Chapter 22
After Chen Jianqiu walked out of the exit of the tomb road, he couldn't help but be stunned by the scene in front of him.
This is an underground hall, but it is an underground hall transformed from a natural cave, it is circular, and there is more than one tomb road leading to this place, on the walls around the main hall, there are other exits, plus this exit where Chen Jianqiu is, it is exactly seven.
Chen Jianqiu couldn't help but be surprised.
Because it is clearly written in the dossier, the great eunuchs who died violently happened to be seven.
If he was not mistaken, the other six burial paths should have led to the graves of the other six great eunuchs.
Different from the Daxuan court, the Dayu State inherited the old system of the Great Wei Dynasty, and still retained the complete eunuch system of the inner court, with twelve eunuchs, four divisions, and eight bureaus, collectively known as the twenty-four yamen, the eunuchs of the twenty-four yamen are called eunuchs, and there are left and right young eunuchs, plus several of the ceremonial eunuchs, as well as the supervisors of the city and the weaving bureau, as well as the eunuchs in various towns, and no eunuchs can be called eunuchs.
Among the 24 yamen, the chief celebrant is the chief eunuch and has the heaviest authority. The eunuch in charge of the seal is just an official position of the fourth grade, but he has the power to approve the red, which corresponds to the power of the cabinet chief assistant, and is known as the internal minister. The chief of the celebrant supervisor has the position of Governor Qingluanwei, which is the so-called Governor.
The celebrant examines and approves the cabinet votes, and the cabinet is confidential, which is actually an "internal minister". The Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Ministry of War and the Governor jointly held the military handle, directly commanding the Dragon Guards and the Tiger Guards, which was actually the "Pivotal Mansion" of the Inner Court. In addition, the Imperial Horse Supervisor also had to manage the pasture and the imperial estate, run the imperial store, manage the finances with the households, and be the chief steward of the inner court.
Generally speaking, the Grand Eunuch of the Master of Ceremonies Palm Seal is
The first eunuch, the chief eunuch of the celebrant is the second person, and the chief eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor is the third person.
The seven eunuchs who died violently included two celebrant eunuchs with palm seals, two chief eunuchs with a palm seal, two eunuchs with a palm seal from the imperial horse supervisor, and one celebrant with a pen.
Wu Fu, whom Chen Jianqiu investigated, was the master of ceremonies and the eunuch Bingbi, who was not only the last person to die violently, but also the person with the lowest status among the seven great eunuchs.
This feeling is like the death of six high-ranking eunuchs in a row, and there is really no one left, so I have to find a relatively ordinary celebrant to make up the number.
Why do you have to make up enough for seven eunuchs?
Does the number "seven" have any special meaning?
Chen Jianqiu didn't have a clue for the time being, but he was sure that the death of these seven eunuchs really had nothing to do with Daomen, at least Daomen's statement that he killed all the great eunuchs in order to warn the lord of Dayu was untenable. If the Daomen is really meant to be a warning, then there is no need to make up a certain number.
Also, judging from the corpses of the tomb robbers in the tomb tunnel, this tomb was not built recently, it should be a historic site, and then it was transformed, and those tunnels without masonry structures were also newly dug, which should be after the burial of the seven great eunuchs.
That's it, what really surprised Chen Jianqiu was that there was a lake in the middle of the underground hall.
A statue of a Bodhisattva about 10 zhang tall stands in the middle of the lake.
At first glance, it looks very similar to Guanyin Bodhisattva, except that Guanyin Bodhisattva is only dressed in white, while this pseudo-Bodhisattva is wearing bloody clothes, which is the blood Bodhisattva that the lord of the country dreamed of.
Does the lord's nightmare have anything to do with this?
of the lord of the country
The dream and the violent death of the great eunuch have been faintly connected into a line.
But there are still two questions, what is the matter with the Buddha on the mural outside?
Could it be that in addition to the Blood Bodhisattva, there is also a Blood Buddha?
In addition, Chen Jianqiu remembers clearly, Chen Jianqiu said that the lord of the country always dreams of a red lake, a black mountain hanging upside down in the sky, and a huge blood-clothed Bodhisattva.
Now there is a blood-clothed bodhisattva, but the lake has not turned red, and there is no black mountain hanging upside down in the sky.
If this is a cult ritual, does it mean that this cult ritual has not yet been completed?
Although Chen Jianqiu was not an official Taoist priest, because of Xu Jiaorong, he knew no less than a real Taoist priest, so he immediately thought of the Gu Immortal Descent from the ceremony.
Generally speaking, rituals have only two functions, one is to ascend, that is, to ascend. The second is to descend, that is, to descend. This posture doesn't look like someone is preparing to soar. And ascension is a good thing, a great event, and there is no need to hide it so much.
In this way, Chen Jianqiu is faced with two choices, is it to report on this place and completely destroy it? Or do you want to use this as an opportunity to continue investigating?
The former may make the tail of the gecko disappear, while the latter takes a bigger risk.
However, one thing is certain, this is not a place to stay for a long time, so Chen Jianqiu retreated back from the original path before the effect of the "too hidden talisman" completely disappeared.
Although Chen Jianqiu had already thought of erasing his traces, it was difficult to recover the dead corpses, and Chen Jianqiu had no other better way.
When Chen Jianqiu passed
When the tunnel returned to Wu Fu's tomb again, he found that the remains of Wu Fu's body and the green water that had been poured out had all disappeared, and the coffin had been restored.
Chen Jianqiu's pupils shrank suddenly.
His tracks have been exposed?
Thinking about it carefully, this is also reasonable, since the death of these seven great eunuchs has another hidden secret, and their tombs are so important that they can go straight to the underground tomb, then the people behind the scenes who killed these great eunuchs will definitely send people to guard them day and night, so he is still careless.
At this moment, the door connecting the left and right ear chambers of the main burial chamber suddenly opened, and many living corpses poured out of the ear chamber, not only in shape, but also a little more dexterous and treacherous, just like a living person, forming a siege against Chen Jianqiu.
Chen Jianqiu pulled out his saber, and with just one slash, he cut off the head of a living corpse in the front, and the bones rolled out of the distance, and then Chen Jianqiu's body swept forward, dodging the attacks of the two living corpses that followed.
A living corpse strode forward, passing by Chen Jianqiu, and then saw an arm fly high, and half of the living corpse's shoulder was slashed off with a knife.
Chen Jianqiu did not stop at all, his body twisted while rushing forward, dodging the claws of the two living corpses, swept upwards with a knife, and directly cut off the forearms of the two living corpses, and at the same time swung out a palm, slapped the third living corpse back, and then pinched the wrist of the fourth living corpse behind him, so that his body was pulled and hit him, and then slammed his elbow on the chest of the living corpse, under the huge impact, he saw that the chest of the living corpse collapsed directly, losing all power.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Jianqiu had an extremely short pause and held it with one hand
The blade of the knife is pointed diagonally downward, and the blade on one side is almost close to the left leg. The third living corpse that had been repelled before roared, and threw all his strength towards Chen Jianqiu, Chen Jianqiu's body did not move, the long knife in his hand quickly rose, and at the same time as knocking open the living corpse, the long knife also formed a downward slashing trend, without waiting for the living corpse to react, Chen Jianqiu slashed out from right to left, cutting it in half.
In the end, Chen Jianqiu turned around and kicked on a living corpse that rushed from behind, causing it to collide with its fellow brothers and sisters, turning into a rolling gourd.
These living corpses have no intelligence, only instinct and the drive of their masters, there is no fear at all at this time, although they are not Chen Jianqiu's opponents at all, but they still rush towards Chen Jianqiu with a crazy momentum that does not care about life or death.
Chen Jianqiu stepped on the gang and fought, and while constantly swinging the knife, a burst of fire appeared in his left hand, and every shot could accurately hit the eyebrows of the living corpse.
It's just that with more and more living corpses, Chen Jianqiu is still gradually falling into a stretched situation.
The fire gun was empty, Chen Jianqiu put away the fire gun, turned his palm over, and there was an extra bead, the overall color was deep, but there was a faint bit of fiery red in the center, like a pupil.
It is a "phoenix eye Yiyi".
Chen Jianqiu threw it out, only to hear a bang, this "phoenix eye Yiyi" suddenly turned into a rain of fire in the sky, rising a flame several feet high, and many living corpses were like rice fields after autumn, lodging one by one.
In an instant, the fire spread rapidly, turning into a sea of fire, only to see the flames soaring into the sky, and the living corpses were inside
The pus could not extinguish it, but it was like adding fuel to the fire, and after one living corpse caught fire, it collided with the living corpses around it, and the other living corpses also burned, rolling all over the ground, hoarse and wailing, and even the smell of burnt flesh came out, the situation was unspeakably miserable.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Jianqiu jumped and returned to the ground from the thief hole he had dug.
As a result, Chen Jianqiu had just climbed out of the thief hole when he was put on his neck with a knife.
The blade is about three feet, the handle is about six inches, the spine is straight, and the blade is slightly curved.
This knife is a Wenluan knife.
Even Chen Jianqiu himself used this kind of knife.
The person who came was naturally Qingluanwei.
The Qingluanwei of the Daxuan Imperial Court has declined, of course it will not appear here, this is the Qingluanwei cultivated by the Dayu Kingdom itself.
In other words, these people are Chen Jianqiu's colleagues.
Two Qingluan guard masters held Chen Jianqiu hostage and escorted him to the grave keeper's hut not far away.
There was a person sitting in the hut, although he was dressed in regular clothes, Chen Jianqiu still recognized the identity of this person at a glance.
It is Qingluanwei's direct boss and the new chief supervisor of ceremonies. That is, the new governor who came to the throne after the violent death of the seven great eunuchs, named Sikong Guang.
For a moment, Chen Jianqiu only felt a chill down his spine.
What does that mean? Sikong Guang is the person behind the scenes? Or the minions of those behind the scenes?
Could it be that during the period when the lord of the kingdom was seriously ill, the people behind the scenes had already taken control of the inner court and emptied the lord of the kingdom?
Could it be that the seven great eunuchs who died violently were actually loyal to the lord of the country? The reason why they were killed was to weaken the power of the lord of the kingdom, and then to install their people in the key positions of the inner court?
Who has so much energy?
Is it Chief Chen, who is also from the royal family?
So what about Chen Jianqiu, will she be in danger?