Chapter 183: Amber from the Underground Palace
The next day we rested and continued along the Heavenly Street, in the huge underground cavern space, all the buildings were built exactly according to the sketch design, and two hours a magnificent and cheerful city wall blocked us in front of us.
The big hall on the city wall is high, echoing each other, the momentum is magnificent, cheerful and brilliant, standing under the city tower and looking up, there is an illusion of dreaming back to the Tang Dynasty, this simple and unpretentious but majestic building, standing on the ground but like the grandeur of Xiao Han.
Ye Zhiqiu said that this high hall city wall is called Duanmen, from the design of the Vientiane Shrine, the most magnificent palace in the Seven Heavens Building is all in the Duanmen, the city gate below is open, and the majesty of the Duanmen is highlighted under the continuous burning flames, we enter the Duanmen along the Heavenly Street, and then we are shocked, and the body stiffens and stays in place.
Perhaps only here can we truly appreciate the splendor of the Vientiane Shrine, all built in the Tang Dynasty architectural style, and the most breathtaking is the Heavenly Street in front of us.
It is completely different from the heavenly street outside the end gate, it is no longer just a carved stone bar, but a more spacious avenue, on which are staggered and inlaid with precious stones, and the firelight is reflected on the gems, shining with a dazzling light, and the light and death are like bright stars in the night sky.
"Galaxy!" The corners of Ye Zhiqiu's mouth squirmed extremely shockingly. "It turns out that this is the true meaning of the Heavenly Street, the Seven Heavens Building is distributed on the central axis of the Heavenly Street, there are seven stars in the sky, and these seven stars are located in the galaxy, Ling Xuan took the Heavenly Street as the Milky Way, but unfortunately Wu Zetian once again understood the wrong wonderful design, when the Vientiane Shrine was built in Luoyang, Luoshui was the Milky Way, thinking that the Heavenly Street was tightly a passage connecting the north and the south."
As Ye Zhiqiu said, the heavenly street shining bright and different lights in front of him is like a galaxy falling into the world, looking at the long stars in the past, the brilliance of those gems lingering forms a band of light, which is spectacular and amazing.
Tian Ji squatted on the ground and stretched out his hand to touch the flickering starlight on the ground, and his expression suddenly changed: "The things embedded in the heavenly street are those stones dripping from the skull copper pillar." ”
I was shocked and hurriedly squatted down to check, sure enough, it was those dark green stones, this thing is not an auspicious thing, now it is inlaid in the heavenly street, although it looks gorgeous but it always feels unusual.
"What is this?" Ling Zhihan looked at the orange and yellow things on both sides of Heavenly Street and was puzzled.
In the past, there were stone carvings on both sides of the Heavenly Street, and the shapes were mainly based on the eight heavenly dragons of Buddhism, but now the Heavenly Street in front of us is shaped like the Milky Way, and the statues are evenly distributed on the left and right.
It was something translucent that glowed a soft yellow in the firelight, and I reached for it, and the surface was smooth and cold, with a crunchy texture and a glassy sheen, and it smelled faintly rosin: "Amber!" ”
"Such a big amber?!" Tian Chicken was dumbfounded.
"Amber was called the soul of the beast in ancient times, and the ancients used it to avoid evil, and it is really rare to use amber as a sculpture, and amber is fragile and difficult to carve into shape." The general said.
"This is not a statue carved out of amber." Ye Zhiqiu looked at it carefully for a long time and said with certainty.
Such a large amber is quite rare, and the most surprising thing is that these statues standing on both sides of the heavenly street are all shaped like tigers, the size of cows, and the whole body is covered with sharp thorns like hedgehogs, looking hideous and terrifying, a pair of beast eyes are ferocious and violent, making people dare not look directly.
These carved monsters are not made of amber, Ye Zhiqiu said that they were carved first and placed on both sides of the heavenly street, and then watered to seal the gum, so that the statues could be kept from weathering for a long time.
"Isn't this an extra move, anyway, they are all statues and they are still underground, so it's not a matter of casually leaving them for thousands of years." Bai Jin buried his head in looking at what was solidified in the gum. "Anyway, what is this thing, looking at the panic, why do you put this thing in a good palace."
"It looks like a strange poverty, a kind of divine beast in the Book of Mountains and Seas, and one of the four fierce beasts, the legendary monster, the body is fierce and aggressive, it is said to be able to devour ghosts, presumably placed here to symbolize the town of Vientiane Shrine."
In the Classic of Mountains and Seas that I was forced to look at, I saw fierce beasts that were roughly the same as this statue, although they were all ethereal rumored beasts, but so many were erected on both sides of the Heavenly Street, covered by gum trees, reflecting a strange light in the firelight, looking at the long Heavenly Street, I suddenly felt like a rainbow and inexplicable awe.
Ye Zhiqiu was about to continue walking along the Heavenly Street, but the palace lord hurriedly stepped forward and dragged her back: "You are still in archaeology, can you break into this place casually?" ”
Gong Jue raised his finger and pointed in the distance, and we saw that the streets were full of broken bones, and the broken clothes were all from Dongchang.
"Someone has been here?" Ye Zhiqiu was taken aback.
We told the others about the bones found outside the end gate, and the palace lord said that these fragmented bones were distributed along the Heavenly Street, presumably this seemingly bright human galaxy was not so easy to walk, and the person who arrived before us must have triggered the mechanism.
"Such a long heavenly street, if there is a mechanism, how can we get there?" Tian Ji looked dazed.
"Follow me." Gong Jue took a deep breath, his voice a little helpless.
He hesitated for a moment, slowly raised his feet and stepped into a shining stone on the Heavenly Street, and after standing intently for a long time, he saw nothing, and suddenly a weak wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he walked into the Heavenly Street boldly with confidence.
"Why do you say me, you're not the same and you're messing around." Ye Zhiqiu was dissatisfied behind the palace lord.
"Can you be like me?" The palace lord turned his head and stared at Ye Zhiqiu unruly. "I have a sick eye, do you have one?"
I looked at the palace lord in surprise and asked, "What did you see again?" ”
Gong Jue spread his hands, shook his head almost helplessly, and said, from the moment he entered the end gate, he found that there were irregularly distributed red lights on the heavenly street that resembled the Milky Way, and he thought we could see it, but later realized that these red lights were exactly the same as the map of the stone room outside the Yumen Pass, which were infrared lights that could not be seen by normal people.
Obviously, these red lights marked on the sky street are the correct way to enter, and if you step on a place outside of the red light, the mechanism will be triggered, which is why there are so many corpses on the sky street.
"This is a passage reserved for certain people to pass through......" Gong Jue sighed, squeezing a wry smile out of his mouth. This person shouldn't be me anyway, but at least this person should be like me, and this eye has been cured. ”
After the palace lord finished speaking, let's follow his footsteps, don't make a mistake, everyone stood up and lined up cautiously into the heavenly street, I deliberately walked at the end, and in front of him was Zhuo Mingfeng, who was unwilling to be with us.
I specifically paid attention to Zhuo Mingfeng's footsteps, he was completely different from those who walked on thin ice in front of him, although his expression was still calm, but it was definitely not the reason for his temperament, he was very steady but unthinking, like walking on a flat avenue, without the slightest scruples.
I looked at Zhuo Mingfeng's back, and I was secretly shocked in my heart, he could walk so easily, because he, like the palace lord, could see the red light that we couldn't detect at all.
Zhuo Mingfeng has never shown it in front of us, he is deliberately concealing it, but as for the purpose, I can't think of anything, he said that he came here in order to find the remaining three dragon veins, but now I gradually realize that his reason seems too far-fetched, Zhuo Mingfeng should have other reasons for coming here.
After entering the Heavenly Street, perhaps because I was too nervous, no one spoke along the way, I accidentally saw the statues on both sides of the Heavenly Street, and suddenly found that these statues were a little deformed, and finally walked to the side, reached out and touched it, the gum outside the statue entered and melted, presumably because we lit the fire trough, causing the gum to not withstand the high temperature.
"Ling Xuan's design of this Vientiane Shrine is quite grand, and any detail is impeccable, if there is a failure, it should be these gum statues, it is strange that they are so close to the fire trough, it is strange if they do not melt." The general's voice came from the front, and he should have noticed the statue slowly melting. "It's a pity that in such a magnificent Seven Heavens building, these statues melt like this, it's a big sight."
"Yes, these statues are quite meaningful, the fierce gods and evil are lifelike, but they have to wrap the gum outside, so that the painting snake is enough, and it does make the majestic Vientiane Shrine a lot inferior." Ye Zhiqiu's voice was somewhat regretful.
"The person who can make thousands of believers build a vast palace by himself, do you think Ling Xuan is the kind of person who will ignore it?" Zhuo Mingfeng suddenly said meaningfully.
"What do you mean by that?" I asked solemnly behind him. "Is there any other special reason for these statues?"
"I'm you, go faster." Zhuo Mingfeng didn't look back, but glanced at the broken bones on the ground. "This place is so big, a few more bones won't be a big deal."
Click!
As soon as Zhuo Mingfeng's words were finished, a crisp voice came from the front, and our eyes fell on the feet of a person, this person's feet were trampled outside, and the palace lord turned his head and suddenly his face changed greatly, even Zhuo Mingfeng, who had always been unfazed, at this moment I saw his side face also full of horror.
The man accidentally stepped on the wrong place, and the shining stone under his feet was instantly extinguished, and the people in front of him didn't know what this accident was, Zhuo Mingfeng turned his head to look behind me, this is the first time I saw him actually panicked, and it is self-evident how serious it is to move Zhuo Mingfeng.
I saw that the other people in front of me were now the same as Zhuo Mingfeng, looking behind me in a daze and surprise, and turned their heads to be shocked for a moment, the heavenly street we had already walked, those stones shining like stars on the heavenly street, began to extinguish the light like stars falling.
The whole magnificent galaxy seemed to collapse, and the darkness rushed from behind us quickly, Zhuo Mingfeng suddenly pulled me behind me, and no longer caring what correct position I should step on, I saw his involuntary squirming Adam's apple, and then heard him say a word in an unusually low voice.
Run!