People are in the comprehensive tomb, unloading the mountain and stealing the chief

Chapter 281 Departure (continued)

Withdrawing his gaze from the cave, Chen Ziyan raised his head to look at the sky, and said to the gentle woman, "The clouds are getting thicker and thicker. I'm afraid the sky will change later. Let's set off now, and you should go back quickly."

"Master Chen, don't worry, we are prepared." The gentle woman replied softly.

Although she doesn't know how to read the sky, there is no shortage of talents in this field in the team, so she already knew about it before coming here, so she was already prepared.

Hearing what she said, Chen Ziyan couldn't say anything more, so he had to do his own thing.

"Old Hu, fat man, work!"

Following Chen Ziyan's greeting, the two people who had already been ready to go immediately took action, pulling the boat towards the cave one after the other.

The others followed on foot. The depth of the water outside was limited after all, so they had to wait for the boat to reach the real underground river in the cave before going up.

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Coincidentally, as soon as the few people here walked into the cave along the edge, there was a loud thunder from the sky, and then the pattering raindrops began to fall.

Chen Ziyan, who was standing on the edge of the cave, looked back and saw that the gentle woman and the others had already put on rain gear. Obviously, what she just said was not perfunctory.

The moment their eyes collided, after the two nodded to each other, Chen Ziyan turned around and followed the footsteps of the others.

The entrance of the cave is a small slope, about one or two meters in length, below which is an underground river with slight waves.

Although the slope was very shallow, it did not stop the boats from moving forward. After Chen Ziyan walked over, the boats that came in first had already stopped firmly on the underground river.

I don't know what the reason is, it's just such a short distance, but here and the outside world are like two isolated worlds, except for the gurgling sound of the underground river, the wind, rain and thunder outside can't be heard here at all. .

Chen Ziyan was the last one to board the boat, and the others were already waiting for him on board.

"Let's go." Chen Ziyan gave the order after glancing at the road ahead with the help of the powerful searchlight on the bow.

There's nothing to see here, and they're not here to study the geological environment.

When Wang Kaixuan heard this, he hurriedly patted Hu Bayi next to him: "What are you waiting for, Hu Bayi? You're moving like crazy. I can't wait to dig out the old lair dedicated to Wang."

"What are you urging, things won't run long there." Although Hu Bayi refused to give up his words, his movements under his hands were not slow at all.

With the roar of the engine, the boat under them began to move forward slowly.

The reason for choosing this speed is because we are in an unfamiliar environment and need to allow enough time to react to emergencies.

"Do you think we should give this operation a code name, so that it can appear that our operation is more planned and purposeful." Xue Liyang, who felt that the atmosphere was a little cold, took the initiative to provoke the conversation.

Ding Sitian nodded when she heard the words, and agreed: "I think it's okay, it will be more cohesive."

She was born in a special system, and she has long been used to having code names for her actions, but suddenly she was a bit uncomfortable without them.

Wang Kaixuan thought about it for a while, and said: "How about calling it the action of touching the open weapon, and directly pointing out the theme, we are all refreshing people, and we don't fix those vain things."

"Come on, if your code name is changed to a place where there are people, it will be self-inflicted!" Hu Bayi complained sharply.

Because of the action code, several people were no longer silent as before, just like this, you chatted with each other.

Chen Ziyan, who was sitting alone on the bow of the boat, couldn't help but chuckled and shook his head when he heard the more and more deviating conversation behind him, but he didn't mean to get involved.

He, who is tasked with observing the situation, needs to concentrate on it, and he cannot be distracted by such things.

Different from the hot and humid climate outside the cave, the deeper the mountain, the lower the temperature. From time to time, you can see phosphorous fire flickering in the distance, which all shows that this is not a dead world without life.

Taking the time to turn on the flashlight and shine it in his hand, Chen Ziyan noticed figures swaying in the clear water from time to time, which seemed to be creatures like water snakes and small fish.

Wang Kaixuan noticed Chen Ziyan's movements, and looked at it in a similar manner, and then put his hand in for a try.

"Hiss! The water is so cold!"

But the bitter cold of the underground river directly broke through his psychological expectations, causing the guy not only to withdraw his hand like lightning, but also couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

Shaking off the remaining water drops on his hands, Wang Kaixuan said, "I never imagined that there would be such cold water in the border of Yunnan. Could it be the snow water flowing directly from the top of the mountain?"

Shirley Yang gave him popular science and said: "It has nothing to do with whether it is snow water or not. It is because the temperature difference between here and the outside is relatively large, which causes the human body to have an illusion. After getting used to it, you won't feel cold anymore."

"How do you get used to it..." Wang Kaixuan wanted to say something, but before he finished speaking, his body was sideways by the hull of the boat.

Fortunately, in order to prevent their heads from being bumped by stalactites, everyone except Hu Bayi, who was in charge of the helm, took a sitting position directly after they set off, so they quickly regained their stability.

Wang Kaixuan, who sat down again, looked at Hu Bayi and asked, "Old Hu, what's going on?"

Hu Bayi glanced over the sides of the boat, frowned slightly and said, "I should have bumped into something, maybe a rock at the bottom of the river, all of you sit still, I guess there may be more in the future."

While speaking, Hu Bayi couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart.

In the current situation, if they were on a bamboo raft instead of this boat, their situation would not be as easy as it is now.

"Speaking of which, the scenery here is pretty good." Xueli Yang ran behind Chen Ziyan at some point, and said softly.

Chen Ziyan glanced at those jagged and weird stalactites, and nodded: "It's really quite strange, and only the uncanny craftsmanship of nature can carve out such a scene."

But before his words fell, he saw the river channel in front of him suddenly widen. Under the illumination of the searchlights, he could clearly see that natural lava terraces appeared on the cave walls on both sides of the river channel. The terraced fields are like undulating waves, and it looks like a frozen silver ocean from a distance.

And in the very center of the river, there is a vermilion stone bead hanging upside down, and behind the stone bead is a beast mouth portal that looks like a tiger and a lion.

The shape of the animal's mouth door is simple and simple, but it has a special charm. Under the background of the interlaced light and shadow, it looks like a roaring beast, which is baring its mouth full of fangs, trying to swallow the vermilion stone bead into its belly .

Although such a scene can be regarded as refuting Chen Ziyan's words, he has no intention to pay attention to this point at this moment, but stares at the beast's mouth in front of him closely, feeling a little uneasy in his heart after a long absence.

He already knew the plot, and he knew that after passing through this door, their journey this time officially began.

Not only Chen Ziyan and the other two saw this scene, but also the rest of the people on board.

In particular, Hu Bayi, who was in charge of manipulating the ship, turned off the engine immediately and threw the anchor by his hand into the water.

After the boat came to a complete stop, he asked, "Master Chen, can we get in?"

They had already obtained the information about this waterway from the gentle woman, but there was no mention of such a distinctive place, which made Hu Bayi wonder if he and the others had gone the wrong way.

This is also the reason why he stopped the ship. After all, when the way forward is unclear, he can't just rush blindly.

Several people on the boat looked at each other in silence. After a moment of silence, Chen Ziyan took the initiative to say: "Let's see what's going on first."

Otherwise, what can he do, he can't say that he knows what's behind it.

While speaking, he adjusted the searchlight and put the beam of light into the mouth of the beast, and then saw the human figurines hanging behind the door, which looked so dense that they couldn't be counted at a glance.

Seeing this horrifying scene, Wang Kaixuan said in a low voice: "I remember that little peacock sister said that sometimes human figurines would fall from the mountain here, filled with maggots, shouldn't the ones in front be Could it be that thing?"

After finishing speaking, even with his courage, he couldn't help but shudder, just thinking about such a thing makes one's scalp tingle.

The two female idioms in the team were even more uncomfortable. After hearing the word maggots, they felt their stomachs churn and turned their heads away from the dense crowd of figurines.

Hu Bayi was silent for a while, then said: "This... probably is that thing."

They all belong to Zhelong Mountain, how could there be two kinds of figurines, not to mention that it was mentioned in the searched information that there will be some figurines in this waterway.

Looking at the people behind him from the corner of his eyes, Chen Ziyan let out a sigh of relief, and said slowly: "Now there is only one road in front of me, there is no possibility of going into a fork in the road, so don't think too much, you have to go in no matter what. Let's see."

You haven't even encountered a decent danger, so you can't retreat just because of this, right?
If this is the case, then they are not far from changing careers.

In fact, the reason why they reacted like this was more because the beast mouth portal appeared quite suddenly, and the light and shadow effects were rendered too well, so after seeing the figurines at the door, they would have a similar impression of a chain effect.

Now I get used to it a little bit, and after the shock fades away, I return to my sense of normalcy.

"Okay, let's have a look." Hu Bayi replied.

He then retracted the anchor in the water and restarted the boat's engine.

This time, none of the few people was in the mood to chat anymore, they were all staring at the situation ahead, no amount of vigilance could be overstated in such a weird place.

Especially Hu Ba and Wang Kaixuan, both of them have witnessed the occurrence of corpses with their own eyes, so at this time they stared at the figurines without blinking, for fear that these things would suddenly attack.

When the boat entered the gate of the beast's mouth, Chen Ziyan also saw the specific situation inside, and saw that the river channel behind it became narrow and deep.

After carefully looking at the river and making sure that there was nothing wrong, several people focused on the upside-down figurines.

At this time, after getting closer, I saw that these figurines were all with their hands behind their backs, and they were placed in a bound posture.

Because of the humid and cold underground environment, the surface of these figurines has turned grayish brown, and the outline of the facial features has long been blurred, as if a layer of frosted rock was hung on the surface of the body, which looks like stone figurines. The figurines are somewhat similar.

However, although there is no way to distinguish the appearance of men and women, in terms of body size, these figurines are quite different, some are tall and some are short, some are fat and some are thin.

And after careful observation, it can be found that in addition to adults, there are also some juveniles who look like they have not yet grown up. It can be seen that they are not in accordance with the standard and are completely different from the specifications of the stone figurines in the Qin and Han Dynasties.

On the top of the cave, the copper chains that hang the figurines upside down have long been mottled with green, and some of them have fallen off due to age.

"This thing is really infiltrating!"

Seeing those figurines hanging above their heads like hanged ghosts, even Chen Ziyan couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

Especially here is still in the deep mountain, which heightens this atmosphere even more.

The others were naturally very uncomfortable, and even their heartbeats subconsciously accelerated a little.

At this moment, a figurine that fell off without knowing when slowly drifted to the side of the boat along with the current.

After Xueli Yang forced herself to calm down, she directly fixed it with the paratrooper knife she carried with her, keeping it in a posture parallel to the ship, and then used a flashlight to observe at close range: "These figurines look a bit like the Han Dynasty, but they are more There are no specific features."

Ding Sitian also leaned over, but as soon as she got close, she frowned and said, "Something's wrong!"

Wang Kaixuan quickly asked: "Xiao Ding, what's wrong?"

Ding Sitian didn't care about his inner feelings, took out the dagger and scratched the figurines, then turned the blade upside down to his face, sniffed it lightly and said, "These are definitely not stone figurines!"

"It's not a stone figurine? What kind of figurine is that?" Wang Kaixuan asked puzzled.

But before Ding Sitian could reply, Xue Liyang said: "Sitian, cut this figurine open with a knife and have a look."

"Okay." Although Ding Sitian felt disgusted, she was still within the acceptable range.

And after she cut open the skin of the figurine, she saw that the inside was full of decayed maggot corpses.

While washing the dagger in the water, she looked at the figurines and said, "If I didn't guess, these figurines should be made of living people."

In fact, after they saw these figurines, they had a vague guess in their hearts, but before it was really confirmed, no one thought that the truth would be so frenzied.

This is no longer something evil can describe.

After getting the answer she wanted, Shirley Yang let go of the figurines. She rinsed the paratrooper knife and said: "It is rumored that King Xian is a generation of witch kings in the ancient Yunnan period. This kind of thing is related to his methods. It is very consistent. I have seen corresponding records in some ancient books. It is said that the killing technique of Xianwang mostly uses the spirit of the dead as the medium. It is said that the more the number of unjust souls, the stronger the power of the killing technique will be. I want to use it for the king. The slaying technique on his own mausoleum will definitely give him everything he has."

She paused at this point before continuing: "I even guess that this is only a part of it. If we continue to go deeper, we may see more similar things."

Shirley Yang had done in-depth investigations of Xian Wang. Although there were not many records left by this kind of border king, she still managed to find some.

However, the appearance of these figurines also made her truly agree with the statement that the tomb of King Xian is here.

"If these figurines were all made by King Xian, then this may be the waterway he built to transport materials at that time."

Shirley Yang, who regained her sanity, judged the origin of this waterway in the blink of an eye.

After all, in the current environment, water transportation is the most time-saving and labor-saving shortcut.

Wang Kaixuan didn't have much interest in these. He glanced at the figurines that had drifted away, and asked with some uncertainty: "Then, according to this, these figurines are all made of living people?"

Xue Liyang nodded slightly, and said: "I have seen when I was looking for information, there is a kind of figurines in the suffocation surgery, which is to tie up the whole body of a person and force them to swallow a kind of 'squeeze', and then seal it to death." The seven orifices of the human body are suspended by copper chains and suffocated to death, so that a terracotta figurine can be obtained."

It was precisely because of this that Shirley Yang asked Ding Sitian to cut up the figurines for further verification.

(End of this chapter)