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Chapter 34: Mercury Swallows Gold

"Uh-huh!!!" The veins on Chu Ziyi's temples suddenly popped up, his eyes seemed to bulge out, bloodshot streaks covered them all, and the nails holding on to his camouflage pants seemed to have sunk in.

When Hong Siniang took out the soft sword, Jiang Xian took out a towel and stuffed it into Chu Ziyi's mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue. At the same time, Ling Xiaozi and the Eight-Armed Arhat held down his limbs. But even so, violent

The struggle also required several people to exert all their strength for several minutes. When everyone was sweating profusely, Chu Ziyi finally weakened his struggle.

Taking advantage of this time, Jiang Xian quickly looked at the tower.

There is no difference between the tower and the tower on the Great Wall. The only difference is that in a corner, there are a pile of bones scattered around.

They had almost decayed, leaving only a pile of bones. These bones were scattered messily on the ground, emitting a faint silver light. In its hand, it held a square bottle-shaped covered vessel.

"Let go." At this moment, Chu Ziyi spoke hoarsely. Jiang Xian immediately withdrew his gaze and helped him lean against the wall. Chu Ziyi's body seemed to have lost all strength, limp and without any strength.

"Do you want more?" Hong Siniang raised her chin towards the broken leg. Chu Ziyi seemed to want to laugh, but in the end he shook his head dejectedly: "Stay here."

"At least tell those who come after me that I have been here..." He said with gritted teeth: "I am the one who can reach this far in the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum! It is not the turn of others to laugh at me!"

After saying that, he raised his head and stared at the top of the city tower. After a long time, he said: "I'm getting old..."

No one spoke. The sound of arrows tearing through the sky could be heard in the air, and the tower was as heavy as a shelter. After a long time, Jiang Xian gently patted the other party's shoulder. He said softly: "What should we do next?"

Chu Ziyi didn't seem to hear it and looked straight at the top of the city tower. After ten seconds, he lowered his head and said, "Let me be here."

"That's fine." The Eight-Armed Arhat sighed: "We will find the exit as soon as possible, you...have to hold on."

Chu Ziyi suddenly sneered and said hoarsely: "From...from the day I went to the ground, everyone knew...maybe...maybe this day would happen. It would be a shame to have the rabbit die and the fox to die..."

He raised his head and looked at Jiang Xian faintly: "Mr. Jiang, please."

Jiang Xian nodded deeply. He knew that what Chu Ziyi was talking about was the agreement between the two of them.

After being affirmed again, Chu Ziyi finally smiled with relief: "I can't follow you anymore, but... maybe in the end, I can do you a small favor. Could you please... pull... that body over?

.”

Following his gaze, everyone was shocked to see that after Mercury retreated, where Jiang Xian had seen the backpack before, there was a corpse lying underneath!

The corpse of a modern man!

Wearing camouflage uniform and carrying a backpack. His mountaineering picks spread out and got stuck at the entrance of the city tower, which prevented mercury from rushing him down - his identity is not important, what is important is that this shows...

…Before them, there were people who came here!

Taking advantage of the lull in the rain of arrows, the Eight-Armed Arhat grabbed the climbing rope, and several people used force to pull the other person into the doorway.

This is the corpse of a Chinese.

He was very thin, not tall, about 1.65 meters at most. He had obviously died from mercury, and his muscles were stiff and solidified. His face was almost rotten, with large black bones exposed, and his eyes had shrunk to the size of

A shriveled rag.

"That's not right." Jiang Xian just took a look and frowned: "The bones are black, which is obviously caused by inhaling a large amount of mercury. But if this is really the case, the corpse is too rotten."

Ling Xiaozi said thoughtfully: "Not to mention that all the mercury corpses on the Great Wall are lifelike, at least they are still skin and bones after thousands of years... This corpse is too decomposed."

"Because it dies in a different way." Chu Ziyi closed his eyes. Heavy bleeding was too much for an old man of his age. Hong Siniang was helping him bandage, and he said hoarsely: "There is mercury on the Great Wall.

The corpse shows that when this tomb was built, the mechanism was activated once. Perhaps it was a test...the testers were those civilians. This was the first time the mechanism was activated."

"They were poured to death by mercury." He opened his dim eyes and said without any fluctuation in his voice: "The large amount of mercury caused the corpse to not rot for thousands of years. But this person..."

He pointed at the man with the backpack: "He was trapped to death."

Jiang Xian rubbed his chin and said thoughtfully: "He didn't have much mercury in his body, so he died of mercury poisoning?"

Chu Ziyi nodded tiredly: "Yes. But...why is he here?"

Ling Xiaozi raised his eyebrows and said, "He wants to go out? When he sees a door on the opposite side, he naturally goes there..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly stopped talking. Not just him, everyone's eyes lit up. They all looked at the corpse.

"That's not right!" Eight-Armed Arhat said with squinted eyes. Before he could finish speaking, she said in a deep voice: "He can't see the door of Shuihe Galaxy!"

"He died under the mercury galaxy. However, the mercury galaxy was blocked at both ends. By then a large amount of mercury was poured into the bottom, and he couldn't see where the door was!

Then...why did he come in at such great risk?

Jiang Xian did not speak, but pulled the other person's chest open. There, a strange-looking necklace was placed crookedly on the other person's neck.

The necklace has turned black and the material cannot be seen. In the center of it is a metal book the size of a small fingernail. When the book is opened, many characters are densely engraved on it. The workmanship is so fine that it can be called a work of art.

"Chongxu!" The moment they saw the hand, Chu Ziyi and Ling Xiaozi exclaimed at the same time: "The heir to the mantle of 'Chongxu' among the three sects of Kanyu!"

Jiang Xian looked deeply at the necklace. Chongxu, like Lan Shanhai, ranked among the top three sects, and his overall strength was only slightly stronger than Lan Shanhai, who was a single successor. The successor of the mantle... was basically determined to be the next leader, but unexpectedly

Died here?

But now is not the time to talk about this. He gently picked up the necklace and said in a deep voice: "Such a person would not be able to find that he came out of a battlement when he walked over. Being so close, he can see more clearly what's above.

sculpture."

"Then, he should also know that if he walks over like this, his back will be completely exposed to the battlements. This is a taboo in the field. Moreover, he did not bring anything to hide from. But even so, he insisted on moving forward

…”

He looked at everyone: "Here, there may be a temptation that he has to come."

At this moment, Chu Ziyi tried his best to raise his hand and pointed at the forearm of the corpse: "There is... something hidden in his forearm."

Jiang Xian immediately took off the other party's clothes, and as soon as he opened his arm, a piece of blackened iron immediately exposed his head. Then it fell to the ground with a thud.

"This is..." Everyone was stunned, and then immediately looked at the skeleton in the corner. This thing... was almost exactly the same as the wine bottle in the skeleton's hand!

It is about a foot long and square in shape. Its shape is very similar to the famous national treasure - the Sifang Sheep Bottle. However, there are no four sheep on it, instead there are four symbols. It can be clearly identified that they are gold, wood, water, fire,

earth.

The whole body is black and the workmanship is extremely exquisite. However... its mouth is sealed by a piece of bronze. The stitching process is rough and there are obvious signs of re-processing. It seems... just to seal the vessel. It doesn't care about whether it is beautiful or not.

"For this?" Jiang Xian put on his gloves and prepared to grab the wine bottle. However, when he grabbed it, he couldn't lift it!

Heavy.

It was heavier than imagined, as if it were a piece of pure metal inside. Moreover, after Jiang Xian picked it up with force, he could clearly feel that... there was something in the square bottle.

It is something that exists in a liquid. As the shape of the square bottle is constantly changed, the contents inside slide extremely slowly, and no sound can be heard.

"The viscosity is extremely high..." Jiang Xian put it on the ground and raised his chin towards Ling Xiaozi. The latter smelled the fragrance and knew the elegance, so he pulled and stroked the whisk, and with a flash of cold light, the mouth of the wine bottle

The iron piece has disappeared.

Hong Siniang carefully put on her gloves, picked up the square bottle and tilted it. After a few seconds, a silver thread slowly flowed out.

"Mercury?" Jiang Xian looked at the silver-white liquid accumulating in astonishment, his brows furrowed: "The weight doesn't match. And... why did they bring mercury out?"

"Everyone here has participated in the construction of this mausoleum. Mercury and the others are not surprised. Why bring it out in particular?"

Chu Ziyi said hoarsely: "It is indeed mercury. But it is not pure mercury."

"This is amalgam."

In one sentence, everyone nodded clearly.

Chu Ziyi continued: "Mercury... can react chemically with most... ahem... metals. Especially... especially gold and silver. Mercury can... magically 'swallow' them directly. Huh...

And the volume is almost...the same. It just increases the weight density."

"This is what is called...mercury swallowing gold. Gold and mercury...whoosh...mix together, and it is called gold amalgam. Moreover, the gold swallowed by mercury can also...oh...be restored again through chemical methods.

"

And the method is very simple - it's just distillation. As the saying goes, "real gold is not afraid of fire", it originally came from here.

Ling Xiaozi rolled his eyes: "You mean, what they are holding are two pots of gold?"

Chu Ziyi nodded.

Ling Xiaozi smiled brightly, turned up his sleeves, and the remaining square bottle miraculously disappeared without a trace. He smiled like a spring flower: "This thing is destined to be a poor man..."

"No one is trying to rob you." Jiang Xian did not stop him, but narrowed his eyes and said, "Ling Xiaozi, let me ask you a question."

"That's right."

Jiang Xian squatted down, put on his gloves, and carefully searched for the body, while saying: "If you were trapped here, there would be anything as heavy as gold around you. It would be worth countless times more than that. And at this moment, behind you is the boss.

The Wanqin Crossbow Formation. In front of it is the Great Wall of Mercury Corpse. Will you take the risk and get a pot of gold?"

Ling Xiaozi blinked: "It depends on how much luck I have left..."

"Speak humanly!"

"……Won't!"

Jiang Xianqing had already touched the corpse's hand, and then asked: "Then why bother to get a pot of gold?"

Chu Ziyi finally smiled: "Because this person came out of it, maybe... there is something inside that reminds him of this jar? This jar... is related to whether he can solve the next puzzle, or whether

…Can I go out?”

Jiang Xian turned the corpse's hand over and nodded: "I suddenly remembered something."
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