Well of Mystery

Relocation and protection in different places is not a rare thing in archaeology.When the environment around the archaeological discovery site is severely damaged or conflicts with important engineering projects, relocation becomes the most practical means of protection.

However, the tomb pavilion in front of us is protected in the Tailing Park, so where should we talk about protection in other places?

Bai Xiuqi is not familiar with this industry, so naturally he can't think of its secrets and rules.What he could observe was that many operators in uniforms were busy working inside the cordon.

"They are from Haotang Company." Su Zi pointed to the wave-shaped logo on the wooden box and whispered, "This is a company with the qualification of the State Administration of Cultural Relics for the maintenance of cultural relics."

The so-called off-site relocation is simply a process of dismantling a building and then moving it to another place for reassembly.But the operation is very delicate, and it takes many days just to number and draw.Now that the tomb pavilion has collapsed, it is even more difficult to restore and number it.

Bai Xiuqi didn't go forward to disturb the work of the construction workers, he just stood in the distance and observed quietly for a while, then suddenly stepped forward and walked towards the front right.

"Where are you going?" Su Zi asked hurriedly.

Bai Xiuqi honestly shook her head: "...I don't know either."

He really didn't know where he was going, he just followed a very faint breath in the wind.This smell was very similar to the smell he felt in the trunk of his car a few nights ago, and it almost certainly came from another tomb-slayer beast.

Continue to walk forward for about ten meters, and there is a simple house temporarily built with colored steel on the left.Sitting at the door was a fat security guard in gray clothes, leaning against the wall with his hands in his sleeves, basking in the sun and dozing off.

"It's here." Bai Xiuqi whispered: "I want to enter this room."

Su Zi glanced at the security guard and said with a smile, "Look at me."

So he walked towards the security guard.He said "Hello" in that person's ear mischievously.The fat security guard was so frightened that he almost jumped up, and he took a breath when he saw the person clearly.

Su Zi smiled and told the security guard Bai Xiuqi's intentions, but she didn't know what she was muttering.The security guard was also very happy. He only asked them not to touch the objects inside, and let them in with a wave of his hand.

After entering the room, Bai Xiuqi realized why the security guards were so lax—there were four or five iron shelves in the room.On the shelves are all kinds of debris, large and small.It is estimated that it is the broken bricks and broken tiles sorted out on the side.For the time being, there is no way to number them, and all of them are temporarily stored here.

Bai Xiuqi asked Su Zi to watch the door, and began to walk deep into the house by himself.He quickly discovered the source of the breath that attracted him——

It's at the sixth position on the third floor in the second row.It was the head of a tomb town beast.

Yes, only the head.

Bai Xiuqi thumped in his heart, and immediately guessed that the pottery must have been destroyed when it collapsed.Now there is only one head left, and I don't know if it can turn into a living tomb-slayer beast.

Just thinking about it doesn't make any sense.He simply reached out to touch the animal head.

The moment the fingertips touched the icy pottery, the aura surrounding the beast's head was magnified hundreds of times.It transformed into a translucent phantom of the tomb-suppressing beast and rushed towards Bai Xiuqi!

Bai Xiuqi did not back down, he stood still and endured the impact of the tomb-slayer beast.The ethereal phantom collided with his body, and turned into a shock wave that expanded outward, shaking the iron frames of the entire room.Remnants of bricks and tiles fell down with a clatter.

Su Zi, who was standing far away, reacted very quickly.He immediately opened the door and quickly covered the fat security guard's eyes with both hands.A spell fell softly.The fat security guard tilted his head and immediately fell into a deep sleep.

He looked back at the room again.But I found that none of the crumbling objects fell to the ground.Instead, it is suspended in mid-air in an extremely unusual state.

Not only that, but Bai Xiuqi himself was also suspended in midair.

What on earth happened?

As quick-witted as Su Zi was, at this moment he could only open his eyes wide and be at a loss.

"You..." He tentatively asked softly, "Are you okay?"

Bai Xiuqi who heard the voice did not answer, but turned his head slowly towards Su Zi.

I don't know what happened, but his eyes looked very different from before. Although it was not cold, it also shone with a cold light that made people unable to look directly at it.

It is said that the eyes are the windows that look directly into the heart, and every different existence in this world also has completely different eyes.Su Zi believes that Bai Xiuqi has no malice towards her, but those eyes are really frightening.

These were clearly a pair of eyes familiar with killing.

Su Zi forced herself to look away from Bai Xiuqi, thinking about what to do next.A few seconds later, a soft crackling sound fell around him like raindrops.

All the broken bricks and tiles suspended in midair returned to their original positions.Bai Xiuqi also returned to his original position - he was looking at his hands in disbelief.

"I did this?" He said to himself, then turned his head to look at Su Zi: "I made those things float?"

His eyes are back to normal again——Su Zi thought in her heart, and nodded at the same time: "Anyway, I definitely can't do it. It seemed that something jumped towards you from the head of that pottery beast just now, and then you It just floated."

...That's right, Bai Xiuqi also nodded silently in her heart.

This is indeed another tomb town beast.It's a pity that the damage was too serious, the body had already been destroyed, and only a little spiritual consciousness was left, which was integrated into my body just now.

At the same time, as if he had received a memory from the Tomb Slayer, some image fragments that did not belong to Bai Xiuqi's own memory suddenly appeared in his mind.

It was the night when the tomb pavilion collapsed, and the incident was not just an accident as described by the official - Bai Xiuqi saw a black shadow in the memory of the tomb-slayer beast, and he sneaked into the tomb pavilion under the cover of the night In the tomb below, the sleeping tomb-suppressing pottery beast was awakened, which caused the earth-shattering collapse.

Who are these two people?

The breath left by Tao Beast was weak, Bai Xiuqi tried hard but got nothing.But he can be sure that it is definitely not an ordinary tomb robber.

Perhaps the mausoleum management side can dig out some deeper secrets.

Keeping this clue in mind, Bai Xiuqi followed Su Zi out of the temporary warehouse.Su Zi leaned over and woke up the fat security guard who was sleeping soundly leaning against the wall. The latter wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth, oblivious to the commotion just now.

The two walked east along the snow-covered path, and it didn't take long before they left the closed construction area and came to the main road in the open area.Bai Xiuqi found a teahouse and bought two cups of hot black tea, and sat down to sort out his thoughts.

"Did you see more than one eye through the crack of the door that day?" He asked Su Zi, "What happened?"

"I saw a fight."

So far, Su Zi is no longer prepared to hide it.

"The two people who entered the mausoleum from the side of the boulevard, one of them was fighting with a monster. They both wanted to put the other to death, but in the end, the man won the victory. The monster was subdued by him, and the tomb pavilion It also collapsed."

This is consistent with the memory of the tomb-suppressing beast, so Bai Xiuqi asked again: "The fight must be quite loud, right? Why didn't anyone hear it?"

"Because there is the Hutian." Su Zi replied: "The other man in the same group does not help the fist, he is only responsible for supporting the Hutian-in this way, what the patrolling security guards see is the false and peaceful illusion of the Hutian, of course I won’t run over to affect their good deeds.”

It turned out to be the case.

Bai Xiuqi nodded in his heart, and asked a little curiously: "Well... I'm not blaming you, but I want to know if you thought about stopping it at that time?"

"Because I'm sure I can't beat them." Su Zi replied simply: "A meaningless sacrifice is the most worthless thing in this world. Besides, it's not like I didn't do nothing."

"what have you done?"

"Later, I thought of a way to break the illusion of Hutian, and led the security guards over. Seeing that they were about to be discovered, they ran away in a hurry." At this point, Su Zi asked again: " You came to Zhangling to find these tomb-suppressing beasts, right? What's going on?"

"...It's a long story."

Based on the idea of ​​mutual trust and exchange of needs, Bai Xiuqi told Su Zi about the important things that happened on the way from the ghost ship to Xuanjing apartment, and Su Zi also showed an incredible expression after hearing it.

"Speaking of which...there may be more than two such moving tomb-suppressing beasts in the Zhangling area? According to the Japanese, they should be dragon vein nails, which were nailed to the dragon veins of Zhang Dynasty to cut them off. Guozuo?"

Having said that, he casually took out a map of the scenic spot from his bag, and took a pen to mark the ruins of the Tailing Mausoleum and the tomb pavilion just now.The two are so far apart that at first glance there is no connection at all.

"The Tailing Mausoleum may indeed be on the dragon vein of the Zhang Dynasty, but the tomb pavilion we went to just now definitely does not pass through the dragon vein." This is Su Zi's conclusion: "So this cannot be a dragon vein nail, the Japanese must have made a mistake .”

"If it wasn't a dragon vein nail, then what could it be? Perhaps by investigating the year when the pottery beast was made, you can find some clues from the work log of the mausoleum guard at that time or local chronicles."

Just as Bai Xiuqi said this, Su Zi's eyes suddenly lit up.

"You said that... I suddenly remembered. Almost in the middle of the Zhang Dynasty, a big strange thing happened in this mausoleum area."