99. Inexplicable connection
After burning those people, the military advisor explained to the others that they were inspired by the gods to be loyal to their Khitan nation. No matter what dynasty or generation, theology has always been pursued, and it is the Khitan language that makes this proposition, and no one has any objections. After the fire, the military advisor ordered every household to wash and clean the house to prevent the spread of germs.
After at least half a year of such comfort, strange things happened again, and another group of people died for no reason. He began to feel frightened, why was the plague still contagious, even though it had been eradicated? And the incubation period of the plague could not have been so long. As soon as people are afraid, they will think about things wildly, and later he linked things with the rise and fall of their nation, believing that this is the destiny of heaven, and God wants their Khitan tribe to perish.
The matter of destiny is not over, people are dying day by day, and the soldiers gradually sense that something is wrong, some people say that there is an evil god in this place, as long as they escape from this place, they can escape from bad luck. The riots started again, and the military division could only stop the turmoil by suppression, and groups of people were dying, some of them died of sudden death, some of them died of quelling the turmoil, in short, no one escaped from here, and the dead were also put into the pit and burned. That's why there were fewer and fewer people around the pit on the three paintings, until at last he watched as even the guards around him died, leaving him alone.
He felt ashamed of the Khitan tribe and his king, and he no longer had the face to live in the world, and after burning the last group of people, he introduced the pit into the lake and flooded it. Then he painted day and night, painted everything, and finally came to this stone room, knelt in front of the portrait of the Khitan king, and pierced his heart with the iron spear that the king gave him before his death, and knelt down forever.
That's the whole story, and why he speaks Chinese is not stated. It's sad to think about it, this person has empty ambitions and talents, if he wasn't so pedantic and willing to take everyone out of this valley, then the final outcome may not be like this. I pushed and asked silently, Sheng Shiyao, "Why do you say those people died suddenly?" Is it really a plague? I always felt that from the words of this military advisor, he was very suspicious that it was not a plague, but there was no good explanation.
Sheng Shiyao took a while before saying in a very light tone: "It's not the plague, it's the water source." ”
Headwaters? Isn't the water source here the green lake? Is there something wrong with Green Lake? But the whole village is drinking from the same lake, so why do they die in succession?
"It's because of the lake monster, and it's clear that the people in this village know that the lake monster exists, and it's very likely that they have fought it and have a way to drive it away. But what they didn't expect was that the arrival of the lake monster would not only cause substantial harm, but also pollute the water itself. In fact, these people died of chronic poisoning, and the reason for their deaths was the amount of polluted water they drank and their personal physical problems. The Khitan king was the first to die, and he was supposed to have been seriously injured in the final battle, so his physique could not resist the poison. ”
Sheng Shiyao's analysis is very organized, as if he had seen it firsthand. Of course, we can't verify what happened in the first place, these are buried in the torrent of history, which means that the nation eventually perished. This strange man drew all the things and hid the things inside, and then hid the things related to the words in the stone room, but carved all the truth on the stone platform, he must have been very conflicted in the end. He didn't want others to know about their people, and he didn't want them to destroy even the last traces of their existence, which may be why he didn't set up a deadly mechanism in the stone chamber.
In his subconscious, he still hopes that someone can come here, discover these, and let future generations see the last relics of the Khitan people.
That's pretty much what I can see and understand, and there's nothing left to look into, so I said, "Let's see if there's a secret passage here." But Sheng Shiyao didn't move, his eyes were still staring at the stone platform for a moment, not knowing what else he was looking at.
Without his order, I didn't dare to move, so I could only wait for him. After a while, he looked away from all corners of the stone room, seeing his strange expression, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What are you looking for?" ”
After he looked around, he stared at me and said, "Xiaoxiao, have you noticed that there is only this kneeling person in the stone room except for us." I looked down at the armor skeleton and winced, "What's wrong?" ”
He pointed to the stone platform, "Look at what is written on it again, he clearly said that after the death of the Khitan king, his body was carried here, so what about the bones of the Khitan king?" I immediately looked around as well, and when I made sure I didn't see another skeleton, my back felt a little cold, and I said in a trembling voice, "Maybe...... Maybe this military advisor also burned the bones of the Khitan king? After all, at the time he thought it was the plague. ”
"Impossible." Sheng Shiyao firmly rejected my speculation, "Judging by this man's loyalty to the king, he will never destroy the body of the Khitan king, and will only use the best coffin to put him here." But the whole stone room is empty, and there is nowhere to put people. ”
"Yes......" This time my voice trembled more and more, and my raised fingers couldn't help but tremble, I pointed to the stone platform and said, "That height and length are enough to put a person." "The stone platform is set in front of the military division, and the portrait is behind the stone platform, the only possibility is that the military division buried the Khitan king in the stone platform, and if you look closely, you can see that two inches below the finger, there is a gap, and the inscription on it is a stone slab, which suppresses the space underneath. In appearance, it looks like a sarcophagus rather than a stone platform.
Sheng Shiyao stared at Shitai and stretched out his hand to push, I was so frightened that my face turned white, and I didn't understand why he was so persistent in knowing where the Khitan King was. I was already half scared to death when I saw the skeleton of the military advisor just after entering the door, and now I want to go through it again? Before I could exclaim, the slate had been pushed, and I withdrew the words I had stopped, knowing that he wouldn't listen to me.
Pray that after he sees the bones of the Khitan King, he will hurry up to find the secret passage, and stop wasting time on this, Zhou Tong and the three of them are still waiting for us. The slate was very heavy, and Sheng Shiyao divided it three times before pushing it halfway apart. I was mentally prepared, took a deep breath and looked inside, I couldn't help but be stunned, there were no bones in my imagination, it seemed to be empty inside. It doesn't make sense, why do you want to get an empty stone tool here?
Because the oil lamp is at the four corners, if the slate is only pushed halfway, it will be very dim inside, and it will be difficult to see what's there. So Sheng Shiyao pushed the slate again, this time directly pushed the slate to the very edge, turned it on the ground, and when I saw the things inside, my mouth opened little by little, and my eyes widened a little bit, because I was too surprised.
That...... There was no body of the Khitan king in there, only a box. There was nothing surprising about the box, the main thing was that the box was exactly the same as my purple gold box.
I couldn't believe my eyes, so I put my shoulder on the man next to me and asked, "Hey, you haven't lost my purple gold box, have you?" "Speaking of this, I remembered the changes we had experienced before, the baggage and luggage were left in the Tibetan family, could it be that someone stole my box and put it in it? When you think about it, it seems impossible.
"Your box is here."
I turned my head to see that Sheng Shiyao was holding my box. He actually carried this box with him, no wonder he wore such a loose coat, it turned out to be convenient for hiding things. Things have become extremely weird, originally here, no matter whether there are the bones of the Khitan King under this stone slab, there is nothing to do with us, but I found a box that is exactly the same as my grandmother's purple gold box, what does this mean, I don't know, I only know that Sheng Shiyao's eyes are full of doubts and doubts when he looks at me at this moment.
I grinned wryly at him and expressed my position: "I swear, I don't know what's going on. His eyes flashed, and then he lowered his gaze, and stared at the box in the sarcophagus again, and so on, and when he looked closely, it seemed that the two boxes were different, and the fine lines on the boxes were different. It's just that at first glance, it is also made of purple gold, and it is the same size, so I mistakenly think it is exactly the same. But even so, it can be seen that the two boxes are extremely similar and must have a great relationship.
Moreover, my purple gold box is locked, but the inside of the sarcophagus is not locked.
It's unbelievable that a nation that has been dead for nearly a thousand years has actually connected with me. In this case, it's impossible to watch the box lie inside and do nothing, but who knows what will happen when you pick it up? The military advisor is so proficient in strange magic numbers and mechanisms, it is impossible for him to get to this point, and he does not have any security measures.
I imagined what might happen, suppose I picked up the box and touched the mechanism, the first scenario might be an arrow device sticking out of the wall of the stone chamber, which was the most common kind of mechanism, and judging from the fact that the four lamps suddenly came out of the wall, the military advisor had the wisdom to make such a device; The second scenario may be that the stone door closes automatically, and we can't push it open, and then we are trapped here until we starve to death; The third scenario could be that the stone chamber was destroyed instantly, and the stones on it crushed us to death here.
Either way, it was like telling me not to touch the box, that thing was extremely dangerous.
Just when I was looking left and right and hesitating to analyze, Sheng Shiyao had already made a move, and he didn't know where he felt out a very thin steel wire, bent his head, and then slowly approached the box. I subconsciously squatted to hide, but after squatting, I immediately realized that I had made a very stupid move, as long as one of the three possibilities I analyzed just now appeared, I didn't want to say squatting, even if it was lying down, I couldn't dodge.
As soon as I looked up, I found that Sheng Shiyao was looking at me with idiot eyes again, and he straightened up, trying to pull the corners of his mouth to resolve the embarrassment, but he found that the muscles in his face were stiff and he couldn't laugh at all. He ignored me and continued to use the wire to get close to the box.