As soon as Huo Chi died, I collapsed on the ground with relief, gasping for air.
Zhou Xiaoshe was even more embarrassed, her clothes were in tatters, and she sat down on the ground, grinning.
Among the three, only Zhuge Yushu still retained some elegance. He leaned his long sword on the ground, and the knuckles on his long fingers had already turned white.
Monk Zhangzhi rushed over to treat Zhuge Yushu's wounds.
Brother Mumu's left arm was burned by the flames spit out by the fire locust, but fortunately the master monk was there, so it didn't cause much damage...
"Old Tie, are you okay?" Zhou Xiaoshe asked me.
I glanced at him, exhaled a breath, and said: "I am destined to die..."
"Grandma, you are a bear. You are a cheap person. You are used as cannon fodder every time. If you die one day, I will not bury your body." Zhou Xiaoshe scolded.
A smile appeared on my lips and I said, "If I really die, no one will call you awesome anymore."
Zhou Xiaoshe smacked his lips and fell silent for a moment...
I stood up and came to the fire.
I looked at the thing under my feet, which was as big as a small mountain, and kicked it a few times. It was as hard as iron. No wonder it had lived here for so many years.
"It's a pity that the meat is too hard to eat. Otherwise, I could make some fire-roasted pork and eat it with wine. It would definitely taste good." I joked.
Zhou Xiaoshe frowned and said: "The meat of this thing is inedible. I took a few bites just now, and the meat is like stone. Even if the teeth are cracked, you may not be able to chew it."
I was a little disappointed. After all the hard work, I made such a fire dragon, but in the end, there was nothing useful about it.
I know very well that our food rations are running low and I'm afraid we won't be able to sustain it for a few days...
The Zhangzhi monk on the other side bandaged Zhuge Yushu's wound. Everyone spent a lot of energy in this battle. They rested on the spot for a while before continuing to walk forward.
Zhuge Liang's tomb is not very spacious, but after passing Huo Chi, we all became a lot more cautious and had to be careful every step we took.
After walking through the tomb passage, a sheet of flowing fiery red magma appeared above the head.
The hot waves of magma rolled up. When I saw this, I couldn't help but admire Zhuge Liang from the bottom of my heart. I had fought many battles, but this was the first time I saw the magma from the center of the earth used as the top of a tomb. God knows how Zhuge Liang managed to build several underground chambers.
It was brought up by thousands of meters of magma...
There is also the fire dragon, which is even more shocking. According to Old Man Xiao, the fire dragon is from the same era as the dinosaurs. However, Zhuge Liang actually used it to guard the tomb. Such a feat can only be done by the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
By comparison, what can also awe Old Man Xiao is the Qianling Mausoleum, the 10,000-year-old imperial palace of the empress Wu Zetian. It is said that even Huang Chao's 400,000-strong army could not conquer the Qianling Mausoleum of Wu Zetian.
So much so that now, no one dares to move. Of course, this is all a story for another day...
The earth's fire karst serves as the roof. After crossing the tomb passage, the space inside the mausoleum gradually feels like it suddenly opens up.
There were not too many burial objects inside the mausoleum, but as I went deeper, the inside began to become brighter. I looked up and found that there were more or less strange shapes hanging on the tomb walls, but they were always burning.
lamp.
"Hey, this is called the Yongming Lamp. It will never be burned out for thousands of years. I didn't expect the rumors recorded in the ancient books to be true." Old Man Xiao saw the origin of the lantern hanging on the tomb wall at a glance.
"Yongming Deng, is there something so evil?"
Zhou Xiaoshe didn't believe it, so he ran over and looked around. As soon as he opened the lamp, he found that it contained some strange-smelling liquid. However, even if the lamp burned for a long time, there was still a lot of liquid inside. I guess even if we
If they don't come, it will definitely not be a problem for these lamps to burn for another thousand or eight hundred years.
Old Man Xiao pointed at the Yongming Lamp and said: "Hey, you must not know, right? Zhuge Liang is said to have invented this Yongming Lamp. The liquid inside is the ten thousand-year-old pine oil from the North Sea that Zhuge Liang found. A small drop can continue to burn.
It’s been a long time…”
"Hey, ten thousand-year-old pine oil? It sounds like a good thing when I hear it. I'll add some of this stuff when I prepare explosives from now on. It will be a joy..."
Zhou Xiaoshe was not polite. He took a few lamps, blew out the wicks, and put them in his backpack. This guy would never admit death when he went to any mausoleum. He just took it as if he were home and didn't care.
Zhuge Yushu, a descendant of Zhuge Liang, stood aside and watched.
After taking a few lamps, Zhou Xiaoshe suddenly beamed.
"You never let go of your potential. Today's tomb robbers are really worse than the previous generation..."
Old man Xiao had a look of contempt on his face, and then he secretly took two Yongming lanterns and put them into his pocket.
When I saw this, I couldn't help but roll my eyes: Come on!
Under the illumination of the Yongming Lantern, the entire mausoleum was full of orders. At this time, we finally truly appreciated the appearance of Zhuge Liang's tomb...
After the tomb passage is the passage cave, which is a popular mausoleum structure in ancient times; in layman's terms, the passage cave is similar to a city gate, and the tomb passage is like the road leading to the city gate.
Some experienced tomb robbers can often identify the age of the entire tomb just by walking through the hole.
For example, in the tombs of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, scenes of men plowing and women weaving were painted on the passages, such as those of gentle ladies and gentlemen enjoying good fortune, which were popular in that era.
During the Tang Dynasty, because it was more open, many tombs of emperors and generals would often have pictures of ladies painted on the passages, with all kinds of wealthy women on them. There were even some Tang tombs, if the tomb owners opened the tombs again
Some of them simply have pictures of beautiful ladies without clothes on them.
As for the Song Dynasty, the style of painting became much more rigorous, so each dynasty had its own popular things. Experienced tomb robbers can tell the dynasty of the tomb owner and even the dynasty of the tomb owner by just looking at the patterns on the holes.
Origin and background...
But in the passage hole of Zhuge Liang's mausoleum, I saw another pattern.
There is only one lifelike painting on the entrance to the cave. There are several people on it. Although their appearance is a bit blurry and it is hard to tell who they are, it is actually easy to distinguish them based on their appearance and clothing.
There are many people in the painting, the leader of which is a man with a noble face but a pair of big ears. He is standing in front, chatting and laughing, pointing out the country, and has a somewhat imperial posture... Undoubtedly, this is Liu Bei.
On the left side of Liu Bei, there is a man with a handsome face and a silk scarf in his hand. He has a confident smile on his lips, his eyes are bright and his face is radiant. He is obviously Zhuge Liang; behind Zhuge, there are many majestic generals.
, among these people, there is Zhang Fei, who is carrying a snake spear eight feet long and with a face as black as coal, Guan Yu, a red-faced general with a waist-long beard, and Zhao Yun, a peerless general wearing white armor with sword-shaped eyebrows and starry eyes...
These famous generals who have been famous for generations are all gathered behind Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang. Their majestic and majestic aura is impressive. This is the Shu Han Dynasty at its peak during the Three Kingdoms period. It is also the brother and ambition that Zhuge Liang fought for his whole life and recalled until his death...