Chapter 42: The Beast of Ten Horns and Seven Heads
βQuis similis bestiae? et quis poterit pugnare cum ea?β
The Doctor spoke neither German, nor English, nor French, but in Latin, which means, "Who is like this beast?" Who can fight against it? β
A moment later, the warrior who had come to fight the beast appeared, and it was the Golden Toad Town Tomb Beast.
In the underground palace of the unknown Tang Dynasty tomb, two tomb beasts appeared, one had been sleeping for more than a thousand years, and the other was freshly baked this year.
A contest between beasts and beasts.
"Qin, are you still alive?"
The doctor hid in the corner of the tomb and shouted to the depths of the underground palace, because only Qin Customs could control the tomb beast to fight.
Old Qin didn't need to stand beside the tomb beast, as long as it was no more than ten zhang away, he could control it remotely through his voice and breath. And he didn't have to shout loudly, the five senses of the tomb beast were extremely keen, and the slightest sound could make it hear.
He hid in his ear chamber and whispered in his mouth: "Golden toad, golden toad!" Only you can match this beast! Only you can fight it! β
In the depths of the tomb, there are stumps, internal organs, and blood of tortured soldiers. Ten horns and seven heads rushed towards the golden toad, each of its seven heads roaring angrily, chanting the sacrificial words in seven different languages; Its ten horns were drenched in blood and carried the crowns of ten different empires.
Qin Customs controlled softly, and Jin Toad jumped high, not opening his flying tongue, but opening the Gatling machine gun.
Countless bullets were sent out by the rotating barrel, as if random arrows had hit Lu Bu. To be honest, every time the bullet hit, Lao Qin was a little distressed. This is the reason why an old craftsman has to bow down when he sees the works of his predecessors.
Gatling erupted in crisp shots, the whistling of bullets piercing through the air, the metal bouncing of bullet casings falling to the bricks......
The roar of the 20th century overwhelmed the roar of the 8th century AD.
The ten-horned and seven-headed monster fell to the ground with a bang.
Jin Toad took a few steps forward, and the doctor, the soldiers with rifles and bayonets, and the trembling little county king, also slowly stepped into the front room of the underground palace.
Suddenly, one of the ten horns and seven heads stretched out like a long snake towards Qin Customs hiding in the ear chamber. The head stabbed with a pair of long horns first, and this ear chamber happened to be full of burial weapons, and Lao Qin casually picked up a Tang knife more than three feet long to resist. This is a ring-headed long knife, extremely well-made, and has not been corroded for more than a thousand years. With a knife in both hands, he flew up and down, as if he had chopped off countless enemy heads in the midst of a thousand armies.
However, the Gravemon's horns seem to be harder than steel! In a few clicks, the cold and shining Tang knife curled up. The beast's head opened its lion-like mouth, and there were human flesh residues hanging on its sharp teeth, and it was about to swallow Lao Qin in one gulp.
Qin Customs closed his eyes and was just waiting to die, but he heard a huge explosion from the underground palace. The beast's head, along with its horns, and two golden crowns, were retracted.
He crawled out of the ear chamber on the ground, and it turned out that under the command of the little county king, the sappers first set off smoke bombs, then threw cluster grenades, and Jin Toad's Gatling machine gun continued to fire, and the second time he hit the ten-horned seven-headed tomb beast.
Eventually, the sappers ejected several thick steel cables to bind the huge beast firmly.
When the dust settled, Lao Qin was lucky enough to leave a life and crawled back to the little county king and the doctor. They requisitioned more than 20 ploughing cattle from nearby farmers, and in order to avoid destroying its ten horns and seven heads, it took most of the day to pull this tomb beast out of the underground palace.
Once out of the underground environment, it becomes a mass of scrap metal.
Countless people came to watch, all shocked by this behemoth. Some people say that it looks like a dragon bone dug out of the ground, which is a dinosaur fossil; Some people also say that he is like the legendary Chiyou, and there are still Chiyou sacrifices in the Taihang Mountains wearing horns on their heads.
The king of the small county ordered people to put up curtains around the ancient tomb, and armed patrols day and night to strictly guard this tomb beast. He sent a telegram to the Nanyuan base, asking for a flatbed truck to be dispatched.
The ancient tomb without the tomb beast is like the Shu Han after Zhuge Liang's death. Qin Customs and the doctor entered the back room of the underground palace again, with a circular dome on their heads, as if they were in the universe, and they were faced with a huge stone coffin. In front of the coffin bed, there is a circular bridge treadway, and curved railings on both sides. The treadway is embossed with two people, the upper one bends his limbs on his back, the lower one crawls and crawls, and the left foot of the upper one is hooked, which seems to be the joy of broken sleeves!
The sarcophagus bed is the lotus petal Sumeru seat, and the top surface of the upper and lower fangs has a white marble hook bar, painted with colorful paint, and each of the four corners has a wrestler to lift. In the door of the coffin at the waist, there is a carved human face. Lao Qin noticed the Suzaku Xuanwu relief on the stone coffin. The so-called Vermilion Bird is the Phoenix; Xuanwu is a turtle that is entwined with a snake. Dr. Holstein filmed the whole process with a camera.
The sappers wanted to pry open the stone coffin, but Qin Customs hurriedly stopped: "We are here to find the tomb beast, not to rob the tomb and open the coffin." β
"Qin, we have all reached this point, whether we open the coffin or not, we are already sinners who rob the tomb."
After the doctor finished speaking with great difficulty, the king of Doro Xiaojun also arrived in the back room, nodded and said, "This tomb is not trivial, and the owner of the tomb is probably a famous figure in history." I know the history of the Twenty-Four by heart, and I want to know who is buried here! β
So, the coffin was opened.
There's also a wooden coffin inside. There is only one tomb owner in the back room, and even if there are people who are buried together, they are in the side rooms on both sides. This is different from the usual joint burial of husband and wife, but emphasizes the supremacy of the monarch.
"We're not here to dig up graves and steal treasures, we don't have to use tomb robbers' methods, but we have to respect the way of science." The little county king is just an excuse to solve the mystery of history to embolden himself, but fortunately, the murderous tomb beast has also been captured, and there are many soldiers in the tomb, "Let's open the coffin." β
Sappers open the wooden coffin from the front. The rotting and poisonous smoke rose, and everyone put on gas masks, but Qin Customs didn't care.
Dr. Holstein was the first to approach the coffin and have his passion for taking pictures of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in ancient Egypt, but he forgot about the legendary pharaoh's curse.
He photographed the skeleton of a beast.
Everyone was shocked, and the little king fell from the coffin, and his forehead was knocked out of the stone coffin. Only Lao Qin looked directly at the coffin, convinced that it was definitely not a human being. Obvious animal skulls, sharp canine teeth, must be jackals, tigers and leopards and other carnivores. And on the bones of this beast, the crown and seal of the monarch are neatly dressed.
Thousands of years later, this gown is still bright and dazzling, depicting the sun, the moon, the stars, the mountains, the dragon, the Chinese worm, the Zongyi, the algae, the fire, the powdered rice, the yellow, the "twelve chapters". Since the Emperor of Zhou, only the Supreme Emperor could wear this outfit and use it for major ceremonies.
A beast entrenched on the emperor's throne?
However, half a minute later, as the air entered the coffin, the ornate gown, along with the gold-embroidered "Twelve Chapters", rotted and discolored, turning into a mass of black rags.
The little king took off his gas mask and rubbed the wound on his forehead: "What's the situation?" β
"Beast Country? The country of hell? Dr. Holstein was also blindsided.
"Look at the murals of Tang Dynasty characters outside, as well as the portraits inside and outside the sarcophagus, they must be in the country of people." Qin Customs sat down weakly on the ground and said, "In my opinion, it may be that the owner of the tomb died unexpectedly and ended up with no bones left. His courtiers could only hunt and kill one beast, and then put the dead beast in the emperor's crown and robe, and bury him in a coffin. β
"What kind of big guy is it? Dead to pieces, and want a wild beast to take his place? β
"First of all, this tomb belongs to the Tang Dynasty, and the imperial tombs are all in Guanzhong, and there can be no imperial tombs in Taihang Mountain. So who else in the Tang Dynasty except Wu Zetian pretended to be the emperor? β
Xiaojun Wang remembered the "Old Tang Book" and the "New Tang Book": "In addition to the Sui and Tang Dynasty turmoil, An Lushan and Shi Siming, who were in the Anshi Rebellion, proclaimed themselves Emperor Dayan. Jingyuan mutinied, and Zhu Jun was proclaimed emperor by his subordinates. There is also Huang Chao, who claims to be the Emperor of Great Qi. But only An Lushan is in line with the geographical location of Taihang Mountain. β
"Well, An Lushan is the envoy of Fanyang Festival, and the base is today's Beijing."
"The nest of the Anshi Rebellion, and later the division of the feudal town also began in Heshuo. An Lushan was killed by his son An Qingxu, there is a saying that he was hacked to death with a knife, and there were no bones! The little county king still remembered a detail, "Most of the villagers in this vicinity are surnamed An, are they the descendants of the tomb keepers of the An family?" β
Dr. Holstein was confused: "What are you talking about?" β
There is also a saying that An Lushan was buried in Wugong County, Shaanxi Province after his death. However, when he died, Guanzhong had been recovered by the Tang Dynasty, and it was impossible to go there for burial. β
"How many lives were destroyed in the Anshi Rebellion? It is said that having killed half of the Chinese at that time, An Lushan is indeed worthy of this beast! It is also worthy of that ferocious ten-horned seven-headed tomb beast. β
Speaking of this, Qin Customs was so excited that he broke an arrow.
However, there is no epitaph or jade mourning book found in this tomb, and there are no seals and other items such as the tomb owner's life, so it is still impossible to prove his identity. All of the above is pure speculation.
"Wait, what is this?"
Lao Qin found that the floor tiles in the back room were carved with jackals, tigers and leopards and ancient beasts, which were destroying the villages of the Tang Dynasty and setting fire to the city. Countless Hufu cavalrymen, with all kinds of ferocious animal heads, war horses all with two horns, wielding swords, guns, bows and arrows, and spreading bloody canine teeth, devoured Chinese babies and women......
Facing the wooden coffin, the doctor took another picture - a beast skeleton wearing a dragon robe and a crown, staring at the empty eye sockets, looking at the center of the vault dome, and looking into your eyes as you look at this picture a hundred years later.