Chapter 4 A Thousand Years of Incorruptible Strange Corpses
The ancient tomb was discovered by the local villagers, located on a hill next to the village, it is said that the hill is often haunted, and people often hear the sound of ghosts crying in the middle of the night, and it is rumored that some people have never come down after going up the mountain, so the local villagers have an unwritten rule, that is, they are not allowed to go up this hill.
At that time, two ignorant children came to play here, and one of the children proposed to go up the mountain to have a look, and the other child was too timid to go up, but his companion ridiculed him, and finally had to go together.
It is said to be a small hill, but it is actually a small mound, but the scenery on it is picturesque, as if entering another world, and the two children quickly forget their fears when they first arrived, and linger here.
When the two children reacted and were about to go home, they didn't want to pass through a bush, but one of the children suddenly stumbled and fell into a pit, and the other child cried in fright, and hurriedly ran back to the village to call the adults. The adults entered the pit and did not find the little boy, but they found the tomb.
As soon as these people saw all kinds of antiques scattered in the ancient tomb, they immediately became greedy, and after some coaxing, the ancient tomb was swept away. Later, the Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics knew that he arrived immediately, but he found nothing, and could only judge from the inside of the ancient tomb that this was the tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the matter was very important, and he immediately reported to the provincial cultural relics department.
Vice President Gui had conducted a preliminary survey of the ancient tomb before Wang Mu and the others came, and the tomb had been swept away by the name of the village, and only the mural carvings on the walls of the tomb showed that this was the tomb of a famous man in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Wang Mu and the others were led by Gui Lao to find the big pit in the child's mouth, and there was a tomb road leading to the depths inside the big pit, and the tomb road was very long, in the shape of a slope, and there were no steps.
When I went down to the main burial chamber, I suddenly opened up. Wang Mu suddenly felt a chill in his body, as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, but Pan Gu and the two didn't seem to react.
The burial chamber was surrounded by blue-blue flames, which, according to Gui Lao, was the case when the villagers entered.
The three of them walked around the main tomb, because the artifacts in the main tomb had been looted by the villagers who had entered earlier, so they didn't find anything, but the carvings on the wall made Wang Mu feel a little weird.
The walls around it are carved with a man riding on a leopard and swimming in the clouds. There is also a large amount of unknown text around.
From the moment he approached the tomb, Wang Mu felt as if he was being watched, and he only felt uncomfortable. Now seeing this person and a leopard seem to be looking at themselves, the discomfort is even more obvious.
Wang Mu asked Gui Lao: "What are these words?" ”
Gui Lao explained: "These are the golden texts of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The Western Zhou Dynasty was dominated by oracle bone inscriptions, and only on important occasions would they use gold inscriptions. The country's current research on Jin Wen is already very complete, but these are not like the Jin Wen we usually see. So I specially asked Dean Pan. ”
Wang Mu looked at Pan Gu and said, "Can you understand?" ”
Pan Gu didn't answer, but just said to himself: "Tianzun's order, Shen Gong has been powdered, his body is in the teaching, Si Donghai, and his position is water." ”
Wang Mu asked puzzledly, "What are you talking about?" ”
Pan Gu explained: "The inscription shows that this is most likely the tomb of the Shengong leopard. ”
Wang Mu's jaw almost didn't fall: "What are you kidding, Shen Gongbao?" You've seen too much of the god list. ”
Pan Gu also said: "Many people originally existed in history, but later they were mythologized or demonized, so you think that he does not exist. ”
Gui Lao asked again: "Why is the inscription on it different from the Western Zhou Jin inscription we have seen before?" ”
Pan Gu explained: "In history, Shen Gongbao did have a person, and he belonged to the exposition of Taoism, which was later Taoism. Buddhism has Sanskrit, and exposition has runes. That's the rune. ”
Listening to Pan Gu's explanation, Gui Lao finally suddenly realized, and Wang Mu also had a new understanding of his friend's profound knowledge.
Suddenly, Wang Mu seemed to realize something: "Listen! ”
The three of them held their breath and listened quietly, there was a sharp scraping sound on the east wall, as if someone was scratching the wall with something in the wall, and the flames around it seemed to be swaying by the breeze, as if they might be extinguished at any time, the scene was very weird.
After all, Gui Lao is very old, how can he withstand such a fright, his legs immediately weakened, if Wang Mu hadn't supported him in time, I'm afraid he would have been paralyzed on the ground.
Pan Gu said to himself: "I'll just say why I don't see the body, it turns out that you are hiding here." Then he said to Wang Mu and the others: "There should be a dark room in this tomb, everyone look for it, the mechanism should be on the wall." ”
Gui Lao was obviously frightened, Wang Mu helped him aside to rest, and then began to look around for mechanisms in the tomb with Pan Gu.
Wang Mu's feeling of being watched became stronger and stronger. He was just about to call Pan Gu, but when he turned his head, he suddenly saw a person and a leopard on the wall, their eyes flashing with a strange red light, staring at Wang Mu.
At this time, there was a scream behind him, which seemed to be Gui Lao's voice, but when Wang Mu and the others turned around, Gui Lao's shadow was gone.
The two of them felt more and more strange about this tomb, and stepped up their search for the mechanism. Inadvertently, Wang Mu pressed the eyes of the leopard painted on the east wall with one hand, and a loud rumbling sound was remembered in the hole, and the entire east wall was separated from the middle, and a strange aroma came to the face, and behind the wall was a brightly lit secret room.
Unlike the main chamber, there is a high platform in the middle of the chamber, and a ring of flames burns around the platform, as if it had just been lit.
Not only that, there are many dried corpses lying around the tomb, you must know that the formation of dried corpses is very complicated, and there are more than ten large and small corpses lying on the ground here.
One of the dried corpses aroused the idea of the two, the corpse's hair was still intact, and there was a gold-rimmed eye on the eye, and the two recognized at a glance that this was Vice President Gui who had just come in together. It's just that the two of them don't understand why Lao Gui was fine just now, why has he become like this now, and how did he enter this secret room? Pan Gu insisted that no one had ever entered this tomb for thousands of years.
After the heartbreak, the two began to take a serious look at this strange secret room.
There are stairs on all sides of the high platform in the middle of the secret room, a total of nine floors, taking the Taoist ninety-nine to one. However, there is a circle of stagnant water around the high platform, which seems to be sourceless, but it keeps flowing around the high platform.
Wang Mu was thinking about how to get over, but saw Pan Gu step directly on the water and walk over.
Wang Mu was shocked, this ancient tomb was really unusual, and even this water was not ordinary. He tried to step on it, too, and sure enough, it was flat on the ground.
In the middle of the stage sat a strange-looking old man, with his eyes wide open, his hair scattered over his shoulders, sitting cross-legged, holding an incense burner in both hands, and wisps of green smoke were still rising from the furnace, from which the strange aroma came out.
Next to the old man lay a black panther, also with round eyes, no different from the old man.
What is surprising is that the deceased is dressed in Shang and Zhou clothes, but the body looks like a living person, if it is not in the ancient tomb, it is difficult to believe that this is a person who has been dead for thousands of years.