Chapter 6: Who I Was a Thousand Years Ago
Bearded Luo and I hid in the back room's ear chamber, but we couldn't find anything that could be used to block the door, and there wasn't even an embroidery needle-sized item in the empty ear room. I couldn't help but walk out in disappointment, and before leaving the ear chamber, I asked the bearded man next to me softly, "Do you want to light the lights here?" â
Luo Dabeard was silent for a moment, considering the current situation. There are now a large number of fanged toads in the central room, and they may follow the light to find them. However, acting in the dark is even more detrimental to human beings, greatly limiting our ability to act. After thinking about it for a while, Luo Bearded shook his head and said to me: "Don't light the lamp, let's turn on the flashlight, cover the lamp slightly with clothes, and vaguely illuminate the road under our feet, so as not to fall down on the way." â
Bearded Luo and I didn't have time to look at the ear chamber, so we hurried out of the ear chamber, stepping on the faint halo on the ground, and walked towards the inside of the back room. I hadn't gone far before I could vaguely see the inner end of the backroom, where there was no coffin, but as if there were several people standing, standing straight and motionless, like statues in a wax museum. Due to the darkness and uncertainty inside the tomb, it is difficult to tell whether the figure in the distance is really a person or not.
I looked at the figure in a trance, grabbed Luo's beard, and asked him softly, "Uncle Luo, do you see how many people are standing in front of you?" â
Luo Dabeard took a few steps forward before answering me, "Your kid's eyes are sharp enough, and you can see it from such a distance, in such a dim place." I think there are a few people standing there, but the average person doesn't stand still in the tomb. Let's walk over and take a look carefully, don't make a sound. â
With that, we walked over to the figure. As I got closer and closer to the figure, I was more and more amazed in my heart. I saw that the innermost wall of the backroom was near the front, there were more than a dozen armored figurines standing on the left and right sides, kneeling on the ground several civil officials in official uniforms, and on the steps in front of him was a tall dragon chair, sitting a young man wearing a golden dragon robe and a jade crown on his head. On either side of him stood a handmaiden holding a fan, and on one side there was an attendant bent over with a box in his hand, offering it to the king on the dragon chair.
Dozens of figurines are as lifelike as real people, and I couldn't close my mouth in amazement, and said in my heart: Why don't the mausoleums here store coffins, but decorate these realistic figurines. This reminded me of the underground ancient city that I had accidentally entered when I was lost in the old forest, and it was full of strange and unusual terracotta figurines made of real people. So linked, this should be the real Tangling tomb. Because several places encountered before and after, they all exude the same evil aura, which is creepy. I cautiously and slowly made my way through the somewhat crowded figurines, and then stepped up the steps to catch a glimpse of the king on the dragon chair. The heart said: This king is really unique, he has to make "death as life" to the extreme, the coffin is not parked in the mausoleum, but erected to look like the civil and military officials when they worship before their death, which shows that they are extraordinary in worshiping the power of the emperor. Even after death, he refused to let go of his power. I slowly ascended the last flight of the stairs, craned my neck to look forward at the king on the dragon chair. As a result, just one glance made me gasp, my heart felt as if it had been struck by lightning, and my hands and feet were weak and I could barely stand on my feet.
I was surprised to find another me, sitting quietly on the dragon chair. The same nose, eyes, mouth, the same scroll and book are angry, and even the smile on the corner of his mouth is exactly the same, but the way he laughs reveals a little bad and insidious. What surprised me even more was that the others were clay figurines, and I on the dragon chair turned out to be a real body, a corpse without any corruption, and my age was not much different from what I am now. The food in my stomach was churning, the pores of my body were groaning deeply, my hairs were shivering helplessly, and my hands and feet were as cold as if they had just been taken out of an ice cellar.
How would you feel if you saw a corpse that looked exactly like you and lasted for thousands of years in a dark and strange tomb? At this time, I didn't scream, I was already relatively calm, and if it was someone else, it was probably possible to pee my pants in fear.
Luo Dabeard has been looking at the humanoid terracotta figurines around him, and when he saw the person sitting on the dragon chair, he was also dumbfounded, looking at me with a strange expression, and his eyes kept shuttling between me and the zongzi on the dragon chair.
Luo Dabeard's voice trembled slightly and asked me, "When you saw it just now, did he look like this?" â
As for me, I nodded expressionlessly, and couldn't help but say: If this zongzi slowly turns into my appearance after I find out, then I must not be scared to death. However, this strange and abnormal situation now is enough to frighten people to death. At this moment, it was as if there was a big stone weighing heavily on my heart. I really want to grab the corpse by the neck and ask him what the hell is going on? It's not that there are people in the world who look alike, but even if they are twin brothers, they can't look like us, except for the different clothes they wear, I have short hair and he has long hair, and there is almost no difference between our facial features and body shape, it is like carved out of a mold. No matter who looks at it, it will feel that it is me who is sitting there, because even when I look at it myself, I have the same thoughts.
Looking at the rice dumplings in dragon robes that have not been transformed for thousands of years, I can't help but say to myself: Could it be that I once saved zĂ i thousands of years ago, this person may be my past life, and my current self is the reincarnation of this person after death. However, how could he have met his previous life so coincidentally, and he was still a thousand-year-old flesh zongzi. As a result, the more I thought about it, the more confused I became, my head seemed to be concussed, and the chaos of the world was spinning and I couldn't figure out the south, south, west, and north.
At this time, Luo Dabeard on the side pulled my clothes, and when he saw me staring at the corpse motionless, he couldn't help but be a little worried and relieved me: "Virtuous nephew, there are so many people in this world, it is inevitable that there are people who look similar, you don't have to think about it anymore, this may just be a coincidence." I don't think it's safe here, so let's hurry up and find your master, and don't care about this zongzi anymore. â
I was shaking all over my body, my feet felt like they were nailed to the ground, and I couldn't move half a step at all. Luo Dabeard saw that my eyes were a little dull, and he was still staring directly at the zongzi on the dragon chair, he knew that I was not lightly frightened. Thereupon. He pulled me hard and walked down the steps. I tried to take my eyes off the zongzi that seemed to be my doppelganger, turned my head inward, and took steps to walk down the steps. The moment I turned around, I saw the waiter standing next to the dragon chair bent over holding a porcelain box in his hand, which immediately caught my eye. It is a Tang Yue kiln secret color oval flat porcelain box, one foot three long and three inches high, the tire color is delicate, gray-white, glaze blue secret, the box cover is engraved with a very simple and smooth flying grass pattern, on the box lid is a wishful cover button, there are three round holes of different sizes on one side.
I want to open the clasped lid and see what's inside. As a result, my outstretched hand did not pick up the lid of the box, and the lid of the secret color porcelain box seemed to be glued to the porcelain box, so I had to take the entire porcelain box directly from the waiter's hand. And the moment the box reached my hand, I saw all the figurines turn their heads to me, and then look at me in unison. I couldn't help but exclaim in my heart, "My mother! What a fuss is this! There are ghosts! So, I hurriedly jumped down the steps and shouted at Luo's beard, "Uncle Luo, run, it's haunted." With that, I ran to the brightly lit door, trying to run to the middle room, and then escape through the burglar hole in which I had entered.
As a result, before I could reach the door, I heard one after another screams, from far and near. The heart said: Miserable, I panicked, forgetting that the middle room is now occupied by a sharp-toothed toad. So, I hurriedly turned around and ran back. By this time, I could clearly hear the sound of the toad chasing after me. I held the flashlight in my mouth, quickly opened the backpack, stuffed the secret porcelain box inside, and then closed the zipper. The moment I looked up after I put the secret box in place, the light of the flashlight shone in front of me, and there was a scene like a ghost movie. I saw that the figurines that were originally in front of the dragon chair were squeaking their heads, their arms bent at a 90-degree right angle, and their waists were bent like marionettes, swaying left and right towards me.
Seeing such a terrifying scene, I was so shocked that my brain felt like I had been shocked, my hair stood on end, my mouth opened involuntarily, and the flashlight fell to the ground with a bang. When I was panicked and stunned, the figurines seemed to move instantly, and the "boom" was already close in front of me. At this time, Luo Dabeard ran from behind me, slapped his palm on the chest of the figurine closest to me, and the next second pulled me up, who was still squatting on the ground like a wooden chicken, and ran backwards. The figurines that were hit by Luo's beard shattered the soil on their chests, causing the internal organs to fall to the ground with a clatter. Then the figurine fell backwards and fell to the ground, its head flying.
Luo Dabeard is a practitioner, nicknamed "Iron Palm Luo Da", he also has two younger brothers, since childhood to study iron sand palm, respectively called "Iron Palm Luo Er" and "Iron Palm Luo San", the three of Luo Dabeard's hard kung fu is the most good, can use the palm to penetrate the brick wall, shatter the steel plate. However, at this time, he took my hand, and I could clearly feel his hand trembling, because the palm of the hand was overexerted and rebounded by the strict, which caused the muscles to spasm, which shows that the hardness of the figurines can be harder than steel. If I had been hit by a figurine just now, I would have broken two ribs.
With fanged toads on one side and hard figurines that move like marionettes on the other, Luo Bearded and I had no way to escape but retreat to the doorway of the ear chamber behind us. The light of the flashlight danced near the doorway of the ear chamber, and I noticed that there were clearly a few pools of fresh blood on the ground, and some scattered copper coins, which also had traces of a fight. I thought to myself: Master must have been here too, looking at the blood stains on the ground, I can't help but worry if Master is injured, will he pass out in the ear chamber? Thinking of this, I hurriedly turned around and walked into the ear chamber, looking around by the dim light of a flashlight. There was no Master in the ear chamber, and the flashlight that I had broken was shining with a faint and unknown light, shaking rapidly in the ear chamber, and for a moment, I seemed to see a black thing lying on one side of the wall in the ear chamber.
The glow of the flashlight froze on the ground, cold sweat sprung up on my forehead like mushrooms after a rain, and the threat outside the ear was approaching, and the only room in the ear room where I could live was the same threat. I didn't dare to use a flashlight to look at the dark shadows on the wall, and being able to lie on the wall must not be an act that humans can do. I secretly wondered in my heart: Could the black shadow on this wall be the same thing that fought with Master here before? I can't help but say proudly: This is over, there are wolves in front and tigers in the back, it seems that I am going to stay here and be my companion thousands of years ago.
Just as I was thinking and worrying, Luo's beard was knocked into the ear chamber and fell directly on top of me. Then I was forced to fly in the direction of the shadow. I put my hand in my arms as I was knocked into the air. As a result, my heart was half cold, and my heart said: It's over, the dagger is not in my arms. When I dismantled the tomb bricks before, I took the bronze dagger to the master to dismantle the tomb bricks, and now I don't have time to allow myself to take out the slingshot again, and then load and shoot it. So, I was ruthless and stretched my hands straight ahead, thinking to myself, no matter what monster was lying on the wall, I decided to hold it with my bare hands, not giving it the slightest chance to fight back.
However, after a few short seconds, I came into close contact with the shadow on the wall, and my hands went directly through the shadow's body and into the wall.