Chapter 48: Strange Murals

"Ahh There seems to be a sound in front. Shen Chuxue's trembling voice suddenly came from the dark and deep corridor, I hugged her arms tightly, my eyes looked straight ahead through the darkness, and there was a sound of running water in my ears, after a short period of adaptation, I could barely see something a few meters in front of me, "Go!" I glanced at Shen Chuxue, who was already a little purple from the cold, and said decisively, holding her and rushing forward. I don't know how long it took to rush forward, how many turns I turned, but with a few meters of sight in the dark, I was able to avoid hitting the wall.

"This?" I stood at the end of the tunnel, looking at the scene in front of me and couldn't help but be a little amazed, in front of me was a tunnel that I don't know how many years had been formed, perpendicular to the deep tunnel, a bright light at the top of the tunnel flashed, illuminating the scene in the tunnel, a raging underground river roared through the middle of the tunnel, carrying a huge splash of water on both sides of the stone wall, making a deafening sound in the empty tunnel. I looked up and saw a one-meter-long crack at the top of the tunnel, and a scarlet ray of sunlight came through the crack. I frowned, this tunnel is four or five meters high, and it is impossible for me to climb it with my bare hands, not to mention that the rocks on both sides of the tunnel have been beaten by the river and are extremely smooth, let alone climbing, even if it is used as a mirror, there is no problem.

"Brother Shi", Shen Chuxue's weak voice suddenly sounded, and she pointed to the whistling river: "It seems that a piece of clothing floated over there just now." My spirit shook suddenly, and I looked at the place she was pointing, the air in the underground tunnel was even more humid, and in just a few minutes, Shen Chuxue's body temperature dropped even more, and I could feel a layer of water droplets covered by the surface of her skin when I held it in my arms, which was the mist in the air condensed on her body, it couldn't go on like this, my heart was a little anxious.

"Swept away," I said with a hint of loss in my tone, "but since there will be clothes in the river, it must have floated down from upstream, and in that case, let's go upstream." Shen Chuxue nodded, and the whole person snuggled weakly in my arms, and beads of sweat the size of beans left along her forehead. Without further ado, her state was no longer suitable for hurrying, I picked up Shen Chuxue, and the whole person rushed forward in the direction of the river. "Wow--- wow~~", I don't know how long it took, there were suddenly a few ugly hiss from the place where we were staying, and a crow clinging to the stone pillars on both sides of the tunnel flew up and flew in the direction of the two of us.

I don't know how long, a kilometer? Or two kilometers? I stood at a bend in the river, staring at what was on the ground, Shen Chuxue curled up in my arms, her wet little head digging into the crook of my arm, and I didn't see anything on the ground. "Here? Is it a grave? I frowned, and a guess popped up in my mind, and there was a gray-white skull on the face in front of me, and there were several white marks underneath the skull. This imprint? Is it turned to ashes? "I don't know very well, I can only guess in my heart, next to the white mark on one side of the skull, there is a golden shovel, which is said to be a shovel but not like a shovel, it is not like a normal shovel, the head of the shovel is relatively flat, but bent inward from both sides.

"Luoyang shovel?" A noun popped into my head and blurted out. "What Luoyang shovel?" Shen Chuxue raised her head and asked weakly. My heart tightened, and before I could cover her eyes, she had already seen the skull on the ground. To my surprise, she only looked at the skull for less than a second before looking at the shovel next to her. "It's indeed a Luoyang shovel, and it's made of pure gold," her tone was weak, but quite confident, "It seems that we fell into an ancient tomb." ”

I put her on the ground and reached out to pick up the Luoyang shovel, and there was a heavy texture from the shovel, the weight of this Luoyang shovel did not need to be much lower than the Qinglong Yanyue knife. "It seems that that dress was passed down from the ancient tomb", Shen Chuxue said, no wonder she saw that dress just now and felt that it didn't look like modern clothes. "Are we going to go any further?" I turned my head to look at Shen Chuxue, her state was not very good, not to mention that the ancient tomb in front of me didn't know if it was dangerous, if something happened again, I would regret it for the rest of my life.

"Of course you have to go forward!" A hint of determination flashed in her eyes, although she was a student of the Department of Archaeology, there would not be any archaeological research before her senior year, let alone going to the tomb, at this time, she had such a good opportunity, if she didn't go to see it, she would be a little sorry for herself. I nodded, and I knew she would choose this way, and I would be surprised if she hadn't. Holding the Luoyang shovel in my hand, I reached out to grab her waist, ready to hold her in my arms. "No," she blushed as she reached out and pushed my right hand away.

I shrugged my shoulders and pulled her forward, but instead of resisting, the tenant alternately grabbed my hand tightly. Moving on, there was a fork in the underground river, with the still raging underground water on one side and a dark yellow stream on the other. "Go this way", Shen Chuxue pointed to the dark yellow stream and said, "This yellow river should flow from the ancient tomb, and the yellow substance in the river water should be sulfur." I nodded and walked on.

I stood in front of a gate four or five meters high, carved with an unknown kind of flower pattern, on which two fierce and vicious green-faced fanged ghosts stood guard on the gate, one on the left and one on the right, against the backdrop of the yellow river, like two ferocious demons from hell. I couldn't help but shudder, but Shen Chuxue looked curious, without the slightest fear, but reached out and knocked left and right on the door. The gate was not closed, leaving a gap about a meter wide, and the dark yellow river water flowed out of it.

"Go in now?" I turned my head to ask Shen Chuxue, picked her up after getting her reply, and walked inward along the gap in the gate. "Ahh What are you doing", Shen Chuxue exclaimed in surprise and asked in a low voice, "Quickly let me down, how can I do archaeological research if you hold me like this." I shook my head, and behind the gate was a deep granite walkway, and the yellow river flowed on the ground, drowning my feet, and there would be no place for her to stand if I put her down. There's a snake just scurrying over there! "I had to scare her.

"Ahh "Stains, stains, stains", the silence in the corridor was terrifying, only the sound of my feet treading water echoed in the corridor, and at Shen Chuxue's request, I moved inward along the edge of the corridor to facilitate her observation of the murals on the walls. As I moved forward, I watched the mural and marveled at the fact that the first mural depicted a man in a battle robe kneeling on one knee and staring directly at a man in a dragon run on a high platform, and the extravagant scene around him undoubtedly revealed that the man was a general. Beyond that are scenes of men fighting on the battlefield, there is no doubt that this man is a god of murder that everyone talks about, as can be seen in the mountains of corpses and the sea of corpses around him on each mural.

Merely..... I frowned, what do these last few murals mean? "Did you see any information?" I stood at the end of the corridor and asked, the mural on the wall was finished, and there was a fork in the road ahead. Shen Chu's brows were furrowed, a trace of doubt appeared on her face, and she pointed to the mural on the wall: "You also know in front that the owner of the tomb is a general who doesn't know what dynasty he is, and he has made great contributions to the establishment of the dynasty, and the emperor will naturally not be stingy with his reward." ”

I nodded, as can be seen from the fresco in the middle, where the gold and silver residences and maids given to him by the emperor can be described as emptying the treasury, "And then?" She pointed to the penultimate mural and motioned for me to come over, "The mural depicts a man who is terminally ill in old age, the old general is lying alone on the hospital bed, there is no relatives or attendants around him, the surrounding environment is also very dilapidated, and on the dry branches outside, a black crow's eyes are intertwined with the general's cloudy eyes. "Look at this picture, don't you think it's strange?" Shen Chuxue stretched out his hand and pointed at the environment around the general, "When he was young, the emperor gave him so many maids, gold, silver and jewelry, but he didn't expect that no one would take care of him after a hundred years. ”

I frowned, this is true of the scene on this mural, but what about the back? I took a step back, and the penultimate mural depicted an imposing army, with old faces under the black armor, and the faces of the Predators, who had been on the battlefield countless times without shedding tears, were filled with sorrow, and in front of them lay a huge golden coffin, in the center of which was depicted a huge crow, and behind them was a group of densely packed houses that had been built. "He's dead!" Shen Chuxue said softly: "As a striker of the dynasty, after his death, don't say that the emperor didn't come to see him off, even his family wouldn't want to pay attention, if it weren't for this group of soldiers who had accompanied him from birth to death。。。。。。 ”

She didn't continue, but I understood what she meant later, and my mood couldn't help but be rendered by the content on the mural, and the tone couldn't help but bring a touch of pathos: "It was this crow that accompanied him in his old age, so it was engraved on Huang Jin's coffin." "I continued to move forward and face the last mural, which was the most puzzling thing to me, to say that the first two were because of the general's strong murderous intent that the lonely person for ten thousand years could still be understood, but what does this last painting mean? He was born again?

"I don't know", Shen Chuxue shook her head, the content depicted on the last mural was really shocking, it was depicted in a dark and empty place, the huge coffin where the general was buried was opened for some reason, and the general's old and slightly clumsy back appeared in the corner of the coffin. "Goo-toot!" I swallowed, "This should be a scene imagined by the mural workers at that time, or a scene that was depicted because the soldiers were reluctant to let their general die," Shen Chuxue nodded, this is the only more reasonable explanation, anyway, it is impossible for her to believe that the general came back from the dead, and even if it is like that, who painted this mural?