bookrandom Chapter 392: The Stone Statue of a Slave Horse!
Chapter 392: The Stone Statue of a Slave Horse!
To be more precise, this should be a mural!
It's just an unpainted mural...and the structure of the sand and stone is unstable, so even the face of the woman in the mural is blurry.
The archaeological team looked for a long time but couldn't find any useful information.
Even Liu Guoqing and Xu Xiuying couldn't see it!
Until the archaeological team moved forward.
Found the next mural…this one is much clearer!
The woman in the mural is riding on a horse, turning around and drawing the bowstring to full length, with a quiver and a spear placed beside her knees.
What a great female general on the battlefield!
Liu Guoqing looked a little hesitant.
Instead, Xu Xiuying spoke first, "I remember now... The woman in the mural is the female general of the Suobi Kingdom! She was the one who swept across the three kingdoms of the Western Regions in one night!"
"Sweeping across the three kingdoms in one night?" Hawkeye suspected that he had misheard.
At this time.
Liu Guoqing also spoke up, "Those three kingdoms are the ancient kingdoms of Jingjue, Loulan, and Wusun! But it's just history! A bit of exaggeration is normal... Just like Xiang Yu from the Chu-Han contention, he's almost like Superman today!"
Hear this.
Everyone in the archaeological team nodded.
Just like the King of Western Chu, Xiang Yu, played by Peter Ho in the TV series, he could even lift the bronze tripod above his head with one hand!
If this isn't exaggeration, what is?
etc.......
Think of this.
Everyone turned to look at Qin An.
They thought that Brother Qin An could also lift the bronze tripod above his head with one hand!
If they went out and wrote a book about tomb robbery with Qin An as the protagonist, and described Qin An as being strong enough to lift a tripod, the readers probably wouldn't believe it.
Could it be true that... this female general from the Subi Kingdom swept across the Three Kingdoms overnight?!
People haven't figured this out yet.
Qin An and Gu Wuyan had already walked forward more than ten meters. Seeing this, the others stopped looking at the murals and hurried to catch up with them.
This corridor is not long.
The archaeological team walked for only a few minutes before reaching the end of the corridor. It’s not quite the end, as it’s a right-angle turn, and there’s another corridor to the right.
The beam of the military flashlight shone forward.
Everyone saw a stone door and a stone statue of a nag horse at the end of the corridor.
The so-called slow horse refers to a horse that cannot run fast. In ancient times, this kind of horse could not fight on the battlefield and could only be used as carriages for dignitaries.
Gu Yang and Hawkeye saw this.
Raise your assault rifle and take the lead.
But Qin An stopped them and said, "The woman on horseback in the mural just now wasn't wielding a spear! There might be a rain of arrows in this corridor! You stay back and be alert, don't follow us. Lao Hu and I will go ahead and check the road first."
Hear the words.
Gu Yang and Hawkeye also thought it made sense.
So the two of them nodded without arguing.
Qin An and Hu Jizhou walked out of the queue and walked cautiously into the corridor ahead. Even though Qin An only guessed that there was a trap, the two did not dare to let their guard down.
The mechanism set up by the tomb owner is the most tricky!
It's not certain which direction these rain of arrows will come from... Not to mention it's a huge tomb like the Subi Kingdom Tomb that has been built for three hundred years, it's bound to be even more insidious!
however.
Qin An and Hu Jizhou walked all the way to the end of the corridor, but the arrow rain mechanism in front of the stone door and the stone statue of the nag horse was not triggered.
See this.
Hu Jizhou secretly breathed a sigh of relief!
It’s best if there is no mechanism!
But Qin An frowned, because this corridor only had front and back.
And the height is only three meters!
If a rain of arrows were fired from all directions, the tomb robbers would be seriously injured if not killed. How could there be no mechanism?
It's like marching to war and the enemy doesn't ambush at the best place.
Definitely not simple!
"Brother Qin An...what should we do next?" Hu Jizhou asked in a low voice when he saw Qin An thinking with his head down.
Hear the words.
Qin An shook his head and said, "Let them all come over first!"
"Okay!" Hu Jizhou nodded and called for everyone in the archaeological team to come over first.
But Qin An turned around and stared at the stone statue of a nag horse in front of the stone gate... He always felt that there was something wrong with the nag horse's mouth, as if it was holding something.
After all the members of the archaeological team came over safely.
Qin An was finally sure that there was really no mechanism in this corridor.
Everyone came behind Qin An.
Liu Guoqing was very interested in the stone statue of a slow-moving horse. He felt that once the Subi State Tomb was unearthed, it must be excavated and the stone statue of a slow-moving horse should be moved out for exhibition.
This thing is a pure handmade artwork from the Western Regions during the Eastern Han Dynasty!
"Brother Qin An... have you figured out what's going on?"
Gu Yang's words haven't fallen yet.
A "clucking" sound came from behind.
The archaeological team members immediately looked back reflexively, and saw that at the end of the corridor behind them... the wall was covered with ten-foot-long bronze spears out of thin air!
"Wow! How did it transform?"
"Change your mother's head!"
Gu Yang glared at Hawkeye unhappily and said, "Isn't this obvious enough? This thing will soon charge towards us! And then the spears on it will pierce us like hedgehogs!"
really!
Gu Yang's words are followed by law.
The stone wall covered with spears suddenly began to move... and faster and faster!
It seemed as if the archaeological team was about to be stabbed or crushed to death!
"Hold the grass!"
Everyone hurriedly tried to retreat.
But behind it is the stone gate and the statue of the unopened horse!
Where is there room for them to retreat?
Liu Guoqing asked anxiously, "Brother Qin An...what should we do?"
Qin An didn't reply.
He turned around and kicked the stone door with all his strength!
"Bam—"
The stone door shattered, revealing a stone cave half a person's height.
"Get in there!"
Qin An originally wanted to expand the cave, but it was too late. It was impossible for more than 20 people to squeeze into the narrow space quickly through a stone door.
So Qin An snatched Hu Jizhou's Vajra Umbrella and walked behind the crowd.
Just opened the Vajra umbrella.
A series of "bang bang bang" sounds were heard.
This is the sound made by the spears piercing the Vajra Umbrella.
"Chi chi chi——"
The force of the stone gate was so great that it pushed Qin An slowly backwards.
Qin An can hold on.
But the shoes on his feet couldn't hold up!
Fortunately, although the archaeological team members were panicked, they still managed to get into the cave in an orderly manner.
"Brother Qin An! Come in quickly!"
Gu Yang stood in the stone cave and looked at Qin An anxiously.
He wanted Qin An to get away and go into the cave.
"Okay!" Qin An looked back and saw that everyone in the archaeological team had already gone in, so he wanted to retreat and escape without any hesitation.
But when Qin An just retreated to the front of the stone statue of the nag horse.
The horse's mouth of the stone statue moved!
A few drops of corrosive liquid actually sprayed out from it!
The drops of liquid fell on Qin An's left elbow, which was holding up the Vajra Umbrella... In an instant, a few wisps of unsmelly white smoke emerged from Qin An's left elbow.