Chapter 383: The Bagua Altar
Li Bing had just dragged the rope down to the ground, and he caught a glimpse of a flashlight, and the light was getting weaker and weaker and was being thrown on the ground.
He untied the rope around his waist and looked at it carefully, only to see that this was a strangely shaped underground palace.
The area of the underground palace is not large, the ground is square, and the surrounding areas converge upward, but it has become a round arch. Li Bing thought about it for a while, and then understood the meaning, this is the meaning of the heaven and the round place.
The entire underground palace is composed of diamond walls made of blue bricks, and there are no other passages. In the center of the dungeon, there is a huge brick gossip shape, and there is nothing else in the dungeon.
Obviously, this is not an ancient tomb, but more like an altar.
What puzzled Li Bing was that there were many small black holes on the King Kong walls around the underground palace.
On the ground of the dungeon, there are many black branch-like things scattered around.
Li Bing picked it up and looked at it, Fang Jue held it in his hand heavily, it turned out that these black things were actually arrows made of cast iron, although they had been corroded, they could still feel the sharpness of the tip of the arrow.
At this moment, Li Bing immediately understood in his heart that this was the mechanism designed in the underground palace. As soon as his mind moved, a cold sweat immediately broke out.
Li Bing hurriedly turned to the back of the gossip altar, and this look made him scream miserably.
I saw a man lying half-on the ground against the altar, covered with iron arrows, like a hedgehog.
A puddle of black blood had seeped into the ground, and an iron arrow had hit the man's right eye. Although the dead man's mouth was wide open, and his face was already distorted by fright and pain, Li Bing still recognized at a glance that the person who was killed by the iron arrow was the tomb robber Jin Bomiao who was compiled.
Under Jin Bomiao's body, there are three stone steps, which are the necessary places to climb to the tall Bagua altar.
Li Bing cautiously stepped on the stone steps, and there was no abnormal movement, so he was relieved.
He was secretly glad in his heart, if it wasn't for Jin Bomiao entering this dungeon first, at this time, countless iron arrows were lying in a pool of blood in his body, I am afraid that it would be either him or Qian Yiduo.
Li Bing wiped away the dense cold sweat oozing from his forehead, calmed down, and stepped on the three stone steps.
He opened his eyes and looked at the altar, and as he expected, it was outlined in the shape of a gossip with stone strips. What made him feel strange was that there was no common yin-yang fish pattern in the middle of the gossip diagram, but a delicate Nanmu small box.
Li Bing picked up the nanmu box, and there was a small copper lock hanging on it.
He didn't have time to think about anything, listened to the anxious call of Qian Yiduo at the entrance of the cave, and quickly put the small box into his pocket, and then left the underground palace.
After listening to Li Bing's narration, Qian Yiduo was also shocked and broke out in a cold sweat. The two of them didn't say a word, quickly left the underground palace, and walked quickly to the parking position of the White Tiger Temple.
After getting into the car, Qian Yiduo asked softly, "Li Bing, do you want to report this matter to Team Song?" ”
Li Bing thought for a while, shook his head and said, "Brother Qian, you must not tell Team Song about this. Do you think, if we don't say anything, sooner or later others will find this stolen white van parked at the gate of the White Tiger Temple, and they will also find the underground palace that was blown open by explosives. When the criminal police team receives the report, they will find Jin Bomiao dead inside. And the secret of Jin Bomiao's greed for the treasure of the White Tiger has been known, and his death in the underground palace organ can also allow the criminal police team to close the case. ”
"If we report it, how can we explain to the criminal police the purpose of the two of us going up the mountain at night? What's even harder is how to prove to others that Kim Bomiao is not our victim? Therefore, this matter must not be told to the Song team. ”
Qian Yiduo nodded, and the two hurriedly drove back to the small hotel.
Zhao Wan'er and the other three were anxiously waiting, and they were all overjoyed to see Li Bing and Qian Yiduo return safely.
Li Bing closed the door and said lightly: "Jin Bomiao is dead!" Then he stopped talking, and everyone was shocked, and Qian Yiduo understood everything after retelling what happened tonight.
Li Bing took out the delicate Nanmu box, carefully placed it on the table, and observed it carefully.
He took out his knife and easily opened the small copper lock, which had turned green.
Thinking of the terrible mechanism in the dungeon, Li Bing said with a solemn expression: "Just in case, a few of you should avoid it." ”
Everyone was extremely worried, and they all wanted to stop Li Bing from opening the mysterious little box. Li Bing firmly rejected everyone's kindness and insisted on asking them to hide aside.
The crowd couldn't, so they could only dodge. Li Bing carefully opened the box, and there was no terrible mechanism, so everyone was relieved.
I saw that in the Nanclay box, the bottom was lined with yellow satin, and in the middle was a fish-shaped bronze vessel.
Everyone couldn't help but marvel at how many years this small box had been placed in the underground palace, and the silk inside was so well preserved.
Li Bing carefully reached into the box, and where he touched it, those satin bottoms immediately turned into powder. Only then did Li Bing understand that these silks seemed to be well preserved, but they had actually been weathered and corroded.
He carefully took out the small fish-shaped bronze vessel, and kept holding it up, wondering in his heart why this fish-shaped bronze vessel was only half-like.
Li Bing was puzzled, and said to himself: "On that gossip altar, there is no yin and yang fish pattern in the middle, and it makes sense to replace it with this small fish." But why is there only half of this little fish? If it's really a yin and yang fish, it should be a pair! ”
Zhang Yuanshan nodded, he was also very strange, and sighed: "Li Bing, you are right. If the yin and yang fish lacks one, it will not become a yin and yang fish. Could it be that someone entered this dungeon and took away the other half of the yin and yang fish? ”
Li Bing shook his head and said, "Impossible, no one should have entered this dungeon before." I suspect that at the beginning of the construction of this underground palace, the builders left the clues to future generations, that is, the proverbs engraved on the ancient tower of the White Tiger Temple. This proverb has been handed down, so no one should have been able to decipher it before. ”
"Since no one knows the secret of this proverb, no one knows the location of this dungeon. And the structure of the dungeon is quite strange, and there is no door for the dungeon to open. In addition, the mechanism inside was only activated before me, after Jin Bomiao entered the underground palace. It can be seen that this underground palace should have never been entered since it was built. ”
This time, everyone was even more confused.
Zhao Wan'er said with some disappointment: "I thought that we had solved the mystery of the White Tiger. Who would have thought that we were wrong again, there was no white tiger in the dungeon, but only half of the small copper fish. This is too disappointing, and what's even more terrifying is that if Jin Boya hadn't made the first move, I don't know if anything would have happened to Li Bing and Brother Qian! ”
Shi Liya, who had been staring at the small copper fish, suddenly laughed lightly, and she said proudly: "Li Bing, I understand, this little fish is the soul of the white tiger. What do you think? I, a top student in the Department of History, don't understand archaeology, but I can understand things that you archaeologists don't understand. ”