Chapter 37: Iron Rope Bronze Coffin
I saw the place where the light source came from, it turned out to be Xinghuayan and Dakui below, and the one that emitted the bright light was the night pearl that was previously included in the bag of Xinghuayan!
As far as the eye can see, the scene below the waterhole is also unobstructed; But the scene shocked my heart! The whole waterhole turned out to be in the shape of a funnel, like a granary on a grain station to store grain; The top is a cylinder, while the bottom of the pool is a cone. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The shape of the waterhole is not something unusual, what really shocked me was that the waterhole was not only water, but the criss-crossing iron chains imprisoned in the wall of the pool. And between the criss-crossing iron chains, there are dense bronze coffins, and scattered skin-covered corpses; I couldn't see the layout of these countless bronze coffins, but I did see a few dried corpses that I had encountered earlier; They had already been firmly imprisoned by the corpse incense konjac, and then sucked into an empty skin sac, floating in the water like those skinny corpses!
Obviously, the countless branches of the corpse incense konjac may be due to buoyancy, and their attack power and movement speed in the water have also been greatly weakened; It also gives us the opportunity to pass through the cracks of its countless branches!
Xinghuayan and Da Kui avoided the branches of the corpse-scented konjac and swam towards the location where I and the forest were; The face was suffocated and red, which seemed to be caused by holding his breath underwater for too long!
"What should I do?"
We sprang out of the water and gulped in the air outside, and Lin Zi took the opportunity to shout to me;
"I don't know!"
I slapped the water hard to keep myself from sinking; The water was still churning violently, and the sound almost drowned out our voices, and I could only shout hoarsely into the woods!
"You can only go down...... ......"
The light of the night pearl illuminated the entire burial chamber, and Xinghuayan and Da Kui also came out of the water, and I saw Xinghuayan spit out several mouthfuls of water before it did not sink into the water with the assistance of Da Kui; Xinghua stared at the wall of the tomb with dark eyes, and said in a dark voice.
I followed the apricot blossom eyes, and the top of the tomb, the walls, and the water, including the water, were crawling with dense spiders, almost all the size of a fist, and they were struggling to swim in the direction where we were.
"Look at the face behind it! It's Black Widow! ”
Lin Zi burst out of the water with a thud, and a stump of corpse-scented konjac came out of the sword; When we came out of the water to ventilate, Lin Zi involuntarily acted as a pioneer in clearing all obstacles for us!
"Black Widow!"
I saw the faces on the backs of these dense spiders, all of them all smiling; It's like being portrayed on the back of a spider by someone, and under such a scene, it looks so out of place, weird and palpitating!
Black widow is the name of a poisonous spider, and in our case, all poisonous spiders are called "black widows", so Lin Zi is not wrong; Xinghuayan is not wrong in what she said, we only have one way at this time, and that is to go into the water......
Black Widow can swim, but that doesn't mean she can dive; So after recognizing the form in front of us, we did not hesitate to choose to dive into the water to find a way out!
The water is still a chaotic scene, and the countless branches of the corpse incense konjac approach us from time to time like maggots on tarsal bones, but because its movement speed in the water is much reduced, the threat to us is also greatly reduced! A lot of floating corpses like empty skins are scattered in the water, which inexplicably buries a layer of haze in our hearts!
I remembered the treasure pig that had just rescued me, but I could not find it as far as I could see; But why did it gnaw off the branches of the corpse incense konjac to save me from escaping, this has always been a question I don't understand! Could it be that I have something in me that interests it? I touched the jade pillow in my arms, laughed bitterly in my heart, and then swam deeper and deeper......
As I got closer and closer to the iron chains fixed on the walls of the waterhole under the water, I saw the real close-up of the dozens of hundreds of bronze coffins!
The nearest bronze coffin was covered with dark green rust, but I could vaguely see that it was depicted with a white flycatcher flying high!
Painting a white pheasant on a coffin? It's a bit confusing. As we all know, if this is an emperor's tomb, then the coffin should be in the shape of a dragon, and the general general's tomb is mostly depicted with patterns such as the unicorn beast or the four divine beasts!
So what exactly does the white pheasant mean here? Could it be the official title of the coffin before his death? During the dive, I suddenly saw the pattern carved on another coffin not far away, which was a majestic tiger!
Those who have studied history know that the size of the official positions of the Qing Dynasty was distinguished by the embroidered patterns on the official uniforms; The civil officials are: first-grade crane, second-grade golden pheasant, third-grade peacock, fourth-grade goose, fifth-grade white pheasant, sixth-grade cormorant, seventh-grade Hongshu, eighth-grade quail, and ninth-grade training finch. The military attachés are: the first rank of the unicorn, the second rank of the lion, the third rank of the leopard, the fourth rank of the tiger, the fifth rank of the bear, the sixth rank of the biao, the seventh and eighth grades of the rhinoceros, and the ninth rank of the seahorse. Secondly, the imperial history and the official are both hedgehogs.
The first bronze coffin I saw had a white flycatcher on it, and the second bronze coffin had a tiger on it, so ......
As if grasping something, I began to dive at an accelerated pace. Sure enough, when I dived underwater, I finally found a lot of clues.
The bronze coffins crisscrossed by iron cables were all distributed according to the size of the Qing Dynasty's official positions from top to bottom; The pattern on the top bronze coffin is a white pheasant and a bear, followed by a wild goose and a tiger, followed by a peacock and a cheetah, a golden pheasant and a lion, and a crane and a unicorn. The layout is completely arranged according to the position of the hundreds of officials in the court and the size of the official position!
"What's the point of such a layout?"
I've been underwater for more than a minute and a half, and it's very uncomfortable to hold my breath; Although I found some clues, I still couldn't find a way out, or there was no exit underwater!
Lin Zi, Xinghuayan and Da Kui obviously didn't have any gains, and had begun to go upstream; We are all normal people, and we don't have any particularly good diving skills, and staying underwater for a minute or two is already the biggest limit. Therefore, you can only ventilate according to your own physical condition in the time before you find a way out!
"Boom la la ......"
The surface of the water has long been the base of the highly venomous spider "Black Widow", and I stirred the waves under the water to scare away the spiders in a small area before they were able to surface to catch their breath!