Chapter 28: Golden Wheel Lock (II)
"Break the golden wheel lock, swing the white jade bell..." Jiang Xian narrowed his eyes, found a place where the rain would not reach, waved his hand, and signaled Hong Si Niang, Ling Xiaozi and the others to go over.
Several people quickly gathered together. Jiang Xian put away his umbrella, looked at Chu Ziyi and said, "Do you know why I have to get off now?"
Chu Ziyi shook his head.
Jiang Xian looked at the huge sculpture and said solemnly, "At that time, the old man said to be careful up there. I think there might be something up there. Maybe a living creature."
"If they can climb such a high sculpture, they are likely to fly. But on rainy days, most of them will not move. But now it seems that I was worrying too much."
He took a deep breath: "It's a snake."
Chu Ziyi paused in astonishment. He originally disagreed with going to the ground in the rain. If Jiang Xian hadn't spoken up, he would have sprayed the other person to the Arctic Circle. However, he didn't think of this.
As soon as he got off the ground, he made two mistakes, not too big or too small. Suddenly, he felt like he was being beaten to death on the beach by the waves behind him.
The darkness covered his red face. He coughed lightly and said, "So, the thing that the old man in the hospital told us to be careful of... was a snake? He thought it was a decoration? In the end... our companions were probably swallowed by these things?"
Jiang Xian nodded and continued, "This is not important. What's important is... It's rumored that a thousand giant pythons were placed in the Qin Emperor's tomb. Now it seems that they are not dead. And it seems that some of them are still alive?"
"I've never seen such a big snake." The Eight-Armed Arhat frowned and said, "It's still alive after two thousand years. Isn't that a bit too much? It must have become a spirit, right?"
"That's what I want to say." Jiang Xian stared into everyone's eyes and said in a deep voice: "If a snake has no natural enemies and is not short of food, its growth is almost unlimited. In addition, it has the habit of hibernation. If there is a particularly cold place here, its life span will be greatly extended."
He paused, then said solemnly, "If there really is a snake spirit that has lived for two thousand years here... none of us can get out alive."
Ling Xiaozi's Adam's apple paused, and he looked around involuntarily, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, there is not much food here."
"Heh..." Chu Ziyi smiled coldly: "You probably don't know? Snakes also eat snakes."
A sense of horror ran through everyone's backs like an electric current. Ling Xiaozi almost stood up immediately, even Hong Si Niang's face was extremely ugly. The Eight-Armed Arhat opened his lips but didn't say a word.
"I'm just reminding everyone." Jiang Xian suddenly smiled: "Even if you eat all the giant pythons, you won't live for two thousand years. What are you afraid of?"
He raised his head and raised his chin towards the colossus: "Do you have any idea about this thing?"
Everyone looked over there, but no one noticed that Jiang Xian's eyes darkened.
Yes...if they eat all the pythons, they will not live for more than 2,000 years. But why are there still primates active near the Wowo Pit?
The Wowokeng is not too close to here, if those monsters were also released to guard the cemetery, then why, or what, drove them so far away?
Here...maybe there is a "king".
Fortunately, no one had thought of this yet, and everyone's thoughts were attracted by his words just now. Ling Xiaozi looked at it for a long time, frowned and said: "The only one who fits the appearance is probably Di Jun. The auspicious cloud disk behind him should represent the nine days of Di Jun's birth. Nine is the extreme number... Sorry, I can't make it up anymore. Next one !"
Chu Ziyi was listening thoughtfully, but he couldn't help but get angry when he heard the last sentence. He raised his drooping old eyes and looked for a few seconds, then slowly said: "It should be Emperor Jun. According to legend, Emperor Jun gave birth to ten suns. There are indeed ten suns here, and the ball clasped in his hands is the tenth sun. However, the nine suns behind him are 2D, and the golden ball in his hand is 3D. It also hints at the nine suns shot down by Hou Yi. And the golden ball in his hand should be the Golden Wheel Lock."
The Eight-Armed Arhat asked in confusion: "If this is really the Mausoleum of the First Emperor, why is there Emperor Jun?"
"It is precisely because of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor that Emperor Jun was born." Jiang Xian spoke slowly and calmly, "It is recorded in the Great Wilderness Classic that Emperor Jun had ten sons: Zhongrong, Baimin, Siyou, Heichi, Sanshen, Jili, Xizhou, Dan'er, and Niuli. And the last one... was named Yin Shang."
Hong Si Niang looked at Jiang Xian in astonishment: "Shang Dynasty? Shang Dynasty? Aren't Emperor Jun and the rest a myth?"
Emperor Jun, the father of ten suns, is the ancestor of the Shang Dynasty. This answer is too incredible!
"It may not be a myth." Ling Xiaozi flicked his whisk and said in a deep voice: "If you have read "Chronicles", "Zuo Zhuan" and "Qin Benji", you will know that the ancestors of Qin were the remnants of the Zhou Dynasty's attack on Shang. Their ancestors were nobles of the Shang Dynasty. After being defeated by the Zhou Dynasty, they were ordered to move to the present Longzhou Province. The worship of the Shang Dynasty... the totem was the black bird, and the god they worshipped was called 'Emperor'.
Jiang Xian went on to say, "Longzhou, in ancient times it was called Longxi, is the birthplace of the pre-Qin era. After his death, Qin Shihuang did not forget to seek immortality. According to the ancestral system of the pre-Qin era, the dead Qin people would be taken to heaven by Emperor Jun. He was making his last struggle, or spiritual self-anesthetization. And Emperor Jun was the only god he could believe in at the time."
Dangdangdang - just as everyone was discussing, a series of crisp knocking sounds were heard. Hong Si Niang had lit her pipe at some point, and tapped the rock wall lightly, impatiently saying, "What are you talking about? Can we discuss this sculpture to any length? There is no way out here, how can we go next?"
Jiang Xian smiled, then stopped smiling and said in a deep voice: "Any tomb must have a way out. This is called Dayan 49, circulating in one breath."
“The ancients did not do things to the extreme. To find the right path, one must go through all the traps along the way—and the clues to these traps are often hidden in extremely subtle places.”
Click... He pulled the bolt of the gun, and the pistol was already aimed at the colossus. With a bang, before anyone could react, a crisp "bang" sound suddenly resounded throughout the underground palace!
"This is..." "The golden ball... the sound is coming from the golden ball!" "What's going on? Is there a bell inside?"
“It has hidden secrets.” Chu Ziyi stroked his short white beard, his eyes burning: “It should be a mechanism that triggers the vibration of sound and shakes this thing out of the giant’s hand... Get out of the way!!”
With his roar, all the team members woke up as if from a dream and moved away. There was a vast space in front of the Colossus.
Hush... Jiang Xian did not fire a second shot, but put his finger to his mouth, making a gesture to silence the sound. In an instant, the cave was dead silent. However... in this dead silence, a creepy clicking sound gradually rose.
It was very subtle at first, but within three seconds, the sound became clear. Along with it, there was a thump...thump sound, as if something heavy had fallen to the ground. And this sound was not coming from underground, but from all directions!
It became clearer and bigger! Thirty seconds later, it was like a tsunami, and the humans here were the center of the vortex!
"What is this?" Everyone was divided into several groups and stood together. Ling Xiaozi took a breath and asked. Jiang Xian shook his head and said solemnly: "The eyes of Yama are open, and all the mechanisms are fully activated. Nothing is strange."
Hong Si Niang asked, "Then how do you know that attacking the golden ball can trigger the mechanism?"
Rumble... The ground began to shake slightly, and pieces of gravel fell down. Jiang Xian held up his umbrella and looked around quickly: "I don't know, but Emperor Jun carried nine suns on his back, and only one sun was left in his hand. Maybe it's Hou Yi shooting down the sun. I just wanted to give it a try, after all, the door must be nearby..."
He didn't finish his words, because he suddenly saw a pair of red eyes lighting up about ten meters behind him.
Then came the second one, the third one... and the countless others!
Swish! With the sound of dense crawling, everyone was shocked to see countless blood-red eyes light up in the darkness of the cave!
The shape of the cave was originally irregular, but now it was like... The bell woke up the sleeping little demons, and they crawled out of the cave one after another, greedily and hungrily looking at the prey in front of them. More and more... more and more densely, after more than ten seconds, the entire cave from top to bottom seemed to be hung with countless red lanterns!
"Fuck..." Even a master like Hong Si Niang couldn't help but feel her scalp tingling at this moment: "What the hell is this!"
If you still want to go up now, you might be pounced by these monsters in mid-air... Everyone instinctively gathered together, back to back. Holding flashlights, they frantically swept through the darkness. Chu Ziyi grabbed a handful of the few white hairs, and with red eyes, he shouted, "Warm light stick!"
Everyone's nerves were stretched to the limit at this moment. As soon as the voice fell, a warm light stick was thrown out. It hit the corner with a bang, and in an instant, countless shadows fled in all directions with a hiss.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" Like oil dripping into boiling water, the sounds rose and fell in an instant. However, in less than three seconds, the warm light stick was immediately submerged by the shadow. But it was enough.
They finally saw what it was.
"Rat..." Jiang Xian gritted his teeth and felt his temples throbbing.
There were countless rats... at least tens of thousands in the entire cave! If you were not careful... not only would you die, but not even a bone would be left!
"Turn on all lights! Load bullets! Prepare flares!"
Kakaka! All the lights were turned on, and the bullets were loaded. As the light shone, countless rats hid in the cracks of the wall and the holes in the ground like black flies. From time to time, dozens of rats could be seen being pushed down from high places by their companions. They fell into a pulp with screams. Fortunately, these lights made them like refugees hiding in a shelter, while outside was the black death frenzy.
No one dared to say a word. Nerves were throbbing as if they were about to explode. Muscles were swollen and painful. The body was like a bow on a string, ready to shoot at any moment.
Click, click, click… I don’t know whose second hand was ticking, but at this moment, it sounded extremely clear. Every second seemed so long, but after forty seconds, the Eight-Armed Arhat suppressed his voice and said through his teeth: “No.”
"These rats... don't seem to dare to come over?"
Jiang Xian blinked his eyes, reached for his backpack, and threw out a sausage. In a blink of an eye, countless red eyeballs flowed, and countless mice pounced in that direction. The squeaking sound was endless. However, ten seconds later, the mice gathered in the shadows on both sides again.
With them as the center, there was an endless sea of rats on both sides, but the other side did not dare to rush up.
"Land!" He suddenly had an idea and shouted into the intercom: "Land... The land here may have been specially treated!"
"Heh..." Countless voices of people who had survived the disaster heaved a sigh of relief on the intercom. However, Jiang Xian did not.
On the contrary, his nerves were even more tense than before.
This is not a rescue.
This is the limitation.
They were restricted to a four-meter-wide area. If they exceeded that, they would die.
Why?
At this moment, behind him... a loud bang suddenly came.
boom!!!
This sound, like a thunderclap, suddenly woke up all his thoughts. Without any time to think, he shouted with eyes wide open: "Go! Go!!"
At the same time, he turned his head.
In the direction they were coming down, the sculpture had opened its eyes at some point.
The moonlight from the cave entrance fell on the face of the statue, making it appear pale. It was clear that its eyes had been fully opened at some point, and inside, two emotionless eyes were looking at the group of uninvited guests indifferently.
The golden ball in its hand had already fallen to the ground, and it was moving along this path, crushing towards them with the force of thunder!
It is just right that the volume of the golden ball is not one centimeter more or less than the road.
