Chapter 72: The Jade Dragon of the Red Mountain (1)
A dungeon without a coffin.
But there is a bed, and two people lie in the drapery, as if in the underworld of the underworld, continuing the newlywed bedroom of the young couple.
The intruders held their breath and watched as the large bed had no feet, but instead spliced cypress planks directly on the floor. It's more like Japanese tatami mats, except that there are no mats, but golden brocade mattresses. The Chinese before the Tang Dynasty also slept like this, when there were only beds. The bed was covered with brownish-purple woven gold mattresses, and seven wooden brackets supported silk curtains with gold and silver hook rings. It's like a translucent wall, but it's weirder than a coffin.
The ground curtain is also the living habit of the Khitan people on the grassland, and then brought to another world.
Qin Beiyang bypassed the glassware and slowly approached the two tomb owners with Jiuse, the princess of Yue Kingdom and the concubine, with their heads and feet west, lying on the mattress with straight limbs. He didn't want the White Russians to touch these treasures, so he trembled and stretched out his hand to pick up the curtains of nine hundred years ago, just like lifting the red hijab of a bride, and a smell of decay came to his face......
He saw the owner of the tomb.
But he couldn't see his face, only two golden masks, and a pinprick chill hit him from between the masks' eyes.
Qin Beiyang hung the curtain on the hook ring of the bed frame, remembering that he had seen ancient Egyptian mummies at the Louvre in Paris, and the pharaoh's face was also covered with a gold mask, which was the same thing. The masks of the two tomb owners can clearly be divided into men and women. The colt on the left is rugged and narrow, with a mustache. The princess mask on the right is round and delicate, mostly based on real appearance. The steed wore a silver crown, and the princess wore a golden crown. There is a flame orb in the center, and on both sides are phoenixes that are about to fly, which are beautiful and exquisite. They have silver pillows under their heads, silver boots on the soles of their feet, and silver wire grids all over their bodies, which are finely woven according to various parts of the human body. The horse wears a silver sword and an iron sword, and the princess wears an amber and jade belt around her waist. The gold mask was covered with silver threads wrapped in black cloud temples and covered with pearl amber headdresses. Under the mask, an amber pearl necklace hangs from the neck. He wears a pair of gold bracelets on each wrist and gold rings on all fingers. The princess had one arm on the horse's hand, and the epitaph said that the horse was buried first, and the eighteen-year-old princess was buried last.
Qin Beiyang looked at the princess's golden mask and imagined what was the true face under the mask?
"What is this?"
A White Russian called out, and all eyes were gathered on the side of the circular tomb, where a curved jade object hung from the seam of the red cypress wall, and the miner's lamp reflected warmly.
Qin Beiyang has been under many ancient tombs, but he has never seen this kind of vessel shape - a dark green jade dragon, the dragon body is curled, in a C-shape, about one foot high and wide, the cross-section is oval, the diameter is about one inch, compared to the modern jade is quite domineering. The jade dragon's snout stretches forward, the dragon's mouth is tightly closed, a pair of symmetrical nostrils, prismatic protruding eyes, and the tail of the eyes is slender and upturned. There is a large raised long hair on the nape of the neck, which is curved and curled, also known as "hyena", which occupies one-third of the entire dragon's body. There is a hole on the dragon's back, and gold threads run through this hole, hanging the jade dragon from the wooden wall. The dragon head and tail hang down at the same level, proving that the craftsman has carefully designed it.
He found deer eyes, snake body, pig nose, and horsehair from this jade dragon...... Looking down at the nine colors of the tomb beast in the town, it also has a variety of animal appearances, such as the four non-phases of the unicorn, so it is an ancient divine beast.
Could it be that the dragon is also a kind of four-phase divine beast?
This piece of jade dragon is carved and dyed with a whole piece of jade, the craftsman is highly skilled, and the details are made of relief and bas-relief, and the whole body is smooth and clean, round and fluent. When Qin Beiyang was working in Longxi Hall in Deshengmen, Beijing, he stole the common sense of jade and saw that most of this jade material was Xiuyan jade from Liaodong, which was not far from the Khitan grassland.
“дракон?”
Even Wolfna saw the clue and pronounced a Russian word, which is "dragon", which is equivalent to "dragon" in English.
However, Qin Beiyang also noticed that this jade dragon had no feet, no claws, no horns, no scales, and no fins, which was different from the dragons seen in any dynasty. It should be the image of an ancient Chinese dragon, because the dragon of the Qin and Han dynasties had at least claws. Judging from the pulp on the jade dragon's body, the thick natural luster soaks the human body and the moisturization of the earth. In principle, the older the jade, the thicker the pulp, after entering the soil, it is not easy to form the pulp, because there is no living person to wear it, and the jade cannot be sensed with the human soul. But in this ancient tomb, there should be the souls of the two tomb owners floating everywhere......
In any case, this jade artifact was not a product of the Khitan at that time, I am afraid that when this tomb was built, the jade dragon had already been handed down to the world for thousands of years, far before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period?
The more he thought about it, the farther he went, Qin Beiyang's mind was confused, and he didn't notice that there was a White Russian, so he actually reached out and touched the jade dragon.
"Stop!"
By the slightest mistake, the big bear-like hand had already touched the jade dragon.
The entire underground palace made a loud roar, and the red cypress wood in front of him broke and cracked, and the jade dragon that had sneaked into the ancient tomb for nine hundred years was already a flying dragon in the sky. The White Russian who touched the jade dragon was gone, and the skull on his neck was gone, only a cavity spurting blood remained, and the human skull rolled to the ground, his eyes wide in horror......
Qin Beiyang dragged Wolfna and ran out. Ivanov beckoned everyone to escape from the Backrooms. When they fled for their lives, they thought that the door of the tomb was not wide enough, and three White Russians failed to break out. There were screams from the back room, Russian voices calling for the heavens.
The grave fell silent.
Qin Beiyang clenched the Tang knife, Ivanov pulled out his pistol and prepared the grenade, and the other White Russians also took out their own weapons.
A red light flashed through the door of the burial chamber, and the heat rushed in again. He saw a dark green dragon head, with a snake-like dragon body, but no dragon claws, relying on dragon scales to meander along, with a pinch of thick "hyenas" behind it, which was a jade dragon magnified countless times. The ancient jade dragon I saw just now hangs on the chest of this dragon.
Jade Dragon Town Tomb Beast.
This is the meaning of the jade dragon hanging in the tomb - the ancestors of the Qin clan who built the tomb concluded that once the tomb robbers invaded, they would be interested in this jade dragon. Once the Jade Dragon is touched, it will naturally trigger a trap, and the Tomb Beast sleeping in the wall will be activated.
This jade dragon will not only be snake-like on the ground, but will also leap into the air and open its bloody mouth. The bullets of the White Russians were completely useless against it, and Ivanov did not dare to throw grenades, the place was narrow for fear of hurting his own people. The Jade Dragon Town Tomb Beast bit off the heads of the Cossacks mercilessly, and its tail could easily slap people to death.
The floor tiles of the front room were strewn with the corpses of White Russian robbers. The samurai holding bones in their hands exchange glances and smile knowingly.
Suddenly, the nine-colored antlers grew, and the fierce jade dragon was entangled together.
The colonel and wolfna, who fled the road, were even more horrified, how the big dog, known as the hybrid mastiff, grew snow-white antlers and was covered with bronze scale armor, and turned into a young unicorn tomb beast.
The Jade Dragon Tomb Beast that guarded the Khitan Princess's horse, but I didn't expect that there was also a tomb beast in the camp of the "Tomb Robbers". Its shell is also cast in bronze, coated with a special pigment to resemble the effect of ancient jade, and is moved around the burial chamber.
Nine colors spit out a killer weapon - a glass fireball.
The fireball slammed into the jade dragon, causing an earthquake-like shake. Jiuse is not afraid of dragons, and the unicorn also has a dragon appearance, not to mention that in the East China Sea Dharma Mountain, Qin Beiyang slaughtered the tomb beasts of the evil dragon town.
If it was the nine colors of two years ago, it would definitely not be the opponent of the jade dragon in front of him. With the weak body of this young beast, I am afraid that it will be killed in seconds as soon as it comes up, just like Guan Gong slashing Huaxiong with warm wine. But Jiu Se had eaten several different spirit stones and absorbed the energy of many tomb beasts. Last month, it attacked the Harbin power plant, swallowing a large amount of toxic chemicals, accumulating toxins and radioactivity all over its body, multiplying its power. Even so, the nine colors can be a draw with the tomb beasts of Jade Dragon Town.
Qin Beiyang found that the jade dragon's movements were sensitive, echoing from end to end, and even the fireball could not break the shell. But it has a weakness, which is the midsection. The early jade dragon was closer to the snake. People say that it takes seven inches to fight a snake, and the dragon's seven inches are also here, which is where the dragon's heart is - if it is a tomb beast, then there is a spirit stone!
He approached quietly, and when the Jade Dragon Town Tomb Beast understood that it had returned, he wanted to come back and bite him again, but he was entangled by the nine-colored antlers. Qin Beiyang showed his three-foot Tang knife, gathered the evil power of the Tang Demon An Lushan, and slashed at the jade dragon seven inches......