Chapter 34: The Everlasting Lamp

Close the figure that is propped up, and break the human skin of the hole in the corner of the door. I was shocked to stop Winter Ice from trying to pull the trigger on the figure on the wall, and instead let everyone come closer and get out of here, leaving the soft white wall alone.

I remembered what Hu Yang had said, tried not to look at the human skin, and hurriedly glanced at it with my peripheral vision, only to see that the human skin head on the edge of the cave entrance was missing again.

At this time, the Dingfeng Monkey suddenly made an attack action in the corner not far from the doorway, baring its teeth and roaring, and in that corner, there was a floating line, which was very strange.

I just turned to take a look, and when my eyes swept over, I realized that it was not a line, it was simply the skin of the man who had just looked at the edge of the cave, it was just facing us horizontally, and its body was like a line like a paper.

Immediately, I hurriedly let everyone leave, and hurried deeper into the hall, as for the figure on the wall, I didn't bother to pay attention to it, as long as I didn't come out.

Just as I was swimming inward, I felt that the human skin behind me seemed to have moved, and when I glanced over, I saw that it suddenly flattened its body in a panic, and the place where it was impossible to tell whether it was the face or the neck showed a strange expression, and it rowed out of the temple like a swimming fish.

At the same time, everyone felt that the pores were wide open, the cold hairs stood up, and a black figure suddenly appeared in the field of vision, swiping his body and moving towards the front.

"That's a person?" I froze for a moment, unsure of what had just happened, the figure came and went suddenly. We don't know how it came about.

Dong Bing gestured and gestured: "It's a person, I see the back." But I don't seem to be wearing a wetsuit or an oxygen tank. ”

His gesture made my mind not understand for a while, who would come down here without any oxygen? It can't be those individual fish, right? But it's not right to think about it, I've been in for so long, and I haven't seen the shadow of a mermaid, I'm afraid those merfolk know here, but if they don't come in, most of them have something they are afraid of.

Moreover, why did that person leave in a hurry just now, and that vague figure immediately appeared, is it also because of fear?

So who is the figure?

Just as I was thinking, Lei Hong had already chased after him with someone, this guy was crazy, even I was afraid, I didn't know what fear was, seeing this, I also stubbornly followed. Not long after, I saw a stone staircase appear at the end, and the steps covered with aquatic plants swayed up, and through the end of the stairs, I saw the water surface and bright light.

We glanced at each other, cautiously crawling and swam over, the closer we got to this, the more panicked we became, the fear of the unknown was the most unsettling, slowly came to the water, first stretched out the water with our fingers to try, and found that there was no danger, before poking my face out.

There was air in it, so I unhooked the breathing apparatus from my mouth and took off my goggles. Take the sealed rifle behind your back in your hand and be on guard carefully, waiting for Winter Ice and them to come up one by one.

By the way, I looked around, and found that there was actually a passage here, all made of bricks, as if it was in a tomb, and it was really different from the previous building made of crystal outside. Dong Bing pouted and said: "Mother, I can finally speak, but the Chinese just love face, you see the crystal clear built outside, the repair inside is like an earthen kiln, don't hit the swollen face and become fat if you don't have money." ”

"That's not the reason." I shook my head and said, "Maybe it's actually a tomb in here?" ”

Dong Bing still didn't believe it and said: "Pull it down, how can anyone repair the place where he 'sleeps' so shivering." Speaking of this, he rolled his eyes and asked, "If it's really a tomb, who do you say will be buried?" ”

Only the ghost who is buried can guess, could it still be Canghai Jun? Phew! Isn't saying Canghaijun equivalent to saying Weizi, but if it's not Canghaijun, who will it be? Or the Dragon King of the East China Sea?

Lei Hong on the side said loudly: "There are footprints here. ”

On the stone bricks of the passage, as he said, a pair of wet shoe prints appeared, extending all the way to the end of the passage.

"Could it be that the figure just left behind?" Dabao looked at it carefully and said, "Being able to leave shoe prints at least proves that this guy is still a person." ”

Dong Bing looked at it on the ground, got up and said, "Size 41 shoes, about 1.75 to 1.78 meters tall, is a man." ”

Forty-one yards? Male? It suddenly occurred to me that Weizi was also wearing shoes of this size, and his height was almost right. I saw Dongbing, Lei Hong, and Dabao looking at me, and I guess they were thinking of me too.

I secretly pressed my hand against them, signaling them to be silent.

"Let's go in and have a look, let's make a little brighter." I admonished.

In the passage, we didn't have a flashlight, it was very bright, there was a bronze lamppost on each side of the aisle for ten meters, the column body was like a branch fork, and there was a lamp plate held up in each fork.

I sniffed it carefully and said, "It's an oil lamp." ”

"Damn, what kind of oil is so powerful, it can still be lit now?" Dong Bing took a look, but he didn't see the fame.

Dabao on the side saw it, his eyes lit up, and he said: "I know, this must be mermaid oil, I have heard before that very powerful people in ancient times would use mermaid oil as an ever-bright lamp and put it in the tomb." For example, the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the mausoleum, of course, is not where we go to the sacrificial dragon platform, and it is recorded in the historical records that the first emperor used mermaids to boil into ointment and used it as oil for ever-bright lamps. I guess that when Xu Fu offered the eldest son, he also offered the mermaid, anyway, both of these things went out to the East China Sea. ”

Dabao is not wrong, I also remember that not only China has a lantern, but also all over the world has a legend of lantern, such as in 1400 AD, people found that the tomb of Peles, the son of the ancient Roman king, was also lit such a lamp, which has been burning for more than 2,000 years! Wind and water were helpless against it, and the only way to extinguish it was to drain the strange liquid from the lamp bowl.

In 1534 AD, the army of King Henry VIII of England stormed the English church, disbanded the religious community, and excavated and looted many graves. While digging the tomb of the Roman Emperor Constantine in Yorkshire, they found a still burning lamp, whose father died in 300 AD, meaning that the lamp burned for 1234 years!

These series show that the lanterns are not unique to China, but they all have one thing in common, that is, the unknown liquid in the lamps, and another thing in common is that these places have mermaid legends.

I looked at the bronze lantern and wondered if I would get some back, after all, I would save even the electricity bill at home.

Suddenly, Rayon made a silent gesture to silence us. I heard the sound of footsteps around the corner at the end of the passage.

"Someone!"

We were startled and hurriedly put our weapons against the wall to guard, and the muzzle of our guns was tightly pointed in the direction of the footsteps.