Wrong...an illusion! I actually saw something floating in the sky?
No! To be precise, it was a woman's shadow floating in the sky. Was it my eyesight, or did they really encounter something unclean?
In the blink of an eye, I saw that the tomb seemed to be a little different. Compared with before, the layout of this tomb seemed to have changed.
I squinted my eyes. Could it be that there is also an activity mechanism in this place?
According to the route I saw before and comparing it with the tomb chambers on the upper and lower sides, I can roughly conclude the layout of this tomb chamber.
But what I saw now proved that I was wrong!
I still underestimate Feng Shui masters and the mechanisms, tomb chamber patterns and mechanisms created by designers. They are even more complicated than I imagined!
Looking up at the coffin, there seemed to be something wrong with the mouth of the coffin.
There was a slender gap left in the coffin. Although it seemed to be carefully concealed, I could immediately tell that the equipment in the coffin seemed to be made using some secret method.
And before that, someone must have moved it. Judging from the dust on the top, it should have been decades or even hundreds of years. In other words, someone had been here before!
I was secretly shocked. This was obviously a new pot. No one had touched the previous tombs. Why was this happening when I came here?
The thickness of the dust cover is different, and the approximate age can be judged. Generally, experienced people can tell it at a glance.
"hiss……!!!"
As I slowly backed away, I couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. A bold guess suddenly came to my mind.
And this guess is very likely to be true!
Could it be that someone made this place his own tomb?
This is equivalent to a dove occupying a magpie's nest. The feng shui of the tomb and the clues left around it prove that my conjecture is very possible!
Clear road, hidden bridge, crossing the water!
In the tomb, if it is a secret passage, there must be water and a ferry. And the place where we fell, isn't it a fulfillment of the secret bridge and the crossing?
With water, wind and good Feng Shui, this is a good place for a tomb site. I raised my head and looked at the location under the coffin.
Hanging coffin, hanging coffin, twisting up and down, could there be some mechanism hidden directly underneath?
Seeing that I was a little distracted, Xu Jinxiu from the side patted me gently, which instantly interrupted my train of thought.
"Chen Ping! What are you thinking about for so long? What's going on with them? Should we find a way to save them?"
"save?"
I sneered, I can save them at any time, but I'm afraid if one of them fails, they will all become fools!
"It's better to wait first. If we try to save people randomly now, I'm afraid they'll be done for the rest of their lives!"
After hearing what I said, Xu Jinxiu frowned immediately.
"What kind of situation is this? What do you know?"
I pulled Xu Jinxiu and asked her to stand close to the wall, so that she would not be exposed later and have to be chased by them again.
"Look at them, do they look like they are awake and sleepwalking?"
"Sleepwalking? Why can't I see it? Aren't they usually sleepwalking only when they are asleep? Why do they still sleepwalk when they are awake?"
Regarding this point, it was difficult for me to explain it clearly to Xu Jinxiu even after a short while.
This is a very vague concept. Although this person seems to be awake, he is asleep subconsciously, and this sleeping state is that of being awake, so it is called sleepwalking.
To explain it more simply, it can actually be likened to being under an illusion, but this illusion brought them all into an illusionary dream.
"How did you tell?"
Xu Jinxiu asked me back, and I grinned.
"You are the one who came to me to start this problem. If you ask me how I can tell, doesn't it mean you are questioning my ability?"
I raised my eyebrows and smiled, but Xu Jinxiu gave me a look.
"Okay! You have the ability, you can play the harp, I won't stop you."
After joining Xu Jinxiu's army, I just wanted to tease her, and I didn't mean to show off my skills at all.
Apart from this, I raised my hand and pointed to the coffin mouth at the top.
"Jinxiu, have you seen that coffin?"
She frowned and gave me a look that looked like I was an idiot.
"Nonsense! Isn't this the hanging coffin we just escaped from? Is there anything wrong?"
I shook my head quickly and told her my guess directly.
"That's not entirely true! This hanging coffin is no longer the one we were in at the beginning, which means..."
"We were sent to another identical route?"
I nodded secretly, basically so to speak.
Although I don't know how the mechanism of this tomb was constructed, I can be 100% sure that my judgment is absolutely correct.
After seeing them walk out from another section of the exit, the two of us slowly came out from the corner behind the wall.
I took out a small crowbar from my backpack and pried it directly towards the gap in the hanging coffin.
I didn't have much strength, so I almost gritted my teeth and used brute force. I could imagine my face turning red from holding it in, so that I could slightly loosen the gap in the coffin in front of me.
Seeing how hard I was struggling, Xu Jinxiu from the side also hurriedly came to help. The two of us worked together and finally pushed the lid open with great difficulty.
"boom!!!"
With a huge dull sound, the lid of the coffin crashed to the ground.
Under the huge force, the upper chain of the coffin was pulled and rattled. I really didn't expect that there were rats under such a deep tomb!
There seemed to be a mouse's nest leading to the top, and the linking end of the chain just shook the mouse down.
It was right and wrong, and it happened to fall into the hanging coffin, and the gap in the hanging coffin was pitch black and there was nothing.
On the contrary, there was some black mist, and I didn’t know what it was that was bubbling and gurgling.
Moreover, there seems to be something left in the black liquid, which has been squirming at the bottom. It is not known whether it is a living thing or a dead thing.
As for the mouse that just fell in, it is struggling constantly at the moment. The viscosity of the liquid is like a natural mousetrap, making it impossible for it to struggle out!
I squinted and looked over. What surprised me was that the liquid seemed to contain quite amazing corrosive properties. The hair of the big black mouse was melting rapidly!
Even the bones in the body were melted away in less than ten minutes. Such a strong corrosive force would melt flesh and blood immediately if a person touched it.
"What...what are these things?"
After seeing the mouse being completely dissolved, Xu Jinxiu felt extremely shocked!
Fortunately, there was no such thing in the hanging coffin before. If this thing encounters a puddle again and gets mixed with this black thing, I am afraid it will die to death.
Going vertically down the hanging coffin, I found the mechanism at the upper right end of the nine bluestone bricks.
Just as I guessed wrongly, the hanging coffin is just a cover-up, and the real mechanism is far away and right in front of us, right under our feet.
After stepping down, the bluestone slowly sunk downwards, revealing a hidden secret passage.
After Xu Jinxiu and I looked at each other, I took the lead and walked at the front. Xu Jinxiu on the other side fumbled around in his backpack for a while and took out a candle as thick and long as a middle finger.
I couldn't help but laugh.
"I said, what are you doing? Light a candle to measure the air? Have you watched too many tomb-robbing movies?"
I estimate that Xu Jinxiu really believes in the saying that it is not advisable to turn off the lights.
This is actually passed down from the older generation of tomb robbers. As for lighting candles, it is only for oxygen measurement, but it has been transformed by others.
It's shameless to turn off the light. The tomb owner left the tomb guardian spirit and did not allow tomb robbers to invade.
When Xu Jinxiu looked at me, her expression was a little strange.
"Chen Ping, do you think the tomb owner would really agree to be robbed of his property after death?"
I shrugged my shoulders and spoke as if I didn't know what to say.
"Then I'm not very clear. Otherwise, if you call the owner here and ask, maybe he can give you some answers."
Xu Jinxiu rolled her eyes at me, and then urged me.
"You know how to talk a lot, so hurry up and put the candles away. If there is no oxygen, we can run away in advance."
Although I felt it was something insignificant, since Xu Jinxiu had spoken, I could only do it.
After finding a place that was not close to the wind, I fixed the candle on the ground.
Then I set my sights on the coffin in the passage. The lid of the coffin was indeed sealed very tightly. Some secret method must have been used to seal the gaps and all the surrounding areas.
Judging from the appearance alone, the dust accumulation in this coffin must have taken at least a thousand years.
Xu Jinxiu leaned over, wanting to take a look at the opening of the coffin, but as soon as she got closer, I heard the clicking sound of the mechanism again in my ears.
I muttered something bad, and then the entrance to the upper secret passage closed, and we fell into darkness again.
Fortunately, the flashlight was at my waist, and I quickly took it out for lighting. But the moment I turned on the light source, something extremely strange happened in front of me!
The surrounding walls are slowly closing in, and the space where we are is also slowly shrinking. There are three human-shaped notches on the wall in front of us, and in the notches, it is Dalian and the other three who disappeared after entering the tunnel!
"Oops! We've hit a trap again."
Xu Jinxiu shouted in surprise. When we were looking for an exit, I suddenly discovered that thick smoke began to rise around us, and then the temperature in the air rose. It was like we fell into a furnace!
Looking at the shapes around me, it was slowly closing in a circular shape. I suddenly thought of Paolao!
Did we fall into a large machine gun?
