Chapter 44: The Zombie Man of the South China Sea

I am now sleepy and tired, thinking about these complicated I Ching hexagrams, I feel a headache, but the "Zhen" hexagram, it seems to hide a major hidden secret closely related to the "return to the ruins", just when I was thinking hard to understand, Shirley Yang suddenly asked me: "I don't know much about Yi Dao, but I have read the work of a Chinese scholar in the United States, he is a famous expert in the study of Yi Xue, his views are very unique, once mentioned the Yi Zhong hexagram, all the words containing numbers, are not out of thin air, there is ancient encrypted information hidden in it, Today's people are incomprehensible, there are shocking words in this shocking hexagram, Lao Hu, do you know, why is the hexagram not ninety-nine miles and one hundred and one miles, or thousands of miles, but to say that it is shocking a hundred miles? ”

Shirley Yang accidentally mentioned things, I never thought of before, "Yi" contains all kinds of things, all things in heaven and earth are constantly changing in this, but very few people can understand thoroughly, a person can never see everything, as long as the people who have been in contact with Zhou Yizhixue, everyone will have their own understanding of the "Book of Changes", in the eyes of philosophers it contains philosophy, in the eyes of mystics, it is a book of heaven that predicts the change of events, the benevolent see the benevolence, the wise see the wisdom, So far, the world's analysis of the Book of Changes is only a glimpse of the leopard.

Therefore, Shirley Yang said that all the sentences with "numbers" in "Yi" are not obtained out of thin air, and the words "shocking and dumb, laughing and dumb, shocking a hundred miles, and not losing a dagger" in "Zhen Hexagram" are unique, but I don't know why there is a "shock hundred miles" words, if this is just a description of a phenomenon, why not use "shocked thousands of miles" or "shocked thousands of miles"?

Shirley Yang said that since our salvage team went to sea on Coral Temple Island, we have seen several antiquities related to this "Zhen Hexagram", and these times they have seen it in the coffin, the tomb "hole", or on the bone armor of the scaly man turtle, as if the repeated "Zhen Hexagram" hexagram has a lot to do with the netherworld in the "Return to the Ruins", that is to say, it may not be an image obtained by divination, but a mark of the burial bones of the people who hate the heavens, or a hint hidden in the "hole" of the tomb of the Hate Tian clan, and these marks are in the symbols, representing the mark of "hundred" in the hexagram, is particularly prominent, and it has been seen many times, which has to make people question.

I scratched my head, I really couldn't think of how to answer Shirley Yang's doubts, although she has a flexible mind and can often see the essence of things directly, but does the phrase "shocked a hundred miles" mean something specifically? That's only the ancients know, I heard Zhang Yingchuan say, there was a genius on his ancestors back then, it was the master Zhang Sanlian who "touched" the Jin school captain, Zhang Sanye dug out the yin and yang sixteen-character hexagram like a book of heaven in the ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and after reading it, he didn't come out, and someone asked him what heavenly opportunities he had? Zhang Sanye shook his head again and again, and only said one sentence: "Whoever solves the secret, the flood may have immortals", which means that perhaps only the immortals who have just opened the flood can know the real heavenly opportunity in the sixteen hexagrams of yin and yang.

The sixteen trigrams are probably only understood by the immortals who pass on to the sky, even if the "gossip" that has been passed down to future generations, although it has been reduced by half, even if it is a master of the ancient and modern world, he does not dare to say that he can fully understand it, I am a monk halfway, so I don't know what is the mystery of the words containing numbers in Yi.

However, I refused to admit it on my lips, and said to Shirley Yang: "Shocked by a hundred miles of hundred words, is to represent an integer, ancient Chinese are used to using integers as adjectives, such as a hundred battles and a hundred victories, a hundred steps through Yang, etc., but no one said ninety-nine battles and ninety-nine victories, or one hundred and one steps through Yang, saying that a hundred seems concise and atmospheric, this is called a small speech, not any specific meaning, a thunder in the sky, who knows how many miles it will shake?" In fact, this is just an abstract metaphor, and maybe Americans prefer precise descriptions, which is why you find it strange. ”

Shirley Yang probably thought that what I just said was very reasonable, so he didn't dwell on the "shock hexagram" on the tortoise shell in this tomb, walked over, and leaned against the snow-white whalebone fossil with everyone to gasp.

I also sat on the ground to rest, looked at the surrounding environment, and speculated in my heart about the pattern in this ancient tomb, it seems that all this is consistent with the totem on the back of the "Dragon Household" Gu Chai, under the sea god tree is the ancient corpse of the Hate Tian clan that is dead but not stiff, and the Tan people hide the secret of the Hate Tian Clan Tomb on the "Dragon Household", it must not be for future generations to come here to "invert the fight", but the real reason, I am afraid that no one is clear among the egg people who are still alive now.

I turned my eyes to the ancient wood passage where we came down, it seems that this huge "楥木" has grown here hundreds of millions of years ago, and then the vicissitudes of the sea, the forest has become a vast ocean, "楥木" is left at the bottom of the sea, almost penetrating three layers of crust, no wonder in ancient legends, it is regarded as connected to the moon on the Guanghan Palace, the hating Tian clan hollowed out this underwater sacred tree, the bottom of this coral cave as a tomb "hole".

There is no formal tomb tomb chamber and the like in the tomb, all around are the stagnant water seeping from the bottom of the sea, and in the water hole below, the whirlpool of the water flow is one after another, not to mention how deep, the sound of water rumbling in the distance, you can feel the boiling hot white gas from time to time, I think it must be the hot spring under the water of "Guiru", this water is a hundred times hot spring in the world, once any creature is wrapped in boiling water, it will immediately be boiled by the high temperature to the point that even the bones can not be left.

On the other side, there is a burst of cold chill surging, sucking the sea water above into the center of the void, the location of the ancient tomb "hole" is built in the yin and yang world of a cold and a hot, blocked tightly by a coral reef wreckage, and the hot and cold water can not invade, it is a feng shui scientist in the eyes of "through the heaven and earth, the ancient and modern gods 'hole'", the tomb is full of anger, Dahua is popular, and the vast is endless, occupying the magical secret of natural creation.

While I was looking at the terrain, the fat man rested his strength, leaned half of his body into the whalebone, looked at the ancient corpses, Uncle Ming also dragged Gu Chai to the front, let Gu Chai kowtow to the ancestors, Uncle Ming said: "This is the ancestor of your Tan people, if the ancestors have spirits, maybe they can bless us to go back safely." ”

Gu Chai didn't know what his ancestors did thousands of years ago, but when he saw the ancient corpse, he was still in awe, and he lay on the ground and kowtowed a few times, put his hands together, and followed Uncle Ming's actions, and the two of them bowed a few times in front of the whalebone.

The fat man asked Uncle Ming: "Let me explain that in your life, uncle, you have dug and sold, sold and dug up, how many ancient corpses have you sold?" Why did you kowtow and make a fuss here? I thought you were too old to transport these underwater zombies back to sit on the ground and make a strange thing to live in, but looking at your current performance, it disappoints me, you stand aside for me, you old ......."

Uncle Ming said with a sad face: "Hugh will be more than today yesterday, today is already a difficult time, now everyone is stuck at the bottom of the sea, the chance of getting out alive is too slim, at this time, where is the mood to consider the price of the ancient corpse, now of course there are some gods to worship what gods, maybe which pillar of incense will be burned correctly, we can pick up a life and go back, otherwise what else do you say fat boy?" ”

The fat man "sticked" the fish candle on the ground and said, "In my opinion...... To be honest, in this case, I don't know what to do, I can only be forced to act according to the guidance of my own reason......" After speaking, he used the means of "touching" Captain Jin, lifted a zombie body, pressed the back of the zombie's head with his knees, pushed the Tianling cover with one hand, and pinched the zombie's cheek with the other, trying to make the corpse spit out the "Zhuyan Pearl" stuffed in his mouth.

I hurriedly pulled the fat man to stop, this trip to fish the "green head" is enough, the ancient tomb of Guixu is the corpse of the ancestor of the ancient guess, containing pearls for thousands of years, dead but not rotten, if out of respect, generally not called zombies or zongzi, but described as a "zombie person", at this time or do not alarm them as well, otherwise this tomb is full of anger, once the yin essence condensed "Zhuyan Zhu", these thousands of years of preserved "zombie people", immediately turned into powder, we go to sea this time to fish for green heads and eggs, not to "return to the ruins" in the tomb robbery, So don't do it, don't forget the rules of the grandfather, greed is the world's misfortune, we have to find a way to go back to the United States to enjoy a few years, how many winds and waves have come over these years, it is not cost-effective to fold here.

Although I don't want to touch these zombies in the South China Sea, I want to see what is in this whalebone, and if I want to evacuate this place, I have to hope to find some clues.

The fossil jaw of the giant whale skull is half-closed, this whale skull is not very large, but it is more than enough to wrap the dead body, it is said that the whale bone coffin seems to be larger, and there seem to be some burial goods in it, more like a burial chamber set in the whale remains, you can drill like a whale mouth when you lean out, and five well-preserved corpses lie calmly in it.

Shirley Yang also wanted to understand, turned on the flashlight, followed me and bent down into the whalebone tomb, Uncle Ming and others also wanted to come in to see what was going on, but the tomb was too narrow to accommodate so many living people to walk back and forth, so I had to let them hold a mackerel candlestick in front of the whale's mouth to illuminate, and be wary of unexpected sounds, this gloomy underground, who knows what monsters will be hidden, but don't care about being copied back.

Shirley Yang and I walked one after the other, carefully stepping over the five "South China Sea Zombie Figures", into the depths of the tomb, the two squatted down to review the corpses, with a flashlight, the five corpses were three women and two men, the male corpses were an old and a young, the clothes were probably turned to dust, and the body was covered with a thick layer of dry "dragon skin", "dragon skin" is a folk name for eggs, taken from a kind of sea fish with bright scales, fish head and horns, has been extinct in modern times, can not be seen again.

In addition to the head, the five corpses were tightly covered with a piece of dragon skin, and the old man on the side only "exposed" half of his arm, the skin of the corpse was slightly dark, and his face had been slightly sunken, but the water in the corpse was suppressed by the "Zhuyan Pearl", not rotten or rotten, and only the moonlight pearl of the coral spiral infiltrated by the sea air had this miraculous effect, I pulled out the diving knife and lightly stabbed a few times in the arm of the old man's corpse.

Unexpectedly, the tip of the knife touched, the skin and flesh of the stiff person were as hard as iron, I have never seen such an ancient corpse, it may be a unique embalming treatment at sea in ancient times, and the legendary Qin Shi Huang when he toured the south, the zombies encountered on the beach seem to be the same, Shirley Yang asked me in a low voice: "You are 'messy' again, what are you doing with a knife to poke the ancient corpse?" ”

I said: "I tried to test and see if there would be a corpse, now it seems that it is superfluous to worry, Guiru is the 'hole' eye of the southern dragon, and the vitality is so strong that I have never seen it in my life, these zombie people are about to be petrified, and there will be no more corpses." ”

Shirley Yang nodded, swept in the whalebone with a flashlight, and found that there are a lot of various burial goods in the tomb, the matter of burial vessels, has been since the Stone Age, not only in China, in the world's various ancient civilization circles, most of them have the custom of burial with things, there are various aquatic remains in the whalebone fossils, and countless burial goods are stacked on top of each other, and are distributed in a rectangular shape in the tomb, in addition to some altars and jars and jade tortoise shells, there is also a bronze tripod with a peculiar shape, according to the "Zhou" ritual system, the tripod is three-legged, The Son of Heaven is buried, you can enjoy the specifications of the nine tripods in the tomb, bronze is the weight of the country, the nine copper tripods are only worthy of use by the Son of Heaven, the following Son of Heaven, divided into five levels of "Gong, Hou, Bo, Zi, Male", even if you are the Grand Duke, you can not put nine tripods in your own tomb, otherwise there is an ambition to rebel.

This bronze vessel in the "hole" of the tomb of Guiru, the shape is like a tripod, but it is really a different kind, the giant belly is divided into eight sides, there are nine feet under it, there is half a meter high, although it is low, but it should not be "copper Gui", but a rare nine-legged tripod, to distinguish the ancient bronze, you can distinguish it from the ancient artifact "color", distinguish it into "wax tea, cinnabar spots, true green, green wellhead", only these four are real bronze, look at the nine-legged bronze tripod, although it is close to the water for thousands of years, the copper "sex" in the ancient "color" between the "true green" and "green wellhead" is particularly existent, It is just like covered with a layer of green moss growing in the cracks of the well platform, but it is not yet as bright and moist as the "pure green paving green" of the "true green" bronze, and the meaning of seclusion has not been reduced in the slightest.

The edge of the Dingkou is like a pillow corner, the pattern of the ear and the sea beast is possessed, and the four sides are decorated with stars, the Panjiayuan antiquities market does not circulate the real ancient bronzes, but the counterfeits are everywhere, and there are more traders to bluff people with the bronze identification formula of "Xia Shangzhong, Shang Shangqing, Zhou Shangwen", so I also know some, this nine-legged tripod has the characteristics of Xia Zhou, I think that compared to the "Qin King Bone Mirror", maybe the copper tripod cast by the dragon fire is more valuable.

Shirley Yang and I both know that the tripod has always had the role of remembering, and the two of them saw the bronze tripod buried in the tomb, which is a treasure in the world, and they couldn't help but be amazed, stunned, and then leaned over to take a closer look, she looked at the appearance of the tripod belly, I looked at the abyss of the tripod, only to see that the tripod was full of water, and there was a thick layer of dark green "color" floating objects on the water, which looked like a black ding's sewage, and the stagnant water had no waves, and I couldn't see if there was anything in the water.