Chapter 10 Chapter Ten: The Lord of the Later Han Dynasty

Situ Tianzuo looked at the three corpses, and suddenly said: "Uncle Wu, Brother Lian, look under these three corpses." Wu Wantong took out a strange weapon about one foot long from his luggage.The weapon is as straight as a cone, but a long groove has been made at the tip of the cone.Lianxing didn't recognize this weapon. This is the unique weapon of the Xiling Sect, called the Earth-Exploring Dragon.The ground-exploring dragon is divided into three sections, and each section can be connected with an iron chain.When the Xiling school is inverting, it often pokes the ground dragon into the ground, and the groove part of the ground dragon will be filled with underground soil when it is lifted.The Xiling faction can watch the earth color test to know whether there is a dragon tower hall underground.This ground-exploring dragon is similar to the acupuncture points of the Supreme Baolong of the Mojin School.

Wu Wantong took out the ground-exploring dragon, and gently used the dragon's tip of the ground-exploring dragon to flip over a corpse.I saw a big hole in the back of the corpse, which seemed to be torn open by some wild beast.The surroundings of the hole had long been rotten, and white maggots came and went from the corpse. Lian Xing frowned, and said, "Looking at it like this, it seems that he died of being ripped out of his heart and lungs by a giant mandrill." Wu Wantong said: "Fortunately, we killed this giant mandrill, otherwise, I don't know how many people died in the hands of this giant mandrill."

Situ Tianzuo sighed, and said: "Man died for money, and birds died for food. If it weren't for the artifacts in the underground mausoleum, these three people would not have been buried in the coffin hole." The three carefully walked around the three dead body, into the inner tomb. However, the water in the tomb was very deep.The three of them stepped in and stepped into the water, the water was half a foot deep.The walls of this tomb are mottled and mottled. It seems that there were murals painted in the past, but now they have long since fallen off, and only some faint oil paints are smudged on them.The portraits on the four walls of the tomb melted when exposed to the wind, and disappeared as soon as the outside air entered.

The three of them stood in the half-foot-deep water, looking around, and just about to walk towards the inner room, suddenly there was a rush of footsteps in the tomb!The three of them were shocked. There are still living people in this barren mountain ancient tomb? The sound of footsteps was very strange, like a person walking on one leg, jumping and jumping, each jump seemed to be stepping on the hearts of three people.The three stopped in their tracks and listened attentively.The footsteps suddenly disappeared again.Three people, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know why. Situ Tianzuo scolded in a low voice: "It's his grandma's, maybe we heard it wrong?" Before he finished speaking, strange footsteps sounded again.The three of them were stunned, and the sound of footsteps moved forward quickly.

Wu Wantong said: "Brother Lian, do you think the footsteps just now were people or ghosts?" Lian Xing said in a deep voice: "It should be a human being. There is no sound of footsteps at all when a ghost lands. If it is a zombie, the footsteps will be particularly heavy." Wu Wantong frowned and said, "Why are there people in this mausoleum?" Lian Xing shook his head, not knowing why.He listened attentively, and the strange footsteps suddenly disappeared without a trace. Wu Wantong whispered to Situ Tianzuo and Lian Xing: "There must be outsiders coming in here, we must be careful. I think since this person can escape the giant mandrill and enter the tomb, he must be very skilled. Don't be careless."

Situ Tianzuo and Lian Xing nodded.Holding torches in their hands, the three of them waded across the water and slowly walked to the tomb passage outside.There are also many murals on both sides of the tomb passage.Compared with the other tombs, the murals on both sides of the tomb passage here are very well preserved, with only a little color peeling off at the four corners.The men and women in the murals are dressed in Hu clothes and military uniforms, full of heroic spirit. Situ Tianzuo looked at the portrait on the mural and said, "The portrait on this mural is from the Shatuo tribe."

Lian Xing has never heard of the origin of the Shatuo tribe, and Wu Wantong is even a rough man. Hearing Situ Tianzuo say that the tomb murals belong to the Shatuo tribe, he felt strange: "Shatuo tribe? The name seems to be a barbarian, but Kaifeng is In the land of the Central Plains, where did the Shatuo people come from?" Situ Tianzuo smiled and said, "Uncle Wu, you don't know something. Although Kaifeng is the land of the Central Plains, it is also the ancient capital of seven dynasties. Among the seven dynasties, Liu Zhiyuan, the lord of the Later Han Dynasty, is a member of the Shatuo tribe."

Lian Xing said slowly: "Brother Situ, do you mean that this tomb is the tomb of the Emperor of the Later Han Dynasty?" Situ Tianzuo nodded and said, "Yes, this tomb must be the tomb of Liu Zhiyuan, the lord of the Later Han Dynasty." Wu Wantong wondered: "Could it be that there is only this generation of the Later Han?" Situ Tianzuo said: "That's not true." Wu Wantong asked: "If it's more than one generation, how do you know that this imperial mausoleum belongs to Liu Zhiyuan?" Situ Tianzuo said with a smile: "My uncle doesn't know that Liu Zhiyuan, the lord of the Later Han Dynasty, only reigned for one year, and then died of illness. His will was passed on to his second son, Chengyou. Liu Chengyou was later killed by the minister Guo Wei. Look, uncle, although this tomb is an imperial mausoleum, its specifications are very rough, and it is even worse than the tombs of our princes in the Central Plains."

Wu Wantong looked around, and sure enough everything in the tomb was exactly as Situ Tianzuo said, he was quite disappointed, and thought, "It seems that although this tomb is an imperial mausoleum, there seems to be little chance of finding artifacts."If I fail, I will return empty-handed. Lian Xing, Situ Tianzuo and Wu Wantong continued to move forward.The further you go, the deeper the water is, and it seems that half of the entire Diling is flooded by the water. While Lian Xing was walking, he suddenly felt that something lightly touched his leg, and then swam away swiftly and abnormally.

Lian Xing's heart skipped a beat, and he was about to call Wu Wantong and Situ Tianzuo to be careful, when suddenly water splashed in front of him, and a giant black-scaled python leaped out of the water, with a red tongue, and rushed towards Lian Xing! Lian Xing was taken aback and couldn't help but backed away.The giant black-scaled python jumped up from the water, leaped into the air with its chubby body, opened its mouth wide, and bit Lian Xing.Lian Xing retreated again and moved away like lightning.The giant python missed a single hit, and fell heavily into the water from mid-air with a "plop".

At this time, Situ Tianzuo and Wu Wantong were startled by the giant python, and both turned around.Wu Wantong held the ground-exploring dragon, and Situ Tianzuo took out a single sword, and rushed at them from both sides! The giant python fell into the stagnant water, swung its head, and quickly jumped in front of Lian Xing. Before Lian Xing could dodge, the bucket-like body of the black-scaled python had wrapped around Lian Xing several times. Boa Tou pushed towards Lian Xing. Lian Xing was horrified, seeing that the python's head was getting closer and closer to him, he couldn't help roaring, stretched out his arms and grabbed between the neck of the giant python, and held it firmly, preventing the giant black-scaled python from bowing its head devour yourself. Situ Tianzuo and Wu Wantong had rushed to Lian Xing at this time, seeing that the black-scaled python had tightly entangled Lian Xing, they slashed down on the black-scaled python with their weapons. The giant python suffered from pain, and even more tightly wrapped around Lian Xing.Lian Xing gradually felt that it was difficult to breathe.The whole body was tightly entangled by the giant python, unable to move, only one head could barely move at this moment, Lian Xing opened his mouth in desperation, and bit the giant black scale python with one bite. The giant python was attacked from the front and back, so he wanted to let go of Lian Xing and ran away in a hurry.Situ Tianzuo was not willing to let it go.He pulled out the single knife that had been cut on the giant python's body, and with all his might, he slashed at the giant python's head.With a sound of "chi", the python's head was cut off with a single knife!A cavity of python blood spurted out from the broken part of the python's head, like a goddess scattering flowers, spraying everywhere in the tomb passage!Immediately afterwards, there was a sound of "pass", water splashed, and the python's head fell into the water.The tightly bound python body on Lian Xing slowly loosened, and the three of them breathed a sigh of relief. Situ Tianzuo wiped the sweat from his forehead, his eyes flicked over the giant python's body, and he frowned slightly.I saw that the python's abdomen was bulging, as if it had swallowed something.Situ Tianzuo turned his head and looked at Lian Xing, who was also staring intently at the bulging belly of the python. Situ Tianzuo said slowly: "Uncle Master, brother Lian, do you think there is something strange about the belly of the giant python?" Wu Wantong walked up to the giant python, and saw that its abdomen was still rising and falling, as if something in its abdomen was still struggling.The three of them felt a chill in their hearts. What is the origin of this black-scaled python?Why in the imperial mausoleum?What is it that is constantly rising and falling in its belly?The three of them stared intently at the black-scaled python's abdomen, where it was still wriggling. Lian Xing took out his dagger, stepped forward, and lightly stroked the python's belly. How sharp this dagger is, the tip of the dagger slashed across the python's abdomen, and immediately cut a long and straight cut in the giant python's abdomen.A "person" covered in mucus rolled out of the python's belly. Things in human form fell into the stagnant water, floating and sinking, wriggling and wriggling. The pupils of the three slowly contracted. Just now the three of them had a fight with the giant python, the torches in Lian Xing and Wu Wantong's hands had fallen off, and now only one torch was left in Situ Tianzuo's hands.Holding a torch, Situ Tianzuo walked up to the figure, saw the light of the fire, and immediately gasped, the hairs all over his body stood on end. Lian Xing and Wu Wantong saw that Situ Tianzuo's face changed color, as if he had seen a ghost, they couldn't help but surrounded him and asked, "What's wrong?" Situ Tianzuo tremblingly said: "Master, this is... a human being!" Wu Wantong laughed and said, "What's so scary about being a human being? You're so scared, but you're still a second-generation disciple of the Xiling Sect." Situ Tianzuo handed the torch to Wu Wantong: "Uncle Master, look for yourself!" Wu Wantong took it, leaned in front of the figures and took a picture, and also took a deep breath. The "person" that Situ said rolled out of the python's belly was completely changed, his eyes, ears, mouth and nose were all melted by the acid in the python's belly, leaving only a body like a pillar of flesh. Wu Wantong was so sick that he wanted to vomit. The three of them didn't dare to look at it anymore, this corpse was too terrifying.It is said that it is a living person, but it is not breathing; it is said that it is a dead person, and its limbs seem to be slowly wriggling.This situation makes people feel chills involuntarily, especially in such a gloomy ancient tomb. The three walked to one side, looked at the huge python's head in the stagnant water, a pierced python's belly, and a slowly wriggling corpse in the stagnant water, all frowning secretly.Situ Tianzuo said: "Uncle Master, Brother Lian, do you think we should continue walking in?" Lian Xing and Wu Wantong both nodded. Wu Wantong said: "Since we have come here, naturally we can't enter Baoshan and return empty-handed. At least let's see what is so special about the mausoleum of the Lord of the Later Han Dynasty." Lian Xing said in his heart: You are only doing it for the artifact in this mausoleum, you are speaking grandiosely. The three of them continued to walk along the tomb passage.The mausoleum of the Lord of the Later Han Dynasty is in the shape of Feng, with a straight tomb passage in the middle.There are three closely connected tomb chambers on both sides of the tomb passage, and these three tomb chambers are the auxiliary halls of the Xuan Palace of the emperor's mausoleum. Lian Xing and the others walked around the six tombs, but still didn't get anything.Apart from some tattered pots and pans, there was nothing of value in the tomb.Wu Wantong frowned, cursing inwardly: These tomb robbers are really hateful, they didn't leave anything for me, his grandma's.Could it be that I really want to let Lao Tzu return empty-handed? Seeing that only the main tomb of the Lord of the Later Han Dynasty remained, the three gathered their minds and walked towards the main tomb with big strides.