No. 72 Gate

The shrill scream has the lethality to pierce the eardrums. It is truly the cry of the soul.

This water monkey has made it clear that he knows that he will die if he runs aground, and he wants to alert the mercury here and drag us to death together.

A mouthful of old blood hit my head, and I almost fainted. In anger, I rounded up a stick and hit the water monkey on the forehead with great force. With a muffled sound of "bang", a large pool of colorful

Things flew out of his head, like tofu curd mixed with chive flowers.

The water monkey fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and stopped moving.

I stared longingly at the mercury coats all around me, feeling terrified in my heart. The black and blue faces were right in front of me, which really made me feel uneasy.

"It should be fine?"

Zhang Xinya swallowed hard and never said nonsense about Water Monkey not threatening him again.

Her problem is destined to be unsolvable. How can it be possible that there is such a big movement?

Unless the souls in these mercury bodies cannot withstand thousands of years of torture and are completely destroyed!

But this is impossible. You are a soul-nurturing shell, especially if you live in your own body. The soul is very strong and will generally not die.

Soon, my eyes froze on a mercury armor not far to the right. Many white cracks appeared on the face of this mercury armor!

This is a big man from the Jie tribe with thick lips and an extremely ferocious face. There are many cracks on his black and blue face, just like the skin has rolled and cracked after being exposed to the sun. Under the flashlight, you can see that the white cracks are "sizzling" outward.

There was smoke, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt pig hair.

The wax seal is broken!

Each mercury armor is rubbed with realgar and sealed with wax to prevent the realgar from dispersing. Without special stimulation, these mercury armors cannot move at all. The wax seals are extremely intact. Once broken... there is only one possibility - mercury armor.

Moved!

At the same time, Zhang Xinya also moved, and actually pounced directly towards the mercury armor. The speed was surprisingly fast. With such foot strength, no one would believe it unless he was a practitioner!

I was already overwhelmed by this fierce style, and I watched eagerly as she rushed to the mercury armor, and like killing a chicken and a dog, she stretched out her hand and "clicked" to break the mercury armor's neck, and finally

He held the opponent's head and twisted it back and forth, so that the neck bones were completely broken, leaving only a layer of dry skin, and the head drooped, and then he kicked the opponent with a dazzling backspin with a "bang" sound.

The opponent's head was completely kicked away.

Faintly, I heard a shrill scream.

Then... there is no more...

Needless to say, this mercury armor was completely destroyed, and the soul inside had been dispersed inside the skull.

"What are you still waiting for? Go and break the door!"

A low and hoarse shout sounded out, Zhang Xinya turned around, her eyes had four pupils, her lips were black, and her pupils were cold, with almost no emotion at all!

This is definitely not the Zhang Xinya I know!!

Her voice was different, cold and ruthless, completely different from that carefree urban white-collar beauty.

My lips are black, this is a typical sign of ghost upper body!

A chill ran down my back. I had a lot of guesses in an instant, and I didn't dare to ask any more questions. I hurriedly turned around and ran towards the tomb door. Because I was so distracted, my feet slipped when I stepped up the steps and I fell heavily. I almost fell to the ground in confusion.

On the water monkey's body, he then used his hands and feet to crawl to the tomb door.

At this time, the mercury around me was gradually recovering!

More and more wax seals on Mercury Armor were broken. Zhang Xinya was putting out fires everywhere. At this time, Mercury Armor was still unable to move and was the easiest to deal with. She found a decapitating knife from somewhere, and heads were rolling around here for a while.

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In fact, she is the only one who can do this. If it were her, I would be helpless with these mercury armors.

These people were fed mercury to death before they were alive, and the heavy metal penetrated every part of their bodies, so that after a thousand years, their corpses were extremely hard, incomparable to ordinary rice dumplings, and invulnerable. I don’t know how Zhang Xinya did it, but in her hands

Here, beheading and beheading are not a problem at all, the mercury armor is completely made of paper.

Seeing how neat she was, I felt a little relieved and focused on the tomb door in front of me.

Perhaps it is true as Lao Bai said, we ceremonial officials have been making a living underground for thousands of years. This feeling flows in our blood and we cannot stop it. Now that we have actually seen the real guy, we are in the state instantly and have no distractions.

From its appearance, this tomb gate is actually a simple floor-to-ceiling stone gate. There is really nothing worth mentioning. It is too common in ancient tombs.

The only difference is that there is a standard 19-way Go board inlaid next to the tomb door, with black and white pieces distributed, a slide on it, and a large number of chess pieces inlaid under the board, which should all be idle pieces!

Just by looking at it, I roughly understood that this was a mechanical lock.

Normally, tomb doors are locked from behind to prevent tomb robbers from breaking in, but this is different. This is the place where the last heavenly official buried others alive. The lock is naturally on the outside. However, this lock is a bit more complicated. If I guess correctly, it is on the outside.

There should be many pulleys inside the tomb door. Each black and white piece on the chess board is connected to a pulley. If the black and white pieces slide correctly, the pulleys inside will start to move and lift the stone gate in front of you!

However, most machine locks are very laborious and time-consuming to crack. Now that the situation is urgent, the first thing I thought of was a simple and crude method. Put your ear on the stone gate and tap lightly with your fingers. This is to judge the stone gate through the echo.

The texture, and then the weight, can be used to support a gap that allows people to crawl through with a crowbar. It's just a basic operation.

There was no echo inside the stone gate, indicating that the interior was completely solid. Moreover, the sound made by the door knocking was very strange, not like a muffled sound like hitting a stone, with a crisp trill mixed in between.

I instantly gave up the idea of ​​destroying it with brute force. This door was not entirely made of stone, but a metal lead door sandwiched between two thick stone doors. The weight was terrifying, four to five times that of an ordinary floor-to-ceiling stone gate, and

This kind of design will make the tomb door extremely strong. Let alone destroying it violently, you can't blow it open even with a bomb. Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian's Qianling Mausoleum adopted this design. The great thief Sun Dianying of the Republic of China even ate it.

Deflated, I can only give up.

A tomb door of this weight requires at least seventy-two pulleys inside to lift it up. Our ceremony officials call such a door a seventy-two-way mechanical door, and it is considered one of the most complicated tomb doors.

Who is locked up here? My ancestor sealed it with such a crazy door.

I was full of complaints, but my eyes still returned to the mechanism lock next to the tomb door, observing the layout of the black and white stones on it, and finally determined that this should be one of the four famous ancient Go games - Sun Ce Zhao Lu Fan Yi Ti

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Question, simply understood, is the endgame in Go.

This kind of layout is something that etiquette officials often do. My dad often said that chess is based on Tai Chi, and the laws are like heaven and earth, which are unified into the river map. There are yin and yang to achieve the ultimate virtue. Anyway, it means that Go contains the wisdom of our ancestors.

The world view and values, tracing back to their origins, are still related to He Tu and Luo Shu. This is also the foundation of our Li Guan. No matter how many tricks there are, the ultimate theoretical basis is still He Tu and Luo Shu. Therefore, the organ box designed by Li Guan,

Many of them are incomplete Go problems.

In ancient times, when people paid attention to music, chess, calligraphy and painting, this was nothing, but now it is very crazy. Among a thousand people, can you find one person who understands Go? There are very few people who know chess! Not to mention those who robbed tombs

Hahaha, how many people know this? Look at the tombs designed by the ritual officials. Whenever you encounter this kind of mechanical lock, you will often be in a situation where people are in mourning.

Fortunately for me, I read a lot of things like "Xuanxuan Qi Jing" when I was young, and I dabbled in many ancient famous topics.

For example, the question in front of me is a famous question left over from the game played by Sun Ce and his subordinate Lu Fan. Both of them are famous chess masters in the Three Kingdoms, and they were picked up by the last heavenly official to make a trap.

While I was recalling the number of ways of playing between two people recorded in the chess book, I started to move the black and white pieces above. Once I got into the state, I had already lost track of time. Until the tomb door made a loud "rumbling" sound, I was completely moved.

Talent suddenly woke up and saw the tomb door opening little by little.

"It's done!"

I was overjoyed. When I turned around to look, I was immediately dumbfounded.

A large piece of mercury was awakened at this time, and its eyes were opened. The eyeballs inside were like blisters, but they were filled with mercury. There were many swords and guns in a fan shape, and they were approaching Zhang Xinya step by step. A large piece of headless body fell at her feet.

Corpse, but she also had many scars and bloodstains on her body. She was obviously at the end of her life. Every time the mercury armor came closer, she took a step back. Seeing that she had been forced to the steps, she saw the tomb door open.

, turned around and ran towards me without saying a word, but she seemed to be exhausted, her legs swayed, and she fell to the ground before running a few steps.

Several mercury warriors immediately rushed forward.

Seeing this, I could only bite the bullet and face it!

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Chapter completed!