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The group of thieves responded to the words and followed Chen Yulou into the tomb passage.
Luo Laowai also pulled out his revolver. As he walked, he added a few words to Blind Chen and shouted: "Everyone who moves forward will be rewarded, and those who retreat... will inevitably be shot by me. I'll fuck his ancestors."
Grandma, don’t keep any of those dick-like weapons, bring them all back to the handsome manor for me!”
Chen Yulou is good at reading people's faces, and knows that although Luo Laowai is a quick-tempered living king of hell, he also came from the green forest road. He is very loyal, and in the future, he will rely on Chen Yulou for tomb robberies, so he will not betray him.
Things.
At this time, he, a warlord who is "addicted to tomb robbing and has a habit of peeping at corpses", wants to follow him to the underground palace. Naturally, there is no problem. However, some of the pistol company soldiers guarding outside the tomb gate are commanded by one of Luo Laowai's adjutants.
His cronies were not reassuring, so he was very cunning and ordered Miss Hong to stay with a group of bandits from Xiling to avoid sudden changes.
The group of thieves immediately covered their faces with black cloth, followed Chen Yulou, and poured into the tomb passage. In the front row were the thieves holding long bundles of straw and pigeon cages hanging on their waists.
There are people at the back who carry lamps for lighting, candles, and horse lanterns. This tomb passage was originally the dome-shaped figurine passage in front of the Alchemy Palace. The ancient road is wide and flat, and can pass carriages. Every ten steps on both sides, there are gorgeous stone pillars, each person is tall or short.
Used to place lamps for lighting.
Because everyone was worried about the traps of poisonous insects in the tomb passage, they advanced very slowly. Every time they moved forward, they left lights on the lampposts beside the walls to illuminate them. If they saw any cracks in the walls, they immediately blocked them with lime.
After walking like this for three to four hundred steps, the tomb passage gradually widened.
However, the group of thieves was so large that they still felt short of breath and depressed, and the lights were very dim due to the bad air.
At the end of the tomb passage is a vermilion brick wall, which is built like a city wall. The tomb passage does not reach the top. There is an arched city gate hole below. The two gates with copper nails are not tightly closed, but the door knocker is
The chain is locked.
When Chen Yulou saw this, he immediately signaled, and the mute Kunlun Moleh picked up the mountain axe, stepped forward and struck it down with a few axes, breaking the chains.
Seeing this, Blind Man Chen ordered people to use a centipede-hanging mountain ladder to open the copper-nailed door. Several thieves stretched out four long ladders, pushed the front end against the door and pushed it down.
The two doors were slowly pushed open with a rusty sound of "creak...".
The thieves all stared at the tomb door with concentration, not knowing what was going on inside.
As soon as the door of the tomb was opened, a woman's shrill scream was heard from inside. This woman's scream was particularly thrilling in the tomb passage, and the brains of the thieves were all numb.
Some soldiers who had never participated in tomb robbing were so frightened that they almost peed their pants when they heard this.
But at this time, the tomb passage was crowded with people, and even if they wanted to escape, they couldn't move.
Chen Yulou knew that the unusually sharp sound was not the scream of a fierce ghost, but the sound caused by the rapid squeezing of air.
As soon as the city gate opened, the anti-theft mechanism inside was triggered. When the strange sound sounded, Chen Yulou immediately moved his hand.
When the thieves who held the bamboo ladder at the door saw the leader's signal, they shouted and hurriedly pulled back the centipede-hanging ladder. Behind them, there was another row of thieves who had already pushed the wet straw bundles hiding their leather shields towards the city.
The door was covered tightly.
At this time, the sharp sound in the city became even louder. Dozens of black water arrows shot out from the doorway with a strong smell of fishy smell, and landed on the grass shield. Suddenly, burning white smoke came out.
After previous visits, Chen Xiazi knew that in the Immortal Palace Cave in Pingshan, there had been mechanisms to prevent thieves from stealing medicine since ancient times. It was later designated as a ghost house by the Yuan people. Various mechanisms would definitely be used, so he took precautions in advance.
The straw in front of the group of thieves' queue was soaked with water, and several layers of leather were filled inside. Each layer was sandwiched with soil, which would not burn when exposed to fire and difficult to penetrate when exposed to saltpeter. Although the venom like strong acid was strong, it could not destroy the watch.
It looks like a simple grass shield.
After draining the venom in the water dragon with a grass shield, he waited for about a cup of tea. When there was any movement behind the dark tomb door, it must have been that he had run out of tricks. Luo Laowai used his pistol to push the gun on his head.
He put on his military cap and cursed: "You damn, vicious Yuan Gou. If Mr. Chen hadn't been so good at making head information, wouldn't all our brothers have their heads shaved?" Luo Laowai cursed a few words and then added
Unable to suppress his excitement, he would lead everyone into the underground palace as he spoke.
As the leader of the group of thieves, Chen Yulou naturally did not dare to be careless and quickly stopped Luo Laowai. The situation behind the tomb door was still unknown. There was fear that there would be more than one agency ambushing him in Pingshan. The team should not act rashly. At this moment, he must first send out a few brave men.
The dead man should go behind the tomb door to explore the way.
Sure enough, some of the bandits in Xieling were not afraid of death. Five or six of them immediately stood up and bowed in front of Blind Man Chen. Then they held up rattan shields and pigeon cage medicine cakes, and walked into the tomb gate. The others
They all stood in the tomb passage and waited.
It didn't take long for the five thieves to return from the tomb door. It turned out that behind the tomb door was a city, built in the middle of the mountain, surrounded by walls and towers. Inside were several ferocious and strange stone people and beasts.
A large lacquer coffin and a stone coffin are placed in the city. There are many white human bones next to the coffin. There are no more traps to ambush, and there seem to be rock gaps and wind holes in the city. Although the accumulated bad luck is heavy, it will not be harmful to the living.
There are no obstacles for people yet.
When Luo Laowai heard the word "coffin", he couldn't help but said with joy: "If you have money, you are not afraid of God, but if you don't have money, you will be deceived by ghosts. It's time for us brothers to make a fortune. Since we have no agency, what are we waiting for? Waiting for Tatar in the coffin."
Are you looking for a dead body?" After saying that, he led the troops and walked inside.
Chen Yulou has a lot of experience in robbing tombs. I'm afraid that if something goes wrong, the whole army will be wiped out.
He himself needed to go with Luo Laowai, so he left half of them in the tomb passage to support them, while the rest went in to fight.
When he was about to leave, Zhang Lin stopped him.
When Chen Yulou saw this, he immediately stopped everyone and asked: "What's wrong? Taoist priest?"
Zhang Lindao: "You can't enter this city!"
Chen Yulou frowned when he heard this and said, "Taoist Master, can you tell me clearly, why can't we enter?"
"Yes, Taoist Priest!" Hua Ma turned around and said, "Your peace charm didn't respond, which means it's safe here. Why can't you enter?"
Seeing everyone looking at him, Zhang Lin frowned and said, "The Peace Talisman can only detect evil spirits, not mechanisms. I have a vague feeling that this city is a dangerous place."
When Chen Yulou heard this, he hesitated, but Luo Laowai had already gone in. If he didn't go in, no matter if there was something wrong or not, after robbing the tomb this time, Luo Laowai thought about it carefully and thought it would be bad.
If they didn't go in, they would just let Mr. Luo lie in disgrace.
With this in his mind, Chen Yulou said: "Taoist Master, we are all here today, how can we pass through the door and not come in? Moreover, Marshal Luo has brought people in, so it really makes no sense not to go in."
Zhang Lin frowned when he heard this and said, "You can go in, but you have to leave a way out."
Everyone looked at each other in confusion. Chen Yulou and Huamaguai both asked in confusion: "Leave a way out?"
Zhang Lin didn't say anything. He walked aside and used his strength to lift the stone pillar beside the tomb passage and threw it into the corridor of the huge door. "This door is the way in. If the other party sets up any mechanism, it will definitely close this door.
But the mechanism is nothing more than dropping the dragon-breaking stone or closing the two sides. Now there is a huge stone blocking it, which is enough for us to retreat."
Chen Yulou and others were admiring Zhang Lin's supernatural power. Those stone pillars weighed at least a thousand kilograms, but he could actually lift them.
Hearing his words again, Chen Yulou said: "The Taoist Master is far-sighted, so can we go in?"
Zhang Lin nodded and said: "Yes, but you still have to be careful. I always feel that it is not simple here."
Chen Yulou smiled and said: "With the Taoist priest here, Yuan Ren's plan will probably fail. Luo Shuai has entered not long ago, but we can't let him wait in a hurry. Let's go in quickly!"
Seeing Zhang Lin nodding, Chen Yulou led more than sixty Xiling thieves and followed Luo Laowai into the underground palace of the ancient tomb.
As soon as they entered the tomb gate, which was like a city gate, the terrain inside suddenly opened up. The bandits formed a square formation and moved forward according to the ancient Xiling formation diagram, clustering the two masters Chen and Luo as well as Zhang Lin in the center.
Centipedes were hung on the mountain ladder all around, and a string of rattan shields were hung for defense, and they slowly moved in the underground palace.
The group of thieves used long poles to carry lanterns and looked around. As expected, it was as reported by the spies just now. This underground palace built in the heart of Pingshan Mountain was surrounded by strict walls and there were watchtowers on the city. It looked like a Taoist palace and a cave. It was clearly like
It is a city where soldiers are stationed in a cave, with gates on three sides. Relatively speaking, the city in the middle of the mountain is completely empty. There are no palaces and houses in the city. It is much smaller than the real city. It is like a miniature model city.
, but it is not easy to build it in a cave in a mountain.
Where the thieves settled, there were piles of white bones all over the place. Most of the bones had their heads separated. Looking at the copper rings and silver ornaments on those skulls, you could tell that they were all ancestors of the Seventy-Two Cave.
This situation is not unusual to the Xiling people who have been robbing tombs for many years. These captives must have been forced to work, and the Taoist palace was changed into the Underworld Palace, and then they were slaughtered and buried here. In this way, the structure of the underground palace would not be spread.
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The group of thieves formed a "four-door pocket" square formation and cautiously advanced into the city, where nine lacquer coffins were quietly placed.
These coffins are tightly closed, painted with gold, and have many jade stones inlaid on the coffin boards. At first glance, they are the coffins of luxurious and noble people, and ordinary people cannot afford to use them. However, the large stone coffin in the middle is simple, thick and sturdy, without any
There are no decorative patterns, but being surrounded by nine lacquer coffins like "stars over the moon" is enough to show its nobility.
Chen Yulou looked around. The city wall-like tomb wall was dark and empty, and the doors were closed. There were no poisonous insects here, and there were a large number of caveman bones scattered around. Judging from the scale, location, and characteristics of this underground city, it should be the former one.
I don’t know how far away from the main hall and side halls are. The underground palace in the Pingshan Ancient Tomb is amazingly large. I don’t know who is buried in these lacquered coffins and stone coffins, but they are not the real owners.
Because the colors painted on the lacquered coffin are all Ganoderma lucidum, cranes, sika deer and cloud-sea pine mountains. They are definitely not the style of corpses buried in the Western Regions. They may be the "relics" of Gao Shizang in the caves of the Taoist palace in the past.
The corpse of a person who attained the Tao after death is called a "relic". However, it is hard to say whether the corpse buried inside is a Yuan general or a Taoist priest. Moreover, I have never seen a coffin arranged like this. Could it be some kind of formation talisman?
Chen Yulou was secretly suspicious. He thought it was strange and strange no matter how he looked at it. He stared at the lacquered coffin and stone coffin for a few times, undecided whether he should start "raising the coffin and raising the materials."
Zhang Lin was shocked when he saw this place.
As a general, he had no detailed records of visiting the tomb in Pingshan, but he could still tell that this was not a tomb at all, but a city.
It has been said since ancient times: Please enter the urn.
Now a group of thieves have come to steal people's graves and entered this city. How can they survive?
Chapter completed!