Chapter 146: The Main Beam

I didn't care to look closely, and hurriedly summoned the fat man and Shirley Yang to get out of here quickly, there may be fire in the copper tripod, and the lid will be triggered as soon as it moves. It was originally intended to be burned by the king on the platform from the sacrifice to the sky, but it was burned in the hall, and the fire burned big, the main body of the "Lingyun Heavenly Palace" is a Nanmu plus brick and tile structure, built on the top of the "dragon halo", very dry, from the six-legged black tripod ignited to the present short period of effort, the wood in the hall has been burned by the heat flow to "crackle", it seems that this heavenly palace is going to become a fire palace.

There were still four or five murderous "scarred men" left in the hall, and the fat man and Shirley Yang, who were fighting with them around the stone tablet in the corner, were startled by the sudden huge firelight, and they all suddenly changed color, and immediately followed me, and rushed to the short corridor connecting the front hall, if they stayed a little longer, I am afraid that they would become roast meat.

How do you know that before stepping out of the apse, the top of the short corridor, suddenly like a collapse, suddenly pressed down, the exit was blocked tightly, at this time I don't know whether to be happy, or to complain, if it is a few steps faster, it will inevitably be this ten thousand huge rocks, smashed into a pile of meat sauce in the corridor, but at the moment it is still in the apse, there is no way to escape, and it will be burned to death later.

Now with the equipment on our bodies, trying to extinguish the fire is tantamount to a fool's dream, the heat wave in the hall is blowing, I feel that my eyebrows are about to be burned by the fire, the fat man is so anxious that he turns, I dragged him down, and said to the fat man and Shirley Yang: "Don't panic, first get your hair wet with the water in the kettle"

The fat man said, "Isn't that a matter of care?" Besides, this little bit of water is not used at all...... What is it again? ”

The fat man was talking, and suddenly heard a rumbling sound on the wall in the hall, we hurriedly turned our heads to look, and saw a big hole in the wall, and the mercury dragon in the front hall that plunged into the "Offering the King to Heaven Pavilion" had its dragon head through the partition wall of the apse.

The dragon head that emerged from the apse immediately spewed out a large amount of mercury from the dragon's mouth. The ground was immediately splashed with large and small balls, and I was so anxious that I rushed to the top beam door like fire, and hurriedly said to the fat man and Shirley Yang: "The palace gate can't get out, and the top is the top of the Nanmu keel with glazed tiles, let's go up to the stone tablet." Burst through the roof of the temple from above. ”

The fat man also forgot his fear of heights, raised his hand and pointed to the stone tablet in the corner of the wall and said: "Only this monument is the highest, let's take a ladder up, hurry, hurry, if you play, you will have a mercury scar." As he spoke, he had already rushed over, and Shirley Yang Ye and I didn't dare to stay, avoiding the mercury under our feet, and rushed to the bottom of the tall stone monument at the corner of the hall, and the three of us climbed up the stone monument by ladder.

When he leaned down and looked down, the flowing mercury was already more than half a meter deep, and it was still increasing rapidly, and the flames of the six-legged black dome burning in the hall also dimmed. The firelight reflected countless flowing ripples on the ground, making the light and shadow in the hall constantly change, very beautiful, and even more weird.

Because the "scab person" controls the contraction of the tracheal system through the muscle movement of the mouthparts, it helps oxygen diffuse into the tissue cells. And it is too dependent on oxygen concentration. At this time, due to the fierce burning of the flames, the air in the temple was much thinner than normal, so the remaining "scabies" fell to the ground and wriggled, half buried by mercury.

There was a large amount of mercury in the hall, and the temperature of the flame was pressed, and it emitted a pungent smell of hot mercury, and the smell was extremely unpleasant, which contained a certain amount of toxin, but fortunately it was not fatal in a short time, and the fat man went up to the wooden beam, and I did not dare to slack off, so I quickly hung up the climbing rope and dragged myself up with a pulley.

As soon as I got up on the wooden beam, I remembered to hang on the top of the temple to get a witch robe, and when I turned back from the main beam, the red woman's witch robe was silently hung on a beam behind me, and I was only one meter away, and in the reflection of the streamer, it looked like the dress had life, swaying slightly.

Shirley Yang said just now that this is like the witch clothes worn by the "Shanpo" among the Yi people, I have never seen that kind of costume before, but I know that if it is related to the sacrificial activities of the king, there must be eyeball marks, and this red robe has no eyeball decoration, if it is a witch robe, it must be a key person among the people slaughtered by the king.

The same as the rest of the empty clothes hanging on the hall, *** corpses are in the six-legged fire ding, boiled into grease, since ancient times, people who die in red clothes, if they are dying in the yin year and the moon and the yin time, it is compared to a ghost, because red is yang, time is yin, so this kind of ghost has almost no weakness in a dark place, and it is extremely difficult to deal with, so when it comes to the whole yin hour, even the dead people of the semi-yin small wheel, their relatives are mostly wearing white murder clothes, and do not dare to move red, which is to give the consideration of fearing that it will become a powerful ghost.

At this time, the three of us were on top of the beams of the temple, and the mercury below was constantly increasing, and the wood on the temple had just been roasted by the fire, and now the fire was extinguished, but it was still expanding due to heat, and there was a creaking sound and the wood joints swelling, and on this single-plank bridge, which seemed to be about to break, we all thought of the head of the witch robe.

Just now, I just cared about dodging the mercury and fire below, and I was circling with the same group of ferocious "scabies", almost every minute and every wonder, it was the urgency of life, and I had been rushing upwards to escape, so I forgot the woman's head with a deep sneer for the time being, which was just remembered that the first half of this "witch robe" was wrapped in something.

I wanted to check again to see if there was a corpse in the red robe, but the fire in the hall had been extinguished, and the wooden beams on the roof of the hall had become black again. A set of strange clothes hung out of thin air, illuminated by the light of the spotlight on the helmet, and it looked even more shadowy, like a thousand-year-old ghost hovering on the roof of the temple.

The closest is the blood-colored women's "witch robe", looking at the silhouette in the dark, there is indeed something in the upper body, but the head is covered by a short beam, and it cannot be seen on the main beam we are on.

So I gestured to the fat man and Shirley Yang behind me, telling them not to move yet, and before the apse was filled with mercury, there was still a little time to spare, and I would go over the wooden beams and see if it was the ghost with the Yiren Shem attached to the "witch robe" at the nearest distance.

"Shemva" is a witch who can communicate with the gods by taking drugs and in a state of extreme mental madness. Although the name is "Shanpo", it is not necessarily an old woman, but it may also be young. Shrine maidens like this have a very high status among the Yi people, and they have all the right to speak in the name of the gods.

I asked the fat man for his pickaxe, looked at the mercury on the ground, held my breath, and climbed a little closer to the "witch robe" on the wooden beam, just enough to see her head. It was a bloody woman's head, her face covered by her long stray hair, revealing only a narrow slit in the middle, and her head hung down and did not move at all.

I couldn't figure out how that eerie laugh came from. Since there is a corpse, it is possible that it is not a ghost, but a zombie, and legend has it that when a zombie is burned by fire, it will also emit a mournful cry like a night owl. But on second thought, the laughter we had just heard was a cold, sinister screech, and I am afraid no zombie could make that kind of sound. He has to see it clearly, if there is a ghost who just blows up the glass roof of the palace, so that the sunlight has recently destroyed its soul, even if he can't find out what is famous, he will use a lighter to burn this strange set of clothes, so as not to leave trouble.

Although the hall was dark, it was daytime outside after all, and when I thought of this, my courage was also strong, so I rubbed half a meter forward on the main beam. At this angle, you can fully see the low-hanging face of the female corpse in the "witch clothes", and I saw that her face was so white that it was not the kind of dead man's white without blood, but because of the heavy makeup, a thick layer of powder, two pieces of red rouge on her cheeks, and her red lips were also tightly closed. A rope hangs from the back of the "witch robe", the top of which hangs strangely from a wooden beam like the rest of the empty clothes.

But from my vantage point, the female corpse's head was still low and angled, and her eyes could not be seen. When I was about to poke the head of the female corpse with my pickaxe so that she could lift it up a little more so that she could see it clearly, and then set it on fire, I heard the corpse suddenly burst into a sinister laugh at me, "Hey, hey, hey, cluck, ......", and in the silence of darkness, the laughter made my blood almost freeze.

Although I was prepared, I was still startled, and hurriedly retreated, but I lost the balance of my body, and my body fell off the main beam in a flash, but fortunately there was still a rope hanging on my body, so that I would not fall directly into the mercury in the hall.

But the moment I fell from above, I saw the light swaying on the mercury, and a thought suddenly appeared in my heart, there are many strange places in the apse of the Lingyun Heavenly Palace, especially this sudden mercury mechanism, although the exit is blocked, but the superstructure of this palace, even if there is no explosives, you can easily escape, so what is the significance of this mechanism? Isn't it used against the invaders, but with a lot of mercury, to bury a secret hidden in this apse, a "secret" that must never see the light?