Chapter 10 Chapter 10 The Merman Eternal Brightness

When we lifted it, we found that the copper door embedded in the ground was actually not as heavy as we thought. When it was opened, there was a dark square hole.Below the entrance is a staircase made of blue stones. Carrying Lao Miao and Lao Zhong on my back, I stepped in cautiously.The moment he stepped on the steps, the steps suddenly loosened.A cluster of bright lights suddenly flashed on the stone walls on both sides of the tomb passage, and then another cluster not far away, as if awakened, a row of lights were lit one after another on the tomb wall from near to far. There is a burning rope on the stone wall, and an oil lamp will be ignited wherever the rope goes.

The black oil lamp is simple in shape, just a shallow concave round lamp, with a short lamp grass on the side, and solid black grease in the lamp. The flame is slowly melting the grease to turn it into a transparent oil body. In puzzlement and doubt, Lao Zhong and I came to the end of the stairs. Strangely, there was nothing at the end, only a smooth stone wall. Caressing the smooth stone wall, I felt that I shouldn’t have just reached the end of the tomb passage. Suddenly, I moved my finger, as if there was a dent. I hurriedly called the old clock to look at it, and saw a copper coin about three feet high in the center of the stone wall. size hole.

Lao Zhong carefully looked at the dent. There were a few simple and neat patterns on it. He looked back at me: "This pattern looks familiar to me!" , around the square hole are two entangled fish.I subconsciously pulled out the copper coin in my neck and pressed it into the dent. Just when I gently pressed the copper coin, the two entangled fish inside the copper coin turned quietly, and a loud sound that seemed to come from the ground almost hurt our eardrums, and the whole stone wall seemed to be trembling. When we wondered whether the entire tomb was about to collapse, a huge and neat crack slowly opened from the side of the dent, and a beam of golden light shone through the crack.

When I stood in the middle of the tomb with Lao Miao and Lao Zhong on my back, the only word I saw was "shock" to describe our feelings. This is an empty hall the size of a small auditorium. Due to the ingenious mechanism design, the two permanent lamps were lit the moment we stepped on the steps, and the flickering light of the yellow flame illuminated the entire hall.The lamp base of the ever-bright lamp is a dragon with a simple shape and simple lines, like a jumping fish. A ball of flames is burning brighter and brighter in the hornless dragon's mouth. The fragrance of nothing is slowly wafting out from the flames. This is a pleasant fragrance, which makes people want to sleep comfortably, but when we saw the murals around us, we were stunned.The surrounding murals are still vivid after thousands of years of time. The murals reflect the tense and intense slaughter scenes. The birds in the air, the beasts on the ground, and the soldiers drawing bows and arrows together constitute a vivid picture; The picture below shows the battle on horseback, the scene is tragic, the horses are galloping, and the headless corpses lie across the field...

"The mountains are falling and the ground is collapsing, and the sea of ​​blood is surging. With my wrath, I will kill the whole world. No one will be spared..." Lao Zhong stared closely at the square copper tripod in the center of the hall, and muttered silently.The engraved seal script on the bronze tripod looked very strange in the surrounding haze, and Lao Zhong's constantly moving lips burst out sharp words one by one.What was engraved on the tripod was a curse, the curse was unheard of, it was cursing the demise of a family, and it was also cursing the collapse of a sky.

"The collapse of the sky? Is the owner of the tomb a paranoid ancient? Why do you want to curse something so impossible?" Old Zhong interrupted me seriously, and still didn’t say a word, he took out his digital camera and carefully took pictures of all the murals in the tomb and the words on the bronze tripod. After I put the old seedlings aside in the copper vat, I circled the tripod several times.This is a closed three-legged round copper tripod. There is actually a round cover on the tripod. There are three air holes about the size of a bowl on the cover. Some incomprehensible symbols and patterns are engraved around the copper tripod. Mixed with some incomprehensible text.

In the pattern in the middle of the copper tripod cover, I found a very familiar pattern, two intertwined fish, two fish like stick figures, the fish head is entangled with the fish tail, and the one I wear with me The image inside the copper coin is exactly the same, but it is several times larger. I took out the copper coin and compared it carefully. Yes, it is almost carved out of the same mold.I put the copper coin in the palm of my hand and thought about it carefully, and then sniffed it in front of my nose. For some reason, a stench I had never smelled rushed into my mind, almost choking me out.

Why is it so similar to the copper coin I am wearing?I turned around and asked Old Zhong, and I saw him staring at me as if in a daze, drooling all over his chest, holding a paratrooper knife in his hand, and rushed towards me straight away. It was empty, and then fell to the ground. "Old Zhong, Lao Zhong, don't scare me!" I hurriedly picked up his head in my arms, and because I was holding the copper coin in my right hand, I pinched him with my left hand, but there was no movement after pinching for a long time. I was in a hurry, grabbed the copper coin in my left hand, and pinched it desperately with my right hand. Maybe I used too much strength. Old Zhong finally woke up leisurely. The first sentence was: "What does your hand smell like? It smells so bad !"

Does it stink?I sniffed my hands, no.Lao Zhong looked at me with a confused face, suddenly turned my face to look left and right, and said a word without thinking: "You don't grow mushrooms on your face?" His words made me alert Get up, what mushroom? It turned out that Lao Zhong saw mushrooms growing on my face just now, so he picked up the knife and stabbed me by accident.In his eyes, I became a golden corpse of the Warring States Period, but when I pinched him just now, a stench rushed into his nasal cavity, and he woke up instantly.Stench on hands?It seems that I also smelled a stench just now, and this stench seemed to emanate from that copper coin, and our eyes were locked on this copper coin at once.

Two surprised eyes looked at the copper coin in my hand. I really can't remember what the old man said when he put the copper coin on me, but I do remember that the copper coin never left me.I still remember one time when I participated in an ancient coin exposition in Zhengzhou, I asked people to appraise how much my copper coins could sell for me. Many experts and scholars shook their heads and said that they had never seen such ancient coins, saying they had never seen them. But it might be a treasure, etc., but the playful smile on his face is more like watching an ignorant child taking counterfeit copper coins from nowhere to offer treasures.Just when I was disappointed, an old expert from Shaanxi stared at me and insisted on asking me where I picked up this copper coin. I said it was passed down from my family. The old guy looked at me as if he saw it. A monster, and then pestered me to ask what my last name was. At that time, the old man's aggressive behavior almost scared me to death.I quickly dragged my classmates away.

Now that I think about it, I have a little impression. I remember that old expert once said that this is not a coin at all, but a special kind of ornament. "Adornment?" After hearing my description, Lao Zhong also stared at the copper coin in my hand curiously, took it up to his nose and sniffed it carefully, "Hey, why is it so stinky?" "What?" I took it curiously, put it under my nose and twitched vigorously, ho, a strange smell went straight to my forehead.However, after the smell, it became clearer in my mind. "I remember smelling a scent just now, a smell of burning wood, which smells good, and then my mind became confused, and then I had hallucinations!" Old Zhong fell into thinking. I know why I didn't have hallucinations. The reason is that when I was studying the copper tripod and fish patterns, the copper coins in my hand kept shaking in front of my eyes, and I once smelled the stench on the coins.Could it be the smell of coins that keeps me awake? Old Zhong agreed with my speculation, because when I pinched him just now, he also woke up after smelling a bad smell. So the copper coins quickly woke up the old clock.Is it really the credit of the copper coin?However, what caused Lao Zhong to have hallucinations? Fragrance, it must be fragrance, Old Zhong murmured as he approached the two burning long-burning lamps. At this time, looking at the quaint shapes of the two dragons has a weird taste, especially the two dragons have a bear head, no horns and no scales, and their tails are directly inserted into the big copper vat below them. The cylinder is covered with a thick cover, presumably to prevent the fuel from volatilizing or being damaged by other things. The copper cylinder head takes the dragon's tail as the central axis, and there are no buckles around it, so it seems that it can be pushed open.I hurriedly called Old Zhong over, and the two aimed at one of the copper vats, pushing them in one direction together.It seems to be due to the grease in the copper cylinder, the cylinder head is not as heavy as we imagined, the two people finally moved the cylinder head away slowly after exerting their milking strength, and Lao Zhong and I had no time to wipe off the sweat. I hurriedly stretched my head to the mouth of the tank, wanting to see what kind of fuel inside could still burn continuously after thousands of years. When we saw the contents of the tank clearly, we were all dumbfounded. It was the face, three dry and pale faces, formed into a zigzag, like the three petals of a clover in full bloom.There are no pupils in the eyes, only two black holes left, the mouth is wide open, but the mouth is full of fine fangs, which don't seem to be human teeth, but a bit like the serrated teeth of some animals.What is even more strange is that the face is round and swollen, as if it still maintains the roundness and fullness of life.It is a miracle that the corpse is so well preserved. Just when I reached out to touch it, my hand was grabbed by Lao Zhong. "It's a merman, a waxy merman. This is something that is said to only be found in the three mountains of Penglai in the East China Sea. Look at their lower body." Following Lao Zhong's instructions, I used a tactical spotlight to shine into it. The upper bodies of these three sharks are still intact, maintaining their ginger-yellow waxy bodies, but their lower bodies have been turned into clear oil, and in the clear oil, there are three lower limbs that look like fish bones. "This is the legendary mermaid who sang about Qin Shihuang's search for the undead ship. The lamp made of their oil is said to burn for ten thousand years!" Old Zhong said every word. Sharks have human bodies and fish tails.In Guo Pu's notes, it was said that the people in Diaoti Kingdom were mermaids. The mermaids were slender, with good stature, similar to human beings, and slightly thinner and taller.However, there are translucent leather wings and whiskers between the upper limbs and the sides of the body, which look beautiful and elegant, but this is necessary for swimming in the sea.From the waist down, there are many skirt-like transparent thin belts that are longer than the legs.When swimming, the legs are wrapped in it to facilitate swimming by reducing the resistance of the water flow.According to the legend, the sharks are ancient human beings from a certain country who used magic to change their bodies and hid in the water to avoid the catastrophe of war. Therefore, they have two legs. It is also said that a fisherman was turned into a servant when he met a fairy in the sea, but no one knows the true nature of the sharks. What is the origin of the story, the legend will always be just a legend.Male mermaids have horny fins on their backs, and females are transparent and soft, so males look fierce and females are feminine.Many mermaids regard the waters as their own territory, and hate other races swimming or sailing in the water, because they think the ground is a dirty world, and the ground races will make the water dirty if they enter the water.Therefore, the mermaids often attack the sailing ground races. After listening to Lao Zhong’s textbook-like explanation, I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t expect the mermaid in the legend to appear in front of me, but it’s too different from the mermaid’s image, especially the sharp teeth and ugly face. Connect with the princess in the fairy tale. "Don't be poisoned by some rigid textbooks. Most of the things we haven't seen don't mean they don't exist, just like I once saw the turtle dragon in the Yangtze River. It's not surprising to see this. Maybe you will see many legends in the future. It’s something that you have.” Old Zhong carefully photographed these dead mermaids, while educating me endlessly.But my eyes were attracted by the tailbone soaked in the copper vat.Just beside the fishbone-like tailbone, there seems to be something vaguely reflecting the light from the tactical spotlight. I shook the spotlight on my head from side to side, and a few rays of light in the clear oil also changed in size and color.If you look closely, there are a few scattered crystal clear granular balls at the bottom of the tank.I stretched out my hand to grab it, but when I reached the surface of the oil, I retracted it, took out a piece of copper wire from the old clock's bag, bent it into a small net, and gently scooped up the bead the size of a marble. grain. The whole bead body is transparent and crystal clear, and there is a streamer of light flowing slowly in the bead body under the lamp.Could it be Ye Mingzhu?Excited in my heart, I quickly turned off the spotlight, but was disappointed. My eyes were dark and there was no fluorescence as I imagined. "Fuck, it's not even as good as a fluorescent ball!" I turned on the spotlight again and looked at the transparent bead in disappointment. When I turned on and off the spotlight, I startled the old clock who was taking pictures. He came over and took a look, and then called out softly: "Shark tears!" His surprise made my hand tremble, and the glass ball Just flew out. I looked at him very sadly, and he smiled embarrassedly. After searching for a long time, he couldn't find the transparent bead that flew out: "It's also the first time I've seen this kind of thing. I used to talk to seniors in some books. I’ve seen it in the story.” Lao Zhong followed my example and scooped up a transparent bead, placed it in front of his eyes and kept sighing. "It is said that this kind of sphere is solidified by the tears of the sharks. People say that the tears of the sharks turn into pearls refers to this thing, but the real saying is that the tears of the sharks cannot be solidified into pearls." Old Zhong picked up some of them with tweezers. Cotton carefully wiped the transparent ball at the end of the copper wire. It seemed that he didn't dare to take risks until he fully figured out the identity of this thing. The merman's tears are a kind of crystalline sphere in the merman's body, similar to the stones of other animals, but this kind of crystallization will only form when the merman is in danger of life and death and has great emotional fluctuations.And this kind of sphere is generally produced at the fish tail of the mermaid.These merman tears cannot be obtained unless the merman dies or cuts the merman's tail.Because it is said that merman's tears can cure hundreds of poisons, and the ornaments made of merman's tears are worth tens of thousands of gold, so in ancient times, merman's tears were often said to be the king of pearls.It is said that in the Song Dynasty, a Quanzhou native was kind to a shark, and the shark wept every day to repay the benefactor.According to Lao Zhong's estimate, it might be that the Quanzhou man often threatened the merman and then took out one after a while like taking bear bile. "Do you know what else the Merman's Tears can do?" Lao Zhong's expression resembled that of a court servant in a pawn shop.I shake my head. "It can not only detoxify hundreds of poisons, but also nephrite and fragrant copper." What nephrite and fragrant copper?I'm at a loss.Old Zhong smiled, put on rubber gloves, grabbed the bead body, and then took out a jade pendant from his closet, rubbed them together gently, and then handed the jade pendant to me.I squeezed it with my hands, and the hard jade pendant was as soft as brown sugar where the beads rubbed against it, and I could even pinch out marks with my nails.However, soon Yupei became tough again.Facing the inconceivable look on my face, the old clock gently rubbed the beads against the edge of the copper vat. After a short time, a scent slowly emanated from the friction of the beads, like the smell of burning sandalwood. After a short time, it was very strong, and the fragrance filled the entire tomb. "The older the bronze, the stronger the aroma, and the closer the jade is to the human body, the faster it will soften when rubbed with shark tears. From another perspective, this kind of beads can identify the authenticity of bronze and jade. .” Lao Zhong looked at the half of the shark tears left in his hand with a little pity. Can cure all kinds of poisons?I immediately thought of the poison on Xiao Nie's body. If Shark Tears can cure all poisons, then there must be a strong poison nearby, because the law of mutual generation and mutual restraint will never change. While thinking about it, Lao Zhong's face suddenly changed, he looked behind me, and hurriedly turned around, only to see that Lao Miao had woken up at some point, holding the merman's tears just shaken away in his hand, and opened his eyes. A row of jagged white teeth in the mouth swooped towards us. "Get out of the way!" I pushed the old clock away, but I pushed it empty, and fell on the copper vat, knocking my head heavily on the edge of the copper vat, which made my eyes dazzle and tears flowed from the pain. After I wiped away my tears, I found that Lao Zhong was still standing in front of me with a smile on his face, and Lao Miao was still leaning against a distant pillar, not waking up from his coma.Just when I was about to ask Lao Zhong if he saw Lao Miao waking up just now, he saw Lao Zhong opening and closing his mouth. The loud voice was like the sound of a copper bell coming from the depths of his brain, which made my brain ache. "You...how...how...?" Old Zhong's big face was close in front of me, his voice was like a broken gramophone, his tone was elongated and weird, his face suddenly became like As long as a donkey, I was about to laugh at him, but suddenly I found that his face was rapidly drying up and shrinking, his eyes protruded, his lips turned outwards, and a dead dog grew out of his nostril tremblingly. "The Golden Corpse of the Warring States Period!" I was startled, and I started to grab the whirlwind shovel behind me, and when I grabbed it, I greeted Lao Zhong's head. Old Zhong's stinky face was almost distorted, and he roared wantonly beside me with his fangs and claws. The thunderous roar shook his tympanic membrane, and his head swelled and ached. Finally, under the torment of the headache, I fell to the ground exhausted, and felt that my eyelids were closed like two gates. A stench like almonds went straight to my nostrils, my drowsy head became a little clearer, and I managed to open my eyes, and I saw Lao Zhong squatting in front of me, with the same old wrinkled face, which hadn't changed at all. Mark of. "Hey, you didn't grow mushrooms?" I blurted out, how did the words sound familiar, before I could remember anything, I saw him rubbing my close-fitting copper coin under my nostrils in his hand. I remember that I put the copper coins in the copper tripod in the middle of the hall just now, and I couldn’t get them out no matter how hard I tried just now, why did they suddenly appear in Lao Zhong’s hands again? After listening to what I saw just now, Lao Zhong pondered for a while: "It seems that we are all poisoned, and it is the same poison. This poison can make us all have hallucinations, and this illusion will turn into our minds. The scariest thing I can think of, but this copper coin seems to be the only antidote.” Old Zhong shook the Pisces copper coin in his hand, because there were two fishes that looked like but not like on this coin, so let’s just say Call it a Pisces copper coin. "I've checked. The two big copper vats are full of merman's fat. This kind of fat will produce a vague aroma when it is burned. It is this aroma that makes us hallucinate. How did it form? I'm afraid we have to take samples of these oils to the top for careful analysis." Lao Zhong still pays more attention to the two tanks of mermaids. I was very surprised how Lao Zhong picked out the copper coins. Lao Zhong said: "It's fortunate that you fell down in time just now, otherwise my old bones would have been smashed to pieces by you. Later, when I was avoiding your attack, I Seeing this thing on top of the copper tripod, I tried to pull it off, but after digging for a long time, there was no movement, so I turned it left and right, but I didn't expect that the copper coin would come down after turning it." He shook the copper coin in his hand. What, turned left and right and pulled it out?Could it be that there is some mechanism on this copper tripod?I moved my hands and feet and felt that my strength had almost recovered, so I came to the bronze tripod in the middle with Lao Zhong again. Looking at the copper tripod again, it is completely opposite to the pattern I have seen just now. Many dragon pattern and leopard-shaped inlays have been staggered and turned into a headless leopard shape. Only then did I find that the circle of the copper tripod is nine intaglios. The dragon pattern, and the dragon pattern deviated from its original position due to the accidental hit by Lao Zhong just now. I pressed the copper coin into the gap in the middle again, and then turned the copper tripod together with the old clock. After the copper coin was put in, it was firmly held in the gap. move. Lao Zhong and I carefully matched the nine dragon patterns according to the shape of the dragon pattern on the lid of the tripod, and then looked at the tripod expectantly, but strangely, there was no response from the tripod. I was very disappointed, and was about to unload the copper coins, but the old clock leaned close to the copper tripod to look carefully. "Don't worry, I don't think this is right. You see, these dragon patterns don't fit perfectly." Sure enough, although those dragon patterns match up to form nine dragons, the overall feeling is awkward and blunt. uncomfortable.There seems to be a dagger-shaped decoration next to the copper tripod cover. In this state, the blade of the dagger is separated from the handle. I hold the tripod vigorously and slowly turn the shape of the dagger together.Obviously, the shape of this dagger is the original shape, because the lines and textures fit well. However, we discovered a surprising phenomenon. When the patterns of the dagger fit together, the nine dragon patterns on the cauldron cover turned into nine strange headless dragons. They were said to be dragons, but they were full of murderous aura. sky!This is a rebellious decoration in ancient times. The appearance of this decoration is to be punished by the nine clans, especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which just responded to Dong Zhongshu's thought of the unity of man and nature. The emperor is the son of heaven and the dragon. imprinted in everyone's mind.A dragon with a severed head is for the emperor's head. Who is so bold that he is not afraid of being punished by the nine clans? My series of exclamations did not get any response from Lao Zhong. He was squatting under the bronze tripod to read the words on the tripod when I was busy just now. "There is a kind of people who are not afraid of being exterminated!" Old Zhong said in a deep voice. "Who?" I asked in amazement, "Could it be a fairy?" "It's not a god, it's a person who has been punished by the nine clans!" "What, people who have been punished by the Nine Clans?" I took a breath. Old Zhong smiled, as if relieved: "Unexpectedly, today our unexpected adventure solved a difficult problem in history!" "What problem?" "A family that has disappeared in history but has always existed in history books!" What?What vanished family?When I was about to ask questions, I suddenly heard a dull beating sound inside the copper tripod, as if something in the tripod was slowly bouncing away. The copper tripod cover was slowly shifting, and then gently opened a crack.Old Zhong and I looked at each other, and then we were going to step forward to open the copper cover. But Lao Zhong grabbed me and connected the whirlwind shovel piece by piece. Then the two of them stood far away and pushed open the cauldron cover with the pole of the whirlwind shovel. With a sound of "啪!", the cauldron cover was pushed open a crack, and the solid copper tripod appeared to be loose. The two of us took advantage of this force to move the cauldron cover slowly. After a dull loud noise, the cauldron cover finally It fell on the brick surface of bluestone. The phenomenon of flying arrows and poisonous fog did not appear as I imagined. I was about to laugh at Lao Zhong's timidity, but suddenly I heard the sound of a pig, followed by a heart-piercing cry of a child. . The sudden sound startled me. We slowly approached the tripod, only to find that the smooth wall inside the tripod was dotted with depictions of three-legged golden crows, jade toads in the moon, seven stars in the northern sky, and southern sky. Cross Star, Xitianxuan Female Star, Eastern Ziwei Emperor Star, Ziwei Emperor Star has a ferocious fangs copper pig, and the copper pig the size of a wolf dog has a child in its mouth. , was naked, struggling and crying, and a stream of blood was dripping from the pig's mouth. When I got closer and took a closer look, I found that the child was carved out of jade, black jade for hair, ocher for skin, and no hair left Now, it is lifelike, and the ruby ​​is like blood, which is gloomy and flowing under the light, like blood flowing forever.There is a dagger and a white jade box next to the bronze pig statue. "It's so vicious!" Old Zhong took a breath after seeing the bronze pig statue, "I didn't expect the death curse formation in the legend to be true!" Old Zhong met my gaze and said, "Your grandfather said That's right, there is indeed a human head sacrificial tower in the Warring States period!" As soon as I said this, another burst of heart-piercing cries rang in my ears without warning, and this sound suddenly sounded in the originally silent tomb. shudder. I was startled, and quickly looked at the little doll in the copper tripod, nothing unusual appeared.I asked Lao Zhong: "Did you hear crying?" Lao Zhong kept staring at the copper pig and the little doll in the copper tripod and did not answer my question.Immediately afterwards, there was another wailing sound, which made the back of my neck feel cold, and I shook the old clock's arm and asked if I heard it.Old Zhong still looked like an old god, he didn't seem to hear any sound, he still focused on the pig statue in the bronze tripod and checked the watch in his hand from time to time. Is it my hallucination?Could it be an auditory hallucination caused by my being poisoned again?I fumbled for the copper coins that I just picked out from the copper tripod cover and became dizzy for a while. Could it be that I was poisoned again?Just as I was cruising, there were two very clear cries. It seems to come from the candle-burning copper vat on the left. The copper vat cover on the right of the two large copper vats on the left and right has been pushed away by me and Lao Zhong, while the copper vat on the left is in line with the The one on the right seems to be different. Take a closer look at this copper vat. There are many portraits of human faces and fish bodies carved around it. It seems to be a mermaid but not like it, because it is all fish from the neck down, while a mermaid has a complete upper body limbs and a particularly obvious human body. Characteristically, the image of this copper tank seems to be a fish with a human head directly on it. I am more and more sure that the sound is coming from this big tank. When I approach the big tank and take a closer look, I always feel that there seems to be something hiding from me behind the tank.Looking back at the old clock who was concentrating on studying the bronze tripod, he decided to go and see for himself. I looked around the copper vat and found no special signs. It seems that there is no big difference from the copper vat on the right. The tail is still the axis, a smooth large copper cover, and the side ears are on the side of the copper vat. I listened outside, but there seemed to be no sound inside. I tried to push the cylinder head open by myself, but I didn't know that just after I pushed it, the shrill cry sounded, which made me shiver, and then I found a circle of fist-sized air holes around the cylinder head.Old Zhong also looked back at me: "What are you doing?" "I heard voices in here!" "Really? What's the sound? Why didn't I hear it?" Old Zhong had a confused expression on his face. Damn, no, there is a voice ringing in my ears! "It's the cry of a child, like the cry of a little brother bitten!" I made a nondescript metaphor with a serious face. Old Zhong also looked at me with a serious face, and said solemnly: "I haven't heard anyone's report of a penis being bitten!" Seeing that his serious expression didn't look like a joke, I told him exactly what I heard after opening the copper tripod.After listening to it, he didn't question what I said, but he also looked at the copper vat on the left very seriously. "You can't hear the voice I heard, don't you think I'm an auditory hallucination caused by poisoning?" I asked him a little puzzled. "It's not that simple, it has nothing to do with poisoning, don't forget, you still have yin and yang eyes with strange pupils!" Old Zhong seemed to ignore the fact that I would be poisoned. While Lao Zhong was speaking, a more heart-piercing sound came out again, and I was almost sure it came from this copper vat. Together with Lao Zhong, I slowly pushed the cylinder head away. This cylinder head was obviously heavier than the previous one. After a lot of twists and turns, the cylinder head was finally slowly removed by a gap. Can't wait to shine the spotlight into that gap, wanting to quickly see what's inside.As soon as the gap was illuminated, my heart suddenly tightened, and the blood in my whole body seemed to stop flowing in an instant. In the gap two fingers wide, a pair of big black and white eyes stared straight at me. "Ah!" I yelled, bouncing back quickly as if avoiding the footwashing water that would splash on my body. Old Zhong was startled by my startled expression and looked at me puzzled. "Eyes, a pair of eyes!" I basically spoke incoherently, "There are two eyes in it, a living person!" Old Zhong was a little frightened when he heard my illogical nonsense with obvious insane style. This is an ancient tomb that is almost a thousand years old. How could there be a living cat in an ancient tomb that is six or seven meters deep underground? Moreover, it is a large tomb with many organs.Lao Zhong despises me a little bit, anyway, I am also a big old man, and I am too timid. He also went up to take a look, and then turned back and gave me a blank look: "There is nothing!" "Impossible." I bowed my head again with a puzzled expression.Strange, there is really nothing, but just now I clearly saw a pair of eyes here. "Could it be again..." Lao Zhong fell into the conjecture about my yin and yang eyes again.I can't stand him. I looked back again, damn it, those eyes appeared again, and the pupils in the eyeballs could be clearly seen.There was a little excitement in my tone: "Quick, quick, quick, come and see, eye, eye, eye!" Afterwards, Lao Zhong said that my tone was not that I saw a terrifying monster, but it was a bit like seeing a monster. Idol singer. Old Zhong leaned over suspiciously, and I moved aside for him, but he still didn’t find anything after taking a look. He looked at me with distrustful eyes, and warned me that such a joke was not fun. .At this moment, he heard a "crash" in the copper vat, and Lao Zhong immediately turned his head. He looked at the gap, and immediately flew away like a spring. "You saw it too!" I was a little gloating, and he pointed at the copper vat: "Tongue, long tongue!" He also seemed to be a little out of breath. I leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, a mouth floated up from the gap at some point, with a bright red tongue sticking out of the mouth.Suddenly goosebumps spread all over his body. Lao Zhong and I discussed for about five minutes whether to continue to open the cylinder head. My opinion is to open it firmly. conservatives.He seriously pointed out that our current behavior has destroyed the original structure of the tomb, and we should quickly return to the surface and send the old Miao who has taken sedative drugs to the hospital as soon as possible. But soon I discovered that there was something insincere in what Lao Zhong said. After all, for him, there were too many secrets in this tomb. It was an archaeological expert's lifelong dream to encounter such a tomb. After reaching the ground, there will be no chance of this tomb anymore. It is very likely that the country will completely seal up this tomb, just like sealing up other large tombs in Xi'an. Finally, Comrade Lao Zhong could not resist my temptation, in fact, he could not resist the temptation in his heart, and once again worked together with me to push the cylinder head open. This time, the two of us not only put on gas masks, but also thickened fiber body armor.It was later proved that our measure was not only unnecessary, but also extremely wrong. After pushing off the cylinder head, what appeared under the two 800-watt tactical spotlights was a cylinder full of waxy human heads. The eyelids on the bare heads had been cut off, revealing big black and white eyes. And outside the mouth is a tongue nearly two palms long.This pile of human heads is like a pile of face-painted balls, constantly rolling, ups and downs in the lamp liquid that is slowly turning into clear oil, because the lamp is burning, the high temperature has slowly turned the paste-like lamp oil in the copper tank When it melted away, the human head embedded in it also rolled up and down as the lamp oil boiled.The heads of these people vary in size, and there are even two that can be clearly seen as children. The heads also quickly turned black after contact with the air. After a while, the lamp oil seemed to become cloudy and turned into a boiling oil soup. , some waxy flesh that is not very pure is still flying. The lamp oil of these pastes covered the skulls that seemed to have been intentionally processed. Not only did they not disappear after thousands of years of weathering, but they kept their rare original forms. I don't know if the national cultural relics protection department will trouble me, because if they know that I vomited for a long time holding a copper pot of wine in a Han tomb that has been around for more than 2,000 years, they don't know how they will feel.I don't know what other people think, but I saw Lao Zhong's expression, as if his mother had remarried.After suppressing his nausea, he kicked my ass. "Go away and spit!" Lao Zhong seemed to be a little bit unable to hold back, "Don't hook my spit energy!" Just when I was holding the copper pot and was about to find some silk soil, mahogany ash and other things to pour into the copper pot to suppress the smell, I suddenly found that there seemed to be something wrong with the ferocious big wild boar in the copper tripod in the middle of the tomb hall. My discovery made Lao Zhong also surround him.After pinching my nose and putting the copper pot in the corner, I returned to the copper tripod with Old Zhong. 果然，铜鼎里的野猪是和机关一起的，原来它嘴里叼的玉雕娃娃是头朝下的，可是现在那个小娃娃不知道什么时候已经变成了头朝上，而且玉石小娃娃的肚脐眼位置似乎还有一幅图，在小娃娃的胸口位置还有个字，老钟用数码相机拍了下来，在射灯下放大看，就在那张照片即将呈现在眼前的时候，头上的战术射灯突然猛地亮了一下，然后就开始慢慢发黄。我们俩的脸色一下就变了。out of battery!肆无忌惮地使用终于使原本可以坚持十八个小时的电量在八个小时内就耗尽了。就在我们俩一筹莫展之际，就听见“咣当”声响，好像一个沉重的东西倒伏在地上，紧接着，硕大的墓厅里燃起了冲天的火光，火光灼起之际，似乎那若有若无的哭声又响起来，这次，已经不是单一的小孩哭泣声，而像大合唱一般响起了人间地狱般的哭吼和呐喊，老钟一下就抓紧了我的胳膊：“你听到有好多人的哭声没？” 我哭丧着脸回答：“不仅听到了，我还看到了！恐怕今天出不去了！”老钟猛地推我一把：“那还不赶紧去把老苗拉过来！” 就在我把老苗拉回来的时候，这才发现是刚刚打开的铜缸倒伏在了地上，无角的蛟龙口里吐出的火焰燃着了四处流淌的灯油，那些缸里的人头就像皮球一样四处蹦跳开来。墓室的温度一下就升高了，缸底突然洒落出来一些乒乓球大小透明的鱼卵，不少弹跳着飞进了角落的铜壶里，不大会儿的工夫，铜壶里发出了一些怪声，一些怪模怪样的小鱼爬了出来。这种鱼有着跟身体极不搭配的一颗大脑袋，爬行速度极快，径直朝着四处散落的人头爬了过去，紧接着发生的事情让人目瞪口呆，那些小鱼很快就把散落在地上的人头啃噬个干净，露出了森森的白骨，那些小鱼随之也像吹气球一样胀大，很快我就看清楚了鱼头——那分明是一张没有眉毛的人脸。 吃完了人头的百十条人脸怪鱼似乎依然很饥饿，顺着滑顺的灯油四处寻觅食物，不少已经冲我们爬了过来。 它们的吞噬速度只能用可怕来形容，不消片刻工夫散落在地上的人头都已经被这些饿了将近千年的怪鱼啃了个干干净净，争咬的恐怖不亚于我在热带公园里看到的亚马逊食人鱼，而且它们似乎有饥不择食的习惯，我们眼睁睁地看着这些怪鱼把我丢弃在角落里的那些呕吐物吃了进去，我的肠胃再次遭受了一次痛苦的打击。 老钟似乎也受惊吓不轻，因为他已经在冲天的火焰中看清楚了数码相机里面的照片，那个小娃娃的肚子上一个大大的“彘”字，而野猪的身上竟然是一个大大的“戚”字，当然这是后来老钟才告诉我的，因为当时我紧张得连旋风铲都捏不稳了，当然没有心思听他胡扯什么字了。 就在老钟想告诉我点什么的时候，这种怪鱼像潮水一样蜂拥而至，迅速膨胀长大的鱼尾就像跳蚤的腿筋一样充满了力道，竟然可以跃起来攻击，一条鱼刚才就差点弹到我的脸上，被我用旋风铲狠狠地拍落到了地上，结果那条鱼依然不依不饶地用尖利的牙齿死命咬住铁铲，嘎嘣嘣的声音听着让人汗毛直竖。我用力地在地上猛铲，咬在铲沿的怪鱼被截成两半径直飞到了怪鱼群里，结果不消片刻，那只死去的怪鱼就被其他的鱼很快吃掉，嚼碎骨头的声音不由得让人毛骨悚然。 我手里不停地拍击着潮水一般冲上来的怪鱼，一手还要拖着老苗，虽然平常也经常锻炼身体，但是现在这种情形也让人吃不消，老钟也被另外一群怪鱼牢牢地围了起来，他把背包相机等东西绑在身上，用旋风铲边拍边退，很快就退到了刚才鲛人灯缸的地界，踩着缸沿就攀在那条无角的蛟灯上，到底姜是老的辣，竟然这么快就脱离了困境。我四下看了一下，自己就在对称的蛟灯旁边，长吸一口气把老苗挂在铜蛟灯的铜钩上，靠在铜缸旁边的蛟灯，就在这短短的几个呼吸之间就有十几条怪鱼撞在了我的身上，幸亏我的脸上戴了那个坏掉的面罩，要不然真的被这种怪鱼给咬到。 就在我刚刚爬上缸沿的一刹那，我突然觉得背后一阵的寒意，回头一看，老苗竟然直愣愣地看着我，一双眼睛瞪得跟铜铃似的。 奶奶的，难不成这个也中毒了？我一脸戒备地看着他，虽然还有怪鱼不时地弹跳起来妄图攻击我们，但是威胁已经大大地减小了。就在我考虑是不是先给老苗拍一铲子直接让他晕过去，省得他把我当成金尸再给我一刀，哪知道老苗竟然开口说：“他妈的，咬到我屁股啦！” what!活见鬼了，怎么这老小子突然醒过来了，老钟明明说给老苗服下的镇静剂足以让他睡够二十四个小时。老苗被我捆得像个粽子似的挂在蛟灯上面的铜钩上，晃荡过来晃荡过去，转过身去，就看到一只怪鱼正狠狠地叮在老苗的屁股上。我憋住笑，用旋风铲狠狠地冲着怪鱼就扫了过去，只听见“刺啦”一声响，怪鱼带着一块衣服料子被我活生生地拍落在地上。就听得老苗一通乱叫：“有没有咬到我？有没有咬到我？”看着他在灯光下白花花的一块屁股，我差点笑岔气。 老苗不满地瞪我一眼，伸手问我要吃的。我目瞪口呆地看他吃完了我随身带的所有巧克力，喝光了浓缩饮料，吃净了我的压缩饼干，哪还有一点中毒的迹象啊，简直就是饿死鬼投胎。 老苗看起来明显地跟以前不一样，但是具体不一样在哪里我一时半会还说不上来。这时候老钟似乎也在对面的大缸上稳住了脚步，大声问：“出什么事了？” 我回答说：“老苗醒了！” “噢，哎呀！”老钟突然叫了一声就没反应了。我和老苗一阵大急，扯着嗓子喊老钟，可是喊了半晌依然没有反应，战术射灯的电已经用完了，只能依靠满地油燃的火光来寻找老钟的身影，可是或短或长的影子拉扯得满地都是，我们已经分不清楚哪个才是老钟的身影，而且就在缸下面，成百条饥肠辘辘的怪鱼正等着我们下去给它们加餐呢。说起来加餐，我的肠胃一阵难受，我开始想念午餐的盖浇饭了。 老苗吃完了东西精神明显好了很多，我开始把积攒在心里的一系列问题抛出来。老苗说先不忙回答你的问题，现在主要是先解决眼下的危机，铲除这些怪物赶紧和老钟会合。我见他说得很有把握的样子问他有什么办法，老苗摇摇头。 我看着地上还在游弋的那些怪鱼，它们找不到食物似乎已经开始自相残杀了，好多稍微小点的鱼已经被身边的同伴给无情地撕吃掉了，看得我一阵恶寒。看了看身旁的蛟灯和身边的一缸鲛人油，我对老苗说：“顾命要紧，管不了那么多了！”老苗还没弄明白是怎么回事，我就用旋风铲舀了灯油狠狠地泼向那些怪鱼，然后从口袋里掏出来一个冒牌的ZIPPO“啪”地打着火，刷的一下就扔到了地上。 虽然没有我想象中那种像汽油一样腾起熊熊的火焰，但是这种鲛人油也不是盖的，淡蓝色的火焰很快就把那些在地上肆虐的怪鱼给淹没了，只看到那些怪鱼在蓝火里四处弹跳，估计很快就没命了。 我长出一口气，刚准备下缸沿，却被老苗一把给拉住：“这是吐火罗鱼，相传是昆仑王母守护焰池的神兽，要是这么容易就死掉，墓主人就没有必要把它们藏在这里了。”仿佛是为了验证老苗的话，不大会儿的工夫，蓝色的火焰就慢慢地熄灭掉了，那些怪鱼依然横行无忌，还有几条仿佛是挑衅一般竟然想飞身靠近，被我狠狠地都给揍了下去。 “我靠，这是什么怪物啊？他妈竟然火烧不死？”我有点气馁。 老苗看我一眼，一脸的惊讶：“你想用这些油把它们烧死啊？” “是啊！”我点点头，然后就看见老苗看我的眼神仿佛在看一个傻瓜。 只见他把手伸进了鲛人缸里，还没等我阻止的话说出口，他就点燃了火机引燃了手上的油脂，就在我想象着他撕心裂肺的哭喊的时候，他的手上已经跳动起了蓝色的火苗，整个手都笼罩在一团蓝色的火焰里，而他脸上则是一脸邪恶的微笑。 皇天在上，我还是第一次看见有人这样把自己的手给点着的，上次看见类似的情况是在《大话西游》里，可人家周星星同学点的是别人的手好不好，你又不是神仙，干吗要学人家神仙玩自残啊。 老苗似乎玩够了，微笑地看着手上的蓝火渐渐熄灭，我急忙夺过他的手仔细察看，还是那张老树皮似的糙手，除了上面似乎汗津津的有点温温的水渍以外，其他的几乎没有任何改变。 我一脸的敬仰让老苗的虚荣心得到了小小的满足，他很快就揭示了谜底：“其实这根本算不上什么神奇，就因为这是鲛人油。” “鲛人油？”一头问号。 “对，鲛人油，仅以大约一杯的油脂就能维持一盏长明灯百年之用，所以这一大缸的鲛人油用个几千年一点问题也没有，最重要的一点是鲛人油燃点非常低，燃烧的时候所达到的温度最高才五十摄氏度而已，这就解释了为什么烧不死这些鱼，而且我的手没事！” 太他娘的神奇了，竟然有这样的东西，燃烧而且不产生过高的温度，虽然我不知道会有什么用处，但是直觉告诉我，这些东西一定会有大用，我公然拿了一个水壶把鲛人油罐了满满一壶，心里还安慰自己，反正这些鲛人油也是要被烧完的，还不如我拿一点样品回去做研究，只不过这个样品稍微多了点。同时还不忘了把老钟刚才给我的鲛人明珠偷偷地藏在贴身的口袋里，老苗似乎装作没看见的样子。管他娘的！ 刚才这一番魔术表演差点让我忘了下面的危机，刚刚松了一口气就看到一条怪鱼飞似的弹跳起来。我再次向老苗提出了消灭怪鱼的计划，老苗无奈地摇头：“要使这些鱼死掉只有两个办法，要么是它们互相残杀吞噬直到没有任何的食物，然后饿死，要么就是等它们身下的那些液体彻底的干涸，活活地把它们干在那里。”我看了一眼它们身下的那些液体，就是刚刚从另外一个铜缸里倾倒出来的灯油，似乎是一种油脂和液体的混合物，在阴冷的地下，要等这些东西干涸，估计干涸之后，我和老苗就可以直接做骨架标本了。 老苗从我的背包里拿出来一盘绳子，挽了一个活套，熟练抛出去，套在了对面蛟龙灯的龙头上，然后用力地拉紧之后绑在了这边蛟龙灯的铜身上，用手试了试松紧对我说：“我要爬过去看看老钟怎么了！” 我看了一眼地上弹跳着准备随时袭击我们的怪鱼，一把抓过绳子：“我年轻，身体灵活，可以爬过去，还是让我来吧。”老苗把我的手拨开，用力一拉就准备攀上去，就在这个时刻，本来是直耸的两座蛟龙铜灯突然一歪，只听见底座里“喀啦”一声巨响，仿佛是地震一般整个墓室都开始晃动起来，就在刚才中间铜鼎的地方，一条巨大的裂缝正在慢慢地扩大，许多燃着的灯油随着裂缝燃照了整个缝隙，只见缝隙里是个巨大的黑洞，随着火焰越来越多，黑洞里的景物也清晰起来，里面竟然是一个个紧紧挨在一起的白色人头骨，一个个空洞无神的眼洞在蓝火下显得十分诡异。 “战国斩首塔！”老苗喃喃自语，“找到了，这传说的极阴之地，原来是这样！”还没来得及问他是怎么回事，就听见很沉闷的“喀啦”一声巨响，紧接着又一声，紧接着又一声，接连六声响过以后，就听见好像有许多昆虫爬过一样的沙沙声，老苗听到这声音脸色一变，仰天长叹：“难道真的要黄沙埋骨了吗？” 我十分惊恐地看着老苗，不知道为什么一向冷静的他竟然发出这样的哀叹，两盏蛟龙铜灯被拉倒以后，遍地的灯油都开始燃着了，整个墓室都被蓝色的火焰所充斥，就在对面铜缸的位置，老钟用一种很难描述的姿势蹲在缸沿上，我们这才发现他被抛到了一个尴尬的位置。 原来，这两盏铜灯是一个机关眼，所谓机关眼就是指各种机械机关或者大型的精巧工具触发的“钥匙”，老苗无意中套牢了两个铜的蛟龙灯，同时发力的结果使两个铜蛟龙灯被拉倒，蛟龙倒掉之后就触发了隐藏在墓室里的机关，于是整个大墓最底层的东西被剥落出来，而此时老钟恰恰在裂缝的边缘。事后我们才知道，老钟是看到老苗突然动起来才惊讶地叫出来，而我们却误会老钟中招了，结果老苗好心办坏事，在拉动蛟龙的时候力道拿捏得恰好，一扯之间拉动了本来就隐藏的机关。 墓室底部的裂缝绽开之后，铜缸歪斜在裂缝旁边，而老钟恰好想要在缸上移动，于是就在这好似计算好的时机中，铜缸立在裂缝边缘，而老钟所处的位置恰恰就是整个铜缸的平衡点，于是，老钟同志用一种极其难看的拉屎姿势蹲在稍微颤动的铜缸边沿，竭力保持着整个的物理平衡。 沙沙声还是不绝于耳，老苗的脸色也越来越难看，就在我依然注意老钟的时候，就听见地上好像有阵阵嘶哑的惨叫声，这时候往地上一看，足足把我吓了一跳。 不知道什么时候，在墓室的周围突然冒出来六只铜铸的虎头，这六只虎头线条流畅，用笔简洁，黑黝黝的头上闪烁着蓝火的光芒，而六只虎头的虎耳附近都生着翅膀一样的怪翼，六只虎头的下巴都是活动的，现在都充分地张大张开，一股股黄色的物体从口里喷涌而出，就像决了堤的洪水一样直接溅射在了地面上。 老苗痛苦地呻吟了一声：“彪头！” “什么？什么头？”我回头看老苗。 “传说虎狮交配而生彪，彪生双翼，能飞但生吃父母，因此被称为不祥之物，后来被佛祖的伏魔金刚收为坐骑，专食恶鬼邪魔，是六道轮回中阿鼻地狱的接引兽，而很多古墓都把彪视作主人的贴身守护，专门负责在轮回之中接引亡者灵魂……”说到这里老苗突然一拍头说，“不对啊，佛教传入我国都是西汉末期的事情了？” 正当史学专家老苗为自己刚发现的问题苦恼不已的时候，六头彪口里吐出来的东西已经开始四处弥漫了。虽然我也一度把这些东西当成了液体，但是很快我就发现，这些东西不仅不是液体，而且是实实在在的固体，是沙砾，是动能极高、流动速度极快的沙砾，因为沙砾过于细小，而且跳动性十足，就像一股迸流的小溪。 不仅老钟看呆了，我也看傻了，因为那些看着十分彪悍的怪鱼一碰到这些黄沙砾就一阵阵地怪叫，然后一阵轻烟冒起，黄沙砾就像带有腐蚀性的硫酸一样把触到的怪鱼给吞噬了。黄沙越聚越多，很快就铺满了整个地面，那些碰到黄沙的怪鱼无一例外都化在了里面。 我好奇地蹲在缸沿上一点也不着急，看着沙砾慢慢在脚下堆积，这突如其来的变故把我们最直接的威胁都给消灭了，这会儿我倒一点都不着急，招手对老苗说：“这些沙子好像是这些怪鱼的天敌啊，这些沙子是什么东西？” 这时候老苗带了一副爹死娘改嫁的神情对我说：“是金沙，纯金沙！” “我靠！”我一阵雀跃，这墓主人真是富得流油了，连金沙都敢填到墓里，活该有人来盗他的墓，不过这个想法好像与我们从事的职业不符，“能带走吗？”我兴奋地问。 还没等我高兴过来，老苗就恶狠狠地说：“等你死了都是你的！” “什么？”我回头望着他。他一字一顿地说：“这是毒金沙，碰到就腐骨烂肉，是古墓里最常用的对付盗墓贼的方法，我们已经触碰到了机关，只要半个小时，整个墓室就被金沙给填满了，到时候我们不被毒死，也被闷死了！” 我听了这话也傻了，就在这个时候就听见远处老钟大声喊：“小娄，赶紧走，守墓兽动了！” 金沙是不管不顾，一个劲往下倾泻，而我和老苗大眼瞪小眼毫无招数，那边的老钟撅着个屁股可怜巴巴地蹲在铜缸边沿，不敢动也不能动。他显然也看出来了这两条铜蛟龙灯的关键所在，所以冒着晃动的危险大吼了一声，提醒我们危险的临近。