Book 1: The Cave of Snow Ridge Chapter 35: The Tomb (9) The Man in the Painting

After arriving at the crack of the sinkhole safely, I asked the fat man to flash the sinkhole three times with his wolf eyes, indicating that he would let Uncle Nine come down, and when the fat man informed Uncle Nine of them, I directly threw two cold fireworks on the passages on the left and right sides of the crack to explore the situation of the crack road.

As soon as I threw a cold smoke and fire down the slope at the bottom of the sinkhole, I saw a black shadow flash, and it disappeared in an instant, although I had already made the fastest reaction to use the wolf's eye flashlight to shine in the direction of the black shadow's disappearance, but the shadow had disappeared without a trace, I was not sure if it was a hallucination, so I didn't tell the fat man.

After Uncle Nine and they landed safely, we marched to the bottom of the sinkhole together, and my heart went up and down along the way, because the feeling of the black shadow was too real, from the fact that I was attacked by the black shadow in the cave of the tomb beast, to the black shadow I just saw was too real, but I didn't find anything, and there was really nothing wrong along the way, this is incredible, I hope this is just my illusion.

After about ten minutes of our march, as we approached the bottom of the sinkhole, I noticed that the cracks in the rock layer had begun to be man-made, and there were reliefs and hieroglyphs everywhere along the way.

Due to the urgency of time, I can only look at the hieroglyphs while walking, but I am good at interpreting the reliefs, which record the deeds of the tomb owner during his lifetime, and it is easy to understand, so I digested all the contents of the reliefs in the process of walking.

According to the records on the reliefs, the information of the tomb owner did not reveal too much, as if the tomb owner was a very mysterious figure, according to the information of these reliefs, it can only be known that the tomb owner came to this Jade Dragon Snow Mountain before his death, where he helped the people here, slay demons and demons, and support justice, so the people at that time built such a shocking temple for him to commemorate the tomb owner.

It can be seen that the owner of this tomb was highly respected and admired by thousands of people during his lifetime, and had a pivotal position.

There were only two reliefs that attracted me and made me stop and get closer to the interpretation with full attention.

The first relief is a combination of high and low reliefs, and there is a masked man on the relief, who is the owner of the tomb.

Looking at the figure and feeling, it was the demon man on the top of the big stone gate before, I saw him dragging a strange stone with both hands, the stone was suspended on the man's palm, shining, and the man's eyes on the relief revealed the charm of reluctance and heartache.

The fat man saw that I didn't follow, so he called Uncle Nine and them.

"Nephew! Why? Uncle Nine walked up to me and asked, and then looked at the relief I was looking at.

While pondering, I asked Uncle Nine, "Uncle Nine!" Can you help me see what this plush stone will be on the palm of the man on this relief? Why can I read the reluctance in the man's eyes? ”

Looking at the shape of this pumice stone, it is quite similar to the "Nuwa Stone" recorded in "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts". Uncle Nine replied while looking at it carefully.

My curiosity was completely aroused, "Nuwa Stone? Is there such a thing? ”

Uncle Jiu said, "Seriously, I can't be sure, but one of the chapters of the mythological allusion of "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts" has written that after Nuwa used the multicolored stone to make up for the sky, a broken stone of the multicolored stone fell into the world and disappeared, and this multicolored stone that fell into the world is the Nuwa stone, according to legend, the Nuwa stone can be transformed into a humanoid spirit after absorbing the essence of heaven and earth for thousands of years. ”

The fat man behind him suddenly pointed to the side of the relief and said, "Ngawang! You see this mountain carving is so strange, can you explain to us what this relief says? ”

I looked along and saw a bas-relief carving of a towering mountain in the upper right corner of the relief panel, which I could understand at a glance.

Then there was a kind of imitation of the posture of our teacher when he gave us a lecture in the past, and explained to the fat man, "This mountain is Mount Everest, you see its top is depicted with a dotted line, and the foot of the mountain is a solid line, and you look at the mountains at the foot of the mountain are also depicted with solid lines, there is a sun and a moon on each side of the mountain, and the sun and moon represent the alternation of the sun and the moon, that is, time."

These elements are meant to express that the mountain is rising little by little over time, and isn't Mount Everest rising seven centimeters every 100 years or so. ”

As I spoke, I pointed to the man in the relief and said, "And this man faces the mountain, indicating that his destination is this Mount Everest, according to my preliminary analysis, it should be the man who wants to return the Nuwa stone in his hand to Mount Everest, but he is reluctant." ”

After I finished speaking, the fat man suddenly realized and nodded.

"Uncle Nine! Is there really such a curse in this world? I asked, curious.

"Yes, yes, but it's already an ancient witchcraft and should be lost, why do you suddenly ask this?" Uncle Nine looked at me curiously.

"There's a relief in front of you, do you want to see if it's about an altar or a curse?" As I spoke, I took Uncle Nine and them to see the second relief that attracted me.

There are three people in this relief, one of them is the masked man, the man is holding a veiled woman in his hand, the woman's hand held by the man is expressed in a virtual way, the man and the woman are engraved behind a sorcerer-like person, wearing a cloak can not see the man and woman, looking at the man and woman holding hands in front of him with a sinister smile and a strange face.

After reading it, Uncle Nine asked me, "Nephew, tell me what you think." ”

"If according to the relief technique, it should be expressed, the man and woman in front should be two people who love each other, but as if they have been cursed, as long as the man and woman are together, the woman will be wiped out, and the person who can't distinguish the gender in the back should be the person who cursed." As I spoke, I turned my head to look at Uncle Nine and the fat man.

"Look, Ngawang! Whose eyes do the women in this relief look like? Suddenly, the fat man pointed to the woman in the relief and said.

I took a closer look at the woman's eyes on the relief, the technique of the relief has been perfect, the woman's character temperament including the eyes portrayed vividly, extremely expressive, almost enough to be fake, only to see the woman's eyes like the moon in the sky, revealing a charm that does not eat the fireworks of the world, I can see my scalp numb, every cell in the body is like an electric shock, this pair of eyes I have no teeth and unforgettable, it is the eyes of the smoke and rain, too similar.

Even Uncle Nine couldn't help but sigh on the sidelines, "It can be so similar." ”

I looked at the fat man in disbelief, only to find that Uncle Zhang, who was still standing behind the fat man just now, was gone and disappeared quietly.

"Fatty! What about Uncle Zhang? As soon as I asked, the fat man realized that Uncle Zhang was gone.

And at this time, I inadvertently saw a black shadow appear behind Uncle Jiu, and ran towards the bottom of the sinkhole.

"Stop!" I screamed, pulled out the scimitar from my waist, and chased after me.

After I followed the black shadow to the bottom of the sinkhole, I saw the black shadow kneeling on the ground, as if worshipping, and I took a photo with the light pillar of the wolf's eye, which turned out to be Uncle Zhang.

Uncle Zhang was like an evil spirit, his whole body was trembling all the time, and he didn't know what he was talking about.

"Uncle Zhang! Are you alright? As I spoke, I approached, and suddenly Uncle Zhang stood up and pointed the musket in his hand at me, and without saying a word, he just shot me.

"Lie down!" The fat man who caught up behind shouted and threw me to the ground, so I dodged Uncle Zhang's shot.

After Uncle Zhang finished shooting, he shouted like crazy, "I'm going to kill you devils." Then he took out the sapper shovel from his waist and slashed at me and the fat man.

I immediately swept the crazy Uncle Zhang to the ground with a sweeping leg, and the fat man directly pressed Uncle Zhang with his body, and I slapped Uncle Zhang on the back of the head and knocked Uncle Zhang unconscious.

Uncle Jiu, who arrived, asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Uncle Zhang fell into the evil spirit, and he almost killed me and Ngawang just now!" The fat man stood up and patted the dust off his body in response.

Uncle Nine frowned and said, "Lao Zhang is afraid that he is hallucinating, not evil, the more afraid he is, the more likely he is to hallucinate, fat man, you will first recite a section of Uncle Zhang, and then replace me and Ah Wang, the three of us will take turns," Uncle Jiu said this, sighed and continued, "It seems that we have to fight quickly, we can't stay in this ancient tomb for a long time, otherwise I'm afraid that the next one to hallucinate will not know which of the three of us will be." ”

Say it! I looked at the bottom of the sinkhole, and saw that there were four karst caves in each direction, and the caves were carved with sculptures of animal heads and human bodies, namely Shen Monkey,, Dog, and Hai Pig.

I asked Uncle Nine, "Uncle Nine, which way do you want to go?" ”

Uncle Nine observed the surroundings and said, "It's not any way, it's just a trick, every cave under these zodiac signs is a labyrinth, as long as you go in and want to come out, it will be difficult to go to the sky." ”

Uncle Nine said and took the compass, and drew a Tai Chi Bagua diagram on the ground, saying, "From the perspective of the last four birth months, they are all in February every year, February is the beginning of spring, and the eight trigrams have three trigrams: Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, and Dui, which are divided into eight directions, symbolizing heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain, and Ze."

Spring rainy festival, rain is water, water corresponds to the kan, directly below the eight seals, that is, in the direction of six o'clock" Uncle Nine muttered to himself, then stood up and pointed to the direction of six o'clock and said loudly, "The secret road is in that direction"

I immediately ran in the direction pointed by Uncle Jiu, but I didn't find anything, just a big wall, I looked around, and found that the color of this rock was different from the one next to it.

I knocked it with my knuckles, it was hollow, it was a secret door, "Uncle Nine!" It's a secret door! How do I open the mechanism? ”

Uncle Nine observed under each zodiac sculpture and said, "Turn each sculpture in the direction of the secret door and turn it in the order of the zodiac, otherwise the trap will be triggered." ”

The fat man who was carrying Uncle Zhang on his back immediately put down Uncle Zhang after hearing this, stepped forward to help, and after all the sculptures were turned, the secret door popped open.

Behind the secret door is a large space, I was the first to go in, looked at it with the wolf's eyes, the whole space is very spacious like a large hall, this is a natural cave on the basis of the built-up, it looks like a tomb, the tomb is covered with a piece of granite, into a huge nine-square grid, each grid is divided into a small nine-square grid.

Above the burial chamber is the rock cone body of the cave drooping, the strange stone is craggy, the strange shape is strange, the ingenuity is ingenious, there is a peculiar shape of the suspended sarcophagus in the middle of the burial chamber under the top of the cave.

The fat man saw the suspended sarcophagus and excitedly put down Uncle Zhang on his back, and was about to run over to look, but I grabbed him and said, "Fatty, are you looking for death?" ”

I used a wolf's eye flashlight to take a picture of the fat man on the nine-square grid, and there were several corpses lying on the nine-square, to be exact, a few white bones, it seemed that they had been dead for a certain time, and it seemed that we were not the first people to enter the ancient tomb.

I squatted down and picked up a stone and threw it on the nine-square grid where the white bones were hidden, only to see that the stone I threw immediately ignited with a faint blue flame.

"It's a phosphorus fire, the ignition point is extremely low, and as long as it is rubbed, it will spontaneously combust," Uncle Nine explained when he saw this.

The fat man also picked up a big stone on the side and threw it on the other side of the nine-square grid, and immediately sprayed some liquid from the gap in the grid, the smell was extremely pungent, although we were wearing gas masks, we could still smell a pungent sour smell, which should be a corrosive liquid.

Uncle Nine took out the compass and looked around, and said, "These nine-square grids are traps laid according to the ancient learning of Qimen Dunjia and the order of the five elements, you just follow me." ”

Uncle Nine said and began to walk towards the suspended sarcophagus, the fat man and I followed Uncle Jiu's footwork step by step, the closer we got to the suspended sarcophagus, the iron things on our bodies began to move, and Uncle Jiu's compass also began to swing from side to side, it should be that the magnetic field of the suspended sarcophagus was too much to interfere.

"Jump up, it's not far anyway" Uncle Zhang stood not far from the sarcophagus and said as he jumped up the steps of the suspended sarcophagus, and the fat man and I followed.

The overall shape of the suspended sarcophagus is a rectangle, the two sides of the sarcophagus are exquisitely carved and carved with hieroglyphs, there is a tomb beast pressed under the sarcophagus, the tomb beast is surrounded by four sarcophagi, the head is buried at one end of the sarcophagus, the face is not visible, the back shows the scale of the tiger's back dragon, and the tail is not at the end of a snake's head biting on the sarcophagus.

I didn't know this strange stone beast before I read a little in that book, the book said that this kind of stone beast is called the coffin beast, which was used by some mysterious people before the Xia Dynasty, and it is said that the sarcophagus with the coffin beast is cursed, but because there was no clear historical record before the Xia Dynasty, so the things at that time were shrouded in a mysterious color, and most people thought that they were legends, so some people thought it was nonsense.

What I never expected was that now this seemingly nonexistent, nonsensical coffin guarding beast is actually in front of my eyes.

The most special thing above the sarcophagus cover is that there is a small hole in the middle of the coffin cover, there are countless lines like rhizomes on the side of the hole eye, the lines are connected to the four branches of the tomb beast, the claws of the four branches of the tomb beast are tightly buckled with the coffin cover, the coffin cover and the coffin body can not find a seam, this fucking want to pry the coffin I don't know where the sapper shovel to shovel from.

"This is the legendary blood sacrifice coffin," Uncle Nine said after observing it.

I asked, "What is a blood sacrifice coffin?" ”

"Nephew, you only know how to guard the coffin beast, but you don't know what a blood sacrifice coffin is, and a blood sacrifice coffin is a sarcophagus that can only be opened with blood!" As he spoke, Uncle Nine pointed to the hole in the middle of the coffin lid and said, "Drip blood on it, if the blood is right, the sarcophagus will naturally open." ”

The fat man couldn't wait to say, "Then what are you waiting for, let's start!" Ngawang came first. ”

"Get out of here, fuck it, why should I start first." I pushed the fat man and scolded.

Uncle Nine seemed to be preoccupied, and kept looking at the coffin lid with a sad frown, and when I saw this, I asked, "Uncle Nine, what's wrong?" Any questions? ”

"This blood sacrifice coffin cannot be opened with any blood, according to legend, it must be opened by someone who has a relationship with the tomb owner in the coffin." Uncle Nine paused for a moment in the middle of speaking, and then said, "Forget it!" It doesn't hurt to try, I'll do it first. ”

Saying that, Uncle Nine used my scimitar to cut a small hole in my finger, and after the blood dripped into the hole of the coffin lid, there was no response for a long time, and after a while, all the blood that Uncle Nine dripped into it was spurted out by the hole eye.

I forced the fat man to go on the second one, and the result was the same as Uncle Jiu, all the fat man's blood was spurted out, including my blood dripping into it, and there was no response for a long time, but the strange thing was that the blood did not spurt out.

"Uncle Nine! Otherwise, let's wake up Uncle Zhang and let Uncle Zhang come over and try it, maybe it'll be opened. Seeing this, the fat man pointed to Uncle Zhang, who was in a coma by the secret door, and said.

Uncle Nine replied helplessly, "Okay!" Then give it a try. "When we were about to go back, the sarcophagus suddenly changed.

I saw that the lines on the coffin lid began to gradually turn blood red, and slowly spread to the four branches of the coffin guarding beast, and then the four branches of the coffin guarding beast slowly opened, and then a gap appeared between the coffin lid and the coffin body.

After seeing this, the ninth uncle frowned, "Nephew! Are you sure you're Lao Wu's son? Uncle Nine suddenly asked me, I was directly stupid by the question, and I was stunned and replied, "It's like a fake." ”

Uncle Nine then asked, "Then have you ever heard your family or elders tell you legends such as the "Millennium Mantra" since you were a child? ”

I said, "No! What millennium curse, what the hell? ”

Uncle Nine said with a disappointed face, "I don't know the specifics, but I once heard my master mention it casually, and he didn't tell me the specifics." ”

The fat man on the side couldn't wait to know what kind of medicine was bought in this suspended coffin, and said impatiently, "Open the coffin first and see what is inside!" ”

Say it! The three of us worked together to pry the sarcophagus with a sapper shovel, and after opening the coffin, we were disappointed to see a stone sculpture lying inside, and the stone sculpture was a man, who was the masked demon man we had seen in the cave and the sinkhole relief before.

The first thing Uncle Nine said when he saw the man's sculpture was, "This is the owner of the Qiankun Tube-Fu Demon Man, but it is not his real body." ”

We looked inside the sarcophagus, and there was nothing but an ancient scroll of animal skin in the man's hand.

"Uncle Jiu, could this be the original transcript of the Hundred Ghosts and Evil Techniques you said?" I asked curiously.

Uncle Nine said, "I don't know, just look at it." ”

I opened the leather scroll in the sculpture's hand and looked at it, and suddenly I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

The scroll is a painting, a woman in the painting, the woman is fresh and refined, a pair of clear eyes are like the bright moon in the sky, a temperament that does not eat the fireworks of the world, the woman is wearing animal leather clothes, and a necklace around her neck, looking at the necklace shape should be Nuwa stone, the woman in the painting is Yanyu, or it should be said that it looks like Yanyu, it is completely like a sample printed, whether it is temperament, eyes, and appearance are exactly the same.

The fat man and Uncle Nine were also surprised when they saw the painting, and everyone was at a loss, you look at me, I look at you, and no one is at a loss for the monk of Zhang's second brother.

In particular, I am even more confused, the identity of Yanyu was like a mystery, but now it is shrouded in a veil of mystery, which makes me even more unpredictable.

I rolled up the picture and was about to take it away, when Uncle Nine and the fat man stopped me at the same time, and the two of them had their own reasons.

Uncle Nine said, "Nephew! I understand your feelings, but you can't take this painting out. The fat man said, "Ngawang! Didn't you say that you can't touch the things here, you girl, why are you backsliding on yourself now? ”

I originally wanted to take it out and ask Yanyu to understand, but because Uncle Nine and the fat man resolutely refused to let me, I had to reluctantly put the painting back into the sculpture.

When the coffin was closed, I saw that the eyes of the sculpture seemed to move, I thought it was a hallucination and did not take it seriously, suddenly the sculpture's eyes were completely open, looking at me straight spoon, I was so frightened that I sat on the ground, when the fat man and the ninth uncle helped me up, the fat man asked, "Why are you so surprised?" ”

"That'...... The sculpture's eyes opened! "I was terrified.

The fat man and Uncle Nine immediately stepped forward to take a look, and said in unison, "No?" Are you dazzled? ”

Uncle Nine paused for a moment and asked the fat man, "Little fatty, what time is it?" ”

The fat man looked at his watch and said, "No, the magnetic field here is too strong, and my watch has been disturbed, but we have been in for almost an hour." ”

After the fat man finished speaking, Uncle Nine said, "It seems that we have been in for too long, and we are almost going out," and then looked at me and said, "Nephew, you have begun to hallucinate, from now on, you must concentrate and have no distractions." Your Wu Nian's name is called in vain, isn't it? ”

After Uncle Nine finished speaking, we closed the sarcophagus and picked up Uncle Zhang, this time it was Uncle Nine who carried it, Uncle Nine went out first, the fat man followed, and I broke off......