Chapter 39: Suzaku Palace
Northern Cham Capital City, Hill General Pavilion (200 years ago):
To the west of the capital, there is a hill with ancient trees. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Whenever the general went out on an expedition, there would be a woman standing on the top of the mountain, day and night.
The people of the capital felt the kindness of the general to protect their homeland and respect the woman's idiot, so they quietly built a small pavilion on the hill for her to shelter from the wind and rain. This pavilion is called the "General's Pavilion".
Time flies, and the small and exquisite "General Pavilion" has long been renovated. Nowadays, the whole mountain has more pavilions, winding paths, corridors, etc., standing among the green pine trees.
Climb the pavilion and overlook the scenery inside and outside the city.
Today, there are many craftsmen gathered in front of this pavilion, just waiting for one person to appear.
A young woman who is as beautiful as a flower, accompanied by several maids, came with all her money. Richly dressed and elegant, it is not difficult to see that the woman must have been born in a large family. Full of golden branches and jade leaves, everyone is beautiful.
The craftsmen made way for the ladies until the hostess was seated in the pavilion.
"Summoning all the masters here today is a major event for the general. Everyone is a leader in the industry, and I must know what I want. ”
The woman's voice is full of indescribable charm.
The older master stepped forward, first looked at his peers around him, then turned to the hostess and asked, "Madame General!" The craftsmen gathered here are all first-class craftsmen in the city, and if you have any orders, you only need to send someone to convey them, so why bother so much. ”
The general's wife is looking for someone to discuss matters, not in the living room or study room in the general's mansion, but in this general's pavilion, which is really ingenious.
The hostess chuckled, these masters didn't answer the question, in fact, they already knew it, but it was just that the unlucky words were inconvenient for them to speak. Looking for a tomb builder, what else can you do besides building a tomb?
"General Solu has been fighting abroad all the year round, and he has long had the consciousness of sacrificing his life for the country. As a family member, how can you not think about him in advance, don't wait for him to die on the battlefield, there is no mausoleum that matches his identity. Today, I want to seek everyone's opinions and come up with a plan, site selection, design ......"
Before the woman could finish speaking, there was already a discussion below.
The sun was deflecting in the woods, and each family had its own opinions and ideas, and after several discussions and deliberations, there was no result that would satisfy the hostess.
An old man covered in a black cloth climbed the hill with a crutch and paced step by step to the General's Pavilion. The old man wore a black gauze hat on his head, and did not say a word, but slowly opened the scroll in his hand towards the pavilion.
It was a magnificent design of the ancient tomb, like a pit viper, which seemed to contain the secret of the moon gate that no one knew......
The hostess was immediately attracted by the scroll, and she walked straight to the old man and asked, "Such an exquisite ancient tomb...... I don't know where you will choose to build your old man's house? ”
The old voice was full of confidence, and he was sure that the general's wife would be satisfied with his answer.
"Yaoshan! Ten miles from Liuhe Town......"
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Pit Viper Labyrinth, in front of the Qilin Palace:
Yuan Xing was lying on the ground rubbing something with his hands, and he always felt that the thickness of the ash layer on the ground was different, and it seemed that someone was deliberately covering up his whereabouts. I'm afraid that this secret passage to the Qilin Palace has already been visited.
Save me! Please! Get me out!
Su Wuqian was shocked by this sudden shout. She pulled Yuan Xing up and asked, "Did you hear someone calling for help?!" ”
"Help?" Yuan Xing looked around, "Where did the voice come from?" ”
"It's inside that door!" What the girl in Tsing Yi was referring to was the Qilin tomb.
Yuan Xing approached the stone gate in confusion.
This imprisoned barrier shouldn't make any noise. Could it be that the seal has been broken to this point?
Let me out! He's going to kill me! Help me!
Yuan Xing looked at Su Wuqian's frightened expression and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"She's still calling for help! Someone seems to be hunting her! ”
"Where's the voice? Why didn't I hear anything? ”
The girl covered her ears and shouted, "Yes! She speaks right in my ear! ”
"Is it inside the door or in your ears? Are you ...... because you're under too much pressure?"
When Yuan Xing turned to look back at Su Wuqian, he was stuck in the middle of speaking.
The woman in Tsing Yi rarely saw Yuan Xing's gaffe, and she couldn't help but be even more nervous. She found that Yuan Xing's eyes were focused on her back, and she hurriedly strode forward, turning around vigilantly.
However, there was nothing behind Su Wuqian.
Yes, nothing, including the secret passage they had come in before.
"What a joke! That way...... It's gone silently?! ”
Yuan Xing took Su Wuqian's arm and pulled the girl who was stunned to the left: "It's not that it disappeared, but it changed direction and moved to the left." The structure of this labyrinth is starting to change......"
"It's only an hour! If we don't make it back, some villagers will be killed! ”
"I know! But now this passage to change direction is the only way out, and we can only break through it anyway! ”
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Su Wuqian and Yuan Xing were moving along the new path, they didn't stop, they ran at full speed, and before they knew it, they had gone deep into the bottom of the mountain. The chill of déjà vu filled the two of them.
Yuan Xing looked at the breath he exhaled had turned into white vapor, "This kind of coldness, we should be close to the underground river!" Thanks to you, we were able to avoid the traps and explore so smoothly! ”
"Is this something to be happy about! We're getting farther and farther off the ground! And I still think it's strange, the maze is already complicated and terrifying, why is there a secret passage inside? What did the gravemaker think, and did he want others to discover the seal? ”
"Actually, I also wonder that the twenty-eight constellations of the four palaces are the source of power for sealing the demon seal. Why is there a burial chamber symbolizing the four houses hidden in the labyrinth, so that it doesn't give others a chance to crack it? I always felt that things were not easy! ”
Suddenly, there was a sound of treading water, and the feet of the two of them fell into the water one after the other. Su Wuqian and Yuan Xing supported each other so that they didn't fall in the water. Unexpectedly, the river has poured into this place.
The water of the underground river is cold and clear, and it looks transparent from a distance. The tomb passage is dark, and if you don't pay attention, you really can't see that the labyrinth passage below has been completely covered by the river. In order to avoid being attacked by the wolf clan in the water, they quickly left the water.
"At the bend in front, the river has already overflowed the ever-bright lights, and I believe that it will be pitch black further down. It's all flooded down here, how can you find a road? ”
"It's been an hour since then, and I don't know what the situation is in the village......"
Yuan Xing looked back at the path he had come: "Yes...... The key is that we go back from the same way, and how many villagers have to die in this time and back! ”
"Wait a minute!" Su Wuqian nudged Yuan Xing, "Look at the water!" ”
Yuan Xing followed the woman's guidance and noticed a flickering fire in the middle of the water. But this position will not be the reflection of the lights on both sides of the passage at all! But......
"Upper!"
Yuan Xing looked up suddenly, and sure enough, he found a half-open stone door at the top of the front side of the passage. The stone gate is engraved with a Suzaku totem!
Finally found a tomb, Su Wuqian and Yuan Xing looked at each other and sighed. However, Yuan Xing made a difficulty, the water level in front of him was getting deeper and deeper, and Yuan Xing had no place to stand on it, how to go up to the stone gate above the head of this passage?
Su Wuqian showed her skills instead, and Luo Yanfei lived up to her fame. I saw the woman tap on the surface of the water, and the light figure rushed away in the waterway, and when her feet floated on the surface of the water at the same time, the combined feet were like lotus flowers in the water.
After touching the surface of the water with her feet, the woman immediately jumped up. The surface of the river rippled, and Su Wuqian's hands had already grasped the top of the door.
"Hurry! Why are you still stunned! I'll pull you up! ”
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Suzaku Palace:
The two turned over and entered the half-open Vermilion Bird Stone Gate, but Su Wuqian was reluctant to leave the door, and her hand was still holding on to the stone door, as if she had a sense of security.
"Once the mechanism is touched, it will be difficult for us to fly, but we are afraid that it will be easy to get in and difficult to get out!"
"Jiren has his own natural appearance, doesn't he?"
Yuan Xing said, stepping into the tomb and looking around. It was the first time he had seen a burial chamber with the door open at his feet, surrounded by four walls. The stone statue of the Vermilion Bird in the east, the narrative mural in the west, a few lines of Beizhan characters in the south, and rows of round holes in the north.
Overhead, there is a complete rock wall. In this way, the only entrance and exit is the Vermilion Bird Stone Gate at your feet.
"Are you still a good man? Brother Changsheng has said it, you look like a star! I'm afraid you'll die here before you can wait for the demons! What the hell is going on with that face of yours? ”
"Does it affect the appearance, not as handsome as before?"
"Do you still have time to laugh?"
In the middle of the burial chamber is a coffin that is more noble than before. The coffin itself is several times taller than an ordinary coffin, and the outside is bordered with gold, and all kinds of jewelry praise the coffin surface, which is not an exaggeration to describe it as magnificent.
The more special the coffin, the more terrifying it may be. For example, the conjoined zombies in the triangular coffin.
According to past experience, as soon as the coffin is opened, the mechanism will be activated.
Yuan Xing's eyes moved from the coffin to the mural, and he didn't dare to open the coffin immediately. Yuan Xing reminded Su Wuqian: "The connotation of the mechanism is in the mural, your brain is so easy to use, what can you see?" ”
Su Wuqian shook her body in the mural with her arms folded in her hands, "The content of this painting is too monotonous!" A woman, a bird, a man, a bird, just as simple as four paintings? ”
Yuan Xing looked at Su Wuqian's skeptical eyes, and calmly replied: "The simpler it is, the more there are multiple interpretations, which is even more of a headache." However, the Beizhan text on the rock wall on the side has helped a lot. ”
"What is written on the wall? Don't bully me for not knowing words! ”
"So you ......"
"I mean Beizhan script!"
"That's poetry, why is the sea uneven."
The stone wall is engraved: Jingwei Mingxi Heaven and Earth are moved! Mountains and trees are green and people are fish and insects! The lady can't talk about my grief! Why is the sea uneven and the waves are turbulent! May future generations not fall into the sea! May our nation always be proud of the mainland!
"What?" Su Wuqian looked at the mural in disbelief, "These four paintings are not clear, can they also be called Jingwei reclamation?!" ”