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    Everyone rested quietly in the front room for a while, and Bao Le over there also finished studying the sculptures on the wall and sat back beside Jiang Ning.

    How clingy she was to Jun Zhi before, now she is clinging to Jiang Ning.It's not that Bao Le thinks that Jun Zhi is not as powerful as Jiang Ning, as the ceiling of force value in their team, Jun Zhi is still the only one.However, Junzhi's main object of protection is Shen Wangyan. She is not sure if he can protect both of them at once, but if he can only choose one, he will definitely choose Shen Wangyan without hesitation.

    Looking at it this way, it is necessary to change to a firm thigh hug.

    Jiang Ning seemed to have seen through her little thoughts, and sneered, while Bao Le, who was super thick-skinned, pretended not to hear.

    Shen San suddenly said: "The mechanism in this corridor is really ruthless. I will give you a seemingly safe blind spot, and then place the mechanism in the blind corner. It's like predicting that someone among us will be injured, and we have to lean on the wall to walk.It triggers the mechanism. If someone can escape the mechanism in front by chance at the beginning, the person behind will also have to be recruited."

    If he didn't say anything, Bao Le didn't know that there was such a way in this institution.

    "However," Jiang Ning said slowly, "Judging from the format of this tomb and the objects buried with it, although it is also an octagonal structure, it is a real Han tomb, which is far from what we are looking for."

    Speaking of this, Bao Le also remembered that in the documents they received before, the one they were looking for, that is, the one that Bao Le was going to repair the murals, if the Han altar in the center was ignored, it was indeed a tomb from the Warring States period.

    Bao Le asked Jiang Ning in a low voice: "Whose tomb are you looking for?"

    "You want to know?"

    Probably because Jiang Ning's eyes were too red to be dangerous, Bao Le's thirst for knowledge was fighting with her intuition about danger, and finally the intuition won the victory.

    Jiang Ning rolled her eyes and hummed, "It's boring."

    ...

    When the rest was almost over, Shen Wangyan stood up first, and while studying the map in his hand, he said: "Let's go, finish this map, and leave the rest to Shen Yan."

    After Jiang Ning put her bag back on her back, she looked back at Bao Le with a serious face: "What are you thinking about in your little head?"

    The little girl said seriously: "I checked the information on the Internet before, and I had a very high opinion of Professor Shen Yan. It must be because Shen Wangyan cleared the way for him."

    This road is extremely dangerous, if not for Jun Zhi and Jiang Ning, even Shen Wangyan would not be able to escape unscathed.I don't know if Professor Shen knew the danger here before letting them come, otherwise it would be different from letting them come to die.Even if he is a national-level archaeological expert, Bao Le now only thinks that he is a sinister person, and for the sake of his own achievements, he regards human life as nothing.

    And Shen Wangyan, who was being used by him, couldn't help feeling pitiful.

    Is this still a "not too dangerous" job in Jiang Ning's mouth?I don't know what they are looking for, even after experiencing such a dangerous thing, they still have to continue.

    Jiang Ning said as she walked: "I don't know Shen Yan, but I know his grandfather very well. Presumably the grandson follows his grandfather, and he is also a ruthless character. The Shen family has been bestowed by heaven for generations, and there is not much time left for Shen Wangyan.Otherwise, they wouldn't have cooperated with an outsider like Shen Yan."

    Bao Le was surprised: "Shen Yan is not from the Shen family."

    "It should have been," Jiang Ning smiled at her, "but Shen Yuesheng is the traitor of the Shen family, the only Shen family who has escaped from the heavenly gift for thousands of years. So he is no longer, so neither is his grandson."

    Bao Le was puzzled: "What is a gift from heaven?"

    "You treat me as an encyclopedia." Jiang Ning snarled her impatiently.

    I don't know why, Bao Le feels that she just knows, but she doesn't want to tell her.But if you want to say that this secret is bigger than the tomb they are looking for that may not exist, it is not.She guessed that Jiang Ning might not like the Shen family that much, the specific reason is unknown, so she didn't want to keep talking about the Shen family.

    ...

    Everyone wandered around in the front room again, and Shen Wangyan leaned against the wall to find the door leading to the ear chamber and the central tomb.Bao Le, who found out with conscience, finally remembered that he had received money, and decided to help to see the agency.

    The tomb was octagonal, with seven walls and no passages except the door through which they first entered.There are eight corners in the tomb, and each corner has a stone pillar floor lamp. No matter how you look at it, the mechanism for opening the door is related to these floor lamps.Bao Le observed carefully for a while, and found that the stone pillars were similar in length, but the carvings on the lampshades seemed to be different.

    They were resting in the front room before, and they lit the nearest ground lamp for illumination. At that time, the firelight shone through the carvings of the stone lampshade and shone on the ground, looking like a bug. Bao Le still felt disgusted.

    But Shen San said, this is not a bug, it may be the Ba snake in the legend of Bashu.The Ba snake is a giant snake that can swallow an elephant.There is a saying in the Book of Mountains and Seas that "Ba snake swallows an elephant, and its bones emerge at the age of three", which is used to describe that even a giant like Ba snake can take three years to digest after swallowing an elephant.

    But even if he knew that this thing was a snake, it was no better than a bug. Bao Le had fun in the bitterness, so he played "Song of Snake and Snake" on the spot to cheer everyone up.Jiang Ning laughed at her insufficiency of tone, and the angry little girl improvised a "Song of Niu Niu" on the spot.In fact, she has a sweet voice, no matter how she sings this nursery rhyme, she is cute.

    Others don't know, but the servants of the Shen family are old men, so they will inevitably be cured.

    Even Jun Zhi smiled after a long absence.

    Alright, back to the topic, Bao Le touched the ground lamp inside and out. The carved pattern of the ground lamp next to the serpentine lamp does not look like a snake, because it has legs, and it is four-legged.With a thought in his mind, Bao Le hurriedly called Shen Wangyan to light all the floor lamps.

    As a result, everyone discovered that the patterns of the eight floor lamps in this circle were all different.

    The graphics are reflected on the ground, and there are snakes, tigers, horses, sheep, dogs, chickens, rats, and monkeys, eight different animals.

    Reminiscent of the lotus lantern on the altar, Bao Le blurted out: "Zodiac signs!"

    "But that's not right," Shen San| retorted, "There are only eight kinds of animals, so how can there be twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac?"

    Jun Zhi suddenly said: "The dragon is on the dome."

    Everyone looked up, and indeed saw a totem in the center of the dome in the entire front room, but it was too far away to see clearly.Shen Wangyan always has his own way to verify every conjecture. After all, he is fully equipped. He took out a telescope from his bag.

    "It is indeed a dragon."

    This vision is too good, Bao Le looked at Jun Zhi adoringly, but Jiang Ning who was behind him gave him a blow in the head.

    Now that it is confirmed that it is the Chinese zodiac, we need to look for the remaining missing animals. Judging from the few known so far, the remaining three animals, rabbit, cow and pig, have not been found.Everyone started a blanket search for the remaining three zodiac signs, but they found very little. They even wiped off the dust in the corners.Let alone the zodiac, didn't even see a spider.

    Bao Le touched his chin, stared at the altar for a long time: "I have an immature idea."

    "Don't tell me you think this pile of rotten sacrifices is..." Jiang Ning couldn't continue.

    In fact, it is indeed a pork bone.The ancients did not only use pigs as sacrifices, poultry such as chickens and ducks, and aquatic products such as fish and shrimp must be indispensable, but now there are only pig bones on the altar, no matter how you look at it, it seems to be done deliberately.

    Bao Le added: "The lamps are on the corners, which may represent the ear chamber and auxiliary room behind the wall. The dragon is on the dome, which represents the front room. The pig bones are on the altar, so it must represent the altar.And, I found the cow."

    Shen San was puzzled: "Why didn't we see such a big cow?"

    "You have seen it before," Bao Le pointed to the corridor behind him, "there are not two rows there?"

    Only then did everyone suddenly realize that, indeed, on both sides of the corridor they came in, there were evil ghost bull lanterns with bull heads carved on them!

    "So the cow represents the tunnel." Bao Le finally concluded.

    Jiang Ning applauded her and praised: "I didn't expect that your little brain is still useful."

    ?Is this really a compliment?

    Bao Le didn't care about her, and approached Shen Wangyan with a smile: "Boss, I'm so good, no more money!"

    Shen Wangyan raised his eyebrows, and patted the little girl's shoulder earnestly: "You did perform well, but what you have said will help us find the disappearing door and enter the inner room?"

    This question was so good that the little girl was confused by it.

    Now it seems that eleven of the twelve zodiac signs are useless, and at most they can only serve as landmarks, so the last one is particularly critical.

    The rest is - rabbit.

    Why do you feel as if you have come into contact with a rabbit somewhere?

    Jiang Ning poked Baole's head again with her bright red nails. Her nails were very long. They were nails that could scratch marks on the wooden table. Bao Le covered her head and screamed.

    "Sing that 'Niu Niu Song' again and listen to it," Jiang Ning smiled brilliantly, "After singing, I'll tell you where the 'rabbit' is."

    The little girl obviously didn't believe it, but she couldn't resist her curiosity, so she did it anyway.

    Jiang Ning pinched her face: "It's so cute."

    Bao Le urged her inarticulately: "The rabbit... where is the rabbit?"

    Jiang Meiren was in a great mood, moved her long legs, and walked towards the mural on one of the walls in a charming manner.Bao Le instantly recovered her memory, how could she forget - she had studied it as soon as she came in, the starting point of acquaintance with the owner of the tomb was only because of a white rabbit!

    Jiang Ning caressed the white rabbit on the wall carving, and found that although the rabbit was small, it was indeed a bump.Looking back at Shen Wangyan, the latter nodded, tacitly allowing her to press down.

    As soon as the switch was pressed, strange rumbling noises were heard all around, like a mountain earthquake, and the entire front room shook violently.Bao Le was startled, she really thought there was an earthquake.It wasn't until she saw the carvings on the eight walls shrinking towards the corners, and seven complete doors appeared in front of them, that she didn't realize that the earthquake might be the movement of the mechanism opening.

    Jiang Ning whistled and walked to Bao Le's side: "Your salary increase has to be added to my account."

    The little girl turned Byakugan on the spot.

    ...

    "Shen Qi," Shen Wangyan called a servant over, pointed to the altar in the center, and said, "Stay here and count the types and quantities of cultural relics here, use the statistical format and writing method I showed you before, and then sort them out.share, go out to give Shen Yan."

    Shen Qi nodded.

    Jiang Ning walked over and asked him, "Together or apart?"

    The corridor is so dangerous, there is no reason that the road ahead will be easy, it is obviously safer to act together, but there are seven gates here, if one explores one by one, don't know how much time will be wasted.Young Master Shen has no patience now, so he chose to separate without accident.

    "Then I'll take Bao Le..."

    Before Jiang Ning finished speaking, she saw the little girl approaching one of the doors full of curiosity. She didn't actually go in, but an unknown force sucked her into the door..At that time, everything happened too fast. Jiang Ning was talking to Shen Wangyan, and she was not paying attention to it. When she found out that she was trying to die, it was too late to stop it.

    After Bao Le fell into the dark room, the door in front of her moved, and when it was about to close, a black figure jumped in.There is only one person in the entire team who can react so quickly and move so quickly.

    Shen Wangyan frowned, but didn't speak.

    Jiang Ning laughed at him: "It seems that the bamboo horse is no match for the sky."

    Young Master Shen glanced at her: "I don't understand what you are talking about."

    But Young Master Shen really didn't expect that Jun Zhi would jump in so decisively. Although there was already a seedling head at the entrance of the robbery cave that day, he didn't think much about it at that time.To be honest, this is a good sign, since the day they met, Jun Zhi has lived for him, and he has made his own life a shadow of Shen Wangyan.

    The shadow will not find the light by itself, but Shen Wangyan hopes that Jun Zhi can.

    Now is obviously not a good time to worry about these things, Young Master Shen opened his mouth to make arrangements: "Jiang Ning, you go to the door on the left, Shen San, you go to the door on the right, and I go in the middle."

    Shen San was worried: "Master, it's not good for you to be alone, why don't you let Master Jiang follow you?"

    It's just that before he finished speaking, Shen Wangyan resolutely stepped into the door in front of him, and Jiang Ning didn't make a move until the door closed.

    "Your young master," Jiang Ning smiled brilliantly, "I'm older than you."

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