The Vanishing Thief Cave
"Huh? How can it not be human? I quickly got up and walked quickly to Gu Yixin's side.
On the wall facing the head of the coffin of the Ugin Dragon Crystal sarcophagus, there is a large mural with relatively dull colors, consisting of six small murals. After more than 2,000 years, the last two paintings have been eroded and weathered, and it is difficult to make out the contents. But the first four are relatively well preserved.
When Hei Niu heard what Gu Yixin said just now, he also walked over and looked at the murals with interest, but after looking at it for a while, he didn't see any eyebrows, and asked, "Xiao Gu, where is it written that the history of Yizhou is not a person?" The colors of this painting are also too monotonous. ”
Gu Yixin hit the beam of light on the wall, and explained while pointing to the mural: The first painting is a picture of the official in command. A tall man in cloth led the whole family to kneel on the ground, that person should be the history of Yizhou Thorn, there were two palace people in official uniforms standing in front of everyone, a palace man holding a parchment scroll was reading, and the back of the parchment scroll was painted with a Tengyun Canglong, which seemed to be a holy decree; Another palace man held the court robe in both hands. Judging from the picture alone, the Yizhou Assassin Shi was sealed in a hurry, otherwise, such an important official position would generally be announced in the temple, and he would definitely not send palace people to his home with a secret decree to read it.
The second mural is the scene of the tall Yizhou Thorn Shi leading thousands of troops and horses to the bottom of the city, the scene is magnificent: the Yizhou Thorn Shi is riding a war horse, holding a black flag painted with a two-headed python, behind him are tens of thousands of soldiers, in front of a city tower, there are two people standing faintly on the city tower, these two people only draw a vague outline, can not see who it is. The city gate is unusually tall and sturdy, and it is carved with auspicious clouds of strange beasts, and its color and texture should be made of bronze.
Gu Yixin looked at the bronze gate and said, "It's amazing that the ancestors of the Han Dynasty were able to build such a beautiful and huge city gate!" Just don't know where this is. ”
Gao Moli stood next to me, looking at this mural, his eyes revealing a deep pathos.
I looked at Gao Moli's reaction and guessed that this mural might be related to him, which may be the legendary ancient Dian Kingdom. So he said to Gu Yixin: "This should be the ancient Dian Kingdom, first, the bronze smelting technology of the ancient Dian Kingdom has reached its peak, and only the ancient Dian Kingdom can make such a beautiful bronze giant gate." Second, the greatest military achievement of the Yizhou Assassin was to assist Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to persuade the ancient Dian Kingdom, and it is not surprising that he painted his achievements in the tomb. ”
"It's not persuasion, it's coercion." Gao Moli suddenly spoke.
"Coercion? What coercion is used? "I looked at the chess pieces of the black two-headed python in the hands of the Yizhou Thorn Shi, and suddenly realized that this war might be related to the evil witchcraft mastered by the priestess of the ancient Dian Kingdom.
"The lives of the Dian people." Gao Moli's calm tone revealed a hatred of the world.
"Hey, I can't see that the little brother is not only an expert in seal calligraphy, but also an expert in history, and he knows more than a pseudo-intellectual like Lao Su. Little brother, how did this Yizhou threaten the King of Dian with the lives of the people of Dian, is it possible, if the King of Dian does not surrender, he will kill all the clansmen? The black bull asked Gao Moli puzzled.
"Worse than killing." Gao Moli said these words coldly, and then said no more.
Looking at his reaction, I knew that it would be futile to ask again, but I guessed that the Yizhou Assassin had secretly colluded with the priestess long before attacking the ancient Dian Kingdom, and might use evil witchcraft to threaten the lives of the entire Dian people and force the King of Dian to surrender. This speculation stems from the content of the third mural.
The third mural depicts the environment in which the palace is supposed to be: the Yizhou Thorn is on his knees, holding a treasure box to pay tribute to the emperor, who is sitting on the edge of a bed on which a child is lying on it. The treasure box was open, and there were some vermilion pills inside, and Yizhou Thorn Shi was followed by a masked priestess. This painting should be about the murder of the ancient Dian king by the Yizhou assassin and the priestess, refining the blood of the Dian king into a pill, and paying tribute to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to treat the life of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
The fourth mural is the one that made Gu Yixin exclaim that the history of Yizhou Thorn is not a human being. Yizhou Thorn Shi sat on the Taishi chair with a painful expression on his face, and two slender tentacles stretched out of his mouth, and the end of the tentacles was bifurcated, much like a snake hyacinth. His robe was open, and countless of these bifurcated tentacles stretched out from his belly, stretching in different directions. The priestess stood aside with a frightened and helpless expression on her face.
"How can a normal person have a letter? Could it be that Yizhou Thorn Shi is really not human? Be...... Is it a snake demon? Black Bull asked puzzled.
At first glance, Yizhou Thorn Shi has indeed become an octopus-like monster. However, when I saw the forked tentacles, I suddenly thought of a strange parasite—gluttony.
I explained to everyone: "Yizhou Thorn Shi is not a monster himself, he is just possessed by an evil insect and has become a half-human, half-worm monster. Attached to him is a glutton, a strange parasite that is said to be born in the netherworld and will find a host on its own, and the more greedy people are, the more they will provoke this glutton. Once the gluttonous insect enters the host, it will not leave, and it will continue to suck the host's blood and bones, and eventually merge with the host, living and dying together. ”
"The tentacles of that bug are too penetrating, and it looks like a snake hyacinth." The black bull said to take pictures of the last two murals, but most of the two murals had fallen off, and it was impossible to see what the content was.
"In the same burial chamber, how can the degree of preservation of these frescoes be so different?" I was puzzled and muttered to myself. It suddenly occurred to me that there is only one reason for this difference, and that is weathering. There should be a thief hole in this burial chamber, and the entrance of the thief hole should be directly opposite the two murals.
I hurriedly turned the direction of the spotlight and looked at the opposite side of the mural, only to see that there was indeed a nearly circular hole in the tomb wall opposite. That must have been left behind by the two previous tomb robbers.
"Hey, there's a thief!" The black bull said and walked over, lay down at the entrance of the cave and took a picture inside, and suddenly said, "Damn! Blocked! ”
We went around and found that the location three meters away from the cave was full of rocks. I was stunned for a while, and suddenly understood: the small-scale movement of the earth's crust turned this robbery hole into the mountain, the robbery hole was completely sealed, and the escape path we were looking for in our hearts and minds became a way of thinking.
Gu Yixin was stunned for a moment and asked, "What should I do?" Now I am afraid that there is no way back, and there is no way out. ”
"The fourth gold plaque hasn't been found yet, why don't we open the sarcophagus of this old zongzi first? I believe there will always be a way out. The black bull said, preparing to push the lid of the black gold dragon crystal sarcophagus engraved with four two-headed pythons.
Suddenly, there was a wheezing sound from the huge dark sarcophagus, and the voice was unusually rapid and low, as if an old man had suddenly woken up from his sleep.