Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve

It seemed that several hours had passed in a trance, but in fact, it took nearly ten minutes. The big ball with the copper tripod buckled finally fell silent amidst the rumbling and thundering sound. Covering my ears, I felt as if my whole head had just been blasted by a bomb. The sound of the huge copper bell kept rippling in my mind like an echo. I didn't even dare to open my mouth, because I was afraid that my brain would come out of it burst out. After all, relying on my physical strength, I almost returned to normal in a short period of time. When I opened my eyes, I found that the entire copper tripod was completely dark, as if my eyes were blind, and suddenly there seemed to be no light in it.I tried my best to open my eyes wide, but everything was in vain, I still couldn't see anything. In a place without any light, it was the same to open my eyes and close them.I remember that my grandfather once said that if you can’t see at all, it’s better to close your eyes and explore by your own feeling, which is more effective. I remember it’s called the blind effect.

"Old clock." I tried to call out, but there were buzzing echoes all around, but there was no sound. I fumbled around and found nothing. My heart tightened suddenly: Could it be, they... Thinking of this, I felt nervous and opened my eyes subconsciously. At this time, it seemed that a faint light slowly emerged from the ground, and I could vaguely see two people lying down on the ground. In the distance, judging from my figure, the one closer to me is Lao Zhong, and the one farther away is Lao Miao.I hurried over and pulled Lao Zhong's head up to see if he was injured. The two of them just fainted temporarily, and they recovered slowly with their extraordinary physique. What I was most worried about was the two of them Is there any head injury, because it is very likely that the brain was damaged in the strong impact shock just now.

Although the light in the tripod was extremely dim, I could still see that they both began to open their eyes slowly, but they were looking at each other in a daze and aimlessly, their hands were groping around helplessly, and I quickly grabbed them. One, his heart sank, the most terrible thing happened, it is very likely that their heads were injured in the collision just now, resulting in the blindness of both of them, but I can't break it at this time, I am afraid of breaking the blind at this time Facts will cause two people to lose their normal mentality, and I have no experience in the tomb, and I have to rely on them, so I can only use lies to delay time.

"Old Miao? Can you see things?" Old Zhong seemed to feel something was wrong. "I can't see anything. This damn thing is sealed so well that no light can get through." Lao Miao thought it was because there was no light in the cauldron.This also dispelled Lao Zhong's doubts in time. Old Zhong sighed: "It would be great if there was a light stick, just turn the eye of the mechanism under the copper pig to the right position, and it can be opened." What?Listening to Lao Zhong's confident appearance, could it be that he has foreseen what will happen?Could it be that he had already thought of all this at the critical moment just now when he twisted the mechanism and raised his eyes recklessly?

When I sent out all these questions, Lao Zhong gave me a very helpless answer. He did crack the codes around the copper pig. This is a very typical cassette lock, and some seemingly unconnected All the clues are the key to cracking this code. "Do you still remember the seemingly unreasonable zodiac turntable?" Old Zhong seemed a little tired, leaning against the cauldron to take a rest. Of course I remember, at that time, I found that the zodiac around the copper pig did not match the normal zodiac, but adopted a very strange combination. The twelve zodiac and the twelve earthly branches were completely reversed, and two very The key zodiac signs are Rat at the beginning and Hai at the end.But judging from our later encounters, the missing Hai and Rat both appeared, and they all appeared at the most critical moment.Hai is undoubtedly the wild boar cast in the copper tripod, and the rat, the oldest animal in the Chinese zodiac, also appears in the secret key with a shining yellow snake in its mouth.

"The Han Dynasty respected yellow as the color of the emperor, and the yellow snake was the yellow dragon. At that time, Liu Bang claimed to be the yellow dragon, and the mouse was a fierce god in some ancient legends in some places in the Central Plains. He used the fierce god to suppress the yellow dragon. The owner of this tomb is obviously Point the finger at the Western Han Dynasty!" Lao Miao interjected when Lao Zhong was talking about the twelve zodiac signs. "Yes, the yellow snake refers to the yellow dragon. When Liu Bang was born, it was said that his mother was pregnant with the yellow dragon in the wild. After killing the white snake uprising, an old woman cried and said that the son of Emperor Yan killed the son of Emperor Bai." Old Zhong Shun Speaking of Lao Miao's words, "So, at that time, it was believed that the emperor of the Han Dynasty was the incarnation of Huanglong."

"The copper pig is Hai, so the missing combination is Hai rat and Zizhu. Did you just turn the head of the wild boar to the position of Zizhu, which caused the triggering of a series of organs?" It seemed that something suddenly came to mind. I asked Lao Zhong. Old Zhong hummed: "Which of you is beside the copper pig now?" He wanted to feel his way to the middle. "Here I am!" I echoed. "Indeed, as you said, I did pull the wild boar to the position of the sub-pig at the last moment, which triggered a series of mechanisms, because in the entire combination of the twelve zodiac signs and the twelve earthly branches, only these two are missing." At that time, I hesitated for a long time to choose Zizhu or Haishu, but I still chose Zizhu, do you know why?" Old Zhong had a hint of complacency.

"Why?" Lao Miao and I asked at the same time. "Intuition! The intuition of an old cultural relic worker for decades!" Looking at the old clock in the dim copper tripod, he couldn't hide his pride.I was so angry that I wanted to K him, this old guy is too thick-skinned. Before our sarcasm came out, Lao Zhong gave an order: "Boy, feel around with your hands, and move the mouth of that mouse to the position of the rat." Since I could see clearly, I pulled the mouse over without much effort. "Have you got it?" Old Zhong asked. "Of course I can see it!" I said.

"What? Can you see it?" The two exclaimed at the same time.At this moment, the copper tripod moved. It was true as what Old Zhong said, after the bronze tripod trembled for a while, like two separated shells, a crack opened gently, and the outside was dark. At this time, I heard two old guys say to me very depressedly: "Why are you closing your eyes?" "You kept your eyes closed all the time!" These two old guys made fun of me as soon as they got out of trouble. If I had kept my eyes closed, how could I have successfully unlocked the mechanism and opened my eyes just now.However, after opening the copper tripod, the original faint light disappeared, replaced by boundless darkness. The heavy landing just now seemed to bring us into a lower tomb.

Just when I was trying to find the light and try to identify the things around me, I felt a pair of big hands start to touch my face, and then another pair of big hands touched it. Judging from the roughness, the former is Lao Zhong's, and the latter's Lao Miao's. Lao Miao and Lao Zhong exclaimed at the same time, and heard a "crack", as if something was being rubbed, and then the "crack" sound began to be heard continuously, and the hands on the face stopped moving.It seemed that the two of them had discovered something, but something was wrong. From the tone of their voices, it was not them but me who couldn't see something?

I was really puzzled in my heart, and was about to ask, when both hands ran towards my face at the same time. "Kid, open your eyes quickly, what are you doing?" "Where are you jumping with your eyes closed? Quickly open your eyes and take a look, I'm sure it will surprise you!" The voices of the two old guys were anxious one after the other, and I was also anxious, my eyes were obviously open, why did they insist that I did not open my eyes? "Stop talking nonsense, both of you, hurry up and find a way to find out, my eyes are almost popping out, and I can't see anything!" My nose was almost crooked, obviously when they were sealed in the copper tripod just now, the two of them followed each other. Like a blind man, it's like I'm blind right now. "What?" The two asked a question, "You said your eyes are open now?" The surprised voice seemed to have seen a ghost. Lao Zhong grabbed my hand and touched his eyelids: "Touch it yourself, feel it, your eyelids haven't opened yet!" Sure enough, my hand felt the existence of the eyelids at the position of the eyes.what happened?how can that be possible?My eyes are clearly open now!Although I can't see anything, my brain tells me that my eyes are always working now. Could it be that I am really blind?Could it be that the terrible collision just now caused unknowing damage to my head?A terrible thought instantly covered my heart, and my whole body was cold. No, if I was blind, I would not have been able to see in the copper tripod just now. After the panic, a trace of calm surged up, and I began to look less panicked. "Can you see things now?" Start by identifying your surroundings. "Are there any lights around?" "Yeah." The old clock was still flicking back and forth on my face, even if he raised my eyelids, I couldn't feel the presence of light at all. "Is it true that you are blind?" Lao Miao whispered to Lao Zhong.After being blind unexpectedly, my hearing developed abnormally, and Lao Miao's deliberately lowered voice was heard by me. "Not blind, because when he was in the copper tripod just now, he said he could see things inside." Lao Zhong immediately denied Lao Miao's statement. "Yes, I saw it, otherwise it would be impossible to get to the most prominent position in such a short period of time!" I quickly confirmed what Lao Zhong said, but I was actually cheering myself up, and I was still a little uneasy in my heart. "Can you tell me what you all see now?" I am full of curiosity about where I am now. Lao Zhong seemed to be still thinking about my sudden blindness, and Lao Miao played the role of explainer. "We are now brought to the lower floor of the original tomb hall by this bronze tripod. It is a typical tomb in the shape of a '中'. If we guessed right, we are now at the end of the vertical line in the middle of the Chinese character." "How can you see all this?" I was suddenly a little curious, because the tactical spotlights had been left in the upper tomb, and even if they were taken down, the batteries had already been exhausted, which was purely a burden. "There are rows of copper frames in this tomb, and each frame is placed in a certain order. At the top of the copper frame is a pearl about the size of a fist. All the light sources are emitted from this pearl!" Lao Zhong affirmed what Lao Miao said, and then added. Damn it, Ye Mingzhu.I was so excited that I forgot my situation at once, and started to feel secretly, how many sports cars would I have to change to bring this one on the ground? Think about it, how cool it is to drive a sports car every day, I just He briefly fancied himself, and kept counting how much a luminous pearl was worth. Old Zhong said to me: "You don't look like a general guarding the tomb, you are just a mountain trekker." After listening to his words, I regretted for a while, and began to understand why so many people like tomb robbers. I was held by them, and I groped forward step by step. "Don't move, there's someone over there!" I jerked their hands, both of them trembled, and they both stood there motionless, and it took me a long time to realize that I shouldn't be able to see anything. "Don't be surprised, there is nothing over there." Lao Miao was dissatisfied with me teasing them. "It's a real person. I don't lie to you. I saw her. She looks like a woman. She wears clothes that are not modern. It seems to be a very large kimono. It looks a bit like a Japanese, but it doesn't look like her. Her body shape is relatively It’s short, and its appearance is so blurry that I can’t see clearly!” I wasn’t talking nonsense, just when I almost believed that I was blind, a standing figure not far away startled me suddenly, I thought it was an illusion, but carefully Looking at it from the ground, it turns out that it is a concrete existence.This makes me even more depressed. Why do I feel like I opened my eyes when I closed them, and I didn't see what I should have seen, but I can see what the two of them couldn't see? Lao Miao let go of my hand, and walked towards the place I pointed with doubts, "Is this here?" I don't know where he walked, but I can basically guess it from the sound of footsteps. "Stop, that's right there!" I feel like a complete magic stick at the moment, like a blind man doing magic tricks. "Hey, there is really something!" Lao Miao seemed to have discovered something and took something. "Let me see what it is?" Old Zhong held it in his hand for a long time, then came over to hold my face and fiddled with it for a long time, and choked out a sentence, "This kid has his dark eyes." Lao Miao said "ah", "Yin Tong, can't you see everything?" "Unfortunately, the Yang pupil is closed!" Old Zhong sighed. They talked about these incomprehensible words, which made me very depressed. They seemed to mention my double pupils again, but no matter how much I begged before, Lao Zhong kept silent. It is rare that he took the initiative to bring it up now. Double pupils, also known as yin and yang eyes, are said to be able to see yin and yang, see ghosts in daylight, and feel things that ordinary people can't feel.The first time I heard the footsteps of two people in Lao Zhong's office was that Lao Miao, under the direction of Lao Zhong, brought a pair of golden silk shoes stripped from the feet of a mummy in the Western Jin Dynasty. The golden silk shoes accompanied by Lao Miao's anger inspired the illusion of two footsteps. Although it sounded ridiculous, I did hear the existence of this sound.In fact, the real yin and yang eyes are no different from ordinary people, and what they see and hear are ordinary things. Only at special moments, or some coincidences and specific circumstances, will the yin and yang eyes be aroused.According to Lao Zhong's speculation, it is very likely that I accidentally opened the Yin pupil in the copper tripod just now, and I was able to see some things that I couldn't normally see, but at the same time I closed the Yang pupil, so I couldn't see the normal scene. "Although you don't have double pupils like Chu Bawang, I was sure that day that you have a rare Yin hidden physique. Seeing the Taiping Yangbao money that your grandfather gave you confirmed my guess even more. It’s often an unknown disease, that’s why the old man is willing to let you carry such a valuable item with you!” Lao Zhong seemed to have answered my doubts, but in fact he didn’t say anything, and confused me again: “The hidden constitution ?” When I was wondering, a strange thing happened. Suddenly an ear appeared in my line of sight, followed by a head. After a while, I could clearly see the outline of the entire face. It was the head of Lao Miao. . No, I have my dark pupils open now. According to Lao Zhong, I should only see those things, but why does Lao Miao's head suddenly appear in my sight? I hurriedly asked, "What are you doing, old Miao?" He didn't seem to hear it, I asked him loudly again and he raised his head and said with difficulty: "I'm listening to the bell you pointed out to me just now!" It was broken, because I saw the middle finger of a severed hand, slowly inserting it into Lao Miao's ear. "Old Miao!" I called out to him nervously, and saw that hand tremble slightly following my shouting, and stopped moving. Gently approached Lao Miao's head. At this time, Lao Miao and that arm are like images in black and white negatives, only a rough silhouette, and the shadows are slowly becoming blurred, especially with the shouting just now, there is a buzzing in my head The sound was as if a bronze bell had been smashed in the ear, and countless sounds like broken glass scrambled in the ear.Then look at the image of Lao Miao's head in my line of sight is slowly blurring. what happened?Lao Zhong said that now I have my Yin pupils open, and everything I see is something we can't normally see. That is to say, what I see now is most likely Lao Miao's soul, but this one And whose hand is it?Why did it suddenly appear on Lao Miao's head?And Lao Miao is not a dead soul but a living being, so I shouldn't be allowed to see it. Could it be "the soul of a stranger leaving the soul"?As my headache continued to intensify, things began to blur.At this time, there was a vague cry that slowly came from the bottom of my heart. It was said that the cry was actually more like a cry. The tone was sad and mournful. The crying gave me a headache. Although my head is so painful that it is about to burst, I can't help but think of a play I saw when I was in middle school. The name is "Leaving the Soul". It is about a woman who loves her husband so much that her soul leaves her body involuntarily. Follow the story of her husband far away, she clings to his buttons, but is misunderstood by a mage and casts a spell that strikes her soul.That movie was made extremely literary, but both the picture and the soundtrack made people feel an indescribable despair. That kind of despair is just like my current state of mind. I am full of disappointment and loss in the situation around me. The belief that supported me to go on and live was stripped from my body. The back view of her going further and further away when she was rejected by the girl she had a crush on that sunset afternoon. "What are you doing?" With a thunderous roar in my ear, I saw Lao Zhong's ferocious eyes and two sword eyebrows that were almost erect.And holding the sharp paratrooper knife in my right hand, I have cut the wrist of my left hand shallowly. Fortunately, it only cut the skin, otherwise the old clock opposite at this moment should have blood spattered all over his face. I hurriedly threw away the paratrooper knife in my hand, and looked around in a daze. We seemed to be in a basement, behind which was a huge collapse. There is still a small stream of gold sand flowing in continuously. "I can see it!" I shouted in surprise, and quickly looked around. The old clock with a tired face and the old Miao with a dull expression were standing next to rows of huge copper "bookshelves".And on the top of each bookshelf, a ball of light the size of a child's fist is emitting a bleak light. Although the pale light is very bright, it gives people a sense of powerlessness, like a fluorescent lamp whose voltage drops at any time. "Ye Mingzhu, it's really Ye Mingzhu!" In the martial arts novels, Ye Mingzhu, who is always in the city, actually appeared in front of me, so I couldn't help being excited.Ever since I heard from Lao Zhong that a small bronze tripod in the Warring States Period can be exchanged for ten of the best Mercedes-Benz, I have now converted all cultural relics into Mercedes-Benz.There are five luminous pearls here, each of which can be exchanged for 100 Mercedes-Benz, and it is estimated that at least 500 cars can be exchanged. At that time, all the streets in Xinzheng will be Mercedes-Benz. Think about it, what is the concept? Just when I was dancing, I remembered Lao Zhong and Lao Miao beside me. Why are they so quiet?A closer look startled me.Lao Zhong's face was pale, as if someone had taken away his yang energy, his lips trembled slightly, while Lao Miao, who was next to him, had his eyes closed, his face was like gold paper, and he was holding a copper "book shelf". I quickly grabbed the old Zhong beside me, only to find that his hand was cold. I touched his heart, and his heartbeat was still strong, but his whole body was still cold. I rubbed his limbs in a hurry. After leaving Lao Miao, it was only at this time that Lao Zhong took a long breath, and this breath was counted, and Lao Miao, who had left Lao Zhong, suddenly fell softly to the ground. I was about to help the old Miao, but Lao Zhong said in a weak voice: "Don't move, don't touch him, don't touch him!" I looked at him in surprise.He nodded slightly after watching me stop. "Can you tell me what you saw just now?" Lao Zhong sat on the ground and listened quietly to what I just saw.After pondering briefly, Lao Zhong took a deep breath, then stood up in a strange posture: "Go and help Lao Miao up!" he ordered. I looked at him a little uneasy, although he was still a little weak for a while, but he seemed to be able to stand there firmly. "You do as I tell you, and you do what I tell you to do, or I won't have the strength to save you when the time comes!" Old Zhong seemed to want to hit my crazy demeanor just now, and deliberately let go of a look. Very serious face. I looked hesitantly at the old Miao lying on the ground.He was already lying there, except for his suddenly haggard face, what caught his attention was the bell beside his hand.This is a bell made of green jade. It seems that it is hollowed out from a whole piece of jade. In the middle of the bell, there is a small ball like a cotton ball. The small ball is not the usual bronze or iron piece. Looks more like a dough. According to Lao Zhong, just now Lao Miao found this bell under my guidance, shook it by his ear, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it several times, and after a short while, he became delirious. When I saw what was going on with Lao Miao, I found that I was holding a knife to bleed myself, so I yelled, but Lao Miao grabbed my wrist, and a bone-piercing chill ran down Lao Miao's hand. Lao Zhong's body almost froze immediately. "Drag Lao Miao's feet upside down, and hang him upside down on the legs of the tripod! Be careful not to touch his skin or any exposed parts!" Old Zhong's voice seemed much stronger. As promised, I tried not to touch Lao Miao's body as much as possible, and used my backpack strap to hang Lao Miao upside down on the feet of the copper tripod like torture.Lao Miao's complexion was still golden yellow, and there was no expression on his face. "Is it tight?" Old Zhong asked me.I nod. "Will you wear soles?" This question was asked rather abruptly.I'm at a loss. "Na sole? What is a na sole?" "Forget it, I forgot that people of your generation don't wear pocket shoes, come here, take this!" Lao Zhong fumbled for a long time from his waist and found a small black box, which seemed to be made of some special wood. It is very heavy in the hand, but there is a faint feeling of body temperature. "Open it!" Old Zhong motioned me not to hesitate, but to move swiftly.I opened the box and saw that it was divided into two small slots. Dozens of gold needles of different lengths were neatly arranged in one small slot, while five shiny gold needles were placed in the other small slot. Small silver cones, these five silver cones are about half the length of a piece of chalk, and the four-sided silver cone heads are faintly shining with cold light.Under the sign of the old clock, I took out one. "Do as I say, don't hesitate, you must plunge in!" Old Zhong looked at me with firm eyes, holding the little silver awl in his hand, trembling slightly. "Put a silver cone in the small socket of the three fingers under the Adam's apple!" Old Zhong ordered in an unquestionable tone. "Ah?" I was taken aback, so why not stab Lao Miao to death? "Don't talk nonsense, hurry up!" My heart sank, I shook my hand, and a silver awl was nailed hard into Lao Miao's throat. The strange thing was that the silver awl seemed to be made of mercury, and it didn't go into the throat at once, leaving only The lower two finger long shiny handle. "You didn't clean your hands, but you should do it urgently, save people first!" Lao Zhong wiped off his sweat, and then said, "One under the left and right ears." As his words fell, the two silver cones were firmly fixed. plunged in. "Touch the two big tendons on the back of his neck?" Old Zhong asked me.I nod. The last two silver cones were also nailed into the back of Lao Miao's neck. After doing all this, I realized that my whole body was sticky and sweaty. Old Zhong glanced at me: "Go and use a whirlwind shovel to get some of the poisonous gold dust left in the cauldron, and heat it with a lighter!" Although he didn't know what he was going to do, he still took it obediently. "Put it next to Lao Miao's face, as close as you can, as long as it doesn't touch your face!" I carefully poured the poisonous gold dust next to Lao Miao's face, praying that Lao Miao would not wake up at this time, otherwise as long as he moved a little, his face would touch the sand, and it would be like a stick stuck to a red-hot iron plate. Thoroughly charred like beef. After I got it done, I looked at the old clock a little nervously.He shook his head to get me out of the way.I hurriedly stepped aside, only to see that he took out a small gold needle and lightly pricked my thumb, the old brow shrank suddenly, and a dark red blood bead the size of a soybean gathered on the finger , squeezed lightly, the blood dripped on the sand next to the old Miao's face, there was only a "stab" sound, a burst of white smoke rose, and an indescribable strange smell immediately filled our nasal cavity. A strange thing happened, Lao Miao's originally flat face suddenly swelled up with a big bump, the big bump slid under the skin quickly, and soon slid to the throat, but after touching the silver cone, it was like being electrocuted It quickly slid back to the head, and then broke out from the back of the neck, but was still intercepted by the silver cone.In this way, after doing the same thing three or four times, the small bag slowly disappeared as if it was boring. Old Zhong's face blushed unknowingly, as if he was a little embarrassed.He took out a small silver knife and cut his finger fiercely, and squeezed out a large pool of blood. It was still white smoke, still a big bag, this time the big bag slid a few more times, but it still disappeared.Old Zhong was about to gnash his teeth to cut again, but I stopped him. "Can you tell me what this is for?" I had a head full of question marks. At this moment, Lao Zhong seemed to remember something, smiled awkwardly, took out a gold needle and handed it to me: "Prick out a drop of blood, and drop it on this pile of poisonous sand!" Although I don't know why, I still dripped a few drops of blood on it according to his instructions.As a result, Lao Miao's head, face, and neck swelled up with several big bumps at the same time, and within half a minute these big bumps began to collide with each other. "Quick, drop a few more drops!" I hurriedly followed suit.The white smoke from the blood dripping on the poisonous sand seemed to have penetrated into the old Miao's body through his nasal cavity. After a short time, a white tentacles slowly protruded from Lao Miao's nostrils, as if searching for something, and then a transparent head emerged. Before the whole body was exposed, Lao Zhong used the A golden needle picked it out quickly, and saw a strange insect about the size of a thumb that looked like a spider and a centipede, with white tentacles and a transparent body, was picked out by Lao Miao from Lao Miao's nostril.Before I could express my surprise, Lao Zhong didn't stop, and quickly picked out more than a dozen of these insects from Lao Miao's nostrils and mouth, and threw them on the sand. After a short time, these insects died On the Sands. I repeated this several times, and picked out dozens of such bugs. It was not until Lao Miao's mouth and nose began to flow out some light yellow liquid that Lao Zhong gave up and told me to untie Lao Miao and straighten him, then massage Use the muscles around the silver cone to remove the silver cone. It turns out that these bugs are called gnats, and they usually parasitize in the small cavity of the auricle behind the human brain. Its eggs are laid in the honeycomb bone in the auricle, which is the dough-like ball in the middle of the bell just now.It is said that the human ear honeycomb bone is full of holes like a honeycomb. It is said that these insects are transformed by wronged souls, so they can hide in the ear bone, turn into insects when they are angry, and flow into the human body along the human breath or liquid. In their heads, if they want to force them to come out, they must be forced to swim with the gas transpired by human blood combined with strong poison.In order to prevent them from swimming into Lao Miao's body, Lao Zhong deliberately sealed the five orifice Qi meridian with a silver cone, so these insects were forced out of the body in desperation. "Then why did you drip so much blood just now and it didn't work, but the effect was so obvious after I dripped two drops?" I was a little puzzled.Old Zhong's old face suddenly turned red: "The young man has strong blood, of course the effect is good!" In fact, Lao Zhong's blushing made me think of many ambiguous things, but Lao Miao's words made me blush: "Boy's urine is good, and boy's blood is equally effective." Old man, don't you know that you don't slap someone in the face, and don't expose someone's shortcomings?I thought hard in my heart, even if no one wants it, you don't have to say it.