Chapter 280 Buddha Statue
Jiang Ying was watching from the side and was about to speak when she heard a muffled "boom" sound from the distance.
The sound was far away, as if it came from underground, but it was still clearly audible, causing several people to turn around.
"It sounds like an explosion!" Jiang Ying said first.
Wen Ying struggled to get up, looked around, and said:
"It's over there in the ancient tomb. They should still be there."
Originally they had discussed the possibility of missing the team ahead if they took a shortcut.
Now it seems, not.
Su Tong looked at the distance and immediately decided, "Zhang Huaian, you and Yan Zi wait here, be careful, and conserve your energy! Jiang Ying and I will go over and take a look. No matter what happens, we will come back to find you!"
After all this ordeal, Zhang Huaian and Wen Ying were clearly exhausted.
It would be a bit of a show of strength to want to keep up now.
Although extremely reluctant, Zhang Huaian nodded.
Wen Ying said: "According to records, there are countless secret passages inside, you must be careful."
"Don't worry! They've been here for so long, they've already broken the trap, it's not our turn yet."
After Su Tong finished speaking, he took out a pistol from his waist and handed it to Zhang Huaian:
"Captain Zhang, Yan Zi's safety is your responsibility!"
Zhang Huaian looked at Su Tong and grinned, as if he was very happy with Su Tong's actions.
"Thank you, Sister Alan! I am more or less a young captain, so how could I be without this thing..."
As he spoke, he also pulled out a pistol from his waist. It was shiny black and looked well-maintained. I don't know if it has been used before.
Seeing this, Su Tong nodded, hung up the pistol, and said to Jiang Ying, "Let's go!"
"Buddha statue! What Mr. Peng is looking for is related to the Buddha statue! Pay attention to it!" Wen Ying said again.
Su Tong nodded in agreement, and the two of them did not stop and quickly walked towards the place where the explosion came from.
After walking quickly towards the direction of the passage for fifteen minutes, I saw an exposed dark entrance.
The entrance is not big, but a few dozen meters ahead, you can see a large area of collapse, and the underground passages and buildings can be seen at a glance...
It seems that the entrance was found first, and then someone carried out blasting underground, perhaps to break the mechanism or something, causing the mountain to collapse on the ground.
Su Tong and Jiang Ying looked at each other, then went straight forward and went down into the underground palace from the collapsed site.
This is an underground passage located more than ten meters deep underground. The back is blocked by rubble from bombings. It can be seen that there should have been a stone door at the beginning, but it was blown open by humans.
The two walked straight forward along the passage, and they could see signs of human destruction along the way. The eternal lamps on the stone walls along the way were on, and it was unknown whether they had been on all the time or were lit after these people came in.
Moving forward, we found at least three more places that had been directly blown apart, but it was obvious that someone had cleaned them up and left a passage.
As they went further, they discovered bodies one after another. Some were casualties from the explosion, some were killed by arrows, and some were blue all over, obviously poisoned.
It can be seen that we encountered quite a few traps and hidden arrows along the way.
Although Yang Lin was not an emperor, he was a crown prince. Later, he had no choice but to abdicate to Xu Zhigao. When the old people of Southern Wu built his tomb, although they were not able to build it according to the emperor's specifications, they put a lot of thought into it and made anti-theft measures that were no less than those of the imperial mausoleum.
Su Tong kept an eye on the corpses along the way and didn't find any familiar faces, so he felt relieved.
After walking forward underground for about half an hour, we saw many open doors and destroyed mechanisms along the way. We also saw many tombs with burial objects. Almost all the coffins were opened and burial objects were scattered all along the way.
There were many side roads and signs of damage on both sides of the main road, but the two of them never strayed from the main passage. What Mr. Peng had spent so much effort to get could only be in the main tomb chamber.
Until a figure vaguely appeared in front, Su Tong turned around and made a gesture to Jiang Ying to keep quiet.
The two slowed down their pace and slowly moved forward.
Judging from the building specifications, there is a place similar to a circular "underground square" in front.
You can see the flying eaves and carved railings. It is a sunken structure with one floor above ground and two floors underground. The railings are circular, facing the circular square in the middle.
From a distance, you can see that the middle of the "square" below is brightly lit and there are many people gathered there.
There are guards at the entrances to the first and second underground floors.
As for the ground floor, people only come up from time to time to take a look around.
Su Tong and Jiang Ying hid behind the pillar and observed for a while. When there was no one on the ground, they crouched down and walked a distance along the railing on the first floor towards the middle. Then they could clearly see the situation in the middle of the "square".
The light up there was dim, so it wasn't easy for people down there to spot them.
There were several large bonfires burning at the four corners of the "circular square", illuminating the situation in the middle clearly.
Su Tong immediately saw Qin Yi standing there tall and straight. After not seeing him for seven or eight days, he looked to be in good physical and mental health. He still stood out among the crowd with a calm demeanor.
Su Tong breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking around him, several members of the team were there, but Ma Liu seemed to have a bandage on his leg and was leaning on his walking stick, probably because he was injured. Rao Jiancheng's arm was also bandaged and faintly smeared with blood.
Looking around, there were not many gang members left. It seemed that they had lost a lot of members in the process of going into the tomb.
It seems that Qin Yi only has two injured people, which is already very impressive.
After confirming the condition of the members, Su Tong turned his gaze to the other side. Peng Ye was sitting there with a gloomy look, watching several people next to him bending over and fiddling with a black object with hammers or chisels or other tools.
It's an angle problem, I can't see it clearly.
Su Tong crouched down and moved forward a little bit. Now she could see clearly -
It is a Buddha statue.
The Buddha statue is more than one meter tall and stands on a wide stone base.
Not far to the left of that Buddha statue, there is another Buddha statue, but its posture is slightly different from this one.
Not far to the right, there was only an empty stone seat. There was no Buddha statue on the seat, only a pile of broken stones. In the firelight, the head of the Buddha statue was rolling to the side.
Su Tong suddenly thought of Wen Ying's words, realized something, and looked around the square.
Sure enough, there are a total of eight such stone bases in different directions in the middle of this "circular plaza".
Now six of the stone pedestals are empty and the Buddha statues have turned into rubble.
Thinking of the explosion just now and the broken Buddha statue on the ground.
Su Tong immediately thought of the reason why they were staying here - the thing that Mr. Peng was looking for was hidden in the Buddha statue.
But the eight Buddha statues here are tall and heavy, and they can't take them all out, so they have to look for them one by one.
"Uncle Peng, these are the last two. The things must be inside these two." It was the voice of Old Wan.
"Well! It's time to come out!" Uncle Peng said solemnly.
Turning his head, he asked again: "Did you bring the woman?"
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