Volume VI Chapter 11 The Skeleton Army

But I soon realized that I was wrong in my thinking - no sound doesn't mean no rice dumplings.

The flashlight was turned on, the lights swept around, and I suddenly gasped - the dark purple armor, the extremely weird shape, there were really armor-wearing zongzi!

I almost subconsciously wanted to transform, but the unusual silence around me quickly reminded me that they were just dead things now, and that if I did, I might have messed things up.

In front of me is a long corridor, which spreads to a distance of about twenty meters, the corridor is paved with quaint blue bricks, and on both sides there are a row of unknown creatures in purple armor that are basically zongzi. Along the way, two of the two rows of zongzi are vacant, and one may be the one below.

I stood next to a zongzi, compared my height with it, and found that it was two heads taller than me!

This is not logical, shouldn't the ancients have generally been shorter? After walking around, the shortest of the zongzi was about half a head taller than me.

The dumplings in these two rows are too strange, with a unified posture and a unified dress, and not a trace of skin is exposed.

"I said what are you shy? I muttered and shone my flashlight at the back of the dumplings, which was the wall. On the stone walls are frescoes that have fallen off badly, oxidized by the oxygen in the burial chamber, and there is nothing of value to be seen. Most of the murals in front are the images of the twelve ancestors, not only Tianwu, but also Dijiang, Houtu, and Yuqiang, and there are more than twelve, the number is very large, and even the creature with the image of an orangutan appears. But in the back I saw a fairly intact mural depicting two armies facing each other, one army was led by a large group of strange-looking people, and the other army had only three people, all three of whom had wings behind them, except that one was a snake's head, one was a tiger's head, and the other was a bird's head. What the heck.

Rarely, there's nothing surreal about the mural - like a three-headed and six-armed monster like Chiyou. I compared it and found that the army led by a few strange-looking people was very similar to the motionless rice dumplings in front of me. One of these strange-looking men was bare, with long hair, who looked like a woman, one was riding on the head of a tall sheep-like creature, and a few I couldn't identify, they were too vague, only these two were clearer.

Could it be that one of the three of them is a witch, and the other group is a so-called messenger of justice?

I thought for a while that maybe the owner of this tomb was once the leader of an army who had won a war with others, so I used this mural to commemorate him, and his soldiers were buried in the ground as burial companions.

After I finished reading the mural, I continued to walk down, walking alone in this eerie place, and there was a row of zongzi staring expressionlessly next to me, which was strange.

As I walked, I suddenly remembered the video that Chen Lei showed me, and the corridor above seemed to be very similar to here, but how did the fucking camera get there?

I made a gesture and found that the height of the corridor was not smaller than the burial chamber below, and normal people either had to set up a ladder or step on these zongzi to go up.

I began to realize that this kid Chen Lei didn't tell me the truth, and he didn't go all the way.

Obviously, this is not the entrance, this is a sea tomb, where do you need someone to guard it? I don't know if he has an uncle, but I know that no one has entered this place before, all the entrances and exits must be under the sea, and there will be traces when someone comes in, so I don't need that zongzi to help me find the passage.

It's really a wretch, I'm angry in my heart, Lao Tzu is kind enough to help you, and you still lie to Lao Tzu?

At the end of the corridor was a stone staircase that went down, and I followed the stone staircase all the way down, and the surrounding decorations began to become more elaborate, and at intervals there would be a stone sculpture, which was modeled after the armored rice dumplings in the previous corridor.

I was a little more relaxed than before when I walked this section and observed more. There are still some things like exhaust pipes on the body of this zongzi stone carving, the armor is not symmetrical on the left and right, there is a protruding armor on the left shoulder, and the right shoulder is a plate. I found out that there was also a skeleton carved into the armor on the left shoulder of the statue, what does this mean? The skeleton is so realistic, as if it were really a human skull. Generally, in ancient times, ghosts would not be painted in this shape, because painters and craftsmen had never seen real skeletons, and the ghosts they painted and carved were nothing more than two horns on the human head, thinner, and more hideous.

So what does this skeleton mean? Does it mean that it is dead, or is it murderous?

There are some nonsense, the army is meant to kill people, but it is different to use skeletons as a symbol, which means that they are extremely effective and the battle is extremely bloody. It seems that the owner of the tomb is indeed a general with great achievements.

Further down is another corridor, next to which there is still the same stone carving of zongzi, and I trotted over without delay.

After running for about fifty meters, my eyes suddenly became bright - this was a man-made stone cave, the size of a basketball court, and the light of the flashlight was not enough to illuminate the whole area, and I vaguely saw that there seemed to be a large stone altar underneath, and a very thick green tung pillar stood in the center of the stone altar.

There is a cave in the rock wall that has been dug by hand, and I saw that the burial bronze tree in the tomb of King Gwangcheon was placed in the cave. But the king of Guangchuan did not even find the coffin of the tomb owner, how did he take the bronze tree and put it in the sarcophagus? I thought for a long time and couldn't think of a reason, the passage that was trampled by the armored zongzi should be the only one, maybe it was the craftsman who built the ancient tomb who cast an extra bronze tree and threw it outside, and was discovered by the men of the king of Guangchuan, so that there was a subsequent tomb robbery.

I was about to walk forward to see what was going on under the cave, when suddenly a voice came from next to me: "Don't go down."