Ring of Seven [Publication Edition]

7:17 Princess Tomb

The three of the thin monkeys entered the tomb. The tomb passage was so monotonous that there were almost no decorations, not even a mural.There is nothing in the narrow passage, and in the still space, it seems that even time has stopped.

The thin monkey said: "Is this place really the tomb of the emperor's relatives? Why does it feel like a cellar in the northeast?" When he said a word, there would be a strange echo, as if there was a person in the tomb repeating the strange tone. Just like his words.

Feng Laojiu said: "It is indeed different from the place I entered at the beginning, and there is no fire oil... We can't go wrong, right?"

The thin monkey turned around and wanted to ask Ye Wei, but found that Ye Wei was gone. He quickly grabbed Feng Laojiu and said, "Damn, that dead fish is gone!"

Suddenly Ye Wei's very dull voice came from behind, and he said indifferently, "Who are you calling dead fish eye?"

The thin monkey looked behind him but didn't see Ye Wei, so he asked, "Where are you?"

"Look down."

The thin monkey took a look and found that half of Ye Wei's body was stuck on the ground, but he still looked like he had nothing to do with him.

Shouhou and Feng Laojiu hurriedly turned their heads, trying to pull Ye Wei up, but Ye Wei stopped him and said, "Don't get close."

Feng Laojiu held the thin monkey, and Ye Wei continued to say flatly: "If you go back, you will touch the mechanism, and then I will be cut in half."

The thin monkey looked at him and asked, "Then what should we do?"

Ye Wei raised his head and looked around, and said, "Go one meter forward, don't get close."

Thin Monkey and Feng Laojiu backed away, Ye Wei took a breath, and then he did not support his sides with both hands, but supported his back with difficulty, and went up bit by bit.After he came out, he breathed heavily and greeted Shouhou and Feng Laojiu, "Come here, I have something for you to see."

Thin Monkey and the others walked back, and with a click, the original gap disappeared.Feng Laojiu and Skinny Monkey looked at the ground, their foreheads covered with cold sweat.Ye Wei didn't react too much, he took out a belt and said, "Look."

Feng Laojiu looked at the strap and said, "This is a watch strap, and it looks very high-end."

Ye Wei flicked the watch strap, and said calmly: "Casio's watch strap, what hints do you get from it?"

Shouhou and Feng Laojiu lowered their heads, and Shouhou said: "This kind of watch strap is unlikely to be used by girls, and it is also unlikely to be used by old people, and Uncle Yin is not likely to be someone who owns high-end watches... "

Feng Laojiu said: "And Lao Zhao and Gu Lao have turned back in front, and they don't look like people who can use this kind of high-end watches." He looked at the other two and said, "Don't doubt me."

Skinny Monkey frowned: "Now we still know that there are only six people in Chen Rulan's team, could it be the seventh person?"

Feng Laojiu said: "I don't know, but it's unlikely, because unless the seventh person who appeared here had participated in the past, how could a person suddenly appear in this place where chickens never lay eggs?"

The thin monkey nodded and said: "Then there are six of them, two died, two ran away, and two came in. Chen Rulan and Uncle Yin finally entered the tomb. But the problem is, they don't know how to use this watch strap." things, and there is a third person coming?"

Feng Laojiu said: "That's right, but Chen Rulan didn't make it to the end." He suddenly raised his head and looked at the two of them and said, "Or, in fact, I was the one who didn't enter the ancient tomb at the end?"

Ye Wei only spoke at this time: "Chen Rulan and that old man followed this route to go in. Look carefully, there is a mark made of correction fluid here." He pointed to a white mark on the side of the wall and said, " Three people did come in. You see, Chen Rulan used three words and an arrow to indicate their number and direction."

The thin monkey said, "Who is the third person?"

From the dark and deep corridor suddenly came the sound of hurried footsteps. The sound was very clear. They stopped discussing and stared at the depths of the corridor with wide eyes, but when the footsteps got closer and closer, the sound came again. Disappeared.

Then, they felt as if several figures were sliding past in the depths of the passage, but the speed was so fast that they had no time to count how many there were.

The thin monkey swallowed and said, "Oh my god, there are really people!"

Ye Wei hid the watch strap in his pocket: "Go on, it's almost eight o'clock."

When they moved deeper, the original mechanism was suddenly activated, and then a pair of feet wearing black thick-soled cloth shoes were exposed on the bluestone floor, and the footprints made by those feet were small and deep.

When the three of Ye Wei walked out of the corridor and entered the Xiangtang, they finally felt a bit of the grandeur of the royal tomb, because the space was finally not as narrow as before.

In this hall, there are many reliefs and statues of various shapes, some of which have hideous faces. For more than 1000 years, they have quietly guarded the two sides of this hall.Ye Wei said: "This is a typical tomb layout of the Southern Dynasties. The stone-carved funerary objects in the Southern Dynasties are quite brilliant. Many things are made of stone, and they are of great significance."

Feng Laojiu looked around and said: "But this place is too desolate, it doesn't feel like a tomb to me."

Ye Wei stopped and said, "No, it's not because of the desolation, but because this Princess Jingde is not a real princess, and this tomb was not really built to bury her."

The thin monkey said: "Quick, look for it, and see if Chen Rulan left a mark here too."

Ye Wei took a flashlight and slowly illuminated the surrounding stone walls. The murals gradually came into the eyes of the three people. There were no depictions of life scenes in the paintings, but a combination of many very bloody and terrifying patterns, a bit like reliefs of Mayan sacrifices. There are many scenes in which a high-ranking person sits upright, while all kinds of horrific massacres are underneath.

While Skinny Monkey and Ye Wei were studying the content of the relief, Feng Laojiu squatted on the ground in pain.The thin monkey quickly pulled him up, Feng Laojiu gritted his teeth and held the thin monkey's hand, the thin monkey asked him what was wrong, he looked at the passage and said, "Something... is approaching."

The thin monkey asked nervously, "What?"

Feng Laojiu took Shouhou's hand and said, "I don't know, it might be those things..."

Ye Wei looked at the passage, opened his dull eyes and said, "They and the gnats in the ground have materialized. Now we have no way out. Going back will be worse than death."

Feng Laojiu stood up straight with difficulty, and said, "What the hell do they want to do?"

Ye Wei said: "Devour us."

The thin monkey said, "Can you hold it?"

Feng Laojiu smiled wryly: "If you can't hold on, you have to hold on."

Ye Wei moved the flashlight quickly, as if he wanted to read all the reliefs, and finally he fixed the flashlight on one of the murals."That's why she was made a princess," he said.

Feng Laojiu and Skinny Monkey looked along the light, and there was a very scary painting carved on the stone wall.A headless woman threw her head at a man who seemed to be in a high position. The man was obviously very frightened, and seven eyes could be seen behind the woman.

Ye Wei said: "Because of this incident, she was named a princess by Song Ming Emperor Liu Yu. After Liu Yu ascended the throne, Liu Yu completely distorted her original personality and became extremely cruel. She even killed her younger brother who shared life and death. Like crazy, some people said he was possessed by evil spirits."

Looking at the painting, the thin monkey felt that the surrounding temperature had dropped a lot. He said, "Then the owner of this tomb is that headless woman? What does she have to do with Liu Yu?"

Ye Wei looked at the murals, pointed to the last one and said, "She is the female ghost who appeared in Liu Ziye's dream. She helped Liu Yu remove the biggest obstacle, so that Liu Yu could ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor. It can be said that Liu Yu's proclaiming emperor is He got the support of the Li family, and in the end he crazily killed the heroes, including all his relatives and brothers, even Liu Xiuren, who shared the joys and sorrows with him, did not escape the bad luck."

The thin monkey looked at the high-ranking person in the mural in horror, his body was haunted by countless ghosts, and the headless female ghost hacked him to death.The picture freezes at the moment when the woman swings the knife, and the lifelessness and gloom are reflected through the cold reflection of the stone wall.The thin monkey touched his neck, as if there was a headless woman standing behind him, holding a huge knife, standing indifferently behind him.He turned his head unconsciously, and felt that there seemed to be something vaguely behind those stone carvings, so he walked over quietly with a flashlight.

Ye Wei didn't notice the thin monkey's actions, but concentrated on looking at the reliefs one after another.Lao Jiu stared at Ye Wei without saying a word, his eyes full of strangeness.

He sneered and asked, "You know so much after seeing such murals?"

Ye Wei stopped moving: "You forgot, I said that our ancestors have records about that incident, so I know the origin of this princess."

Feng Laojiu cautiously probed: "What is the relationship between you and the Li clan?"

Ye Wei turned his head, his black eyes stared at Lao Jiu for a long time.Ye Wei said, "It doesn't matter."

When the two were in a stalemate, the thin monkey next to them shouted to them: "Come here quickly, there seems to be a problem here."

7:35 Climb to the fairy cave

Chen Hao's group finally arrived at the so-called Dengxian Cave.The wind and snow outside the cave were raging wildly, and the atmosphere inside the cave could be said to have dropped to freezing point.

Zhou Jue was the first to look away, looked at Fat San and said, "How is he?"

Chen Hao said: "It is estimated that I fainted when I fell down. I have checked and there is no major problem."

Chen Hao looked up: "Where's Lin Xu?"

Zhou Jue's eyes darkened: "He wants me to follow, but he himself..."

Chen Hao seemed to understand what Zhou Jue meant, waved his hand and said, "We can't wait, we have to enter, otherwise there will be no time. We can leave a mark for him here." After speaking, he picked up the equipment and entered.

Zhou Jue grabbed Chen Hao and shouted, "Brother Chen."

Chen Hao turned his head, Zhou Jue struggled and said, "You have nothing to hide from me, right?"

Chen Hao frowned slightly, and said, "Why do you say that?"

Zhou Jue said: "Before I was pushed down by Lin Xu, you still remembered that Cuiniang's coffin was your sister's corpse, so Cuiniang's corpse..."

Chen Hao shook his shoulders a little, but quickly said: "Don't think too much, we don't have time to think about those trivial things."

Zhou Jue felt his perfunctory and concealment, his internal organs twitched.He let go of Chen Hao's hand, clenched his fists, and finally asked in a low voice: "Can we get out alive?"

Chen Hao stopped in his tracks: "I don't know, but I hope."

Zhou Jue stared at his back for a long time, and Chen Hao said again: "We have no way out."

At this moment, Fat San groaned in pain, he raised his body with difficulty and asked, "Where is this? Second child?"

Zhou Jue said, "Climbing to the fairy cave."

Fat San held the back of his head and said, "Oh, there is something pulling on my rope in front of me, and the rope broke after a few strokes..."

Fat San looked at Zhou Jue uneasily, Zhou Jue said, "I know, I saw a strange thing crawling down from above, so we can only continue walking now and get rid of it."

Zhou Jue thought for a while: "Brother Chen, is that "Ring of Seven" still in your place?"

Chen Hao said, "Yes."

Zhou Jue said: "Isn't this book a reminder of the danger? Let's just keep reading."

Chen Hao looked hesitant and said, "Not now."

Zhou Jue asked, "Why?"

Fat San gave Zhou Jue a wink, and told him to get to the bottom of this matter.Chen Hao touched his arm and said, "This book can no longer be opened."

Fat San said: "Didn't you take it out before? Why can't you open it now? Or is there something wrong with what you said earlier?"

Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue, and Zhou Jue remembered Lin Xu's words again. He didn't know whether to express his position, as if expressing his position now was a choice.Chen Hao saw hesitation in his eyes, he could only shake his head with a wry smile, and then rolled up his sleeves.Zhou Jue found that Chen Hao's arms were covered with hair, those black hairs covered his whole arm, and those hair tips had already got into the pores of his arms.Zhou Jue recalled the dream he had, he couldn't imagine that Chen Hao hadn't collapsed under such circumstances.

Fat San looked at that arm in surprise, and stammered, "Well, what's going on here?"

Chen Hao said: "Do you still remember the hair you saw in the library warehouse? After I got it, it got into my hand. Ever since we entered the forest, I found that the hair in the book began to Seeps into my arm, and if I break it or open a book, those hairs will wrap around me like crazy, like it won't let me read. If you guys insist on opening, my arm may be useless. If the hair gets into me in my body, then my life will be gone.”

Zhou Jue looked at the ferocious arm and asked, "Then what should you do?"

Chen Hao put down his sleeves and said: "As long as we complete the ceremony of the clay tablet - this is the source of everything, all the dead can rest in peace, and these hairs will naturally disappear."

After speaking, he turned on the flashlight.There are also some strange tools and scrolls left in the cave, and the scrolls shatter when touched.

They walked around the cave without finding any entrance, as if it was just an ordinary cave.

Fat San said dejectedly: "We made a mistake, this is not Dengxian Cave...it's just an ordinary cave. Hey, what a waste of time."

Chen Hao said: "No, this stone wall is completely natural, there will be no unnecessary things, and I also found that the flowers will no longer grow up here."

Zhou Jue looked at the pitted rock walls all around, and said, "But there is indeed no door."

Chen Hao handed the flashlight to Zhou Jue, touched the stone wall with both hands and said, "No, the tomb that Guo Pu made for himself must be very complicated, and it must be based on the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams."

Just when the three of them were concentrating on searching for the passage, Zhou Jue found a human face hanging upside down above the hole, but the face was pale, with only five black holes, so distorted that he couldn't see the face clearly.The moment it met Zhou Jue's eyes, another face suddenly appeared on that pale face. Zhou Jue seemed to have seen this face before, but couldn't tell, and then that face disappeared.

Zhou Jue suddenly thought that that face seemed to be the distorted face he saw on the computer screen back then, but whether it was or not, he couldn't be sure all of a sudden.

Chen Hao patted Zhou Jue on the shoulder and said, "Look at where these things are stacked."

Zhou Jue came back to his senses, looked at the place Chen Hao was pointing at, and found an iron scale in the north corner.

Chen Hao pointed to the four corners and said: "Iron scales, compasses, rulers, stone hammers...the four directions. Hmph, so it's a trick."

Fat San said: "I understand, this is the cave where the workers who built the tomb used to rest here."

Chen Hao rolled his eyes at him: "After you go back, you don't want to pass my class." Fat San seemed to swallow a fly, Zhou Jue looked away.Chen Hao didn't bother to chat with them, he said, "Sifang Heavenly Emperor, students, these four things are the gauge in the hands of the wood god Jumang, the ruler in the hands of the metal god Lushou, the scale of the fire god Zhu Rong, and the water god Xuan The hammer in the hands of the underworld."

Chen Hao looked at the four directions, and added: "But their positions are wrong."

Zhou Jue immediately understood what he meant: "As long as we put these four things back to their original positions, we can go in?"

Chen Hao said with certainty: "That's right, it must be like this. Only these four things are the most abrupt here."

Just when the three of them thought they had finally found a clue, there was a loud ringing sound from the bottom of the stone wall, which was so messy that it made one's scalp tingle.But the blizzard became even more rampant, and the ghost cries that had subsided sounded again, and it was even crazier than before, just like a wild beast roaring.

Zhou Jue and Fat San poked their heads out cautiously and looked down. On the gray-white stone wall, there were actually seven people walking in a line.Those seven people were all wearing black robes and a very strange hat on their heads. Their entire faces were covered by the black cloth hanging from the brim of the hat, and their facial features could not be seen clearly.These seven strange people walked upright on the rock wall as if they were walking on flat ground, completely breaking away from gravity.The closer they get, the heavier their blood will be.Blood energy will arouse all fear of death in people. As long as people smell that smell, they will lose all sense of resistance and just want to escape.

Fat San shouted in horror: "Chen Hao, come and see, what is that?"

Chen Hao looked down the stone wall, took a breath, and quickly pulled the two of them together and said, "Quick, quick, we have to move fast."

After speaking, Chen Hao quickly grabbed the things beside him, and finally they discovered that these things were all connected to a chain.

Chen Hao looked at Zhou Jue and said, "Hurry up, pack your luggage and bring everything. If they catch you, it will be worse than death."

The chaotic bell was getting closer and closer, Chen Hao grabbed Zhou Jue's arm and said, "Help me move quickly. The Eastern Heavenly Emperor, Taihao, put the compass in the east, and the Western Heavenly Emperor, Shaohao, put the ruler in the west .”

At this moment they had already heard dull footsteps, and the sweat on Chen Hao's forehead was already streaming down. He gritted his teeth and looked at the other two positions: "Northern Heavenly Emperor, Zhuanxu, Hammer; Southern Heavenly Emperor, Yandi, Scale."

At this time, Zhou Jue has quickly put the four tools in their respective positions step by step according to Chen Hao's request, but what is unexpected is that after the four things are put back to their original positions, there is no change at all.

The messy ringing of the bell and the blood energy getting closer made Zhou Jue and the others flustered.Fat San hid in the corner of the stone wall tremblingly, as if he had closed his eyes and was waiting to die.Zhou Jue also felt that if this continued, he would lose the strength to stand up straight.He leaned against the stone wall helplessly, looking at the cave entrance in despair.

Chen Hao was still looking at the things around him, Zhou Jue stared at him with a pale face, Chen Hao suddenly looked up at the top of the cave, and said, "That's right! The middle heavenly emperor, the Yellow Emperor!"

After finishing speaking, he rushed to the very center of the cave and smashed hard towards the ground. Then there was a terrifying sound on the ground, and the chain was pulled by some kind of force and began to rotate.A hole appeared in the ground, bottomless, and the sound of rumbling water came from inside.The first of the seven people had already reached the entrance of the cave, and the blood energy instantly made the cave full of hostility like a mass grave.

Chen Hao glanced at the entrance of the cave, threw down all the remaining climbing ropes, and shouted: "Jump down quickly, don't hesitate."

The three jumped down frantically, regardless of what was below.After jumping into the tunnel, the only feeling they have is that of a lucky escape.

They slid down to the bottom of the hole, with the water on the ground up to their chests.The water was freezing cold, but at least they were unhurt.They ran forward frantically, and the water splashed three of them's hair.They leaned against a corner of the passage, looking up at the hole above in horror, only the sound of heavy breathing.After at least 10 minutes of this, they found that the monsters did not poke their heads out or jump down.

Zhou Jue was so cold that his teeth chattered, and asked, "Why didn't they come down?"

Chen Hao shook his head and said, "I'm not sure, this channel is protected by the Five Heavenly Emperor Formation, and those things are not so easy to get in."

Fat San trembled and said, "Then, are they locked up?"

Chen Hao said: "It's not that simple. These seven ghosts are inextricably linked with Guo Pu, and now they just can't come in temporarily. It seems that Guo Pu has already counted such a day. We Gotta go!"

The light of the flashlight shone in the water waves, which looked very strange.Chen Hao said: "Without Lin Xu leading the way, we can only rely on ourselves now, and the same goes for Ye Wei."

7:18 Princess Tomb

At this time, in the princess' tomb passage, Ye Wei and Feng Laojiu heard the call of the thin monkey. Looking over there, they found that the thin monkey squatted on the ground and kept picking ashes.

The two immediately surrounded the past.The thin monkey said, "Look, there is something here."

They found that Skinny Monkey had found a mobile phone with a pink crystal pendant hanging on it.Feng Laojiu said: "This mobile phone looks like a woman's. Could it be Chen Rulan's?"

The thin monkey said dejectedly: "There must be no electricity, it can't be turned on."

Feng Laojiu took the phone and pressed the power button, but unexpectedly the phone turned on.The sudden start sound startled the three of them, and Feng Laojiu almost threw the phone to the ground.

The phone's battery is full.

The thin monkey swallowed and said, "How is that possible? It's been five years?"

When I turned on the phone, I found that there was no call history, and even the text messages were empty.

Feng Laojiu said quietly: "There are no text messages in it, did Chen Rulan delete them all?"

Ye Wei took the mobile phone and said, "Don't worry about it, take the mobile phone with you. We have to continue to find the way. This is just Xiangtang, and we still have a long way to go."

Feng Laojiu squeezed the mobile phone, stared at Ye Wei and said, "I suggest that the thin monkey hold this mobile phone."

Ye Wei glanced at Feng Laojiu, Feng Laojiu took out the mobile phone from Ye Wei's hand and handed it to Shouhou, who took the mobile phone and looked at the two people again.Ye Wei smiled and said, "No problem, let's go."

After Ye Wei turned his head, Feng Laojiu whispered in the thin monkey's ear: "There is a recording in this phone."

The thin monkey looked at Feng Laojiu, Feng Laojiu shook his head, telling him to keep quiet.The thin monkey squeezed the phone, the cold touch stimulated his cerebral cortex, he nodded.

The further you go in, the more empty the tomb room is. The original feeling of narrowness suddenly disappears, and then there is a kind of endless loneliness.The three of them could only hear their own footsteps, and the reliefs had all disappeared when they got here.It's a larger space, and the footsteps have a very ethereal echo.

The thin monkey said, "We've been doing well so far."

Ye Wei smiled and turned his head: "That's because we haven't entered the main body of the ancient tomb yet."

As soon as he finished speaking, the weak light of the flashlight slowly shone on a door. There was a very shocking crimson mark on the door. There was a broken camera beside it, which had been smashed to pieces.There is a mark "2" next to the red trace, and after the "2" there are two words: danger.

The last word "dangerous" was not finished, and it seemed that I was in a hurry when I wrote it.Ye Wei said: "It seems that one of them died here. Could it be that opening this door will trigger the mechanism?"

At this moment, they heard a strange sound coming from the door again. There seemed to be cries of pain inside, and the sound was very indistinct.

The thin monkey felt that the collar was covered with cold sweat, and he said, "Is there a living person inside?"

Feng Laojiu held Shouhou's hand and said, "Impossible."

Ye Wei rubbed the marks on the door and said, "This is blood, it has been dried for a long time. But there is no corpse here."

Suddenly, the door was hammered heavily, and they all clearly felt the vibration of the door, and there was indeed someone inside the door!

Just as the thin monkey was about to push the door, the familiar and strange bell sounded suddenly in the passage, and then Feng Laojiu gasped and screamed: "They're coming...they're coming!"

Ye Wei looked at the passage with those eyes open, and the thin monkey found that Ye Wei's eyes were bleeding from the corners.Ye Wei looked down at the thin monkey. The thin monkey's brain was unable to think about any problems for a moment, and at this moment the knocking on the door became louder and louder.

Ye Wei said weakly and softly: "Open the door...don't be caught by them."

Feng Laojiu roared like he was out of control, his body began to swell, and black smoke began to come out of his mouth.He covered his mouth in pain, but it didn't help.

The thin monkey tremblingly stretched his hands towards the latch, and slowly opened the door.At the same time, at the edge of the entrance of Xiangtang, the strange shadows of seven people appeared.

Black robes, weird hats, and black cloth covering the entire face...