Ancient Art of Sealing Ghosts

"Could it be something?" I wiped my face, pretended to be calm and said, "There are so many things, there is no way to avoid a fierce battle."

The uncle shook his head, sighed and stepped back: "I'm afraid this is not a trap, it was just drawn out by a mechanism. There are so many spider webs here, don't you guys still understand?"

"It's a spider?" As soon as my uncle reminded me, I immediately thought of the extremely tough spider silk nearby, and couldn't help but feel a chill.

"It's a spider." Xiang Wen nodded affirmatively, and then asked the uncle, "But how are you sure it's not a trap?"

"Isn't this obvious." The uncle said, "This is the palace of the Earth Milk King. The entrance of the underground palace is under the jade seat. The subsequent generations of kings probably used this mechanism. How could they use it often? In the place where spiders are set up, these spider webs are gradually produced after the fall of the ancient kingdom of Khotan. In my opinion, they should be attracted by something underground, and then continue to spread in the palace. Only by multiplying will it become what it is now."

I was a little puzzled, looked at the gloomy and dark entrance, and said: "According to what you said, it was the noise we made when we turned on the mechanism that woke them up, so they want to get a share of the pie now. Want to go down here?"

"You can say that." The uncle waved his hand to signal Daofeng to get ready, we quickly sorted everything amidst the dense crawling sounds of countless spiders, and sneaked into the entrance of the tunnel in order.

When the uncle entered the tunnel, he said to us: "Judging from those spider webs, the spiders here should be very aggressive. We must find a way to close this mechanism, otherwise when they catch up, we will be no match for us with two fists. At that time, it will be difficult to leave a whole body.”

What the uncle said made me immediately see a group of African blood leeches sucking people dry. I thought that spiders are not real leeches, so they shouldn’t be so scary, but thinking about the number and weird spider webs, these spiders The actual combat performance of the leech may be more terrifying than the leech.

Because of the location, Leo and I were at the end of the team. As I was walking, I turned my head and used a flashlight to illuminate the passage where we came, and found that the spiders moved quickly, and some of the vanguard troops had already followed us.Under the strong light of the wolf's eyes, those guys are extremely huge. Not counting the eight slender hairy legs, they are as big as my palm when they are naked.

If we let them catch up, our fate may be worse than that of people who are sucked dry by leeches.

Thinking of my scalp tightening, I hastened to catch up with the person in front.

The passage under the jade seat was built very early. Compared with the imperial tombs we have seen before, this place can be described as simple.

Looking around, there are stone roads repaired by complete boulders all around. There is no decoration on the walls on both sides of the stone road, basically there is not even a big hole. Dao Feng leads the way at the front. When it existed, he shook his head firmly and said, "No."

I poked the stone wall next to me with my flashlight, thinking that it would be strange to have a mechanism. If there is a mechanism on such a thick and strong stone wall, it must be on the surface, and it is impossible to detect it with a sword. If the mechanism is a little deeper inside the stone wall, then the effect on the outside world is almost equal to zero.

Unless the mechanism can make the entire stone wall work and crush us into meatloaf, but judging from the fact that there are no joints in the surrounding boulders, this passage is absolutely safe and environmentally friendly. With so many, it is more likely that he ordered people to open this passage from top to bottom, rather than repairing it bit by bit.

This made me think that the earth milk king spent all the money and manpower of the whole country to hide the secret of the extreme earth. Could it be that he just wants his descendants to enjoy the secret of immortality?The mysterious space at the bottom of the extreme earth is really just as simple as making people live forever?But if it is really immortal, why would there be so many successors after the Earth Milk King.

Just thinking about it, something seemed to be found in front, Dao Feng and the uncle stopped, and we had to stand still and wait.

The uncle said that the King of Earth Milk should not make the institutions here so unpredictable, because under the general environment at that time, his status was supreme, and basically no thieves would interfere with him, and he probably would not have thought of our generation.And every time he enters this tunnel, he must close the mechanism from the inside, otherwise outsiders will easily see the flaws, and if he comes a few more times, he will not be able to keep this secret.

It can be deduced from this that the internal mechanism switch should also be in a place that is easy to use.

But when we got inside, we found that things were not so simple. After all, it has been so long. The underground palace built by the Earth Milk King has long been improved by later generations, and when the ancient city of Khotan was destroyed, it seemed that it was destroyed artificially. .

I think it was probably done by the last generation of kings who guarded this ancient city.

The uncle told us that the citizens of the ancient country of Khotan had migrated on a large scale. Before that, there was a primitive ancient town in Khotan that lasted only three generations. That is the ruins under our feet now. The kings who used to be in charge of it were: King Diru, Ye Huluo, and Yuchi Sanbapo I, later the people of Khotan migrated, and Khotan had new towns and became more and more prosperous. At that time, the kings were not as mysterious as the previous generations. The family has been hiding this secret without knowing it.

Therefore, this passage leading to the extreme of the earth was most likely destroyed by Yuchi Sanbapo I. He destroyed this passage at the last moment of the ancient city's destruction, just to keep Khotan's oldest secret.

Dao Feng glanced at the destroyed passage, and found that there were only a few boulders broken, forming a deep ditch, and said, "No problem, we can pass."

After finishing speaking, he wrapped the rope around his wrist, grasped several protruding stones with both hands, and with a little effort from his body, he turned upside down to the top, and then slowly crawled forward towards us with his back. The degree of danger shocked me into a cold sweat, and I thought to myself how did I work hard?If you accidentally fall down, you will be half disabled if you don't die.

Later, I found that Daofeng had special climbing tools on his arms and feet, and he was very strong, so he could still persist for a short distance.

The bottom of the deep ditch was pitch black, and occasionally there were two strange movements, so we could only pass from above, and it was impossible to venture down and try to find a way to the opposite side.

Fortunately, this distance is not too long, and we can climb it if we have ropes.

At this time, those spiders were already approaching us. Because of their huge size and limited crawling speed, they could not rush to our feet like dogs, so they avoided some danger and gave us a lot of time to escape. .

When Dao Feng was arranging the ropes, sister Xuan turned around and shot the spiders a few times, slowing down their approaching speed.

After Dao Feng successfully reached the opposite side, he fixed the rope on the rock wall, so that we could climb over by the rope instead of making difficult movements like him.

That's really embarrassing, especially for people like me and Xiang Wen, I guess it's hard to get over it.

I crossed the deep ditch with great effort, and I collapsed from exhaustion. I tried my best to get up the rope. When my body was suspended in the middle, I thought I was going to fall several times, and my arms were so sore that I could hardly hold on to things.

Dao Feng found the mechanism switch in the cave behind the deep ditch, which is a very primitive push-pull handle.But the switch is now pinched by a collapsed boulder, and I tried it, but it couldn't be pulled at all.

Those spiders gathered at the edge of the deep ditch after we came over, and a few of them accidentally fell into it during the crowding process and never climbed up again. The rest of the spiders did not dare to move rashly, and stood on the edge wriggling.

I reluctantly stepped aside, Dao Feng glanced at me, walked over and put his hand into the place where I touched the handle of the switch just now, and then pulled the switch out of the pile of rocks without changing his face.

Amidst the rumbling sound of the mechanism closing, I saw the veins in his hands bulge, and knowing that he had used a certain amount of strength, I couldn't help but feel better. This shows that the mechanism is not something that ordinary people can pull. It only takes a little more effort, and the rest of the people can only stand and watch.

We thought that we would have survived the catastrophe if we got the mechanism right, but who knew that the spiders coming in from the jade seat were far more than we thought.

And these spiders are not just big, they still haven't flinched in front of the deep ditch.

The deep ditch criss-crosses the stone road, like a crossroad, but the crossroad is red now, if you want to come over, you can only jump, if you can't jump, you have to climb the rope like us.

It was impossible for the spiders to jump over, so they intertwined with each other in the way of stacking arhats, reaching the highest point layer by layer, forming a huge black strange shadow, and then saw the strange shadow suddenly fall forward, the front end fell At the other end of the deep ditch, it became a spider bridge, and the spiders behind used this bridge to pass through the deep ditch, and climbed to our position again at the original speed.

We were stunned in place, and we were extremely amazed by the scene we saw in just a few minutes. I thought to myself that those spiders could withstand such a big impact, they must have used more energy than us to entangle each other. The amazing thing is that none of the spiders fell when they made that move.

"What are you still doing, you can't let them come over." After being surprised, Sister Xuan immediately said: "Shoot and kill them!"

Reminded by Sister Xuan, Leo immediately raised his gun, aimed at the middle part of the spider bridge, and knocked those spiders over with one shot.

Without the bridge, the spiders immediately began to gather again, and were knocked down by Leo again. After doing this several times, not a few spiders fell into the deep ditch, and a few of them crawled over by chance, and were shot by sister Xuan.

Xiaohai was called back by me when she was crossing the deep ditch, and there is no room for her to play right now, so I didn't call her again.It's just that during this moment of being stunned for a moment, I felt the temperature around me suddenly drop, which seemed to be a very strong sense of oppression, which forced me to take a sharp breath of cold air.

"There is a ghost." A vague impression suddenly appeared in my mind, and I couldn't help whispering: "It came up from that ditch."

As soon as I finished speaking, I saw the group of spiders that Sister Xuan and Leo couldn't retreat with guns stopped all their movements in an instant.

Then, as agreed, all the spiders trembled and turned over, curled up together with their legs upside down.