Tomb Raiders

Shen Liaobai woke up in a daze, and he saw a green face, which was less than a foot away from him, and he subconsciously punched it.

The green-faced owner Song Qiancheng immediately covered his left side and wailed, "Brother Shen, what are you doing?"

It was only then that Shen Liaobai saw that the other three were also there, and their respective blazes together looked like a small fire, which reflected Song Qiancheng's pale green face, and it was scary to approach them suddenly.

"Sorry, I was a little confused just now." Shen Liaobai said.

"What's the matter?" Hanzhang snorted coldly: "He should have fought, if it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have been separated. We still have to look for him, it's a waste of effort, King Ding sent him to add trouble to us."

Shen Liaobai's body was weak now, the punch just now was not powerful, Song Qiancheng heard Hanzhang's dissatisfaction again, he didn't dare to say anything, and hid aside with a sneer.

However, these words reminded Shen Liaobai, and he asked: "Brother Song, what else do you have in your hand that we don't know, please tell the truth, otherwise not only us, but you may also have to worry about it." Inside."

Song Qiancheng worked next to King Ding, and his ability to perceive words and emotions was first-class. Looking at the expressions of several people now, if he can't explain why today, he is afraid that the next thing will be difficult to handle. He hesitated for a while, then hesitated He said, "Prince Ding thinks that Chu Zhong is nothing but hypocrisy. He doesn't trust you very much, so he wants me to find the Taiping scriptures and take them out first."

Hanzhang sneered and said, "It's up to you?"

Song Qiancheng was a little embarrassed, "Don't look at me like this, my ancestor is Captain Mojin, and his reputation is very famous. It is because of my ancestor's reputation that King Ding specially appointed me to come. I thought about this If it is done, a certain official or half-job will be regarded as honoring the ancestors. It's a pity that the skills of the ancestors have been passed down to me, leaving only some superficial knowledge."

To put it bluntly, it was only after he went down to the real tomb that he realized that he was not good at learning, so he still had to rely on the abilities of Chu Yuyang and the others. If this matter was done well, he would be the one who would benefit the most.

At the beginning, Shen Liaobai thought that Song Qiancheng was a layman like him, but he didn't expect that he was hiding so deeply. Song Qiancheng might not be as harmless as he appeared on the surface, and he always felt that Song Qiancheng had something to hide, just in case he came back. You have to be on guard.

"Is it better?" Chu Yuyang asked.

Except that the wound on the neck was still aching, the rest was much better, "It's okay." Shen Liaobai said.

Seeing what he said, Chu Yuyang said, "Then let's go on."

According to the map, the corridor in front of them leads directly to the main tomb, but the leader is replaced by Hanzhang, Wenhao looks at Song Qiancheng, and Chu Yuyang walks with Shen Liaobai, who is inconvenient. in the back.

"How do you know there is a door there?" Shen Liaobai asked, if it wasn't for the door that Chu Yuyang found last, they might have to stay in the tomb to be buried with the poisonous corpse.

Hearing Shen Liaobai's heavy breathing, Chu Yuyang slowed down a little, "In order to prevent being killed when the tomb is built, smart craftsmen usually leave a secret for themselves when the tomb is built. Road, I found it when I went in to check the tomb."

Shen Liaobai couldn't help admiring Chu Yuyang. They were about the same age, but Chu Yuyang was much calmer than him, and he didn't panic when things happened. On the contrary, he caused a lot of trouble for others. Jianyang took care of him, so thinking about it, he was a real piece of trash among these few people.

He laughed at himself, and suddenly there were many burial pits on both sides of the corridor. If someone leaks secrets, they will be buried with them. Now it seems true.

Shen Liaobai roughly counted, there were about a dozen such burial pits, and there were digging tools and some weapons in these pits, and even the supervising soldiers would not let them go, which is embarrassing.

This corridor is very long, and they walked for a long time without end. There are only smooth stone walls chiseled on both sides, which feel cold to the touch, and there is still some dampness. Seems to be--

"Did you hear the sound of water?" Shen Liaobai asked.

The crowd shook their heads.

"Why is there the sound of water in the tomb, did you hear it wrong?" Song Qiancheng said.

"No," Chu Yuyang said indifferently: "His sense is very keen, there should be no mistake, and looking at the stone walls on both sides, there is indeed moisture, and there should be a big river in front of it."

Hanzhang frowned: "The corpse will rot when exposed to water, and the corpse is perishable. Who would make a river for himself in the tomb?"

Chu Yuyang was also a little puzzled, and said, "Let's have a look first."

Sure enough, after they walked for a while, a stream of water lay in front of them.The water came out from under the stone wall at one end and flowed under the stone wall at the other end, leaving only a puddle of small size, blocking their way.

The reason why it is called a puddle is that although the water flow is wide, it is not deep. It only reaches the waist of a person. From the surface of the water, the fine sand and stones below can be clearly seen. To go there must be water.I don't know the purpose of making a puddle here, whether it is a trap or a simple current, the group of people hesitated by the river.

"There's something on it." Shen Liaobai pointed to the top of the water and said, because of a special fishy smell, he looked around and saw the thing above.

The thing was hanging right above the water, a little far away from them, and the flames couldn't reach that high. They could only vaguely see that it was something like a wide-mouthed bottle, and four people were tied to the neck of the bottle. The iron ring is tied on both sides of the water by four chains as thick as a baby's forearm.

This water flow is the place that must pass through to the main tomb, so Chu Yuyang just hesitated for a moment, and decided to go through the water, but the water flow appeared strange, so he told everyone to be careful.

A group of people went into the water one after another. In order to prevent accidents, the distance between them was not very far, and they were all safe and sound until the middle of the water.

"Brother Shen, why do you always step on my heels? My shoe uppers are about to fall off." Song Qiancheng turned around and said.

Shen Liaobai, who was walking behind him, looked puzzled and said, "I don't have one."

This can be proved by Chu Yunyang, he has been walking beside Shen Liaobai, for safety, he would look at the water flow under his feet from time to time, but he did not see Shen Liaobai stepping on his feet.Song Qiancheng saw that Shen Liaobai's expression did not seem to be lying, and Shen Liaobai was not a person who likes to play tricks. At this time, his heel was fiddled with again. The ground submerged in the sand and rocks, making the clear water cloudy.

"Quick, get ashore quickly." Shen Liaobai naturally also saw the hand, and hurriedly called everyone to move forward quickly.

"What?" Hanzhang asked suspiciously.

Even though they haven't received an answer, everyone still quickened their pace. Shen Liaobai's legs and feet were still not good enough, so he had to run forward with the help of Chu Yuyang.

"It was the muddy hand I met outside the swamp. I was almost dragged into the swamp by it. Later, I met it again outside the tomb of the poisonous corpse, but it was dissolved by the dragon scales." Shen Liaobai panted while running explain.

If Shen Liaobai was the only one panicking, maybe these people still had time to chat and laugh, but seeing that Chu Yuyang also frowned, they dared not neglect and quickened their pace to walk to the opposite bank.Fearing that he would be dragged into the water by muddy hands, Song Qiancheng actually swam forward in the shallow river water. With his clumsy appearance, if the situation was not urgent, Shen Liaobai would have laughed out loud.

At this time, a mud hand held Hanzhang's foot, and Hanzhang immediately shot a crossbow arrow into the river. I don't know whether the water flow slowed down the speed of the crossbow arrow or the mud hand was not afraid of the crossbow arrow at all. The crossbow arrow passed through the mud hand and fell into the river. At the end, the muddy hand only moved back slightly.Judging from the counterattacks made by everyone, there is more than one mud hand. They hide in the river sand, waiting for an opportunity to attack people. After being attacked, they burrow into the mud and sand at the bottom of the water and reappear when the time is right.

The crowd was in a hurry for a while, and when they were approaching the other end, perhaps afraid of their attack, the mud hand gradually lurked at the bottom of the river and did not move.

Several people breathed a sigh of relief, especially Song Qiancheng, who was stroking his chest as if in shock, but the river suddenly rolled over, and white smoke rose from the surface of the water, which quickly blurred his vision, even the opposite bank was a little blurred.

"These monsters want to cook us!" Song Qiancheng shouted in panic

After he finished shouting, he immediately realized that he was wrong. Although the river water seemed to be boiling, it was not hot at all, but the white smoke was getting thicker and thicker, and he felt his movements were a little numb, and he obviously wanted to move his hands quickly , but slowed down a little bit.

Shen Liaobai remembered that he was in the same situation in the swamp, could it be that this muddy hand has the ability to form this strange fog after it hits the water?Then they will be unable to move, dragged by muddy hands to the bottom of the river and drowned?

"Cover your mouth and nose." Chu Yuyang said calmly.

Shen Liaobai struggled to take out a piece of cloth from his pocket, soaked it in the river, covered his mouth and nose, and ran to the opposite bank with Chu Yuyang. Even so, he still felt that his body was gradually numb, and his legs were so heavy that he could hardly move. up.

Because of running, the river water was very muddy, Wen Hao's figure paused, and suddenly sank to the bottom of the river, when everyone saw this, they immediately stepped forward to grab him, they didn't expect the force of this muddy hand in the water to be so strong , the four of them couldn't ask Hao.Seeing this, Chu Yuyang held up the dragon scale and groped under the water for a long time before cutting off the muddy hand holding onto Wen Hao's foot.

The mud hand appeared faster and faster, if it wasn't for Chu Yuyang's quick action, I'm afraid everyone would have to be pulled to the bottom of the water, they were trapped in the water and could not move, they had to leave the water until the mud hand couldn't reach them place.

"Iron chains." Shen Liao Baiwen said in an authentic voice. At this moment, his mouth and nose were stuffed in the cloth strips, and because he was walking in the water to overcome the numbness of his body, his face was also blushing abnormally.

As long as they climbed on the chain above, they could avoid the mud hand.Everyone was stunned and took action immediately.Hanzhang untied the hemp rope tied around his waist, picked up a stone from the bottom of the water, tied the rope to it, and threw it to the iron chain above.

Hanzhang pulled the hemp rope, it was still firm, he quickly climbed up the rope, and pulled all four people who were lowered up.

Shen Liaobai clambered on the chain with hands and feet, his face was facing the things tied by the chain.I saw that this thing looked like a piece of oilcloth without any gaps, and it naturally formed a square wide-mouth bottle, with many strange patterns painted with cinnabar on it.This thing is translucent, and it can be seen that there is some black water in it, and there is something soaked in the water, and that weird fishy smell is coming from here.

Shen Liaobai looked up, there was a piece of black linen covering the mouth of the bottle, now that he saw the black linen, he knew that nothing good was going on.

They stayed on the iron chain for a while, the fog slowly dissipated, and the river water below had become clear again, but the waterway below could no longer be walked.

They had to climb the chain to the other end, and then climb down the rough rock wall at the other end.Song Qiancheng kept complaining, and Shen Liaobai was not much better, the iron chain was always shaking, and his hands were so painful that he had to prevent himself from falling off if he couldn't grasp it firmly.

It was half an hour after he climbed down from the other side of the river, and Chu Yuyang was obviously bored waiting at the bottom.Shen Liaobai wiped the sweat from his forehead, and took a special look at the strange bottle, which was still hanging on the iron chain.

But after he turned around, a drop of dark liquid fell from the bottom of the bottle and melted on the surface of the water. The river water was dyed black, and two huge black spots appeared on the rock walls at both ends of the water flow. shadow.

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