Card Room - 276. Chapter 391-392

[Chapter 391, The Secret of the Sarcophagus]

After coming out of the cold stone room, the six Xiaolou and the six Guiyuanzhang continued to walk towards the depths of the maze.

There was a gust of wind in the slab-paved corridor, and everyone got goosebumps. In the quiet corridor, only the sound of everyone’s breathing and footsteps remained.

Lao Mo kept checking the direction with a compass, and their route was still going all the way east, but not exactly east, but a slight offset of about 10 degrees toward the east.

After walking for some distance, Lao Mo stopped and looked around, and said, “How big is this ancient tomb? After coming out of the stone room, we have been walking for ten minutes, still nothing to find?”

Xiao Lou also felt puzzled. He looked at the floor plan drawn by Lao Mo. Since leaving the six-way reincarnation chamber, they have been walking in a straight line. After walking about 500 meters, they found the first sarcophagus, and then there is a long straight line, and there is no Any fork in the road.

He pressed the voice headset to ask about the situation on the other side: “Ownership, did you find out there?”

Gui Yuan Zhang said: “No, a straight corridor, no murals on the surrounding walls, and no institutions.”

Xiao Lou asked again: “Where is the direction? Still the same?”

Gui Yuanzhang looked down at the compass in his hand and said, “Yes, it’s the same as before.”

Xiao Lou helplessly said: “Go ahead and keep in touch.”

Everyone walked forward for a few minutes, and finally found that the colorful murals appeared on the wall again.

Yu Hanjiang held the Ye Mingzhu Illumination, and Xiao Lou walked over to observe carefully.

The content in the mural is still depicted from infancy to adulthood, but this time the mural does not have a wedding scene. Judging from the costume and hair, the protagonist of the mural seems to be a man.

As the clues of the mother clan’s totem were found in the mural just now, Xiao Lou was more careful when observing the mural this time. The man’s black hair was tied into a bun on the top of his head, with a simple wooden hairpin inserted, and a jade pendant on his waist with a crescent shape painted on it. The last mural, it seems to be a scene of joining the army? The man wore the armor of an ancient soldier.

Xiao Lou was startled, “Isn’t it a woman this time?”

Previously, it was speculated that the tomb owner married young girls from many tribes and buried them alive in ancient tombs… Now that there are men in the murals, it shows that this speculation is wrong.

After reading the mural, a stone gate appeared in front of it.

On the stone gate is a simple Tai Chi picture, as long as the pattern is restored, the mechanism can be opened. As Xiao Lou guessed, there was still a sarcophagus in the stone chamber, and the blood oozing from the cracks in the coffin had long since solidified and turned black.

Will there be another phantom again this time?

Everyone took a step back guarded and stared at the sarcophagus warily.

However, after a minute, nothing happened.

Xiao Lou said: “Let’s take a look at the museum.”

Yu Hanjiang drew his saber and slashed open the lid of the sarcophagus.

In the coffin lies a white bone, wearing armor. Due to the age, the metal armor has long been oxidized and blackened. He holds a jade pendant in his hand. Like the mural, the jade pendant is engraved with a crescent-shaped mark.

Xiao Lou leaned over and took a closer look at the bones, and speculated: “An adult male should be around 25 years old. He also had signs of fierce struggle before his death, and his hand bones were all broken.”

Yu Hanjiang frowned and looked at the bones in the coffin: “In the sarcophagus just now, there was a bride. This time, it looks like a soldier?”

Xiao Lou couldn’t understand it for the time being. He whispered to Gui Yuanzhang: “Senior, what have you found over there?”

Gui Yuanzhang happened to enter the stone room. Chu Huaying opened the coffin neatly and found a white bone lying quietly inside. There was a necklace hanging from the bone’s neck. The pendant looked like a wolf tooth with a strange totem painted on it. .

Gui Yuan Zhang said: “I found a bone and a totem necklace. The clothes should look like coarse cloth.”

Xiao Loudao: “Look at the pelvis of the bones. Is the upper part peach-shaped or oval? Is the angle at the bottom of the pelvis an acute angle of about 70 degrees or an obtuse angle greater than 90 degrees?”

Chu Huaying was right next to the coffin, and when he heard it, he said, “Peach-shaped, with an acute angle.”

It seems to be male again.

When the corpse is so decomposed that only white bones remain, the most important thing to distinguish between male and female is the pelvis. Women’s pelvis is oval, and the angle of the pubic symphysis below is above 100 degrees, which is convenient for childbirth. Men do not need to have children, so the angle below the pelvis is sharp and sharp.

Xiao Lou told the other party this conclusion: “The newly discovered bones in the secret rooms on both sides are all men. We seem to be a soldier here. Should you belong to seniors as a literati?”

Ye Qi said, “The mural we saw just now seems to be the scene of the top student in high school?”

Everyone looked at each other.

Everywhere in this underground tomb is weird.

When the bodies of the two brides were first discovered, everyone thought that the owner of the tomb had deliberately married some young girls and buried them alive. Since the owner of the tomb is a general, maybe he is a lustful person. Before he died, he dragged some women to accompany him to hell. Perhaps there was also the particularity of “sit and enjoy the beautiful blessing” after death?

Now it seems that is not the case.

Two more men’s corpses were found in the tomb. Judging from the jade pendants and necklaces left on their bodies, they still belonged to different tribes. The only thing in common was that the people buried alive were very young.

So, what does this priestly ceremony represent?

Xiao Lou couldn’t come to a conclusion for the time being, and said, “Everyone, keep looking, we have to find all the sarcophagi.”

After leaving the stone room, everyone walked a distance. A corner appeared in the corridor ahead, and the angle with the road was an obtuse angle of about 135 degrees.

Xiao Lou stopped at the corner and said, “Old Mo, check the direction.”

Old Mo picked up the compass carefully and right, said: “The pointer of the compass, this direction…should be true north.”

True north?

Suddenly changing directions, everyone couldn’t help being more cautious.

Along the way, some murals appeared on the walls on both sides of the passage. In this mural, the protagonist is two children, the two of them are jumping and playing, looking very lively and cute.

There is only one mural, and a stone gate appears next to it.

Xiao Lou pushed Shimen lightly, and he pushed it open without using any mechanism.

The house was still a sarcophagus, and Yu Hanjiang directly used a saber to split the lid of the coffin without Xiaolou’s reminder.

The picture inside the coffin makes everyone’s scalp numb–

I saw two lovely children sitting in the coffin. They looked only seven or eight years old, one man and one woman. The girl is dressed in bright red clothes with two pigtails on his head; the boy is dressed in white with his hair tied up on his head. The skins of the two children are not decayed, and they look like…live!

In the coffin of the tomb, two vivid children suddenly appeared, and Lu Jiuchuan could not help but step back quickly.

At the same time, the voice of Ye Qi rang in Xiao Lou’s ears, and he was obviously shocked. His voice trembled slightly: “Professor Xiao, there are two children in the coffin this time, a boy and a girl!”

The next moment, the boy and the girl opened their eyes suddenly, leaving two lines of blood and tears in their eyes.

The two children were crying “uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuThe crying sound made people feel sad. They stood up, stretched out their arms, as if asking Xiao Lou to hug.

Yu Hanjiang drew his saber on guard, guarding Xiao Lou behind him.

When Lu Jiuchuan saw the two children walking towards everyone step by step, his scalp numb: “This secret room is just like shooting a ghost movie! How can the child in the coffin move? Is it an illusion again this time?”

Xiao Lou took a deep breath: “Close your eyes, don’t look, don’t listen.”

Everyone immediately followed suit. After a while, the strange children’s cry in his ears really disappeared. Xiao Lou opened his eyes and saw that the two children were still sitting quietly in the coffin without moving a bit.

He whispered: “This is a virgin living sacrifice.”

Ye Qi opened his eyes when he heard this, and said, “I’ve heard a saying that many dignitaries in ancient times would find some virgin boys and girls to bury them alive when they died. Go underground and serve them?”

Xiao Lou explained: “The ancients believed that even mortals would have fairy qi in their bodies. Especially virgins, they have spiritual roots in their bodies, and fairy fate and air luck are stronger than ordinary people. Therefore, the ancients liked to use virgins and virgins. Bury yourself and help yourself become immortal after death.”

He looked at the two cute-faced children in front of him, his fists tightened slightly, and he whispered: “When a person’s body rots, the fairy will leak. In order to prevent the fairy from the virgin body from leaking, they When the children are still alive, a large amount of mercury will be forcibly poured into the children’s body, so that their bodies will remain intact, as if they were still alive.”

“…” Lu Jiuchuan gasped, “In other words, grab the live boys and girls and pour mercury into their bodies? How do you do this?”

“I have read some information. Usually, mercury is poured into the child’s mouth, and a hole is dug in the top of the head, back, and the soles of the feet, and the mercury is slowly poured in. After the mercury enters the body, these children will not immediately Death, but let the mercury flow all over the body, slowly painful to death. Mercury has a strong antiseptic effect, so that the corpse will remain fresh for a long time.” Xiao Lou’s voice couldn’t help but tremble, so cruel It was the first time he had seen the burial system.

“Fuck!” Lu Jiuchuan couldn’t help cursing, “This group of beasts slowly tortured the children to death, and are they thinking of becoming immortals? For such a crime, you should go down to eighteen levels of hell, right!”

“It seems that these two children also look like living people because of mercury pouring into their bodies.” Yu Hanjiang was also refreshed with three views. The burial system in feudal society was really ignorant and cruel.

Xiao Lou’s words were conveyed to the ears of Guiyuanzhang Liuren through voice earphones.

Qu Wanyue looked at the two children in the coffin and clenched her fists tightly: “Is this tomb owner really for the so-called immortality? Just let so many people die for him alive?”

Gui Yuanzhang said: “There is another saying that if the living people are buried for themselves, not only can they help themselves to become immortal, but they can also serve as servants and maids to serve themselves in another world.”

He glanced at the cold sarcophagus, looked at the two children in the coffin, and said in a deep voice: “The living burial coffin we have found so far includes two beautiful young brides, two strong young men, and two pairs. The virgin, according to this logic, after the death of the tomb owner, there are wives, concubines, servants, and virgins to help him cultivate immortality, which can be said to be very complete.”

Everyone: “…”

Such people still want to become immortals? Should go to hell to accept 18 kinds of torture, right?

Gui Yuanzhang leaned over and took two charms from the backs of the two children.

At the same time, Xiao Lou also discovered the spell on the child.

He leaned over to take the charm, and said: “In the legend, the virgins who were sacrificed for burial must not only keep their bodies intact, but also imprison their souls in the tomb, be loyal to the owner of the tomb, and never be able to reincarnate. This spell should be This is the way to suppress the souls of these children.”

Everyone: “…”

Did the children’s painful cry just now come from their sealed souls?

No one knows what to say.

Xiao Lou took off the spell, wondering if it was a relief for the children?

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【Chapter 392, The Hunter】

Everyone came out of the stone room and continued to move forward.

At a corner, Yu Hanjiang suddenly stopped.

His ears keenly heard an unfamiliar footstep, Yu Hanjiang immediately held his breath, and whispered in Yu Hanjiang’s ear: “Someone is following.”

He is a professional criminal policeman who often tracks criminals, so he also has a strong sense of anti-reconnaissance.

This corridor was paved with bluestone slabs, and the sound of footsteps was very clear. Tang Ci and Liu Qiao stayed in the pockets of their teammates. There should be four footsteps in a group of four. Lu Jiuchuan’s footsteps are heavy, Xiao Lou is light, and Lao Mo walks slowly because he has to walk while drawing pictures…

And the footsteps in the ears just now did not belong to any teammate.

When Xiao Lou heard what Yu Hanjiang said, a scene of the iron tree hell suddenly flashed in his mind-the hunter who was hung on the iron tree with a sharp blade stabbed through his chest and bleeding to death.

That was just one of the hunters, and the hunter who sneaked into the maze was definitely not the only one.

so……

Maybe the one who is following behind is the hunter? !

Xiao Lou’s mood suddenly became tense, he lowered his voice and asked in Yu Hanjiang’s ear: “How many people are there?”

Yu Hanjiang pricked his ears and listened carefully, and said: “The footsteps stopped, and the other party was very cautious. I can’t tell how many of them are. However, we can keep monitoring.”

Xiao Lou understood, raised his head and looked around and found a bright light in the corner.

Then, he left the [Drone] card sent by Tang Ci before the side of the lantern. In this way, due to the light, the lantern would block the drone, so that the other party would not be aware of the existence of this surveillance. .

Seeing that Xiao Lou was monitoring, Lu Jiuchuan and Lao Mo were about to speak, Xiao Lou made a “hush” motion on his lips, and the two immediately closed their mouths. Yu Hanjiang made a gesture, meaning someone was following.

Lu Jiuchuan’s face changed slightly, and he asked with lips: “Hunter?”

Yu Hanjiang nodded.

After Xiao Lou set up the monitoring, he carefully informed Ye Qi: “Xiao Ye, there may be hunters tracking behind you, so be careful. Be careful, don’t say anything, and find a way to tell your teammates as soon as possible.”

Ye Qi heard Xiao Lou’s voice in his mind and quickly wrote a few words in the palms of his teammates: “There are hunters following.”

Gui Yuan Zhang frowned slightly and looked back at Long Sen and Qu Wanyue.

The two looked at each other and immediately pressed against the wall, using the “Chameleon Card” to blend in with the surrounding environment.

The chameleon card can be detected invisibly and is not easy to be found. Long Sen and Qu Wanyue are like two clouds of air, quickly disappearing behind everyone. The two moved against the wall for a certain distance. Sure enough, they saw three hunters Zhenggui in the corner. Walking this way sneakily, the two immediately turned back and reported to Guiyuan Zhanghui: “Three, two men and one woman, wearing silver masks.”

Chu Huaying said: “So few people? Is it the most capable elite?”

There is also a strict hierarchy within the hunter organization. Ordinary hunters usually enter low-level secret rooms and worlds like 3 of spades and 4 of spades to slaughter newcomers. Intermediate hunters often haunt the A-level secret rooms and the weekly secret rooms. The teams that can walk here have many cards in their hands and are experienced, and they are not so easy to deal with, so hunting missions often fail.

Since the other party already knew that Lu Jiuchuan was in this team, he only sent so few people…Perhaps, they were all very capable elites.

Chu Huaying and Lu Jiuchuan went in and out of Zhou Chang’s secret room many times, killing countless hunters. On the hunter alliance’s reward list, the name of Spider Queen topped the list. She also has a certain understanding of this organization. She walked up to Guilao and lowered her voice: “If there are three elites, we should have a chance of winning six out of three.”

Gui Yuanzhang shook his head: “Don’t startle and startle the snake, wait and see what’s going on in Xiaolou.”

The six people in Xiaolou continued to walk forward casually, while discussing the situation of the maze and sarcophagus. On the surface, they did not seem to find themselves being tracked by the hunters.

A man and a woman breathed a sigh of relief, and moved on.

What they didn’t know was that at this moment, Xiao Lou was holding a card in his hand. The card was like a video window of a mobile phone, which could clearly display the surveillance image in the corridor.

He saw a man and a woman walking towards this side. Both of them were wearing silver masks and couldn’t see their faces, but judging from the walking movements, they should be pretty good.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other, and pointed to a stone gate next to them.

Yu Hanjiang nodded, stepped into the door, and the other teammates also followed. No sarcophagus was found in this door, but there was a step leading up.

Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan quickly hid on both sides of Shimen, while Xiao Lou said loudly: “There are steps here, it should be the exit of the maze, let’s go up and take a look.”

Lao Mo cooperated with the acting: “Let’s go, everyone, be careful.”

Then, Xiao Lou and Lao Mo pretended to climb the steps, but actually jumped down after walking a few steps and hid in the corner of the stone room.

The room became extremely quiet, and Ye Qi’s voice sounded in Xiao Lou’s mind: “Professor Xiao, we have three hunters here. Sister Hua Ying wants to deal with them. How is the situation on your side? There are more hunters. ?”

Xiao Lou said: “There are only two, let’s do it, so as not to have many dreams at night.”

These hunters should be the vanguards sent to investigate their situation, and they didn’t want to kill them in the weekly secret room, so they have been trailing behind to observe secretly.

Lu Jiuchuan led a team of more than a dozen people to kill several times the elite hunters. His reputation and strength were enough to make the hunter organization jealous. They will not act rashly until they find out the details of Lu Jiuchuan’s new teammates.

If Xiao Lou and others are in an extremely dangerous situation in the maze, these hunters may take the opportunity to pick up the bargain and give them a fatal blow. And once they deal with it calmly, the hunter may not appear from beginning to end.

The five hunters currently don’t know how much information they have, and they can’t be put back anyway.

As time passed, the secret room was so quiet that the needle fell, and everyone held their breath.

At this moment, footsteps suddenly sounded in my ears.

The man and the woman seemed to think they had gone upstairs, so they followed quickly and walked into the stone room.

However, as soon as the two entered the door, they were greeted by a sharp saber!

Yu Hanjiang shot quickly and ruthlessly, slashing at the man’s neck, and the sharp blade almost cut the man’s neck! And the man’s reaction was extremely quick. Almost the moment when Yu Hanjiang swung the knife, he immediately bent over and slipped sideways, avoiding the blade in a thrilling manner.

Lu Jiuchuan’s Frost Sword followed closely, and a sword swept across, and the tip of the sword was freezing cold.

The man raised a strange metal shield to block the freezing air of Lu Jiuchuan. The eyes behind the mask were as sharp as eagles. He sneered and said, “It’s not that easy to kill me because of you!”

Yu Hanjiang was too lazy to talk nonsense, so he directly took out his hand-gun, installed the silencer, and turned his head towards his metal shield——

A bullet burst out of the air and hit the center of the man’s shield, opening a bunch of spider web-like patterns, but it didn’t hurt him any more. The man laughed: “My shield is bulletproof…” But the next moment, his laughter stopped abruptly.

Because, Yu Hanjiang’s second bullet followed closely, and it shot precisely in the center of the pattern where the bullet exploded just now, and with a “poof” shot through the shield and directly into his chest!

The man stared in disbelief, and fell straight to the ground.

The metal shield can be broken when two consecutive shots hit the same position.

Lu Jiuchuan praised: “Marksmanship has improved.”

Another tall woman noticed that the situation was not good, and immediately turned and ran away.

Xiao Lou had already prepared.

He drew a lot of metal rings just now. At this moment, his hands slightly lifted upwards. Numerous rings were like a net of heaven and earth, smashed from the ceiling in a dense manner. The woman’s legs were instantly trapped, and she couldn’t get out for a while.

Lu Jiuchuan leaped, and the ice sword in his hand pierced straight out, sealing his throat with a sword!

The woman’s body twitched twice and fell to the ground, and soon stopped breathing.

Lu Jiuchuan walked over and took off her mask. At the same time, Yu Hanjiang also took off the mask of the man who died at the door of the stone room…they looked ordinary. He frowned slightly and asked, “Brother, have you seen these two hunters?”

Lu Jiuchuan shook his head: “No.” He pulled off the woman’s back collar, revealing the black totem tattoo on his shoulder, and said in a deep voice: “From the tattoo point of view, he should be an intermediate hunter. Advanced ones are not so easy to deal with. However, since the organization I have found my whereabouts, and only send these as cannon fodder. Do you look down on us too much?”

Xiao Lou was stunned, and his heart was cold: “Run!”

Almost as soon as his words fell, the bodies of the two hunters suddenly exploded into fragments with a “boom”!

The fire blazed into the sky in the entire secret room, and the heat wave rushing over almost knocked Xiaolou to the ground. Fortunately, Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan ran fast, otherwise they would be blown into flying ashes.

As the hunter’s body exploded and exploded, the maze began to shake violently, as if the entire ancient tomb was beginning to quake, and everyone couldn’t even stand firm.

Liu Qiao’s expression changed: “Should this place collapse?”

Yu Hanjiang flew over immediately and squeezed Xiao Lou’s hand firmly: “Go!”

Lu Jiuchuan simply rode on the Suzaku and cursed, “These beasts actually commit suicide attacks? Fuck, put bombs on them, they can’t figure it out!”

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Zhou Chang’s secret room is about to end, everyone:)