Even though Dong Jing said so confidently, it was still much more difficult than everyone imagined when it was really necessary to find him.
The old maps did not have so many precise measurements, and they were all drawn by the recorder himself based on memory and guesswork.
Moreover, the tomb of the previous dynasty was built thousands of years ago. After more than ten centuries of wind, water, sun and rain, the geographical environment will change more or less. It has long been annihilated among the overgrown vegetation, and it is difficult to find it with the naked eye.
Dong Jing opened the copy that was drawn from the map left by his ancestors. The three masters and servants surrounded each other and checked each other for a long time before pointing in the direction of the front peak of Lishan Mountain. "It should be in this mountain!"
What else could Ji Thrush and Ren Jianmo say? The two of them knew nothing about Xunlong's acupoints, so they had to click "Follow" silently.
As for Elena, because there was a language gap with most of the team, after this period of time, she only knew roughly that everyone was going to find something in a certain mountain.
As for where the destination is and what they are looking for, the girl is not at all curious.
After experiencing extreme suffering, Elena was rescued by these oriental people, it was like going from hell to heaven, and her happiness was indescribable.
Although she still has to run around with the team every day, and she has to work hard to do divination for Ji Thrush and the others, but someone heals her wounds, eats and sleeps well, and does not beat or scold her. Even the master and servant of the Dong family who were not very friendly to her at first I also gradually accepted her during the ten days of getting along, and I also took into account her injuries, and took good care of her when I was on the road...
So Elena doesn't care where the destination is at all.
The girl didn't know that there was an idiom called "Repaying Gratitude", but even if these orientals wanted to drive her away now, she would never leave.
Even if it is a dragon's pool and a tiger's den, as long as she is with this group of people, she dares to risk her life to break through.
It's just determination to return to determination. When the group of people walked from early morning to dusk and were still aimlessly circling in the woods, Yi Lianna finally couldn't help it.
"Excuse me, are you looking for something?"
The red-haired girl lay on the back of a zombie soldier, stretched out an arm from its shoulder, and grabbed Ji Xiaoniao who was walking in front.
"Maybe I can help?"
Hearing this, Ji Thrush turned around in surprise, "What did you say?"
Elena repeated, "Find something, I can help."
Ji Thrush has seen the girl's divination ability these days, and immediately stopped everyone, and relayed Elena's words to others.
It was already 4:20 in the afternoon, and in another hour or so, it would be dark.
According to Ye Lianna's divination yesterday, the Holy Court's pursuers are still some distance away from them. At least for today, everyone is safe.
But when the group entered Lishan, they stopped moving long distances, and it was easy for the pursuers to locate them.
Ji Thrush didn't know how many paladins were chasing them this time, but the time left for everyone's safety would definitely not be too long. He reckoned that the pursuers would have to catch up until tomorrow at most.
Apparently, others felt the same way.
Dong Jing no longer insisted, and simply admitted his weakness, and handed over the arduous task of finding the tomb to Elena, "What are you going to do?"
Elena replied:
"First, tell me the size and shape of what you are looking for."
Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.
"this… "
Dong Jing stroked the braids hanging down his shoulders in embarrassment.
The map left by the ancestor to his grandchildren only marked the location of the underground palace, and only summarized it with the approximate number of "covering an area of one hundred slopes", but he couldn't determine the exact size, let alone the specific shape of the underground palace. .
Yi Lianna waited for a while, and only got two useful information from the Dong family's second young master that they were looking for "buildings buried in the ground" and "very large".
"..."
After thinking about it, she asked another question:
"So, what's in that subterranean building? I mean, a lot of it, compared to the above..."
The girl reached out and gestured around.
"Something different from these flowers and trees."
Dong Jing's eyes lit up.
"Someone!"
This time, he answered decisively, "Many, many people!"
Ji Thrush relayed the answer of the second young master of the Dong family to Elena, but changed "person" to "corpse".
"That underground building is the mausoleum of a former emperor, and many people are buried in it."
Ji Xiaoniao said:
"There should be tens of thousands of corpses inside."
When Yi Lianna heard the number "tens of thousands", her eyes widened in surprise, she quickly relieved, nodded, and asked:
"What are the characteristics of those corpses?"
Ji Xuan frowned and thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered the reason that the second young master of the Dong family said when he proposed to enter Lishan:
"The corpses in the tomb are all wearing armor and holding weapons."
Elena's eyes lit up, "Are those armors and weapons made of metal?"
Anyway, Ji Xiaoniao couldn't think of any other materials that could make those two things, so he nodded.
"That's all."
The girl smiled, "I need two metal rods with the same length, preferably 'L' shape, the longer the better."
Uncle Zhong took out two iron pokers from his luggage, bent them into an "L" shape, and handed them to Elena.
Then they saw the girl holding the short end of an L-shaped stick in each hand, laying it flat on her chest, with the long end pointing straight ahead, and the two sticks were kept parallel to each other.
After more than a week of treatment and recuperation, most of the wound on Elena's shoulder has healed. Although the perforated shoulder blade has not healed yet, it will not affect her daily activities too much. At this time, her hand holding the L-shaped stick was very steady, without even a slight tremor, and her expression was very relaxed, with a confident look.
The master and servant of the Dong family were at a loss, unable to figure out what the girl was doing.
Ji Thrush vaguely felt that he had seen similar operations in some treasure hunting movie.
I saw Yi Lianna slowly turn more than half a circle on the spot, finally facing the southwest, turned her head and smiled at everyone:
"Here, please follow me."
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Yi Lianna led the way with an L-shaped stick in both hands, and walked in the direction of the most lush forest.
Although the route she took seemed to lead everyone to the depths of the dense forest, they knew the ability of this red-haired Xiyi witch, and no one questioned her choice. The girl leads the way.
This walk is another four or five hours.
When the moon was in the middle of the sky, they finally made a discovery.
"Second Young Master, come and see!"
Zhu Zi, who was walking in the front with Elena, suddenly called out loudly.
Everyone immediately surrounded him, and saw that Zhuzi was half-bending, using a machete to cut open a large clump of tangled climbing plants in front of him.
Under the soft orange light of the rainy night lamp, they saw a large off-white object exposed behind the severed vines—it turned out to be a white marble animal-shaped statue as tall as a man!
I don't know how long this stone beast stayed here, and it was almost completely blocked by the surrounding lush vegetation. Mottled moss was stuck all over its body, and the hard surface also appeared long and short under the strong destructive force of the plant roots. There are different cracks, the most obvious one runs from the stone beast's lower jaw to the back, and a small tree as thick as a finger grows in the gap.
But even though the stone beast was severely damaged, Dong Jing was still extremely excited after seeing it.
"This is a tomb-suppressing beast that only the emperor can use!"
He cried out aloud, looking around at the same time:
"The other one must be nearby, we will soon enter the range of the Imperial Tomb!"
Holding a torch, Uncle Zhong found another stone beast fifty meters away.
It's a pity that the second tomb-suppressing beast couldn't withstand the wind and rain, and it was broken into several pieces. All the pieces were submerged in the verdant greenery, and only one base was still faintly exposed on the ground.
"We're very close to our destination."
Yi Lianna held two L-shaped sticks, and pointed the long ends directly in front of the line connecting the two stone beasts. The originally parallel sticks gathered slightly inward, as if the positive and negative poles of a magnet were attracting each other.
Immediately, the spirits of several people were lifted, and they decided to go all out and try their best to enter the mausoleum before dawn.
Fortunately, the moonlight is bright today, and there are rainy night lights to illuminate them. Although everyone must stumble in the forest, their speed is not slow.
However, the accident happened suddenly at this time.
"Yeah!!"
Uncle Zhong, who had been walking next to Dong Jing, suddenly let out a scream without warning. He threw himself forward and fell straight on the ground, his whole body twitching like an epileptic seizure.
Second Young Master Dong was taken aback. While calling Uncle Zhong's name, he half-knelt down and tried to help him up.
Just as his hand touched Uncle Zhong's body, there was a rustling sound in the grass, and in the next moment, a dim light flashed, and something suddenly bounced up, heading straight towards the young man. shot in the face.
In the instant of life and death, Dong Jing only had time to raise an arm to block himself.
Hearing a clear "swish", the thing that was about to hit Dong Jing suddenly changed its direction in mid-air, and fell to the grass with a "poof".
The second young master of the Dong family was still in shock. When he looked down, his hairs stood on end and his whole body trembled.
I saw a big centipede as long as a palm curled up among the grass blades.
The whole body of the centipede was black, the carapace glowed with a metallic luster, only the head segment was dark red, at first glance in the dark night, it looked like a solidified bloodstain.
"My God!"
Dong Jing spat and cursed bitterly.
Their Dong family has been entrenched in Western Xinjiang all year round, and has intermarried with local Miao girls for generations. Although he is not specialized in using venomous insects, Second Young Master Dong knows a lot.
These days they were traveling in the wild, sprinkled with Dong's special insect repellent powder on their bodies, and snakes, insects, rats and ants did not dare to get close.
From this point of view, this centipede is by no means an ordinary wild poisonous insect, otherwise it would never dare to jump out and bite Uncle Zhong despite the powerful medicinal power of the insect repellent powder!
- Still careless!
The second young master of the Dong family gritted his teeth, feeling extremely regretful in his heart.
The author has something to say:
It is said that the pendant used by Miss Witch and the metal stick are both well-known divination methods. Both are used for positioning. The former is said to be able to find anything, and the latter is more commonly used to find metal objects in treasure hunting~
Many adventure movies, novels, and comics have been used~