The South China Sea Returns to the Ruins Chapter 38 The Bronze Hall (II)

I was full of doubts, and I couldn't help but ask Shirley Yang on the boat: "Gu Chai's tattoo through the sea is so bizarre, has he really become a visitor to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean?" ”

Shirley Yang speculated: "The Hate Heaven clan hangs alone overseas, smelting copper with dragon fire, far away from the Chinese civilization, so many people don't believe that the bronze civilization here was once at its peak." They probably died out at the end of the Warring States period, and their remnants were exiled to the sea, and were designated as Tanhu by the rulers of the Qin and Han dynasties. Gu Chai is the remnant of the Hating Heaven Clan, and his familiarity with the water nature and the legend of the Hating Heaven Kingdom depicted on the tattoo of the Penetrating Sea Array are the best proof of this. ”

In ancient times, in the art of moving mountains and dividing armor, there was a hidden image technique, which was pierced on the human skin with secret medicine and soaked in salt water to reveal hidden images. The Tan people may also have many secret recipes, including the use of special things in the sea, as a potion for thorny skin, and the ancient secrets of the haters are hidden in the sea charts, which have been preserved from generation to generation. The embroidered tattoo of Longhu will only reveal the truth if it is soaked in the sea water of the ruins, otherwise outsiders will never know that the legend of the hating monument is hidden in the sea array.

The hot springs in the deep stream at the bottom of the ruins are tumbling and boiling, and there are low-frequency pulses that interfere with the electronic signals, I don't know what is emitted, this chaotic water is not salty or light, it probably contains some substances that other seawater does not have, it should gradually increase with the change of the depth of the sea, so as soon as the shark repellent prepared with the secret recipe reaches that depth, it will be immediately melted away by the seawater. There is also the drug that seeps into the muscles in the Guchai tattoo, which also reacts at the bottom of the water at the same time, forming a blurred shadow, and then the tattoo hidden in the tattoo is revealed, what will be under the ruins? Where is the birth gate?

As he spoke, the lifeboat had already approached the stone mountain rising above the water, and there were several stone gates in the water more than ten meters in front of him, and the color of the broken stone beams was clearly different, and it was difficult to judge where to enter for a while. I raised my hand to slow everyone down, slowing down the lifeboat, and at this moment, on the whale-bellied rock formation, the light of the yin fire was obscured by the thick sea air, and the yin fire turned blood, like a stream of blood flowing slowly on the dome, lining the water surface with a dark red.

We looked around on the undulating and rocking dinghy, and we all had the same feeling, the mysterious terrain in the ruins is more and more like the real whale's belly, the yin fire on the sky seems to be the blood of the giant whale is constantly flowing, the sea of blood in the whale's belly is surging, the sea water has no wind and waves, and the lifeboat is like two floating leaves drifting with the waves, and the danger is everywhere.

The fat man grabbed the iron ring on the boat that fixed the oars and shouted: "Commander Hu, if you don't go in again, the rubber boat will be over, why are you hesitating when you get here?" ”

I turned my heart around and said to everyone: "I think these stone gates are not so simple, the different colors seem to be in line with the direction of the five elements, and today the branches are all fire." We fell into the ruins with the sea serpent, and it died at that time, and I think it may be because it is covered with white scales, and white as a golden elephant, that it is a fire rush, and if it wants to live, it rows with me into a cave with a black beam hanging high on the side. ”

The rest of the men agreed, struck the water with their oars, and took advantage of the gap in the waves to sail the rubber boat into the mouth of the cave in the dark red light of the blood-colored sky. As soon as I entered the half-submerged belly of the mountain, the water surge subsided, and the lifeboat immediately stabilized. Shirley Young raised his searchlight at the bow of the ship to explore the way, only to see that the lead-gray cave was actually a large temple that had been washed away and soaked by the sea, and the cave was nothing more than the temple gate.

The structure of the main hall is simple and simple, there is no luxury of the eaves and arches, but the scale is magnificent, the stone material used is extremely huge, the momentum is majestic, and there is quite a bit of "the solemnity of the world". Entering it, the huge dark and deep space makes people feel particularly uneasy and depressed, and we only see half of the scene in the hall, the blue and gloomy water, and most of the ancient monuments are submerged. Many ancient architectural miracles in the world are the products of thousands of years ago, and the pious belief of the ancient people and the tenacity and perseverance of moving mountains and reclaiming the sea are far from being comparable to today's people.

We took the lifeboat and drifted into the middle of the main hall with the current, and were shocked by this majestic hall, and we all had a sense of amazement after reading the vicissitudes of thousands of years. The sea water surged outside the temple and hit the stone wall, making a roaring echo, like a sea beast roaring and thundering, making people tremble and endanger themselves, even the fat man, who had no heart and lungs and didn't care, didn't dare to make a sound for a long time at this time.

The searchlights on the two rubber boats swept back and forth on the surrounding water, and I saw many tall and mighty bronze statues of gods on the water surface of the temple, all with hideous and ugly faces, staring down, and looking solemn and solemn. The statues were all bronze, some of the lower halves were submerged in the water, and many of them had collapsed, leaning sideways and sideways, knocking out some of the walls and stone pillars, but the structure of the main hall was solid and showed no signs of collapse.

In the Bronze Age, bronze was the most important weapon of the country, and the level of copper smelting technology and the scale of copper ore resources all determined the rise and fall of national strength. Shirley Yang once said that forging a bronze vessel as large as "Simu Wuding" would almost require burning hundreds of acres of primeval forest with fuel alone. The limitations of resources make bronzes extremely valuable, and they are only used in important areas such as religious rituals or war diplomacy. But witnessing the countless bronze statues in this hall, it can be imagined that thousands of years ago, the hated Tian clan knew how to master and use the undersea Yin fire, they could make bronze tools without human fire and heavenly fire, and the special level of craftsmanship made the bronze people soak in the sea water for thousands of years, but still have copper properties, which are unimaginable for future generations.

I sensed that something seemed to be moving on the roof of the temple, so I asked Shirley Young to raise the angle of the searchlight, and everyone gasped when they saw it. There are more than ten bronze heads hanging high and low on the pillars of the temple with copper chains, and the heads of each bronze people are afraid that they are not less than hundreds of catties, and the situation is as if they were hung for public display after being beheaded, and the headless bronze body that has lost its head stands quietly in the corner, what sharp weapon can cut off such a heavy and huge bronze man?

Shirley Yang also felt very strange, the tomb that belonged to the Hate Tian clan here was only speculated on reason, but seeing the bronze man lying upside down and lying in the hall with different heads did not look like an ancient tomb. At this time, the rubber boat slowly moved forward, and a bronze statue fell diagonally in the water, its head leaning on the giant pillar, and the sea water was not in its shoulder, and Shirley Yang hit the beam of the searchlight and landed on the hideous face of the bronze statue.

When the water level in the ruins is high, the entire mountain will be submerged, and the bronze man has been eroded by the sea for thousands of years, and there are small corpses of various reef-loving creatures hanging everywhere, but the outline of the face is still faintly recognizable. Uncle Ming told SΓΉ Guchai: "Egg boy, your ancestors look like this, please bow sincerely and let them bless us to go back safely." Gu Chai was just puzzled, looking at those tall bronze statues, looking very uneasy, and asked Uncle Ming: "Uncle...... My ancestors...... How did all the heads be cut off? ”

Uncle Ming didn't let Gu Chai's question like this, and he really didn't know how to answer, but how could he, who wanted to be a master, be asked by his apprentice? I had to ask Gu Chai to stop talking nonsense, whether it was touching the gold upside down, or carrying the corpse and turning over the kiln and diving for green heads, all these life-threatening trades have two general taboos, the first is not to be curious, you must pretend not to see strange things, and never ask why.

Gu Chaiqi said: "Why? Ghosts? Uncle Ming was so angry that he patted him on the head: "Decrepit boy, ask for some explanations 1!" Hu Bayi didn't know it a long time ago, what he said was the second taboo, don't mention ghosts! ”

I didn't pay attention to the rich experience that Uncle Ming had taught him, but I just wanted to see more clearly, so I continued to row with the fat man, brought the boat closer, and scraped away the erosion on the surface with a diving knife, revealing the bronze face with blue fangs. The crowd gathered around with flashlights. The bronze giant's strange appearance makes people look at it more and more, and they can't help but ask: "Who is the Hating Heaven Clan?" And what does the so-called hatred of the sky mean? ”

In the traditional Chinese concept, the north is great, the middle is right, and the sky is respected, even in ordinary speech, I don't dare to offend God, but the name "hating the sky" completely subverts this concept of respecting heaven as a god, what did the ancestors of the Tan people do? Everyone guessed a few words, but they couldn't get the point.

The fat man said: "I knew that there was a Southern Batian in the South China Sea before, and it seems that it has long been wiped out by the Red Women's Army." Nanbatian is a landlord class who can't get along with the common people, but I've never heard of anyone who dares to get along with God. Although the Red Guards had the intention to practice with God, they didn't have so many planes in the sky, so they gave up, but their ambitions are evidenced by poetry - dare to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky. ”

I listened to the fat man's words, and then looked at the bronze giant with fangs, and felt that his image was really extraordinary, and there seemed to be three points of evil in his majesty and solemnity, so I said to everyone: "Comrades, have you ever heard of the legend of God and Satan of foreigners? Satan, the devil of the West, seems to be a professional who has a grudge against God, will the Hate Heaven have something to do with Western religious legends? Because in the legend of Chinese civilization, the Yama Lord of Hell and the Dragon Lord of the Sea are both leading cadres assigned by the Jade Emperor of Heaven to the grassroots level to grasp specific work, and the relationship between superiors and subordinates is quite tempered with each other, as if in the traditional concept of the Orientals, there is no idea of hating the gods, which is a solid worldview formed by tradition. ”——

1 point of explanation: Cantonese, why.