"That's not possible." The fat man sucked in his belly and followed suit. "Lean meat is generally more delicious than fat meat. It's chewy and easy to eat."
They were already seven or eight meters above the surface. Although they could still hear the deafening thunder, the irritation to their ears was not as serious as before.
The two of them stood in front of the stone figurine. The fat man stretched out his hand to take off the red cockscomb snake. He was immediately discouraged when he saw it, "I thought it was some big treasure, but it looks like a sheep's liver stone."
Sheep liver stone comes in many colors. Because its wrinkles and color resemble that of a sheep liver, it is so named. It can also be called chicken liver stone. It is a type of river stone. Its color and texture are very similar to ancient ones. Ceramics, some people call it ancient pottery stone.
Only natural, high-quality sheep liver stones with strange stone characteristics will be more valuable.
Wu Xie took the dark red snake from his hand and looked carefully. The scales and combs on it were not too finely carved. He could only roughly tell that they were scales belonging to a snake. However, it is worth noting that the snake's scales The eyes are set with real rubies.
"What is this? Is this why those wild lamas took the snake? Why not just take it out." The fat man asked.
Wu Xie gently touched the snake's red eyes with his fingers and said: "This thing is called Xinghan Sand, also called Xinghan Divine Sand, because the quartz contains scaly hematite or mica that shines reddish brown or slightly yellow. Just like the stars that shine in the sky and get their name, Tang Xianzu praised this kind of gemstone in "The Peony Pavilion: Encounter", saying that this kind of aventurine is boiled sea gold elixir and iron tree flower."
The fat man doesn't care whether the iron tree flowers bloom or not, he only cares about what he sees in front of him, "Looking at the name, it seems to be quite valuable, right?"
Wu Xie explained: "The Xinghan Sacred Sand is considered aventurine, which is a rarer type of aventurine. Although it is not as valuable as jadeite, you can see these two Xinghan Sands. There are many slightly golden textures like ice patterns inside." In the eyes of people who really like it, the collection value is still relatively high."
The reason why those wild lamas took this thing away was probably that they mistook the Xinghansha for some kind of rare jade. After all, this kind of jade is really beautiful and magnificent in the light.
The two stars are inlaid with Chinese sand very firmly. If they were to be pried off hard, the gems would be damaged.
"Then..." The fat man hesitated for a moment, but before he could speak, Wu Xie already knew what he was thinking.
"Don't be greedy. This thing is just an eyesore. If you really want to take it off, there's no guarantee that the monkeys won't go crazy and attack us."
The fat man was just about to ask how you knew, when he suddenly smelled a hint of corpse smell mixed with rotten wood.
Following the smell, I looked over and saw that in the dark corner behind the stone figurines, there was a rotting human head with maggots, and the eye frames were still hollowed out.
The fat man looked at Wu Xie faintly, "I'm honest, your dog's nose is really getting more and more sensitive."
"That's necessary." Wu Xie put the stone snake back in his hand, "If you want to survive in a fight in today's society, just having one skill is not enough."
The fat man gave a thumbs up and said: "It seems that the blind man is quite competent as a master. I will also ask him for two tricks tomorrow. You have worked so hard. There is no reason for the fat man to walk like a normal man."
Wu Xie nodded, "Yes, there is a future. Oh, by the way, the tuition fee is one million."
"Farewell." The fat man immediately shut his mouth.
The tower has a total of seven floors, and the overall structure is very similar to a slanted horn. The further down, the more obvious the signs of tilt. Finally, after nearly an hour, they reached the last floor.
This floor has undergone obvious changes. The walls of the attic have been turned into stone bricks. There is a Chu red mural behind the stone figurines, which depicts the shape of a snake-body monkey-headed guide figurine. The left and right sides behind it There are also two small statues standing, which look like attendants.
This kind of guide figurines will only appear when approaching the tomb gate.
But it was obvious that the back of the attic where they were located, which was so narrow that they could only bend down, was not the tomb door.
"It's so strange. All the furnishings here are beyond the usual logic of tombs." Wu Xie said thoughtfully, "I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't explain it."
At this moment, the fat man had a sudden thought in his mind, "Hey, innocent, tell me, the old grave we discovered before is actually of the same nature as the monkey's pouted grave, and the same mummy of a monkey and snake was buried inside. There's probably a tower like this down there too."
Wu Xie's eyes lit up and he suddenly had an idea, "If you look at it this way, there must be more than one similar ancient tomb near the ancient temple!"
But the crux of the question is, what is the purpose of setting up so many ancient tombs here, and what is the special burial ceremony of King Gu?
Wu Xie asked Nie Xiaoba to lead people to find the exit in the attic, and he and Fatty sat down to sort out all the clues collected along the way.
From the beginning, Fatty came to Hangzhou to look for Wu Xie with a snow bead with a lotus and a scorpion engraved inside. Later, the connection between the Yongning chieftain's tomb and the scorpion totem was discovered. Then they came to this place and happened to encounter monkeys robbing the tomb. A mummy of a monkey and snake with a lotus and a scorpion tattooed on its body was dug up, and the mummy was wearing a mask that looked like a human-faced bird in front of a bronze door.
Later, they went into the mountains and were attacked by mandrills that knew sign language. This also made them realize that there are humans behind the mandrills, and they may also be connected to the old tombs and stone tablets.
But according to previous speculation, the old tomb was buried there before liberation, and the monkey tomb is an ancient tomb from the Ming Dynasty.
Wu Xie silently recited several crucial clues in his mind, "The Kingdom of Eternal Life, the mummy with a monkey and snake splicing and a lotus and scorpion tattoo, the human-faced bird, and the Zhang family who appeared here a long time ago and were suspected of being the ancestors of Muyu, Pheasant necks reappearing here.”
All of this seemed to connect all the special things in the ancient tombs that he had experienced before.
The fat man suddenly said: "Innocent, do you think that the things currently appearing here are very similar to the Palace of the West Queen Mother in Tamutuo?"
"Of course, it's not the layout, but the things that exist here, such as spliced mummies, pheasant necks, and human-faced birds."
"Perhaps we can think of this place as a low-end version of the Western Queen's Mother Kingdom. There are various signs that these are deliberately made like this." Fatty affirmed.
Wu Xie also had such a conjecture in his mind, but the key to the question was what was King Gu's purpose in making this place like this.
The Kingdom of Immortality, the Kingdom of Immortality, could it be that King Gu created all this and was pursuing the so-called immortality?
But how did King Gu learn about the things that existed in the Mother Kingdom of the Western Queen? Could it be that King Gu has also been to Tamutuo before?
But according to the story told by Cai Laojiu, the Gu King who finally turned into a monster was a snake man with two heads and four arms.
Folk tales of rural legends are usually mixed with moisture. If we want to infer from a scientific perspective, the Gu King is probably a deformed child born from the union of incest.
Or one of the twins swallowed the other. As it gradually grew, the part of the other that had not been completely absorbed grew into a fetal tumor and appeared on the surface of the body.
But how could a child with such a disease, even if he was extremely intelligent, get connected with the Mother Kingdom of the Western Queen thousands of years ago?
It's all really puzzling.
The fat man woke Wu Xie up from deep thought, handed him a pack of compressed biscuits, and asked him, "Have you figured out any way? Or if it doesn't work, you can just make up an explanation. Maybe his mind suddenly changes. The idea is here.”
Wu Xie shook his head gently, and the familiar feeling of being dominated and arranged by others came over him again.
Nie Xiaoba had already found the passage hidden behind the mural. He removed the stone bricks on the wall to create a door. Behind it was a dark and narrow staircase passage. The passage had been reinforced with stone bricks. They went in After exploring the road, it was dusty inside for a long time and relatively dry.
Wu Xie said: "Let's rest here for the time being tonight. Let's continue walking down tomorrow morning."
After dinner, the fat man started snoring when his head touched the pillow. Wu Xie lay in the sleeping bag next to him, but he couldn't fall asleep despite tossing and turning.
He has been imagining in his mind what kind of situation would cause King Gu to have the idea of translating it to the Monkey Mountain at the junction of Western Sichuan and Yunnan after seeing the scene in the Western Queen's Motherland.
Also, is the Gu King in Yongning Tusi's tomb really the cursed young son that A Tusi calls him? Could it be that this is actually a deliberately constructed rumor?
Generally, rumors originate from a substantive or non-substantive event. After being passed down by word of mouth, most of the content has deviated from the original event itself. In the process of spreading, many human likes and dislikes will be mixed in. good and evil.
The wind rises from the bottom of green grass. Big influences and big trends of thought always originate from subtle and difficult-to-detect places. The final result that gets worse is often malicious. Even if it starts out as good, it will eventually turn into evil, because not everyone They can all wrap up their inner evil thoughts with a moral outer covering.
Some of these rumors were deliberately fabricated to cover up a real ugly and horrific incident.
The more Wu Xie thought about it, the more he felt that there must be a bigger mystery behind this son of a chieftain who proclaimed himself King of Gu.
He even had a terrifying suspicion that the so-called Tusi Gu King was actually man-made.
This person must have seen the Queen Mother Kingdom of the West with his own eyes in the Ming Dynasty. Because he wanted to imitate the Queen Mother of the West and live forever, he created a low-end version of the Queen Mother of the West here.
Who could this person be? What role does the Zhang family who are related to wooden fish play in it?
After a day's trek in the mountains, Wu Xie lay down, tiredness gradually lulling him into a deep sleep.
In his sleep, he dreamed of a very strange man. The man's profile looked like a wooden fish. He was wearing snow-white and heavy sacrificial clothes, and a white robe with dark patterns woven with gold thread. Wearing a cloak and a hood, he was standing in front of an extremely huge thing that was beyond comprehension.
Everything around him seemed to be swallowed by a black hole and fell into the darkness of despair. Only the man was holding a cyan octagonal lantern in his hand, glowing with a cold and faint cyan light.
The man's robe was like the silver gauze of moonlight dotting it, not stained by dust, and ethereal.
Wu Xie's vision was like a snake lying low on the ground. The scene in front of him flickered in a trance, constantly switching between black and white and red and blue. He tried his best to look up at the huge thing. The light and shadow flickered, and the thing seemed to be constantly moving. It changes tilt, as if a wall is about to collapse.
Wu Xie couldn't help but want to shout out to remind the man in white robes, but the voice he made was as ethereal as if he had stuck his head into a deep well. The echo was loud, but he himself couldn't hear what he said clearly.
There was a trance in front of him, and the huge thing suddenly became clear for a moment, and Wu Xie's angle of view towards the outside world also increased.
The mysterious white-robed man picked up Wu Xie, or in other words, was the carrier of Wu Xie's consciousness.
Although it was only for one second, it was enough for Wu Xie to see clearly that it was a huge, indescribably huge statue of the mallet god carved from bronze. It was exactly what they saw in the Yunding Heavenly Palace. The strange leech-like statue was magnified countless times.
Wu Xie's consciousness was forced to freeze on that thing. He felt that his sight began to gather from the edge to the middle, until finally, he could no longer see. But at the same time, he also realized that it was the darkness around the bronze stone statue that blocked everything. Devoured.
Everything disappeared, including the mysterious man in white robes who looked like a wooden fish.
Wu Xie's consciousness fell into chaos. In a daze, he felt as if someone was pushing him. He didn't want to wake up. He felt irritated for no reason and wanted to curse, but he didn't know if he really cursed. The person who pushed him did not continue.
When he woke up, Wu Xie opened his eyes and felt that he had slept very deeply this time. For some reason, he had dreamed of snowing all night, which made him feel cold all over.
"Young Master, you're awake." Nie Xiaoba hasn't fallen asleep since he was woken up by water last night.
The fat man was still snoring and talking in his sleep. The content seemed to be that he was holding his daughter.
Wu Xie stood up and looked over at him, with a twitch in his mouth. This damn fat guy didn't know what kind of beautiful things he had dreamed about. Halaziliu didn't even know it on his face.
He felt that the clothes on his body were a little damp, as if they had been soaked in rain. He wondered what was going on. He pushed his hand to the side to get up, but he touched a hand of ice water.
At first glance, two-thirds of the floor in the already small attic was filled with water.
He hurriedly asked Nie Xiaoba what was going on.
Nie Xiaoba told him that around four o'clock in the morning, the top coffin board that blocked the hole seemed to have collapsed due to rain. Without the barrier, all the water flowed in.
Wu Xie looked at the other guys leaning against the wall, "You didn't even sleep and you just stood there all night?"
Dafu scratched his head and chuckled, "Young Master, you don't have to worry about us. You are our leader, so you must rest carefully. We big guys can fall asleep even standing in the open space, let alone a wall to lean against." "
Wu Xie patted Nie Xiaoba on the shoulder and said, "When this job is over, I will give you double bonuses."
Good night macabaka
(End of chapter)
