Chapter 42: The Hidden Entrance
The four of us turned on four lights, and surrounded this small area, but we didn't find a single crack for a long time. It stands to reason that as long as there was an entrance and exit to this place, there should be traces, but this stone wall is so integrated with the surroundings that it is impossible to detect that anything has ever been there.
Zhen Rui knocked on the stone wall with his hand, listened to it for a while, and seemed to have nothing to gain, and then used the handle of the dagger to hit the stone wall.
Immediately afterward, he said: "There is a space in the back, but this stone wall is thick. β
Tofu said: "What should I do then?" β
Zhen Rui spat out one word: "Fried." "Some people describe modern tomb robbers, saying that they are no longer tomb robbers, but bombing tombs, finding the right location, putting explosives, everything is fine, moving things and leaving directly. In fact, this kind of tomb robbers are now in the majority, rude and uninformed, not to mention the archaeologists hate them, even those in our circles are very ashamed of this tomb robber. There are rules in the line of tomb robbing, called: take it inexhaustibly, do not destroy it, and return to the soil after the matter is finished.
The meaning of this sentence is that if there are many things in the bucket, they can't finish it, and they can't be wantonly damaged, one is to leave something for the owner of the tomb, and the other is to leave food for later colleagues, after all, the ancient tomb is dug less and less, and secondly, when you leave, you have to fill up the robbery hole, and the tomb is sunny and rainy, destroying the tomb.
Speaking of which, our gang is more disciplined, the things in the tomb are not needed, they are never deliberately damaged, and most of the time explosives are used, and they are also in critical moments. This place is a vast space, and there is nothing to do with explosives, and everyone listened to Zhen Rui's words, so they called Zhong Gong over, moved Ouyang Xuan who was sleeping nearby, and began to plant explosives.
This time it was a lot of weight, so the rest of us were far away. Setting up explosives is Zhong Gong's forte.
Tofu stood next to me and craned his neck and said; "You've found your way, you say that thing won't come back to make trouble, right?" I didn't pay attention to him, what didn't happen, it was useless to think too much. Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the whole ground shook with it, and in an instant there was a splash of rocks, and the air was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder, and a cloud of exploding smoke floated on the mountain wall.
Zhong Gong coughed twice and said, "It should explode, wait for the smoke to disperse, and see what is going on inside." Suddenly, the smoke gradually thinned and faded, slowly dissipated, and an irregular hole blown by explosives was revealed, and it was dark inside, and I don't know what the situation was.
Zhong Gong took the lead in stepping forward to investigate, his figure blocked the entrance of the cave and looked inside, and he turned back to us and shouted: "It's an upward stone staircase, it looks like it's going out." β
I said to Tofu: "Finally found the way, go, put Ouyang Xuan on your back, let's go home." β
The equipment on Tofu's body is hung on the corpse fairy, and he is the easiest among the group of people, so although this kid is lazy, he can't shirk it, so he carried Ouyang Xuan on his back, and the group was led by Zhong Gong in front, entered the hole that was blown open by us, and went up the stone steps. This stone staircase is not straight up, but curved, and it is estimated that it is a spiral trend, according to this trend, the exit of the stone staircase should also be located in the palace.
After about ten minutes, Zhong Gong in front of him suddenly stopped, sighed, and said, "There is a history room here." "There are some lattices carved against the mountain wall around this stone chamber, and it seems that this stone chamber was about a transit station before, and eighty percent of it was used to place some sacrificial things, and the space was large.
At that moment, my light hit a smooth stone wall without lattice on the right, and suddenly I realized that there were actually some murals painted on it. The use of murals has a long history, and it has long been impossible to verify, in ancient times, people carved murals into stone using carved chiseled shapes, so that they left a lot of unbelievable patterns in today's people. Yao Fang was located in a certain period of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the appearance of this kind of murals using pigments was a very heavy discovery.
The pigment on the stone wall has long lost its bright color, so the red is not red, the yellow is not yellow, all faded into a kind of brown, and the picture is difficult to identify. I stepped forward to look at it, but I saw that the mottled people in the painting were all frightened, fleeing in all directions, as if something extremely terrifying had happened.
Behind these fleeing people, there are spiral lines, and these fleeing people seem to be fleeing the scope of this spiral. Tofu came over at some point, and suddenly said: "The know-it-all said before, on that lost map, behind the golden gate, there is this spiral line, does the spiral on it refer to the thing behind the golden gate?" β
I nodded, thinking that it was very likely that the tofu statement was very likely, that this spiral must represent some kind of danger, and the frightened people on this mural must be the people of Yaofang who wanted to escape from the danger. Tofu looked down, and suddenly sighed and said, "Look, who is this person?" Isn't it the petrified ancient corpse from before? In the next picture, however, there is another scene, a man in a black robe, with a double fish-eye mask on his face, walking towards a palace complex in the distance, and the palace in the picture is also very strange, drawn with distorted lines. The walls are twisted, the top of the palace is twisted, even the people in the palace are twisted, and this person, who is wearing a mask and can't see his face, walks towards the twisted palace step by step.
This scene is extremely delicately painted, including some details of this person's body are depicted, but the color is mottled, so it is difficult for us to identify, but it seems that this person, Bacheng, is the petrified ancient corpse.
It seems that this person is not from Yao Fang, but like a walker. Some practitioners in ancient times, including shamanism, had the practice of walking the way, and according to the whole person's dress in the picture, it should be a shaman who traveled to the ancient country of Yaofang.
Next, the man walked into the twisted palace and erected a totem pole at the entrance of the palace, with a fox-shaped whirring priest at the top of the pillar. Then there was the casting of the golden gate, and when the gate was locked, the spiral was locked behind the door.
Further down is a scene of sacrifice, the golden gate is opened by a masked shaman, and then a group of people wrapped in cloth leather enter the back of the gate one after another. These people's faces were filled with fear and even a look of sacrifice, and they did not resist.
As soon as they entered the golden gate, their bodies vanished like the engulfed flames we had thrown into them.
I couldn't help but gasp, and suddenly realized that this was a living sacrifice, and the object of the sacrifice was the spiral locked behind the golden gate. I don't know exactly what this spiral represents, but based on the content of this mural, I have also deduced some eyebrows of the ancient kingdom of Yaofang.
It seems that this 'spiral' appeared suddenly, bringing great disasters to Yao Fang, and at this time, a very great shaman came here, and taught Yao Fang's people to cast a golden gate and lock the spiral behind the door, at the same time, this sorcerer should believe in Hu Duo, maybe Hu Duo can really restrain the 'spiral', so the ancient country of Yao Fang has become a place to worship shaman divine power, perhaps in order to appease the spiral, so it also formed a living human sacrifice.
The zongzi we saw walking back and forth on the stone steps may be the ones that were used for sacrifice.
After listening to my analysis, Tofu was surprised: "So, those Huduo are actually used to guard the golden gate?" The reason why they attacked us before was because we wanted to open the door? β
I nodded and said, "It should be so." β
Tofu pondered for a moment and said, "What is behind the golden gate?" Not good...... You said that we opened the door and didn't close it, could the 'spiral' inside escape? "I also muttered in my heart, and said that I don't know, but it seems that if Zhen Rui wants to find a way to crack Huhu Duo, the main clue is still on the petrified ancient corpse, but unfortunately, the map has been lost, and when the tide of eighty percent of the groundwater is low, it has been taken to a deeper bottom with the groundwater.
In the place directly opposite the stone room, there is still an upward stone staircase, and everyone has looked around in this stone room, maybe the things inside have been taken away, or maybe the time has decayed, in short, we have not been able to find anything valuable, so we follow the stone steps and prepare to continue up.
At this time, everyone's attention was on the front, and the stone steps of the black hole had no end, and it was very tiring to climb. Tofu couldn't walk with Ouyang Xuan on his back, and said to me: "Lao Chen, why don't you carry it for a while, let me take a breath." β
I said, "Don't rely on me for everything, be self-reliant, and besides, don't I give you the opportunity to create a zΓ o?" β
Tofu said angrily: "When I liked her, you didn't give ChuangzΓ o a chance, knowing that I was dead, now Chuang's chance." Surnamed Chen, I see you clearly, you hypocrite! β
"Thank you."
Tofu exclaimed, "I'm not praising you!" β
I saw him fried hair, just thinking it was funny, suddenly, in the darkness ahead, suddenly a few black and white faces burst out, this time it was really abrupt, Zhong Gong, who was walking in front, was caught off guard, and then took two steps back, almost slipped and fell, exclaiming: "What! β