When the black fox made of pig iron slowly lowered its head under my palm, the glass-like thing on the wall slowly moved open like a sliding door.
Tao Xiyu took two quick steps and tapped the glass a few times with his knife: "Is this really glass? Can glass be made in the Spring and Autumn Period?"
"Maybe." I have a general understanding of glass. The earliest glass products appeared in Egypt more than 4,000 years ago. In China, colored glaze began to appear in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, which is the earliest glass. However, the transparency of colored glaze cannot reach the level of modern craftsmanship.
I knocked on the piece of glass and said, "You know about the Warring States Crystal Cup, right? Crystal cups could be made during the Warring States Period, why not translucent glass? There might be another lost secret here."
In 1990, a crystal cup from the Warring States Period was unearthed in Shitang Village, Banshan Town, Hangzhou. Its casting and polishing techniques are comparable to modern technology, and it is listed as a national cultural relic. The owner of the crystal cup has not yet been determined. Academic circles believe that the owner of the crystal cup is It is likely that he was an official of Chu State.
"But..." Tao Xiyu still couldn't believe that the glass on the wall was made by Wu Guo, but I didn't argue with her anymore and just stepped out of the gap in the wall.
Before I could see the scene behind the tomb passage, a fishy-smelling air flow came from the side of the black fox. Ye Xun, who was standing behind me, hit the black fox on the chin with his scabbard and quickly withdrew his hand.
When the black fox's head was pulled back to its original position, the glazed door in front of us began to slowly close, and the fishy wind swirling in the tomb passage became more and more urgent. I raised my hand to signal Tao Xiyu and Xia Qingqing to retreat. Ye Xun hid on both sides of the Liuli Gate at the same time.
As soon as the two of us stood firm, the glazed door was completely closed around us. The next moment, I clearly felt something pressing on the glazed door, and there was a sharp sound like a sharp knife cutting through the glazed glass. Ye Xun and I held our breath at the same time and clenched our weapons.
However, something behind the tomb passage seemed to be stuck to the door, and it remained motionless for a long time.
I quietly gestured to Ye Xun, who took out a mirror from his bag and quietly threw it towards me. I gently held the mirror with my toes and looked towards the glazed door.
A figure soon appeared in the mirror.
The transparency of the glazed door was too low, and I could only see the outline of a human figure, who was clinging to the door motionless, not knowing what he was doing. After a long time, the black shadow suddenly disappeared silently from the door.
Before I could breathe a sigh of relief, I suddenly heard the sound of the black fox machine lowering its head. My heart suddenly lifted. I grabbed the magnum beside me with both hands and raised the gun to the position between my eyebrows. This position The muzzle can be adjusted quickly. Once the Magnum is opposed, it will be pointed directly at the opponent's sun point.
Ye Xun suppressed the blood eyes and slowly moved the long knife back, holding the handle of the knife with both hands at the same time, ready to slash the opponent's knees horizontally.
Just as we were getting ready to go, pungent blood surged out from behind the tomb passage, but no one appeared in front of us.
Although I couldn't see what was going on inside the door, I could feel that someone was standing proudly inside the glazed door with his hands behind his back, as if he were a king in the world, looking straight ahead, unmoving. Perhaps, he has felt the existence of Ye Xun and I, but he has not paid any attention to the two of us, because in his eyes, the two of us are not as important as the wall opposite.
Time flew by second by second, and the figure hiding behind the glazed door seemed to have no intention of coming out. After standing for only a few seconds, the glazed door closed again, and the fishy smell that filled the tomb passage drifted away.
Ye Xun and I looked at each other for a long time before slowly putting away our posture.
Although I didn't fight with that person, I felt like my whole body was exhausted. I just wanted to sit on the ground and take a deep breath. Even if that person came again, I didn't plan to stand up and confront him again.
Although Ye Xun didn't sit on the ground panting like me, he also leaned against the wall with a long knife: "What was that just now?"
"I don't know!" I gasped, "It's so scary..."
While the two of us were still frightened, Xia Qingqing took the flint he got from somewhere and scratched hard on the wall opposite us. The moment dazzling sparks burst out from the wall, the originally empty wall But there was a mural that looked like it was drawn with charcoal.
Ye Xun said in a deep voice: "Where did you get the flint? How do you know that the paintings on the wall need flint?"
Xia Qingqing shook his head and said: "I picked up the flint from the ground. I don't know what happened. I just wanted to scratch the wall with the flint, like this..."
Xia Qingqing took the flint and scratched it hard on the wall again. The sharp-edged flint instantly caused a spark nearly one meter long on the wall.
According to common sense, the sparks produced by the flint should be fleeting, but the fire spots on the wall flashed like fireworks for several seconds, and the pictures painted on the wall became clearer and clearer.
While Ye Xun stared at Xia Qingqing, my eyes fell on the mural. It clearly showed a girl who committed suicide with a horizontal sword, but there was an extra hand on the girl's sword hilt. The owner of that arm should be standing. Behind the girl, he helped her hold the sword and cut her neck.
The mural on the wall soon changed. He originally wanted to kill the girl, but at the last moment he changed his position, turning the horizontal slash into a straight stab, and stabbed the sword into the girl's chest.
I stood up and walked to the mural and touched it twice: "This girl is Princess Shengyu. She did not commit suicide, but committed suicide."
"If you look at the second picture, the girl's arms are obviously out of proportion to her body, and the blade of the sword is also slightly slanted. It means that there was a person taller than the girl standing behind her and stabbing the sword into her chest. That year, thousands of people There’s no hidden meaning in the legend about people being buried alive!”
I said solemnly: "In my impression, King Helu of Wu was also a heroic leader. Otherwise, he would not have been able to attack the capital of Chu and almost destroy Chu. How could such a monarch send the people of Wu to tombs at will? ? Besides, the incident happened near the capital of Wu Kingdom, isn’t he afraid of losing the support of the people?"
I pointed to the mural and said: "If the person in this painting is Princess Shengyu, then there can only be one explanation. King Helu of Wu forcibly buried the people, which was actually to avenge Shengyu."
"At that time, Helu must have used some method to make the murderer think that Shengyu was not dead, and wanted to join the funeral procession to see what happened. Helu trapped tens of thousands of people to death without knowing who the real murderer was. Among the tombs.”
Tao Xiyu whispered: "Is this possible? This is too crazy."
I traced the mural on the wall with my hand: "Whether my guess is true or not, we have to find Shengyu's coffin to find out."
I turned to Liulimen and said: "The place where we exploded just now is not too far away from the black fox. If we move a little further to the side, maybe we can blast the black fox. We saw three foxes in total while running here. That is to say, there are four black foxes guarding the four directions of the tomb.”
I said solemnly: "The square tomb is surrounded by black foxes guarding the gate. I think the tomb is like a square city, and the city gate should be right behind the fox. Should we try to blow up the wall behind the fox?"
Ye Xun hesitated for a moment and said: "Wang Huan, don't you think that the things coming out of the blood mud want to force us into the tomb?"
"I have thought about it!" I said solemnly: "But at this point, can we not go in? We have to try whether we live or die."
While I was talking, Xia Qingqing suddenly said in a trembling voice: "Wang Huan, do you hear any movement behind the wall? I mean, that wall behind the mural?"
I had been talking just now and didn't pay attention to the movement behind the wall. As soon as Xia Qingqing reminded me, I immediately noticed something unusual behind the wall.
"Stay back!" I pushed Xia Qingqing away and put my ear against the wall. There was a sound like the tip of a sword scraping against the wall immediately from behind the stone wall. At first it sounded like someone was using a long sword. The sword moved slowly against the wall.
As soon as I caught the direction of the sword's movement, I heard the sound of a sharp blade breaking through the wall and coming towards me suddenly. I just turned my head slightly, and the bronze sword that penetrated the stone wall was thrust out close to my cheek. Half a foot outside the wall.
"Open the door!" I roared and took half a step back, pulled out Mie Tian and stabbed it backwards towards the wall, instantly sinking into the stone wall.
I clearly felt that Mie Tian's blade was blocked twice in a row, which meant that my blade not only pierced the wall, but also pierced the swordsman behind the wall.
I stepped back quickly before drawing the sword, and the sound of the sword breaking through the wall was loud with my footsteps.
In just an instant, dozens of bronze long swords broke through the wall and came out. The sword blades, one palm wide and at the same height, were neatly arranged in a straight line on the wall.
The stone powder covering the sword body was scattered along the sword, but the cold light on the sword edge burst out with the light. The entire row of long swords sank with all their strength almost at the same time, creating cracks on the wall.
As the stone powder on the wall flew with the sword, Ye Xun also opened the glazed door behind me: "Come in quickly!"
"Go back!" I originally planned to go around the tomb passage and rush to the location of the next black fox, but I didn't expect that the place we just ran to had been completely blocked by a stone gate.
We have no choice but to go forward, but the monster that emerged from the blood mud must have rushed to the other side of the tomb passage. If we go forward, we will be chasing him again.
"Blow up the wall, quickly!" I was knocked to the ground by all the explosives in my backpack. Just as Ye Xun and Tao Xiyu were installing explosives on the wall, there was a loud bang outside the glazed door.
The hundred-meter-long wall suddenly collapsed in the middle of the tomb passage. Although I was separated by a layer of glazed doors, I could still see a row of two-meter-high figures stepping out of the wall with long swords tilted.
Dozens of swordsmen marched together, step by step, their steps were like drums, the sound was deafening, and the whole tomb could not help but tremble under the swordsmen's footsteps.
I also held my breath for a moment.