Chapter 57: Facial Expressions
I buried my head in the water, and saw the second uncle take out a vertebra from the mountain of corpses and stuff it into the mouths of Tong Xiangyu and Zhang Lao, and he himself freed one hand and stuffed the other vertebra into his mouth. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
I didn't have time to pay attention to what they were doing, the water was shaking so badly that it blocked my view. At this time, I found that the light above my head was getting brighter and brighter, and I saw that the bead slowly came to the top of my head, and the little snake inside could see more clearly, I hurriedly went upstream, even if I was swallowed by a water python, I didn't want to be drowned in the water like this.
I swooped down, my head stuck out of the water, and I quickly took two breaths, and the anaconda opened its bloody mouth and bit me, and the skeleton boat was right in front of me, and I held it to the death, using it as a life-saving straw, even if the anaconda bit me, I had to stuff those bones into its mouth, so that it had the feeling of being stuck by fish bones.
The pythons, which had been tumbling over the river and the sea just a moment ago, suddenly moved away from me and swam towards the bottom of the water, and I climbed into the crevice in the middle of the mountain of corpses, and the bead was just a meter away above my head, and it was the first time I had touched it so closely.
The bead was the size of a football, and I could see the little snake in it clearly, the surface of the bead was a little hot, and I was wet and a little cold, and I jumped up, hooking my hands on the bead, overlooking the waters below, and nine anacondas were entangled with each other and sank to the bottom of the river.
I saw the second uncle and the three of them bulging cheeks, and I was worried about them just now, but now I look, there is a small hole in the center of the spine, and they are breathing through this, there is really theirs.
Why did these nine pythons keep not daring to come out of the hole? It turned out that there was this little snake, which forced them not to dare to approach, and they could only hide in the hole on weekdays.
The bead seemed to be suspended in the air out of thin air, I pressed down desperately, and after a while, the bead was getting closer and closer to the water, and I saw that the whole water was shining brightly, and it was clearly illuminated, and the nine big anacondas were intertwined with each other, like a behemoth, and their heads were buried deep in the water, and they must be afraid of this bead.
I shouted to the second uncle, let them come quickly, I told them the wonderful use of this bead, the second uncle jumped up from the water, wiped off the water droplets on his face, and gasped: "Suffocated Lao Tzu, I thought this python was not afraid of heaven and earth, but I was afraid of this small bead." ”
Zhang Lao and Tong Xiangyu also poked their heads out of the water and climbed up the corpse mountain, I jumped down from the bead and jumped to a gap in the corpse mountain, and the three of them came to me.
Tong Xiangyu untied her belt, made a round knot, threw it at the bead, lassoed the bead impartially, and pulled it gently, and the bead slowly came over this way.
We found a slightly larger space on the corpse mountain, a few people nested there, the beads were placed in front of us, crystal clear, very good-looking, we looked at it with a curious eye, I asked Tong Xiangyu have you seen this thing?
Tong Xiangyu said: "I have seen a lot of gold and silver jewelry, and I have seen a lot of gold and silver jewelry, but I have never seen such a big one, if I move out, I will definitely be able to sell it for a lot of money." ”
As soon as the second uncle heard that he could sell it for money, he immediately lifted the beads up, but he didn't move at all. The little snake swam in it, and it was impossible to see what kind of liquid it was, even if it was water, it would be a little turbid or something, and from this angle, the little snake looked like a dragon flying in the air.
Tong Xiangyu looked at it carefully: "This seems to be a cobra." ”
I checked the beads, there were not a single gap in the body, it was hard to imagine how the snake got in, and in the time of Qin Shi Huang, there was no such thing as glass or crystal.
I glanced at Zhang Lao, who was proficient in wild history, and he raised his head to look at me and suggested that we open it up and take a look. I groped up and down, but didn't find any gaps, and the second uncle said, "Just smash it open." "I picked up a bone, learned Sima Guang's smashing cylinder, and smashed it hard, and the light inside suddenly disappeared.
Immediately a puddle of water flowed out, and the cobra also flowed out, and the second uncle wanted to touch it with his hand, but Tong Xiangyu hurriedly stopped him: "Don't underestimate this thing, it's very poisonous." ”
The second uncle remembered that the nine pythons just now were afraid of this little snake, so he took her words to heart and quickly retracted his hand. This mountain of corpses is all made up of bones, and the place where we stand is not secure, and we have to hold on to the nearby bones with our hands to maintain the balance of our bodies.
When the water dried, the little snake was left to dry on the bones, lying there motionless, and I patted its body with a bone, but it only moved a little and didn't react much. I asked, "Is this a cobra and why does it look so docile?" ”
Tong Xiangyu said: "It's better for us to evacuate this place quickly, this cobra is not a mascot, it may be pretending to be dead when it lies here, none of us should touch it, not at all." ”
I threw out the question I had just asked: How did this bead come about? How did this cobra get sealed inside? More than 2,000 years have passed, why is this little snake still alive?
Zhang Lao, who has always studied wild history, said: "At that time, it was mainly bronze, and I guess that the transparent substance we see now should not be a material such as glass or crystal, but a substance secreted from the snake." The alchemist was so powerful, looking at it now, he was definitely a great chemist, but at that time, their main task was alchemy, thinking about immortality, and they didn't think about creating any new substances to benefit the world. ”
After listening to Mr. Zhang's words, I felt that after talking for a long time, it was the same as not saying anything, and the second uncle looked around aimlessly, and suddenly said to us: "Come and see, there are words here." ”
This place is too small for a few of us to squeeze there, so the second uncle casually broke off a piece of the bone, and the handwriting was engraved on it, which was a very simple word, and there were some simple drawings. At that time, it was mainly traditional characters, and the characters engraved on these bones looked very simple, so simple that we didn't recognize them anymore.
Chen Lao had studied this aspect, he took a look, and his face became gloomy: "I probably understand what is going on." ”
The migrant workers had already discovered what Qin Shi Huang had done, and tried their best to escape from here, but these snakes were as clever as humans, and they were very tightly guarded, and when the construction was almost completed, those snakes ate several people every day, and seeing that these snakes were about to come and eat themselves, they simply gambled, even if they died, they would take the secrets of this place out.
At that time, writing was still done in bamboo slips, and if the writing was written on the wall, it would be easy to spot, so they came up with a way, and they found that these snakes sometimes spit out the bones that they had eaten, and these bones were just enough for them to carve words on them.