Chapter 156 Underground Palace
"What monster?"

"Get out of the way!"

"Oops!"

Several exclamations were heard, and the twelve teams of death row prisoners immediately became panicked. Linghu Cang, the leader, stabbed the rushing monster dragon with a sword.

"boom!"

There was a muffled explosion, and in the eyes of everyone who was terrified and disbelieving, the strange dragon actually rushed directly through their bodies.

A strong wind came, carrying with it a large amount of smoke and dust, and rushed out straight away, blinding everyone's eyes in an instant.

The entire team immediately became panicked, and many people staggered backwards.

But they soon discovered something was wrong. It was not a strange dragon at all, but a strange wind!

Mixed with a lot of dust, the hurricane swept in and almost blew more than a dozen people to the ground.

"What kind of monster is that?"

"It's not a monster! It looks like a gust of wind?"

"what to do……?"

Behind them, Hu Bafeng's voice rang out: "Don't be afraid, everyone. That's not a monster. It's just dust formed by the paint on some sculptures that were replaced by the mausoleum after hundreds of years of weathering."

"We open the tomb door and the dust will rush out. It's harmless!"

"Keep moving forward!"

The twelve people looked at each other, checked their bodies carefully, and found that there was no problem, so they continued to move forward.

This was a dark and wide staircase that went all the way down, like a coiled python. Twelve men, holding their weapons, groped forward cautiously.

And behind them, there was no one!

In front of the tomb gate, Hu Bafeng was lying on the ground, listening carefully to something.

Beside him, Chen Liancang stood quietly.

"Father-in-law, they are still going down. The tomb passage should be a spiral staircase going down... Still going down... Hmm?"

"Oh no! They triggered the mechanism!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whizzing!!"

At this moment, bursts of piercing sounds of breaking air suddenly came from the tomb passage, followed by the screams of the death row prisoners and the sound of weapons colliding.

Soon, several hurried footsteps rushed out from the tomb passage.

Chen Liancang waved his hand, and immediately hundreds of Jinyiwei appeared behind him, with bows and arrows drawn, pointing at them from afar.

There were originally twelve death row prisoners, but now only nine were left, and all of them were injured.

As for the three death row inmates who have not come out, they must have died.

"Don't come out, everyone, come inside!"

"Father-in-law!"

Linghu Cangyue walked out with an obvious wound on his left shoulder, and it was obvious that he was hit by a mechanism in the tomb passage.

"The tomb passage is full of traps. Let's wait..."

"how?"

Chen Liancang said coldly: "If it is safe, what's the use of you? Let's go in and pass through the tomb passage!"

"No, don't blame our family!"

As soon as he finished speaking, hundreds of Jinyiwei had already pulled their longbows to the full moon.

Linghu Cang's mouth twitched, and he really wanted to rush out.

But when he saw those sharp arrows and several eunuchs with sinister auras hiding in the dark, he immediately gave up the idea of ​​rushing out.

Among the eunuchs here, there is at least one martial artist who is a master.

The twelve of them were no match at all.

Not to mention, there are so many fully armed Jinyiwei.

"We encountered a trap in the tomb passage, and countless arrows rained down upon us."

Linghu Cang asked: "In order to fulfill the eunuch's request, can you provide us with shields?"

Chen Liancang said: "Give them shields."

"promise!"

The leader of the Jinyiwei, Zhang Jianping, waved his hand, and immediately a team of Jinyiwei found several shields and threw them to them.

These shields belong to the Imperial Guards. They are half-body shields, about three feet long. As long as the user bends down and hides behind the shield, it is enough to protect the whole body.

Looking at the nine shields thrown on the ground and the fully armed Jinyiwei waiting around, Linghu Cang could only grab a shield helplessly.

"Everyone, if you want to survive, keep going down."

"damn it!"

"Isn't this going to cost us our lives?"

"Staying in jail means death, staying here means death too..."

"Who said that? At least there is a glimmer of hope!"

Several people talked in low voices, but finally, under the pressure of the Jinyiwei's bows and arrows, they had to grab the shields on the ground and retreat back to the tomb passage again.

Hu Bafeng continued to lie on the ground, listening to the movements in the tomb passage.

"They're in!"

"I hit a trap again!"

"It's the simplest crossbow mechanism, and it can shoot powerful crossbows from the wall!"

“They came into contact with…”

There was no need to lie on the ground to listen to the sharp sound of arrows hitting shields; everyone standing at the entrance of the tomb could hear it.

"Ding ding ding..."

Occasionally there were a few screams, but this time no one ran out.

This sound lasted for about a cup of tea before gradually fading away.

"The sound has become weaker. They have successfully passed this mechanism."

Chen Liancang immediately said: "Everyone, enter the tomb passage!"

"promise!"

Hundreds of Jinyiwei immediately entered the tomb passage one after another, and both sides were filled with Jinyiwei carrying shields to resist the sudden traps.

The people in the middle are Chen Liancang, Chen Zhong, Hu Bafeng and other shadow guards and tomb-raiding lieutenants.

Going down the stairs, it was quiet all around except for the sound of people hurrying on their way.

Soon, a monster appeared in front of everyone, and the team in front suddenly stopped.

"Eunuch, their bodies have been found, along with a large number of arrows."

"How many bodies are there?"

“Seven!”

"Throw it aside, and everyone continue down." "Yes!"

The team quickly moved forward, and Chen Liancang and others also came across the corpses on the ground.

The ground was covered with arrows, and these arrows almost shot the creatures into hedgehogs.

The walls and ceilings on both sides were covered with densely packed dark holes, behind which were hidden all kinds of crossbow mechanisms!

"Where are they?"

"in front of!"

Everyone continued to move forward, and the group of death row prisoners in front of them, with only five people left, also discovered them.

A few of them looked back with strange expressions, but they still gritted their teeth and continued to move forward.

There was a distance of about a hundred meters between the two teams, which were slowly moving forward.

The team of death row inmates walked very slowly, taking almost every step tentatively.

Chen Liancang didn't urge him, he just walked quietly.

Finally, after a while, the line of death row prisoners in front suddenly sped up, as if they had discovered something.

Everyone also sped up and soon rushed out of the tomb passage and entered another world.

"Wow...!"

There was an immediate commotion, and many Jinyiwei present couldn't help but exclaim.

Because what appeared before their eyes was actually a huge underground palace!

The underground palace is shaped like a city, and from a distance it looks like a miniature version of the capital.

Chen Liancang, who had lived in the capital for more than fifty years, saw something at a glance.

The underground palace in front of you is the capital city!

However, it has been shrunk countless times and is a replica of the appearance of the capital city more than 300 years ago!

Everyone subconsciously looked into the distance. The underground palace was dark and the vision was limited, but they could vaguely see a tall building in the distance, standing in front of them.

"Where are the prisoners on death row?"

"Where are the condemned men?"

"Gone!"

"I think I saw them running into the underground palace just now!"

Chen Liancang frowned and said, "Don't worry about them for now, just let them go."

"Night Pearl!"

A team of Jinyiwei ran out from the back of the team, took out a number of goose egg-sized luminous pearls from their arms, took a deep breath, grabbed them in their hands, and threw them hard in the distance!

With the help of the faint light of the night pearl, everyone was finally able to see clearly that this place was indeed a huge underground palace.

Chen Liancang even took out a night-shining pearl himself, activated his true energy, and then suddenly threw the night-shining pearl in his hand towards the huge building hidden in the darkness in front of him.

The night pearl almost turned into a ray of light, disappeared in a flash, and then hit the wall heavily with a "bang".

Even, it was embedded in it!

At this moment, Chen Liancang's pupils suddenly shrank, because the night pearl he threw out was actually embedded in a huge stone step!

It was a...huge altar built around the capital city!
Under the dim light, there was a miniature palace on the tall stone steps.

That is... the palace where Zheng Mingsen, the founding emperor of Dayu, lived more than three hundred years ago. Unexpectedly, it has been replicated here!

Taizu Zheng Mingsen wanted to be emperor not only while he was alive.

Even after I die, I want to be an emperor!

"The underground palace is shaped like the capital city, and there is also a sleeping palace where Taizu lived. Could it be that Taizu's mausoleum is inside the palace on the altar?"

Chen Liancang pondered for a few breaths, but found that several tomb-raiding lieutenants were running towards him from not far away.

"What did they do?"

Hu Bafeng explained: "Eunuch, this is our custom of tomb robbing... Mojin Xiaowei before, passed down from our ancestors."

"Whenever you enter a tomb, you must light a candle in the southeast corner of the tomb before opening the coffin."

"When we open the coffin, if the candle goes out, it means the owner of the tomb does not welcome us. We must seal the coffin and leave quickly, otherwise something terrible will happen."

"But if the candle doesn't go out, it means the tomb owner already knows we are coming and has prepared some gifts for us. We can take one or two..."

Chen Liancang sneered, "You tomb robbers, do you still believe this?"

Hu Bafeng explained sheepishly: "Eunuch, in our line of work, all we want is peace of mind."

"Believe it or not, these are the rules passed down by our ancestors, and they have indeed saved many lives."

Chen Liancang said, "Light the candles. We don't care about the servants, but... we haven't reached the tomb owner's coffin yet, why are you lighting candles?"

Hu Bafeng swallowed his saliva, subconsciously looked at the huge altar in the distance, then looked at the underground palace not far away, and whispered: "Eunuch..."

"This is not only the tomb of Taizu, but also the tombs of many eunuchs, palace maids, guards, and even the craftsmen who built this underground mausoleum."

"Here is the big tomb!!!"

"Ok?"

At the same time, inside the underground palace.

Linghu Cang was walking in the underground palace with four other lucky people. Each of the five of them was injured, all of them were shot through by crossbow arrows.

Even the leader Linghu Cang was the same, his face was extremely pale.

Finally, Linghu Cang found a house with an open door. After observing for a while, he walked in.

"Brother Linghu, shall we stay here?"

"Not bad!"

Linghu Cang pulled off his sleeves, wrapped his wounds and said, "The target of these Jinyiwei is the depths of the underground palace. No matter what they do, it has nothing to do with us."

"Fortunately there are many houses here. We can hide here and wait for them to go in before we quietly run out along the same route."

"In this imperial mausoleum, we are doomed to die!"

"Although the old eunuch promised to let us go, who knows if he is lying to us?"

"No matter what, I will not put my life in the hands of others."

"Once they get in, we will fight our way out of Tianshou Mountain. It's better than dying here!"

The four of them wrapped their wounds in silence. Someone suddenly said, "Brother Linghu, this is the imperial mausoleum of the Great Yu Emperor. Do you think there are a lot of gold, silver and jewels?"

"Of course there are! Maybe there are many martial arts concentrations!"

"It is said that Emperor Zhengyong is devoted to cultivating immortality. Could it be that he excavated Taizu's tomb for the legendary cultivation method?"

The four of them became more and more excited as they talked, their eyes full of greed.

Linghu Cang also thought about it for a moment, but quickly reacted.

"Our goal is to survive. We must not go deep into the underground palace... Kaka!"

The five of them were all stunned. Linghu Cang swallowed his saliva and asked, "What did you do?"

"What was that sound just now?"

　Asking for a monthly ticket~
　　Asking for a monthly ticket~
　　Asking for a monthly ticket~
　　Asking for a monthly ticket~
　　Asking for a monthly ticket~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)