Chapter Seventy-Eight: Three Stone Bridges
The closer the third day approached, the harder my heart beat harder, and I always felt that behind the huge stone door, there were thousands of demons and monsters, when the sunset once again reflected the blood-colored lines.
Lin Zongran immediately gave an order and asked the people on the high platform to pour hundreds of buckets of blood onto the tomb gate lines, only to see the blood poured on the strange lines, and in an instant, the stone gate emitted bursts of dazzling red light.
The blood flowed on the strange lines, swimming like a life, no longer disappearing for no reason like pouring water before, Lin Zongran looked at the scene in front of him and knew that watering with blood must have worked.
Once again, he ordered the soldiers to pour all the blood on the lines, and gradually all the patterns of the entire gate emitted bursts of red light, especially the blood-colored lines before, which shone even more red.
As more and more blood poured on, the tomb door also changed, and the huge tomb door began to tremble a little after the blood poured on the lines, and more and more blood concentrated towards a strange pattern in the middle of the stone door.
After the soldiers poured all the blood on the tomb door, the strange pattern in the middle of the tomb door was also full of blood, I don't know how this stone door was made, the blood of the upright tomb door flowed on the strange lines, there was no blood on the platform, all the blood was gathered together.
Lin Zongran saw that the tomb door had not been opened for a long time, so he pulled me to him and asked, "What's the matter, didn't you say that you can open the stone door by pouring blood on it?" What's going on now? Don't want to live if you don't explain it clearly. After saying that, Lin Zongran kicked me to the side.
I slowly got up, looked at the strange tomb door and said to Lin Zongran: "Now the stone gate is obviously still changing, don't you see that the tomb door is still trembling?" Such a big stone door, you can open it in an instant, you come and try it for me, if you wait, you will blow it up. ”
Lin Zongran saw that I was very hard, and he didn't say anything more, so he had to wait patiently on the side, and the time gradually came to the unitary time, (from 17 o'clock to 19 o'clock in the evening), I watched the tomb door suck the blood dry little by little, and I knew that the tomb door was afraid that it would not take long to open.
Sure enough, we waited for another hour, and the tomb gate absorbed all the blood, and the huge tomb door slowly sank under the attention of tens of thousands of people.
Only then did I realize that the huge stone gate was not actually a tomb gate, but only a huge boulder, and after the boulder slowly sank to the surface, a huge karst cave appeared in front of us.
A few curious soldiers were bold and went forward to inspect regardless of the danger, but they were inexplicably sucked into the cave, so frightened that Lin Zongran and the soldiers retreated several meters before stopping.
At that time, there were 70,000 or 80,000 people on the entire platform, and there were 10,000 torches alone, and tens of thousands of torches illuminated the entire night sky.
When I fixed my eyes, I found that there was light in the cave, a little like a spirit in the night shining green light, presumably it was the ghost fire I heard from Fan'er just now, and I now know that the green light is the ghost fire made of phosphobone powder. ”
Grandpa said so much when he was older, he couldn't help but gasp a little, and after calming down a little, he continued: "At that time, I saw the cave eating people with my own eyes, and I didn't dare to go up, but Lin Zongran grabbed me with a rush, and he had to take the lead.
I had no choice but to take 3,000 soldiers to the unknown cave, and when I came to the entrance of the cave, I found that there was actually a cliff in front of me, and a few soldiers had come to look at it before.
It is estimated that because the cave is too dark, I didn't see the abyss below and fell down, and we couldn't see the cliff outside, so we thought it was a cave eating people, and I was relieved to find the secret.
I told Lin Zongran behind him what he knew, and sure enough, as soon as he heard it, he immediately ran to the cave, I looked at this huge cave by the light of the torch, the top of the cave was full of stalactites, and the dim green light was attached to the stalactites hanging upside down on the mountainside.
From the outside, it looked like a large pile of ghost fire floating in the air, and I took a torch and threw it into the abyss below, only to see that the torch was silently thrown into a bottomless pit.
I didn't know how deep that abyss was, and I didn't dare to think about it at the time, because the abyss was so stressful that I felt like a group of demons were going to rush out of the cave before I entered the cave, and when I saw that terrible abyss, that feeling was even more obvious.
"Let's go, what's the problem, if you don't want to die, be honest." Just when I was deep in thought, Lin Zongran pushed me from behind, and I couldn't help but swallow hard when I saw that there was only a slender stone path in front of me.
It's just that Lin Zongran is holding a gun at me behind me, and I can only step on the narrow stone road, which can only accommodate the width of a small car, and there are thousands of abysses on both sides.
Seeing this, Lin Zongran also knew that it was impossible to enter tens of thousands of people here, so he only brought a few adjutants and the three thousand men and horses before me to set foot on this sheep's intestine path on the abyss.
I realized that we only saw half of the abyss, and after we walked through the stone path, we came to a huge platform, but the road ahead was no longer a stone road.
Rather, there are several hanging chain bridges, the huge platform is a narrow stone road behind it, the remaining three sides are all chain bridges, I took Lin Zongran and a group of people to a chain bridge, and found that there is a stone arch in front of the iron bridge, and there are two oil lamps hanging on both sides of the stone arch, and the dim fire is burning on the oil lamp, which is particularly weird.
"It's time to go over there, what do you say now?" Lin Zongran no longer has the domineering spirit he used to have, and he is obviously afraid of this strange place, looking at the three chain bridges and not knowing what to do, he asked me with a trembling body.
At that time, I was also not lightly beaten, not much better than him, the three iron chain bridges were lit on both sides of the oil lamp, I took a closer look and found that it was not the lamp oil, but the blood in it was actually blood, from the stone arch of the iron bridge linked to the oil lamp, and it was supplying blood to the bottom of the oil lamp little by little, and the blood was continuously provided for the oil lamp to burn.
At that time, when I found the oil lamp, I wondered: it is impossible for a dusty tomb to be stored for thousands of years, and even if it can be stored for thousands of years, the blood has lost its bloody smell.
But the oil lamps I found had a very strong smell of blood, and at that time I thought it was the smell of the wounds of the soldiers who had been asked by Lin Zongran to cut their wrists and let them bleed.
That's why the cave smells of blood, but when I saw the oil lamp, I realized that the blood had gone through a certain channel and entered the interior of the cave.
The door of the cave was opened by blood, and the blood in the oil lamp on the side of the chain bridge was the blood of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and the smell of blood in the cave was so strong.
However, when I inspected the three chain bridges again, I found something even more shocking, only to see a line of bright red blood characters appear on the stone arch of the iron bridge, just like the lines of the huge tomb door before, and the strange blood made those lines of handwriting particularly terrifying.
"Grandpa, what the hell did you see, don't stop." Grandpa paused for a long time halfway through speaking, and this time it was Tianyou's turn to lose his breath, and he couldn't help but ask urgently.
"Don't be in a hurry, take your time, it's still early before dinner." Grandpa smiled and continued: "More than 3,000 of us are standing on a huge platform, with three chain bridges and an abyss on three sides.
There is a row of words on the stone arch of the iron bridge: (up to Tianfu Road, down to the Netherworld Spring, but how to die bridge.) The three lines are on the left, right, and middle, and each appears on the stone arch of the chain bridge.
When I saw that line of handwriting, I was really surprised, and I wondered if we had broken into a place where we shouldn't have entered, and I didn't know what the first two sentences meant.
But the latter sentence of the Nai He Death Bridge is obvious, we all said at that time that people die to cross the Nai He Bridge, and now when I see the real Nai He Bridge, I am even more shocked and trembling.
When I turned around, I found that Lin Zongran and a group of people were looking at me suspiciously, and they were all a little wrong, and they didn't know what to do, after all, I was already the leader of the team at that time, even Lin Zongran didn't dare to do anything with me.
Looking at the thousands of people who were puzzled, I explained the handwriting on it to them, although many of their officers had some cultural skills, but the handwriting was a small seal, and it was normal for them to not understand it.
At that time, everyone was fighting, who would study ancient writing, except for some real literati and ink writers, but at that time I was also wondering, according to the villagers, this tomb was built by Li Shimin in the Tang Dynasty who did not know for whom.
But there is a small seal carved font, obviously the era is not right, when the Tang Dynasty has changed the font to regular script, and the current traditional Chinese characters are almost the same, at that time basically no one used the small seal font to write.
But there is a small seal script there, if it is not deliberately done by the person who built the tomb, it is that this place exists longer than the Tang Dynasty, and Li Shimin is just a dove occupying the magpie's nest.
If this is the case, the age of this ancient tomb is unknown, and what is more important is that those few lines of handwriting have obviously been related to mythology, Lin Zongran was also taken aback after listening to my explanation, and more than 3,000 people looked at the three chain bridges curiously.
At that time, I had undoubtedly become a leader, and they all looked at me unanimously after being surprised, including Lin Zongran, and I was completely blinded at that time, and I didn't know what to do.
No matter what I know, this place has never existed, and I don't know if it really has anything to do with ancient mythology, if you take a wrong step with 3,000 people, it will be death, and it doesn't matter if someone else dies, but I was in it at the time.
Lin Zongran saw that I was silent, so he cautiously came to my side and said, "You have to say something, you have to go on when you get here!" "I listened to Lin Zongran's half-scared, half-greedy words, and I also knew that this line of work was not easy, and I didn't plan to give up after all of them had already arrived.
Besides, at that time, I was also deeply attracted by everything there, turned around and said to myself: "It's all here, I'm not willing to turn back like this, and besides, we 3,000 people are afraid of any demons and monsters." ”
Saying that, I stepped over Lin Zongran's side and came to the chain bridge on the left, where it was written that it was on the Tianfu Road, looking at the dusty iron bridge for a long time, I said to Lin Zongran with some worry: "I plan to take this road with these three chain bridges, do you think we need to divide the troops into three roads or only take the road to heaven." ”
Lin Zongran obviously didn't understand my words, and asked puzzledly: "What only takes the road to heaven, what does it mean, is there a difference?" As soon as Lin Zongran's words fell, thousands of soldiers surrounded me, waiting to hear my explanation.
I looked at the words that were written to connect to the Netherworld Spring, and said with a few words about the Bridge of Death: "I don't know what the difference is, the bridge we are walking on may be a dead end, or it may be a life gate."
But I don't know exactly how it is, but if you just look at the handwriting, the bridge on the left has a greater chance of being a living gate. Lin Zongran was puzzled and asked, "What do you say?" ”