Chapter 8: Nine copper coffins
Fang Cai Yongdao encountered a ghost hitting the wall and almost killed himself, thinking that it was a Ji person who had his own natural appearance. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info I saw that as far as the eye could see, there was a bright hall, and the tiredness and haze of the body suddenly disappeared a lot, and I hurriedly stepped in, staying in the dark corridor for too long, and suddenly placed myself in a new environment, and I felt a little like the illusion of another world.
Taking advantage of the rest, I raised my eyes and looked around at this stone room, which was slightly different from the one I fell from - first of all, the space was many times larger, the whole stone room was a dome arch structure, and there were the same road crossings in all directions, plus the one I walked behind me, I roughly counted that there were eight roads connected to this place, giving people the feeling of a central room; The walls between the Yongdao crossings are also cast with bronze dragon heads, but there is no round handle bracket, and these dragon heads slowly flow out from the mouth salivation; And there is no stone coffin in the center of this stone room, instead there is a huge vertical cave with a bottomless depth, with a diameter of about 20 meters, and the dark red yang sui circulates around the cave several times and then all fall into the cave, like a blood-colored galaxy, and it is not chaotic.
I moved to the edge of the pit and looked at it, and the eight strands of yang fell straight into the darkness beyond my reach. By the light of these eight rays of sunshine, I also caught a glimpse of the stone steps on the inner wall of the pit that could be walked on, and the width of more than three or five people side by side circled around the pit, and the end of it also disappeared into the darkness.
I thought in my heart that this is probably the legendary fool's pit. What is a fool's pit? It's a pit that only a fool with a brain problem would go into. Maybe there's something waiting for you down there! Think of the good thing, what kind of burial pits, burial grounds, underground riverbeds, underground labyrinths; Thinking about the worst, what kind of sharp blade pits, quicksand formations, poisonous insects and monsters' nests, the main site of the drunken capital, white zongzi, black zongzi, blood zongzi, dry zongzi, wet zongzi concentration camp, etc., etc., who the hell is going to say where to come? Isn't this a fool's pit?
After just glancing at me, he snorted lightly and retreated, wanting to deceive you Tang Sanye is on the way, this fire is still far away. Thinking about it, I put the big hole and turned to check the other seven roads in the stone room, and since these roads were almost exactly the same, I took out the half of the fire fold that I had pinned to the back of my waist and put it on the entrance of the road I had walked to mark it, and then began to check the rest of the roads one by one.
After only one round trip, I was shocked to realize that these eight corridors were really the same—not only the entrance and door corners were the same, but even the weird bronze mirror was also neatly identical: a mirror at the corner of the corridor, and the vertical score was exactly the same.
This is troublesome, with the same routes and road signs, who can guarantee that there is no same ecstasy in it? I'm embarrassed, it's very difficult to choose one of the eight, not to mention that I don't even know how I got out just now, if I throw myself into the net and send it in, with this IQ alone, I'm afraid that even the ancestors won't bother to bless it anymore.
I couldn't help but gasp - there was also a flow of yang sui in the area above the stone room, as if gathered in a transparent pipe without pouring down, and through the light of the yang sui, I could see a large number of painted murals in the middle of it, which were actually painted with two evil spirits with angry eyes and ugly and hateful appearances.
These two demons painted a naked female corpse with no head in her mouth, painted with a green glow, holding a three-pointed fork, and her hair fluttering all over her body; A blood-red body, holding a steel knife with three or five headless and legless corpses strung together, with tongues of fire bursting out from his eyes, mouth, ears and nose. In addition to the horror, I also noticed that these two spirits were all outstretched with their left hands, pointing directly at the huge dark cavern below.
Because the drawings are colorful, lifelike and have their own lighting effects, I was shocked to see my hair stand on end, and my feet couldn't stop trembling. But as the saying goes, people can't fall down, I say in my heart that no matter who built this underground palace, the tomb owner must be the number one fan of Sage Confucius. Pompous, pompous. Maintaining a positive and optimistic attitude is my usual style, and I am not so stunned when I think about it, but the mural on the top is really difficult to look at, and I have to withdraw my gaze, but my mind is like a stone sinking into the sea and the leaves of the autumn wind - what should I do now?
Just as I was hesitating, I don't know from which corridor around me suddenly came a burst of women's miserable laughter, in this quiet environment, I couldn't help but hear such a sound comparable to thunder, so frightened that I almost fell into the huge pit in front of me, his grandmother's! My cheeks tingled, and my 36 million pores twitched instantly, and when I came to my senses, I realized that I had staggered down the stone steps of the cave that the demon had pointed to.
- Oh!
The brain is buzzing, the arrow is on the string, and I have to send it, I have arrived in this field, and I can't take care of it so much, time is not waiting, I will go to his second uncle's, let's run first! I didn't dare to look back to see if there were any pursuers at the mouth of the pit, so I only gritted my back molars and scolded the eighteenth generation ancestor behind me who didn't know what it was.
In the blink of an eye, I didn't know that on the edge of the cave more than ten meters away behind me, a pretty figure stood with bated breath like a clay carving, with a ghostly light in her eyes, looking at the people who were panicking on the steps of the cave without saying a word.
The stone steps swirled like a whirlpool, and the further down I went, the more cramped it became, and by the time I realized the situation, it was almost impossible to move an inch, and finally I had to slowly move down against the cave wall. When I looked at it, the blood red at the bottom of my feet was red, and it was estimated that the yang sui flowing down from the stone chamber above my head had converged into a deep pool at the bottom of the cave. Yang Sui is a kind of cold mineral with no temperature, but when I am in this scene, I still feel that the heat is unbearable, and the sweat soaks my entire back.
At first, I was worried that the stone steps under my feet would gradually disappear and there would be no way out, but then I found that the stone steps had been reduced to a certain extent and did not change any more, and a heart hanging in my throat calmed down a little, and after a quarter of an hour or so of moving against the cave wall, I came to the bottom of the cave to which the evil spirit was pointing.
The scene at the bottom of the cave is indeed the same as I thought before, a pool of bloody red like blood came into view, the scale of the deep pool is also similar to the diameter of the entrance of the pit overhead, and the eight strands of yang Sui slowly merge into it, filling it very full, if it is not for the lack of temperature, anyone who glances at it will think of the situation in the crater; And this Yangsui deep pool can not be compared with ordinary waterholes, if you fall into the water and go to that there is still salvation, if you are not careful to plant in this Yangsui deep pool, I am afraid that even Da Luo Jinxian will have to mess up, let alone a seven-foot living person, three or two will be like pouring mercury, trapping and dying.
I knew this truth, so I went down the stone steps to find a way to stand firm, the bottom of the cave extended openly, the light source was abundant, just look around and I was surprised to find - on the edge of the deep pool filled with sunshine, neatly lined up nine huge bronze coffins, as brilliant as ink, silent, in this strange place printed with blood-red light looks very dazzling.
I was greatly surprised, the tomb customs of the Liao Dynasty mostly used golden silk nanmu, pine and cypress and other wood as the coffin materials, how could there be such a giant coffin using such ancient materials in the depths of this cave? Moreover, these nine bronze coffins are lined up like those huge stone statues on Easter Island, standing up to the sky, surrounding the deep pool of Yangsui in the middle.
I took a closer look, and found that the huge bronze coffin in the southeast corner had somehow been opened, leaving only an empty coffin standing upright, and nothing could be seen as far as the eye could see, except for the empty coffin board that was terrifyingly black.
As a qualified professional archaeologist, I am good at nothing more than excavation identification, classification and research, and collation. If this were in normal times, I would have been amazed and studied in detail, but the atmosphere is strange and uneasy at the moment, and I am alone, so I really don't dare to act rashly - someone has come to raise the coffin? I don't know who opened it, I don't know what was inside, and I don't know why only one of the nine coffins was opened.
Looking at the empty bronze coffin, the more I thought about it, the more furious my heart became.
At this time, a cold wind blew, and I remembered that I had to find my way out, and looked over those strange bronze coffins, and found that there was a stone door deep in the cave wall more than 100 steps away from me, but it was far away, and I couldn't see whether it was sealed. Looking around, there was no other way out, so I had to take a deep breath and slowly touch the edge of the cave towards the stone door.
I used to read about bronze coffins in a book called "Strange Treatises", saying that the main reason for casting coffins with such materials is to seal the stiffness and ward off evil, but all evil and foreign objects that are not within the five elements must be buried in bronze coffins, and then poured copper juice and molten iron to seal them, dig pits and bury them deeply, no matter what is buried inside, so that it will never see the light of day. At that time, when I read the book, I simply scoffed at this statement, although our archaeological team has never explored and excavated the remains of ancient tombs of the three dynasties, but the three dynasties of the Xia and Shang dynasties were all in the heyday of the unprecedented use of bronze tools, did not have a mouth to bury the bronze sarcophagus of ordinary people? Don't be kidding, the person who wrote that broken book must have been a nervous disorder who had a sudden conjecture all day long, full of feudal superstition, and couldn't share his ears.
But at this moment, looking at these bronze coffins, I was terrified, my hands and feet were cold, and a voice in my heart seemed to keep saying: "Don't touch them!" Don't! ”