Chapter 23: Ghost-faced wind chimes
At the front of the stone chamber is a stone shadow wall, and in addition to the two eaves beasts on the left and right, the shadow wall is carved with dense regular script.
When I saw the words on the shadow wall, I became curious, and took two steps forward, thinking: No matter what, I have to find out whose tomb is not?
But when I walked in, I was surprised to find that the words on the shadow wall began to become a little blurry, and some of the handwriting even began to crack slightly, as if a gust of wind could blow them away.
I couldn't help but be very surprised, I went back to Xiong Ming, wanting to ask him if he had also noticed these anomalies, but when I turned around, I found that there was no one behind me, and there was no shadow of this kid.
I frowned, and thought to myself: Grandma, when this kid sees that this place is a tomb, he only thinks about going to that person's funeral goods. Go somewhere else, don't fucking say a word to Lao Tzu, and see how I clean you up later!
With this in mind, I didn't think much about it, but took two steps back, squinting my eyes and concentrating on the writing on the wall.
It didn't take long for me to understand the meaning of the carvings on the shadow wall, and the handwriting mainly said two things.
"The first is the usual danger warning, telling all tomb robbers who are about to break into the tomb that if they set foot in this place without permission, they will surely die.
The second thing is mainly about the origin of the owner of this tomb.
I took a general look and found that the owner of this tomb was surnamed Wang, called Wang Meng.
This Wang Meng was the high priest of the Nanzhao Kingdom during the Tang Dynasty, and Zheng Maiyi, the first general of the Nanzhao Kingdom, ordered him to find the whereabouts of the Fountain of Youth. After Wang Meng received the order, he led a force of 5,000 men and began a 27-year trek.
Wang Meng and his entourage walked through the borders of Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Hunan, and finally they arrived in Guizhou, and found a large tomb a hundred years ago in a place called Songtao Mountain.
However, at that time, Wang Meng was already seriously ill and had little time to live. In desperation, Wang Meng had no choice but to take the immortal spring water in advance.
Sure enough, Wang Meng's illness was quickly cured, not only was the condition treated, but Wang Meng unexpectedly found that the wrinkles on his skin began to dissipate little by little in a very short period of time, which made Wang Meng very excited.
However, there are always two sides to the story, and where there is good, there are naturally bad. Just as the king was about to return to the Nanzhao Emperor Zheng Maiyi with the spring of immortality, he suddenly noticed that while his body was getting younger, there was also an even more terrible change......
Before I could see what that terrible change was, some of the handwriting on the shadow wall began to turn into countless fine powders, and then began to rise little by little, and finally dissipated.
I couldn't help but scold, "Your uncle! The most annoying thing is to see that there is no follow-up at the critical moment! ”
Still, scolding and scolding, I hurriedly looked at the part of the second half of the text that had not disappeared.
I saw that the second half of the article on the shadow wall wrote, "Wang Meng's soldiers built an oversized black ice stone coffin, and then asked them to lock themselves in this coffin made of black ice stone, and tied it with arm-thick chains to prevent him from escaping."
In addition, Wang Meng did not return to Nanzhao, but the soldiers took this black ice stone coffin and chose to go all the way north, after 7 years of trekking through mountains and rivers, finally they came to a place called Youdu at that time, and settled in a ravine called the bear's nest.
However, the soldiers did not stop, and after a few days of rest, the soldiers began to build a tomb on the site of the bear's nest, which lasted for 16 years.
16 years have passed, Wang Meng's tomb was finally completed, and there were only 30 soldiers and horses of 5,000 people at that time.
Since then, these 30 good people have not returned to Nanzhao Kingdom, but chose to stay in the place of Xiong's Nest, became a family, built a village, and guarded the mausoleum of Wang Meng for generations. ”
Seeing the text here, the handwriting on the entire shadow wall has also dissipated, but fortunately, I already know about the things here.
I frowned and sighed to myself, "It turns out that the owner of this place is a guy named Wang Meng. High Priest? Isn't it a sorcerer? Could the mutated big green snails outside be the ones he studied? No wonder those guys didn't dare to enter the tomb! ”
I thought as I walked around the shadow wall, shouting in my mouth, "Mighty Bear, where did you kid go?" ”
And just as I finished speaking, I suddenly felt a strong wind overhead, I subconsciously lowered my head, and a long knife slashed against my scalp, and more than a dozen hairs were cut off and fell to the ground.
After dodging a blow, I jumped out with both feet, I thought it was Xiong Ming joking with me, and just wanted to scold, I saw Xiong Ming holding his right arm, covered in blood, leaning against me not far away, shaking his hand at me vigorously, signaling me not to speak.
I was startled and hurriedly raised my eyes to look around.
I saw that behind the shadow wall was a large hall, and although the style of construction was not luxurious and chic, it felt that it could be called majestic and magnificent.
The main hall is in the center, and there is an ear room on the left and right sides, which is mostly used to hold the daily necessities of the tomb owner, as well as some gold, silver, jewelry, jade and porcelain and other funerary items.
There is also a shadow wall behind the main hall, with my current angle and position, I can't see the situation behind the shadow wall for a while, but according to common sense, it is preliminarily estimated that behind the shadow wall should be the main tomb, and the guy named Wang Meng was put where it was without accident.
And those are the secondary, most important for the time being, and the most important is the place I am in now.
There are a total of eight red lacquer pillars surrounded by three people in this hall, the red lacquer pillars are divided into two rows on the left and four on the right, the hall is divided into three equal parts, and twenty-one bronze bells are placed on the left side of the main hall, and on the side of each bronze bell is a musician Yong who holds a different instrument and is full of patina.
On the right side of the main hall, there are fourteen iron shelves, which are hung with all kinds of animal bones, and the wind blows and rattles, and next to the iron shelves also stand fourteen musicians of different shapes.
And the most terrible thing is that in the center of this hall is full of rusty bronze figurines dressed in various costumes.
But what surprised me was that these bronze figurines in front of me were not products of a period at all, nor could they be things of a period. Let's not talk about their clothing, just from the things they took in their hands, some of them held high Tang Dynasty long knives, some held the unique hook and sickle guns of the Ming Dynasty, and some also held Yang artillery of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
The scene in front of me really made me a little confused, and I really couldn't figure out what the situation was, so I didn't speak, but gestured to Xiong Ming not far away: "What is the situation?" ”
Xiong Ming spread his hands and gestured in the same way: "How the hell did I know, I was fine when I first came over, and suddenly the bones on the iron shelf over there rattled, and then these guys attacked me." And then, your kid came running. ”
After Xiong Ming talked about the bones on the iron shelf, I couldn't help but look over there, only to see that the bones on the shelf that had been dropped by the red rope were swaying gently at this time, very slowly, but there seemed to be an indescribable weirdness.
To be honest, I didn't notice it at first, but when I looked at it again, a word came to my mind - "ghost-faced wind chimes".
So, what are ghost-faced wind chimes?
To put it simply, it is a kind of Miao Jiang's witchcraft technique.
I once heard my grandfather mention to me that the witchcraft of the Miao Jiang lineage is divided into "Birth Gu, Death Gu, Spirit Gu, and Voice Gu." ”
And this kind of "ghost-faced wind chime" is a kind of voice transmission Gu. Specifically, it is to plant a poisonous insect into the human body, and this poisonous insect will quickly erode the human brain and all sensory organs, turning the host into a living dead, retaining only the sensitivity to sound.
As soon as they hear the sound of bones crashing, they will instantly become very violent, attacking wherever they make a sound.
Because of the huge power of this voice transmission Gu, it also got the name of "the wind blows the bones, and it is unstoppable".
However, according to my grandfather, this ghost-faced wind chime has disappeared from this world for nearly a thousand years, and I didn't expect to meet it today.
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but gasp, and slowly raised my hand to Xiong Ming and said, "This is...... Ghostface Wind Chimes...... Once the wind chimes ring, these guys will kill all the living people who appear, so be careful. Also, these guys can't see anything, they're only sensitive to sound, so don't make a noise. ”
Xiong Ming nodded and gestured, "I understand!" You know why you don't say it? The harmful Lao Tzu almost hung up just now. ”
I gestured, "I just remembered that my grandfather told me about this thing when I was a child." He said that he had only encountered this thing once in his life, and said that it had long been extinct, so who knew that the two of us could meet today? I guess most of these people are tomb robbers who want to touch them, and for some reason they were parasitized by that damn bug, which is why they became like bronze armored corpses. ”
Xiong Ming didn't say anything more, but slowly raised a middle finger at me, and after a while, he gestured again: "What now?" ”
I thought for a moment and replied, "Don't make a sound!" Move to the apse little by little! ”
And just when I was about to act, suddenly the ghost wind chimes on my side began to shake violently, and then a very uncomfortable "bang" sound came, and then, a sad thing happened, and the mobile phone in my pocket actually rang when it was not right.
I only listened to Jay Chou's blue and white porcelain song melodious from the mobile phone, "Azure and other smoke and rain And I'm waiting for you, the smoke rises across the river for thousands of miles, and the book at the bottom of the bottle is engraved to imitate the elegance of the previous dynasty, just when I foreshadowed you for meeting you......"
To be honest, the song is a good song, but it didn't come at the right time, and just as I reached for my phone and was about to hang it up, three bronze figurines with long knives had rushed in front of me.