Chapter 17: A Strange Tomb

If you just look at the huge body and disgusting appearance of the Toad King, it looks disgusting whether it is alive or dead, I admit that I was indeed frightened by it when I first saw it, and I can't rule out that it has no intention of attacking us. www.biquge.info But then it helped us eliminate two major safety hazards, although it was unintentional, but it did save our lives, and I should be grateful to it, otherwise the three of us, whether it was a blood-sucking phantom butterfly or a scaly shark, could easily take our lives.

After being silent for a while, Yang Juan on the side asked, "Although one of them is a rui beast and the other is a evil beast, how can the guardian beasts of the cemetery fight each other?" ”

"You don't understand that, do you? In my opinion, all the guardian beasts in these princely tombs are only loyal to the owner of the tomb, but they all have their own territory, and once they cross the border, it will break some kind of balance, which will of course lead to this situation. For example, just like two small bosses obeying a big guy at the same time, the big guy has drawn a clear management line for them, that is, an iron rule, once anyone crosses the line, they have to fight, even if they kill someone, the big guy still won't blame afterwards. I thought for a moment and replied.

Dagoe nodded, gave me a thumbs up, and said, "It's aptly described." ”

I took a closer look at the large chamber, and the previous chamber had a similar layout to this chamber, but it was still a little different.

On one side of this burial chamber is a river, that is, where we fell just now, this river flows from the hole on one side of the burial chamber, and flows out from the hole on the other side, the height of the hole is level with the water surface, the width is slightly narrow, under the illumination of the luminous meteorite, the river water flashes bright light from time to time, since there is a slight wave, it means that this is a flowing underground dark river, but where this dark river comes from and where it is not known.

On our side, there is a flat land, only about a finger high from the water.

There was a dangerous smell everywhere in this kind of place, and I didn't dare to relax in the slightest, so I held on to the big stone pier beside me and carefully looked around.

On our right, there is a wide entrance, the entrance is set relatively high, a sloping staircase leads straight to the stone cave, and at the bottom left of this staircase, there is a hole similar to a corridor, but the hole has collapsed halfway, a few large stones and some scattered gravel have almost blocked the hole.

Liu Da's face was happy, and he said: "His grandmother's, no wonder there are two major divine beasts in this tomb, it turns out that this is the tomb hall in front of the main tomb, if it weren't for the two divine beasts killing each other, not to mention those little Tufuzi who are not on the road, even the professional inverted bucket and the archaeological team are estimated to have to fold here." ”

"Tomb hall?" I was a little puzzled, this actually can't blame me, although there is a detailed introduction to the layout of the Yin Mansion in the art of Kanyu that I have learned, but there is no mention of the tomb hall, after all, although the books I read are rare on the market, it does not mean that there is none, so they are all written in the center of the general cemetery, like this kind of imperial tomb, has always been a mystery, because each emperor has his own ideas, and will let the designer add his own ideas before his death, so the general structure of each emperor's tomb is almost the same, But in fact, there are still their differences, so there has never been a book that really covers all the emperors' tombs.

Yang Juan frowned and said: "All imperial tombs with tomb halls are a rare tomb, although they are not as complicated as other tombs, so many mechanisms, it is easy to find the main tomb, but not only is there a divine beast tomb, but I heard that it is easy to enter and difficult to get out, especially easy to land, and it is very evil." ”

Liu Da bared his teeth and said: "It's all come to this point, if you don't go in and see how willing, Lao Tzu has fought so much, this life will be lost a long time ago, and I don't care about this time." ”

I was itching in my heart, but after all, I was still a little uneasy about the horrific scenes that had taken place since I entered this tomb, I was not as crazy as he was, and it was not my style to risk my life to satisfy that curiosity. I said sensibly: "The threat we came over has been eliminated, and the ear chamber is probably gone, or ...... Shall we return? ”

"No way!"

Yang Juan and Liu Da refused at the same time, I couldn't help but look at Yang Juan in surprise, I didn't expect that she was also the kind of master who didn't die if she didn't reach the heart of the Yellow River.

Yang Juan stared at the entrance of the steps and said, "Bai Xi, I am determined to win!" ”

What is that white seal, so that she is not even afraid of death? I asked, "How do you know that what you want is in this tomb?" What if you don't get into trouble instead? ”

She said coldly: "This tomb is a tomb of the Ming Dynasty, and the chances of Bai Xi being here are very high!" ”

Ming Dynasty tombs? From the beginning of entering the robbery cave to the present, I haven't seen the characteristics of the tomb at all, how can she accurately judge that this is a Ming Dynasty tomb? Moreover, that white seal is a product of the Ming Dynasty? I don't think there's such a thing in the history books.

Liu Da, the fat brother, gasped a little excitedly and asked, "Little sister, have you ever been in a fight?" Don't talk nonsense. ”

Yang Juan didn't speak this time, and pointed to the stout stone pier we were holding.

Liu Da and I carefully looked at this stone pier, this stone pier is about two meters high, and it is inserted in the stone slab at the bottom of the tomb.

There are some relief-like decorations on the stone pier, but the carving is a little shallow, and it is covered with a layer of ash, which is impossible to see if you don't look closely.

I wiped a place clean with my hands, and saw a snake body carved on it, and Yang Juan wiped the ash from the vicinity, and the picture of a Chinese dragon appeared in front of me.

"Look!" Yang Juan pointed to the scales on the dragon's body and said, "These seem to be scales, but they are actually composed of words, and this is a word dragon." ”

I leaned over and looked at it for a while, and then I gradually felt that these scale patterns really looked like words, but because these words were too anthropomorphic, I couldn't understand them at all. Thinking of this, I looked at Liu Da.

He pondered for a moment, looked up at me and looked at him, then shrugged his shoulders and said, "Don't ask me, I don't understand." After speaking, he said to Yang Juan: "I have a primary school culture and little reading, don't lie to me." ”

Yang Juan said helplessly: "Okay, in fact, I can't understand what these words are written, but the word dragon was invented by Ming Xizong Zhu Youxiao in the late Ming Dynasty, his attainments in carpentry and carving are quite profound, and almost no one in later generations can imitate his works, this stone pillar should be the Dingguo pillar carved by him during his lifetime, it can be seen that this tomb must be the tomb of Xizong!" ”

Now I was completely calm, this ...... This is actually the tomb of the carpenter emperor, which can't help but remind me of the dragon pan sun buckle I put at home and the dragon pan moon buckle in Yang Juan's hand, isn't this the product of Zhu Youxiao? Why is his tomb here, and why is my half of the dragon pan sun and moon buckle in the place where my grandfather disappeared?!

A mystery gives me a bit of a headache, I don't know what to do next, if the dragon pan sun and moon buckle and the white seal have anything to do with it, and the white seal appears here, then my grandfather's weak clues should be broken, if I want to choose between visiting the tomb and looking for grandpa, I will definitely choose my grandpa.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Liu Da said: "Let's go, go in and have a look, there are many good things in the tombs of the Ming Dynasty, especially the tombs of the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there are many valuable treasures!" ”

After speaking, he took the lead and walked to the side of the stairs.

Yang Juan glanced at me and walked over there, I was actually very reluctant to go in, I couldn't accept the cruel reality that the clues stopped here, but I couldn't bear to be alone in this quiet and weird place, so I was quite helpless to follow their footsteps.

Or Zhu Youxiao's extreme confidence in the patron saint of the tomb hall, when we walked up the steps, we didn't encounter the legendary hidden weapon or anything, but were attracted by the patterns of the cave walls on both sides of the steps.

The staircase gradually rises upwards, and as far as the eye can see, the top of the staircase is about a hundred steps from below, and there is no luminous meteorite in this staircase tomb to illuminate it like before, although the light from outside the cave is not so bright, but at least you can see the steps under your feet.

I saw that the cave wall is very flat, and there are some exquisite patterns painted on both sides, these patterns are painted, the lines are relatively soft, and they look lifelike.

From the entrance of the staircase, there is a drawing of a koi fish, followed by some thorns in the water, through which the koi swim forward with all its might, followed by a series of vicious-looking shrimp soldiers and crab generals.

Then when it was about to escape the thorns, it was bitten by the tail of a fish with sharp teeth, and the koi was writhing in pain. Its tail was bitten off, but it did not admit defeat, and when it turned around, it picked up a bunch of thorny seaweed with its toothless mouth, and rushed at the fish that had bitten it, and the fish was enjoying its tail, and was completely unnoticed, so that it was whipped on the head by the koi, blinded by the stinging of the eye, and scurried around in pain, and because it could not see, it finally crashed to death on a large rock. But the surrounding shrimp soldiers and crab generals no longer dared to chase the koi, and stopped in place to watch it leave.

The koi fish began to grow new tails again, and they grew longer and longer, and finally grew a long body like a snake, while the pectoral and pelvic fins grew into claws, and with the long whiskers on both sides of the fish's mouth, it felt like a dragon at first glance!

It grinned wildly and laughed wildly, crawling with dense fish and shrimp under its feet, and there was a real dragon, but lying in front of it with its stomach up!

The painting ends at the top of the staircase, and a vague story gradually emerges in my mind, and I have a vague feeling that something is wrong, and I always feel that a great conspiracy is about to unfold in front of us.

I stopped with a short breath, took a deep breath and grabbed Yang Juan and Liu Da, pointed to the mural and said, "Can't you see anything?" ”

Liu Da only thought about the treasures in the main tomb, how could he think about it too much, and said with a smile: "Isn't it just a painting, what do you love." ”

Yang Juan also shook her head, not knowing what I was talking about, I explained: "What is this painting telling us, it feels like an epitaph like an introduction to life, I always feel that these paintings are a little strange, you can see ......" Saying that I pointed to the painting on the wall, the scene in front of me stunned me. "What about paintings?"

There were no paintings on the walls on either side, all bare, and the one closest to me began to change at a speed visible to the naked eye, first lightening in color, then falling off the walls like dust, and falling like flour at our feet!