Chapter 38 Chapter 38 Skylight

I fell off the great wooden beam, and was suspended in the air by the ropes like those empty clothes, hanging up and down.As soon as I thought about the mercury mechanism in the apse, maybe I wanted to keep a secret, I felt a tightness in my waist. Shirley Yang and the fat man were pulling the rope with their hands, slowly pulling me back to the wooden beam. My brain was running at high speed, and I saw that the mercury in the hall was increasing, and it had already covered the belly of the six-legged bronze tripod. It only took a moment, and the painted walls and stone monuments would be completely covered.The place that triggers the quicksilver mechanism as soon as you touch it should be where the "secret" is hidden, and it must be somewhere among the murals, stone tablets and black copper tripod. Where is it?

Probably because the body was turned upside down and the blood flowed backwards, the scene in the temple looked different from the front view. At this moment, the mind was very clear. When I looked up, I saw the ground in the temple. From mid-air, the most prominent thing in the temple was the There are several mural walls arranged in the shape of eight trigrams and nine palaces.One of them stood out, a scorpion was crushed to the wall by a cauldron cover, bloody and bloody, the white painted wall was splashed like ink spilled, and the wall was covered with dark green blood and minced meat.Coupled with the weight of the tripod cover, a gap was also cracked in the wall, and several cracks extended around it.

There are many murals on the eight brick walls, but only one wall is full of various strange witchcraft rituals in Dian Kingdom. It is the side that was smashed by the tripod cover. Once this wall is broken, the short corridor in the hall is immediately sealed off. Another large amount of mercury poured out from the mouth of the dragon.All this shows that there are important things hidden in the wall. Once invaded by external forces, the mechanism inside the temple will be triggered. Those who cannot hide will be engulfed by mercury, turning black and dying. If the intruder is agile, he can escape from the top of the temple. , In that moment, mercury can also fill the apse, and it is absolutely difficult for outsiders to find out what is hidden in the wall.

The reason for not doing that kind of extinct institution may be because this thing will be taken out in the future, but why did it not be brought into the underground palace when the king was buried, but hidden on the top of the Ming Tower?The most urgent thing now is to get out the contents before the mercury gets through the crack in the painted wall. I didn't think much about it, but at that moment, based on Captain Jin's intuition, I thought there was something hidden in the wall.The so-called "intuition" is just a combination of some memory fragments in the brain and the information received by the five senses, skipping the logical level, and directly reflecting into the thinking. The accuracy depends on a person's experience, common sense and judgment ability .

At this time, I didn't care about hanging in the air, and immediately shouted: "It's in this wall!" I shouted suddenly, which shocked the fat man and Shirley Yang who were pulling the rope on the wooden beam, and the two Quite puzzled, they all asked, "What's in the wall?" I found that the mercury vapor in the hall was getting thicker and I couldn't stay any longer, and I didn't have time to elaborate at this time, so I asked them not to drag me up.I will descend to the cracked mural wall to see if there is any chance to take out the contents, and let the fat man burn the haunted witch clothes with a lighter, and especially emphasize to him that no matter how weird the clothes are, they must be taken out. Ignore it, just light it up.At the same time, let Shirley Yang seize the time to climb to the highest point first and blow up the roof tiles.

Although Shirley Yang and Fatty didn't know what I wanted to do, we had formed a tacit understanding after being together for a long time, and we both understood that I must have my reasons, and it would not be too late to talk about it when we got out, so the two split up from the big wooden beam. Due to the darkness in the hall, the fat man couldn't see how high it was, but he was able to move.I saw him boldly scraping from the wooden beams to the witch clothes hanging in the corner of the temple, and taking out the lighter tremblingly. As a reckless and vicious person like him, even ghosts and gods were afraid of him, so I didn't Going to see him again, he pulled the pulley around his waist by himself, stepped on a stone tablet nearby, and swung his body towards the mural wall.

Swinging to the lowest point, the mountaineering helmet even touched the mercury on the ground. As soon as his hands reached the mural wall, he quickly climbed up half a meter.The development of the technology of heating mercury sulfide during the Qin and Han Dynasties was derived from Qin Huang and Han Wu's unremitting efforts in alchemy for longevity. I saw that half of the jade letter was exposed where the mural wall was cracked by the cauldron cover.There were several turns of gold rope wrapped around the letter, and the ever-rising mercury was about to flood the cracks on the wall. I couldn’t take a closer look in my hurry, so I turned my upside-down body upside down, endured the choking mercury stench, and immediately started using a mountaineering tool. The pickaxe slammed into the wall. I was already familiar with this kind of work when I was an engineer.

The mural walls are all made of grass bricks, so they are not strong.The jade letter hidden in the wall was not small, and it took a large piece of grass-earth brick to be chiseled out to take it out.While I was busy digging the wall, I suddenly heard a bang above my head, a lot of bricks and tiles fell down, and a glare of sunlight shot into the gloomy palace. I looked up to the top of the hall, and it turned out that Shirley Yang had already opened a skylight for the top of the hall.The glazed roof of the Tiangong is not thick, and no explosives were used, and a large hole was directly broken with an engineering shovel and a climbing pick.The sun slanted into the hall, and just happened to shine on the witch clothes in the corner, and the fat man just happened to light a fire.The red witch's robe, which seemed to be stained with blood, burned and fell down, turning into a mass of ashes, which was immediately covered by mercury.

Seeing that both of them had already succeeded, I also exerted all my strength to chisel away the last two earthen bricks that were in the way, and stretched out my hand to take out the jade letter hidden in the wall. The weight was not too heavy, and I didn't have time to guess now. What is contained in it, the jade letter is clamped under the armpit, and the pulley is turned to raise the main beam.Several animal heads in the hall were still spewing out mercury, and they were below the height of the hole in the mural wall. If they had been late for half a minute just now, they would have never had a chance to get this jade letter.

As soon as I got on the main beam, I immediately joined the fat man, hurriedly climbed the wooden rafters, and climbed out of this dangerous heavenly palace through the skylight. The sunlight outside has already slanted. Due to the special terrain, the depth of the insect valley is exposed to sunlight for a very short time every day. Once the sun is tilted, it will be covered by mountains, and the valley will gradually fall into darkness.Standing on the slippery large glazed tiles, the dragon halo under the Tiangong has changed from colorful colors when the sun is sufficient to a dim golden light, and the funnel-shaped pool in the depths is so dark that the water surface cannot be seen clearly. The black swirls at the bottom of the pool merged into one.

Recalling the scenes in the Tiangong just now, the most puzzling thing for me is still those bronze beasts and bronze men.As for the strange costumes hanging high in the hall, the shrill smile of the ice-like woman, the large amount of mercury gushing out, and the jade letter hidden in the mural wall, I don't even worry about it. My mind is full of the action costumes. The unusual bronze statue, there must be something unusual that I haven't remembered yet, but the more I think about it, the more I can't grasp the clue. At this time, Shirley Yang pushed me lightly, and I recovered from my hard thinking, gathered myself together, took out the jade letter from the painting wall, showed it to Fatty and Shirley Yang, and put it on Briefly describe the situation at that time. Several turns of gold ropes are wrapped around the jade letter. The jade color is simple and unsophisticated, with some dark red spots. It can be seen that it is an ancient relic thousands of years ago.However, the jade box is flat and rectangular, so it doesn't look like it was used to store the phoenix gallbladder.It is so secretly hidden in the apse of the Heavenly Palace, the things in it must be very important, I wanted to open it right away to look at it, but the jade letter is tightly closed, if there is no special tool, if I want to open it, I have to destroy the ancient jade outside . Shirley Yang said: "The ancient jade is small, but the contents inside are large. It's not too late to take a closer look after we go back. Now that time is tight, we don't rush to see it sooner." I nodded in agreement, and asked the fat man to wrap the jade letter and put it in his backpack first.I asked the fat man, "Did you find anything weird when you burned that red dress?" After the fat man packed the jade letter, he put the big rucksack beside him, and complained to me: "You still have the guts to ask, that dress is so fucking evil, if it was the fat man, I would be a little less courageous. You have to collect the body for me. The next time there is such a terrible errand, it would be better for you, Commander Hu, to do it yourself, even the blind fortune tellers say you are lucky." Seeing that it was getting dark, our next step was to go down to the bottom of the pool immediately to find out the location of the tomb passage, so while I was busy getting some equipment with Shirley Yang, I asked the fat man, "Didn't the blind man tell you about you? It was Lu Bu Lu Fengxian who was reincarnated during the Three Kingdoms period, and he had unstoppable courage, so what can scare you? Tell me carefully, what does the half female corpse in the clothes look like?" Fatty was standing on the highest Tiangong Baoding, looking at the dark valley below, and found that the big tiles under his feet were abnormally slippery, and he felt timid. Hearing my question, he replied casually: "What's so weird, what the hell is it? There is a piece of human skin stretched over the head, and there is a wig, which is a hood. I plugged my ears, so I couldn’t hear the ghost laughing. Just like you said, I directly pulled the human skin hood, and connected the hood with a fire. The clothes were burned." I wondered: "Where did the ghost's shrill laughter come from? Could it be that there is a ghost attached to that witch's clothes?" The fat man sucked his back molars and whispered to me: "If you haven't looked closely, the red lips painted on the white background of the human leather hood are not too different from a dead face. When I think about it now, I still feel that my calf muscles are trembling." , if there are any more ghosts, how can there be any life to tell you here at this time? I think the ghost's laughter is probably because there are a few holes in the human skin headgear, blown by the small wind on the top of the temple, and the hall is still there. They are all big nanmu trees that can pronounce the Shenlong sound, so we are probably footsteps, so you don’t have to think about it and be suspicious.” I listened to the story and reasons that the fat man said, and fell into silence for a while, without comment. But you can't rest assured. The sharp smile of the ghost can make people's hairs grow a layer of frost. There are also strange rumors in Xinjiang Devil City, but they are never so powerful. I assure Chairman Mao that the clothes and human skin hoods are by no means so simple , Now that we are in a dangerous place, we need to be cautious in everything, we should try him again to be at ease, and don't be careless again and cause grudges." I was worried that the fat man might be possessed by evil spirits, so I prepared to test him with something that would ward off evil spirits. At this time, the sun was setting to the west, and it was about to fall behind the mountains in the west. I turned the plan in my mind three times, then put down the equipment I was checking, stood up from the glazed roof of Tiangong, pretended to stretch, stretched my muscles and bones, and walked around behind the fat man. Unexpectedly, this seemed a bit artificial, the fat man didn't notice that he was chomping on chocolate to satisfy his hunger, but let Shirley Yang see that something was wrong with me.She immediately asked me: "Old Hu, why are you crazy? It's not too late, why are you stretching your lazy tendons? Glazed tiles are very slippery, so be careful." I winked at Shirley Yang Lian, telling her not to speak, and thought: "You are usually a ghost, why are you so unresponsive today? After a while, I am afraid that you will see that I, Mr. Hu, can predict things like a god." , I teach you to admire you so much." Although Shirley Yang didn't understand why I winked at her, she saw the opportunity very quickly, stopped talking immediately, and continued to change the batteries of the wolf-eye flashlight with her head down. But the fat man stuffed his mouth full of chocolate and beef jerky, turned his head to look at me, and asked in a whimpering voice, "Sling Hu, did you twist your waist when you fell off the wooden beam? You are thirty years old, and it is not as good as before. You have to take it easy in everything. Go back and let the blind man give you a massage. Hey, don’t tell me that the blind man’s skills are really good. Last time I screwed my flesh son..." I hurriedly said to the fat man: "Is thirty years old old? Don't forget that revolutionaries are always young. Besides, I didn't lose my waist at all, but I was on the top of the Tiangong, condescending, and had a full view of the motherland." The great rivers and mountains in my heart are full of passion, so I stood up deliberately and wanted to chant a poem as a souvenir." The fat man burst out laughing, and spat out all the food in his mouth: "Commander Hu, don't mess with us. How can you still recite poems just because you know those two characters? Take a break now and save your mind." , in a while we have to go down to the mysterious palace to touch the artifact." Seeing the fat man's expression as usual, I feel a little more at ease, but since he has already stood up, he still acts according to the plan he had planned in advance, adding an extra insurance, after all, there are advantages and no disadvantages. So while talking nonsense, he stepped on the glazed tiles and went around behind the fat man: "Commander Wang, don't look at new issues with old eyes. Many great poets in ancient times were also illiterate idlers. Didn't they still leave good sentences through the ages? I admit that when I was young It’s not as good as you love to study, because at that time I was only busy responding to the call and caring about national affairs every day, but my love for the great rivers and mountains of the motherland is not inferior to you at all, I..." As I was talking, I walked around behind the fat man, still talking non-stop, but already touched a large handful of glutinous rice from the carrying bag in my hand.These glutinous rice were purchased last year, and after being stored for a long time, the beige color is a bit stale, but the glutinous rice can remove the yin, and the expired glutinous rice can still be used. I immediately scattered a large handful of glutinous rice from behind the fat man like a goddess scattering flowers.The fat man was sitting and talking to me, and he didn’t want to suddenly have a lot of glutinous rice splashed from behind. He was startled, and he turned to me and asked me: “You eat too much to fill yourself up? Didn’t you mean to recite poems? Why are you throwing rice again? Catch the birds to find out what's going on with the air quality in the palace of the ancient cemetery!" Shirley Yang also looked at me with strange eyes. I saw that Nuomi didn't throw any ghosts from the fat man, so I had to explain: "I originally thought of some high-sounding words, which are all ancient quatrains, but suddenly I remembered that Xiaopang had just touched that man's leather hood, so he drove away his bad luck. But according to the ancient rules, you can't say hello in advance, and it must work without you knowing. Go clean this old Unlucky, in the future you will definitely get promoted and make a fortune. You see, for your future, I have forgotten my few quatrains that will last forever, and now I can’t remember them. Out of inspiration." I made up some nonsense reasons, and temporarily put aside the questions of the fat man and Shirley Yang, and I don't know if they can accept it.Just as I continued to justify myself, Shirley Yang suddenly pointed to the sky and said to us: "Look at the clouds in the sky, how strange they are." The fat man raised his head and looked in amazement again and again: "Commander Hu, could it be that the Dragon King has shown his wings?" I saw a long thick black cloud protruding from the bright sky beside the mountain, like a black dragon in the sky, or a black Milky Way hanging in the sky, gradually falling into the sky with the mountain side. The dark sky united into one, immediately dizzying the Heavenly Palace and Water Dragon in the valley, casting a layer of shadow. Usually in places with fresh air in the wild, or on high mountains with thin air, if there are few clouds in the sky, you can see the bright Milky Way at night.However, compared with the Milky Way in the starry sky, this "black river" hanging over our heads at this moment looks very ominous and gloomy.The mausoleum area in the deep valley was originally quiet, but it was even darker and quieter now, as if we were already in the gloomy and dark underground palace of the underworld. I said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: "This kind of celestial phenomenon has been recorded in ancient geomantic omens. The black air between the heavens and the Han Dynasty runs through and connects. This celestial sign is called a black pig crossing the Tianhe River; in the secret art of stars, it is called rain and weather violations; and In Qingzhu Earth Qi Theory, it is said that when a black pig crosses the river, there must be an ancient corpse here, and the corpse energy flows from Yin to Yang, covering the stars and the moon." The fat man was puzzled, and asked me: "According to this, it's not a good omen. Is it the rain or the dead body? By the way, what is the rain? But it wants to block our way of making money?" I said to the fat man: "The rainy weather refers to the surge of floods. We rushed forward and made mistakes. Tonight, we are going to knock down the tomb of King Xian, and we will encounter this rare celestial phenomenon that does not happen in a hundred years. I wonder if this is related to King Xian's change of the land vein pattern." .Maybe in recent years, this kind of vision has often appeared here. This heavy rain can't come out. Sooner or later, it will lead to a big change. Maybe it won't be long before this Chonggu Tiangong will be swallowed by a mountain torrent. That's it. Let's get down to the pool now without delay." During the speech, the sky has become a black pot, and you can't see your fingers.The three of them hurriedly turned on the spotlights on the mountaineering helmets, and only then did they get a little light. They distributed the equipment and equipment a little, and still put the weapons and explosives that were afraid of water in the rucksacks, and lowered them from the side of the hall with ropes, looking for them. The stone slabs of the plank road, spiraling down along the way.This road is extremely dark, so I have to walk step by step, and when I encounter a broken road, I have to climb down the vines. The three beams of light seem insignificant in this endless darkness, and I can barely see my feet clearly, even five or six meters away. The contours of the terrain are illegible. We groped in the dark, and finally reached the end of the plank road at the bottom of the valley, but I guess it was just around five o'clock in the afternoon, and the circular sky on the funnel had already melted into the darkness together with the rest of the scenery.The black pig crossed the river very quickly. It suddenly occurred to me that today is July 19th, which is a big deal.