Chapter 59 on charms

This small secret door seems to be also cast in bronze, which looks inconspicuous, but when I got closer, I found that it was unusually strong and strong, so I thought, even if we didn't unlock the balance mechanism just now and discovered this secret door in advance, we may not be sure that it can be opened by brute force, the things in this ancient tomb seem to be simple, but the sturdiness is surprisingly high, and it is rare to find a mechanism that is still easy to use after so many years. From this point of view alone, it is really a bit like the style of our Kui family, not flashy, we must make the best use of things, playing a role is the key, our Kui family does not like false tricks that have no practical effect, this is what my grandmother taught me since childhood, so I even wear clothes, I also buy some practical ones, and I don't care about beauty, no way, we are born beautiful, hehe.

Yun Ximing walked in the front, and in this secret passage, there were also many night pearls placed in the middle of the wall, so this secret passage was not dim, but it was very narrow. I would wipe my clothes even when I was wearing it, not to mention Dazhe, who was walking behind, who could barely get through by almost sideways.

We walked very slowly, not because the road is difficult, but because there is a hole in this seemingly inconspicuous secret passage, and the wall of the secret passage is carved with a lot of complicated patterns, I think this should be the soul suppression charm that Ji Ziyang said, but I have seen so many soul suppression charms, but I can't see which category this is, it's really strange.

Soul talisman is divided into many kinds, generally speaking, Taoism uses more, many people in the past will place some soul-suppressing objects after death, these things Yun Ximing is more familiar than me, when their family is a corpse chaser craftsman, they will use soul talisman on different occasions, the soul talisman can play a role in stabilizing, binding, and suppressing ghosts, and it is more effective for the shallow Taoist, and there is no great restraining effect on thousand-year-old monsters like Ji Ziyang. Now the soul charm is rarely used, because cremation is prevalent, and the ghost's own body that is most likely to live is destroyed, reducing the probability of being a monster, and now many people don't believe in ghosts and gods, so the soul charm slowly has no market, but it is a town house charm, and things like the luck charm are popular. Our Kui family has never needed a soul suppression talisman, we are a soul suppression talisman, and we still need to spend that matter.

However, the complex soul suppression talisman in this secret passage is different from what I have occasionally seen and heard before. Yun Ximing, who first grew up in a family of corpse chasers, has never seen such a pattern, and most of the spirit runes are some drawing talismans, saying that ghost drawing talismans, ghost drawing talismans, this is how they got it. But the intricate patterns carved on this wall are unimaginable, and even no less than the murals carved by those fine craftsmen, but you can't tell what is carved. In addition, the spirit runes are generally drawn on paper, and the use methods are divided into: burning, wearing, pasting, eating, boiling, wiping, spraying, and wiping. In addition to wearing and sticking to the forehead, the other six ways to use it require burning the rune paper to ashes, and then spraying or wiping. It's like this, it's simple and rude carved directly on the wall, not to mention that I've never heard of it, and I've never even heard of it. Maybe it's for this reason that the spells here are so powerful that even monsters like Thistle Yang can't stand it.

We moved forward slowly, while carefully observing those patterns, we can't see what is carved, but we are particularly impressed that the craftsmanship of these patterns is really superb, those runes are rough and wide in some places, and suddenly dense in some places, like ripples on the water surface Layers are very delicate. This process is now named bronze carving, which can be traced back to the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the bronze carving should not be preserved, and it will oxidize at every turn, so I have not seen much, but the walls of such a whole secret passage are well-preserved bronze carving works, if it comes out, it must be a rare treasure.

I touched the copper carving pattern on the wall with my hand, not only did I not feel the traces of oxidation and rust, but there was a smooth texture unique to copper, although this tomb is not too damp, but it is by no means a dry place, such a huge bronze sculpture is so well preserved, it is a miracle. Yun Ximing was also rubbing those bronze sculptures repeatedly, and seemed to have thought of one thing with me.

"There is no sign of rust at all, it is very well preserved, I don't know how to do it, Yin Yin, your family is made of antique furniture, these should be frozen more than us, do you know what method they used?" Yun Ximing asked.

"Now there are generally three ways to preserve bronze carvings: silver oxide method, which is suitable for curing small areas of oxidation and rust; The lye immersion method, which has such a large area of the wall of the secret passage and a considerable time for the displacement reaction, is obviously not applicable; The last one is the benzotriazole method, which is simply to coat an oxide film on the outside, but the ancients should not have such advanced chemical attainments, which should just use a similar method, and apply something to the outside, which plays a role in isolating oxygen. I explained.

Yun Ximing nodded and continued to walk forward, now we have probably walked nearly twenty meters, but we still haven't seen the end of the tomb, this tomb seems to have no end, stretching under our feet. According to the compass, we have been in a direction since we descended to the underground burial chamber, and according to this direction, we are heading in the direction of Chengxin Village.

"I said yin, let's go again, but we will go to the bottom of the village, shouldn't the people in that village be zongzi, I said why I look at the people in this village and feel very evil." Dazhe muttered quietly behind me, and I grinned, noncommittal, because I was also retreating in my heart, could it be that the restless big guy was really hiding under the village?

I was thinking about the direction, and accidentally hit my head on Yun Ximing's body in front of me, and I don't know why Yun Ximing suddenly stopped.

"What's the matter, Ximing, why did you stop all of a sudden?" I asked.

"Look at the ...... ahead" Yun Ximing pointed to the position diagonally above us, and I don't know when a lot of dense hanging in mid-air began to appear on the roof of the secret passage...... Belch...... I don't know what. Forgive me for being poor in words, the thing was slender and long, of varying lengths, like a lot of dried cucumbers, hanging in mid-air. Yun Ximing was bold enough to pick one off with the sweater needle he was carrying, and the thing fell to the ground lightly without making a sound, Yun Ximing took a closer look, and then retreated.

The secret passage could only accommodate the width of one person, and we couldn't get together, so Yun Ximing could only explain this thing to us.

"Comrades, I think this thing looks like a snakeskin or a cicada, and it may have been shed by those guys outside." Yun Ximing said.

I looked up, and those skins were all glued to the ceiling and hung down, just like that strange one-eyed bat hanging upside down, so Yun Ximing's analysis was very likely, but with a dense patch, I couldn't see the end at a glance, I couldn't help but gasp in my heart, how many of these things are here?