Chapter 35: The Strange Ancestral Hall

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Cha Wenbin didn't dare to be careless, the three of them were not separated, they were careful along the way, during the daytime search, there were several very special ancestral halls in the middle of the village, distributed in the four directions of the village, but the gates were locked, although it was daytime, looking through the crack in the door, it was also pitch black, they also shouted outside the door, but left without a response

This time, under the leadership of Cha Wenbin, the three of them went to the ancestral hall first, and all ancestral halls have a plaque and couplet, and during the day, Cha Wenbin found that there was no plaque in the ancestral hall, only a pair of mottled couplets: Kuang Fu people and things are known through the ages, and Xie Li Yin and Yang are on the side.

After arriving at the ancestral hall, signaling everyone not to make a sound, Cha Wenbin put his ear on the wall and listened for a long time, but no result was obtained, there was still a little residual red paint on the door, a large copper lock that had been turned green was locked, the door knocker was also copper, Chaozi's headlamp shone on the door, took a closer look, sighed, and whispered: "Look, the appearance of this knocker is very similar to the faces of the two stone men we saw at the entrance of the village during the day!" ”

Following his fingers, sure enough, the two knockers were square faces, with very large eyes, and a copper ring at each of the middle mouths, and the huge copper lock was hanging on the copper ring! It seems that the village has a special worship for this face!

The blind man sighed: "I said, my ancestors here don't all have heads like this, square heads, big eyes, no matter how you look like me and my father......"

Chaozi patted the blind man's head: "You don't understand, this is called abstract art, I have seen a little bit of the culture of Cuban Shu, how can there be a person with a square head in this world!" Quick, let's get this lock open first, Brother Wen Bin, you said yes, right? ”

Cha Wenbin didn't pay attention to the two bastard boys, pinched the copper lock with his fingers, it was very heavy, the lock was of the older type, a copper core passed through the copper ring, buckled on both sides, this kind of mechanism should be difficult for the three of them, just when Cha Wenbin pulled the lock up, the blind man found something again, and shouted there: "Look, why is the shape of this lock so strange?" Look like such a monster! ”

Cha Wenbin looked down, his heart was shocked, his eyes were staring at death, this monster was nothing else, it was the gluttony he saw in his dream, "If I'm not mistaken, this is gluttony!" One of the four fierce beasts recorded in the ancient books, someone uses this thing as a lock, this ancestral hall is probably not that simple, you should be careful for a while! Don't move around or touch anything inside. ”

As soon as the blind man heard that the ancestral hall of the village was a murderous house, he immediately stopped doing it, why did this Taoist priest come in and say that his hometown is not good, that is not good, and said that the ancestral ancestral hall is not clean, Chaozi is patient, and explained to him: "Legend Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor fought Chiyou, Chiyou was beheaded, and its head fell into gluttony, and later, gluttony became a totem, engraved on various sacrificial vessels, and the Yin and Zhou Dynasty Dingyi was often engraved on the gluttony, the head of this thing is hideous, the eyes are blazing, there is a god, and the bridge of the nose is protruding; The head has a pair of curved horns or feet, the direction of which seems to be uncustomized, or the inner hook resembles a sheep's horn, or the outer curve resembles a bull's horn; The giant mouth is wide open, with sharp teeth like saws, and the mouth is slightly curved and hooked, or the mouth is tightly locked. It is entrenched in the front, the body is arched, the head is on the ground or the water and clouds, there is a pair of sharp claws on both sides, like dog claws or tiger claws, there is a pair of meat wings on both sides, the shape and ears are very similar, the Book of Mountains and Seas says that this guy specializes in eating people, do you say it is a fierce beast? ”

Cha Wenbin made a silent gesture and whispered: "Open the door first, but don't break the grass and trees here,"

This kind of copper lock, all with spring cards, looking at this patina, I don't know if the spring has failed, Chaozi found a pin from the backpack, got a few times and stuffed it into the keyhole and pounded it, "card wipe", he showed a victory smile on his face: "It's done!" "In fact, it is really not difficult for this scout-born archaeological team member to open the lock, not to mention this kind of old antique, the lock that was taken down was gently rested on the ground, Cha Wenbin tried to push the door, but it didn't move! Is it bolted to the back?

He motioned for the three of them to push together, and a strong "kalala, kalala" An ancient and solemn sound of opening the door slowly came out, opening the ancestral hall that has been closed for many years, and the three of them used a lot of strength to only open the opening that only allowed one person to enter, and a cold air inside rushed to the face, several people not only shivered, Chaozi turned on the spotlight and shone inside, there was a big stone monument in the middle of the ancestral hall that blocked the view, and I didn't know what was inside

Cha Wenbin closed his eyes and felt for a while, but did not find anything unusual, and the three of them cautiously went in, walked towards the stone tablet, and the three spotlights hit it, and then they saw the true face clearly: a big black stone was erected on a monster with a sheep's body and a human face, and a pair of wings were growing on both sides, holding the black boulder, and the three of them recognized it at a glance, it was the shape of the copper lock: gluttony!

If the existence of gluttonous patterns in this village has puzzled Cha Wenbin, then what he sees next may be even more difficult to explain, a huge gossip map has been engraved on this huge stone tablet! The gossip map is actually carried by this ancient beast? What is this?

Chaozi subconsciously pulled out the dagger in the bag, wanting to take a closer look, but he didn't expect to feel a force pulling the knife in his hand, his dagger was made of dark iron, what is the explanation, Cha Wenbin stopped him: "I see, this big stone should be a magnet!" As soon as I entered this valley, the compass couldn't be normal, and I thought that there must be a huge magnetic field in this valley, but I didn't expect this thing to be doing tricks, according to the jitter of the compass, I'm afraid there is more than one magnet like this! Be careful not to move. ”

Chaozi glanced at the blind man and thought to himself, who are your ancestors! It's so mysterious, it's a fierce beast, and it's a magnet, "Brother Wen Bin, what should we do now?" ”

Cha Wenbin looked at this bunch of things that he had never seen or heard of, and he didn't know what to do for a while, so he said for a long time: "I don't know what this means, why the gossip map appears in the ancestral hall of this village, and it is still a gluttony underneath, it is not excluded that some people in ancient times worshiped fierce beasts, but gossip has been a thing to suppress evil since ancient times, obviously two contradictory things, why do they exist, let's go inside and see!" Anyway, he motioned for the two to bypass this monument, and the moment they just bypassed, the scene of the light shining on the past made the three of them feel shocked again: rows of coffins were neatly placed in the room inside, this room has no gate, only a few pillars on top of the slug, no matter how stupid people are at this moment, they already know what kind of place this is, this is not an ancestral hall at all, but a righteous village!

Those coffins are obviously placed according to certain specifications, and the most conspicuous one is the one in the middle, a bronze coffin! The coffin is surprisingly big, more than twice as big as the ordinary wooden coffin next to it, there is a small bell on each of the two corners of the coffin in front, with a thundercloud map carved on it, which is placed in the middle of the room, it is very eye-catching, there are seven oil lamps under the coffin, there are some traces of incense and candles outside, Chaozi is archaeological, what does the bronze coffin mean, he naturally understands, this thing has a history of thousands of years, the bronze of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period! It actually appeared in such a small village in the land of Bashu, and such a large bronze artifact was made for whom? And who could build something that big? Before he had time to think about this series of questions, Cha Wenbin over there had already made a retreat gesture.

For this kind of unknown world in these three people, Cha Wenbin is naturally an expert, without any drag, the three of them carefully withdrew to the door, fortunately, there was no accident, there was no time to do anything, Cha Wenbin asked the two of them to close the door together, until the copper lock was locked, only to breathe a sigh of relief, Chaozi found out that Cha Wenbin was already sweating profusely at the moment!

The question in Chaozi's heart, the truth was said at this moment, looking at the same incredible expression of Zhuo Xiong opposite, he could only expect Cha Wenbin to speak, why did he let himself retreat just now? There are so many doubts in this village!

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