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Captain Chen has another interpretation of the fish scales in the transparent amber, which he means means that the palm-sized scales in the transparent amber may be dragon scales.

I'm skeptical of such myths and legends. Legend has it that the size of the dragon's scales, and the scales in front of him are only the size of a palm, which does not match. Moreover, Sima Xiangru's "Zixu Fu" said: When the envoy Zixu of Chu sent an envoy to Qi, he described the appearance of Chu as "its soil is blue ochre, female yellow and white, and tiny gold and silver." All colors show off, shining on the dragon scales. ”

It means: "The soil of Chu has cinnabar, limestone, terracotta, chalk, orpiment, lime, tin ore, jasper, gold, silver, and all kinds of colors, which are dazzling and shining like dragon scales." "It can be seen that the color of the dragon scales is dazzling, and the colors are varied, and they are as beautiful as the moon and as brilliant as the sun. And then look at the scales in the transparent amber in front of you, although they bloom with colorful dazzling light, but there is a faint obscure color, revealing a strong evil aura, very bewitching and uncomfortable, how can such a foreign object be a dragon scale with a holy light?

I remembered that the purpose of our visit to the western part of the Kunlun Mountains was because there was a tomb of a vassal king, although the information was somewhat unreliable.

Tibet worships nature, ghosts, totems, divination, and witchcraft. Blood Sacrifice. The primitive religion of Tibet attaches great importance to the exorcism of evil spirits and taboos, and often holds various rituals to exorcise evil spirits and pray for blessings. Sheep, dogs, and macaques are killed for small prayers, and horses, cows, dogs, and donkeys are killed for large prayers. There are even human sacrifices. Therefore, in the nine-ring burial pit, a large number of human bones will be seen in the last ring.

The Tibetan belief in Bon religion is aimed at offering sacrifices and purifying ghosts, believing that the underground is a world of ghosts, and the animals living underground can communicate with ghosts and gods. Therefore, it is forbidden to kill fish, snakes, frogs, and rats. Originally, the ancient Tibetan people ate fish, but later stopped because of the prosperity of Bon, and it is still popular.

Fish for the Tibetan people. It is the supreme holy relic. Therefore, I think that this colorful fish scale may be a sacred object created by skilled craftsmen at that time, but ordinary people can't see through the mystery; In addition, the plausible explanation for this large scale is most likely the scale of some extinct large fish, or the scale armor of an amphibian, which is wrapped in transparent amber and refracted by light, resulting in a dislocated image. But whatever the speculation. The scales in front of you could never be the legendary dragon scales.

The fat man has always been dismissive of scientific explanations, and he very much agrees with Captain Chen's statement, believing that the scales inside the transparent amber are dragon scales. And he thought that the scales could dissolve the residual poison of the horseshoe crab left on everyone's body, so he said that he was going to touch the transparent amber with his hands.

I don't have any affection for this fantastical thing in front of me. The intimidating man persuaded the fat man: "You'd better not touch the things inside, otherwise you will become a half-human, half-fish monster." I'll have to call you a mermaid then. ”

The fat man pursed his lips and said with disdain: "The scales of the fish look transparent on the outside. It looks like a flower petal, and the edges are slightly curled, with a white silk luster, and the texture is firm and soft, with a fishy smell. Although you can't smell it through this layer of glass-like things now, you can see from the appearance alone that this scale with colorful light is definitely not a fish scale. ”

I was impressed by the fat man's statement of a set of theoretical knowledge, but deep down I felt that no matter what this palm-sized scale was, it would certainly not be a good thing, and it could be seen from its bewitching and seductive light that it must be some kind of foreign object that should not exist in the world. If it is really a dragon scale as the legend goes, and you can live forever if you eat it, then the vassal king who built the underground tomb here must have eaten it a long time ago, and it can be kept to this day.

As soon as this idea came out, everyone was a little shaken. The walls of the earthen chamber are inlaid with countless decorative fish totem stone slabs, which must have been built by someone, and this foreign object is likely to be a funerary object.

However, this fish-scale-like artifact, combined with the bronze disc I had seen earlier, led me to wonder if the feudal lord who built the underground chamber here also built many foreign object exhibition rooms like this earthen chamber at the same time. So, what a noble figure this vassal king buried here is, and he would have collected so many rare foreign objects for burial.

The glittering light of the dragon's scales is breathtaking, and I feel that I should leave this place as much as possible, lest everyone be deceived by its light and do something that they regret later.

This earthen cave is a confined space, and it is estimated that it is closed without leaving a door, for fear that the air will damage the treasures inside. But since this thing can be put in, there must be a passage when it was originally entered, as long as you find it, you can dig it through again, so that you can leave here easily. Thinking of this, I immediately took action, holding a flashlight, and carefully examined the four walls in the earthen cave. Soon, I found a newly filled mark about the size of a dog's hole under one side of the earthen wall, and immediately beckoned the group to start digging the hole again.

Because I was anxious to leave this place immediately, I directly snatched the Luoyang shovel in the hands of the fifth master, and began to dig hard under the soil wall.

As a result, I don't know if it was because I was overexerting myself or because the dirt wall was not strong enough, I only dug a few shovels down, and the earth wall in front of me suddenly collapsed, revealing a hole more than half a person high.

When the dust settled, I hurriedly shone my flashlight behind the dirt wall, and when there was another dirt cave connected to it, I strode in.

In fact, I have long guessed that this will happen, if the amber dragon scale showroom is a burial chamber, then there should be more than one burial chamber like this that displays valuable burial goods. But I didn't expect the adjacent dirt cave showroom to be so close!

The light of the flashlight looked around the cave, and I first noticed the totem carved from ochre (red) monkey-faced stone slabs on the earthen walls of the mud tomb. The stone sculpture totems decorated and inlaid in this clay cave room are roughly the same as those in the amber fish scale room, all of which are stone relief totems of different sizes, scattered and inlaid on the surrounding clay walls, but the totems in this earthen room are painted a dull reddish-brown, making the macaque totem with its mouth wide open and fangs outside its lips looking very terrifying.

When I entered the earthen room, I noticed a large black shadow in the center, but I couldn't feel any creatures, so I was confident and bold to look at the totems inlaid on the earthen walls. After admiring the totem, it is only when you start to move to the central position. At this time, the people behind him began to drill in one after another.

This earthen cave showroom is much larger than the one just now, and the things on display in the center are also very tall, and the black shadow is sitting on the ground, about a foot high, and when I walked in, I looked up with a flashlight, and I gasped. I saw the huge black shadow on the top of the head and the shed in the earthen room, which turned out to be a red macaque stone statue, but on closer inspection, it was found that it was not a stone statue, because it was covered with fine red fur, and at a glance it was a dried corpse made of living things, and the red eyes of the macaque were like glass, and the outer branch of the fangs was dark and white, which was enough to prove that the giant monkey in front of him was not a stone statue, but the remains of a macaque, but it was very well preserved, as if it was alive.

To my greater astonishment, the macaque had four ears.

The rest of the Western Expedition team walked up to the macaque, and after taking a closer look, they were all stunned and speechless for a long time.

The fat man was the first to discover the secret of the macaque's four ears, and asked me in astonishment, "Isn't it a six-eared macaque?" ”

The six-eared macaque is one of the four great spirit monkeys, and Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West" of the Ming Dynasty said: "The four monkeys are mixed in the world, and they do not belong to the ten categories." "The four monkeys refer to the six-eared macaque, the red jiri horse monkey, the gibbon monkey, and the reimei stone monkey. The Lingming Stone Monkey is speculated by everyone to be the protagonist of Journey to the West, Sun Wukong, although Wu Chengen does not describe it in detail, but most readers think so.

The six-eared macaque has a detailed record in Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West" in the Ming Dynasty, and it transforms into a fake Monkey King, which is the same as Sun Wukong's skills, and the gods can't distinguish between the real and the fake.

In fact, the six-eared macaque is what Buddhism calls the "six lost monkeys", and the six ears are used to imply "eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind". The six-eared macaque transformed into Sun Wukong should be the evil root of Sun Wukong's stubborn nature, and it can be said to be a doppelganger of his body. In the follow-up story of "Journey to the West" said by Dong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Wukong was described as "taking the untrue as true, and the true as the untrue", and then he realized that his true god appeared.

Regardless of whether the six-eared macaque really has its original deity or the inferior roots of the Lingming stone monkey, it has its specific characteristics as six-eared. But what is in front of you is not a six-eared macaque, but only has four ears, and it is not the six-eared macaque that the fat man said.

I don't think it's surprising that monkeys have four ears, because this may be caused by genetic mutations, and there are also common cases such as six fingers, but the macaque in front of me is a little surprisingly tall, and the height of one zhang is inevitably a little too large. As far as I know, primates are generally just over one meter tall, and the largest gorilla is only about two meters tall.

The tall macaque was made into a dried corpse, in the small and confined space, giving people an invisible pressure, I felt that my shoulders were getting heavier and heavier, as if there was an invisible weight, from the heavy invasion of the body, the body was about to be unable to hold on.

The tall four-eared macaque was intimidating, and I thought I might as much as I could to leave this earthen chamber and find a way out. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)