Volume 1: The Tomb of the King of the Empty Mountain Chapter 38 The Second Floor of the Tower of Babel
I coughed and said, "Are you all ready?" We...... It's going up. I hesitated, and my expression suddenly darkened.
I stood there motionless, the fat man and they all looked at me with strange eyes, and the fat man couldn't help but say, "Are you a demon?" Let's go up now, what's wrong with you? ”
I paused, hesitated, and said, "I have an ominous premonition, as if something is watching us from above......"
The fat man knocked me to the ground with a punch and said angrily, "You're fucking sick! A few of us have been born and died here, and we are all ambitious, but what about you? Eggy? Let me tell you, none of you can stop me from entering this tower today, and whoever stops me, I will do whom! After saying that, he spitted.
I hesitantly stood up, looked at the fat men, lowered my head, and said, "I ......" I choked up and said, "Let's go up." ”
With that, our group walked up.
The staircase rises from the bottom of the plate and winds upwards like a dragon.
I walked in front, followed by the fat men, and I looked back for a moment, then continued upward.
Looking at the material of the stairs is not like ordinary wood, I smelled it, there was a faint aroma, my first thought was sandalwood, but I smelled it carefully, and it was not like the kind of fragrance of sandalwood, but ...... I didn't know what kind of incense it was, so I asked Mingqing, "Mingqing, do you know what kind of wood this is?" I don't think this wood is like any ordinary wood, you smell it, and there is a faint fragrance. ”
After hearing this, Ming Qing sniffed the stairs and said, "Well, this does have a fragrance that we ordinary people have never smelled." Ming Qing sniffed it carefully again, and said, "Looking at its color and surface, I have indeed never seen wood like this, what is it?" ”
Ming Qing stood there and thought for a while, and said, "I'm wondering, is this ...... Kunlun Shenmu. ”
"Kunlun Shenmu?"
"Well, it is said that the Kunlun Divine Wood can keep the body from decaying for thousands of years, you think, the Queen Mother of the West is near Kunlun Mountain, then, she can use the Kunlun Divine Wood to build all kinds of things, including buildings." Ming Qing said.
I sensed that something was wrong and said: "No, it is said that the Kunlun Divine Wood is extremely rare, and even Qin Shi Huang did not find the Kunlun Divine Tree when he wanted to find it, which shows that the Kunlun Divine Wood is extremely rare, but the Queen Mother of the West ...... "I suddenly realized and said, "You mean that the Kunlun Divine Wood in the world has been used by the Queen Mother of the West to build the imperial tomb?" ”
Ming Qing nodded and said, "If my guess is correct, the Queen Mother of the West built this imperial mausoleum with all the Kunlun Divine Trees, no wonder the Kunlun Divine Trees have become so rare." ”
The fat man interjected: "Then is this Kunlun Shenmu worth anything?" If it's valuable, I'll take a few and go home. ”
I said, "You are stupid, this Kunlun Divine Wood is rare in the world, of course it is valuable." I advise you, it's better to die of this heart, this Kunlun Shenmu is what you say you will go? Oh, whimsical. ”
The fat man kicked down the stairs a few times and said, "I'm not going to do it, huh." With that, he turned his head and walked up.
Mingqing and I saw that Haotian and they had already gone away, so we hurried up.
After walking up for ten minutes, it can be regarded as the second floor, the fat man and I collapsed on the ground, panting, wiping the sweat from our faces, looking at this place, there is a bronze door in front, and behind this door should be the second floor of the Tower of Babel.
I stood up with Haotian pestering, raised the flashlight, and looked at the door, there was a woman engraved on this door, it should be the Queen Mother of the West, the Queen Mother of the West was holding a thing in her hand, because the light was too dim, I could only barely see the outline, this seems to be a coiled "dragon", still shining, surrounded by a bunch of people, all around the Queen Mother of the West, staring at the "dragon" in the hands of the Queen Mother of the West, these should be the soldiers and ministers of the Mother of the West.
I said hello to Haotian, who took out a sapper shovel and walked to the front of the door.
Haotian measured the door, and wanted to find a gap to pry it open, but there was no gap in this door, which made Haotian embarrassed.
I looked at the door and suddenly had an idea if there was some mechanism. I looked around and didn't see anything out of the ordinary, the only thing that stood my attention was the dozens of large and small gems on the door.
Because I was influenced by ancient suspense films since I was a child, I wanted to touch anything on the door to see what mechanism there was. I went to the door and counted with my hands twenty-four gems, I wanted to see what they were distributed in, but strangely they were all in a mixed order.
I pressed it randomly, but it didn't work, so I looked at it carefully, and although the gem was disorganized, it was not without order.
I scrutinized it, and there was a doorway, so I pressed it again.
This time it really worked, but I didn't expect the door to really open. I turned my head to look at them, beckoned, and walked in with my flashlight.
There is no light in it, and compared to the first layer, it is almost heaven and earth.
"It's like a sacrificial hall." Ming Qing said.
I was taken aback by Ming Qing and asked, "How do you know?" ”
Ming Qing ran over, pointed to a few statues in front of him and said, "Just look at a few statues to know." ”
I walked over and looked, and there were six statues in the middle of the entire second floor, from left to right, "snake", "tiger", and "dragon".
But the strange thing is that this snake statue is actually a snake head and a human body, and the same is true of the tiger, just the domineering point of the two dragons, forming a situation of double dragons coiling, which has caused us countless reveries.
We continued to walk inside, and we were greeted by a bronze tripod.
China's bronze culture originated in the Yellow River Valley, beginning in the 21st century BC and ending in the 5th century BC, over a period of about 1,600 years, roughly equivalent to the period recorded from the Xia, Shang, Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn periods.
According to King Mu of Zhou and Queen Mother of the West, we can infer that this tripod came from the Western Zhou Dynasty. The bronze patterns of the Western Zhou Dynasty are divided into three periods. In the early period (from King Wu to King Zhao), gluttonous patterns still dominated, but the variety of patterns increased. Newly appeared in strips of long bird patterns and single large bird patterns, and some utensils were applied with patterns all over the body, with complex compositions and delicate textures. In the middle period (from King Mu to King Yi), there were new patterns such as stealing curves, tile patterns, heavy ring patterns, ring belt patterns and double-headed animal patterns, etc., and the common cicada patterns, silkworm patterns, and elephant patterns in the early days were extinct, and the gluttonous patterns became accessories, and the body and tail of the bird pattern were gradually separated. In the late period (from King Li to King You), the ring belt pattern, heavy ring pattern and tile pattern are the mainstay, with string pattern, dragon pattern, double-headed beast pattern and stealing curve pattern, etc., the pattern style is smooth and simple. By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the artistic style of bronze patterns changed again. It can be seen that this tripod is the product of King Zhou Mu at that time, and this tripod is engraved with Western Zhou characters, which should be the Queen Mother of the West given by King Mu of Zhou at that time, and then the Queen Mother of the West placed him here as a sacrificial utensil.
The patterns on it are intricate, I really didn't expect King Zhou Mu to send such a thing, he is really a straight man.
The fat man slammed it up and said, "I'll go!" There's a lot of good stuff here, come and see. ”
I walked over to the fat man, and inside was a shriveled corpse, different from the others' clothes, supposed to be a prisoner of war. The fat man threw the dried corpse out, and took out all the sacrificial jewels and gold inside.
I scolded, "What the fuck do you want to face?" This is a human sacrifice, do you want this? Are you still human? Put it back! ”
At first, the fat man disagreed, but then under our unanimous pressure, he had to compromise and throw the thing and the dried corpse into it.
I looked around and said, "Looks like there's nothing in here, so let's hurry up and go to the next floor." ”
Haotian agreed, and we walked to the stairs again, and the smell of burning white phosphorus was pungent on the stairs.
We endured the pungent smell and slowly got up.