At this time, I thought of the map found in the kid's bag, which might be able to find some clues. What's more, I'm in a dilemma now, and this is the safest place. So, I sat down on the ground, spread out the map, and started flipping through it.
One of them was a design drawing before they broke into the robbery cave. There were many ideas written below, especially about the mechanism settings of the Medicine Corpse Tomb. However, his writing was very sloppy, and I could barely make out a few words such as "glazed roof". It seemed that they had really put a lot of effort into breaking the mechanism of the Medicine Corpse Tomb. Then there was another one, with something showing its teeth and claws drawn on it.
"Damn, this guy can't be an abstract painter, right? The paintings are all messy." I cursed secretly and turned the papers over, "Hey!"
Suddenly my eyes lit up. It was an aerial view of a tomb. The main coffin chamber, the Seven Stars and the Big Dipper were all marked, giving a clear view. I also saw the thief's cave I had just crawled through, and even the forks were clearly marked.
So, I anxiously looked for an opening to get out. Unexpectedly, the passage was broken in one place, and a word was written on the side: "Collapse".
The meaning is very clear. My desire to return to the ground through the robbery hole has been shattered. I look at it again. The most bizarre thing about this picture is that there is no road connecting the place to the left of where I am standing. There is also a tomb chamber drawn, and there is a dotted line connecting this tomb passage and that tomb chamber. This tomb chamber seems to be in another space.
I couldn't help but touch the wall behind me, "Is there a secret passage behind this wall?"
Generally speaking, if you want this mechanism to be incorruptible for thousands of years, you must use stones and mercury to fire it. Then the trigger of the firing device must be a flat plate. The walls are full of inscriptions and carvings. If there is a secret door, it must be There is one piece that can move, but this piece has to be in a place that is very difficult to notice.
Following this idea, I leaned down and looked at the location of the stone wall and the floor. Sure enough, there was a square connecting stone slab that was very suspicious. When I pressed it, there was no response, but it was loose. When I pressed it again, there was still no response, so it felt a little hairy. I stood up and kicked it, and now I heard a "thump".
"Oops, it's a trap!" I secretly screamed,
At this time, the floor under my feet suddenly became empty. I was unprepared and had no time to react. Then I fell completely.
In just a second or two, before I even thought about how to deal with the emergency, I sat down on the floor. At the same time, the miner's lamp in my hand also hit the ground with a "pop" sound. The light went out and I was immediately plunged into darkness.
In this situation, this miner's lamp is as important as my life. If there is no light, it will undoubtedly be a dead end in this dark ancient tomb. I rushed over and tried to touch the miner's lamp.
Xunlong Fist has the skill of identifying the location by listening to sounds, so even if the miner's lamp went out the moment it hit the ground, I could still identify its location by the sound it made. I acted quickly and touched the miner's lamp at once, but when I touched the fallen battery, what I touched was a cold hand!
I yelled and pulled my hand back like an electric shock.
In an instant, I felt that the owner of this hand must be dead, because the cold and swollen skin could not feel any life.
I suddenly remembered that I still had a windproof lighter with me, so I quickly opened it and saw a corpse lying there. There were many holes in the stomach, and many corpses came out of it.
Corpses are common in ancient tombs, but these corpses are surprisingly big, one is as big as my palm, glowing green, and from time to time there are some smaller corpses crawling from his mouth and eye holes. come out.
I felt sick. It looked like this man had been dead for a week. He must have been another victim of the previous tomb-robbing team. Judging from the location where he died, he probably triggered the mechanism and died here. Thinking of this, I hurriedly found the battery with the lighter, put it in the miner's lamp, and it turned on again.
I breathed a sigh of relief. With the light, at least I wouldn't be scared to death by corpses popping out of any nook and cranny. I took a look around. This place was a square cellar, surrounded by irregular stone walls. There were many vent-like holes on the wall. It was so dark that I didn’t know where it led. From time to time, I could see through those holes. There is some cool breeze blowing in.
I immediately checked the body. It was a middle-aged man, about 40 years old. His abdomen was torn and it looked like a fatal injury. I continued to touch, and around his neck, I found a dog tag with a name and number engraved on it, which was probably his number.
Generally, people who wear this kind of dog tags are in the military. But there are rules in the army, and there is no possibility of a soldier becoming a tomb robber. Unless, like Wang Mian, he becomes a bandit after being discharged from the army. In addition, there is another possibility that these guys come from a certain confidential unit and have a management system similar to that of the army. I immediately thought of the group of red-topped peasants. It seemed that they were the only ones with the ability to come here.
I put his dog tag in my pocket, planning to study it myself when I got out.
The architectural style here is very similar to the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty, and it also looks a bit like a temporary escape route. I think it may be the escape route left by the tomb builders for themselves.
The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and in many aspects, there are traces of imitating the Qin Dynasty. For example, the first emperor of Qin built an imperial mausoleum for himself. It took 39 years until Qin II to complete the construction. The construction of the imperial mausoleum consumed a lot of manpower, material resources, and financial resources. It is said that more than 700,000 people were recruited to build the imperial mausoleum. While the imperial mausoleum was in seclusion, tens of thousands of people were buried alive at once. Fortunately, Qin II died, and later Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, and he followed his idol Qin Shihuang in all aspects. Although Liu Bang realized that the construction of the imperial mausoleum would consume a lot of money for the country, he finally built the magnificent Changling Mausoleum for himself. At that time, if you participated in the project to build noble tombs, it was basically equal to death. In order to keep it secret, you were either poisoned or buried alive in the end. However, the wisdom of the working people cannot be ignored. Most craftsmen will leave themselves a secret passage so that they can escape.
I scanned it with a light, and sure enough I saw a very narrow door on the wall on one side, but the door was still a little high from the ground. There was a wooden ladder below, which was completely rotten. I estimated the height, and there was no way I could Jumping up, I saw a face suddenly sticking out of the passage.
When I saw it, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, "Wang Mian! It's me!"
Wang Mian was startled and saw me, but instead of showing any expression of joy, he almost fell down from the passage as if he had seen something terrifying.
I was just wondering when Wang Mian suddenly pulled out a gun and pointed it directly at me. When I saw something wrong, I shouted, "It's me, Wang Mian! What the hell are you doing?"
But Wang Mian acted as if he didn't hear anything and opened fire directly.
The gunshot was surprisingly loud in the hole, and the bullet almost grazed my ear. It hit something behind me, and a smelly substance splashed on the back of my head. I turned around suddenly and saw several large corpses lying on the wall, with several claws raised murderously. Some of them have climbed to the ceiling above my head, only ten centimeters away from my head.
I was just about to take a few steps back to stay away from these big bugs. Suddenly, two bugs on the wall flew over like springs and were in front of me almost at once. At the same time, there were two loud noises again, and two bullets flew over my head, blowing up the two bugs in the air.
I just wanted to praise Wang Mian, but this guy's marksmanship is indeed much better than Lao Xuan. At this time, Wang Mian was heard shouting: "I'm almost out of bullets, why are you standing there stupidly? Run!"
"Hey, okay!" With Wang Mian as my backer, I felt more at ease, so I turned around and ran away.
Wang Mian fired another shot and probably blew up another one. I had already reached the base of the wall at this time. Wang Mian stretched out his hand and I jumped to grab his hand. Fortunately, the stone wall was very rough and my feet When there was a place to focus my efforts, Wang Mian just pulled me up. Before I could stand still, Wang Mian's short gun stretched out from under my crotch and fired another shot. The bullet casing jumped out and hit my crotch. I screamed, barely fainted, and cursed: " Your grandpa wants to castrate me!"
"Shut up, which one is more important, eggs or life? Of course life is more important!"
I suddenly found that the miner's lamp was no longer in my hand. When I looked back, I found that it had fallen below. The light source was surrounded by corpses of all sizes, a large green mass, and I didn't know where they crawled out from.
"How many bullets do you have left?"
Wang Mian touched his pocket and took out one. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, "There is also a glory bomb."
Before he finished speaking, a corpse had jumped onto the stone path and made a "creak" sound at us.
After all, Wang Mian had been a soldier, and his adaptability had become muscle memory. Without saying a word, he used the wooden gun butt as a hammer, flattened the insect and kicked it away. But this was not a long-term solution. Soon more bugs crawled up. We kicked and knocked, but a few crawled onto us, and their barbed claws took away a piece of flesh in one go.
"Let's run, there are so many of them that we can't stop!"
"Run? Where to run?"
I pointed to the back and said, "There must be an exit behind this. Look at this tunnel. It was definitely used by tomb builders in ancient times to escape. As long as you run along this, you will definitely be able to get out."
"Shit, are you just fooling yourself? I'm telling you, I've walked all over this road. It's a maze!"
"Huh?" I was shocked.
But now, I had no choice but to think about the situation carefully. I saw more and more bugs, so I yelled: "No matter what, I have to fight my way through mountains of swords and seas of fire. It's better than feeding the bugs here!"
At this time, there was a sudden "thump" on the ceiling, and another person fell from the secret door above, right on top of the bugs.
Even the insects were frightened by the sudden impact and retreated away.
The man stood up and cursed, "Damn, what kind of door is this? Why is it still open?"
Then, he took a flashlight and shrieked, "Damn! What the hell! Why are there so many bugs!"
"Who was I at that time? Isn't this the captain who touched the gold? We are really enemies on a narrow road!" Wang Mian said, adding insult to injury.
