Chapter 589: Terracotta Figurines (36/62)
Walking into the cave, Meng Zitao immediately noticed a big horse monkey lying in a pool of blood not far away, most of the hair of this big horse monkey was golden, and some of it was white, which should be an old relationship. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In addition to the big horse monkey, the stone wall opposite the entrance of the cave, there is a closed stone door every three meters or so, there are a total of eight doors, and above each stone door, there is a gossip sign, which corresponds to the eight doors in the strange door.
But in this way, Meng Zitao couldn't help but feel strange, what was going on with his passage? Could it be that the formation here was actually according to the pattern of the Nine Palaces?
Meng Zitao didn't think much about it, and then found that there were still a batch of terracotta figurines standing on the left and right sides of the cave, the terracotta figurines were equipped with copper armor, and they were holding all kinds of weapons in their right hands, but their faces and expressions were extremely distorted, and they looked very hideous, as if they were roaring with their mouths wide open, which felt very strange.
In addition, several terracotta figurines on each side fell to the ground and were already in pieces.
"No!" Meng Zitao suddenly made a discovery.
"What's wrong?" the army hurriedly asked.
Meng Zitao did not answer immediately, walked up to one of the broken terracotta figurines, squatted on the ground, picked up a piece of fragments on the ground with a flashlight, and said with a somewhat solemn face: "This seems to be a terracotta figurine made of real people." ”
The army looked at it and found that there were white bones on the broken part of the figurine, and he knocked off the ceramic on the outside of one of the figurines' severed arms with a pistol, and inside was indeed a human arm bone.
Dajun looked around and said in amazement, "Could it be that these are terracotta figurines made by real people?"
Meng Zitao stood up, walked to a terracotta figurine, shone a flashlight on the face of the terracotta figurines, and said: "You see its expression, as if it is screaming in pain, and not only one of them, but the expressions of the other terracotta figurines are also similar, do you know what this means?"
Dajun thought for a while, and said incredulously: "Could it be that these people were alive before they were born, and it is too cruel to make living people into terracotta figurines!"
"It's really cruel, but on the other hand, you don't take into account that although the people in these figurines were alive at the time of firing, from beginning to end, no matter how much pain they suffered, except for their facial expressions, their movements did not change, indicating that these people were probably made into terracotta figurines voluntarily before their deaths. ”
"It's unlikely, how can anyone make terracotta figurines willingly!"
"In certain circumstances, I think it's still possible. ”
Meng Zitao pointed to the weapons held in the hands of the terracotta figurines and said, "Look at these weapons, there are copper arrowheads, copper ge, and copper. It has a double wing, a round leaf and a quadruple gui. There are two kinds of copper Ge, which are inside the song and straight inside, and there are round or square wear inside, and the inside is curved. The upper cast moire has 4 teeth at the back end of the straight inside, and the length of the Qunego is about 30 cm, and the straight Neige is slightly shorter. Copper Cheng is a kind of Yue, narrow and long, the blade is slightly extravagant, the middle of the body is convex, and there are diaphragms on both sides of the inner and middle of the body. ”
"Judging from these characteristics, these should be the weapons of the Xia Dynasty three or four thousand years ago, what kind of society was that period, you also understand, if the tomb owner is a very prestigious monarch, it is possible that someone is willing to do this for him. ”
"The owner of this tomb is the king of the Xia Dynasty?" said Dajun with some shock.
Meng Zitao said: "Judging from the characteristics of some of the things I found, it is indeed from the Xia Dynasty, and as for whose tomb it is, we still need to find more clues to confirm." ”
The army argued: "Isn't it, was there such a clever mechanism formation at that time, and I remember that Qimen Dunjia was not invented at that time, right?"
Meng Zitao shook his head with a smile: "What era was Qimen Dunjia produced and where it came from, there is still no conclusion. In my understanding, its prototype is likely to come from the original Wind Queen, that is, the Wind Queen who helped the Xuanyuan clan and Emperor Yan in the legendary Battle of the Deer. ”
I think that in that battle for deer, the Chiyou clan used the method of traveling clouds and spreading rain, so that the Xuanyuan clan and the Yandi clan could not distinguish the direction, nor could they see the foreground clearly, and they were not familiar with the terrain, and they were attacked by the Chiyou clan who were familiar with the terrain and environment, and they could not take care of themselves.
In order to turn the tide of the battle, the Queen of the Wind used the unique method of eight winds and eight directions of the Nuwa clan to arrange the formation.
When fighting, if the enemy's army is regarded as the wind, they can only attack from eight directions: east, south, west, north, northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest. Based on this eight directions, the army was arranged, each army occupied a direction, and the commander occupied the middle, a total of nine directions, called the Nine Palaces.
Among these nine directions, the commander is in the center, there are three forces available for deployment, called three odds, each direction, is a door, a total of eight gates, collectively called the Qi Gate, which is called Dunjia because the commander is hidden in the array, and is called by the first phase, so the name Dunjia.
At that time, Qimen Dunjia was a self-made world, and the team of each door was divided into three layers, among them, the middle layer was the territory, keeping the pattern of the nine palaces unchanged.
When fighting, the outer layer should change in time and run along the time, and the inner layer should change the outer layer, alternating in reverse, changing once every hour, and becoming a world of its own.
Every time the enemy attacks, use the change of the formation to trap some of the enemy's men and horses in the formation, quickly determine the opponent's five elements of energy attributes (according to the opponent's strength and strength and class analysis), and adopt the growth and decline of the five energy relationships of life, restraint, consumption, help, and discharge, and finally resolve the opponent's strength.
The earliest Qimen Dunjia can be summed up in one sentence, the outer should be the time of the day (eight winds and eight trigrams), the direction of the middle (nine palaces), and the five elements of internal transport.
The Wind Queen used this formation to resolve the offensive of the Chiyou army, and the Chiyou was angry, and the Wind Queen was also killed, but helped the Xuanyuan clan win the war, and the Xuanyuan clan felt his kindness, and in order to explain to the Feng tribe, he allowed Li Mountain to be the land of the Wind Queen.
After listening to Meng Zitao's explanation, Dajun said: "This should be just a legend, and it can't be taken seriously." ”
Meng Zitao said: "Some ancient legends, most of which are indeed fictional, but some of them have a basis in reality. Speaking of the study of Qimen Dunjia, it has now been proved that it originated in the ancient 'Bing Yin and Yang' school, and it was sorted out by Taoist scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty and became today's scale, which is certain. ”
"And the Five Elements Bagua of the 'Bing Yin Yang' school originated in ancient times, so it is just that there is no unearthed evidence to prove its origin, and it cannot be simply affirmed that the legend about the Wind Queen is completely fictional. Besides, there must be no problem with the dating of these weapons, and that's the way it is, if you don't believe it, there's no way. ”
Dajun scratched his head and said with some embarrassment, "I just think it's incredible. ”
Meng Zitao was a little curious when he heard this: "You should have experienced a lot of similar things before, why can't you accept this?"
Dajun said: "Although I have also been under the ancient tombs that are older than this before, at most there are only boulders and other mechanisms, and there are ancient tombs with Qimen Dunjia organs, and the earliest ones are in the Spring and Autumn Period." ”
Meng Zitao nodded, and after studying the terracotta figurines, he turned his gaze to the stone gate not far ahead.
Originally, Meng Zitao was going to leave directly after opening the Jingmen, but the reality did not let him get his wish, none of the eight stone doors could be opened, even if the two of them tried their best, the stone gate did not move at all.
Meng Zitao was a little depressed, and then he searched around for mechanisms, but found nothing. He was so angry that he wanted to blow up the stone gate with thunder, but he gave up immediately.
Because, after Meng Zitao suddenly disappeared before, the army also had such an idea, wanting to blow up the wall that suddenly appeared, but he almost had an accident. In addition, the stone gates here are very heavy and hard, and the number of mines they carry with them is too small to be able to blow them up.
Meng Zitao took out the drawings and looked at them, but they didn't say how to open the stone door, so angry that he almost tore the drawings to pieces.
The army asked, "What are we going to do next?"
Meng Zitao pondered for a moment and said: "Now we can only go to the place where the belongings are placed to take a look, I hope there can be clues over there, otherwise, we can only wait for someone to save us." ”
Although Meng Zitao was very confident in this treasure hunt at the beginning, but there is a way that he is not afraid of 10,000, just in case, so before he left, he also left a letter to He Wanyi, and he left the detailed address of the treasure, if he has not heard from him for a week, tell his master.
Originally, this measure was just for the sake of safety, but I didn't expect that it would really be used now, which couldn't help but make Meng Zitao feel that the world is impermanent.
Before leaving the cave, the two of them ate a little to replenish their strength, and five or six hours had passed since the morning, and if they didn't eat something, their stomachs would not be able to bear it.
The two of them ate some compressed food with canned beef, although the taste was not good, but for them, it was the most important thing to be able to replenish the energy lost in the body to the greatest extent.
After eating, they put on their backpacks and walked out of the cave to their destination. Although the drawings do not indicate a specific location, it does indicate that the thing is near a landmark building, which is a tall stone monument.
This stele had actually been noticed by Meng Zitao just now, it stood at the other end of the forest, nearly ten meters high, and because it was so conspicuous, even if the light here was insufficient, it could still be easily seen.
It is precisely because the stele is conspicuous that Meng Zitao decided to go there to investigate when he doubted the authenticity of the drawings, and maybe even if there was no treasure, he could find some clues.
Walking out of the cave, after a while, they came to the winding river, which was about one and a half meters wide and should be more than one meter deep, and the water was very clear, and it was still living water, and even small fish the size of a baby's finger could be seen in it. (To be continued.) )