In order to get rid of this inexplicable sense of oppression, we tried our best to reach the head of Shenniao Underground Palace. Using the Constellation Immortality Chart, we opened the mechanism, then filed in, and then quickly closed the mechanism. I sighed in my heart, this kind of mechanism is really amazing. Even the construction team with the most advanced modern technology has difficulty completing it. It makes people unable to touch its principles and makes people feel that this kind of mechanism does not look like it was built by humans at all.
This time we took a shortcut and came to the head of the Shen'ao Underground Palace, and this time we were relieved of the oppression in our hearts.
I put my ear close to the stone wall and was rubbed against my face by the seawater that had just seeped in. I still felt that the huge black shadow seemed to have reached the outside of the underground palace. It seemed that it was just outside the stone wall, staring at me and listening to the movement inside. I was really afraid that it would suddenly crash into me.
At the moment, I can only divert my attention as much as possible and observe the environment of the underground palace.
I guess that there are similar stone chamber mechanisms on the four legs and head of the Shen'ao Underground Palace. This mechanism provides a certain connection between the underground palace and the sea water outside. It is precisely because when the mechanism was activated, Professor Yin forcibly took out the Constellation Immortality Disk. , which caused the collapse of the Nuwa Sky-Mending Stone Chamber. Unfortunately, the Nuwa Sky-Mending Stone Chamber will no longer exist.
Thinking about it this way, is there more than one constellation longevity disk? But is there one stored in important coffins?
The coffins of the three generals we met later confirmed this idea. Naturally, this is a story for later.
After entering, we watched the inflow of seawater stop, which meant that we could finally settle down again in this deep sea underground palace. At this moment, I was afraid. What I was afraid of was whether only the head position of the underground palace could be entered from the outside, that is, from the outside to the inside. Like the other four-legged positions, it could only be opened from the inside to the outside. If This is true, all members of our expedition team can be called the chosen ones.
Because if any link goes wrong, the entire expedition team will cease to exist. Now I don’t know what the huge black shadow outside the underground palace is. My instinct drives me to leave here as soon as possible to survey the terrain of the next underground palace.
After a few minutes, the first thing that comes into view is the stairs. The huge staircase is divided into eight, eight and sixty-four steps, which is different from the order of nine and nine. It proves that the huge altar composed of these steps should not be a place of worship for the royal family, but some generals who have risen to great prominence. As the saying goes, one person is superior and ten thousand people are inferior, it should refer to these unruly generals.
Since we are not equipped with an underwater camera, we can only rely on the image of the underground palace landforms we saw in the sea before entering the underground palace. Using these memories to analyze where we are at this moment, there is just one thing that is very strange. It stands to reason that the arrangement rules of the entire underground palace should be that the center is convex, the legs and head are relatively low, and the altar composed of huge stairs should have reached the position of the turtle's back, so that it can be explained.
Like the previous sinking in the underground maze, the Eight Hundred Steps of Dynasty and Nuwa Mending the Sky we encountered in the underground labyrinth follow a trend of going down from the back of the turtle to the feet of the turtle, so it can have a structure that sinks downward. , this explanation is very reasonable. But the only thing that puzzles me now is that we have just entered the underground palace and have not explored for a long time. How come we saw a huge high platform? The position of the turtle's head and the turtle's back, the distance between the two should not be just this little.
Fatty has been shining a light on the top of the underground palace, because the distance between the ground and the top is now very large. The searchlight can't illuminate what the top looks like at all. The fat man looked vaguely uneasy. He whispered to me: "Why does it feel like there is something hanging on it? It seems alive."
The fat man's judgment was always accurate without the influence of gold and silver, and his guesses were generally accurate.
It's just that the light illumination is limited now, and I can't see clearly what's on the bottom. My first reaction was that there were some bats hanging? But then I thought again, the first time I saw a young sea bat, its heart beat was visible to the naked eye. The heart was like a thin film on the chest, almost beating outside the body. But at that time, it was still within the peripheral area of the underground palace. Could it be that the bat's lair lived so deep?
Sea bats are rare creatures that have always been an unsolved mystery when encountered before. For us, we did not regard them as hidden dangers. I'm just a little curious. The beating of the heart that can be observed with the naked eye seems to be that of a freak.
I continued to scan the nearest steps with my light. There were no fish bones on the steps.
There is no sea bat guano either. If there are really upside-down creatures like sea bats, they should be rectal. Lhasa can be solved at any time. It is impossible for such a long time without any trace of feces. Moreover, they are good at catching sea fish, so there should be fish bones scattered around. This huge high platform covers a wide area. With deep doubts, I continued to explore.
The largest area of the altar, which is the bottom floor, is 15 meters long and is square in shape. The steps shrink as you go up, reaching the top, which is about three meters long. Generally, this situation is no longer suitable for burying people. The main function of the sacrificial platform is to host the sacrificial ceremony.
Generally speaking, it is the priest who sits at the highest point of the sacrificial altar and chants magical incantations. To convey the long-cherished wish of the owner of the tomb to heaven, or to put a curse in the tomb to curse uninvited guests who come to hunt for treasure.
This high platform means the place closest to the sky in the catacombs. The ancients had the fantasy of ascending to the sky and believed that the sacrificial platform was the best place to communicate with the gods.
It is rare to see such a high and large sacrificial altar. This kind of project was definitely a very accomplished project in ancient times. And it cannot be completed by anyone but a capable person.
At this time, Avril said: "Actually, when we get here, many things can no longer be explained by common sense. I can even see the shadow of Europe in many tombs and institutional structures. In this case, I suggest that we Climb to the top of the platform and really take a look at what is left there. I think it will also be helpful for us to find the main tomb chamber. After all, according to our previous logic, we should have reached the main tomb when we entered here. The location of the tomb. But you see, now we can only see a strange and extremely high altar, which is completely different from the structure of the main tomb."
Avril was right. Normally, a large number of funerary objects will be found in the main tomb chamber, and there are not only funerary objects in the main tomb chamber. There will also be many coffins, which may involve the tomb owner’s favorite servant or queen. Including some magical species.
There is a legend that during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Emperor Liang Yuan once captured a fire unicorn alive, and the fire unicorn appeared in the world.
In order to keep it for himself, Emperor Yuan of Liang secretly imprisoned Fire Qilin somewhere. Before Emperor Yuan of Liang was about to die, he summoned capable people and strangers to eliminate all the spirits of Huo Qilin, leaving only Huo Qilin's incorruptible maggot body buried with him in his tomb. However, no one knew where Emperor Yuan of Liang was buried. Where is it? That period of history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties is also a blank page in the book.
The fat man said, there really is a fire unicorn in this world. For an old smoker like me, it is just like using Danao to scare children. I am too rare. With this mythical beast following around, who would use a lighter? But having said that, why did Emperor Liang Yuan pinch out all the souls of Huo Qilin? It turns people's souls into ashes. Isn't that a heinous crime? The fire unicorn is a mythical beast.
Fatty doesn't understand "The World in the Tomb". I benefited greatly from the book "The Universe in the Tomb" left by Zhenren Cheng.
I know the reason why Emperor Liang Yuan insisted on crushing Huo Qilin's soul. This kind of sacred beast is rare in the world. It has an immortal soul and a bone. It is said that all things can cultivate immortality. This fire unicorn itself is a creature of the immortal family. Its soul is not like the core of an ordinary beast. Its soul does not dissipate. Will be resurrected infinitely. If a fire unicorn that can be resurrected infinitely is brought to the tomb to be buried with him, then he will be trapped in a sea of fire.
An emperor spends a lot of time building buildings just to preserve his physical body so that he can be promoted to the immortal position after his death. The fire unicorn resurrected in the tomb, and after a while of stirring, didn't it turn into a crematorium on the spot?
A good corpse, no matter how good the embalming measures are, will be burned by your fire unicorn, and it will undoubtedly be cremated, leaving only a little powder in the end. The emperor's spring dream was naturally shattered. Among the treasures in the tomb, except for real gold, real gold is not afraid of fire. When gold encounters high temperatures, it can turn into gold water, and after solidification, it can turn into random shapes. But other jewelry and jades cannot withstand the torment, and the fire unicorn was all burned, which is also a huge loss.
Next we climbed to the high platform. I won’t go into details about the climb to the high platform. The expedition team only left Professor Yin waiting below. The rest of the people went up to the high platform. There were no surprises during the climb.
But when I finally came down, Professor Yin was missing!
Professor Yin disappeared along with his equipment. There was no trace of being killed. He almost disappeared out of thin air. There was no equipment scattered on the ground, which meant that Professor Yin did not fight. Could it be that he had sneaked away on his own? What could he accomplish by himself in such a huge underground palace? I'm afraid there won't even be anyone to collect the bones after death.
Fatty was the first to notice that Professor Yin was gone. Our original plan was to climb into the altar, but when we reached one-third of the climb, which was about twenty steps, he subconsciously used the light to climb down. In a flash, I found that the place where Professor Yin had been left was empty. So much so that we hurried down from the altar to look for Professor Yin.
The fat man was angry, so he raised his gun and shot.
Several bullets resounded in the huge underground palace, and the fat man shouted: "You old guy, stop hiding, I've seen you!"
Professor Yin's disappearance was so bizarre that Fatty was annoyed because everyone had pearls on them. The fat man's share had been squeezed out a lot during the escape process. Perhaps for this reason, he had scruples in his heart, fearing that he would accidentally drop a few more when he climbed the steps.
Therefore, the few remaining pearls were temporarily handed over to Professor Yin for safekeeping, but who knew that he had just left within a few minutes. Professor Yin just disappeared out of thin air and disappeared!
The fat man wanted to shoot, but I stopped him immediately.
The fat man shouted again: "This old guy is greedy for money and doesn't look at the time. He is clearly lighting up the light in the toilet and is looking for death. His old guy has a weak body. He must not be able to run far! You guys wait here, I will catch up immediately and kill him." If he is caught, he will be rewarded with seventy or eighty big ear scrapers first."
I shouted to Fatty again: "Stop talking, just listen!"
Only then did everyone calm down and hold their breath to listen.
The lingering echo of gunfire has completely disappeared, but there is a strange sound that has not stopped. It's like some flying creatures above have moved their position, then hovered in the air, refusing to return!
