Chapter 020 Shortcut

If we go forward this time, Fatty and I don't even dare to look back. In the past, people said that they had no fear of ghosts and gods. That was said by people who had never seen ghosts. This time I really saw something evil. It is absolutely impossible to say that I am not heartbroken!

At the wine table, I often hear people who drink too much say that they will kill gods when they meet them, and they will kill ghosts when they meet ghosts. But if you really see a ghost, I believe that a normal person will hide away. Everyone has only one courage, and if he is frightened, he will be finished. I won’t mess with this kind of thing if I can, and I won’t hit it head-on if I can take a detour!

Everyone can talk about seeing ghosts, but no one has seen it with their own eyes. Today I suddenly saw that thing that looked like a grimace, so I’d better put aside the rhetoric. It’s better to be realistic, but there’s no need to worry about being realistic!

Since there is a passage on the other side, why bother with this bad luck.

At the same time, I thought of those two talismans. The Tiangang Suppressing Evil Talisman is specially used to suppress corpse energy and subdue zombies. However, there are only a few explanations of the Diamond Breaking Evil Talisman in "The Universe in the Tomb", very little.

So all this time, I have regarded it as having the same function as the Tiangang Evil Suppression Talisman, but now I really hope that it is specially used to deal with dirty things!

The graphics of the two talismans are very complex. In the case of the Tiangang Suppressing Evil Talisman, the pen is expanded outside the large font, which means that the content of the entire talisman seems to be wrapped by a figure that looks like a large character.

The contents of the package are outlined by Taoist special strokes. Outsiders cannot see the clues, but those who are proficient in talismans can see that the densely packed symbols and text arranged from top to bottom are: Monster-catching Canopy Lux!

The difference between the Vajra Evil Breaking Talisman and its content is: Po Qi is used to kill Vajra!

Other than that, there is no difference between the two symbols.

The left and right sides of the two talismans must be written in small characters at the bottom. The left side reads: The divine weapon is as fast as the law and the fire is like the law. On the right: the general’s handprint.

Thinking about the details of the talisman, and feeling uneasy at the same time, we continued to chase Long Wu's location, and always paid attention to the top of the cave wall, lest there be another gap!

Finally reunited with Long Wu, I could feel that Fatty was just as relieved as I was. Long Wu had only been away from us for a few minutes, and such a strange thing happened. It is hard to say that it was not a coincidence.

At this point, the traces of artificial excavation around it are already very obvious.

When you touch it with your hands, you can see that the lines are irregular inverted triangles, and these excavation marks are expanding outward.

In other words, the hole is dug from the inside out. Our direction is to find the place where the first shovel fell, and the road behind is near the exit.

Considering that the road behind connects to Zhelong Valley, the function of this cave tunnel is worth pondering.

The first possibility is that this tunnel exists to connect the area where the pale ghost face was seen just now.

The second possibility is to lead directly to Zhelong Canyon in the outside world.

The first possibility is that I can't figure out the real intention for the time being. But the second type is very simple. It is most likely an escape passage secretly built by the laborers or slaves who built the imperial tombs at that time in order to escape for their lives.

Thousands of years ago, these low-level untouchables were no different from pigs and dogs in the eyes of the ruling class. Although the Qin Dynasty had abolished slavery, the source of all evil, and established the feudal system, the idea of slavery that had lasted for thousands of years was still deeply rooted. The so-called elimination of slavery in a short period of time was just a different name. Or maybe it's just that people can no longer trade cattle, sheep and horses on the street for cheap slaves.

Once these untouchables are selected to do hard labor in building the imperial mausoleum, their fate will come to an abrupt end, and it can be said that they will be completely tied to this imperial mausoleum for the rest of their lives.

They can live as long as the imperial tomb is built, and of course they will be crushed to death from exhaustion.

Once the imperial tombs were built, their death methods were also very different. Some had their heads chopped off and thrown into the burial pits at will.

Some were shot to death by various poisons in the test tomb mechanism.

Slaves could not choose their own destiny, but the craftsmen who planned imperial tombs could. Although the status of the craftsmen was much higher than theirs, they were still subject to death.

With the authority of the royal family and the secrets of the True Dragon Emperor, no one can come in alive and come out alive.

Therefore, often at this time, those capable and skilled craftsmen would find opportunities to mark the weakest points in the imperial tombs, and then use their positions to create opportunities for themselves.

But such opportunities are often rare. There are thousands of imperial tombs, but how many can successfully escape from them?

Whether those craftsmen can escape depends on the absolute loyalty of the imperial tomb guards. Although the imperial tomb guards have the power of life and death over all laborers during the construction of the imperial tomb.

But they are also people who have a short life. From the moment they enter the tomb, they will not be able to come out alive. After killing all the slaves, they will also commit suicide collectively to show their loyalty and follow their master forever.

It is often said that a scholar meets a soldier, but what I want to talk about here is that a craftsman meets a soldier. If you encounter a guard who is afraid of death, only by cooperating inside and outside can you truly implement this desperate escape.

These guards, after the craftsman escaped, could no longer hide in the market. They had to hide in the deep mountains and old forests to feel at ease and survive in the world. If you are lucky enough to wait until the dynasty changes, you may be able to return to your hometown.

The fat man then sighed: "Hey, I think it's better to be an emperor. Don't be afraid of death! All we have to do to die is stretch our legs and stare. But as for me, there are a lot of servants following me on the road to hell!"

I told the fat man: "You said it was good to be the emperor, but that's nonsense. Why did Yuan Shikai defy the world and insist on going back to ancient times and proclaim himself emperor? It's because the title of emperor is too charming and can make people crazy. And in ancient times, emperors It is precisely because of the fear of death that so many cruel and inhumane burial systems have been developed. It is a attachment to the imperial power. Ordinary people can be crazy before death, let alone those emperors! They just hope to still control the imperial power after death and enjoy the supreme power. that power."

The fat man asked again: "Hey, let me tell you, is it possible that the hole we climbed up is the kind of hole dug for escape? We just analyzed it and found that it was dug from the inside out. Hmm. I think it might be true. We touched it by mistake."

In fact, most of what I just said is theoretical. As for whether this kind of thing actually happened in the imperial tomb, it is impossible to verify. If we must explore the result, we can only find the end of this tunnel.

After walking around for nearly half an hour, we finally found the exit. The beams of three bright flashlights came out one after another, shooting wildly in the wide natural cave outside.

The body stretched again and made a rattling sound.

I looked back at the fat man and found that his movements were very slow. He kept looking back into the hole. At the same time, he touched the piece of ancient jade I gave him and murmured that he hoped he had seen it wrong.

It had been raining heavily all day and the water seeped into the mountain. It is extremely humid in the wide natural cave. Put your ear close to the rock wall, and you will see that the water channels inside the mountain are making constant gurgling sounds.

We quickly found an underground river following the sound of water. The water flows downwards. There are thousands of waterways in the mountain, but they will eventually converge here.

What is recorded in "The World in the Tomb" is the method of digging holes in Baoding. It is a fixed-point operation and is completely different from our method. So it is a pity that we can no longer use the records in the book for the time being, because this is a newly opened road. Moreover, it is probably the kind of escape tunnel that craftsmen dug privately as mentioned before.

Since this escape route is along the waterway, I boldly guess that if I keep searching along this waterway, I will definitely be able to find the underground moat outside the underground palace.

There was a high probability that the craftsmen who built the mausoleum had tampered with the moat. They had already escaped along this secret passage before the water in the moat poured back.

"Qiankun in the Tomb" records that the entrance to Longquan Baoding is at the top of Bilong Mountain. The top of the mountain is shaped like an inverted coffin, which is also an inverted coffin. It is wider at the bottom and narrower at the top. The entrance is on the cliff in the southwest, and one needs to descend seven knots of rope before hanging upside down.

This sentence means that if you want to get the treasure top entrance, you need to hang a seven-section rope around your body and fall down the cliff to see it.

One section here refers to two meters, which means it needs to fall about 14-15 meters.

Moreover, people have to hang upside down from the top of the cliff with their head down and body up. Because we have not found Bilong Mountain, we cannot explore the reason why we have to enter by hanging upside down, and the root cause cannot be known. But this shows that the entrance is extremely difficult to find and secretive.

However, we have just analyzed that we are probably on another more convenient passage at this time, and our original worry about not being able to find Longshan Mountain has been solved. The mood is inevitably extremely comfortable.

Only then did he have time to ask, a question he had always wanted to ask, so he asked Long Wu seriously: "Well... Third brother, haven't you lost your memory? If only you were just pretending before. Since the three of us are already here, It is a good thing that we have become sworn brothers in Zhelong Mountain. From now on, we will be brothers who are not from the same mother but from different fathers. You can tell everything on your mind, and the eldest brother will tolerate you. As for the second brother, you also know it, so even more I don’t need to say anything.”

The fat man reacted quickly, and followed my words by saying: "That's right, except for how old we were when we were weaned, there is nothing we can't say. We are just like our brothers, no different! Then the Yunnan you mentioned, third child Why do you seem to know more about Kamba fans than I do? How do you know that the guy on the boat must be a bug master? Then tell me, have I been secretly bewitched by him?"

Long Wu didn't think too much. He told us frankly. He said that there are some things that can only be remembered after hearing and seeing him. But they are all fragments, and he can blurt them out, but connecting these fragments seems difficult to complete in a short time.

He answered the fat man's last question again, saying that the fat man was not poisoned and that he had quietly checked it just now.

Then the fat man remembered something and suddenly realized: "Okay! It turns out that you, third brother, are not careless. You just followed me for a long time to test your second brother's qualifications?"