Chapter 11: The sarcophagus
We felt extremely uncomfortable in this passage, as if we were being watched by a group of evil spirits. At this time, the monkey said: "Old Zhao and Lao Yang, let's hurry up, it's too scary here!" ”
I didn't want to stay here anymore, so I urged Lao Zhao to leave quickly. Lao Zhao saw that I was messing with the monkey to leave, so he had to continue on the road. The passage was straight throughout, and the further you went, the more it began to widen. We walked for about an hour until we finally came to the end of the passage.
The passage leads to a stone chamber, as soon as we enter, we saw a huge sarcophagus in the center of the stone chamber, we were shocked when we saw that there was a coffin here, this is really a tomb! How can there be a coffin?
As soon as the monkey saw the coffin, he immediately hid behind me and Lao Zhao, and said in a trembling voice: "Damn, there won't be dead people lying in this coffin!" I fixed my mind and said, "How is it possible, this place looks thousands of years old, and even if there is, it is a dry corpse!" When the monkey heard this, he scolded: "Damn, isn't the dried corpse a dead man?" ”
Then I took a look at the inside of the stone chamber. I saw that the stone chamber was more than five meters wide and six or seven meters long, and at the four corners of the stone chamber there were four stone pillars with a diameter of more than half a meter on top of the stone slabs above, and a giant dragon was carved on the four stone pillars, winding the whole pillar from top to bottom. There was nothing in the chamber except for the sarcophagus in the middle.
We quickly set our sights on the sarcophagus again. We use torches to illuminate the whole sarcophagus, only to see that one side of the sarcophagus stone wall is engraved with some strange patterns that we have never seen, and I don't know what the meaning of these patterns are, the other side of the stone wall is engraved with some words, only to see a few lines of big characters carved in the middle of the coffin stone wall, followed by a few rows of small characters below the big characters, take a closer look, are carved with small seals, fortunately I have studied calligraphy, have a certain understanding of small seals, some basic words I will still recognize. I saw that a few lines of large words were relatively short, so I read them out:
The impermanence of the world is cause and effect, true and false, good and evil, and the moon in the water.
The shadow is also false when it is formed, and life is death, death and life.
All laws are at ease with fate, and the flowers are empty in the fog.
The cycle of cause and effect breaks life and death, and you see the truth in the ghost mirror.
When the monkey heard that I had finished reading, he asked, "What the hell does this mean?" It's like poetry! ”
I have been most annoyed to read poetry since I was a child, and I don't understand what these eight sentences mean here, so I asked Lao Zhao, and said that Lao Zhao is older than us, and he has seen more of the world than us, so maybe he understands. I saw that Lao Zhao was silent, as if he was pondering, and suddenly, Lao Zhao asked me: "Brother Yang, you read the last sentence to me again!" I saw Lao Zhao's expression was stern, as if he had discovered something, so I read the last sentence again: "The cycle of cause and effect breaks life and death, and you can see the truth in the ghost mirror." ”
Lao Zhao listened to me and said: "The word 'mirror' is mentioned in this sentence!" When the monkey and I heard this, it dawned on me, and I immediately said, "Could it be that the mirror is hidden in this sarcophagus?" The monkey pondered for a while and said, "Old Yang, we are looking for the spirit mirror, and the sentence you just read is the ghost mirror!" "I also realized this, and my heart said that this mirror has two names, or is there originally two mirrors, one is called the spirit mirror, and the other is called the ghost mirror?
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