I saw a ball of pale white flames suddenly burst out in the deep and dark mid-air, and instantly enveloped Kuroki's body.
This flame was so dazzling that we were temporarily blinded.
Immediately afterwards, a heart-rending scream came from above the head, that was Kuroki's voice!
Everyone in the team began to panic, shouting Kuroki's name loudly, but apart from the sound of burning flames, there was no response at all?
When our vision finally returned to clarity, the white light in front of us dispersed like fireworks, and a dark object fell down and hit the ground with a loud thud.
The thing almost hit the crowd. Fortunately, Lao Jiang reacted quickly and made everyone take a few steps back.
And when we looked at the burned-black thing again, everyone couldn't help but gasped. It turned out to be the archaeological expert Heimu who had just climbed up.
Now his whole body was burnt black and he had long since run out of breath, but his western limb was still twitching reflexively.
A pair of eyes protrude, the first thing is shocking, and people dare not look further!
"Old Hei!" The injured expert Lu Baoping immediately rushed forward, but as soon as his hand touched Hei Mu's body, he was burned back by the hot air.
Qiu Xiuxiu and the others also reacted at this time and were about to step forward, but were stopped by Lin Jianye: "Heimu has fallen into a trap, everyone, be careful..."
As the captain, he seemed particularly calm this time.
But the experts on the archaeological team have been in love for more than ten years. They have been digging and working together. How can they endure the tragic death of their companions?
Everyone covered their eyes, but tears still flowed down unsatisfactorily.
Even Platoon Leader Zhang couldn't help but swallowed: "My dear, who is this person? Why was he suddenly burned to death by a ball of white fire? I have also been on the battlefield, and I have never seen him before. Such a tragic death.”
I immediately thought of will-o'-the-wisps, but will-o'-the-wisps are unrealistic and cannot scorch a living person in the blink of an eye!
Especially the moment when the flames exploded, I felt a strong sense of fear.
What on earth was that white flame just now?
I frowned and turned my questioning eyes to Lao Jiang. At this moment, it was estimated that only Lao Jiang could give me a reasonable explanation.
However, when I turned around, I found Lao Jiang silently staring at the rock wall that Kuroki had just climbed, with a rare seriousness on his face.
I followed Lao Jiang's gaze and saw only endless darkness.
Is there something there?
I took a step forward out of curiosity, narrowed my eyes, and tried to capture the invisible creatures in the darkness, but still found nothing.
"Old Jiang, what are you looking at?" I couldn't help but ask.
"See for yourself!" Lao Jiang said as he dragged me to the edge of the rock wall. The rock wall was more than 20 meters high. We stood in the pit and looked up, like frogs at the bottom of a well.
But no matter how high I stand on my tiptoes, I still can't see any way.
I was about to tell Lao Jiang to stop being so pretentious, but his attention was attracted by some shiny things!
But I saw some shiny tiles inserted diagonally on the rock wall that Heimu had just climbed. They were scattered and looked like ordinary rocks or decorations in ancient tombs.
Lao Jiang pointed with his finger and said: "This... is the thing that killed Heimu!"
"What? Aren't those just ordinary tiles?" I said.
Lao Jiang slapped me on the back of the head: "What tiles, little bastard, please take a good look at them."
I thought hard and still couldn't figure out what it was, but I heard Lao Jiang's voice as cold as a knife: "Sky fire glazed tiles will burn when you encounter them, and burn when you touch them."
He was almost jumping out of his mouth every word, and his entire face had turned an iron-green color.
"Sky Fire Glazed Tile? Is this actually a Sky Fire Glazed Tile?" After hearing this, Qiu Xiuxiu couldn't wait to walk up and asked, "Isn't this something only in legends?"
Lao Jiang took out a cigarette from his pocket, and Yin Ling'er glared at him: "If you dare to light an open fire, you won't be afraid of becoming the next Heimu."
In response, Lao Jiang just smiled.
The surrounding experts looked at each other and sighed: "If it is really that kind of thing, we may not be able to get out..."
Platoon Leader Zhang wondered: "Isn't it possible? Just such a small thing can actually burn a big living person? The fire I saw just now was like a cannon. How could it be the work of this little thing?"
History expert Baishui stood up and said: "Platoon Leader Zhang, you don't know something. Skyfire glazed tiles were an extremely terrifying anti-theft method in ancient times. Some tomb owners would even cover the top of the tomb chamber with these glazed tiles to form a dragon fire." Liuliding, if any tomb robbers dare to break in, they will be burned to pieces!"
After showing the horror of this kind of glazed tile, Bai Shui went on to talk about its principle.
The owner of the tomb who uses this technology is both official and noble. The craftsmen will burn a thin glazed tile in a particularly cold environment and fill it with fire dragon oil with a very low ignition point. Once it is stepped on by an external force, the tiles will break at a touch, the fire dragon oil will catch the air, and the blazing fire will engulf the intruder in an instant.
"Who would have thought that complex glazed tiles could be made as early as the Shang Dynasty, and they were buried on the only way to climb. This obviously means that we will never come back!" Looking at the dark and boundless rock wall Under the bright light, Bai Shui sighed in despair.
Because the environment here is too dark, and the glazed tiles on the tomb wall are deliberately spread out, if you take one wrong step, you will be burned in flames.
But if you don't use the tomb wall and just rely on two arms to climb up along the rope, it is simply not possible for humans.
As the saying goes, it is easier to get off the rope than it is to get on the rope. This is the truth.
Platoon Leader Zhang gritted his teeth and cursed, then looked at Lao Jiang and asked him what to do now?
Lao Jiang stomped out the cigarette butt he had just finished smoking, and said with a wry smile: "What else can I do..."
Kuroki has proven with his life that the original path is blocked.
We didn't dare to continue taking risks, so we could only change our plans and continue exploring the depths of Yin Ruins.
"Don't be discouraged, everyone, maybe the tomb will be destroyed in one fell swoop!" Platoon leader Zhang has extensive experience in leading teams and knows that it is very important to boost morale at this time, so he quickly cheered for everyone.
But all directions to the west of this sinkhole were filled with darkness, as if they were in the underworld. For a moment, they really didn’t know where to go.
The oppressive atmosphere circulates in everyone's body, and it also breaks down everyone's psychological defenses bit by bit.
We all looked at Lao Jiang, as if we had regarded Lao Jiang as the backbone of the entire team. Lao Jiang frowned, looking east and then west.
Seeing him becoming more and more undecided, the pressure in his heart was evident.
Lin Jianye squinted his eyes and said, "How about Mr. Jiang, let's go west?"
Lao Jiang asked him why he wanted to go west, but Lin Jianye just smiled: "After death, isn't it called driving the crane to the west? Oh, I just gave random orders, and you still have to make the final decision."
At this moment, I suddenly smelled a faint aroma.
I saw He Lanxue holding up a lotus incense cup at some point, with a lit incense stick standing at the top, and wisps of white smoke flowing down the incense cup, like a gurgling stream or a living thing.
I suddenly remembered what He Lanxue said at the beginning. Backflow incense is also called the incense of the dead. Normally, the incense that burns is the one on the head of Qingyun, but backflow incense goes in the opposite direction, like water flowing downwards. In the earliest days, backflow incense was also called dragon hanging incense. It burned in the air and circled like a dragon. It was once used by the people to communicate yin and yang.
Now that she is lighting incense in the tomb, it must be of great use!
