Chapter 114: Puppet Array
The engineering team arrived at the hall one after another, a group of people were busy setting up lighting equipment, and it didn't take long for the searchlights to light up the hall as bright as day, and the murals on the four walls were also in view.
Seeing the lights on, Rui Yun Jinghong ordered Chen Le and Chen Zhong to continue to march forward, and the rest of the people stood by, I understand the reason why she did this, although the scale of the Ascending Tomb is large, but the road that accommodates people is not very spacious, after all, this place is used to bury things, it is impossible to really spend effort to do any traffic, the section of the road in front is safe, so everyone walked over together, the back is not good, the trap must be indispensable, there are so many of us, we really have to squeeze in, and there is no room to dodge when we encounter the mechanism。
Rui Yun Jinghong sent Chen Le and Chen Zhong's team to open the way, we can only wait for their orders here before acting, anyway, I have nothing to do, I simply went to study the mural by myself, maybe I can see something from it, and I can find a way out of the danger.
Along with the technicians, there was a group of researchers, who had already started to take pictures and document the murals, and I didn't have the patience of their meticulous research, just roughly skimming.
The content on the mural is mostly boasting of the emperor's merits, some patterns are also engraved with words, the text used to record history in the Han Dynasty is mainly Lishu, it seems that it is clear at a glance, there is no difficulty, I glanced a few times, from the record of the year in the text below, this is Wang Mang's tomb Yes, but Wang Mang is not the emperor who conquered the world, but by usurpation, this process is neither glorious nor wonderful, the person who designed the mural deliberately avoided these facts, focusing on praising Wang Mang's talent and kindness to the people, at first glance it is a cliché of praising the leader, basically of little value。
I had no interest in Wang Mang's greatness, and I hastily browsed the murals, and I took a look at the content of how Wang Mang became the emperor and governed the country, but it was the murals that recorded Wang Mang's war that aroused my interest.
The mural I'm looking at depicts a huge war between the two opposing sides, which are in the midst of a fierce confrontation.
I went to see the second mural next to it, and the side that painted the uniform armor and costume was already at a disadvantage, clearly inferior to the other side who was disheveled.
In the third mural. From the side of the uniform armor and clothing stood a man in dragon robes, who pointed a sword at the enemy, and above the enemy there was a dark cloud, and a shadowy figure was falling from the cloud.
In the fourth mural, the soldiers and horses falling from the clouds defeat the disheveled side, the side with uniform armor and clothing makes a cheering victory, and the only thing that makes people feel strange is the soldiers and horses falling from the clouds, and the lower half of the body is replaced by abstract smoke.
Although I don't understand it very clearly, I probably thought that this should be a battle in which Wang Mang led his troops to conquer the rebels, as if to reflect my conjecture, the bottom end of the mural was engraved with a paragraph, which read, "In September of the second year of Jushi, Dongjun Taishou Zhai rebelled, the emperor made the Guandong Jiashu suppress, invincible, the emperor personally conquered, the two armies fought in Yu County, at the beginning of the war, the enemy was huge, the imperial army was invincible, the emperor sent a sword, cursed the heavenly soldiers to help, the heavenly soldiers descended and attacked the enemy, and the enemy was defeated. ”
This meaning is easy to understand, Zhai Yi rebelled in the second year of Jushi, Wang Mang led the troops to fight him, there is nothing wrong, but I don't understand the last few sentences, what is the situation of cursing the heavenly soldiers, look at the description on the mural, Wang Mang waved his sword, and ran out of the clouds with a force to defeat Zhai Yi's rebels, this is obviously in the myth Wang Mang, a man, a mortal, it is impossible to make an army out of nothing, and it is impossible to command the immortals, not to mention that the heavenly realm has been separated after the battle of Shang and Zhou, and the human world has long been without immortals, I am a little curious about what tricks Wang Mang has made, so as to spread the myth that he can serve the heavenly soldiers。
In the mural behind, it is basically a record of Wang Mang's deeds, it seems that this guy is not very peaceful when he is the emperor, and there is a scene of Wang Mang recruiting troops from the clouds in the mural, which deepens my confusion, what method did Wang Mang master, in order to summon soldiers on the battlefield again and again to fight, anyway, I don't believe that he can serve the heavenly soldiers, in this, there must be something that has been covered.
The content of the mural is only recorded in Tianfeng for five years, it seems that Wang Mang Tianfeng has no intention of continuing to engage in these things after five years, think about it, according to historical records, after five years of Tianfeng, Wang Mang is tired of extinguishing the war ignited by the Green Forest Army and the Red Eyebrow Army everywhere, and he is busy with anxiety, how can he have the time and effort to continue to transfer workers to engage in literature and art.
After I watched it, I had nothing to do, Lu Worm and Chen Mo were not interested in these, and they didn't know what they were talking about when they got together with the second and third children, I didn't bother to go over, so I took out a cigarette and lit it, bored and watched others busy, and after a while, Rui Yun Jinghong ordered the large army to set off, I was a little surprised, how long has it been, I probably understand the level of Chen Le and Chen Zhong, how could I clean up the next stronghold so quickly?
The order of action is no different from the previous one, without Chen Le and Chen Zhong's two teams, the speed is much faster, when I arrived at the next hall, I heard a loud voice, mixed with exclamations, I don't understand how Rui Yun Jinghong could tolerate such a chaotic scene, fortunately, the speed of the technicians to follow up is not slow, and soon set up a searchlight, and after the searchlight illuminates the entire space, I can't help but be surprised.
Although the number of searchlights is not as much as the mural hall, it can also allow people to see the whole picture of the hall, unlike the empty hall before, this hall is larger, but not empty, there are a lot of dolls set up in the middle of the hall, with a variety of costumes and forms, I probably looked at the situation in the field, and I understood what was going on just now, these puppets and members of the combat team mixed together, and they would meet when they turned around, and then took a photo of the portable equipment in their hands, obediently, who can not be frightened.
I approached a puppet, took a closer look, poked it with my fingers, the touch transmitted back by my fingers made my scalp can't help but tingle, he thought it was similar to the terracotta warriors, but the fingers actually transmitted back the elastic touch, the appearance of this puppet, is a serious human skin.
The combat team was basically a veteran of the ground, and soon someone made the same discovery as me, and the screams came one after another, Rui Yunjinghong frowned, and finally couldn't continue to endure it, so she had to shout loudly to silence everyone.
The crowd slowly quieted down, Rui Yun Jinghong asked the big shopkeepers to restrain their people near the entrance position, and after everyone withdrew to the side of the hall, the scene of the hall was clearly displayed in front of everyone, I was frowning and observing the distribution of dolls, Lu Worm didn't know where to come from, and said in a low voice in my ear, "Brother Wu, look at this shape, why do I feel like we are not welcome?"
Lu Worm this person, rough words, but intuitive keen, as soon as he reminded, I also saw such a meaning, no matter what clothes these puppets were wearing, what posture they posed, whether they had weapons in their hands, they were all facing the direction we came in without exception, I felt a little hairy in my heart, I don't know if it was too nervous, the searchlight from our direction, the dead human skins on the dolls closest to me were bound to appear, and I almost felt that they were going to come back to life.
The researchers still didn't come in the mural hall, but we couldn't stop because of this, Rui Yun Jinghong ordered Chen Le to lead people first, Chen Le lit up his personnel, and carefully walked through the group of puppets towards the opposite exit, although the light of the searchlight was strong, it could not be forcibly penetrated into the opposite exit under the obstruction of so many obstacles, and the opposite exit was dark like a big mouth that chose people to devour, as if waiting to devour Chen Le who was about to throw himself into the net.
Everyone was nervous for them, and I didn't know where this nervousness came from, I looked at Chen Le and them, more than a dozen people slowly moved towards the exit in order, it didn't look unusual, but I always felt that something was wrong, what was wrong?
I tried to recall the layout of the dolls again, this is not a playground, Wang Mang absolutely has no reason to put so many dolls as decorations for no reason, and if you really want to be decorations, why not learn the terracotta warriors, it looks good if it is neatly placed, so messy, so messy, so messy?
I was suspicious, could it be that this puppet was set up according to a certain formation? I looked around, and then looked at these motionless dolls, what kind of formation could this be, I thought, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of a shopkeeper in Chen Le's team who didn't know when the position surpassed Chen Le, and he was about to reach the exit- Wait, no, I finally understood where the wrong thing in my heart came from, I could see the exit, how could the light not shine, and the light would not bend, but if the light did, how could the darkness at the exit be so smooth, and I couldn't help but shout loudly, "Stop!"
In such a quiet environment, my shout was like throwing a large stone on the calm water, and all eyes were focused on me, and the team that was heading towards the exit stopped, except for the shopkeeper who was about to reach the exit.
I looked at the shopkeeper with my mouth wide open, as if he didn't hear what I had just shouted, his footsteps did not stop at all, and the people who realized that something was wrong followed my gaze, the shopkeeper had walked near the exit, and there was a puppet holding a scimitar standing next to the exit, and when the shopkeeper passed by him, and saw that he could only step into the entrance and exit with one step, the puppet moved violently, he raised the scimitar in his hand, and slashed at the neck of the shopkeeper, and the shopkeeper did not resist as if he didn't see it, and let the puppet cut off his head with a knife!
There was dead silence in the hall, save for the sound of the shopkeeper's severed head falling to the ground.