Nineteen years after the Empress Dowager Cixi was buried, the tomb beast made by Qin Customs came to her.

The royal family of the Qing Dynasty stipulated that only the tomb of the emperor could use the tomb beast, and it was strictly forbidden to appear in the tombs of princes, nobles and concubines, otherwise it would be a great trespass. But the power of the Empress Dowager Cixi has long surpassed that of the emperor, one phoenix suppresses two dragons, she wants to build a tomb beast for herself, who dares to stop it?

Dark shadows have spread over the entire dome of the dungeon. The scorching temperature was emitted, and the original yin wind turned into hot air, as if breaking into a steamer, making everyone sweat. A pair of wings soared through the dungeon, covered with golden feathers, and the sound of metal clashing.

Xiao Mu saw an upright chicken head, like the neck of a swallow and a snake, with a back bulging like a turtle, but a tail like a big fish, and dragging colorful feathers, like a peacock slender and graceful.

Phoenix Town Tomb Beast.

Ah Hai and Zhongshan retreated one after another, leaving behind the old eunuch He Changzai. Xiao Mu remembered that he had broken the finger of his left hand, so he also pulled out his butt and ran away. The phoenix pounced on the soldiers, and the bronze claws unscrewed off two heads. The officers and men of the high-spirited people just now all fled with their armor thrown off their armor.

Hai's scar was also stained with warm blood, but he was a master of the "Assassin Dao", tiptoeing over the heads and shoulders of the soldiers.

The phoenix attacked Xiao Mu, he was blocked in the corner of the underground palace, there was nowhere to escape, and in desperation he raised the Luoyang shovel, and actually blocked the blow of the phoenix beak made of bronze, but the strong force had shaken the tiger's mouth to the point of bursting blood. At this moment, he saw the whole picture of the tomb beast in Phoenix Town......

Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty noted "Erya", saying that the phoenix "has a chicken head, a swallow's jaw, a snake neck, a turtle's back, a fish's tail, and five colors, and is six feet high." Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" contains "the elephant of the phoenix, the front of the deer, the head of the snake and the tail of the fish, the back of the dragon and the turtle, the swallow jaw and the beak of the chicken, and the five colors are lifted." Out of the country of oriental gentlemen, soaring beyond the four seas, passing through Kunlun, drinking pillars, weak water, staying in the wind cave at dusk, seeing the world is peaceful. ”

The tomb beast designed and manufactured by Qin Customs for the Empress Dowager Cixi was completed according to the records in ancient books, rather than the phoenix that often appeared on the stage and wood carvings in later generations. Think about the Dan Majesty Stone on the Longen Palace, the phoenix is above, the dragon is below, and the Empress Dowager Cixi uses the phoenix as her tomb beast, which is the most appropriate.

It was a fiery phoenix, and when it was about to burn the log to ashes, the machine gun began to roar.

The four Makqin machine guns produced by the Fengtian Arsenal had been pushed outside the door of the second tomb and fired hundreds of rounds at the tomb beasts of Phoenix Town.

Maxim put an end to it all......

This is a force that a bronze shell made in an ancient way cannot withstand. Just like the Mongol iron cavalry of Monk Lingqin in Balizhuang, Beijing, was swept by the fire phalanx of the British and French forces. Kogi's eardrum burst at about the same time as his heart. He saw bullet casings flying through his fingers, half bouncing off the phoenix's chest, half shooting into the tomb beast's body, burning red flames. He heard the sound of gears and springs breaking, and smelled something burnt. The phoenix threw its neck up and flew into the sky, but it hit the top of the tomb door and fell to the ground with a bang.

Xiao Mu felt that the temperature of the Tomb Beast was dropping, and the phoenix's eyes were gradually dimming. But that doesn't mean it's safe.

When a few soldiers returned, they knew that if they escaped from the tomb door, not only would the promised bounty be gone, but they might be dragged out and shot on the spot for the crime of escaping.

An officer was so bold that he walked up to the tomb beast with a shell gun, and stepped on the phoenix's cockscomb with the soles of his feet, making a sonorous metal sound, and couldn't help laughing: "The dehaired phoenix is not as good as a chicken!" ”

Before the words fell, a second phoenix flew out from behind the coffin of the Empress Dowager Cixi.

The second Grave Beast.

The officer was not at all defenseless behind him, his vest was hit hard, he had an extra beak on his chest, and a lively heart in his mouth. The officer saw his heart shatter with his own eyes, and shouted softly: "! Then his head tilted, and a flood of blood gushed out, and the whole person fell on the tomb beast of Phoenix Town.

Xiao Mu had never seen two tomb beasts in a tomb!

The two tomb beasts are in the same phoenix form, which not only breaks the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, but also breaks the tradition of Chinese imperial tomb beasts for thousands of years. The double beast (or double bird) protects a tomb owner, and this treatment may have exceeded that of the Qin Emperor, Han Wu, Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestors. It's not Wu Zetian, it's better than Wu Zetian.

The second Phoenix Town Tomb Beast only killed an officer and did not take advantage of the victory to chase after him. The machine gunners on the opposite side were just frightened, and threw down their Maxim machine guns and fled. The tomb robber Xiao Mu thought that he would definitely die this time, but he didn't expect this tomb beast to lie on the first phoenix, gently flicking the dead bird's head with his bronze beak, like a mandarin duck's affection, and let out bursts of wailing.

Xiao Mu looked at the two tomb beasts carefully, and it was not completely without differences. The first phoenix that fell to the ground was even brighter, covered with gold flakes; The second phoenix that came out of the back was more plain in comparison, and there were not so many fancy colors. Just like birds in nature, usually males are beautiful and females are simple, just the opposite of humans.

The dead tomb beast is a phoenix, and the living tomb beast is a phoenix.

The male is the phoenix, the female is the phoenix - the so-called phoenix is the collective name of the male phoenix and the female phoenix.

The tomb beast made by Qin Customs for the Empress Dowager Cixi is actually an unprecedented double town tomb beast. It stands to reason that the tomb beasts are originally things from yin to yang, and if they are in the same underground palace, they should be mutually exclusive, and they are likely to kill each other. One mountain does not tolerate two tigers, there are no two days in the sky, and there are no two kings in the country, how can two tomb beasts guard the same cave, and colleagues are one master? But if you use the "phoenix and phoenix" tomb beast, it is originally a male and a female, one yang and one yin, such as the mystery of all things in heaven and earth, all in the symbiosis of yin and yang, the Tao gives birth to one, one life to two, two to three, and three to the way of all things......

Qin Customs is the last master of the tombsmith clan, and he actually understood this truth, and did the opposite, designing the "Phoenix Twin Beasts" to guard the Yin Mansion for the Empress Dowager Cixi. Sure enough, this pair of Phoenix Town Tomb Beasts are as loving as husband and wife, the male phoenix is machine gun Suo Shasha by Makqin, and the female phoenix is hovering around her dead partner, like a cuckoo crying blood, and the child is wailing.

The fire light burning all over the female phoenix illuminated a line of inscriptions on the body of the male phoenix, and Xiao Mu vaguely recognized a few lines of small seals-

"The phoenix is flying, its feathers are flying, and it is also gathered. Oi King Dorjeshi, the envoy of the Wei gentleman, flattered the Son of Heaven. The phoenix is flying, its feathers are flying, and it is also in the sky. The Elder Brothers, the king of Oi, are the life of the gentleman and flattering the people. ”

This line of text is from the Book of Songs, Daya, and Juan. Such a deviant design is impossible without the consent of the Empress Dowager Cixi, but it is the words "Phoenix Yu Fei" that touched the heart of this menopausal woman.

Xiao Mu's reverie lasted only a few seconds, and the hot bullets whistled in his ears again. Four Maxim machine guns roared again, firing hundreds of steel bullets into the female phoenix's chest.

The machine gunners who escaped were all killed by Sun Dianying's guards, and a group of soldiers were replaced, and they quickly changed their bullet belts, aimed at the screaming Phoenix Town Tomb Beast, and pulled the trigger......

The second slaughter lasted only half a minute, and the female fell to the ground with a bang, just above the male. Its eyes looked at the small wood in the corner of the dungeon, gradually dimming and cold, and there was no more light. The phoenix flew and fell into the underground palace. The phoenix and the phoenix are born in the same hole, and death is also in the same hole.

Another group of soldiers who received heavy rewards, "made by Hanyang" with bright bayonets, approached as if walking on thin ice, as if they were going to fight hand-to-hand with the tomb beasts, or with the corpse of the Empress Dowager Cixi in the coffin.

Blood, stumps and internal organs covered the ground make the underground palace of the Qing Dynasty imperial tomb look like a filthy slaughterhouse. Ah Hai boldly dug his finger into the bullet holes in the tomb beasts, confirming that they no longer had the power to kill.

Zhongshan Wen crepe read half of the poem, it was actually Sima Xiangru's "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" in the Western Han Dynasty -

"There is a beautiful woman who will never forget it. I don't see it for a day, and I think like crazy. The phoenix soars, seeking the phoenix from all over the world. Helpless beauty, not on the east wall. The piano will be used as a substitute for the language, and the conversation will be heartfelt. When I see Xu Xi one day, I am hesitant. I am willing to match virtue and join hands. I shall not fly and make me perish......"

Ah Hai roared: "Xiaomu! Are you still alive? ”

Xiao Mu came out of the corner, almost unscathed except for the cracks of the tiger's mouth. For the rest of his life after the catastrophe, Ah Hai hugged Xiaomu. The soldiers cleaned up the dungeon and moved the corpses and stumps out first, but left the remains of the two tomb beasts behind.

There was still a living person in the pile of corpses, it turned out to be the old eunuch He Chang. All the able-bodied young men died, but the old man was alive. He Changzai kowtowed to the coffin of the Empress Dowager Cixi again, saying that Lafayette appeared to bless him from death. Zhongshan wiped the blood stains off the old eunuch's face, and his whole face became whiter and whiter, as if he had just crawled out of the coffin.

Everyone gathered in front of the coffin of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Ah Hai picked up the sapper axe, climbed onto the vermilion outer coffin lid, and slashed down like a sea of mountains. He has a beast-like physique, and with the use of a breath of true qi, he smashed the outer coffin of the golden silk nanmu in a few strokes.

All the emperor's mausoleums have an outer coffin and an inner coffin, and the inner coffin of the Empress Dowager Cixi is exposed to the light, which is also a heavy longevity material filled with red lacquer and gold, but it is two circles smaller than the outer coffin. Ah Hai taps the lid of the inner coffin with his knuckles. The old eunuch He Changzai was already paralyzed on the ground.

"The Empress Dowager Cixi is lying here!" Ah Hai let out a sigh, "Please open the coffin with Sun Dashuai!" ”

Sun Dianying walked into the underground palace surrounded by his own soldiers, bypassed the remains of the two tomb beasts on the ground, and said in horror: "Brother Ahai, don't use brute force to open the coffin again, so as not to damage the treasure in the coffin." ”

Xiaomu reminded that you can make a few holes under the coffin lid, and then pry the coffin lid open, which is the experience of tomb robbery for many years. Ah Hai took matters into his own hands and used an axe to split several rectangular cracks. Several strong soldiers used their bayonets to pry and hear a "rattle" sound from the lid of the inner coffin.

Sun Dianying touched his chest and took a few steps back, and all the generals took out their guys. Xiao Mu lifted the Luoyang shovel and carefully removed the coffin lid, and Ah Hai and Zhongshan came up to help and gently unloaded the coffin lid onto the floor tiles.

Empress Dowager Cixi's coffin was opened.

There is no imaginary smell of decay, but a strange fragrance, as if old spices are pouring into everyone's nostrils, like the smell of nutmeg and sandalwood on the islands of the South Seas.

A dazzling red light shot from the coffin, and all the torches and lanterns were eclipsed. Sun Dianying subconsciously blocked her eyes, covered her trembling mouth and said, "Brother Xiaomu, please take a look first......

Xiao Mu knew that he couldn't hide this time, so he walked to the coffin silently, stood on tiptoe and looked inside......

The face of the master of the dungeon was not yet revealed, but it was covered with a thin layer of catalpa wood. Xiao Mu saw it in the cemetery of the Ming and Qing dynasties, this thing is called "Seven Star Plate", and the surface is outlined with gold thread and gold leaf to outline the scriptures and Bodhisattva statues.

Under the "Seven Star Board" is a quilt made of thousands of pearls, also known as a "net bead quilt". Xiao Mu calmed down, and then lifted the "net bead quilt". At this moment, the brilliant and dazzling light burst out again, like a volcanic eruption, illuminating the dome of the underground palace transparently, and it was like in the crystal palace of the Dragon King of the East China Sea, the four walls were rippling with water waves.

Finally, Kogi saw her face.