The shrill cry had the killing power to pierce the eardrum. It was really the cry of the soul.
This water monkey clearly knew that he would die if he ran aground, so he wanted to alarm the mercury helmet here and drag us down with him.
I almost fainted with a mouthful of blood. In a rage, I swung a stick and hit the water monkey's forehead with great force. With a muffled "bang", a large pool of colorful things flew out of its head, like tofu brain mixed with chives.
The water monkey fell to the ground, twitched a few times, and then there was no movement.
I stared at the mercury helmets around me, feeling scared. The dark and blue faces were right in front of me, which really made me feel uneasy.
"Should it be okay?"
Zhang Xinya swallowed hard and never said the nonsense that the water monkey was not threatening again.
Her question was doomed to be unanswerable. How could it be okay with such a big commotion?
Unless the souls in these mercury armor bodies could not withstand the torture for thousands of years and completely died!
But this was impossible. The body is a shell that nourishes the soul, especially when living in one's own body. The soul is very strong and generally will not die.
Soon, my eyes fixed on a mercury armor not far to the right. Many white cracks appeared on the face of this mercury armor!
This was a Jie man with thick lips and an extremely ferocious face. There were many cracks on his dark blue face, just like the skin rolled up and cracked after being exposed to the sun. Under the flashlight, white smoke could be seen coming out of the cracks, and the air was filled with the smell of burning pig hair.
The wax seal was broken!
Each mercury helmet was rubbed with realgar and sealed with wax to prevent the realgar from dispersing. If there was no special stimulation, these mercury helmets would not move at all. The wax seals were very intact. Once broken... there was only one possibility - the mercury helmet moved!
At the same time, Zhang Xinya also moved, and actually pounced directly on the mercury helmet. The speed was surprisingly fast. If she had such a strong foot, no one would believe that she was not a martial artist!
I was already stunned by this fierce style. I watched her pounce on the mercury helmet and stretched out her hand to twist the neck of the mercury helmet with a "click" like killing a chicken or a dog. In the end, she even held the opponent's head and twisted it back and forth, so that the cervical vertebra was completely broken, leaving only a layer of dry skin, and the head drooped down. Then, with a dazzling backspin kick, the opponent's head was completely kicked away with a "bang".
Faintly, I heard a shrill scream.
And then... nothing happened...
Needless to say, this mercury helmet was completely destroyed, and the soul inside it, which was living in the head, had been scattered.
"What are you still standing there for? Go and break the door!"
A low and hoarse voice sounded, and Zhang Xinya turned around, her eyes were four pupils, and her lips were black, her pupils were cold, and there was almost no emotion!
This is definitely not the Zhang Xinya I know! !
The voice is different, cold and ruthless, completely different from that carefree urban white-collar beauty.
Black lips, this is a typical ghost!
I felt a chill on my back. I had many guesses in an instant, and I didn't dare to ask more questions. I turned around and ran towards the tomb door in a panic. Because I was distracted, I slipped and fell when I stepped on the steps. I was confused and almost fell on the body of the water monkey. Then I used my hands and feet to crawl to the tomb door.
At this time, the mercury helmets around were gradually reviving!
More and more wax seals on the mercury helmets were broken. Zhang Xinya was putting out fires everywhere. At this time, the mercury helmets could not move, so they were the easiest to deal with. She didn't know where she found a beheading knife, and heads rolled here for a while.
In fact, only she could do this. If it were me, I'm afraid I couldn't do anything about these mercury helmets.
These people were killed by mercury when they were alive. The heavy metal penetrated every part of their bodies, so that after a thousand years, their bodies were extremely hard, not comparable to ordinary zongzi, and invulnerable to swords and guns. I don't know how Zhang Xinya did it. In her hands, beheading is not a problem at all. The mercury helmet is completely made of paper.
Seeing her so skillful, I felt relieved and focused on the tomb door in front of me.
Maybe it's really like what Lao Bai said, our ritual officials have been making a living underground for thousands of years. This feeling flows in our blood and can't be quit at all. Now that we have seen the real thing, we are instantly in the state and have no distractions.
This tomb door, purely from the appearance, is actually a simple ground stone gate. There is really nothing worth mentioning. It is too common in ancient tombs.
If there is only one difference, it is that there is a standard 19-way Go board next to the tomb door, with black and white pieces distributed on it, and a slide on it. Under the board, there are also a lot of pieces, which should be idle pieces!
I just took a look and roughly understood that this is a mechanical lock.
Normally, tomb doors are locked to prevent tomb robbers from breaking them open, but this is different. This is the place where the last heavenly official buried people alive, so the lock is naturally on the outside. However, this lock is a bit more complicated. If I am not mistaken, there should be many pulleys inside the tomb door. Each black and white piece on the chessboard is connected to a pulley. If the black and white pieces slide properly, the pulley inside will start to work and lift the stone gate in front of you!
However, cracking the mechanism lock is usually very laborious and time-consuming. The situation is urgent now, so the first thing I thought of was a simple and crude method. I put my ear on the stone gate and tapped it gently with my fingers. This is to judge the texture of the stone gate by the echo, and then guess its weight, whether a crowbar can support a gap for people to drill through. It's just a basic operation.
There is no echo in the stone gate, which means that the inside is completely solid. Moreover, the sound of knocking on this door is very strange. It doesn't sound like a muffled sound when hitting a stone, but there is a crisp tremor in the middle.
I instantly gave up the idea of brute force destruction. This door is not entirely made of stone, but a metal lead door is sandwiched between two heavy stone doors. The weight is very terrifying, four to five times that of an ordinary floor-standing stone gate. Moreover, such a design will make the tomb door extremely solid. Let alone violent destruction, you can't blow it open even with a bomb. Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Zetian's Qianling Mausoleum adopted this design. The Republic of China thief Sun Dianying was defeated and had to give up.
For a tomb door of this size, at least 72 pulleys are needed to lift it. Our ritual officers call such a door a 72-way mechanism door, which is one of the most complicated tomb doors.
Who is locked up inside? My ancestor used such a crazy door to block it.
I was full of complaints, but my eyes returned to the mechanism lock beside the tomb door. I observed the layout of black and white pieces on it and finally determined that this should be one of the four famous ancient Go games - Sun Ce Zhao Lu Fan Yiji.
The game, in simple terms, is the endgame of Go.
This kind of layout is often done by ritual officers. My father often said that the chess is based on Tai Chi, the law is like heaven and earth, and it is all attributed to the River Map, which has the highest virtue of yin and yang. Anyway, Go contains the worldview and values of our ancestors. Tracing back to the source is still related to the River Map and Luoshu. This is also the foundation of our ritual officers. No matter how many fancy operations there are, the final theoretical basis is still the River Map and Luoshu. Therefore, many of the mechanism boxes designed by the ritual officers are Go endgames.
In ancient times, when people paid attention to music, chess, calligraphy and painting, this was naturally nothing, but now it is very crazy. Can you find one person who knows Go among a thousand people? There are very few people who know chess! Not to mention the bitterness of those tomb robbers, how many people know this? In the tombs designed by the ritual officials, whenever they encounter this kind of mechanism lock, there is often a situation of widespread grief.
I am fine. I have read a lot of things like "Xuanxuan Chess Classics" since I was a child, and I have read many famous ancient questions.
For example, this question in front of me is a famous question left by Sun Ce and a man named Lu Fan. Both of them are famous chess masters in the Three Kingdoms, and the last heavenly official made a mechanism with ease.
While recalling the way the two people played against each other recorded in the chess classics, I began to move the black and white pieces above. Once I got into the state, I had long forgotten the time. Until the tomb door made a loud "booming" sound, I suddenly woke up, and saw the tomb door open little by little.
"It's done!"
I was overjoyed, turned my head and looked, and was immediately dumbfounded.
A large number of mercury helmets all woke up at this time, opened their eyes, and the eyeballs inside were like bubbles, but they were filled with mercury. Swords and spears stood in a fan shape and were approaching Zhang Xinya step by step. A large number of headless corpses fell under her feet, but she also had many scars and bloodstains on her body. Now it was obvious that she was at the end of her strength. Every time those mercury helmets approached a little, she took a step back. Seeing that she had been forced to the steps, she saw the tomb door open and turned around and ran towards me without saying a word, but she seemed to be exhausted, her legs were shaking, and she fell to the ground after running a few steps.
Several mercury helmets immediately rushed over.
Seeing this, I could only bite the bullet and meet them!