Chapter 17: The Infant Urn
I didn't have time to think about whether there would be danger inside this palace, so I hurriedly stepped forward to check the way to open the palace door, and on the other side, I organized a defense, trying to block the attacking human head dog under the stairs.
As the minutes ticked by, the dogs were already coming in this direction. Dong Bing's temper flared up, and he kicked on the bronze door, the door did not move, Weizi's eyes suddenly lit up, and he saw the gems arranged by the seven stars on the door swaying, and hurriedly stopped him from continuing to kick.
Gently tried to move the position of the seven stars, and found that it could really move, so the method of opening the temple door must be on this, but Weizi didn't move them, and had to give up and said: "This thing is actually the same as a combination lock, but if you don't know the password, then you can't open it." ”
The gate is in front of you, but you can't enter, and no one is reconciled. I looked at the bronze hall door and was stunned, and a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in my mind, and I spat out: "Check the abrasion marks on it, if it is pushed, there should be abrasion marks caused by long-term pushing, and if you look for the traces, you should be able to find the cracking code." ”
As soon as these words came out, Weizi and Old Man Liu suddenly realized, and Long Wu also asked Dina to look for it together, after all, women are more delicate, and it is still possible to check and fill in the gaps. Seeing that there was a way out and hope, everyone couldn't help but perk up, and cheered up and defended against the stone pillar in front of the temple gate.
At both ends of the horizontal stone path of the palace, a black pressure on the two ends of the man-headed dog slowly appeared, like a tide swept in, and at the critical moment, Dina shouted excitedly: "It's open." ”
Weizi wiped his sweat and said, ", it's actually a reverse seven-star arrangement." ”
I didn't have time to get him to talk more, so I hurriedly beckoned everyone to hide in the sparsely open door of the temple, which was dark and whirring, and there was not much light coming in from the surrounding walls, only a faint light from the somewhat crystal clear walls. We didn't look at everything in it much, and quickly pushed the bronze door shut with a dozen or so people, and through the crack in the door, we saw that the black-pressed human-headed canine monster did not pounce on the steps, but crowded and piled up underneath and did not come up, not even a single step has been moved, and the mouth of a similar person has a whimpering and timid sound.
They seem to be afraid of something.
Fear began to creep in my heart, and I realized that there seemed to be something here that scared the dogs. Weizi and Long Wu also had this feeling, and they couldn't help but look back at the dim palace room.
There is no compartment here, the ground is empty and there is nothing to be seen, a red carpet in the middle that was originally more than two meters wide, has been blackened, moldy and rotten, one extends to a five-story staircase at the end, and a platform is faintly seen above the stairs, and then there seems to be a huge jade carved screen behind it.
It's like a boudoir.
I turned on the flashlight and shone it on the front, and sure enough, there was nothing empty, let alone anything valuable. As soon as he took a few steps, Dong Bing suddenly froze, not only him, but Lei Hong also suddenly held his breath, trembled all over, pointed to the top of our heads and said, "What are those things?" ”
Looking up, the top of the palace is full of things like chrysalis, there are about twenty in a row, and hundreds of rows are hung on the top, and the big treasure egg said painfully: "Won't there be any moths hatching again, this thing is like a silkworm chrysalis, and it can almost fit an adult." ”
Shining a flashlight on it, the thing was so black that I couldn't see the name, and I didn't see any movement, so it hung there quietly. Dong Bing pointed to the palace pillar and said, "There seems to be a pulley over there, which can put down the things on it." ”
Long Wu took the lead and walked over, only to see him move his hand and shout, "Someone else will come over and help." ”
Then we heard the sound of the pulley sliding, and the rattle of the iron chains, and the row of chrysalis above our heads slowly descended and stood firmly in front of us. Weizi carefully put on his gloves and touched them, and said, "It's not a cocoon or something, it's more like pottery." ”
Old man Liu also touched it, walked around twice and nodded: "It's pottery, look at the shape of this thing, it should be a container like an urn, but unfortunately there is no pattern carving on it, and the value is greatly reduced." ”
Container? I touched the mouth of the urn and found that it was sealed, so I said, "That means that there are actually things in here?" Look at the mouth of the urn, it is sealed with clay, and the contents are still there. ”
Dong Bing said, "Could there be any great treasures in it?" ”
Weizi's expression was uncertain: "It's hard to say, and it may be filled with poisonous gas." ”
As soon as they heard the word poison gas, everyone subconsciously took a step back, and Weizi said angrily: "Poison gas, it's just speculation, and it's not true, is it used to make such a fuss?" ”
Old man Liu waved his scribe fan and thought: "The things in this may also be related to the name of this hall, since it is called the Treasure Palace, then there should be a treasure inside." ”
Hearing this, Dong Bing rubbed his hands happily and said, "Then what are you waiting for?" Open it up now and take a look. ”
Dabao shouted: "Get out of the way, open the box or something, or let someone like me come with red hands." ”
"Let's play!" Weizi frowned and scolded him. said to Old Man Liu: "How do you explain the Holy Child?" ”
Old man Liu shook his head, indicating that he did not know. I thought about it for a moment and asked Long Wu, "What do you say?" To open or not to open? ”
Long Wu stared at the half-human-high urn seriously, and said in a condensed voice: "Open, everyone has already come, don't look at what it is, your heart is not steady, even if the poisonous gas is not still a few of you as companions, even if you still have a few opponents in the Netherworld, it is not lonely." ”
After saying that, he took out a roll of black tape used to bind explosives and a small steel hammer, pasted several thick layers of adhesive tape in the middle of the urn, and struck it with the hammer, making a muffled sound of the pottery breaking instead of a crisp sound. As soon as I tore off the tape to reveal a gap, a foul smell that smoked people wanted to vomit came out.
"Damn! It's poisonous! ”
Dabao covered his nose and mouth and quickly leaned back.
I also covered my nose, and although the smell was really stinky, I didn't show any signs of poisoning. Lei Hong scolded Dabao's behavior and said, "What are you doing, it's not poisonous gas, it's the smell of rotten meat." ”
Weizi nodded and said, "And it's human flesh!" ”
I saw Long Wuyi tear off all the tape, along with the pottery fragments, revealing a black hole the size of the bowl, and a black grunt rolled out of it, let's take a closer look.
It turned out to be a coiled body of a fetus.
The fetus is like the size of four or five months in the mother's body, the body is already blackened, and the facial features on the small face are clearly visible. My pores suddenly stood up like pins and needles, and I quickly took a hammer to knock open the urn, and found that there were dozens of fetal corpses in layers, all of which were only four or five months old.
"What the hell are the people of this palace going to do with these fetuses?" With red eyes, I couldn't take my eyes off the babies who had died before they were born, "Why are these people so cruel?" ”
Old man Liu said solemnly: "Maybe it's used to make medicine?" The ancient alchemists had a side door technique that wanted to extract the method of immortality from the fetus. ”
It's the elixir again!
I pinched the steel hammer, my hands kept shaking, trying my best to control my anger, looking at the densely arranged urns above the palace roof, I could see how many children were innocently used to refine medicine.
Weizi said suspiciously: "Where did they get such a fetus?" It must not have been snatched or bought from the bottom of the mountain, otherwise it would have been bulldozed by the angry ancients. ”
Old man Liu suddenly thought of something, and said with a trembling mouth: "Could it be that they breed people?" ”
As soon as the words fell, everyone was speechless in shock by his guess, and only the sound of breathing could be heard in the palace for a while.
Wow~
A baby's cry suddenly broke the dead silence.
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