Chapter 30: Crossing the Galaxy (I)
The traces of the golden ball rolling over were all over the passage. The magnificent stairs full of history were already pitted. Some walls were sunken. The ramp going down was full of dents made by the golden ball. But no one had the time to look around carefully. They rushed down at full speed.
Zizi... Jiang Xian raised his hand and slid the tip of the umbrella across the wall, tapping it twice with a crisp sound. His eyes lit up and he said in a deep voice, "This is a Qin brick! And it's a rare Qin brick."
In the shortest possible time, they collected any information that could be searched. With fewer people, the logistics were insufficient. However, personal initiative had been pushed to the peak under the extreme killing intent. Ling Xiaozi's eyes moved slightly, and he gritted his teeth and said, "This tomb is very strange. The entrance was directly blasted open. It may not have a real entrance. In tomb science, this is called 'no door to enter the ground'. It may only have one exit, which can be used to exit but not enter."
He spat, gritted his teeth and sneered, "This kind of cemetery has much more terrifying hidden traps than ordinary cemeteries. Everyone... be careful."
Before he finished speaking, the sound of something falling below became more and more intense. The sound of splashing became louder and louder! It was as if... a gap had opened in the ocean of the underworld, and countless evil spirits had rushed out!
"The sound of flowing." "Something is flowing out!" "We are not fast enough! We must go faster!"
Damn it... Jiang Xian was extremely anxious. According to legend, there were six major mechanisms handed down from the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum. One of them was called Quicksand Burial.
If the gurgling sound below came from the falling quicksand sea... it would block all their paths forward! It would make it impossible for him to find the Black Death Butterfly Curse!
Wow—he suddenly opened his umbrella, facing the ground, and jumped on it first. He held the umbrella handle and shouted to the people around him, "Go ahead!"
Zila! Sparks flew from the tip of the black umbrella and the ramp. With the tip of the umbrella as the center, the umbrella surface began to spin rapidly like a propeller. Jiang Xian jumped onto the umbrella handle in one step. He rushed down first with sparks and lightning.
"There is such a thing?!" Ling Xiaozi was stunned. He cursed: "This bastard is crossing the river and destroying the bridge! Isn't this going to make you dizzy? This is so unfair!"
In response, Jiang Xian gave him a middle finger.
The speed increased a bit, and Ling Xiaozi's endless curses gradually disappeared behind him. The road in front of him became wider and wider, and sculptures similar to the Terracotta Warriors appeared. In front of him, the sound of rushing became louder and louder.
It's water... Jiang Xian stared at the bottom, he was sure that the sound was made by water. The sound of quicksand would be duller.
"But... the mausoleum will be flooded?" He had already taken out the exquisite dice and looked down solemnly, muttering, "This is unscientific. The ancient people were not stupid at all. The people who participated in the construction of a mausoleum of this scale were the masters of various industries at that time. They could not have been unaware of the consequences of water entering the tomb."
At this moment, the view in front of me suddenly opened up. The ramp finally came to an end, and the scene ahead was simply unbelievable!
Great Wall……
The neat passage comes to an abrupt end here, replaced by an endless winding underground Great Wall!
It is hard to describe how big the cave outside the exit is, at least it is comparable to a sports center. There is endless darkness on both sides, and an underground mountain in the middle. I don’t know if it was piled up or formed naturally. It is like a sleeping dragon in the middle. A 30-meter wide and hundreds of meters long Great Wall is built on it. In the darkness, you can clearly see torches spreading all the way into the darkness. It’s like returning to the Qin Dynasty in a dream, looking at Chang’an thousands of years ago in the dark night.
It is not exactly the same as the Great Wall. The battlements of the Great Wall are not high, but the battlements of the wall here are as high as five meters! Walking in the middle, it feels like entering an ancient palace wall.
There are no torches here anymore.
However, it does not mean that there is no light here. Every fifty meters, there is a tower. But what makes people shudder is that on the tower... the beacon fire has been lit all the way and disappeared into nowhere. It seems to warn everyone that if they set foot here, they will face the full-strength attack of the Qin army!
Grand and majestic, two emotions impacted his heart, forming an emotion called emotion. However, Jiang Xian did not feel any emotion. In this fantastic underground world, the Great Wall was not scary. What was scary was... there were people on the Great Wall!
Countless people!
No...it's not appropriate to say they are people, they are...dried corpses that fill the entire Great Wall!
There were so many people that it was impossible to count them. They were so densely packed, people were huddled together, shoulder to shoulder. Their faces were extremely hideous. Some were running forward frantically, while more were lying on the Great Wall, revealing expressions of great pain. Some were strangling their necks with both hands, some were desperately tearing their faces. Some were holding their stomachs... Although their postures were different, the same thing was...
Everyone showed an extremely painful expression, and even their facial features were distorted.
Hell Ukiyo-e.
"Fuck..." At this moment, a gasp came from behind Jiang Xian. Ling Xiaozi and others finally rushed down and stared at everything in front of them in amazement: "Fuck..."
It is no longer possible to describe it with words, or rather, under such extreme shock, no one is in the mood to use adjectives to describe it all.
"This corpse...is not rotten?" The Eight-Armed Arhat said in disbelief as he looked at the group of corpses in front of him.
Chu Ziyi gritted his teeth and said, "Let's not talk about the body first. Everyone... where is the golden ball?"
"This section of the Great Wall goes up, and the entrance passage goes down. Could it be that the golden ball rolled up the slope? Well, even if it did roll up, why weren't these bodies crushed?"
Everyone's eyes flickered. They were all shocked by the magnificent scene before them. Now that they came to their senses, everyone realized a problem.
What about the Golden Globe?
Disappeared out of thin air?
"It didn't disappear out of thin air." Ling Xiaozi squatted on the ground, his fingers touching the ground inch by inch: "It's a mechanism. There is a flat point between the entrance passage and the center of the Great Wall, which is this tower. And there is a flap mechanism here. I guess that when the golden ball outside fell, the mechanism here opened. And the golden ball fell into it, creating the illusion of disappearance."
He stood up and said solemnly: "Ancient tombs have many horrors. Some are not just mechanical devices, but some are psychological horrors achieved by using mechanical devices. Don't underestimate the ancients, their IQ is no lower than that of modern people. Especially the designers who can build this kind of tomb are definitely the best at that time!"
No one responded.
The atmosphere at the scene was stagnant to the point of being terrifying. Originally, everyone wanted to rush over as fast as possible - the sound of a mechanism that could be heard from a very far distance must be extremely loud and extremely deadly when activated. If possible, everyone wanted to rush over before it was fully activated. However, the current situation was already bizarre, and no one dared to move forward rashly.
In the silence, Jiang Xian gritted his teeth and was the first to leave the city wall.
He held the black umbrella solemnly, pausing after each step. However, after walking a few meters, there was no response.
Not far in front of him, there was a corpse.
It was wearing a simple shorts, with its hands raised, as if it was pounding something frantically. His body had not decayed, but... after thousands of years, his facial features had become distorted.
The eyeballs were almost shrunken, sunken into the dark eye sockets. The skin was sallow, but shone with a strange luster. The mouth was wide open, and one could even see the dark teeth inside. The whole person... looked like some monster had sucked all the blood, flesh and marrow out, leaving only the skin covering the bones.
This doesn't look like a human at all... Instead, it looks more like a twisted evil spirit, quietly waiting for its prey.
Step... Jiang Xian approached step by step, his fingertips holding the umbrella handle turning white. Cold sweat slowly dripped from his forehead, he pursed his lips tightly, and his breathing was almost non-existent. He walked to one meter in front of the corpse, cautiously stretched out the tip of the umbrella, and poked the other party.
Behind him, Ling Xiaozi drew out his short sword, and the fingertips of the Eight-Armed Arhat flashed silver light... Everyone instinctively took precautions. However, after dozens of seconds, the corpse still did not react. No strange creatures crawled out either.
"It's a real corpse." Jiang Xian breathed a sigh of relief and put on gloves: "If anyone has experience in dissecting, come up and help."
Hong Si Niang stepped forward, and the two of them silently knocked down the body. Jiang Xian took out a scalpel from his backpack and cut towards the throat of the body.
However, despite all this, the sharp scalpel was unable to cut into the opponent's throat and stopped after only half an inch.
The two looked at each other in surprise, and Jiang Xian suddenly exerted force with his fingertips. This time, the scalpel went straight into the other person's throat, and as it slowly cut open, everyone gasped.
In the other person's throat... there was a sticky texture inside. And... it emitted a silvery-white luster!
"This is..." Jiang Xian's eyes flashed, and then he immediately cut into the stomach. As the stomach was cut open, the situation inside was exactly the same as the throat!
"This is... mercury!" Jiang Xian brushed it gently, and a little silver light flashed on his gloves. He looked up in astonishment and looked at the endless underground Great Wall: "These people... were all killed by mercury."
Hong Si Niang took a deep breath. Even he felt a chill down his spine. He looked at the underground Great Wall, then at the dissected stomach. He opened his mouth several times, but could not say anything.
Here... there are at least tens of thousands of people!
Every inch of this Great Wall was packed with people. No... maybe more than tens of thousands, maybe... maybe even over a hundred thousand!
Jiang Xian pinched his brows. Not to mention the others, even he felt uneasy. He said in a deep voice: "There is only one possibility for their attire... They are the laborers who built the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum!"
Chu Ziyi's voice was a little shaky: "When the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum was built, not a single laborer was released. I originally thought that they were all inside the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum. I didn't expect... that they were all killed here?"
Jiang Xian didn't say anything. Somehow, he felt a light in his mind. The clues were quickly being pieced together.
Roaring sound... the sound of running water... the golden ball... the mercury corpse... After more than ten seconds, he stood up suddenly and looked forward solemnly: "I know... what those gurgling sounds are."
"It's mercury!"
"This tilted Great Wall is built to hold mercury! We can either retreat, or we can never get in again. Or... we can only fight to the death... You see!!"
Following the direction of his finger, everyone suddenly saw that a pale color had slowly flowed down the slope of the Great Wall!
"Fuck that immortal..." Ling Xiaozi's lips were trembling, and his eyelids were twitching as he looked at the city walls on both sides: "I was wondering why the walls are so high, so... it turns out that it is to allow the mercury to completely drown us?"
Right now!
Boom boom boom!!
There were continuous sounds, and this sound... came from behind them!
Everyone was stunned for a moment, then goosebumps appeared on their arms and they turned around suddenly to look.
The passage they came from had completely disappeared! In its place was a huge stone wall!
