160 The tomb of the ancient emperor in Dali

Liu Shuya himself didn't expect that this punch would actually work, he originally thought that even if he could really smash through this tomb door, it would take a lot of strength, and even smash his fist to smash the stone door.

But I didn't expect that just such a punch went down, and the tomb door cracked in response, and cracks on the tomb door extended from the place where the fist fell to all sides, like a series of lightning, splitting the heavy tomb door, and the huge stone tomb door was punched into scattered stones.

It seems that this tomb door stone is very old, after the fire barbecue, and then quenched by cold water, where can you still eat, the inside is already brittle, Liu Shuya fist down, the tomb door naturally can't hold on, of course it has to be broken.

Liu Shuya looked at the broken tomb door, stunned for a moment, and then regretted it, if he hadn't thrown Weiwei out before, but smashed the tomb door together, maybe the two of them would have saved themselves a long time ago.

But now it was too late to regret it, seeing that the water temperature in the tomb was getting higher and higher, the water surface was getting higher and higher, and the air in the only remaining space was too hot to breathe, Liu Shuya had to hurry up and dig a hole in the stone door with his bare hands.

Inside the cave is the burial chamber, and there is a ghostly light in the burial chamber, which is dim and strange from the stone cave dug out of the tomb door.

If it was usual, Liu Shuya would definitely not enter this strange tomb without permission, but at this moment, where is there room for him to think more, and if he doesn't enter the tomb again, he is afraid that he will be steamed.

He probed into the hole in the tomb door, and crawled into the tomb in embarrassment, and there was a strong smell of dampness and decay in the tomb, although this smell was not good, but it was better than steaming in the tomb and waiting to die. Entering the tomb, Liu Shuya's eyes were a little unaccustomed to the faint dark blue glow here. After all, the fire from the golden rooster in the tomb just now was very strong, and it suddenly dimmed, and Liu Shuya's eyes couldn't stand the contrast, so he simply closed his eyes and opened them after a few minutes, which was better.

Liu Shuya looked back at the tomb outside the hole in the tomb door behind him, it was still burning water, the water was steamed into gas by the fire, and there was nowhere to release, as if it was about to explode, and the hot and humid water vapor poured straight into the tomb through the hole in the stone door, to make the cold tomb warmer.

Liu Shuya was still worried, afraid that the rising water in the tomb would pour into the tomb, if that was the case, then he would just get from one hot pot to another, and sooner or later he would either be cooked, or drowned.

In order to prevent accidents, he must quickly see his surroundings clearly.

To his surprise, inside the tomb door, he didn't see anything like a coffin corpse, he only saw a wide staircase about three meters wide in front of him, and the steps were about sixty steps. Liu Shuya looked up along the steps, and could only see that the steps led to a larger spacious space, and the others were not very clear.

On the walls of the tomb on both sides of the steps, every three feet, an oil lamp was hung on the wall, the lamp was of a strange shape, about a foot long, as if the upper body of a mermaid was cut in half, only the lower body remained, with a tail, attached to the strong. This lamp is filled with lamp oil, and a strange and slender rush grass in it leads to a ghostly blue lamp.

This lamp reminds Liu Shuya of a magical lamp - the everlasting lamp. Legend has it that there are two uses for this lamp.

Yeshi said that when Zhuge Kongming was renewing his life in Wuzhang's original practice, he was kicked over by Wei Yan, and it was this ever-bright lamp. Therefore, the ever-bright lamp can be used to make it.

Another theory is that the lamp was usually used for lighting in tombs. The ancients believed that after the death of ancient emperors, they could be resurrected in the tomb, and they needed lamps for illumination. Ordinary lamps are not lit for a long time, or because the oil runs out of the lamp, or because the breath in the tomb is cut off, they are easy to extinguish. Only this kind of ever-bright lamp is said to use the fish oil of the lower body of the mermaid in the South China Sea as lamp oil, catch the forbidden woman in the South China Sea, take her hair, and make a wick.

In modern society, mermaids and forbidden women are legendary things.

Mermaid, human head and fish body, many stories about mermaids in legends and fairy tales are very beautiful stories, mermaids are princesses and beauties, such as the "daughter of the sea" in the fairy tale of Danish Hans Christian Andersen. But in fact, there is an ancient legend that this thing is actually a dangerous and abnormal thing, often chanting and singing songs on the deep sea reefs, luring human ships to approach, causing the ship to be destroyed and killed, and mermaids take human flesh and eat it, especially human brains.

And the forbidden woman is even more terrifying, that is, the woman is abused and thrown into the water, a wisp of resentment does not dissipate, and the corpse sucks enough ghost qi to form a forbidden woman, and people who see the forbidden woman say that this thing is in the layers of crazy black hair, hiding a skeleton that looks like a woman, the face is hideous and terrifying, and the fangs are sharp. All its grievances are hidden in the bones, as long as the bones can be broken, this thing will disperse, otherwise it will harm people day and night near the bones, and every moon and cloudy day, it will also go ashore to transform into a bewitching and beautiful woman to seduce the man, kill it and drag it into the water.

But no matter how powerful these two things are, they are no match for people after all, and there is always a way for people to find their weaknesses and deal with them. Zhuge Liang must be the one who can deal with these two monsters, otherwise he would not be able to make an ever-bright lantern.

The reason why mermaid fish oil and forbidden hair can be made into long lanterns is that mermaid fish oil has the effect of luminous light and burns inexhaustibly; The hair of the forbidden woman can continue to grow, and while it is ignited, it grows at the same time, and it is also endless. Together, these two things can be used to make a beacon of growth.

However, mermaids and forbidden women's hair are difficult to obtain, and even in the tombs of ancient emperors, such lamps are rare.

Maybe a certain emperor Wen Taowu is a strong lord for a while, but when he died, he had not met a mermaid and a forbidden woman for nearly a hundred years, so there must be no way to hang an everlasting lamp in his tomb.

It may also be that a mediocre emperor, although he was scolded by the world, but not long before his death, he saw a large number of mermaids being killed and killed, and it happened that someone captured the forbidden woman, and the two things were presented to the imperial court, so the emperor's tomb could hang the lantern on a large scale.

This time Liu Shuya entered this tomb, and found so many ever-bright lamps on the wall at the same time, which is really very rare, and when he wanted to make this big tomb, he happened to meet someone who caught a lot of mermaids and forbidden women, so he got a lot of ever-bright lights. Therefore, the ever-bright lamp is also hard to find.

The lantern was for the exclusive use of the emperor, so it is obvious that this ancient tomb must be a royal cemetery.

The above anecdotes, described in words, require a lot of pen and ink, but in Liu Shuya's mind, it is just a flash of thought. Thanks to his extensive reading in the library of Capital University, he can remember this.

But knowing that these are everlasting lights has no substantial impact on whether he can escape from a desperate situation today.

Therefore, he no longer thought about the lantern, but climbed the stairs and entered the main burial chamber.

When he walked up the last and highest steps, he didn't know what mechanism he had stepped on, and suddenly heard a roar and the churning of water waves in the tomb passage outside the tomb door behind him, which startled Liu Shuya, and he turned his eyes to stare at the hole that he smashed out of the wooden door, for fear that boiling water would flood in and flood the tomb.

But there was no such danger, but the dazzling light of the golden rooster spitting flames that had originally come from the tomb gate cave had disappeared, and the outside of the tomb gate suddenly became black. The sound of gurgling water outside the tomb door has gradually stopped. I don't know what the situation is outside the tomb gate, but as long as the water in the tomb does not pour in, for Liu Shuya, this tomb has become a temporary refuge, and he is really a little taboo about the life-threatening tomb outside the tomb gate, so he doesn't bother to look back to see what happened.

Even if you want to turn back, you have to check the situation in this tomb first.

In fact, Liu Shuya still had a faint idea in his heart, he always felt that since Liu Fatzi, Weiwei and Yue Lin were washed underground by the water, then he should not stop and keep exploring, maybe he could find their traces. Once you turn back, it is very likely that you will be with three best friends and relatives in this life. This is an unacceptable result for Liu Shuya.

So instead of retreating, he went to the tomb.

Fortunately, there are no more mechanisms in the tomb, and Liu Shuya is safe in the tomb.

In fact, it's right to think about it, if there are hidden mechanisms in the tomb, it is really disrespectful to the dead.

The ancients all hoped that the deceased could be reborn in the tomb, if there was a mechanism, the first thing the tomb owner would do after being reborn was to be killed by the mechanism again, how sad it was! So it is safe in the tomb most of the time, unless, the owner of the tomb has raised the body.

But in this burial chamber, there seems to be no possibility of a corpse. Because no coffins were found, and there were no bodies. Very strange burial chamber.

The burial chamber as a whole is oblate and cylindrical. It's also weird. How can there be such a burial chamber?

Liu Shuya looked at it, and there was a very thick iron pillar standing in the center of the tomb, with a diameter of about three meters, as if there was a big chimney underground. Dragons and phoenixes are carved on the iron pillar, and countless strange beasts frolic on the iron pillar. There are also a number of "branches" stretching from top to bottom on the iron pillar, making this iron pillar look like the Fusang tree on the silk painting unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, but the top of its branches is in the shape of a spoon, and in each spoon, a gold bottle is placed.

These golden necks are thin and large, and each bottle is engraved with auspicious cloud beasts. There is a stopper at the top opening to plug the mouth of the bottle, and there is a small golden rooster standing on the stopper.

The golden bottle made Liu Shuya suddenly think of a rumor, saying that someone had discovered the tomb of Emperor Dali, and there was no coffin in it, only a golden bottle.

The ancient Dali Kingdom advocated cremation, but it was not burned all over the body, and two ears were cut off before burning and stuffed into a gold bottle. The body was burned and the golden vase was buried in the tomb, and it is said that the soul of the deceased could be hidden in the golden vase instead of being a lonely ghost. The same is true for ordinary people, but they cannot use gold bottles, according to the difference between rich and poor, they can use other kinds of bottles and jars, but the gold bottle is a special thing for the royal family.

Liu Shuya counted, and there were nine iron branches on the iron pillar holding the golden bottle, which were evenly distributed in all directions of the iron pillar.

There is a golden bottle, there must be human sacrifices, the ancient Dali emperor's golden bottle tomb, there are burial sacrifices, this sacrifice is usually a human head. or with the head of a prisoner on death row, or with the head of an enemy.

Liu Shuya looked under the iron pillar, and sure enough, at the heel of the iron pillar, attached to the iron pillar, there were nine piles of skulls and skeletons, of which several piles had not collapsed, and they were placed very neatly, and there were seven skeletons in an equilateral triangle at the bottom, three on the second layer, and one on the top, a total of eleven human heads were piled up in three layers

Liu Shuya looked at these cruel burial heads, couldn't help but shake his head slightly, didn't want to look more, and quickly moved his gaze up, only to see that the top of the iron pillar did not touch the ceiling of the tomb, and the distance between the two was about three feet.

Liu Shuya circled around the iron pillar and found that there were five ancient seal characters on one side.

If it is someone else, you must be confused when you look at these words, but fortunately, Liu Shuya has already prepared, he is in the library, well-read, thinking that he may often enter the ancient tomb, so he pays special attention to learning ancient fonts, which comes in handy this time.

He recognized the five words on the iron pillar, and it was "Nanzhao Optimus Prime"!