Yellow River Craftsman

Chapter 126 Bronze Giant Gate
The next morning.

The leading craftsman reported to the warlord that several craftsmen disappeared last night and no one could be found anywhere.

At first, the warlord thought that these craftsmen had escaped, and the crime of fleeing was serious, so if they were caught, they would be punished as deserters.

The Overseer was very angry, so he sent soldiers to investigate the matter and ordered that the missing artisan be brought back.

Another day passed.

The master craftsman reported to the warlord that several craftsmen disappeared the night before.

This time the warlord was really angry. Not only did he scold the master craftsman, but he also gathered all the other craftsmen together and personally issued a military order that anyone who dared to escape would be beheaded.

However, the warlord's move did not have a deterrent effect, and some people were still missing on the third day.

The warlord was furious, and a group of people ran away that day, so how can the construction of the underground palace continue?If you can't finish the work on time, you will definitely be punished by the emperor.

So the warlord issued a more stringent military order, all those who escaped would be punished by the nine clans, and soldiers were stationed to patrol day and night.

But even so, craftsmen still escaped every day. After more than ten consecutive days, hundreds of people have escaped.

Under such a strict military order, how dare anyone escape?

What's even more strange is that the soldiers under him patrolled day and night, but never caught a single escaped craftsman.

In other words, the artisans probably didn't escape, but... disappeared mysteriously!
After thinking about it, the warlord felt that this incident was really a bit strange. After discussing with his subordinates, he invited a mage to "watch the scene" overnight, hoping to find out the real reason why the craftsman disappeared.

The mage set up the altar and tossed until late at night. I heard that the mage still has some Taoism.

After he got up from the altar, he cut a small person with a yellow talisman, and then he babbled and chanted the spell for a while. Finally, he raised the mahogany sword, sprayed a mouthful of strong wine on the tip of the sword, danced a sword flower, and the tip of the sword Pointing obliquely at the sky, he yelled, "Duh!"

The talisman immediately stood upright, as if possessing vitality, jumped from the table to the ground, and disappeared into the sand in an instant.

When it was almost dawn, Furen came back.

The mage lit a joss stick and burned the talisman, turning it into a pinch of ashes.

Immediately afterwards, he poured a bowl of clear water, mixed the pinch of ashes into the water, stirred it twice, and drank it down his neck.

The mage sat cross-legged, slowly closed his eyes, like an old monk in meditation, and never said a word.

I only saw big beads of sweat dripping down the mage's cheeks, and no one dared to disturb him.

During the period, people also saw the mage with his eyes closed, talking to the air, but all he said were strange words that he couldn't understand.

About half an hour later, the mage finally opened his eyes slowly, and the first words he said frightened the people present: "I found those craftsmen, they didn't run away, but in the Black Water River under!"

This sentence scared everyone enough. Aren't the artisans quite frightened when they found so many dead human skulls floating on the Heishui River?Then why did they sneak to the Heishui River in the middle of the night, and why did they go to die one after another?Is there something weird about it?
The warlord saw that the mage had some skills, so he didn't dare to neglect. Taking advantage of the clear sky and broad daylight, he led a group of soldiers to the Styx River, and then sent boats to carry out salvage work on the Heishui River.

As a result, the facts verified what the mage said. There were indeed corpses of craftsmen under the Black Water River. When the skulls of the dead on the river surface were removed, the corpses of the craftsmen floated up. There were hundreds of them, densely packed. In the cabin, some corpses were swollen like giant radishes, and it looked like they had been soaked for many days.

The Warlord used to follow the Xixia army to fight against Huangsha, but he had never been so afraid as he is now.He couldn't understand why these craftsmen drowned in the Blackwater River in the middle of the night, and the strangest thing was that the soldiers patrolling in the middle of the night never found a single craftsman going out.

Such a strange thing happened on the construction site, and so many people were killed. Naturally, the warlord did not dare to explain to the emperor. He ordered the news to be blocked and asked the mage for help.

It is said that the mage asked the warlord to build 49 octagonal bronze mirrors with strange shapes, and then embedded the 49 bronze mirrors in the bottom of the Heishui River in sequence according to the position specified by the mage.

Strange to say, since the 49 bronze mirrors were embedded in the bottom of the river, there has never been a strange incident of craftsmen disappearing and dying, and everything is going on smoothly.

The warlord was very puzzled, so he asked the mage for the mystery.

The mage told the warlord that there used to be countless skulls in the Black Water River, which was too dark, and it was a gathering place for ghosts and monsters.People with low or low spiritual fire in the sky are easily harassed by these ghosts and ghosts when they are working below. At the least, they will be insane, and at the worst, they will be possessed.

And the seventy-seven and forty-nine bronze mirrors are a road to death for these ghosts and monsters at the bottom of the river.As long as these ghosts walk down the 49 bronze mirrors, they can go to hell and reincarnate.Now those ghosts have gone to hell for reincarnation, so they don't bother those craftsmen anymore, and everything is naturally safe.

Since then, this Heishui River has also had the name "Styx".

Although we hate Wan Juncheng very much, the story he told is still very attractive, and we were all fascinated by it.

After Wan Juncheng finished telling the story, he stood up suddenly, stared at the hazy darkness ahead, and shouted ecstatically: "It's here! It's finally here!"

We were slightly taken aback, arrived?Arrived at the underground palace?Could it be that the underground palace is above the Styx?
Due to taking the Nine Soul Ice Silkworm, my eyesight is better than ordinary people, especially in the dark.I fixed my eyes on the water ahead, and saw a huge silhouette appeared in the dark space, like some kind of building.From the visual inspection of the contour lines, the building is very tall, occupying almost the entire water surface and underground space, and looks like a dam.

I was secretly startled, could this be the underground palace?To build the underground palace on such a huge scale is really a goddamn thing!
As we got closer, the huge buildings in front of us gradually appeared in front of our eyes.

OMG!

Everyone on board gasped in disbelief from the bottom of their hearts, and everyone's eyes were wide and round, as if they couldn't believe what they saw.

A majestic and tall city wall is like a huge monster, lying across the Styx River. The city wall is all made of gray-white rocks, which are cut into strips and then built. Copper juice is poured between the stone cracks, which is extremely strong. , and the city wall is more than ten feet high, the surface is very flat, there is no chance to climb up.

There is a huge bronze gate in the middle of the city wall, at least five feet high.There are three huge eyeball patterns on the door, arranged in a zigzag shape, like the eyes of three monsters, but the eye sockets are empty, without eyeballs, staring coldly at us uninvited guests, full of mystery.

There is a groove-like platform in the center of the giant gate, and there is a stone ladder below it. This is the only road on the entire city wall.But this road can only go up to the half-central platform, which is where the eye pattern is.

Is this the underground palace?
Is this the secret that Yipintang has guarded for generations?
Is this the ultimate treasure trove of the Xixia Dynasty?
Magnificent, magnificent, majestic, I really can't find more words to describe the building in front of me.

Under the city wall, we are as small as ants, with almost no sense of existence.

I admit that I was shocked, I was deeply shocked!
Not only me, but everyone present was so shocked that no one even spoke!
I seem to see tens of thousands of craftsmen building this magnificent underground palace day and night in this huge underground space.Some were grinding the jagged rocks, and their hands were blistered with blood; some were carrying heavy corpses, already bent at the waist, others were melting copper juice, and the furnace had roasted their faces into charcoal, and there were others. Many soldiers in armor yelled with their long whips, and then whipped and whipped mercilessly on these craftsmen. The craftsmen were ragged and bloody.

Two rubber boats stopped under the giant gate, and Wan Juncheng jumped out of the boat first and climbed up the stone ladder.

Wan Juncheng climbed very fast, and it could be seen that his mood must be very urgent.

We followed closely and came to the platform.

There are three square Xixia characters engraved in the center of the platform. Wan Juncheng pointed to the three Xixia characters and said, "Feishengtai! It is said that after death, a person's soul can ascend to the fairy world from here!"

Gu Meidi sneered secretly: "Ascension to the Immortal Realm? That tyrant Li Yuanhao is extravagant and lustful, cruel to the loyal, and has done so many unreasonable things. Can the soul of such a person ascend to the Immortal Realm? What a dream!"

Gu Meidi said this in a low voice, basically I was the only one who heard it, and it would be terrible if Wan Juncheng heard it.

"What's that?" Gu Meidi poked my waist eye.

"It seems to be... a skeleton..." I was stunned, how strange!How could there be skeletons on the ascending platform?And there were several of them, Bai Sensen's skeletons were scattered on the ground, and there were some weapons around them.What happened here?Who are these skeletons?Is it the artisans or soldiers from the past?

When I was thinking like this, I heard a crackling sound, Wan Juncheng stepped on the skull of a skeleton, and trampled the skull to pieces, then he lowered his head, sneered, and said A very strange sentence came out: "My friends, long time no see!"

And at the same moment, I squinted and saw Professor Ye clenched his fists suddenly, his pupils shot brightly, revealing an extremely angry expression.

friends? !

Why did Wan Juncheng call those skeletons friends?
Also, why is Professor Ye so angry?
What is he angry about?
At this time, Gu Mei Di suddenly picked up an object from the ground and handed it to me: "Tuoba Gu, look!"

(End of this chapter)