【Chapter 27】Enter the Underground Palace
The girl in gorgeous clothes in the ruby coffin has a rosy complexion and is as delicate as a snap of her fingers. Her eyes are slightly closed, and her eyelashes are like fans. She is very beautiful! She has her hands crossed and placed on her body, and her arms are as white and greasy as tender lotus roots...
If she hadn't been lying in the coffin, no one would associate her with the body!
"Is this dead or alive?" Dasha couldn't help shouting.
No one answered, and no one laughed at his very childish and ridiculous question!
Because we can't guarantee whether she will suddenly open her eyes in this coffin!
"How is it possible, how is it possible!" Boss Liu seemed to have not heard Dasha's words at all, and murmured, "What is going on? How can a good living person sleep in a coffin? In this coffin
How can there be any living people!"
"Okay, Boss Liu! Wake up! Of course this is not a living person! How could there be a living person in a coffin from many years ago in a cave in the barren mountains? It's just that the corpse was better protected!"
Xiao Li is sensible!
"Is it better to protect it? Better?" I deliberately made the word "better" louder, "This is exactly the same as a living person, not just better!"
"Okay, okay! Stop talking!" Boss Liu finally came to his senses, "It's really eye-opening! Eye-opening! There is such a thing in this world that can protect the corpse to this extent! Tsk tsk! This ruby
That’s awesome!”
"Ahem! Boss, comrades! Listen to me!" I cleared my throat, "Since we don't care about the treasure here, why do we do such immoral things? I have been protecting him so well for countless years.
Why let her get into trouble in our hands? As I say, it’s better to close it and not disturb her!”
"I agree! What Brother Yanzhen said makes sense! We opened it and closed it!" After Dasha said this, he pushed the inner box of the coffin in with all his strength.
The surroundings suddenly darkened, and the aroma slowly faded!
The few of us were still stunned in place, as if we hadn't come out of the dreamlike situation just now!
"What should we do now, boss?" Xiao Li's words awakened our memories! "How about we go in and take a look?"
"Just do as you say! Xiao Li, change to another torch, this one is about the same, change it to a brighter one, here!" Seeing Xiao Li say this, Mr. Liu returned to his usual calm and sophisticated attitude!
Under the illumination of the burning torch, the place where the ruby coffin is located is not formed by the water of the underground river at all, because the area behind the ruby coffin is so large that it no longer looks like a cave, but like a majestic palace.
So tall, spacious, and empty... Yes, this is clearly an underground palace! At most, it can only be said that running water has washed away a corner of this underground palace, giving us a chance to discover and enter this palace that has been sleeping for countless years!
"Oh! When did we reach the top of the mountain? Look, I haven't seen the stars for a long time. It's so great. We finally came out of that broken cave!" Not long after walking in, Dasha shouted excitedly.
, "Hey——, why is the moon tonight different from before..."
"Brother Dasha, we didn't come out of this cave! Those stars and moons are all pearls embedded in them!" Boss Liu explained in a low voice, "It seems that we really underestimated this place, it's really like
It’s like a small world!”
Although those stars and moon are not real, the light they emit is not much worse than the real ones. The further you go inside, the more you feel like walking under the moon. The clouds are clear, the wind is clear, and the bright moon hangs high! The twinkling stars give people a
With unlimited time to think...
"Boss, the stars and moon up here are so real. Let's go out quickly. I've been here for a long time and I really want to go out and see the real sun, moon and stars!"
"What Xiao Li said is so right! We don't want any pearl treasures, so we should go out to find the big army as soon as possible. If we don't drive away Little Japan, even if we have these gold and silver treasures, they are of no use. Maybe they will be beaten by Little Japan."
If you take them away, your life will be in vain! After driving those bastards out of China, it will be enough if we come back to take them again!" I very much agree with what Xiao Li said. To be honest, firstly, we are not greedy for money; secondly, in
In these troubled times, getting rich is actually a way to bring disaster. Those big families are either wiped out by the little devils for money, or they are harmed by bandits and robbers. Just like those river clams with pearls inside, don't they lose their lives because of the pearls?
"Okay, we don't want to take anything from it, we just want to see what we can learn from it! Let's walk around and leave!" It seems that Boss Liu also understands that holding treasures in troubled times without enough ability is really bringing disaster!
But this turn almost made it impossible for us to come out again, and we were stuck here forever!
After walking for about half an hour, he still hadn't reached the end of the underground palace. In order to avoid wastage, Xiao Li put out the torch for later use. None of us objected, because under the illumination of these "stars and bright moons"
Next, the light in this underground palace is pretty good. Although it is not as good as the Mid-Autumn Moon, it is still brighter than the First Quarter Moon!
"Boss, don't move forward in a hurry. We can't even figure out the east, west, north, and south. If we get lost in a while, how are we going to get out? Let's find some reference signs first!" Xiao Li has been a soldier for many years.
I have a lot of experience in surviving in the wild. In an unfamiliar place, you must first find and remember the directional markers.
"Okay, let's approach to the left first, draw an arrow, make a mark and then move on!" Mr. Liu didn't dare to be careless and led us to one side as he said it.
This underground palace is really huge, and due to the darkness, it felt like we were walking in a wilderness filled with dense fog. We could only move forward based on our feelings. Because there was no compass, we couldn't accurately locate it.
Judgment, if there are no markers, it is indeed dangerous!
After walking to the left for a while, I finally arrived at the left wall of the underground palace. Because the torch was extinguished, I couldn't see very clearly under the "moonlight". I vaguely drew some strange symbols and patterns, talking to the teacher from the private school.
Although the square characters taught by the teacher are somewhat similar, they are so different that none of them can be recognized.
The patterns on it are even more bizarre, including ones with human heads and snake bodies, ones with wings, three eyes, animals wearing armor, etc. It’s so shocking that you don’t want to look at it any more!
Xiao Li used a knife to carve out a horizontal arrow nearly a foot long on the wall as hard as stone.
"Everyone has memorized it. This arrow points to the direction in the cave, which is the direction we are going to go. When we come out, we will go in the opposite direction! Remember it!" Xiao Li arranged.
"In this case, let's just lean on this wall and walk inward. Wouldn't it be safer?" I think it would be safer to walk against the wall instead of looking for arrows everywhere in the future!
"Okay, just follow what Brother Yanzhen said, everyone take good care of the guy and be careful!" After Boss Liu finished speaking, he strode inside, and we followed closely.
After walking for an unknown distance, under the illumination of those "stars and bright moons", a high platform appeared vaguely about ten feet away from us. On the high platform, there was a person who was squatting or sitting.
Above, facing us.
We quickened our pace and rushed to the foot of the high platform. We saw that the high platform was round in shape, about two feet in diameter and about ten feet high. The strange thing was that there were steps going up around it, but the steps were intermittent.
That is to say, one step is horizontally intact, but the other step above is divided into two horizontal sections. Going up, there is another level and complete step, and so on, leading directly to the top of the platform...
Chapter completed!