Chapter 34: The Eight Gates
After the pain subsided, Chen Yu returned to the battle, and he planned to buy some time for the little Taoist. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 At this moment, the little Taoist priest retreated to my side, I looked at the pattern on the bronze wall, I thought it was just decoration, but the little Taoist priest said that this is the key to the exit.
When he said this, I looked carefully, and there was a large circle composed of cockroach patterns on the bronze wall in front of me, which circled the nine holes arranged neatly on the wall, and there were four staggered straight lines in the circle, in the shape of 'm', like the nine palaces in the chessboard.
In ancient times, many patterns had their own specific meanings, such as the cockroach, which is a hornless snake monster of the dragon genus, symbolizing power and bravery, and is commonly seen on military flags, but another theory says that this cockroach is actually a symbol of female power. It was normal for it to appear in the west room of this ancient tomb, but after listening to the little Taoist priest's reminder, I felt that the shape it composed of was very strange.
"Does this pattern have any special meaning?" I turned my gaze to the little Taoist priest, wanting to ask for proof.
The little Taoist priest said lightly: "If I guessed correctly, this is the Eight Gate Diagram." ”
"Eight Door Diagrams?"
"The line that extends from each cantile pattern represents the position of one of the eight gates, except for the one in the middle, the other holes have their own corresponding lines, and the exit we are looking for is in these eight holes. ”
"Then can't we just pick one?" I listened to the sound of the battle behind me, and the sound of treasure lying on the ground, lowered my voice, and said urgently.
The little Taoist priest shook his head, and said with a deep gaze: "In the eight gates, 'open, rest, and live doors' are auspicious, but 'death, shock, and injury doors' are fierce, and 'Du Gate, Jingmen' is Zhongping." The Miao girl told me that there was danger behind the hole, some passages might be sealed, some of them might have traps and poisonous gases, and only if you chose the right one, you could get out.
Hearing this, I suddenly felt that this was like drawing a lot of life and death, if we opened the door of death in the hole, then it was Lord Yama who was waiting for us. However, in the current situation, there are not many ways to choose, shrinking the head is a knife, stretching the head is also a knife, there is a probability of leaving here, even if it is one in ten thousand, you have to try. Thinking about this, I hurriedly asked the little Taoist, "What are you going to do now?"
The little Taoist priest raised his head and said with a serious face: "Turn the bronze wall in front of you into a plane, the plane is directly west, and its position at the eight gates is to exchange for seven, which is a shocking pillar and is not allowed to enter." The southwest is Kun Er, Death Rui, the great murderer, there must be something terrible in it, but the door of death is relatively alive......" he said as he walked to the northeast five o'clock of the bronze wall, which is the place in the lower right row of the nine holes
"It's a ......," he whispered to himself, then stepped into the hole, swirled the bronze sword, and tapped it with the hilt, at which time a hollow echo came from the back of the bronze hole.
Hearing this voice, my heart was overjoyed, and I seemed to see hope in the darkness, and I was about to verify it myself, but the little Taoist priest stopped me. For safety, he searched the hole due east, and there was a muffled sound, as if something was against it.
He turned around and looked at me silently, and after making sure he was right, we began to look for the location of the mechanism. However, the space is large and high, and it is very difficult to find elaborate mechanisms, and our progress has been affected by the constant attacks of corpse cocoons.
"Did you find it?" At this point, Chen Yu couldn't hold it anymore, he shouted urgently, covered in blood.
Seeing him risking his life, I was anxious, but the more anxious I became, the more irritable I became, and when I was irritable, I couldn't concentrate on doing things well. At this time, the little Taoist priest was unmoved, he stared closely at the name on the bronze wall, I walked to him, his eyes lit up, and suddenly said: "I see." ”
I asked him what he had discovered, and with a hint of excitement in his voice, he said, "The names of these people." ”
When I heard him say his name, my head was big, and the characters of this Warring States period were very complicated, where could I recognize them, let alone see any clues. Now I confessed: "This ...... I don't understand ......"
The little Taoist priest touched the words next to the Shengren cave and said: "This person's name is Qiu Kun, and the person in the southwest position corresponding to the door of death is named Yonggen, 'Gen' and 'Kun' represent life and death respectively, and the person who designed this mechanism reversed them because he didn't want us to pay attention to the mystery of the mechanism." ”
When I heard this, it dawned on me: "You mean that these names are related to the Bamen Diagram, not pure human names?"
The little Taoist priest nodded and said, "In fact, these words are not their real names, but the mechanism that opens the door. ”
"What?" I was shocked when I heard this, and said that the minds of the ancients were too complicated, not to mention that I didn't understand this kind of thing, but to understand it, it would take a lot of brain cells to ponder.
But before I could think about it, the little Taoist priest had already started to act, he relied on those cockroach patterns to climb the bronze holes in the third row, his movements were very light, and when he reached the eleven o'clock position, he suddenly let go of his hands, and tapped the bronze wall with his toes, and pressed the word "Gen" down.
I only heard a clicking sound, and the bronze cave in the direction of five o'clock was opened, and the little Taoist priest flew down and stood steadily beside me, and at this time in front of me was a deep passage, and the direction of the passage was dark, where I heard a whirlwind of evil spirits, hissing, hollow and cold.
I shuddered, and the little Taoist priest looked at me, as if he had the same bad premonition as I did. But we don't have the time, and we have no choice but to take the risk of escaping from here.
Seeing the door open, Baocai excitedly shouted, "I'll go, there is finally a way out......" He shouted, and Lao Yu said next to him, "Damn, don't get excited too early", and as he spoke, he kicked open a corpse cocoon.
In the fierce battle, they were surrounded inside, it was very difficult to get out, this look, I was about to rush over, the little Taoist priest grabbed me and said, "You go first......
"How could I leave at such a time!" I snapped.
The little Taoist priest said lightly: "You can't help now." ”
"What do you mean you can't help?" I was about to argue, the little Taoist priest jumped up in the air, leaned on the bronze wall with one foot, and took down an inexhaustible lantern for me, he said without a trace of emotion: "This will light the way ahead for you, remember, don't let it go out." ”
"But ......" Before I could say more, the little Taoist priest passed by me, and he said to me with a side face: "I'll cover ...... Go quickly......" he said this, and there was a clear sadness in his tone.
I was stunned for a moment, looked at the lantern in my hand, and then reacted and shouted, "What do you mean!" However, this time he did not answer me, but left me with a back.
Damn, what are you doing to seal me up! I muttered in my heart, and was about to step forward, when Chen Yu, who was piled up in the corpse cocoon, scolded: "Get in the way, get out of the way!" As soon as he finished speaking, Baocai suddenly stumbled out and knocked me down, I "hissed" in pain, and the whole person was about to fall apart.
Bao Cai and I stood up by the waist, and at this moment the Miao witch was also out of the predicament, she covered the wound on her arm, walked up to me, and said, "Let's go, we will only hinder them here......"
Faced with the chaotic scene in front of me and the little Taoist priest and Chen Yu who took the opportunity to escape for us, I clenched my fists and stood in place in a daze, the witch and the treasure urged me several times, but I never moved, because the situation in front of me reminded me of the picture I saw before, and only me, Baocai and the eighth day of the first month were left in the picture. If that is a real omen, then I must force it once and not let it happen.
At this thought, I suddenly calmed down, I looked at the strip of cloth that broke free from the corpse cocoon on the ground, and remembered the wine that my ancestors carried with them, in addition to strengthening their courage, it could also ward off the cold in this cold ancient tomb, but sometimes it was used to save people.
Thinking of this, I immediately shouted at Chen Yu, "Lao Yu, do you still have wine?"
"What are you doing, do you want to see us off?" He raised his voice, and at this moment an old corpse suddenly reached out and pinched his already injured shoulder, Chen Yu screamed in pain, his whole face was distorted, at this critical moment, the little Taoist priest behind him suddenly turned the knife handle, and the bronze sword stabbed into the chest of the old corpse with a "swish", Chen Ji saw this, and quickly stabbed the corpse's head.
However, before they could get a respite, more corpses attacked them in a new wave, and they were like a tidal wave, and they would crash against the shore when they receded.
"****!" I scolded angrily, and was about to step forward with a knife, when a wine bag flew towards me, and the old man who was fighting in the corpse pile said: "Liuzi! treasure treasure! If I really don't have it, remember to burn more paper money for me, and use the best Du Kang to sacrifice me!"
"Get out!" I scolded, and said hurriedly to the treasure beside me: "Let's go pick up the strips of cloth on the ground, and the Miao girl will cover me." ”
"What are you going to do?"
I said word for word: "Set fire to the corpse!"
"What?" Before Bao Cai could react, I leaned down and picked up the strips of cloth that had broken free from the corpse cocoons on the ground, and then placed them horizontally to form a partition, and Bao Cai quickly understood what I meant, he quickly gathered the remaining strips of cloth, I spilled the wine on them, and said, "This is our only chance to get rid of them, we have to go together, I don't want to leave any of them behind." ”
Baocai nodded and said, "Yes, how many people come in, how many people go out!"
I smiled slightly: "It's time to warm up this ghost place...... After finishing speaking, I lit the lighter on the strip of cloth, and in an instant the flame burst out, and he reflected in our eyes, becoming a spark of hope.
Not long after the flames could last, I said to the little Taoist priest and Chen Yu who were fighting hard in the corpse pile: "Go!"
My shout attracted the corpse cocoon, they turned around, the little Taoist priest and Chen Yu took advantage of this opportunity, quickly passed through the corpse pile, the flames burned more and more, and those corpses were very afraid of fire, they just stretched out their hands and screamed in their mouths. It makes me wonder how they can be in such pain when they don't feel it.
Just as I was thinking, two figures rushed out of the flames, I was overjoyed, Chen Yu hugged me and said, "Liuzi, you are too good!"