Chapter 42: The Bronze Mirror

A few of us walked down the stone stairs circle after circle towards the lower part of the city, and to my somewhat surprise, the air quality in the underground was not bad, and I could even occasionally feel some breeze blowing, and the temperature was not hot or cold, very comfortable, very different from what Duan Yuwen told me about my father's situation in the underground palace of the ancient village.

We walked for a while and arrived at the ground of the dungeon, where the bluestone slabs were still under our feet, but they were obviously much rougher than the bluestone slabs of the altar outside. As soon as we arrived, we found ourselves at the entrance to a corridor, which seemed to be very long, and from inside it there was not some creepy rustling sound, which sounded like the sound of some kind of insect or reptile.

"Why is it another underground palace?" I sighed that because I listened to Duan Yuwen's narration, I had a preconceived fear of the underground palace. I'm not an adventurer, and I don't have the desire to be an adventurer. Others may see me as unambitious, but I have to admit that my ideal life is the kind of free and unfettered life, and almost everything I am experiencing now is a last resort.

"This is also normal," the place was relatively spacious at this time, and Duan Yuwen stood beside me and said to me: "Throughout the ages, if there is any secret that is not like letting outsiders know the Tao, almost without exception it must be hidden underground, which is almost human instinct. ”

I nodded, and said in my heart, on the earth, if you want to hide something, you really have to choose underground, after all, human beings have not yet had the ability to build a heavenly palace, so they can only beg to build some underground palaces to hide some secrets that cannot be revealed, even in modern times, whether it is missiles or military projects in various countries, most of them are built in deep mountains and old forests or underground.

I took a flashlight and took a picture of it in the corridor, and said, "Uncle Duan, I also understand what you said, but the quality of this underground palace is too poor, and the stone bricks under your feet are not smooth, even the tombs at the bottom of the tombs in ancient times are better than this." ”

Teng Yi waved his hand and said, "We've just come in now, and it's not necessarily what the situation is inside." ”

"That's it." Ryazan helped on the side and said, "There must be a hole in it." ”

In fact, I also know that we have been engaged in some meaningless arguments and discussions here, because no matter how we argue, this road is still under our feet, and we still have to walk, and we can't all go home again when we get to this point. So, we adjusted the formation, and Teng Yi was still in charge of opening the way, Bu Jin followed closely behind, and then Duan Yuwen and me, Ryazan was good at it, and left him behind. Even though I had a master like Ryazan by my side, I was still terrified when a breeze blew from beneath this deep dungeon, and faintly I felt that something was smiling at us in the dark depths of the tunnel, like a beast watching its prey.

Teng Yi was right, although the road at the beginning was very shabby, the bluestone slab under my feet was one foot deep and one foot shallow, and sometimes there was no stone slab on the top of my head, once by chance, I raised the flashlight to shine on my head, and I found that half of the earthworm's body was twisting left and right on my head, which made me feel very disgusting.

But soon, we came to a neatly paved road, and it was very spacious, there was a distance of four meters between the stone walls on both sides, and the whole road was also square, which is strange to say, walking in such a road, my mood has become much better. However, the "clicking" sound made by the shoes under the feet on the bluestone slab kept echoing in the corridor, suggesting that the distance of the corridor was very long.

We didn't say anything along the way, and Duan Yuwen sometimes complained to us that he was walking too fast because he hadn't had time to check the surrounding stone walls. I know his intentions, probably hoping to find some writing or stone carvings on those stone walls to speculate on what this dungeon is for. However, the surrounding stone walls were unusually smooth, and there was nothing.

As we walked, Teng Yi suddenly stood in front of him, then turned back to us and said, "It seems that this is the real entrance." ”

When Duan Yuwen and I heard this, we hurriedly ran forward to take a look. It turns out that there is a door here, no, to be precise, it is just a door frame, and there is no door. The entire door frame is made of bronze, yes, bronze again, and this thing, which has almost become the symbol of the ancient Dian Kingdom, appears in front of us again.

There was a huge bronze snake on each side of the door frame, and when I shone it with a flashlight, I found that it was shining with gold, and it turned out that a thin layer of gold was plated on top of the bronze. I'm sure none of us are money-loving people, so when we saw these two huge bronze gilded snake carvings, we just whispered admiration. Two bronze gilded snakes meander from both sides of the door frame, on the lintel, the two snakes look at each other angrily, open their mouths to each other, the overall sculpture is vivid, people admire. Duan Yuwen couldn't help but study it again, but this time he was stopped by Ryazan, so he heard Ryazan say: "Old man, don't you always make such a fuss?" Teng Yi also said, this is an entrance, there will only be more valuable things in it than this, not less, let's hurry up and continue to walk inside. ”

Duan Yuwen was a little disappointed, but he had no choice but to continue to move forward with the army. I used a flashlight to shine into the corridor, but found that it was unusually bright, and when I looked closely, it turned out that my flashlight had been refracted many times.

I turned my head to look at Bu Jin and found that she was also looking at me, I couldn't help but be stunned and asked, "Let's continue to walk inside?" ”

Bu Jin just looked at me and didn't speak, but Ryazan preemptively said: "Of course go inside, isn't it equivalent to nonsense for you to ask this!" Let me tell you, life is too short, talk less nonsense and do more practical things! ”

"Gotta got," I said impatiently, "I think you'll talk the most nonsense in a day." ”

Ryazan tilted his neck and said, "But my life is not short. ”

"Neurotic, you have a point in what you say." As I spoke, I followed Bu Jin towards the corridor. It turned out that the entire road, whether it was on both sides of the road or at the foot of the head, was not paved with stone slabs, but was a bronze mirror. I couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and I thought to myself, no wonder I noticed that this place was getting very bright when I used a flashlight just now, and I dare to love that there are mirrors everywhere.

In order to prevent our eyes from being dazzled by these flashlights, only Duan Yuwen and Teng Yi turned on the flashlights.

However, after all, the bronze mirror is not as good as the mirror we use now, the mirror surface is very rough, not to mention, and it is not flat, and some places are simply the same as the Ha Lu Ha mirror, but in this atmosphere, the various bizarre postures of the human shadow in the bronze mirror do not seem funny, but a few more twists. Looking at us in the mirror, we are vague, and we can only distinguish that it is a mass of human figures......

Figure...... Figure......

I looked at the figures in the bronze mirror next to me, and suddenly cold sweat flowed down my forehead, and I don't know when it started, six figures appeared in the bronze mirrors on both sides. Although the image of the bronze mirror was blurry, I could easily distinguish the five of us by our size, but there was a figure in it, no, I wasn't sure if it was a person, but in short, the shadow of that thing was clearly different from the five of us.

I don't know if the others in the Dao noticed the shadow of the thing, but I saw that they all continued to walk forward with peace of mind. To say that Teng Yi and Duan Yuwen didn't notice it, I still barely believe it, but if even a half-baked guy like me can find it, then there is no reason why Ryazan and Bu Jin can't detect these anomalies, but they didn't speak, just walked quietly.

I didn't dare to say anything at will, I said in my heart that just now outside, Duan Yuwen and I had a little farce, so this time, maybe it was because of the hallucinations caused by my excessive tension, so I also made up my mind, and while walking, I secretly stared at the shadow in the bronze mirror.

First of all, the most striking feature of the shadow is that it is tall, very tall, estimated to be at least two meters or more, and the second characteristic is that it is thin, and its body is the same as a bamboo pole, and it does not look like a normal person at all. Moreover, the thing walked in an exaggerated posture, and each step was very large, as if it were slowing down. What shocked me was that the shadow had been following the five of us at first, but I soon found that the shadow had caught up with Ryazan walking behind in a few steps, and to my creep, the figure in the bronze mirror, with a big hand, went straight to Ryazan's back.

I secretly screamed in my heart, so I turned around and shouted, "Watch your back." ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone stopped, and Ryazan was also stunned, then turned around and looked at it a few times, but there was nothing, at this time, he turned around and smiled at me: "What's the matter, Lord Peixi?" ”

"There's someone behind you, no, it doesn't have to be a person." I said excitedly.

Ryazan listened to my words, looked back twice, but there was still nothing, and then said to me with a smile: "My Lord Peixi, I am timid, don't scare me so much. ”

I knew that he was mocking me, but I was not willing to be mocked by him like this, so I said to everyone: "Really, what I said is true, haven't you all found out?" You see, there is a shadow in the bronze mirror. ”

Everyone listened to my words and looked at the bronze mirrors on both sides, and this sight made my heart chuckle.

Without! Gone! There was nothing on the bronze mirror except the five of us.

"How is that possible! I just saw it! I defended myself in a panic.

Duan Yuwen patted me on the shoulder and said to me: "After all, this is the first time you have entered this kind of place, the atmosphere here is indeed eerie, so it is easy to trigger some associations, in the dark, people's imagination often keeps torturing you, maybe it's an illusion, don't care." ”

I pulled Duan Yuwen's arm away with a flick of my hand, not because I was angry, but because I was scared. I yelled, "I was worried about such a thing for a long time, so I didn't say it when I first saw it, and I didn't dare to say it until I watched it for a long time." That's definitely not a delusion! ”

I knew that the tone of my voice was a little heavy, and Duan Yuwen was very embarrassed because of this, so he stopped paying attention to me after a muffled voice, but at this time, I couldn't care so much, I hurriedly turned around and said to Ryazan: "You should be aware of it, you should be able to feel it,"

Ryazan also seemed a little overwhelmed by my words, he raised his eyebrows and said, "This ...... Maybe I'm slow to react and don't feel it too much. ”

I scolded, turned my head and asked Bu Jin the same thing again, but Bu Jin's expression was as wooden as ever, and he didn't react at all, just looked at me lightly, as if he was looking at a funny clown.

I turned to Teng Yi again for help, but the reply I got was the same.

"Holy shit! Isn't there anyone who will believe me? I screamed almost hysterically, my voice echoing through the hallway, and I grew more and more frightened to hear it.

At this time, Ryazan suddenly pressed my shoulder, I was stunned, and just as I wanted to speak, I heard Ryazan say to me in a very deep voice: "Lord Peixi, have you noticed that something is wrong with you?" ”

Wrong? I was about to open my mouth and scold you for what the fuck was wrong, when suddenly, my heart tightened, and I suddenly realized what the problem was.