Chapter 20: The Seven Exquisite Towers
Eight beautiful anti-coffin, as the name suggests, is to find eight types of beauties to resist the coffin, this is a very extravagant ceremony, compared with the cold stone outside, it is only high, not low, in fact, there is another layer of meaning in this, Meng Jian quietly told us: "People have four realms of good, and there are also four realms of evil." These eight women should represent the eight realms of people, and the owner of this tomb is amazing, and he actually wants to break the karmic obstacles and be reborn in the next life. β
I looked at these young and moving women, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of pity in my heart, which in today's society is not to be scrambled to hold in the palm of my hand, but it is better than being a cold corpse here.
"What you just said is true? Will this tomb owner be resurrected? Yang Junjun looked at Meng Jian timidly.
Hu Yang stroked her back, looked at the coffin and said, "Don't be afraid, it's all fools, even if we can really be resurrected, a few of us will die again, and wicked people like this should lie in the coffin." β
I agree with what Hu Yang said, there is really no need for a wicked person like this to continue to live, he should have died a long time ago.
Hu Yang stared at the coffin viciously and said, "Then can we open the coffin?" Lao Tzu wants to see what this tomb owner looks like? β
Yang Junjun echoed beside him: "Of course it has to be opened, this guy is very slamming the door, there is nothing valuable outside, his baby must be placed in it, if you don't take it, this trip is not in vain?" β
Although she said a little greedy for money, she really couldn't help herself if she didn't go along with something. I looked at Meng Jian, who stared at the coffin with a curious expression, and seemed to agree to open it.
I visually measured the weight of this coffin, and it was probably more than ten tons, but why could it be resisted by eight flesh and blood? Generally speaking, such a large coffin must have several layers, could it be that the layer of white jade outside is only a thin layer.
As soon as I was about to step on the blue jade platform, Meng Jian immediately stopped me, and gently touched the platform with the tip of the knife, and a trace of white frost instantly spread on the tip of the knife.
"This should be a mechanism to protect the coffin, and as soon as people who don't understand step on it, they will instantly freeze into ice corpses like those eight beauties."
Meng Jian frowned, lowered his head and thought about it: "This blue jade stone platform should also be dug out of the abyssal land, but I haven't seen it either, I thought of a way, you just wait for me in place, don't touch this stone platform." β
After speaking, Meng Jian returned to the original way, and not long after walking back with two bronze Changge, two feet on the ear branch of Tong Ge, the tip of the Ge to the ground, and tore his clothes into strips of cloth to bind it, holding the long handle of Tong Ge with both hands, as if stepping on stilts.
After walking back and forth a few times, he jumped on the spot and stood steadily. The slightest hint of hoarfrost only reached the ear branch and stopped running up, and I gave him a thumbs up: "It's no problem now, but how can you open the coffin alone?" β
Meng Jian just smiled, came to the top of the coffin and pushed and bumped with all his hands, flew straight towards us, and fell on the aisle with a bang, I looked at him speechlessly for a while, and said: "Such a big movement, what if this thing triggers something as soon as it leaves the stone platform?" Falling down like this, what treasure is there in it that is not afraid of breaking? β
"Do you have a better way?"
I was speechless for a while, and there really wasn't a better way.
Yang Junjun touched the coffin excitedly and said, "Don't fight, it's just that there is really a treasure in it that has been broken, and this jade coffin is not quite valuable." β
Hu Yang said with an embarrassed face: "Junjun, we can't hold this coffin, it's too big." β
Meng Jian and I ignored the two of them, and after researching, we found that this white jade coffin did not have the open seams such as fire paint seals on ordinary coffins, but the coffin lid that was pushed backwards.
Meng Jian unloaded the bronze Ge, took one as a crowbar and pressed it hard, with a rumbling sound, a crack was opened on the coffin lid, Hu Yang and I hurriedly went up to help, but there was no movement for a long time, and looked at Meng Jian with an embarrassed expression. In the end, the three of them pushed the edge together, and pushed it with all their strength before the entire white jade coffin lid was slid to the ground, revealing a painted iron and wooden coffin inside.
Meng Jian knocked on the lid of the coffin and said: "Looking at the posture of the coffin, it is also consistent with the depiction on the mural, it seems that the status is not very high, only one coffin and one coffin." But how can this palace be explained? β
Before he finished speaking, Hu Yang and I were a little impatient, carefully pulled a golden thread from the side of the coffin, and used a knife and Ge to remove the fire paint, Meng Jian personally went to lift the last layer of the coffin lid, we nervously looked at the slowly uncovered coffin board, our hearts were about to rise to our throats.
When the lid of the coffin was opened, we were all dumbfounded, there were no corpses inside, and in the middle of the coffin was a heptagonal box of topaz, this topaz box looked to be made of a piece, and it was also very rare, compared to the value of white jade, topaz was also better.
We carefully took the box out and placed it on the ground, only to see that there were no gaps or keyholes around it, and we didn't know how to open it.
I felt into the coffin again and found no clue, and said, "Damn, the body of the owner of the tomb is hidden there, and I threw a box that could not be opened to fill the number." β
Meng Jian froze his breath, kept looking at the box in his hand, and suddenly said, "There is a door!" β
I saw a small sliding jade wheel turned out of the seven corners of the box, and each wheel was depicted with very small messy words, which looked like pictures, I looked at it, I didn't understand it at all, let Yang Junjun see it.
She took it and studied it carefully for a while, and said excitedly: "This is a pictogram used in sacrifices in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, which is very valuable." β
Hearing that she seemed to know these things, I felt a sense of comfort in my heart, but fortunately there was an expert by her side, although she was a little troublesome.
Yang Junjun continued: "Each jade wheel is engraved with snakes, trees, people, fish, eyes, and two I don't recognize. β
Hearing this, as if we had experienced it when we came in, Meng Jian took the box and began to play with the seven horns, but there was still no movement, and I reminded him that it would be in order.
Turning the seven-cornered jade wheel according to the order, but there was still no movement, I wondered in my heart for a while, and said, "It should be that the last two are the key, since I don't know what they are, why not try to replace the order once?" β
I didn't want to change it once, and there was a turning sound in the box, and a hole opened above the box, and a smaller heptagonal box stretched out, this time I didn't need to enter any passwords, and kept superimposing on it, and finally appeared in front of us a pagoda-like box with the length of an adult's arm.
We were stunned and speechless by this ingenious design for a while, which is simply a miracle in human history.
"Seven Exquisite Towers?"
Meng Jian looked at the crystal clear topaz pagoda in front of him in surprise, and as soon as he shouted, suddenly a neat footsteps came towards us, and when he came back to his senses, he saw hundreds of pairs of eyes staring at us in unison. It was the guards who were crowned as loyal and righteous, standing tall and holding us in the middle with a bronze short blade hanging from their waists.
A few of us quickly leaned together, and I said, "MΓΆngke, what's going on?" How did these corpses come back to life? β
Meng Jian was also puzzled, lifted the knife and threw the two Changge to me and Hu Yang, and said with a smile without fear: "Anyway, I can't run, so let's have a good time." β
Those corpse guards came to us with expressionless faces, Hu Yang pulled Yang Junjun to retreat to the corner to protect her behind, and with his own strength, he picked up the stabbing Changge, and Meng Jian was able to swim in the corpse pile, and the knife was sure to hit. Compared to them, I am more miserable, although I have joined the army and shot guns, after all, I have been a civilian for so many years, and now I am injured again, and I was stabbed in a few bloody holes in my body.
"Which of you will help me, Lao Tzu is dying."
I rolled to the ground, swung my long brother to block the knife, and raised my leg to kick the corpse guard back two steps, but it was not affected in the slightest and slashed at me.
Seeing that the opportunity was wrong, I retreated to the side of Meng Jian, only to see a knife slashed, and a head rolled to the ground, and when I looked at it, I found that there were more than a dozen bronze corpses poured beside him. There was a faint sound of metal colliding in the white mist, as if there were countless people rushing towards this side.
Meng Jian's face changed, and he panted and said, "It seems that something is wrong!" β
I dodged a stabbing Changge, tired of seven up and eight times, stuck out my tongue and said: "Nonsense, the corpses are all alive, can you be right?" β
Meng Jian didn't pay attention to my interjections, his eyes suddenly fell on the big green jade stone platform, a trace of realization flashed in his eyes, and he blurted out: "I know what's going on!" β
Immediately, regardless of whether I was alive or dead, he kicked away the corpse guard who was in the way, climbed the jade sarcophagus lid on the ground with both hands, and lifted it up with a roar and smashed it to the blue jade platform.
Boom.
In front of me, where are the bronze corpse guards, and where are the eight beauties? Even the main hall in which he was located had changed, there was no palace made of white bones, and the white cold air had disappeared.
Only the open space of the rocky cliff remained, and the blood hole on my body was gone, and I was about to rejoice. Yang Junjun shouted, "Look who is that?" β
Following Meng Jian's solemn gaze, he looked down a large bronze chair, on which a man with a bronze grimace mask sat and looked down at us.