Silent Killing

“What to learn?” Zuo Qingcang wondered.

The old man did not answer directly, but explained first: “The biggest role of this tomb is to imprison the Emperor Zong in the deepest place of the tomb. Xiwei Mortal Manifestation believes that everyone has a soul, and everything they arrange here, Either funeral burial, formation, traps of various institutions.

The ultimate goal is nothing more than to imprison the spirit of Xun Zong forever, and to imprison his forever in the coffin. Then prevent all external possibilities from affecting this ultimate purpose. “

“But what do you think if the coffin was broken through at the end?” The old man turned his head, revealing a bit of ruthlessness in his eyes, looked towards Zuo Qingcang.

“If I were the designer of this cemetery, I would definitely design a mechanism. As soon as the coffin is opened, the whole cemetery will be blown up.” Zuo Qingcang’s eyes were frozen: “Do you want to open the coffin and let the cemetery self-destruct?”

Having said that, he was nodded again: “This is indeed a method, but we must know what his self-destruction means is before we can escape in a targeted manner. And isn’t this mural saying that Zong Zong is immortal? We After the coffin is opened, won’t a zombie be released? “

Old man lost with a smile: “How could it be? In the year 2000, he stayed in that coffin without eating or drinking, even if only Wang Ba had become gray.

Although Emperor Zong’s Taoism is powerful, he is not a god yet. The so-called immortality is probably just something happened to him that the ancient people could not understand at the time. The so-called Taoism is just the natural principle of heaven and earth, not Gods Vestige. “

The words of the old man caused a slight surprise to Zuo Qingcang. Before, he thought the other party was a feudal superstitious old man, but now it seems that the other party treats Taoism more similarly to the attitude of science.

He went on to say: “That is also very dangerous. In Western Wei Dynasty 2000 years ago, according to your statement, many of these Taoist techniques have long been lost, and we may not be able to understand the operation process at all. If we are not careful, we may be consigned to eternal damnation. “

“It’s better than being alone here forever.” Old man said, “It was too dangerous for me to go down alone, but you are different. The two of us should be able to find a way to open the coffin.

Besides, I have stayed here for so many years, and I have made some achievements. Below this island, there should be a seabed volcano. The Taoists who built the burial chambers should have the power of the volcanoes in them. The fear is that they are still banned inside the volcano. Once the coffin is opened, it may be The underground lava will be poured back up, turning the whole island into a sea of ​​fire.

All we have to do is open the coffin and escape from it before getting caught in the fire sea. “

The old man took Zuo Qingcang to the mural of the coffin, and he gestured with his hand while saying, “The difficulty in doing this has two aspects. One is how to get in, and the other is how to get out.

This island lacks tools, and the only thing we can rely on is ourselves. So if you want to go in, you are too weak now, and you need to learn a little bit of martial arts. And when we come out, we will definitely meet the Yin Yin and giant elephants outside, and also need you to learn some Taoism or martial arts. “

Zuo Qingcang nodded, walked to the wall picture, looked at the coffin sunk deep in the ground, and suddenly said, “Have you thought about it, maybe we can escape first and then open the coffin?”

“What do you mean?”

“We dig a hole that goes straight out, and then use a plant to make a rope and connect it to the coffin. After we get out of the island, we pull the rope to open the coffin.” Zuo Qingcang looked at the wall around all around and said, “This cemetery I don’t know much about the structure and organs, and I don’t know what the so-called Taoism is.

But I have seen the soil here, which is very suitable for excavation. He tapped the slab on the ground and looked at the ceiling again. “If we can find the tools, maybe we can make a hole in this cemetery.”

When I walked down the alley just now, I carefully calculated the angle and distance of the inclination of the canal. The distance from the ground here should not exceed ten meters at most. If we have tools, this hole can be dug up to about seven days.

As for food and water, you have been here for so long, and you must have found a solution. “

The old man froze for a moment, with a strange look in his eyes: “You seem familiar with these things?”

“Well, a long time ago, I learned a little bit about this with a guy named Zhang Qiling.”

While talking, after Zuo Qingcang knocked on the floor tiles, he suddenly fell down and started to sound on the ground.

“You think well, but except for the Breaking Dragon Stone at the exit, the walls and floors here have been reinforced by Taoism. We can’t dig out in decades without relying on both of us.” The old man said doubtfully: ” what are you doing?”

“Something is ringing.” Zuo Qingcang finished this sentence, and signaled the old man not to speak. The whole funeral room suddenly became quiet. The green Pearl of the Night makes the entire Earth Palace look like a ghost.

In this weird atmosphere, a knock knock 叩, knock knock 叩 the sound came out from the floor. The sound sounded as if a monk was knocking on wooden fish, but it appeared in the tomb below, but it couldn’t help but be scared.

The old man’s face was pale, but Zuo Qingcang was still cold, but instead crawled along the place where the sound came, he knocked on the ground, and frowns said, “Here’s a hollow behind.”

The old man was surprised: “How is that possible?”

“Nothing is impossible.” Zuo Qingcang said as he used a dagger around his waist to insert it into the gap between the bricks, and little by little pry out all the bricks under his feet.

For more than half an hour, a black hole appeared in front of Zuo Qingcang and old man. Knock knock 叩, knock knock 叩 ‘s voice came from this dark hole.

A cold wind came from the entrance of the cave. The old man looked pale and shivered, “How is it possible, what is this? Why is there a hole here? Is the thing below really alive?”

“I would like to ask whether there are artisans of ordinary person who participated in the cemetery besides those Taoists and monsters they made.”

It seemed to be infected by the calm demeanor of Zuo Qingcang. The old man calmed down a little and said, “It should be. Although the entire cemetery mainly relies on Taoism.

However, some basic institutions cannot be preserved for centuries or even thousands of years by relying on such delicate metals, silk threads, etc. It still requires megaliths, water institutions and other institutions to maintain them for a long time, and those sculptures and murals must also It’s all craftsmanship. “

“That’s it, since the Taoists built this cemetery to seal the Emperor Zongzong forever, those artisans will naturally be destroyed.

Many ancient kings in the Imperial court have a tradition of allowing artisans to be buried together after the emperor built the tomb. If I were these craftsmen, when I built this cemetery, I would secretly dig an escape channel for myself in the funeral room to prevent being killed. “

Zuo Qingcang looked at the depths of the cave tightly with his eyes, but it was so dark that he could see nothing.

Old man frowns said, “You mean, those artisans dug up?”

“This is only the first possibility,” Zuo Qingcang said, rubbing his eyebrows. “There is another possibility. After this cemetery was built, before the two of us came to this cemetery, guests had already come in.”

“You mean grave robbing?” The old man’s face was incredible. “But who can find this place and come to such a place to rob the grave? How did he get out?”

“Someone can make a tomb in this kind of place, and naturally someone will come to this place to steal a tomb.” Zuo Qingcang said, inserting the dagger in his hand back to his waist: “Not to mention that he may not have left, maybe he died inside. No … “His brows frowned suddenly.” Assuming that the hole was dug by a grave robber, he only goes in. If it doesn’t come out, it won’t be possible to cover the hole with bricks. “

With that said, he began to move quickly in the burial chamber, constantly beating with his fingers.

“The walls and ground here are reinforced with sealed town water. If you want to break, you must have other materials, only the sealed town water that dissolves the surface of these materials.” Old man was surprised: “What are you doing? “

“Look for other robbers. If the craftsman just digs a hole and escapes. Only the grave robbers need to dig in a hole before digging one hole down.” Zuo Qingcang said without looking back. “If found, it means that the hole was indeed dug by the grave robber.”

At half-time, he stopped at the edge of the wall at ten meters next to the burrow and beat his fingers on the wall.

“It’s empty behind it, too.” Zuo Qingcang stroked the bricks on the wall: “There are traces of tumbling on it. This, or this group of grave robbers is a little strange, they not only left, but also restored the excavated walls to their original state In principle, this is unnecessary.

In the wilderness, there is no government, why do they want to restore the walls? “

There are still many questions in Zuo Qingcang’s mind. Did these grave robbers finally go out? If they broke through the moving stars and changing costellations, how did they break through? What are they looking for when they come here thousands of miles?

Just as Zuo Qingcang was thinking, he had once again pried out the bricks on the wall with a dagger. But the cave in front of it turned out to be underground.

Old man cried out in surprise on the side: “What’s going on? Why did these grave robbers dug two downward passages? Did one of them dig wrong?”

“No.” Zuo Qingcang flashed a glance in his eyes: “Because of the monsters on the ground. To avoid those monsters, they first dug a vertical shaft away from the monster, and then a horizontal well underground. , And finally dug below the funeral chamber. Then used this Earth Palace as an outpost, while digging down here, dug down the aisle. “

The old man’s face shook, excitedly said: “You mean, through the first hole, we can go outside?”

“There is no complete assurance.” Zuo Qingcang suddenly put the bricks at the two holes back: “There are still too many things to figure out. Since those people put the bricks back, I will put them back now.

During this time, you tell me about Taoism. What exactly is Taoism, and how does it work in this cemetery. “

The old man hearing this nodded, but did not respond, I do n’t know when, the initiative of the entire scene seems to have been completely occupied by Zuo Qingcang, he seems to have a kind of command temperament that people can’t help trusting and obeying.