Chapter Twenty-Six: The Ten Palaces of Hades
After I came to Jingzhao to know further clues about the 14th Tombs of the Ming Dynasty, all my thoughts were on the two things of Ruo Wu Zi Tablet and the search for the jade seal of the country.
The more thunder is worthy of being on the road for decades of old rivers and lakes, the four words of precautions are far more thorough than me, when I learned that there is a secret room in the underground palace of the Great Ci'en Temple, I began to calculate.
I took the Buddha's true body relics, only to let the Great Mercy Temple open the underground palace for the first time, in case one day I found the jade seal of the country, and then I wanted to go in, the more thunder really couldn't think of anything that could impress the monks in the Great Mercy Grace Temple.
Therefore, he began to arrange his cronies for a long time, and successively went to the Great Ci'en Temple as guards, in the words of Yue Lei, what money can solve is not a matter.
Therefore, when I entered the Great Mercy and Grace Temple, I saw that the uniformed guard Qing Yishui was someone I knew.
"Boss, the people on duty tonight are all their own people." Liu Hao's appearance in uniform is a little funny.
"Leave four people outside to let the wind out, and send two more to the monk's place to keep an eye on, and notify us of any movement in time, you go in with us." Yue Thunder is very arrogant on weekdays, and he does things in an orderly manner.
The whole process was simple and smooth, even the door of the underground palace had already been opened, and when I entered the underground palace, I carefully took out the jade seal of the country.
"You have to think clearly, although this jade seal is exactly the same as the real thing, but you once said that this mechanism is called a ten-pound pendant! When the mechanism is designed, the thing that is put on it must meet the required weight of the design before the mechanism will be opened. Yue Qianling didn't have much confidence to say. The foundation underneath the chamber is made of mercury, and if we touch the trap, we'll be buried all underneath. ”
I weighed the heirloom seal in my hand, and there was no one in front of me who was not worried except for Qiu Nuo, so I smiled and said.
"Wealth and danger are sought, how can you find the Ming Fourteenth Tomb without taking some risks, or ...... Either you go up first, turn it on and then come down, in case something happens, I'll be buried alive alone, hehe. ”
Yue Thunder laughed dryly.
"That's right, wealth and wealth are in danger, I have been looking for so long to find here, even if I am buried alive, Lao Tzu has to see how many valuable things there are in the Ming Fourteenth Tomb."
After speaking, he took the heirloom seal in my hand, and didn't even think about putting it in the groove.
"Boom!"
There was a low sound from behind the wall of the underground palace, and the seal of the country slowly sank in the groove, and the stone wall on the south side of the underground palace actually rose slowly, and when it was halfway up, I saw that this stone wall was half a meter thick, and it was polished from a whole piece of granite, and it weighed at least several times.
Yue Lei Ting showed a happy expression on his face and said with a smile.
"Now the craft of counterfeiting is really amazing, not only are the things made exactly the same thousands of years ago, but even the weight is just right, even if I can't find Ming Shishiling, Yan Hui, you must introduce me to the person who made this fake jade seal, take an agency, and I will wholesale the jade seal when I go back to Rongcheng, and it will be enough for me to make money."
...... "Qiunuo and I looked at each other, and I didn't dare to laugh if I wanted to." I also borrowed this thing, and I will exchange it for someone else when I use it. ”
Although Yue Lei Ting said this in his mouth, his eyes had long been staring at the back of the stone wall, no matter how good the things were, they were fake, but the Ming Fourteenth Tomb was full of genuine good things.
Behind the stone wall is a pitch-black passage, just wide enough for one person to pass through, shining a flashlight through it, and reaching the exit is about thirty meters long.
Xiao Lianshan was born as a scout, and when he encountered an unfamiliar environment, he instinctively walked in the front, and was dragged back by me just when he wanted to take the first step.
"Zhu Yuanzhang is suspicious by nature, it is impossible to build a secret room under the underground palace without setting up a mechanism, and this passage is too regular, if I were Zhu Yuanzhang, I would definitely not let people pass easily."
I illuminated the two sides of the passage with a flashlight, and on each side there were five statues carved out of the stone wall in relief, dressed in civil attire and with majestic expressions, but with different faces and postures, but all looking down at the dark passage.
"Who are the carvings on both sides?" Xiao Lianshan thought about it, took off his clothes, wrapped the flashlight inside, and threw it into the passage hard, except for the sound of impact, nothing happened. "Brother, look, it's nothing, just a few broken stone statues, you don't have to worry."
I still held Xiao Lianshan's hand tightly, and the flashlight wrapped in clothes in the passage emitted a weak light, and the passage was slightly illuminated, and the stone statues on both sides looked particularly strange under the dim light.
"Zhu Yuanzhang will not erect a statue here for no reason, there must be his intentions." I said calmly. "No matter what is in this, it is all related to the Ming Fourteenth Tombs, you will be Zhu Yuanzhang will make a few statues casually, and welcome the people who come in?"
"Look at what is here, it seems to have words engraved!" Gu Anqi lowered her head and illuminated the stone slab at the entrance.
I crouched down and wiped away the centuries-old dust with my hands, and sure enough, there was a line of writing on the stone slab at the entrance.
The iron pen breaks life and death, and the stone road separates two yin and yang.
Yue Qianling repeated these two lines of words in her mouth, and said with a pout.
"Is this Zhu Yuanzhang's brain caught in the door, and he still has so many good looks at repairing the 14th Tombs of the Ming Dynasty, I think he is the one who scares, I don't believe that these broken stone statues can jump down and eat me."
After Yue Qianling finished speaking, she stubbornly walked forward, and I dragged her back and pointed to the passage.
"Do you know what this road is called?"
"......" Yue Qianling was stunned and said disapprovingly. Dare Zhu Yuanzhang also named this road, but tell me, what kind of road is this? ”
"Huangquan Road!"
I was so surprised that everyone else looked at each other, and the thunderbolt came from behind.
"Why did this become Huangquan Road?"
I pointed to the statues on both sides and said calmly.
"The iron pen is a book to determine life and death, Zhu Yuanzhang is a murderer, but he may not really be able to do whoever he wants to die, whoever dies, there is only one person with this ability, Hades! The stone statues on these two sides are Hades. ”
"Hades?!" Xiao Lianshan was puzzled and said. "Brother, didn't you say that Hades is only one person, how can there be ten?"
"Zhu Yuanzhang believes in the way of metaphysics, and metaphysics originates from Taoism, in Taoism, there are ten emperors in charge of the underworld, also known as the Ten Palaces of Yama."
"Zhu Yuanzhang's posture is really big enough, get the Ten Halls of Hades to guard the door for him." Yue Thunder frowned and said disdainfully. "Could it be that these broken stone statues can still kill people?"
I pointed to the words on the ground and said calmly.
"The second sentence of the stone road is separated by two yin and yang, that is, walking from this road will be separated by yin and yang, which is a warning to people here that they will definitely die if they walk this road!"
Qiunuo whispered beside him.
"Could it be that Zhu Yuanzhang is playing tricks, afraid that someone will enter the secret room and deliberately carve the Ten Halls of Hades at the door to scare people."
"What kind of person is Zhu Yuanzhang, he never needs any reason to kill, there are countless people who have died in his hands, even the founding fathers have almost killed him, such a person will only be pretending?" I shook my head in the negative.
Yue Thunder walked back and forth in the dungeon a few times, and said anxiously.
"There's not much time, so it's impossible to just stand at the door and not go in."
"Since Zhu Yuanzhang left the 14th Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty to his descendants, if it is the emperor of later generations who comes here, there must be a way to pass." I used a flashlight to look at the passage for a long time. "There is no ropeway on this passage, it is impossible to hang through the air, and you can't walk through, how should you cross it?"
It's such a big place, you can't fly, you can't walk, do you have to climb over? Xiao Lianshan said irritably.
"Crawl over......" I was stunned, looking at Xiao Lianshan and muttering to myself. Crawl over...... Crawl? ”
Xiao Lianshan hurriedly waved his hand and said in a panic.
"Brother, if you miss you, I'll just say it casually, you must not be misled by me, this is Huangquan Road, if you go wrong, you will die, I am a big boss, you can't listen to what I say."
I ignored Xiao Lianshan, and hurriedly squatted on the ground to read the two lines again.
"A book of iron pen breaks life and death...... It refers to the judgment of life and death in Hades, and the fate of Hades in front of Hades...... Those who come to the underworld are all guilty people, and no one dares to stand in front of the king of Hades to listen to the judgment! ”
"It's kneeling!" Qiunuo suddenly realized.
"That's right! It's not crawling over, it's kneeling over! ”
After I finished speaking excitedly, I looked at the deep and dark passage, if I was wrong, there would be a few more people on this Huangquan Road, thinking of this, I took off my coat and handed it to Xiao Lianshan.
"Lianshan, I'll go in first, if it's okay, you can come along, if I have something, you take the others and leave immediately."
I didn't wait for Xiao Lianshan to speak for a long time, and when I took the flashlight from Qiu Nuo's hand and turned my head, I saw that Xiao Lianshan had already knelt in the passage and knelt for more than ten meters.
"Lianshan, what are you doing in there, I'm just guessing, if it's wrong, you'll die!" I was startled and shouted.
Xiao didn't even look back at the top of the mountain, and continued to kneel and crawl forward.
"I used to be a soldier, and my emergency response ability is better than yours, and if something happens, I can still protect myself."
I looked at Xiao Lianshan's back and was speechless for a while.
Xiao Lianshan walked halfway on his knees, and nothing happened to An An'an.
"Look at it, I know that Zhu Yuanzhang is just scaring people, even Brother Shan is about to come to an end, and I haven't seen anything happen." Although Yue Qianling said it easily, she still sweated for Xiao Lianshan in her heart.