After the hero goes crazy

Chapter 203: Opening the Tomb Door
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Between the tomb and the overhanging wall is a narrow path that can only be used by one person. The path is covered with knee-high weeds, making it difficult to see if there is soft soil under the grass in the dark.

Lu Zhi walked ahead to scout the way, and Yao Shouning followed after every safe step.

In the middle of the night, the grass was full of dew, Yao Shouning walked all the way, the hem of the skirt was almost all wet, making the thick jacket a bit heavy.

She held the hem of the skirt in one hand, and walked while holding onto the outer wall of the mausoleum with the other. The hanging wall was on the left, and the bottom was pitch black.

Fortunately, the cave that Lu Zhi mentioned was not far away. The two of them walked about ten feet forward. Lu Zhi slowed down and reminded softly:
"arrive."

She stretched her neck to look, and sure enough, a few steps ahead, an outer wall had collapsed.

Maybe it was in disrepair for a long time, but after a certain heavy rain, the periphery of the mausoleum collapsed, and several stone bricks slid down along with the soil, breaking a hole half a person's height.

There was still a faint light at the entrance of the cave in the night, obviously it was the light from the entrance of the mausoleum.

Lu Zhi took out a shovel from the package on his back, hooked one of the stones in the middle and pried it hard——

'boom! '

This action caused the surrounding mud walls to lose their support, and one after another 'fluttered' and collapsed.

There was a lot of commotion, and Yao Shouning grabbed him by the arm:

"you……"

She wanted to say Shizi was crazy.

Dust and smoke were flying, and gravel and sand rolled down the cliff, which was particularly loud in the dead of night.

"It's okay." Lu Zhi put the things back into the bag, slapped his five fingers together in front of him a few times, and said:
"The mausoleum guards won't come over."

After speaking, he took the lead in drilling into the hole.

Although Yao Shouning expressed doubts about his words, seeing that Lu Zhi had already entered, he still raised his skirt and followed in fear.

Once inside, the cold outside is immediately blocked.

Outside the cave, the sound of "Xi Xi Suo Suo" mud and rocks falling can be heard endlessly, which seems to be magnified many times invisibly in this long road, but it even more brings out the tranquility in the long road of the mausoleum.

Accompanied by the sound of flying sand and rocks sliding down, there was also a sharp sound mixed in, as if someone was blowing a whistle.

Yao Shouning became curious, walked forward carefully for a few steps, leaned against the corner of the wall to look, and saw the scene in the tomb passage.

The inside of the tomb passage is about one and a half feet wide, and there is a corner about ten feet from the entrance. There are two oil lamps on the left and right sides of the inner wall, and one of them is lit.

There are some earthen pots and other sundries below, and a simple bamboo cooler is placed in the corner, and an elderly man is curled up and lying on it, wrapped in a dirty old quilt.

The whistle she heard was the old man's snoring sound after he was asleep. The old man was still awake and fast asleep when Lu Zhi made such a big noise before.

"gone."

Lu Zhi stretched out his hand to pull her collar, Yao Shou Ning Leng might as well be caught by him, his toes flew into the air, trembling in fright, he folded his hands and covered his lips vigorously, before swallowing the exclamation that came to his mouth.

She staggered back two steps, and struggled a few times after gaining a firm footing, before whispering:

"Don't drag and pull, I will go by myself."

Lu Zhi ignored her, but pointed to the front and said:
"Go in from here and walk about thirty feet before you will see the entrance to the tomb."

The acting king Zhu Yuanchun was a direct descendant of the royal family back then. According to records, his blood had awakened before his death, and he was also a practitioner of the "Purple Sun Secret Art".

So after his death, the size of the tomb was not too small. Even though the walls were already mottled, it can still be seen that a lot of manpower and financial resources must have been spent in the burial.

"According to the royal etiquette, the tomb guards of Daqing princes should add lamp oil from time to time to keep the fire alive."

Lu Zhi led the way ahead, while casually explaining to Yao Shouning:
"However, the lineage of Dai Wang has been passed down to the present. Later generations are reluctant to hire people to guard the tomb, but many etiquette systems are difficult to maintain."

He seemed to be very familiar with these Daqing rituals, and with a few casual words, most of Yao Shouning's fear and nervousness about digging the grave of the royal family's ancestors were dispelled, replaced by an excitement as if he was about to step into an adventure world with novelty.

The passage into the mausoleum is long and dark, as if it is bottomless.

The more you go in, the more oppressive it becomes, and there seems to be a musty smell in the air.

Perhaps as Lu Zhi said, due to the decline of the etiquette system, the old man guarding the tomb failed to light the lamp as promised, and the inside has not been cleaned for a long time.

Yao Shouning walked inside, and stepped on some soft mud, which seemed to be mixed with some leaves, and the soles of her feet fell into some of them. The cold and damp feeling seeped into her body from the soles of her feet, making her feel scared.

"My son, my son, how long will it be until I arrive?"

She was a little scared again, and reached out to grab the clothes on Lu Zhi's back vest.

But he traveled lightly tonight, wearing very thin clothes, his fingertips grabbed a little of the clothes, but he felt that it was not safe, so he quickly turned to hook his belt and clenched it tightly.

I couldn't see my fingers around, and when I walked deep into the passage of the mausoleum, the sound of the wind outside and the snoring of the tomb guards seemed to disappear.

On the contrary, Yao Shouning's heartbeat and the slight sound of falling into the mud when he landed were extraordinarily loud.

At this time, the only thing that could make Yao Shouning feel safe was Lu Zhi who was walking in front of her.

Even though the prince in black night clothes almost blended into the surrounding environment in the dark night, he still exuded an extremely strong sense of presence, which made Yao Shouning lean close to him.

"almost there."

Lu Zhi replied to her, and then felt his waist tighten, as if someone was grabbing his belt, which made his eyebrows twitch, and quickly stretched out a hand to hold his belt tightly:

"Don't talk!"

The scene of the two of them fighting in the carriage after noon today gave him a psychological shadow. He was deeply afraid that Yao Shouning would tear his belt off.

While talking, the two dragged and walked forward for a while, and Lu Zhi stopped: "Here we are."

As soon as the words fell, he unwrapped the package and found something out of the darkness. He whispered:

"Take two steps back!"

Yao Shouning didn't know what to do, and tried to widen his eyes to see what he was doing.

But the surroundings were too dark, she could only vaguely see the outline of Lu Zhi's figure, and saw that he seemed to take out something, followed by a "clang" sound, as if a long sword was unsheathed——

An awe-inspiring sword aura came, stimulating the hair on her arms to stand on end.

Lu Zhi reached out and touched the door of the tomb, then raised his sword and gently stabbed in.

The sword body pierced into the mud crevice, and there was a scalp-numbing light 'squeak' sound as it was drawn. After a while, he put the sword away, and then stretched out his hand to push it!
'Boom! '

The wall bricks rolled into the tomb with broken earth, making a thunderous sound.

This sound is different from the previous excavation of the outdoor tomb passage. The sealed environment amplifies the sound of the stone hitting the ground in disguise, especially in the dead of night, the sound of the stone falling to the ground is like thunder in the cemetery, making the entire underground palace tremble. shock.

Yao Shouning bit his lip tightly, feeling the smoke and dust flying around and the ground shaking.

'Alas--'

A chilly wind blew out from the tomb, mixed with an inexplicable smell of decay, which made people feel cold all over their bodies.

She closed her eyes tightly, and then the scene at the corner of the tomb that she had seen before flashed through her mind.

The old man who was sleeping on the bamboo board turned over and sat up wrapped in the ragged coat, she said in a trembling voice:
"He's awake."

As soon as the words fell, not long after, I heard a hoarse old man's voice:
"Who?"

"Who-who-who-"

The voice passed through the long passage of the tomb, sending out endless echoes layer by layer, and when it reached Yao Shouning's ears, her eyes widened in shock:
"How to do?"

"Don't panic." Lu Zhi was very calm, as if he was not frightened by the exposure of his whereabouts, but calmly probed the big hole with his sword, and after he got in first, he said to Yao Shouning :

"Come in."

At this point, either forward or backward!

And the old man guarding the tomb has been awakened, maybe he will follow the sound to find out, if the two of them retreat, they may just meet up.

At that time, the matter of digging the ancestral grave of the royal family Zhu's family would be revealed. Yao Shouning didn't dare to think about the consequences. Hearing what the prince said, he quickly followed into the cave.

As soon as she entered the hole, Lu Zhi bent down to fumble around.

There are scattered stones and silt all around. These stones are about a foot long, very thick, and there are still some half-moist mud on them.

"My lord, do you think he will come over?"

Yao Shouning whispered to Lu Zhi anxiously. He lifted the stone bricks on the ground and piled them back to the entrance of the cave.

"meeting."

While working, Lu Zhi found time to return to her:
"This sound is different from the sound outside. He heard the sound and guessed that someone might have forcibly opened the door of the tomb."

The old man was old, his eyes were dim, and his ears were a little deaf, so it was difficult to wake up after falling asleep.

But there was a lot of movement in the tomb, and after waking him up, he might worry that there were grave robbers.

These days are not easy, and the generation Wang Zhu Yuanchun was buried in a fashionable fashion back then, and there are countless rare and antiques buried with him. It is inevitable that some people will be bold and then plan to use this tomb.

This is not alarmist talk, but something that has happened in the royal tomb over the years.

"Then what should we do?" Yao Shouning was a little nervous when he heard this.

Lu Zhi said:

"If he is discovered, this old man is old and frail, and he dare not meet us, he should go look for the soldiers guarding the tomb." He was very calm:

"Let's act quickly when the time comes, and forcefully open the coffin after going down to the tomb to see if the corpse is there."

"..."

Yao Shouning was shaking all over.

"Look at your success."

Even if Lu Zhi didn't look at her, he could hear her heartbeat 'thump' in the darkness.

He remembered that when she jumped out of Yao's house with her on her back, she was also so nervous, as if there was a rabbit in her heart, and the voice was so loud that he could hear it clearly.

For some reason, he couldn't bear to scare her again, so he added:
"I said 'if found'. Can we not be found by him then?"

Yao Shouning swallowed his saliva and asked, "Then how can we not be discovered by him?"

The tomb door was destroyed by Lu Zhi, and she found it difficult to hide such a big hole.

"Help me find the scattered stones nearby, and I'll temporarily pile them back up, as long as I can hide them for a while." After Lu Zhi finished speaking, he added:
"The tomb guard's old eyes are dim, and he can't see clearly."

What's more, as long as you are human, you will be afraid of death.

"He is suspicious of the evil in the cemetery, and he is also afraid that the tomb robbers will be young and strong and kill people, so it is impossible for him to come and investigate."

Furthermore, once something happened to the tomb of the Daiwang, not only did he have no merit, but he did.

If something major happens, the generation of queens will think that this person is old and useless, and they will invite him home at that time, so that he will lose this job, but if the surface is peaceful and no major things happen, he will turn a blind eye and close his eyes. One eye can be fooled.

Yao Shouning was confused, nodded, and helped Lu Zhi find a few stones in the dark.

She was delicate and small, so she found it and ordered Lu Zhi to move it, but she made this prince around.

Fortunately, the tomb guard was really scared and frightened, and he came slowly. The two of them worked hard for a while, and after stacking more than half of the stones back, Yao Shouning saw a dim light coming from a distance.

"Who's over there?"

An old man's voice sounded, with vigilance.

Lu Zhi ignored it, touched the last stone at his feet, and lifted it up carefully.

Most of the hole had been filled, and there was only a small piece left, but because he was piling up in the dark, he could only plug it in by feeling, but the last stone couldn't get in.

The old man was getting closer and the lights were getting brighter and brighter. Yao Shouning was a little scared, but he didn't dare to rush him.

"I have notified the soldiers guarding the cemetery, all heroes, please leave quickly, don't hurt your life!"

(End of this chapter)