The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

Lao Mo took the compass and set the direction according to the angle calculated by Xiao Lou.

In order to reach the position of Tianquan Star as quickly as possible, Yu Hanjiang activated the Qinggong card and took him to Xiao Lou, Lao Mo took Liu Qiao, and Lu Jiuchuan also rode Suzaku. Continue due west.

Although there will be many forks along the way, there is a compass for positioning, as long as the direction is accurate, you will not go wrong.

On the other hand, Ye Qi and Shao Qingge both have teleportation cards, Long Sen and Qu Wanyue can use "Long Jump Master" to jump 8 meters at a time, Chu Huaying's own movement speed is very fast, Gui Yuanzhang's writing brush is not bad The airflow generated in the air assisted the flight, and everyone followed the direction and distance that Xiao Lou said.

Within 3 minutes, Gui Yuanzhang and six people came to a stone room.

Xiao Lou and the others just happened to come from another direction.

Ye Qi said excitedly: "It seems that Professor Xiao's conjecture is correct, this should be the location of Tianquan Star, right?!"

Xiao Lou nodded, "Go in and have a look."

The stone door was closed tightly and could not be pushed.

There is a complicated "chessboard" on the door, which is covered with white stones of the same size. The stone in the middle above is fixed, and the surrounding stones are arranged in an extremely messy manner.

Lu Jiuzhou rubbed his chin and looked at the chessboard on the stone gate, and asked, "Is it the endgame of Go?"

Yu Hanjiang immediately denied: "No. There are black and white stones in Go, and there are only white stones on this chessboard. How can you play chess with stones of one color?"

Lu Jiuchuan is not embarrassed to guess wrong, he laughed: "What is that? Do these stones represent stars?"

Gui Yuanzhang went to the stone gate to take a closer look, and nodded to confirm Lu Jiuchuan's speculation: "It should be the star map agency."

Xiao Lou observed for a while, and said: "The star map mechanism, all the white stones represent a star, we need to reset the star map to open this door. The fixed white stone in the middle..."

Gui Yuanzhang asked: "Is it the missing Tianquan star?"

Xiao Lou thought for a while, and said, "It's in the middle of the top, and it might be the Polaris."

After finishing speaking, he lightly touched the stone in the middle with his hand, and found that the stone could not move.

The ancients identified the direction, and the Polaris was a very important reference mark.

When traveling at night, if you can find the Polaris in the sky, it is due north, and the opposite is due south, up north, down south, left west and right east, so that you can guess your specific direction without getting lost.

The star map related to Polaris and the theme of this tomb is "Seven Stars Arching the Moon". Obviously, what they need to restore on the star map is the trajectory of the "Big Dipper".

The moment Xiao Lou touched Polaris, the star map in front of him suddenly changed.

There are two white stones moving on the board, and finally stop at the lower right corner of the board, and the connecting line is facing the North Star.

Xiao Loudao: "This is a reminder item, which helped us locate Tianshu Star and Tianxuan Star."

After all, many challengers are not able to draw pictures while walking the maze like Xiao Lou and the others, and they may not be able to analyze that the connection between the living burial tombs on the lower floor is the symbol of the Big Dipper.Therefore, the star map mechanism of this Shimen will give some hints to the challenger.

Seeing the Polaris in the due north and seeing the connecting line below, it is easy to deduce that this is the figure of the Big Dipper.

No matter how the Big Dipper changes, the spoon part of the "colander" must face the North Star.Now that Tianshu and Tianxuan have been positioned, it will not be difficult for Xiao Lou to restore the other stars.

The line connecting Tianshu and Tianxuan forms an obtuse angle is Tianji star, and next to it is Tianquan star...

Xiao Lou stretched out his slender fingers, picked up the stones on the chessboard according to the "colander" pattern in his memory, and quickly pieced together a star map of the "Big Dipper Array".

After the star map was completed, a layer of soft light lit up on the chessboard.

Sure enough, the mechanism of Shimen was unlocked, and the sound of "boom" rising from Shimen came from everyone's ears.

Everyone looked at each other, and Tang Ci cautiously put the mechanical ants into the stone room first, to see if there were any trampling mechanisms inside.The ants circled around and after confirming that it was safe, Yu Hanjiang and Lu Jiuchuan walked into the stone room first.

The other teammates followed closely behind.

This stone room is about 100 square meters, very spacious, and a whole circle of ever-burning lamps are lit on the walls of the stone room, illuminating the whole stone room brightly.A sarcophagus is placed on the most middle table.The volume of the sarcophagus is larger than that of the living burial coffin found in the lower layer, and many strange spells are engraved on the body of the coffin.

Xiao Lou carefully looked at the spells, which seemed to be consistent with the totems found on the lower living burial coffin.

At this moment, the whole stone room suddenly shook violently, and everyone was almost unable to stand still. Yu Hanjiang hurriedly supported Xiao Lou, and said: "It seems that this maze is about to collapse, we have to hurry up!"

The lights of the ever-burning lamps kept flickering, and some limestone fell from the roof like snow. Obviously, the explosion had affected the tomb on the upper floor, and it was about to collapse soon.

Xiao Lou realized the seriousness of the problem, and hurriedly said: "Everyone separate to check the surrounding walls, Han Jiang, see if you can open this sarcophagus!"

Yu Hanjiang nodded, flew to the front of the sarcophagus lightly, raised the saber in his hand, and slashed horizontally——

The entire coffin lid was instantly split off by his force.

Xiao Lou stepped forward and looked inside the coffin - he saw a corpse lying inside, surrounded by a lot of funerary objects such as gold, silver, jewelry and jade jewelry, each of which looked priceless.Seeing this, Shao Qingge couldn't help but said: "Can these funds be sold?"

Xiao Lou said, "Don't move for now."

He pulled these treasures aside with his hands, exposing the complete bones in the sarcophagus.

Judging from the shape of the pelvis and the quality of the bones, this should be an elderly male. Obvious degenerative changes can be seen on the edge of the vertebrae. The preliminary estimate is that he is over 50 years old.

And, most importantly, only his torso remained - but his head was missing.

Where is his head?

Seeing this, his teammates looked at each other, and Ye Qi couldn't help asking: "Is this corpse without a head?"

Xiao Lou stared at the bone thoughtfully, and Yu Hanjiang said, "The name of Zhou Chang's secret room this time is [Tomb of the Headless General]. Could it be that this headless bone is the owner of the ancient tomb?"

As soon as the words fell, the sarcophagus suddenly moved sideways, revealing a downward step.

Ye Qi was overjoyed: "This is the exit of the maze, right?"

The teammates just wanted to go down to have a look, Xiao Lou suddenly said: "Don't go down, something is wrong."

He looked at the headless bones in the coffin, and said with doubts: "The ancients were most concerned about leaving the whole body after death. His tomb is so luxurious. Not only does it have the mechanism of six reincarnations, but there is even a funeral coffin with seven stars arching the moon on the lower floor. Obviously, he wants to become immortal after death, and ascend to bliss forever...how could he let his head be separated?"

Ye Qi quickly withdrew his step forward: "It makes sense, death without a whole body should be the most taboo of the ancients."

Gui Yuanzhang also nodded and said: "It's really unreasonable. This skeleton has no head, maybe he offended someone during his lifetime, and his enemy chopped off his head during the burial?"

Ye Qi was puzzled: "He was beheaded during the burial? If there was really a deep hatred, why would he only cut off his head? He must be chopped up and fed to the dogs. Can he still lie comfortably in the grave?"

Indeed, in a deep hatred, how could anyone just behead his head and bury him in a tomb?

As Ye Qi said, if he was really an enemy, his corpse would definitely be exposed in the wilderness, and let this person's corpse be gnawed by wild dogs.

Gui Yuanzhang said: "There is another possibility - this is actually a suspicious coffin."

When Xiao Lou heard Senior Gui's words, he immediately reacted: "That's right, the person in this coffin is not the owner of the tomb. He put a sarcophagus here and put a headless corpse in it. It's just a trick to confuse the grave robbers. of!"

Obscuring the eyes is a common method used in ancient tombs.

In order to prevent future generations from coming to rob the tomb, they usually put some fake coffins and corpses to confuse the tomb robbers, while the real tomb owner is often hidden in a more hidden place.

The name of Zhou Chang this time is "Tomb of the Headless General". After many twists and turns, everyone finally found the central tomb, and found a lot of gold and silver treasures and headless bones. Many people will naturally think subconsciously that they have found the tomb. The main and the exit of the labyrinth.If you are not careful enough, you may go down this step...

Tang Ci released his mechanical ants: "Let me investigate first."

As the mechanical ants descended the steps, the sound of "swiping" suddenly sounded in everyone's ears. Xiao Lou put the drone monitoring card on the mechanical ant, and everyone saw a scene from the monitoring card that was shocking. screen of -

Going down from here, it turned out to be a trap room full of arrows!

As long as the challenger's feet step on the slate tiles of the secret room, the mechanism will be triggered, and dense poisonous arrows will be shot from the surrounding walls, making it inevitable for people to avoid it. If you are a little careless, you may even be shot as a hedgehog...

Ye Qi was terrified when he saw it: "The little girl with square pieces is too cheating, and finally played such a trick!"

Lu Jiuchuan complained in a low voice: "I have long said that she is a pervert."

Fortunately, Xiao Lou and Senior Gui thought about it calmly. If they were worried about the collapse of the maze and ran down the steps in a panic just now... those who reacted a little slower would have been shot to death in the maze by random arrows.

Yu Hanjiang frowned: "This is fake, so where is the real tomb owner?"

Xiao Lou asked: "Have you found the surrounding walls again?"

Chu Huaying said: "I have checked all around, there is no compartment, no mechanism."

Xiao Lou raised his head and looked above the coffin.

Since there are no traps on the surrounding walls of the stone room, and the secret room below is an arrow rain room deliberately designed to deceive people, the greatest possibility is that there is another trap above it, and the person buried there is the real owner of the tomb.

Xiao Lou looked carefully at the roof.

This roof is very much like an astrolabe map, with many stone-like decorations densely pasted on it, and one of the largest stones can be used as the North Star. I followed the direction of the astrolabe map on the stone gate just now and found the arrangement. These seven stones are obviously brighter than the surrounding ones.

There are many vacancies around the Big Dipper array, like grooves.

Those grooves... the shape looks familiar?There are round ones, and crescent-shaped ones...

Xiao Lou thought of the ornaments representing different tribes that he found in the living burial coffin before, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and asked, "Senior Gui, have you brought all the things you found in the living burial coffin?"

Gui Yuanzhang stretched out his hand and handed the bracelet and pendant painted with totem patterns to Xiao Lou.

Xiao Lou took out the wooden comb and jade pendant he found from his pocket, looked at Yu Hanjiang, pointed to the groove next to the star map on the roof, and said, "Hanjiang, try to see if you can put these things on the roof. in the groove."

Yu Hanjiang flew up lightly, and put the four "tokens" in the groove——

One of the grooves can hold a bracelet; the semicircular one can hold a wooden comb;

The four props are put into the four grooves, and they fit perfectly!

The corners of Xiao Lou's lips twitched: "The props found in the living burial coffin are the key to the final tomb."

As the props were put in, there was a "rumbling" sound in everyone's ears, and the slate bricks above their heads suddenly parted to the two sides, revealing a square skylight that was big enough for one person to pass through.

Lao Mo suddenly realized: "There is another layer above. It seems that this tomb is actually a three-layer structure?"

In order not to be tricked again, Tang Ci quickly released the drone to investigate. Soon, the drone flew back to his hands. The camera recorded the approximate image seen in the stone room. Tang Ci said: "In the secret room above , and a sarcophagus."

——This is the real owner of the ancient tomb!