Chapter 12: The Canon
Wood walked on the floor with a sonar probe in hand, and said to the tech-friendly otaku man in front of the computer, "Find the thinnest spot." ”
The man in glasses pushed his glasses upwards and stared at the screen, "Stop!" The man in glasses looked at the wood, "That's it." ”
"This should be the entrance. ”
"The kid has a set. The bald man developed a crush on wood and no longer doubted his identity.
The team dug up the floor, and more than a dozen stairs appeared, and when they went down the stairs, it was a space as big as the first floor on the ground, and the murals on the wall were not the same as the ones above, which seemed to be telling a story, which was orderly, but the wood really didn't like those ghosts and gods, so he didn't look closely. There is a stone gate with a 60-degree slope on the side of the wall.
"There is a crack in the stone door. The bald man touched the stone door and said.
The wood inserted the jade piece into the gap and twisted it, and there was a clicking sound inside, "Stand back!" the bald man ordered.
"Open the sesame door. The man with glasses made a sissy gesture as he stepped back, and the stone door opened.
"Be careful, this door is delicately constructed, and there are likely to be mechanisms underneath. Wood said. Everyone felt that it made sense, after all, the underground is not as convenient as the above-ground movement, and it may also encounter a heavy miasma. For the sake of safety, the bald man decided to go down to touch the situation first with only the wood, the man with glasses, and another strong team member, and the others stayed on it to answer, and the wood called this team member Akagi Goken. The four of them went to the second basement level with flashlights.
"Do you have a bronze lamp? Wood asked, on such an occasion, Wood felt that it would be safer to have that lamp.
"Lao Wang didn't tell you? His bronze lamp is an artifact, and Huaxia is just that. ”
"Oh. ”
"Lao Wang took his baby to Inner Mongolia. ”
"Aren't you engaged in scientific research, how can you use something metaphysical like a bronze lamp?"
"Metaphysics is not difficult to explain scientifically, it may be some kind of chemical reaction, after the bronze lamp burns, the charged particles in the air are removed, and the corpse cannot be raised. The glasses man and Akagi listened attentively as they observed the situation on the second basement floor. Akagi was also in charge of carrying cannon-like equipment to take pictures of the archaeological site, so he discovered a strange thing, "even the items are the same as the second floor." The four of them were a little confused, why did they do this? What's the point?
Then the third, fourth, and fifth floors of the underground floor are also the same as the corresponding floor structure on the ground, and the four of them are very confused, and they can't open their brains.
"It may be an imitation of the two worlds of yin and yang. Wood made a hypothesis, and everyone acquiesced.
"Isn't the remnant of the Li clan wandering on the negative sixth floor?" the man in glasses broke the silence.
"Don't scare yourself, it's good to make this kind of joke. The bald man scolded. "Let's go down. ”
"The king of heaven covers the tiger, and the chicken stews mushrooms...... No, the river demon in Pagoda Town, maybe there is really a river demon under the tower by the river. "The man with glasses is starting to yy again.
"The ghost just now, and now the river demon, can you rest?" Akagi Goken didn't like to listen to the glasses man talk about these gods.
They had already descended to the negative sixth floor, and the four of them widened their glasses almost at the same time, because there was still nothing! except a bed, a dresser, a bronze mirror, and a guqin.
"It doesn't make sense. "The bald man wants to hear the wood analysis.
"There must be something on the seventh floor, be careful. Wood's voice became hoarse, I don't know when, Duanmu invaded Wood's body again, Duanmu didn't know that Wood went down the pagoda, and when he listened to the glasses man talking nonsense, he speculated. "I didn't expect this to be the case under the tower. Duanmu thought to himself, the Li family had also turned into a white bone...... His expression was gloomy.
"The things offered under the tower must have died, otherwise we would have been eaten a long time ago, come with me. Duanmu walked down the last floor without hesitation.
"You know what it is?!" the bald man couldn't believe it.
"Male god. "The man with glasses began to worship blindly. Akagi shook his head, probably feeling sorry for the glasses man's parents.
In the center of the seventh layer was a long row of things, some of which were broken, revealing white bones, and the bones were covered with a layer of golden scales, the white bones seemed to have two sharp horns at one end of the head, and two calves on each side of the body, and the claws were very sharp.
"What the hell is this?!" the bald man asked the wood, having never seen such a thing.
"No, it's a snake. ”
"There is no serpent with horns and legs. Akagi retorted.
"I'm right, River Demon. The man in glasses smirked.
"This is the golden python, if you look closely at its head, it is a yak skull, and it has been artificially put on its head. It was for religious purposes, probably because it was dug up during hibernation, and people worshipped it here as a mountain god or a river god, and this tower was built for it. And the Li clan is a tribute, and the Tibetans believe that the mountain god can convey oracles through maidens. As for the legs, snakes have legs, and ordinary snakes are degraded and hidden on both sides of their bodies, but this golden python is different, it is not seriously degenerate, it can also walk and prey, and it is the offspring of dragons. ”
The bald man took off the head cover of the python, and sure enough, it was a giant snake, estimated to be eight or nine meters long, and there was a wooden box pressed under the snake's head.
"With a hood, the snake died without shedding its skin. Duanmu continues to be a commentator of the animal world, and the man with glasses is in infinite worship. "Look at what's in the box. ”
"Parchment?!" said Bald and Akagi in unison.
"It's a Tibetan antelope skin. After saying this, he fainted. Duanmu, who returned to the mausoleum, thought that it might be the underground dragon's tooth "bad signal", and he muttered a few times about the Li family and remembered the past.
"Tibetan scriptures?" the bald man looked at the style of this sheepskin and felt familiar.
"It can't be a treasure map, right?" the man in glasses continued, "Eh, what's wrong with you?!" he held on to the fallen wood.