Chapter 19: Seated Bones

In ancient times, the palace was built on a huge pedestal, this imperial mausoleum used more than 700,000 people to build, the project is huge, the palace of the Qi palace in front of you is also built on a huge pedestal, and it is a rammed earth pedestal. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

From the exterior wall of the Qi Palace, the palace building area is at least 200 square meters, and the rammed earth platform foundation will naturally be larger, this architectural style belongs to the Taixie style building or high platform building.

The front of the palace of Qi is where we stand, from here to see the palace, you have to look up, almost up, the middle is connected by many steps, leading to the palace gate. On either side of the staircase are bronze cast mighty leopards, the winged kind, probably like this.

The dungeon has been kept dry, so the rammed earth platform still retains its original appearance, and the steps are almost intact enough to bear our weight.

Pangolin Zhang Jiuping slowly stepped on the steps, several of us followed him cautiously, always vigilant to the surrounding movements, the height of the rammed earth platform can reach five or six meters, each step is arranged very low, showing a very gentle slope, the steps naturally become more.

The steps to the palace are not always connected to the steps, but there are two jogging areas in the middle, and the whole staircase composed of many steps is divided into three parts, so that if you are tired, you can take a break in the jogging area.

"There are fewer guards here." Zhao Linsheng said.

Indeed, outside the palace, there are bronze figurine guards on the ground, each of which is in an upright position, holding long weapons, mostly Ge, and even outside the palace gate, there are two eunuchs on duty to listen to orders.

"The doors of the temple are closed." And I saw that the doors of the temple were shut.

When several people arrived outside the palace gate, I patted the pillars and knocked on the wall, obviously the building materials here are not all wood, otherwise after more than 2,000 years, I am afraid that it has already decayed at this time, and it is difficult to fully support this large palace.

"It's not all wooden." Pangolins have also been found as a building material.

I patted the wall and said, "At that time, a large number of tiles were used, and green bricks were also used, and this palace used a lot of green bricks, which no longer resembled a terrace-style building, so that it could be preserved for a long time." ”

The door that had been sealed for thousands of years was pushed open, and there was no strange appearance, and no crossbow was fired at us, but a lot of dust was shaken off and filled the air, and everyone squinted and waved their hands to disperse the dust in front of them.

patted the dust on his body, and the dust in front of him gradually disappeared, and he opened his eyes in a blink of an eye, and suddenly the six people were in a mess, and even screamed.

"Ahh

"Someone!" Zhao Linsheng shouted, immediately retreated, and was about to turn around and run out of the temple gate, when I grabbed him.

At this moment, everyone must not panic, and no one dares to guarantee that something will happen in the panic.

"Wait." Entering the hall at this time, the light is a little dim, and the Qin Dynasty is still dark, in this environment, the light will feel dim, and it will also make people feel depressed.

We pushed open the door of the temple and entered, facing the throne in front of the temple gate, at first glance, there was a person sitting on the throne, but it was all black and there was no auxiliary light, and I couldn't see what it was, or what kind of person it was, so I turned on the flashlight again, and a beam of light went through, and sure enough, there was indeed a person sitting upright, but he had been dead for a long time, and only the skeleton remained.

"Let's take a look." Pangolins have been in many tombs, and they are not surprised or afraid of the dead, just like the living people they usually see.

In the flashlight, the person sitting upright is motionless, like a statue.

Walking forward slowly, the dust of thousands of years is lifted by our footsteps, and there is a heavy smell of decay.

After I turned on my flashlights, everyone turned them on so that they could spot any movement in the temple and any signs of danger.

There was a distance of more than ten steps from the gate of the temple to the throne, and everyone crept around like thieves for a while. When they reached the throne, several lights shone on the man, and everyone took a breath, and the person sitting upright was actually a dried corpse, or more precisely, a skeleton.

"How could this be, all the soft tissues of the corpse have rotted away, and the bones are still intact." After seeing that it was indeed a skeleton, Lao K became bold, and the flashlight shone back and forth, as if he was looking for some treasure.

"It's possible, but it's not realistic, only the bones won't fall apart, and you can still sit upright like a living person." The pangolin was also curious as if he had never seen such a dead corpse, and the flashlight in his hand illuminated almost all the bones of the corpse.

"You haven't seen it." I asked the experienced pangolins under the grave.

The pangolin piggyback told me, "I've seen it, but I haven't seen a skeleton that can sit upright without a body, unless it's a ghost from a horror movie." ”

"Ah, goblins!" The pangolin's words startled the old K, who was looking for treasure on the bones, straightened up and took a few steps back and asked.

"You see, this skeleton, all the muscles and soft tissues of the body have rotted, the clothes are rotten, the hair is still there, the bones are black, there are attachments on it, he sits upright, his eyes are looking directly at the temple door, his body is straight, his feet are still on the foot bed, his hands are clasped in front of his abdomen, I can't imagine, it is just a skeleton, how can it still sit upright, and it has been a long time, but it will not fall down." The pangolin said in a contemplative manner.

"There's got to be weird about that, or my worldview is going to collapse." Yang Gang didn't know what was going on, but he believed that there must be support.

"Damn, if your world had stood up, the rest of the world's would have collapsed long ago, fortune teller." Old K joked about Yang Gang.

"Don't make any noise, if there is no one, you can find here, waste, lustful and money-hungry verbose." Shangguan Yaxiong suddenly argued for Yang Gang at this time.

I glanced at Shangguan Yaxiong and thought to myself, it seems that this road will not be quiet anymore, I hope it will be a story, not an accident.

"Get him out of the way." The pangolin pointed to the bones.

"Move away?" Everyone asked in unison, looking at the two deep hole eye sockets on the skeleton and the bare teeth, it was hairy to think about, and they had to move.

Although I am afraid, once I commit such a thing as curiosity, it is a disease, and there is no cure for it except to find out.

"Why, I'm scared!" No one moved, the pangolin asked, looking at us, and we collectively shook our heads and retreated.

The pangolin shook his head, only he was willing to do it, he stretched out his hand to the bones, suddenly grabbed it, couldn't help but say, immediately threw it behind him, and the back of the pangolin stood just me, the bones rushed towards me, I dodged, I saw that the mouth of the bones with only teeth was about to kiss me, I had no choice but to twist my face first, at this moment, the bones were thrown by the force and I couldn't catch off guard, the bones pushed me down, the bones lying on me pressed me to the ground, and a bad smell immediately rushed into my nose.

Seeing the momentum, Lao K and Zhao Linsheng next to him did not hold the bones, but quickly dodged, I was pressed to the ground by the bones, I reacted, as if my body was on fire, pushed away the bones, got up on the ground, and then danced on all fours, and my hands kept slapping my whole body.

"Haha." The bones were tossed aside by me, apparently harmless, and everyone laughed, but I was the only one who was stunned.

"Pangolin, I'll fight with you!" I was so angry that I had to fight the pangolins for the first time I had gotten angry in front of them.

"Don't, Qin Qi, it's just a joke." Seeing the situation, Old K hugged me, and then his eyes fell on the place where the corpse was sitting, "Hey, there's nothing, so how did it sit." ”

My gaze rested on the empty throne, where there was nothing but a butt mark, the mark of the corpse's decay.

I came back to my senses, frowning and thinking of the corpse shell: "Could it be that the corpse sat here when it was alive, and then it was eaten alive by the bloodthirsty golden turtle in the underground palace, leaving only the bones that could not be gnawed, and it has always been in the sitting position before death." ”

My guess was obviously not true, it was like telling them a ghost story, all staring at me with wide eyes.

"So who can tell me what's going on?" I asked them.

Several of them, including the pangolin, shook their heads, no one knew how a skeleton sat upright and couldn't sit down, and no one knew how many years it had been sitting like that.

"This may be a martyr, a living person buried in the underground palace, which is equivalent to being buried alive." Pangolins speculated.

"In other words, this skeleton has been sitting for more than two thousand years, is it possible?" Shangguan Yaxiong didn't believe it, but I'm afraid no one would ever know this answer, not even the corpse itself.