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Chapter 13 Jiang Ningsan, Junzhidao...
The corridor is actually very wide, enough for four or five people to line up side by side, so after entering one after another, everyone did not maintain a long snake formation.
Bao Le stayed close to Jun Zhi the whole time, even pushing Shen Wangyan behind.
Although she is timid, she seems very clever to find the thickest thigh in the team.
Everyone walked for two to three hundred meters without incident, and just when Bao Le was about to think that Shen Wangyan was making a big fuss and looked away, Jun Zhi, who was walking first, suddenly stopped moving.
The little girl hid behind him nervously, and asked weakly, "Why, what's the matter?"
"There are agencies."
Just as Jun Zhi finished speaking, something shot out in front of him.If relying on Bao Le's old people's reaction, he would definitely rush to the street on the spot, but almost the moment the thing was shot, Jun Zhi reacted, dodged sideways, and took Bao Le by the way.
"What the hell!" Bao Le was shocked.
Although the thing was extremely fast, it didn't change lanes and shot straight into the stone wall behind.A member of the Shen family who was standing next to the stone wall glanced at it, and touched it again in disbelief.
"Master, it's water."
Everyone froze for a moment.
Just when everyone was still doubting that the thing just now was water, two "swish" shots shot out two unknown objects, but this time they were not as lucky as before.Unidentified objects shot out from different directions in front, and they were not within the range that Jun Zhi could stop. One shot into the wall again, while the other shot through a servant's calf.
"what!"
The servant whose calf was shot wailed and held his leg, only to see a stream of blood flowing out from the place where he was shot, and he was seriously injured at first glance.
Jun Zhi quickly rushed to his side, first glanced at the water stains on the wall, then leaned over to check the wound for the injured person.The injured servant lifted up his trouser legs, and only the bleeding wound could be seen on the hit calf.Junzhi groped on his calf for a while, and gradually frowned following the fact that he found nothing.
Possibly, really just water.
The mechanism in the tunnel did not give them a chance to breathe, and fired three more hidden weapons in succession.
Junzhi quickly returned to Shen Wangyan's side and successfully blocked the blow for him.The hidden weapon hit Junzhi's dagger, making a "ding" sound, as if two metal daggers collided.Because of the tingling sensation in the tiger's mouth due to the collision, Jun Zhidu almost let go of the dagger.He froze for a moment, then lowered his head to check the dagger in his hand.
He has many weapons, the smaller the sharper, but the hardness will also decrease accordingly.This dagger is considered relatively small among his weapons, but it has been with him for more than ten years and has solved many difficult problems, but the blow from the hidden weapon just now for Shen Wangyan caused cracks to appear on the blade of the dagger.
It's just that there are cracks on the blade, and there is no hidden weapon that is fighting the dagger.
Jiang Ning also discovered this.
At the same time as the next wave of hidden weapons was fired, Jun Zhi drew out his long knife and stood in front of himself and Shen Wangyan.The long knife was out of its sheath, and he flipped the handle alternately with his left and right hands, dancing the long knife into a circular surface, blocking a large number of hidden weapons from the front with 360 degrees without dead ends.
As the hidden weapons were shot out batch after batch, the number was gradually increasing. From one or two at the beginning, it had grown to more than a dozen, or even more than twenty at a time.Hidden weapons are fired from the front, but there is no fixed shooting direction. As the number of shots increases, most places in the corridor are no longer safe.
The members of the Shen family are not vegetarians either, and they still have the ability to protect themselves, but they cannot be unscathed.
Jun Zhi has to protect Shen Wangyan, and hardly has time to take care of other things.
Bao Le was able to hug Shen Wangyan's thigh at first, but the speed of the hidden weapon was too fast. When Shen Wangyan adjusted his position with Junzhi, she didn't have time to keep up, and was instantly exposed to the hidden weapon without protection.Both Jun Zhi and Shen Wangyan found that she was falling behind, but it was too late to go back and catch her.
Seeing that the hidden weapon was about to approach, the wind chime sounded lightly.
A white umbrella unfolded in the corridor, protecting Bao Le under the umbrella.The beauty holding an umbrella came to her world like a god, hugged her waist, and outlined a beautiful smile.
The hidden weapon, which could even shatter a dagger, did not leave a single trace on her umbrella.
However, Jiang Ning's hand holding the umbrella shook three times due to the force of the hidden weapon hitting the umbrella, and finally realized the strength that could numb Jun Zhi's hand.Bao Le saw that she was holding the umbrella handle with all her strength, and before the next wave of hidden weapons came, she imitated Jun Zhi to turn the knife and rotate the umbrella quickly to counteract the force of the hidden weapon hitting the umbrella vertically.
"Shadowless Water Arrow." Jiang Ning said the name of the hidden weapon.
Baole thought, so this hidden weapon is really water?
Shen Wangyan said: "The principle is similar to that of modern high-pressure water guns, but this water arrow array seems to be chaotic, but there are traces to follow. The right side is its dead spot, and everyone walks close to the right."
Young Master Shen's ability to judge is obvious to all. Everyone is close to the wall on the right, and it is unlikely that the water arrows will be able to hit them.
Bao Le was so tightly guarded by Jiang Ning that he didn't even scratch his skin.But Shen San was not so lucky. When Baole walked to him, he found that his right thigh was shot by a water arrow, and the blood dripped on the ground around him.Shen San leaned against the wall, almost with his right hand supporting the wall, before he could limp forward.
"A lot of blood has been bled, I don't know if the femoral artery has been injured, I have to find a place to look quickly." Bao Le worriedly supported Shen San.
She is not familiar with the members of the Shen family, but she has a friendship with Shen San with a bowl of instant noodles, and Shen San treats her well, so the little girl still takes good care of him.
Shen San forced a smile: "I'm fine, I didn't hurt any key places."
As if wanting to prove himself, he let go of the hand holding the wall, and took a big step forward, but after all, he was injured, and the wound was pulled, and there was a pain and numbness, so he had to put his hand back again.As soon as he stretched his hand, he pressed the switch on the wall unexpectedly, and he pushed down the entire wall panel.
Both Bao Le and Shen San didn't react.
The sound of "Gragra" came from the entire corridor, and several bricks on the left wall shrank back to form a dark space, and groups of strangely shaped wooden mechanisms rose from the dark space.The center of these organs is a hollow oval with sharp corners at both ends. It looks familiar, but I can't think of what it looks like for a while.
"careful!"
Just as Jun Zhi opened his mouth, the water arrow that passed by Shen San and would not hit him, just sank into the strange mechanism on the wall with a "swish", and shot out from the hollow of the mechanism in the next second.Pointing directly at Shen San's head.
Jiang Ning only had time to block the water arrow with the umbrella surface. The strength of the arrow has been modified by the mechanism, and it seems to be heavier than before. Jiang Ning's tiger mouth was bleeding when it hit.
Jiang Meiren licked the blood from her tiger's mouth, and her face gradually became abnormal under the evil spirit bull lamp: "This is really Yellow Springs Road."
Bao Le hugged her thigh tightly, looked at the mechanism on the wall again and again, and said tremblingly: "Do you feel that this mechanism looks like a weaving shuttle?"
If the water arrow is compared to the rain in the underworld, then the mechanism on the wall is like a rain shuttle that uses rain as a cloth, changing the direction of the rain cloth, as if to weave every part of the entire corridor together.
Going on like this is not an option.
Jun Zhi put away the long knife and winked at Jiang Ning.
They have a tacit understanding, which is due to the fact that they have known each other for a long time. Although they don't like each other, they have worked together for many years after all.Jiang Ning knew what he was going to do by looking at his eyes, and it was indeed here, and only the two of them could do it.
The right side of the entire corridor is safe until the water arrows pass through the rain shuttle and shoot back. If they can be faster than the water arrows, they can destroy the rain shuttle before the rain shuttle shoots the water arrows out.There are three rows of rain shuttles on the left side of the entire corridor, the first row is close to the top of the corridor, and the last row is less than half a meter from the ground.
Jun Zhi took out a sharp knife, nimbly avoided every water arrow, approached the wall on the left quickly, turned over, and flew upwards with force by the lamp post of the evil ghost bull lamp.When the first water arrow hit the rain shuttle, he swung his knife and split the rain shuttle in half.
This seemed to be a rhythmic job, the water arrows entered the shuttle one by one, he stuck in this time, and cut off the rain shuttles from front to back.The whole process was very fast. After all, it only took a second or two for the water arrow to enter the shuttle and then hit the face, so the grasp of the rhythm and the error tolerance rate were very low.
But he still managed it, even relying on the knife to slash all the way on the wall, running vertically on the erected wall as if there was no influence of gravity.
Bao Le was almost dumbfounded.
As Jun Zhi approached, Jiang Ning, who was still protecting Bao Le, took up the umbrella, seized the opportunity to shoot the water arrow, and dodged through the arrow woven by the water arrowYu leaned against the wall on the left, meeting with the king.
Jiang Ning pulled out a long sword from the umbrella handle, lowered her waist and cut off the rain shuttle on the lowest layer, and slid forward, almost at the same speed as Jun Zhi, and ran forward quickly.
The two moved in exactly the same way, one cut the middle and the other cut the bottom, leaving only the wreckage of Yu Shuo wherever they went.
However, their speed was still a bit slower. Although there was no problem with the rhythm control all the way, the speed of the last water arrow was one beat faster than the first one that sank into the rain shuttle.The water arrow went towards Junzhi, and at that time Jun Zhi still had the last rain shuttle left.
If he chooses to cut off the rain shuttle, he will be shot by this water arrow.
If he dodges the water arrow, then the water arrow shot from the rain shuttle will hit the person on the right immediately, and of course it may hit the air, but he can't bet, Jun Zhi just swung a knife to cut down the rain.shuttle.
As he swung the knife, a white flower bloomed in the corridor——Jiang Ning spread out the umbrella and blocked the final blow for him.
The whole process was thrilling, and Bao Le wanted to clap his hands and applaud them loudly.
Jiang Ning put away her umbrella, Jun Zhi put away her knife, and the two retreated from the left to the crowd on the right.
"Walk."
This time Shen Wangyan's voice was firm and urgent.
...
Bao Le followed Jiang Ning's footsteps and ran forward with all his strength. Everyone held their breath, even if they hurt their legs, but in this ever-changing corridor that was not safe for a moment, no one couldDon't dare to gamble with your own life.
The water arrows in the passageway were still firing crazily, reflecting the flames of the bull lantern to make it look like a golden rainstorm.For a moment, Bao Le felt that this was probably the funeral rain on Yellow Springs Road.
When everyone arrived at the tomb at the end of the tunnel, the mechanism in the tunnel seemed to sense it, and a water arrow shot into the wick of the evil ghost bull lamp, extinguishing one of the lamps.With a "swish", all the bull lanterns in the entire corridor were extinguished by something, and with the last batch of water arrows being shot, the corridor returned to darkness and silence.
The people who were still afraid in their hearts didn't have the heart to study the organization's structure.The injured people helped each other, and Shen Wangyan led the way into the tomb.
The scale of this tomb is unbelievably several times larger than the one in the backyard of Meiduo's house.If the scale of that tomb is considered a small bungalow among tombs, then this one is a villa.From this point of view, it is understandable that the mechanism design of the corridor is ingenious and dangerous. After all, bungalows and villas cannot have the same security level.
The shape of the entire tomb is roughly the same as that marked on the map, with eight sides and eight corners.The zenith is arc-shaped, echoing the arched tomb door when entering.
When everyone walked into the tomb, what they saw were the red brick walls around the tomb.It is not the kind of bright vermilion bricks, but the stone bricks that have been baptized by time and reveal a touch of dark red in the taupe.Although it is not very obvious, but because of the huge number, it still gives the tomb a warm feeling from the original cold tone.
There is no inner and outer coffins in the tomb. From the function point of view, this should be the front room of the tomb.The construction of the tomb chambers of the ancients had different functions for the front chamber, and most of them were used as altars, similar to halls of worship.
The antechamber of this tomb is indeed of this design.
In the center, along the upward steps, you can reach an altar.In addition to various low shelves placed on the altar, there are also sacrifices on it.It's just that thousands of years have passed, and the sacrifice has long since decayed, leaving only a pile of bones.
There are also six pairs of bronze wine vessels on the altar, in the shape of lotus flowers held by palace people, lined up left and right, a total of twelve bottles.Each wine vessel is placed on the cabinet engraved with the twelve zodiac signs. The wine vessel contains an unknown liquid and exudes an unfriendly smell. It may be the same as itself, or it may be formed after a long time of placement, in short, people don't want to explore the composition of the liquid at all.
"The owner of this tomb should have a high status," Bao Le said with emotion, "there are more than thirty pieces of gold vessels on the altar alone, not to mention the rare jade bowls, emerald cabbage and agate grapes that are exquisitely crafted."
"Oh, I'm hungry after watching." The little girl concluded.
Jiang Ning sneered at her, at this time, she still hasn't forgotten her foodie nature, she will be the only one in this world if she doesn't look at other things when she goes to her grave and studies food culture first.
Over there, Shen Wangyan checked the surrounding environment, confirmed that it was safe, and then turned around and said, "Let's rest here for a while, and treat the wound."
Indeed, apart from Bao Le and Shen Wangyan, who are under key protection, and Jun Zhi, who is strong enough to not be injured, they basically need to take care of their wounds and take a good rest.
Bao Le went to condolences to Shen San first, and after confirming that he was really only a superficial injury, he went all over the venue to find another wounded person she was more worried about—Jiang Ning, standing in front of the red brick wall of the tomb with an umbrella, hugging her chest and admiringCarvings on the walls.
"See what tricks?" Bao Le ran over.
She didn't know what Jiang Ning saw, but she saw that the wound on Jiang Ning's hand was treated very well, so she couldn't help but feel that she was worrying too much. Jiang Meiren is not someone who can't take care of herself.
Bowing her head and smiling, Jiang Ning reached out and pinched Bao Le's tender face: "Isn't this your specialty?"
Bao Le regained his spirit and walked around in the octagonal tomb.She had discovered the reliefs on the wall before, but she was inevitably attracted by the most conspicuous altar at a glance, so she didn't bother to study what was engraved on the wall.I will take a closer look at this, only to find that there is a huge amount of information in it.
Most of the paintings and carvings in the tomb are to reflect the life of the tomb owner. Unlike the biographies of the characters, the content on the tomb carvings is more fantasy, full of artistic processing colors, and contains more secrets.Some tomb owners have experiences that are not easy for others to know, but they are very important to look back on and cannot be ignored. When the tomb is built, they will be left in the world in the form of paintings and sculptures.
The main body of the sculpture is a man and a woman, and the rest of the attendants, maids, and grooms are all a little smaller than this pair of men and women.Judging from the relief, the relationship between the two should be husband and wife.The relief begins with their acquaintance when they were young. It seems that the woman raised a rabbit when she was young. Later, the rabbit was lost and found by the man during a hunt. The two met.When they grew up, the two became husband and wife. They had three sons and two daughters, and lived a happy life.The woman died when she was thirty-seven years old, and her husband was devastated. After seven years until his death, he still did not remarry or even took a concubine.
It was originally a beautiful love story, but there are some details in the relief, but it is very worthy of scrutiny.
The first is the identity of the male protagonist. The husband should be a well-known wealthy businessman in Bashu during the Western Han Dynasty. However, the ancients emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, and businessmen were at the bottom of the social class.With the status of the hero, in the Western Han Dynasty, it was not enough to build such a tomb.
So I have to talk about the identity of the heroine, the wife.Although the engraving is very vague, judging from the heroine's clothing, car and maids, it may be a Han princess with "worry" in her name or title.Looking at it this way, although the husband's status as a businessman is low, but his status as a son-in-law, it is indeed possible to have such a tomb.
I don't know if it was intentional, but on the day of the princess's wedding, there was another team sending off the bride far away and the princess's car owner passed by.If it is to show the joy of getting married, there is absolutely no need to arrange such a scene.
Bao Le had a rough guess in his heart, but he didn't say it out.