Following this secret passage, they saved a lot of time and trouble.
If they had to continue digging a tunnel themselves, they didn't know how long it would take to dig through.
Although these people had been trained from a young age to conserve their strength and energy consumption methods.
At most, they only needed to eat and drink every three days, and the most skilled could extend the time to seven days.
But they didn't have much food with them.
Therefore, they were a little nervous.
Once their food ran out, they would have to go find food.
"We're here."
After walking dozens of meters along the secret passage, Zhang Hai Ke stopped at the entrance of a tunnel and said.
The entrance to the tunnel was not large, barely enough for one person to squeeze through.
Zhang Hai Ke and the others were eager to explore the situation below.
However, Xiao Guan was staring intently at the walls of the secret passage, as if he had discovered something.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Bei asked in a low voice.
Xiao Guan didn't speak, he continued to stare intently, and suddenly a centipede crawled out of the wall.
"Crack!"
Suddenly, an iron shovel landed on the centipede, directly killing it.
"What? Scared already? If you're afraid of dying, just go, don't drag us down later."
Zhang Nian looked at the two of them with disdain.
Zhang Bei and Xiao Guan ignored Zhang Nian, they continued to stare at the centipede.
"Black blood?"
Zhang Bei and Xiao Guan looked at each other, they both noticed something wrong.
Usually, centipedes' blood is blue.
But this centipede's blood was black.
Even more terrifying was that the blood seemed to be poisonous, it actually corroded the soil.
"Cut it out! Don't mind those two scaredy-cats."
Zhang Hai Xing said.
Zhang Nian just gave them a disdainful smile and then left, not noticing anything unusual about the centipede.
"You can still leave now."
Xiao Guan said softly to Zhang Bei.
Zhang Bei said, "If you don't leave, I won't leave either, we're friends."
Xiao Guan just glanced at Zhang Bei and didn't say anything more.
The two of them also came to the side of the tunnel and found that there were blue bricks underneath.
It looked like the ceiling of a tomb, but these blue bricks were stacked up in a staggered way.
This was completely different from what they knew.
This kind of staggered stacking is usually used for the bottom of the tomb.
Because the bottom has a foundation to rely on, this laying method is fine.
But this is the tomb ceiling, this laying method is not at all stable and could easily collapse.
"It seems there's a tomb below, who goes down first?" Zhang Hai Ke asked.
No one knows what's down there, if there are traps, if there's danger.
The first person to go down is naturally the first person to be attacked.
"Hai Xing, you're petite, you go down first?" Zhang Jiu Ri said.
Zhang Hai Xing was also not one to back down, she said, "I'll go down, I'll go down, who's afraid of who?"
Saying that, Zhang Hai Xing rolled up her sleeves and prepared to get to work.
"Hey! Why do we have to do this dangerous stuff ourselves?"
Zhang Nian said to Zhang Bei and Xiao Guan.
Zhang Bei was also a little angry, they only remembered them for this kind of thing.
They clearly wanted to let them go ahead and get blown up, if there was any danger, they would be the first to die.
Just as he was about to retort, Xiao Guan had already taken out the rope and swung it down.
Seeing this, Zhang Bei frowned and was about to persuade him.
Xiao Guan had already slid down the rope and quickly entered the tomb.
With the light from the lantern in Xiao Guan's hand, they were able to see the tomb more clearly.
Seeing that Xiao Guan had gone down, Zhang Bei was unwilling to waste time with these three, so he also slid down.
"Hey! Are they trying to get ahead?" Zhang Nian said angrily.
Zhang Bei's temper was completely ignited by this guy Zhang Nian.
Let them go ahead and get blown up, now they see there's no danger, and they're afraid they'll get ahead?
But soon Zhang Bei was shocked by what he saw.
This tomb was about the size of a basketball court.
The entire tomb was like it had been turned upside down by gods and demons.
The top of the tomb was inlaid with coffins, boxes, and scattered rocks.
But there was nothing at the bottom of the tomb.
"What's going on? The entire tomb is upside down?"
When Zhang Hai Ke and the other four came down, they were also startled by this sight.
"Could it be because of a mudslide triggering a big earthquake, flipping the tomb upside down?"
Zhang Hai Xing looked up at the coffins and other things on the ceiling.
"It shouldn't be possible, if it was an earthquake, the tomb would have been shaken apart long ago.
It wouldn't be possible to have the coffins inlaid on top."
Zhang Hai Ke said in astonishment.
"Then what do you think happened?" Zhang Jiu Ri asked.
Zhang Hai Ke said, "I guess they designed it this way on purpose."
"It's really strange, I've heard of vertical burial, horizontal burial, and even lying down burial.
But I've never heard of burying the entire tomb upside down."
Zhang Nian said in astonishment.
"So what do we do now? Should we open the coffin?" Zhang Hai Xing asked.
Zhang Hai Ke said, "This place is a bit strange, let's be careful."
"What's there to be afraid of? No matter what, we four are nothing to be afraid of?" Zhang Nian said arrogantly.
Zhang Hai Xing said, "Yeah, Brother, what are we afraid of?"
"Alright then, be careful."
After finishing, Zhang Hai Ke immediately took out the rope, they had to go up to the top of the tomb to pry open the coffin.
Fortunately, there were many things inlaid on top, so it was easy to hang the rope and go up.
"If you don't want to die, I advise you not to touch anything."
Just as the four were about to act, Xiao Guan suddenly spoke.
At this time, Xiao Guan held up the lantern and stared intently ahead, as if there was something in the darkness.
"Humph! You bastard, you know what?" Zhang Nian said disdainfully.
Zhang Hai Xing said, "That's right, we don't need to explain to you how we act."
The four didn't care about Xiao Guan's warning at all, they hung the rope and climbed up.
However, they had just taken out a coffin nail when black dust began to float down.
"Why is this dust so black?" Zhang Hai Ke frowned.
Zhang Hai Xing said, "Maybe it's been too long?"
"It's poison!" Xiao Guan said again at this time.
Hearing this, the four were instantly alarmed, they quickly inserted the coffin nail back in.
After they came down, they quickly checked their bodies to see if there was anything wrong.
"My skin is red, it's really poisonous."
Zhang Jiu Ri exclaimed.
Zhang Hai Ke quickly took out a pill from his backpack.
"Quickly eat the antidote!"
After the four ate the antidote, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
They looked at the coffin above with some dread.
It's likely that this coffin is a trap.
Once someone touches it, a large amount of poisonous fog will fall down.
At that time, everyone in the tomb would die, fortunately Xiao Guan reminded them before.
"You little devil! Why didn't you say so sooner? Are you trying to kill us?"
Zhang Nian roared at Xiao Guan.
"Some people are really thick-skinned, you dare say we didn't warn you?"
Zhang Bei didn't want to indulge this guy's craving for trouble anymore, a sneer appeared on his face.
"You want to die, you waste?"
Zhang Nian stared at Zhang Bei with a hint of killing intent.
Zhang Hai Ke quickly stood in front of the two.
"Zhang Nian, stop being unreasonable, we are a team now, we need to cooperate."
Zhang Hai Ke snorted coldly at Zhang Nian.
Although he was very unhappy, Zhang Hai Ke's words, Zhang Nian still had to listen.
Seeing that Xiao Guan and Zhang Bei seemed to be staring at a certain place.
The four of them also noticed something wrong, they quickly raised their lanterns and looked inside.
Vaguely, they saw at the end of this upside-down tomb, a shadow like a wild beast.
And from the outline, they discovered that this wild beast was placed normally.
The entire tomb was upside down, but this wild beast-like thing was actually placed normally.
It looked a bit strange, which made the four of them suddenly become vigilant.
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