Chapter 38: The Conical Patio

The pursuers of the Maharaja fell into the mountain stream, and at the same time brought the only small bridge into the river, and even if there were any more pursuers behind, they would not be able to cross the river, which was really a double win.

The pit said that the bridge was broken, how could we go back? I said you elm head, the soft ladder broke earlier, do you still plan to go back the way you came?

The pit's worries are not unreasonable, although the previous soft ladder is broken, we still know the route we came, once we can't go back to the other side of the mountain stream, our only way out is to find a new way out. Standing on the edge of the mountain stream and watching for a long time, I didn't see any more pursuers coming from the opposite side, at least from this point of view, we are safe for now.

I turned around and looked at Lao Zhao, Lao Zhao was rummaging through the equipment bag and didn't know what he was looking for, as soon as I saw him, I remembered what Mohu Luojia said just now to provoke us, if it wasn't for Lao Zhao's flash fast enough, this would have already seen the king of Hades, the sapper shoveled on the head, it was not a joke. I walked over and squatted down and said to Lao Zhao, "Brother Zhao was really sorry just now, my brother didn't have a heart." Lao Zhao was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said Where is it, if you hadn't been fascinated by the eyes of that beast, you wouldn't be like this. After saying that, he patted me on the shoulder and stood up.

The four of us discussed it, but we couldn't retreat, so we had to continue walking. So a few people picked up the flashlight and groped forward, this walk only to find that the original space on this side of the mountain stream is particularly small, is a narrow underground valley, as we go deeper and deeper, gradually find that this valley is getting narrower and narrower, at the beginning can still accommodate a few of us side by side, and then two people side by side, the last person is barely through. The pit is a bit blessed, walking in this valley, from time to time will rub against the stone walls on both sides.

As I walked, I felt that I had to pass on my side, and just when I felt that I was about to suffocate, my eyes suddenly became cheerful, first I felt a little dazzling, and then I opened my eyes to find that the end of the underground valley was actually a large patio. This patio is different from the patio we usually see, and it can be clearly seen that this patio type is raised in a cone, and when it reaches the top, it is still about a meter in size, of course, this is just the result of my judgment below. Because of the obscuration of the plants at the entrance of the cave, only a few rays of sunlight shine through the hole at the top, and even this makes the patio much brighter. When I looked at it by the light, I found that there were a large number of vines and plants growing on the entire patio floor, crawling everywhere.

Looking around, there is no way out. "That's what we want?" I pointed to the patio full of vines and said to Lao Zhao. Lao Zhao also looked at it suspiciously for a long time, and indeed found that there was no other way out, so he held his chin and fell into thought. The pit found the light shining from the top, and shouted "Mother, I can see the sun again, I want to kill you."

It is inevitable that the pit will be like this, so that whoever has been holding it underground for so long, not seeing the day, will sigh when I see Yangguan for the first time, although I didn't say anything, but my heart is still quite happy, no matter how to say, as long as we can climb out of this patio, we can be regarded as successfully out of this ancient tomb.

I slipped my flashlight into my backpack, shoveled the vines with a sapper shovel, and walked into the patio little by little. The ground under the vines is all flat stone slabs, and it is obvious that the ground was artificially repaired, and it is difficult to say whether the patio is natural or dug by later generations. It is not an easy task to be able to dig such a conical patio, and in my opinion, it is likely that later generations discovered this naturally formed patio, and then processed it on the basis of it, thus forming the current form.

Walking all the way to the other side, there was nothing out of the ordinary. When I walked in, I found that there were many shrines carved into the walls of the wells around the patio, and various stone statues were placed inside. There are men and women, fat and thin, some with happy faces, some with fierce faces, the only thing I can judge is that there are not only native Taoist gods, but also Buddhist Bodhisattvas and Arhats, and some images that I have never seen and can never think of, I can only describe as weird. On the top of the shrine, there are several characters that I don't recognize, and by my impression, I remember that I have seen such words before, which are the Yuan Dynasty's Bas-pa script.

I think that although I don't know him, Song Jin is doing it. So I asked Song Jin what it meant to write on it. Song Jin looked at it for a while and said that the meaning of what was written on it was probably that General Dayuan Wusi was buried here, and anyone who disturbed him would suffer the consequences.

Damn, I thought to myself, what does this mean, this is a curse, and I can't help but feel a little painful. The pit listened to Song Jin's words, and said with a smile that these ancients loved to fix these mysterious things, what is the meaning of self-inflicted evil consequences, I think he is just scaring people.

If you want to talk about the famous curse, or the curse of the Egyptian pharaoh, it is said that many people saw similar curses after opening the pharaoh's tomb, but no one wanted to believe it, everyone thought that the pharaoh was tricky, but then the people involved died in a strange way one by one, which reminded people of the curse in the pharaoh's tomb, and all of them were fulfilled in these people. Of course, there are people who explain this in a scientific way, but most people prefer to believe that it is the pharaoh's curse.

I said to the pit, it's better to be careful, no one knows what's in it, so we'd rather believe it or not. Pit Zi nodded, but he still said that he was not convinced, according to my understanding of him, as long as he nodded, it means that he has accepted it.

I just heard Song Jin say that this is the resting place of General Wu Si, but I didn't see a coffin just now. Could it be that among the sarcophagi we opened before, there was the coffin of General Wu Si? Alas, I don't know which one is, the good things must still be in the hands of this ancestors, if we miss it, wouldn't we go in vain, thinking of this, I can't help but smile bitterly.

At this moment, Lao Zhao suddenly shouted, Brother Ling, come quickly. I answered the call, only to see Lao Zhao open a vine, under the vine exposed is a stone carving, the image of the stone carving is a mountain wolf, but the wolf is not standing vicious, but lying on the ground with a docile face, the reason why it was sentenced to be a wolf, is because of the hard tail, if it is not this tail, I really think this statue is a dog.

"This wolf carving is too strange." I said to myself.

"There's still one over here." Saying that, Lao Zhao walked to the side and picked up the vine, and another statue was exposed under the vine, this statue was also a wolf, but the image was slightly different from the one just now, it felt like the prelude to the action just now, and the same thing as the previous one was that this one also had a very gentle expression, and I couldn't see the wolf's vicious appearance at all. Looking down the vines, I found that there were no less than 20 large and small wolf statues carved in this courtyard, most of these statues were placed against the wall of the well, and they were blocked by vines, and they would not be found if they didn't look carefully, which is why I didn't find these statues when I walked in just now.

"Brother Zhao, what do you think these statues are for?" I asked Lao Zhao tentatively.

"The stone statues will generally be placed on the ground and in the underground tombs, and the general age on the ground is long because of weathering, sun, rain and other reasons, and the greater reason is the destruction of man-made, many stone statues can not be handed down, and there are people who specialize in stealing the stone statues of these mausoleums, so it is said that there are fewer and fewer people who have passed down." Lao Zhao explained, "If you want to say the role of the stone statue, most of them are decorations, let these statues guard the mausoleum, and some of them are where the organs are. ”

"And what kind of stone statue do you think is here?" I asked.

Lao Zhao pondered for a long time and said: "Looking at the position of these places, it doesn't look like the location of the organs, if you want to talk about guarding the mausoleum, these statues are too gentle, and they don't look like a town guard." Look at their expressions, what are they like? Lao Zhao pointed to one of the statues and said to me.

I looked closely at the statue, lying on all fours on the ground, with its chin slightly raised, its upper and lower jaws closed, its ears meekly pressed back to its head, and its eyes staring straight ahead. What is this look? I quickly checked the other statues and found that although the postures were different, the eyes of the statues revealed basically similar messages: anticipation and anxiety. What are these stone wolves looking forward to, I followed the wolf's eyes, and then I found that the middle of the patio, the vines are especially thick, and even piled up into a green mountain nearly two meters high, I just thought that the place was better taken care of at first and didn't think much about it, but now my intuition tells me that there must be something under this pile of green vines.

I picked up the vines and walked towards the middle of the patio little by little, Lao Zhao called me twice from behind, and when he saw that I didn't respond, he also followed. The two of us walked one after the other to the pile of plants. When I walked in, I found that the pile of vines in the middle of the patio was really thick enough, and I tore it with my hands for a long time before I could barely pull a gap open. It took a lot of twists and turns to work together with Lao Zhao to widen the gap, and a light shot out through the gap, as if there was a luminous body inside.

Lao Zhao glanced in through the gap, and when I looked at his expression again, the whole person was stunned. What is inside, I asked Lao Zhao. The old fried stumbled and said a few words: jade exquisite.