Chapter 163: Diamonds
The two bodies in front of us, though of unknown causes, were intact, and the severed hand did not belong to them, which means that at least three other people had been here long before us.
But it is not clear what happened at that time, one of the hands was broken here, and looking at the place where this hand was broken, the incision was quite regular, and at a glance it was clear that it was cut by a sharp blade.
"Let's see if there's anything on them." Gong Jue crouched down and groped around the corpse.
After looking for a long time and not finding it, I didn't know the identities of the two corpses at all, Gong Jue's hand suddenly stopped on the chest of the corpse, he slowly removed the torn clothes on it, and we were shocked to see a bowl-sized wound on the left chest of the corpse.
"Gunshot wounds!" The general and Tian Ji spoke out almost at the same time.
The general hurriedly turned the two corpses over, and when we tore open the clothes, we saw that the back of the corpses had bullet casings as thick as fingers, and the shriveled wounds around them showed obvious burn marks.
"It's a burn from a gun shot in the back!" Tian Ji's face was solemn. "They were shot."
"And even under duress." The general stood up and patted the dust off his hands. "The first time I spotted these two men, they were lying on the ground, someone shot them from behind, they were shot and killed instantly, and they were facing it head-on."
"The two men were still kneeling before they were shot, and if they were shot from behind while standing, the bullet would have penetrated through the front chest, and the wound would have been parallel to the bullet hole in the back." Tian Ji said to us with great certainty. "But these two people have a front chest wound downward, they are 1.9 meters tall, to cause such a wound, the person who shot them from behind is taller, this is unlikely, the only explanation, they were kneeling on the ground and were shot."
"This situation is not uncommon, and there are too many cases of people killing each other due to the uneven distribution of spoils." The general said with a sigh.
"There were at least four people here before us!"
Ye Zhiqiu's voice came from the entrance of the passage, and she squatted on the ground with a torch to check it intently.
"How do you know?" Gong Jue asked.
"Coming down from the end of the steps, I found four different footprints in addition to our footprints." Ye Zhiqiu said calmly. "But there are only two corpses here, plus a severed hand, which means that two more people have left here."
I hurriedly looked down, and sure enough, as Ye Zhiqiu said, shoe prints with different textures could be clearly seen on the ground, no more, no less, just four.
"And that's not the weirdest part." Ye Zhiqiu stood up with a stunned expression.
"What else?" I asked.
"Uncle Wei said that these two people may have been killed by people who wanted to make money, which means that they must have found something here to have a disagreement, but ......" Ye Zhiqiu pointed to the passage behind him and said. But the four of them had only been here, and had not gone further, and they had not even crossed the passage, let alone found anything. ”
We hurriedly walked over, where the dust accumulated for many years covered the ground with a thick layer, and the four shoe prints could be easily found outside, but the dust in the passage was intact, which showed that the people who had entered had not entered at all.
"It's weird, it's all at the door, why don't you go in, since it's not an uneven distribution of spoils, why are you killed here?" Tian Ji stared at us blankly.
"Go in and see what's inside." I took a deep breath and looked into the passage.
Gong Jue was worried that there would be a mechanism, so he walked at the front to investigate, and there was nothing unusual until we walked out of the passage, and at the end of the passage was a huge stone chamber, and there was no Vientiane Shrine that we wanted to see.
But standing in the stone chamber, we were still shocked, the whole stone chamber was shining with colorful light in the firelight, and Tian Ji couldn't see these things, regardless of the flashing place.
"With such a big light, I also estimate that it is gold, even if there is no gold, the gem is also a gem, and it is not even silver after a long time." Tian Ji's voice was full of great disappointment. "It's a bunch of ...... I don't know what it is. ”
I walked over and looked at the place where Tian Ji's hand touched, it was a piece about a finger long, transparent and flawless on three sides, which looked like a Mitsubishi mirror, and the material was like glass but extremely hard, and it reflected a colorful light in the light of the fire.
"Golden ...... Diamond! I was stunned and looked at the stone chamber with a torch, and the entire spacious stone chamber was surrounded by Mitsubishi diamonds that were unusually smooth and regular.
"You stupid, you think about gold all day long, this thing is worth more than any gold." I patted the chicken on the head.
"Worth more than gold?" Tian Ji's eyes began to glow again when he heard this.
"This is not a traditional gem of the Central Plains, but it is known as the king of gemstones, and this thing has another name, you should have heard of it." Gong Jue walked over and said with a smile. "Diamonds!"
"Don't say it's useless, just say how much is this thing worth?" Tian Ji asked seriously.
"The cheapest one-carat diamond is 40,000, which is still the most ordinary color, the diamond here is flawless, it belongs to the top, and there is a finger on it, you say that the whole stone room is ......"
Before Ye Zhiqiu finished speaking, Tian Ji didn't say a word and took out a probe shovel and planned to pry it from the wall, and his mouth was still broken: "The sky is open, there are no monsters, no mechanisms, no snakes, and no retreat has been sealed, I finally found a treasure normally." ”
"What are you doing?" Ye Zhiqiu snatched the probe shovel of the field chicken.
"What else can I do, where is this stone room, it's the money cave." Tian Ji spread his hands and looked anxious. "Give it back to me."
"We are here to find the Vientiane Shrine, these diamonds are inlaid here, there should be other uses, how can you find the Vientiane Shrine after you pry." Ye Zhiqiu said righteously. "Besides, this is also a ruin, and you are destroying cultural relics."
"It's important to find the Vientiane Shrine, and when you find it, I'll dig slowly when you turn around." I patted Tian Ji on the shoulder and said with a smile.
Normally, at this time, Gong Jue would jump out and raise the bar with Ye Zhiqiu, but I haven't heard his voice yet, I turned around and saw Gong Jue looking at the passage without saying a word.
"The corpses outside are only a passage away from this stone chamber, and they shouldn't be able to get in easily without any mechanism." Gong Jue said with a cold and puzzled expression. "What the hell caused them to die outside the stone that was so close."
"If it was for the sake of wealth, then why didn't the people who killed them come in?" The general took a deep breath and was also at a loss.
I accidentally caught a glimpse of Zhuo Mingfeng in the corner, he was still standing quietly and unfazed, before the general repeatedly told us to beware of him, but also worried about meeting money, but now I found that Zhuo Mingfeng stood in this room inlaid with almost priceless gemstones, he didn't seem to be interested at all, he didn't even look at the things on the wall, his eyes kept staring behind me.
He didn't seem to care about this, I subconsciously turned my head and saw what Zhuo Mingfeng had been paying attention to, in the middle of the stone room was a flying stone sculpture with ribbons fluttering.
Feitian stands on one foot, the other foot is bent and leaning in front, like a celestial man who has fallen lightly on the earth, the stretched arms are staggered up and down, the left hand is stretched out and the palm is upward, the five fingers are slightly bent, the right hand is placed in front of the chest behind the back, and the palm of the hand is open to the soft and slender fingers forward.
This stone carving is simply ingenious, so that this flying sky lifelike, flying eyebrows clear eyes, nose and mouth small, such as jade plain hands tactfully lingering, skirt fluttering, a pair of smoke water eyes want to talk and rest, the streamer is flying, the bearing is heroic and generous, the momentum is like flying clouds and flying cranes.
Feitian's expression is more expressive, revealing a sad and sad look, there is a solemnity of sympathy between heaven and man, and the light reflected by the diamonds around it shines on Feitian's body, as if the sky is falling wonderful.
The bronze mirror left by Ling Xuan in the mural brought us here, thinking that it would lead us to find the Vientiane Shrine, but what we saw was this flying sky.
"Where's the bronze mirror?" Ye Zhiqiu looked at it for a long time and suddenly asked.
I handed the bronze mirror to her, Ye Zhiqiu walked to the Feitian statue, looked around Feitian for a moment, and finally looked at Feitian's outstretched left hand, hesitated for a moment, and carefully put the bronze mirror on.
Click!
The bronze mirror was tightly inlaid between the five fingers of Feitian's left hand, I was worried that something would happen, so I pulled Ye Zhiqiu back, and everyone looked around vigilantly, and nothing happened after waiting for a long time.
I walked slowly towards Feitian and looked at the bronze mirror that Ye Zhiqiu had put up just now.
"I looked at it for a long time, and I felt that Feitian's left hand seemed to be holding something, and the five fingers were slightly bent just to be a circle, Ling Xuan left a bronze mirror to guide here, so I speculated if it was related to the bronze mirror, but I didn't expect it to be true." Ye Zhiqiu said.
The bronze mirror is impartially inlaid in the five fingers, and the palace lord looked at it for a long time and said, the design of Feitian's left hand is indeed to hold this bronze mirror, presumably the sound we heard just now should have touched some mechanism, but I don't understand why it stopped abruptly and didn't react.
"There are four sentences in the inscription behind the bronze mirror, and we only unravel the first two sentences, and I guess the last two sentences should be related here." Ling Zhihan said.
"Your ancestors are really enough to toss people, if you have something to say, you can't say it well, just tell the Vientiane Divine Palace where it is." Most of the field chickens are still thinking about this room full of diamonds. "There are two more sentences, how long will it take to unravel this."
Among the flowers of the three thousand worlds,
Only God can see the Vientiane Palace.
This is the last two inscriptions on the bronze mirror, and the previous two sentences seem to have nothing to do with it, Tian Ji sat down against the stone wall, his hand was still reluctant to touch those diamonds, and said absent-mindedly: "I guess I can't solve it, Ling Xuan has said it, only God can see the Vientiane Palace, this is so clear, only God can see where the Vientiane Palace is, we are all mortals, it is strange to be able to see." ”