Chapter 158 The mortician is weird (8000)
When the whimpering sound came out, the temperature in the entire tomb room seemed to have dropped a lot and became icy cold.
Xu Bai put down the black knife in his hand, but when he put it down, he raised the black knife slightly, and the entire bronze coffin lid was lifted off by him.
"The atmosphere group is very active."
A black shadow emerged from the coffin, turned into an afterimage, and rushed towards Xu Bai. The speed was staggering, and it was already in front of Xu Bai in the blink of an eye.
Xu Bai turned the black knife and shattered it, and the fragments seemed to turn into a long whip, lashing fiercely at the black shadow. The black shadow was attacked and flew upside down, tumbling for a long distance before stopping.
At this time, Xu Bai also saw clearly the appearance of the black shadow.
It is no longer a skeleton, but a mummy skin, covered with bones, which looks like an absurd shelf.
The clothes on his body are already in tatters, and no specific shape can be seen, but there are different pendants hanging on his neck and hands.
A necklace is hung around the neck of this mummy. The necklace is made of unknown ropes, and on the rope is a circle of animal teeth.
There are also animal teeth on the wrists and ankles, which seems to have a sense of wildness, and combined with the terrifying shape of the mummy, it gives people an extremely absurd feeling.
"This animal tooth..." Ye Zi seemed to have thought of something, and said, "My lord, this should be a barbarian."
The barbarians are also the heartache of the Great Chu Kingdom.
When the Great Chu State was first established, it was a rhythm of internal and external troubles. At that time, there was the Great Yue State outside, and there were barbarians who wanted to swallow the Great Chu State and establish themselves as kings.
If the emperor hadn't been very decisive and used people from the rivers and lakes to unite, I am afraid that the current situation of the Great Chu State would have been even more severe at that time.
But even though these threats were rejected, they did not disperse for a long time. In the border area, there were often frictions between the Great Chu Kingdom and the Great Yue Kingdom, as well as the barbarians.
Now hearing what Ye Zi said, Xu Bai had an idea, could this be the tomb of the barbarians? But why did the tombs of the barbarians come to the Fenghua state of the great motherland?
This is a big doubt, but for now, Xu Bai can't think of a clue to solve it. More importantly, the mummy that was just repelled rushed over again, like a machine that doesn't know pain.
"Very strong, third grade." Xu Bai said lightly.
The fragments scattered everywhere, after he finished speaking, seemed to have been sensed. The next moment, these fragments spun rapidly, with boundless power and melodious music, covering the mummy in front of him.
Gang Qi intertwined, like black clouds overwhelming the city, trying to destroy everything.
At the very center of the Gang Qi, driven by the fragments, each fragment penetrated the body of the mummy.
In less than a breath, the mummy in front of him fell to the ground, motionless.
Strong mummy, pawn.
Ye Zi covered her face, very helpless.
Young master is good at everything, and he is very gentle with others, but this temperament is easy to offend others.
At the beginning, they were very strong one by one, but this so-called strong one didn't even hit a face-to-face.
Ye Zi felt that he was fine, the stronger the young master, the happier he was, and it was an indescribable kind of happiness.
But if a genius is here, I'm afraid I can't wait to eat Xu Bai right now.
Xu Bai actually didn't talk nonsense, he was indeed very strong. In this kind of place that is not the main tomb, you can encounter the weirdness of the third rank. It would be a lie to say that it is not strong.
Any young man who came to this place would have to fight for 300 rounds here.
But in the final analysis, what this mummy encountered was Xu Bai, a person who used the strength of the third rank to overthrow the first rank.
The surrounding fragments closed together, turned into a black blade, and gathered on the handle again. Xu Bai put the knife back into its sheath, and walked to the coffin.
This guy turned out to be a barbarian, so the tomb became more and more mysterious when he explored it.
Now all the places have been checked, but there is no passage, except for the last coffin.
When Xu Bai was in the coffin, he saw that there was still a board blocking the bottom of the coffin.
Xu Bai reached out and knocked on this board, and there was a hollow echo. Unlike other coffins, the bottom here is empty.
Empty, it proves that there is space below, that is to say, this passage has to go down.
Xu Bai took out the black knife, which was full of cracks, and slashed on the stone slab below.
The next moment, the stone slab shattered, and a staircase appeared in front of his eyes, leading directly to the dark underground.
Xu Bai squinted his eyes, looked up and down, and waved to Ye Zi.
Ye Zi stepped forward and glanced at the dark stairs.
"You follow me." Xu Bai said.
Ye Zi nodded, and silently followed behind Xu Bai.
The fourth-grade puppet is still walking at the back, playing the role of the broken back.
When Xu Bai stepped on the stairs for the first step, nothing unusual appeared, it was just a simple staircase, and it looked the same.
The passage where the stairs are located is very dark, and the space inside is not large. If a normal person raises his hands horizontally, he can touch the walls on both sides.
Xu Bai tried it, and he could just touch it with his hands raised flat. He was about to move forward, but the next moment, he found that what he touched was not normal.
The walls on both sides are not smooth, but have protrusions and depressions, and it feels as if something is inlaid on it.
Ye Zi followed behind Xu Bai, seeing Xu Bai's situation, raised his hands cleverly and sensiblely, and there were white silk threads intertwined between his ten fingers, illuminating the surrounding darkness.
As the light came on, Xu Bai also saw the surrounding situation clearly.
On the walls on both sides, there are reliefs carved one after another, which look unusually vivid.
Because it has been underground, it has not been eroded by the strong wind, so it can be seen clearly.
People dressed in barbarian clothes, holding weapons, sitting on horses, charged and killed in a city.
The pictures on both sides can be perfectly coherent. One city after another was rushed by them, leaving behind devastated and mountainous corpses. These corpses were wearing the clothes of ordinary people.
The people wailed, knelt on the ground, raised their hands, as if praying for God's blessing.
Blood, flames, gunpowder smoke, corpses, these scenes are constantly fused and constructed in it.
A scene is engraved on the mural, like purgatory on earth.
"It's really not a person!" Xu Bai frowned.
After entering the rivers and lakes, he killed many people, but basically he didn't kill these unarmed ordinary people.
In war, people will always die, but in Xu Bai's view, this kind of endless killing has nothing to do with war.
The faces of the barbarians portrayed on the reliefs are also very vivid.
Each of them had excited expressions on their faces, as if killing these ordinary people could bring them excitement.
This is not for war, but for that perverted selfish desire.
Ye Zi also saw this scene, his mountain-like chest rose and fell slightly, walked to Xu Bai's side, and said, "My lord, barbarians are like this."
"In their eyes, people other than them are no different from food. They only know about killing, and even admire this kind of killing."
"It is also a way for them to engrave on murals like this, to express their so-called glory."
While talking, Ye Zi pointed to a mural, on which there was a barbarian man carrying a military flag.
There are a few words written on the military flag, but they are barbarian characters, Xu Bai doesn't know them.
Ye Zi knows it, after all, there are too many and complicated things from childhood to university, and there are many things that can be used.
"This is the Chimu tribe. The one killed by the young master just now should be a head of a thousand households."
The Chimu Tribe is the text seen on the military flag mural just now.
As for the head of a thousand households, it was Ye Zi's guess.
Tribe is the way of life of barbarians.
They lived in the land of barbarians for a long time, and did not create a new country, but lived in tribes.
A tribe can have as few as a few hundred people, as many as several thousand people, and even tens of thousands of people.
Head of a Thousand Households, this is the official position of these barbarians.
A head of a thousand households controls thousands of people.
"Chimu tribe?" Xu Bai touched his chin and said, "It seems that this may be the tomb of the leader of this tribe."
If according to Ye Zi's description, a head of a thousand households can only stop outside, then there must be important barbarian people buried here, and the leader is a good guess.
"Go ahead." Xu Bai hid this clue in his heart, continued to lift his feet, and walked towards the inside.
Along the way, the carvings on both sides of the wall have never stopped, and most of them are similar, but only similar, and there is no repetition. In other words, this so-called Chimu tribe has created boundless killings
Killing, just because they like it.
Xu Bai said that for today's trip, just walking through this passage has already made him feel gloomy.
After walking for about a stick of incense, there was finally a new change ahead.
At the very end of this passage leading to the underground, there is a bronze door, which is tightly closed, with complicated patterns engraved on it.
Just looking at the pattern, there is a fierce air rushing towards the face, and some black bloodstains have dried up on the unevenness of the pattern.
"I heard that these barbarians like to pour their blood on things to show their so-called strength. It seems that your guess is right. This may really be the tomb of the barbarians." Ye Zi looked at it for a while and said.
Xu Bai nodded: "Behind the bronze door, there must be something big waiting for me."
He pulled out the black knife, stretched out his hand, and patted the bronze door lightly with the knife, and there was a crisp knocking sound.
Apart from this, there was no other sound.
Xu Bai swung his knife, and the shards hit the bronze door. The next moment, the bronze door shattered and turned into debris all over the sky.
The moment the bronze gate was breached, Xu Bai's pupils shrank suddenly.
An extremely dangerous feeling came, he hurriedly took a step back, even holding Ye Zi back.
Behind the bronze door is an incomparably vast space filled with densely packed coffins. These coffins are round and guard the center, and in the center is a huge coffin twice the size of an ordinary coffin.
There are also complicated patterns on the huge coffin, but apart from the patterns, right in front of the coffin, a man dressed in ordinary clothes is kneeling with his back facing him.
Kneeling position, the front is facing the huge coffin, and the back is facing the exit of the underground passage.
Beside this man, there is also a black shovel.
"Shovel?" Xu Bai frowned and said, "Could this be the gravedigger who robbed the grave?"
The dangerous feeling just now has not disappeared, not only that, but it is gradually spreading.
He couldn't figure out where there was danger here, but he always felt that if he stepped out, he would encounter something terrifying.
"Ye Zi, you stay here." Xu Bai waved to the fourth-rank puppet behind him.
The fourth-grade puppet took off the package on his back and handed it to Xu Bai, who then handed it to Ye Zi's arms.
Ye Zi was taken aback for a moment, and after realizing it, he said hastily: "My lord, this place is very weird, don't take risks."
Xu Bai smiled and said, "Of course I won't take any risks."
After he finished speaking, the fourth-grade puppet who had handed over the things moved, raised his feet, and walked out of the passage.
Since you feel the danger, then send someone to have a look. The most suitable one here is the fourth-grade puppet.
The fourth-grade puppet has no life, and he is controlling it for exploration, which is perfect.
When the fourth-grade puppet stepped out under Xu Bai's control, the next moment, Xu Bai saw the danger approaching.
Before Xu Bai's eyes, a thin layer of mist suddenly appeared on the ground. The mist was white and looked no different from ordinary mist, but as the mist swept in, the fourth-grade puppets standing on the ground suddenly stopped.
Then, where the fourth-grade puppet was standing, there were bursts of barking sounds.
At the position of the feet of the fourth-grade puppet, after touching the fog on the ground, black appeared.
"It seems that this is a mechanism, and it is a highly poisonous thing." Xu Bai knows poison, and he can tell that the mist is highly poisonous at a glance. This is the source of the dangerous feeling just now.
But the level of poison he possessed was still too low, and he didn't see what kind of poison it was, let alone a solution.
Xu Bai frowned. Now it seemed that he was stuck, because of the poisonous fog in front of him, he was stuck directly to death.
At this time, the gravedigger who had been kneeling in front of the coffin finally made a movement. He turned his head and looked at Xu Bai's position with a mocking smile on his face.
The strange thing is that those white mist didn't walk around him, but stopped around him, and didn't erode him.
"Master Xu, I didn't expect you to come here. Would you like to come in?" The gravedigger's voice was sarcasm, but what he said was like a greeting from a host to a guest.
Xu Bai rubbed his chin and said, "You are the person behind the scenes. Compared with those who dealt with me before, you are the fastest exposed."
"I can't help it, who let me have a ghost here? But it doesn't matter, as long as I can achieve my goal." The gravedigger said slowly.
With an unchanging smile on his face, he still kept his kneeling posture, but turned his head fiercely in Xu Bai's direction.
"Master Xu is mighty and mighty. In the rivers and lakes of the Great Chu Kingdom, there are already storms and storms. I don't know if I feel a sense of powerlessness now." The gravedigger continued to taunt, as if this kind of taunt could bring him endless pleasure.
"No." Xu Bai said simply.
The gravedigger was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect that Xu Bai would not play cards according to common sense.
"I see, are you covering up your incompetence? Seeing yourself fail, so you want to cover up."
"Really not." Xu Bai spread his hands and said, "I haven't failed, why would I cover it up?"
The gravedigger was stunned, and he pointed at the surrounding mist in disbelief: "You still said you didn't fail, can you come in and beat me? You can't, I know your knife is very strange, it can be broken into pieces, but I I can tell you that there is nothing in these mist that will not rot, you can try it.”
In the time of speaking, the fourth-grade puppets have turned into debris all over the ground.
The mist rose and filled the surrounding area, except that they couldn't enter the passage where Xu Bai was.
In this era, every tomb room must leave a way out.
Its purpose is also very simple. In case any unworthy descendants get into big trouble, this may become the basis for their comeback. Now it seems that this passage is a way out.
In the white mist, came the voice of a gravedigger.
"This poison cannot be dissipated by the wind. If it is below the first grade, it will kill you if you touch it. It is absolutely impossible for you to break into it."
"You just said no, but I have to let you have it!"
Xu Bai heard the words and said with a smile: "It seems that your ultimate goal is to integrate into this corpse. Is this corpse important?"
The gravedigger didn't answer, he didn't speak at all, and he obviously knew the truth that too many words would lead to mistakes.
The scene fell into an eerie silence.
Xu Bai found a place to sit down, looked not far ahead, and said: "Now come out obediently, I will give you a chance to survive."
The gravedigger still didn't answer, apparently he ignored Xu Bai's words.
Ye Ziliu frowned slightly, the current situation is very dangerous, the other party is like a tortoise shell, and won't come out at all.
I don't know why, but my son is indifferent, as if the other party didn't come out, but gave me a chance instead.
Yes, that's how it feels.
She even saw the young master sitting down, recuperating, and staring straight ahead.
But Ye Zi didn't say anything, didn't ask anything.
Following the young master, you only need to use your remaining heat, and the rest is to trust the young master unconditionally.
Even if it is death, it doesn't matter.
When she first learned that the young master disappeared, she herself planned to finish this road and sink to the bottom of the river forever.
So... Ye Zi naturally walked to Xu Bai's side, sat down as well, took Xu Bai's arm with both hands, and leaned on Xu Bai's shoulder.
"This is pretty good." Ye Zi thought to himself.
It's too noisy outside, it's not bad to suddenly quiet down now.
Xu Bai touched Ye Zi's head, and then stared at the front intently.
In fact, if such a moment happened, he would definitely turn around and leave, because there was really no way to get in.
If you can’t get in, you’re still wasting your time here, that’s a waste of time.
But… not now.
Through the white mist, he could see the huge coffin looming.
Accompanied by the looming coffin, there is also a golden progress bar directly above.
There are golden progress bars, so what a fart!
Isn’t the liver better here?
And looking at the rhythm of the progress bar, it is definitely a good skill, not to mention other things, just the degree of slowness is different.
Just now I heard from the gravedigger that it will take ten days, so after these ten days, he can completely fill up the progress bar first.
This progress bar appears on the huge coffin, which may be able to solve the fog here.
Until then... hehe.
Boy, let me see how arrogant you are.
Grandpa appointed you to be killed.
With such villainous thoughts in mind, the more Xu Bai looked at the progress bar, the more energetic he felt.
But sometimes, the more you want to feel at ease and give up the progress bar, the more reality will not allow you to do so.
Xu Bai's dream is to have an endless progress bar every day, but now it seems that something else has happened.
"Tap Tat Tat..."
Behind Xu Bai, a series of footsteps came from the underground passage.
"At this time, at this place, someone actually came in?" Xu Bai was slightly surprised, stood up, and turned his head to look behind him.
Then, the corners of Xu Bai's mouth twitched slightly.
Behind him, a group of people ran towards him, a large black mass, at least hundreds of them, lined up in a long queue, filling up the passage.
These people are male and female, old and young, but they all have one thing in common, that is, their limbs are wrapped with transparent silk threads.
"Master Xu, I'm here to help you!"
The group of people uttered their voices in unison, which was deafening and made the underground passage tremble slightly.
Xu Bai: "..."
These people... seem to be the soul control master?
Just as he was thinking about this, a group of people stopped in front of him.
Standing at the forefront is a woman controlled by silk threads.
The woman glanced at Xu Bai and said, "Master Xu, I'll help you!"
Xu Bai was about to speak, but unexpectedly, Ye Zi tugged on his sleeve.
"Young master, be careful, I suspect that he is not a soul control master. If a soul control master can control so many people, I don't know how strong it is." Ye Zi whispered.
"Oh?" Xu Bai narrowed his eyes, sizing up the group of people.
At this time, the woman in the lead covered her mouth with her hands, and under the control of the silk thread, she slowly spoke: "As expected of a member of the Ye family, this knowledge is indeed very profound."
Ye Zi raised her head, white brilliance emerged in her hands, if the other party had any abnormalities, she would play a magic note to urge her to die first.
The leading woman turned around, clasped her fists in both hands, saluted Xu Bai solemnly, and said loudly: "Wen's family, Wen Si, the mortician, have met Mr. Xu."
Xu Bai looked at this woman with interest, and at the same time looked at Ye Zi.
Ye Zi was also a little stunned, and after feeling Xu Bai's gaze, he said: "The mortician is an extremely old profession..."
Then, she explained to Xu Bai one by one the various situations of the undertaker.
As Xu Bai listened, his eyes flicked over these people.
After he listened to all the content, he realized that these so-called people were not human beings, they were all corpses.
Embracing masters are similar to soul control masters in that they are all controls, but they are more advanced than soul control masters.
Soul control masters take away other people's souls, while embalmers use the opponent's souls as the foundation and exercise control on this basis.
A soul master can control the living, but an embalmer can control both the living and the dead.
Of course, there are specialties in the arts. Embalmers are not as good at controlling the living as soul masters. They mainly control the dead.
When a person just dies, the soul is not completely dissipated, that is, at that time, the mortician uses this as a basis to control.
As for the various special ways, they are the essence of the mortician, and outsiders don't know about them.
The Wen family is one of the mortician families, but this family has long been submerged in the years.
Of course, there is more than one Wen family's mortician.
"I won't talk nonsense anymore, what is your purpose?" Xu Bai said.
The controlled female corpse, tentatively called Wen Si, said without hesitation after hearing Xu Bai's question.
"Revitalize the Wen family."
Simple four words, with a sonorous and powerful taste.
Xu Bai narrowed his eyes, and said: "Do you think I'm easy to deceive, why don't you first talk about why the Wen family was destroyed, leaving you alone."
Wen Sidao: "The Wen family offended His Majesty, and even set their minds on those who died for the Great Chu Kingdom, so His Majesty secretly sent people to wipe them out."
"But at the beginning, the Wen family was considered loyal to the Great Chu State, so His Majesty did not tear off the last fig leaf of the Wen family, and did not say what the Wen family did."
"It seems that you and His Majesty the Emperor are **** enemies." Xu Bai said.
Wen Si shook his head and said: "No, the Wen family is to blame for everything. I am the only living member of the Wen family. I want to pick up the family again, and I want to complete this step. The most important thing is to regain Your Majesty's trust, if you help Master Xu, there will be no problem."
Xu Bai raised his eyebrows and said nothing more.
The matter has been explained clearly, but Xu Bai is not a three-year-old child, and he will not believe the other party's words.
These are not important, what is important is that he wants to see how Wen Si cleared the fog in front of him.
In fact, he can sit here and continue to keep track of the progress bar, and wait until the time is perfect and the progress bar is complete, and then see if there is a way to break it.
But now someone can solve it, of course he is happy to see it.
Nothing else, stability is the most important thing.
As for this Wen Si... I will talk about it later.
Wen Sidao: "Master Xu, I know you can't believe me, but how do you see my performance next?"
Xu Bai waved his hand nonchalantly, meaning to watch your performance.
He and Ye Zi made room for a little.
Wen Si turned around and waved at the densely packed corpses behind him.
The next moment, one after another, these corpses plunged into the fog of confusion without hesitation.
Xu Bai was a little surprised when he saw this scene. He didn't expect the other party to use this method to crack it.
"Most of the barbarians practice combat skills and trades, such as feng shui or tomb chambers. Although they can make them, they almost miss the details." Wen Si slowly explained.
"For example, this poisonous mist has no roots and no evidence. If it is completely absorbed by people, there will be no risk. So I let these corpses absorb it without any loss."
As each corpse rushed into the mist, the white mist decreased rapidly. When the last corpse entered completely, the white mist disappeared completely.
Wen Si turned his head, cupped his fists and said, "Master Xu, I have already solved it."
Xu Bai glanced inside, and the sense of danger hovering in his heart was gone.
The gravedigger who was kneeling in front of him also noticed the change, turned his head in astonishment, and clenched his fists when he saw Wen Si.
"The Undertaker!"
A feeling of extreme danger hovered in the gravedigger's heart, the white mist disappeared, and he lost his support.
But he didn't leave here, but continued to maintain this posture, as if once he left, he would lose infinitely.
Xu Bai pointed at Wen Si and said, "You go in first."
Wen Si knew that Xu Bai was testing him, so he nodded and stepped into it.
Nothing unusual, nor dangerous.
"Master Xu, it's fine." Wen Si said.
"Kill him." Xu Bai pointed at the gravedigger again.
This time, Wen Si was stunned.
She was a little surprised and said, "Master Xu, aren't you coming in?"
"Why did I come in?" Xu Bai smiled and said, "Having you inside to help me do things, isn't it in line with your idea of making meritorious service?"
Although the feeling of danger is gone, it doesn't mean that there are no new dangers, not to mention that he is worried about this guy.
Wensi stopped where he was, his face was uncertain.
Xu Bai joked: "You don't want to trick me into it, and then deal with me."
"I have heard for a long time that Mr. Xu was born cautious, and it seems that he is indeed so." Wen Sidao.
Xu Bai continued: "I just don't believe that a family that was once killed by the emperor will trust the emperor again. You can't be so stupid, right?"
Wen Si fell silent.
Obviously, this sentence hit her mind directly.
After a while, she pointed to the coffin not far away, and said: "Master Xu is really far-sighted, so let's make a deal, I will kill this person for you, and then how about I take the corpse inside?"
Xu Bai narrowed his eyes.
Take the corpse.
Combined with the current business of Wen Si, it seems that he wants to manipulate this corpse, regardless of the identity of the corpse inside, just such a big scene is absolutely extraordinary.
"Master Xu, you have no choice." Wen Si said slowly: "I can go directly to get this corpse. The reason why I have discussed it with you is because I don't want to have any trouble with you."
"The surrounding white mist was indeed absorbed by my corpses, and the corpses were completely reduced to ashes, but it doesn't mean that after being reduced to ashes, I can no longer get the white mist out."
"Because, as long as there is a trace of remnants of the corpse, it can be completely reversed. This is the subtlety of the mortician."
As she spoke, she snapped her fingers.
Not far away, a handful of white mist suddenly burst out, but it disappeared quickly.
Xu Bai let out a sigh, and said: "Then you take it directly, don't care about my feelings, no problem, no problem, just take it."
This is said as if he is very understanding and doesn't care at all.
The gravediggers looked left and right, some of them couldn't understand the current situation, and they always felt that the situation was developing faster and faster.
Aren’t these two people together? Why are they fighting each other now?
No, that's not the point at all.
The gravedigger lowered his head, secretly thinking about a way to break the situation.
the other side.
Although he said so, Xu Bai did not move half a step, and still guarded the exit of the passage.
This posture is like a goalkeeper, guarding the door with peace of mind.
Wen Si's expression became weird.
Xu Bai's voice changed, and he said jokingly, "Why, I'll give you a chance, you're useless."
"Such a huge tomb, shouldn't it be my side...the only exit?"
(end of this chapter)