People check in and punch cards in tomb robbery

Chapter 177 Dragon Tower Palace
After passing through several layers of clouds and fog, the sun above the head could not shine down, the light gradually dimmed, and the coldness in the air became more and more dense, and the frozen hands and feet were cold.

"Turn on the lights!"

Chen Yulou at the front of the line, holding a protruding rock with both hands, raised his head to look up, and reminded loudly.

"kaka~"

There was a sound of turning on the lights one after another.

In the darkness, more than a dozen lights suddenly lit up.

Nowadays, most robbers use pine and bamboo torches to go to the tomb. After all, the horse lanterns are burned with foreign oil, which consumes a lot of money, and not everyone can afford it.

However, the century-old leader of the Chen family has a profound background. In addition to horse lamps and gas lamps, this group of people also have miner's lamps imported from foreign goods dealers, anyway, there are various types.

For a moment, there seemed to be more than a dozen fireflies flying on the dark rock wall. The light flickered on and off, fluctuating up and down.

"Kunlun, what's going on down there?"

Chen Yulou quickly went down and caught up with Kunlun who was leading the way, but the latter just shook his head with a silly smile and rubbed his eyes from time to time. Chen Yulou immediately knew that he was suffering from night blindness.

These days, due to malnutrition, many people suffer from this disease. They can't see at night, just like blind people.

Although the situation in Kunlun is not to that extent, it is not much better.

"Go to the back and go with the kidnapper."

Patting Kunlun on the shoulder, Chen Yulou planned to take a step ahead.

He has an advantage that ordinary people don't expect, he is born with night eyes and has amazing eyesight.

Even in the deepest night, he can see clearly without the need for lamps and candles to illuminate the road.

"Shopkeeper Chen, I'm with you."

Hearing the movement ahead, he didn't stop making a wish, and quickly passed through the crowd to catch up with Chen Yulou.

As soon as he finished speaking, the red girl also hurriedly spoke.

"I'll go as well."

Deep in the dark valley.

The three figures kept going down against the broken wall at an astonishingly fast speed. Only the miner's lamp on them could be seen, moving in the darkness.

It's like the flying thief described in the martial arts novel.

It's just that the broken canyon becomes narrower the further you go down, and you can't even turn around in the narrowest place, you can only walk sideways carefully, holding your breath.

"Shopkeeper, is it the end?"

After climbing down for about half an hour, seeing that the bottom was still pitch black with no end in sight, the red girl couldn't help but stop and ask.

In the dim light, a fine layer of sweat had already formed on her forehead.

There was a slight ups and downs in his heart, and he leaned against the wall and slowly recovered his strength.

"It should be soon."

Chen Yulou is similar.

This section of the road is extremely steep and extremely difficult to climb, and even his body, which has been honed from years of traveling through mountains and rivers, can't bear it.

Stopping at this moment, I only felt soreness and numbness all over my body, I took a few deep breaths, and there was a burning pain in my trachea.

After resting for a while, he suddenly thought of making a wish, and subconsciously cast his gaze there.

I saw that his expression remained the same, his breathing was steady, and there was no sign of excessive exertion, and he was even thinking about checking the traces left on the rock wall.

"Shopkeeper Chen, Miss Hong, why don't you take a rest first, and I'll go down to explore the way first?"

Seeing that the two of them were exhausted physically and would not be able to get down for a while, they made a wish.

Chen Yulou was a little worried: "Don't do it, it's too dangerous to act alone..."

"It's okay, take the lead, Chen. I think there are still ways to save my life. I just run away when I encounter danger."

Seeing that the wish has been persisted, Chen Yulou couldn't say anything more.

After all, there is really no way to let him continue on his way now.

Saying goodbye to the two, wishing to step on the hanging ladder and continue down, but without that old fox Chen Yulou around, he was much more relaxed.

The speed has increased more than several times.

He didn't even use the mountain ladder, but wrapped a rope hanging from the top of his head around his hands. The whole person was like an agile mountain ape, and disappeared into the darkness in the blink of an eye after a few swings.

Deepest crack.

This is already the hinterland of Bottle Mountain.

From the cliff where they came down, it is estimated that the wishing is at least five or six hundred meters upwards.

Taking a deep breath, he stepped on both sides of the rock wall with both feet. It was dark underneath, and he couldn't see anything clearly. The two guys who had explored the way before were nowhere to be seen.

Wishing to take out a cold firework from the ring and throw it down.

The cold fireworks landed, and the light spread out.

When he saw the surrounding situation clearly, Wishing couldn't help being surprised.

As far as he could see, it was not the ancient city outside the tomb as he imagined, but a huge cave.

At least it is the size of a football field.

And looking at the obvious piercing marks, it should be pierced artificially.

You must know that this is an ancient tomb from the Yuan Dynasty.

It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to carve out such a large space at a depth of several hundred meters underground.

Even if it was him, it was hard to hide the shock in his heart right now.

After observing for a while and confirming that there is no danger underneath, he made a wish and jumped directly from the rock wall.

The cave floor is only one or two meters away from his position.

After landing safely.

Wishing to make a wish, he only felt that the cold wave in the depths of the cave was extremely heavy, and there was also a strong smell of rotting poisonous mirage in the air.

Fortunately, he has the ability to be invulnerable to all poisons, this kind of poisonous gas can't hurt him at all.

No time wasted.

Make a wish and walk along the depths of the cave with a miner's lamp.

He had only walked about ten steps forward when he suddenly stopped.

His pupils dilated, his brows were furrowed, and he looked into the distance in amazement.

In his line of sight, an ancient plank road appeared on the broken wall, and he didn't know how long it had existed.

At the end of the plank road is a dome built with countless beams, connected to a magnificent building, and integrated with the cliff.

The main hall has three levels in the front and back, and is magnificent, with flying eaves and bucket arches, yellow tiles and red beams. Looking from a distance, it looks like a sleeping ancient giant in the dark.

"Dragon Tower Palace!"

The moment you see the building.

Wishing could not help but exclaimed.

This kind of hall is not uncommon in ancient tombs, but the scale and specifications are too amazing.

The Dragon Tower Palace, also known as the Linggong, is the outer edge of the tombs, and is often found in the tombs of princes and emperors.

However, building such a great hall deep in the bottom of Pingshan Mountain was still in such an era, and the manpower and material resources consumed were unimaginable.

At the same time, Wishing also understood.

Why did Chen Yulou say that there is an ancient city underneath when he heard about the mountain dragon yesterday.

At this scale, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a city.

After taking a few deep breaths and suppressing the shock in my heart,
Wishing to carry the miner's lamp, he quickly walked up the plank road, and soon arrived outside the main hall.

But before he could study the spiritual palace, he suddenly saw something on the steps of the door out of the corner of his eye.

He looked ahead.

Only to find that it turned out to be two worn clothes.

In addition, there are daggers, box cannons, candles, ropes and other things scattered around.

"This is...the two outlaws who explored the road before?"

Make a wish and remember it clearly.

The two bandits who came down before them were wearing this suit.

Not to mention throwing them on the ground, those two mottled box cannons are not something ordinary people can get.

The clothes and tools are all there, but the people are gone.

The moment he saw this scene, Xu Zhi felt a little bad in his heart.

There was something weird about this thing from beginning to end.

You must know that at the bottom of this deep valley, because there is no sunlight all year round, the air is cold and humid, and it is now winter, so the temperature is frighteningly low.

Also, if there is a danger, there is no obvious trace of fighting here, and ordinary people's thinking will not abandon their guns at all.

After that, Wishing tried to shout a few more times, but unfortunately, there was no movement other than his echo in the empty cave.

a time.

He also couldn't figure it out.

"Could it be..."

suddenly.

The wishing gaze glanced at the gate of the Dragon Tower Palace again.

Did those two guys enter the ancient tomb?
This possibility is by no means a wild guess.

After all, the cave we are in is so large, it is impossible for the two living people to disappear out of thin air.

After thinking for a while, Wishing picked up a box cannon from the ground, checked it, there were still five bullets in it, and pulled back the other gun to check, there were six bullets.

11 rounds in total.

It can also be used in case of danger.

Although this gun is not very good, it is still possible in this day and age.

Ignoring the things on the ground, making a wish, holding the miner's lamp, and walking down the steps step by step towards the gate with concentration and breath-holding.

The gate is carved out of a whole piece of white marble, the left and right sides are naturally integrated, and there is no trace of patchwork at all.

Shimen is at least five or six meters long.

It is easy for a person to feel small when standing underneath.

Moreover, such a piece of white marble itself is extremely rare.

That is to say, in the era hundreds of years ago, today, not to mention such a big one, I am afraid that even the second-level ones will not be found.

Just this stone gate is worth a lot.

The light shone on the door, and soon, the wishing eyes suddenly focused, and there were countless reliefs engraved on it, which was different from the auspicious clouds, dragons and phoenixes in his impression.

The relief looked extremely strange.

Distorted formless...

Like a pile of meat spread out on top of each other?
The most frightening thing was that there was an upside-down eyeball carved in the middle of the pile of meat. It was pitch black and reflected a faint light under the mine lamp.

"This?"

Even if I made a wish, I felt a rare scalp tingling feeling when I saw this ghost thing.

According to the customs handed down and the statement in the burial scriptures, the carvings in the ancient tombs are very particular, and it is not possible to mess around.

He couldn't even imagine the origin of this thing.

"Could it be some kind of god enshrined in Miaojiang? Or the Longevity Heaven believed in by the Yuan Dynasty?"

After thinking for a while, these two possibilities are the only things that can come to mind when making a wish.

First of all, this kind of relief is absolutely impossible to be Han culture.

Miaojiang has been called the land of barbarians since ancient times, and the customs of the Han people are very different. There is also the example of the old lady Bai, so it is hard not to think of it.

As for the latter.

The wish was also very clear.

Since the Yuan Dynasty started from the grasslands, it believed in shamanism, and Changshengtian was the supreme god in shamanism.

The overall relief has a sense of evil and strangeness, but it can be linked with the mysterious shaman culture.

"It doesn't matter, it's important to do business first."

After thinking about it for a while, but there was no result, Xu Zhi simply shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

Place the miner's lamp on the ground next to it.

He tried to push the door open.

It was only after he exerted his strength that he realized that the stone door should weigh several thousand catties, and it was not so easy to push it open.

The gap between the two doors is extremely small.

He tried it with a very thin blade, but couldn't get it in.

"Sealed?"

Wishing frowned, he took a few steps back.

If there is no accident, the door should be completely sealed. According to the degree of force he just used, it can't be opened unless it is bombarded.

Since brute force cannot enter, there is only one possibility.

There is an organ on the door.

Thinking of this, Wishing began to look for agencies.

After looking at Shimen for a while, Wishing noticed something unusual.

The weird relief on the stone gate began to become clear in his sight.

There is clearly a hidden mechanism inside.

The operation of the mechanism depends on nothing else, but the damp air under the ground, which completely locks the back of the door.

No wonder it couldn't be broken with brute force.

And the eye of the mechanism is just like the upside-down eyeball.

"So it is."

As soon as I made a wish, I subconsciously pressed that eye.

But before he could use his strength, there was a sudden sound of chaotic footsteps in the darkness behind him, and at the same time a familiar voice sounded.

"Brother Xu!"

"Shopkeeper, why is Xu Bai missing?"

Hearing that familiar voice, I didn't know where I was making a wish, but Chen Yulou and Miss Hong had already chased him down.

Alas, he was only half a step away from entering the Dragon Tower Palace.

But he didn't think much of it.

After all, going to the tomb alone means that you have to bear all the dangers.

Thinking of this, Wishing quickly withdrew from the door and returned to the stone steps.

"Shopkeeper Chen, Miss Hong, I'm here."

……

"So, the two of them disappeared?"

A few minutes later, Chen Yulou, who learned about the cause, had a look of disbelief.

After the two of them came down for a trip, there was no living or dead body. It was the first time he encountered such a weird situation in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years.

Wishing nodded, "Yes, I searched here for a long time, but I didn't find any trace."

"It's been so long, I'm afraid something happened."

Looking at the two pieces of clothes and the scattered items on the ground, Chen Yulou felt his eyebrows twitching.

After all, there was more than half an hour between the two of them sending out their arrows until they came down.

This time is not long, but it is not short.

There are so many variables!

It's just that no matter how you look at it, it has a weird and unspeakable taste.

"Could it be that the shopkeeper ran away before the battle?" Miss Hong put forward her own guess.

"No, those two are desperate people who want money and don't care about life. How could they be willing to leave with the Pingshan ancient tomb in front of them?"

"Maybe it's a cigarette addiction?"

Among the people under Mr. Luo's hands, there are not many people who don't smoke opium.

People who smoke these days, once they become addicted to smoking, they don't care about even big things, and just focus on smoking.

Miss Hong had seen such a person when she was on the mountain.

It's impossible for two living people to be caught by ghosts, right?

"It's useless to guess too much, we'll look for it when the brothers come down." Chen Yulou shook his head, this was really a bad start, and it made him feel a little bit drummed.

(End of this chapter)