Chapter 60: The Bronze Tomb
This time it was Bai Ma Xiao who guessed correctly, after the insect king was beaten to pieces by his swordless fingers, the insect swarm dispersed in an instant, and they came and went as they wanted, bypassing the two of them, as if completely ignoring them.
At the same time, the bronze door opened.
The two of them had imagined many ways to open it, moving sideways from side to side, opening inward, opening outward, or like the Shahai Palace in GSG, falling on their backs, so Bai Maxiao quickly pulled Wang Zi away several meters after hearing the sound.
But they didn't guess the way of opening the door at all, only to see that the wall began to disintegrate and fade around the edges of the goddess relief in the middle, and when they looked closely, they found that this bronze door seemed to be composed of hundreds of small bronze squares that were tightly seamed, and at this time, the small squares began to fold and roll outward in an orderly manner, and through a very ingenious and complex mechanical movement, these small squares were stacked on the other side of the door, and it looked as if the whole side had collapsed. It didn't take long for the bronze door to be left with a ring of doorways, and a relief of the goddess in the middle, and they realized that the image of the goddess was not a relief, but a bronze sculpture embedded in the bronze door. The whole looks like an arch with a statue of a goddess standing in the middle.
Behind the door there is a burial chamber, very large, like the main hall of a palace, and a light falls on a high platform in the distance, and a sarcophagus can be vaguely seen on the high platform. Looking from the outside of the door, only the light falling from the top of the entire tomb is the light source, and the rest is pitch black, and the remaining light does not shine on the edge, which is not difficult to see that it is very vast.
"How did this door open?" Hakuma Xiao looked at everything that suddenly happened in front of him in a daze, and he couldn't accept it.
Wang Zi was stunned for a long time, walked in front of the statue of the goddess, and looked at it carefully.
The statue was exposed before I noticed that the goddess was standing on the ground, and was as tall as ordinary people, like a one-to-one ratio, about one meter seven, which was embedded in this bronze door more than three meters high before I didn't pay attention, and now I found it when it was exposed.
Bai Maxiao followed him curiously, and also observed the statue, and found that although the statue was cast in bronze, the carving was extremely exquisite, the facial features were angular, and it could be seen that it was a woman with exquisite facial features, and even the folds of the clothes were carved lifelike, under the wide robe and large sleeves, the three measurements could not be seen, but the figure could be vaguely seen was also very good, the whole statue was like a living woman who was magically turned into a statue, this is definitely the most exquisite one of the bronzes found at present, and it is simply incredible to make such a vivid bronze statue under that condition in ancient timesγ
After watching for about ten minutes, Bai Maxiao finally couldn't stand anymore and pushed Wang Zi, "Why are you doing?
Wang Zi shook his head as if he had just woken up from a big dream, "This ...... This statue is so beautifully carved that I accidentally ...... Ahem, let's not talk about that. Have you noticed that the crown of this statue, there is a piece that is not bronze. β
As soon as he said this, Hakumashi realized that when the light shone on the statue, there was a palm-sized circle in the middle of her sun-shaped crown that reflected particularly strongly, like a mirror.
Wang Zi stretched out his hand and touched it, and said in a daze: "This is ...... Bronze mirror?"
There is a bronze mirror inlaid on the head of the bronze sculpture? Bai Maxiao also reached out to touch it curiously, and as soon as he touched it, the bronze mirror actually fell down.
Bai Ma Xiao was startled, stumbled to catch it, Wang Zi snatched it over, and scolded: "You guy, stay away from these treasures!"
Bai Maxiao raised his hands and smiled awkwardly, "What's wrong with this mirror?"
Wang Zi glanced at him, and looked at the small bronze mirror back and forth, "Look at this pattern, it should be something from the late Han Dynasty, more than a thousand years ago, you give me a little leisure." I think the meaning of that sentence should be that the light shines on this mirror embedded in the crown of the goddess statue, and the goddess will appear. It's just that this light doesn't seem to be an ordinary light, it's the light you hit. β
"Spiritual power, are you saying that this bronze mirror can receive spiritual power and use it to open the door?" Bai Maxiao said puzzled, "But I didn't hit this mirror just now." β
"It should be the insect king, I don't know why it stopped at the position of the bronze mirror and didn't move, and you accidentally triggered the mechanism. Good luck. β
This door was actually opened by bugs.
However, Wang Zi's assumption is right, this is indeed a door, not a wall. The burial chamber behind the door was lit by only one light on a high platform, and when they looked closely at the burial chamber, they found that it was full of furniture, low tables, cushions, bookcases, stoves, everything, which was hidden in the darkness because there was no light source.
Wang Zi looked at it and said, "This style is from the Han Dynasty, more than a thousand years ago, and it hasn't rotted?" He touched a bookcase and exclaimed, "Oh my God, this ...... These are bronze!"
The two of them looked at the furniture in this tomb, and Wang Zi's saliva was about to flow out: "Sure enough, they are all bronze furniture, the bronzes in this tomb are not only exquisitely made, but also well-preserved.
Bai Maxiao said: "Don't be beautiful first, if this is bronze, can you move it?"
This tomb was visited by them, in addition to the bronze furniture, there are a lot of ornaments, a person to the high bronze vase, all over the copper coins, the most spectacular is the floor to ceiling copper mirrors that can be seen everywhere, there are nearly a hundred, in addition to the bronze in the whole tomb, almost no second material can be found, even the four load-bearing pillars around are bronze, like a bronze kingdom, as if the land of that era grew bronze. However, even if bronze falls from the sky, if you want to make bronze, you need to smelt and cast at high temperatures, which is a very heavy process in ancient times, and it is simply a luxury to cast anything in a tomb with bronze, and it is not necessary.
Wang Zi analyzed: "The style of the bronze mirror, as well as the inscription on the bronze plate at the door, it can be seen that this should be the tomb of the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, when it had already entered the Iron Age, gold, silver and jade have long replaced the noble status of bronze, even in order to highlight the nobility of the tomb owner, gold and jade should be used, and I don't know how much the tomb owner likes bronze." In addition to puzzlement, there was more dissatisfaction in his tone, these bronzes couldn't be moved out at all, and the two of them could only move out one piece, if it was gold, silver and jade, they would definitely bring out more, and the price that could be sold would be higher.
"Not necessarily, if you look at the coffin, maybe all the good things are in there. Hakumashi pointed to the sarcophagus on the high platform shrouded by the direct light, and the entire burial chamber was the only place that he had not seen, full of curiosity.
Wang Zi stopped: "That is the resting place of the tomb owner, and given that this tomb is so evil, I don't really want to open that coffin." β
Bai Maxiao patted his chest, "I'm the spirit of the ghost suppression, even if there are zombies and ghosts or something, it's a piece of cake, this is my counterpart major, do you understand?"
That bronze door couldn't be opened if there was no white horse, and Wang Zi couldn't make a decision alone at this time, and he was also very curious about the coffin in his heart. This burial chamber is obviously below the Shuiquan Tomb, which is said to be called the "Hidden Dragon Cave", and the tomb hidden in the tomb is generally chosen as the "hole" of the person with the same numerology, that is, the tomb of others as part of Feng Shui, which is conducive to the fortune of the descendants of the owner of the Hidden Dragon Tomb. Of course, this is just a legend, and there are different versions in different places, and there are also claims that future generations will die in this way.
In fact, even in the spiritual world, such a thing as fortune is relatively ethereal, and it is not destined to be so.
In particular, atheists like Hakumashio, who have no beliefs, are even more disbelieving after joining the spirit world and learning about ghosts.
Wang Zi never defeated his curiosity, and the two stepped up the ladder under the high platform.
This ladder is naturally made of bronze, and the entire high platform is all bronze, and God knows what kind of person can build such a tomb.
By the time they reached the top of the platform, they were out of breath. The top is not large, it is a square about five meters long, and a coffin is placed in the center, and it is not surprising that it is also all bronze. The weight of this bronze coffin, which is two meters long and one meter wide, is incalculable, and no one knows whether it is solid or hollow.
On top of the bronze coffin was a bronze box, about the size of a head. The side of the coffin is engraved with words, just like the traditional official script on the bronze plate at the door, which is easy to identify for modern people, if this is the tomb before the Qin Dynasty, then the font in the tomb is not understandable to ordinary people.
Wang Zi proposed to go and see what was written on the bronze coffin first, if it was an abnormal human being such as an extremely powerful Heavenly Master, then the matter of opening the coffin would have to be considered.
Bai Maxiao agreed, but although this official book can be understood, it is completely in classical Chinese, and Bai Maxiao, a scumbag, couldn't read it after reading a few vertical lines, so he listened to Wang Zi translate it for him.
The bronze coffin is roughly engraved with the life of the tomb owner, which translates to say that there is a kingdom on the island of the East, where there is a long period of civil strife and the people are miserable. Later, the people elected a witch to be their king. Legend has it that this witch has the ability to summon wind and rain, and most powerfully, she can summon the heavenly fire of "melting gold and breaking jade". Under her divine power, the country prospered, and witches also founded a religion called "Onido". In addition, the witch used the celestial fire she summoned to refine the mountain stone into metal, which was used to craft buildings and weapons, which made her country extremely strong. However, the kings of neighboring countries look down on this female-ruled kingdom, and the two countries are in constant conflict, but witches are unwilling to use witchcraft to participate in "mortal" battles, so they rarely win on the battlefield. Later, when they discovered a powerful country in the West, named "Wei", the witches sent envoys to Wei and showed their witchcraft to the Emperor of Wei, which shocked the emperor greatly, and "gave the 'pro-Wei Wawang' purple ribbon gold seal, 100 bronze mirrors, and dozens of gold, silver and jade artifacts", which was equivalent to recognizing the vassal relationship, and issued an ultimatum to the neighboring countries of the Wa king, and the two countries withdrew their troops.
When explaining this, Bai Maxiao restlessly moved the box on the bronze coffin.
Wang Zigang wanted to stop, but he had already taken off the lid, revealing a phoenix emitting golden light, spreading its wings angrily, soaring among the golden clouds.