Queen of Nongmen: Hexagrams determine the universe

Chapter 420
"The entire imperial tomb is divided into three floors, the imperial tomb on the cloud, the imperial tomb on the mountainside, and the underground imperial tomb. In the imperial tomb above the cloud, there lived a group of people who were refining pills for the emperor from birth to death. It was all alchemy. There are no valuable things. All the royal ladies are buried in the mountain belly, and there are not many funerary objects among them. The emperors of the past are buried in the royal tombs underground, and the real valuable ones are buried with them. All the products are in it.” Wang Chenggong introduced.

"We are not interested in the funeral objects, as long as we can get the medicine to prolong life," the woman said angrily, "As for these extraneous things, anyway, there will be a chance to come in and get them in the future, so we are not in a hurry to move them all out at this time. "

"Yes..." Wang Chenggong nodded hesitantly.

"Just in case, let's go to the top of the mountain first." The woman said after deliberation.

There is only a narrow plank road from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain. Only one person can pass on the plank road. If two people walk side by side, one of them will be squeezed down because the road is too narrow.

Many hollows were dug on this plank road, and a mummified corpse was hung in each hollow. The chest and abdomen of those mummified corpses were cut open, and all internal organs were gone.

The woman frowned in disgust, and looked at Wang Chenggong. Wang Chenggong shrank his neck, and after thinking about it for a while, he said: "By the way, my ancestors once told me that they, alchemists, believe in human internal organs. It can be used to refine alchemy, and the refined medicine has a miraculous effect on prolonging life. The corpses hanging here are all criminals in the prison. They will not be beheaded for public display, but will be sent to the mountain to refine alchemy. Over time , There are more and more mummified corpses hanging on the mountain. This can be regarded as an alternative method of deterrence, so that ordinary people dare not commit crimes easily."

"Is it useful?" the woman sneered.

Wang Chenggong's face turned red, and he said in a low voice: "People who have no courage to commit crimes will naturally not commit crimes, but those who have the courage to commit crimes will still take risks."

"This is the end," the woman raised her eyebrows slightly, "No matter how strict the law is, there will always be some people who will seek their own death!"

Wang Chenggong lowered his head and remained silent.

Among this team of hundreds of people, those capable people walked in the front, they walked in the middle, and some important people were left behind.

Those who walk in the forefront have rich experience in fighting against each other. They are strange people and strangers recruited by the new emperor from the people. They can ensure to the greatest extent that they can enter the imperial tomb and find the last emperor of this country.

After a while, a person walking in front tripped over some obstacle on the road and fell down accidentally. Fortunately, he caught the vines growing on the cliff in time, otherwise, he would have fallen from this height , death or injury.

It's just that the sharp thorns grew on the vine, which cut his palm. At this time, the blood was gurgling down the palm, staining his sleeves red.

"Are you OK?"

"What are you still doing in a daze? Pull him up!"

"Come a few more people to pull him together!"

……

Several people on the plank road stood horizontally, and hurriedly pulled up the person who accidentally fell down. After the person was pulled up, he sat on the ground panting hard, his face covered with cold sweat.

"It's good that people are fine, let's move on." The woman standing in the middle of the line said.

The man nodded, tore off a section of his sleeve and wrapped his palm up, stood up slowly with the support of the person in front, and continued to walk forward with him.

The spikes on the vines pierced too deeply, almost turning his flesh out. Therefore, the part of the sleeve he tore off failed to stop the bleeding well in time, and the blood flowed down the cloth strip It flowed down and dripped on the hard stone plank road.

Of course, this subtle smell of blood is not easy for humans to smell, but for some animals with a keen sense of smell, that is not necessarily the case.

They walked less than ten steps forward when they heard a reptile-like swimming sound from ahead. The animal had hard scales. When the scales rubbed against the stone tile floor, they made a piercing sound, as if Like sharpening a kitchen knife.

As soon as the person walking in the front heard the sound, his expression changed slightly, and he shouted loudly: "Oops, it seems that something is coming, everyone, back up! Back up!"

But this is a one-way plank road, how fast can you go back?
During the hasty retreat of the crowd, many people fell off the plank road and fell to the foot of the mountain, not knowing whether they were dead or injured.

In just an instant, more than a dozen people were lost.

A moment later, a huge snake appeared in front of everyone. The snake almost occupied the entire plank road. It swallowed snake letters, stared fiercely at everyone, and opened its mouth to show its fangs.

Apparently the smell of blood had attracted it, and it was now starving.

The person walking in the front was terrified, caught off guard, and was swallowed by the snake.

This snake has a huge appetite, it is not enough to swallow one person, but it wants to swallow several more people.

After the other people reacted a bit, they immediately pulled out the swords around their waists and began to wrestle with the big snake, but the plank road was too narrow, even if they wanted to wrestle, how could they use it?
In addition, the snake's scales are hard and smooth, and a sword cut almost wiped out sparks, but it didn't hurt it at all.

The snake felt the resistance from its prey, and it became irritable. It raised its head and rushed forward, knocking several people off the cliff. It hit the bottom of the cliff.

For a time, the situation was very dangerous.

"Master, what should we do?" The people walking in the middle looked at the woman, "Make up your mind quickly! We haven't seen the imperial tombs underground yet, so we can't break them all on this plank road." .”

"Shoot an arrow! Shoot its eyes! Or shoot its mouth when it opens its mouth!" The woman said calmly, as if those people were pushed off the plank road or eaten by the snake just now, and it didn't cause any harm to her. Influence, she is cold-blooded and rational.

"Let the arrows go, let the arrows go!" the crowd shouted.

Only then did the people in front react, and they took out their bows and arrows one after another, took out the arrows in the quiver behind them, bent their bows and set their arrows, and shot at the big snake!

The snake's scales were too hard for arrows to go in, but its eyes and mouth were very fragile. After a while, one of its eyes was shot.

The wounded big snake became frenzied, swam forward frantically, and pushed many people off the cliff.

Some people were mentally prepared for this kind of thing. They quickly grabbed the vines and were hung in mid-air with difficulty, while some fell to the bottom of the cliff unexpectedly, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.

The rest of the people did not dare to relax for a moment, and frantically shot arrows at the big snake, but the plank road was so narrow that the big snake could only move forward and not back.

Ye Qiongdan had no choice but to sneak into the back of the crowd and shouted: "Use poison arrows! Use poison arrows coated with blood-seeking poison!"

At this time, the front was already in chaos, and the back was panic-stricken. Who would have noticed that a strange Ye Qiongdan had mixed into this team?

When the woman standing in the middle of the line heard this, she immediately shouted: "That's right, put poison on the arrow!"

As soon as the people in front heard this, they hurriedly took out the poison, smeared it on the arrow, and shot at the big snake.

As the number of people falling off the cliff continued to increase, many arrows were shot into the snake's eyes and mouth. Finally, the poison on the arrows flowed through the blood circulation and covered the whole body of the big snake, making it painful. He convulsed, and finally fell heavily on the plank road.

After confirming that the poisonous snake was dead, the person walking in front peeled off the snake's skin from the weak point, and then cut open the snake's stomach, hoping to recover from the snake. Several people were found alive in the stomach.

But unfortunately, all the people in the snake's belly died of suffocation.

Everyone looked at each other, sighed, and pushed the snake off the cliff.

After the snake was successfully dealt with, nearly one-tenth of the team of three to four hundred people was lost.

People's faces became ugly, and some even retreated, unwilling to continue walking upwards.

Someone looked at the woman in charge and persuaded in a low voice: "Since the purpose of our trip is to take out the heart of the last emperor of this country, then we can go to the top of the mountain or not. After we climbed up the plank road On the way, I don't know how many dangerous things I will experience, why not save my strength and go down to the underground palace first?"

"How do you know that the last emperor would not bury himself on the top of the mountain? If he deliberately did the opposite, would he tell you? Besides, Wang Chenggong and Xiao Qiu have already confessed that this mountain top is a place for alchemy." The so-called sacrificing the lives of all the people in the country in exchange for an elixir of life sounds more like an absurd legend. I believe that it was the people on the top of the mountain who developed the elixir of life. After the emperor took the elixir on the mountain, he fell into a deep sleep. Therefore, the last emperor of this small country is likely to sleep in the coffin on the mountain."

The woman's words were decisive, and since she was the leader of the group, the others did not dare to refute, so they could only nod reluctantly with fear.

"As the saying goes, once you are successful, you will lose so many people, and you will be so frightened? Do you still want to be promoted? Since ancient times, wealth and honor have been sought in danger, and now it has come If you come here, it means that you have already cut off your escape route before you come here, who dares to back down again," the woman sneered, pulled out the whip around her waist, and whipped it upwards, the force of the whip immediately overwhelmed her. A mummy hanging in the hollow above, cut to pieces, "It looks like this!"

Her hand immediately shocked everyone.

Everyone lowered their heads, and no one dared to raise any objections.

"What are you still doing in a daze? Keep going!" the woman said coldly.

"What about the people below? Are we not going to care about their lives?" Someone asked boldly.

"Why don't you just jump off the plank road now and take good care of them?" The woman narrowed her eyes.

The man didn't dare to speak any more.

Everyone felt a little cold in their hearts, but they couldn't give birth to a heart of resistance. Although they were reluctant, they had to bite the bullet and go on.

After the big snake was dealt with, the road was quiet for a little while.

Ye Qiongdan and Ye Qinghan naturally avoided them a little further, keeping a distance from them that they would not notice.

Everyone was frightened, how could they be in the mood to look behind them?

At this moment, a broken road suddenly appeared in front of it. Below the broken road was an abyss of hundreds of feet. Just looking at it would make one's scalp tingle.

The person walking in the front immediately took a step back, took a deep breath, and said to the people behind him: "Tell the master, there is a section of empty road in the middle of the plank road. There is a long iron fence at the other end of the road." The iron board can be directly placed on this road, and there is probably a hidden mechanism nearby, which can activate the iron board."

(End of this chapter)