If it was a normal person, they would definitely not believe this nonsense, but as a martial artist, Pi Mu Er had roamed the Jianghu for many years and had seen many unimaginable things, so he felt that it was very credible.
According to his speculation, Temujin was able to conquer the world and fight in the north and south, so he must also be a powerful warrior. Then, the three legendary treasures were very likely real. Even if they were not as mysterious as the legends said, they must be treasures of the magic and spirit treasures type. How could he not be excited?
So when he learned that Muri Kravitz was blocked by insects while searching for Genghis Khan's mausoleum, he immediately returned to the grassland and deliberately revealed his insect control skills, waiting for Muri to take the bait. Although Muri did not come because of his age, his son Ruhr still found him. Everything was under his control.
Relying on the fact that he controlled the insect army, he had never taken these mercenaries seriously. If he had known that he had only subdued the larvae of the Earth Dragon with the insect controlling technique, and that they could not enter the mausoleum to fight for him, perhaps he would not have been so calm and composed.
Speaking of which, it was thanks to Ding Ning that he could successfully tame the drake larvae and come here. If the adult drake had not been led away by Ding Ning, they would have been torn to pieces.
"Mr. Ruhr, Master Pi, can we use a strong flashlight? This damn torch is too much for my eyes. "
A white-haired white scholar took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes with the help of two staff members.
"Professor Alex, Master Pi said that it is dangerous here. It will be safer to use the most primitive torches."
Ruhr shrugged helplessly.
"But, my eyes hurt from the smoke …"
Professor Alex wiped his glasses and said awkwardly.
Before he finished, he was interrupted by Master Pi, who frowned impatiently. "Although I can tame the insects, this is a mausoleum after all. Who knows what kind of danger there is? You're a professor after all, so you should know better than me that most of the unknown creatures are afraid of fire. I'm asking you to use torches for your own safety. If you want to kill everyone, then so be it! "
"Oh, God, okay, I am convinced!"
Alex shrugged and did not insist on using the flashlight.
Ruhr smiled at Alex apologetically and said gently, "Mr. Alex, thank you for your hard work. Hang in there!"
"Alright, alright. For the sake of Genghis Khan's tomb, I think I have no problem with that!"
Alex put on his reading glasses and felt refreshed as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
The group of people continued to move forward under the vigilance of the mercenaries, and Ding Ning quietly followed behind them. He was happy to have someone lead the way.
But soon, the expedition encountered the first trouble. There were three forks at the end of the tunnel. Everyone stopped and looked at Ruhr, not knowing which way to go.
Ruhr also had a headache. He looked at Master Pi and asked, "Master Pi, do you have any good suggestions?"
"I'm only responsible for helping you eliminate some threats. I don't know how to get there."
Master Pi said indifferently.
Ruhr hesitated for a moment and looked at Alex. "Professor Alex, do you have any suggestions?"
"I've studied the ancient cultures of Mongolia and Shenzhou. Although Mongolia once ruled Shenzhou, an ancient country, for nearly a hundred years, from another perspective, during their rule, many Mongolians lost their own culture and were eroded by the culture of Shenzhou."
Alex was not young, but when it came to his research, he was full of confidence. "In the culture of Shenzhou, we are used to respecting the left, but in Mongolian culture, we always respect the west. So we need to distinguish which direction is west. I think the right passage is either the left passage or the west passage. If the west and the left are the same passage, then the passage can be determined. If they are not the same passage, then we can also eliminate one passage and choose between the two."
Everyone immediately thought so, but Ding Ning almost laughed. This old foreigner was so funny. He thought that he dared to show off here because he had studied the culture of Shenzhou.
It was true that the left passage was respected in Shenzhou, but it also depended on the situation. If there were only two choices, the left passage would be respected, but if there were three choices, then the middle passage would be respected.
The culture of Shenzhou was broad and profound. How could these barbarians understand it deeply?
However, this old Caucasian devil was not completely useless. Temujin was a Heavenly Son of Heaven and an extremely conceited and ambitious person. Deep in his bones, he still believed in the creed of the strong. How could he possibly follow the traditions of China? He would certainly follow the tradition of the grassland people. Respecting the west was the correct passage, but this was his mausoleum. He did not want to be disturbed after his sleep. It was hard to say which passage was correct.
However, the problem was that in this dim passageway of the Outer Mausoleum, there were so many twists and turns that they had long lost their sense of direction. Modern instruments and compasses had long been disrupted by the Immortal Stone and their magnetic fields were in disorder. There was no way to determine the direction at all. It was not an easy task to find their way.
"The compass pointer is not under control. We can't locate it at all."
"Me too. The compass keeps moving randomly. It's suspected that it's disturbed by the magnetic field. We can't locate it."
"We can't see the sun rising and the moon setting here. We can't use general knowledge to identify the direction to locate it."
…
A group of archaeologists excitedly took out their instruments to identify the direction, but they were disappointed and reported one after another.
Alex was also depressed. He pushed up his glasses and said with a bitter smile, "I can't do anything about it."
Ruhr was also in a dilemma. He subconsciously looked at Pi Muer and asked, "Master Pi, do you have a way to identify the right direction?"
Pi Muer did not answer. He stretched out his hand, and a golden mouse appeared in his hand. He said, "Go, baby. Find the right passage."
The little gold mouse squeaked a few times in a rather intelligent manner, then leaped onto the ground. It paced back and forth in front of the three passageways for a while, its whiskers trembling as it sniffed. Then, it paused in front of the two passageways on the left and right for a while, then turned its head and squeaked a few times towards Pi Mu Er. Only then did it slip away and jump onto Pi Mu Er's body, hiding somewhere unknown.
Pi Muer frowned and shook his head helplessly. "My little baby told me that the two passages on the left and right have the aura of mineral deposits."
Alex said excitedly, "Then it seems that the passage on the right is the west!"
"Not necessarily!"
Pi Muer shook his head and denied. "This is a mine-seeking mouse that I tamed. It can't tell the direction. It just smelled the aura of mineral deposits."
"That's enough. What kind of mineral deposits can there be in such a remote place? It must have smelled the aura of treasure. "
Ruhr cheered up as if he had been injected with chicken blood. He said in high spirits, "It turns out that Professor Alex's inference is correct. Genghis Khan was a Heavenly Son of Heaven, so he certainly did not take the ordinary path. He must have arranged the mausoleum according to the double standards of Shenzhou and Mongolia. Now that the passage in the middle has been eliminated, we can divide into two groups and enter from the left and the right at the same time."
Pi Muer frowned slightly. He had planned to keep the treasures to himself. If he divided into two groups, who knew where the three treasures would appear? If someone got the treasures before him, it would be troublesome.
However, he didn't have any other good ideas. A ruthless look flashed in his eyes. These people were all ordinary people. Even if they obtained the treasures, they wouldn't be able to use the treasures. At worst, he would just kill all of them and everything here would be his.
"Okay, then let's follow Mr. Ruhr's plan!"
Pi Muer's face changed, and he immediately agreed to this plan.
"Rachel, you take a group of people to the passage on the left, and the others follow me to the passage on the right. Master Pi, you go with Rachel, and I will go with Alex."
Seeing that Pi Muer did not object, Ruhr showed a complacent smile and secretly winked at Rachel.
Rachel nodded calmly, indicating that she understood. Ruhr was hinting that once she found the treasures, she would kill Pi Muer as soon as possible.
Pi Muer nodded noncommittally. "Okay, no problem!"
No one noticed that Zhu Gu, who had been carried on the back of a mercenary, seemed to inadvertently glance at the passage in the middle, and there was a trace of thinking in his eyes.
Ding Ning saw it clearly in the dark, and he couldn't help but be moved. When Zhu Gu was in Erdeni Temple, he could detect his arrival from such a distance. It could be seen that his perception was extremely sharp. With his means, it was impossible for these mercenaries to catch him. Then he took the initiative to come here without putting up a fight. He must have other purposes. What on earth was attracting him here?
Buddha's relics? An idea suddenly flashed in Ding Ning's mind, and he suddenly understood. It seemed that there might be the breath of Buddha's relics in the middle passage!
According to historical records, the Uwuer, Western Liao, and Xixia conquered by the army of Genghis Khan were all Buddhist countries. In particular, the royal family of Xixia had hired Buddhist monks from Tibet to serve as national teachers or gurus. Although the relationship between the Meng Yuan Empire and Tibetan Buddhism was very close in the later period, Genghis Khan had killed many eminent monks of Tibetan Buddhism in the early period, so it was not entirely impossible for Buddha's relics to be buried in his mausoleum.
But he did not know that this time he had misunderstood. Zhu Gu did come for Buddha's relics, but he did not sense the breath of Buddha's relics in the middle passage. Instead, he sensed the breath of the Immortal Stone, which suppressed his spiritual power.
The two teams quickly divided the work, and each walked into a passage. Ding Ning looked at the back of a burly mercenary who followed Ruhr into the passage on the right, which seemed to bring him a faint sense of familiarity. Unfortunately, he could not use his Divine Awareness to explore, so he could not be sure who this "acquaintance" was.
The mercenary carrying Zhu Gu also entered the passage on the right. Ding Ning hesitated for a moment and did not follow them. Instead, he walked into the middle passage.
The passage was neither long nor short. Ding Ning walked for more than ten minutes to reach the end. There were countless traps on the road, but he was always invisible and had the totem of the five elements, so these traps were no threat to him. But he could imagine that if there were such traps on the left and right passages, those mercenaries would probably be killed or injured.
At the end of the passage was an underground hall, in which there were hundreds of bones, which looked extremely horrible.
Ding Ning frowned and squatted down, carefully examining the bones that would decay at a touch. There was nothing unusual about the bones, and they were just ordinary people. Looking at their scattered corpses in different postures, they should have resisted when they were alive, but were killed alive.
These people should be the workers who built the mausoleum. After the construction was finished, they were killed and became the martyrs of Genghis Khan!
Ding Ning quickly made a judgment. Although he was not used to this kind of burial, he was used to it. After all, no emperor from ancient times to the present wanted his sleep to be disturbed after his death. In order to keep it a secret, it was the most common thing to let the workers who built the mausoleum be buried with him.
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