[Tomb Raiders Notes Sand Sea] Into the Red Dust

Grabbing the iron chain hurriedly, beckoning Wu Xie and the others to come over quickly.The four of them swam forward hurriedly on the rocks, and finally rushed under the waterfall, and surfaced up, gasping for breath.

For ordinary people, this distance is already the limit, almost fainting.

Gu Ran first went forward to find out where the water was, and after swimming for more than ten meters, there was a stone step. He landed on the shore and sat on the stone step to rest.

After a while, Wu Xie, Lao You, and Master Liang went ashore one after another. Gu Ran walked up the stone steps. There was a stone platform on top, surrounded by four stone pillars, engraved with patterns of birds and animals. A strange bronze vessel, resembling a gourd, with twin snakes and ritual images on it.This should be an altar, and the gourd on it is the sacrificial vessel.

On the other side of the stone platform, there is another downward staircase. Gu Ran used a flashlight to take a picture. There is a protruding black stone beam at the bottom, and there is a cliff beyond. The light of the flashlight is limited, so it cannot be illuminated. In the end, I couldn't see what was under the cliff.Gu Ran pondered for a while, the steps on one side of the sacrificial altar lead to the outside, and the steps on the other side should lead to the depths of the ancient tomb. There is only one way, and they can only walk from here.

Gu Ran greeted Wu Xie and the others: "Let's go down from here."

After walking more than 100 steps, and taking a flashlight down to the bottom, Wu Xie, Lao Xie, and Master Liang froze, and Gu Ran was startled.

A dozen or so feet below this is a large cave, inside which are piled upon layers of white bones, estimated to number tens of thousands.

"What kind of place is this!" Wu Xie exclaimed, "My God, isn't this a mass grave?"

Gu Ran's face was also ugly. The mass grave is no longer the scale that any general and marshal's tomb in history can do. The terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shihuang are all fake stone figures, and there are tens of thousands of corpses here.

Wu Xie grabbed Gu Ran and said, "Let's go to Lu Palace, that cave..."

Gu Ran nodded, "There must be some connection between these two places." There are two places with hexagonal copper bells, and two places where thousands of people were buried. If there is no connection, it will be hell.

It’s just that one is in Xi’an, one is in Shandong, one is from the Han Dynasty, and the other is from the Warring States Period. How can the two be related?

Gu Ran suddenly noticed that it was strange that the flashlight was in the middle, and he could see a vague outline, which was definitely different from the place surrounded by corpses.Gu Ran asked Wu Xie to fire a signal flare. It was a sunken open space without any corpses. It should be a small pit in the middle of the big sacrificial pit.The visible range of the signal flare is also very limited, and the four of them can only see this clearly.

Lao You said that the sacrificial pit he saw three years ago was similar to this one, and there was an open space in the middle, so the bronze branch should be in the middle of the pit.

The old itchy asked: "What should we do now? After a long time of trouble, this is what happens in the underworld. Maybe this is a place for sacrifices. Should we go down?"

When Master Liang saw the mass grave, he was so frightened that he sat on the ground, he retreated in his heart, but he dared not speak out.

Seeing that Gu Ran didn't make a statement, Wu Xie thought for a while and said, "Then Boss Li's "Hemu Ji" said that there are good things in this bucket, so it shouldn't be wrong. We followed the iron chain to come here, and the road is no problem. I think what he said is below. The most suspicious place is the open space in the middle of the corpse. I think we still have to go and have a look. But the place where the corpses are piled up has always been the most evil place, we have to be prepared , to deal with the most troublesome things."

To be honest, Gu Ran was also a little undecided.Before they got to the tomb, it was already a mass grave. I don't know what dangers there are in it. From what they saw along the way, this place is definitely no worse than the undersea tomb.If he was the only one, this mass grave would have been taken down at any rate, but now there are three people with him, and he is not sure that he can protect these three by going inside.

However, Wu Xie had already stated that he wanted to go down, so Gu Ran could only nod his head and said, "It's too late, let's go down tomorrow, I don't know what's going on, with so many corpses, if something happens, I guess I won't be able to rest for half a day. "

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The four lit a charcoal fire, boiled a little water, ate dry food to fill their stomachs, and ate some chocolate to increase blood sugar.Gu Ran let the three of them sleep, and he came to watch the night.

All the way here, Gu Ran kept watch at night, Wu Xie felt very sorry, so he said, "I'll keep watch at night, you should take a good rest."

Gu Ran shook his head: "I'm a light sleeper, and I can wake up with the slightest movement."

Hearing this, Wu Xie fell asleep in peace. There would be no danger in this place, he was just afraid that Master Liang would run away.

Early the next morning, the four of them ate breakfast, packed their equipment, and prepared to start climbing down.Gu Ran tied the flashlight to his wrist and told him: "Climb slowly, I'll go down and have a look first." Then he quickly jumped down.

This stone wall is not difficult for Gu Ran. There are many depressions and protrusions inside, which are suitable places to stay. With these things, Gu Ran can reach the bottom almost like walking on flat ground.As soon as he set foot on the ground, Gu Ran smelled a strong smell of oil. He squatted on the ground, leaned close to the corpse and smelled it. The corpse was covered with oil. As long as there is a spark, the tens of thousands of corpses will be set on fire immediately. , Forming a big fire pit, when the time comes, they won't even be able to get out.

After waiting for a while, Gu Ran saw Wu Xie and the other three come down, and hurriedly said: "These bones are covered with oil, there must be no sparks, or we will all have to confess here."

The three nodded hurriedly.The flashlight can't shine so far, but when I used the signal flare to shoot it before, I could vaguely see that there is only one road in this mass grave, as long as you walk along this road, you can reach the big pit in the middle.Gu Ran led the way with a flashlight in front, and after walking for a full 5 minutes, there were still skeletons where the flashlight shone, Gu Ran realized something was wrong, and hurriedly stopped: "We are trapped in the formation. "

Gu Ran settled down and explained: "This road goes straight down without any forks. From above, the radius of this pit does not exceed 200 meters. We walked for 5 minutes, but we still saw skeletons, which means we They are going around in circles. The arrangement of these corpses is likely to use the method of Qimen Dunjia, turning this pit into a maze, and we are going around in circles no matter how we walk." As he spoke, he flicked the flashlight back, You can see the stone wall they came down from.

Wu Xie asked: "Then what should we do, Gu Ran, will you break this formation?"

Gu Ran nodded, but his complexion was still not very good-looking: "Yes, it can, but it will take some time. I thought about it just now, it doesn't look like the handwriting of the ancient Central Plains, so some of the arrangements of this formation are very unusual, yes I haven't seen it before. And the visible range of the flashlight is too limited, which affects my judgment on this array. Most importantly, I guess the corpse array is only the first layer blocked by the owner of the tomb. I don't know if the array is broken , What changes will happen to these corpses, and whether the owner of the tomb has a follow-up."

Gu Ran squatted down to look at the bones. After poking around on the ground for a while, he suddenly found that there was something wrong with these bones. He picked and picked them, picked out five or six, and then picked out a bronze thing with an irregular shape, and said to him: "Master, you Come and see." Gu Ran pointed to the ones he picked out, and gestured with his hand, "This is the collarbone, and the knife mark on it, is it before the person died?"

Master Liang nodded, picked up a bone, looked at it for a long time and said, "These people probably didn't die in sacrifices."

Gu Ran nodded in agreement, drew out his dagger, and demonstrated to the air, "The one that can cause this kind of scar should be cut down from the front. The scar is so deep, it means that the killing was done in a hurry and with great strength. Look at that piece of bronze. If my guess is correct, this should be part of the armor. Looking at the standard, it should be something from the Han people. There is also a piece of silk on it, which also proves this. Therefore, if my guess is not wrong, this is a The Han army. This is not a burial pit at all, but an ancient battlefield."

Master Liang stood up and said, "That's right, this should be the dumb army from the Northern Wei Dynasty."

Wu Xie listened to the two people's analysis, and said: "So this dumb army is actually a tomb robber, and here are the ancestors of the She Kingdom protecting the tomb. They clashed here, and both sides were killed or injured. Exhaustion. Our current corpse array is not man-made by the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams at all, but the unjust souls of the ancestors of the She Kingdom are here to protect their ancestors, so we can't walk through it, this is ghosts hitting the wall."

Gu Ran nodded, with a look of shame on his face: "I am not good at five elements and eight trigrams, so I was deceived here. If ordinary ghosts hit the wall, it would be easy to solve, but there are too many grievances here, and there is nothing I can do. I can only look for it. Are there any other imports?"

Gu Ran looked at the bones all over the floor and sighed.He lied, it is not difficult for him to break the wall, his blood has a miraculous effect, and it has a certain deterrent effect on these ghosts and ghosts.But the belief of these wronged souls is to protect the tomb, once it is broken, these dead souls will also dissipate.From a moral point of view, Gu Ran didn't want this to happen.

But it is too troublesome to exceed the limit.Gu Ran is not an orthodox Taoist priest, he just learned some skills of five elements and eight trigrams from Qi Tiezui, and he used his blood to figure out the supernatural power.If these tens of thousands of undead are rescued here, firstly, it will cause great damage to his body, and secondly, with Lao You and Master Liang present, he doesn't want to reveal the secret of his blood.

Things were at an impasse in an instant.

Gu Ran couldn't believe that no one had visited this ancient tomb for thousands of years. Since the corpse array is still there, it means that there must be another way to get in from here.