Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 48: Open the coffin or not? Everything is reversed

"Rat!" I shouted at Cui Hao.

He looked at me and then burst into tears of excitement.

"Brother! I thought you..."

Pfft!

Grandpa Tuo staggered out of the snake's mouth, but fell to the ground without standing firmly.

Soon after, Meng Jianshe also ran out.

Cui Hao helped Camel up and ran towards me, looking back from time to time.

Soon a group of snakes swam out.

They were so scared that they screamed and ran like crazy.

I was also quite scared.

It's like escaping from the tiger's mouth and encountering a pack of wolves again!

Now my whole body is weak and it is difficult for me to lift the butcher knife, let alone deal with a group of snakes.

But strangely, the snake melted after it swam out.

It turned into a pool of black slime, then seeped into the ground and disappeared.

As if it had never appeared.

This...could it be that this is not a real snake?

So I'm not poisoned?

I reached for my ear and felt a sharp pain when my fingers touched the wound.

The wound is real!

I also feel weak and cold all over!

"elder brother!"

Cui Hao ran over and hugged me.

I staggered back two steps and was almost knocked down by him.

"What's wrong with you? You look exhausted... Is that the wound on your ear?"

"I was bitten by a snake. I might have been poisoned."

"Ah? What should I do? Master Tuo, please look at my brother!"

Cui Hao pushed Camel Grandpa over.

Meng Jianshe glanced at us but didn't come closer.

He knows he is not popular, so he doesn't try to make himself look bad.

Grandpa Tuo looked at the wound on my face carefully, smacked his lips and said, "It was caused by a poisonous tooth."

"Is there any way to detoxify?" Cui Hao was extremely anxious. He wanted to help me but didn't know how.

Grandpa Tuo shook his head.

"How can we detoxify without medical help or medicine? And who knows what kind of snake this is. Ordinary snake medicine won't work."

"If we want to save Stone Baby, we have to find the slime left behind by Black Tai Sui. That stuff can make people immortal, so it should be able to detoxify them."

Cui Hao nodded repeatedly: "Then hurry up and find it!"

Our eyes turned to the sarcophagus together.

This should be the tomb of the king of Bi State.

The mucus left by the Black Tai Sui should also be here.

The most likely place for storage is the sarcophagus.

Grandpa Tuo looked around carefully again and said slowly: "The thing is probably in the sarcophagus, but if we open the coffin..."

He paused, then continued, "You all have a deep understanding of the many miraculous things we just experienced."

"According to what that coward Meng Jingye said, there is still one final sacrifice."

"I guess the process of opening the coffin might trigger the final sacrifice. Maybe we'll all die here."

We were all silent.

No one wants to die while they can live.

Moreover, we all witnessed with our own eyes the tragic scene of Huang San and others being sacrificed. No one wants to die in such a miserable way.

But if the coffin is not opened, the poison in me may not be cured.

Grandpa Tuo said quietly, "I will definitely open the coffin."

The big bag on his back seemed to have grown a bit bigger, and even through his clothes he could see it trembling. It was obvious that the things inside were about to burst out of his body.

So Tuoye had no choice but to open the coffin.

"What's there to be afraid of!" Meng Jianshe's eyes were full of hatred.

He gnashed his teeth and said fiercely, "No matter what comes out of the coffin, I can't let that bastard Meng Jingye succeed!"

Being sacrificed by his own father completely stimulated Meng Jianshe.

He just wanted to ruin Meng Jingye's good deeds.

Even at the cost of his life.

Cui Hao suddenly raised his head, which had been hanging down, and said firmly, "As long as you can save my brother Shitou, then I will open the coffin!"

"Rat..."

"Brother, don't try to persuade me. The worst that can happen is death. I'm not afraid." Cui Hao said casually.

But his trembling legs told how nervous and scared he was.

Camel Grandpa patted my shoulder and said, "You have a good brother."

Of course I know there is a good brother.

It is because my brother is so good that I don’t want to let him die.

I looked at the walls around me, trying to find an exit to send Cui Hao away, but I couldn't see any exit after looking around.

There are huge stone walls all around, and there is no tomb door at all.

It seems that the only way to enter and exit is through those two huge snake mouths.

"What happened after you were sucked down?"

"I fell to the ground, and it was pitch black all around. I just happened to hear Camel Master's shouting. We got together and called you for a long time, but you didn't respond. When I was trying to find you, I encountered several snakes."

"Luckily, Camel Master's Lightning Horse Cloth worked. It temporarily scared away the snakes when we waved it. We ran for a while and ran into Meng Jianshe, who then chased us out with more snakes."

They encountered more snakes.

But there were no big snakes, just a group of snakes of normal size.

"Uncle Tuo, could these two huge snake heads be the legendary Bashe?"

Grandpa Tuo frowned and looked at the two huge snake heads.

The lower jaw of the snake's head was on the ground, and the upper jaw was against the ceiling of the tomb. The height of the open mouth was estimated to be more than three meters, and the width of the entire snake's head was about four or five meters.

The half of the snake's head, from its eyes back, was embedded in the stone wall, and its body could not be seen.

But with such a big head, the body must not be small.

"It's possible. Didn't you say there was a snake carved on the stone slab we came down from?"

"By the way, what's the word you didn't mention?"

"..."

I was silent.

All I know about that character is Heishuiwen, and maybe it's pronounced as Ang, but I don't know anything else.

Now I don’t know how to edit it.

Grandpa Tuo was a little displeased: "You kid, it's already this late, what else is there to hide?"

"And you, Meng Jianshe, what other legends does your Meng family have about Bi Gong Ji Gao? Tell us everything you know."

Meng Jianye shook his head expressionlessly.

"My dad... Bah! That scumbag didn't tell me anything!"

"So he really didn't say anything when he pulled you aside to whisper just now?"

"...That scumbag, he dragged me along and told me how he was going to harm you, so I could find the right opportunity to attack you from behind."

"hiss!"

The three of us gasped.

This Meng Jingye is really cruel. He has been planning to shoot us secretly for a long time.

If Huang San and the others hadn't become human sacrifices for some unknown reason, we would probably have had our spines broken and been made into birds as sacrifices!

"This old coward is so cruel! I must kill him when I get out!" Cui Hao said angrily.

I looked at Grandpa Tuo and said, "I don't know what that character means, I just know it's probably the black water script used by the Nuo master."

Grandpa Tuo muttered thoughtfully, "Black Water Script? I've never heard of it."

"Very few people know about it. I only found out about it by chance. It's also called 殄文 (殄文), meaning text addressed to ghosts."

"I haven't heard of the text either."

Uncle Tuo gave up trying to figure out those three words and walked towards the bronze ware with his hands behind his back.

"The inscription on the bronze vessel should record some information. Stone boy, come and take a look."

I followed him.

Indeed, there are many inscriptions on bronze tripods, bronze plates and other objects.

But I don’t know him!

It is true that you only regret not having read enough books when you need them.

If I learn some inscription knowledge from Ai Wuzhuang in advance, it should be of some help.

Unfortunately, I didn’t have time to learn.

"Ahem, I don't understand these either."

"Haven't you learned from Professor Zhang?" Grandpa Tuo asked with a glare.

"I really haven't learned it, but I just noticed that there are twenty-eight constellations engraved on the platform, with four bronze figures standing in the positions of the four symbols."

"Four phases and twenty-eight constellations?" Grandpa Tuo stroked his chin and pondered for a moment, but he couldn't get the point.

"Do these have special meanings?"

"This is an underground altar. The stairs leading down are called the Stairway to Immortality by Meng Jingye. Don't you think everything is wrong?"