Outside the Yumen Pass, there has always been a vast expanse of yellow sand that is uninhabited.
The three of them rode camels to the target location shown on the map.
According to common sense, there should be no people on this road. After all, the desert is full of sand. Even if someone walked the road ahead of the three of them in the morning, those footprints would soon be buried by the wind and sand.However, the closer you get to your destination, the more something goes wrong in the desert.The three of them still haven't seen any living people, but they have seen more than one group of corpses.
Li Er turned over the body whose head was buried in the sand. The dead person was about 40 years old. He had seen this person many years ago. "Feng Gang, Hunyuan Saber in Guanzhong, also died in a melee. He is the No. 15 deceased we found."
Fifteen corpses scattered in different places were found in the desert, which only shows that there are more undiscovered corpses that have been swallowed by the wind and sand.
The causes of death of these corpses are roughly the same. They were wounded to death by sharp weapons, but those sharp weapons were not from the same hands. It can be seen that they had gone through a scuffle before them. same.
This kind of death points to one thing. The tomb robber said that the people who went to the ghost town to hunt for treasure never came back. Those people were not necessarily haunted by ghosts and could not return. It was more likely that several waves of people bumped into each other one after another. Treasure fights and dies in the desert.
"Things may have been stolen."
Lu Xiaofeng felt that they might have arrived late, or that someone had already stolen the treasure, and that thing had attracted several waves of people fighting each other, otherwise there was no need to fight halfway.
Having said that, you still have to see it with your own eyes to confirm the guess, and you have gone halfway, and you can't give up halfway.
When the sun was setting one day, the three finally found the rumored ghost town.
It cannot be called a city, because there is no trace of the city on the ground at all, but after searching the desert with a radius of hundreds of miles, I finally found the so-called half of the palace entrance.
It was a half-hidden stone door half exposed on the sand.If it weren't for the fact that there were many bones left over in recent months nearby, it was really hard to conclude that it was the place we were looking for.
Pushing open the half-closed stone gate, wading through the sand pouring into the stone path, and passing through a few more gates, the light from the torch illuminated the situation in front of him.
There is a long stone brick corridor in front of me, and there is a strange wind sound of "chihuchihu" in the corridor, which is somewhat like the sound of wind blowing sand and stones on the ground and then deformed when they enter the ground, but there is no more yellow sand here. trace.
Once there is less sand that can bury traces, there will be more or less traces of people who came and went on the ground, like a series of footprints, not only going inward, but also going outward.
Then the speculation that the treasure has been stolen is likely to be true.
The three of them walked through the corridor cautiously, not hearing anything other than the strange wind.
However, after Le Yuancen excluded the wind noise in the tunnel, she also confirmed another thing by the extremely weak sound of air flowing from the cracks in the stone. There must be many other tunnels beside this tunnel.
To put it more clearly, this place is really an underground city, not just a door leading to a stone chamber, but a criss-crossing underground labyrinth.
I'm afraid the half door exposed to the ground is just the tip of the iceberg.
"You guessed right, the things have been taken away." Le Yuancen looked at the open stone room at the end of the corridor.
The stone room is not as spacious as the lobby of the inn. There are more than a dozen boxes in it, but most of them have been lifted, and the contents inside have been half-empty.
Li Er bent down and looked at the inside of the lid of the wooden box, and there was a list of the contents in the box one by one. Most of them were gold, silver and jewelry, but there was one thing that made him frown slightly.
"Golden Silk Armor. It turns out that there really is such a treasure."
The box is already empty.
The box containing the golden silk armor is also filled with items such as the Dark Rain Flying Needle, the Soul Chasing Iron Lock, etc. It can be seen that this box originally stored unusual weapons.
"Gold silk armor? Is it a rumored invulnerable treasure?"
Lu Xiaofeng asked curiously, "Similar rumors have spread throughout the ages. There are many people talking about such things, but few of them have actually seen them."
"Brother Lu, you are right. There are very few people who have seen the golden silk armor. It is because of this that it is regarded as a treasure for self-defense. It is not only invulnerable to swords and guns, but also invulnerable to fire and water."
Li Er seemed to have thought of something, couldn't help but took out his wine bag and took a sip of wine, "Ten years ago, many people hoped that they could escape catastrophe by owning such a treasure."
Lu Xiaofeng was only in his twenties, and more than ten years ago he had no connection with Jianghu. "What happened then?"
Li Er doesn't like to mention the past. "The golden silk armor was once hidden here, and now it has been taken away, but there shouldn't be much problem. That person should be dead."
Li Er didn't want to mention more, so Lu Xiaofeng could only continue to look through the box.
Everyone has something they don't want to mention, so don't force the other person to mention it.
The stone room was a little quiet.
Le Yuancen listened to the conversation between the two, she walked around the stone room and stood in front of a wall.
Although it is not yet known where the mechanism is, it is certain that the back of this wall is connected to the underground labyrinth.This stone room is not the end of the corridor, on the contrary, it is the entrance to the underground palace.It's just that the people who came in front most likely only valued the treasures in the box, and left after emptying the box.
Le Yuancen suddenly turned around and looked at the dazed Li Er, "I have a question. Li Er, why did you come to the desert, because this is a good place? How do you know it is a good place?"
The underground city hidden under the faint yellow sand, judging from its construction scale, it is hard to say who made it.It is near the ancient city of Loulan, which may be related to the ancient civilization of Loulan, but it has not been vacant for thousands of years. These wooden boxes prove that people have used the underground palace here for more than a hundred years.
Le Yuancen came here to track down the traces of Xiaoyaohou.
It's not because of a slap in the head that Xiaoyaohou will leave traces outside the customs, but because of a rare compound surname 'Geshu'.
There is evidence that Xiaoyaohou is related to the Zeng Geshu tribe, which originated from the Turkic people in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and then the territory of the Western Turks is in the desert of the Western Regions.Xiaoyaohou's martial arts are very high, and he is not a Central Plains martial arts at all, his martial arts can only come from outside the Great Wall.
Perhaps, this secret is hidden in the desert ghost town, and the stone room in front of him has already shown that there has been an unusual owner here.Then, Li Er must have some reason to come here.
Li Er didn't say anything, he came here because he was worried, "Can't I just guess? Guess this place is a good place."
Le Yuancen continued to ask, "Of course you can guess, and you guessed it right. There used to be gold silk armor here, and it's not easy to look at the contents of these boxes. Then you guess again Guess who they used to belong to?"
Lu Xiaofeng didn't know what turmoil happened in the world more than ten years ago, which made many people yearn for the golden silk armor, but Le Yuancen had read Yuan's arrester's handbook, including some important cases over the past few decades, Among them was a plum blossom thief who terrified the people of Jianghu.The appearance of the Plum Blossom Thief made many people in the Jianghu want to obtain the golden silk armor, so as to be able to avoid his murderous hands.
Li Er has experienced that period of turmoil, and he came here definitely not because of speculation or feeling.
Lu Xiaofeng stopped raising the lid of the box, he felt that the atmosphere in the stone room became weird, and he had the illusion that a policeman was interrogating a suspect.At this time, he should say something.Three people act together, isn't it just for one person to play a regulating role.
However, Li Er didn't wait for Lu Xiaofeng to speak, he said three words under Le Yuancen's direct gaze, "Happy King."
"When I was young, I heard the rumors about the Happy King of the Western Regions. The Happy King haunts the yellow sands. His martial arts are world-class, and he has many rare treasures in the world."
Li Er didn't know much about the rumored Happy King, "It's been more than 20 years, no one mentioned Happy King in the Jianghu, he should be dead. Just because some people died, it doesn't mean he is harmless .If this used to be the place where the Happy King lived, then I'm afraid there are many organs hidden."
Because of this, Li Er wanted to go to the ghost town in the desert to verify his conjecture.
"You said it earlier, wouldn't you?" Le Yuancen laughed, she already knew Li Er's character very well.
If everything goes according to Li Er's intentions, then don't try to learn anything from him, he is only willing to say a few more words if he wants someone to get closer.
Things are probably clear now.
Le Yuancen suspects that this place is related to Xiaoyaohou, and Li Er suspects that this place is related to Happy King.
Lu Xiaofeng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't want the two of them to be dead in the stone room.It seems that these two people understand each other's personalities quite well, and they usually don't fight stiffly.
Thinking of this, he confidently opened the last unopened wooden box.
Like other wooden boxes, there was nothing inside, but unlike the previous wooden boxes, after the lid of this box was opened, suddenly there were many sounds of stone slabs falling into the stone room.
Lu Xiaofeng immediately reached out to close the lid of the box, but it was useless, even a stone blocking the entrance of the stone room had fallen.
"Don't bother." Le Yuancen didn't rush out before the blocking stone fell.Because it was useless to rush, listening to the sounds just now, a lot of stones had fallen on the corridor where he came from just now, and it was impossible to go back the same way.
Lu Xiaofeng carefully checked the box in front of him again.At this moment, he discovered that the box was fixed on the ground and could not be moved, and he was afraid that the box cover would affect some mechanism.There may be many reasons why the previous visitors failed to activate such a mechanism. For example, the mechanism must be emptied before the mechanism is activated, or the opportunity is activated only after opening and closing a certain number of times.
Le Yuancen heard a slight click on the stone wall in front of him. One door of the stone room was closed, but at the same time the passage at the other end was opened.She pressed the stone brick that made a slight noise, and saw the wall slowly move away to the left and right sides, and a dark and long corridor appeared in front of her.
"Brother Lu, it seems that your luck is good. No matter who lived here, this road should lead us to find the answer. Why don't we guess, will there be a Happy King?"
Lu Xiaofeng was still silently mourning his weird luck.Even if a door was opened, why did it close the previous door.This is no room for them to choose at all, they can only go in an unknown direction.
"According to what Mr. Li said, Happy King has disappeared for more than 20 years. I think he is already a corpse even here. A dead person can't become a big threat."
"I hope so." Le Yuancen picked up the torch and walked forward, she said casually, "The corpse is really not a threat, as long as it doesn't fall from the sky and block the road."
After the three of them stepped into the corridor, after walking for a long time, they heard the stone wall behind them slowly closing again, and it didn't take long before they came to three closed stone doors.
The three looked at each other for a while.It was Lu Xiaofeng who spoke first, "Who among us is luckier?"
This problem is very worrying.
Li Er coughed again. If he went back more than ten years, he would think he was lucky.Regardless of academics or martial arts, he is very talented and has a childhood sweetheart cousin. At that time, he didn't know what he lacked in the rest of his life.It was only after more than ten years that the black hair at the temples had become more colorful, and he realized how innocent the boy was back then.
"Brother Lu, since you opened the lid of the wooden box, it's up to you to choose."
Le Yuancen handed over the right to choose to Lu Xiaofeng, she is very confident in many things, except for luck, she is not willing to be a conceited person.
Lu Xiaofeng instantly felt a heavy burden on his shoulders. In fact, his luck was also very strange, otherwise how could he ride a horse casually and end up with an old horse with a story.
"Then I'll choose. I think it's the one in the middle, neither left nor right. I hope it will be peaceful."
Lu Xiaofeng stretched out his hand and opened the door, but standing at the door, he couldn't know what would be beyond the stone path.
After the three of them entered the door, the stone door was closed again, and walking along the stone path, they saw strange red patterns painted on the stone walls on both sides. These red marks were not cinnabar, but they had no way of knowing what they were of powder.In order not to cause trouble, no one touched the red mark, but walked forward without squinting.
However, when the three of them came to a bend, they suddenly felt a strong wind blowing from the stone wall on one side, and this wind extinguished two of the three torches.
At this moment, all three of them felt the stone slab under their feet move, and they stepped on a certain mechanism.
"We just took ninety-nine and 81 steps." Le Yuan Cenmo counted the number of steps after entering the door. Although she didn't know what it would be useful for, these special numbers in the formation would always bring some changes.The next moment, she smelled a faint fishy smell in the air, "Did you smell a snake?"
"There's something coming from behind!"
After Li Er said this, many gaps were cracked on the top of the stone path that the three of them walked behind, and a bunch of things could only be heard falling from above.Those are small red snakes the size of a thumb. Their snake heads are all triangular in shape, and the possibility of being non-toxic is very low.
These little snakes don't know what they do for a living. Maybe they have been sleeping for a long time, but they were disturbed by the three humans.Generally speaking, after waking up, it is natural to eat, so it will inevitably swim quickly to chase the three rations in front of it.
What else could Le Yuancen and the other three do?Of course it is to run forward!
You can't just blindly run away passively. While running, you have to turn around and kill those small snakes that swim extremely fast, otherwise running is useless.
Li Er took out a few flying knives from nowhere, but he didn't do it immediately, because the number of knives was far less than the number of snakes.
"Use stones." Without talking nonsense, Le Yuancen slapped the bricks on the rock wall with his palm. Don't care if it will trigger other organs at this time, let's get local materials first.A stone brick shattered into some small stones under the palm of the hand.
These gravels were shot out from Li Er's fingers, before he saw how he shot these stones, several small snakes fell to the ground.
These techniques have reached the extremely high level of the flying knife technique, so they can aim at the small snakes that are moving at a high speed, and kill them all impartially.
In such a hasty pursuit and escape, Le Yuancen chose different locations for the bricks and stones. She had to make sure that she couldn't knock the stones and collapse the stone path and bury the three of them alive.Just as she was hitting the stone brick, Li Er quickly took over the gravel and attacked the group of snakes that could not be killed no matter what, the three of them had passed through many bends.
Lu Xiaofeng ran in the front and was in charge of choosing which fork to escape to.
At this time, he really felt that it would be good to learn an aggressive kung fu, so he wouldn't have to bear the heavy responsibility of leading the way.However, this underground palace didn't know how big the area was. The three of them had been running for more than half an hour, but they still couldn't get rid of the red snake behind them, and broke into the sharp-shooting formation.
The stone paths on both sides became narrower and narrower, and only one person could pass through.
Rows of sharp knives protruded from both sides of the stone wall. These knives were probably all weapons that would break their hair. They seemed to be controlled by some kind of mechanism, waving in the narrow stone path again and again, The three of them could no longer continue to run forward quickly.
Immediately there are red poisonous snakes chasing closely, and in front is a formation of blades that is difficult to penetrate.
This is not unlucky enough, what is even more unlucky is that there is a stone wall at the end of the blade array, it is hard to say whether they have reached a dead end.
Le Yuancen untied his backpack first.No matter what, she had to pass through the blade formation. She watched the change of the blade formation, and took advantage of a gap to throw the backpack into the air. The backpack quickly passed through the blade formation and landed on the other side without damage.
"Brother Lu, you just need to fly over like a backpack."
Lu Xiaofeng also took off his backpack, people must carry water and dry food with them in the desert, and it is impossible to leave the backpack until the last step.This time, he also referred to Le Yuancen's finding a short space to throw his backpack, and his backpack landed unscathed.
However, Lu Xiaofeng looked at his own stature, could he be equal to a small backpack?However, at this moment, if they can't be equal, they must be equal.
"I've never wished I was slimmer than I am now. I'll go first—"
It was too late to say, but it was so fast at that time, it was only a few breaths, Lu Xiaofeng crossed the blade array almost in a wave shape with an extremely dexterous posture.However, at the last moment when he retracted his feet, a strand of fabric on the toe of the shoe was cut off by a sharp blade, allowing him to expose his thumb.
Lu Xiaofeng looked at the toes and said happily, "Fortunately, you didn't give up on my toes."
"Li Er, you go first!" Le Yuancen tore off his clothes and wrapped a small pile of rubble while speaking, and threw it to the other side of the blade array.
Li Er needs to seize the gap between the snakes and go first, Le Yuancen can take advantage of the situation to block for a while, and after Li Er passes by, he can also shoot stones through the blade to attack the attacking red snake.If he was allowed to go last, no one would be able to accurately cut off the back.
"You have to be quick." Li Er didn't hesitate at this moment, he handed all seven throwing knives to Le Yuancen. "If a stone doesn't work, use a knife."
Le Yuancen held a throwing knife. She really didn't like to fight against snakes, and the smaller the snake, the more troublesome it was. The bigger snake had a clear target and it was easier to kill.But these little snakes are more difficult to kill if they are scattered one by one. Without a weapon, they can only attack with the power of their palms. I don't know how long they will attack, and they seem to be endless.
How many snakes are raised in this grotto?And why raise snakes even if there is a disagreement?Can't it be replaced with other animals?
Le Yuancen didn't think about it further, because poisonous scorpions and poisonous insects would be more troublesome, but at this moment she actually heard Li Er calling "Shiyin" in a low voice behind her.
Lu Xiaofeng was taken aback by Li Er, this man was about to jump out of the blade formation, but suddenly his expression suddenly changed.Fortunately, Lu Xiaofeng grabbed Li Er with quick eyesight and quick hands, so that he didn't lose a leg by the blade.
Lu Xiaofeng just wanted to ask what's the matter, he also felt dizzy and couldn't condense his inner strength, as if Sikong Zhaixing appeared in front of his eyes.He really wanted to discuss it with Sikong Zhaixing, and stop being greedy for cheap when buying a horse next time.
illusion!This is definitely an illusion, it is impossible for Sikong Zhaixing to come here.
As soon as Lu Xiaofeng regained consciousness, he saw blood dripping from the corner of Li Er's mouth, it was because Li Er bit the tip of his tongue in order to stay awake.
Li Er felt that the internal force in his body was blocked, he took the gravel and shot towards the snakes, but he probably couldn't hold on for too long, Lin Shiyin's figure appeared in front of his eyes again. "Boss, hurry up!"
On the side of the blade array, Le Yuancen also bit his lips tightly and swallowed a name.She seemed to smell a slight sweetness added to the snake smell.
However, at this time, it was difficult to distinguish what kind of poison it was.
The way they escaped must have encountered drugs that could induce hallucinations and restrain internal energy, perhaps it was the red mark on the stone wall.It's hard to say, it may be that the more you use your internal energy, the faster it will be triggered, or it may be that the more you think about it, the more you think about it.
Taking advantage of Li Er's stones to kill the group of snakes that were chasing up again, Le Yuancen found the gap and passed through the blade array with a strange movement, but after she stood firm, she had to face the unknown lost their way, and all three of them were hit by weird poisons.
"There should be no way behind this wall."
Le Yuancen listened to the sound of the wall. They had come to a dead end. There was no wind behind this wall. Maybe there was a long foundation behind it.
"Then shall we run up?" Lu Xiaofeng didn't think they could run back in their situation, before he finished speaking, Li Er broke free from his hand, wanting to run towards the blade array, "Mr. Li! you--"
With a side step, Le Yuancen knocked Li Er unconscious and threw it to Lu Xiaofeng. "Stand at the base of the wall, keep an eye on him, and don't let him move around. We must have Chinese medicine, find a place to rest first."
Le Yuancen closed her eyes as she said that, she knew that Li Er must have met the person he wanted to see but could no longer see, because this kind of hallucination that could not be ignored also appeared in front of her eyes.
What Lu Xiaofeng said is not wrong, if the road ahead is blocked, then he can only find a way to go up.
Le Yuancen leaped and reached the stone wall above his head. Perhaps it was a road to heaven and earth, and the top was indeed hollow.At this moment, she couldn't care whether a few palms would collapse the tunnel, before the snakes arrived, and while she was still able to use her internal strength, she struck the stone wall above her head with three palms.
Among the clanging sound of rocks breaking and falling, there were actually two crashing sounds of objects mixed with it.
Lu Xiaofeng saw two people hugging each other fall from the pile of rocks.
These are the two corpses of a man and a woman. Perhaps because of the dryness of the stone chamber, their bodies seemed to have been air-dried. After a closer look, they found that they were not embracing each other. They should have held each other hostage. who fled.
"Le Butou, did you just say that as long as the corpse doesn't fall from the sky and block the road, it's fine."
Lu Xiaofeng supported Li Er and looked up to the top of the hole with the light of the fire. There was a big room there, "I think you're right. But fortunately, this corpse is not blocking our way."
At the moment, Le Yuancen has no leisure to worry about who the two corpses are, she already knows the truth of not talking nonsense. "Don't be joking, go up to avoid it first, and then we will find another way out. Since I am right, I think there will be another way out this time."
The three of them rode camels to the target location shown on the map.
According to common sense, there should be no people on this road. After all, the desert is full of sand. Even if someone walked the road ahead of the three of them in the morning, those footprints would soon be buried by the wind and sand.However, the closer you get to your destination, the more something goes wrong in the desert.The three of them still haven't seen any living people, but they have seen more than one group of corpses.
Li Er turned over the body whose head was buried in the sand. The dead person was about 40 years old. He had seen this person many years ago. "Feng Gang, Hunyuan Saber in Guanzhong, also died in a melee. He is the No. 15 deceased we found."
Fifteen corpses scattered in different places were found in the desert, which only shows that there are more undiscovered corpses that have been swallowed by the wind and sand.
The causes of death of these corpses are roughly the same. They were wounded to death by sharp weapons, but those sharp weapons were not from the same hands. It can be seen that they had gone through a scuffle before them. same.
This kind of death points to one thing. The tomb robber said that the people who went to the ghost town to hunt for treasure never came back. Those people were not necessarily haunted by ghosts and could not return. It was more likely that several waves of people bumped into each other one after another. Treasure fights and dies in the desert.
"Things may have been stolen."
Lu Xiaofeng felt that they might have arrived late, or that someone had already stolen the treasure, and that thing had attracted several waves of people fighting each other, otherwise there was no need to fight halfway.
Having said that, you still have to see it with your own eyes to confirm the guess, and you have gone halfway, and you can't give up halfway.
When the sun was setting one day, the three finally found the rumored ghost town.
It cannot be called a city, because there is no trace of the city on the ground at all, but after searching the desert with a radius of hundreds of miles, I finally found the so-called half of the palace entrance.
It was a half-hidden stone door half exposed on the sand.If it weren't for the fact that there were many bones left over in recent months nearby, it was really hard to conclude that it was the place we were looking for.
Pushing open the half-closed stone gate, wading through the sand pouring into the stone path, and passing through a few more gates, the light from the torch illuminated the situation in front of him.
There is a long stone brick corridor in front of me, and there is a strange wind sound of "chihuchihu" in the corridor, which is somewhat like the sound of wind blowing sand and stones on the ground and then deformed when they enter the ground, but there is no more yellow sand here. trace.
Once there is less sand that can bury traces, there will be more or less traces of people who came and went on the ground, like a series of footprints, not only going inward, but also going outward.
Then the speculation that the treasure has been stolen is likely to be true.
The three of them walked through the corridor cautiously, not hearing anything other than the strange wind.
However, after Le Yuancen excluded the wind noise in the tunnel, she also confirmed another thing by the extremely weak sound of air flowing from the cracks in the stone. There must be many other tunnels beside this tunnel.
To put it more clearly, this place is really an underground city, not just a door leading to a stone chamber, but a criss-crossing underground labyrinth.
I'm afraid the half door exposed to the ground is just the tip of the iceberg.
"You guessed right, the things have been taken away." Le Yuancen looked at the open stone room at the end of the corridor.
The stone room is not as spacious as the lobby of the inn. There are more than a dozen boxes in it, but most of them have been lifted, and the contents inside have been half-empty.
Li Er bent down and looked at the inside of the lid of the wooden box, and there was a list of the contents in the box one by one. Most of them were gold, silver and jewelry, but there was one thing that made him frown slightly.
"Golden Silk Armor. It turns out that there really is such a treasure."
The box is already empty.
The box containing the golden silk armor is also filled with items such as the Dark Rain Flying Needle, the Soul Chasing Iron Lock, etc. It can be seen that this box originally stored unusual weapons.
"Gold silk armor? Is it a rumored invulnerable treasure?"
Lu Xiaofeng asked curiously, "Similar rumors have spread throughout the ages. There are many people talking about such things, but few of them have actually seen them."
"Brother Lu, you are right. There are very few people who have seen the golden silk armor. It is because of this that it is regarded as a treasure for self-defense. It is not only invulnerable to swords and guns, but also invulnerable to fire and water."
Li Er seemed to have thought of something, couldn't help but took out his wine bag and took a sip of wine, "Ten years ago, many people hoped that they could escape catastrophe by owning such a treasure."
Lu Xiaofeng was only in his twenties, and more than ten years ago he had no connection with Jianghu. "What happened then?"
Li Er doesn't like to mention the past. "The golden silk armor was once hidden here, and now it has been taken away, but there shouldn't be much problem. That person should be dead."
Li Er didn't want to mention more, so Lu Xiaofeng could only continue to look through the box.
Everyone has something they don't want to mention, so don't force the other person to mention it.
The stone room was a little quiet.
Le Yuancen listened to the conversation between the two, she walked around the stone room and stood in front of a wall.
Although it is not yet known where the mechanism is, it is certain that the back of this wall is connected to the underground labyrinth.This stone room is not the end of the corridor, on the contrary, it is the entrance to the underground palace.It's just that the people who came in front most likely only valued the treasures in the box, and left after emptying the box.
Le Yuancen suddenly turned around and looked at the dazed Li Er, "I have a question. Li Er, why did you come to the desert, because this is a good place? How do you know it is a good place?"
The underground city hidden under the faint yellow sand, judging from its construction scale, it is hard to say who made it.It is near the ancient city of Loulan, which may be related to the ancient civilization of Loulan, but it has not been vacant for thousands of years. These wooden boxes prove that people have used the underground palace here for more than a hundred years.
Le Yuancen came here to track down the traces of Xiaoyaohou.
It's not because of a slap in the head that Xiaoyaohou will leave traces outside the customs, but because of a rare compound surname 'Geshu'.
There is evidence that Xiaoyaohou is related to the Zeng Geshu tribe, which originated from the Turkic people in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and then the territory of the Western Turks is in the desert of the Western Regions.Xiaoyaohou's martial arts are very high, and he is not a Central Plains martial arts at all, his martial arts can only come from outside the Great Wall.
Perhaps, this secret is hidden in the desert ghost town, and the stone room in front of him has already shown that there has been an unusual owner here.Then, Li Er must have some reason to come here.
Li Er didn't say anything, he came here because he was worried, "Can't I just guess? Guess this place is a good place."
Le Yuancen continued to ask, "Of course you can guess, and you guessed it right. There used to be gold silk armor here, and it's not easy to look at the contents of these boxes. Then you guess again Guess who they used to belong to?"
Lu Xiaofeng didn't know what turmoil happened in the world more than ten years ago, which made many people yearn for the golden silk armor, but Le Yuancen had read Yuan's arrester's handbook, including some important cases over the past few decades, Among them was a plum blossom thief who terrified the people of Jianghu.The appearance of the Plum Blossom Thief made many people in the Jianghu want to obtain the golden silk armor, so as to be able to avoid his murderous hands.
Li Er has experienced that period of turmoil, and he came here definitely not because of speculation or feeling.
Lu Xiaofeng stopped raising the lid of the box, he felt that the atmosphere in the stone room became weird, and he had the illusion that a policeman was interrogating a suspect.At this time, he should say something.Three people act together, isn't it just for one person to play a regulating role.
However, Li Er didn't wait for Lu Xiaofeng to speak, he said three words under Le Yuancen's direct gaze, "Happy King."
"When I was young, I heard the rumors about the Happy King of the Western Regions. The Happy King haunts the yellow sands. His martial arts are world-class, and he has many rare treasures in the world."
Li Er didn't know much about the rumored Happy King, "It's been more than 20 years, no one mentioned Happy King in the Jianghu, he should be dead. Just because some people died, it doesn't mean he is harmless .If this used to be the place where the Happy King lived, then I'm afraid there are many organs hidden."
Because of this, Li Er wanted to go to the ghost town in the desert to verify his conjecture.
"You said it earlier, wouldn't you?" Le Yuancen laughed, she already knew Li Er's character very well.
If everything goes according to Li Er's intentions, then don't try to learn anything from him, he is only willing to say a few more words if he wants someone to get closer.
Things are probably clear now.
Le Yuancen suspects that this place is related to Xiaoyaohou, and Li Er suspects that this place is related to Happy King.
Lu Xiaofeng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't want the two of them to be dead in the stone room.It seems that these two people understand each other's personalities quite well, and they usually don't fight stiffly.
Thinking of this, he confidently opened the last unopened wooden box.
Like other wooden boxes, there was nothing inside, but unlike the previous wooden boxes, after the lid of this box was opened, suddenly there were many sounds of stone slabs falling into the stone room.
Lu Xiaofeng immediately reached out to close the lid of the box, but it was useless, even a stone blocking the entrance of the stone room had fallen.
"Don't bother." Le Yuancen didn't rush out before the blocking stone fell.Because it was useless to rush, listening to the sounds just now, a lot of stones had fallen on the corridor where he came from just now, and it was impossible to go back the same way.
Lu Xiaofeng carefully checked the box in front of him again.At this moment, he discovered that the box was fixed on the ground and could not be moved, and he was afraid that the box cover would affect some mechanism.There may be many reasons why the previous visitors failed to activate such a mechanism. For example, the mechanism must be emptied before the mechanism is activated, or the opportunity is activated only after opening and closing a certain number of times.
Le Yuancen heard a slight click on the stone wall in front of him. One door of the stone room was closed, but at the same time the passage at the other end was opened.She pressed the stone brick that made a slight noise, and saw the wall slowly move away to the left and right sides, and a dark and long corridor appeared in front of her.
"Brother Lu, it seems that your luck is good. No matter who lived here, this road should lead us to find the answer. Why don't we guess, will there be a Happy King?"
Lu Xiaofeng was still silently mourning his weird luck.Even if a door was opened, why did it close the previous door.This is no room for them to choose at all, they can only go in an unknown direction.
"According to what Mr. Li said, Happy King has disappeared for more than 20 years. I think he is already a corpse even here. A dead person can't become a big threat."
"I hope so." Le Yuancen picked up the torch and walked forward, she said casually, "The corpse is really not a threat, as long as it doesn't fall from the sky and block the road."
After the three of them stepped into the corridor, after walking for a long time, they heard the stone wall behind them slowly closing again, and it didn't take long before they came to three closed stone doors.
The three looked at each other for a while.It was Lu Xiaofeng who spoke first, "Who among us is luckier?"
This problem is very worrying.
Li Er coughed again. If he went back more than ten years, he would think he was lucky.Regardless of academics or martial arts, he is very talented and has a childhood sweetheart cousin. At that time, he didn't know what he lacked in the rest of his life.It was only after more than ten years that the black hair at the temples had become more colorful, and he realized how innocent the boy was back then.
"Brother Lu, since you opened the lid of the wooden box, it's up to you to choose."
Le Yuancen handed over the right to choose to Lu Xiaofeng, she is very confident in many things, except for luck, she is not willing to be a conceited person.
Lu Xiaofeng instantly felt a heavy burden on his shoulders. In fact, his luck was also very strange, otherwise how could he ride a horse casually and end up with an old horse with a story.
"Then I'll choose. I think it's the one in the middle, neither left nor right. I hope it will be peaceful."
Lu Xiaofeng stretched out his hand and opened the door, but standing at the door, he couldn't know what would be beyond the stone path.
After the three of them entered the door, the stone door was closed again, and walking along the stone path, they saw strange red patterns painted on the stone walls on both sides. These red marks were not cinnabar, but they had no way of knowing what they were of powder.In order not to cause trouble, no one touched the red mark, but walked forward without squinting.
However, when the three of them came to a bend, they suddenly felt a strong wind blowing from the stone wall on one side, and this wind extinguished two of the three torches.
At this moment, all three of them felt the stone slab under their feet move, and they stepped on a certain mechanism.
"We just took ninety-nine and 81 steps." Le Yuan Cenmo counted the number of steps after entering the door. Although she didn't know what it would be useful for, these special numbers in the formation would always bring some changes.The next moment, she smelled a faint fishy smell in the air, "Did you smell a snake?"
"There's something coming from behind!"
After Li Er said this, many gaps were cracked on the top of the stone path that the three of them walked behind, and a bunch of things could only be heard falling from above.Those are small red snakes the size of a thumb. Their snake heads are all triangular in shape, and the possibility of being non-toxic is very low.
These little snakes don't know what they do for a living. Maybe they have been sleeping for a long time, but they were disturbed by the three humans.Generally speaking, after waking up, it is natural to eat, so it will inevitably swim quickly to chase the three rations in front of it.
What else could Le Yuancen and the other three do?Of course it is to run forward!
You can't just blindly run away passively. While running, you have to turn around and kill those small snakes that swim extremely fast, otherwise running is useless.
Li Er took out a few flying knives from nowhere, but he didn't do it immediately, because the number of knives was far less than the number of snakes.
"Use stones." Without talking nonsense, Le Yuancen slapped the bricks on the rock wall with his palm. Don't care if it will trigger other organs at this time, let's get local materials first.A stone brick shattered into some small stones under the palm of the hand.
These gravels were shot out from Li Er's fingers, before he saw how he shot these stones, several small snakes fell to the ground.
These techniques have reached the extremely high level of the flying knife technique, so they can aim at the small snakes that are moving at a high speed, and kill them all impartially.
In such a hasty pursuit and escape, Le Yuancen chose different locations for the bricks and stones. She had to make sure that she couldn't knock the stones and collapse the stone path and bury the three of them alive.Just as she was hitting the stone brick, Li Er quickly took over the gravel and attacked the group of snakes that could not be killed no matter what, the three of them had passed through many bends.
Lu Xiaofeng ran in the front and was in charge of choosing which fork to escape to.
At this time, he really felt that it would be good to learn an aggressive kung fu, so he wouldn't have to bear the heavy responsibility of leading the way.However, this underground palace didn't know how big the area was. The three of them had been running for more than half an hour, but they still couldn't get rid of the red snake behind them, and broke into the sharp-shooting formation.
The stone paths on both sides became narrower and narrower, and only one person could pass through.
Rows of sharp knives protruded from both sides of the stone wall. These knives were probably all weapons that would break their hair. They seemed to be controlled by some kind of mechanism, waving in the narrow stone path again and again, The three of them could no longer continue to run forward quickly.
Immediately there are red poisonous snakes chasing closely, and in front is a formation of blades that is difficult to penetrate.
This is not unlucky enough, what is even more unlucky is that there is a stone wall at the end of the blade array, it is hard to say whether they have reached a dead end.
Le Yuancen untied his backpack first.No matter what, she had to pass through the blade formation. She watched the change of the blade formation, and took advantage of a gap to throw the backpack into the air. The backpack quickly passed through the blade formation and landed on the other side without damage.
"Brother Lu, you just need to fly over like a backpack."
Lu Xiaofeng also took off his backpack, people must carry water and dry food with them in the desert, and it is impossible to leave the backpack until the last step.This time, he also referred to Le Yuancen's finding a short space to throw his backpack, and his backpack landed unscathed.
However, Lu Xiaofeng looked at his own stature, could he be equal to a small backpack?However, at this moment, if they can't be equal, they must be equal.
"I've never wished I was slimmer than I am now. I'll go first—"
It was too late to say, but it was so fast at that time, it was only a few breaths, Lu Xiaofeng crossed the blade array almost in a wave shape with an extremely dexterous posture.However, at the last moment when he retracted his feet, a strand of fabric on the toe of the shoe was cut off by a sharp blade, allowing him to expose his thumb.
Lu Xiaofeng looked at the toes and said happily, "Fortunately, you didn't give up on my toes."
"Li Er, you go first!" Le Yuancen tore off his clothes and wrapped a small pile of rubble while speaking, and threw it to the other side of the blade array.
Li Er needs to seize the gap between the snakes and go first, Le Yuancen can take advantage of the situation to block for a while, and after Li Er passes by, he can also shoot stones through the blade to attack the attacking red snake.If he was allowed to go last, no one would be able to accurately cut off the back.
"You have to be quick." Li Er didn't hesitate at this moment, he handed all seven throwing knives to Le Yuancen. "If a stone doesn't work, use a knife."
Le Yuancen held a throwing knife. She really didn't like to fight against snakes, and the smaller the snake, the more troublesome it was. The bigger snake had a clear target and it was easier to kill.But these little snakes are more difficult to kill if they are scattered one by one. Without a weapon, they can only attack with the power of their palms. I don't know how long they will attack, and they seem to be endless.
How many snakes are raised in this grotto?And why raise snakes even if there is a disagreement?Can't it be replaced with other animals?
Le Yuancen didn't think about it further, because poisonous scorpions and poisonous insects would be more troublesome, but at this moment she actually heard Li Er calling "Shiyin" in a low voice behind her.
Lu Xiaofeng was taken aback by Li Er, this man was about to jump out of the blade formation, but suddenly his expression suddenly changed.Fortunately, Lu Xiaofeng grabbed Li Er with quick eyesight and quick hands, so that he didn't lose a leg by the blade.
Lu Xiaofeng just wanted to ask what's the matter, he also felt dizzy and couldn't condense his inner strength, as if Sikong Zhaixing appeared in front of his eyes.He really wanted to discuss it with Sikong Zhaixing, and stop being greedy for cheap when buying a horse next time.
illusion!This is definitely an illusion, it is impossible for Sikong Zhaixing to come here.
As soon as Lu Xiaofeng regained consciousness, he saw blood dripping from the corner of Li Er's mouth, it was because Li Er bit the tip of his tongue in order to stay awake.
Li Er felt that the internal force in his body was blocked, he took the gravel and shot towards the snakes, but he probably couldn't hold on for too long, Lin Shiyin's figure appeared in front of his eyes again. "Boss, hurry up!"
On the side of the blade array, Le Yuancen also bit his lips tightly and swallowed a name.She seemed to smell a slight sweetness added to the snake smell.
However, at this time, it was difficult to distinguish what kind of poison it was.
The way they escaped must have encountered drugs that could induce hallucinations and restrain internal energy, perhaps it was the red mark on the stone wall.It's hard to say, it may be that the more you use your internal energy, the faster it will be triggered, or it may be that the more you think about it, the more you think about it.
Taking advantage of Li Er's stones to kill the group of snakes that were chasing up again, Le Yuancen found the gap and passed through the blade array with a strange movement, but after she stood firm, she had to face the unknown lost their way, and all three of them were hit by weird poisons.
"There should be no way behind this wall."
Le Yuancen listened to the sound of the wall. They had come to a dead end. There was no wind behind this wall. Maybe there was a long foundation behind it.
"Then shall we run up?" Lu Xiaofeng didn't think they could run back in their situation, before he finished speaking, Li Er broke free from his hand, wanting to run towards the blade array, "Mr. Li! you--"
With a side step, Le Yuancen knocked Li Er unconscious and threw it to Lu Xiaofeng. "Stand at the base of the wall, keep an eye on him, and don't let him move around. We must have Chinese medicine, find a place to rest first."
Le Yuancen closed her eyes as she said that, she knew that Li Er must have met the person he wanted to see but could no longer see, because this kind of hallucination that could not be ignored also appeared in front of her eyes.
What Lu Xiaofeng said is not wrong, if the road ahead is blocked, then he can only find a way to go up.
Le Yuancen leaped and reached the stone wall above his head. Perhaps it was a road to heaven and earth, and the top was indeed hollow.At this moment, she couldn't care whether a few palms would collapse the tunnel, before the snakes arrived, and while she was still able to use her internal strength, she struck the stone wall above her head with three palms.
Among the clanging sound of rocks breaking and falling, there were actually two crashing sounds of objects mixed with it.
Lu Xiaofeng saw two people hugging each other fall from the pile of rocks.
These are the two corpses of a man and a woman. Perhaps because of the dryness of the stone chamber, their bodies seemed to have been air-dried. After a closer look, they found that they were not embracing each other. They should have held each other hostage. who fled.
"Le Butou, did you just say that as long as the corpse doesn't fall from the sky and block the road, it's fine."
Lu Xiaofeng supported Li Er and looked up to the top of the hole with the light of the fire. There was a big room there, "I think you're right. But fortunately, this corpse is not blocking our way."
At the moment, Le Yuancen has no leisure to worry about who the two corpses are, she already knows the truth of not talking nonsense. "Don't be joking, go up to avoid it first, and then we will find another way out. Since I am right, I think there will be another way out this time."
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