Chapter 217 Human sacrifice?
"Qualification test?" Hu Bayi repeated it, and said with some confusion: "Didn't that senior intend to return the same way from the beginning?"
This was the only possibility he could think of. As for predicting that he would encounter something unexpected in advance, Hu Bayi had never thought about it.
This is too mysterious.
"Isn't it obvious now? The man who broke the hole specially made it like this just to prepare it for our golden captain. If you want to know what the reason is, then go in and take a look. You’ll know just by looking at it,” Wang Kaixuan said.
He hadn't thought about it at all. He and Hu Ba had never even touched the golden talisman.
Ding Sitian also nodded: "Judging from the effectiveness of this medicine, the senior should not have any ill intentions towards the junior who is trying to get gold. I think we can move on."
Anyway, what she got Judging from the information, the institutions here are beneficial and harmless to the orthodox Colonel Mojin. I guess the other party does not have any malicious intentions.
Although Ding Sitian and Wang Kaixuan both said so, Hu Bayi still hesitated. He asked Chen Ziyan: "Master Chen, what do you think?"
Hu Bayi continued walking. He was a little wary of this road, for fear of another trap ahead, so no matter whether what Ding Sitian and Wang Kaixuan said was true or not, he was not inclined to leave everyone's safety to speculation.
After all, they are now serious and certified people, and they can take care of this tomb openly. There is no need to take risks just because of convenience.
Yes, the reason why they chose to enter from the Fish Bone Temple was to save the time of digging holes.
I thought it would be foolproof if I followed the path that the old timers used decades ago, but I didn’t expect that this bargain would not be so easy to pick up. I encountered something like this as soon as I entered.
So rather than continue to step on the trap, Hu Bayi felt that it might be a better choice to find a new place to dig a hole.
"I think... we may have to continue walking." Chen Ziyan's mouth twitched slightly, signaling everyone to look behind him.
Several people immediately turned back and saw a stone wall appearing out of thin air once again on the way they came.
This time the stone wall was said to be a wall, but in fact it was just a large stone slab, blocking them not far behind them, completely blocking their retreat.
"Could this be Nao Shizi's hallucination again?" Wang Kaixuan said with a frown.
Although the appearance of the stone wall is different, the way it appears has not changed much.
Ding Sitian also reacted very quickly and took out the Awakening Incense immediately, but it had no effect. The stone wall stood there without moving.
Dang——
Seeing this, Chen Ziyan stepped forward and thrust out the short stick in his hand.
He was the first to discover this stone wall and was also the closest, so he was the best candidate to conduct physical experiments.
Once bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of well ropes for ten years.
The experience just now is still vivid in my mind. If you want to know whether it is an illusion, it is best to let the results speak for yourself.
But now, the facts tell them that this stone wall is not an illusion.
When the short stick landed on the stone wall, the previous thing that passed directly through the wall did not happen again. Instead, there was a low sound of gold and iron clashing.
Withdrawing the short stick, Chen Ziyan turned to look at the others and said in a deep voice: "This time it's true!"
He didn't know what mood he should show now.
It’s not a hallucination, which is something to be happy about, but it’s hard to be happy about it being cut off.
This means that they now have no other choice but to go all the way to the end.
Wang Kaixuan shrugged nonchalantly: "No need to worry about it now, we can only move on."
The form is now very clear.
Unless they dig holes directly from here in other directions, there is nothing they can do with the stone wall behind them.
Even though they are carrying explosives, if they don’t want to bury themselves alive in the ground, they must not use blasting.
What's more, who knows if the explosives will work.
After all, this is very likely to be the Ghost Tomb. In a sense, it is a manifestation that they cannot understand, rather than a substantial object.
Otherwise, he wouldn’t have appeared behind him so suddenly.
The others had nothing to say about this. They also had no choice but to continue walking forward while holding the stone wall.
Even Hu Bayi said nothing and followed Wang Kaixuan silently.
After continuing to march for nearly three hundred meters, Wang Kaixuan at the front stopped again.
While he stopped moving forward, his voice also sounded: "Old Hu, Mr. Chen, why is there a fork in the road ahead, which one should we take?"
"Fork in the road? Mouth?" Hu Bayi asked in surprise.
The process of stealing holes has always been all the way to the end.
It was said that abandonment and re-opening happened from time to time, but this was the first time he had heard of such a thing as opening a branch underground.
Wang Kaixuan said: "I can still fool you. If you don't believe me, see for yourself. There are three roads ahead."
With doubts, Hu Bayi wanted to see the situation through the gap.
But as they went deeper, the size of the robbery cave had gradually shrunk. At this time, although their position was not yet to the point where they needed to crawl forward, it could barely accommodate one person. It has to be when you are hunched over.
So when Wang Kaixuan moved his head forward, the view behind him was completely blocked, making it impossible to see clearly.
In desperation, Hu Bayi patted Wang Kaixuan: "Fat man, you can go in through any hole first, remember not to go in really."
This was the method he came up with, otherwise there would be no way to observe it.
"Okay." Wang Kaixuan responded and got into the hole directly in front.
He just took a glance and found that this was quite spacious. He might not be able to get in the other two, so naturally he had to choose this one.
After getting Wang Kaixuan to make way, Hu Bayi immediately stepped forward and looked at the three thieves in front of him with a flashlight.
One of the three robbery holes is directly in front of them, and the remaining two are on the left and right sides. They form a relatively regular intersection with the robbery hole where they are.
After careful inspection, Hu Bayi discovered the difference between these three robbery holes. The robbery hole directly in front should be the same as the one they came in. From the neat and smooth digging marks, it can be seen that the other party should be in a calm and calm state when digging.
However, the robbery caves on the left and right sides are a different story.
Although the technique was done by the same person, the work was extremely rough and the excavation traces were extremely messy. It was obvious that the other party had lost his previous calmness and was in a state of anxiety.
"The three robbery holes were made using the same techniques. They should have been made by one person. Not surprisingly, they should have been left by the senior who built the Fish Bone Temple." Hu Bayi said what he could determine. Discover.
Wang Kaixuan, who was squatting in the robbery cave in front, asked angrily: "Then what is he trying to do? Is it possible that there is that kind of stone wall in front, so he wants to escape from both sides?"
"That's true. It's not impossible." Hu Bayi was also a little confused.
Then, he said to Chen Ziyan at the back of the team: "Master Chen, why don't you come and take a look?"
Asking Chen Ziyan when he is in trouble has almost become a habit for him. .
No way, who allows Chen Ziyan to give the answer every time.
Then he himself got into the robbery cave where Wang Kaixuan was, and asked Shirley Yang and Ding Sitian behind him to enter the robbery caves on both sides, making way for Chen Ziyan.
Chen Ziyan walked to this fork. After looking around the three cave entrances, he rubbed his chin and said: "The conditions are limited and we cannot analyze much, but from the excavation of these two caves, we can see that Look, the excavator must have acted under a very urgent situation at that time."
Of course he knew what was going on. This was the fork in front of him, but he couldn't put it aside. Tell me what you know.
We have to use this method to give some reasonable information tips.
“Yes.” Hu Ba nodded and thought, “But what caused this senior to do such a thing?”
"He might want to escape from here." Shirley Yang expressed her thoughts at this time.
“The mountain here is seriously eroded, and the inside of the mountain is already riddled with holes. It’s fine from the top down, but if you want to dig holes from below, it will easily cause regional collapse. I If you think this senior can discover hidden tombs in such a place, he must be an experienced expert. It is impossible for him to ignore such an important issue."
"And in the face of such hidden dangers, he must be an experienced expert. I still chose to dig a new robbery hole. Apart from the reason why he was busy escaping, I can't think of other possibilities."
Chen Ziyan nodded to her and said: "Miss Yang's statement is very likely. "Big, let's analyze it based on this."
"No matter what the senior encountered, but we assume that he wanted to escape from here, then I think he should have been there by then. After entering the Hades Palace, it is possible that a problem was discovered on the way back.”
Hu Bayi agreed with this guess: "This is very possible. It can be seen from the robbery hole in the center that the senior was not in that state when he was digging towards the Hades Palace."
Then, He expressed his inference: "When he planned to return the same way, he encountered some unexpected unexpected situation, which is why the two robbery holes appeared next to him."
"Then doesn't this mean that the Thief's Cave we are staying in can safely reach the Hades Palace?" Wang Kaixuan suddenly asked at this time.
As a person who is good at focusing on key points, he still lived up to expectations this time.
“That’s really what happened.” Hu Bayi was reminded by him and realized this.
Regardless of what the other party encountered when he returned, he should have arrived at the Hades Palace before that, and without any accident, he took the same path they were on.
"Ghost Tomb." Just as he was thinking about this, Ding Sitian suddenly spit out three words.
“Ghost Tomb?” Hu Ba looked in the direction of Chen Ziyan and felt that this was entirely possible.
If the other party did not encounter something when they came in, but encountered something when they left, then based on their experience, it is most likely to be the Ghost Tomb.
This ghost tomb does not seem to stop people from coming in, it will only block the way out when they leave.
Ding Sitian added: "If you say this, then the mechanism just now has an explanation."
Chen Ziyan asked curiously: "How do you say this?"
He said this I'm very interested in things that didn't appear in the original plot, and I want to know why.
Ding Sitian explained: "If the senior is really trapped here by the Ghost Tomb, then if he tries to no avail, he will probably leave something to his companions who know his whereabouts. Or the younger generation, and that illusion mechanism may be used to screen out outsiders."
Wang Kaixuan asked: "But didn't you say it was a tonic?"
"It's a tonic for Colonel Mojin, but not necessarily for others." Ding Sitian replied softly.
It is okay to say that saltpeter will be carried by some knowledgeable local masters, but Honglian Miaoxin Pills, a secret medicine exclusive to Captain Touch Jin, are not something that outsiders can carry with them.
If it weren’t for the fact that some of the ingredients in her Xingshenxiang were similar to those of Hongxian Miaoxin Pills, and they accidentally replaced each other, they would still be worrying about how to remove the effects of the medicine.
Thinking of this, Ding Sitian suddenly thought of a possibility. She looked at Chen Ziyan and asked: "Mr. Chen, I heard you said before that you could lift the ghost tomb. I wonder what method you used?"
"In ancient times, when the ancient cemetery palace was about to be completed, three animals were sacrificed to the sky and three birds were tied to the earth. The rules of this ghost tomb are also the same. As long as you bring the sacrifices into it, they will be sacrificed. If you wake it up and offer sacrifices, the ghost tomb will disappear." Chen Ziyan answered truthfully.
This saying is: three animals reach the sky, three birds reach the earth.
It is said that poultry and livestock can connect the remaining energy of the true caves, so in all ancient tombs and burial pits, poultry and livestock must be buried in order to follow the stars and palaces to regulate the earth's veins.
Hearing what Chen Ziyan said, Hu Bayi suddenly slapped his head and said: "This makes sense. When the senior captain who touched the gold came in, he must have followed our rules. The old method was to carry live birds with you to detect the gas, and then the ghost tomb was alerted and trapped."
But unexpectedly, Ding Sitian shook her head: "That senior was not trapped in the ghost tomb. Trapped, he may have been trapped for a while, but he quickly figured out what was going on with his rich experience. When he got out of the trap, he also used the ghost tomb to set up a trap. "
" Bureau? "What Chen Ziyan heard earlier was fine, and it was consistent with what he knew. But what's going on with this layout?
Ding Sitian asked: "Everyone, do you know what the oldest sacrifice is?"
Chen Ziyan suddenly thought of something and asked: "You mean human sacrifice?"
Sacrifice is this This kind of thing has been around since ancient times, but when it comes to the oldest sacrifices, the only ones that have not been continued are the abandoned human sacrifices.
"Yes." Ding Sitian nodded lightly, and then said: "Just like Mr. Chen said, this ghost tomb can be cracked with animal sacrifices, but if the sacrifices are artificially altered, "
Hu Bayi also understood at this moment: "Sitian, do you mean that the senior has done something wrong in this regard?"
Ding Si nodded: "The secret medicine in the agency we just met is a medicine that can enhance blood energy, but if there is no medicine to neutralize it, you will probably die of congestion in the hallucination, and this will happen naturally. Become a sacrifice to the Ghost Tomb. "
"In this way, after the Ghost Tomb has experienced human sacrifices, it is likely that people will automatically be included in the category of sacrifices, and then people who come in will be included. It’s not that easy to get out.”
Chen Ziyan’s tone was a little dry at this time: “If the Ghost Tomb really includes people as sacrifices, then it will be destroyed before all the people who come in are dead. It will not disappear automatically. "
What he hopes most now is that the Wushuang ghost did not kill people in the tomb, otherwise this idea may become a reality that they need to face.
(End of this chapter)