Jie Ling Lu

Several people searched unsuccessfully on the tomb wall and stone gate, so they had to turn their attention to the stone tripod in the tomb.

Ji Xinxi and Xun Youling came to the stone tripod, Jiang Qiao continued to grope the stone door inch by inch, seeing that several people were searching for nothing, Ge Rong, who was sitting on the ground, talked with them about science.

"In the beginning, such a tripod was used as a cooking utensil for cooking food, and then it evolved into a sacrificial ritual vessel, and as history changed, it became a symbol of identity and power."

Jiang Qiao heard the words and said casually: "Then this must be used for cooking, otherwise how could there be so many animal bones in it."

"You really can't speak your head. Such a big tripod is still made of stone. Do you think that people in the past ate from big pots?" Xun Youling rolled his eyes angrily.

Ji Xin used to use a military knife to scrape off the moss on the surface of the stone tripod. Since the previous incident of the rat attack, she took out the military knife and hung it on her waist so that she can take it at any time.

After the moss on the surface of the stone tripod was scraped off, the exquisitely carved reliefs below were revealed. The carvings were of jackals that had been mentioned repeatedly before. Ji Xinxi saw the true face of Mount Lu, and he was as strong as a wolf. , but the appearance of the head is obviously biased towards the fox.

"The jackals carved here are very realistic, and it can be seen that the sculptors are in awe of them. I think this should be a stone tripod representing identity, and the bones inside should be thrown in by those mice. They are in this ancient tomb. I made an unknown number of large and small passages, and for some reason, this stone tripod was used as a place for them to discard after eating food, which is why there are still bones of varying degrees of decay inside."

When Ji Xinxi said this, Ge Rong sent an approving response, but Ji Xinxi and Xun Youling's expressions became serious, and their expressions became ugly. When Jiang Qiao heard the sudden silence behind him, he turned his head curiously. Said: "Why don't you talk? It's interesting to hear these things, huh? Why do you look so ugly? Are you feeling unwell?"

"Don't you understand? Since there are so many bones here, it means that there are often mice coming here. Now that we have been here for so long, it means that the mice here will come back soon, and it must not be all the time. It's as simple as just two, we have to get out of here quickly." When Xun Youling said this, his eyebrows were almost twisted into a knot.

Hearing Xun Youling's words, Jiang Qiao and Ge Rong realized the seriousness of the matter. Jiang Qiao deceived himself and said, "It can't be so unlucky, we've been here for so long, and we haven't seen any mice coming out. It shouldn't be so fast." Bar."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a rustling sound from the surrounding walls. Jiang Qiao's face turned green. He raised his hand and slapped himself on the mouth, and said nervously, "What should we do now?"

Ji Xinxi was in no mood to reply to Jiang Qiao's words. She was concentrating on examining the stone tripod, and she didn't care about being particular about it. She just wiped off the moss on the surface with her hands, while Xun Youling came to the wall and put her ears against the wall. She listened carefully to the movement behind the wall, and when she heard the subtle scratching sound, she felt goose bumps all over her body.

At this time, the ceiling of the tomb suddenly dropped limestone, and then the whole tomb was shaken. The ceiling began to slowly rotate at a speed visible to the naked eye. Several people saw that as the wall rotated, there would occasionally be one or two small holes exposed. in their field of vision.

Not long after, a mouse fell into the tomb from above, and Xun Youling clicked her tongue and shouted: "Jiang Qiao, take care of Ge Rong." She herself walked to Ji Xinxi's side in a few steps .

Not many mice fell into the tomb, but no one knows how many will come in later. These mice move extremely fast. For a person like Jiang Qiao who has not received professional training, he can't shoot these mice at all, so He simply turned the gun upside down and used the gun in his hand as a baseball bat.

These mutated mice smelled human, their red eyes flickered, and their mane kept shaking. They looked excited and aggressive.

Jiang Qiao stood in front of Ge Rong, holding the gun tightly in his hand. As soon as the mouse came forward, he swung it with all his strength. Because he was nervous, he swung with great strength every time, and he came down several times. He felt that his shoulders were uncomfortable and his physical strength was exhausted quickly.

Ji Xinxi and Xun Youling's situation is not much better, but Xun Youling is still calm, and the engineer shovel she holds in her hand is also better than Jiang Qiao's gun, so she can handle it for a while. As more and more mice appeared, Xun Youling was almost overwhelmed.

Sweat dripped from Ji Xinxi's forehead, and she didn't know if it was right for her to walk around this stone tripod now, but she could only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and suddenly she heard Xun Youling beside her utter There was a muffled grunt.

Although it was very light, she still heard it. Ji Xinxi didn't bother to grope for the stone cauldron and hurriedly turned around to check on Xun Youling's condition. Seeing the blood coming out, Ji Xinxi's eyelids twitched, holding on to the protruding sculpture of the stone tripod, he wanted to get up and pull Xun Youling to his side.

As a result, her finger touched a smooth place with force, and it was pressed down with the force of her finger. Ji Xixi was stunned and saw five closed stone doors, one of which was slowly lifted. Get up to reveal the back passage.

Immediately, everyone was overjoyed, Jiang Qiao shouted: "Go, go!" Then he didn't care about the difference between men and women, he put Ge Rong on the ground on his shoulders and ran towards the stone gate .

"Go." Xun Youling also greeted Ji Xinxi immediately, and was about to go there.

Ji Xinxi nodded and let go to go there, but just as soon as she let go, the stone door that opened over there started to sink again. She immediately understood the mechanism setting of the stone door. Someone must keep pressing the stone door to keep it open, and it will automatically close once you let go.

Such a discovery made Ji Xinxi feel cold, and Xun Youling, who walked two steps and found that Ji Xinxi had not followed, frowned and asked, "What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"

Ji Xinxi pursed his lips, and said, "It's nothing, I seem to have found something, let's go there quickly, and try not to turn around and rush over."

Xun Youling nodded when he heard the words, and once again took the engineering shovel to knock down the jumping mice, and went to the Shimen with all his strength, trying to leave enough running distance for Ji Xinxi, so that the two of them would not collide.

Seeing Xun Youling running towards the stone gate, Ji Xinxi pulled out the military knife on his waist with one hand, and began to deal with the mice that gathered towards her because Xun Youling and Jiang Qiao left, and at the same time followed Xun Youling The run measures the time it takes to travel from Shiding to Shimen.

After running through the stone gate, Xun Youling turned around and wanted to see Ji Xinxi's situation, but saw that no one followed him at all, but was still standing by Shi Ding's side. She knew that something must have changed. Seeing Ji Xin over there Xi was about to be surrounded by mice, and she would go there without saying a word.

Seeing that Xun Youling was about to go back, Jiang Qiao, who had just put Ge Rong down, immediately grabbed her arm and said, "You are crazy! Don't die, go back now."

"Let go of me, don't you see that Ji Xinxi is still there?!!!" Xun Youling opened her eyes and shouted angrily, she didn't have the slightest intention to argue with Jiang Qiao now.

Jiang Qiao was taken aback for a moment, only to realize that Ji Xinxi hadn't followed, he also exclaimed: "Why didn't she come, when is it?"

Ji Xin over there saw Xun Youling safely entered the stone gate, took a deep breath and planned to give it a go. She didn't intend to do such a stupid thing as sacrificing herself to help others.

As if feeling something, Xun Youling saw Ji Xinxi's movements and guessed that she was going to take action, and she didn't intend to run back, she snatched the gun from Jiang Qiao's hand, and pointed at the rats in front of her. The place where the guns were fired several times, and the mice who were afraid of the bullets gave way to a little space for Ji Xinxi to stay.

Seeing the right moment, Ji Xinxi suddenly let go of her finger holding the mechanism, and rushed towards the Shimen at her fastest speed so far. Seeing the fall of the Shimen, Xun Youling immediately understood what was going on.

She gritted her teeth and watched Ji Xinxi running over here nervously. She felt her heart was almost in her throat. Seeing that Ji Xinxi was going to the stone gate soon, her ears were full of Jiang Qiao's urging. Xun Youling only felt that these few seconds seemed as long as a century.

Ji Xinxi held the military knife tightly in her hand all the way, staring at the falling stone gate, but saw that the speed of the stone gate falling suddenly accelerated. It is very likely that when she was halfway through, she was directly crushed in half by the heavy stone door.

In the blink of an eye, Ji Xinxi had already made up her mind that it would be better to fight it anyway, she lowered her waist and threw herself towards the stone door that was about to close.

Although she had already planned in her heart that she would be overwhelmed by Shimen, when it really came, she still panicked and felt that her mind went blank, and everything around her suddenly became very quiet.

And in this silence, the sinking Shimen suddenly seemed to be stopped by something, a hand stretched out from the gap under the Shimen, grabbed her hand and pulled her back.

Ji Xinxi was directly dragged into the stone gate, and the hand that pulled her couldn't use enough strength, so she couldn't stop her body and ran into someone's arms. At the same time, the sound of the stone gate falling heavily behind her, and Jiang Qiao was sitting on the ground holding a slightly curved engineering shovel, and Ge Rong was sitting against the wall not far away.

When she came back to her senses, the first thing she felt was the beating heartbeat of the person below her and the gnashing of teeth in her ear: "Ji Xinxi, you are playing too hard!"