Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Smell of Blood
"Maybe they're just some close soldiers or palace maids?" Shangguan Yaxiong pointed to the bones and said to me. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After more than 2,000 years, the clothes on the bones have long been decayed and tattered, and even the color has long since disappeared, and only the appearance can be roughly distinguished, and the bones are wearing men's and women's clothes, which proves that there are men and women in the bones.
What Shangguan Yaxiong said is reasonable, and this possibility cannot be ruled out.
"Damn, the bloodthirsty golden turtle is here again." I suddenly heard a sound coming from outside the palace, I walked to the broken window that was almost non-existent and looked out of the palace, sure enough, a piece of gold was like a huge golden blanket moving on the long ladder, the bloodthirsty golden turtle is an interesting thing to go up the steps, they can fly, but when we see them, most of the time they climb, the steps have a certain height, and they are straight, so they cooperate tacitly, stacked one by one, fill the steps into a ramp, and the bloodthirsty golden turtle behind is convenient to crawl.
My fears were finally confirmed, and I took another look at the gunshot wound on my arm, the strip of cloth that bandaged the wound was already covered in blood, and my wound did not stop bleeding.
"The bloodthirsty beetle smells blood." I reluctantly told them that we were going to run for our lives again.
The palace of the king of Han is the same as the palace of the king of Qi, built on a rammed earth platform as high as five or six meters high, and only the steps in front of the palace can be used to go up and down, at this time the bloodthirsty golden turtle has climbed on the steps, blocking the only passage, if you jump down from the pedestal, you will be disabled if you don't die.
"Quick, let's go and bring out the wine from the secondary room on the left and sprinkle it on the steps in front of the temple to prevent the bloodthirsty golden turtle from entering the temple." I immediately thought of the sake in the bronze room on the left.
"It seems that this is the only way." Shangguan Yaxiong nodded, and ran to the left first.
Entering the left room, since I was a wounded, the two of them did not let me carry the bronze sage, but Shangguan Yaxiong and Yang Gang moved, and the two of them carefully carried the bronze stalk out of the palace, and the wine in the bronze sage was the lifesaver at this time.
I helped to open the lid of the bronze canopy, and the smell of wine immediately wafted out and diffused in the air.
Arriving at the junction of the steps and the pedestal, I pointed to them and said, "Pour a separation line here to stop the bloodthirsty golden turtle from crossing this line." ”
The two of them carefully tilted the bronze skewers, and the clear wine slowly flowed out, poured on the foundation of the rammed earth, and the wine entered the ground, but did not immediately seep into the rammed earth, but flowed along the stream.
"It's really strong, more than 2,000 years later, and it's still so strong." I looked at the wine in amazement.
Rammed earth as a means of construction, in Chinese history has been used for a very long time, rammed earth made of pedestals and walls, the composition of fine soil, sand and stone, to the later, will also add lime, it is said that when ramming such a rammed earth building, it will also be mixed with glutinous rice and salt, cooked glutinous rice can enhance the viscosity, salt can control the rammed building will not grow in the wind and sun.
Could it be that glutinous rice is also mixed into the rammed earth platform here, which enhances the adhesion and reduces the gaps, so that it is difficult for the wine to penetrate and flow on the surface.
The wine spilled a line separating the steps up the palace from the pedestal, and this line was still forming towards the wine flowing in all directions, and slowly the wine expanded, and it took a long time for the wine to penetrate into the rammed earth.
The speed of action is like a fast-marching bloodthirsty golden turtle to reach the position where the wine is spilled, and sure enough, it stops, while the bloodthirsty golden turtle behind keeps pouring up, and it is about to pile up.
"What to do, we can't wait here all the time, if the wine dries out, the bloodthirsty golden turtle will come up all at once, and then the real trouble will come." Yang Gang said.
Indeed, even if there is alcohol in the way, it is temporary.
"Anything else?" I asked, and then leaned closer to the edge of the bronze and looked inside, but it was empty, and not a single drop was spilled, "Damn, I don't leave any left." ”
"What then?" Shangguan Yaxiong also asked.
"Hurry back and look for any wine." I immediately ran to the palace, and then in the second room on the left, we searched through the bronze wine vessels, and even some ritual vessels, and there were no drinks at all.
"How can you put only one bottle of wine?" Yang Gang suddenly regretted that he had poured too hard, and he was puzzled that he only had a drink.
I shook my head, as I proved when I opened the lid, that if it wasn't absolutely sealed, there would have been no liquor left in the room, and it would have evaporated and then dried up.
"No, the others don't exist anymore." I ran back to the temple to see the herds of bloodthirsty turtles still pouring up, and looked down at the flat ground under the steps, where there were only two white bones left, and the bloodthirsty turtles that had eaten human flesh had already poured up the long ladder.
"You see, if we can't think of a way to escape, we'll have to be like those corpses, and we'll end up with only bones." Yang Gang pointed to the bones under the steps and said.
Knowing that we will soon fall into a crisis, knowing that we will soon be eaten to the bone, now we can only calculate the time that will pass quickly, waiting for the moment of death to come, but there is nothing to do.
Rammed earth is just compacted earth, which can eventually suck up any liquid on the surface, including alcohol, which is gradually disappearing.
Watching the vanishing wine, even the smell of alcohol in the air gradually disappearing, and despair kept coming, this feeling was extremely painful, far more daunting and painful than death.
The three of us stood on the edge of the front desk of the palace of the Han Palace, looking down at the place where the wine line was drawn and stopped advancing, the bloodthirsty golden turtles that had already piled up like a mountain, I didn't know how much more alcohol could play, and I didn't know when the bloodthirsty golden turtle piles piled up like a hill would collapse.
"This won't last long, return to the temple as soon as possible and seek refuge." I said eagerly, I didn't know where in the palace of King Han could provide shelter from the hordes of bloodthirsty golden turtles.
I walked in front and rushed back to the palace of King Han, and Shangguan Yaxiong and Yang Gang had nothing to do when they saw this kind of scene, so they followed closely behind.
"Don't you still have wine?" Shangguan Yaxiong reminded me.
"yes, I filled a bottle of wine." Maybe it was a high degree of nervousness and fear, I forgot about the wine, Shangguan Yaxiong reminded me to remember, I couldn't help but rummage through my backpack to take it out to save my life, but I thought of something wrong, and immediately fell back into disappointment on the verge of hope, "Such a little wine doesn't work at all, at least it can't save the three of us, you see, a bunch of wine poured outside will be useless." ”
My hand is still in my backpack, and I am holding the kettle of wine tightly in my hand, at this moment, I don't dare to take it out easily, I am afraid that between this life and death decision, unimaginable things will happen, such as the three of them made a big move for this bottle of wine, and before the bloodthirsty golden turtle poured into the palace of King Han, we had died in the hands of our own people.
"What then?" Yang Gang and Shangguan Yaxiong looked at each other for a while, and then they both looked at me again, the atmosphere at this time was very weird, indescribable, I think, at this moment, each other must be making difficult choices in their hearts, fighting.
"Forget it, I think there is at least one problem that can be solved now, which can be used to clean your wounds, stop the bleeding as soon as possible, and reduce the spread of the smell of blood." Shangguan Yaxiong may have had many experiences with injuries in the field, so he said to me.
It seems that I have lived the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and they have no intention of fighting for the only bit of wine.
But there is still a question: "This wine is more than 2,000 years old, won't it be poisonous?" ”
I'm worried that thousands of years of wine are poisonous, so don't wash the wounds and end my little life first.
I looked at the two of them, no one spoke, and it was still a difficult decision to make, at least for now.
"Okay, if you die, you're dead, I'm afraid of a hair." I gritted my teeth and agreed.
The wine hurt the wound as soon as it touched it, so I propped up my arms and gritted my teeth tightly, waiting for Shangguan Yaxiong to pour the wine over my wound.
Shangguan Yaxiong opened the cap of the bottle and whispered, "You bear with it, I'll pour it." ”
"Don't talk nonsense, act like a." I scolded and urged Shangguan Yaxiong to hurry up, I didn't think that she was actually a girl, maybe the bloodthirsty golden turtle would rush into the hall immediately.
"Okay!" Shangguan Yaxiong was about to pour the wine on my wound.
At this time, there was movement in the hall, and the movement did not belong to the bloodthirsty golden turtle, and the sound of the bloodthirsty golden turtle's action was already familiar to us.
"Holy,!" Yang Gang's eyes widened and he shouted tremblingly.
Yang Gang is a descendant of Yang Gong, and he is considered an expert in the art of Qimen, and he should not behave like this for anything that cannot be explained by science, especially any dynamic thing that appears in this kind of tomb, as if he had seen a ghost.
I saw Yang Gang's expression and ghost scream, and I immediately turned my head to look in the direction he was looking, which was the right room of the Han Palace, and at the same time, Shangguan Yaxiong also turned his head to look.
Shangguan Yaxiong and I were really startled when they saw it, Shangguan Yaxiong immediately jumped, and when he arrived at Yang Gang's side, the three of them stared at the door of the right room with wide eyes, and they were suddenly at a loss.
Even a lot of cold sweat broke out on my back, and I was covered in goosebumps, and I was trembling slightly.