"There is no road ahead. How did the ancients get in?" Xu Yaxian stood at the entrance of the cave, looking at the steep rock walls around her, and fell into confusion again.

"The ancients should have hung ropes from the entrance of the cave, but more than two thousand years have passed. No matter what material the rope is made of, it has long since turned into dust, leaving not even a trace." I squatted on the ground and looked at my feet.

The barren land provided the only reasonable explanation.

"Then what should we do? Are we just going to die trapped in this underground tomb?" Xu Yaxian asked.

"It seems that we can only go back to the tomb owner's coffin room. There may be a passage out there." After a while, I broke the silence.

"The coffin room of the owner of the tomb?" Xu Yaxian raised her head in surprise and asked, "How could there be a passage out of the coffin in the tomb? I am an archaeologist and I have never seen such a design."

I didn't stand up immediately, but carefully thought about the structure of the ancient tomb and the entire process I had gone through before that. An idea came to my mind, "This tomb is different. Do you remember the crystal coffin array from before?"

"

Xu Yaxian nodded.

I stood up and continued: "This place has a famous name. It is called the Bagua Shuangyin Dragon Tower Hall. It can protect the bodies of the people buried here from rotting."

"You mean, the tomb owner wants to be resurrected after death?" Xu Yaxian's eyes lit up.

"That's right," I nodded, "Any attempt to preserve the body is related to the afterlife and resurrection. Although no one has ever truly achieved it, the fear of death cannot be overcome, so the pursuit of resurrection after death

throughout the entire history of human civilization.”

"The owner of the tomb is indeed resurrected, but in a way that may not be what he expected." Xu Yaxian regained her mood and teased the thousand-year-old corpse. Caiyun couldn't help but smile.

"That is true, but the owner of the tomb must not have thought of this before it died. Since it is so eager to be resurrected, it will definitely arrange an exit in advance for it to be able to go out after resurrection." I reasoned.

Xu Yaxian couldn't help but nod, but she was a little worried about the practical difficulties.

"The main body of this tomb should be at the middle entrance of the palace, but there are so many armored figurines there, as well as the two thousand-year-old female corpses. Can we get through it?"

What Xu Yaxian said is also an objective fact, but we can't think so much now, so I spread my hands and said: "There is nothing we can do, it won't work here, then the possible exit is our only hope."

"What if there's no exit?"

"There is always a road ahead. Don't think about things so pessimistically. Besides, we have no choice now but to take a chance on luck."

Helpless, Xu Yaxian had no choice but to nod in agreement. After a short rest, the three of us returned along the original route. This time it was much smoother than when we came here. It didn't take long before we returned to the palace where we were chased before.

The palace door was wide open, and the square was silent. There was no sign of the half-armored figurines. It seemed that they were still stuck in the maze-like passage and had not returned yet.

"Since there are no human figurines now, let's find a way out quickly." I looked around and saw nothing unusual. I turned around and waved my hand, and walked out of the palace gate first.

"Xu Yaxian, look at these words, can you recognize the general meaning?" I squatted beside the bones, pointed to the blood book on the ground, and called the two of them over.

Xu Yaxian turned on the flashlight and studied the words on the ground attentively. After a while, she raised her head and said: "There is not much content, it just mentioned an artifact.

It is said that it can destroy a certain formation, but nothing else."

"Item? What kind of item is it, and what is this formation?" I had a sudden thought, "Could the so-called formation refer to that weird sound that puts me in crisis again and again, right?"

"possible."

"As for that thing, it is most likely the metal disc that was placed in the copper box with the map."

Judging from previous encounters, the formation that can make strange sounds is obviously a method used by the owner of the tomb to control the dead creatures. Since this white skeleton came prepared, it naturally carries a magical weapon that can handle it, but

He died here before he could reach the main tomb.

Thinking of this, I quickly asked Xu Yaxian: "Did that metal disc fall off? Take it out quickly and take a look. Isn't there a lot of inscriptions on it?"

When Xu Yaxian heard this, she quickly searched for it on her body. The good news was that she took out the metal disc from her arms. Probably when she was attacked by human figurines and ancient corpses before, she stuffed it into her arms and overturned it.

Just forgot about it.

Using a flashlight, Xu Yaxian carefully identified the inscriptions on the metal disk. After a while, she shook her head: "These words don't look like everyday words, and I can't recognize what they mean. When I look at them, I feel that they are very much from that period."

Some spells, spells and the like.”

Seeing what Xu Yaxian said, I felt confident. This metal disc was probably something similar to a charm, but the carrier was different. The inscription on it was the spell. Once the spell was formed, for example, if I drew the Soul-fixing Secret on yellow

On paper, there is no need for additional triggering and it can be used directly.

I took the metal disc from Xu Yaxian's hand and hid it carefully. Although this thing was not used to deal with the owner of the tomb, it could at least keep the armored figurines quiet.

When we returned to the palace, we didn't dare to stay any longer and walked directly into the middle passage.

The passage was not long, and we soon entered a spacious hall.

The main hall is paved with green bricks. There is a dragon-shaped relief in the middle of the hall. Surrounding the relief are five tall stone doors. The stone doors are all closed, except for the stone door in the middle. The huge stone sealing the door has been broken.

Don't know whose handiwork it is.

This should be the outermost coffin room. The stone door in the middle leads to the second coffin room inside. And the surrounding stone doors that have not been opened. Judging from the intention of the tomb owner in building the tomb, I guess it should be filled with weapons and armor.

these things.

Generally speaking, no matter how many layers a coffin has, they are wrapped in layers, like peeling an onion, and are opened layer by layer until the innermost coffin is exposed.

However, this tomb owner did not build this underground tomb according to the specifications of the tomb. To be precise, this should be an underground palace that he built for his afterlife. Therefore, the specifications of the tomb are more like a normal hall than a common one.

tomb style.

Climbing in through the gap in the opened stone door, we arrived at the second-floor coffin room.

The shape of the coffin room is basically the same as the outside, but the scale is much smaller. There is still a stone door with a hole in the middle, and there are only two stone doors on both sides.

"It seems that the previous tomb robbers have entered the main tomb chamber." Xu Yaxian said while looking at the broken stone door.

I nodded and said nothing. The thousand-year-old corpse I met before was the owner of the tomb. Since it was already jumping around outside, it was natural that someone had entered the main tomb chamber and woke it up.

After passing through the second stone door, a palace-like hall appeared in front of us.

The hall is quite large, with tables, chairs, curtains, screens and other items all available. However, they are all carved from a single piece of stone and remain the same even after thousands of years.

intact.

Instead of the bed, what appeared in the middle of the palace was a huge jade platform, with a transparent crystal coffin placed on it. The lid of the coffin was flipped to one side, and the interior of the coffin was empty.

This is the last level of the coffin room, where the tomb owner lives.

Although the thousand-year-old corpse is not here for the time being, the three of us can't help but be more vigilant. This is someone else's lair. Once it returns, we will be trapped and die here.

There are also two stone doors on both sides of the palace, and I also noticed a detail. The small door on the left had obvious signs of damage, but it had not been opened yet.

Considering the empty coffin, it is not difficult to guess that the tomb robbers woke up the thousand-year-old corpse when they broke into the door. What happened next can be roughly estimated.

Judging from the situation along the way, the intruders before us seemed to have ignored the peripheral side chambers and did not care about the funerary objects in the side doors. They broke through two stone doors in a row and rushed straight into the main tomb chamber.

appearance.

The scene in front of me gave me a familiar feeling of déjà vu.

According to common sense, if the people who broke into this place were ordinary tomb robbers, they would have no reason to let go of the funerary objects in the side room outside. At the very least, they would open the stone door and take a look at the things inside.

Their approach obviously goes against the greed in human nature.

Speaking of which, didn't the group of tomb robbers turn a blind eye to the burial objects in the Han Dynasty tomb above? The main chamber of that tomb was clearly within easy reach, but they didn't even bother to open it and take a look.

Perhaps, the person who entered this coffin room and tried to break down the stone door was the person who moved stones to block the thief's hole.

What kind of things are hidden in this tomb that people are determined to obtain? My eyes wandered around the stone door.

"Lin Kun, come and take a look, this seems to be an altar." Xu Yaxian's voice sounded from the corner of the palace, interrupting my thoughts.

I looked up and saw her and Caiyun there, curiously looking at a stone table that looked like an altar table.

When I walked in and took a look, there was a bronze base placed on the altar table, holding a metal disc the size of a gong. The disc was also densely engraved with inscriptions, and there were patterns with complex textures painted around it.

"It turns out that the eye of this formation is a metal disk."

"It's strange. If it's just something causing trouble, wouldn't it be better to just break it? Why do we need to prepare a special magic weapon to break it?" Xu Yaxian said curiously, and reached out to tap the metal disc a few times.

I was so frightened that I quickly stopped her: "Don't move. Fortunately, this is just a sound-controlled array. If it were anything else, something might happen if you touch it casually."

Xu Yaxian stuck out her tongue and retracted her hand. After this night's encounter, she knew more or less what was good and bad.

"This metal disc cannot be broken easily. If you break it, although the thousand-year-old corpse can no longer control dead objects, those uncontrolled human figurines are still a big trouble."

I paused and continued to explain: "It will be different if the method is broken. Those dead creatures will return to their original place and will no longer run around and jump around."

"Oh." Xu Yaxian nodded as if she understood.

"Ignore this method for now. There's nothing chasing us anyway. It doesn't matter whether we can break it or not. We'd better quickly find the exit first. I guess it should be right here."

The two women nodded in unison, separated from each other and began to carefully search for signs of the mechanism. The focus was of course on the area near the empty coffin.
Chapter completed!