"It seems this is the place." After half a day, the scientists in the sixth team searching for the entrance finally discovered the entrance to the tomb. At the bottom of the middle of a large mountain, they found an underground cavity about 20 meters wide that connected to the tomb. This was the path leading to the tomb.
“This place should have originally been two large mountains, and the entrance should have been in the valley between these two mountains. After the tomb was completed, soil and stones were transported to fill the valley between the two mountains, and then trees were planted. In addition, the tomb is located two hundred meters underground, no wonder no one has found it for thousands of years.” Beckm, who was leading the sixth team, said with emotion: “Notify the other teams and tell them that we have found it.”
Beckham turned to look at the hundreds of people around him and sighed inwardly. None of them knew that Marquis Dingshan had been resurrected and was now waiting for them to enter. He didn't know how many of them would survive. Marquis Dingshan's power was beyond their imagination. They had all underestimated him.
“Father.” Anna looked at Beckham with some worry. What Wang Han wanted her to do was to hide with her parents in the search party for the tomb and provide him with intelligence. She knew that these people were experts from various countries and races, and Wang Han wanted to eliminate more than half of them in the tomb in order to suppress the top combat power of other countries and races. The only fortunate thing was that Wang Han would not start another war (we are about to enter the space age) and would also take action against aliens.
“Anna, we have no other choice.” Beckham shook his head and said, “Faced with aliens who may arrive at any time, humanity desperately needs the power of the Marquis of Dingshan.”
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"This is... a bronze gate?" When the earth-elemental users moved aside the soil and rocks in the middle of the mountain, they were stunned. Before them stood a massive bronze gate, its surface engraved with images of demons. In the center of the gate was written a curse: Whoever opens this gate will surely meet a terrible end.
"Behind this gate lie many unknown mutated beasts in slumber," Ashina Shabi, who had already arrived, said, looking at the bronze gate. "I'm afraid they will awaken once the gate is opened. Prepare for battle."
“Before that, let’s think about how to open this door,” the Pope said. “This bronze door is at least five meters thick and can only be opened from the inside. Even if we send in a person with superpowers, they’ll probably be torn to pieces by the mutated beasts inside before they even open the door.”
“Perhaps we can enter from another place,” the Holy Maiden of the Papacy said.
“That’s unrealistic,” Beckham said, shaking his head. “This gate is the only passage (and also the passage from the time of its construction). The rest of the tomb is located more than 200 meters below the surface. To support the weight, the exterior of the tomb would probably be very sturdy. Moreover, according to the exploration, many places underground are layers of quicksand and underground rivers, or just hard rock. Obviously, the surrounding geology was modified when the tomb was built to prevent people from entering from other places.”
Ashina Shabi also said, "Moreover, entering from other places would not only take a lot of time, but could also damage the entire tomb by damaging its load-bearing structure. After all, there is a huge mountain pressing down on it. If the entire tomb is damaged, the workload would probably be measured in years, and it might even be a complete failure."
"So how do we open this bronze gate?" asked a monk, the representative of the fourth team.
"This gate cannot be opened from the outside," Ashina Shabi shook his head and said, "There are three methods: send in assassins to risk their lives to open it, or carefully move the entire mountain from the top down, then dig two hundred meters underground until you reach the top of the tomb, clean up the soil on the entire tomb, and change the course of all the nearby underground rivers. This would take a lot of time, but time is exactly what we need most right now. The last method is for a fire-type ability user to melt the gate open, but melting a bronze gate several meters deep would also take a long time, and the tomb was probably built with precautions against fire-type ability users."
"It seems the only option is to gather earth-type ability users to enter and open the gate."
The captains of the six teams exchanged glances and nodded to each other.
Subsequently, the six teams gathered a total of fifty earth-type ability users. It wasn't that they didn't want to gather more earth-type ability users, but rather that they were afraid of losing them all, leaving them without any earth-type ability users to use later.
"Let's begin." The earth-type ability users who had gathered nodded to each other and finally chose to dive down into the soil at the top of the bronze gate.
"It's water." Soon, the earth-type ability users entered the tomb's passage, but as soon as they entered, they were immersed in water.
"Roar..." Just as Ashina Shibi had said, there were measures to prevent fire-type ability users from entering. Behind the bronze gate was a partition, and then another gate. Between the two gates was a large amount of water, and there were more than twenty ferocious aquatic mutated beasts, or rather, mutated zombie beasts. These zombie mutated beasts were awakened as soon as the earth-type ability users entered the tomb passage and fiercely pounced on them.
"Stone Fist".
"Stone Sword".
The ability users hurriedly turned on their searchlights and began using various methods, directly conjuring weapons from their internal energy to fight the mutated beasts. Some quickly swam towards the bronze gate. Fighting here was extremely disadvantageous for them; not only was it pitch black, but it was also all water. They had to hold their breath to fight the aquatic mutated beasts because they couldn't damage the structure. They also couldn't use their powerful earth-based abilities or borrow the surrounding soil, otherwise they would be buried inside.
"Ah...coocoo..." Even though they had the advantage in numbers, fighting under such restrictive conditions was still too disadvantageous for them. In just thirty seconds, the first person had died, and the bloodshed further stimulated the mutated beasts inside.
"Found it, the Earth Giant Wall." Several ability users responsible for opening the door quickly found the mechanism on the bronze gate. The group used their combined energy to create three rock figures, who then removed the crossbeam (bronze) from the gate and sent a signal.
"It's finally turned on." Ashina Shabi smiled as he saw the light on the receiving instrument.
Dozens of ability users and martial artists rushed forward and struggled to push open the gate. As the bronze gate was pushed open, the water inside gushed out.
"It was sealed with resin." Looking at the water flowing out and the resin on the door cracks, everyone couldn't help but admire Ashina Shabi. He had actually foreseen this and made preparations to guard against fire-type ability users.
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