Chapter 156 Underground Palace

"What monster?"

"Get out of the way!"

"Oops!"

Several exclamations rang out, and the twelve death row prisoners immediately panicked. Linghu Cang, the leader, stabbed the strange dragon charging towards them with one sword.

"Boom!"

There was a muffled explosion, and in the midst of everyone's horrified and disbelieving eyes, the strange dragon actually rushed directly through their bodies.

A strong wind came, mixed with a large amount of smoke and dust that rushed straight out, blinding everyone's eyes at once.

The entire team immediately became panicked, and many people staggered back.

But soon I discovered something was wrong. This was not a strange dragon at all, but a strange wind!

Mixed with a lot of dust, the hurricane swept through and almost knocked more than ten people to the ground.

"What kind of monster is that?"

"It's not a monster! It seems like a ball of wind?"

"What should I do...?"

Behind them, Hu Bafeng's voice rang out: "Don't be afraid, everyone, that is not a monster, but the dust formed by hundreds of years of weathering when the paint on some carvings was removed from the mausoleum."

"When we open the tomb door, the dust will rush out. It's harmless!"

"Keep moving forward!"

The twelve people looked at each other and carefully checked their bodies. Sure enough, they found that there was no problem and immediately continued forward.

This was a dark, wide staircase that went all the way down, like a coiling python. Twelve people groped forward cautiously with weapons in hand.

But behind them, there was no one!

In front of the tomb door, Hu Bafeng was lying on the ground, listening carefully to something.

Next to him, Chen Liancang stood quietly.

"Father, they are still going down. The tomb passage should be a downward spiral ladder... They are still going down... huh?"

"No! They triggered the mechanism!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!!"

At this moment, bursts of harsh piercing sounds suddenly came from the tomb passage, followed immediately by the screams of the prisoners on death row and the collision of weapons.

Not long after, several panicked footsteps rushed out from the tomb passage.

Chen Liancang waved, and hundreds of Jinyi guards immediately appeared behind him, with bows and arrows pointing at them from a distance.

There were originally twelve death row prisoners, but now only nine were left, and all of them were injured.

As for the three death row inmates who have not come out, they must be dead.

"Don't come out, let us all go in!"

"Father-in-law!"

Linghu Cang walked out of the crowd. He had obvious injuries on his left shoulder. It was obvious that he was hit by a mechanism in the tomb passage.

"The tomb passages are all filled with mechanisms. I'll wait..."

"What?"

Chen Liancang said indifferently: "If it is safe, what use are you for? Let us all go in and pass through the tomb passage!"

"No, don't blame our family!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the long bows in the hands of hundreds of Jin Yiwei were already stretched to the full moon.

Linghu Cang's mouth twitched, and he really wanted to rush out.

But seeing these sharp arrows and the eunuchs with sinister auras hiding in the dark, they immediately gave up their thoughts of rushing out.

Among the eunuchs here, there is at least one master-level warrior.

The twelve of them were no match at all.

Not to mention, there are so many armed guards.

"We encountered a trap in the tomb passage, and countless arrows rained down on us."

Linghu Cang said: "In order to fulfill my father-in-law's request, can you provide us with a shield?"

Chen Liancang said: "Give them shields."

"No!"

The leader of the Jinyi Guards, Qianhu Zhang Jianping, waved, and a group of Jinyi Guards immediately found a few shields and threw them to them.

These shields are owned by the Forbidden Army. They are half-body shields, about three feet long. As long as the user bends down and hides behind the shield, it is enough to protect the whole body.

Looking at the nine shields thrown on the ground and the armored and waiting guards around him, Linghu Cang could only helplessly grab a shield.

"Everyone, if you want to survive, keep going down."

"Fuck!"

“Isn’t this going to cost us our lives!”

"It's death in prison, but it's still death here..."

"Who said that? At least there is a glimmer of hope!"

Several people discussed in low voices, but finally, forced by the bows and arrows of the Jin Yiwei, they had to grab the shield on the ground and retreated to the tomb passage again.

Hu Bafeng continued to lie on the ground, listening to the movements in the tomb passage.

"They're in!"

"I encountered a trap again!"

"It is the simplest crossbow mechanism, which can shoot powerful crossbows from the wall!"

"They were contacted..."

You don't have to lie down on the ground to hear the sound of the harsh arrows hitting the shield. Everyone present can hear it standing at the entrance of the tomb passage.

"Ding ding ding..."

Occasionally, there were still a few screams, but this time no one ran out.

This sound lasted for a cup of tea before gradually weakening.

"The voice became weaker, they successfully passed this mechanism."

Chen Liancang immediately said: "Everyone, enter the tomb passage!"

"No!"

Hundreds of Jin Yiwei immediately entered the tomb passage one after another, with guards on both sides carrying shields to resist sudden traps.

The people in the middle are Chen Liancang, Chen Zhong, Hu Bafeng and other Shadow Guards and Colonel Mojin.

As the stairs went down, the surroundings were silent except for the sound of people rushing on their way.

Not long after, a monster appeared in front of everyone, and the team in front suddenly stopped.

"Father-in-law, we found their bodies, and a lot of arrows."

"How many corpses are there?"

"Seven bodies!"

"Throw it aside and everyone continues downward." "No!"

The team quickly continued moving forward, and Chen Liancang and others also encountered the corpses here.

The ground was full of arrows, and almost all of these arrows were shot into hedgehogs.

The walls and ceilings on both sides are all densely packed with black holes, and hidden behind them are all kinds of bow and crossbow mechanisms!

"Where are they?"

"In front!"

Everyone continued to move forward, and the death row team with only five people left in front also discovered them.

Several people looked back with strange eyes, but they still continued to move forward.

There was about a hundred meters between the two teams, slowly crawling forward.

The team of death row prisoners moved very slowly, taking almost every step tentatively.

Chen Liancang didn't urge him and just walked quietly.

Finally, after the tea time, the speed of the death row prisoners in front suddenly accelerated, as if they had discovered something.

Everyone also speeded up, and soon rushed out of the tomb passage and entered another world.

"Wow...!"

The noise immediately started, and many of the Jin Yiwei present could not help but exclaim.

This is because what appeared in front of them was a huge underground palace!

The underground palace is shaped like a city, and it vaguely looks like a miniature version of the capital city.

As Chen Liancang, who has lived in the capital for more than fifty years, he could see something at a glance.

The underground palace in front of you is the capital!

However, it is an underground palace that has been shrunk countless times, replicating the appearance of the capital more than three hundred years ago!

Everyone subconsciously looked into the distance. The underground palace was dark and their sight was limited, but they could vaguely see a tall building in the distance, standing in front of them.

"Where are the prisoners on death row?"

"Where are the gang of death row prisoners?"

"Gone!"

"I think I saw them running into the underground palace just now!"

Chen Liancang frowned and said: "Don't worry about them for now, let them go."

"Night Pearl!"

A team of Jin Yiwei ran out from behind the team, took out goose egg-sized luminous pearls from their arms, took a deep breath, grabbed them in their hands, and threw them as hard as they could in the distance!

With the help of the faint light of the night pearl, everyone could finally see clearly that this place was indeed a huge underground palace.

Chen Liancang personally took out a luminous pearl, activated his energy, and then threw the luminous pearl in his hand toward the huge building hidden in the darkness directly in front of him.

The night pearl almost turned into a ray of light, fleeting, and then hit the wall hard with a 'bang'.

Even, embedded in it!

At this time, Chen Liancang's pupils shrank suddenly, because the luminous pearl he threw was actually embedded in a huge stone staircase!

It was... a huge sacrificial platform built around the capital!

Under the faint light, there was a miniature palace on top of the tall stone steps.

That is... the palace where Zheng Mingsen, the founding ancestor of Dayu, lived more than three hundred years ago. Unexpectedly, it was also reproduced here!

Taizu Zheng Mingsen, not only will he be the emperor while he is alive.

Even after death, I want to be the emperor!

"The underground palace is shaped like the capital, and there is also the palace where Taizu lived. Could it be said that Taizu's mausoleum is in the palace on the sacrificial platform?"

Chen Liancang pondered for a few breaths, only to find several captains running towards him from a short distance away.

"What did they do?"

Hu Bafeng explained: "Father, this is a custom passed down from our ancestors before we robbed the tomb...touching the Jin Xiaowei."

"Whenever you enter a large tomb, you must light a candle in the southeast corner of the tomb before opening the coffin."

"When the coffin is opened and the candles go out, it proves that the owner of the tomb does not welcome us. We must seal the coffin and leave quickly, otherwise something big will happen."

"But if the candle does not go out, it proves that the owner of the tomb already knows that we are coming and has prepared some gifts for us. You can take away one or two..."

Chen Liancang sneered: "You tomb robbers, do you still believe this?"

Hu Bafeng explained embarrassedly: "Father, in our line of work, all we want is peace of mind."

"Believe it or not, these are the rules passed down from our ancestors, and they have indeed saved many people's lives."

Chen Liancang said: "We don't care about the servants lighting candles, but... we haven't arrived in front of the tomb owner's coffin yet. What candles do you light?"

Hu Bafeng swallowed his saliva and subconsciously looked at the huge altar in the distance, then at the underground palace not far away, and whispered: "Eunuch..."

"This is not only the tomb of Taizu, but also the tombs of many eunuchs, maids, guards, and even the craftsmen who built this underground palace mausoleum."

“This is the big tomb!!!”

"Huh?"

At the same time, inside the underground palace.

Linghu Cang was walking in the underground palace with four other lucky people. Each of the five of them had injuries, and they were all shot through by crossbow arrows.

Even the leader, Linghu Cang, was like this, his face was very pale.

Finally, Linghu Cang found a house with an open door and walked in after observing it for a few minutes.

"Brother Linghu, are we staying here?"

“Not bad!”

Linghu Cang pulled off his sleeves, wrapped up his wound and said: "The goal of these Jin Yiwei is deep in the underground palace. No matter what they do, it has nothing to do with us."

"Fortunately, there are many houses here, so we will hide here. After they enter, we will quietly run out along the original road."

"In this imperial mausoleum, I will die without any hope of life!"

"Although that old eunuch promised to let us go, who knows if he lied to us?"

"No matter what, I will not leave my life in the hands of others."

"When they enter, we will fight our way out of Tianshou Mountain. It is better than dying here!"

The four of them wrapped their wounds in silence, and someone suddenly said: "Brother Linghu, this is the imperial mausoleum of Taizu Dayu. Do you think there will be a lot of gold and silver jewelry?"

"There must be! Maybe there are many martial arts intensives!"

"It is said that Emperor Zhengyong was devoted to cultivating immortals. Could it be that he excavated Taizu's tomb for the legendary cultivation techniques of immortality?"

The four of them became more and more enthusiastic as they talked, and their eyes were full of greed.

Linghu Cang also thought for a moment, but quickly reacted.

"The purpose of our waiting is to survive. We must not go deep into the underground palace... Ka!"

All five people were stunned. Linghu Cang swallowed and said, "What did you do?"

"What was that sound just now?"

Asking for a monthly ticket~

(End of chapter)