There is a red jade dragon coiled on the throne, and when it shines with a wolf's eye, the dragon body suddenly shines brightly, and there is a rolling red light surging, and it is full of mercury, but this "hollow mercury dragon" is not strange, what really attracts us is the first half of this dragon.

The dragon plunged headlong into the wall, and only a small part of the dragon's body, including the dragon's tail, was entrenched on the throne, and the dragon's tail and claws were resting on the back of the throne, looking a little lazy. Most of the front half of the dragon body is inlaid on the back wall of the throne with undulating concave and convex waves, and the painting on the wall of the palace is integrated, so that the whole wall painting shows a strong sense of hierarchy, and the strange idea and the essence of the craftsmanship have been transformed into a realm. People often say that "the dragon sees the head but does not see the tail", but the dragon on the throne and the wall is not the head of the tail, as if this hollow mercury jade dragon is becoming alive and flying into the mural.

The large mural combined with the dragon's body depicts the scene of the king becoming an immortal ascending to the sky. In the painting, the fairy clouds are like the sea, the cigarette smoke is swirling, the continuous mountain peaks and palaces are looming in the clouds, and the clouds and mountains are full of agility. The red jade dragon raised its head towards the sea of clouds, the sky cracked a red gap, half of the dragon's head had penetrated into it, the dragon body was connected to the throne in the hall of the Lingyun Heavenly Palace, and a king was surrounded by all the courtiers, stepping on the dragon body, slowly ascending to the sky.

This king is probably the king, I saw that he was much taller than ordinary people, wearing a wide python robe with a round neck, a jade belt around his waist, a gold crown on his head, and a bead embedded in the crown, like a human eye, which was clearly the appearance of a dust bead.

The king has three strands of long hair, he can't tell how old he is, and his face is not very vicious, which is not what we imagined beforehand. I always felt that the tyrant should have a face full of flesh and a bearded halberd, and this portrait of the king was solemn and serene, probably artificially beautified.

At the top of the picture, there is an old man riding a crane, with white eyebrows and a smile, looking down with his hands, and there are countless immortals behind him, although their postures are different, but their expressions are very respectful, and they are greeting the king who is stepping on the dragon body to step into the heavenly court.

I was stunned, it turned out that the so-called heavenly collapse was the scene of the immortal king's enlightenment, not whether outsiders could enter the Xuangong Hades Temple, presumably this matter was extremely secret, and it was difficult to know if it was not a close confidant of the king.

In the corner of the large mural in the middle, there are two small paintings, both of which are the scene of offering sacrifices when the king ascends to the sky, and the corpses are filled with corpses and burned in the copper tripod, the situation is terrible, so I don't look closely.

The fat man said: "According to the depiction in this mural, the king should have gone to heaven as a fairy, it seems that we have pounced, and the underground palace of the king's tomb has already been empty." I think we might as well chisel this dragon, burn down this heavenly palace again, go back as soon as possible to find a family to sell the jade dragon, make a windfall, and then eat and drink. ”

Shirley Yang said: "No, this is just wishful thinking before the death of the king, how can there be such a thing as a mortal becoming an immortal in the world." ”

I also agreed with Shirley Yang's words, and said to the two of them: "We have reached the top of the king's tomb, how can we not enter the underground palace and fight backwards, not to mention that you have not seen that the gold crown embedded in this painting dedicated to the king is the phoenix gall that can save our lives." ”

After a little discussion, the three of them decided to search this Lingyun Palace first, and then find out whether the hole in the pool is the tomb of the underground palace, and then start overnight.

Before the Qin Dynasty, the palace was the core building that integrated large-scale sacrificial activities and political activities, and it was not until the Qin Dynasty that it was only established as the residence of the emperor who lived in the former dynasty and the queen.

As for the Ming Tower on the emperor's tomb, its apse should be a sacrificial hall, not a dormitory, and there should be many inscriptions and murals in it for future generations to worship and pay respects.

We have never seen what the Qin Palace looks like, but the Lingyun Heavenly Palace should be similar to the Afang Palace in the Qin period, although the scale is certainly not as large as the Afang Palace, which burned out in March, but it may surpass it in terms of shape. I think that Qin Shi Huang was also the first person among the ancient emperors who was the most persistent in alchemy and cultivating immortals, but the First Emperor probably never dreamed that his subordinates would build a heavenly palace to make a tomb, which was much more prominent than his Qin Mausoleum.

We had made up our minds, so we turned to the apse, and I walked at the end, and couldn't help but look back at the bronze man and bronze beast in the middle of the hall, and my heart was still uncertain, and I always felt that something was not right, and there was an indescribable incongruity.

When I turned my head, I saw Shirley Yang standing still waiting for me, looking at her expression, it seemed that she had thought of one thing, but she didn't notice anything wrong for a while. I shook my head at Shirley Yang, I didn't have to think about it for the time being, anyway, the boat would naturally go straight to the bridge, so I went to the apse side by side.

Passing through a short corridor, you will come to the more gloomy and dark back palace hall, look at the inscription in the corridor, this second half is called the Shangzhen Hall, the hall is full of inscriptions, and there are eight separate mural walls. Although the hall is deep, but because there are many stone tablet painting walls, it still seems slightly cramped, but the layout is quite reasonable, eight mural walls are placed in the shape of nine palace gossip, each wall is made of a large brick, all are white background and three color paintings.

Except for some murals that reflect war scenes, almost one brick and one painting, or one or two figures, or two or three animals, buildings, and instruments, covering all the political, economic, cultural, diplomatic, military, religious, and ethnic fields of the ancient Dian Kingdom during the Xianwang period.

These may be priceless treasures for scholars who study the history of dynasties, but they are of little use to people like me, who only hope to find some information about the situation of the king's tomb and palace, but for a while, I am dazzled.

The painting in the eight mural walls, no less than thousands, combined with the stone tablet inscription in the hall, the whole is a complete historical data of the Dian Kingdom. I held a wolf-eye flashlight, selected one of the large murals, took a cursory look at it, and explained a few words by Shirley Yang, but I also understood a ** point.

The large murals are all war scrolls, recording two wars commanded by King Xian during his lifetime, the first was with Yelang, and both Yelang and Dian were regarded as southwestern in the Han Dynasty; The second war was when King Xian broke away from the ruling system of the ancient Dian Kingdom and slaughtered the local Yi people at the foot of the Shalong Mountain.

Both wars were resoundingly victorious, with heavy casualties, large numbers of prisoners of war captured, and many items captured. At that time, the two opponents were still in the late stage of slavery, the means of production were extremely backward and primitive, and the smelting technology of bronze was far inferior to that of the Dian Kingdom, which inherited the means of the Qin people, so they were not the opponents of the Dian people at all.

Among the captives of these wars were a large number of slaves, and these prisoners of war and slaves became the main force in the construction of the king's tomb in the future, and the frescoes and inscriptions naturally exaggerated these exploits.

However, the mural still does not have any description of the underground palace of the king's tomb, and there is a wall where the paintings are all rituals, including the activities of inviting the heavens, divination, and witchcraft, and the scene is extremely strange. Shirley Young took pictures of all these murals with a camera, and maybe he will be able to use them later to solve the secret of the dust beads.

When the fat man saw that the apse was full of these things, he was suddenly bored, carrying a submachine gun and flashlight, and wandering around in it, when he suddenly found something in the middle of the mural wall, and hurriedly beckoned me and Shirley Yang to come over and have a look.

Originally, on the ground in the middle of the hall, there was a six-legged large copper tripod, which was covered with a copper cover, and there was a huge copper ring on each side. The six legs of the copper tripod are six half-kneeling beasts, the shape is vigorous and simple, the whole body is knotted, the body is full of scales, and the appearance of roaring is very similar to the unicorn from the shape of the shape.

This bronze tripod is surprisingly large, for some reason, it is painted in all black color, without any pattern decoration, in the dark palace, we only notice those inscriptions and frescoes, until the fat man walks closer, it is not easy to find this giant tripod mixed with the darkness.

The fat man tapped the urn with the butt of the M1A1 gun, and immediately let out a dull echo, and asked Shirley Yang and me: "Isn't it that there are too many burial utensils that can't be placed in the underground palace, so I will temporarily store Zài here?" Open it to see first and pour it also makes. ”

Shirley Yang said: "This is probably the big tripod that is ready to cook the corpse in the festival, and the mouth of the tripod is still sealed, which shows that the king has not been dissected into immortals, and his bones are still in the coffin of the underground palace, otherwise there is no need to seal this giant tripod." ”

I said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: "The devil knows what this is for, if it is used to cook people, cattle and sheep as sacrifices, it should be a kettle instead of a tripod, and besides, this is probably not an urn or something like that, how can a tripod have six legs?" ”

The three of them insisted on their own words, but they couldn't convince each other, so they were ready to see what happened. From the fat man's backpack, I took out the probe claw used to open the coffin, scraped open the fire paint that sealed the mouth, and saw that there was a stamp on the lacquer, and the pattern was a criminal who had been chained through the pipa bone, since there was a seal, it meant that it had never been opened.

After scraping the fire paint, try it with the inch needle on the top of the probe claw, there is no longer any connection obstruction at Dingkou, so he beckoned the fat man to come and help, the two grabbed the copper ring, and as soon as the two arms exerted their strength, they heard a burst of "giggling hey, hey, hey" laughter from the depths of the lifeless palace. It was a woman's voice, but her treacherous and cold laughter was absolutely ill-intentioned, and her laughter was like frost, as if it could freeze people's hearts.

How can there be a woman's laughter in a silent and unmanned palace? The three pillars of wolf eyes in our hands immediately shot into that corner, and the cold laughter came to an abrupt end, leaving only an empty corner and nothing.

The three of them were extremely shocked, speechless for a while, and even Shirley Yang saw beads of sweat on his forehead, and only asked after a while, "What was that voice just now?" ”

I just shook my head and didn't speak, those who came were not good, and those who were good did not come, thinking of this, I reached out and unfastened the bag containing the black donkey's hooves, glutinous rice, etc.

At this time, the fat man also began to look nervous, because we found the blind fortune teller from the Shaanxi stone tablet shop, and he blew his heroic deeds with us when he was fine, although we didn't take the blind man's words seriously, but there are a few words that I still remember clearly. According to the blind man, it was a few words that were once enshrined as a golden rule by tomb robbers: "Hair the seal of the mound, touch the golden talisman, protect the body and do not protect the ghost and blow the lamp; Coffin, bronze coffin, eight characters are not hard, do not approach; erect burial pits, box graves, move mountains and unload ridges to walk around; Fiercely clothed, smiling corpses, ghosts laugh better than listening to ghosts cry. ”

Later, I asked Shirley Young that these words were not made up by the blind man himself, but were indeed circulated in the old days, and said something more terrible than zombies. In the end, it is said that when the dead body wears a red and variegated mourning dress, or the dead man has a smile on his face, it is a sign of great evil, and it is difficult for those who are not hard enough to see the light of day again. Ghost crying is found in many places, and some people will mistake wolf howls for ghost crying, but it doesn't hurt, but the most feared thing is to hear the laughter of ghosts in the graveyard, and only ghosts will laugh.

However, we have made mental preparations in advance, and in ancient times, the captains of the Golden Colonel managed to encounter these unlucky things in the ancient tombs, which was called encountering the "black star". The black star is also called the "ghost star" in physiognomy, and when a mortal encounters a black star, the true fire of samadhi on his shoulder is extinguished, just like walking a single-plank bridge above the abyss, and it is difficult to save his life.

And the three of us were well prepared, even if there were powerful ghosts who could deal with it for a few rounds, so we settled down, ignored the black copper tripod for the time being, and each held a weapon, and flanked the corner where the laughter had just come out in three ways.

The stele walls in the hall are numerous, surrounded by circles and circles, if it is appropriate to hide and seek here, but if you want to see things more than ten meters away, you will cover up. There was nothing in sight except the empty corners of the walls and the stone slabs on the ground, and the palace became dead silent, and if it weren't for the cold laughter still in my ears, I would inevitably think that I had heard it wrong.

Shirley Yang asked me, "Old Hu, don't you often brag to me that you have fought many times?" In terms of practice, I am not as experienced as you, and I encounter a ghost in the ancient tomb, how do you think I should deal with it? ”

I also have no master of the six gods, thinking that this American Nizi wants to take me into the army, so he said to Shirley Yang: "We have encountered this kind of situation in the past where we don't know how to start, and we have let go of the local masses and turned unfavorable factors into favorable factors, and the creativity of the people is infinite, and they will definitely come up with a way." ”

The fat man was puzzled, and also asked me: "Commander Hu, there are only three of us living people in this barren grave and wilderness, where can we find the people?" ”

I said to the fat man, "Who do you think you are?" Isn't your political face the masses? I will now send you to search the apse of this heavenly palace, and try my best to find out the laughter behind it, whether it is a ghost or a wild cat in spring, I will leave it to you to clean up. I will then go to check the famous hall in the bronze ding, and let Chief of Staff Yang take the center to respond, don't delay on both sides. Perhaps this is the enemy's ploy to divert our attention from the copper tripod. ”

The fat man was not stupid at all, and hurriedly said: "Why don't we change, I'll make the effort to move the dinggai." Lao Hu, don't you know me, our buddies just have these two arms, but for those things that can't be seen or touched, they have always lacked the power to create......"

The fat man clung to humility, I ignored it, turned around and wanted to go back to move the lid of the copper tripod, but as soon as I turned around, I suddenly heard a chilling sneer in the corner of the wall behind me, and the three of them were so frightened that they hurriedly took a step back. Leaning against a stone monument behind my back, I hurriedly lit the tactical spotlight on my mountaineering helmet, holding the M1A1 in one hand and ready to pick up the sinister artifacts in my bag in the other.

The cold wicked smile was fleeting, and what was in the corner? This is the last time to enter the hall, and there will be no secret rooms and secret passages or the like. I had the courage to go over and stomp on the stone bricks on the ground with my foot, there was no sign of activity, what the hell, is it the ghost of the mother-in-law who sacrificed the king in this harem? What exactly does she want to do?

Shirley Yang and the fat man stood behind me, also terrified. Although the palace is large, there is only one exit, not in all directions, after all, this is the treasure top of the Ming Building, not the real palace, to put it bluntly, it is a kind of goods, look at one after another on the outside, the layers seem to be thousands of households, in fact, the structure inside is very simple, but it is a sacrificial place.

It's such a limited place, where does the laughter come from? The more you can't see, the more bottomless your heart is, it's better to fight with the giant python and piranha, although your life hangs by a thread, but you also end up fighting, although the current situation is calm, but it can't help but make people restless, and keep thinking: "How can there be a ghost in the fairy cave?" But maybe only in this kind of area where the yin and yang are unknown, there will be powerful ghosts. ”

I simply stepped on the shoulder of the fat man, climbed to the top of a stone tablet closest to the corner, and tried to look for it condescendingly, but just rode to the top of the tablet, and before I had time to look down, I noticed a piece of red light shaking on my head. I immediately looked up and shone it with a tactical spotlight, only to see a woman in red with long robes and large sleeves diagonally above my head, swaying silently above the dome of the temple. The roof of the temple was dark and dark, and I could only see the lower half of her body, which was hidden in the dark, and I don't know whether she was hung by a rope around her neck, or how she was hanged. We just paid attention to the floor in the corner, but we never thought to look at the roof.

If it weren't for the fact that my legs were firmly clamped on the top of the stele, I would have to fall upside down from the stele with my head, and quickly lie on the top of the stele, holding the stele tightly with both hands. Fortunately, I have gone through major events in my life, and my psychological element is quite stable, and if I change the fat man here, I have to be scared to plant him directly.

The fat man and Shirley Yang looked up at me moving on it, and naturally they also saw the woman in red at a high place, but the position was lower than mine, and the view was even more blurry, even so, they couldn't help but lose their faces, and worried for me, and kept urging me to go down from the top of the stone tablet first.

I didn't jump off immediately, but looked up to see what was going on above, and as soon as I looked at it, I broke out in a cold sweat. I saw only the inside of the red robe...... There were no feet, the clothes were empty, clinging to the corners of the high walls of the temple, as if they were just empty clothes hanging in the air, where did the corpse go?

The style of the bright red woman's clothes is very different from the women's clothing I know in ancient times, not like Hanfu, probably the clothes worn by the women of the Dian Kingdom when they died. The blood-red clothes were silently motionless, and the strange laughter was no longer emitted.

I gave a brief account of the situation to the fat man and Shirley Young under the stele. Shirley Yang wanted to see more clearly, so he climbed to the top of the stele, sat in front of me and looked at the murderous costume hanging in the air, and said: "This dress is very strange, and the craftsmanship is also very complicated, like the Shan Po, the Ghost Po among the ethnic minorities, or the Great Witch among the Yi people...... It's a witch robe. ”

I asked Shirley Yang, "So it's not the murder costume worn by the dead body?" But did that laughter come from this garment? ”

Shirley Young said to me, "I'm not sure yet, let's see it again, it's too dark up there, you can try it with a wolf's eye." ”

I took out the wolf's eye flashlight, which had a longer range, and pushed the switch at the bottom, and an orange pillar of light immediately shone on it, so that I could see the upper body of the red murder suit.

It wasn't empty, but there was something at the neckline that was raised high, and I couldn't help but exclaim, "It's a human head!" "But maybe this female corpse has an upper body, but the rest of the parts are hidden in the red robe, the clothes are so wide that you can't tell whether there is a drum or a deflated inside, only the head and face on the shoulders can be seen clearly.

The female corpse seemed to notice that we were shining a wolf-eye flashlight on her face, and she turned her head slightly and turned to us. She had heavy makeup on her face and a sharp sneer coming out of her mouth: "Giggles......"