58. The strange stone gate

I looked at the two paths in front of me, and couldn't help but choose a difficult one, for a person with a choice difficulty, choosing one of the two is really too tangled, not to mention that I have to guess which way Wei Huaiqi went, pondered for a while, I still haven't made a decision.

Forget it, at this time toss a coin, front left, back right, no need to be entangled, thinking of this, I touched my pocket, fortunately there is a coin was not washed away by the water, I put the coin in the palm of my hand, and threw it hard into the sky.

Just as I was waiting for the coin to fall, the coin actually stopped in the air, which scared me, what the hell is this, how did I get here and even see the hell with the coin!

I took the cold smoke from my waist and took it to the sky, and I saw that the coin was hanging on a spider web, and I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and I said that I can't even make a coin awkward.

But this coin hangs on a spider web, how can I take it off, forget it, don't want a coin, these two roads are a big deal to go on one side first, and no one can return to the other side.

So the question is, go to the left or go to the right first, go to the left and be afraid of Wei Huaiqi's right, go to the right and be afraid of Wei Huaiqi's left, so entangled, and entangled me for a while, I finally made a decision.

Male left and female right, Wei Huaiqi should go to the right, then I will follow her to the right and it will be over, thinking of this, I walked towards the passage on the right.

I walked along this passage for a while, but there was no shadow of Wei Huaiqi, and finally, the passage stopped in front of a stone room, and another stone door blocked my way, and when I saw this closed stone door, I knew that Wei Huaiqi was probably not here.

But after thinking about it, I still walked over and tried to open the stone door, and when I pushed it, the stone door did not move, and I tried to pull it out again, but the stone door still did not move, as if the inside of the door was locked by something.

I saw that the stone gate in front of me was carved with a lot of patterns, not only some common flowers, birds, fish and insects, but also Pangu, drought and some gods and monsters, which made me puzzled.

In the middle of the knocker of the two stone doors, there is a fierce beast head carved, the beast head grinning, showing a hideous and terrifying appearance, making people feel indescribable fear when they look at it.

Among these carvings, the stone gate on the left caught my eye the most with a flying dragon, while the stone gate on the right attracted me the most with a tiger.

The reason why I paid special attention to the dragons and tigers on the left and right doors was that they were carved in the middle of the two stone doors on the left and right, and second, they were bigger than other birds and beasts, and even bigger than Pangu, Drought Fish, and those gods and monsters.

Just as I was looking down, I saw a firebird at the bottom of the gate, and if my guess was correct, it should be the sacred bird Suzaku.

Seeing that the images of these three divine beasts were carved on the stone gate, I couldn't help frowning, this is not a dragon, a tiger, or a firebird at all, but a green dragon, a white tiger, and a vermilion bird in the four spirits.

They represent the four divine beasts in the four directions of east, south, west, and north, also known as the four spirits. Suzaku is the god of the south, Xuanwu is the god of the north, Qinglong is the god of the east, and Baihu is the god of the west. However, on the stone gate in front of me, there is a green dragon on the left, a white tiger on the right door, and a vermilion bird under the door, but I have searched all over the stone gate, and I have not seen the shadow of Xuanwu.

This can't help but make me feel strange, after all, it stands to reason that the four spirits all appear at the same time, and there will be no one less, and the beast head in the middle doesn't know what the meaning is.

The green dragon, also known as the "blue dragon", is cyan in the east, so the green dragon is the god of the east. The dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation, since the Yellow Emperor entrusted the order to the sky, the dragon has become a symbol of the Chinese nation and even the whole of China. The body of the green dragon resembles a long snake, the head of a unicorn, the tail of a carp, the face has a long beard, the horns resemble a deer, has five claws, and the appearance is mighty.

The white tiger, the tiger, is the chief of all beasts, its majesty and the ability to subdue ghosts in legends, so that it has also become a yang beast, often with the dragon to go out, the cloud from the dragon, the wind from the tiger, the green dragon and the white tiger become the best pair of ghosts and ghosts, and are regarded as Western beasts.

The Vermilion Bird can also be said to be a phoenix or a bird. Zhu is red, like fire, and the south belongs to fire, so it is called Phoenix. It also has the property of being reborn from the fire, and it is the same as the immortal bird in the West, so it is also called the fire phoenix. The king of birds, the ancients said, the male is called the phoenix, and the female is called the phoenix. Later, the phoenix was collectively called; Later, the dragon and the phoenix matched, and the phoenix became the name of the palace concubine. According to myths and legends, the phoenix evolved from the bird totem of the Yin people in the East. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness of the West" mentions that there is a kind of colorful bird, which has three names, called the emperor bird, the vermilion bird and the phoenix bird. In ancient times, the influence of the Suzaku was on a par with that of the dragon, and it became an important part of the metaphysics of the Zowe, and was regarded as a sacred beast representing the south.

The shape of the basalt resembles a turtle and has snake scales, which is a combination of turtle and snake. The original meaning of Xuanwu is Xuanwu, and the ancient sounds of Wu and Shen are connected. 玄, which means black; Yin means yin. The turtle lives in the rivers, lakes and seas, so the turtle has become the god of water; The turtle lived a long life, and Xuan Ming became a symbol of immortality; The original underworld was in the north, and Yin Shang's oracle bone divination was "its divination must go north", so Xuan Ming became the god of the north again.

Since these four gods lack a Xuanwu, then the mechanism that opens the door must be on this Xuanwu, after thinking about it, I observed the pattern on the stone door again.

There is a stone tablet painted on this stone gate, and there seems to be something carrying the stone tablet under the stone tablet.

Dumpling, also known as Baxia, resembles a turtle, ranks sixth among the nine sons of the dragon, has a good load in life, the force is infinite, and the turtle under the stele is its image.

Legend has it that in ancient times, he often carried three mountains and five mountains, in the rivers, lakes and seas to make waves, and later Yu was subdued when he ruled the water, he obeyed the command of Yu, pushed the mountain and dug the ditch, dredged the river, and made a contribution to the water control.

The flood was subdued, and Dayu was worried that the swag would be wild everywhere, so he moved a large stone tablet that stood up to the sky, which was engraved with the deeds of the swag to control the water, so that the swag was carried.

They are very similar to turtles, but there are differences when you look closely, they have a row of teeth while turtles do not, and there are differences in the number and shape of the carapace on the dorsal carapace.

I looked at the things under the stele, and sure enough, there were no teeth, and as for the number of pieces on the back armor, there was no way to look at it closely, but it must be Xuanwu, thinking of this, I touched my hand towards the stele.

Sure enough, the stele could be pressed, I pressed the stele in, at this moment, there was a rumbling sound from the stone door, the stone door was actually slowly opening by itself, and I hurriedly took a few steps back.

I don't know how long no one opened this stone door, but when it was opened, it was suddenly dusty, and the deafening sound disappeared for a long time, and the flying smoke and dust floated in the air for a long time before slowly dissipating.

Behind the stone gate is a huge stone chamber, and what catches your eye is a huge statue, which seems to have hollowed out the surrounding mountains directly, and then carved out like a phoenix soaring into the sky, with a raging fire beside it.

The phoenix is the king of birds in ancient Chinese legends, has a very high status in Chinese culture, is one of the four spirits of the Book of Rites, "phoenix" and "phoenix" originally refer to two kinds of colorful birds, the phoenix is the phoenix bird, the phoenix is the emperor bird, the mountain and sea classic says: there are five birds three, one is the emperor bird, one is the Luan bird, one is the phoenix bird.

"Phoenix" for male, "Phoenix" for female, after the Qin and Han dynasties, the dragon gradually became a symbol of the emperor, the emperor also began to call the phoenix, the image of the phoenix was gradually "female" as a whole, and its emblem is often used to symbolize the prosperity of the country.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Tuzan" contains, the phoenix bears five kinds of image character patterns: "The first text is said to be de, the wing text is said to be shun, the back text is said to be righteous, the belly text is said to be letter, and the text is said to be benevolent." And the phoenix has a noble personality, "not only the sycamore, but not the practice, not the food, not the liquor, not the spring."

The sky-high phoenix in front of me has a very long beak, a jaw like a swallow, a neck as long as a snake, a wide back like a turtle, and a beautiful long tail.

I walked around the phoenix, looked carefully, and couldn't help but sigh at the ingenuity of the ancients, there were no tools such as electric drills at that time, and I could only rely on axes and chisels to hollow out the surrounding mountains little by little.

And then to carve such a grand statue in the middle, the difficulty can be imagined, it is really hard to imagine that such a large statue can be done by man.

At this moment, a flash of inspiration flashed in my head, could it be that this statue was not just carved by people? Because if it is a human, it can be said that it is very difficult to climb to the top to carve, and it may take a lot of manpower to dig up so many walls.

What made me think most about the fact that this statue had something else to help me was the dried corpses in the previous stone chamber, after all, those dried corpses could not exist for no reason.

I suddenly had an idea, and I had a bold conjecture, that is, some corpse chasers drove the corpses over, and then urged the corpses to hollow out the surrounding mountains, and then urged the corpses to carve out the approximate appearance of the phoenix statue.

Wait until the phoenix statue is basically repaired, and then the phoenix statue will be carefully carved by skilled craftsmen, so that it can explain why there are so many zombies with corpse chasing charms in the stone room outside.

It's just that all this is my conjecture, and I am afraid that only the people who built this place, and the few dry corpses, know what the situation was at that time, and my eyes returned to the present.

As soon as I came in, I was attracted by this huge phoenix statue, and I didn't notice that there were murals carved on the walls around it, and the murals were all over the walls, with paintings on them, and there were also accompanying words, but this word didn't seem to be an ordinary word, it seemed to be a dark text.

I followed the beginning of the mural and began to look down, as if it was telling the story of a person's life, but if it were a person's life, it would be too unbelievable.

This first mural depicts a baby in a basket that is placed on a boat while the boat floats on water.

Two rounds of the sun were painted on the water in the distance, because it was a stone painting, so there was no color on it, and it was impossible to tell whether it was the rising sun or the setting sun, but this sun was too strange.

Because there are two suns on this mural, this makes me a little confused, after all, except for the legend of Hou Yi shooting the sun, I have never heard of more than one sun.

In addition to this child, there was also a person who could not see his face clearly, this person was holding an oar in his hand, it seemed to be rowing, and a bird that looked like a phoenix, just above the boat, flew low, but if you looked closely, this phoenix seemed to have been hit by an arrow.