The Panying sword fell inch by inch under my push, and Shengyu's sternum also collapsed under the sword's edge. The moment the sword hilt touched the edge of the golden coffin, the high platform under our feet suddenly sank straight to the ground like the sky was falling.
Just as Ye Xun and Tao Xiyu were about to jump up, I reached out and pulled them back: "Don't move, follow the coffin down."
When the two people looked at my face blankly, the stone platform under our feet suddenly accelerated, like an out-of-control elevator, rapidly sinking to the ground with a harsh friction sound.
"Be careful!" I held my head in both hands in awe, leaning against the golden coffin with my knees slightly bent. Before I could stand completely, the stone platform carrying the golden coffin had already crashed deep into the ground, and the violent impact knocked me to the ground.
When I let go of my hands and instinctively looked between my heads, the seven black foxes guarding the edge of the coffin opened their eyes at the same moment. The bloody light in their eyes was like sharp arrows shooting into the cave. The iron skin on the fox's body exploded from the inside out.
A moment later, the black fox's front paws burst out of the statue, but what I saw was a human hand with claws like knives.
The hands that broke free from the statue just paused, then turned their fingers to grab his chest, tearing open the iron sheet wrapping his body. Two breaths later, a black fox that was close to the height of an ordinary person rose up from the high platform as if it had emerged from a cocoon and turned into a butterfly. It spread its legs like a human, raised its arms angrily, and raised its head to the sky and let out a fox cry.
When Ye Xun and I drew our swords out of their sheaths at the same time, the giant fox standing on the high platform jumped up, and its claws were like lightning and fell towards our heads.
I always stood on the edge of the coffin, and the hole the golden coffin fell into was not much wider than the coffin. I stood there, unable to use my feet to support myself, and could not withstand the opponent's full blow after falling from a high altitude.
As I drew my sword, I exerted my strength on my feet, rose up from the ground, and fell into the coffin first. The two leg bones of the female corpse in the coffin were broken at my feet, and my feet also sank three inches downward.
There is an agency!
The moment I felt myself stepping on the coffin board into the ground, a bone-chilling horror flashed through my heart.
Before I had time to look at the soles of my feet, I saw two gates that looked like interlocking canine teeth protruding from the hole in the ground.
Two gates flew out, one to the left and the other to the right, like two steel knives colliding with each other. They closed above my head in the blink of an eye, and the giant fox falling from the sky hit the iron plate without any surprise.
Just as the first loud sound of fox claws hitting the iron door passed by, loud noises like the clash of jingang and quarrels erupted one after another above my head. In just a moment, a fox paw came out of the iron plate several inches thick. Only paw prints. It won't take long for the giant fox to grab the iron plate and come down again.
I immediately put away the long knife and took out the magnum, held the gun with both hands and aimed at the place where the claw marks were the densest. I just waited for the iron plate to open and then raised the gun to shoot.
What I didn't expect was that before the giant fox could scratch through the iron plate, there was a rustling sound like running water in the air, and then a sound like beating gravel fell like rain above our heads, and the sound of the fox's claws tearing through the iron plate. It also came to an abrupt end.
"Oops! It's the Quicksand Formation!" Tao Xiyu's face suddenly turned pale.
What grave robbers fear most is the Quicksand Formation. Many large tombs will pour quicksand above the tomb chamber. Once a tomb robber accidentally steps on the trap, the dragon-breaking stone hidden in the tomb passage will immediately seal the tomb door, and the quicksand on the top of the tomb will fall down, reburying the tomb chamber. The only end result is to become a burial object for the tomb owner.
The Quicksand Formation may seem clumsy, but it is the most dangerous mechanism in the tomb. No tomb robber has ever been able to escape from the Quicksand Formation.
The sound coming from the iron plate just now was clearly the sound of gravel falling.
My face suddenly turned extremely ugly. If we are buried by the quicksand formation, what will happen even if Mother Fox blows up the tomb
How much air can be stored in such a small space? When Mother Fox came to search, she could only see four corpses that had been suffocated to death.
I don’t know if it was a psychological effect, but just a few seconds later, I felt my chest was full of stagnation, and big beads of sweat came out layer after layer on my head.
Ye Xun's face didn't look good either: "Slow down your breathing and hold on as long as you can."
I slowly retracted the long knife and jumped out of the coffin: "Don't be idle yet, look around to see if there are any mechanisms nearby. I always feel that here..."
While I was talking, there was a sudden sound of rocks breaking under Xia Qingqing's feet. After the sound of rubble falling to the ground across the cracks of the bricks reached my ears, I instinctively shouted "Be careful" and stretched out my hand to pull Xia Qingqing aside - Xia Qingqing must have stepped on the mechanism, otherwise, The stones beneath her feet will not sink to the ground.
Before Xia Qingqing could stand still, a secret door opened on both ends of the coffin walls at the same time. After the convective air flowed into the hole from the door, I finally let out the suffocating breath held in my chest.
The two secret rooms before and after the coffin are all exactly the same in terms of furnishings and size, especially the two lamp holders with green flames burning in the middle of the secret room. Even the height of the flames is the same.
If there wasn't air flowing between the two chambers, I would have even thought that one of the chambers was an image reflected in a mirror.
Ye Xun suddenly drew his sword and pointed it at Xia Qingqing: "Which way should we go?"
Xia Qingqing was startled for a moment and then said coldly: "You should judge for yourself which way to go. Do you believe me when I say go towards the end of the coffin?"
Ye Xun's eyes were cold, but Xia Qingqing was unmoved at all.
Ye Xun's suspicion of Xia Qingqing was not without reason, but I don't think Xia Qingqing is the one who controls the agency.
I gently pressed Ye Xun's long knife: "Go ahead."
I stepped into the secret room, but the coffin behind me suddenly slid straight to the opposite secret room without being touched by anyone. By the time I reacted, the golden coffin weighing a thousand kilograms had slid to the center of the secret room and hit the lamp holder standing on the ground.
The oil lamp on the lamp tilted to the ground under the impact of the golden coffin and fell into the coffin. The clear oil in the lamp was instantly ignited by the fire. Flames several feet high surged into the air from the golden coffin, and the entire secret room was also illuminated by the firelight. It's as red as blood underneath.
I put my hands behind my back and looked at the coffin burning with raging fire: "Ye Xun, try shooting an arrow at the side of the coffin."
Ye Xun picked up the crossbow arrow and clicked the spring. The arrow that flew through the air exploded into a brick in the blink of an eye and stuck upside down on the ground.
While the feathers on the back of the long arrow were still trembling slightly, the sound of bowstrings suddenly exploded into pieces in the secret room, and overwhelming arrows shot towards the coffin from all directions. In the blink of an eye, a layer of ground was spread on the ground. Arrows flying like wild grass.
According to my visual inspection, each long arrow standing on the ground is more than one meter. This kind of feathered arrows, which are 30% longer than normal arrows, generally need to be launched with a mechanical spring. Naturally, the explosive force cannot be compared with that of human power, so each long arrow is shot into the ground several inches deep. If there were bystanders standing next to the coffin, they would have been killed by arrows piercing the heart.
While I was still secretly marveling at the vicious mechanisms in the tomb, a second wave of arrows followed. This time, the volley was more violent, and the arrows were replaced with iron hooked blades.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, iron weapons appeared in our country, but the weapons used by princes to fight for hegemony were still mainly bronze, and it was extremely rare to use iron arrows on a large scale. King Wu Helu spent a lot of money to build such a secret room.
I waited until the rain of arrows stopped and then said slowly: "General Xia, the vixen is dead this time. Shouldn't you look for the secrets in this secret room?"
Xia Qingqing looked at me inexplicably and said, "Are you kidding me?"
"I'm not even remotely kidding."
I explained slowly: "King Helu of Wu has been testing whether we are Qingqiu Fox or someone else from beginning to end."
I said: "Since he has identified Shengyu as the Qingqiu Fox and set up an ambush outside, why does he use a fox statue to guard the door?"
"Also, if you look carefully at the seven foxes surrounding the golden coffin, you will find that they are not actually guarding Shengyu's remains, but waiting for Shengyu's resurrection."
"From these two points, King Wu always believed that Shengyu could be resurrected through some mysterious ritual. However, this kind of ritual could not be performed until the corresponding person came near the coffin, so he deliberately left a A long sword that moves back and forth.”
I turned my head and pointed to the secret room opposite: "I dare to bet you that if I had not pushed the long sword towards the head of the corpse, but pressed it against the corpse's body, the golden coffin would not have fallen. Instead, it would have triggered a nearby mechanism and killed us all. bury."
"Because, from ancient times to the present, people have respected the head. If Shengyu's companions arrive, they will definitely not press the sword into Shengyu's face."
When Xia Qingqing looked at the secret room opposite, she couldn't help but asked with lingering fear: "Then what happened to the fox jumping down from above?"
I explained: "That is King Wu's second test. When the golden coffin sinks, it will trigger the second mechanism. If I guessed correctly, the fox above is not a monster, but a carefully crafted product of the Yanshi lineage. Mechanical puppet."
"The same reason why I can activate the gate in the tunnel. Qingqiu Fox will not jump into the coffin like me and step on Shengyu's body to fight with the puppet. Only by crushing the bones can the puppet's whereabouts be stopped, otherwise , we can only fight for our lives with those seven puppets in a small space."
I paused for a moment: "Even so, King Wu Helu still refused to rest assured, and set up a third test. I estimate that no matter which way we went just now, the coffin would move in the opposite direction, and finally hit it. Oil the lamp and be burned to ashes.”
"If we dare to rescue Shengyu's body, we will end up with thousands of arrows piercing our hearts and dying without a burial place."
When I said this, I looked at Xia Qingqing: "King Wu deposed such a big chapter to test our identity, it can't be just to give us a way out, right? He must have something else to explain. Now, It depends on whether you can find the clues left by King Wu Helu."