Xie Linglu

Several people searched on the tomb wall and stone gate to no avail, so they turned their attention to the stone cauldron in the tomb.

Ji Xinxi and Xun Youling came to Shi Ding, and Jiang Qiao continued to explore the stone gate inch by inch. Seeing that the search was fruitless, Ge Rong, who was sitting on the ground, talked to them about science.

"In the beginning, such a tripod was used as a cooking utensil to cook food, and later it evolved into a sacrificial vessel, and with the changes of history, it became a symbol of identity and power."

Jiang Qiao replied casually when he heard the words: "Then this must be used for cooking, otherwise why would there be so many animal bones in it."

"You really can't speak your mind. Such a big cauldron is still made of stone. Do you think people used to eat big pot rice?" Xun Youling rolled her eyes angrily.

Ji Xin used a military knife to scrape off the moss on the surface of the stone cauldron. Since the previous incident of the rat attack, she took out the military knife and hung it on her waist so that she could take it at any time.

After the moss was scraped off the surface of the stone cauldron, a beautifully carved relief was revealed below. The carving was the jackal that had been mentioned repeatedly before. Ji Xinxi now saw the true face of this Mount Lu, and he was as strong as a wolf. , but the appearance of the head is clearly biased towards the fox.

"The jackal carved here is very realistic, and it can be seen that the person who carved it is in awe of it. I think this should be a stone tripod representing identity, and the bones inside should be thrown in by those mice. They are in this ancient tomb. They have made many passages, large and small, and then I don't know why this stone cauldron is used as a place for them to discard their food after eating, which is also the reason why there are white bones of varying degrees of decay inside."

When Ji Xinxi said this, Ge Rong sent an agreeable response, but Ji Xinxi and Xun Youling's expressions turned ugly, and Jiang Qiao heard the sudden silence behind him, and turned his head curiously, curious. Said: "Why don't you talk? It's interesting to listen to you don't talk about these things, eh? Why are you so ugly? Are you feeling sick?"

"Don't you understand? Since there are so many bones here, it means that there are often mice here, and now we have been here for so long, which means that the mice here will come back soon, and it is certainly not one time. It's as simple as only two, we have to get out of here quickly." When Xun Youling said this, her eyebrows were almost twisted into a knot.

Hearing Xun Youling's words, Jiang Qiao and Ge Rong realized the seriousness of the matter, Jiang Qiao deceived himself and said: "It won't be so unlucky, we've been here for so long, and we haven't seen any mice come out, it shouldn't be that fast. Bar."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a rustling sound in the surrounding walls. Jiang Qiao's face turned green, he raised his hand and gave himself a slap in the mouth, and then said nervously, "What should I do now?"

Ji Xin didn't have the heart to reply to Jiang Qiao's words in the past. She focused her attention on the stone tripod and didn't care about it anymore. She just wiped off the moss on the surface with her hands. Xun Youling came to the wall and put her ear against the wall. She carefully listened to the movement behind the wall, and when she heard the fine scratching sound, she only felt goosebumps all over her body.

At this time, the ceiling of the tomb suddenly dropped lime, and then the entire tomb was shaken. The ceiling began to slowly rotate at a speed visible to the naked eye. Several people saw that as the wall rotated, occasionally one or two small holes were exposed. in their field of vision.

Not long after, a mouse fell into the tomb from above, and Xun Youling clicked her tongue and shouted, "Jiang Qiao, take care of Ge Rong." She herself took a few steps to Ji Xinxi's side. .

There were not many rats that fell into the tomb, but no one knew how many would come in in the future. These rats move very fast. For a person like Jiang Qiao who has not received professional training, they can't hit these rats with a gun, so He simply turned the gun upside down and used it as a baseball bat.

These mutant mice smelled the smell of people, their red eyes flashed, and their manes kept shaking, looking very excited and full of aggression.

Jiang Qiao stood in front of Ge Rong, tightly clutching the gun in his hand. As long as the mouse stepped forward, he would use all his strength to swipe it. Because of his nervousness, he swung with great strength every time, and he fell down several times. He felt that his shoulders were uncomfortable and his strength was quickly depleted.

The situation on Ji Xinxi and Xun Youling's side was not much better, but Xun Youling was still calm, and the engineer shovel in her hand was easier to use than Jiang Qiao's gun. As more and more mice appeared, Xun Youling couldn't stand it anymore.

Ji Xinxi's forehead was dripping with fine beads of sweat. She didn't know if it was right for her to wander around this stone cauldron, but she could only use a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Suddenly she heard Xun Youling beside her. A muffled sound.

Although it was very light, she still heard it, and Ji Xinxi didn't care about groping the Shi Ding any more and quickly turned around to check Xun Youling's situation. He saw Xun Youling holding the engineer's shovel's right hand. Blood was pouring out, Ji Xinxi's eyelids jumped and he supported the prominent carvings on the stone cauldron and wanted to get up and pull Xun Youling down to his side.

As a result, her fingers touched a smooth place with force, and with the force of her fingers, they were pressed down. Ji Xinxi was stunned to see five stone doors that were tightly closed, and one door was slowly lifted. It rises to reveal the passage behind.

Immediately everyone was happy, Jiang Qiao shouted: "Go, go!" Then he didn't care about the difference between men and women, he held Ge Rong on his shoulders and ran towards the stone gate. .

"Let's go." Xun Youling also greeted Ji Xinxi immediately and was about to go there.

Ji Xinxi nodded and went over there, but as soon as she let go, the stone door that opened over there was a burst of noise and began to sink again. Ji Xinxi, who had been paying attention to the changes in the stone door, saw it clearly. She immediately understood the mechanism of the stone gate. Someone must keep pressing the stone gate to keep it open. Once they let go, it will automatically close.

This kind of discovery made Ji Xinxi feel cold, and Xun Youling, who took two steps and found that Ji Xinxi hadn't kept up, frowned and asked, "What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"

Ji Xinxi pursed his lips and said, "It's nothing, I seem to have found something, let's hurry up and try not to turn around and rush over."

Xun Youling nodded when she heard the words, and once again used the shovel to knock down the mouse that came up, and went all out to Shimen, trying to leave enough running distance for Ji Xinxi, so that the two would not bump into each other.

Seeing Xun Youling running towards Shimen, Ji Xinxi pulled out the military knife pinned to his waist with one hand, and began to deal with the mice that had gathered towards her because Xun Youling and Jiang Qiao had left. The run measures the time it takes to get from Shi Ding to Shimen.

After Xun Youling ran through the Shimen, she turned around and wanted to see Ji Xin's situation in the past, but when she saw that no one followed at all, she still stood by Shi Ding, she knew that something must have changed, seeing Ji Xin over there. She was about to be surrounded by mice in the past, and she was going there without saying a word.

Seeing that Xun Youling was going back, Jiang Qiao, who had just put Ge Rong down, immediately grabbed her arm and said, "You are crazy! Don't die, go back now."

"Let go of me, didn't you see that Ji Xinxi is still there?!!" Xun Youling shouted angrily, her eyes widened, she didn't have the slightest idea of ​​arguing with Jiang Qiao.

Jiang Qiao was stunned for a moment, only to realize that Ji Xinxi hadn't followed, and he also exclaimed: "Why didn't she come, when is it?"

Ji Xin over there saw Xun Youling safely entered Shimen, took a deep breath and planned to give it a shot, she didn't plan to sacrifice herself to help others.

It seemed that she was sensing something. When Xun Youling saw Ji Xinxi's actions, she guessed that she was going to take action. She didn't want to run back. The place where he fired several shots in a row, and the mouse, who was afraid of bullets, gave way to a little space, giving Ji Xinxi a place to stay.

Seeing the opportunity, Ji Xinxi suddenly released her fingers holding the organ, and rushed towards Shimen at the fastest speed she had ever seen. When she saw the descent of Shimen, Xun Youling immediately understood what was going on.

She gritted her teeth and watched Ji Xinxi running towards this side nervously. She only felt that her heart was almost in her throat. Seeing that Ji Xinxi was about to go to the stone gate, Jiang Qiao kept urging her in her ears. With the sound, Xun Youling only felt that these few seconds seemed as long as a century.

Ji Xinxi clenched the military knife in her hand all the way, her eyes fixed on the falling stone gate, but she saw that the falling speed of the stone gate suddenly accelerated. At this time, she could no longer stand and run into the stone gate, so she could only drill through from below, but It is very likely that when she was halfway through, she was directly crushed in half by the heavy stone gate.

Between the light and the flint, Ji Xinxi had already made a decision. It was better to fight it if she died horizontally and vertically. She lowered her waist and pressed her feet against the stone gate that was about to close.

Although she had already prepared in her mind that she would be overwhelmed by Shimen, when it really came, she felt a panic in her heart and her mind went blank, and everything around her suddenly became very quiet.

In this silence, the sinking Shimen suddenly seemed to be stopped by something, a hand stretched out from the gap below the Shimen, grabbed her hand and dragged it back.

Ji Xinxi was dragged directly into the Shimen. She couldn't hold her hand, and her body couldn't stop and slammed into someone's arms. At the same time, she heard the sound of Shimen's heavy fall behind her, and Jiang Qiao was sitting on the ground with a slightly curved shovel, and Ge Rong was sitting against the wall not far away.

She came back to her senses, and the first thing she sensed was the violent beating of the heartbeat and the angry scolding in her ears: "Ji Xinxi, you are playing a big game!"