Chapter 9 Chapter Nine: The Phantom Fragrance of the Tomb Passage

Until the last grave guard ghost left, I was still looking at the surrounding walls like a dream, staring at the old man like sleepwalking, looking at all this in disbelief, I already recognized him, he just retreated from the grave guard The ghost's eight-hole jade pipe is the Nine Dragons jade flute once used by Huang Helong, but how could Lao Liutou use this jade flute?And the old man seems to be the nemesis of these monsters, does he have any relationship with these things? Just when I was about to ask him with a stomach full of questions, he pointed at the stone gate I just entered with a livid face and asked me: "Did you come in from here just now?" He looked at me in surprise, and asked a question that almost killed me: "Then how did you come in alive?"

I angrily walked from the inside of the stone gate to the outside of the stone gate, and then strode in again, muttering as I walked, "That's how I walked in." The old man ignored my anger at all, but looked at the half-closed stone door very puzzled, inspected and groped, as if he was looking for something, and ignored my question, I was puzzled Watching him babbled for a long time, then slowly raised his head, quietly staring at the lamp outside the stone gate that was still burning with flames.I also curiously followed him out of the stone gate, and returned to the bottom of the holy fire lamp just now, staring blankly at the lamp with active flames.

Although the yellow flame seedlings are not tall, they are extremely stubborn. They continuously emit a cool and refreshing fragrance, which is similar to the smell I smelled when I first came in. The numb feeling began to appear on the scalp, neck, and back of the spine. It spread slowly, and a stench followed. Looking down, it was the old Liutou who put the black thing under my nose again. The burning stench quickly overwhelmed me. Break free from that strange feeling. Before I could ask the old man what was going on, the old man kicked me and motioned me to squat down. Although I didn't know what the old man was going to do, he squatted down obediently and lowered his head obediently.Unexpectedly, as soon as I lowered my head, the old man unceremoniously rode on my shoulders and ordered me to get up loudly.

After I stood still, the old man's line of sight was just at the level of the hanging lamp. I only heard him scratching on it for a long time, and I didn't know what he saw, and there were endless exclamations.Finally ordered me to put him down. I went to snatch the still-burning torch right away. I still like this exquisite fire scythe very much. The old man showed agility that didn't match his age. A dodge almost knocked me down. on the wall. "Don't move, you idiot, why do you want this thing?" The old man wondered if I was knocked out again, "Do you know that this thing made you almost die in it today!"

The old man stopped drinking, which shocked me. I stared blankly at the exquisite torch in his hand. I don’t know what happened. Since I got down, I have become irritable, impulsive, or too dull. , or too sensitive, at this moment I belong to the stage of being too sensitive, the whole person is frightened by the old man, and I feel chills all over my body. "I said why this scent is so familiar. It turns out that an old friend has arrived." The old man held the torch upside down and looked up and down, and then skillfully unscrewed the copper cover at one end, and took out a strand of white wax strips from inside. .

I looked at the thing he took out curiously. The old man seemed to be very familiar with this thing. I picked a piece off with the end of my little finger and lit it with a lighter. Then I heard a strange sound coming out of this grease-like thing. , is that kind of wonderful fragrance, like a puff of qualitative smoke, gently permeating and disappearing in the air in front of you, the bewitching smoke body is like a charming woman in the air, gently fading away, leaving , disappear. "It's the peppermint fragrance from Hejian Wang's family. The light peppermint smell seems to clear the mind, but it has unknowingly volatilized the medicine hidden in the wax strip." The old man frowned while holding the white wax.

My heart trembled, and I suddenly remembered who the delicate and handsome young emperor was in the phantom just now. That’s right, it was the eldest of the two brothers who was performing illusions at the Qiuji temple fair. He was just dressed in ancient costumes, so I just thought Familiar but didn't think who it was. The Wang Family of Hejian Illusion is the most mysterious and least exposed family among the tomb robbers. Not only Lao Zhong and Lao Miao know little about their family, but even my grandfather who claims to know everything is very shocked when he mentions their family First, I don't know if they are not familiar with their family, or they really don't know much about them. Different from the familiar stories of several other families in the old society's tomb robbery circle, this illusion royal family seems to have kept a low profile from the very beginning. And mysterious, and it seems that he rarely makes a move, but when he makes a move, it is often a big deal.

This torch was obviously remodeled. According to old Liutou's visual observation, it was at least a royal item, but the Wang family didn't care about it at all, and left it outside the stone gate generously.If it is said that it was lost in a hurry, there is only one explanation, and that is: they deliberately left this thing outside the stone gate. It is impossible for the gorgeous and exquisite fire-taking tube to attract the attention of tomb robbers or some people who know the goods. Faced with such a delicate thing, they will try to reuse this thing. It will be ignited naturally, so the person who ignites the fire canister will naturally be recruited.

What kind of illusion will there be in the trick? This, I seem to have described it just now, but before I knew what the result would be, I was rescued by the old Liutou. "The members of Hejian Illusion Wang's family were in the first group, and they lured us here on purpose!" Old Liutou said in a very firm tone. As soon as the old man's words fell to the ground, he saw that the stone door was slowly sliding to close, the torch had been taken out from the lamp, the heat maintaining the stone door had dissipated, and the heavy stone door was silently closed. Close together.

Naturally, the old man didn't react as quickly as I did. When I was carrying the stone gate with my shoulders, I heard the old man shout no, and then I was pushed hard into the stone gate. When I turned around, the old man Separated from me again, shut out of the stone gate. In just an instant, I was separated from Lao Liutou again, and the thick stone door was closed tightly, no matter how I pushed the top, it was as if it was welded to the ground, and it remained motionless. The flame went out, and the organ outside the stone gate was closed again. According to the record in "Lie Zi Ji Kuo Lun", "All magic depends on the Dharma eye, and if the Dharma eye is closed, the operation will lose its effect." The action of taking the fire tube leads to the extinguishment of the flame, the temperature drops, the stone door is closed tightly, and all the organs of the "Dharma Eye Close" are ineffective.

I stood blankly in front of the stone gate, staring blankly at the large tomb hall in front of me. The light blue flames kept rising and curling up on the surrounding walls. The thirty-six bronze figures in the hall danced along with the swaying flames. Changing the length, I suddenly remembered the brick hole that the old man had drilled into. I pulled out a torch and rushed towards the hole. When I ran to the hole, I was dumbfounded. There was a huge dragon-breaking stone in the hole. Hold it firmly there. I was a little dumbfounded looking at the vast tomb hall. There were only thirty-six bronze figures with expressionless faces, each holding a bronze sword, with green rust all over the blade.What's strange is that the copper man's body does not have the slightest copper rust, and there is even a trace of bronze color shining. The surrounding walls are covered with mummified corpses, but there are thirty-six bronze men in the middle. If it is to prevent theft, it seems a bit too weird. I think it is more like a demonstration of intimidation. There was silence all around, only the flames were constantly dancing, constantly telling myself to be quiet and calm down.It's not fear, but a fear of loneliness, which makes me feel irritable.Constantly walking around among the bronze figures with large distances. Six rows and six columns, I counted again, I remember that in the hall of General Tiangang, the old man told me that it was the evil situation of Tiangang, six gods and six gods trapped the dragon formation.At that time, I was smart enough to say that the woman's corpse was seventy-two, which made the old man scream excitedly. In fact, I guessed it wildly at the time, because I didn't know what the doorway here was. Now thirty-six bronze figures suddenly appeared here, obviously one level higher than the silver-helmed generals I met just now, because I found out that these bronze figures are not copper figures, strictly speaking, they should be gold-plated figures.As long as you look carefully with a torch, you will find that the surface of the armor is thinly plated with a layer of gold leaf, which explains why the bronze swords are covered with green rust, while these bronze figures are shining all over. If it is abnormal, it is a demon, there must be some mechanism in it, or it seems to be a suspicious formation.When I looked down one by one, I suddenly found a clear handprint on the third bronze figure in the first row. That handprint was obviously printed not long ago, because the handprint seemed to still have shiny Sweat stains, this discovery made me excited. It turned out that a group of people had really arrived in front. At this moment, he was no longer nervous about discovering the tomb robbers, but was surprised that there was a way out. Just as he was about to touch the bronze figure, the old Liutou's warning seemed to ring in his ears again: "Cicada, don't move!" My raised hand froze in the air, hesitated for a moment, and cautiously retracted it.The excitement of discovering the fingerprints rekindled my hope of getting out of trouble.Moreover, these gilded men revealed a deeper secret: we are getting closer and closer to the legendary and mysterious center of the underground palace. In ancient times, warriors in gold and silver armor were generally guards around the emperor. That tomb is for a warrior with silver armor, and this tomb is for a warrior with a gold helmet. Then the center of the entire underground palace should be near here, and it may even be under our feet. Thinking of this, I checked every exit more carefully. Except for the passage leading to a big black stone, there was not even a mouse hole in other places. At the hole where Old Liutou came in just now, I pushed and pulled repeatedly to resist moving, but the stone seemed to grow on the ground and could not move at all. Soon, hunger and fatigue swept over my body. There was no food in my stomach, and the underground was cold and dark. I soon felt that the energy in my body was rapidly draining. I squatted on the ground in a decadent state. The mummy hanging on the wall suddenly found that those mummy seemed a little strange. Stand up quickly, take a torch to look carefully, this time there is no phantom, no illusion, but it made me an amazing discovery, that is, these people do not seem to be from the same dynasty, and they have not been completely corrupted The clothes indicated that none of them seemed to be the people who were buried together at the beginning, and most of them were civilians or workers' clothes. Based on my shallow historical knowledge, I can only roughly guess a few costumes, which are some styles of Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, and early Qing Dynasty. When I carefully inspected the clothes on their bodies, I suddenly found a strange ring on the finger of a mummy. I touched it lightly with the copper dagger in my hand, and the finger disappeared immediately, and the ring "cracked." "It fell to the ground with a sound. Out of caution, I didn't dare to take it directly with my hands, but carefully picked it up with a dagger. Under the light of the blue merman's oil fire, this ring was still shining, and there was only a ball of rising flames on the wide ring surface. Under the flames, there was a handle that seemed to be the symbol of a hammer.Just when I was puzzled, a chain reaction seemed to be triggered, and the mummy hanging on the wall began to crackle and drop things. When I illuminated these things with a torch, I was dumbfounded and saw A lot of fire pleats, copper crowbars, hammers and shovels fell on the ground, with different shapes and textures, but these things all showed one thing, that is, the identities of these mummy, they should be from all dynasties The grave robber. The underground palace was built in the Song Dynasty, and there are many traps, and the road is full of dangers. It seems that there is only one kind of people who can get here, and that is tomb robbers.However, what caused them to die here, and what is even more exaggerated is that they were hung here and turned into mummies. I swallowed, remembering that Old Zhongtou once warned me that some large imperial tombs would have ghost spirits, and they would never die or live, and would wipe out all life that invaded the imperial tombs. Could it be that the same thing was set up in this underground palace, and these tomb robbers also encountered them. I remember that there is a legend in Sichuan that during the Jin Dynasty, someone robbed the tomb of Liu Bei, the ancestor of Shu. When they dug the hole and entered the main tomb, they found that the tomb was brightly lit. The five tiger generals were all watching chess under the lamp, surrounded by guards, Zhao Zilong glared at them with his sword.At that moment, the few people were scared out of their wits, and quickly knelt down and declared the death penalty.Unexpectedly, someone brought fine wine for them to drink. They were terrified. After drinking the wine, they quickly retreated along the original road. He died at home with a nosebleed. Some people told about this adventure before they died, but they all took it as a joke.But Lao Zhong said that these things are not impossible. Did these tomb robbers also encounter the same situation? Just when I was wandering, I suddenly found something very familiar in those tools. There was a tube-shaped object covered with copper rust, and the holes on it were well-arranged. Is it the animal training whistle? Looking at these mummies in surprise, the Zhao family, one of the five famous tomb robber families, was also killed here.These old-fashioned tomb robbers actually died, and they were turned into mummies.It seems that this underground palace has far surpassed the horror I originally imagined.My intuition tells me that apart from what Old Liutou said, there seems to be a bigger secret hidden here. At the position corresponding to the animal whistle, I used a copper dagger to cut off the copper nails hanging these mummies, and the mummies fell down immediately, and a stench rushed out from behind the corpses. Far away, it turned out that there was a small circular hole behind the mummy. It was more appropriate to say it was a hole, but it was just blocked by the corpse.When the smell dissipated almost, I approached, cut off all the copper nails of these corpses one by one, and then let them fall, a row of corpses were put down, looking all over these corpses, only one corpse had a body behind it. This small hole, and this small hole is very irregular, seems to have been dug out by something. The plate-sized hole is not enough for the tomb robbers to get out. I carefully put my face against the hole, lit it with a torch, and looked across. I ignored a common sense, if this side is too bright, the other side is dark, and I can’t see anything, but when I posted it, I was also stunned, because on the opposite side of the hole, a pair of bright yellow eyes He looked at me without blinking. On the opposite side of the blackness, there was only a pair of weird yellow eyes. My scalp exploded instantly, and with a strange sound like a gust of wind, I and the object that sprang out of the hole fell backwards at the same time.