Chapter 389
After Situ Qiao finished speaking, he glanced at everyone, and then said: "The fire in Dabao'en Temple burned until dawn. Subsequently, the Nanjing garrison yamen sent troops to surround the Dabao'en Temple and disperse the people who were watching the excitement. I mingled with the people and escaped the interrogation of the officers and soldiers. For more than ten years after that, every time I thought of the situation of that day, I shuddered. I think the most powerful thing in the secret room is not the mechanism, but the poison powder hidden in the dried corpse. At first, I thought that this poisonous powder was just killing people with poison, but then I saw that the monk Hongdao was crazy and poked himself to death. Then I saw the terrible situation myself and almost killed myself. I thought at the time that this poisonous powder is not only poisonous, but what is even more terrifying is that it can confuse people's minds and make people fall into illusions. It's just that I was shallow at the time, and I couldn't figure out how there could be such a powerful poison in the world.
"Since then, I've traveled all over the world, and my knowledge has grown a lot. One year on the coast of Shandong, I met a jewelry merchant who had returned from overseas. After talking, he said that on several islands in the Western Ocean, there is a strange flower called the Utama Bharat. The flower itself is not poisonous, but it is dried and ground into a powder, and when it is placed on a fire for a little roasting, it will change and produce highly poisonous. What's even more terrifying is that if the powder is stained with human blood, it will turn into a blood-colored mist. If a person sucks this blood mist, the soul will leave**, be sucked into the Infernal Hell, and finally go crazy and die. It is the natives of the island who call the Uthambora flower a ghost flower.
Hearing him say this, I immediately remembered what it had been like in that secret room. Although Lord Shi, Wei Qianhu, Monk Hongjing and others were poisoned, they did not go crazy. It wasn't until the Hongdao monk suddenly took out his sword and killed Wei Qianhu that blood spurted out of his wound and happened to fall on the dry corpse. At that time, a blood mist rose from the dry corpse, and the situation was extremely strange. After the powder of the Yutan Borat flower fused with the blood, the toxicity changed greatly, and the monk Hongdao and I inhaled the blood mist one after another, and as a result, we both fell into an illusion. Fortunately, I had an antidote to the poison in my body, and I happened to be able to restrain the poison of the Yutan Brahmana flower, so I was lucky enough to escape from the secret room.
Looking back on this now, Zhu Di is undoubtedly not the son-in-law of Emperor Taizu and Empress Ma. It's just that in order to compete for the throne, Zhu Di lied that he was the concubine of Queen Ma, and after defeating Emperor Jianwen, he rightfully sat on the throne of the emperor. Those who knew about this had been killed by him. Yao Guangxiao was his mastermind, so he naturally knew about it, so he left these murals in this stone cave full of organs. Yao Guangxiao's move was to tell the world that Zhu Di was not Queen Ma's sister-in-law, and he was ruthless. Looking at Yao Guangxiao's behavior, either he suffered Zhu Di's big loss, and he was not angry, leaving these murals to expose Zhu Di's shortcomings, so that future generations would despise this Ming Emperor and use it to sweep away the resentment in his heart. Either he found out in his conscience that he felt guilty about the millions of people killed in the Battle of Jingjing, and wanted to use these murals to tell the world the truth at that time.
Although Zhu Di is ambitious and vicious, he still feels guilty about his biological mother. After ascending the throne, he ordered the rebuilding of the Great Bao'en Temple, and built a large hall in the name of worshipping Queen Ma. In the middle of the main hall, there is a secret room, which is specially used to worship the biological mother. In addition, he hated Queen Ma so much that he even asked a warlock to build a strange statue and cast a poisonous spell on the statue. So the statue of Queen Ma I saw was quite similar to the puppets used by old women to curse others. This hall and secret room hide Zhu Di's secrets, and naturally they can't be known to the world, so that Zhu Di's most trusted henchman Zheng He can do this. Zheng He's ingenuity was incomparable, he used the hall built by Zhu Yuanzhang during his reign, asked the master to set up a mechanism, and then hid all the rare treasures he brought back from overseas in the secret room to worship Zhu Di's biological mother. Zhu Di left a holy decree to ask Zheng He to accompany his biological mother. It was because Zheng He knew that he would die soon, and returned to Middle-earth from thousands of miles overseas, and he entered the secret room and died. When he was dying, he hid the powder of the Utama Brahma flower on his body, in case someone broke in and used the poison powder to kill people invisibly.
"Zheng He's scheming can be said to be extremely meticulous. Da Bao'en Temple was originally a royal temple, not to mention ordinary people, that is, officials of all sizes in Nanjing City, but they did not dare to make trouble in the temple. The Hongdao monk once said that since he entered the palace since he was a child, he became Zheng He's attendant, and he was also a clean eunuch. Zheng He arranged him to be the abbot in the Great Bao'en Temple, naturally to guard the main hall. Zhu Di and Zheng He had already had a plan, this hall was only allowed to enter by the emperor, and the secrets in it were naturally only known to the emperor. When the emperor came to worship, the monk Hongdao closed the organ and sacrificed the jade statue in the main hall. Even if the emperor wanted to enter the secret room, the monk Hongdao also had a way to remove the poisonous powder in the secret room. It's just that maybe Zheng He didn't know at that time that after the powder of the Yutan Bora flower encountered human blood, it would undergo drastic changes and could make people fall into an illusion. The Hongdao monk was ordered by Zheng He to hide in the Dabao'en Temple, which is actually no different from being imprisoned. When he first entered the Da Bao'en Temple, he was just a teenager, and he had been hiding in this temple for seventy or eighty years, and his mind had changed greatly, and although he was afraid of Zheng He, he was more hateful. After falling into a fantasy in the secret room, he fantasized about fighting Zheng He to the death. It's just that under Zheng He's prestige, he has always been afraid of Zheng He in his heart, knowing that his martial arts are far from Zheng He's opponent. In the end, he poked himself to death, thinking that he was hit by Zheng He in the illusion he had imagined.
"Zheng He's scheming is not only that. If the emperor enters the secret room, when he leaves, he must do something so that the emperor can leave safely. If an outsider breaks into the secret room, the poison of the Yutan Brahma flower will not be able to control this person, and the secret of Dabao'en Temple will inevitably be revealed to the world. In such a critical moment, if the person forcibly leaves the secret room, the fire that was buried in the secret room will burn, and the secret will be burned along with the main hall, so that the secret will never be known. When I escaped from the chamber, it was the last mechanism that set in motion, causing a fire to ignite in the chamber, burning the hall and the chamber to the ground. It's just a pity that those rare treasures have been extinct in the world since then. Iniquity, iniquity. ”
After Situ Qiao finished speaking, Liu Yong said, "These treasures are better burned." If you enter the world, you don't know how many lives you will kill. ”
Lin Yilang frowned and said, "We have been delayed in this stone cave for so long, just to listen to this Mr. Situ tell such a story that I don't know if it's true or false?"
As soon as he said this, everyone was stunned. The purpose of the group was to enter the Meditation Temple and find a way to escape from this place. I just entered the cave and found the murals on the walls. Situ Qiao explained and told the mystery of Zhu Di's life experience. It's just that this happened a hundred years ago, and it really has nothing to do with the purpose of everyone's trip. It's just that the stakes are very important, and there are many twists and turns, and everyone is fascinated by it, and they completely forget about going to the meditation temple. At this time, hearing Lin Yilang mention it, everyone came to their senses, and they couldn't help but regret it, feeling that it was too worthless to delay here for more than an hour.
Situ Qiao saw that everyone looked embarrassed, and knew that they were dissatisfied with their delay here for so long, so he said: "You need to know that this mural was painted by Yao Guangxiao when he built the Jingxin Temple, which naturally has a lot to do with the Jingxin Temple. With Yao Guangxiao's ability, he will definitely not be idle and draw a few paintings on this stone wall to mess around, which must contain deep meaning. These murals seem to ordinary people to tell a story. It is not uncommon for large families to paint murals in the tombs when they build mausoleums. It's just that if it is changed to Yao Guangxiao, even if he only leaves one word, we must think about it carefully, otherwise if we are not careful, we will fall into the trap laid by him......"
Before Situ Qiao's words fell, Deng Yao said on the side: "How do you know that this mural is not a trap left by Yao Guangxiao? He left these murals here, maybe he deliberately wanted us to delay here for a few hours, so that the more powerful organs in the Jingxin Temple have time to activate, and then kill us all." ”
After hearing Deng Yao's words, everyone nodded yes. A few people secretly thought in their hearts: "Deng Yao looks like five big and three thick, this is not bad." Although the beggar gang is declining day by day, it no longer has the demeanor of the largest gang in the world in the past. It's just that since Deng Yao can sit in the position of the leader of the beggar gang, his knowledge is indeed extraordinary. ”
Situ Qiao said: "You can think whatever you want." But before we left, Mr. Liu said that he would listen to my command. If you have the ability, you will lead the way!"
Deng Yao rolled his eyes and said, "If you can trust me to be called Huazi, I will lead the way." ”
After he finished speaking, he grabbed the stick in his hand and rushed forward. Liu Yong, Chu Danyang and other old people know that this cave is full of murderous opportunities, although Deng Yao's martial arts are not weak, if you want to crack the news of the mechanism in this cave, you have to Situ Bridge. He hurriedly stopped Deng Yao and persuaded him for a long time. In the end, Situ Qiao said: "In addition to telling us that Zhu Di is vicious, we can also guess that Yao Guangxiao must have a grudge against Zhu Di, otherwise he would not have left such a clue to the world to reveal Zhu Di's true face." It just so happened that I had that adventure in Nanjing Dabao'en Temple, which can be said to be a narrow escape from death. This Yao Guangxiao's ability is even higher than Zheng He. In that small secret room, Zheng He had already arranged an extremely powerful killing mechanism. You may wish to think about it, the cave in the belly of this mountain is huge, and the power of the water flow of the underground river can lift and lower tens of millions of catties of boulders, if Yao Guangxiao uses the power of heaven and earth creation to set up a mechanism to kill people, its power is not known how many times higher than Zheng He. Don't think it's useless for us to delay this more than an hour in this stone cave, arrogant people like the old Hanako, as long as we remember to kill step by step on the way to Jingxin Temple, don't be arrogant, send yourself to death, and it will be worth delaying for another hour!"
When Deng Yao heard that he dared to mock himself, he was furious in his heart, and he waved the wooden stick in his hand and was about to hit Situ Bridge. At this moment, a sudden sound of "rolling" was heard, and everyone only felt that their bodies were shaking, and a few people almost fell to the ground. Situ Qiao's face changed greatly, and he said, "The mechanism at this entrance has been activated again, we have to rush over quickly." Otherwise, the door of life and the door of death will regenerate, and we will fall into this five-element strange array, and it will be extremely difficult to get out again!"