Chapter 4: The Seven Star Gate

Lying on the ground, Ma Mian, Ergouzi and Xiaomao struggled to get up, and when they saw the eldest brother falling into the cliff, they desperately searched for their lives down the mountain. When they got to the bottom of the mountain, they saw that the two of them were bloodied and dead, and all three of them fell to the ground and wept bitterly.

After crying for a long time, the numb-faced man said: "At the beginning, I waited for the four of us to go out of the village to join the army together, became brothers of the opposite sex, and vowed to live and die together, I don't want my eldest brother to go first in order to save us, people can't be resurrected after death, but they have to bring the eldest brother's body back if they say anything" Several people listened to it, thinking that it could only be like this.

At this time, the short soldier suddenly pointed not far away and exclaimed, it turned out to be the box carried by Li Heiniu, and the box was already in tatters at this time. There were two copper lamps scattered around. The pock-faced man stepped forward and took the bronze lamp in his hand, and he didn't see anything unusual when he looked left and right.

The two dogs said: "Since Brother Hei Niu said that this is the thing that the prime minister fancied before his death, it must be a little extraordinary, I will look around later." After saying that, several people looked around again. After a short time, four more identical copper lamps were found. At this time, it was getting late, and the three of them thought that Feng Junhou would be able to chase him here, and there must be other people coming soon, and it was important to escape, so the three of them had no intention of staying, so they got up and left with Li Heiniu's corpse.

Soon after the three of them left, the bloody man lying on the ground struggled to get up, it turned out that He Junhou was not dead, he pulled out the crossbow arrow in his abdomen in pain, staggered to his feet, heard the sound of running water nearby, because of excessive blood loss, he was very thirsty, so he looked around for a water source.

When he came to the stream, He Junhou treated the wound briefly. I only saw a small wooden box in the water grass next to it, and there was a copper lamp next to the box, and I remembered that I heard the conversation between the three of them when I was pretending to be dead, and I knew that it was the prime minister's thing, so I picked it up and walked towards the prime minister's cemetery.

After about two or three hours, He Junhou finally saw the prime minister's grave, but Li Heiniu's words made him keep an eye on it, so he observed the situation of the cemetery from a distance in the bushes, and really let him see the figure of a sergeant fighting.

was sighing, but only saw a red light in the sky, and then I felt the earth under my feet tremble, saying that it was too late, it was fast, and I saw that the mountain peak above the prime minister's cemetery collapsed completely, and in a blink of an eye, the cemetery was covered with huge dust.

After the earthquake, He Junhou was stunned by the vision of heaven and earth, and when he came back to his senses, he looked at it again, and the entire hillside had been razed to the ground, but there was still a shadow of a cemetery. He looked at the flat ground until it was dark.

Finally, disappear into the night alone.

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The story was told to me by my godfather when I was fifteen years old. After listening to this, I expressed my doubts, and my godfather did not defend himself, but took out a very simple portrait and hung it on the wall and told me to kowtow.

When I kowtowed, I took a closer look, and the portrait was painted very expressively, although it was an ordinary ancient, the eyebrows were resolute and straight, revealing a kind of momentum that was not angry and self-imposing.

"This is my ancestor, and in my generation, it is already 35 generations. Godfather said respectfully. The next thing I took out caught my attention was a rectangular wooden box, the paint on the surface of which had been peeled off a lot. The godfather carefully opened the box, took out the contents and unfolded them, it was a small black pennant more than a foot long, and there was a silk book in the box.

"Godfather, didn't the book I read before say that Zhuge Liang failed to continue his life? This ......"

"That's because the world doesn't know that he was seriously ill after becoming prime minister, and he used the seven-star life-sustaining lamp to successfully perform a life-sustaining technique. ”

"Huh? I screamed in disbelief.

Back then, after Feng Junhou left Dingjun Mountain, he opened the box and took out the contents to unfold it, which turned out to be a small pennant more than a foot long, and there was a silk book in the box. After reading the silk book, I knew that the flag and the lamp were magical things, the flag was the soul flag, and the lamp was the life-sustaining lamp. The silk book tells that Zhuge Liang unintentionally got the soul fixing flag and the life-sustaining lamp when he traveled through the mountains and rivers before his death, and he actually participated in some magical ghost methods on this object, including the technique of life-sustaining. Feng Junhou later went to Dingjun Mountain to look for it, but he couldn't find the collapsed place anyway. He also tried to understand the secret of the flag box lamp, but he was never able to do so, and finally came to the conclusion that in order to understand the secret of life, he could not find all seven lamps.

I asked, "But what does that have to do with what you taught me?" ”

"Naturally, there is a relationship. The godfather continued: "It is said that more than two hundred years ago, things were passed to one of my ancestors, and my ancestor had a strong interest in this, determined to solve the mystery of the seven-star life-sustaining lamp, he did a lot of research, and it was rumored that Liu Bowen also used the life-sustaining lamp at the beginning, but my ancestors found that it was just Liu Bowen who learned Mr. Zhuge in order to mythologize himself and learn Mr. Zhuge to make some mysteries. Those bronze lamps have never appeared in the world since then, and my ancestors analyzed that it is very likely that they were taken to be buried underground. He studied the method of robbing tombs and founded the Seven Star Gate, planning to start with the ancient tombs to see if he could get some clues. ”

Speaking of this, the godfather sighed: "It's a pity that my ancestor was obsessed with visiting the tomb all his life, but he didn't find the second seven-star lamp until he died of old age, so he left a will, so that the descendants could find a way to get together the seven-star life-sustaining lamp no matter what, and the seven-star gate has continued since then." ”

"Oh, I see! It dawned on me that I said, "No wonder you were in that tomb that time." ”

"That's your boy's luck. My godfather glanced at me and said, "My parents died young, leaving me and my brother behind, and we had a disagreement over the whereabouts of the Seven Star Lantern. He insisted that the ancient lantern was still near the big cities in the northwest, and I analyzed that the three soldiers who left alive according to some clues left by the ancestors might be the local natives recruited in the Yungui area when Liu Bei went south, so he took the lamp, and I came here with the flag to try my luck, and I met you. ”

"Qingwa, I have no children under my knees, your parents passed you on to me, so that I can find a way to treat you, and you will also give me a pension in the future, from now on, you and I will be called He Qing." ”

After saying those words just now, the godfather said solemnly: "Tomb robbery is not a glorious thing after all, from ancient times to the present, how many tomb robbers are because of the word "greed", some because of the treasure cannibalism, or because of the sale of cultural relics leaked by the government to arrest, and some died because of the supernatural organs in the tomb, most of them did not die well. Therefore, you must keep in mind that the people of the Seven Star Gate visit the tomb and do not rob the tomb, first of all, to find the Seven Star Lamp, and not to be greedy for money. ”