Chapter 56: Trapped in a Desperate Situation
"There's the sound of water!" Caesar frowned.
Even without the blessing of the sickle, his sense of hearing was much sharper than that of ordinary people, and at that moment he heard a strange sound of water, which was not the normal sound of water flowing in an ordinary pipe, but the sound of the rising tide of the sea.
"The Iron Dome is releasing water again, right? The city's underbelly is literally a sea." Chu Zihang said while taking pictures of the mural, "The weather forecast says that there will be heavy rain today, and if Tokyo didn't have this advanced sewer system, it would probably have collapsed a long time ago."
Caesar did not take it lightly, opened the scythe, carefully probed the source of the sound of water, and frowned even more: "No, the source of the sound of water is under the Iron Dome Temple!"
Chu Zihang turned around and glanced at Caesar: "There is still a dark river under the Genji Heavy Construction Site?"
"No, it's not the Dark River, I haven't heard the sound of flowing water under the Iron Dome Temple before, and the range of the sound of water is not very large, only within the area of Genji Heavy Industries." Caesar said, "It's an accident underground."
"Look at the source of heavy industries, there is still a hidden underground layer." "No matter what happens, we have to speed up the interpretation of these murals. Turn the flashlight up a little higher, and let's look at the panorama of this painting, and what special meaning it should have."
"Don't talk to me like a director directing a gaffer! Let's not take this as an example!" Caesar raised a torch and illuminated the fresco.
Where the pillar of light shines, the mural shines, the flash comes from the material of the mural, this mural uses a lot of gold as a pigment, Chu Zihang studied the painting little by little from top to bottom, he has already taken a photo, but to study the details of the mural, it is natural that the real thing can be found.
This painting shows that it is extraordinary from the material, and the content is also very abstract, the skeleton with wings in the painting is giving a bone to a person, and what is more special is that the skeleton and the person form a wonderful "yin and yang fish" structure, the golden skeleton is a black background on one side, the golden person is on a white background, the place where the skull arm touches the human hand is a bone, and the whole picture rotates like a whirlpool.
From this kind of symbolic picture, at least the meaning of the flow of life and death can be interpreted, the skeleton symbolizes death and the person symbolizes life, and the bone that the skeleton transmits to human beings connects life and death, what is it?
"Taijitu?" Caesar was unsure.
Chu Zihang shook his head: "The Taiji diagram is said to have originated from Chen Shu in the early years of the Song Dynasty, which is a summary of the concept of yin and yang, these murals are earlier than the Song Dynasty, and they are other things similar to the yin and yang fish, and this pattern is also found in the relics of other civilizations, such as the two fish swimming relative to each other, and the two snakes with their heads and tails connected. It means ***."
"Handed over to what?" Caesar's Chinese is stuck.
"***, this refers to the combination of yin and yang, derivation means mating, here refers to the original meaning." Chu Zihang explained.
"The living and the dead mating? Sounds disgusting, Japanese people have such strong tastes?" Caesar didn't understand the original meaning of the previous metaphysics, but he was still familiar with the derivative meaning of the back, and even though he showed an expression of disgust.
"The combination of yin and yang, the process of giving birth to life, the thing that the skeleton passes on to the living is the symbol of 'life, and the design of this painting revolves around that bone," Chu Zihang said, "so the focus is on that bone."
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"What does the commentary say? What are those bones?"
"There are a lot of ancient characters and variant characters in this text, and I can't recognize all of them, but there are eight characters in the important part, and I don't think I can be mistaken." Chu Zihang paused, "Ancient Road Yellow Spring...... The path of the gods!"
"What do you mean? Doesn't Huangquan mean hell in Chinese? Can you become a god in hell?"
"Do you remember Jade Record?" Chu Zihang asked rhetorically.
"Nonsense, the bible of European alchemy, any literate half-breed should know." Caesar shrugged.
"This painting is almost the Japanese version of Jade Record." Chu Zihang said in a low voice.
Caesar was stunned for a moment, and took a closer look at the painting: "Japanese alchemy?"
"In the study of the Jade Record, there is a school of thought that it records people
The law of evolution from a dragon to a dragon represents the highest achievement of alchemy, refining oneself and opening the way to evolve into a dragon." Chu Zihang explained, "In this painting, the bones transmitted by the skeleton to humans symbolize the law of evolution."
"Interesting theory, where did you see it?" Caesar is a pragmatist who has a superficial taste of academics, and in terms of professional knowledge, he is indeed incomparable with Chu Zihang, the first in all subjects, at least not as interested in understanding all relevant research directions as Chu Zihang.
Caesar's question interrupted Chu Zihang's train of thought, he frowned, and for a while he couldn't remember where he saw this set of theories, obviously he relied on this set of theories to analyze the original version of "Jade Record", so as to suppress the side effects of blood explosion, but who passed on this set of effective theories to him?
How...... Can't remember?
Chu Zihang was in a trance for a moment, but he quickly settled down and continued to explain: "Huangquan does have the meaning of hell, the so-called ancient road Huangquan means that there is an ancient path hidden in the hell where evil spirits are rampant, and it is actually the 'path of transforming into a god, and you can evolve into a god by crossing it. A similar expression in the Jade Record reads, 'The lower is the same, the upper is the same; and thus the miracle of the One is accomplished."
"Whether it's up or down, as long as you break through the limit, you can 'complete the miracle of Taiyi,'" Chu Zihang looked up at the mural, "So the golden skeleton symbolizes the White King, who gave his own blood and bones to the human race, forming the ancestors of those mermaids and snakes. But God has left behind an even more precious treasure, and that is the method of evolving from a half-breed to a dragon, which is as dangerous as crossing hell, but not entirely impossible."
"If you knew that kind of recipe, wouldn't you want to try it?" Caesar and Chu Zihang stood side by side, looking up at the mysterious circle of reincarnation.
Chu Zihang didn't say that he had completed seventy percent of the interpretation of the original version of "Jade Record", and he was about to know that method, he just shook his head: "No, then my father will be very disappointed."
"Actually, I'd like to try it...... But my mom will be disappointed, right? So forget it." Caesar sighed softly. "Let's go, go see something more precious than this painting."
"This is the most precious mural you were talking about?" Chu Zihang looked at the empty high wall in front of him and said.
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"Don't you think? That mysterious intruder did not hesitate to kill so many elite members of the Executive Board and only stole this mural, then this painting must be the best of all." Caesar spoke eloquently.
The walls were snow-white, indicating that the mural had been taken away after the mysterious intruder had killed someone, as the other murals were more or less stained with blood, but the wall was suspiciously clean.
Chu Zihang carefully inspected the wall with a flashlight, and then came to a conclusion: "The invaders tore this painting off, so that person doesn't care about the artistic value of this painting, but there is a major clue hidden in this mural, which may be the key to interpreting all the murals, these murals record important historical events, must hide important secrets, and the goal of the person who stole this painting is that secret."
"The perfect evolutionary method?"
"Maybe." Chu Zihang squatted down and pointed the flashlight at a piece close to the ground, a twenty-centimeter-square canvas still remained on the wall, it seemed that the mysterious intruder had indeed done it in a hurry.
"There are complex textures, and the amount of information contained is not small, and when we go back, we will wash a high-definition photo and come out, maybe we can judge the content of the original mural." Chu Zihang said while taking pictures.
"It's too much trouble." Caesar pulled out Dick Tydo and began to scrape the glue behind the canvas, "That man has already stolen such a large pair, we can just take the pieces away, can't we get more information by analyzing the original?"
Chu Zihang nodded, didn't say much, and continued to take pictures of the mural.
"Hurry up and withdraw after filming the mural, our operation has been considered successful, it seems that the biggest secret of the Eight Snake Qi families is hidden here." Caesar scraped off the fragments of the mural and carefully hid them in the pockets lining of his trench coat.
Caesar was suddenly silent for a few seconds, making a gesture of listening, the expression on his face became extremely solemn, and he patted Chu Zihang's shoulder: "Hurry up."
Something is coming."
Chu Zihang was also alert, and he found Caesar's wording, which he said about "something" coming, not "people" coming: "What did you hear?"
"There's something, a lot of it, it's going up the elevator shaft, and it's almost to us." Caesar said, "Then I told me that the sound of the water under the earth was not normal."
"What is it?" Chu Zihang asked.
"Not sure, not like people." Caesar said, "Finish the rest of the frescoes, and I'll see what it is."
"Those things don't necessarily come to this level." Chu Zihang said.
"We can't take this kind of chance, at least we have to know what those things are, and we can know how to deal with them if we get right." Caesar said.
Caesar put a miniature flashlight in his mouth, pulled his hands into the crack of the elevator door, opened the elevator door with brute force, the cold wind howled up and down, the outside is a deep elevator shaft, the elevator shaft of Genji Heavy Industries can accommodate more than a dozen elevators at the same time, so the area is more than 100 square meters, in this 100 square meters there are hundreds of high-strength angle steel columns, the middle of the steel column is a steel beam, this high-rise building is a high-speed elevator, and the metal car passes up and down at a high speed of five meters per second.
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Caesar flashed his flashlight downward, and the faint light shone out the scaly claws of those things below, and a monster with a human body and a snake tail could be faintly seen, with a human face that seemed to cheer and smile on it, a huge mouth with sharp fangs, and a scarlet tongue with a forked end like a snake.
Caesar understood what it was, turned his head to Chu Zihang and shouted, "Hurry up and leave when you're done shooting!" The elevator shaft is full of Deadpools, they're going to come over, the smell of blood on this floor is too strong!"
When Chu Zihang heard this, he sped up the speed of taking pictures and asked, "This is Genji Heavy Industries, why was it attacked by Deadpool?"
"How do I know?" Caesar muttered, "What kind of *** would raise a nest of Deadpool underneath an office building?"
Chu Zihang was silent, this is really unreasonable, even if you want to carry out some secret experiments, you should avoid setting it in a place with a large number of people, it is obviously not a suitable place under the Genji Heavy Industries Building, if there is an accident like now, it will cause a tragedy.
"We're done, let's go." Chu Zihang said.
The elevator passage is not able to go, and if you want to go, you can only go through the only security gate here, Caesar reluctantly restored the elevator door, and turned his head to look at the security door, the only problem now is that they don't have the key.
Jun Yan rolled up the hot air flow and shock wave and hit the stainless steel security door, Caesar couldn't wait to rush to the security door to check, there were only shallow traces on the door, and it was intact. Caesar pulled out the Desert Eagle and aimed it at the keyhole with the intention of violently destroying it, and the steel-core armor-piercing bullets were fired in succession, but only a few bullet marks were left on the door.
"What the hell! This door is as strong as the door of a vault!" Caesar was furious and kicked the door hard.
Chu Zihang knocked on the security door, and his voice was dull: "The steel parts cast in one piece are indeed the grade of the vault door, and the walls are also reinforced with steel bars. It's stronger than a load-bearing wall, and there's no way to take this door if you blow this floor up."
Caesar's face was very ugly, there were no windows on this floor, and the only entrance and exit was this security door except for the elevator, such a layout was indeed not much worse than the vault, and the things here were even more precious than the vault, and they were priceless works of art and the secrets of the dragons. With hordes of Deadpools on one side and an impenetrable security door on the other, they are caught in a dilemma.
Chu Zihang didn't say a word, and turned to the elevator door, which was obviously easier to break through than this security door.
Caesar followed closely, but saw that there was a crack in the bronze door, the bronze door was constantly shaking, apparently the Deadpool outside smelled the smell of blood and was bombarding violently, the loud bang was like a church bell, the bronze texture was hard but lacked toughness, once the impact exceeded its limit, it would crack like a stone, and now the elevator door was crumbling.
Chu Zihang said, "There's no way, let's inform Lu Mingfei first, at least until he brings the people from the Eight Snake Qi families to come and save us."
Caesar nodded solemnly, he ripped off the lining of his trench coat, took out a short sword, and gently drew it from its sheath.
It was a peculiar short sword, the body of the sword was made of eighty-one ancient coins with red thread, attached to the sword gall, and it looked like a magic weapon more than a weapon.
After pulling out this ancient money sword, Caesar and Chu Zihang glanced at each other, both reached out and pressed the hilt, and looked towards the bronze door with burning eyes.
The crack in the bronze door grew wider, and soon, a bronze arm with sharp claws poked out of the crack, followed by a second, a third...... The bronze door finally collapsed with a loud bang, and Deadpool, thirsting for flesh and blood, poured in!
Dragon Lu Mingfei: Lift the three-foot sword to kill the dragon king.
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