Soon the silvery-white liquid no longer spewed out of the air of the pumped brick, and the whole wall cracked through the gap in the pumped brick, until the force of the mercury gushed down the whole wall, and after a few moments the silver-white liquid gushed out like a flood. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The part of the stone bridge in front of the brick wall was quickly flooded with liquid, and some of them had even flowed from the stone bridge to the water under the stone bridge, and the silver-white liquid seemed to be constantly evaporating, and the vapor in the air quickly blocked our vision, and even the location of the brick wall was no longer visible.

The silver-white liquid evaporated with a very pungent smell, like the smell of a broken thermometer, and I stupidly said to them: "Why does this thing smell so much like mercury, the smell is so strong, don't smell it, beware of poisoning." ”

"Han Wa'er, that's mercury, it's like, what is it?" When my father heard me say this, he hurriedly said, "If it weren't for my master's caution, we would all be drowned in that mercury, which is highly toxic and easiest for the skin, digestive tract and respiratory tract to absorb, and it would be troublesome at that time." ”

"Mercury? How can there be mercury in this brick wall? I was puzzled.

"Mercury has been known for a long time in ancient times, and it has many other names, such as what Yuan Zhu, Liuzhu, Living Treasure, etc., in the past, Taoists used to practice Dan and called it Yinnu, which means cinnabar, didn't you study chemistry in high school? It's the mercury sulfide that you used for your experiments. "My dad called me a look of contempt, I was definitely born to him.

At this time, the second uncle also came out and interjected a few words; "Ji Ming, don't think that our ability to pour a bucket is built, after so many years of fighting, even if we didn't know it before, we have all seen it." He coughed halfway, and then added: "This mercury was an indispensable thing for those alchemists in the past, and in medieval alchemy, this mercury and sulfur, as well as salt, were the three most sacred elements of alchemy, and without these three elements, the alchemist could not refine anything."

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"And look at the amount of mercury in this brick wall, behind this wall should be the underground palace, in the underground palace to store a large amount of mercury, 'mercury for the rivers and seas, the camera instilled', of course, there is also the role of embalming and symbolizing wealth, and as for the rest, if someone enters the underground palace, the mercury is a toxic liquid metal, and people will inhale the mercury vapor released by mercury and be poisoned, understand? My silly nephew! "I didn't expect the second uncle to be this kind of person, don't mock me and feel uncomfortable, hey.

"Yes, I've gained knowledge." I nodded, this is also a very unique anti-theft design of the ancients, many ancient mausoleums have this kind of anti-theft measures in the underground palace, no wonder there will be mercury in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, it turns out that it has so many effects, and my father They also said that this mercury can be used for alchemy, I even guessed whether this mercury is used to refine elixir.

Legend has it that Qin Shi Huang was obsessed with elixir and real human art in order to rule the world forever, so in order to achieve the purpose of cultivating immortals, under the instigation of the alchemist Lu Sheng and others, Qin Shi Huang even moved the palace to the underground palace, staying in it every day, staying at home, saying that it was to welcome the immortals while reviewing the chapters, and later Qin Shi Huang knew that mercury was a good thing for alchemy, so the status of mercury also rose.

And mercury appeared long before Qin Shi Huang, and it was also commonly used among the people in the Spring and Autumn Period.

No wonder this Witch Spirit King can help Jin Xiangong so much, he really knows a lot of things, maybe he can really know a lot of things that others don't know, whether it is the past or the future, but in my heart I always feel that this Witch Spirit King is not so simple, after all, the last sentence of the silk book is always wandering in my mind, "Meet me..... See me. "Forget it, don't think about it.

In order to prevent the mercury from the brick wall from spraying on us, we all stood far away, and Abu still muttered: "Listen to the second master say this, I better stay as far away as possible, so as not to poison me." He also hid behind Tianming when he was chattering, "If you want to poison, you will poison Tianming first, who told him to talk to me for a day." As he finished speaking, he made a tongue sticking out motion.

"You, you!" The second uncle had no choice but to shake his wrist and point at Abu and say.

When Tianming heard Abu say this, he did not show weakness, and said, "According to what you say, are you looking forward to my death?" ”

Abu was also embarrassed: "It's not funny, don't blame me, hehe." ”

"If you want to die, you will die first, you see that you are so tall and so burly, even if the sky falls, it will press you first, then you will die first, right?" We all laughed from ear to ear when Tianming said this, if it weren't for the alertness of the master, we would all have drowned in this mercury, and the two of them are still in the mood to talk here, which is really laughable.

In the time of this bickering, the mercury in the brick wall quickly ran out, and the mercury flowed for a full ten minutes, although not to the extent that it could be merged into a river, and it had to be the weight of a small pool.

After seeing the mercury streamer, we sorted out and walked towards the wall that was washed away by the mercury, and found that there was a wall behind the brick wall, and the wall was only as high as Abu, about one meter eight or nine, and the mercury was stored between the brick wall outside and the wall.

I didn't think that because of the master's caution, instead of letting the mercury drown and poison us, we also let the mercury help us wash away the brick wall, which was really pie in the sky, saving us a lot of time

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Soon we made a passage in this wall just enough for us to enter, but behind this wall was only a tomb passage, and unlike the stone bridge outside, there was white phosphorus to provide some light, and it was back to its original black appearance, I thought to myself, could it be that we are already on the tomb path leading to the underground palace?

However, this tomb is different from the previous tombs, the difference is that there are murals on the walls around it, and every place illuminated by a mine lamp is full of murals, and the content on it looks wonderful, but because I can't find where the mural starts and ends, I can't understand the meaning of this mural.

And now where we are up and down into a bucket shape, as if it is covered on our heads, the shape is a bit dome, all with stone inlays, the top is also attached to the stone, the murals are all pasted with white lime, the murals are all painted with black ink, and there are seal script wall characters on the side, which tells about the witch king.

The murals around are divided into three layers, the top depicts some wind, rain, thunder and lightning, as well as people in armor, the second layer depicts peasants ploughing the land, wars and other scenes, and the third layer depicts evil spirits being fried in a pan of oil, disemboweled, disemboweled, according to my opinion, the content of this mural should be about gods, men and ghosts.

In addition to this mural, the north mural is relatively simple, the top layer is like a freehand painting, the sky is cloudy, the far away is a grassland, there are men riding horses and archery, the green grass is leisurely in the very close place, and there are praying mantis catching cicadas; The middle layer is a realistic painting, which should be a portrait of the witch king, about forty centimeters high, with black lips and beard, wearing a robe, sitting cross-legged, holding a wooden sword in his right hand; At the lowest level, it is like recording the life of the Witch Spirit King, holding a wooden sword to slash ghosts, kneeling to the sky and summoning the souls of the dead.

Every detail of the mural seems to be expressing the skills and origin of the witch spirit king, if the person riding a horse and shooting arrows on the grassland is the witch spirit king, then the witch spirit king may not be the Central Plains, and those murals that record gods, people and ghosts may be related to the witchcraft source of the witchcraft of the witch spirit king, and then to the witch spirit king's ghost killing and summoning spirits, the characters depicted in this mural are the witch spirit king, there is no doubt about it.

When I looked at the murals, I saw that there were still murals all around, so I walked around to see the other murals to understand something, but found that two of the murals were blurred, as if they had been brushed by a brush.

But at the moment, I suddenly understood something, this mural has been stolen and removed! But this mercury wall is fine, how did these people steal this mural? And where did it come from? If other tomb robbers dug other caves, this can only be explained, no wonder there are bronzes and grave robbers' corpses in the caves outside, perhaps they are part of this group of tomb robbers.

I thought about telling my father that their tomb had been patronized by tomb robbers, but I touched the mural with my hand, but I didn't react, just the moment I touched the mural, the foot was empty, and a dark grid appeared under my feet, and before I screamed, I had already fallen, fell to the bottom, and my whole body hurt! I thought to myself that I must have touched some mechanism, and when I looked up again, the dark grid had closed.

At this time, I didn't know where my miner's lamp had fallen, so I had to reach out and touch around, but instead of finding it, I grabbed a handful of hair.