Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Chapter 609 Baseboard

Who is this person?

Cui Bianxu looked at the two plain black lacquer inner coffins and his doubts grew deeper and deeper. According to common sense, although the inner coffins would also be made of black lacquer, there must be various auspicious patterns and decorations on them.

Why is this so?

"Jiulang, are you still open?"

Is it still open?

Cui Bianxu hesitated. It was really too strange. It was rare for him to be so hesitant and unable to make a decision.

At this moment, a strange knocking sound suddenly came from outside, chaotic and irregular, as if many hands were constantly hitting the wall.

Everyone fell silent, and then Jian Ming leaned on the wall on tiptoe and listened for a while, then turned his head and silently mouthed, "One-legged monster?"

Cui Bianxu took a deep breath. Even though this one-legged man was stronger than Yan Yin, he was not afraid of a one-on-one fight, but what about his guards?

There is no guarantee that there will be no casualties in a head-on confrontation.

Facing the pairs of eyes waiting for his instructions, Cui Bianxu took out the compass, which showed the Kun hexagram, with Kan below and Dui above. There is water under the marsh, but without water in the marsh, it is difficult for anything to grow.

The Shengmen belongs to the earth and is located in the northeast Gen Palace.

It’s exactly where the coffin is!

The knocking sounds in his ears became more and more rapid, and Cui Bianxu did not delay any longer. No matter what was inside the inner coffin, since the door to life was here, he would open it and take a look.

Although the idea is simple, it is still a little difficult to implement.

The inner coffin is different from the outer coffin. The lid of the outer coffin can be opened from the top, while the lid of the inner coffin must be opened from the side.

No one knows how the craftsmen put these two inner coffins in. Like the walls of the tomb, they are tightly attached to the outer coffin. If you want to open it, you either have to remove the outer coffin or use destructive operations.

After Cui Bianxu understood this, he made a decision without any hesitation. The dead cannot be compared with the living: "Smash them together!"

Following his command, all the guards gathered around the coffin with tools and began smashing it. Ten strong men exerted their strength together, and the inner coffin quickly cracked. Jian Ming was amused when he saw it: "Fortunately, the stuff inside is not as hard as the outside!"

Otherwise, there won’t even be a crack. How much effort would it take?

Before anyone could relax, a white shadow flashed through the hole in the inner coffin and headed straight for the nearest guard's face!

Cui Bianxu's neck jumped and he threw the iron spike in his hand over.

His unique skill of swinging weapons has always been effective, and the same was true when he saved Jiang Shangxian.

Unexpectedly, he failed today. The white shadow was extremely small and very fast. Cui Bianxu's hasty move just brushed past it.

Fortunately, Jian Ming reacted quickly and pulled the guard, thus avoiding the attack. The white shadow also hit the wall with a "bang".

Only then did everyone see clearly that the thing was actually a fat white worm, about the size of a thumb. No one knew whether it was knocked unconscious or had just come out of a sealed inner coffin. It just stuck to the wall, and the two ultra-thin tentacles on its head, which were disproportionate to its body size, trembled slightly.

Li Sheng was quick-eyed and quick-handed as he chopped with his knife. The sharp blade scraped across the green bricks, making a harsh sound. Some broken bricks fell to the ground, mixed with the soft bodies of white worms.

"Jiulang, nothing's wrong..." He had just said one sentence when he saw Cui Bianxu take a few steps forward and swing his knife at him from behind.

"Be careful, there's something wrong with this bug!" Jian Ming also saw that the white bug was unharmed after falling to the ground, and it squirmed and arched up again, heading straight for Li Sheng's back.

This thing is definitely extraordinary. If Cui Bianxu hadn't acted quickly enough, Li Sheng would have been bitten by now.

Although this white insect has no legs, its elastic force is amazing, and it seems to be indestructible. According to common sense, Cui Bianxu's knife can definitely cut an ordinary insect in two. However, the place where the insect was cut was concave and as thin as paper. When the knife was put away, it bounced up again like a cricket pupa, and the concave place quickly became round again.

"Jiulang, this thing can't be killed!" Jianming said as he carefully opened the inner coffin, fearing that there were still accomplices of the white worm inside.

Fortunately, the place inside was relatively clean. The two corpses inside had long since turned into bones, and their clothes crumbled into black mud at the touch. He had some disgust on his face, but he moved quickly, quickly clearing out everything inside, leaving only two bottom plates.

Cui Bianxu also found it a bit tricky. Who knows what would happen if this kind of indestructible insect got on a human body?

But this thing just kept bouncing around. When it was hit, it would stop moving, and when the knife was withdrawn, it would start bouncing again, repeating this over and over again. Not only the guards, but even he felt annoyed.

At this moment, there was a loud bang, and the tomb wall finally collapsed under the unremitting attack of the one-legged men, leaving a hole that was roughly large enough for one person to enter.

A one-legged man with a hideous face and a devil-like appearance rushed in through the big hole one by one. Cui Bianxu and others were blocked tightly and were instantly attacked from both sides.

But at this moment, Jian Ming still had no good news: "There's still a floor underneath this floor, there's no secret passage!"

His son was so nervous that he was sweating all over, but no matter how hard he hit the bottom of the outer coffin, it didn't move at all, and it didn't look like there was any secret passage.

Cui Bianxu, who was fighting with Dujiaolang almost instantly, heard this and kicked him to the hole. Then he quickly retreated to the side of the coffin and jumped in with one hand.

The smell inside was extremely unpleasant. He held his breath and forced himself to endure the sticky feeling in his hands as he groped inside. He soon felt a small downward groove. He tried to press down, but it didn't move at all.

The fighting outside became more and more intense, and the guards' groans could be heard from time to time. Cui Bianxu was extremely anxious. He clasped his fingers together and lifted them up, and an upward force came from the soles of his feet.

Got it!

Cui Bianxu jumped lightly, supported his feet on the walls of the coffin on both sides, and used the strength of his legs to hang himself above the bottom plate. Then he bent down and reached out to pull up the bottom plate.

As the bottom panel opened, a foul odor emerged from the dark hole. The moment it hit his nose, he couldn't help but dry heave: "Ugh! Don't fight any longer, let's go!"

Having said that, no matter how hard the guards tried, there were already two one-legged men in the tomb, and another one was trying hard to get in at the entrance. If they wanted to evacuate all of them at once, it would probably be impossible.

Jian Ming, who always smiles, is serious now. Although he still has that signature smile on his lips, his tense jawline is enough to let people who know him know that he is very serious now.

He suddenly pushed Cui Bianxu's back, pushing him directly into the hole in the floor. Then he jumped up and jumped in front of the crowd. He swung his sword to chop off a one-legged man, and then shouted at Li Sheng who was still fighting with another one-legged man: "You go first, I'm here!"