Chapter 985: Beifu Military Town
The old ghost woman's statement made everyone feel like falling into an ice cave, cold from head to bottom of their feet, and even the heat of the stove seemed to have lost its warmth.
Yue Guanchao looked at this ghost old woman, her words were estimated to be true, otherwise there would not even be a living beast here, and she didn't need to make up any curse of the Heavenly Pupil God, if this kind of thing lies, it will be easily discovered and verified to be true.
He thought for a moment, squinted his eyes and pouted: "According to your words, after ordinary people come in, they will never have a chance to go out, right?" ”
The old ghost woman didn't speak, but nodded in acquiescence, in response to his question.
He sensed the old woman's meaning, and immediately teased: "Then this is not right, when we came in, we clearly saw the Beifu soldiers in the cave, if you say so, why can those Beifu soldiers escape, but we can't?" ”
The old ghost woman seemed to know about the existence of these Beifu soldiers: "Really? When I say escape, I don't mean escaping from this valley, but escaping from the deep land of Shennongjia, and I have the ability to get out of the bottom of the valley of the ghost square, but unfortunately I didn't escape in the end. ”
"You mean, you were killed by your ghost people?" Yue Guanchao said again.
The old ghost woman shook her head and retorted: "It was not killed by the ghost people, but by the Heavenly Pupil God, those ghost people are just puppets of the Heavenly Pupil God, just like a murderous dagger, controlled by the Heavenly Pupil God." ”
Song Siyuan listened to the words of this old ghost woman, if what she said was true, then the Beifu soldiers they saw were killed by the ghost people, then it was completely right.
She picked up her meatloaf and walked to the old ghost woman and handed it to her: "Old woman, you haven't eaten this day, you should put down your stomach first." ”
The old ghost woman will never let go of the meatloaf in her mouth, and she is not modest, she grabs it in her hand and devours it, it looks as if she has not eaten meat for decades, and her mouth is full of oily flowers and licks it clean, which is particularly satisfying.
"If what you say is true, then what is this Heavenly Pupil God? Isn't it a very large person! Song Siyuan handed over a bowl of hot dehydrated vegetable soup, and during the movements, she didn't forget to ask for clues about the Heavenly Pupil God.
Maybe it was these meatloaf and broth that warmed the old ghost woman's heart, she did not resist Song Siyuan's question, wiped her mouth and nodded: "The Heavenly Pupil God is tall and mighty, his head alone is bigger than our house, and he is the only god that the Ghost Fang people believe in, he was indeed a giant before, but in the past thousands of years, the Heavenly Pupil God has been changing, and now, there is only one head left." ”
"A head? Are you saying that these giants only have one head left, and they are still alive? ”
Song Siyuan recalled the giant head they saw, and felt apprehensive in her heart, if the old ghost woman said that it was true, then the head they saw was also likely to be the remains of some abandoned ancient god.
The old ghost woman's eyes became mysterious, and she nodded at her: "The Heavenly Pupil God will never die. ”
Song Siyuan had a hunch that since this old lady could live, she must be some kind of character who was not simple, and she didn't need to hide it from her, so she retorted: "Since we don't die, then we are on the way here, but we have seen the heads of the ancient gods with our own eyes, why do they die?" ”
The old ghost woman shook her head: "The Heavenly Pupil God, it needs to be worshiped by believers, if believers continue to worship for thousands of years, they can never die, if there are no believers to worship, they will die soon, those you see are all Heavenly Pupil Gods who have no believers." ”
"You untie me, and I'll introduce you to the history of the Heavenly Pupil God."
Faced with this request, Yue Guanchao hurriedly walked over: "Old lady, that's not good, we don't know your details, in case you escape, it will be troublesome to harm us behind your back." ”
The old ghost woman shook her head: "I'm an old woman, what can I do to you?" Anyway, you can't escape, what's the point of me hurting you again, but it will let you get rid early, why bother? Besides, I'm an old woman and I'm lonely, and more than a dozen of you are in a group to keep warm, how can I harm you! ”
"If you're not at ease, just let go of my hand."
Song Siyuan nodded towards Yue Guanchao, he understood that he would pick up the iron chain and lock the old ghost woman's feet, the length of the chain between the two ankles was just enough to move around at will, as for running and stride, it was completely impossible, and when he was done, he untied the rope that bound the old ghost woman.
After the rope was untied, the old woman moved her wrist a few times and dragged the heavy chain towards the back of the stone tablet, and Yue and Song followed closely behind her, wanting to see what she wanted to do.
Behind the stele is a very ordinary wall mural, as if six screens are inlaid on the wall, the old ghost woman groped on the back of the stele for a moment, lifted a green brick from the ground near the abutment, after the brick was pulled out, she motioned to Yue Guanchao to go over and take a look, inside was a palm-sized dragon head knob.
This kind of thing under the floor is often what kind of mechanism, Yue Guanchao immediately understood the intention of the old ghost woman to occupy this palace, but he still couldn't fully trust the old ghost woman, so he pulled Song Siyuan to hide in front of the stone tablet, revealing his eyes to see what was behind this mechanism.
The old ghost woman pressed the knob, and with a rumbling and trembling, the six murals on the back of the stele parted to the sides, completely disappearing into the stone walls on both sides.
Behind the mechanism, a long corridor also appeared!
After waiting for a while, to make sure that there were no poisonous arrows flying out of the corridor, Yue Guanchao led everyone to the door of the organ.
After the flashlight shines, the tunnel is long and narrow, and it can't be illuminated at all, not only Yue Guanchao, but others are also very worried.
"What is this place?"
Before the words fell, the ever-bright lamps on the stone wall lit up one by one, illuminating the tunnel dimly and brightly, and the murals that appeared were mostly reliefs of Beifu soldiers, which could be seen to be made by the craftsmen of the Song Dynasty.
"This is the cave city built by those Song soldiers, you will understand it when you go in with me."
The old ghost woman looked at everyone with an expression on her face, and there was some mystery in her words, Yue Qingshan said: "We can't all go in, we have to leave some outside to answer." ”
"No need, just the two of us, if we have a problem, you can deal with it."
Yue Guanchao pulled up Song Siyuan, urging the old ghost woman to continue walking inside, and after walking through the hundred-meter corridor, they had already entered Beifu Cave City.
Yue Guanchao and the two of them turned on the flashlight, where they were, is a huge empty cave, the naked eye, can no longer estimate the actual area, can only say, can be put down a county town with a population of tens of thousands of people, the ground is flat and open, the dome is high and rugged, and there are many round or square grottoes distributed around the stone wall, which are completely connected by the plank road.
In the cave, a square urn city from ancient times appeared!
They can see that the urn city is square, the side length is estimated to be about one mile, and the surrounding blue bricks are built and about high
Ten meters, the city gate is in the middle of the triple city gate, there is a gallop road leading to all directions, directly extending to the quarang stone wall of the cave.
Above the city gate, there is a wooden plaque full of cracks, which is engraved with the words "Wengcheng, the military town of Beifu".
If you want to talk about these underground cities or something, they don't know how much, the underground imperial city of Haidong Shengguo is even more magnificent than the current scale, and it is not uncommon for an urn city like this to be involved, but as long as it involves the underground Weng City, it must be to preserve something important, or to place some corpse, which is the reason why Yue Guanchao and the two of them were surprised.
For them, the Beifu soldiers definitely not only built a mound here, the word military town appeared, and it was likely to be an underground barracks!
The old ghost woman picked up the ever-bright lamp oil on the stone wall, led them into the urn city, pushed the door from the small gate, and walked up to the city wall along the road after the city gate tower.
The pattern in the urn city is a very typical panorama of the military town, nine squares form a pattern of the square, and the houses and palaces are lined up one after another, like fish scales arranged in the workshop, depending on the situation, it is no problem to gather 100,000 soldiers!
The old ghost woman trembled and said: "These Weng cities were built by the Beifu soldiers, and they were originally used to accommodate the soldiers to garrison, and later, after the Beifu soldiers disappeared, this Weng City was deserted, and I usually live in the courtyard for my own safety." ”
With that, she pointed to the neighborhood closest to the city wall, where the roof of one courtyard was clearly trimmed, and there were no weeds or damage, unlike other courtyards full of tiles and weeds.
Then, they walked down the city wall and entered the courtyard where the old ghost woman lived, which was a little messy, and indeed had traces of use for a long time.
The old ghost woman opened the door of her room, and took out a box slightly larger than her face from the room, and when the candle flame was opened, there were some leather scrolls inside.
The old woman took out a scroll made of cowhide, found the table and spread it out, and motioned for Yue Guanchao and them to take a closer look.
Yue Song walked to the table and stared at the scroll carefully, this cowhide scroll was polished to a smooth level, the pigment was mostly soaked with pinholes, and it was still clearly visible after nearly a thousand years, and it was divided into twelve canvases with cotton threads, drawing completely different pictures.
In the first painting, there is a huge ancient god with one eye on his head, sitting on a throne, and a ghost man crawling at his feet, and there is a written record on the side.
When the two looked at the scroll, the old ghost woman explained the origin of the Heavenly Pupil God.
Probably in the last years of the Yin Shang Dynasty, the ghost people escaped the persecution of the Shang king Emperor Xin, and took some of the ghost classics and clansmen to escape the outer land in the northwest of the Shang Dynasty, Shennongjia.
This area did not belong to the territory of Yin Shang during the Yin Shang period, but it was just a barbarian territory all over Yidi, and at the same time, because the waters of Yunmengze did not recede, the Shennongjia area and Jianghan were still a Ze country.
As a nomadic people in the northwest, the ghost people came to the barbarian territory full of miasma, not only to face the humid environment with water as the neighbor, but also to fight against the miasma poisonous insects.
This kind of thinking can solve the current problem, but it is not conducive to the reproduction of the race!