Chapter 22: The Urn
Recently, there has been a lot of rain in the mountains, and water is seeping into the tomb, making a loud dripping sound in the silent darkness. The door of the tomb has been closed for a long time, and it is difficult to get rid of the bad luck.
So save line three or four hundred paces, the tomb gradually become wider, but the group of robbers, still can not help but feel breath shortness and oppression, lights also due to the air is not good, seems very dim, the end is a vermilion brick wall, like a city wall like a tightly masonry of the tomb, and do not see the top, there is a round arched hole below the city gate, the two gates with copper nails closed and not rigorously, the door ring was chained locks, mute Quinlunmole copied up the open axe, went up to the front of the several The axe chopped down, smashed those chains.
Chen blind man raised his finger in front, ordered people to use “centipede hanging mountain ladder” top open copper nail door, a few thieves will be four long ladder out, the front end of the top of the door to fall force to promote the two gates with the “creak creak …… “The rusty sound, was slowly pushed open, the thieves of the crowd stared at the tomb door, I do not know what is inside the scene, but the tomb door just a hole in the open, listen to the inside of a woman screaming, the woman’s screams in the sound of the tomb to listen to exceptionally alarming, group of thieves brain skin followed by a burst of numbness.
Groups of thieves each holding equipment, densely crowded at the end of the tomb before the gate, under the command of Chen blind man, probed a few “centipede hanging ladder” top open the double doors, just open the door, just listen to a few whistling inside, as if the female ghosts of the mournful screams, some of the soldiers, not involved in previous grave robbing, at first heard the sound, scared nearly pissed his pants, can be Tomb passage crowded with people, even if they want to escape can not move place.
Chen blind man but know that unusually sharp sound, is not what the ghosts whistling, but the air quickly extrusion produced by the chirping, that the city door open, has touched the anti-theft organs, in that strange sound at the same time, immediately hand a move to the top of the bamboo ladder door of the theft of the crowd to see the leader of the signal, cried out, hastily put the “centipede hanging mountain ladder” Pulled back, behind them another row of thieves, early those hidden leather shield of wet straw bundles pushed to the city gate, covered a tight.
At this time in the city sharp sound more severe, dozens of black water arrows, with a strong fishy smell from the inside of the door hole shot out, fell on the grass shield, suddenly “giggling” out of the burning white smoke, it turned out that the tomb door really have a mechanism, false to the portal, but the tomb door open, back to touch the door behind the ” water dragon”, this water dragon, this water is really a machine, the virtual portal, but the tomb door open, back to the door after ” Water Dragon”, this water gun like organs equipped with venom or strong acid, if not prepared, on the spot in front of the tomb door will be sprayed with a positive, stained with a half a star, will be corrosive bone, no cure.
Chen blind man after previous visits, I have known the Bottle Mountain’s fairy palace cave, since ancient times, there are preventing thieves from stealing medicine organs ambush, after being yuan man-made for the yin residence, a variety of organs will certainly be utilized, is to have prepared in advance, group of thieves in front of the queue of straw are soaked with water, which is loaded with a number of leather, each layer of soil in the middle of the folder, fire does not ignite, nitrate is difficult to penetrate, the acid venom, although fierce, but The acidic venom, though fierce, could not destroy the seemingly simple grass shield.
The grass shield exhausted the venom in the water dragon, and waited for about a tea time, the black hole of the tomb door and then no movement, must be the end of the mechanism, Luo Lao crooked with a pistol on top of their own tilted on the head of the military cap, scolded: “you mother of a dick, good poisonous pin child, if it is not the Chen general head of the information as God, these brothers will not be shaved head to go? ” He is accustomed to do the ringing horse, full of green forest black language, “pin child” is to refer to the organ, “shaved head” refers to the death, and hate cursed two sentences, but also can not hold down the heart of the air, said the words to lead the crowd into the underground palace.
Chen blind man as a group of thief leader, natural dare not have the slightest carelessness, quickly stopped Luo old crooked, the situation after the tomb door is not yet known, the bottle mountain is afraid of more than this one organ ambush, the team can not act rashly, at the moment must first send a few dare to die of the soldiers, into the back of this tomb door to explore the road.
Unloading Ling group of thieves in some really not afraid of death, immediately stood out five or six to Chen blind man in front of a salute, they held up the rattan plate grass shield, with pigeonholes medicine cake, catching the footsteps into the tomb door, the rest of them are standing in the tomb waiting, a long tomb in addition to the sound of heavy breathing, as well as pigeons in the pigeon coop cooing and shaking the wings of the sound, and then there is no trace of movement.
Not long, the five thieves will turn back from the tomb door to resume, the original tomb door is a city, built in the belly of the mountain, surrounded by walls and towers, inside is a hideous and strange stone people and stone beasts, there are a number of large lacquer coffins, there is a stone coffin are placed in the city, coffins, there are many white human bones, and then did not see any ambush, and the city seems to have a gap between the rock wind holes, the accumulation of obscurity is heavy, on the living is not yet an obstacle.
Luo old crooked heard the word “coffin”, can not help but be happy: “money is not afraid of God, no money is deceived by ghosts, it is time for our brothers to make a fortune, both no organs, but also wait for what? Waiting for the Tartar corpse in the coffin?” Finished mockingly dry laugh a few times, with troops to go inside.
Chen blind man but more long a mind, I’m afraid that all go in case of failure, will fall a whole army of ink, a look into the tomb road of about two hundred people, so let half of them left in the tomb road to receive, the rest of the inverted, he himself had to go with the old crooked and Luo Lao, which also some of the reasons, unloading the ridge of the pirates in the name of the real death of a few generations ago, a lot of equipment and means have been lost until the Republic of China years! Out of the Chen Blind man so a figure, he learned, gifted, and gradually those lost means of unloading the Ling grave robbers collected, slowly sorted out and improved, with the Greenwood in the ringing horses robbed many ancient tombs, but unloading the Ling group of thieves, although the number of people, but really know how to rob tombs of the generation, but only a handful of times, so many times to steal the leader of the “personal horse, on the spot to command So many times it is necessary to steal the leader “personally, on the spot command”, no second person in the gang of thieves have his body skills.
Chen blind man with more than sixty unloading ridge thieves, Luo old crooked is with thirty or forty engineers and pistol company’s followers, are also unloading the ridge in the people, this group of one hundred and ten people dragging the “centipede hanging ladder” into the ancient tomb of the dungeon, once into the city gate hole like the door of the tomb, inside the terrain is open, the group of thieves in accordance with the ancient unloading of the ridge formation charts, the formation of the square, Chen, Luo two Chen, Luo, the two leaders were clustered in the center, around the bamboo ladder across, hanging a string of rattan defense, slowly moving in the underground palace.
Groups of thieves with a long pole picking the horse lamp to explore around, as reported by the scouts, this repair in the belly of the Bottle Mountain in the Palace, surrounded by tight walls, the city also has a building on the enemy, where like the Palace of the Taoist Cave, clearly like a cave in the city of troops, three sides of the city gate closed door, relatively speaking, the belly of the city of this empty with Qi shape, the city does not have a temple and pavilion houses, than the real size of the city can be much smaller, as a model of the micro-miniature! City imitation, but repair in the cave of the mountain, but also very difficult.
Groups of thieves landed, is all over the white bones, bones mostly body head separation, look at those skulls on the copper ring silver jewelry, we know are seventy-two holes in the barbarians, this situation in the perennial grave robbers unloading of the Ling’s generation, and not surprising, must be these prisoners were forced to labor, will be changed to the Palace of the Underworld, and then a part of them will be massacred here, the Yuan people brutality, estimates the bottle in the mountains like this is afraid that there are still a number of places. The Yuan people were brutal.
Jagged white bones between some of the Taoist temple enshrined in the bronze statues, stone people, arranged square to the chaotic, hideous golden armored gods and goddesses staring angrily, staring at the corpses and bones and walked into the grave robbers, even Luo Laocun such a murderous warlord, in which can not help but feel that all the liver and gallbladder trembled, but Luo Laocun and Chen blind, are born with a maniac in their bones, ambitious, want to do some sweeping the world of the big cause, although the heart Some fear, but on the surface does not show.
Groups of thieves knot “four doors pocket bottom” of the square formation, carefully advanced to the city, where quietly placed nine lacquer coffins, are closed tightly, color lacquer depicting gold, embedded in the coffin board with many jade jade jade, it seems to be the luxury of the coffin of the noble people, ordinary people can not afford, the middle of a large stone coffin is simple and simple, heavy pier, nothing Decorative carvings, but was nine lacquered coffins “group of stars arching over the moon” in the center, enough to illustrate its dignity.
Chen blind man looked around, the wall-like tomb wall dark and empty, heavy door closed, no poisonous insects here, and scattered a large number of caveman bones, from the size of this underground citadel, orientation, features to judge, should be the front hall, from the main hall and the Hall do not know how far away, the Bottle Hill Tomb in the underground palace is amazing, do not know these lacquered coffins in the coffin is buried in what characters, the material is not the main child, look at the lacquered coffins Look at the lacquer coffins on the color, are Ganoderma lucidum, cranes, deer and clouds and pine mountains, is by no means a Western burial of the bones of the corpse, it may be the former Taoist Palace in the cave days of the high priests to hide the “remains” of the coffin and the outer coffin.
The body of the person who died after the Taoist said as “remains”, but the body is inside the coffin will be Yuan or Taoist, it is not easy to say, and so placed the coffin has never seen, could it be that what is the array of symbols? Chen blind man hiding belly suspicion, how to see how to feel weird and wacky, eyes staring at the lacquered coffins and stone coffins turned a few turns, can not decide whether to do it “ascending coffins hair material”.
Luo old crooked although he is in control of tens of thousands of men and horses of the head of the great warlords, but he came from the Greenwood, and Chen blind is a sworn brother, even if he was in charge of the President, in the Greenwood Road has always been shorter than Chen blind a head of the jianghu on the most important seniority status, and even if he is a man with guns and then more, the power to occupy a corner of the land, away from his piece of land are other people’s world, but Chen blind is the Greenwood in the total scooper, with a Font size of the ringing horse son are his men, the mob on the business of trafficking in private seven or eight of ten are surnamed Chen, not unloading the support of the Ridge pirates, Luo Lao crooked single-handedly by the heart of the black hand ruthless could not possibly develop a home to become the head of the warlord, so Luo Lao crooked Chen blind always listen to the words of the obedience, it seems that they are like an equal, in fact, if the pirates say coal is black, he would never dare to say that it is white, the Greenwood Road, the hierarchical strict, is not ordinary comparable.
However, Luo Lao crooked see such a luxurious and exquisite lacquer coffin, there may be what gold, jade and jade artifacts, the heart is like a hundred claws scratching the heart, really can’t stay up, do not wait to unloading of the ridge thief kui order, let his men’s engineers to go up, prying the coffin.
Chen blind man is staring at a dark enemy building on the city wall, that enemy building is a kind of brick building with a bureaucratic lookout hole, built on the city wall can be used as an archery tower, but also to observe the enemy, he felt more and more wrong, keen intuition that there is a very dangerous atmosphere in the city, the tomb should be a dead silence, but the enemy building on the kind of silence but feel uneasy, this kind of subtle change in addition to him other than others are all unable to perceive, just like experienced The old fox noticed the hunter’s trap, but was crowded in the middle of the group of thieves, the crowd’s breath is messy, a moment can not identify what is hidden in the enemy building is a strange smell, can not help but be slightly distracted, and did not notice that the old crooked Luo has let people go to pry the coffin.
Groups of thieves see Chen blind man did not say, who is not good to stop Luo Lao crooked, engineers with long axes and shovels, to pry some coffins is not easy? Immediately more than a dozen people with Luo Lao crooked out of the square, have pulled life nail pry stone coffins, there are also wheeled axe smashing lacquer coffins, “bam bam bam bam” sound echoed in the empty silence of the palace, shocked the human ear bones buzzing pain.
Chen blind man was about to greet the two men, set up the “centipede hanging ladder” to the city to explore some more, but suddenly heard the movement of the open coffin, suddenly startled, immediately called: “Stop! This coffin cannot be moved!” But it was too late, there a group of engineers, has also found the lacquered coffins and stone coffins are not right, the coffins and coffins tomb beds are virtual, I do not know what organs are touched, and heard the entrance to the “rumble” a loud bang, hidden in the city wall “jack gate” has fallen, the group of robbers retreat closed the way. The group of robbers of the retreat sealed a tight.
Luo Lao crooked still do not understand what is going on, busy asking Chen blind this is what happened? Chen blind heard broken dragon jack gate fell, belly intestines are fast repenting green, gritted his teeth and said: “This is not a tomb palace, but the urn trap in the tomb road, my generation in the plan carry on!” Speaking in the sound, heard that the enemy building in the running water like the ringing of the machine, around the walls of the bowstring offspring machine sound intensively.
Chen blind man previously led the crowd inverted, never missed a, on their own “look, smell, ask, cut” means has always been very confident, but there is a “good swimmer drowning”, drowning is never will be water, he to “smell! “The word skill to listen to the underground there are a few places like a castle space, full of thought that digging open the” tomb road, tomb door “to block off the entrance of the underground palace of venom, you can directly hit the dragon, I did not expect to be too big, this time is really into a no return “dead end”! “I’m sorry, but I’ve been careless.
At this time there is no time to judge, whether the engineers smashed pry coffins and coffins led to the city organs, that cut off the way of the jack gate slammed down, only to hear the urn of the enemy building of the flow of water price of the organs into a piece of ringing, around the dark walls on the string sound suddenly tightened, this sudden movement strangled group of thieves nerves quickly taut.