Chapter 14: King of Dian - Miao Qiang

When I took a flashlight to find the flare just now, I saw the bronze lamp under the high platform, and tried to light it with a match, but it was still lit, but it all emitted this blue and faint fire. The pen %fun %www.biquge.info was surprised in his heart, and said to himself, what kind of oil is this lamp made of, how many years can it be lit, and what is the matter with blue light? Suddenly, the flame of the bronze lamp I lit branched out into a small flame and 'walked' forward, and in the blink of an eye, three lights were lit, and we were all stunned, this is also amazing, the flame will move on its own? It's too wicked.

Reaching out and picking up a lamp to light the other oil lamps, the result was the same, lighting the first one followed by two more lamps. I silently wrote down in my heart that a total of twenty-four lamps were lit, and two lamps were behind each lamp, adding up to a total of seventy-two lamps that surrounded the high platform in the middle. The entire cave exuded a faint blue light, and there was a hint of horror in it.

Looking at the wall along the oil lamp, Old Man Song suddenly pointed to the wall and exclaimed, "There are people." ”

The three of us raised our guns almost at the same time, aiming at the direction of Old Man Song's fingers, Da Dongbei instantly opened the safe, pulled the bolt, and was ready to shoot, I stopped him and signaled him not to shoot, and saw clearly the people on the wall through the blue and faint light, a child, specifically it should be a fetus, a fetus that has not yet been born, and the back of the fetus is a woman who is tilted down and looks down below, the lower body is blocked, her hands are tied behind her back, and she still has a slight smile on her face, but this smile makes people feel weird and terrifying no matter how you look at it, The woman's belly was cut open to reveal the fetus inside, the fetus was closed with its eyes closed, and was placed in the same position as the woman, and the lower half of the body was also not seen leaning against the woman's belly, and a long umbilical cord on the navel stretched to a stone ditch below, and the bottom of the stone ditch was facing the bronze lamp below.

Turn on the flashlight and shine it around, every lit oil lamp in the entire huge stone room has an identical fetus and a woman on it, the woman's face has a weird and terrifying smile, at this time we all feel cold behind us, looking at everything in front of us unconsciously out of a cold sweat, such a miserable death but with such a strange smile, what are these lamps for, why is there an umbilical cord attached to them, who are these women, what do the pictures and words on them represent?

The problem on the mural in front has not been solved, and now there is an even more unbelievable thing, thinking of this, I turned my head and asked Old Man Song: "Professor Song, have you heard of the King of Dian?" ”

Old man Song was stunned for a moment and asked me, "Do you know the King of Dian?" Seeing him say this, I knew that this old guy must know something, and I thought that he pretended to be unconscious before, and before I figured out what he wanted to do, I didn't dare to tell him the truth: "My time in Yunnan is not short, I heard the fellow say it before, but I don't know if the fellow is true or false, I thought of the king of Dian when I saw these things, I don't know how much you know?" ”

Old man Song stared at my eyes, trying to hear some truth from my nonsense, and I didn't show weakness and responded to his gaze directly, obviously he believed my nonsense, for a scout like me, the best thing is to lie and brag, if even an intellectual like him who looks at books all day long can't deceive, how can I deceive the enemy.

When I finished speaking, we looked at each other for a while, and he coughed a little embarrassedly twice before saying: "Most of what I know is from the trees and others, Sima Qian's "Historical Records" records that the 'Dian Kingdom' is an ancient country in Yunnan, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty personally sealed it. King of Dian' and gave the seal of the King of Dian, and later because of the mysterious disappearance of the ancient Dian Kingdom, they thought it was just a legend, until more than ten years ago someone found the tombs of the ancient Dian Kingdom from near the Dianchi Lake, only to confirm the existence of the Ancient Dian Kingdom, but according to the records, the Ancient Dian Kingdom should be a small country on the shore of Fuxian Lake, the sphere of influence is far from reaching the border of Yunnan, this place should not have much to do with the ancient Dian Kingdom. ”

I only listened to the first half of what he said, because the second half I had already confirmed with my own eyes that this small ancient country that had disappeared seemed to me to be full of mystery and weirdness, and I didn't ask anything more, beckoning them to go to the high platform in the middle. If what Old Man Song said is true, then this strange stone chamber has existed for at least a thousand years, so the heavy stone door mechanism can be opened, this place does not know what traps there will be, every step on the steps is very careful, I remember very clearly, we walked a total of eighty-one steps.

At the end of the stairs is an octagonal platform large enough to accommodate a large Liberation truck, on the platform is a rectangular table without feet, which seems very low, with both sides upturned, the table top is no more than ten centimeters high from the stone platform, and there are nine bronze lamps like the one below, one of which is placed in front of the table, and there is nothing else. I lit a match to light it, when suddenly nine bronze lamps lit up at the same time, and we were so frightened that we almost fell off the platform.

Old man Song stretched his neck and sniffed vigorously, I asked him what he was sniffing, and he said after a long time: "There is a smell of phosphorus powder, this thing ignites when it sees fire, and it is different from the following." Old man Song suddenly thought of something and said in surprise: "Let's see if the people on this wall have feet?" ”

We hurriedly flashlights and looked at the walls around us, the walls were all half-length women tied up, and the fetuses in the womb were also half-body, I said to Old Man Song: "There are no feet, what's going on?" ”

Old man Song asked again: "Are there any traces of having your legs cut off?" I said, "No," and after listening to me, he seemed to be stimulated by something, waiting for a pair of big eyes to look at the 'table' on the high platform, I asked him what was wrong, he didn't speak, just stared at the 'table' in a daze.

Just when my patience was about to run out and prepare to find the way, he said quietly: "This is an altar, I have heard of a thing called 'mermaid paste' before, which the ancients used to make the material of the lantern."

I thought to myself what the hell this old guy was doing, so I smiled and said, "Professor Song, you can't be stupid, are you, where are some mermaids in this world?" ”

Old man Song turned his head and held the myopic glasses on his ears and said: "You are right, there is no mermaid in this world at all, originally everyone thought that the mermaid was a baby fish, because the baby fish has four legs, and the cry is similar to the cry of a child, but now everything in front of us has overturned my idea, the so-called 'mermaid paste' is to use living people, you see these pregnant women, which one is not the feet that were cut off when they were born, and those unborn fetuses"

I used a flashlight to shine again, every pregnant woman and fetus at first glance seems to have no feet, a closer look is not difficult to see, the lower body is a piece of skin that has been removed from the bones, the middle of a pair of thighs with a thin thread sewn together and then grow together, connected together straight down the legs to form a huge fish tail, if there is no flashlight, only by this blue light can not be seen at all, only think that the lower half of the woman's body is blocked by something.

Speaking of this, Da Dongbei scolded: "Which grandson came up with this damn trick, it's so fucking inhumane, women and children don't let it go." ”

The little stammerer echoed: "Ignorance, cruelty. ”

I nodded and asked Old Man Song, "Professor, do you know what the pictures and words on these people's heads mean?" ”

I took the flashlight and shone it on the high part of the wall, and the old man Song said while looking at it: "There are some records above, I only know part of it, and I can guess the general meaning." According to the translation of the old man Song, the above picture depicts that after the Yellow Emperor fought Chiyou, eighty-one brothers scattered to various places to find Chiyou's body with their own clues, and the descendants of the eighty-one brothers have continued this mission, but there have been no clues, one of them went to Yunnan, and his descendants also settled here, calling themselves 'King of Dian'. Later, an army came to attack, and after a great defeat, they surrendered.

Behind is a winding road was forcibly divided into two sections from the middle, the old man Song said that this means that the traffic was interrupted, and another group of troops came to fight again, the result was not the same, and then the other army appeared in the crown on the head, dressed in a crown robe, tall people stood in front of the army, behind them there were two maids with a fan in their hands. The leader of the Dian Kingdom knelt on his knees and held something similar to a seal in both hands, which should be the 'Seal of the King of Dian given by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty'.

The Dian Kingdom also obtained hundreds of years of peace and tranquility, until the last person Dian King: Miao Qiang appeared, inadvertently got a sword, sharpened iron like clay, according to the wall said this is the ancient era of the ancestor Chi You left the sword, then ordered people to build this huge underground palace, and with a huge gloomy wood coffin, so that the sword will not rot for thousands of years, the palace is under an ancient tree, at the entrance of the power supply with the Miao family's unique witchcraft raised' The wood-eating insects will turn the vegetation at the entrance of the cave into the image of Chiyou so that Chiyou can find their way home in the future.

For the sake of safety, countless traps were arranged on the side of the ancient books, one of which was the 'vampire lobster', which was raised with the blood of living people, and then fed bronze sand and stones, in order to prevent it from running around and causing trouble to the people, there was a secret method to limit the scope of activity. The second is the vines under the roots of the trees, which are not used to kill people, but to drag animals to the nests of 'vampire lobsters' to ensure the freshness of the blood.

As for the high platform where we are now, it is indeed as Old Man Song said before, this is an altar, but it is not used to worship Chiyou. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang put the seven-star lantern in order to complete the great cause of Kuangfu Han Dynasty, borrowed life from the sky, and was delayed by Wei to break into the military tent and broke the seven-star lantern bureau, Miao Qiang knew that his life was short, he also wanted to learn Zhuge Liang to put the seven-star lantern to borrow life from the sky, and continue to enjoy himself in the world, in order to prevent accidents like Zhuge Liang, he ordered people to open up the passage connecting the sword mound and built an altar in the belly of the mountain, and sent people to search for eighty-one pregnant women who were seven months pregnant, and then planted a kind of Gu worm that could make them smile all the time, when he was alive, he cut open his belly and made the appearance of a 'mermaid', which is the 'mermaid paste' needed for the ever-bright lamp, but his subordinates searched all over the Dian Kingdom and only found twenty-four pregnant women who were seven months pregnant at the same time, so there was a scene of these twenty-four pregnant women being caesarean section on the wall.