Chen Mengsheng stood up and asked: "Junior sister, big brother, where is the darkroom you found? Take me to see it quickly. The pattern engraved on the Phoenix Tail Bamboo is a tribute to King Liu Xu of Guangling. I want to learn from the sky in this picture.
The road is to fly and become an immortal!" Xiang Xiaotian recalled that day when he turned on the mechanism and patted the stone table, but after more than ten pats, he could not find the open doorway. Shangguan Yanran and Jiang Meng looked at Xiang Xiaotian who was sweating profusely.
There were waves of fear in my heart. If Yanzhi had not accidentally opened the secret passage on the day when he came to kill him, the consequences would have been something Shangguan Yanran and the others would not have dared to imagine...
Chen Mengsheng saw that the solid stone table was natural and there was no abnormality at all. He carefully explored it with his hands and discovered the mystery. It turned out that there were three slightly concave dots on the table, which were about the size of a grain of rice. The color of each micro dot was related to the surrounding stone.
They are the same and separated by an inch. Fortunately, it was Xiang Xiaotian who opened the darkroom by chance by spreading his fingers widely. If it had been anyone else, he would have been in trouble.
Chen Mengsheng spread out his hand and touched the three concave spots on the table. A copper handle was revealed after the machine clicked on the stone table. The four people filed into the dark room. Chen Mengsheng was really shocked when the night pearl illuminated the poisoned plum blossom arrows all around the walls.
surprised.
Shangguan Yanran walked to the sandalwood box in the corner and said: "Brother, I always feel that this place is strange. The owner of the house, Liu Wenyuan, put the priceless Kowloon Cup in the house, but hid these ordinary gold leaves in the dark room."
Chen Mengsheng felt puzzled after hearing Shangguan Yanran's words. He opened his eyes and looked at the red sandalwood box. He stretched out his hand and touched the back side of the box. After groping for a while, he said happily: "Brother, junior sister, what's in this sandalwood box?"
The gold leaves are just to hide it from others, the real secret is on the stone wall behind the box."
Xiang Xiaotian, Jiangmeng and Shangguan Yanran both leaned their heads and looked behind the red sandalwood box, only to see a small gray protruding rock on the stone wall.
Xiang Xiaotian touched the rock and asked in surprise: "Brother, what is this? Why are there words on it?"
Chen Mengsheng looked at Shangguan Yanran and said, "Junior sister, I'm afraid this is the same character lock as the nine-tailed stone turtle on the Han Ling Mysterious Plate. Among us, you are the only one who is proficient in mechanisms."
Shangguan Yanran forced a smile in embarrassment and said: "Senior brother, you are making fun of me again. I just learned some basic tricks from others. I am not sure that I will be able to break this trap. Let me try. If I can't break the trap,
You can’t even talk about me!”
Jiang Meng said anxiously: "I asked Miss Shangguan to break all the difficult traps in the Han Mausoleum. How can we not break such a small stone wall trap now?" Shangguan Yanran was suddenly pushed to the forefront by Jiang Meng's words. The trap was
The degree of difficulty does not depend on the size of the mechanism. These are also difficult for Jiang Meng, who does not understand the mechanism...
Shangguan Yanran closed her eyes and touched the characters on the protruding stone with her hands, and murmured to herself: "There are five characters on the stone, which are the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth in seal script. I have only heard of this mechanism.
But I’ve never actually encountered one.”
Chen Mengsheng saw that the poisonous ink on Shangguan Yanran's face had not yet faded away. If he hadn't seen the begging document written on the phoenix tail bamboo written by Liu Xu, King of Guangling, and knew that there must be something related to Liu Xu hidden in the dark room, maybe
The key to slaying the ghost king Liu Xu could be found from it. The three of them listened quietly to Shangguan Yanran muttering some incomprehensible formulas to herself. Chen Mengsheng could understand two or three points of the phrases in Shangguan Yanran's mouth.
The five characters on the stone wall should be the five elements of the theory of mutual growth. Wood makes fire, and the fire lies in it, and fire makes earth, and it burns into ashes...
Shangguan Yanran tried again and again to arrange the five-element characters. After half an hour, oily sweat began to flow from the tip of her pretty nose.
Xiang Xiaotian stared at the five characters and his eyes were about to bleed, and said anxiously: "Isn't it just five characters? Is it so difficult to open it? I'll open it!"
Chen Mengsheng pulled Xiang Xiaotian to a corner of the darkroom and said: "Brother, don't underestimate these five characters. They can be ever-changing and have hundreds of thousands of different combinations and arrangements. It's not easy to open it. Junior sister knows how to open the mechanism.
We are much stronger."
Shangguan Yanran turned back and said: "Brother Xiang, please stop arguing. Four of the five elements have been cracked, only the last golden pillar has not been cracked. As long as it takes a cup of tea, I can open the five elements mechanism."
After Shangguan Yanran finished speaking, she continued to be busy. Chen Mengsheng and the other three felt that the time spent on this cup of tea was really slow...
There was a soft "click" sound, and the sandalwood box on the ground, along with the earth and stones at the bottom of the box, turned around to reveal a narrow stone staircase under the box. Jiang Meng was about to praise Shangguan Yanran for her ability, but he didn't say anything yet.
As soon as he said it, he saw Shangguan Yanran's figure shaking, her whole body was shaky and limp, and she fell down while holding on to the wall.
"Junior sister, junior sister..." Chen Mengsheng jumped up and helped Shangguan Yanran.
"Senior brother... I'm so tired... so cold. Just let me rest for a while." Chen Mengsheng put his hand against Shangguan Yanran's back and injected the green energy of the nectar curse into her body.
Xiang Xiaotian asked with concern: "Is the girl okay?"
"Junior sister is suffering from corpse poison and the remaining poison in her body has not yet been eliminated. This switch on and off is too exhausting and she is exhausted. Brother, don't worry, she can recover as long as she rests for a few more days. I will send junior sister back to the room to rest for the two of us.
Brother, please wait for me for a moment."
Jiang Meng said: "Brother Chen, go back quickly. If a goblin flies out of this dark hole, we won't be able to catch it." Chen Mengsheng nodded, climbed up the ladder, hugged Shangguan Yanran and left.
darkroom……
There were only two people left in the darkroom, Xiang Xiaotian and Jiang Meng, waiting for Chen Mengsheng. Jiang Meng looked at the rosewood box and said: "It is really clever to use a whole box of thousands of taels of gold leaves to hide the mechanism below.
!”
Xiang Xiaotian always had a grudge against Jiang Meng because Shangguan Yanran saved Jiang Meng from being poisoned and almost died, so he replied lukewarmly: "What's so clever about it?"
"Think about it, the person who set up the trap must know that even if someone comes in here and takes the gold leaves in the box, they will never think about the secret passage under the box. According to me, there must be more hidden passages under the stone stairs.
With gold and silver, maybe we can become as rich as Mr. Pang!" Jiang Meng's eyes shone as if he had seen mountains of gold and seas of gold, and his face was full of excitement.
Xiang Xiaotian sighed: "It's enough if you have enough money. If you don't bring it with you in life, you won't take it with you in death. Just like the owner of this house, he left the money but he doesn't know whether it is life or death. If the money is dead,
To remove the flowers would be sad!"
Jiang Meng was still upset about the Ye Ming Dongzhu that he had smashed in the Han Mausoleum. Now after hearing what Xiang Xiaotian said, he felt that it was reasonable and secretly relieved a lot. But when he saw the stone steps in the secret passage in front of him, he felt a little relieved in his heart.
He started to get excited again and said to Xiang Xiaotian with a smile: "You can use your eyes to see better. Why don't we go down first to explore what is under the stone steps?"
Xiang Xiaotian glanced sideways at the stone steps and said: "I will stay here and wait for my brother to come. If you want to go down, I will never stop you. But I have to say ugly things first. If you encounter a hidden weapon, a monster down there,
No one is here to save you!" After saying this, Xiang Xiaotian sat down on the sandalwood box angrily, ignoring Jiang Meng's anger and anger. Xiang Xiaotian's eyes were fixed on the black stone steps.
I'm afraid that evil spirits will really come out.
Jiang Meng was helpless and looked at the black hole on the stone steps, unable to do anything. The two of them remained in a stalemate without saying a word. They waited until Chen Mengsheng held up a torch and handed it to Jiang Meng, and then they followed Chen Mengsheng down the stone steps...
There were only seven or eight stone steps in total, and there was a small room at the end of the stone steps. Jiang Meng used a torch to light up the ever-bright oil lamp on the stone wall, and the small room was suddenly brightly lit. "Ah...Brother Chen, there is someone here.
Dead man!" The small room was only about a foot square, and there was a dead man sitting in the corner of the small room, leaning against the stone wall.
Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian had seen it a long time ago, but they were shocked when Jiang Meng roared. Xiang Xiaotian complained: "A dead man scared you like this, look at your potential!"
Chen Mengsheng knew in his heart that Xiang Xiaotian had always doted on Junior Sister Shangguan. Now that Junior Sister was injured, he was a bit angry with Jiang Meng. Only after Junior Sister recovered, the two of them would be reconciled. Only the heart medicine doctor, Chen Mengsheng, would be able to reconcile.
Shaking his head and smiling bitterly, he walked up to the dead body.
Because there had been no air circulation in the small room for a long time, the corpse's skin had dried up and shrunk into a wrinkled mass. The eye sockets were deeply sunken, and the lips were raised upward to expose the incisors. The clothes worn by the corpse were torn, so it should be like this
A person suffers great pain before dying. Under the torn clothes, Chen Mengsheng can see his dark skin and he can't help but frown.
Xiang Xiaotian didn't understand and asked: "Brother, why are you worried? This person has been dead for several years. Could it be that his death was strange?"
Jiang Meng retorted: "I've become a piece of stinky meat, what else can be weird?"
Chen Mengsheng sighed: "This person should have been poisoned and died. The skin all over his body turned into a thick ink color and he died without rotting."
"Humph, if you hadn't treated her in time, the girl would have become like him!" Xiang Xiaotian said in a huff.
Chen Mengsheng said solemnly: "Brother, if you encounter a walking corpse in the Han Tomb, even if it is a junior sister who is in danger, Brother Jiang will risk his own life to save him. The most difficult thing for a person is not to die but to be willing to save others.
And those who come forward should be cherished more only if they have experienced life and death together!"
When Chen Mengsheng said this, Xiang Xiaotian immediately understood that if the four of them were in the Han tomb, no one would die without saving him. Alas, he had been with the girl for a long time and regarded her as his sister-in-law, so he complained about Jiang.
Fierce, care leads to chaos...
After thinking about it, Xiang Xiaotian raised his fist towards Jiang Meng and said, "Brother Jiang, I, Xiang Xiaotian, am a rough man and I will make amends to you for what I said to offend you."
Jiang Meng said sarcastically: "This is all my fault. I originally wanted to find something rare in the Han Tomb as a gift for brother Chen and Miss Shangguan on the day of their happy marriage. It's a shame that I didn't find this rare thing.
I risked Miss Shangguan's life, so I felt even worse. When I saw the hole in the darkroom, I wanted to come down and look for any treasures to give to Shangguan Yanran, but I didn't know there was a dead body here. If I had known this, I would have
You shouldn't have smashed those beads!" Xiang Xiaotian and Jiang Meng both burst out laughing...