At the same time as I was about to fall off the stone pillar, I sighed in my heart: Master, my wonderful life has not yet begun, and I am going to hang here. Many familiar and unfamiliar pictures jumped in front of me like a marquee, and the attachment in my heart outweighed fear.

And at this critical moment, a pair of powerful hands suddenly reached out from above, grabbed the collar of the back of my neck, and lifted it up strongly. So, the upper half of my body lay on a flat ground.

It turned out that above the stone wall was a large platform paved with stone slabs, the size of half a football field. The fat man had already climbed to the flat roof, and my upper body was also pulled up by him, lying on the flat top of the stone floor. As soon as my body came up on my stomach, the fat man couldn't help but say, put his hands under my armpits, lifted me up with force, and pulled me onto the platform, and then he stomped the strange insect on my legs.

I lay on the stone floor with all my strength and pain, my legs were trampled by the fat man and I frowned frequently, and I said unrelentingly: "Dead fat man, you are light, if your leg is broken by you, you have to carry me on your back." ”

The fat man said while stepping on it: "Beautiful you big snot bubbles." How slow you climbed just now, how slow is the turtle, I've been waiting for you for most of the day. I just inspected it, and it seems to be a shrine to the heavens, and I didn't find the coffin of King Xiang'er. ”

I rolled my eyes and said to him, "I'm blocking the bugs for you in the back, how can you climb fast, it's good to be able to climb up." I stood up, straightened my pants, and found that the insects below were pouring up the stone pillars, and several of them had already climbed onto the platform.

I hurriedly urged the fat man to lead the way, and walked briskly in the direction of the altar. I didn't go far, I saw the outline of a very tall trapezoidal building in front of me, and when I walked in, I found that it was a large altar, and there were nine steps below to support a square altar.

I followed the fat man briskly up the stone steps of Jiupei, and saw that in the center of the altar, there was a three-legged bronze square tripod more than one person high.

The fat man said to me in amazement, "This big thing is worth the old nose's money!" After speaking, he stepped on Fang Ding's foothold, held Fang Ding's edge, and looked inward curiously.

I smiled and said to the fat man who climbed on the bronze tripod: "Slow down, this thing is used for sacrificial wool (hairy livestock used in ancient times, such as chickens, cattle, sheep, pigs, etc.). Yes, you must not stumble and fall, then it will directly become a sacrifice to the heavens. Besides, this thing can't be worth much, even if it is broken and taken out, we don't have to wait to return to the capital, we have to be caught in the bureau to eat nests. After I finished talking to the fat man with a smile, I raised the fire fold, close to the wall of the bronze tripod, and watched it carefully. I thought to myself, maybe there is a record of the tomb of King Xiang.

Fang Ding is very tall, the ornament is very beautiful, the belly is decorated with gluttonous patterns, the tripod is surrounded by a circle of feather pattern dots, the layers of workmanship are very exquisite, and the ingenuity is not like the things of the world. I looked closely and didn't find any record of the tomb of King Xiang, but I found that there were a few anomalies about this tripod. Generally, the utensils decorated with gluttonous patterns are used as eating and drinking utensils. The sacrificial tripod should be decorated with the inscription used for chanting during the sacrifice on the surface, or the concise dragon pattern, could it be that this tripod is wrong? But the ancients could not have made such a low-level mistake! For them, the sacrifice is incomparably noble and sacred, how can there be the slightest negligence.

Another thing that makes me feel very surprised, there is a detailed record in the "Zuo Biography" that "the tripod is round with three legs, and the four-legged is square", this kind of square three-legged square tripod is really rare, it can be said that there is no zài in the present world at all, and the three-legged square tripod is noncommittal. And whether it is a three-legged round tripod or a four-legged square tripod will have "two ears", this square tripod is bare along the edge and has no ears, which can be said to be different from the support of more than one or two.

And just when I was wondering, the fat man hurriedly jumped off his feet, stumbled and said in horror: "Mrs. is so scary, it's full of skeletons." The light of the fire fold is too dim, and it took me to find out after looking at it for a long time that this tripod is densely packed with dry skeletons, not to mention how cautious people are. ”

Looking at the panicked fat man, I said in my heart: The sacrifice was supposed to kill chickens and sheep, and it is not surprising that there are corpses, if the sacrificial specifications are too strong (in ancient times, the specifications of sacrificial slaughtering of livestock, slaughtering pigs, cattle and sheep were all called too fast, and there was a kind of slaughtering pigs and sheep and two animals called Shaojiao. Then the cattle, sheep and pigs should be complete, and they should be worshiped once a year, and the bones will not be too few.

Curious, I climbed up to the top and looked in. The large number of mountains of dry bones and remains is completely beyond my imagination, and the corpses are not all animals, but human bones. I couldn't help but curse in my heart: This Xiangwang Lao'er's greedy desire is big enough, and he even sacrifices with living people, which is really cruel. However, the number of bones in this ding seems to be a bit staggering. It stands to reason that the dynasty established by King Xiang'er did not last long after his death, and the country declined, so it was impossible to hold large-scale sacrificial activities for a long time.

I stared at the countless dry bones, and the fat man shouted to me anxiously under the ding: "Lao Zheng, you come down quickly, the insects are crawling over." We still hurried to find the coffin of the cruel Xiangwang Lao'er, and then touched the Ming Vessel to avenge the people in Ding. After speaking, he bowed to the copper tripod, muttering to the blessing of the ghosts and gods of the Quartet, don't trouble us, we are great good people.

I thought it was funny in my heart above, we came to steal the tomb of the emperor who was regarded as a god, and asked people to bless you, if there were really ghosts in the ding, and they didn't jump out and slap you twice, it would be very polite. There was nothing to explore in the ding, and the strange insect that could spray water chased after me again, so I hurriedly jumped off the copper ding. As a result, as soon as my feet landed, the water sprayed by several turtle-headed monster insects sprayed onto my shoes. The fat man and I hurriedly picked up the backpacks on the ground and walked to the inside of the platform.

I limped along, and couldn't help but say to the fat man in admiration: "Don't say it, this old man of Xiangwang is quite aesthetic." After speaking, I couldn't stop staring at my feet, and I saw that on the stone slabs paved on the ground, there were various vivid and lively scenes such as round-up hunting, singing and dancing, and bustling downtown areas. It makes me stop and watch from time to time. And the fat man next to me saw me stop and go, so he impatiently kept urging me to hurry up and keep up with the pace, I promised on my lips, but I didn't think so in my heart, I felt that although the strange insects that followed behind would spray poison, but the action was too slow, it could not pose too much of a threat, and I could move forward slowly with peace of mind, so I stopped in three steps and slowly bowed my head forward. However, just as I was looking down at the slate, I suddenly felt a commotion behind me, and I hurriedly turned to check, and saw that the strange insects that were crawling slowly behind me were like a low tide, and they quickly retreated to the rear as if they were fleeing for their lives.

I was stunned and asked the fat man, "What's the matter, why did all these bugs run away?" ”

The fat man raised his hand and shrugged his shoulders, but he didn't know why, and opened his mouth and said nonsense: "Probably because I was afraid of the fat man's ability, I was scared away." ”

I smiled and said to him, "The cows are flying in the sky, and you are still blowing." ”

Just as we were laughing, suddenly, the ground under our feet shook violently like an earthquake, as if it was about to collapse at any moment. The fat man and I couldn't stand on our feet, and our bodies swayed from side to side like a pendulum.

The carved stone slabs on the ground shook constantly, as if the demons of the abyss of hell were about to break free from the earth.

The fat man shouted loudly and said to me, "It's an earthquake, run." ”

I knew that something was wrong, and the swarm just now dispersed like a tide, indicating that they felt the danger and were in a hurry to flee for their lives. The danger of the death of Momono, which can cause the insect swarm to panic, must be beyond the scope of our imagination. We had to flee to the platform to avoid the swarm below, and if there was a more terrifying threat here, it would be a death sentence for us who had nowhere to escape. Thinking of this, I couldn't help but get nervous, complaining that I still underestimated the danger in the tomb, Master had taught many times, and the most important thing to do when I went underground was to let my guard down.

The stone floor of the platform was still shaking violently, and I couldn't stabilize myself standing on it, and I staggered and fell to the ground, and the fat man grabbed my arm in a panic, trying to lift me up from the ground, but there was nothing he could do.

The ground shook so much that even if there were no poisoned arrow traps, it wouldn't be long before we would have bled to death. The fat man dragged me on the ground and struggled to get up into the distance, but the shaking ground made our bodies continue to hit the ground, and the chest that was kicked by the green flour dumpling before was now constantly hitting the ground, and I felt the sharp pain like the ribs piercing the lungs.

For the first time in my life, I had such close contact with the ground, and I sincerely hoped that if this was really an earthquake, please end it quickly, even if the ground collapsed and I fell into the endless abyss, I really didn't want to see the internal organs spit out of my mouth.

But often the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes, and my prayers are in exchange, the ground is still shaking violently, and the stone slab near the bottom of the altar behind me is gradually cracking, like a beast that wants to devour a qiē, slowly opening its big black mouth, waiting for the prey to reach its mouth.

The fat man and I held each other's hands tightly, trying hard not to let the shaking slate scatter us, but we had to be forced to approach the dark crack in the gradual bump.