A group of thieves, each armed with weapons, crowded tightly in front of the city gate at the end of the tomb passage.
Under the command of Chen Xiazi, they found several centipedes hanging on the top of the mountain ladder and opened the double doors.
As soon as the city gate opened, I heard several screams inside, like the screams of female ghosts.
Some soldiers had never participated in tomb robbing before.
When they heard this sound, they were so frightened that they almost peed their pants, but the tomb passage was crowded with people.
If you are stuck, you can't move even if you want to escape.
Blind Chen knew that the unusually sharp sound was not the scream of a fierce ghost, but the sound caused by the rapid squeezing of air.
As soon as the city gate opened, the anti-theft mechanism had been triggered.
At the same time as the strange sound rang out, they immediately moved their hands.
The thieves who were holding the bamboo ladder at the door saw the leader giving a signal, shouted, and hurriedly hung the centipede on the mountain ladder.
Withdrew.
There was another row of thieves behind them, who had already pushed the wet straw bundles hiding the leather shields to the city gate, covering them tightly.
At this time, the sharp sound in the city became even louder.
Dozens of black water arrows shot out from the doorway with a strong smell of fishy smell.
They landed on the grass shield, and burning white smoke suddenly appeared.
It turns out that there is indeed a mechanism behind the tomb door, which acts as a portal.
Once the tomb door is opened, the "water dragon" behind the door will be triggered.
This water gun-like mechanism contains venom or strong acid.
If you are not careful, you will be sprayed on the spot in front of the tomb door.
If it gets even a little bit, it will corrode the flesh and bones, and there is no cure.
After previous visits, Chen Xiazi knew that in the Immortal Palace Cave in Pingshan, there had been mechanisms to prevent thieves from stealing medicine since ancient times.
It was later regarded as a ghost house by the Yuan people.
Various mechanisms would definitely be used, so he took precautions in advance.
The straw in front of the group of thieves' queue was soaked with water, and several layers of leather were filled inside.
Each layer was sandwiched with soil, which would not burn when exposed to fire and difficult to penetrate when exposed to saltpeter.
Although those strong acid-like venoms were violent, they could not destroy the sight.
Like a simple grass shield.
After draining the venom in the water dragon with a grass shield, I waited for about a cup of tea.
There was no movement behind the dark door of the tomb.
It must have been that the plan was exhausted.
Luo Laowai used his pistol to push his military cap that was tilted on his head, and cursed: "You are a bitch, you are so vicious.
If Mr.
Chen hadn't been so good at everything, wouldn't we brothers be the same?"
They all had their heads shaved."
He did He was used to thieves, and he was full of slang.
"Shuojier" refers to the organ, and "shaving one's head" refers to killing oneself.
He cursed a few words bitterly, and couldn't control his impatience.
Lead the crowd into the underground palace.
As the leader of a group of thieves, Blind Chen naturally did not dare to be careless and quickly stopped Luo Laowai.
The situation behind the tomb door was still unknown.
There was fear that there would be more than one agency ambushing him in Pingshan.
The team must not act rashly.
At this moment, a few brave men must be sent first.
A dead man, go behind the tomb door to explore the way.
As expected, some of the bandits in Xieling were not afraid of death.
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Five or six of them immediately stood up and bowed in front of Blind Man Chen.
Then they held up rattan shields and pigeon cage medicine cakes, and walked into the tomb gate.
The others They all stood in the tomb passage and waited.
Apart from the sound of heavy breathing and the sound of pigeons cooing and fluttering their wings in the dovecote, there was no movement in the long tomb passage.
It didn't take long for the five thieves to return from the tomb door.
It turns out that behind the tomb gate is a city, built in the middle of the mountain, surrounded by walls and towers.
Inside are ferocious and strange stone people and beasts.
There are several large lacquer coffins and a stone coffin placed in the city.
There are more beside the coffin.
There were many white human bones, but no mechanism was found to ambush them, and there seemed to be rock holes in the city.
Although the accumulated bad luck was heavy, it had no hindrance to the living.
When Luo Laowai heard the word "coffin", he couldn't help but feel excited: "If you have money, you will not be afraid of God, but if you don't have money, you will be deceived by ghosts.
It's time for us brothers to make a fortune.
Since there is no mechanism, why wait for the person in the coffin to defraud the corpse?"
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After saying that, he laughed a few times like a self-mockery, and walked inside with his troops.
Blind Chen was cautious, fearing that if something went wrong if everyone went in, the whole army would be wiped out.
When he saw that there were about two hundred people entering the tomb passage, he asked half to stay in the tomb passage to meet them, and the rest Going in to fight upside down, he himself had to go with Luo Laowai.
There are some unavoidable reasons for this.
The Xiling Bandits existed in name only a few generations ago, and many of their instruments and methods were lost.
It was not until the Republic of China that a figure like Chen Blind appeared.
He was knowledgeable and talented. , gradually collected the lost tomb robbing methods of Xiling, slowly improved them, and led the thieves in the green forest to steal many ancient tombs.
However, although there are many thieves in the Xiling group, there are only a handful of people who really know how to rob tombs.
Therefore, many times the bandit chief has to personally take action and direct on the spot.
There is no other person in the group of thieves who is as capable as him.
Chen Xiazi led more than sixty Xiling thieves, and Luo Laowai brought thirty or forty engineers and pistol company personnel, all of whom were from Xiling.
This group of one hundred people dragged the centipede to the mountain.
Enter the underground palace of the ancient tomb.
As soon as they entered the city gate-like tomb gate, the terrain inside suddenly opened up.
A group of thieves formed a square formation according to the ancient Xiling formation diagram.
The two heads of the family, Chen and Luo, were clustered in the center.
Bamboo ladders were laid out around them, and a string of bamboo ladders were hung around them.
The shield defense moved slowly in the underground palace.
A group of thieves used long poles to carry lanterns to explore the surroundings.
Sure enough, as the spies reported, this underground palace built in the heart of Pingshan Mountain was surrounded by strict walls and there were watchtowers on the city.
It looked like a Taoist palace and a cave.
A city for garrisoning troops in a cave.
The gates on three sides of the city are tightly closed.
Relatively speaking, the city in the middle of the mountain is empty.
There are no palaces and houses in the city.
It is much smaller than the real city.
It is like a miniature model city, but it is built in a cave in the mountain.
Here, it is not easy.
Where the thieves settled, there were piles of white bones all over the ground.
Most of the skeletons had their heads separated.
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Looking at the copper rings and silver ornaments on the skulls, you could tell that they were all Miao people from the Seventy-Two Cave.
In the eyes of the Xiling people who had been robbing tombs all year round, It is not surprising, these captives must have been forced to work, and the Dao Palace was changed into the Hades Palace, and then some of them were slaughtered here.
The Yuan army was brutal, and there were probably a few places like this in Pingshan.
Among the jagged bones, there were some bronze statues and stone figures enshrined in Taoist temples, arranged in a disorderly manner.
The ferocious golden-armored god glared angrily at the corpses scattered on the ground and the tomb robbers who walked in.
Even people like Luo Laowai were murderous.
A great warlord, one can't help but feel his liver and gallbladder tremble when he is among them.
However, Luo Laowai and Chen Xiazi are both born madmen at heart, ambitious and want to do something big that will sweep the world.
Although they are a little frightened in their hearts, they don't show it on the surface.
The bandits formed a "four-door pocket" square formation and cautiously advanced into the city.
Nine lacquer coffins are quietly placed here.
They are all tightly closed, painted with gold, and have many jade stones embedded in the coffin boards.
At first glance, they are the coffins of luxurious and noble people, and ordinary people cannot afford them.
The large stone coffin in the middle is simple and unpretentious, thick and solid, with no decorative patterns, but it is surrounded by nine lacquer coffins like stars over the moon, which is enough to show its nobility.
Blind Chen looked around.
The wall of the tomb was dark and empty like a city wall, and the doors were tightly closed.
There are no poisonous insects infested here, and there are a large number of corpses of cavemen scattered here.
Judging from the scale, orientation, and characteristics of this underground city, it should be the front hall, which is not far away from the main hall and the side hall.
The underground palace in the Pingshan Ancient Tomb is astonishingly large.
It is unknown who is buried in these lacquer coffins and stone coffins.
It is expected that they are not the real owners.
Looking at the painted colors on the lacquer coffin, they are all Ganoderma lucidum, cranes, sika deer and Yunhai Songshan.
It is definitely not the character of the Yuan people who buried the corpses.
It may be the coffin of the "relics" of Gao Shizang in the cave of the Taoist palace.
The corpse of a person who has attained the Tao after death is called a "relic".
However, it is hard to say whether the corpse buried inside is a Yuan general or a Taoist priest.
Moreover, I have never seen a coffin arranged like this.
Could it be some kind of formation talisman?
The blind man was full of suspicion and felt it was weird no matter how he looked at it.
He stared at the lacquered coffin and stone coffin for a few times, and he couldn't decide whether he should start "raising the coffin to make a fortune".
Although Luo Laowai was the leader of a large warlord who controlled tens of thousands of troops, he was born in the green forest, and he and Chen Xiazi were sworn brothers.
Even after he became the powerful president, he was always shorter than Chen Xiazi on the green forest road.
Seniority is the most important position in the world, and no matter how many troops and guns others have, their power only occupies a small area.
Without his territory, it is all other people's world.
But Chen Blind is the boss in the green forest.
All the famous thieves are his subordinates.
Most of the smuggling businessmen in the underworld are named Chen.
It is impossible to become a warlord even if you are evil-hearted and ruthless.
Boss, so Luo Laowai always obeys blind man Chen.
It seems that they are on equal terms.
In fact, if the bandit leader said that coal is white, he would never dare to say that it is black.
The hierarchy in the Green Forest Road is very strict, which is unusual. comparable.
However, when Luo Laowai saw such a luxurious and exquisite large lacquer coffin, which might contain some valuable objects of gold, jewels, and jade, his heart felt like a hundred claws scratching his heart.
Step forward and start to pry the coffin.
Blind Chen was staring at the dark watch tower on the city wall.
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The watchtower is a kind of brick building with a lookout hole.
It can be used as an arrow tower when built on the city wall to watch the enemy.
He felt more and more something was wrong, and his keen intuition felt that there was an extremely dangerous atmosphere in the city.
There should have been deathly silence in the ancient tomb, but the silence on the enemy's floor was unsettling.
No one else could notice this subtle change except him, just like an experienced old fox detecting a hunter's trap.
But being surrounded by thieves in the middle, everyone's aura was mixed, and for a moment they couldn't tell what kind of strange smell was hidden in the watchtower.
They were a little lost in thought, and didn't notice that Luo Laowai had already asked people to pry the coffin.
When the thieves saw that Blind Chen was silent, no one could stop Luo Laowai.
The engineers and soldiers were all armed with long axes and shovels.
It was not easy to pry open some coffins.
Immediately, more than a dozen people followed Luo Laowai out of the square formation.
There was a fatal nail.
There were those who pried the stone coffins, and there were also those who wielded mountain axes to smash the lacquered coffins.
The sound of "boom, boom, boom, boom" echoed in the empty underground palace, making people's ears buzz and hurt.
Blind Chen was about to call his two men and set up a centipede ladder to go to the city to investigate again, but suddenly he heard the sound of the coffin being opened.
He was startled and immediately shouted: "Stop, this coffin can't be moved."
It was too late, a group of engineers over there had also discovered There was something wrong with the lacquered coffin and stone coffin.
The coffin, coffin and tomb bed were all hollow.
I don't know what mechanism had been touched.
A loud "bang" was heard at the entrance, and the thousand-jin gate hidden in the city wall fell down.
The thieves' escape route was tightly sealed.
Luo Laowai still didn't understand what was going on, so he hurriedly asked Blind Chen what happened.
Blind Chen heard the Broken Dragon Thousand Jin Gate fall, and he almost regretted it.
He gritted his teeth and said: "This is not an ancient cemetery at all, but a urn city trap in the tomb passage.
We have fallen into the trap."
As he spoke, he heard the enemy The sound of machines in the building was like running water, and the sound of bowstrings and crossbows on the surrounding walls was extremely dense
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