives for me. His grandma's bomb destroyed these people's dicks today! Everyone, get your belongings!"
When the bandits heard this, they all cheered and moved aside to wait for the work of the engineering battalion.
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It is said that Xiling tomb robbers have used long hoe and big shovel since ancient times. They destroy every tomb they dig without worrying about anything.
Immediately, the engineer battalion commander left twenty or thirty engineers who were familiar with burying blastholes, and asked them to drill holes in the tomb door to blow up the door. The bluestone door was so hard and heavy that only a white spot was left when the chisel was drilled down.
Seeing that blowing up the door could not be completed in a moment, Chen Yulou and Luo Laowai took the rest of the people to the forest to eat and sleep, recharging their energy and waiting to fight in the tomb.
In the afternoon, the blasts of the last few blast holes resounded throughout the mountains, and the tomb door weighing several kilograms was finally blown open.
There was a lot of smoke rumbling out from the tomb door, which only stopped when the Jade Rabbit rose to the east. Chen Yulou expected that all the bad luck in the tomb passage had been blown away by the mountain wind, so he sent someone in to investigate.
But soon people came back and said that the deep passages of the tomb were blocked by stone bars.
Those stone bars are surprisingly large, the smallest one probably weighs over two hundred kilograms.
It is difficult to use explosives to blast the tomb passage, because if you are not careful, the stone may not be blown away, but the tomb passage will be blown down.
In the end, Mr. Luo had more ideas. He sent engineers to cut out the cow's nostrils in the stone, tied them with thick ropes, and drove the mules and horses to drag them outwards. They used the cows to pull the horses, and spent another whole night's energy. They were so anxious.
Mr. Luo scratched his head and ears.
Chen Yulou had long known that the ancient tombs of the Yuan Dynasty should be like this: "cutting the mountain to make a coffin and cutting through the stone to make a hide". If it were not arranged in this way, wouldn't it have been robbed over the past few hundred years?
He was calm and composed, directing the group of thieves to dig step by step, while telling everyone about strange things from all over the world.
After all the stones were transported out and a stone door on the inside was cut open, the long tomb passage was exposed.
Judging from the material structure of these huge stone tomb doors, Chen Yulou knew that they were built by the Yuan people after they demolished the Taoist temples in Pingshan Mountain.
The tomb passage is right in front of you, but it is still far away from the Underworld Gate of the Underground Palace. There are countless portals in the middle, and there are also some mechanisms in between.
Chen Yulou immediately told everyone to be careful and not to be careless.
A group of thieves lined up in front of the door. Some were carrying bags of herbs and lime, which were used to deal with poisonous insects and mirages hidden in the tombs. Some were dragging racks of centipedes hanging on mountain ladders to use in the ancient cemetery.
Build ladders when encountering mountains and build bridges when encountering water.
Each person in the front row held a large bundle of straw, with nine layers of leather hidden in the middle, all soaked with water to prevent the kerosene mechanism in the tomb.
Some thieves also carried shields to cover the crossbow mechanisms in the tomb.
The troops under Luo Laowai had also smoked enough, and their guns were loaded with bullets, just waiting for his order.
When Chen Yulou saw this, he couldn't help but feel proud in his heart.
Although this formation is not as powerful as the hundreds of thousands of troops used by the founder of Xieling to excavate the imperial tombs of the Han Dynasty, it can be considered to be of considerable scale now.
Seeing that the group of bandits in Xieling, which had already belonged to Sunset Sunset Mountain, seemed to be reviving under his leadership, he felt heroic and said loudly to everyone: "We are not born to be thieves. Just because the world is in chaos today,
Instead of suffering in dire straits, it is better to be a hero on the green forest road and do some actions to gain strength, so as to impress the world.
The underground palace behind the tomb passage is full of gold and silver treasures buried by martyrs. Are these artifacts really belonging to the ancient corpses in the tomb? I wonder which one they didn't collect from the people? They used them during their lifetime, but they still have to put them on display after they die.
With all the people around you decaying, do you really think that God has no eyes?
Today is the cycle of heaven, and what we take is to do justice for heaven. This is called retribution. Brothers, those who can do extraordinary things must be heroes. As the saying goes - boldness can conquer the world, but caution can't do it.
Chapter completed!