Chapter 18: The Unknown
Suddenly, I jerked my head sideways to look at the grave, my ears moving, and my eyebrows furrowed slightly.
Why did I just seem to hear screams? Delusion?
By this time, the stone gate had already risen partially.
I looked down and saw that it was a jack gate, the thickness of the bottom was nearly one meter, no wonder the ground shook so much, if it wasn't for the ancient tomb built tightly, I was afraid that there would be a danger of collapse.
The jack gate rises to about three meters and stops.
I looked up at the thickness, and recalled that the jack gate recorded today seems to be the jack gate of Zhengyangmen of the Forbidden City, which is said to be 1990 catties, and it is only patched with wood, but this bronze jack gate seems to be all cast in bronze, and the weight can be imagined.
It is said that in ancient times, there was a good man called Xiongkuohai, who used his own arm strength to prop up the jack gate in a battle to let his companions escape, but he died under the jack gate.
He estimated his arm strength, I am afraid that even his innate divine power is also a mantis arm to block the car.
I'm curious how such a heavy jack gate can work, and this tomb can hold up.
At this time, the man was ready to go in, so I hurriedly grabbed him and asked, "Do you want to wait any longer, this place has been eroded by the years, and I don't know if it is stable or not." ”
"Nothing." The man replied firmly, and strode straight in.
I frowned and thought about it, looked at Pei and them, and could only follow in.
Unexpectedly, there is not a burial chamber behind the jack gate, but a bluestone-paved tomb road.
There will be a wall lamp on both sides of the tomb every ten steps, carved into a lampshade with jade, and inside is a night pearl, exuding a soft light, and it also seems that the tomb road is translucent.
There are some stone reliefs under the sconces.
Probably because the tomb is so well preserved, these stone carvings still look very new, and the carvings on the top are lifelike, which shows that the craftsmen at that time were very skilled.
Next to each painting there would be a line or two of tiny oracle bone inscriptions, which he couldn't read at all.
He turned his head to ask the man, but was startled by the anger and murderous intent in the other party's red eyes.
Following the other person's gaze, the relief pattern on it is a group of people in armor digging something.
He suddenly guessed that this might be a relief narrative of something, so he looked down.
Sure enough, the next picture is exactly the same as the previous picture, in which the group of people dug up many coffins, and inside one of the coffins was a child dressed in fine clothes.
Looking at each of the next paintings, the organization is roughly that the child in the tomb wakes up, and is later tricked into a palace by the gravediggers and becomes a companion of the young emperor.
But one day, a courtier and a woman in fancy clothes held the emperor hostage with a knife and forced the child to dig out his heart and bleed.
But after the child dug out his own heart and bleed, the two obviously did not spare the young emperor, because the last painting depicts the young emperor and the child buried together in the same tomb.
The content of the carving on the other wall should be the follow-up.
After the child was taken away, the other coffins were also removed, and the rest of the coffins were awakened one after another.
The last painting shows the ancestor holding a black box in the mouth of a giant turtle and then leaving.
The end of the painting is also the end of the tomb.
The man seemed to have adjusted his mood and silently opened the next jack gate, this time it was not a tomb, but a tomb.
The burial chamber is very large, surrounded by rows of wall lamps.
Facing the gate all the way to the inside is nine steps, each layer is composed of nine steps, each step on both sides of the bronze golden crow palace lamp, next to two jade pillars Langfang, in the middle of each Langfang there is a small bronze door one meter high.
The burial chamber is surrounded by twelve red pillars carved with various yang carvings, which may be gloomy wood judging by the fragrance and appearance.
I was amazed that this ancestor's wealth exceeded his estimates.
Gloomy wood, also known as charcoal wood, is a kind of tree that has been buried underground for thousands of years because of accidents in natural changes, the wood of this wood is very hard, and moisture-resistant, insect-resistant and fragrant, in ancient times, many princes and nobles would use gloomy wood to make coffins or furniture, so the value is very high.
In addition, there are many bronze pillars and lighthouses around the area, and each of these is very valuable.
The man didn't even look at these things, and strode straight up.
We hurriedly followed, nine steps, nearly a hundred steps, each step was very high, and by the time we reached the top, our feet were trembling.
The top side is a semicircular platform, surrounded by a carved gallery made of white jade, there are two side-by-side bronze tripod furnaces in the middle of each carved gallery, and in the middle is a huge bronze tripod, the lid is carved with many ancient beasts, and many characters are engraved around the tripod body.
Facing the wall in the back is a huge bronze stele with a line of oracle bone inscriptions on its back.
When I saw this stump, I was stunned, and suddenly remembered the last picture on the tomb, and my eyes immediately fell on the mouth of the scum.
The mouth was open, and the bronze fangs were exposed, and the mouth was sealed.
The man was groping with his skull, and suddenly reached out and pressed his eyes down.
I heard a click, and the mouth of the scumbag clicked and moved, opening up and down, and the fangs looked very sharp.
Watching the man reach out and wipe his fangs and take out the black box, I was afraid that the mechanism would not be stable, and if the mouth suddenly closed, it was estimated that those fangs would be able to pierce the hand.
But the envisioned accident did not appear, seeing the man holding the box, I leaned over to take a look, and found that this time there was only a piece of cloth, with patterns painted on it, and fine oracle bone inscriptions, I couldn't read it, and the other party probably wouldn't give him a detailed explanation, so I said, "I want to look around, are there any untouchable or dangerous mechanisms here?" ”
The man didn't raise his head, but just raised his hand and threw me the cloth in the black box, "If there is a word above, open it according to the heavenly and terrestrial branches." ”
I took the cloth and unfolded it, and it was still the oracle bones he had seen at the time. But when I thought of opening the jack gate before, there would be some characters when the patterns were combined, is it these inside?
I looked up at the man helplessly.
The man seemed to remember that he didn't understand these words, so he said: "Take the heavenly stem position, the third on the left, the fifth on the right, and the eighth on the line, and repeat it three times." ”
He read it again, while recalling the arrangement of the heavenly stems, pondering for a while, vaguely found the pattern, and immediately became excited, and couldn't wait to take the cloth and walk to the stone door on the next floor.
These stone doors are not as complicated as the jack gate, there are marked characters on the top, according to the comparison inside the cloth, and then use the Tiangan ranking solution method, and the stone door is successfully opened.
But the door was so low that even if it all went up, he would need to crouch down to see inside.
Inside was a large stone chamber, about two meters high, surrounded by many large chests made of the same gloomy wood, stacked on top of each other.