The road inside the cave was longer than Su Zhen thought, and was wide enough for three or four people to walk side by side. The walls were uneven, and it was obviously dug out by manpower and not carefully carved.
Su Zhen followed Xiao Chuhong closely, her palms became moist with fine sweat, but he did not let go of her. The solid and generous back was in front of her, and although her sight was blocked, it gave her unprecedented safety.
feel.
Su Zhen has always been pretentious and arrogant, which is vividly reflected in her. She is a typical person who doesn't feel that the road has gone wrong even if she hits the south wall and breaks her head and bleeds.
She stroked her chin and said "hehe" and enjoyed the feeling of being protected. She didn't notice that Xiao Chuhong suddenly stopped, her forehead hit his back, and she poked her head out from behind his shoulder, only to find that there was a dead end in front of her.
Xiao Chuhong raised his hand and groped around on the stone wall blocking their way, and heard a "click" sound, and a square groove appeared.
Intricate 'tracks' are engraved in the grooves, and a stone ball the size of a fingernail is placed in the upper right corner. Xiao Chuhong skillfully manipulates it to swim in the track, and his movements are dazzlingly fast.
"Close your eyes."
Su Zhen closed her eyes obediently, and heard the sound of mechanisms operating and chains hitting the stone wall.
The thin and hot light allowed Su Zhen to still see the light in the darkness. She quietly opened her eyes a crack, and the strong white light made her eyes hurt.
After getting used to it for a while, when the white light dissipated, a faint green light flashed around her. She was surprised to find that the center of the mountain was empty, and there was a huge space inside.
From their feet to the opposite cliff, there was a pure black iron chain bridge. There was no wooden plank on it, but an iron chain was fastened between the chains every few meters. If your foot slipped while walking, you would definitely fall.
Fall down.
The stone wall in the mountain is not only steep, but also covered with a thick layer of ice and snow, and it is also white under the feet. Her spiritual power protects the body and dispels a lot of coldness.
What shocked Su Zhen was that there were countless "stone men" under the cliff. They seemed to be... training soldiers?
Those stone people are the same size as real people, arranged horizontally or vertically, densely packed, spectacular and majestic. Their facial features are sharp and angular but have no real face, their limbs are strong and flexible, their movements are uniform, their steps are as steady as Mount Tai, and their momentum is so majestic that it can break the sky.
Wearing stone battle armor, holding stone spears or bronze swords, they are tall and tall, more than nine feet in length. Some are doing daily drills, and some are practicing formations with their generals.
Overall, they are almost identical to humans except for one piece of human skin.
This weird painting style made Su Zhen close her mouth from ear to ear and rubbed her eyes, but they were still there.
She suddenly showed an expression of realization, "Didn't I come out of the illusion? No wonder you did so many abnormal actions. It turns out you are not Xiao Chuhong! Tell me! Who are you?!"
Xiao Chuhong said amusingly, "You don't need to be soldiers of all kinds of plants and trees. They are rock guards and they have surrendered to me now."
"Iwawei?!"
"Hmm." Xiao Chuhong pointed to the most muscular Stone General holding a battle flag on the huge platform below and said, "That is the Rock General. All the Rock Guards obey his orders."
"You raise so many stone soldiers...could it be that you want to rebel?"
"If you like this country, I can knock it down and give it to you."
"Tch! Don't fool me. Don't think that I don't remember your family's rules. Your ancestors have said that you can't do anything rebellious."
Xiao Chuhong smiled lightly, "If the emperor is unkind or ignorant, how can he be worthy of my loyalty? Being too brainless is foolish loyalty!"
"Actually, the emperor is fine. The main thing is that some of the corrupt officials are too corrupt, and there are more sycophants."
"These rock guards were left to me by my father." Xiao Chuhong raised his finger and pointed to the dark cave entrance opposite the Iron Chain Bridge, "That leads to my father's tomb."
"Ah? Graveyard? How is that possible?"
"My father said that if he died in battle one day, he would be buried in the tomb he had built for himself. During my mourning period, I accidentally found a parchment among his belongings.
The drawing shows that there is a teleportation circle between these two mountains. And the parchment records the secrets that our Xiao family has guarded for generations, that is, these rock guard armies."
Su Zhen stood on tiptoe and knocked downwards, but before she could look carefully, she was frightened by the deafening sound of the war drum and shrank back.
"Have you been hiding here for training all these years?"
"Um."
"Does the prince and Mr. Dongli know?"
"I don't know, you and I are the only ones who know this secret."
"Uh...are you afraid that you might suspect me of leaking secrets?"
"If I had doubts, I wouldn't have brought you here."
Su Zhen smiled awkwardly, let go of Xiao Chuhong's hand, and wiped the sweat on her clothes. By the way, she looked at the "soldiers" of the Rock Guard who were practicing the formation. They were extremely fast and their movements were smooth and flowing.
From above, she had a panoramic view of all the structures. These rock guards could not shout, but their majestic momentum shocked her heart and she was deeply impressed by them.
It suddenly seemed to her that she had gone back to the days when she had experienced battles between humans and monsters, and blood flowed in her heart.
Golden light suddenly burst out from the palm of Su Zhen's hand, forming a ball of light and throwing it towards the bottom of the cliff. Through the brief light, she could clearly see a fist-sized array in the "heart" of all the rock guards.
The talismans depicted are too complicated.
After careful identification, her pupils dilated and she looked at Xiao Chuhong with a gloomy expression, "General Xiao, do you... want them to turn into humans?"
The latter tilted his head, "Huh? What do you mean by this?"
"Why did you send Li Jiu to investigate Xi Yan's murder case in the first place? You were even obsessed with a porcelain doll, and even tried every means to find out its origin and function?"
"for you."
"Don't fool me. I estimate there are about 200,000 of these rock guards. They are very perfect, so perfect that they are impeccable. However, not only are their powers sealed, they even lack flesh and blood and living souls. Well, what is a living soul? What is a living soul?
When the soul leaves the body, it becomes the living soul. The origins of these stone soldiers of yours should not be simple.
As far as I know, it is rumored that the ancient god's surname is 'Fang', and his real name is unknown. He was born in Taihuang, and he was the first to appear in the imperial world. He opened up the chaos. He split stone into a beast, and the beast's name was 'Yi'. His whole body was black in color.
It looks like a leopard, with a single horn on its forehead and five tails. It is contaminated with the energy of Hongmeng, so it has spiritual wisdom and a humanoid shape. The broken stone on its body can transform into thousands of clones."
"Do you think my rock guard was transformed from the rubble on his body?" Xiao Chuhong's dark and deep eyes were filled with a deep luster.
"Isn't it?"
Xiao Chuhong lowered his head and chuckled.
Su Zhen felt her hair standing on end, "Why are you laughing?"
"I'm just a little worried. You are so smart and I'm afraid I won't be able to resist you in the future." This chapter has been completed!