Chapter Seven(1/2)
I stood in a trance and felt like the world was in my control. For the first time in my life, a sense of heroism soared into the sky. I waved the ancient bronze sword in my hand slightly, which was like a spider silk web in the sky and the sword broke one after another. What the girl said was really correct.
The moment the ancient bronze sword was bought, the Bagua Formation was naturally broken. I saw the young master holding a lighter in one hand and protecting the girl in the other, confronting several double-faced insects.
Just now, I was directly trapped in it when I entered the formation. I couldn't see the young master and the girl, but they could see me. They naturally saw my step by step. Now, seeing that I had obtained the bronze ancient sword, the young master couldn't help but shout, "Hurry up... I'm almost unable to hold on anymore*** What kind of east and west are these?"
"Here's here..." I waved the bronze ancient sword in my hand and slashed and slashed all the way to the young master and the girl. But at this moment, a "rumbling" sound suddenly came from the underground like a muffled thunder.
I know that this place will not thunder. But why do I feel that the ground is shaking? Is this also an illusion? I looked down and couldn't help but be shocked. The originally smooth white jade-like platform has now cracked a long gap. The double-sided insect man who had originally entangled the young master and the girl has retreated into the pools on both sides with great anxiety.
I felt aroused in my heart and understood what was going on. I hurriedly shouted, "It's not easy to hold the bronze ancient sword and kill directly to the girl, pulling her with one hand and running towards the other side of the pool. At the same time, I shouted to the young master: "Run quickly, this place is about to collapse..."
The young master saw me holding the girl in one hand and running quickly holding the bronze ancient sword in the other hand, busy carrying the crossbow on my back and following me behind me. He couldn't help but complain, "Old Xu, you are so rude!"
There was also a white stone bridge on the other side of the platform. I didn't know where it led. And just as we left the Baiyu Highway, a loud noise came from behind. I took the time to turn around and just saw that the originally extremely luxurious Baiyu Highway had completely collapsed and fell into the dark water. The white stone bridge we were standing on was also collapsed quickly because it lost support.
This dark pool was so big that it was beyond the limit that I didn’t know where the White Stone Bridge led. I didn’t have time to think about anything. I pulled the girl forward quickly.
"Brother Xu, I can't run... I'll move..." The girl was pulled by me and could hardly breathe.
"If you can't run, you have to run!" I didn't feel sympathy at all, pulling the girl and running desperately. The stone bridge behind me was already collapsed constantly. The young master's breathing sound came from behind, as if he was pulling a broken bellows. But in order to survive, we must run.
"How long is Lao Xu...? I...I can't run anymore..." The young master said behind his back.
I said viciously: "If you want to survive, run away!" In fact, I was also panting, but I knew that as long as the three of us relaxed, we would be afraid that we would have to give our lives here today.
Running - this is my only consciousness now. I just pulled the girl forward desperately. I can guarantee that those long-distance runners would die of shame if they saw the three of us now.
I don't know how the three of us ran to an open space. Anyway, when we stepped down the White Stone Bridge, the girl sat on the ground and the young master behind her also wanted to sit down. But in this case, once we relaxed, it would be a dead end. So I pulled the girl up and stared at the young master viciously and said, "Let's take a few more steps and walk..." I was so tired that I couldn't even open my eyes when I said this.
I pulled the girl and walked several steps before I relaxed. Suddenly, a feeling of unspeakable fatigue hit my heart and my legs were also swelling. The young master supported his knees with his hands and stretched out his tongue. He felt like a hanged ghost gasping for breath and asked, "Where is this place of Lao Xu?"
I glared at him with annoyance and said, "How do I know where this is?"
The girl was very unimpressed and smiled bitterly on the ground, "Brother Xu, it's really hard for me to live now..."
I used a flashlight to illuminate the water pool not far away. It was like a small tomb chamber, but it was a bit like an empty plain. But we all knew in our hearts that there was no plain underground.
The light of the flashlight seemed even darker and couldn't see it farther, so I saw that the girl and the young master had rested for a while and were busy urging him, "Get up, let's go!"
The young master sighed and asked, "I said, where is Lao Xu going?"
I shook my head and didn't say anything, how could I know where to go? The girl rested for a while and finally stood up from the ground and swung her archaeologist's professional ethics again. She asked me for the bronze ancient sword to see what was going on.
I smiled and handed over the ancient sword in my hand. The girl stroked the thunder pattern and bird seal shape wrapped around the scabbard of the bronze ancient sword with her hand. I was very fascinated by the shape of the bird seal. I don’t know why I saw the girl’s current appearance and couldn’t help but hear the helpless and desolate sigh and those words when I pulled out the bronze ancient sword:
The Bagua Jiazi gods and ghosts hide and turn into snakes and dragon bones, the sky and the earth are incomplete...
The girl said that the bird seal is written in something that may be the name of the sword. If you know what kind of sword this is, you may know what era it is and what connection is with the dragon coffin under the Yellow River.
I also agree with the girl's point of view. The young master came over to express his opinion. "I said, "Is the white jade platform just to bury this ancient sword? Ancient people had a problem with their brains to build such a huge and gorgeous tomb for a sword?"
I just cut off the weird black iron chain with one sword. They all saw it with their own eyes. The sharpness of this ancient bronze sword is beyond doubt.
The girl looked at it again and finally handed the sword sheath to me and said, "Brother Xu, what are you going to do with such a magical artifact?"
Disposal? I smiled bitterly and according to my wishes, the best way to sell such a treasure is to be dedicated to the country. But if I want to be dedicated to the country, how can I explain it if someone asks about the origin of the sword? I can't say that I came from robbing the tomb, right?
"Let's talk about it when you leave here!" I replied absent-mindedly that now we are trapped in a completely unknown underground world. Can we go out or unknown. Why bother worrying about an ancient bronze sword? The young master also took the ancient bronze sword from my hand and watched it. Finally, his eyes fell on the hilt of the sword and shouted happily as if a new continent had appeared. "Old Xu, look, what is this?"
I walked up to see. The pattern on the hilt of the sword felt a familiar feeling. It seemed that I had seen it somewhere. I thought about it and realized that this pattern was the pattern carved on the Yellow River Dragon Coffin? Could it be that this ancient bronze sword is the key to breaking the curse under the Yellow River Dragon Coffin?
The girl was just watching this ancient bronze sword with gorgeous surface decoration. She had not paid attention to it. She heard this and came over curiously and smiled happily: "Yes, maybe we accidentally found the key thing to break the curse. Not to mention that the building materials of the white jade platform are the same as the dragon coffin. This ancient sword must have something to do with the dragon coffin. Maybe this is why Liu Qu chose the cemetery here. Just find his epitaph and you will know it at a glance."
Looking at the happy look of the girl and the young master, I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart. I always felt that this matter was definitely not that simple.
The young master turned the bronze ancient sword over and saw that the handshake on the hilt of the sword on the other side was not the carved patterns but four bird seals.
The young master sent it to the girl and asked, "Girl, do you know these four words?"
The girl looked at it and frowned and said, "This word... seems to be the word "Heaven". You also know that I don't understand Bird Seal. I just learned a little bit of fur with the professor before..."
sky!
The girl said that the word "天" is the word "天" and I only felt a "boom" sound in my ears. The moment when the ancient bronze sword was unsheathed, the desolate and helpless sigh seemed to echo in my heart. And those obscure words flashed in my mind again-
The Bagua Jiazi gods and ghosts hide and turn into snakes and dragon bones, the sky and the earth are incomplete...
The sky is ruined and the earth is missing! I blurted out and the girl turned her head and asked me, "Brother Xu, what are you talking about? What are the sky is ruined and the earth is missing?"
I shook my head repeatedly. What happened just now was really strange, but it was just an illusion caused by the formation. How could this sword be so coincidental that it is called Tiancandi? Why is a good ancient bronze sword named such a strange name?
I said, "Don't study this sword. If you can go out and study the ancient sword, it's not too late. Now let's see where it is?"
The young master handed me the bronze ancient sword again. We all looked at the girl, "How to go?" Among the three, it was obvious that the girl knew the ancient tombs the most. Although she had turned over the earthen tombs before, she was much better than me and the young master. However, facing such a place, the girl didn't even want to finally follow my original intention. The three of them kept moving forward and adapting to the situation.
The girl took out the compass and wanted to identify the direction. I said there was no need to mess around, let alone the compass was soaked in the water for so long that it had not been used for a long time. Even if it was new, it was useless on this underground. Since there could be a Bagua array on the white jade platform just now, there must be interference in this place, otherwise the tomb building might not be strange.
The young master didn't believe it, so he took out his compass and looked at it and sighed and gave up.
In the darkness, we can only walk based on our feelings. I noticed that the ground here is completely different from the texture of the White Stone Bridge just now. Obviously, the White Stone Bridge and the White Jade High Platform just now were transported here by materials from other places. And this place may be just the original stones in the mountains.
The girl used the flashlight and the three of us left for about five or six minutes. Suddenly, I looked up and saw a blurry shadow under the dim flashlight. I was shocked and then calmed down again. After all, I had seen such situations just now, and basically I was a bronze servant, and there was nothing to be surprised about.
"Brother Xu..." The girl naturally appeared with a flashlight on her. I hurriedly comforted her and said my thoughts. But the young master took off the crossbow on her back with objection. The three of us carefully approached the black shadow. As the black shadow got closer and closer, I was almost certain that there must be a bronze servant. Suddenly the flashlight in the girl's hand suddenly darkened and then went out without warning.
"What's wrong?" I asked in surprise.
The girl hurriedly patted the flashlight twice. The flashlight lit up again and then turned darker again. Fortunately, it was not extinguished.
"Is there still a flashlight?" I asked the young master. It would be hard to move without a flashlight underground.
"But mine doesn't have much electricity anymore, so I can save it." The young master smiled bitterly and said to us that the importance of flashlights is known to us.
I nodded and said that she had a spare battery, but I didn’t know if it could be used. My young master and I were both overjoyed when I heard this. To be honest, it was the first time I did this kind of tomb robbery. We heard the Nan Clipper’s set in a row. After all, the Nan Clipper’s rule is that we must leave the tomb within a stick of incense. But how long have we been in?
Perhaps the rules are only suitable for ordinary small tombs such as the small tomb of emperors. It takes more than one stick of incense to go through a large-scale imperial tomb, and there are many mechanisms and they have to find the underworld. The girl patted the flashlight again and was lit up suddenly, and she took a photo of it.
The girl instinctively shone the flashlight forward. Due to the light-taminating nature, we looked forward together. But we were shocked when we saw it. Just now, the three of us clearly saw a black figure standing not far in front, but now we look at what are the empty figures around us?
Originally, the three of us thought that the figure was a bronze servant or a bird master. But now the incident suddenly became aroused, and we couldn't help but feel cold in our hearts. Could it be that there was something unclean?
There will definitely be no living creatures in such an ancient tomb - the three of us are exceptional. So what can move is naturally not a good thing.
I looked at the girl and looked at the young master again. The girl's face was pale, holding a flashlight, and holding the corner of my clothes tightly with her hand. Obviously, she was very dependent on me. The young master had already taken down the crossbow and prepared with a bamboo arrow. Is it a blessing or a disaster or a disaster? I couldn't escape the trouble and walked forward with a tough bullet.
After walking forward for five or six steps, the girl couldn't help but leaned towards me. Now we have seen that there is a bone that has been transformed into a skeleton and is still incomplete. Only the rest of the head and chest, but we don't know where it is.
When she walked closer, the girl took a flashlight and frowned and said, "This man was sentenced to death."
The young master asked curiously: "How did you know?"
I can naturally see that this skeleton has only the upper part and the lower part but has been missing for thousands of years. It is normal that the ancient corpse cannot be kept intact, but this corpse is a bit particularly fine. The incision is flat in the place where the spine is broken, obviously it was cut off by a sharp weapon. I don’t know if it was damaged after death or was sentenced to death during death.
"So that's a halve?" The young master pointed at the bamboo arrow and drew a spot and said, "It's so cruel!" The girl had already explained the reason to him that the young master was not a fool and immediately thought of halve.
I said it might not be that it was destroyed by humans after death. The girl asked me what to do now? I knew in my heart that the abrupt black shadow just now was afraid that it had scared her. If it were a monster, it was still a real thing and there was a way to deal with it, but I don’t know how to deal with such an illusory thing.
I made a quick decision to continue moving forward without paying attention to it. In fact, I had no idea what I saw in my heart. After all, the dark shadows we all saw just now, but now what I saw was only half of the corpse.
"Look!" The girl suddenly said as she pointed her finger forward.
I followed the girl's finger and looked at another corpse not far ahead, but there was only a body but no head. For a moment, the three of us were filled with coldness in our hearts. I couldn't understand why these incomplete corpses were abandoned without coffins or burials. But it didn't look like a burial pit.
I know that the slave status in ancient times was not as noble as the cattle, sheep and horses, so it was very sloppy to bury the slaves. The burial pits unearthed in many places were all messy corpses stacked together. But at least there must be a pit that can be abandoned directly on the surface.
I told my thoughts. The girl thought about it and said that this place was originally underground. Maybe these people were craftsmen who built the tomb chamber and others who were killed here directly in order to prevent them from revealing the location of the tomb chamber.
I think the girl said it is reasonable, anyway, our purpose is not to study archaeology and there is no need to study these. The three of them immediately leaned together and walked forward carefully again. Unexpectedly, the more they moved forward, the more corpses, and they were all incomplete. Even in one place we saw dozens of white bones stacked together, either without heads or lacking hands and feet, and were also said to have been cut in half like the first corpse just now.
I grabbed the bronze ancient sword in my hand and the palm was cold. I didn't know why the four words "Heaven is broken and the earth is incomplete" suddenly flashed in my mind again.
Oh my God, the broken corpses, can the so-called broken corpses mean these incomplete corpses? The more I think about it, the more I feel scared.
The more we walked forward, the more corpses there were on the ground, and there were even several times when we had to cross the dense corpses. Although the girl was used to seeing the ancient corpses, she still couldn't help but be afraid under such circumstances. The young master kept holding the bamboo arrow in his hand and biting his lips tightly. I don't know why the three of us didn't say a word.
"Look at what is ahead?" The young master suddenly screamed.
I was shocked by his calls in this empty underground world. At the same time, I didn't care about blaming the young master for being shocked and scaring people. I was shocked by the scenery in front of me.
Following the flashlight in the girl's hand, we looked at the broken corpses together. It seemed that we were here and there. There was a tall stone staircase about five or six meters away in front. The stone staircase was very high and long, and it was extremely majestic.
"Come and have a look!" The young master was a little impatient and pushed me and said, "If you have good things this time, don't compete with me."
I was so amused that we were not sure about our lives and deaths. He was still thinking about Mingyi, but it was really not an ordinary greedy for money. Isn’t it just an ancient bronze sword? Although it might be a magical weapon, can I still take such things as myself? Once I go out, I am afraid that it will cause me endless trouble.
After crossing several incomplete corpses again, we walked towards the stone steps step by step.
When we got closer, the young master and I looked at each other and couldn't speak for a while. We were all shocked by the majestic momentum of the stone steps. The unearth of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang once shocked the entire archaeological world. If all the unearths here were unearthed, they would probably overshadow the pyramids of Egypt.
For a moment, I could no longer describe it in words and could not understand why ancient people advocated gorgeous tombs so much? Is it really that important to preserve corpses?
The girl used a flashlight to illuminate the lights, and it was very dim. The three of us looked into the distance and couldn't see the end of the stone steps. The white jade platform on the pool just now had already amazed us. However, the white jade platform on the pool was simply a terrifying thing compared with the stone steps here.
It's not like a straw hut than a palace.
I don’t know what the girl and the young master think, but at least I feel this way.
The young master looked up at the unseen stone steps and waved his rich imagination and said, "Old Xu, do you think this is the tomb of the master and what we just saw was just a weapon tomb?"
The girl nodded and said that it was possible that ancient people, especially those generals who had been through the battlefield for a long time, sometimes they were more important than life. If it were an emperor who immediately took over the world, it was very likely that he would bury his personal weapons with him after his death.
I understand that the girl is right to bury her close-fitting weapons with her, so she should be buried with the tomb owner. Why should she build a white jade platform alone? Moreover, it seems very unreasonable to be so far from the tomb owner. I don’t know why I always feel that this ancient bronze sword I grabbed in my hand is indescribable. And since the stone platform on the water pool is the same texture as the Yellow River Dragon Coffin, is it possible that the owner of the Yellow River Dragon Coffin is the real owner of this sword?
So will there be a tomb on the top of this stone staircase now? Who would be the one who was buried?
To be continued...