Fu Tang

Li Congjia made a gesture to ask people to hide in the nearby woods. Thanks to this being an oasis, they would have been discovered long ago in the Gobi.

After he and Shi Xueting cat looked behind the tree for a long time, he was sure that those people didn't know what to do in the place they checked during the day, but when Li Congjia saw the tools in their hands, Li Congjia felt slightly confused. in a hurry.

"Been discovered? How could we be discovered if we were so careful?" Li Congjia frowned, and began to think about how to kill these people, but if there was a real conflict, it might attract more people.

Shi Xueting said calmly: "The people sent by Long Xiu didn't continue to follow, it seems that he didn't give up, but sent a letter to the oasis or county along the way, so our whereabouts have always been under his control. middle."

Long Xiu?

Li Congjia was stunned for a moment, and after looking carefully, he found that among those people, there was indeed a person whose figure was very similar to Long Xiu.

"No wonder he gave us the map and didn't ask anything, so he was waiting for us here." Li Congjia sneered: "He didn't bring many people, should we..."

"No hurry." Shi Xueting smiled, with a compassionate expression, but the words in his mouth were completely different from his expression: "Let them go, there is no real descendant of Li Tang to lead the way, and they will just die when they go."

Li Congjia reacted in an instant: "Is there a mechanism below?"

Shi Xueting nodded and said, "That's right, since it's a treasure, how could it be possible that there are no protective measures at all? Let them go."

Li Congjia immediately felt relieved, and simply sat on the ground and waited for those people to dig a hole, and then asked, "How long shall we wait?"

After doing some calculations, Shi Xueting said: "We will start after they go down for half an hour."

What else did Li Congjia want to ask, but as soon as Shi Xueting finished speaking, he heard several people shouting excitedly: "Come out, come out!"

Li Congjia was also very curious when he heard it, and wanted to see it, but no matter how long he stretched his neck, there was a group of people around him, so it was impossible to see it.

Seeing that Li Congjia was about to go out from behind the tree, Shi Xueting could only drag him back by his collar helplessly and said, "Don't look, I guess I found the tunnel entrance."

Li Congjia scratched his head and wanted to take a look, probably because of an occupational disease. He especially wanted to see what the tunnel door looked like. When excavating various relics and ancient tombs in the past, even the seemingly inconspicuous stone door could bring Come a lot of information.

Just when he was in a hurry, he saw the group of people throwing a stone slab aside, Li Congjia was stunned for a moment, then turned to Shi Xueting and asked, "This...is a tunnel door?"

Shi Xueting narrowed his eyes slightly: "I don't know a tunnel door, this should be the outermost stone door."

Li Congjia was very angry: "How could you throw it out so roughly, it's an antique, it really deserves a beating."

Shi Xueting was a little dazed: "Huh?"

Li Congjia calculated in his mind and said: "This treasure must still be in Xuanzong, so this stone gate has a history of at least a hundred years, so it is certainly an antique."

Shi Xueting obviously couldn't understand Li Congjia's enthusiasm for cultural relics, so he could only say: "It's just an ordinary stone slab, and there will be more good things inside."

Although Li Congjia is regretful, he will not be immersed in this emotion. After all, their main goal now is the treasures inside. It's really not that precious.

After those people opened the tunnel door, they led them down one by one. Li Congjia found that Long Xiu didn't go down, but chose to camp nearby.

Shi Xueting came over and said: "Long Xiu knows that he won't be in danger himself, so it's better to wait for us up there."

Li Congjia pushed his head away expressionlessly and said, "No."

Shi Xueting was helpless, he really didn't understand why Li Congjia insisted, how did he know that Li Congjia wanted to go and see it even more after hearing that there was an agency below?

There were not many people left by Long Xiu, who mainly served as guards. If they were to deal with ordinary people, these people would definitely be enough. However, Li Congjia brought out soldiers who had experienced the battlefield, and these people were by no means opponents.

After half an hour, Shi Xueting, who had closed his eyes and chanted sutras, opened his eyes, brought the rosary back to his wrist, stood up and said, "Let's go."

Li Congjia looked at him in astonishment: "Then what...don't we...don't plan anymore?"

Just rush up and do it?Such a simple and rude style doesn't look like Shi Xueting.

Shi Xueting stretched out his hand to pull him up and said, "Don't worry, I know what's going on."

Li Congjia didn't ask any more when he heard it, but Shi Xueting really knew what he was doing. After he said a few words to Qiushou, Qiushou's eyes lit up and he took someone to arrange it.

Although Shi Xueting used some means, but the real fight is still crushed by strength. The weapons in the hands of these people brought by Long Xiu are very simple. After all, they are not from the serious army, and Long Xiu does not have that ability. Bring out the soldiers.

The people Li Congjia brought out were all weapons that were officially issued by the Southern Tang army. After all, Zhu Yuan and Li Ping took their people away, and naturally they took away all the food and grass.

Long Xiu was very surprised to see Li Congjia, and what was even more surprising was that his subordinates were Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Long Xiu looked at Li Congjia with gloomy eyes and said, "Who are you, to act wildly on the territory of the Long family!"

Li Congjia squinted at him, but before he could speak, Shi Xueting said, "What is the Long family?"

Li Congjia looked at Shi Xueting in a little surprise, and then saw Shi Xueting's chin raised slightly, with a look of arrogance on his face, which was rare to see. He said to Long Xiu with a serious face: "If you have the time to question, you might as well think about how to survive tonight."

Long Xiu's heart tightened. Now that he fell into the hands of these people, it might not be easy to save his life. At this moment, he regretted it very much. If he had known this, he might as well have gone down with his subordinates just now!

However, it was too late to regret it at this time, so he could only sternly said: "If you kill me, no matter who you are, the Long family will chase you to the ends of the earth!"

Li Congjia laughed immediately: "Oh? So, you are not the son of a county magistrate, right? A son of a county magistrate, how can the Long family be worth chasing and killing us?"

Long Xiu knew he had made a slip of the tongue, and simply said: "Don't worry about who I am, anyway, I'm dead, and none of you can live. I left a letter when I came out."

Li Congjia bent over and asked, "Oh, then do you know who we are?"

Long Xiu opened his mouth slightly, and suddenly realized one thing: he really didn't know the identities of Li Congjia and the others, even Yang Xin, he only knew that he was from the south, and he knew nothing about Yang Xin's identity and family background !

Long Xiu was so regretful that his guts were green, he shouldn't have listened to his staff, and came over excitedly whenever he said there was a treasure, he should have made up his mind before moving!

In fact, at this moment Li Congjia was also scolding Yang Xin in his heart. He dared to do something reckless without even knowing his true identity and background. What he taught him was fed to dogs?

Long Xiu eased his expression and said: "You can't offend me, and I don't know who you are. In this case, we might as well cooperate. My people have already gone down. Even if you go down now, you may not be able to get the treasure. Why don't you wait for the treasure?" My people come up, how about our four or six points?"

Li Congjia looked at him in surprise: "Since you know that we are not from the Western Regions, have you never wondered why we were able to find this place?"

Long Xiu looked at him blankly, and Li Congjia said in his heart: Yes, this is also a sweet potato.

He waved his hand and said to Qiushou, "Do it."

Qiushou nodded, and knocked out the terrified Long Xiu as soon as he raised his hand.

Shi Xueting asked: "Keep him?"

Li Congjia nodded and said: "I'm afraid this person's identity is unusual, but I don't want to conflict with the Long family unless it is absolutely necessary. Send someone to throw him back to the oasis."

Qiushou selected two people to send Long Xiu away and told them not to come back.

Li Congjia looked at Shi Xueting and asked, "Shall we all go down?"

Shi Xueting nodded: "There is another exit, we won't go out here, let them bury it when we go down."

Li Congjia nodded, took a look at the entrance of the tunnel, and found that there was a stone ladder leading down. After they all went down, they waited for the people above to cover the stone slabs and fill them with soil before lighting the torches and going down. .

The stone ladder was not wide, and could only accommodate two people. Shi Xueting and Qiushou led the way, Li Congjia was in the middle, and the rest were in the back.

Li Congjia looked around while walking, and he found that the construction of this treasure was actually very meticulous. The road down the road was actually covered with blue brick corridors, with walls made of blue bricks from the top of the head to both sides, but as time went by, In addition, the weather in the Western Regions is relatively bad, and it is obvious that some blue bricks have shown signs of desertification. Maybe in another hundred years, this corridor is likely to collapse.

I don't know how long I walked down. When I left the stone steps, Li Congjia suddenly found that there was a fork in front of me, and three roads diverged.

The three roads look exactly the same, and each road can accommodate three people to pass side by side. Such a scale can be created underground, which is enough to show that the national power of the Tang Dynasty at that time was still alive. If it was the end of the Tang Dynasty, I might not be so calm. Of course, if it came to the end of the Tang Dynasty, there would be no treasure left behind.

Li Congjia turned to look at Shi Xueting and asked, "Which way?"

But Shi Xueting didn't answer, turned to look at Li Congjia and asked, "Do you still have the rosary I gave you?"

"What about here?" Li Congjia rolled up his sleeves, and saw a string of ebony rosary beads on his wrist, which looked thinner and warmer against the firelight.

Shi Xueting stretched out his hand and said, "Borrow it."

Li Congjia slightly took off the rosary and handed it to him with some curiosity. After Shi Xueting got it, he lowered his head and looked carefully, and lined up this string of rosary with the one in his hand. , Then he said: "Go to the middle."

Li Congjia asked curiously: "Did you use these two strings of rosary to calculate?"

Shi Xueting explained: "These three paths are all active, and none of them is absolutely safe. It can only be calculated by combining the number of months and dates with a special algorithm. These two strings of rosary beads are used for this calculation."

Li Congjia couldn't help staring: "Then why didn't you remind me to bring it with me? What if I didn't bring it?"

Shi Xueting just smiled, he had seen this rosary on Li Congjia's wrist countless times, and knew that since he gave the rosary to Li Congjia, Li Congjia almost never let it leave his body except for bathing. It was gradually replaced by the aromatherapy that Li Congjia often used. Does this still need to be reminded?

Fortunately, Li Congjia didn't insist on him giving an answer, but just looked down at the ground and said, "Those people seem to be walking to the right, what will they encounter?"

Shi Xueting looked at the rosary in his hand and said, "Quicksand."

Li Congjia gasped. Although he didn't know what form the quicksand would appear in, these two words were scary enough.

"Will they all die there?"

Shi Xueting brought the string of ebony rosary beads back to Li Congjia's wrist and said: "Not necessarily, in fact, these three roads can all lead to the place where the final treasure is buried, but one road has fewer traps, and the others are more deadly. With luck enough, maybe we'll see them again."

Li Congjia keenly grasped the key point: "There are fewer agencies? Isn't there no agency at all?"

Shi Xueting nodded: "Yes, but don't worry, I know how to avoid most of those traps, and a small part is lost because of ages, but it's not too dangerous and won't kill you."

Li Congjia was rather depressed: "As for being so strict? Why can't there be a safe passage?"

Shi Xueting continued to walk forward while explaining: "This is to prevent other people from getting the treasure map and choosing a safer path by mistake. No one knows about those treasure maps except the real descendants of Li Tang. The agency's evasion method."

Li Congjia thought about it after hearing this, and couldn't help but feel that he was quite lucky. Fortunately, there was Shi Xueting leading the way. If he came here by himself, I'm afraid he would have to explain here.

Next, they passed through the Ground Spike Formation and the Fire Dragon Formation in turn.

According to Shi Xueting, the ground thorn formation is that if the mechanism is touched, very sharp ground thorns will pop out from below. If a person stands in the ground thorn formation, one counts as one, and no one can live, while the fire dragon formation will Fire spewed from the spigots that lined the road.

Li Congjia looked at those lifelike carved stone dragon heads and couldn't help but pull his body to look at them for a long time. He felt regretful. He really wanted to take this thing back. Could this thing show the carving techniques and skills of the late Tang Dynasty? Artistic style, it's a pity... Even if he had eighty guts, he wouldn't dare to move casually.

After walking through the fire dragon formation, Li Congjia suddenly thought of one thing: "What is the principle of that dragon's fire-breathing? Is there any fuel in it? After so many years, will it have expired?"

Shi Xueting paused, and after a long silence, he said: "I don't know, but I don't recommend trying it. Back then, the royal family held many untold secrets, and many things were unknown to the common people. It's a pity that after these years of turmoil, , Many of them have been lost, what I know now is passed down from generation to generation, and it is precisely because of this that there are cases of loss, if you ask me the reason, I can't tell."

Li Congjia regrets that every time of troubled times is actually a great retrogression of civilization, and many things will be lost. When the world's peace scientists study again, they may not be able to restore those things, so they can only find another way.

The two of them were walking and talking, gradually Li Congjia felt that the ground became a little soft, and when he looked down, he found that there were thick moss growing on the green bricks under his feet. He couldn't help being stunned: "Where are we going?" Is it? Why is there moss? The humidity here is very high?"

Naturally, Shi Xueting didn't understand what humidity was, but he understood where Li Congjia's surprise came from, and said, "I'm afraid it's already under Juyanhai."

After hearing this, Li Congjia couldn't help but looked up, feeling a little uneasy in his heart: "I don't feel at ease."

Shi Xueting's footsteps stopped, his heart was a little broken, but he still comforted him: "Don't worry too much, after all, there have been no problems for so many years, and there will be no problems."

Li Congjia didn't say anything after hearing this, he was also afraid that what he said would mean something, if something really happened below Juyanhai, it would be called Tiantian should not be called ineffective.

Fortunately, Shi Xueting was reliable and brought them all the way to the first destination - a round stone hall.

When walking out of the corridor, even Li Congjia couldn't help being surprised at the size of the stone hall. According to preliminary estimates, it was about four to five hundred square meters. In the middle of the stone hall stood nine stone pillars in a strange orientation.

After entering the hall, Shi Xueting took the torch and walked around the stone hall. After lighting all the oil lamps on the wall, the whole hall was bright again.

It was only at this time that Li Congjia realized that the images of various dragons should be carved on the nine stone pillars. The pillars are the circle of steles and the giant crouching dragon sculpture in the middle.

The steles cost 16 yuan in total, each of which is two meters high and one meter wide. Li Congjia saw that Shi Xueting saluted the steles one by one, so he couldn't help but also walked over to have a look. It turned out that the first stone stele was recorded by Tang Gaozu Li Yuan life, and the next piece is Tang Taizong Li Shimin.

Li Congjia had some guesses in his mind. After reading them one by one, he found that these steles were the lives of emperors who had reigned for a long time in the Tang Dynasty, and there was no stele of Wu Zetian among them. Like the scar, Wu Zetian was probably also a scar in the heart of the Li family. Anyway, she herself was buried as a queen in the end, so she didn't erect her stone tablet at all.

After Shi Xueting paid homage one by one, he turned his head and saw Li Congjia looking at those steles with bright eyes, and asked involuntarily, "What's wrong?"

Li Congjia touched the stele cautiously and said, "Oh, it would be great if I could take them away."

For a moment, Shi Xueting thought he had heard wrong, bringing a stone tablet?Running here to dig for treasure, and then bring back a bunch of steles?What is this thinking?

However, if there were not so many people to support, in Li Congjia's eyes, these steles would be much more valuable than those gold and silver treasures.

"Okay, I'm joking." Seeing that Shi Xueting looked at him silently, Li Congjia couldn't help but said embarrassingly: "There is no way here, how do we go next?"

Shi Xueting looked up at the dragon sculpture and said, "Look at it."

Only then did Li Congjia carefully observe the dragon sculpture, and found that part of the body of the dragon sculpture was actually connected to the wall in the direction facing the corridor. flush with the stele.

After observing for a long time, there was no way to go. Li Congjia looked at Shi Xueting suspiciously. Shi Xueting pointed to the faucet and said, "Its mouth can be opened. We have to go in from here."

From the dragon's mouth into the dragon's belly?

This is exciting enough.

Li Congjia ran to the dragon's head and observed carefully for a long time, but he didn't see any mechanism that could make the dragon open his mouth. When he turned his head, he saw Shi Xueting cutting his finger with a knife.

Shi Xueting walked up to the dragon head, stretched out his index finger and tapped on the two longan eyes respectively, the strange thing is, the blood beads that should have slipped from the stone actually seeped in, and those longan eyes instantly seemed to have a pair of blood-colored pupils .

Li Congjia went over to look at it for a long time but couldn't see why. He couldn't help asking: "What kind of material is this? How can it suck blood? Is it only your blood that can do it, or can everyone else do it?"

As he asked, he took out a box of ointment and applied it to Shi Xueting's fingers. Shi Xueting let Li Congjia hold his hand and said, "Only the blood of the Li family can open it."

After he finished speaking, Li Congjia heard a tooth-piercing crunching sound from the dragon's head. Accompanied by this sound, the dragon's mouth actually opened, revealing the stone path inside.

Li Congjia thinks that this matter is simply too unscientific. There is no scientific basis for things like bloodlines, unless the dragon can identify genes, but genes cannot be distinguished through blood. Test it before, otherwise you will know whether only the Li family can open this dragon head.

"Let's go, without further ado, let's go in quickly, we will probably reach our first destination from here." Shi Xueting pulled Li Congjia into the faucet.

To be honest, this dragon head is really very realistic. After the dragon's mouth is opened, you can see the very sharp teeth inside. To be honest, walking through such a place is still very stressful.

As soon as Li Congjia and the others stepped into the faucet, he suddenly heard a very strange sound. The sound was similar to sea waves. The reason why he said it was strange was... He heard the sound of sea waves in this place. Don't tell him he was hallucinating?

However, before he could ask, Shi Xueting's face changed and he said: "No, let's go."

After finishing speaking, they dragged Li Congjia forward. Although Qiushou and the others didn't understand, they knew that it was right to follow Shi Xueting here, so they also ran forward.

A group of people ran rumbling past inside the dragon body, except for Shi Xueting, no one knew what happened.

But soon, everyone's questions were answered.

During the running, Li Congjia took time to look behind, but this look almost scared his soul away—behind them, a large stream of water rushed directly into the faucet, and attacked them at an extremely fast speed. Come!

Li Congjia: The Japanese are immortal!