From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

But what is the mechanism?

How do I trigger it?

Chen Yulou has absolutely no clue about these matters.

Jiang Liu noticed that when the coffin lids of the two coffins were opened, four slanted, fist-sized round holes appeared on the left and right sides of each coffin, as if the weight of the coffins had been reduced by opening the lids, thus triggering the mechanism underneath.

Looking back at the tomb passage door, Jiang Liu suddenly spoke to Chen Yulou, "Would you like to hear my advice?"

"what?"

Chen Yulou's thoughts were interrupted, and he frowned slightly, but he remained calm and patient.

"Look at the ground on either side of those two coffins. There are holes, about the size of a fist, that are quite noticeable."

Jiang Liu pointed to the holes and said, "This should be an opportunity given by the tomb owner. Closing the coffin lids and leaving will prevent the mechanism from being triggered again. But if they continue and open all eight coffin lids, the mechanism will likely be triggered..."

I've never robbed a tomb before, but I've read about traps in some storybooks. Perhaps a huge rock will fall down from the passage we came in, blocking the exit and trapping us inside.

The gates on the three surrounding city walls were all tightly closed, and the backs were presumably made of thick, impenetrable rock.

Upon hearing this, Chen Yulou hurriedly walked to the two opened mechanisms, squatted down to examine the holes, and frowned.

He now has two paths before him:

First, listen to Jiang Liu's advice, put the coffin lid back on, and leave.

Secondly, the remaining coffin lids should be opened to trigger the mechanism, and the "when soldiers come, generals will block them; when water comes, earth will dam it" approach should be taken to break the mechanism and enter the possible true tomb chamber.

# Chapter 142 Head-on clash with the repeating crossbow?

Chen Yulou naturally had to take the second path!

Nothing more!

Although Jiang Liu's guess is likely true, if he really listens to him and leaves, will he still be able to hold onto his position as the leader of Changsheng Mountain?

Yesterday's failure, if there is no achievement today, not only will the hard work of the brothers who dug the mountain and dug the earth be wasted, but his prestige will also be damaged.

This is absolutely unbelievable!

Furthermore!

Tomb raiding is a dangerous job; if you're afraid of dying or being trapped by the tomb owner's traps, you won't choose this profession.

Seeing that Chen Yulou was determined, Jiang Liu stopped trying to persuade him. He said to Hong Guniang, "Sister Hong, this place is quite open, surrounded by city walls. If a mechanism is triggered, it is unlikely to be a 'water arrow' or something similar. Ancient mechanism technology could not have made water arrows shoot that far."

Therefore, it is highly likely that they were real arrows, and most likely they were shot out from above the surrounding city walls.

If a barrage of arrows rains down, we won't be able to save everyone. Why don't you take some men and use the centipede-shaped ladders to climb up that straight city wall and take a look?

Hearing Jiang Liu's suggestion, Chen Yulou thought it was feasible and said to Luo Laowai, "Commander Luo, why don't we hold off on opening the remaining seven coffins for now?"

"What my elder brother says is true."

What could Luo Laowai do? He had no choice but to agree. His life was at stake, so he dared not be careless. He then shouted to the dozen or so engineering battalion members behind him, "Listen carefully, no one is allowed to touch anything in the coffin later, or you'll be shot!"

"Yes!"

These dozen or so engineering battalion members knew Luo Laowai's ruthless methods; if they dared to disobey his orders, he would not hesitate to pull the trigger.

Just as Luo Laowai gave the order, Hong Guniang had already returned from the tomb passage with more than twenty Unloading Ridge Warriors, assembled the Centipede-shaped Mountain-Hanging Ladder, erected it, and used the hooks at the top to grip the inner side of the city wall.

Pulling down hard to make sure it was secure, Hong Guniang took the lead and, like a nimble monkey, quickly climbed up the city wall.

As soon as her feet touched the ground, the girl in red gasped.

"Jiang Xingzhe" guessed correctly!

Before her stood rows of ironwood puppet soldiers from the Song Dynasty, clad in black armor and wielding repeating crossbows. Long, narrow passages, also made of fine iron, connected to the back of the crossbows, presumably for transmitting arrows so that the puppets could fire them continuously.

Red Girl tried to push, but found that the puppets' feet were one with the ground, as if rooted to it, and she couldn't move them an inch. So she took a deep breath and shouted downwards:

"Commander! There are rows of puppet figures on the city wall! Dressed in Song Dynasty military uniforms! Holding repeating crossbows! And they are all made of metal and stone, making them difficult to destroy!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Yulou couldn't help but gasp, realizing that Jiang Liu's guess was true. If the eight secondary coffins were opened all at once, the entrance to the tomb would probably be sealed off. Moreover, the puppet figures on the walls around the tomb would continuously fire arrows in an attempt to kill everyone who entered the tomb.

More importantly, this wasn't the Yuan Dynasty tomb they were looking for, but a Song Dynasty tomb... But it didn't matter, as long as they could find funerary objects.

Again:

We absolutely cannot leave empty-handed this time!

So he ordered people to build several centipede-shaped ladders and hang them around the city wall so that when the mechanism was triggered, everyone could quickly climb up the wall using the centipede-shaped ladders.

However, he himself did not intend to climb the city wall first, but instead wanted to stay around the nine coffins to explore in order to avoid overlooking the other details.

After everything was ready, Chen Yulou gave Luo Laowai a look, and the latter had no choice but to bite the bullet and order someone to open the coffin.

After learning that there were puppet figures that could shoot arrows on the four city walls, Luo Laowai did not want to stay and take the risk. Instead, he wanted to go up to the top of the wall to observe, just like Hong Guniang.

However, since Chen Yulou wanted to stay behind to investigate, how could Luo Laowai, who needed his help, abandon his sworn brother and run to the city wall to hide?

The engineering battalion members were also terrified, but due to Luo Laowai's forceful stance, they could only cautiously approach the third coffin and lift the coffin lid.

This time, everyone held their breath and noticed how the four holes on both sides of the third coffin appeared—

The hole, which was originally in a depression, slid down into the ground. Moreover, the hole was not vertically downward, but tilted to both sides, forming a 45-degree angle with the ground.

Jiang Liu reached out and touched it, and noticed that there were four shallow grooves and recesses on the inside of the hole.

Chen Yulou couldn't figure out what it was either, only guessing that it was a mortise and tenon joint-like structure when the mechanism wasn't triggered...

When the last coffin lid was lifted by the engineers—

Boom!

A loud bang came from the tomb passage!

The previously open tomb passage was now blocked by a huge stone slab, trapping everyone inside the tomb chamber.

The girl in red on the city wall was horrified. She saw the puppets turn their faces left and right, and then the crossbow bolts in their hands shot out.

They were densely packed, like locusts!

Faced with the arrows flying from all directions, Jiang Liu's expression changed. He grabbed Chen Yulou, picked up the nearby Kunlun sword, and jumped onto the main coffin that was suspended by four chains.

Lu Jin and Li Muxuan grabbed the two people closest to them, not caring who they were, jumped onto the main coffin, exchanged a glance with Jiang Liu, and then stepped onto one of the chains in turn, running towards the top of the four walls.

"Save me first!"

Luo Laowai hid beside a coffin and shouted at Jiang Liu, Lu Jin, and Li Muxuan, but the three of them were unmoved. In fact, while he was shouting, they had already led their men to the city wall.

When Chen Yulou reached the city wall, he saw the puppets. Cold sweat soaked his back, and he exclaimed with his mouth agape, "This is not a tomb, but a barbican!"

The term "Wengcheng" is derived from the idea of ​​inviting someone into a urn.

When the first coffin was opened, Chen Yulou heard the noise and actually had a similar idea, but the mechanism hadn't been activated, which made him think of something else.

Even after Hong Guniang reported the situation behind the four city walls, he felt it was worth taking a gamble.

But when he saw these puppets wielding crossbows with his own eyes, Chen Yulou realized that he had been blinded by greed and selfishness and had become a sitting duck!

What is a barbican?

Li Muxuan sat on the wall, gazing down at the bandits of the Unloading Ridge gang and the soldiers of the engineering battalion who had been shot by arrows. He had no intention of helping them, but seeing them fall into pools of blood, he felt no excitement or pleasure whatsoever.

"It's a fake tomb. The purpose of building it was to lure tomb raiders in, so that they would all be buried alive without leaving any survivors."

Chen Yulou was both shocked and furious. After answering Li Muxuan's question, he turned to Jiang Liu and said, "Brother Jiang, could you please save Luo Laowai?"

"The arrows were too dense..."

This is obviously nonsense.

With Jiang Liu's current abilities and profound skills, as long as he is attached to a layer of human magnetic field, he can move freely even if the crossbow bolts are several times denser. However, the people below are not good people.

Especially if Luo Laowai dies, it will be a one-time solution, completely avoiding any trouble that Luo Laowai would cause to them and their friends afterward.

Besides, Luo Laowai hadn't given them any benefits like Chen Yulou had.

and so--

He will observe three seconds of silence for them as a sign of his sincerity in cooperating!

“We are just superhumans, not gods. Using our abilities also consumes our energy.” Lu Jin was telling the truth. In this rain of arrows, he could at most protect himself. Before the initial arrow rain arrived, he managed to grab the two people and follow Jiang Liu along the chain that suspended the main coffin to the city wall. That was already quite an achievement.

If you were to run into this continuous firing range—

He estimated that even the older generation of superhumans would hesitate to attempt this; historically, very few superhumans dared to directly confront the army's repeating crossbows head-on...

# Chapter 143 The Twenty-Four Solar Terms

Ding!

At that moment, oil began to seep from the ground, and the crossbow bolts, which were fired from the crossbows, sparked as they rubbed against the ground, igniting the oil and causing a raging fire to break out below.

A hail of arrows rained down!

A sea of ​​fire rises!

Only thirteen people remained inside the barbican, hiding behind the eight coffins, struggling to hold on. But when the oil flowed to the center, they would have nowhere left to hide.

"Brother, save me!"

Luo Laowai was still alive and quite strong. He grabbed a dead engineer soldier with one hand and held him close to his side to protect himself from crossbow bolts. He then shouted towards the wall where Jiang Liu and Chen Yulou were.

Chen Yulou was also anxious and wanted to destroy the puppets around him, but just as the red girl had said, they seemed to be rooted in the ground, as stable as a rock, and were made of metal and stone, so they could not be moved at all.

"The three of you! As the saying goes, saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda! Please do me a favor!" Chen Yulou finally spoke up, not asking them to save Luo Laowai directly, but to destroy the puppets on the city wall.

"Since it was General Manager Chen who made the request, we will naturally help!"

Seeing this, Jiang Liu also took action, circulating his Qi throughout his body, his strength like that of a dragon and a tiger. He threw a punch, his Qi surging, smashing the surrounding puppets into pieces.

Lu Jin and Li Muxuan were not to be outdone.

A fellow cultivator at the ninth level, surrounded by flowing ribbons, appeared like a divine general descending to earth. Every punch and kick he delivered possessed immense power, shattering the surrounding puppets.

Another one activated the first level of Reverse Rebirth, his skin gradually turning white, and his fists and feet also showed traces of Tai Chi and Bajiquan. His strength was revealed, and at the same time he used the Reversal of Eight Directions technique to overturn the puppet, creating an effect similar to Jiang Liu's punch.