In the end, the Xijing Political Yuan had no choice but to seal up the Fayuan Temple, and took all the golden Buddhas to the forensic department for examination of the bodies. As expected, it was found that these people were missing beggars, vagrants, and refugees. In other words, the monks of the Fayuan Temple were Under the cover of the Golden Buddha, no less than twenty or thirty lives were lost.
Because it involved many lives and was related to a Buddhist temple, the Xijing authorities forced the monk to return to secular life and sentenced him to death by hanging.
After that, this kind of artificially built golden Buddha began to gradually disappear.
After Xu Xiake finished telling this story, he continued: "Sometimes, being created as a golden Buddha may not be what these people mean. It's just someone doing evil. Judging from the traces of their wounds, most of them were penetrated from the tail vertebrae into the body and sat alive. Die with a stake."
Needless to say, most of these people were selected by the people of the Jin Kingdom and reluctantly became the human embryos of the Golden Buddha.
Song Siyuan interjected: "The problem arises here. Only eminent monks and great virtues can make a golden Buddha to pray for blessings. People in the Jin Kingdom do not believe in Buddhism, but they still want to sacrifice the lives of innocent people to make a golden Buddha. In addition, Is the purpose just to show off? I do feel that these golden Buddhas seem to be covering up something. The Jin people did this probably to remind later people that the lotus platform is the mechanism."
After saying that, everyone looked at the bamboo shoots and copper pillars on the lotus platform. Yue Guanchao picked up the kettle and randomly pulled the cloth from the treasure tent to wet it. Thousands of years of dirty blood was scrubbed clean along with the copper pillars, and the lines on the surface of the copper pillars also gradually Become clear.
The entire bamboo shoot copper pillar is about half the length of an arm, and is as wide as a cone at the top and bottom. The tip is like a human little finger, and the widest point is like an arm. Because it is sealed inside the corpse, the surface has no oxidation and discoloration. It is covered from the root. The lotus petal carvings, which are like fish scales, completely cover the surface of the copper cone, and its shape can be seen at a glance.
As for the root of the copper cone, it was obviously painted with the same Buddhist mythological figure. Song Siyuan looked at it and shined a flashlight on it. The figure had a pale body, wore colorful clothes and armor, held a pipa, and fluttering streamers. The figure was solemn and majestic.
She said slowly: "These seem to be the four great heavenly kings of Buddhism, also called the four great protector gods. They are the protector gods in Buddhism who protect the Dharma and the world. They are mainly the king of state control in the east, the king of growth in the south, the king of wide eyes in the west, and the king of north. Among them, the one holding the lute is the King of Controlling the Kingdom, the one holding the sword is the King of Growth, the one holding the divine dragon is the King of Guangmu, and the one holding the divine umbrella and holding the divine rat is the King of Wen."
"Looking at the image in front of us, it's probably Lord Dhritarashtra."
After speaking, she raised her head and explained to everyone: "These four heavenly kings are actually the four great protector gods. They are often placed in the heavenly king hall of the temple to protect the Buddha Dharma, the temple, the people, and the world. It is equivalent to saying that they are the biggest door gods in the four directions world. "
Song Siyuan continued: "Then, our guess may be true. This tomb has four towers. If our current tower is the pattern of the king of the state, the other three towers are probably the patterns of the other three kings. , this copper cone is probably some kind of mechanism."
Yue Guanchao held the copper pillar, motionless, unable to pull it out or turn it: "Hey, if it is a mechanism, it should at least be able to move."
Sun Daqiao walked to the lotus platform and looked at the awl on his waist. He realized that there was oil near the awl, and his eyes immediately lit up: "Perhaps, this is a lotus lamp. In ancient times, there was a lamp-burning ancient Buddha who made offerings to the Eyelash Tathagata. The state, maybe, maybe the pointed cone is a wick."
Yue Guanchao observed carefully and found that the top of the sharp mouth was indeed not closed, and there were some shiny things visible. Just now, they thought it was the reflection of the copper cone, but now it seemed that the copper pillar was hollow. He picked up the fire fold and approached the tip of the copper pendant directly. I saw that the flames were affected by the breath, and the sharp cones started to light up from the fire.
But within a breath, the copper pillar ignited into a fiery red flame. This flame was red and yellow, with three colors appearing from the inside to the outside. The red and yellow burned in the middle, and the outer flame was green and blue. It burned very turbulently at the top of the pointed cone.
Click, click, click, under the flames, the pointed copper pillars began to rotate, like a mechanism that had been in disrepair for a long time. It was turning extremely hard. After the flames burned for a cup of tea, the rotation of the copper pillars accelerated significantly. , gradually from being able to clearly see the lotus fish scale pattern, it became completely blurry.
The flames were also rotating rapidly, replicating themselves many times depending on the light and shadow. It looked like red and yellow mottled fire lotuses suspended on top of the copper pillars.
As the fire lotus rotated, the lotus petals on the rosette also began to click. Afraid of hurting themselves, they retreated to the steps at the corner of the platform.
With a clicking sound, the upper and lower lotus petals completely separated from the slightly closed state. The lotus began to rotate with the copper cone, and as the speed became slower and slower, the rumbling opening and closing sounds could be clearly heard at the bottom of the core pillar of the tower where the tower is located.
"The rain of copper thorns and iron outside seems to have stopped?"
They stood at the corner of the stairs and could see at a glance through the window that the copper thorns and the iron rain were gradually weakening. From the crashing like pouring, it became sparse. Only the golden rainbow lights were still flashing on and off, and occasionally a copper ball fell. .
Song Siyuan explained: "Then, this mechanism is correct. There is probably something that can affect the mechanism above the head. This is why the iron rain of these copper balls began to weaken, but I think the mechanism has not been completely closed. If it is completely If it is closed, the iron rain will probably stop completely.”
"Let's go down and have a look." Yue Guanchao walked around the central pillar of the tower and walked down the stairs. It can be seen that there is a doorway as high as one person on the surface of the pillar. Looking up, there are countless copper springs that shout and rotate. Looking down, you can see the stairs. Extend downward.
After a while, everyone had already walked down the stairs and came to him.
Yue Guanchao led them into the entrance to the center of the tower, followed the stairs down to the ground, and shined the flashlight forward. It was obvious that there was a deep tunnel in front of them. After they walked fifty meters, a cylindrical iron curtain appeared at the end of the tunnel. Around the Iron Curtain, three different tunnels can be seen also distributed in different directions of the Iron Curtain.
Song Siyuan said based on the situation in front of her: "Most of these tunnels lead directly to other towers. They extend diagonally from the direction we came in. They are probably another tower at the back."
"But, what's the point of going underground from these towers? I don't see any way out."
Song Siyuan didn't wait for Yue Guanchao to say, and knocked on the iron curtain surrounding the four corridors: "Probably, only when the four rosette lamps are fully lit can we see the passage. According to the distance we walked and the location of the palace, we probably can Located below the palace.”
Her words were already clear. Yue Guanchao guessed: "You mean, there is a passage behind the iron curtain."
Yue Guanchao then looked at the iron curtain in front of him. Judging from the length and width he saw, it could indeed accommodate stairs and other components. In other words, the passage could only be seen after the rosette lanterns were lit.
"Let's split up. Each of you find two or three people to go to different towers and completely light the lotus lanterns. The remaining people will wait where they are."
After Yue Guanchao finished speaking, he divided into teams with the people led by Sun Tianqi, and took them to different towers. After about half an hour, they returned to their original places one after another.
As the rosette lanterns of the four towers were lit, the Iron Curtain in front of them continued to shrink into the ground. With the roaring sound, the spiral staircase could already be seen emerging from behind the Iron Curtain.
When the Iron Curtain lowered below the ground, everyone finally saw clearly the structure of the hanging ladders. Most of these ladders had two iron ropes hanging from the top. It could be seen that a wide wooden board was lined with iron ropes from top to bottom. You could climb to the top by using the iron ropes.
Yue Guanchao illuminated his flashlight. Not far away from the fixed iron rope was a one-meter-square iron plate. From here, you could probably walk up directly.
"I'll go up and take a look first."
Yue Guanchao grabbed the iron rope, stepped on the wooden board and climbed up and down from the ground to the top. Then, he kept testing the square iron plate with his hands until he found that it could be pushed open, and then he flipped the iron plate upwards with all his strength.
After the iron plate was opened, a layer of dust stirred up from the falling ash. Yue Guanchao waited for the dust to fall and slowly climbed up to the opening of the iron plate. When he saw that there was a tunnel inside, he felt a little relieved.
After going down, he explained: "According to my observation, there is a tunnel on the iron plate, which probably leads to the tomb palace. After we enter, it will either be the tomb chamber of the tomb palace, or other burial chambers in the tomb palace."
Yue Guanchao told them the situation, and everyone stepped onto the iron rope ladder one after another. After everyone went up to the iron plate cave, they slowly closed the iron plate.
After more people came, the flashlight light gradually illuminated the surroundings. The tunnel was entirely made of iron and stone, and countless bricks were stacked in staggered layers to guide them to the front.
The tunnel was shorter than they expected, only within ten meters. They had not taken a few steps before they saw the round arch hole.
After stepping out of the doorway, the space in front of you is the main tomb chamber of the tomb palace.
As mentioned earlier, this tomb palace is both a palace and a tomb chamber. It can be regarded as a reasonable use of the middle palace. Their location is exactly at the gate of the tomb palace.
At this moment, the interior scene of the tomb palace was slowly unfolded in front of everyone's eyes through the light of the flashlight.
The tomb is divided into five parts according to the layout from the center to the periphery, including the coffin, the burial platform, the burial pit, the Shuiyin River, and the Huangquan Bridge. The tomb is fully arranged.
Their location is the platform in front of Huangquan Bridge. From here, you can see three different white jade bridges, distributed like "claws" on the Milky Way.
The entire river is rectangular in length and width, completely wrapping the edge of the tomb. The four corners are dug into ditches toward the center. With the circular burial platform in the center as the center, a swastika-shaped river is involved.
Between the four cantilevers is a burial pit filled with human figurines. Various human figurines are displayed inside, mostly maids, eunuchs, guards, bearers, cooks, and servants. They are almost replicas of the paper figurines in the courtyard. , the pottery figurines are brightly colored, vivid and rich, and look like living people being stored in a burial pit that is half a person tall.
After bypassing the burial pit, there is a circular burial platform in the center.
This burial platform is about the same area as a ten-step-long roof. There are steps on all sides facing upwards. You can see the jade-white carved railings surrounding the platform, shaped like a huge grandstand.
The concubine's coffin was located on the funeral platform, but the coffin did not fall to the ground and seemed to be floating in mid-air.
Some people died, but not completely...
