Looking at the empty red coffin with no body at all, the four of them stopped in front of the coffin.
Eggplant cursed:
"Fuck, how many fake tombs has this old boy King Zhao made?"
Ji Han retorted:
"No, King Zhao, as the last monarch whose country was destroyed and his family was destroyed, should not have that strength anymore. It is good to be able to build such a tomb. But how come there is no body?"
With that said, Ji Han picked up the bundle of bamboo slips in the coffin.
I opened it and found that it was the third volume missing from the box of "Insect Witch Scripture" I just read, so I flipped through it and started reading.
Chen Ke checked the coffin and found that there was a small flap attached to the inside of the coffin lid.
"Look, there is indeed a mechanism here."
Song Qian and Eggplant looked at it and couldn't tell what mechanism this small flap was connected to.
"Indeed, but there are no changes in the surroundings. Could it be that the mechanism is broken? Or is it activated but we didn't notice it?"
At this time, Ji Han said to himself:
"Damn it, this is actually the case!"
As he spoke, the bamboo slips in his hand fell to the ground, and the rotten bamboo strips were scattered all over the ground.
The three of them saw Ji Han's shocked face and didn't understand what happened.
Song Qian had never seen Ji Han's face look so ugly before, so she stepped forward and asked:
"Brother Han, what's wrong? What does this bamboo slip say?"
Ji Han swallowed and said:
"We were all deceived by this old bastard Zhao Wangdai!"
After that, he explained the contents of this volume in detail.
It turns out that what is recorded in the third volume of the "Insect Witch Sutra" is the characteristics and usage of the insect called "red".
But it is different from what is written on the wall of the blood pool in the tomb of General Daliao outside.
"Red" insects are divided into worker insects, male insects and queen insects. The division of labor among the three is the same as what is written outside.
Workers cut up the corpses to build nests, males control the corpses to defend the nests, and the queen is responsible for producing "red" worms.
In the legend of the Southern Witch Land, the "red" insect is indeed related to immortality. However, in terms of specific usage, only the first half is written on the wall of the blood pool.
That is, after killing 999 people, use their blood to breed "red" worms, and the queens will live in the unharmed corpses in the blood pool.
But it does not mean that if the corpse of the insect queen is soaked in the blood pool for a thousand years and then escapes, it will become an immortal and achieve immortality.
Because after a thousand years, the Insect Queen has perfectly absorbed 999 kinds of blood essence, gained the strength of nearly a thousand people and the ability to live forever.
However, the corpse inhabited by the insect queen cannot withstand such high-intensity blood and water corrosion, so after a thousand years, the corpse will be completely corroded, and together with the insect queen's body, it will become something like silk mesh and cotton wool.
Then at this time, an uninjured corpse is provided to the Queen of Insects, so that the two can truly be fused together to resurrect the dead and gain near-perfect immortality.
And the older the corpse is, the stronger it will be after fusion.
After listening to Ji Han explain the contents of the third volume of "Insect Witch Sutra", everyone understood the meaning.
Eggplant cursed:
"Fuck, that is to say, this old boy, King Zhao, made up a fake immortality scheme, tricked the Liao general into killing 999 people for him, filled up the blood pool, and used his own body to
The queen who raises the 'red' worm. In fact, all this is to make wedding clothes for King Zhao? So that she can finally pick the fruit directly and gain true immortality?"
Ji Han nodded.
According to the current situation, this is indeed the case, and everything seems to be going according to King Zhao's plan.
Song Qian thought of the bloody man who attacked her in the blood pool before and asked:
"Could it be that the bloody man who attacked me in the blood pool was General Daliao who had been corrupted by the queen of the 'red' worm?"
Ji Han frowned and replied:
"It should be like this. I didn't expect that this Daliao general who dreamed of immortality killed thousands of people, but he ended up like this."
Chen Ke looked for this idea and said:
"So this Zhao Dynasty only needs to fuse his thousand-year-old corpse with the insect queen to be resurrected and become immortal?"
No one replied. After all, facing such a big reversal, it was a little hard to accept, but the facts are right in front of us, and the answer is yes.
Ji Han took a deep breath and said:
"The key now is where is King Zhao's body?"
Song Qian stared at the empty coffin and said:
"Not only King Zhao's body, but also the divine pillar is not in this coffin."
When Ji Han thought of the divine pillar, he habitually looked at the divine pillar detector on Song Qian's waist.
It turned out that the detector's light had gone out.
"Song Qian, is your divine pillar detector broken?"
Song Qian also lowered her head and realized it, took it off, looked at it and said:
"No, the detector is not broken, it's just that we have distanced ourselves from the divine pillar."
No, isn't the divine pillar supposed to be carried by King Zhao? Why can't it be seen after going deep into his tomb?
Suddenly, Ji Han realized something and asked hurriedly:
"When we just came down from the hole in the wall opposite the blood pool, was the light of the divine pillar detector on?"
Song Qian nodded, and everyone remembered it.
Ji Han raised his head and looked towards the place where everyone had just walked. The lamp that had caused the four of them to spin in circles was still standing there.
Then Ji Han gritted his teeth and cursed:
"Fuck, the four of us have fallen into a trap!"
No one understood what it meant, and Eggplant even cursed:
"Wardfa, I said, Ji Han, you should tell me what's going on! Please don't play riddles with us, okay?"
Ji Han took out the mechanical crossbow, installed the burning arrow, and explained:
"First, after we descended into this tomb, the further we walked in, the detector showed that the distance from the sacred pillar was further away, indicating that the location of the sacred pillar was behind us, where the earthen wall murals were."
"Second, we saw that there were six small openings in the low pit next to the blood pool. If the wall of the blood pool really collapsed as written outside, then the blood would pour into those openings and the six small openings.
, just above and behind the earthen wall.”
"Third, this coffin is obviously a bait. It touched the trap of the small flap just now, but there was no trap nearby. If I expected it right, it is because the trap is connected to the place where we came down.
, the mechanism that controls the wall of the blood pool. If the mechanism is triggered here, the wall of the blood pool over there should have been broken."
"So you tell me, where is King Zhao's body?"
Chen Ke understood immediately.
"Just where we came down, behind the earthen wall with the mural?"
Ji Han nodded, took up the mechanical crossbow and aimed it in the direction of the lamp, while explaining:
"Yes, if I guessed correctly, the blood has already poured into the real coffin behind the earthen wall, and King Zhao's body may have been fused with the 'red' insect queen."
As soon as they finished speaking, the four of them heard a "boom" and the sound of the wall breaking.
Then I saw that at the farthest place where the four people came down, the two lamps there suddenly went out.
Ji Han aimed in that direction and shot the flaming arrow with a "whoosh" sound.
The exploding arrows illuminated the distance, but the distance was too far, and all you could see was a black figure standing in front of the broken wall, and the blood in the wall was pouring into the tomb continuously.
Ji Han smiled bitterly and said:
"Everyone, it seems we are going to kill the immortal."