Ren Jianmo used his abilities to wake up Dong Jing, Master Ming Jun and Yi Lianna one by one.
When everyone just woke up, it was as if they hadn't been able to break free from the illusion that was too long. The whole person was in a trance, and they didn't know where they were at all.
Fortunately, as long as we leave them aside and let them calm down, they will slowly wake up.
Taking advantage of this time, Ji Thrush and Ren Jianmo went to check the opened coffin.
Under the four-layer outer coffin, the interior space of the dark coffin made of gloomy wood is actually not spacious.
A corpse lay in a coffin, completely mummified.
The emperor who ruled the world was actually not tall. After being dehydrated and shriveled, he was even smaller several times.
Although I don't know how the former emperor planned it at the beginning, but it is clear that judging from the preservation of his body, unless he plays "Muyi 3", there is no possibility of resurrection.
As a result, the remains's heavy overcoat seemed too big, the precious silk was loosely put on the shrunken mummy, and the front flap loosened as it moved, revealing the pearly luster of the inner shirt .
"This... is a precious cultural relic that has been stored for a thousand years..."
For some reason, Ji Thrush was a little timid.
He thought of the archaeological documentary he had watched when he was bored. It said that precious silk more than a thousand years ago was unearthed from a Han Dynasty tomb. Nowhere to start.
After all, the emperor's old clothes are really exquisite, and the layers of intricate embroidery on the cuffs are so beautiful that people can't take their eyes off them. Ji Thrush felt that it would be a pity if it was accidentally broken.
Ren Jianmo glanced at Ji Thrush.
He didn't have many entanglements with Ji Xiaoniao's classmate, and without saying anything, he lifted the silk robe on the mummy with his hands.
Ji Thrush still remembers that it was said in the documentary that the ancients believed that "if gold and jade are in the sky, the dead will be immortal", so when encoffining, they would use precious jade objects to plug the holes of the corpse.
For example, the jade cicada contained in the mouth of the famous Empress Dowager Cixi is a typical example of "Nine Orifices Jade".
Fortunately, the former emperor in the coffin did not use the tiger talisman as "Nine Orifices Jade". As soon as Ren Jianmo opened the skirt of the mummy, he found a palm-length bronze animal-shaped product inside.
He handed the little bronze beast to Ji Thrush.
The thrush took it and took a closer look, and found that it was indeed in the shape of a cat, with a wide mouth and round ears, a bowed body and a long tail, four claws curled up on the abdomen, and densely carved inscriptions of Yin and Yang nested on its body. It is exquisite and well preserved. If it was their era, it would definitely be able to directly enter the "National Collection".
Ji Xiaoniao exerted a little force with his two fingers, and then heard a crisp "click"—the bronze beast split into two from the center, and split into two symmetrical halves.
"Excellent, excellent, Amitabha Buddha!"
When the fat monk saw the thing in Ji Thrush's hand, he was so excited that he repeatedly proclaimed the Buddha's name.
"This must be the Tiger Talisman!"
After getting the Tiger Talisman, they didn't waste any more time in the emperor's old man's main tomb.
Ji Thrush experienced more than ten years of life in hallucinations, but in reality it was a full ten hours, and they had already slept through the whole day without knowing it.
At this time, it was dusk outside again, and it was going to be dark soon.
In other words, it was almost a day since everyone entered the tomb, and the pursuers of the holy court must have arrived at Lishan, but they did not know where they were.
Ji Thrush and the others exited the hall, walked back along the path they came from, and soon returned to the gate of Rensaikeng.
This time, everyone held the Tiger Talisman in their hands, and they had more confidence in their hearts.
After seeing the tiger talisman, General Ghost first let out a long sigh, with a relieved expression on his gloomy face.
[Bone Army, waiting for orders.]
General Ghost only said a word, then knelt down on one knee, and made a respectful salute.
Countless soldiers behind it also knelt down together.
The continuous black shadow almost covered the lighting range of the rainy night light, just like a large thick black mist with substance.
Rao, the second youngest of the Dong family, who has dealt with corpses all year round, couldn't help but feel a little weak when he saw the scene of tens of thousands of ghosts kneeling and swearing allegiance.
He instinctively took a step back, then firmly nailed his footsteps, mustered up his courage, and said:
"I will take your corpses away."
Dong Jing's voice was not loud, but it had an echo effect in the human sacrifice pit, like ripples, and the voice spread to the deepest part of the tomb.
[As ordered.]
General Ghost replied briefly and without hesitation.
The second young master of the Dong family breathed a sigh of relief, and when he was about to go up to stick the talisman, a certain string in his heart suddenly moved, and he turned to General Ghost again:
"What about you? What are you going to do?"
General Ghost still answered very simply.
[Naturally follow everyone, go to battle to kill the enemy, and protect my country!]
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Yesterday, Ji Thrush and his party dug a robbery hole to go to the grave.
However, they didn't choose the place where they came down. There were many organs and traps along the way, and the dragon-breaking stone was put down to stop the centipede on the way. If they want to go back and go the same way, it is almost impossible.
But fortunately, everyone now has a large group of reinforcements.
When the imperial mausoleum was built, the designer left an "exit" for the ghost soldiers to appear in the world thousands of years later.
The ghost general led Ji Thrush and others into the deepest part of the human sacrifice pit, and instructed them to open a mechanism...
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It was nearly midnight, and Zhuzi who stayed outside had been waiting for a day and a night.
At dusk, when he saw continuous fire dragons lighting up at the foot of the mountain, he knew that the Holy Court Army had already caught up.
It's just that the forest is deep and the grass is dense here, and the pursuers couldn't find them for a while, so they simply surrounded the main roads of Lishan, wanting to come and wait.
Uncle Zhong's injuries were so severe that he was gone at dawn.
For fear of being discovered by the pursuers, Zhuzi didn't dare to stand guard outside the cave, so he had to use dead branches and leaves to disguise the entrance of the robbery cave, then resisted Uncle Zhong's body, and hid in the dense forest with two zombies.
He waited anxiously in the forest for a long time, until late at night, when he suddenly felt an obvious tremor from the ground under his feet, followed by a dull rumbling sound, as if something huge and heavy was slowly moving deep in the ground.
Zhuzi jumped up like a frightened rabbit, passed through the dense vegetation, and stumbled towards the source of the sound.
Then, a scene that the youth will never forget for a lifetime appeared before his eyes.
I saw a clearing among the trees, and the vegetation was sparser than other places.
And in the very center of the open space, there is a huge crack, like a huge mouth opened out of thin air, I don't know how deep it is.
At this time, figures were coming out of the crack one after another.
They were quiet, fast and silent, and their number was increasing. They stood neatly in line in the open space, their rusty armor and weapons reflecting the moonlight above their heads, and they were cold.
Zhuzi gasped first, then turned into ecstasy.
"Master!"
He yelled, and ran towards the only light source by the crack, wiping away tears while running:
"Second Young Master! You succeeded! You succeeded!"
Dong Jing, who was carrying the rainy night lantern, turned his head and was also very happy to see that Zhuzi was safe and sound.
The two master and servant hugged each other and howled, Zhuzi cried and told his young master about Uncle Zhong's death.
Dong Jing was heartbroken when he heard about it, but he had no choice but to accept the fact.
It wasn't until this moment that Zhuzi noticed that besides the zombie soldiers crawling out of the cracks, there was also a stranger in the team that he had never seen before.
It was a tall, round, fat monk, his cassock was so dirty that he couldn’t see his true colors, the monk’s shoe on one foot was missing, and he carried a bronze tripod tripod on his shoulder. It looked like a fake monk. Become a monk's tomb robber.
"This is Master Mingjun."
The Dong family simply introduced:
"He will go with us to find Su Jiangjun."
After speaking, he turned his attention to another more important matter.
"Have the group of red-haired barbarians come after them?"
Zhuzi nodded vigorously, "Here we come, it's just down the mountain!"
He pointed to the southeast, "There are quite a few people, I'm afraid... there must be thousands of people!"
"Amitabha!"
Master Mingjun clicked his tongue repeatedly when he heard the number of pursuers:
"That's too much, how can you kill a chicken with a bull's knife!"
Indeed, sending thousands of elite paladins to hunt down three or five kittens is really a bit of a fuss. From this point of view, the Holy Court is indeed extremely afraid of the Dong family who can manipulate living corpses.
Zhuzi led Ji Thrush and others to the edge of the cliff and looked down.
Apparently, the Holy Court army at the foot of the mountain had faintly sensed the vibration and sound when the mechanism of the imperial mausoleum was activated just now, and used this to determine the location of the prey.
Dense torches are arranged in long columns between the mountain roads, moving upwards from the east and south sides respectively, winding like a long snake circling.
Judging from the length of the two fire dragons, the "thousands of people" guessed by Zhuzi is definitely not an exaggeration.
"It seems that we can only face it head-on."
Ji Thrush looked at the fire dragon slowly moving up from the foot of the mountain, then looked back at the densely packed zombie soldiers behind him, and said so.
If there were only a few of them back then, maybe they could find a way to break out of the siege quietly, but now that the team is so huge, it is unnecessary to think about not disturbing the Holy Court Army at all.
"Just in time."
Dong Jing sneered:
"This young master just happens to be able to use these Xiyi barbarians to give the soldiers a sharp edge and practice their hands!"
"Benefactor Dong, be safe and don't be impatient."
The fat monk who was carrying the bronze tripod by the side typed a Buddhist gatha with one hand, but what he said next did not have the mercy of a monk at all:
"It's midnight now, it's clearly the poor monk's turn to attack, don't fight with me."
The second young master of the Dong family turned his head, gave Master Mingjun a hard look, pouted, and replied reluctantly:
"Okay, I'll give it to you first!"
As he spoke, he pointed at the long line of pursuers down the mountain:
"However, you'd better get rid of these Xiyi barbarians before the sun rises, otherwise you will have to ask me for help, and it will be unbeautiful!"
The author has something to say:
Everyone knows "The Mummy 3", it's the one where Jet Li is the villain BOSS~⊙▽⊙
There is also "Nine Orifices Jade" is an ancient funeral custom. It is said that the "Nine Orifices" of the corpse are plugged with jade, so that the corpse will not rot~
So tomb robbers open coffins, and they will often destroy corpses in order to find these precious burial jades~