Shunzi and Panzi were dumbfounded and said to themselves, "What the hell? What happened? Did we go to the wrong door?"
"No!" Fatty and I both had experience, so we immediately knew what was going on: "This tomb passage has moved. When we were in the tomb, the old tomb passage moved to another place, and a new tomb passage moved here."
"You can do this?" Pan Zi opened his mouth wide.
"Yes!" Fatty and I nodded vigorously, thinking that there was more to it than that. No need to be surprised at anything that happened in the Mu Cave designed by Wang Canghai.
I was a little scared, but also a little relieved, because once the tomb passage changed, I suddenly understood why Shunzi's father and several other mummies were trapped to death in the gold. If I didn't know Wang Canghai's strategy, the strange changes in the tomb chamber and tomb passage here would be enough to drive people crazy. We were almost deceived and lost our minds in the underwater tomb, but once we knew the principle of the sudden change of the tomb passage here, it was not scary at all.
Once the tomb passage changes, the crossroads where we came here will no longer exist, and it will be impossible to go back. Although we don't know what the end of this new tomb passage is, if we stay here, our fate will be the same as those corpses.
What I was thinking at the time was that at most there was nothing at the end of the tomb passage, and it was a dead end. This was no big deal. The corpses were trapped here for this reason at most. Without explosives, the way they came here suddenly disappeared, so they would naturally be at a loss and show expressions of despair.
Thinking back on it, I was really too young. The deep despair on the corpses' faces indicated that what they had encountered was much more bizarre than I had imagined, and what I thought was too simple at the time.
I shared my thoughts with others, and explained to Pan Zi and Shun Zi the principle of the changes in the tomb passage. They finally came to their senses and showed expressions of "it's nothing". However, Pan Zi thought a little further and said, "If this is the case, theoretically the structure of this underground palace will be infinitely complex. Will we be like being trapped in a Rubik's Cube, unable to get out once we enter it?"
I assured him, "It shouldn't happen. To be honest, Wang Canghai's trick is just to put psychological pressure on the tomb robbers. It's not easy to trap people to death. I guess many people died of mental breakdown due to the torture."
In short, we must walk through this newly appeared tomb passage, and then think of a way out. If we really can't get out, as Fatty said, we can first determine a direction, and then blow it out step by step. Now that we have explosives, we feel much more confident.
I took the lead and walked into the tomb passage, followed by Fatty and the others. I immediately felt something was wrong. The murals around here were too cold, with so many big-headed shadows, it was as if there were such things standing all around, making people extremely uncomfortable. I suddenly thought, maybe there is such a thing at the end of this secret passage, and when its shadow is reflected on the wall, we will definitely not be able to find it.
But we had already walked in, and it would be too embarrassing to go back, so I had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk in front, trying not to think about these things. Soon, the tomb door behind me could no longer be seen, and we walked to a place where there was no connection between the two ends.
Pan Zi, who was behind us, asked Shun Zi about his father and the expedition team. Shun Zi told him some of the details, and Pan Zi said to us, "On our way here, we found that all the sealing stones were blasted out of the cave entrance using directional blasting, which is the latest technology. This means that they did not come in the same way we came in. It seems that there must be more than one way out."
I said, "Of course. Just look at how fast Aning and the others walked. They were able to get there before us by following the original route. You can see that we lost because we had too little intelligence."
I just don't know where Aning and the others have gone now. They should have also been to the treasure room we just visited. Did they also come out and encounter the moving tomb passage? Is it the same tomb passage as the one we entered? Moreover, is it the same for Uncle San as well?
I was really unsure, because we had already arrived at the underground palace according to Uncle San's code, but he didn't give us any follow-up codes. It seemed that after entering the underground palace, he might have lost his way.
We walked and talked for about twenty minutes when we saw a reflection of the flashlight we shone ahead, proving that we had reached the end of the tomb passage. We all became nervous and immediately quieted down, slowing down and walking little by little. Soon, a jade gate appeared at the end of the tomb passage.
When the Jade Gate first appeared, I was suddenly shocked, because this Jade Gate was exactly the same as the previous one. Then I thought, most of the doors in the ancient tomb were made by one craftsman, so of course they would be very similar. The stone texture of the door was still very good, and there was also a hole under the door, which was also caused by someone's explosion.
It looks like someone has been here before, that's good, no matter who it is, it's a good thing for us, at least it proves that there is no loophole.
We filed in again, and because there were not many cold fireworks left, the fat man didn't want to light any cold fireworks this time, but instead lit a few firecrackers. We looked around and were stunned.
Behind the tomb door is a room exactly the same as the treasure room just now. Piles of gold and silver treasures in the tomb are piled up like small hills. There are four huge pillars in the four corners of the tomb, and the layout is almost the same.
I thought to myself that there must be more than one room like this in the underground palace, so how much treasure must be piled up? No wonder the Dongxia Dynasty was so weak but still managed to build such a magnificent underground mausoleum. It turned out that so many treasures were hoarded. I think all powerful regimes have this habit. The body of Genghis Khan is hidden under the Mongolian grasslands, Hitler's Nazi gold is said to be buried in Tibet, and the bodies of the Yelu brothers of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty are here.
I was daydreaming when suddenly the fat guy next to me shouted at me. The voice was so loud that it scared me.
I thought something had happened and looked towards him. I saw him standing on a mountain of gold with his mouth wide open. He kept trying to speak, but his breath was choked and he couldn't say anything. I hurried over to take a look and was also shocked to see several corpses huddled up surrounded by the treasure.
I asked curiously, "Shunzi, how many fathers do you have... No, how many people are there in your father's team?" Before I finished asking, I suddenly saw a phenomenon that made me shudder. I saw a bunch of things neatly arranged in the pile of gold objects next to the corpses. I shone a flashlight on them, and they were exactly the things we had just sorted out in another treasure room. The order and category were exactly the same.
The fat man couldn't bear it any longer, so he set off some cold fireworks, which instantly lit up the entire tomb. We walked down and took a closer look. These things were clearly the ones we had just taken out.
The fat man was shocked and said, "What's going on? This...someone is imitating our behavior...?"
I frowned, stood up, looked around, and a familiar feeling came over me. I said dumbly, "No... we walked back by ourselves. This is where we just started!"