Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 29 The Expendables

After a moment of silence, someone spoke up: "Do you think there is a treasure hidden in this coffin?"

Some people echoed: "In my opinion, this coffin is hidden so secretly, the deceased must have been a high-ranking official and nobleman during his lifetime, and there must be priceless funeral objects in the coffin!"

Hearing that there might be treasures in the coffin, many people's eyes lit up, revealing a greedy light.In the face of wealth and desire, the dangers just now have long been forgotten by people. At this moment, all they see is the black coffin hanging in the air.

Someone excitedly suggested, "How about we open the coffin and have a look?"

Others echoed: "Okay! Okay! Find a way to get the coffin down!"

Gu Meidi said contemptuously: "Who are these people!"

I turned to look at Professor Ye, who said, "Although I am also full of curiosity about this coffin, my intuition tells me that this coffin bottle is definitely a hot potato, and it is better not to provoke it. Let's go, Let these reckless and ignorant people stay here to toss!"

To be honest, I didn't have a deep impression on this group of villagers before, and my evaluation of them is simple and rough.But now, I have seen the ugly evil in human nature. I don't want to stay here for a quarter of an hour. I feel disgusted when I see these people's greedy faces.

We didn't speak, and walked down to the platform on our own, wanting to leave by boat.We can still sail out of the cave while the rat swarm dissipates now. If the rat swarm reappears later, we can only wait to die.

"Hey, where are you going?" Yu Guangwei chased after him.

I replied angrily: "Of course we leave here, we don't want to sit here and become food for those rats!"

Yu Guangwei ran in front of us and blocked our way with open arms: "You can't go!"

I frowned and said displeasedly, "What do you want to do?"

Yu Guangwei said: "Mr. Goat said, you can't leave here without authorization, otherwise the King of the Yellow River will be angry!"

Gu Meidi said: "We are not the ones who give off ghost relatives, we have nothing to do with the King of the Yellow River!"

Yu Guangwei said: "No! Mr. Goat said, you are not allowed to leave here!"

I had always had a lot of opinions on Guangwei's behavior before, and now I couldn't help being furious: "Mr. Goat, Mr. Goat, you are always talking about Mr. Goat. Is Mr. Goat your grandma? Don't you have a brain yourself? "

"Bastard, shut up!" A few strong men came behind us with waist knives and surrounded us.

My heart skipped a beat, and I faintly felt that something was wrong, but there was no timid look on my face. I asked one of the leading strong men: "What does this mean? What do you want to do?"

Professor Ye stepped forward, clasped his fists and said, "Heroes, we met by chance, and we can be regarded as fateful people. It's a bit hurtful to take a knife every now and then. Even big things can't escape a word of reason. Do we have a relationship?" Where did I offend everyone unintentionally, I hope to tell you the reason!"

Mr. Goat walked down slowly: "Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just that you brothers would like to ask some help!"

Gu Meidi sneered: "Are you asking for help? The customs here are really strange!"

"Smelly woman, how dare you disrespect Mr. Goat, are you looking for death?" The strong man in the lead cursed sharply, pointing at the ancient flute.

"You..." Gu Meidi raised his brows, and was about to go into a fit. Professor Ye raised his palm to signal Gu Meidi to shut up.

Gu Meidi lowered his voice and said angrily: "These savages, sooner or later, this girl will beat them to the teeth!"

Professor Ye cupped his fists at Mr. Goat and said, "I wonder what Mr. Goat wants us to do?"

Mr. Goat stroked his beard, and a sinister smile appeared on his wrinkled face like tree bark. He pointed to the black coffin hanging in the air and said: "I heard yesterday that you two are Professional archaeologists, so I would like to ask you for help - open the coffin!"

Open the coffin? !

We stared at Mr. Goat angrily, not expecting that the old man was so cunning, greedy for the treasures in the coffin and afraid of the hidden dangers in the coffin, so he asked us to be his "death squad", I couldn't help but curse the old fox in my heart.

Professor Ye has also been in the rivers and lakes for many years, and he handled things calmly. He smiled and said: "Mr. Goat, I am really sorry, we have no interest in that coffin. Besides, you discovered the mechanism, even if there is something in the coffin. Baby, you guys just share it together!"

Mr. Goat said coldly: "I don't care if you are interested in that coffin or not, anyway, my brothers and I are very interested in that coffin bottle, if you really find the treasure, it will be yours too! Professor, you won't even do this little favor for us, will you?"

Mr. Goat raised his eyebrows, and those strong men immediately took a step closer to us with their knives.

"Don't come here! Whoever comes here, I will be the first to kill him!" Grandpa raised his shotgun, his eyes were red.

Now we have only two options. One option is to refuse Mr. Goat's request and start a big fight with their people.The second choice is to agree to their request and choose to compromise, at least to obtain temporary security.But the opponent has a total of No. 20 people. If there is a fight, we will definitely not be able to beat it. Therefore, after much deliberation, the safest way at present is to choose to compromise.

Professor Ye also analyzed the current situation very clearly. He chuckled and said, "Mr. Goat, we can open the coffin for you! But after opening the coffin, you have to let us go!"

Mr. Goat nodded and said, "Naturally!" He said, making a gesture of invitation.

boom!
A strong man flipped the handle of the knife and launched a surprise attack on Grandpa.

Grandpa was caught off guard, and the shotgun fell to the ground.

Before Grandpa could resist, two sharp waist knives were already around his neck.

I was furious and rushed towards Mr. Goat: "What the hell are you trying to do?"

Two strong men stopped me fiercely, their cold waist knives resting on my neck: "If you keep yelling, I will bleed you!"

Mr. Goat waved his hand, and the two strong men let go of me, and I wheezed and gasped heavily.

Mr. Goat said without turning his head: "Young man, don't worry, as long as you are honest, I will not hurt you! The three of you are in charge of opening the coffin, and your grandfather left us as a hostage. Anyway, he is not Archaeologists, don't go up and make trouble!"

I looked back at my grandpa, who nodded at me: "Don't worry, I'll be fine!"

I bit my lip and nodded, and said silently in my heart: "If something happens to grandpa, I will definitely let these grandsons pay for it with blood!"

We went back to the platform, and after a brief discussion, we decided to climb to the top of the coffin with the help of the bronze chains hanging in the air, which is the only way to get to the coffin.

The closest bronze chain to us was hanging on the cave wall above the Fishbone Temple. We took off our coats and took out wolf eyes and folding engineering shovels from our backpacks. These were the expedition equipment we bought online before we set off. I didn't expect it to come in handy here.

We strapped our foldable engineer shovels on our waists, put on black tactical gloves, and climbed up the Fishbone Temple with bare hands.

Gu Meidi and I are both practitioners. Climbing is not difficult for us. We quickly climbed up to the Fishbone Temple.

What we didn't expect was that Professor Ye, who is nearly 50 years old, is also agile, and his climbing speed is no slower than us young people.

Gu Meidi and I couldn't help giving thumbs up and exclaiming: "Amazing!"

Professor Ye said: "After so many years of travelling, I have learned some three-legged cat kung fu, otherwise I am afraid I would not be alive today!" After saying this, Professor Ye pointed to the bronze chain above his head and said: "I will come first Bar!"

As soon as the words fell, Professor Ye took a deep breath, jumped up with a shout, and tightly held the bronze chain with both hands.Then, with a sudden effort from the waist, he raised his legs and hooked the bronze chain, and the whole person was dexterously hung upside down on the bronze chain.Immediately afterwards, he alternated his hands, like a swimming snake, and crawled forward along the bronze chain with lightness and agility.

Gu Meidi said: "Professor Ye is really strong!"

I nodded: "You go first, I will come to the rear!"

Gu Meidi gave a soft chirp, jumped up, hung upside down on the bronze chain, and then said to me: "Tuobagu, follow!"

I rubbed my palms together, and jumped up high. The moment I grabbed the bronze chain, I used the power of the jump to straighten my waist up, like a big bat, hanging on the bronze chain with a clatter.

The bronze chains were icy cold, and even through the tactical gloves, my hands were quickly numb from the cold, and it was very difficult to move forward every step.Not only that, the surface of the bronze chain also condensed into a layer of frost, which was slippery besides the cold, which greatly increased the difficulty for us to crawl.

But no matter what, we can only grit our teeth and persevere, and no one dares to relax at all. If you fall from such a high altitude, you will be disabled if you don't die.Even if you are lucky enough to land in the pool, you might be alarmed by corpse-eating rats. By then, you will be gnawed down to a pile of white bones by the rats, and the ending will be even worse.

In addition, the three of us, master and apprentice, must also pay attention to the consistency and coordination of our crawling movements. If we act independently, the suspended bronze chains will sway violently, which not only increases the difficulty of our crawling, but also increases the danger of falling .So we basically crawled over shouting slogans: "One two one, one two one!" When we shouted one, three people stretched out their left hands at the same time, and when they shouted two, three people stretched out their right hands at the same time, one left and one right. , hands alternately crawling forward.

(End of this chapter)