Chapter Fifty-Nine: God Comes Out of Heaven
These eight words were completely incomprehensible, Bai Maxiao curiously stretched out his head to look, and found that this bronze plate was indeed engraved with four lines of words, and two words were written on one line, but judging from the order that Wang Zi had just read, this should be read vertically from right to left, which is also the ancient reading order. It is written "The spirit mirror shines on the sun, and the god comes out of the heavens", using the traditional official script, although it can be understood, but I don't know what it means at all.
Hakuma asked, "What is this, anagram?"
Wang Zi shook his head, "It's not like an anagram, it should be the way to open the door." ”
"Are you sure? I think there's a password or something like that. But there's no place to enter a password. ”
"At first glance, my first reaction was whether it would be in this order, and when I read it horizontally, I found one word: Amaterasu. ”
Listening to Wang Zi say this, Bai Maxiao also saw these two words, at first glance habitually read from left to right in modern reading, so these four words appeared, "gods", "appearance", "Amaterasu", "Hito", because in addition to the first word "gods" is quite reliable, the other words are completely wrong, so it can immediately make people think that the reading is wrong, so they are read vertically. In fact, these characters in the ancient tomb must have been written according to the habits of the ancients, so Wang Zi read it like that is the correct interpretation, but at this time he asked what the meaning of "Amaterasu" meant?
Bai Maxiao couldn't figure it out and said, "You mean, what information is hidden when these eight words are read horizontally, and what do the other three words mean?"
Wang Zi waved his hand and smiled awkwardly, "No, what this bronze plate wants to express should be 'the spirit mirror shines on the sun, and the gods come out of the sky', there is nothing hidden, it's just that we can't understand it." But when I saw the word 'Amaterasu', I suddenly had some inspiration, which must have been a coincidence. ”
Bai Maxiao could hear it, he had already seen the meaning of this sentence, and hurriedly asked: "Then don't sell it, what does this mean?"
"I don't really understand, but at least I know what it means. When I think of Amaterasu, my first reaction is Amaterasu, the Japanese goddess of the sun. ”
Hakumashino, who has always liked Riman, of course knows this Amaterasu. Legend has it that she was the ruler of Takamagahara, the place where the gods lived, and that the emperor is her descendant in Japanese mythology. In fact, it is the Jade Emperor in Chinese mythology, Odin in Norse mythology, Zeus in Greek mythology, and the king of gods in mythology. If there is anything special, it is that she is a rare female god-king in the mythology of various regions.
Speaking of the sun goddess, Hakumashi looked up at the female relief on the bronze wall, the crown on her head is indeed like a sun, so this relief painting refers to the sun goddess - Amaterasu?
However, since Wang Zi said that the word "Amaterasu" appeared in these eight characters is just a coincidence, then it can't be concluded that this female relief is Amaterasu, right?
Wang Zi knew what he wanted to ask, so he continued, "Legend has it that Amaterasu's younger brother, 'Suzhan Mingzun', angered Amaterasu, so she locked herself up in a place called 'Teniwado'. Because she is the goddess who rules the sun, when she hid, there was a total solar eclipse on earth, and darkness covered the earth. Later, in order to restore the light, the gods created a 'Eight Mirrors', and aroused the curiosity of Amaterasu with singing and dancing, and she poked her head out of the Teniwa to ask why the gods were so happy when darkness came? When she angrily asked who this god was, they took out the eight-hand mirror to show her, and she looked at herself in the mirror and was stunned, and then there was a man called Tianhand...... The god took the opportunity to pull her out, so the total solar eclipse ended, and the light returned to the world again. ”
Bai Maxiao listened attentively, and couldn't help laughing: "This goddess is really cute, hahaha......"
Wang Zi glared at him, "People are goddesses, it's good to respect a little." Having said that, in fact, this myth is just a brain-made plot of the total solar eclipse phenomenon in ancient Japan, similar to the Chinese mythology of using tengu to eat the moon to explain the total lunar eclipse. Seeing that Bai Maxiao had written on his face, "What does it have to do with this", Wang Zi didn't give him a chance to ask a question, and said directly, "You see, in this sentence, 'the spirit mirror shines on the sun', doesn't it mean to use the eight-point mirror to shine on the sun goddess......?
Hakuma Xiao reacted immediately, "It's the fact that she was fooled out of Tianiwa, right?"
Wang Zi nodded, "Looking at it this way, behind this bronze door, there may be a tomb related to Amaterasu, maybe the owner of the tomb worships Amaterasu very much." ”
"What the hell, the guys in the ancient tombs in China worship Japanese gods? Is this a traitor's tomb?"
Wang Zi ignored him, but knelt down in front of the relief of the goddess on the bronze wall, bowed, folded his hands, and chanted in his mouth: "There is no strange, there is no strange." I'm not with this guy, he has a debtor, his name is Hakumashi......"
Bai Maxiao kicked him to the ground and scolded: "You conscienceless, who saved you just now?
Wang Zi touched his buttocks and said, "You guy, talking nonsense in other people's tombs, do you know what it means to be in awe? People are doing it, the sky is watching, and the little ghost is looking left and right!"
"Comrade, do you know who I am? I'm a spirit, a spirit who specializes in suppressing ghosts! I need to be afraid......" Bai Ma Xiao said this impassionedly, and suddenly there was a rustling voice behind him, which was extremely familiar.
"Look, tell you to stop talking nonsense! Those insects must be the retribution given to you by the tomb owner!" Wang Zi picked up the miner's lamp and shone it towards the depths of the tomb behind him, the circular light shook violently on the ground in the distance, and it could be seen that his hands were trembling uncontrollably at this time.
Bai Maxiao took out a blasting talisman in one hand and shouted: "No matter what it is, let's order two cannons for him first!"
After a while, a tide of black and oppressive things appeared in the place where the flashlight shone and rushed towards them. Without saying a word, Bai Ma Xiao threw out a blasting talisman, and with a loud bang, the air wave set off a large number of insects, and the rest did not stop at all, and continued to rush forward with his life. Bai Maxiao scolded secretly, threw out another one, and after the explosion, a dirt pit was blown out of the ground, and the earthen walls on both sides were also blown into depressions, and the pillars were also blown off two, and a strange sound came from the top.
Wang Zi hurriedly stopped Bai Maxiao, who was still trying to throw thunder, and shouted: "Don't blow it up! If the load-bearing here is destroyed, we will all die if the tomb on it is pressed down!"
Bai Maxiao didn't expect this section, and hurriedly stopped, "Then what else can be done? These things don't want to die, and we are not even afraid of explosions in order to eat!"
At this time, there is only a wall behind them, there is no way to retreat, as soon as the sea of insects arrives, they can't avoid it, Wang Zi said: "The only way at this time is to open this wall, otherwise we won't be able to run anywhere!"
"To put it simply, you just said so much, and now that this tomb owner has a relationship with Amaterasu, so what?"
"Calm down and think about it, those eight words should be the way to open the door, think about it!"
Looking at the rapidly approaching insect swarm in front of him, how could he calm down! Bai Maxiao symbolically thought for a long time, cursed, drew his sword from behind his back, and shouted: "Damn, I can't smash this broken bronze door if I don't believe it!"
Bai Ma Xiao threw the bag to the ground, raised his sword and walked towards the insect swarm, shouting as he walked: "I'll help you delay time, you want to!" He turned his head sideways and looked at Wang Zi, "Our lives depend on you." ”
Wang Zi watched him walk towards the insect swarm heroically, and couldn't help but feel respect, and quickly thought about the meaning of these eight words.
Bai Maxiao walked in front of the insect swarm, swung his sword and slashed indiscriminately, his heart was already looking at death as home, even if there were still bones left that had been gnawed...... was cheering himself up, but found that these insects didn't seem to take him seriously at all, bypassing him and continuing to run towards Wang Zi.
What does this mean? Do you think I stink? Bai Maxiao chased back unhappily and shouted, "Run! These insects are determined to eat you!"
Before Wang Zi could react, those insects also bypassed him and piled up in front of the bronze door, as if they wanted to continue to move forward, but there was no gap in the bronze door, the insect swarm drilled for a long time, and simply climbed the wall, wave after wave in an instant, the entire wall was occupied by black pressed insects, and it was no longer possible to see any bronze door, like a wall of insects, not to mention more food in this face.
The two of them were stunned, looking at these strange-behaving insect swarms, not knowing what was going on, always feeling that these insects seemed to be attracted by something, and were crazy to break through the bronze door, or ...... It's like something is chasing them.
was looking at the insect wall in amazement, Wang Zi suddenly shouted, "Damn, what stinks?"
The two of them followed the smell and looked at the direction where the insects came, and the swarm of insects in the depths of the tomb had all climbed up the wall, and at this time, something big seemed to be approaching them in the empty tomb.
The two held their breath, only to feel that the stench was getting closer and closer, Wang Zi panicked and used the miner's lamp to shine back and forth, but nothing could be seen in the dark, only that the stench seemed to have reached them, and then floated behind them.
The two of them had always thought it would be a big thing, so they didn't notice the small cockroach-like thing passing by them, and it wasn't until they got close that they were spotted by Hakumashio's glow stick.
The bug was much smaller than the swarms, less than half as small, but it was the same bug, except that it was not only small, but also red all over the body, with a strong rancid smell.
As soon as the little red approached the insect swarm on the bronze wall, the insect swarm immediately dodged like crazy and made way for it, Xiaohong climbed all the way on the bronze door without hindrance, climbed to a place and suddenly stopped, just waited quietly, the surrounding insect swarm immediately surrounded him, but always kept a distance, looking like this little red was like their king.
"Insect King, let's kill it!" Bai Ma Xiao saw that it didn't move, and felt that it was a good opportunity, and shot out without a sword finger, Wang Zi just hurriedly went to stop it, but he didn't stop it, and Xiaohong was torn apart by the sword finger.
Wang Zi was furious, "What's the problem with you? The insect king was killed by you, and these insects still don't run wild?!"
Bai Ma Xiao did not show weakness, "Have you ever heard of capturing the thief and capturing the king first? How do you know that these insects will not retreat when the insect king is dead?!"
While the two were arguing, there was a sudden click from the bronze door.
The two of them were stunned for a moment, and looked at the bronze door that began to open together.