Chapter 138: Mandala Hua (5)
The roof of the tomb is made of solid and tight stone strips, without the slightest gap in between. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ infoOnly these two places embedded in the shape of the sun and moon are extraordinarily transparent and emit a dazzling light.
Rose said: "When I came in, I found that the sun and moon seemed to be made of glass, so the brilliance flowed, like the real sun and moon." According to the practice of building cemeteries in the past dynasties of this dynasty, all nobles above the prince level will also be arranged with 'sun' and 'moon' in the tomb, but most of them are topaz and the like, because the light it carves is more similar to the real sun and moon. With the magnificence and luxury of the golden rivers and mountains in this tomb, it is reasonable to choose more precious topaz gems and the like to serve as the sun and moon, wouldn't it be more brilliant and realistic? Why do you have to choose glass that is not valuable? β
The two looked up carefully, and sure enough, they could vaguely see that the texture of the glass was indeed much clearer than that of topaz, but it lacked a dignified and restrained brilliance.
"So ......," Bai Lang said slowly: "When Boss Rose jumped up, he was actually going to explore the reality of this 'day' and 'moon'. β
"It's not just that." Rose replied, "I also found that they are all movable, and there is an adjustable bracket installed on the back, which can tilt the angle of the two pieces of glass at will, and of course change the direction of the light. Therefore, I think that the golden rivers and mountains we have just seen are not real gold jewelry, but just illusory shadows shooting from a certain angle. Perhaps when we step into its vicinity, the ground will change violently when we touch the mechanism, and this change will touch the mechanism behind the 'sun' and 'moon', the glass tilts, and the original shadow cannot shine on the ground through the sun and moon of the glass, and we can't see the golden rivers and mountains. β
Both of them looked at the woman with an incredulous and admiring look in their eyes.
Murong Qiushi gritted his teeth, still a little skeptical: "But ......"
Rose smiled helplessly: "I still have one more proof. She stood in place, almost in the direction of a straight line with Murong Qiushi, and pointed ahead: "Mr. Murong saw that girl here, right?" β
Murong Qiushi nodded, a mixture of intoxication and fear on his face: "The way she walked in front of the Jade House...... Like a fairy, like a ghost......"
Rose said: "But I don't know if Mr. Murong remembers that when we first came in together and saw the place where the golden river and mountain were seen, it was not here, but there." She lifted her hand and pointed unmistakably to a distance of five paces to the south.
Murong Qiushi stared at her suspiciously: "Yes, so what?" β
Bai Lang's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, and he said loudly: "Boss Rose! I understand! β
Rose nodded approvingly and motioned to Bai Lang to continue, Bai Lang glanced at Murong Qiushi with disdain, and said, "There is this cliff in the middle of the golden river and mountain, and the cliff wall is high and steep, just like a real mountain cliff. The four-colored jade house is hidden by the river behind the cliff, the terrain is tortuous and deep, and you can only see the scene in front of the house from a positive angle! β
Rose said lightly: "Mr. Murong, don't you still want to understand?" The angle you saw before and the angle you saw later are very far apart. In other words, the two times you see the golden rivers and mountains, but the direction of the golden rivers and mountains has changed. If it weren't for the phantom through the glass, how could such a large displacement occur in a matter of moments, without touching any ground mechanism? β
"And when Boss Rose jumped up, he must have taken the opportunity to push the direction of the refraction of the 'sun' and 'moon' glass." As soon as Bai Lang's words came out, Rose immediately nodded: "Yes, because I also want to verify it through facts." β
"But that female ghost ......" Murong Qiushi suddenly cried out, shuddering.
Rose comforted: "Maybe it's because I changed the direction of the glaze's light transmission, so the things in other places behind the glaze are also refracted and overlapped on the phantom of the golden river and mountain." The woman may be a painting, or a puppet, so there is a red silk dress that women in the world do not usually wear......"
"So what are we going to do?" Murong Qiushi cried out and hugged the lyre in his arms tightly: "It turns out that there is no gold in this tomb at all!" It turns out that the rumors are all lies! We've been tricked in, how do we get out? How to get out? β
His voice was strange and high-pitched, I don't know if it was because of fear or loss, and it was slightly distorted.
"Mr. Murong came in, and it was really not for Wan'er." Bai Lang squinted at him with disdain and mockery: "Since you came in for gold, why don't you go out after finding gold!" Wan'er has an uncle like you, it's really pitiful! He looked at Murong Qiushi's expression, seemed to find a strange pleasure, and continued: "I was ordered to come to investigate the case, so I must not leave. This golden tomb is so heavy that not a single person who has been in for decades has been able to get out. So, we may not really be able to go out, Mr. Murong. β
In this last sentence, there seemed to be a chill rising.
Murong Qiushi's hands trembled slightly, and then they trembled more and more, and several times it seemed that the piano surface was about to be sunken.
Rose suddenly said, "I have heard that the tombs of all nobles must have passages. Because the tomb owner hopes that the soul after death can still pass through this passage, and can wander back to the world from time to time and relive the prosperity of life. As for the treasure trove of gold, maybe there is really a treasure trove of gold, which is the golden rivers and mountains. β
Everyone was stunned, as if they had taken her every word for granted, and there was a shadow of hope in their hearts that were originally lost or vaguely depressed.
Bai Lang blurted out: "Boss Rose, what do you mean by this?" β
Rose said slowly: "Because even if the golden river and mountain is just a phantom, but this phantom is not a rootless wood, there must always be a body, and the glass is just a refraction of its shape, then its body may be the legendary gold treasure house!" β
Murong Qiu said happily: "Yes, yes, yes! Why didn't I think of that? β
Bai Lang snorted and said, "Maybe that body is just a painting?" β
Rose said: "No, if it is the shadow of the body refracted by the glass, then the body will never be just a painting. Because there is no such clever painter in the world who can paint such a brilliant golden river and mountain! β
The two of them thought back to what they had seen before, and the gold and jade were so precious that they really didn't look like the work of a paintbrush.
Although the reasons for entering the tomb are different, deep down, there is not much difference between people's desire for gold and possessiveness. At this time, when I heard that there would really be a treasure, I couldn't help but be excited.
Murong Qiushi's hand really didn't continue to tremble, and asked, "Then what should I do next?" β
Rose replied with only one simple word: "Go." β
The three of them walked slowly towards the depths of the tomb.
Walking all the way, although he was on guard, he didn't touch any hurtful mechanisms. After relaxing, I felt that although the tomb was a little colder, there was no wet water seeping in, and the ventilation was still smooth. The road is also very wide, and if it weren't for the dim light, it would almost be an ordinary walk.
Bai Lang suddenly saw that there was a faint light around the corner in front of him, and couldn't help but say again: "Why is it so bright there, is it possible that there is also a treasure trove?" β
Rose walked quickly, quickly turned the corner of the wall, and suddenly was stunned, she was already standing there, letting the light shine, pulling her body into a long projection.
Bai Lang quickly followed and asked, "Boss Rose, what's the matter?" β
The footsteps of the three people suddenly couldn't help but stagnate: since the corner, the ground has been changed from bluestone bricks to all the same color of jasmine glazed bricks, the color is inlayed, tightly seamless, like a large piece of natural gorgeous glazed ground, although it is not as dazzling as the golden rivers and mountains, but it is also magnificent and magnificent, ingenious.
What's even more terrifying is that in this gorgeous tomb like a heavenly palace, on both sides of the tomb road, there are two rows of skeletons neatly arranged, surrounded by rotten fragments of clothes, leaving only gray bones, and the forest is stunned. And these skeletons are all in a kneeling posture, with their hands pressed on the top of their heads, and a white jade lamp in the shape of a dragon-shaped amphora is held high. The ointment in the lamp was like agar, and only half of the light was burned, but the flame was exceptionally bright, with a small cyan halo around the edge.
Bai Lang muttered, "This ...... This...... Where is this...... This lamp is really evil, I don't know how many years it has been burning, but it hasn't been extinguished. β
"It's about the lamp oil made from the mermaid paste in the East China Sea, and the wick twisted by the mermaid is said to burn for a thousand years without going out." Rose said.
Murong Qiushi suddenly interjected: "Only princes and nobles can have such a precious lamp. What's more, there are those golden mountains and rivers, and those blue bricks...... It seems that the identity of this tomb owner is extraordinary! β
Rose said: "Mr. Murong and Bai Zhutou are both famous in the rivers and lakes and have a wide range of knowledge, I don't know if you can know the origin of this golden tomb?" β
Bai Lang shook his head and said, "I don't know." When I heard about the Golden Tomb, Wan'er told me. When I asked her again, she was also vague. β
Murong Qiushi glanced at the skeletons and lamps around him in disgust, and said, "I also heard it from Wan'er. She is the first beauty in the rivers and lakes, and the pursuers are willing to say anything in order to win her favor. β
"That's weird." Rose said quietly: "If the tomb owner is hiding a treasure here, he should keep this secret, so why spread it?" Even if it is accidentally circulated, why set up a mechanism at the tomb gate to let people enter freely every year? β
Rose was really bold, and did not have the weakness and cowardice of ordinary women, so she walked up to the skeletons holding the lamps and looked at them carefully one by one.
Bai Lang only glanced at it, and felt that those skeletons had hateful faces, teeth and teeth bared, as if they would choose someone to bite at any time, his heart was pounding, and he hurriedly turned his head.
Rose's eyes swept in all directions, and suddenly stopped, exclaiming, "Strange! β
She took out a plain white glove as thin as a cicada's wings from her sleeve and put it on her hand, and then squatted down and picked up a small white bone from the ground. If it weren't for her burning eyes, no one else would have noticed.
Everyone stared at her glove with bated breath, which seemed to be made of some kind of extremely fine silver thread, fine and shiny, and was placed on the slender palm, ironed everywhere, as if only a layer of flesh was attached to the palm.
"It's a human ring finger bone." She lifted the white bone and handed it to Bai Lang.
Bleak and pale, with a gray rotten flesh left on the knuckles,
Bai Lang was gaged for a while, and turned his head sharply.
Murong Qiushi's body also shook slightly, and he hurriedly said, "Lose it!" Beware of corpse poison! β
"It's fine." Rose curled her fingers back, slowly rubbed the phalange, and said, "It's natural decay, not poisoning." Besides, I wore 'Silver Silk Soft', which is extremely corrosive and impenetrable. β
Rose stared intently: "The remaining muscles are slightly rotten, but they are not rotten enough to debone, indicating that this phalanx bone has been amputated for less than a month." Well, the knuckles are slender and the fingertips are not very long, and the deceased must have been pampered during his lifetime. β
"With such pomp and circumstance in the golden tomb, the owner of the tomb must have been either rich or expensive during his lifetime. And along the way, I saw that the soil in the corners of the tombs was very dry, and there were not even insects and ants, indicating that when the site was chosen, it must be a good feng shui treasure land. That being the case,"
"I've looked at them one by one just now, isn't it strange that the bones at the end of the queue still feel slightly wet? Buried in such a good feng shui treasure land, even if it is considered a human martyrdom, without a good coffin for burial, in just thirty years, it is impossible to decay so thoroughly, without skin and flesh, only bones. Second, even if it is rotten into white bones, it should be extremely dry. Unless ......"
She looked at the white bone in her hand and thoughtfully: "Unless this is a human bone that has just died!" β
Rose said: "There is another thing that is very strange. When I looked closely, I found that the last two bones had lost the ring finger of their left hand. β
Really!
The left hand bone, which held the mermaid ointment lamp, had only four bone branches remaining, and it was safely placed on top of the skull's head.
Murong Qiushi couldn't help but take a step back, and Bai Lang was even more frightened: "Boss Rose! Don't scare us! β
Rose smiled as if she was not smiling, stood up, and said leisurely: "It's even more terrifying, I haven't said it yet." β
Bai Lang stammered, "What...... What's more ...... Even more scary? β
At this time, there was silence all around, and a slight sizzling sound could be heard as the lamp burned in the anointing oil.
Before the rose could speak, "Enter my tomb and pay your soul ......"
Suddenly, a faint voice sounded quietly in the tomb. Listening to it in the silence, it is terrifying!
Rose was also taken aback, Murong Qiushi suddenly stopped, Bai Lang's face changed, but after all, he was a person in the rivers and lakes, although he was afraid, he pulled out his sword and shouted, "Who is pretending to be a ghost?" β
Wow!
At the end of the tomb, suddenly dazzling and gorgeous, in the circulating halo, a huge colorful glazed wall was revealed!
Everyone was dazzled, and the rose was even more moved, and couldn't help but praise from the bottom of her heart: "It's so beautiful!" β
The glazed wall is clean and clean, the colored light flows, there is no flaw, and the extremely fine light gold lines outline a picture of ingenuity: auspicious clouds emerge, flying back to the sky, and flowers are floating down in the sky; And the golden boy and jade girl wearing embroidered ribbons, surrounded by a female noblewoman with a phoenix crown and feather coat, is soaring up against the auspicious clouds, and her clothes are fluttering, like a fairy.
After looking at it for a moment, the eyes gradually blurred, time and space, pictures and reality, all slowly blended together, the flying flowers in the air, as if they all flew out of the glass wall, a tempting fragrance, then floated out, and gradually lingered on the nose of everyone. And in such a wonderful fragrance, the noble woman in the glazed mural had her eyebrows fluttering, her eyes flowing, and her sideburns seemed to be blown up by the wind among the clouds.
Her wonderful eyes stared, as if she was looking at all the people outside the glass wall, her lips opened slightly, and the ethereal and distorted voice came from the faint voice between her lips: "Enter my tomb, pay your soul ......."
Bai Lang couldn't bear it anymore, and swung his sword to slash into the air!
Rose didn't expect him to be so reckless, and when he wanted to stop him, it was too late, but when he saw the scenery of the sword, he had already collided with each other in an instant!
Burst.
Without the crisp cracking sound of the sword blade hitting the glass as imagined, this sword seemed to be slashed into the void, and it couldn't be cut into the glass wall! And almost at the same time, with a bang, a heavy stone door descended behind everyone, separating the white bones and lights outside, and all the brilliance in the glazed wall in front of them was completely extinguished in an instant!
The ground sank suddenly, as if it had been evacuated by an invisible giant hand, and everyone fell rapidly, and there was a sound of ropes, as if thick arrows were shot from all sides, and for a moment everyone drew their blades and struck the arrows, and the sound of clashing and screaming filled the whole darkness.
Rose reached into her bosom with one hand and had taken out the fire fold. Bang, the fire lit up, and he saw the situation clearly, and jumped down lightly.
It was originally a sealed burial chamber, no more than a few dozen feet in circumference, all of which were empty and had nothing to grow.
Rose suddenly felt that something was wrong, grabbed Murong Qiushi, and shouted, "What about Bai Lang? β
Murong Qiushi shouted "ah": "What...... Why is it just the two of us? He was still there! I heard him breathing! He ......"
Rose stuffed the fire fold into Murong Qiushi's hand, suddenly jumped up, counted on the tomb wall with her toes, and the whole person had chased towards the top of the tomb. It was a dark, walled alleyway from which they had fallen. However, after a while, she fluttered down again, with a solemn expression, and said, "I can't get out of it, and there is no one." β
Murong Qiushi was silent for a moment, after all, he was an old Jianghu, and he knew that the current situation was weird, so he forcibly calmed down, and said: "I have seen it, this tomb is located in the westernmost part of the main tomb road, there are no paintings on the tomb wall, there are still burnt oil lamps in the niche, the lamp oil is dry, covered with a lot of dust, and a few square stones have been lost in the corners, which are also rough and uncarved. There are various indications that this place was a temporary resting place for craftsmen when the mausoleum was built, and it is commonly known as the 'Linmu'. β
Rose was a little surprised: "Mr. Murong seems to have a certain understanding of the tomb. β
Murong Qiushi smiled bitterly: "The matter has come to this, Boss Rose is as clear as a god, and I will no longer hide it." In fact, Wan'er has been in the tomb for a year, and there has been no news so far. Even if I didn't die at that time, I would starve to death, and the most I could do was find a corpse, so why take the risk? This time I entered, but for the sake of the golden treasure house, of course, we must first make some efforts, otherwise the tomb road is tortuous, where to find the clue? β
His eyes burned and he looked at Rose's face: "Boss Rose said earlier that there is really a treasure trove of gold in this tomb, shouldn't it be to comfort our hearts?" β
Rose said: "I'm just speculating. However," she glanced at Murong Qiushi lightly, forcing the other party to look away: "The Golden Treasure House, who in the world would not like it?" Even if Mr. Murong found a treasure trove here, could he definitely guarantee that he had it? β
Murong Qiu laughed dryly: "Whether it's Boss Rose, Bai Zhutou, or those Jianghu people, I'm afraid that they won't let the old man monopolize this piece of fat." But......" he paused, and said, "We still have to be together through thick and thin for now, otherwise we are afraid that we will not be able to find the golden treasure house, and we will have to send our lives here." As for who gets the treasure house, it depends on the will of God. β
Rose was noncommittal, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, "Mr. Murong, since this is a place for craftsmen to rest, there must be a passage to the main tomb!" β
Murong Qiushi said with a smile: "So this small organ and tomb can't trap us." β
The two of them knocked on the tomb wall inch by inch, and sure enough, they found a place where the sound was different. Murong Qiushi neatly took out tools such as chisels and daggers from the skin pouch on his waist, knocked off the outer layer of camouflaged walls, and the earth and stone fell off, revealing a stone door inside.
Rose tried the door with her hand, stood sideways by the wall, and then pushed the stone door slightly with her palm, and opened it in response.
Syllable. She had another fire breaker.
The bright light of the fire ignited, Murong Qiushi's eyes widened, and suddenly his body shook: the first thing that caught his eye was a huge cave room with a glittering crystalline light.
In the void, countless faint green points of light floated, with a core in the center, and beams of different lengths were opened and released at first glance, like countless demonic flowers blooming, illuminating the many portals faintly.
"Hey, the place where the 'Chamber' passes, could it be the Netherworld?" Murong Qiushi took a long breath and said in amazement: "This place is under the thousand-layer loess, and the points of light in the ethereal void are expected to be phosphorus fire, if only the tomb owner is buried, and it is so rich, it is generally sealed with a good coffin, and phosphorus fire will not be born, is it ......" He paused and said: "Could it be that many people were buried in this loess at the beginning?" It's next to the 'Chamber', and maybe it's the craftsmen who built the tomb, they ...... These green lights, rootless and floating, how much like the legendary ghosts, not the Netherworld, where else could it be? β
Rose listened quietly, pondered for a while, made a gesture of "come with me", jumped up, and fell into the maze, I don't know where it leads.
Murong Qiushi looked behind him, and couldn't find any way out for a while, so he had to follow it.
On both sides of the road, there are caves, separated by wooden partitions. The eaves are low, but the foundation is quite high, and there are several small stone steps leading up. There are some oddities compared to the usual architectural styles. The sash is hollowed out into various patterns, and there are still several layers of decayed yarn stuck to the edges. It can be seen that it is a kind of precious tulle, which has been dilapidated because of age.
Murong Qiushi followed behind, watching Rose tirelessly open the partition door of each cave, stepping into it, or reaching out to stroke the piano, or setting up the inkstone, casually and calmly as if at home. "This place is so evil, it's like moving a family's house underground, but there is no one." β
Rose suddenly stopped, turned abruptly, and walked down another fork in the road.
The wind was blowing under her feet, and she walked extremely fast, and Murong Qiushi could only try to keep up.
The rose suddenly stopped, and Murong Qiushi's nose suddenly smelled a strong fragrance.
Not far ahead, there was a separate cavern. There are several stone steps extending into the room, there is a bar outside the steps, about half a person is high, the carving is fine, and the sparseness is good.
The outdoor platform is surrounded on three sides, and the platform is full of flowers! The shape of the flower is like a claw, the color of the flower is like ink, dense and continuous, and it looks like a dark ocean from a distance, and the fragrance comes from this.
As we got closer, the aroma became stronger and stronger, and at last, the original aroma receded at the end of the nose, and the residual smell carried an extraordinarily chilling tasteβyes, as if it were the sweetest bloody, seductive and weird.
What's even weirder is that the flower has no leaves! There is only an inky flower, and it is endless. (To be continued.) )