As Sun Daqiao spoke, Sun Tianqi had already begun to act, from the port to the turtle shell, the turtle shell was indeed floating when he walked, and it was not stepped on and sunk, and the unevenness on the turtle shell could make people stand firm.

Song Siyuan looked at the rope bridge, Sun Tianqi walked back and forth, there was indeed no problem, and continued to ask: "But, aren't these dragon turtles dead, how can this rope bridge guarantee that there will always be dragon turtles biting pearls?" ”

Sun Tianqi stood on the dragon turtle and slowly explained: "It is the law that livestock have birth, old age, sickness and death, but it is also the law of biological reproduction, as long as this is a treasure land of feng shui, there will always be a dragon turtle that will use this place as a nest, and the nature of the aquarium dictates it, as long as the pearl is still here, there will be new dragon turtles biting hooks." ”

A few people stopped talking, first let the Taoist with heavy objects such as the ash altar go first, and continued to follow the dragon turtle rope bridge on the underground river, cross the underground river and reach the mouth of Shuique Port.

Here, it is already located in the middle of the underground river, the wide land is flat and open, and the outer linden trees are dense and vigorous.

"How can there be an island here, it can't be made of driftwood!"

Xu Xiake jumped up and stepped on it a few times, but he didn't see any shaking on the land, which showed that it was indeed very firm.

Song Siyuan looked over and explained: "This kind of place is full of karst caves, and it is not strange that this kind of landform appears, probably this underground river can be connected with the outside, if you want to calculate carefully, probably the place where we stand has been eroded, leaving only a part of the water to form a land, no matter what, it has reached the water gate, just look at what is inside." ”

They walked through dozens of meters of Bodhi forest to the front of the tomb palace, the plaque is written with the four big characters of "Imperial Concubine Garden Mausoleum", thousands of years have passed the water vapor cover, producing a yellow-green mottled patina, which looks very ancient and mysterious.

In front of the door, there are unicorn beasts guarding left and right, and the unicorn beasts here are much larger than in front of the tomb gate, probably the same size as elephants, and they are bigger than people standing in front of the palace gate.

This unicorn beast has a lion's mane and dragon horns, a leopard body and a fishtail, its whole body is covered with scales, its limbs and claws are angry, and its eyes are angry and round, and it is standing on both sides in an aggressive posture.

Bypassing the divine beasts, it can be seen that the door of the vermilion lacquer palace is tightly closed, and the copper button phalanx is lined up, which is extremely majestic.

According to the old rules, when opening the door, in order to prevent hidden weapons, they all stood close to the unicorn beasts, after Yue Guanchao pushed the door open, they first opened a gap and threw it into the dirt to test the hidden weapon, and after a while, seeing that there was no mechanism being touched, they slowly pushed open the door.

Stepping into it, the courtyard is spacious and flat, completely covered with gray stone slabs, there are inevitably weeds growing between the gaps, but it is not redundant, only sporadically visible like green smoke, shrouded in the stone slabs, the verandahs on both sides hug the palace along the walls, the golden roofs of the left and right towers are like stacks standing in the corners, and the red and green colorful paper people can be seen everywhere.

According to the rules of the imperial concubine after death, the most indispensable thing in this palace is the court slaves and maids who serve, mainly maidservants, eunuchs, guards, palanquin drivers, cooks, miscellaneous servants, and all kinds of people.

Right now, when they walked into the verandah in the front yard, they could already see countless slaves and maids wearing Song palace skirts.

These palace maid tops are light green patterned shirts with crossed collars, and the lower body is a blue-green glossy waist-length skirt, and the belt is knotted with red palace silk to form a belt, which hangs down to the near feet, and there is a shawl of the same color as the skirt between the arms and bends, which hangs directly to the ground, and the hands are dislocated up and down, holding a beige fan with a long handle, and the body is slightly tilted. 33

Looking at the face of the palace maid again, it is basically no different from ordinary paper people, the face is as white as painted, the eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose are more convincing, but there is more red rouge on both sides, which looks a little terrifying, staring at their eyes, there are no white eyes at all, as if staring directly at the living.

The hair of these palace ladies is mostly tied with a slanted moon bun, only decorated with a small amount of velvet flowers, light and elegant, gentle and demure, if you don't look at the face, you can really see a bit of the taste of court ladies.

All the palace maids are mostly concentrated in the courtyard outside the corridor, imitating the clothes before their deaths, or lighting charcoal fires, or pounding clothes, ironing fabrics, and delivering melons and fruits, with different postures, as for the eunuchs, most of them stand in the position under the corridor, motionless like pillars, wearing the court robes of the Song Dynasty, which is extremely regular.

Looking at the palace from the position of the corridor, I have seen the guards in armor and swords, protecting the portico connecting the palace, and the position leading to the apse on both sides of the palace has seen the handymen wearing half walls and trousers, each walking towards the apse with charcoals.

As for the rest of the palanquins, cooks and handymen, they didn't see them, but it can be speculated that they were probably in the kitchen utility room in the backyard.

Sun Daqiao stood in the courtyard and said excitedly: "As I expected, the furnishings in this tomb palace are the decorations of the Northern Song Dynasty court, and even the clothes of the slaves are also in the shape of the Northern Song Dynasty." ”

"But, there seems to be a layer of slimy stuff on this dress?"

Yue Guanchao picked up the torch and looked at these paper figures, although the paper figures were vivid, but the surface always seemed to be smeared with a layer of lard, which looked bright and greasy.

"Could it be that some animal's saliva is sticking to it?" Song Siyuan picked up the flashlight and looked at it, and asked.

"What can wipe saliva so evenly, I think these paper figures are full of things like this, it can't be some kind of poison, right?"

Yue Guanchao illuminated the torches of other paper figures, the surface was mostly shiny and slimy, and when he looked closely, he inevitably had to get closer to the torches, and the torches were close to the paper skin, and the brushes were suddenly ignited, and the flames also spread from the point to the surface, from the burning place to the whole body.

However, between breaths, I have already seen a thin layer of blue flame on the surface of the paper figure, just wait for the paper surface to burn dry, and immediately see that the paper figure is like a roasted paper, instantly lost color and cracked, after the originally vivid face lost its color, it was like a ghost in purgatory, and it became terrifying, just looking at it can get goosebumps, they were blown by the hot wind, and then scattered in all directions, and could no longer gather into a human form.

Wherever these flying ashes go, they cause a chain reaction, as long as the pieces of paper fall on the paper figures, they will definitely ignite a subtle flame, from their position to destroy and burn into pieces, less than a moment and a half, all the paper figures in the courtyard are affected, into flying ashes flying all over the sky, and there is no longer the gorgeous shadow just now.

"What's the matter, I only lit this paper figure, why are these paper figures still spontaneously combusting without fire!"

In front of the tomb palace, before they entered the palace, they had already seen the paper figure change their faces like ghosts, and no matter how calm they were, they began to mumble in their hearts.

"Could it be that the ghost fire ignited these paper figures?"

Sun Daqiao's words became mysterious.

"Just now, it was the paper man who lost the oil and became dry, and this became fly ash, probably because there was something about the oil on the paper man."

Song Siyuan picked up a large piece of ash on the ground, carefully held it under the flashlight, and after careful observation, he already knew what was going on, and explained: "It should be some kind of oil with a relatively low ignition point, although the torch was not close to the paper figure just now, after the oil was baked by the torch, it covered the whole body of the paper figure from the flames, forming the spectacle we see now." ”

Then, she picked up the paper figure that had not yet been affected, tore off a piece and rubbed it to the ground, and sure enough, the paper could be seen to be in flames.

"Even friction can burn, so you can see that this oil has a very low ignition point, and I suspect it's white phosphorus."

Song Siyuan looked at everyone after speaking: "White phosphorus is a flammable thing, although it is insoluble in water, it can burn as long as the temperature exceeds 40 degrees, and it can even spontaneously combust after contact with the air. ”

"Huh?"

When Yue Erpao saw her mention this, he immediately covered his nose, and Song Siyuan continued to wave his hand and said: "The paper man has been burned so much, if it was poisonous, we would have been poisoned to death, I just said that white phosphorus is poisonous, but I didn't say that this is pure white phosphorus." ”

Song Siyuan continued to explain: "How could the ancients have the opportunity to refine white phosphorus, they didn't have the technology to refine white phosphorus at all, the white phosphorus that the ancients said was actually a kind of stone that could be ignited, with a very low ignition point, used to make fire folds, of course, there will be a small amount of bone phosphorus in the bones of animals, the toxicity of this kind of thing is almost negligible, if they want to use it, either use flint or bone phosphorus." ”

"Since the paper figures are all burned clean, we are fine, probably there is no poisonous gas, just ordinary bone phosphorus, which often has to be soaked in oil to isolate all breath, so that it can be easily preserved, as long as the bone phosphorus is exposed to the oil surface, it will spontaneously combust under the dry breath."

After listening to Song Siyuan's words, Sun Daqiao immediately calmed down, and said slowly: "If you want to guess like this, then this thing is indeed bone phosphorus, then isn't this the same as an ever-bright lamp." ”

Speaking of this, Sun Daqiao lowered his voice: "After most of the Tufuzi opened the tomb, the oil lamp in the tomb would suddenly be lit, and many people thought that the ghost was haunting, so they were so frightened that they immediately ran away, and even more were frightened and became crazy. ”

"Looking at it now, it is probably the bone phosphorus that is soaked in the lamp oil, as long as they seal the tomb, and wait for the air to be consumed, the phosphorus will be preserved, knowing that Tufuzi opened the tomb and re-entered the air, which made the bone phosphorus and the air come into contact and spontaneously combusted, people who don't know the truth think it is a ghost, but in fact, it is just that the bone phosphorus and the air are in contact again."

Song Siyuan nodded at them: "It can be understood in this way, I see that these paper figures are actually using light linen, all of which are soaked in oil, and bone phosphorus is probably attached to some unexpected places. ”

Before the words fell, the flying ash around them was still hovering, until the flying ash floated overhead, and the originally dark tomb seemed to be illuminated all of a sudden, and colorful clouds appeared above their heads at some point, illuminating the surrounding colorful and neon dazzling.

Some people died, but not completely......