Chapter 39: Three Statues

Nie Lin entered the ancient main hall, and at first glance it looked as if he had arrived in a temple.

The entrance hall is a circle, on the dome of the sky, the circular dome is made of white crystal inlaid with curved black edges, and several sacrificial lamps emitting a pale blue light hang down the walls around it, I don't know what material is used to make the lamp oil, the flame in the lamp seems to never be extinguished, through the crystal of the dome, the whole hall is reflected very brightly.

On the left, center, and right of the ground, there are nine steps, and each step is surrounded by a fence, on which many ancient patterns and patterns are painted.

On the highest platform, there are three lifelike colossos, in the middle is a samurai in soft armor, holding a giant sword in both hands, looking ahead, and on the left is a man wearing a robe, holding a feather fan in one hand, and pointing to the front with the other finger, dressed like a strategist, this strategist's body is on the inside, and the position of his finger is facing the direction of the samurai.

On the right side of the hall is a beautiful woman in classical costume wearing a wide-sleeved fairy skirt, holding a two-handed short sword, and slightly bent her arms to make the short sword cross as a defensive posture.

Unlike the strategist, the face of this beautiful woman was that of the armored samurai with the center facing inside, as if the veins were staring at him affectionately.

After looking at the three colossal statues, Nie Lin looked around the hall and found that there was nothing special in this air hall except for the three strange colossias enshrined, and he couldn't help but feel strange.

These three colossias look no different from ordinary people, are they the gods worshiped by the ancients?

Squeak!

Just as Nie Lin was looking at these statues, a strange sound suddenly came, Nie Lin turned his head vigilantly, and saw that the door of the main hall suddenly closed automatically with a bang.

"What's going on, how did the door close automatically?"

Gu Menghan also became vigilant, looked around, and under his feet, and said, "We don't seem to have touched any mechanism, this door will automatically close!"

"Close it, close it, and open it when you go out!"

Nie Lin didn't care, he continued to look at the statues, he always felt that these three statues were a little strange, but he couldn't say what was wrong.

Gu Menghan said: "But, if you can't open it, will there be an organ here?"

"Can't you open it?" Nie Lin turned around, walked to the door, and tried it himself, he found that this time it was no longer as easy as when he pushed the door in before, he used a lot of strength, and he didn't open the door in the slightest, feeling that there was a mysterious force inside that imprisoned the door.

"Since it can't be opened, then let's look in this hall, there should be a mechanism, since it is a temple, it is impossible to let people in and not let people out!"

Gu Menghan looked around at the bottom of the steps in the main hall, and tried to touch some special things, but he didn't find any mechanism.

She looked up the stairs again, and saw that in the guardrail above each staircase, there was a small platform at intervals, and the platform was very smooth, like a mirror, and there was a gap in the middle, as if it were a place to put something.

Next, she looked at the second order, there were also such mirrors, but there were fewer of them than the first, and the third was less than the second, until the three statues on the top were not outside the mirrors, and those mirrors were arranged as if they were arranged into a pyramid.

Nie Lin looked around, and also found these strange platforms like flat mirrors, pondered, and muttered: "I once seemed to have seen an allusion in a miscellaneous book, saying that a long time ago, when some people sacrificed to their ancestors, they would use a way of 'sacrificing swords', that is, in the ancestral ancestral hall, only the swords used by the ancestors were enshrined, and the tablets were not enshrined, and the mirror platform that appeared here was somewhat similar to it!"

"Since it's a sacrificial sword, why don't you have a sword except for the statue?" Gu Menghan said.

Nie Lin couldn't figure it out, and said casually: "Maybe the swords sacrificed here are peerless swords, and they were taken away, right?" It's just that his eyes are still looking at the statue of Sanna, and the more he looks at it, the more strange it becomes.

Gu Menghan said: "We didn't come here to sacrifice the sword, let's find a way to open the door and leave after worshiping!" Saying that, Gu Menghan knelt down and bowed a few times, but he didn't see any reaction.

But Nie Lin didn't worship, but said, "Do you think there is anything strange about these three statues?"

"Be careful!"

Gu Menghan said in a low voice: "Whether this is a shrine, or a place where some ancients worship their ancestors, they are all solemn, you look directly at the gods and say these words, it is very inappropriate, if there are guards, they will definitely punish you for blasphemy, don't be disrespectful, you better come and worship first!"

Hearing this reprimand, Nie Lin's heart suddenly moved, and said: "If the ancients were in awe of these three ancestors or god statues enshrined, then they would never dare to have such doubts, to be honest, do you feel that the expressions and movements of these three lifelike statues are a bit unreasonable?"

Gu Menghan listened, and was also a little suspicious, so he raised his head and looked directly at the three statues, and said, "I think it's normal, what's wrong?"

Nie Lin shook his head and said: "According to custom, it is generally offered to sacrifices, with the center as the leader, the left as the top, and the right as the bottom, obviously respecting the sword-wielding warrior in the middle, his expression is like a brave and fearless king's domineering, but like an emperor who fights the world, but he is holding the sword with both hands, which makes me feel powerless, and the woman on the right have you found it, although she is looking at the king in the middle with affection, but she is making a defensive posture!"

"Well, hearing you say that, I also think it's a little weird, since she is facing someone she admires, why would she hold a sword and make such a vigilant posture!" Gu Menghan nodded.

Nie Lin continued: "Look at the guy on the left who looks like a strategist in a robe, his expression is indifferent, but he points to the king in the middle, it always feels weird, since he is a strategist, he should guide the lord and give advice, and his action of pointing to the king, coupled with that indifferent look, gives people the feeling of accusation, since the ancients took the king in the middle as the supreme, how could there be such a serious mistake in building the statue?"

Gu Menghan said with a little weakness: "Wouldn't it be a little too reckless for us to point at these three statues like this, that is, now, if we go to the ancestral hall of which family, this is a big disrespect and rudeness?"

It's just that Nie Lin doesn't care, he just wants to explore the reason.

He always felt that there must be some mystery in this, and he felt strange how he looked at the counselor and the woman, so he went up the steps.

"Ah, what are you going to do, come down!"

Gu Menghan was shocked when he saw that Nie Lin had the audacity to go up the steps, and immediately stopped him, but saw that Nie Lin had already walked up, standing next to the statue of the strategist and observing left and right, and touching it with his hand from time to time.

Seeing him acting so boldly, Gu Menghan began to break out in a cold sweat on his forehead, and prayed in his heart: "Three gods, please don't blame him, if you want to punish, I am willing to suffer on his behalf!"

Nie Lin doesn't have that kind of awareness, in the face of difficulties, he doesn't care about any gods, since the gods don't show their spirits to help him, he will do it himself.

On the top of the platform, he found that the base of the statue had some very small gaps, and it was all round, so he picked up the statue of the strategist and twisted it vigorously.

Just listen to the sound of "click"!

Nie Lin was suddenly pleasantly surprised to find that this statue could actually rotate, maybe there was something like a mechanism.

Thinking of this, Nie Lin suddenly became interested, holding the statue of the strategist, and twisted it outward with great effort, and finally twisted the original direction of the strategist statue outward in the muffled sound of a boulder rubbing, and asked him to make a look of pointing the country, and then walked down the steps satisfied.

Gu Menghan was stunned for a while!

That's when the vision struck.