Chapter Seventy-Five: The Python Spirit Appears
The two pushed open the stone door and walked in, the space inside was spacious, there was no feeling of stuffiness, there was no dust on the ground and walls, and there were no traces of insects crawling, as if someone had cleaned it.
After walking a few steps, a wide stone hall appeared in front of him, and in the middle of the stone hall stood the statue of Emperor Xuanwu, which was as high as more than zhang. I saw that he was wearing gold armor, stepping on a five-colored spirit turtle, his eyes were like lightning, standing with a sword, and his whole body was shining with golden light, which was really majestic, and there were two turtles and snakes standing beside him. The two of them stepped forward to see that the statue was made of pure gold. There is a couplet made of pure gold on the left and right, which reads: Jin Que incarnates, Demon Tianzun. Nine days of cruising, the four seas rise. It is the inscription engraved on the front of Shen Chaixing's jade pendant.
On the left wall, there is a pattern of the Big Dipper, and the seven stars emit a misty and soft cold light, and the two of them look at it. It turned out to be inlaid with seven night pearls the size of eggs. Blue Moon is a prince, and he knows that one night pearl of this size is already worth millions, and the most rare thing is that seven are exactly the same size.
On the right wall, there is only a simple stone carved figure, only to see the person in the painting carrying a bag, holding a wooden staff, pedaling straw shoes, looking into the distance, blazing, as if he is about to travel far away. The first one is engraved with the words "Patriarch Mo Zhai", and one side is engraved with "the benefits of the world, the harm of the world", and the inscription is actually "the respect of the disciple Gu Kai". Gu Kaizhi is an aristocratic painter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, famous for his silk paintings "Luo Shen Futu" and "Female History Zhentu", but he didn't expect to be a person from Momen. Gu Kaizhi was originally from Wuxi, so this seemingly simple stone carving is very likely to be Gu Kaizhi's authentic handiwork, and its value is of course far above the seven night pearls, which is really priceless.
There are several large stone rooms on the left and right of the stone hall, three on the left and four on the right, and the two of them come to the first room on the left hand first.
Push open the stone door, dozens of fist-sized silver ingots rolled out, blocking the stone door, the two of them looked, only to see the house full of large and small silver ingots, silver ingots, silver nuggets, maybe because there are too many of them, just scattered together, the front and back left and right walls blocked, until the top of the stone room, no wall can be seen at all, just white silver, I don't know how much. Lan Yue picked up the ingots that fell on the ground, with the words "Tianyou Tongbao" on it, Zhang Shicheng established himself as King Wu, and the name of the Great Zhou Dynasty established was "Tianyou", so it was concluded that this treasure was indeed hidden by Zhang Shicheng.
The two of them threw the silver that had fallen out of the door back into the stone room, closed the stone door, and went to the second stone room.
Open the stone door, and under the firelight, the golden light shines. This house is full of boxy gold bricks and gold bars, although there is no mountain of silver ingots in the first room, all over the mountains, neatly piled up, can make people see at a glance, but it is also an astonishing number, filling most of the stone room, and in terms of value, it is several times the silver in the first stone room.
The two of them opened the third stone house, which was stacked with dozens of large boxes, opened one at random, which contained a box full of large pearls, and opened another one, which was filled with a box of diamonds, which reflected in the torches, reflecting colorful light and eye-catching. The other boxes were opened one after another, and all of them were full boxes of jadeite, agate, large coral, and cat's eye emeralds and other rare treasures, and two boxes were full of various antiques.
The two closed the lid of the box and sat on the box, Lan Yue sighed and said, "These are all the treasures of Zhang Shicheng's Great Zhou Kingdom, so, who owns these is really rich and rivals the country!What are you going to do with these treasures?"
Shen Chaixing smiled: "I said earlier, these are the two of us, so you should ask yourself how to deal with these." ”
Lan Yue sighed: "These treasures originally belonged to Zhang Shicheng, but he was not able to take them away. If these treasures could be exchanged for the lives of my eldest brother and his whole family, I would have asked for them!"
Shen Chaixing continued: "Yes, these things can't get back my father's life, and they can't get back the time when our father and son were together in the past, even if it's a day or an hour." ”
Suddenly, the two of them felt bored in the face of these huge amounts of wealth.
Shen Chaixing patted Lan Yue's shoulder and said, "There are still a few rooms over there that I haven't seen, maybe there will be surprises!"
The two walked out of the stone room, and when they passed by the hall, Shen Chaixing glanced at it and suddenly asked Lan Yue, "It seems that there were seven night pearls on the wall of the hall just now, right?"
Lan Yue nodded and said yes, Shen Chaixing pointed to the hall of the black hole and said, "How can it become nine now?"
Lan Yue turned her head to look, in addition to the seven night pearls that emitted a glimmer of light in the dark hall, two more things that emitted cold green light appeared in the corner not far away, because they were a little far away, they couldn't see it really, so the two of them held torches and walked over.
Before they got closer, the two of them stopped in fright, and in the faint light of the fire, the two glowing objects were not night pearls, but a pair of eyes, a pair of eyes that glowed green, and the eyes seemed to grow on the face of a smiling long-faced old man, but this face seemed to be much larger than normal. It's impossible!
Shen Chaixing was so frightened that he almost screamed, and suddenly rushed behind Lan Yue.
Lan Yue was also terrified to the extreme, but reason told him that he couldn't run, and he had to see clearly what it was before making a decision, otherwise in the closed stone vault, the two of them would become prey.
Lan Yue boldly took a few steps forward with a torch, and although Shen Chaixing was scared to death, he also gritted his teeth and followed, but he was still hiding behind Lan Yue.
At this time, when the blue moon was about a foot away from the thing, she finally saw the true face of the thing. It was a huge python sitting cross-legged, covered in blue and black patterns, as if invisible in the darkness, so that it was impossible to see how long it was, but judging by its bucket-thick waist, its length was not less than five zhang. These are still understandable, the most incomprehensible thing is that this python actually has a human-like face, only slightly longer than a human face, and the snake scales on the face make it look like an old man, and the closed snake mouth is in a curved upward arc, like a strange old man who always smiles and smiles the corners of his mouth to the root of his ears.
Although the python's eyes were staring at Lan Yue and Shen Chasing Xing, his body was only moving slowly.
Lan Yue took a step back, stood in a row with Shen Chaixing, and said to Shen Chaixing: "Don't be afraid, this thing is not a threat to us for the time being." It was only when we opened the door to the treasure house that it was awakened, and it slowly swam here, and it was still in the awakening stage, and you can see that its body was not fully unfolded now, and it was still moving very slowly. ”
Shen Chaixing was curious: "What kind of monster is this? I'm not afraid of the big snake, it's just that this guy looks too disgusting!"
Lan Yue explained: "The name of this thing is - Python Spirit, it is an extremely ancient species, it is recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and it is almost extinct now, but it is everywhere in the ancient flood era. ”
Shen Chaixing nodded and said, "No wonder it can appear here, the endless reed swamp above is suitable for this guy's survival." ”
Lan Yue said: "What you said is just a factor, the reason why it is really here is that someone deliberately raised it here." ”
Shen Chaixing showed a curious look, and Lan Yue explained: "The relationship between python spirits and humans is extremely complicated, and the legend says that Fuxi and Nuwa are the images of human-headed python bodies, which is not to say that Fuxi and Nuwa are python spirits, but it can show that python spirits existed in large numbers during that period and were worshiped by humans as gods." It is recorded in the history books that Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, revolted by killing a python in Mangdang Mountain, which was actually a white python spirit. ”
Shen Chaixing asked again: "Then what do you mean by the python spirit you just said being raised here?"
Lan Yue said: "In the later stage, the wisdom of human beings is getting higher and higher, and they no longer worship the python spirit as a god, but they found that the python spirit has a characteristic, that is, the life span is particularly long, at least a few hundred years, and at most a thousand years. Therefore, some people went into the deep mountains and swamps, caught the young python spirits, raised them in the treasure, and guarded the treasure. This thing can eat rats, insects, snakes, and treasure thieves. Although it wakes up slowly, most people will be stunned on the spot when they see it, and they will be eaten by the python spirit before waking up. By the way, you asked me why those 'Huo Chi Lian' didn't dare to come to the treasure before, and this time I have the answer, just because I was afraid that it didn't dare to come. ”
Shen Chaixing said: "I know the history of the python spirit, what should we do now?"
Lan Yue said: "It's safe for us to leave now, but there are still four stone rooms on the other side that haven't been seen, and it seems that we are unwilling." ”
Shen Chaixing said with a smile: "If people who don't know you hear your words, they must think that you are the kind of person who wants money and doesn't want to die, only I know that you have a strong curiosity." Let me ask again, is there any record in the book of what sword Liu Bang used to cut the snake?"
Lan Yue said: "It seems to be the 'Tai'a' sword, it won't happen to be here, right?!"
The two of them laughed, completely ignoring the python spirit "python staring" behind them, and turned around and walked towards the four stone chambers.
The two pushed open the door of the first stone house, and saw that it was full of all kinds of swords, Lan Yue took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and found that these swords were all made of stainless steel, made by Jiangnan craftsmen, and there was a blacksmith shop number on it. The number of swords is about two thousand. Opening the second stone house, there was also a batch of brand new armor inside, with excellent texture, and the number should be about a thousand sets. These weapons and armor are enough to equip a thousand elite soldiers, although they dare not say that they can be used for a decisive battle, but they are enough for surprise raids, and a beautiful ambush or surprise battle.
The two of them came to the third stone house, which was filled with all kinds of divine weapons and cunning. There is a super strong bow that can be folded up to the size of a palm, but when opened, it has a super strong range, and an ordinary longbow can shoot arrows a distance of one or two hundred steps, but the power of this bow can shoot feathered arrows to a thousand steps away, of course, the user must also have arm strength and eyesight beyond ordinary people. There is also a kind of repeater, when loaded with crossbow arrows, it can shoot fifty crossbow arrows in a row, although the distance is not very far, but it is a very lethal weapon for close combat. There is also a very light flying tiger claw, which can be mounted on the arm, and the flying claw that pops out of the mechanism can reach a distance of ten zhang, and can be used to climb over city walls or mountain peaks, as if walking on the ground.
In addition, there are a large number of small firearms, all of which are tightly wrapped in oilskin paper. But what attracted the attention of the two of them the most was an ordinary-looking stone box placed in an inconspicuous position.