Chapter 43: The Bronze Sword

Next to the mural, there are kneeling bronze figurines arranged in a very regular manner, spreading all the way upward, like an orderly army, worshipping the king on the top of the platform. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The content of this mural is a long story, and the general content is that a five-clawed dragon and a giant python with a horn on its head are fighting, they roll in the clouds, fight in the waves, and collapse mountains and rocks, which is very shocking.

In the end, the giant python was defeated and killed, fell to the ground, and turned into a big mountain, seeing this, Xiao Zhang and I couldn't help but exclaim, looking at the trend of this mountain and river, it is not much different from the python mountain we are in now.

"This ...... Could this be the origin of Python Mountain? Xiao Zhang asked, "It's just a myth and a legend." ”

We have a lot of origins in Ruzhou, all corresponding to a myth and legend, these are the beautiful imagination of the older generation, the ancients were more superstitious, now here to see these, it is not surprising, but this relief carving is too clear, real, even the giant python body of every scale, the five-clawed dragon mouth of every whisker is countable, especially under this light, it is just like living, I can even feel their snort.

"And who's going to say for sure?" Lao Zhao put down such a sentence, and continued to walk forward without looking back, Xiao Zhang and I stopped talking, and walked up the stairs all the way, and after ten minutes of hard work, we had come to the top of the stage, and my eyes suddenly brightened.

On the jade platform is a relatively open platform, the platform is very empty, only in the center of the position, there is a behemoth, I feel "groan" in my heart, hurriedly shine with a flashlight, only to finally breathe a sigh of relief.

It was a throne carved out of jade, but it was much larger than the average throne, and in the darkness it was like a giant beast entrenched, and it startled us, but the throne was facing away from us, and there was nothing on it that could not be seen at all.

"A false alarm." Xiao Zhang wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, "Let's go around and take a look." ”

I noticed that after all these events, this guy was obviously much bolder, he put away his flashlight, held the gun in both hands, and slowly walked around the back of the throne, and I followed him closely.

"Holy! Someone?! Xiao Zhang suddenly screamed, threw the gun out of his hand, and quickly stepped back, I only felt that my brain was pumping, and my nerves were almost broken, and I hurriedly retreated.

No matter who it is, seeing people in this tomb that has not seen the light of day all year round will definitely be frightened enough, Xiao Zhang was obviously frightened, a little panicked, "Bang" suddenly hit me, and we both fell together.

This fall is really porcelain, I just feel that there is a burst of Venus in front of me, and then give Xiao Zhang this startled startle, for a while, I was so angry that I almost had to turn my back on it, and I twisted on the ground for a long time, but I didn't get up.

Lao Zhao was afraid that something would happen to us, so he hurriedly ran over to check, and after making sure that there was no danger, he reached out and pulled us up.

"What's wrong?" Lao Zhao asked.

"Someone...... It's terrible that people and ghosts are still smiling at me. Xiao Zhang's heart palpitated, beating his chest with his hands, saying some disorganized words in his mouth, constantly retreating, wanting to stay away from this throne, I saw him like this, and then thought about what he said, I felt panicked.

"I'll take a look." Lao Zhao picked up the gun on the ground, took two steps forward, flashed quickly, and came to the throne, first stunned for a moment, and then said to us: "Who is there?" There's a dried corpse here, hey, hehe, come here, there's a treasure on it. ”

As soon as Xiao Zhang and I heard that there was a treasure, we walked over briskly, hid behind Lao Zhao and poked our heads out to take a look, only to find that there was a dried corpse sitting on this jade platform.

It was like a general in armor, very tall, sitting there was a head taller than me standing, if I stood up, I am afraid I would have to be more than three meters tall, if this height was to play basketball, higher than a rebound, the picture was so beautiful, I dare not imagine.

This corpse should have been embalmed quite well, not decomposed, but seriously dehydrated, so it looks very slender, the armor on the body has rotted to the point that it is not visible, hanging on the body is like being splashed with a layer of moldy eight-treasure porridge, the eyelids of the dried corpse have not yet rotted, tightly closed, holding up their heads and facing forward, as if thinking about something, looking very domineering.

In his hand, he carried a bronze sword about three feet long, the scabbard had rotted, but through the gap between the rotten scabbard, you could see that the sword body was still clear, and there were also many bronze servants kneeling next to the dry corpse, like soldiers waiting for the general to give orders.

"I said Xiao Zhang, are you mistaken, there is such a dried corpse here, where is there any other person?" I asked.

"You fart," Xiao Zhang felt that he was being questioned, and was very excited, "Zhang Ye's eyes are like torches, he is like watching fire, and he is discerning, as soon as I came over, he put on a face, how terrifying and terrifying that face is, and he is still sneering at me." ”

Xiao Zhang closed his eyes tightly, revealing a grinning expression, as if he was carrying out some extremely painful memories.

"Could it be that you're nervous and hallucinating?" Lao Zhao carefully analyzed, "First of all, there is such a thing in this place, if there is really something, there must be nowhere to hide, and secondly, this corpse is a dry corpse, and a dry corpse generally does not change into a corpse. ”

After listening to Lao Zhao's analysis, Xiao Zhang's mood was a little more stable, but he still couldn't stop breathing.

"You two boys, don't be like two girls," said Lao Zhao, dragging us out from behind him, and said to me, "Go and see the sword." ”

I hesitated and didn't dare to move forward, Lao Zhao smiled and pushed me, "Look at you two cowardly, you were scared like that by a dried corpse, don't say that you are following Zhao Ye when you go out in the future, I can't afford to lose this person." ”

As soon as I heard this, I suddenly felt a little fire in my heart, and said that I couldn't let Lao Zhao look flat, so I patted my face and strengthened my courage, and put on a pair of gloves for touching the corpse (in fact, it is rubber gloves, there is often corpse poison on the corpse, and the tomb owner often quenches strong poison on the burial goods in order to prevent theft, once this thing touches, it will festering and dying due to chronic poisoning), the cat walked over slowly, and reached out to push the hand on the bronze sword.

But helplessly, although this guy is dead, but the grip is quite tight, I pulled it twice and didn't drag, so I took his hand and kept pulling the thick fingers, and kept chattering, "Dude, you've been dead for so long anyway, this bronze sword is like scrap iron in your hands, it's better to give it to me, you just raise your noble hand, it can be regarded as doing good deeds, and I can burn some paper or something for you during the New Year's Festival...... I'm X, you still have a shame on your face?! ”

I didn't break for a long time, I was angry for a while, I scolded, I held the hilt of the bronze sword with one hand, and kicked on the arm of the dried corpse, only to hear a "click", the arm of the dried corpse fell off the shoulder, and the broken arm still clung to the bronze sword, as if it grew on it.

I grabbed the severed arm, gritted my teeth and said, "I had no intention of destroying your body, but you yourself didn't know how to lift up, blocked my financial path, and I can't complain about others." ”

As I spoke, I pulled hard, and I saw that the iron-like dry and hard fingers were torn off and fell to the ground, I stood with my sword raised, only to feel that this bronze sword was much heavier than ordinary swords, and it should have been mixed with heavy metals when casting the sword.

At this time, Lao Zhao and Xiao Zhang also came over and looked at the bronze sword with me.

Lao Zhao took out a piece of cloth from his backpack and handed it to me, I took it and wiped the dust on the sword and the crumbs of the scabbard, and I felt that there were ten thousand cold lights bursting out from the sword, and I couldn't help but shiver.

I picked up the sword and put it in front of me to look closely, and found that this bronze sword that had gone through thousands of years was not a little rusty, and the pale yellow sword body emitted a simple and heavy sword light, and the cold blade was even sharper, just looking at it made me feel a tingling.

I flicked my finger on the sword, and I heard the sound of the sword "buzzing" in my ears, and the sword light slowly rippled like a pool of autumn water.

The sword-casting techniques of the ancients have far surpassed those of modern times, and most of these techniques have been lost, as evidenced by the Goujian sword of King Yue unearthed from the Chu Tomb of No. 5 Mashan in Jiangling, HB.

It is said that when the unearthed was bent by a collapsed stone pillar, when the archaeologists moved the stone pillar, the Yue King Goujian sword was slowly restored, and it is stainless for thousands of years, the sharpness of the blade is far beyond people's imagination, it is said that it is because it is plated with a layer of chromium-containing metal, and a "grid" process is used, but the specific steps and contents of this process are not known.

I held the bronze sword, for a while there was a feeling of the universe in hand, only to feel arrogant, high-spirited, full of strength, gently a sword swing, slashed on the throne carved by white jade, just listen to a "snort" sound, a whole piece of white jade was cut down in unison, it was like cutting off a piece of tofu, without the slightest resistance, the so-called cutting iron is like mud, but that's it.

Such a sword can definitely be called an artifact, and it can be sold for at least one or two hundred million if it is taken out, and it is often priceless, even if we dare to sell it, no one dares to accept it, and reselling such a national treasure-level antique is a big crime to kill the head.

"Okay, Xiao Li, you don't chisel when you say it, but it's quite ruthless." Xiao Zhang squeezed me while putting the piece of white jade into his backpack, and Lao Zhao was full of praise for the bronze sword in my hand.

I felt that I couldn't put it down, so I took this bronze sword and played with it carefully, and I was fascinated for a while, but Xiao Zhang and Lao Zhao's exclamations suddenly sounded in my ears: "Be careful!" ”

My heart sank, and before I understood what was going on, I felt that my left shoulder was sinking, and I hurriedly turned my head to look, and the white sweat on my body flowed down, and I saw that on my left shoulder, there was a dry hand and claw, and the owner of this hand and claw was none other than the armored corpse whose arm I had just removed.