Lao Mo took the compass and determined the direction according to the angle calculated by Xiao Lou.
In order to reach the Tianquan Star as quickly as possible, Yu Hanjiang activated the Qing Gong card and brought it to Xiao Lou, Lao Mo took Liu Qiao, and Lu Jiuchuan also rode the Suzaku. The group of people quickly walked 30 meters towards the north, and then headed towards
Continue due west.
Although you will encounter many forks along the way, you will not go wrong as long as you keep the direction accurate with the compass.
On the other side, Ye Qi and Shao Qingge both have teleportation cards, Long Sen and Qu Wanyue can use "Long Jump Master" to jump 8 meters at a time, Chu Huaying's own movement speed is very fast, and Gui Yuanzhang's brush is okay
The floating airflow was generated to assist the flight, and everyone quickly followed the direction and distance mentioned by Xiao Lou.
In less than 3 minutes, Guiyuan Zhang and six others arrived in front of a stone room.
Xiao Lou and others also happened to be walking from the other direction.
Ye Qi said excitedly, "It seems that Professor Xiao's guess is right. This should be the location of Tianquan Star, right?!"
Xiao Lou nodded, "Go in and have a look."
The stone door is tightly closed and cannot be pushed open.
There is a complicated "chessboard" on the door, which is covered with white stones of the same size. The stone in the middle above is fixed, and the surrounding stones are arranged in an extremely messy manner.
Lu Jiuzhou touched his chin and looked at the chessboard on the stone gate, asking, "Is this the end game of Go?"
Yu Hanjiang immediately denied, "No. There are black stones and white stones in Go. There are only white stones on this chessboard. How can you play chess with stones of one color?"
Lu Jiuchuan was not embarrassed if he guessed wrong and laughed, "What is that? Do these stones represent stars?"
Gui Yuanzhang walked to the stone door and took a closer look. He nodded and confirmed Lu Jiuchuan's speculation, "It should be the star chart mechanism."
Xiao Lou observed for a moment and said, "The star chart mechanism, all the white stones represent a star. We need to reset the star chart to open this door. The white stone fixed in the middle..."
Guiyuan Zhang asked, "Is it the missing Tianquan Star?"
Xiao Lou thought for a moment and said, "It's in the middle above. It might also be the North Star."
After saying that, he gently touched the stone in the middle with his hand and found that the stone could not move.
The North Star was a very important reference mark for the ancients to identify directions.
When traveling at night, if you can find the North Star in the sky, it is due north, and the opposite is due south, up north, down south, left west, right east, so that you can deduce your specific location without getting lost.
The star map is related to the North Star, and the theme of this tomb is "Seven Stars Gathering the Moon." Obviously, what they need to restore on the star map is the trajectory of the "Big Dipper".
The moment Xiao Lou touched the North Star, the star map in front of him suddenly changed.
There are two white stones moving on the chessboard, and finally staying in the lower right corner of the chessboard, with the connecting line facing the North Star.
Xiao Lou said, "This is a reminder item, helping us locate Tianshu and Tianxuan stars."
After all, many challengers are not able to draw pictures while walking through the maze like Xiao Lou and others, and they may not be able to analyze that the connection between the living burial tombs on the lower level is the symbol of the Big Dipper. Therefore, the star map mechanism of this Shimen will be given to challengers.
Some tips.
When you see Polaris due north and the connecting lines below, you can easily deduce that this is the shape of the Big Dipper.
No matter how the Big Dipper changes, the spoon part of the "colander" will definitely face the North Star. Now that Tianshu and Tianxuan have been positioned, it is not difficult for Xiao Lou to restore the other stars.
The line connecting Tianshu Tianxuan at an obtuse angle is Tianji Star, and next to it is Tianquan Star...
Xiao Lou stretched out his slender fingers, picked up the stones on the chessboard according to the "colander" pattern in his memory, and quickly pieced together a star map of the "Big Dipper Array".
After the star map was completed, a layer of soft light lit up on the chessboard.
As expected, the mechanism of the Shimen was unlocked, and the "rumbling" sound of the Shimen rising was heard in everyone's ears.
Everyone looked at each other, and Tang Ci cautiously put the mechanical ant into the stone chamber first to see if there was any stepping mechanism inside. After the ant circled around and confirmed that it was safe, Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan took the lead in entering the stone chamber.
Other teammates followed closely behind.
This stone chamber is about 100 square meters and is very spacious. A full circle of everlasting lamps are lit on the walls of the stone chamber, making the entire stone chamber brightly lit. There is a sarcophagus placed on the middle table. The volume of the sarcophagus is larger than the living burial coffin found in the lower floor.
It is larger and has many strange charms engraved around the coffin.
Xiao Lou looked carefully at the talismans, which seemed to be consistent with the totems found on the lower living burial coffins.
At this moment, the entire stone room suddenly shook violently, and everyone was almost shaken. Yu Hanjiang hurriedly supported Xiao Lou and said, "It seems that the maze is about to collapse. We have to hurry up!"
The light of the ever-burning lantern flickered continuously, and some plaster fell from the roof like snow. Obviously, the explosion had affected the upper tomb chamber, and it would soon collapse.
Xiao Lou realized the seriousness of the problem and hurriedly said, "Everyone split up and check the surrounding walls. Hanjiang, see if you can open this sarcophagus!"
Yu Hanjiang nodded, flew to the front of the sarcophagus with Qinggong, raised the saber in his hand, and slashed horizontally——
The entire coffin lid was instantly broken off by his strong force.
Xiao Lou stepped forward and looked inside the coffin - he saw a corpse lying inside. Surrounding the bones were full of gold, silver, jade and other burial objects, each of which looked priceless. Shao
Seeing this, Qingge couldn't help but said, "Can these finances be sold?"
Xiao Lou said, "Don't move for now."
He pulled these treasures aside with his hands, revealing the complete bones in the sarcophagus.
Judging from the shape of the pelvis and the condition of the bones, this should be an elderly man. Obvious degenerative changes can be seen on the edges of the vertebrae. The initial estimate is that he is over 50 years old.
And, most importantly, all that was left of his body was his torso—but his head was missing.
Where is his head?
Seeing this, the teammates looked at each other in shock, and Ye Qi couldn't help but ask, "This body has no head?"
Xiao Lou stared at the bones thoughtfully, and Yu Hanjiang said, "The name of Zhou Chang's secret chamber this time is the Tomb of the Headless General. Could it be that this headless corpse is the owner of the ancient tomb?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the sarcophagus suddenly moved sideways, revealing a downward step.
Ye Qi was delighted, "Is this the exit of the maze?"
Just as the teammates were about to go down to take a look, Xiao Lou suddenly said, "Don't go down, something is wrong."
He looked at the headless bones in the coffin and said with confusion, "The ancients were very particular about leaving the whole body after death. His tomb was so luxuriously built. Not only did it have the mechanism of six reincarnations, but there was even a burial coffin with seven stars arching the moon in the lower level. Obviously
, he wants to become an immortal after death and ascend to bliss forever... How could he let his head be separated?"
Ye Qi quickly retracted his stepped foot, "It makes sense. Death without a complete body should be the most taboo of the ancients."
Guiyuan Zhang also nodded and said, "It is indeed unreasonable. This corpse has no head. Maybe he offended someone during his lifetime and his head was chopped off by his enemy when he was buried?"
Ye Qi wondered, "He was beheaded when he was buried? If he really had a deep hatred, why would he just chop off his head? He must have cut his body into pieces and fed it to the dogs. Can he still be allowed to lie comfortably in the tomb?"
Indeed, how could anyone with deep hatred only cut off his head and bury him properly in a tomb?
As Ye Qi said, if he was really an enemy, his body would be exposed in the wilderness and eaten by wild dogs.
Guiyuan Zhang said, "There is another possibility - this is actually a suspicious coffin."
Xiao Lou heard what Senior Gui said and immediately reacted, "Yes, the person in this coffin is not the owner of the tomb. He placed a stone coffin here and put a headless corpse in it. It was just a deception to confuse the tomb robbers."
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Blindfolding is a common method used in ancient tombs.
In order to prevent future generations from coming to rob the tomb, they usually put some fake coffins and corpses to confuse the tomb robbers, while the real tomb owner is often hidden in a more hidden place.
This time Zhou Chang's name is "Tomb of the Headless General". After many twists and turns, everyone finally found the central tomb chamber and found a large amount of gold and silver treasures and headless bones. Many people naturally subconsciously thought that they had found the tomb.
The main entrance and the exit of the maze. If you are not careful enough, you may go down this step...
Tang Ci released his mechanical ant, "I'll investigate first."
As the mechanical ant went down the steps, the sound of "swishing" suddenly sounded in everyone's ears. Xiao Lou placed the drone monitoring card on the mechanical ant. Everyone saw a shocking scene from the card monitoring.
The picture——
Going down from here, you will find a machine room filled with arrows!
As long as the challenger steps on the slate tiles in the secret room, the mechanism will be triggered, and dense poisonous arrows will be shot out from the surrounding walls, making it inevitable for people to avoid it. If you are not careful, you may even be shot into a hedgehog...
Ye Qi was frightened when he saw it: "Little girl Fang Pian is so cheating, she still played such a trick in the end!"
Lu Jiuchuan complained in a low voice, "I have long said that she is a pervert."
Fortunately, Seniors Xiao Lou and Gui thought about it calmly. If they had just been worried about the maze collapsing and ran down the steps in a panic... those with a slightly slower reaction would have been shot to death by random arrows in the maze.
Yu Hanjiang frowned, "This is fake, then where is the real owner of the tomb?"
Xiao Lou asked, "Have you discovered the surrounding walls again?"
Chu Huaying said, "We have checked everything around. There are no compartments or traps."
Xiao Lou raised his head and looked above the coffin.
Since there are no mechanisms on the surrounding walls of the stone chamber, and the secret room below is a room designed to deceive people, the most likely possibility is that there is another mechanism above it, and the person buried there is the real owner of the tomb.
Xiao Lou looked at the roof carefully.
This roof is very much like an astrolabe. It is densely covered with many stone-like decorations. Among them is the largest stone, which can be used as the North Star. I followed the direction of the astrolabe on the stone door and found the arrangement.
The colors of these seven stones are obviously brighter than those around them.
There are many vacant places around the Big Dipper array, like grooves.
Those grooves... their shapes look familiar? There are round ones and crescent-shaped ones...
Xiao Lou thought of the ornaments representing different tribes he had found in the living burial coffin. An idea flashed in his mind and he asked, "Senior Gui, have you brought all the things you found in the living burial coffin?"
Gui Yuanzhang stretched out his hand and handed the bracelet and pendant painted with totem patterns to Xiao Lou.
Xiao Lou took out the wooden comb and jade pendant he found from his pocket, looked at Yu Hanjiang, pointed at the groove next to the star map on the roof, and said, "Hanjiang, try to see if you can put these things in the groove on the roof."
Inside the tank."
Yu Hanjiang flew up with Qinggong and placed four "tokens" in the grooves——
One of the grooves can hold a bracelet; a semi-circular groove can hold a wooden comb; a perfectly round groove can hold a jade pendant; and there is also a pendant-shaped one, which is the wolf tooth pendant found in Gui Yuanzhang.
The four props were put into the four grooves and they fit perfectly!
Xiao Lou raised his lips, "The props found in the living burial coffin are exactly the key to unlocking the final tomb chamber."
As the props were put in, a "rumbling" sound was heard in everyone's ears, and the slate tiles above their heads suddenly split to both sides, revealing a square skylight large enough for one person to pass through.
Lao Mo suddenly realized, "There is another layer above. It seems that this tomb is actually a three-layer structure?"
In order to avoid being deceived again, Tang Ci quickly released the drone for investigation. Soon, the drone flew back to his hand. The camera recorded the general image seen in the stone chamber. Tang Ci said, "In the secret room above,
There is also a sarcophagus.”
——This is the real owner of the ancient tomb!
Chapter 396, The identity of the tomb owner
After confirming that there were no traps like arrow rain, Yu Hanjiang jumped up and flew up using Qinggong. Lao Mo, Gui Yuanzhang, Long Sen and Qu Wanyue also jumped up soon after.
For those who don't have Qing Gong cards, Yu Hanjiang puts down Bai Ling and pulls his teammates up one by one.
The area of the stone chamber above is twice as large as the previous one, with a wide space of nearly 200 square meters, and the surrounding walls are covered with colorful murals.
In the middle of the secret room is a one-meter-high stone platform with a sarcophagus placed on it.
Three circles of ever-burning lamps were lit around the sarcophagus, as well as a large number of yellow charms.
Xiao Lou quickly walked towards the mural——
The murals on the four walls completely describe the owner's life.
The owner of this ancient tomb is actually not a general, but the emperor of a small country in ancient times. He is not the eldest son, but the concubine born to a concubine. He was not favored when he was a child, but was bullied. In order to get the throne, he endured humiliation and endured many hardships.
The queen killed many of her brothers. She eventually launched a mutiny and bloodbathed the palace, killed her brother who had just succeeded to the throne, and sat on the throne herself.
Probably because he suffered too much torture in his childhood, his psychology gradually became distorted. During his reign, he was cruel and cruel. Judging from the murals, countless people were killed and injured under his tyranny.
In his later years, he suddenly began to believe in Buddhism. He believed that he had sinned so much that he might go to hell after death, so he ignored political affairs every day, stayed in the palace, chanted sutras, and had nightmares frequently.
The national master around him gave him an idea and asked him to build this "Seven Stars Gongyue Tomb", find young men and women from the four major tribes at that time as sacrifices, and place them at the four stars of the Big Dipper array, and then find
Two pairs of boys and girls poured mercury into the body to preserve it, sealing the "immortal energy" in the body to help him become immortal.
The old emperor believed deeply in the words of the imperial master and spent ten years building this tomb.
The entire tomb has a three-story structure, and the top floor is his main tomb - high up in the sky, and its location is very hidden.
The negative first floor is an easy place for tomb robbers to find. There are mechanisms and mazes everywhere here. Even if later tomb robbers enter the tomb, they will have a narrow escape. Even if the tomb robbers are extremely skilled, they have successfully passed through the six reincarnation chambers and discovered the living things on the lower level.
In the tomb, you can follow the path to the leaf-shaped maze, and they will also get confused.
Moreover, he also deliberately made a suspicious coffin and placed a large amount of gold and silver treasures inside, so that intruders would mistakenly think that they had discovered the main tomb chamber. If they were relaxed and went down the steps, they would be shot by poisonous arrows and become hedgehogs.
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After Xiao Lou saw the murals on the wall, he didn't know how to evaluate them.
He is a materialist and does not believe in the idea of "cultivating to become an immortal". But many ancient people believed in these legends. For them, live burial was just a ritual, in which children under ten years old were poured with mercury to keep them alive.
Death in pain, in their opinion, is still a good thing to "preserve the immortality"...
Xiao Lou turned around and returned to the sarcophagus, "Let's open the coffin and take a look."
Yu Hanjiang struck at the sarcophagus with his saber.
But the coffin was very strong, and it didn't react when he stabbed it in. I don't know if it was because the materials used were different, or if the gatekeepers deliberately prevented the coffin from being damaged.
Xiao Lou got closer and looked at the talismans around the coffin. These talismans looked very familiar, and seemed to be somewhat similar to the talismans in the Secret Chamber of Six Paths of Reincarnation. However, upon closer inspection, something was not right...it seemed to be distorted.
Is it similar to the way your appearance was distorted when you looked into a yin-yang mirror?
Xiao Lou took out the Yin Yang Mirror from his arms.
After taking a look with a yin-yang mirror, he discovered that the talisman patterns around the coffin were indeed consistent with the talismans in the Six Paths of Reincarnation Chamber.
When Gui Yuanzhang saw this, he also took out the Yin Yang Mirror, and the two of them looked at each other, "Six Paths of Reincarnation Talisman?"
Xiao Lou looked carefully at the top of the sarcophagus. He found a petal-shaped mark on the lid of the sarcophagus. He used a yin-yang mirror to look at the spells and placed six different spells on the mark in the order of reincarnation.
The mark glowed with a soft light.
Xiao Lou stretched out his hand to push the coffin lid. He originally just wanted to try it, but he didn't expect it to actually push it open.
The teammates came over to look inside the sarcophagus.
I saw an old man about fifty years old lying inside, wearing a dragon robe and with a peaceful face.
There weren't many jewels, gold and silver in the coffin, probably because he wanted to practice and become an immortal. Once he became an immortal, he wouldn't need money.
The strange thing is that after so many years, the body of the tomb owner has not rotted?
Although his face was slightly pale and there were some corpse spots on his body, the people buried in the tomb at the same time had all turned into white bones. Is there any reason why his body was still well preserved?
Ye Qi asked curiously, "Did he also pour mercury into himself? Wouldn't that be a very painful way to die?"
Xiao Lou shook his head, "It's not like he was poured with mercury. His body is different from the boys and girls we found who were filled with mercury. It feels more like something mentioned in fantasy novels... what kind of magic weapon was used to preserve the body."
Gui Yuanzhang seemed to have thought of something and suddenly said, "Open his mouth and take a look."
Yu Hanjiang was right in front of the sarcophagus. When he heard this, he stretched out his hand and pried open the deceased's mouth with two fingers.
A soft beam of light shot out from the deceased's mouth. Sure enough, he had something in his mouth——
Shao Qingge narrowed his eyes, "Is it the legendary Jade Chan?"
When ancient people buried themselves, they often put some valuable items in the mouth of the deceased, such as jade or night pearls. There is also a legend about the jade cicada. This kind of jade that looks like a cicada can prevent the body from moving after death.
rot.
The reason why the corpse of the tomb owner did not corrode may be because of the "jade cicada" in his mouth.
Xiao Lou said, "Take it out and have a look?"
Yu Hanjiang took out the thumb-sized jade cicada. The next moment, the corpse in the sarcophagus rotted instantly in front of everyone at a speed visible to the naked eye. The flesh and blood fell off like wall skin, and in the end only the white bones were left.
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Everyone "..."
This scene is like a horror movie, making people feel numb.
At this moment, the entire maze began to shake violently again, and everyone was shaken to the point of losing their balance and almost hit the wall next to them.
A door appeared on the side of the stone room, Xiao Lou's expression changed, "Let's go!"
Tang Ci sent out mechanical ants to explore the road, and everyone followed behind the mechanical ants and ran all the way.
Behind them, countless stones rolled down, gravel splashed everywhere, dust flew in the air, and the vibration caused by the collapse of the tomb was more terrifying than a major earthquake!
Yu Hanjiang held Xiao Lou's wrist tightly and flew lightly, while the other teammates also relied on their own abilities.
Everyone ran as fast as they could to escape, without caring about anything else. There was only one thought left in their minds - run!
When they finally saw the bright light in front of them and everyone jumped out, there was a loud "boom" sound behind them. The entire tomb collapsed completely, and the three-story maze was instantly buried by huge rocks and dust.
Xiao Lou looked back at the maze that was completely buried, and his heart was beating fast. He was so nervous that he could hardly breathe when he was led by Yu Hanjiang just now. Fortunately, he escaped at the last second. Thinking about it, he still has lingering fears.
Xiao Lou looked around, "Is everyone okay?"
The teammates were all disgraced. The dust that flew up when the maze collapsed made everyone's hair full of ashes, and their clothes were so dirty that they looked like they had rolled around in a pile of dirt...
But fortunately, we ran fast enough and no one was injured.
"It's okay!" "Nothing dangerous."
After hearing what his teammates said, Xiao Lou breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, a shiny floating box popped up in front of everyone.
Congratulations to the Xiao Lou team for successfully passing the weekly square piece "Tomb of the Headless General", the ranking is being calculated...
Your team spent a total of 4 hours, 38 minutes and 44 seconds in this maze challenge.
Ranked first in the world
Please find the square gatekeeper to receive the reward
Everyone was stunned when they saw the last line of prompts.
First in the world?
It seems that this time, they got a blessing in disguise!
The hunters put explosives in the maze, and the whole tomb was crumbling. In order to escape, they had to give up the idea of testing the forked roads one by one, and took risks by using reasoning.
In the end, they became the first team to leave the weekly maze in the shortest time?