Chapter 42 Section 41 The Golden Scepter

On the high cliff, Zhang Guozhu, a soldier who hurried up the cliff just now, hugged his comrade who was lying in a pool of blood, and cried out: "Manzi, Manzi, what's wrong with you? Wake up! Wake up!" Manzi, who fell in a pool of blood, was a soldier who was left on the cliff by captain Daqi to guard him. He and Zhang Guozhu usually had a good relationship, and they were both from Shandong.At this time, Zhang Guozhu saw that Manzi was covered in blood and was shot in the chest. He thought that he was in danger, and that he was shot coldly by his own "skinny monkey". He was sad and angry, and his chest seemed to be blocked by something. Can't come up, at this moment, Manzi in his arms let out a slight moan: "Hmm!"

Although the sound of "hmm" was very small, it sounded like thunder in Zhang Guozhu's ears. He quickly woke up and looked at Manzi, whose eyes were slightly open, full of surprises: "Manzi, you're not dead? That's great! Don't talk." , don't talk now!" He covered Manzi's mouth that was about to open with his hand, and he knew that at this moment, Manzi must be speechless and relaxed, otherwise he would be afraid——, he didn't have time to think about it, saving Manzi at this time was the most important thing, presumably Even the captain will handle it like this here!

He yelled at the bottom of the cliff: "You bastard little monk, listen to me! I will take Manzi back to the rescue first, and it will be fine if Manzi comes back alive. If, if there are any problems, I will not forgive you for leaving without permission. Duty guy! Tell him when the captain comes back, and also, watch out for that bastard 'Skinny Monkey'!" After speaking, he hugged his comrade-in-arms and left without looking back. The "little monk" guarding the single-plank bridge under the cliff is the soldier who was begged by Ling Ning to leave his post without authorization. With such a roar, forget about the pain in your heart.

Ling Ning from the tower didn't come out, and she couldn't help when she came, but at this moment, there was a cave door that had been opened in front of her. This door is just below the base where the copper pillar was just exposed. It is not big, only 30 centimeters high, and it is dark inside. It's big, not deep, and there seems to be something in it.She reached in and took out a silk book.She unfolded the silk book, some Bayeux scriptures inside fell out and scattered all over the floor, Ling Ning hurriedly squatted down and carefully picked them up one by one. This bay leaf is very well preserved, but it has gone through too long after all. Ling Ning is well aware of the fragility of this kind of historical relic, so he was extremely careful when picking it up. At last, none of it was damaged, and he picked it up again and put it away. On the silk book.At this time, Ling Ning had the time to unfold the silk scroll and take a closer look, but found that it is more accurate to call this silk scroll a silk painting.Because it is a portrait of the statue in the tower, but the person in this painting lacks the pair of wings on the statue.

Seeing that there was no mystery in the silk painting, Ling Ning set his eyes on the Bayeux scriptures he had just picked up in his hand. Since it is a Bayeux scripture book, it is very likely that it is written in Sanskrit. Ling Ning already had this in mind. prepared.But to her surprise, the text on it was not the Sanskrit that she was familiar with, but an ancient text that she didn't know. She knew that she would not be able to understand the words for a while, and she really wanted to know the situation of others, so she quickly wrapped all the shell leaves with the silk painting that was still very tough, and hurried out of the tower.

The moment she stepped out of the tower gate, there was a rumbling vibration from the ground. At this time, Sangbu felt that the blood in his whole body had rushed to the top of his head, and his black face was flushed into red. The long stone box in front of him had been opened, and a golden The scepter was lying in front of him. This is a golden scepter that only exists in legends. It has a total length of 1.63 meters and a diameter of 3 cm. One end of the golden scepter is engraved with patterns and is divided into three groups.Near the end are two front and rear symmetrical heads with five-toothed high crowns, triangular earrings on earlobes, and smiling human heads.The other two patterns are the same, with two birds facing each other at the top and two pythons entangled with each other at the bottom.On their necks, a pattern resembling an arrow feather is superimposed.

At the moment when he saw the golden scepter, not only Sangbu, but even the three soldiers behind him who were already impatient because of the gunshot, abandoned all other thoughts at this time and stared intently. Stare at this unprecedented treasure in front of you. Sangbu stretched out his trembling hands, and carefully took out the scepter, only to realize that the scepter was not made of pure gold, but was wrapped with hammered gold leaf on a wooden pole.The wooden pole has long been carbonized, leaving only the intact gold leaf.However, the thickness of this gold leaf is also very considerable, because just like this, Sangbu felt that the weight on his hands was at least more than two kilograms.

Judging from the portrait on the surface of the stone box, its image is very similar to the Pharaoh of Egypt, but the pattern on the scepter obviously cannot be compared with ancient Egypt. What's going on? There was no tradition of using scepters in ancient China, and so far, in the whole of China, apart from the jade scepter unearthed in Liangzhu, only a golden scepter has been unearthed in Sanxingdui, Sichuan.Moreover, the golden scepter was also made of a wooden pole wrapped in gold leaf. Could it be that there is any connection between the two? Is there any intersection between this ancient city and the ancient Shu Kingdom in Sichuan?

The long and narrow stone box should have been there to hold the golden scepter. After the golden scepter was taken out, the stone box was empty, with neither accessories nor a single word of introduction. Sangbu couldn't take his eyes off the scepter, which was almost as tall as a small man, and he couldn't even hear what Wang Cong said when he ran over to him.But the three soldiers behind him changed their faces when they heard Wang Cong's words, and ran towards the single-plank bridge without waiting for Sang Bu's order! After Wang Cong filled his backpack, he was the third person to transport the treasure. There was already a "thin monkey" in front of him, and Xiao Zhang went first with two backpacks of treasure, but when he crossed the single-plank bridge, he heard the bridge The sentinel who stayed behind told him that something had happened!

Seeing the money, "Skinny Monkey" fled with the bag of gold artwork, and before leaving, he injured Manzi, a sentinel on guard on the cliff.When he got the news, he didn't dare to be negligent, so he rushed back and told Sangbu the news. As a result, Sangbu's mind was completely taken away by the golden scepter at this time, and he didn't understand what he said clearly.After he said the words three times, Sangbu realized: "What did you say? Something happened?" "Yeah! That 'skinny monkey', you remember, was the first one to cross the bridge, and he ran away with a backpack of gold crafts. When he was dressed, he also said that he was small and could carry more Some things, not afraid of crushing the bridge, I thought he was out of good intentions, and I really packed him a lot more, and even put some heavier ones in his backpack. Unexpectedly... Sigh!" Wang Cong was very sorry that those good things, especially the golden mask, were also in the hands of "Skinny Monkey". In this way, he was afraid that the harvest of himself and others would be greatly reduced.

"What? He also has that golden mask?" Sambu became anxious when he heard that, and subconsciously clenched the golden scepter in his hand even tighter. "Is there much left?" He suddenly calmed down again. After coming down, he regained the thinking ability that a captain should have. "There are quite a few more. If the current people have one package per person, they can be transported in almost one trip!" Wang Cong had already calculated.I don't know what the load-bearing limit of the single-plank bridge is. To be on the safe side, he didn't dare to pack too much in each bag. The gold is too heavy. If something goes wrong and the bridge collapses, the rest of the people will only have a dead end. "You try to pretend as much as possible, and now let people transport them to the other side, er, where are people?" Wang Cong had to tell him the whereabouts of those soldiers. Just as they were talking, two of them came back. The older soldier was surnamed Xing, and he rushed to Sangbu: "Team Sang, time is urgent. One of our comrades-in-arms was injured. Soldier Zhang Guozhu took him back for treatment first. Soldier Xiao Lin went to Captain Daqi and the others. We Come back to wait for dispatch, the captain said before he left that we should obey your orders, but we made our own decisions before discussing with you, and we apologize to you!" Then he gave Sambu a military salute with a "snap". Sang Bu held the golden scepter in both hands, but he didn't have a hand to stop him, and shook his head quickly: "No, you are doing the right thing, saving people is the most important thing, so we don't need these fake ones, our top priority now is to get the things over quickly Go to the bridge. Look," he gestured to the distant western sky with the corner of his mouth, "a sandstorm is coming!" The others followed his instructions and looked over there, and they saw a yellow-black streak in the sky.Wang Cong knew that sandstorms in this desert are commonplace, but as long as the sky is only yellow and not black before the sandstorm, it proves that the scale will not be too big, and it doesn't matter. If there is black, it will be ten There are eight or nine games to be played.Seeing the blackness in the sky at this time, he was so scared that he hurriedly greeted those two: "Hurry up! We have to hurry up, or it will be too late! Oops! No way!" Sang Bu glared at him: "You boy, why are you getting more and more outrageous! You are always surprised!" Wang Cong said anxiously with a bitter face: "No, Captain, Professor Chu and the others—" "That's right! You, hurry down that step, go find your regiment leader and Professor Chu, and tell them to evacuate quickly! The sandstorm will arrive soon!" "Yes!" The soldier who was named turned around and left immediately. Thanks to Comrade Lin William's fall, the three of Chu Feng were so frightened that they didn't dare to take a breath. It's not that they are timid and can't stand stimulation. Others don't mention it, but Da Qi and Chu Feng were people who actually went to the battlefield back then and saw countless dead people. Ordinary pediatrics really don't look down on them.But the situation in front of them also shocked the two of them enough! No matter who it is, I believe they can't perform better than them when facing a giant python that can swallow itself alive in one bite. Just now, just as Chu Feng helped Lin William up, the 30-meter-high mountain wall suddenly opened up, and a giant python with its bloody mouth wide open rushed straight at the three of them, startling the three of them so much that they were sweating profusely.Even William, who loves to bluff the most, temporarily lost his voice. After waiting for a while, the three of them felt that something was wrong. The battle-tested Da Qi was the first to come back to his senses. He moved his body quietly. Seeing that the giant python didn't respond, he gradually became more courageous. He walked to the side of the snake to have a look. , but it turned out to be a dead snake.Although the head was still held high and the mouth was wide open, the skin and flesh of the body had shriveled away, leaving only one vertebra wrapped unevenly under the tarnished skin. Da Qi breathed a sigh of relief, wiped off his cold sweat, thought about his reaction just now, and laughed at himself: "Hey! Unexpectedly, I, Da Qi, will also be scared by a dead snake one day!" Chu Feng and William finally understood at this time, and they both breathed a sigh of relief. The snake had been dead for many years, but it had always maintained this posture back then, and now it is only because of inertia that it threw itself in front of Chu Feng and others. "Hey! This guy was not small before he was alive!" William just came back to his senses at this time, and circled around the big snake.Although this snake has been dead for many years, its waist is still as thick as a small bucket commonly used by families today.If this snake was alive, it might be thick. Chu Feng didn't click his tongue to marvel at its huge size, but noticed the ground.It turned out to be a white bone on the ground that tripped William up just now.He went forward to pick up the white bone and observed it carefully. Regardless of its size and length, this bone should be a human femur. However, it is a bit too big. If it is really a human femur, Is the owner of this bone more than 2.5 meters tall?How is this possible? Daqi's target was also quickly attracted by this bone. He followed the traces on the ground and pulled away a layer of yellow sand, revealing a human-shaped lower body skeleton underneath. The femur and calf bones are there, as are the soles of the feet, but the upper body cannot be found. Chu Feng and Da Qi searched carefully nearby, but they did not find the upper body of the skeleton.However, just judging from the soles of his feet, this person must have been no less than 2.5 meters tall when he was alive. "Ah! Brother Chu! Brother Chu! Come on!" William circled the giant python twice, and finally found something, "Why is this snake only half?" What?Chu Feng and Da Qi rushed over to have a look when they heard the words, and saw that the snake's body was indeed incomplete. Its body was not in the coiled posture that boa constrictors usually have, but was slightly bent, and its tail was half-sectioned. At that time, William had already lifted off a layer of snakeskin covering it, and the dense white bones were exposed in front of Chu Feng's eyes. Chu Feng just felt confused, half human bone, half snake corpse, what's going on?