Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Sundial

These thoughts flashed through my heart, and then I looked at Xiao Jing's expression, which was already ten out of ten, and I didn't make a sound, looking at this strange tomb by myself. Because Xiao Jing is not familiar with the structure of the underground palace, blindly trespassing, so I don't know where she took me at this time, I looked carefully at this tomb, but saw that the tomb was empty, there were no funeral goods, only four huge paintings on the four walls.

Due to the dim lighting, I couldn't see all the murals for a while, so I took a closer look, only to see that the first two murals were painted with market scenery, building carriages and horses, and the costumes were somewhat similar to the modern Zhuang national costumes, but they were not as complicated as they are now, and they were more concise, just like a picture of the survival of the ancient Zimu country.

When I looked at the third picture, I was shocked because there was no market or carriage or horse on the mural, but a huge portrait of a person. This person is fat and exaggerated, with seven heads, one head in the center, making a crying expression, and one head on each shoulder, which are angry and shocked, and one head on the chest and one on the back, a total of seven, plus seven hands sticking out from behind, who is not the ghost king?

I was secretly frightened, and said that in these years, it is not uncommon for deformed fetuses such as conjoined babies and two-headed babies to be deformed, but it is really strange to be deformed to this stage, looking at the seven faces with different expressions, but the seven pairs of eyes seem to be staring at me, in the dim light, it can't help but make people feel uncomfortable.

The ghost king of this place sat cross-legged, and in the palms of his seven hands, he dragged a beautifully shaped black hollow round ball. I said in my heart, "Could it be that these are the seven lamps?" It seems that there are some differences with the legend, not placed on the top of the head, and this shape is really not related to the lamp, but it is similar to the exquisite ball played by the princes and nobles in ancient times.

Since there is a mural of the ghost king here, the identity of the owner of this tomb can also be determined, I think this is the underground palace of the ghost king, it seems that the ancient kingdom of Nazimu disappeared mysteriously, not an earthquake, among them, I am afraid there is a secret that we are difficult to peep into. Then I turned my gaze to the fourth wall, and I couldn't help but be stunned at this look, because this wall was dull, and it was much inferior to the gold painting on the other three walls. I saw that on this wall, there were two things drawn, one side was a black circle, and the other was a black crescent moon.

The color is extremely black, at a glance, it looks like a big black cauldron, and it looks like a huge black hole, what meaning it represents, it is really incredible. When it comes to the crescent-shaped thing, which reminds people of the moon at a glance, when the two are put together, it is easy to understand that it is the sun and the moon.

It's just that...... How are the sun and the moon black?

I was thinking about it when Xiao Jing suddenly opened her mouth and said, "I promise you, but there is one condition. ”

I secretly breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what her conditions were, as long as I agreed to this 'cooperation', I was sure to suppress her arrogance, so I listened to her in detail. It turned out that Xiao Jing's conditions were not difficult to do, it was reasonable, she said that it was okay to cooperate, but the object of cooperation was me and her, that is to say, next, the two of us teamed up to find the coffin of the ghost king, and we couldn't meet with Tofu and others, because Tofu and others had psychic incense in their hands, once we met, there were many people, and it was inevitable that changes would be unfavorable to her.

I said: "The four of them also want to find the coffin of the Earth Ghost King, and it is only a matter of time before they converge, besides, that Yuan Rui is also here for the Seven Lights, if the things fall into his hands first......"

Xiao Jing said viciously: "Then I will kill you." ”

"Heh, I'm not familiar with Zhen Rui, so I can't threaten him with me."

Xiao Jing said: "So, we have to find the coffin one step ahead of them." After she finished speaking, I thought to myself: This request is not difficult, as long as Tofu and the others are safe, there will be a way to clean her up at that time, so I nodded, determined the next action, and did not look for Tofu for the time being, so I 'partnered' with Xiao Jing.

Now that the agreement was made, I pointed to the burial chamber and said, "How did you find this place?" Xiao Jing didn't hide it, saying that after confusing me, she took me all the way back, in order to avoid Zhen Rui and the others from following me. This retreat, he retreated outside the tomb where the jade man was. There were also two passages outside the tomb, each with a figurine squatting, which we had passed by before, but had not explored.

Xiao Jing is already a living dead, where would she be afraid, it was just a disguise before. After taking me with him, he picked a random passage in an attempt to find a secluded and uninhabited place. Who knows, this passage has not gone far before it enters a dead end, and there are still many traces of the mechanism launched in the passage.

My heart moved, and I said in my heart, presumably grandpa and the others must have explored those two tombs, so the mechanism was triggered.

Xiao Jing went on to say that after walking to the dead end, she felt unlucky, and when she was angry, she suddenly found that there was a round hole in the upper right corner of the tomb road, which was very similar to the robbery hole we had played before. But Xiao Jing didn't think about it so much, the living corpse was naturally sensitive to the cave, and it was estimated that he felt more secure in the cave, Xiao Jing was worried that Zhen Rui and the others would change their minds and catch up, so they carried me into the thief cave.

The robbery cave is long, out of the robbery hole, but there is a different cave, turn the two burial chambers, and arrive here. The two burial chambers were leaking and dirty, so she brought me here.

When I heard this, I suddenly remembered the matter of the salt corpse closing the door, and thought: The salt corpse closed the door at the back, and there was a blood book warning outside, could it be that Grandpa and the others did not enter the tomb at the beginning, but when they found that something was wrong behind them, they turned their heads and walked back into the tomb where Xiao Jing was?

There are many mechanisms in the tomb, and grandpa and the others must have had a lot of tossing, but for some reason, they saw another robbery hole in the tomb?

Could it be that something happened in the tomb at that time, and grandpa and others couldn't retreat, so they temporarily made a robbery hole?

This thief cave leads to this place, and it seems that some of those people must have been here.

Seeing that I was thinking, Xiao Jing paused for a while, pointed to the arched passage on the left-hand side, and said, "I went over there to see, there are three coffins behind it, and there is no other passage." ”

Three coffins?

This is the underground palace of the ghost king, in addition to his own coffin, the coffins that can appear in the underground palace should be funeral coffins, and I don't know what the people of this Zimu country are for what reason, after death, they are buried so deeply, and this project is also huge. Thinking of this, I turned my gaze to the right, that is, the tomb that Xiao Jing had never been to, and when the two of them walked into it, they saw a strange-looking object placed in the tomb.

It was made of stone, like a huge bucket plate, with a stone pillar running through it, and the whole wheel was in a slow rotation due to the uneven angle. At the point where the bucket plate is in contact with the ground, a rectangular black iron bar is paddled, and the continuous rotation for more than 1,000 years has formed a groove in the center of the iron bar, and the edge of the bucket plate is also rubbed very smooth.

What is it?

I was a little surprised for a moment, but I couldn't help but take a closer look, because it was too strange, and I was worried that it was some trap, so the distance of a few steps, it was a little slow. After a while, Xiao Jing and I stood in front of the slowly rotating bucket plate, and when we took a closer look, we found that its surface was like an ancient compass, engraved with dense information, but due to its large size, it could record a larger amount of information.

In the innermost, first there are the five elements of the eight directions, the heavenly stem and the earthly branches, the yin and yang of the Qiankun, and then later, there are solar terms and easy hexagrams, divination and ghost paintings, and then I can't understand it, like the astrological calendar and other things. The general compass is divided into eight layers, sixteen layers, and more thirty-two layers. And this thing in front of me, like a compass but not like it, when it comes to the number of layers, I'm afraid there are no less than hundreds, and after a few glances, I feel dizzy.

I can still see the Qiankun Yi hexagram above, five elements and eight directions, where does Xiao Jing understand this, it is even more incomprehensible, and said: "This is like a sundial." ”

As soon as she said this, I couldn't help but move in my heart, and then I looked closely, the stone pillars in the bucket plate were thick at the top and thin at the bottom, so that they were really a little similar. It's just that there is no sun here, so this 'sundial' doesn't play a role. As soon as this thought flashed, the dim headlamp above my head went out with a snap, and the surroundings were plunged into darkness.

Fortunately, I always carried the equipment bag, and remembered that there was a spare battery in the bag, so I quickly squatted down and unloaded the equipment bag, and asked Xiao Jing to light up the lighter for me, ready to go to the equipment bag to find the spare battery. Who knew that this squatting body suddenly found that there was something hidden under this bucket.

It's actually another thief hole.

I was shocked, and my heart said: How can you make thieves everywhere? The further down this goes, the tighter the soil layer, the more easy it is to fight the thief hole as on the surface, and the grandfather is not a machine qì person, without special circumstances, he will definitely not make a thief hole in the ground so frequently. What caught my attention the most was that there was a roll of yellowed paper next to the thief hole.

At this time, I had already found the battery, and quickly replaced the battery, and the headlamp shone a bright light again, with this light, I carefully took out the paper, and buried my head in it, but saw that the paper was densely written with a sheet, but there were only two symbols, one was 'one', and the other was '--'.

It is these two symbols, from beginning to end, that are combined in a chaotic manner, and the person who looks at them is dizzy.

I know that these two symbols represent the yang and yin in the eight trigrams, and the yang and yin are the basic symbols that constitute the hexagrams, representing the opposite sides of the world, such as yin and yang, heaven and earth, life and death, ancient and modern, good and evil, length and shortness......

This thing belongs to the scope of metaphysics, and I only made up for this thing after I started digging mushrooms, but after all, the effect is not so strong, so I am confused about this piece of paper.