Chapter 170: Planning
This is it, they took out the shovel and began to dig up, and as soon as the shovel went down, the bricks curled, and the fat man realized that the gold brick really contained gold, and all at once he danced excitedly. Jiang Qi said that there was still brass in it, and the fat man gave up, but he was very sure that there were countless treasures in this palace, so he had been jumping up and down with great interest.
Pry open the floor tiles, there is indeed a deep black hole in the ground, there are stone steps winding down at the entrance of this hole, it seems that the angle is quite steep, the fat man and Jiang Qi carefully went down, and walked into a wide but deep road, more than two meters wide, more than three meters high, people can easily walk over. Although there is no wind in the cave, it is like entering an ice cellar, and there is an indescribable smell around it, which is very unpleasant. The distance of the road is not long, it is about ten or twenty meters when I walk in, and the eyes are bright, and the space becomes larger, but the flashlight is swept over, and I can't see how big it is, but I see the shadow in front of me, and it seems that there is a shadow of someone.
Jiang Qi and the fat man were startled, and the two of them immediately went all out on guard, but when they slowly approached, they found that these people were not moving, and they were all leaning against the wall, standing hard in an upright posture, these people were all wearing the short brown of the ancients, they should be the ancients, but they were all dead people, and their heads were so low that they seemed to be looking at their toes.
There were six of them, and the bodies were well preserved, but they were very thin, and the flesh was attached to the bones, and it felt like they were touching a handful of dry wood. And their skulls could not be broken, so they had to put them down, and then they saw that the eyes of these corpses were wide and glazed, like puppets.
"Wouldn't this be," Jiang Qi and the fat man glanced at each other: "The six major generals of the Negative Palace, right?"
They made this conjecture because the corpses happened to be six, and they also happened to be in the basement of the main hall, and the fat man saw that these people had a rare sense of compassion, and there were words in his mouth, saying that they were apologizing for their ancestors, and had freed their children and grandchildren from the profession of river workers, so much.
However, Jiang Qi felt strange, after a person died, if he could keep his body from rotting, it would not be difficult, but the difficult thing was to keep his spine stiff, because when a person died, it was a puddle of meat, and the spine no longer had the role of support, and like the six straight dead corpses in front of him, it was very suspicious. An extremely unsettling feeling rushed from the soles of his feet to the top door, and Jiang Qi tried to touch the back of the fallen corpse.
When he touched the spine of the dead body, he couldn't help but be shocked, because in addition to a curved and broken spine behind his back, there was also a cylindrical thick thing that snaked from the lumbar vertebrae to the neck, this one was obviously a foreign body, which was stabbed into it hard, and since there was no scar on the back of the stomach, it could only be stabbed in from the ** place, all the way to the throat.
"Damn," Jiang Qi jumped up as if electrocuted, "It's so inhumane!"
He was so disgusted that he almost vomited, and the fat man's face was ugly when he saw it, but he said: "In ancient times, there was a Buddha with a physical body, do you know, Buddhism called the body that is not bad, and the body is called a whole-body relic, that is, after the death of monks and nuns, the body has not only not been decayed and festered after many years, but also lifelike. But in fact, the flesh Buddha can be made, like a mummy, it is a 'shell' made of artificial medicine, and the person who is selected to make the flesh Buddha must go on a hunger strike ten days in advance, and discharge the water in the body to the greatest extent, and at the same time drink a special medicinal soup, which is actually a preservative, after drinking, it will soak into the human limbs and bones, internal organs, and the body is full of embalming drugs, and the mouth and ** are sealed, so that the corpse can be kept from rotting!"
"However, there is another place that cannot be ignored in making the body Buddha," the fat man said, "that is the problem of the upright body of the body, even if the body does not decay, it cannot maintain the posture of sitting on its knees, so they will stuff something like an iron pipe into the body of the body and forcibly support a dry bone." ”
It stands to reason that in ancient times, there were indeed real physical Buddhas, but there were also people who believed that the physical Buddhas were made in order to attract the attention of the world and make everyone worship, so that the incense could flourish for a while. However, they didn't know what the hall in front of them was going to do to make such an incorruptible corpse, but Jiang Qi quickly realized a problem that he hadn't noticed just now.
When they moved the corpse just now, that is, when they ripped the corpse off the wall, they felt some resistance, and it felt like the corpse was stuck to the wall, and they were pulling it like tearing glue to glue something, but now that they think about it, maybe it was the iron pipe inside the corpse.
Then this wall, there is also a secret, Jiang Qi stood up, and tried to pull the other corpses, sure enough, the head and feet are very easy to move, and the body seems to fit the wall tightly, when it is pulled away strongly, you can still feel the slight vibration of the tube on the back. He tried to slowly move the corpse closer to the wall, and when he let go, he saw that the corpse moved forward on its own, clinging to the wall.
"There are magnets in this wall," Jiang Qi said, "It's really weird." ”
"What's weird about him," the fat man disagreed, waving the shovel in his hand, "just break it." ”
The two of them pried out the hole in the brick wall and entered another hollow place, and as soon as they entered, they obviously felt their hairs rise, and there was a feeling of being stared at, which made them involuntarily feel fear from the bottom of their hearts. "Look there!" The fat man looked up and saw something, pointed it to Jiang Qi, and said, "It seems to be a lampstand." ”
More than ten centimeters above their heads, as the fat man said, there was a very exquisite-looking lamp, they took a closer look, and found that it was a wall lamp attached to the wall, which was finely crafted, and it was the appearance of a pavilion in the building. The structure is octagonal in shape, framed by fine wood, and is made of more than 20 pieces of wood of different sizes and engraved patterns, which are divided into two layers, large at the top and small at the bottom. These are not surprising, mainly because the lamp yarn is not made of any material, and it is by no means like ordinary gauze, because it looks like the internal structure of a gold wire crystal, which is translucent and glass-like, as fine as a piece of glass composed of hair, Jiang Qi couldn't help but reach out and touch it, and found that it was cold and slightly hard to the touch, but it was like touching a piece of nephrite.
He took out his lighter, turned on the veil, and lit the candlestick inside, and this time the light penetrated through the light, and the light was more than two or three times the light of the wolf's eye flashlight in their hands. They were amazed, and the fat man said that the lamp had such a dazzling light, and that it cost nothing more than a candle, and how could the light of a candle be so bright, and the mechanism was on these veils.
The fat man said that there is a kind of lamp, the material and the production process is quite valuable, because it is made of agate and purple quartz and one or two other kinds of cool stones, crushed and pounded into crumbs, boiled and rotted into silk, must be lit with the smallpox of the north, in order to solidify, such things can be fished out to be reeled into silk, and then woven into silk after silk, made into a lamp veil to cover the lamp, can make the candle inside shine brightly, only one candle can make the whole house bright.
Jiang Qi understood as soon as he heard it, the silk satin boiled by a stone with a high refractive index like agate purple quartz could refract and reflect the light of a candle countless times, just like lighting countless candles.
When they looked at the lamp in front of them, they felt that the ancients could play more than the people of today.
At this time, the fat man said "Huh", pointed to the lampstand and said, "There seems to be a thread on it." ”
Jiang Qi looked over, and sure enough, at the top of the lamp's thin wooden frame, there was a rope that was neither thick nor thin, extending into the darkness all the way, not knowing where it led. Jiang Qi thought for a while, gently pushed the lamp, and heard a slight humming sound, as if something was in the way.
Jiang Qi stretched his neck to see that there was actually a small buckle stuck on the rope, he pulled the buckle open, and saw the lamp slide down the rope quickly, sliding more than 20 meters in a row, it seemed to slowly pause, and then suddenly, the light was in full bloom, and they saw an incomparably bright light gathered together, and then spread out, illuminating the entire house at once.
The fat man and Jiang Qi saw clearly, it turned out that this lampstand entered a phalanx full of copper mirrors, and the copper mirrors reflected the light of the already very bright lampstands, one after another, when the copper mirrors in the four corners of the room were illuminated, the whole room was like daylight.
However, Jiang Qi and the fat man in the room stood still all of a sudden, because they clearly saw the huge object winding dozens of meters in front of them, and at that moment, it seemed that the blood all over their bodies had congealed, and there was not a single pore from head to toe that did not sweat.
For they saw a giant dragon with a head like a camel, eyes like a rabbit, ears like a bull, neck like a snake, belly like a mirage, scales like a carp, claws like an eagle, palms like a tiger, dozens of raised scales on its back, beard next to its mouth, pearls under its chin, and reverse scales under its throat. The dragon's body was as thick as a train, and a tooth protruding from its mouth was the size of their human head, and it twisted its body and circled its body, looking down on them majestically.
Jiang Qi and the fat man could barely breathe, they made a creaking sound from their mouths, and then turned their heads and ran outside, and finally got out of the brick wall and went up the steps, but they didn't hear any sound of pursuit behind them, the fat man paused, and trembled: "What did we see just now?"
Jiang Qi couldn't speak, and the fat man was just asking and answering himself, and after a while, he said in a dream-like tone: "Damn, dragon, fat man, I never thought that I could still see a real dragon in this life, a real dragon, a real dragon......"
Not only him, Jiang Qi also saw a living real dragon without preparation, exactly the same as the dragon on the auspicious pattern he saw every day, with a hideous face, teeth and claws, dragon claws trampling on the ground, dragon head, dragon body, and dragon tail hanging in the void, as if looking down on all beings, about to break through the sky at any time.
They calmed down a little, and when they heard that it was still quiet, they couldn't help but have complicated feelings about taking another look. The fat man thought for a while and asked, "Did you see the dragon just now, did you see clearly, is there something like a chain on the dragon?"
Jiang Qi was stunned by the question, and said, "It doesn't seem to be, I just took a look at it and was completely stunned." ”
"This dragon," the fat man frowned and said, "There should be a system, it is said that it is the Dragon Palace here, but it is actually a man-made building...... I didn't see if the dragon had any chains on it, so we said we disturbed it, but we didn't see anything, and it was probably trapped. ”
Jiang Qi has also heard the legend of "locking the dragon well", but he also knows that in fact, the real dragon can't be locked, and the locked is actually Jiao, and there is a difference between Jiao and dragon, Jiao can turn into a dragon for a thousand years, and before turning into a dragon, it is possible to be good and evil.
"Otherwise, let's take another look," the fat man grinned: "The real dragon is not evil, it must be controlled, anyway, it has already seen it once, since it has not moved, then it should be fine." ”
Jiang Qi actually found out. This dragon has everything, that is, there are no horns on the head, the dragon horns actually have a separate word, called ruler wood, the so-called "head has Boshan, also known as ruler wood, the dragon can not ascend to heaven without ruler wood", "ruler wood" is similar to Boshan sarcoma, but with the evolution of time, sarcoma is not simply a sarcoma, it begins to lengthen, but does not necessarily bifurcate, becoming a long strip of sarcoma. Only a dragon with a ruler of wood can ascend to the sky.