Chapter Ninety-Five: Face Worship
Although I don't know if there is any basis for the legend told by Lu Dao Yuanrui, but I was careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years, and Tofu was also instigated, so I interrupted Tofu's movements and asked him to put things back, and Tofu went down the steps, revealing an expression of 'Look, he didn't let me move, not that I was timid'.
Seeing that we put down our things, Zhen Rui didn't speak again, but went to study the corpse on the ground, as if he wanted to find out the identity of the corpse, and it was estimated that he wanted to confirm the life and death of Zhen Donglai, in fact, it was difficult to determine this, because there were six people who died in the river at that time, and no one knew whether there was a person from the east among those six people.
After a while, Zhen Rui shook his head and sat on the ground, obviously, this corpse should not be from Zhen Donglai.
Immediately afterwards, he moved his gaze to his grandfather, who was not wearing a mask at this time, the turquoise mask hung around his waist, and Zhen Rui's gaze moved to the mask again, and then a trace of anger flashed, and asked, "Why is he here?" “
Tofu pursed his lips and said, "You didn't buy this place, why can't he be here?" Why, do you still know each other? ”
Zhong Gong has always been silent, and at this time, he couldn't help but burst into a foul language, saying: "Don't you know, this person has made us miserable." "I estimate that when the two of them entered the core of the underground palace, grandpa once showed up and used the mechanism in the tomb to clean up the two, although these two people didn't see grandpa's appearance, but eighty percent recognized the mask, so the excitement was a little out of control at this moment.
Seeing Zhong Gong coming over and preparing to clean up his fainted grandfather, before I could speak, Tofu had already taken the lead and said, "Do you know who he is?" Dare to mess around like this, this is the famous ghost king, even if you are old, you are still the ghost king, you two don't mess around, dare to touch him, the three of us will fight hard with you. ”
"Ghost King?" Zhen Rui's gloomy expression showed surprise, his eyes stared at his grandfather tightly, and said, "Ghost King Chen Siyuan? When he said this, he looked at me, obviously confirming Tofu's words. I nodded and said, "It's my grandfather, and the only living person in this dungeon besides us." ”
Zhen Rui's surprise can be imagined, and he said: "Fourteen years, still alive?" What's going on? "At this time, the thing that monitored us didn't seem to move, I roughly told the two of you about the experience after meeting your grandfather, after listening to the reason, Zhen Rui was silent for a long time, closed his eyes, and estimated that he knew that Zhen Dong would have no hope of surviving. However, I have always felt in my heart that this person does not seem to be mainly here to leave the east, eighty percent of this is just an excuse, maybe what he really wants is the legendary seven magic lamps.
At this moment, the magic lamp is placed in front of us, dim, if it were not for the year and cultural background, people who don't know the Tao will definitely use it as scrap metal and sell it.
The two of them were also embarrassed, and after resting for a while, they said lukewarmly: "Be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, don't move it rashly." Then his gaze fell on the black honeycomb stone, and his expression changed, and he said, "Didn't you encounter anything strange when you opened the coffin?" ”
Tofu rolled his eyes and said, "Does it count if there are bugs flying out?" Ate a few into your mouth. ”
When Zhen Rui heard this, he shook his head, his eyes suddenly became strange, and he said, "Do you know how these insects can survive in the coffin?" This black stone is called the insect incense stone, and the whole thing can be eaten, and the things raised in it, if I guess correctly, should be some kind of poisonous insect that they have cultivated themselves, and this thing is placed here, it must be to deal with the tomb robbers who opened the coffin......" After a pause, he looked at the three of us and said, "After the coffin was opened, these insects didn't attack you?" ”
The face of the tofu was a little bad when he was said by Zhen Rui, and he said: "It's smaller than a mosquito, and it will disperse as soon as it is released, so it should be ...... No attack power, right? The voice was visibly uncertain.
Zhen Rui said again: "Don't you feel anything unusual in your body? ”
I felt it for a while, and I didn't feel that it was wrong, so Tofu moved his hands and feet, and said, "I suddenly want to, is this counting?" ”
Zhen Rui was silent for a long time, and finally didn't mention the matter of insects again, probably because he was angry with tofu.
At this moment, in addition to the insect incense stone, the magic lamp and the soul calming dream knife in the coffin, the only thing left in the coffin is also a thing that is stored in the box. The box was opened, revealing a brown silk book, which looked very messy, and had obviously been moved.
Zhen Rui put on gloves and carefully took out the silk book.
This silk book is about half a meter long, densely packed with red characters arranged vertically, these words and the words on the stone wall should be the same kind of text, I can't read it, but Zhen Rui stared at the silk book tightly, as if reading the content on it. My heart moved, and my heart said: Could it be that Zhen Rui knows these words?
The three of us looked at each other, but we didn't say anything, and let Zhen Rui watch quietly. Grandpa is in a coma at the moment, I don't know if he will be as crazy as before when he wakes up, in desperation, he can only unload Grandpa's flying knife, temporarily tie up his hands, and say Grandpa can't help it, don't be angry with me, this is no way, I hope you wake up consciously.
I guess that the reason why my grandfather went insane twice in succession must have been influenced by 'it', I don't know what kind of existence 'it' is, it seems to be formless and substantial, but I can clearly feel that it is here. After a while, Zhen Rui slowly put down the silk book, and we thought that he would immediately relay the contents of the silk book to us, but bizarrely, he sat down cross-legged and held the silk book in deep thought for a long time.
Everyone waited patiently for a while, but still didn't see him speak, Tofu couldn't help it at first, waved his hand in front of Zhen Rui, and said, "Don't be too vain, what is written on this?" ”
Zhen Rui glanced at him, blocked the hand waving in front of him, and then he put the silk book back in its place, and his eyes began to turn to the waste lamps.
I immediately guessed that what was recorded in the silk book was related to these strange lamps.
At this time, I heard Zhen Rui say: "This is a warning letter. ”
"Warning letters?" Gu Wenmin was surprised: "Could it be something similar to a curse?" She probably thought of the curse in Xu Fu's tomb.
Zhen Rui shook his head and talked about the contents of the silk book, in fact, even he didn't know whether he should believe these contents or not.
Most people have always believed that the Zhuang people have no writing, in fact, the Zhuang nationality is a nation that has been continuously integrated in the long history, the writing is diverse, but the time of sinicization is relatively early, so later generations have followed the Chinese language, the early Zhuang language is very much, it is the fusion of many small ethnic groups, one of the most widely spread, originally originated from the Dai nationality, and the text we see in front of us is in the Zhuang nationality, it is also extremely ancient Zhuang language.
This line of inverted buckets, mixed well, all have their own unique skills, Zhen Donglai is very good at ancient characters, Zhen Rui inherited some, but it is certainly not as thorough as Zhen Donglai's research, so the content of the silk book, he only read a rough idea, and some of them are also completed by their own speculation.
In this way, eighty percent of the translations on the stone wall were also left by the east.
This shows that Zhen Donglai did not die in the underground river, at least he entered this tomb at that time.
In that case, where is his body? Or is he one of those who are alive?
The corpse in front of me that died on the coffin is obviously not from the east, I wonder if there will be any clues in this silk book? I only listened to Yuan Rui's half-interpretation and half-speculation to tell us about the content of the silk book. According to the silk book, the person buried in this coffin is undoubtedly the king of ghosts.
According to legend, the Earth Ghost Clan is a nation that crawled out of the earth, and the Earth Ghost King is the leader of this nation and country, and this nation has a very peculiar belief.
In most religions and ghost worship, such as Taoism worships the three Qings, the pursuit of the unity of heaven and man, such as Buddhism believes in the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, pays attention to mustard seeds and mustaches, the three thousand worlds of the world, and there are also shamanism, which believes that all things have spirits, forming a unique multi-totem and all things worship, while the earth ghost clan believes in human faces.
The human face has 43 muscles, according to modern research, the human face can make at least 7,000 different expressions, which belongs to the human expression language, and animals can not reach this realm, although the ancient people will not conduct systematic research, but they obviously also understand the magic of the human face, surprised by the various transformations that a face can make, compared with all the animals and plants around, only people can do it.
For those with ancient ideas, this is a miraculous symbol, and perhaps for this reason, the Earth Ghost Clan uses the human face as a totem. According to the records in the silk book, their study of human expressions has reached a rather terrifying point, according to a subtle change, such as eyes, eyes, blink frequency, the slightest tremor of the corners of the mouth, etc., can directly see through each other's hearts, and even through the expression of the human face, to carry out a peculiar dance, this dance, known as the 'god dance', of course, this unheard of dance, has long disappeared in the long river of history.
For this reason, the people of the Earth Ghost Clan wore masks, which were not only a totem, but also a protection of their own privacy.
But even if you wear a mask, you can't escape the eyes of a person, and this person is the Earth Ghost King.
As in the legend, as described above, the seven heads and seven hands of the Earth Ghost King hold a magic lamp in each hand, which represent life, old age, sickness, death, corpses, ghosts, and gods, and these seven lamps have incredible magical power, just like what we have heard before.
But there is one more clue on this silk book, because these seven lamps do not belong to the Earth Ghost King.