Mysterious Tang Dynasty

Chapter 150
After digging the soil for a quarter of an hour, Liu Dalang was so tired that stars stared at his eyes. He threw away the pickaxe and sat down on the ground, panting heavily.

He heard his stomach growling.

The last time I ate something was half a day ago.He worked as a coolie all day, but he could only eat plain cakes and fresh fruits without oil and water. The portion was not much, and he had to share the food with the village man. He was always half full and half hungry.Now he was already very hungry, if he hadn't thought that those vegetarian cakes and fresh fruits had entered the rat king's belly, he would have wanted to go back and pick up the food he had discarded.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the sound of chewing from the side. He turned his head and saw that it was the village man who was eating the fresh fruit before, and he was holding several others in his arms.He suddenly felt jealous, and asked loudly: "Why do you, a villager, pick up these dirty things and eat them?! Aren't you afraid that you will get sick if you eat them?!"

The village man looked up at him: "Liu Langjun, we have been eating these things for several days. If we were going to get sick, we would have given birth long ago, and we would have waited until today? Although it sounds disgusting to be swallowed by a mouse, but rub Just wipe it off. We poor peasants are not as particular as you."

Liu Dalang was so angry that he wanted to kick and beat the village man a few times as he did in the past, but the man dodged in time.Now he was hungry and exhausted, and he didn't have the strength to beat people, so he could only go back to the corner angrily, clutching his growling stomach, and staring at the village man eating fruit with jealousy.

He stared for a while, and suddenly heard a loud noise, as if some gravel had collapsed somewhere, and gravel fell from the surrounding cave walls from time to time.Both he and the village man were taken aback, thinking that the cave was about to collapse, and the first thing they thought of was their own safety.

Shouldn't they be buried in this cave? !

When Liu Dalang was wandering around like a hooded fly, the village man cautiously crawled to the entrance of a small hole that the mouse used to use, and looked out of the hole on his stomach: "Liu Langjun, come and have a look! Has the stone at the entrance of the cave collapsed?!"

"What?!" Liu Dalang ran over and pushed him away, lying on the ground and looking out of the cave entrance, "Really! There is light coming in!" He jumped up excitedly, but then lost his temper, "It's just outside What's the use of the pile of rubble at the entrance of the cave? We can't get out! How could the Rat King leave such a hole?!"

The village man was a bit more tenacious than him: "I know where I can get to that small cave outside!" After saying that, he ignored Liu Dalang, and climbed towards the top of the cave by climbing the protruding stones on the cave wall next to him. go up.Halfway through the climb, he used his hands to push away many gravels in a large gap there, and then squeezed his body into it forcefully.

Liu Dalang looked at him from below, and couldn't help but mocked: "Are you crazy? I knew about that gap a long time ago, and it can't get past anyone. Be careful when the Rat King comes back and sees it, and will swallow you alive when he gets angry." Already!"

The village man was unmoved, and continued to force into the gap.After he found this gap, he came over to observe it every day, and secretly hoeed a few picks on the gap. Now he doesn't know which cave collapsed, and the gap has also expanded a bit. He thinks it should be very promising.

It was also his luck, now that his figure was thin, he actually squeezed through the gap, and fell to the ground of the cave on the other side.He didn't have time to cry out the pain, his heart was already in ecstasy, he couldn't care about Liu Dalang anymore, he hurriedly crawled towards the entrance of the cave as soon as possible.

Liu Dalang never expected that the village man would actually successfully squeeze through the cracks in the rocks. After hesitating for a while, he felt that what the village man could do, there was no reason why the dignified owner could not do it, so he followed the example of the village man. In the same way, he climbed to the top of the cave wall and squeezed the gap.

He was a little fatter than the village man, and he had no strength, so it took more time, but he still managed to climb out smoothly.Seeing that the villager had disappeared, he rushed to the entrance of the cave, climbed over layers of gravel, looked around carefully, and ran away happily when he saw that the mouse was not there.

Li Lijun and the mouse stood on the hillside, and they were relieved to see the two escape one after another.

The mouse clutched its arm and complained in a low voice: "This Liu Dalang is such a waste! I opened the door for him to see, and lit a fire to remind him where the door is, and he dragged on until now before escaping!"

Li Lijun thought of the rumored old lady of the Liu family who had passed away long ago, those members of the Liu family who hated Liu Dalang deeply, and the ancestral estate of the Liu family's ancestral house that had already changed hands. The fire outside the cave was extinguished, and I looked back at the mouse: "Where is the real portal of this cave?"

The earliest gate of this cave was located in the north of the small hill, and it was already covered with moss at this time, and the shape of the gate could not be seen at all.Li Lijun cleared the pile of rubble in front of the door, and pressed his hand on the door wall. The earth magic was activated, and the door panel turned into powder and fell one after another, leaving a hole as tall as a person.

Li Lijun took a closer look at the door frame, and found that it was originally engraved with runes, but the runes have been blurred for a long time, no wonder the door shattered at the touch of a touch, without any defensive function left.

She walked into the entrance of the cave, and inside was a cave that was mostly collapsed, and even several pillars were broken and fell to the ground.There should have been some runes engraved on the wall of the cave, and there were fragments of carpets on the ground that couldn't see the original color, and there were a few pieces of old-style furniture. It felt like a living room.

Li Lijun reinforced the roof of the cave with spells to avoid collapse accidents during the exploration, and ordered the mouse to remove a few big stones blocking the way, and then walked to the large hemispherical cave in the middle.

The shape of this big cave is very strange, it is not like a place for normal people to live in, it is roughly a perfect circle, and the surrounding area is empty, there are two steps in the middle, there is a large circular platform, and there are many carvings on the ground. The runes are distributed in a circle, surrounding a three-foot-high cylindrical stone platform in the middle.The top of the stone platform was about the size of a washbasin, and the middle was sunken, as if something was stored there.

But right now a half-old futon is placed on the stone platform.The mouse said that this is its recent nest, because it slept quite comfortably, so it lived here.

Right above the cylindrical stone platform is the middle of the top of the hill. There used to be a big hole, but it was covered by a broken stone slab, but it didn't prevent the rats from getting in and out.

Li Lijun looked at the scattered snake scales on the ground, thinking that this is probably the place where the giant snake rests, right?Such a large cave hall is enough for it to live in.

The runes carved on the circular platform are very strange.This should be a layered array of symbols.Although it was so old that some runes were blurred and some places were roughly destroyed, it was still possible to guess what this rune array was used for.

Among Li Lijun's teammates during the mission world experience, there is an older Du Sou who is proficient in rune formations and is also very enthusiastic about giving advice to young people.Thanks to him, Li Lijun asked himself that although he only knew a little about spell formations, he was better than ordinary practitioners who were not specialized in this field.

She deduced that the outermost layer of this talisman array is a spirit-gathering array, which gathers the power of the five elements to gather the surrounding aura to maintain the operation of the talisman array; the innermost layer is a defensive array, mainly for fire and heat protection; The formation is probably used to hide the things originally stored on the stone platform, so that the outside world will not be aware of its existence.

Judging from the fire-proof and heat-proof function of the innermost talisman, Li Lijun suspects that the ball of Chiyang fire she dug out from the giant snake's body might have been stored here in the first place.Perhaps a long time ago, a senior monk found this ball of fire, but it was inconvenient to take it away for the time being, so he hid it here, and carved a talisman to hide it, but for some reason he did not come back to get the fire, but in the talisman After it failed, it was cut off by a giant snake.

Still, she thought she knew where the mouse's lost gold essence was.

(End of this chapter)