Chapter 150: The Conjuring Tower (Part I)
Tang Qianlin led An Ran back and forth between the bunkers to dodge, while calculating the time.
"Ten seconds!" Tang Qianlin pressed An Ran behind the cover and shouted to the others, "Eight seconds later, the cold snap will hit!" ”
The crowd huddled in a ball, waiting for another cold snap to hit before moving on.
Finally, the so-called palace door appeared more than ten meters away from Tang Qianlin's line of sight.
Yan Liuyan described it well, it is indeed a temple gate, it looks like it is carved out of ice, but the style is a little nondescript, a bit of Buddhism and Taoism, but the patterns and patterns on it are all directly related to shamanism.
Tang Qianlin said: "The patterns on the door of the temple are all myths and stories in shamanism. ”
An Ran said: "It seems that there is still a text, is it a shamanic cipher?" ”
Ye Da looked at it carefully: "It's a conjuring song." ”
Li Yunfan asked, "Spiritualist song?" What is it talking about? ”
Bei Zihong, Maeda Masaji and others all looked at Ye Da and listened to him read there-
Get up from your graveyard,
The dirt in your graveyard has been shattered.
Wake up from your graveyard.
Everything in your graveyard has rotted.
We didn't invite you for nothing,
He summoned you as a wise man of divination.
Your children are respectfully asking you,
Open your eyes to the life and death of all things,
Float down to my shoulders,
I'm holding up the bowl of Arizha's wine.
After Ye Da finished reading, Li Yunfan asked strangely: "What does Ariza's wine bowl mean?" ”
Ye Da explained: "Arizha is a Mongolian word that means milk wine that returns to the pot for the first time, and it is also called Ariji. ”
Mongolian milk wine, the first distillation of alcohol is not high, generally not more than 15 degrees, sweet and refreshing to drink, if you add a little rock sugar, it is even more delicious. If the first distilled milk wine is distilled for the second time when the sake is brewed, the alcohol content of the milk wine can be increased by 30 to 40 degrees, and this second distilled wine is called Ariza, or Ariji.
Most of the milk wine used by Mongolians to entertain guests refers to this type of wine, which is a manifestation of respect.
Masaji Maeda asked at the front, "What does this spiritualist song mean?" ”
Ye Da glanced at Masaji Maeda: "This kind of spiritualist song usually summons the shaman of the previous generation, that is, the father of the shaman who sings this song to help, and in popular terms, it is possessed, because the earliest shamans are hereditary, which is different from the current one." ”
Tang Qianlin said: "In this way, this soul song is enough to prove that this place is very old. ”
Ye Dadao: "It's quite a long time ago, so long that probably no one knows what era it left behind." ”
Tang Qianlin asked, "Why?" ”
Ye Dadao: "There is no word 'drifting' in the ancient shaman, the word 'drifting' on it is composed of three words, and the word 'divination' is now, in the past shamanic ciphers in the word reading 'grom', the pronunciation of divination here is the same as the Chinese character, so, this is a very strange spiritualist song." ”
Maeda Masaji raised his hand to look at the time, signaled everyone to dodge, and after avoiding the cold snap again, everyone rushed into the temple gate and looked at the ice tower that Yan Liuyan said.
Tang Qianlin looked at the ice tower and blurted out: "This is a dual-purpose tower." ”
Bei Zihong was silent in the back and never said a word.
Masaji Maeda asked, "Dual-purpose towers?" What do you mean? ”
Tang Qianlin said: "This tower is an octagonal eleven-storey pavilion type brick tower, the appearance imitates the form of a wooden pavilion tower, but it has been simplified, the height of this tower should be eighty meters, similar towers are generally this height in ancient buildings, there is a tower pillar in the middle of the tower, the main tower pillar is not broken, this tower can always stand. ”
Ye Da asked: "People are asking about the meaning of dual-purpose towers. ”
Tang Qianlin said: "One is for religion, and the other is that it can be used as a watchtower for enemy situations in wartime. ”
Maeda Masaji looked around: "There is no place to hide here, what should I do after the cold snap comes?" No time. ”
Tang Qianlin pointed to the direction of the top of the tower: "The cold current should have rushed down from above, if we want to hide, we must enter the tower, I speculate, to climb up, we must also pass through this tower." ”
Maeda Masaji raised his hand to look at his watch: "It's too late, let's withdraw first, and then find a way later." ”
Tang Qianlin said: "You guys hurry up and retreat to the place before, Ye Da stays, and we study how to get in." ”
While Tang Qianlin and Ye Da stayed there nervously studying how to enter the ice tower, Xiao Tianjun, who was wearing a thick military uniform, slowly walked out of the obsidian group under the leadership of Prajna Nissen.
Victor stepped forward to watch Prajna Nissen pull out the bones that were thorned on his body, and asked Oda-kun, "If I remember correctly, Prajna means wisdom in Buddhism, right?" ”
Oda Jun shook his head and said, "No, in Japan, Pranya has another meaning, it is a youkai born of a woman's resentment, which can also be called." There are three types of yokai pranya, one is called Haku-prajna, which is said to be a yokai formed by the resentment and jealousy in the heart of Rokujo Go-sei, and can be driven away by honest prayers, the second is called Laughing Prajna, which is formed in the same way as Haku-prajna, except that this type of yokai likes to play tricks on children, and the third is called Red Prajna, which is the most cruel of the three types of yokai and the least easy to drive away and control. ”
Victor looked at Prajnissen: "So what is he now?" White or red? ”
Oda Jun just said, "I just hope he wasn't a mistake I made." ”
Victor smiled: "How can this progress of the union of man and nature be a mistake? ”
Xiao Tianjun shook his head: "If it is natural, it should not be intervened, and once it is intervened, it will no longer be natural." ”
Victor said, "You Japanese are so interesting. ”
Oda Jun was noncommittal, and at this time, a German soldier in charge of guarding heard the sound coming from the cave and immediately signaled the people around him to avoid it, because the next cold snap was coming.
In the cave, behind the bunker outside the gate of the Ice Tower Palace, Tang Qianlin and Ye Da shrank there, and after avoiding the cold current, Tang Qianlin raised his eyes and looked at the human knuckles that were pierced on the ice stone next to him, pulled them out, and looked at the ice tower again.
Ye Da looked at the knuckles in Tang Qianlin's hand: "Where did these bones come from?" There were no human bones or anything along the way. ”
Tang Qianlin looked at the ice tower: "It should be inside the ice tower." ”
Bei Zihong on the side listened quietly to Tang Qianlin's analysis, but his eyes swept to Maeda Masaji, Berghardt and the other four not far away.
Li Yunfan said in a low voice: "Master? ”
Bei Zihong saw that Li Yunfan understood his intentions, but just signaled him to stop speaking out and wait for the opportunity.
Tang Qianlin and Ye Da walked to the ice tower again, looking for it carefully.
Tang Qianlin touched the outside of the ice tower, raised his eyes and looked up: "How do you look at this tower is the style of the Northern Song Dynasty, you see that the bottom floor is a brick waist eaves and flat sitting, only the waist eaves above the second floor, each layer of the waist eaves do not make bucket arches, all of them are picked out by ice bricks, the section is concave curve, although there are windows and doors on all sides, but there is only one ...... real door."
Speaking of this, Tang Qianlin carefully looked at the positions above that seemed to be "decorative windows": "Can the windows go in?" ”
Ye Da studied it on the side: "If it is the style of the Northern Song Dynasty, it stands to reason that there should be a heart-piercing lighthouse staircase next to the tower pillar, and the entrance of the staircase is the gate." ”
Tang Qianlin raised the phalange in his hand: "What if there is a bone tower hidden in the ice tower?" ”
Ye Da immediately understood what Tang Qianlin said: "You mean, the cold current poured into the ice tower from above, and the impact scraped off the knuckles in the bone tower?" ”
Tang Qianlin nodded and said, "Yes, only when the cold snap hits, the tower gate mechanism will be opened, and the cold snap is the power of the mechanism in the tower." ”
Ye Dadao: "Then we won't be able to enter forever?" ”
Tang Qianlin took out his kettle, shook it, and found that the water inside had turned into ice cubes.
Ye Da also took out his own kettle and found that it was also frozen.
Tang Qianlin's eyes fell on Maeda Masaji, and he stepped forward and asked, "Is your kettle frozen?" ”
Maeda Masaji nodded and said, "It's been frozen for a long time." ”
After asking Masaji Maeda what was going on, Berghardt pulled out a fur-wrapped kettle from inside his clothes and handed it over.
Tang Qianlin took Berghardt's kettle, shook it, and found that there was still half a pot of water left in it, and it was not frozen. The strangest thing is that this kettle is smaller than the average one, like a combination of an ordinary military kettle and a water skin bag, and seems to be designed to keep warm and cold.
Tang Qianlin didn't know that this kind of anti-tank grenade-like kettle was the M31 military kettle used by the German army, which was very well-made, the straps were made of natural cowhide or horse skin, the metal parts were made of aluminum and copper, and the protective cover on the outside of the kettle was wool felt.
Ye Da watched Tang Qianlin walk towards the ice tower with the kettle: "This thing looks good, doesn't it?" Ask the German, can you give it to me? ”
"Shut up." Tang Qianlin took the kettle and searched behind the tower, and after finding the location behind the tower, he put the kettle there, "I want to do an experiment, if the experiment is successful, we will have a chance to go in." ”
After Tang Qianlin placed the kettle, he took Ye Da back to the bunker in the rear.
Enron asked, "What the hell are you doing?" ”
Tang Qianlin said: "You'll know later." ”
After another cold snap hit, there was another 15-minute interval, and Victor outside the cave immediately led the four Germans who were protecting him, as well as Oda-kun and Farnyssen, to rush to the mouth of the cave.
The remaining 9 Japanese soldiers of the Sanhe team pointed their guns at Liu Zongchang and the other two surviving bandits, waiting for the next 15 minutes.
After Tang Qianlin took Ye Da to the ice tower, he grabbed the kettle and found that the surface of the kettle was not frosted and frozen, and the water in it was not all frozen.
Tang Qianlin took the kettle and said, "It's safe here, if the cold snap hits here, this kettle must have been frozen and cracked." ”
Ye Dadao: "Even if it is, what? Could it be that you're still going to stay here by yourself and find a way to open the door? ”
Tang Qianlin said: "If you want to move forward, there is only one way, you go back, I can stay alone, hurry up." ”
Maeda Masaji stepped forward, and after asking Tang Qianlin about his plans, he translated to Berghardt next to him.
After hearing this, Berghardt said calmly: "Wait another hour, and wait for everyone else to arrive here before you can act." ”
Tang Qianlin knew that Berghardt had seen through his plan, so he had to say, "Okay." ”
Originally, he planned to open the door after the next cold snap, take the first group of people in, and then use this environment to keep the rest of the people out, so that they would only have to deal with four enemies, including Masaji Maeda and Berghardt.
Since you have seen through it, you will think of other ways after you go in.
After all, Bei Zihong will definitely find a way to attack Maeda Masaji and others, even if he can't do it, he can create opportunities for him.