Chapter 84 The Murals
After the mandrill vanished, the tomb was quiet again. Everyone danced the torches, and they found that the tomb wall was shining brightly! Niu Jianjun swallowed a mouthful of foam and said to Guo Jiefang: "Old Guo, how can there still be light on this tomb wall?" Isn't this what people often call ghost fire? ”。
Li Yuanchao said: "The ghost fire should be blue, the light on it is colorful, it can't be a ghost fire!" ”。
Huang Yaju said: "If it's not a ghost fire, then what would it be? ”。
Guo Jiefang waved his hand to everyone and said, "Let's go over and see, what is shining ...... there!" ”。
Everyone exchanged glances and slowly walked towards the tomb wall, the closer they got to the tomb wall, the more dazzling the light above it. Guo Jiefang gestured for everyone to stop, and he walked to the wall alone. He settled down, narrowed his eyes and examined carefully, but found that there was a layer of crystal clear thin ice on the top of the tomb wall, which was thought to be the ice layer formed by the leakage on the roof of the tomb and the condensation that seeped down! No wonder, when they first entered the tomb, they felt terribly cold. As for the sparkling light on the wall, it is the reflection of the torches, and there is nothing to make a fuss about at one point!
Guo Jiefang uncovered the secret of the glowing wall, and just wanted to take a long breath, but he was shocked to find that under the thin ice, there seemed to be a pair of eyes, staring straight at his ......!
He shivered violently, and his back felt numb, and his heart said, "How can there be people under this ice?" He suddenly remembered a story that the fourth master had told him many years ago, saying that there was a kind of corpse mound in this world, and the corpses of hundreds of dead people were buried in the walls of this kind of tomb, and these corpses were all lifelike, as if they were asleep, and once they were stained with a little yang energy of a living person, they would immediately turn back to their souls and become ...... man-eating zongzi!
When Guo Jiefang thought of this, his heart couldn't help but tighten, and the hairs on his body stood up!
He just glanced at it in a hurry, and he didn't see what was under the ice clearly, and now he wanted to look again, but he found that his hands and feet were already nervous, and he didn't listen to the call!
Niu Jianjun saw that Guo Jiefang had walked over for so long, and he didn't say a word, so he couldn't help but become anxious, so he shouted to Guo Jiefang behind him: "What's the matter?" Lao Guo, you have something to say......! ”。
Guo Jiefang heard Niu Jianjun's voice, he didn't dare to turn back, nor did he dare to move, for fear that he would accidentally lead a monster under the ice to break through the ice, and it would be really troublesome! Human beings are strange creatures, and the fear of the unknown often gives rise to natural curiosity!
Guo Jiefang slowly moved the torch, illuminating the shadow he cast on the tomb wall, and he mustered up his courage to take another look at the terrifying eyes just now! Only then did I find out that the owner of those eyes turned out to be just a painted portrait on the tomb wall......!
The portrait depicts a young woman, her skirt is flying, her face is quiet, her eyes are bright, and her appearance is quite similar to Liu Lili. Although the mural has gone through thousands of years, the oil paint is mottled, but the outline of the eyebrows and eyes is still faintly recognizable!
When Guo Jiefang saw this, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and even scolded himself for being cowardly, and he scared himself half to death. Xin said: "Everyone says that suspicion gives rise to dark ghosts, and it is true!" ”。
Guo Jiefang saw that there were no corpses and ghosts under the ice, so he unconsciously put his mind at ease and carefully looked at the murals on the wall. When he saw the woman on the mural riding through the clouds, he thought it was a fairy, but he couldn't guess what it was sacred!
Guo Jiefang was looking at it intently, and Huang Yaju asked him in the back, Old Guo, what are you looking at in front? Guo Jiefang turned around, beckoned to everyone, and asked them all to come over.
When everyone took a closer look, they realized that it was just a reflection of the ice surface, not a haunting! Guo Jiefang asked everyone to look at the murals under the ice, and the four of them realized that there were still pictures painted under the ice.
The four of them held torches, and when they looked closely at a mural, they saw the young woman depicted on the mural, sometimes stomping on her feet, wrapping copper bells around her waist, holding drums in her hands, dancing around the fire, and sometimes kneeling down to worship the mountains and rivers, paying tribute and praying! The bloodiest thing is a picture of killing and sacrificial, in which the people and animals look sad, their hands are tied behind their backs, and they are cut alive by the young woman, and sacrificed on the stone platform, the ground is bleeding and the surrounding crowd is surging!
The remaining murals depict a woman collecting wood and self-immolation, soaring in the daytime, as if a metaphor for the woman becoming an immortal after death and throwing herself into bliss!
The five of them looked at the past one by one, and they couldn't help but be suspicious!
Niu Jianjun couldn't help but ask Guo Jiefang: "Old Guo, what does the painting on this mural mean?" ”。
Huang Yaju said: "What is painted on this mural is likely to be the life scene of the tomb owner!" The young woman on the mural may be the owner of this ancient tomb! ”。
Niu Jianjun said disapprerovingly: "Nonsense! Which dead man have you ever seen ascend? ”。
Maruyama suddenly muttered a long list of Japanese excitedly, and Guo Jiefang asked Huang Yaju: "Old Huang, what does this white-haired old devil say?" Why are you so excited all of a sudden? ”。
Huang Yaju translated: "Maruyama said that he seems to know whose tomb this is!" ”。
Everyone was very interested when they heard this, and they hurriedly asked Maruyama, whose tomb is this? Maruyama said, "Do you still remember that bronze bottle?" After my friend's identification, he thought it was a sacrificial ritual vessel of the Liao Dynasty, and then you look at the pictures on the tomb wall, which depicts the scene of the shaman sacrificing to heaven and earth at that time, that is to say, the owner of this tomb is likely to be the young female shaman in the mural! ”。
Niu Jianjun was surprised: "How can a shaman be a woman? ”。
Guo Jiefang explained: "What's so strange about this? In ancient times, most shamans were filled by women, which is probably a remnant of a matriarchal clan society! ”。
Huang Yaju asked again: "So how to explain the later murals?" Could it be that woman really soared in the daytime? ”。
Maruyama shook his head and said, "According to historical records, that female shaman did not survive at all, and of course it is impossible for her to soar in the day!" ”。
Guo Jiefang said strangely: "The Liao Dynasty has lasted for hundreds of years, how do you know which shaman she is?" ”。
Maruyama smiled and said: "This tomb is so large-scale, in the entire history of the Liao Dynasty, there is only one person who can enjoy such dignity after death, she should be the sister of Liao Taizu Yu Lu Jingu, because she is the shaman of the Liao State, so at that time she was called the Ao Gu Goddess, legend has it that she was gifted from the time she was born, born with a pair of ghost eyes, no matter who she looks at, she will be turned into a stone figurine between the carvings!" ”。
Li Yuanchao swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, "So powerful?" So how could she die? ”。
Maruyama replied, "It is said that she fought with her nephew for the throne and was poisoned to death!" Legend has it that in order to prevent the resurrection of the goddess of August, the new emperor secretly buried her body, head, and soul in three places...... ”。
Niu Jianjun pressed his teeth and said, "I said everyone, didn't you find out who the woman on this mural looks like?" ”。
Everyone said in unison: "Liu Lili? ”。
Niu Jianjun nodded and said, "Not bad!" The people on this are too much like Liu Lili! What do you think is going on? Is this just a coincidence? ”。
Guo Jiefang said: "I think things are far from being as simple as we imagined, Niu Fatman, do you still remember the Khitan tomb we entered?" There is also this woman on the mural, do you see if it looks exactly like her? ”。
When Niu Jianjun heard this, he raised his fire probe to look at the smart woman on the mural, he didn't know if he didn't see it, and this look couldn't help but startle him!
It turned out that I don't know when it started, and the woman under the ice gradually underwent a subtle change! The oil paint unconsciously smudged under the ice, and the woman's face also changed from round to sharp, transforming into a fluffy fox head, her eyes changed into an inverted triangle shape, and white hair grew more than an inch long all over her body! A row of fangs protruded from his mouth, his body turned into a snake's body, and his fingernails exploded ......!
All this happened in an instant, and when everyone was alert, the deformed woman suddenly reached out from under the ice, grabbed Huang Yaju's arm, and pulled her into the tomb wall!
Huang Yaju was so frightened that she screamed and struggled desperately, but the incident happened suddenly, Huang Yaju was completely defenseless, and was dragged by the monster with a fox face and snake body on the mural, and half of her body was pulled into the wall!
Guo Jiefang reacted very quickly, he threw away the torch, hugged Huang Yaju's waist, and hugged Huang Yaju hard! Niu Jianjun and Maruyama also came back to their senses at this time, and rushed up to help.
Niu Jianjun and Maruyama grabbed Huang Yaju's arm left and right, and the three of them used their strength to eat milk and dragged Huang Yaju back from the tomb wall!
Huang Yaju almost lost her breath in the tomb wall, and there was a black and bruised finger mark on her right wrist. After the three of them pulled Huang Yaju out, they immediately retreated to a safe place, and Niu Jianjun asked Guo Jiefang with palpitations: "What was in the tomb wall just now?" How do you have the body of a snake and the head of a fox? ”。 When he saw that everyone didn't speak, he asked Huang Yaju, "What ......did you see when you were dragged into the tomb wall by that thing?" ”。
Huang Yaju trembled all over her body, and replied: "It's dark inside the wall, I can't see anything!" I just feel that the inside is much colder than the outside, as if I have come to another space, and the monster's hands are as cold as ice, and I thought it was going to be over this time, but I didn't expect it to be ......! ”。
Guo Jiefang comforted Huang Yaju and said: "Lao Huang, don't be afraid, even if the sky falls, there will be me and the fat man of the cow!" ”。 After speaking, he glanced at the fat man and said, "Let's go over and have a look!" ”。
The two of them raised torches and slowly walked to the front of the tomb wall, and took a closer look, where was there any monster with a fox head and a snake body? On the tomb wall, the pictures are mottled, and there is nothing suspicious! The two of them became more and more frightened, and said in their hearts: "This ancient tomb is really evil, it is better to get out of here quickly!" ”。
The two walked under the Danqi, and Niu Jianjun pointed to the huge black coffin on it and said, "Lao Guo, didn't that telegram say that Lao Liu was locked up in the coffin?" Let's go up and see if she's in the coffin! ”。