Hearing this, the movement of my hand stagnated, and the hammer was smashed crookedly. It hit the back of my hand for a moment, and with a "hiss" of pain, the hammer and chisel fell to the ground with a clanging sound. In order to avoid being swallowed by the soil of disaster.

, I hurriedly lowered my head to clean it up.

"And the problem doesn't stop there!"

Brother Yaozi said quickly from behind: "If I heard correctly, you just said that Luo Shi was discovered by an ancestor of your family during the period of King Chu Ling. It should have been ten or twenty years before it was really used by the ritual officials.

Later, by the Warring States Period, this kind of stone was no longer visible. I am not good at history, but I also know that King Ling of Chu was already in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and died probably more than 500 years ago.

It has been less than fifty or sixty years since the Warring States Period when heroes competed for the throne. Even if I am exaggerating, the time when you, the ceremonial officials, used Luo stones to build tombs, has been in the past hundred years, right?! Since it has already begun here

The use of Luo stones shows that these stones were left by ritual officials, and the time should be the last hundred years from the end of the Spring and Autumn Period to the beginning of the Warring States Period. Is there anything wrong with that?

This corresponds somewhat to the age of the Heavenly Official who left the silk book. That Heavenly Official came here during the Spring and Autumn Period. Therefore, it is possible that all this was left by that Heavenly Official?!

However, what we are looking for are the ruins of the Yan Kingdom. The Yan Kingdom perished during the Shang Dynasty, and the timeline does not match up either!!"

I continued to remain silent. There was nothing wrong with what Brother Yaozi said.

"So, you think...this is not the place we are looking for at all?"

After a long silence, I finally asked.

Brother Yaozi behind him took a long breath and said in a harsh voice: "That's not what I meant. This is such an extraordinary place within a hundred miles. And according to what the Ni Bodhisattva said, it should be this location.

Well, I just want to say that what happened in this place is a bit complicated. Maybe the ruins of the Yan Kingdom are still deep underground. What we have dug up so far are just some traces left by the Jin Kingdom Heavenly Official.

I just, just..."

Brother Yao Zi struggled for a long time and sighed: "I just feel that the more I explore this place, the more mysteries there are and the more creepy I feel...

Tell me, what happened here?

During the Xia Dynasty, the commoner from Wei came here.

During the Shang Dynasty, descendants of the Jianzhi branch came here to establish the Yan Kingdom, and then the ancient city disappeared inexplicably.

At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, a heavenly official from the Jin Kingdom came here again, and this time it was even worse. It seemed that there was a lot of war and construction here, and even the torturers around him were chilled...

The combination of these bits and pieces is really creepy...

Your feeling is right. Nothing good will happen where the common people are involved. This may be the most dangerous place our brothers have ever encountered. It is simply hell-level difficulty!"

I sighed, picked up the chisel and hammer and started working again.

Behind me, Brother Yaozi said no more, and for a moment the only sound left in the cave was the tinkling, tinkling, tinkling sound of my tapping.

The cave was not long, so what Brother Yaozi and I said could be heard outside the cave. Zhang Xinya and the others did not interrupt, but I didn’t know what their expressions were at the moment, whether they were like me, with a ray of light on their backs...

The chisel dug deeper and deeper into the turtle pattern of Luo Shi. When it was wedged in for nearly twenty centimeters, cracks finally began to appear around the chisel, just like a bank that could not withstand the pressure of a flood. When the force reached

At a critical point, cracks began to spread rapidly, and in the blink of an eye they had covered the entire Luo Shi.

At this moment, the sound inside the stone was like thunder. This strange sight was truly horrifying.

Then, the sound disappeared, leaving only the sound of "click, click, click".

"It should be almost done!"

I thought about it in my mind, and instead of hitting the chisel with the hammer, I picked up the hammer and hit it hard on the cracked stone.

With a "crash", the whole stone suddenly shattered, and countless dates-sized stones rushed forward...

Ahead, there is a dark empty space, no one knows how deep it is. After the broken stones poured into it, it took a full two or three seconds before there was a "crash" sound of falling to the ground, followed by a series of echoes.

…

I opened the flashlight and shined it forward. It was foggy in front of me, and dust was flying in the beam. I could vaguely see it. There was a towering wall four or five meters away on the opposite side. Looking down, I saw endless darkness. I don’t know how deep it is.

, due to the bad mist, the light beam cannot shine too far and the bottom cannot be seen.

I saw that the wall opposite had a faint tendency to curve. I hesitated and said, "This seems to be a curved corridor. It is about four or five meters wide and the height is unknown. Anyway, it is ridiculously high. Our robbery hole happened to be there."

The middle of the corridor wall is a bit deep when we go down from here!!

Brother Yaozi, do you have any fire discounts? Give me one!"

There was a rustling sound behind me, and soon, Brother Yaozi handed me a fire seal.

I picked up the fire fold, shook my hand and threw it into the darkness in front of me. The fire fold fell rapidly, but the flame was extinguished in a snap of my fingers. After another breath, the sound of the fire fold falling to the ground came from below.

"No, you can't enter this place now, please exit first!"

I waved my hand and said: "There is no air in the corridor at all, and it is sealed very well. If we go in now, one by one, we will all be suffocated in it!"

In fact, if you think about it carefully, this is reasonable.

Although we don’t know exactly what we have excavated so far, is it a tomb? Or some additional arrangement?

In short, this should have been built by the Tianguan of the Jin Kingdom, and the dead Xinggui Li must have participated. It is definitely not an easy place, and the Luo stone from our Liguan family, which is known as the number one stone for building mausoleums, was used.

Stone, there is no need to doubt the sealing performance, it is normal that there is no air inside.

Soon, Brother Yaozi and I retreated from the robbery cave. Outside the cave, Zhang Xinya and the others were waiting. They looked at each other in silence. Then, I went to my master and reported the situation truthfully.

My master's expression remained calm and he said he understood. He waved his hand and asked a few of us to rest until the inside was ventilated before we went in again.

Seeing this, I couldn't say anything and returned to Brother Yaozi and the others.

In the next two days, we stayed at the camp to recover our strength and recuperate our spirits. After all, the continuous excavation took a lot of energy out of us.

I don’t know if it was my misunderstanding. In the past two days, the thorny feeling on my back not only did not disappear, but became more and more serious. There were several times when I even woke up directly from my sleep during the night. When I woke up, I was covered in sweat. I was sweating coldly, and I felt like something was peering at me and watching me in the darkness.

But when I calmed down and used my energy to look around, that feeling disappeared again, and I really didn't notice any strange power approaching me.

I told my master, and my master said that he had been monitoring the surroundings and found nothing. There was a lot of bad luck in the Robbery Cave, but there was no evil force.

I also asked Xing Guili that this dog is extremely sensitive to ghosts and gods. Not even a heavenly master can match it in this regard. This is an innate ability. However, this dog did not notice it. What's strange is that it acted a little melancholy and only said that it was mourning for the senior who died in the battle. Presumably, that senior must have been extremely loyal to our ceremonial officer, and he must have died vigorously. This is a common characteristic of all Xinggui slaves. , as he talked, he actually ended up walking around himself, trying to make himself look as powerful as possible, and kept giving me looks, which probably meant - look at me, look at me , I am an excellent dog, absolutely loyal, you need me!

So, in the midst of the two loudmouths, I ended the topic. Although the feeling on my back did not disappear, in the end I just defined it as the shadow left by the common people on me.

Two days later, I threw the fire bomb into the corridor again. This time, the fire bomb fell to the ground and never went out.

"it's time!"

After I got out of the robbery hole, I said to Brother Yaozi and the others: "Prepare the rope, it's time to go down!"

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Chapter completed!