Chapter 52
"Lao Zhao, come and see what this ghost talisman is?" Xiao Zhang patted Lao Zhao, Lao Zhao took the copper bell and squinted his eyes for a long time, but he didn't see the reason, and threw the copper bell to Xiao Zhang, "I don't know, this copper bell should be a sacrificial ritual vessel, so this text is the mantra during the sacrifice." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info" After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes again and recuperated.
Is there anything else in the world that Lao Zhao doesn't know? This is really rare, but if you think about it carefully, civilization is still too fragile in that era of wolf smoke and fire, not only because a book burning pit Confucianism annihilated too many civilizations, but also because the form of civilization preserved was too single in ancient times.
Those words recorded on the bamboo slips are too easy to rot into ashes along with the bamboo slips, and those civilizations that are only passed down by word of mouth, or the cultural accumulation of some families, are too easy to completely disappear from this world with the demise of these families, and at that time, even dynasties can be replaced at will, and it is really rare to have a super family that has lasted for thousands of years like the Mo family that Lao Zhao said.
This may be another kind of culture that has been submerged in the rolling torrent of history, but the purpose of their doing this, and how to implant this octagonal copper bell into the body of this scorpion king, it is not known, or Lao Zhao's words, the things behind every Ming vessel are too complicated, we are tomb robbers, not archaeology, and it is not beneficial to know so much.
The inside of this copper bell is mixed with too much gelatinous solid, and the copper tongue is firmly fixed to the column, so no matter how Xiao Zhang shakes it, he can't make the slightest sound.
Xiao Zhang took out a small dagger from his waist, this dagger was a handicraft we bought when we went to Fengxue Temple that time, there was no blade, but it was more than enough to pick out the contents of the bell.
Xiao Zhang carefully removed the gelatinous matter in the bell little by little, and then poured a little water to clean it, and then picked up the bell and was about to shake it, Lao Zhao on the side inadvertently glanced at it, saw this scene, his face became pale in an instant, and he jumped up all of a sudden, shaking his mouth and saying "Don't", and stretched out his hand to grab the copper bell in Xiao Zhang's hand.
But it's too late, Xiao Zhang has already shaken this octagonal copper bell, this octagonal copper bell should have a lot of complex holes in it, the sound waves are constantly reflected, superimposed and then diffracted in it, coupled with special materials, forming a very weird sound, not like the crisp and pleasant cross talk made by ordinary bells, but more like someone in a dream made a vague whisper, with a kind of soul-destroying power, we were stunned when we heard it, and we were almost blinded by our minds.
The sound of this copper bell surrounded the empty tomb like a light smoke, endlessly, but immediately another sound sounded, this sound was more shocking than the sound of the copper bell, it was the sound of countless claws knocking on the wall, Lao Zhao was the first to react, shouting: "X's, this copper bell is to control the scorpion tide!" Come on! ”
But where do we go? Countless golden armor scorpions surged up again, and the momentum was even more rapid than the last time, and in an instant, we were already surrounded by water.
"This ...... Can this bell really control these scorpions? Xiao Zhang raised the octagonal copper bell and pointed at the golden armor scorpion that was slowly approaching, "Stand down for me!" But the scorpion golden armor scorpion didn't listen to his orders at all, "What's wrong?" Lao Zhao, why don't you try it in ancient language? ”
"Did you just get into the water in your brain? Where can this scorpion understand human speech, you ...... Do you try it with the sound of a bell? My voice trembled a little, Xiao Zhang shook the bell and came to a song "Xiao Erlang", but I didn't expect those scorpions to hear the sound of the bell and pounced on us one by one as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
It seems that this educational song is not only that we don't like to listen to much, even these scorpions are the same, we were dumbfounded, Lao Zhao snatched the copper bell in Xiao Zhang's hand, grabbed the sand on the ground and stuffed it into the film, opened the zipper and threw it into the bag.
The scorpion that pressed up like a wave instantly smashed us over, kept biting our body, and the pain made us roll on the ground, and the scorpion that was crushed to death was densely spread on the ground, like a golden avenue, and now our situation is very embarrassing, there are scorpions on the shore, and there are zongzi in the water, there is really no way to go to the sky, and there is no way to enter the ground.
"Get out into the water!" Lao Zhao jumped up from the ground with a harrier, grabbed the bronze sword and killed a bloody road, Xiao Zhang and I followed behind and picked up the backpack to resist, and flew out of the scorpion that jumped up.
Our village is near the Ru River, and we often swim in the river in the summer, and even in the winter when we are itchy and unbearable, we will come to a winter swim or two.
Although there are a lot of zongzi in this coffin river, the number is still small compared to these scorpions, and the joints of these black-haired zongzi are relatively stiff, and they are not as flexible as the golden armor scorpion at all, so it is better to be in the water than on the shore, and there may be a glimmer of life when you go to the water, if you stay on this shore, you will definitely die.
We threw away some of our burdens, wrapped the fuel, shotguns and iron sand in tarpaulins, and followed Lao Zhao into the cold coffin river, which felt a little colder than a winter swim.
I was so cold that I cramped directly, and my whole body shrunk into a ball, but after all, I am a master of water, and this situation is not unprecedented, so I am not very flustered, but I endured the pain and straightened the part that was pumped, I know that if I don't stretch my muscles and bones now, if I sink to the bottom of the water, or be pounced on by those black-haired zongzi, I will never have a chance again.
Under Lao Zhao's order, we took out all the black glutinous rice and black dog blood in the bag, and dived to the bottom of the water with a full breath, and poured out all of our brains, these things slowly floated up at the bottom of the water, forming a black net.
However, although the water in this coffin river is not turbulent, it is not slow, and this black net will be diluted by the current in less than five minutes, and will disperse with the current, so we have to find an exit against the current within these five minutes, and the task is very difficult.
Lao Zhao swam in front with a bronze sword, and kept chopping the oncoming black hair dumplings into pieces, Xiao Zhang and I kept sweeping the golden armor scorpion on the shore into the water in the back to disperse the attack of the black hair dumplings, and the pressure to travel against the water is very large, although we have been swimming desperately, but the speed of travel is still very slow, fortunately, the black hair dumplings behind have been staggered away from us for a distance, and the swimming speed is not as fast as ours, so we are not in any danger for the time being.
The cold river water makes our body gradually become numb, and our eyes are very blurry, and we feel that our lungs have risen to the limit, but we can only breathe a small part of oxygen.
Swimming, I felt that Lao Zhao in front of me suddenly stopped, I just wanted to ask what was going on, I heard Lao Zhao mutter: "No way......"
I looked up, instantly my heart was like ashes, between us not far in front of the place, there is a mountain wall, and this tomb is built by relying on a mountain wall, the sea of sand and the coffin river are here abruptly stopped, only the bottom of the river has a small hole to communicate with the outside world, the river should be from here to attract the outside of the mountain spring, the worst thing is that this hole is too small, the water flow is too turbulent, even if it can pass from here, this mountain does not know how thick, if you swim in, it is likely to suffocate in it.
Seeing that the black-haired dumplings behind us were about to chase after us, we were so anxious that our throats and eyes were on fire, but there was nothing we could do. "Don't worry," Lao Zhao said in a deep voice, "There must be some passage on this mountain wall that leads to the main tomb, let's look for it." "There is no other way but to use a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
The light of the miner's lamp above Lao Zhao and Xiao Zhang's head was still too weak, and there was no way to illuminate the entire mountain wall, so they had to open the tarp and take out the "wolf eye", although the "wolf eye" was waterproof, but we still wrapped it in the tarp, in this gloomy tomb, the light source is equivalent to life, and it is always right to be careful in everything.
At this time, those black-haired zongzi have been forced up, Lao Zhao took the bronze sword to kill the enemy, Xiao Zhang and I opened the "wolf eye" flashlight to find an exit on the mountain, but this "wolf eye" although the range is long, but the light gathering is too strong, can only leave a small white bright spot on the mountain, we can only move this bright spot quickly, inch by inch to search the entire mountain wall, and finally found a man-made hole in the top of the head more than ten meters high, we were so excited that tears in our eyes, happily cried out.
Lao Zhao took out the nine-claw hook and threw it out, this trick can be said to be the ability to save his life, he doesn't know how many times he has practiced, it can be said that there is no false hair, "poof" hooked the edge of the stone cave, pulled the rope with his hand, the hook is quite strong, should be able to support our weight.
"You go up first, and then you pick us up." I took the bronze sword in Lao Zhao's hand and said to him, although Lao Zhao has suffered internal injuries, but in terms of skill, he is still the most agile of the three of us, and his strength is still much greater than ours, and he has more climbing experience than us, so let him be the first to go up, we are very relieved.
Lao Zhao nodded, said, "Then you two be careful", pulled the rope suddenly, jumped up with a "rub", and climbed up with his feet against the wall, as agile as a big ape.
Xiao Zhang spread his legs, kicked on the river bank with one foot, and stepped on the wall with the other, suspended the whole body in the air, uncovered the tarp wrapped in the shotgun, clamped the two shotguns under his armpits, and the back seat was against the mountain wall, spit out a mouthful of blood, and said with a smile: "Today, our brothers will meet these immortal things." The voice was full of tragedy.
Xiao Zhang shot again and again, the beating tongue of fire illuminated a large area very brightly, those dumplings that rushed towards us were beaten to flesh and blood, the powerful fire directly knocked them into the air, and fell into the water fiercely, splashing a huge splash, I rushed forward in the gap between Xiao Zhang's reloading, and chopped the black hair zongzi that tried to take advantage of the weakness into pieces.
The feeling of slashing is really indescribable, no wonder some generals in ancient times have reached the point of addiction to killing, I swung my sword and slashed hard, only to feel that the black-haired zongzi in front of me turned into pieces one by one under the sword, and the blood splashed on my face increased my pride, I killed red eyes, and was about to go up to cut a happy one, but was held down by Xiao Zhang's shoulder, "Don't you kid die?!" ”
I was a spirit, immersed my face in the water, I felt calmer, I was shocked into a cold sweat, it was really dangerous just now, I almost lost myself in a big killing, and after being afraid, Lao Zhao had already climbed into the stone cave, and was stunned for a moment before shouting at us: "Come up, at this time the Shinto leading to the main tomb!" ”
"You go up first." I gave Xiao Zhang a look, Xiao Zhang nodded, inserted the gun diagonally into the backpack, grabbed the rope, and Lao Zhao alternately pressed his arms upwards and slowly pulled him up.
As soon as Xiao Zhang left, I felt that my arrogance seemed to be weaker, and I no longer dared to step forward to slash and kill, so I could only hold a bronze sword and confront the black-haired zongzi, and the liquid on my face that I didn't know whether it was water or cold sweat slowly dripped into the icy river water.
I don't know how long later, I heard Xiao Zhang shouting at me, and then a rope hung up on top of my head, I grabbed the rope and tied it around my waist, I felt that the end of the rope was hard, hanging me in the air, those black hair dumplings rushed over in an instant, gathered under my feet, and reached out to pull me down, fortunately, I had been hoisted up some distance, so they didn't catch my feet.
Finally escaped from the ghost gate again, I just breathed a sigh of relief, I heard Xiao Zhang above exclaim, and then a series of bean-like sounds came into my ears, this sound is very unlucky, I don't need to look at me to know, the cable pulling me has been stretched to the limit, there is a possibility of breaking at any time.
It is not an exaggeration to describe the scene at that time as "a thousand shots".