Chapter 42: Oracle
Snow falls all year round, and over time this imposing palace is completely covered in snow, and if it weren't for the avalanche caused by the grenade of the field chicken, I am afraid we would not have been able to find it even if we passed by.
I watched the overlord lizard retreat into the ice cave in fear, and heard the excited shouts of Han Jin's people over there, who found the entrance exposed in the avalanche at the bottom of the mountain.
When we walked over, Han Jin had already taken the rest of the people in first, and I looked up at the huge ice gate at the entrance of the Kunlun Golden Gate, which was crystal clear and indestructible, but this huge ice door actually opened a gap, enough to accommodate one person to enter and exit.
"There should have been people in there before we found it." The palace lord whispered in my ear.
"Probably the same people who came here forty years ago." Tian Ji said while changing the magazine.
"Since someone has been in, there have been no rumors outside for more than 40 years, and the only explanation is that this group of people did find Kunlun Jinque." I took a deep breath of concern. "I'm afraid I've never left here again, so be careful when you go in."
"You have experience in visiting tombs, such a big palace, what period do you see?" Tian Ji asked curiously.
"You also know that I am a tomb visitor, this is a palace, not a mausoleum, how can it be so easy to see." I spread my hands and shook my head.
"Whether it is a mausoleum or a palace, the ornamentation and characteristics of the building are similar in the same period." The palace lord should also want to determine what period this stunning palace is. "Look at this palace as a mausoleum."
In fact, I have been paying attention to the huge ice gate, on each side of which is a samurai ice sculpture with his head half-kneeling and his hands pressed on the hilt of the sword in front of him, the shape is thick and dignified, and the expression is lifelike and respectful and reverent, but I have never seen the samurai's clothes and the style of the sword.
The lines on the ice door surprised me even more, those carved leaf veins are simple and powerful, ancient and simple, although simple and majestic, the patterns are gorgeous and breathtaking, revealing a mysterious and unpredictable feeling.
When Zhao Yan taught me to identify cultural relics, I came into contact with the bronze inscriptions of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the ornaments on them were similar to those on the ice gate, but the ice gate seemed to be even older.
There are three lines of lines on the top of the ice gate, which does not look like ornamentation, and the palace lord tilted his head and looked at it for a long time: "Why do I look like words?" ”
"It's too ugly." Tian Ji tilted his head and said. "This seems to be quite similar to the Jin Wen we found earlier."
"This is not Jin Wen!" I took a step forward and looked at the three lines.
"What kind of text is that?" Tian Ji and Gong Jue asked in unison.
Zhao Yan taught me to identify the earliest text is the oracle bone inscription, its text is more round, the pen is more pointed, and the straight and straight are wrong, full of changes, no matter fat or thin, are extremely vigorous, the earliest discovery of the oracle bone inscription is in the late Yin Shang period.
And I learned from Feng Cheng that the text older than the oracle bone inscription is the pottery inscription, which is well documented to be the pottery inscription unearthed in the ruins of Luoyang Erlitou in Henan, the font is mainly straight line, horizontal and vertical, and the structure is orderly, which is very likely to be the origin of the oracle bone inscription, and these pottery inscriptions were found in the ruins of the Xia Dynasty.
However, these characters are even more cumbersome than Tao scripts, similar to hieroglyphs, which means that the time may be older than the Xia Dynasty.
The dynasties that can be examined in the literature began in the Xia Dynasty, and among the ancient tomb sites that have been discovered, the Shang and Zhou dynasties have been rare, and the Xia Dynasty is extremely rare, and it is completely blank to trace back to the future.
I am almost certain that this Kunlun Golden Gate was built before the Xia Dynasty, which is beyond the scope of my understanding, and it is difficult to imagine how this splendid palace was built under the condition of backward productivity at that time.
There has always been no shortage of myths and legends in Kunlun Mountain, this is the place where the Emperor of Heaven lives, and I even really believed for a moment that I really can't think of anyone else who can complete such a huge project except God.
The sky is gradually overcast, the whistling snow wind is beginning to become cold, the climate in the Kunlun Mountains is elusive, it seems that the snowstorm is coming again, Han Jin beckoned us in the ice gate, I handed the eyes to the palace lord, he understood that he would go to check the ice gate, and Han Jin's hand worked together to close it.
"My mission is to bring the three of you here, and I'll leave the rest to you." Han Jin said to us in a low voice while asking people to look around. "Get the things in the Kunlun Golden Gate, otherwise no one will want to leave."
"Take what? What's in it? I asked coldly.
"It's not something you should worry about, it's not good for you to know too much." Han Jin's voice was colder than this ice and snow.
I looked around, this is an ice house completely made of ice, the fit of the four walls is quite complete, the seams are extremely regular, I suddenly understand how everything here is built, the Kunlun Mountains are extremely scarce building materials, the people who built this place take local materials according to local conditions, first use fire to melt the ice and snow, and then pour it into thick ice.
The snow and ice here are inexhaustible, the materials used for construction are also inexhaustible, and it is easy to build the desired structure, and at the same time, it is extremely strong, and the palace can be preserved forever in the extremely low temperatures of the Kunlun Mountains all year round.
That is to say, what we saw outside before was not a snow peak, but a palace built entirely of ice, we only saw the highest place, no wonder this place is not called Kunlun Golden Gate, if it is not covered by ice and snow, when the sun shines in this complete ice palace, what a gorgeous and shocking scene.
But the pattern of the ice room in front of me, compared with the whole magnificent Kunlun Golden Gate, seems a little narrow, the color of the entire ice room is dim and different, I always feel that something is wrong, there are seven bronze bells hanging in the middle of the ice room, and there is nothing in the ice room.
"There is a mechanism on the ice door, and it is extremely exquisite, there is no trace of don't force pry on the ice door, the ice door has been opened by someone from the outside with the correct method." Gong Jue came back and said calmly. "But something is in trouble."
"That's right, it's right to have a mechanism, at least it means that this is a human cultivator, and I've always been worried about what kind of place the gods live here, so we can't afford to offend." Tian Ji rubbed his shoulders and looked a little relaxed.
"What trouble did you just say?" Gong Jue's expression was wrong, and I asked worriedly.
"The mechanism of this ice door can only be opened from the outside, and once closed, the inside cannot be opened." The palace lord sighed.
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Tian Ji and I looked at Gong Jue sluggishly, which means that we have no way out, no matter what situation we encounter, we can only move forward.
"Also, this is Kunlun Jinque, so the ice lizard we encountered in the ice cave shouldn't be accidental." The palace lord looked at me and Tian Ji thoughtfully.
"You mean that someone deliberately left the ice lizard in the ice cave?" Tian Ji asked in surprise.
I nodded, and agreed with Gong Jue's idea, the ice lizard lived in the ice field with extremely low temperature before the extinction, the Kunlun mountain range is so vast and vast, there have always been rumors of the Kunlun dragon, it can be seen that the ice lizard has existed for a long time, but the ice lizard only appears in the ice cave, which is the only passage to the Kunlun Golden Que.
And the overlord lizard we saw, I don't know how many years it will take to grow so big, it is estimated that since the completion of the construction of this Kunlun Golden Gate, this group of ice lizards has always existed, the purpose is to protect this place, not to let anyone approach.
"It's not like you've never seen how powerful the overlord lizard is." Tian Ji licked his lips with palpitations. "Who can have the ability to control the Ice Lizard to stay here to protect the Kunlun Golden Gate?"
The problem is back to square one, which is definitely not something that can be done by humans......
As soon as I finished speaking, I saw Han Jin's people notice that they were holding seven bronze bells, and as soon as one of them wanted to reach out and touch them, he was stopped by the palace lord loudly: "There are extremely precise mechanisms on the ice gate, presumably there must be many mechanisms in this Kunlun Golden Gate, if you want to live, don't move around." ”
The man's hand hovered in front of the bell and turned his head to look at Han Jin with a panicked expression, these people seemed to be following his orders alone.
"Listen to them, don't move anything, rest here tonight, and leave early tomorrow morning." Han Jin nodded and said gloomily.