Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Hey Dan

The pattern is on a huge stone wall directly opposite, occupying a huge space, it is not a mural, it can only be regarded as a narrative sculpture, it does not have any color, as long as the rough lines, it is not difficult to see the haste. All the characters and objects are only outlined with simple lines. Those people are bare-chested, with a long braid hanging behind their heads. Some stand in front of boulders holding high pickaxes, and some push a load of ore The busy scene was extremely vivid.Looking at this scene at this moment, Wu Qi seems to feel that the people on the screen are alive, singing songs in full swing, and shuttle back and forth non-stop.

"What? People from the Qing Dynasty?" Wu Qi pointed to the braids hanging from the back of those people's heads. He kept his eyes on the pictures while speaking, and quickly confirmed his guess.Further to the right, there is a man dressed in an official robe of the Qing Dynasty, who is gazing at the scene in front of him smugly, watching these people work hard to grab wealth for themselves. The two of them were at a loss at this time, and it was getting more and more chaotic. The Northern Wei Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were not compatible at all, which really made them confused.The scene on the screen is obviously much larger than the mine they are currently in. It seems that there is more than one mine, and there must be passages leading to other larger mines.But even so, judging from the description of the picture, this mine is not that big, and judging from the color of the ore, the copper content of these ores is not very high.

"Could it be that the so-called secrets guarded by the people here are these not rich mineral deposits?" Wu Qi frowned and said, thinking about it, it was wrong. To protect these secrets, it is not necessary to worship an ancient doctor as a god.According to the degree of mining of this mine, it seems that it stopped abruptly in the middle. Judging from the amount of mining, this is definitely a loss-making business!Wu Qi suspected that this copper mine in the Qing Dynasty must have undergone some irresistible changes during the mining process, forcing those people to give up the mine.

Ghost Wu said: "I don't think it's that simple. The mine was discovered later!" It's already unimaginable that a small chalcopyrite mine can be guarded by people for generations, not to mention that it is also related to an ancient famous man. If a famous alchemist is involved, it is really impossible for people to make a hasty judgment. Will alchemy use brass?Wu Qi couldn't help thinking that the raw materials for alchemy in ancient times contained heavy metal elements, and a large part of the elixirs were heavy metals. Taking these things for a long time, the only effect is to make people die faster, not to mention helping the face and longevity.However, the heavy metals in elixirs are mostly lead, antimony, mercury, etc., and copper is relatively rare, but most of the alchemy furnaces used for alchemy are made of copper.

As Wu Qi thought about it, his eyes stayed on those engravings. The following content continued the previous ones, but they were quite different.Suddenly a huge iron door appeared on the screen. This is the kind of fence-like iron door, which is firmly stuck at the opening of a passage. Although the lines are rough, he can feel the solid and thick iron door. , I don't know what those people use it to hide. On the adjacent screen, a hole suddenly appeared on the ground, which should be some secret passage, or it might be a mine passage.Some shirtless and long-braided people moved square objects out of the hole one by one, which looked like they were carrying boxes. They moved these boxes out of the hole, and moved them into the secret passage of the huge iron gate one by one. middle.

The picture with puzzles ends here, and what follows is unimaginable: the people on the picture are panicking and desperately trying to escape from the iron gate, as if they have encountered some huge accident.This seems to be some kind of omen, and then many evil spirits marked in red suddenly appeared on the screen. They were red all over, holding knives and forks to slaughter those people wantonly, and many people were even torn apart abruptly, their heads In different places, broken arms, human heads, and blood stains are all over the ground. Although the picture is only rendered with a little red, the highly distorted limbs and horrifying scenes all make a strong smell of blood unstoppable. transmitted out.

The series of pictures in front of me makes people feel hairy. Although they are not sure who these people suffered such a tragic situation, they can already confirm that this is a tragic massacre. Their final fate is the same as that of those who are princes and generals The craftsmen who build the mausoleum are the same! What is even more puzzling is the next scene: a huge stone stands upright, covered with holes, a group of people are forcibly driven into those holes, and piled up skeletons are vividly carved on the side of the boulder. "This is a massacre. These people have accomplished certain things, and they were all silenced in the end! It's just that..." Wu Qi said with lingering fear, and he seemed familiar with the content behind, "It seems to be similar to the hive house that Zhao Guai said of!"

Oh?Hearing what he said, Wu Qi immediately turned his head to look, and there was something more in his eyes.The light of the flashlight was relatively weak at the moment, showing a pale yellow color, and the object showed its outline under the weak light. Wu Qi couldn't help but gasped when he saw it. "What the hell is this place? What are these?" Wu Qi called out, adding a bit of horror to this dark and mysterious place.Ghost Wu looked in the direction of his fingers, but saw rectangular objects neatly arranged all around, and they couldn't find it at all. It turned out that they had been surrounded by these objects all along.

"This is a coffin... a coffin!" Wu Qi's scalp tingled, pointing to those rectangular objects and said, "Why are there so many of these things here? Could it be..." Wu Qi has heard of a custom called cave burial, which is Arranging coffins according to certain rules and placing them in caves for collective burial is the most common custom among Miao people. Did they accidentally enter the coffin cave where the ancients placed the dead by mistake? It's not right to even think about it, how did these people come to this place to mine, and how could they carve and record it in such a place!All kinds of doubts came one after another, which made Wu Qi feel a little panic in such an environment, and even his breathing became heavy at the moment.

Ghost Wu said, "No!" Quickly glanced around, the two of them approached the thing together, and after a closer look, they were immediately confused again, this thing is not a coffin at all! Those things are obviously fixed stone platforms cast with bricks and stones. The stone platforms are about three meters long, one meter wide and one meter high. Its surface is half-smooth and half-rough, with many irregular scratches on it.This kind of nick is by no means intentional as a decoration, but more like natural damage, probably formed by the friction of certain hard objects for many years, and some marks are left by high-temperature smoking.

The top of the stone platform is slightly wider than the base, and there is a groove extending along the other side. It is located in the center and occupies half of the entire stone platform. The width is only about one foot, and the depth is no more than two feet. Ten centimeters in length, with a rusty small iron frame like a guillotine inlaid on it.All the stone platforms have the same shape and are neatly arranged.Things of this size, no matter from any angle, look like coffins, so it's no wonder that Wu Qi is a snake! Wu Qi thought of the massacre scenes on the screen, and immediately suspected that it was some kind of torture tool. He roughly counted them, and there were hundreds of them. Breath, I really don't understand what these things are for. Seeing that it wasn't a coffin, Wu Qi heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that it was finally not a coffin hole.But he just relaxed a little, he understood that these things would definitely not be ping pong tables, let alone dining tables in collective cafeterias. "This seems to be a secret room!" Ghost Wu scanned the surroundings with a flashlight as he walked. With the light, Wu Qi saw the walls made of hard masonry. There is a black trace of being burnt by fire, which is obviously caused by the fire used for lighting. From here, it is obvious that this place is no longer a cave, but some kind of artificial fortification.Except for the stone platforms, the place looks empty, no other doors and exits can be seen, as if this place is a place where there is no way out. A series of things that happened recently made Wu Qi a little nervous. After being frightened, he quickly adjusted himself and comforted himself that this is just an ordinary confined place, at least he can return along the original road, so that there is no way out Trapped here to die. Their eyes never left those stone platforms, Ghost Wu suddenly let out a "huh" and carefully touched the guillotine-like iron frame. When he retracted his hand, there was something shining in it Wu Qi was a little surprised when he saw it: This is actually a coin! This made Wu Qi and the others even more confused. It is really incredible to find coins in this place. Isn't this place isolated from the world?How come there are still people who used to patronize?Wu Qi took the coin and looked at the pattern on it: an eagle spread its wings and held a snake in its mouth, standing on a tree on the stone (it looked more like a cactus), and the pattern below It is surrounded by branches and leaves of some kind of tree. Wu Qi's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "I recognize this thing, this is the eagle ocean! Eagle's eagle, foreigner's ocean, this is a silver dollar, which is a type of ocean used by people in the past!" Yingyang is the Mexican silver dollar. It was widely circulated in the international market in the late Qing Dynasty. After the Opium War, this currency flowed into China in large quantities. At that time, it could be used as a legal currency circulation together with copper coins and silver.It is not surprising that Wu Qi can recognize this kind of thing. Wu San is very old-fashioned, and Wu Qi has seen some things. Accidentally found a product of a specific era, which had to make the two feel very consternated. Ghost Wu frowned, and searched those stone platforms again. Sure enough, many scattered silver coins and square-hole copper coins were constantly They were found, including Mexican Eagle Ocean, Daoguang Tongbao, Xianfeng Tongbao... Ghost Wu said: "So that's how it is. This is a secret room for minting coins. Someone once made coins here without permission!" Wu Qi immediately understood why this group of people kept it so secretive. It is a felony to open mines and mint coins privately. Only those who are greedy for profit will take risks. This is actually a private mint in ancient times! Wu Qidao: "It seems like what you said, those on the murals are talking about minting coins. In order to meet the needs of minting coins, they mined copper mines on the spot. Maybe they discovered something strange during the mining process!" As he spoke, he turned his head to ask for Ghost Wu's opinion. At this moment, Wu Qi's flashlight flickered twice, probably because it had been used for too long, and it seemed that it was about to go out at this moment.He patted the flashlight symbolically, and glanced at the route he took when he came here again, so as to return by memory.Suddenly, his eyes caught something strange again: on the originally bare stone wall opposite, at some point, a huge figure appeared, standing in a strange posture. The shadow stood upright and motionless, with a strangely deformed head, it looked like a giant with cauliflower-like flesh growing on its head, it was indescribably weird!Wu Qi was taken aback, but at this moment, the light of the flashlight went out suddenly, and the surroundings fell into darkness, and then he reached the point where he couldn't see his fingers.At the same time, a sudden "bang" sound came from the unknown depths of darkness. The empty cave is extremely quiet, there is no sound, the lights are off now, all the perceptions are concentrated on the ears, and no small sound can escape.Wu Qi pricked up his ears to listen, and after a while, the sound sounded again, very rhythmic, like the sound of two iron chains colliding, the sound was getting closer, Wu Qi could clearly feel something dragging The heavy iron shackles slowly approached where he was. Soon, the frequency of the sound became much faster, and more and more strange sounds merged together, making it noisy.Wu Qi's heart tightened, and cold sweat broke out: Grandma has more than one ghost from the unknown. "What is this?" Wu Qi only felt his eyes light up, and was horrified to find that the dark cave was no longer the same as before, except for nothing but darkness, but something more appeared in the cave at some point. . Right in front of Wu Qi, blood-red light spots were staggered, swaying from side to side and approaching them, like a pair of greedy eyes of wolves in a pack of wolves, full of murderous aura.They soon realized that the sounds were made by the owners of the eyes. Accompanied by the more and more frequent impact of iron chains, an indescribable strange smell came to the nostrils. The smell was very strange. At first glance, it smelled like the strange smell of a burnt carrion. It was extremely difficult to smell. Smell, after a few blows, Wu Qi was so choked that he almost vomited. And when he looked up, those things were already close at hand, and the smell became stronger and stronger. Wu Qi clearly felt that he was surrounded by several of those things, and they were slowly shrinking the encirclement. It's those weird things, escape is impossible now! At this moment, Wu Qi only felt a big furry hand touch his face, and soon firmly clamped his cheek, pinching it fiercely, Wu Qi opened his mouth wide in pain, before he had time to struggle , Suddenly there was something more in his mouth. Wu Qi's tongue was cold, and something the size of a peanut was stuffed into his mouth. It was so round that he didn't know what it was. He just felt a spicy taste rushing to his forehead, and his whole mouth was sour and astringent. It was spicy, numb to the point of losing consciousness, as if the mouth no longer belonged to me.In a daze, Wu Qi felt a pair of hairy hands tightly covering his mouth, forcing him to swallow the thing. Ghost Wu had the same experience in the dark, he quickly realized the danger, and just relying on his feeling, he kicked his backhand and broke away from the opponent. He spit out what he stuffed into his mouth and screamed loudly: "No! Don't swallow it! Hurry... spit it out!" Shun Hei quickly touched Wu Qi's position while speaking. Wu Qi was stunned, and the thing suddenly fell into his throat, and he couldn't get it out. After a few struggles, the thing actually fell down the esophagus into his stomach.Wu Qi screamed, and before he could close his mouth, Ghost Wu grabbed Wu Qi and grabbed Wu Qi's neck with one hand like a pair of iron clamps. It hit Wu Qi on the back. Wu Qi almost vomited blood when he hit him. He choked out a big breath and coughed violently. The thing stuck in his throat was spat out abruptly.The strength of Ghost Wu's force was really too great, just as Wu Qi breathed out, a pressure in his abdomen pushed up, causing him to vomit violently. After a burst of ups and downs that almost vomited out the contents of his stomach, Ghost Wu said, "Go!" and pulled Wu Qi and ran forward.After running a few steps, there was a sudden commotion in front of them, but seeing the light and shadows burning, and crowds of people moving, a group of people held torches and ran towards them quickly in their direction.From time to time, someone in the crowd shouted and cursed loudly. Under the light of the fire, the bright sabers cast light and shadows, which looked murderous. Everyone's faces were full of anger and red eyes, as if their ancestors' graves had been dug up. "Someone broke into our forbidden area, we must not let it go lightly!"