Chapter 54 The Bridge
The stone gate is not high in the fog, and it is about five or six zhang wide. A thick fog poured in through the doorway, and the scene inside was indistinct.
Gao Guiyun grabbed Tian Fusheng's ears and said angrily: "Little bastard, if you don't agree with each other, you want to get rid of the old lady, don't you?" What about the old woman? ”
"What old woman?" Tian Fusheng asked very seriously.
"You're not, aren't you? Who of us in Qianzhou Province doesn't know that the old woman has become a wife? ”
"That ugly bastard, you say? Egg baba, even those with an IQ like you will believe that there is some old woman! ”
It turned out that the thing just now was nothing more than a monkey, and its scientific name was the Color-faced mandrill. This monkey is larger, has a ghostly face, and has a colorful face, hence the name.
The color-faced mandrill has a violent personality, has a strong aggressiveness, lives in the inaccessible cold mountain stream all the year round, the number is very small, elusive, extremely treacherous, once the mountain people encounter it, it is very easy to be poisoned. Over time, the folk have arranged a demon of "old woman", which is actually the result of limited cognition.
This color-faced mandrill should be often active in the Baiyun Mountain area and is well aware of the surrounding situation. It has long known that there are "three immortals" hiding in the dove tree to cultivate the truth, so it often wanders around, nothing more than thinking about the golden pill in the body of the "three immortals", and wants to get it for nothing.
The failure of the "Three Immortals" to cross the catastrophe was a godsend for it, so there was a scene of quietly stealing the weasel's corpse later. After being discovered by Wang Ziheng and the three of them, it simply appeared, wanting to scare off the three of them by virtue of his prestige, but who knew that he met Tian Fusheng, who was hated by people, and did not eat it at all.
Wang Ziheng and Gao Guiyun listened to Tian Fusheng's explanation, but they were still skeptical.
Tian Fusheng said angrily: "Egg poop! Demons, ghosts, demons, can't you tell if it's true or not? Brother Ziheng, do you remember the mysterious man we met in the cave that day? 100% is this thing, pretending to be a ghost, fortunately it runs fast, otherwise Lao Tzu would have to pump its tendons! ”
"But don't you see it's still clothed? How can this be explained? Wang Ziheng argued.
Tian Fusheng stomped his feet anxiously: "My brother, there are fewer dead people in this mountain?" You also heard Chen Tonghai say that many people who entered Baiyun Mountain did not go back, and most of them died at the hands of this ugly monster. Isn't it easy to explain that you can take clothes from a dead person and put them on? ”
Gao Guiyun rolled his eyes and said, "As long as you can, you can do whatever you say, okay!" So what's next? ”
Tian Fusheng said: "I saw that the ugly monster has just entered the stone gate, and it is very familiar with the environment here, as long as we follow it, it will be right!" ”
The three of them rested on the spot for a while, drank some water, and began to enter the stone gate.
As soon as they entered the stone gate, they suddenly felt that the cold was pressing, and the soles of the three of them had turned into stone roads. Wang Ziheng turned on the flashlight and opened the way in front.
There is a lot of white fog in the door, and the visibility is always low.
The three of them walked cautiously for two or three hundred meters, and the dense fog finally dissipated, and when they looked at the surrounding scene, they all gasped.
It turned out that everyone had just been walking on a wide and straight stone bridge, and there were no stone walls around the stone bridge, and it was pitch black, and they couldn't imagine how big the inner world was.
Thinking about the abyss under your feet, how can you not tremble with six legs?
Wang Ziheng stopped and said in a trembling voice: "Brother Tian, this is different from the stone cave we walked out of Baiyun Mountain before!" ”
Tian Fusheng looked very calm: "All roads lead to Rome, and since the mandrill is also taking this bridge, I believe there will be no danger." Besides, there is no turning back when you open the bow, whether it is a blessing or a curse will only be known after you have passed, everyone be careful. ”
The prince was not confident enough in his heart, and he did not move forward. Tian Fusheng couldn't help but say, and pushed him from behind to continue walking.
Everyone walked for another hour with a twist, and the stone bridge seemed to have no end in sight, and the colored mandrill was never seen.
The electric light was suddenly blocked by a high stone wall, and the three of them stopped to see what kind of stone wall it was, only to see a stone tablet about two feet high standing in the middle of the stone bridge.
The white stone tablet is densely engraved with words, half of which are Han Li, and the other half has strange strokes, which do not resemble Chinese characters.
"I don't know most of this official book, high-achieving students, you come to interpret it for us, and see what is recorded." Tian Fusheng said to Wang Ziheng.
Nowadays, most college Chinese students, like Wang Ziheng, have a few poetry, calligraphy and painting, and the Han in front of him is really difficult for him. Speak aloud at the moment:
"When the Han Dynasty Heping was in June of the third year of Wuyin, the soldiers stopped, and the Quartet was Xining. The Holy Son of Heaven is surging and benevolent. I am grateful for the suffering of the common people, and I do not blame it.
"In July, the sinner Jin Zhumeng's person was edicted by the Holy Son of Heaven, and Zhao Wenhe, the leader of the True Western Netherworld Sect at the beginning of the Tomb Mountain, made a covenant with the body, and the stone was hung forever.
"Fu Jin Zhu Country, the West Wilderness of the Er also. Since the ancestor Yameng won the country, he has enjoyed the industry for 300 years. To the guilty ministers, they will provoke their neighbors, anger the heavens, and start to cause trouble.
"Fu Wei Shengshang Longen, the quasi-ministers moved the country to the Nine Hidden Mansions, pawned the ghost emperor, took charge of life and death, rewarded the good and punished the evil, and atoned for their sins, and the ministers were grateful.
"From now on, the living, or those who see this monument, should know that there is no gate to hell, and turn back and repent.
"King Meng's Jinzhu, Zhao Wen and Xu Ming."
The strange text on the other side should be the ancient gold and bamboo script, and the meaning and thought must be no different from the Chinese language.
After reading this inscription, Wang Ziheng was dripping with cold sweat, and Tian Fusheng's hair stood on end; Only Gao Guiyun didn't know what to do, yawning all the time.
As the inscription says, isn't this stone bridge a passage connecting the two worlds of yin and yang? An unprecedented sense of foreboding intensified.
The record of the ancient kingdom of Jinzhu in the history books, finally during the Tianhe period of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, suddenly disappeared in the long river of history, and for two thousand years, the descendants can not even determine its ruins. At that time, the last generation of Jinzhu Wang Meng's people and the members of the royal family were in the same room, the people were unbearable, the Han court sent troops to quell the chaos, and the life and death of Meng's people became a mystery, and the entire ancient country of Jinzhu also disappeared with it.
If the content on the stele in front of you is indeed true, then the truth is: after the defeat of the King of Jinzhu in the army, the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty ordered him to reach an agreement with the Western Ghost Emperor, and take the life of the country as the hostage, and the whole country will settle in the Netherworld Ghost Mansion, supervise the living beings in the southwest, and take charge of the cycle of life and death.
Between the lines of the inscription, you can see the unwillingness and helplessness of the Golden Bamboo King everywhere.
Wang Ziheng looked at Tian Fusheng, only to see that his eyebrows were deeply locked, and he bowed his head and was silent.
Gao Guiyun urged behind him: "The two of you have been working on it for a long time, have you figured out any eyebrows?" Old lady ......"
Under the electric light, she suddenly caught a glimpse of something very familiar behind the stele, hurriedly retracted her voice, bypassed the stele, and strode forward.
Prince Hengtian Fusheng was still in a state of restlessness, and when he discovered the abnormality, Gao Guiyun had already walked past the stone stele.
"You want to die!" Tian Fusheng roared angrily and chased after him in great strides, wanting to bring Gao Guiyun back. Wang Ziheng also hurriedly stepped forward to help.