After hearing Ji Changsheng's words, everyone was at a loss.

Since none of the three demon coffins contained King Xian, where else could King Xian be except in the tomb below?
The fat man asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"Mr. Ji, this tomb is only this big, where else will King Xian hide?"

Just as Ji Changsheng was about to answer, Wang Kaixuan exclaimed.

"what is that!"

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that at some point, there were a few faint lights in the tomb.

Xiao Wu and Yin Shuangyue hadn't been to the tomb much, so they were shocked when they saw this situation.

"There's a ghost!"

Even the fat man felt hairy all over.

"Damn, there really are ghosts!"

"We didn't light a lamp. Where did the light come from?"

Wang Kaixuan immediately remembered something, and his face changed suddenly.

"Commander Hu, it's over, we forgot one important thing!"

Hu Bayi's expression also sank.

"We forgot to light the candles!"

When the fat man heard this, he looked down at the searchlight in his hand and asked in confusion.

"You two, the searchlights and flashlights in our hands are not broken, what kind of candles should we light?"

"Having a candlelight dinner in such a ghost place?"

Shirley Yang immediately explained.

"This is a rule handed down by Captain Mojin. Before opening the coffin, three candles must be lit in the southeast corner of the tomb. If the candles are not extinguished, the coffin can be opened to make a fortune."

"If the candle goes out, it means that the owner of the tomb disagrees, and he must leave the tomb immediately."

"In addition, you must exit the tomb before dawn."

"This is a kind of agreement between the living and the dead. When the cock crows and the lights go out, there is no gold."

The old fat man blushed and scratched his scalp in embarrassment.

"I thought that hanging the Mojin Talisman meant touching the gold captain. I didn't expect there to be so many rules."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the lights.

"But what does that mean?"

"Commander Hu, did the owner of the tomb feel that we forgot the rules and ordered it for us?"

Hu Bayi smiled wryly and shook his head.

"We are here to open the coffin, which tomb owner will help the tomb robbers?"

While they were talking, Ji Changsheng had already walked up to the lamp and said.

"It's an ever-burning lamp."

Seeing this, everyone hurried over.

After a closer look, I couldn't help being startled.

I saw several recessed holes on the wall of the tomb, and there was a corpse in each hole, and the ever-burning lamp was hung on the corpse.

A total of six lamps, six corpses.

Surprisingly though, these corpses were not human!

The upper body of that weird corpse was human, but the lower body was a fish tail. It looked like a legendary mermaid!
It's just that compared with mermaids, these corpses are very ugly, even a bit weird and hideous.

The fat man frowned.

"Is this an ugly mermaid?"

Hu Bayi recognized it at a glance.

"This should be the South Sea Merman. According to ancient books, the oil of the South Sea Merman is a very good fuel. Once ignited, it can last for thousands of years."

"So in ancient times, some people caught them and used them to make long-burning lamps, but the so-called immortality is an adjective. Compared with ordinary oil, it burns for a longer time."

Ji Changsheng smiled lightly, noncommittal.

Shirley Yang observed it carefully and said.

"I see. The wick of this ever-burning lamp contains white phosphorus, which will ignite spontaneously when it meets air at normal temperature."

"After the tomb was built, it was closed, the air was not circulating, and the lights went out when the oxygen was exhausted."

"We opened the tomb door to let the air in and ignited the white phosphorus."

Xiao Wu and Yin Shuangyue breathed a sigh of relief, it doesn't matter what kind of white phosphorus or black phosphorus, as long as it's not a ghost lighting the lamp.

Shirley Yang immediately frowned, and said again.

"I understand. The eternal lamp is for the dead. There are six lamps in total. There should be six corpses in this tomb."

"There are three in the demon coffin, there should be one more under this hole, counting Xian Wang and his wife, exactly six!"

At this moment, the black-backed sixth child next to him called out.

"Look, there are more over there!"

Everyone followed the prestige and saw five lamps lit up on the other side of the tomb.

Shirley Yang was dumbfounded all of a sudden.

"Why are there five more lamps? Could it be that there are a total of eleven corpses here!"

"Mr. Ji, what's the matter with the number of these lamps?"

Ji Changsheng didn't answer, and walked over with a puzzled face.

The others didn't know what happened and quickly followed.

When they came to the front and took a look, the strange scene in front of them made everyone take a deep breath.

But among the five lamps, one was the biggest hanging on a lamp stand in the shape of a bull's head.

This bull head lamp stand is made of bronze, it may be a totem of a minority or something like that.

But there are four other smaller ones, but they are hung on four corpses!
These four corpses were not South Sea sharks, but human beings!

What's even more weird is that these corpses are all children around seven or eight years old, completely naked, with their limbs pierced by iron nails and nailed to a bronze lamp stand.

The wicks hang from their navels, and the oil is in them!
When Xiao Wu and Yin Shuangyue saw it, their expressions changed drastically.

"It's so cruel, it's crazy to use children to make lamps!"

Even Fatty and Wang Kaixuan started yelling at each other, this is something a beast that is not as good as a beast can do it.

Hu Bayi suddenly realized and said.

"These four lamps are not eternal lamps for the dead, they are used to guide the living!"

The fat man was stunned.

"Guide to whom? To us?"

Hu Bayi shook his head in horror.

"To pick up the boy!"

Then, reach out and point to the other lights.

Those six lanterns were for the people buried in the tomb. Apart from the three corpses in the demon coffin, there should be three more. The six corpses in total are substitutes for King Xian.

The largest bull head lamp should be dedicated to the king.

And these four lights are to guide the guide boy!

And the escort boy is not a dead body, so these four lamps are for the living!
After speaking, he looked at Ji Changsheng.

"Mr. Ji, am I right?"

Ji Changsheng nodded and said.

"That's right, this is indeed ordered for the guide boy, but the number is wrong, there is an extra one."

Hu Bayi was taken aback for a moment, and then reacted.

"In Taoism, three is a special number, the three talents of heaven, earth and man, and the three realms of man, ghost and god."

"One life is two, two is three, three is all things!"

Ji Changsheng said slowly.

"The Sanshi Bridge we saw just now is actually also prepared for the guide boy."

"Three stone bridges correspond to three boys."

"But there is one more lamp here, who owns the extra one?"

In fact, after reading the original book, he already had the answer in his heart, but he was not sure.

The three guide boys refer to Hu Bayi, Xueli Yang, and Wang Kaixuan.

And the extra one should be Ji Changsheng!

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