The stone path outside the cave is full of Huo family members.
When Zhang Zhuoxun walked over, an invisible Huo family member wearing a gas mask grabbed his trouser leg and said, "Save cough...save the head of the family..."
He spoke with great difficulty, trying desperately to control his breathing rate. The useful time of the protective clothing on him had passed for a long time, and the hand holding Zhang Zhuxun was shaking.
Zhang Zhuxun looked carefully and recognized that this person was Huo Chushi.
He took out a bottle of oxygen from his backpack and stuffed it into his hand to let him save himself. Zhang Zhuoxun got up and looked at the other people behind him.
Huo Xiangu had completely lost consciousness. Even if Huo Chushi put his last protective suit on her body, she was old and frail and could not withstand the erosion of the poisonous gas. Even the surface of her skin began to ooze blood.
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When Zhang Shuxun rescued her, Huo Xiangu got the strength from nowhere and suddenly grabbed the clothes on Zhang Shuxun's chest. She said "ho ho" with difficulty, but was speechless. In the end, she even spat out a mouthful of faint hair.
The black blood mist and turbid eyes stared straight at him, with a trace of prayer in their eyes.
"Don't worry, you won't die for the time being." Zhang Zhuxun put oxygen on her and handed her over to Huo Chushi, the poisonous little strongman who had recovered.
The fat man was leaning against the innermost part of the stone path, his eyes half-opened in confusion. When he saw Zhang Zhu approaching, he immediately grabbed him and wanted to say something anxiously.
Zhang Zhuxun made a shushing gesture, gave him a reassuring look, whispered a few words in his ear, and then put his hand on his neck in his disbelieving eyes.
After more than ten seconds, the fat man fainted completely with full of questions.
There was no poisonous gas spreading in the cave for the time being. Zhang Zhuxun took the time to take off his old protective clothing, took out three new sets of stronger protective clothing from his backpack and put them on him. He put on a gas mask and put two more on him.
A backpack was placed next to him, filled with food and first aid equipment, as well as a mechanism box containing a map, and finally he was covered with a thin blanket.
The little brother watched them silently from behind.
Zhang Zhuxun looked back and saw that all the Huo family members were helping each other to stand up, so he also stood up. Everyone was silent and did not speak.
"We have found the exit, let's go." Zhang Zhuoxun said calmly.
Huo Xiaoli looked left and right and said softly: "There are two people missing. Brother Lanqiao and Brother Jinqiu are not here. They seemed to have entered the cave in front to look for you before the poisonous gas spread."
These two people were all members of the Huo family that Fatty brought in later. Fatty brought in a total of four Huo family members. Three of them had been suspects of Zhang Chuxun. The one who died in the quicksand was probably Huo Lanqiao. Huo Jinqiu disappeared.
, which made Zhang Zhuxun a little worried, after all, it was a bomb.
But as soon as she finished speaking, Huo Xiuxiu spoke, "Huo Jinqiu is dead. He fell into the pool of the cave and drowned."
These words seemed to be said specifically to Zhang Zhuxun and the younger brother.
It seems that there was some kind of conflict outside before, and this fake Huo Xiuxiu killed someone directly.
Zhang Zhuoxun looked at Huo Xiaoli and the last remaining suspect. This person was a girl. Her name was Huo Xiaoyao or Huo Xiao. He couldn't remember the name. The reason for his suspicion was that this person was Huo Jinqiu's sister.
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She is not anxious at all that her brother is gone, her whole attitude is very indifferent.
But Zhang Zhuxun is not in a hurry, he is going to die anyway.
Zhang Zhuxun and his little brother took the lead to walk into the cave. Huo Xiaoli turned around and looked at the fat man who was sleeping peacefully, "I don't care about the fat man anymore?"
"You seem to talk a lot." Zhang Zhuxun turned his head and stared at him with scrutinizing eyes.
Huo Xiaoli subconsciously shrank his neck and hesitated for a long time without saying a word.
Zhang Zhuxun spoke again and said in a cold voice: "If you want to enter the ancient Zhang family building or get out from here, just keep your mouth shut, or don't blame me for sewing it up for you with needle and thread." Everyone kept silent, packed up their equipment as quickly as possible, followed the little brother, and walked into the cave one by one.
Zhang Zhuxun walked at the end to prevent anyone from doing evil things to the unconscious fat man.
After getting into the crack, they followed the lava path they came out of before, but only Zhang Zhuxun and his brother knew that they were not taking the same path as before.
Because the road before was flat, but now they are taking Huo Xiangu and the others on a downward slope. In other words, the road leading out of the main hall has been sealed by the mechanism.
It's below that road now.
This road is very long, longer than anyone imagines.
Due to previous severe injuries, they had to stop and take a break.
"Where are we going?" Huo Xiuxiu asked on behalf of her grandma.
"The auxiliary building of the ancient building of the Zhang family." Zhang Zhu said, "Our current location is in the auxiliary building of the ancient building. From here, go down to the appropriate location, pass through the auxiliary building, and take a shortcut to reach the auxiliary building." p>
The auxiliary buildings are buildings that assist the construction of the main building. They are distributed around the main building and were structurally connected to the main building when it was built. The building complex of the Zhangjia Ancient Building is a semi-enclosed structure. Like the original ancient building at the bottom of the lake, there is only one
There is a formal entrance, and there are traps in other places.
However, the Zhang family has also set up a reminder and fault tolerance mechanism for future generations with poor memory. This is already within the scope of the Zhang family’s ancient building, and Milo Tuo does not exist.
Therefore, Zhang Shuxun and his two men planned to lead people to start from below, like a groundhog burrowing, through the mechanical pipes connecting the floors, crawling in layer by layer. After actually entering the auxiliary building, they could start from the ancient building.
Go up and down.
After a short rest, everyone continued to move forward.
I don’t know how deep I went, but finally, the guy in front stopped and looked back at Zhang Zhuxun, who was falling in the last direction.
"Are we here?" Zhang Zhuxun squeezed past the Huo family and came to the little brother's side.
Looking at it, the space here is very large. They seem to be enveloped by a huge Buddhist bell. At their feet is a platform about two meters wide. There are eight more similar platforms within the scope of the entire bell, including stone platforms.
Hanging on the cliff, the darkness below is bottomless.
Zhang Zhuxun felt inexplicably panicked, and he didn't know what was going on underneath. That terrible dream always pierced a deep thorn in his heart.
Huo Chushi took out a signal gun and fired it, and the entire bell-shaped space was illuminated as bright as day.
Almost everyone took a breath. They saw many thick chains extending from the two animal head stone pillars as thick as water tanks standing beside them, and connected to a spiral staircase suspended in the center like an iron cable bridge.
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Take a closer look and you will see that the spiral staircase is actually made of chains extending from the stone platform. These thick iron chains have all been treated with anti-corrosion treatment. After many years, they still look cold and gleaming, like cold pig iron.
The breath makes people feel cold.
The structure here is completely hollowed out in the middle of a mountain, resembling the shape of an upside-down ice cream cone. The dome above is a stone carving with a painted nine-petal lotus mural, which looks very sacred and solemn.
The signal bomb went out quickly. Huo Chushi wanted to fire another one, but Zhang Zhuxun stopped him. "Don't look at it. You can only climb over the iron chain. There is no shortcut."
Everyone immediately took action, took out the safety rope and tied it around their waists to prevent themselves from losing strength and falling halfway.
The old rule is that Zhang Zhu and the two of them should take the lead.
But this time, the little brother stopped Zhang Zhuxun and signaled that he should go first. Then he jumped up and stood on one of the chains. Ignoring the vibration of the chain due to the pressure, he directly raised his legs and walked towards the central staircase.
The speed is neither urgent nor slow, but there is no thought or hesitation.
The children of the Zhang family will practice this skill of walking on suspended chains. However, when they were young, they were not walking on such thick chains, but on steel wires that could bear their own weight to the maximum extent. When they encountered a very difficult and uncertain coffin, they walked
He would use this method to hoist himself up in the air, and start directly to the coffin from above.
This method not only pays attention to the integration of waist and horse, but also tests one's flexibility. In fact, it is somewhat similar to the fighting techniques of traditional tomb robbers. The only difference is that the children of the Zhang family can use two fingers to steal from them.
Take out whatever you want from it, or kill the dangerous creatures inside with one blow.
Under the frightened gazes of all the Huo family members, the younger brother quickly arrived at the place, gestured to Zhang Zhuxun with his backhand, and then climbed directly up the chain stairs.
Zhang Zhuxun also stepped on this iron chain. With his balance and core control ability, he was able to walk on it smoothly, almost no different from walking on flat ground. The chain would only bend with the changes of his footsteps during the process of stepping on it, but in reality
The shaking is very slight.
After he passed by, he didn't expect that the third person to walk was Huo Xiangu. Although she had a safety rope tied around her waist, this kind of suspended road was not very difficult for her. After all, Huo Xiangu had always been there when she was young.
Sleeping while hanging on a thin rope.
The women of the Huo family have been practicing a very special kind of soft skills since they were young, which can make their whole body's joint mobility much beyond the normal range of motion. Therefore, the bodies of the women of the Huo family are very soft, like cartilage-headed snakes. This kind of skill is related to bone shrinkage.
There is a big difference. Bone shrinkage means removal and reorganization. This kind of soft power directly twists bones and muscles away from their original positions, which is also very powerful.
On the other hand, the same cannot be said for the rest of the Huo family. Including the fake Huo Xiuxiu, those few people hung under the chains like cockroaches, crawling over with their hands and feet.
He circled up the chain stairs, and when he got closer and took a closer look, he discovered that there were particularly special lines on the nine-petal lotus. Those lines were actually human faces squeezed together. There were no emotions, anger, sorrow, or joy, just a blank expression.
They looked up together with expressions on their faces.
The eyes of these faces converge on the center of the lotus, which is the area directly above the stairs. The dome wraps the petals and faces inside like an eggshell.
The dizziness caused by being at a high altitude can make people mistakenly think that these colorful faces are gradually moving closer to the center. The longer you stare at them, the more dizzy your head will feel.
The little brother stood on the top step, stretched out his hand to clamp the nine-eyed lotus root in the center, twisted his arm, and spun the thing he was carrying.
Click, click, and the sound of the machine's operation came from above the head.
After a while, the nine-petal lotus flower divided into nine fan blades, which shrank in toward the edge, revealing a round hole slightly larger than a basketball.
The little brother didn't hesitate, grabbed the edge and got out directly.
The rest of the people filed out behind Zhang Zhuxun and came to the mezzanine above.
The material of this interlayer is volcanic rock, which can prevent the surrounding Milotuo from entering here.
There are many semicircular niches cut out in the air on the mezzanine wall, which are scattered in an orderly manner. Almost all of the niches on three walls contain small long box-shaped sarcophagi, one after another from top to bottom. p>
Zhang Zhuoxun recognized this kind of thing. It was the hand mound of the Zhang family. He had also seen this kind of stone box when he was burying the sacrificed Zhang family in the ancestral hall behind his home.
The ancestral hall is built on the mountain. Usually these hand mounds are placed inside the mountain. At that time, a hand mound was built to bury a man who was accidentally shot and died when he was out dealing with an emergency. The eldest member of the Zhang family came out.
, those who sent him to the mass grave were the most senior ones. Others who were out on missions would not be recalled, but those who were at home at the time, regardless of their age, must stay in the main hall of the ancestral hall.
Perhaps there was no trace of the head of the Zhang family, so the overseas Zhang family temporarily established a resettlement site for the soul to return to his hometown.
The ones that can be placed here must be a few of the less important branches of the Zhang family, and they are not accumulated over the years. Such a large-scale tomb can only show that there was some kind of war between super forces at that time, so it resulted in
Many Zhang family members who dealt with this matter died.
When we got here, my brother's expression became solemn and solemn.
We have seen enough gods and ghosts along the way. The Huo family is afraid that there is some weird mechanism behind the hand mound here, so they don't dare to touch it. Before they see the most valuable coffin, their
I had to put my courage away, so I went straight to the fourth wall.
There is a tomb door over three meters high. Several Huo family members tried to push it, but found that the tomb door was extremely heavy and difficult to push with their strength.
Zhang Zhuoxun looked at the iron ring above the tomb door. He deeply suspected that the Huo family used special methods to find the approximate location of the main tomb chamber from the top of the tomb, and then drilled a hole of sufficient size from above, using the skill of hanging the drill.
Going in, it’s no wonder that the status of girls in the Huo family is generally higher than that of boys. After all, they have higher kung fu.
This group of men went to the tomb purely to share the soup and make soy sauce. It is estimated that they would only come in handy if they couldn't find the location of the main tomb. No wonder Huo Xiuxiu said that although the men of the Huo family are the best in appearance, they have brains.
There is always a key missing.
"Trash snacks." Zhang Zhuxun muttered, and pushed aside the Huo family members who were pressing against the door and holding in their ears until their ears were red and their necks were thick.
Although several Huo family members were not convinced, they did not dare to refute.
"Come on, come over here." Zhang Zhu assessed the height, turned around and casually clicked on one of the Huo family members, "It's you, don't waste time, come here quickly."