From here, the sound sounded a little different, with a certain echo, as if it were coming from a deep place, and with the rhythm of the sound, I could clearly feel that the bronze chain was vibrating in a slight short motion, as if the other end was pressing against the artery of a giant.

This phenomenon made me feel an irresistible chill in my heart, because I didn't feel a trace of wind blowing up from below, and my mother and my mother couldn't make such a heavy bronze chain vibrate at such a high frequency, so what was it that was pulling these bronze chains in the darkness below?

Boss Wang listened thoughtfully, according to reason, he had never experienced this kind of thing, and he should be more scared than me, but looking at his expression, he was surprisingly calm, as if he was judging something.

After a moment of stalemate, the sound finally fell silent, and the bronze chain stopped vibrating, and I breathed a sigh of relief for no apparent reason, and the person almost softened off the chain.

Boss Wang still didn't react, he thought quietly for a while, took out a cigarette and lit it, took a hard puff, and then took out a small glow stick from his pocket and shook it twice to light up the fluorescence inside.

I didn't know what he wanted to do, he looked at him coldly, he waited until the glow stick reacted to the brightest, and threw it down the bronze chain, and the green pillar of light fell in a circle.

The aperture became smaller and smaller, and quickly disappeared into my field of vision, I thought it would keep falling until it disappeared into the darkness, and suddenly, at the limit of what I could see and what I couldn't see, the glow stick hit something, "jumped" and flicked, flew to the bronze wall on the side, and fell down again, and disappeared in an instant.

About fifty or sixty meters below this bronze chain, there was indeed something hanging from it. It's a pity that the light of the glow stick is too weak. At that moment, I only saw a general outline, which seemed to be a crystal coffin with a hint of yellow sè, or it could be the more common Shang sarcophagus (a translucent yellow sè stone).

Boss Wang looked up at me defiantly, suddenly let go of the belt in his hand, and began to slide down while turning on the lighter. Soon, he was in the darkness, and all he could see was a fire that must have been shrinking.

I thought about it for a moment, I don't know why I don't think it's good, Boss Wang seems to be confident, this person is familiar with all kinds of strange items, it is hard to guarantee that he already knows what is underneath, and he wants to pick it up. Thinking of what Lao Itch said to me, I couldn't help but be unwilling to fall into his hands like this, and hurriedly pulled the short-handled hunting knife in my hand and slid down with him.

The speed of the fall began to be fast. The roots that had been wound up above were gone below, and in the latter sections, our speed slowed down, only for about ten seconds, and we had already descended to the estimated height, and I saw the fire below stop, and I was busy with my legs tightened, and I stopped holding the chains.

Looking down, Boss Wang had reached the end of the chain, a few meters below him was the place where the glow stick hit just now, he was leaning down and using his lighter to shine, but because the light was too weak, he couldn't see the overall shape of this thing, and only saw a yellow crystal-like object hanging in the air. I lit the aperture of the flashlight, and under the illumination of the flashlight, the whole picture of this thing was suddenly revealed.

To my surprise, under the bronze chain, what hung was not a Shang sarcophagus, not even a coffin, but a huge olive-shaped amber boulder, which seemed to be natural and very transparent, and under the light of the flashlight, it shè shè like gold. As long as you turn the angle of the flashlight slightly, the whole space presents a brilliant and magnificent scene.

The four bronze chains hanging from the top have been cast into the inside of the amber, and when you look inside the chains, you can also see that there is a black shadow in the shape of a human in the amber. It was very vague, and the head and shoulders could barely be distinguished, and the shoulders of the shadow were raised high, like two humps, and the whole person was curled up, as if the fetus was in the mother's body.

I've never seen this thing before, I was stunned and speechless at that moment, but Boss Wang was surprisingly calm, just observed it, then slid down, and tentatively wanted to step on the amber, I quickly stopped: "Don't!" ”

Boss Wang turned around and looked at me inexplicably.

I said to him, "I've never seen such a big amber, maybe it's a rosinite, and if you step on it, it might break." ”

Boss Wang smiled contemptuously and said, "You know a fart, what amber, this is a corpse cocoon." As he spoke, he had stepped on it, and the corpse cocoon was really strong, and there was no movement at all after shaking it.

Not to be outdone, I let go of my feet and slid onto the amber corpse cocoon, and at the same time cāo picked up the short-handled hunting knife and wanted to plunge it back into my waist. Lest it be difficult to walk on this slippery amber corpse cocoon with a flashlight in one hand and a dagger in the other.

I didn't expect Boss Wang to be wrong, looking at me down, a cat waist on guard, pulled up the belt and put it on his chest, and was ready to fight, I was startled, and the short knife that was supposed to be inserted back into the waist was also erected.

For a while, the atmosphere was tense to the extreme, but no one moved, because both of them knew that in this place, if there is a slight mistake, it is not a kick that can be done, and below is the abyss, no matter how strong you are, no matter how fierce your temper is, it will take a second or two to fall down.

Boss Wang is a person in the rivers and lakes, he took it and put it down, stalemate for a moment, first waved his hand, and said to me: "Hou Shengzi, when it comes to this, everyone takes a step back, and they can't die together." Whoever dies is not good for anyone, and this place is not something that one person can go up to. ”

I saw that he showed favor first, but he couldn't ask for it, and what he said did make sense, in this place, to climb up, at least two people, as long as he is still here, he should not dare to touch me, otherwise he may die more miserably than me, but this man is very cunning, don't believe too much.

I slowly put down my hunting knife and made a gesture of reconciliation, briefly recounting the radio interference just now. So that both sides have a step down, after all, I was also murderous just now, and it is impossible for him to let down his guard so easily.

Boss Wang took out his walkie-talkie and opened it in disbelief, and suddenly there was a series of high-decibel static noise inside, and the sound was extremely harsh, as if a person was tearing his throat and screaming. Boss Wang's heart was shocked when he heard this, and he quickly turned off the intercom and scolded: "I'm cāo, I was shocked." ”

I'm also scared half to death, this must be very close to the source of the interference, and the sound will be so much. I can't imagine that there is such a terrible sound in the world, and if I listen to it for a few more seconds, I may lose my heart and jump.

Boss Wang tied the belt back to his waist and said, "This time it's my mistake." You also know that we don't have a few hearts and minds that don't make it," he pointed to the swollen part of his face, "Hou Shengzi, you don't take it lightly, we will settle it this time, personal grievances, go out and settle it." What do you think? ”

I sneered in my heart, he had just been revealed, and I had already concluded that he must have planned to kill us a long time ago after he went out, and now I said that these are just delaying the army, but at this time, it is indeed necessary to use each other, so I nodded and threw the flashlight to him to show balance.

We reconciled for the time being, but I still didn't dare to get too close to him*. So as not to push him down suddenly, he obviously has such concerns, and the two of them tacitly squatted down carefully while guarding each other, carefully looking at the corpse cocoon under their feet. I took the opportunity to ask him, what exactly is the cocoon indicating?

Boss Wang said that corpse cocoons had been dug up in southern Sichuan and Inner Mongolia a few years ago. But they were all the size of a basin, some like jade, some like amber, and they were wrapped in the corpses of shriveled animals or children, and few of them were adult, and these things were generally unearthed as funerary objects, and no one knew how they were made. According to ancient records, this thing may be the medicine primer used by the alchemists in the pre-Qin period, which was to soak pregnant women who were less than a month old into the medicinal solution and kill them, put them in a jar, bury them for 27 years and then dig them up, and the ones in the stomach will become corpse cocoons. The outer layer is the substance of the placenta petrified of the pregnant woman, and the amber sè you see is actually the solidification of the amniotic fluid inside. It is also said that this is a kind of embalming technique for corpses, in which the corpse is wrapped in a special resin mixed with traditional Chinese medicine so that the corpse does not lose moisture.

In his early years, when his great-grandfather was doing a great pilgrimage in Hong Kong, he saw some treasures made by wealthy people who had immigrated because of the war, among them was an amber corpse cocoon, which was the most expensive for children, and cheaper for animals. Great-grandfather once saw a corpse cocoon, there was a little girl in a red dress, sixteen or seventeen years old, with her eyes closed as if she was asleep, lifelike, he cried when he saw it, this is really fucking wronged, it was too miserable, at that time, he took advantage of the boss's inattention, burned this thing, and as a result, he had a dream that night, and dreamed that the little girl in the red dress came to him, kowtowed to him and said thank you, so this thing is a monster, those rich people don't know what, listen to Mr. Feng Shui's nonsense, I thought that this kind of thing was a feng shui treasure for gathering wealth, and it has been placed at home, and the world is at the point where I want to flee at the end.

Hearing him say this, I think it's a little surprising, is it possible that the "great benefit" that the old itch said is this, in terms of monetary value, it is true, but why make it so mysterious? Is there anything else I don't know?

The shadow in the amber corpse cocoon should be the corpse wrapped in it, we took a general look, the more we looked at it, the more we felt that it was wrong, first, the shape of this corpse was too strange, how it looked like a person, second, the height was too high, the ancient people were about one meter five or six, this amber corpse, the absolute length of the light and shadow has exceeded two meters, he is still curled up, stretched out, about three meters or so.

I watched it for a long time, but I couldn't see why, and said, "Could it be a monkey, an ancient ape in the Western Zhou Dynasty, very big." ”

At that time, the deep mountain old forest of Qinchuan in 800 miles was several times deeper than now, and there were often legends that there was a kind of monkey more than four meters tall in it, which was called a ghost of Xiongshan Mountain, eating people and animals, and then killed people, and there were a few rare in the Ming Dynasty, all of which were killed as ghosts.

Boss Wang shook his head, "This kind of bronze tree, called the Tongtian Tree at that time, has a strong religious symbolic meaning. It represents an immaterial world beyond the human world. Does Ni know how expensive bronze was at that time? With so much bronze, you can buy the entire Western Zhou Dynasty. Put a monkey on it, point out? ”

I saw that he was confident that he should know what was in it, so I asked him if he had any information earlier.

He took a breath and said to me, "Not bad. I actually have a little friendship with Li Pipa. Before we came, Li Pipa revealed something to me, he said that his ancestor had climbed the bronze tree and saw the corpse of Banaji Emu. ”

I was stunned for a moment, Banaji Em, in Manchu mythology, was a goddess with a huge pregnant body, in charge of the land. His ancestors said this, not knowing what they meant.

Boss Wang continued: "I didn't know what it meant at the time, but when I saw the huge coffin above, it turned out to be empty, and I suddenly understood, what does it mean to see the body of Bana Ji Em? ”

I was stunned for a moment, not knowing what he was trying to convey.

He saw that I couldn't react, and said: "The root system of the banyan tree is well-known for its needles, and in some places in Guangzhou, it often grows into the pipes of zhōngyāng air conditioners. ”

I woke up instantly, looked at him dumbfounded, and said, "What do you mean, there was once a corpse in the coffin above?" Therefore, the roots of the banyan tree that grow into the coffin cannot grow wantonly? ”

Boss Wang nodded, I didn't believe it: "Fart, how big is this corpse, you don't fucking fool people here." ”

Boss Wang said: "Don't believe it, don't think about it, just such a pillar, can we normal people repair it?" ”

I still didn't believe it, Boss Wang glanced at me and said: "Wait a minute, let's go up, you look at the decorative relief on the inner wall of the coffin, the proportion between people and bronze trees, you will believe it, this time, we poured this bucket, not our kind." It's a different kind of people, a giant people who once lived with our ancestors and finally became extinct for unknown reasons. ”

Embossed proportions? I listened to the first half in my head, but I didn't listen to the second half at all, a light had flashed in my head, and I sighed in my heart, really! I didn't notice when I watched it just now, these people who built the bronze tree, compared with the actual bronze tree, it is indeed not as small as us, the casting of the bronze tree is next to them, but it is about three times their height, I just thought it was an exaggeration of art, now I think about it, I immediately think that the carving style here is very realistic, carving a hand is like a real one, the proportion on it, is it the real proportion of the architectural scene at that time?

In this way, how tall these people are, my God, at least three or four meters tall. Isn't the corpse in this amber ......

Boss Wang looked at my expression and said to me: "Everyone is doing a line, this kind of thing will happen sooner or later, let me tell you, I still have a few rolls of bamboo slips at home that I don't know what age, do you know what it is about?" We all know how long the history of Xia Zhishang is, why it is so long, do you know the explanation? Because there is no historical record! I wrote a few bamboo slips by an ancient scholar in the Western Han Dynasty, he said that in fact, between Xia and Shang, there is likely to be a dynasty, but I don't know why, there is no record at all, you see that even such an important thing can completely disappear in history, what is the strangeness of the disappearance of a strange nation? He patted me and told me not to think about it, and then let's see, what is in this amber corpse cocoon?

I was stunned for a moment, but when I reacted, he had already crouched down and carefully pasted the surface of the amber, trying to see the face of the corpse inside.

It was held in place by a bronze chain, and he and I couldn't walk to one end at the same time, or we would lose our balance, so I stayed where I was, holding on to the bronze chain, and seeing what he could get.

Boss Wang took a look at it first, but it still didn't seem to be clear, he changed his angle, and suddenly, he jumped up, took a big step back in fright, and shouted: "Is there a mistake!" ”

All of a sudden, the whole corpse cocoon shook him, and I was startled, and I pushed him to prevent him from retreating to me, and asked, "What do you see?" ”

Boss Wang turned his head to look at me, with a puzzled expression, he wanted to say, but his mouth moved and he couldn't speak, and finally said: "I don't know how to say it, you can go and see it yourself!" ”

I used a flashlight to shine a light on the position he had just seen, it was blurry, and I couldn't see anything if I didn't see it closely, so I asked him to stay there and not move, and walked over by myself, squatted down, and looked slowly at his angle.

The transparency of the amber was superb, and I saw a face as big as a basin inside the amber, and after just one look, I froze, and an extreme chill rushed from the soles of my feet to my head, almost instinctively, and I jumped up and retreated, almost sliding down into the abyss on the side.

Boss Wang looked at me with a pale face, and after a while, he asked me, "How is it?" Do you see it clearly? ”