Chapter 157: The Everlasting Lamp
"This, this is also so spectacular, no wonder it is called the Road to Heaven." Tianyou looked at the brightly lit stone pillar space and couldn't help but stammer.
Feng Long put the fluorescent equipment in his backpack and said, "But that's fine, if something the hell is appearing, we won't be able to see anything." ”
At this time, Zhou Fan was not listening to their conversation at all, because he was thinking about the oil lamp in front of him in his heart, and the more Zhou Fan looked at it, the more frightened he felt, and even felt a little creepy.
"What's wrong with you?" Qianying Station was relatively close to Zhou Fan, and when she saw Zhou Fan's face white and red, she couldn't help but ask.
"It's fine." Zhou Fan took a deep breath and said: "Be careful, don't touch those oil lamps, and don't be in the bronze iron bars near each floor, in those unknown spaces, we don't know what is being held, if we accidentally provoke them, it will be troublesome." ”
Time passed little by little, and in the space that did not know day and night, a few people did not know how many hours they walked, until everyone felt tired before they chose to stop.
Several people stopped to rest, but Zhou Fan looked at the back staircase stretching down alone, and said to himself: "What's the matter, how do I feel as if I can't walk to the end, is it my delusion." ”
"What time is it?" Feng Long gasped as he took out the only remaining bottle of mine diving and poured a few sips into it.
At this time, everyone reacted and subconsciously looked at the table, and Tianyou gasped violently after reading it: "It's half past ten in the evening." He paused for a long time before he could squeeze out a sentence.
"What?" Feng Long also exclaimed when he heard this: "If you say that, we have been walking for five or six hours unconsciously. ”
"If the time of the watch is not wrong, I think it should be." At this time, Tianyou's face was not very good, and after finishing speaking, he looked at Zhou Fan.
However, Zhou Fan didn't seem to pay attention to everyone, he still lowered his head and thought there alone, Zhou Fan had already found out that they seemed to be going in circles before, but he had used the phantom talisman in secret, and tried to use the ancient sword to deter, and even secretly sacrificed the ancient sword but it was useless, they still kept going in circles.
This road to heaven seems to have no end at all, and it will never go low, but Zhou Fan knows that this should be an illusion, and it is very likely that they are stuck in a certain position and going back and forth.
If it really can't go to the end for a few hours, it can only be said that this road to heaven can really connect to heaven and go down to the netherworld, otherwise it will definitely not be a few hours before it ends.
Tianyou and the others looked at Zhou Fan, who was bowing his head and contemplating, and didn't bother him, now not only could they not find a way out, but the food and water were almost running out, and the three of them were gathering together, taking out everything they could eat and thinking about it.
It was found that there was still a piece of compressed dry food left, only two breads left, and only one bottle of Fenglong left in terms of water was complete, and as for Tianyou and Zimeng, there was only half a bottle left.
And because Zhou Fan consumed too much, the water had been drunk by him, and the two girls, Qianying and Qianyu, because when they were following their own team before, they considered that the two women would have too much weight to affect the itinerary, so they didn't carry too many things for them.
didn't even give the backpack to the two girls, Qianying and Qianyu only had a pot of water on each of them, but fortunately, the water on the two girls basically didn't move, which could barely solve the urgent need.
"Don't think about it, let's eat something first." Several people found a platform with no gaps and sat down, and after resting and counting the food, they began to distribute the food, and Tianyou handed over a piece of dry food to Zhou Fan, who was sitting silently.
"I'm not hungry, you can eat first, just give me a bottle of water." Looking up and seeing the dry food handed by Tianyou, Zhou Fan shook his head and refused.
"Well, this is the last bottle for you, and if you finish drinking it, it'll be gone." After that, Feng Long wanted to throw the bottle of mineral water that had not yet been opened to Zhou Fan.
"You don't need to keep it, just drink mine." Seeing this, Qianying immediately stepped forward to stop Feng Long, who was about to throw the water over, and stepped forward to hand her kettle to Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan looked up at Qianying, saw that she turned around a little embarrassed, didn't think much about grabbing the kettle and pouring it a few times, then handed the kettle back to Qianying, and then handed the only remaining two breads to the two girls from Fenglong.
"No, we're not hungry....."
"Shut up, this was originally reserved for you, we have dry food, and if you faint from hunger, then the next road will be even more difficult, and we will continue to go up after we are full." Zhou Fan was immediately a little angry when he saw Qianying's push, and interrupted her before Qianying finished speaking.
Seeing Zhou Fan's angry appearance, Qianying and Qianyu didn't dare to refuse, and after taking the bread, they ate it little by little, Zhou Fan returned to the same place when he saw this, lowered his head and continued to ponder.
"By the way, what the hell are these lights for, why are they still so bright for hours?" After eating, they sat together and chatted, Zimeng was curious about the principle of these lights, and asked Zhou Fan who was on the side.
"Everlasting light." Hearing Zimeng's interrogation, Zhou Fan didn't raise his head and said: "The lamp oil of this lamp is refined from the oil in the corpse, and it burns when it meets the wind, fire, and anger, and each burning will last at least twelve hours, that is, one day and one night."
During the period, if there is no more wind, fire, or popularity, it will automatically extinguish, but if there is wind, fire, and popularity again during the period, the everlasting lamp will not be extinguished until the lamp oil burns out. ”
"Brother Zhou Fan, what is the ever-bright lamp?" Qian Yu was also curious when she heard this, and asked while holding Zhou Fan's arm and shaking it.
"Uh, don't shake me, I'm almost stunned by you," Zhou Fan continued after breaking free of Qian Yu, who was holding his arm: "The Changming Lantern is a kind of self-sparing, a high-level civilization item handed down from the Shunyu period, and there was no electricity in ancient times.
At night, only open flames can be used to sustain life, so things that can be lit become very valuable, in the past, the ancient ever-bright lantern was a royal thing, ordinary people can not use it at all, and they can't afford to use it.
Legend has it that in the past, the Changming lamp was refined with the corpse oil of the alien beast, and a strange beast could refine about ten to fifteen lamp oils, and the corpse oil of the alien beasts required by the lantern was also very harsh, and only the alien beasts at the poles of yin and yang could meet the standards of the everlasting lantern.
What are the yin and yang poles, for example, you have all watched "Tomb Robbery Notes". After speaking, Zhou Fan was silent and turned his eyes to everyone, only to see that Tianyou and the three of them all nodded, and Qianying also echoed, only Qianyu was confused.
Qian Yu saw that even Qianying seemed to know a little bit about it, so she couldn't help but pout: "What tomb robbery notes?" ”
"Hehe" Zhou Fan looked at Qianyu who was dazed, smiled and said, "I'll tell you when I get out." Seeing that Qian Yu pouted and threw her head to the side, Zhou Fan didn't pay attention to her, and after a pause, she continued: "There is a candle Jiuyin mentioned in the tomb robbery notes, which is a huge earth snake, which is compared to the snake we saw.
But the snake belongs to the yang, the candle nine yin is the yin and yang community, it has a horizontal eye, a vertical eye, one represents yin, one represents yang, but the two eyes are no longer on the same line, but one up and down, one candle, one blue.
The candle eye is yang, the eye is born below, the blue eye is yin, the eye is born above the yang eye, usually the candle nine yin only open the candle eye, and the yin eye will be opened when it encounters natural enemies or life threats.
Legend has it that the yin eye of the candle nine yin will die as long as people look at it, and that yin eye can see through the underworld and judge the underworld, but the tomb robbery notes are too exaggerated, and there are indeed candle nine yin in this world, and it is just a big snake.
During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the ancient kings often sent people to hunt this huge ground snake, in order to extract the corpse oil in their bodies to make the lantern, and this method of making the lantern was passed down to the Qin period to the time of Qin Shi Huang.
At that time, people had already invented the container, which we later referred to as (wax), to replace the lamp oil for burning, and the ever-bright lamp was also placed from the bright side to the underworld, as a special item for the mausoleum underneath.
The ever-bright lamp in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is refined from human corpse oil, although this kind of ever-bright lamp is not as easy to use as the oil extracted from the corpse of foreign beasts, but it can also be immortalized for a hundred years and last for thousands of years.
It is also said that the ever-bright lamp can pass through the underworld, even the underworld, this kind of lamp has appeared in major mausoleums, and even foreign people have found this kind of lamp in foreign tombs.
Legend has it that once the lantern is lit, it will not be extinguished, but these are not understood by them, the reason why the lantern does not go out is mainly due to the three factors of wind, fire and popularity, as long as it encounters one of these three, the lamp oil will boil and then burn automatically.
If the everlasting lamp is placed in the tuyere, or even if there is a little popularity in the crowd, it will burn infinitely, which is why the people who break into the ancient tomb, the light is not on when they do not enter the ancient tomb, but once the tomb door is opened, the everlasting lamp will automatically light up, which is the key. “