The old hag's words made everyone feel as if they had fallen into an ice cave, feeling cold from head to sole, and even the heat of the stove seemed to have lost its warmth.
Yue Guanchao looked at this ghostly old woman. Her words were probably true. Otherwise, there wouldn't be even a living beast here. There was no need for her to make up some curse about the God of Heavenly Eyes. If such a thing were to be lied, it would be easy. Discovered and verified for authenticity.
He thought for a moment, squinted his eyes and chewed his teeth: "According to what you said, after ordinary people come in, they will never have the chance to go out. Is that what you mean?"
The old hag didn't speak, and nodded as if in acquiescence, which was a response to his question.
He noticed what the old woman meant, and then teased: "That's not right. When we came in, we clearly saw the Beifu soldiers in the cave. According to what you said, how could those Beifu soldiers escape, but we But not?"
The old hag seemed to know the existence of these Beifu soldiers: "Really? When I say escape, I don't mean escape from this valley, but escape from the depths of Shennongjia. Being able to get out of the Guifang Valley is considered a skill. It’s a pity that I didn’t escape in the end.”
"You mean, he was killed by you Guifang people?" Yue Guanchao said again.
The old hag shook her head and retorted: "They were not killed by the Guifang people, but by the Tianpu God. Those Guifang people are just the puppets of the Tianpu God, just like a murder dagger, controlled by the Tianpu God. .”
Song Siyuan listened to what the old hag said. If what she said was true, then it would be completely true that the Beifu soldiers they saw were killed by Guifang people.
She picked up her meat pie and walked to the old hag and handed it to her hand: "Old woman, you haven't eaten anything all day, so you should eat this meat pie first."
The old hag would not let go of the meatloaf that reached her mouth. She was not modest either. She grabbed it in her hand and ate it greedily. She looked as if she had not eaten meat for decades, and she licked all the oily meat in her mouth. Clean, seems particularly satisfied.
"If what you said is true, then what exactly is the God of Heavenly Eyes? Is he a very large person!" Song Siyuan handed over a bowl of hot dehydrated vegetable soup, and did not forget to ask about the Heavenly Eyes as she moved. Clues to Hitomi God.
Perhaps it was these meat cakes and broth that warmed the heart of the old hag. She did not object to Song Siyuan's questions. She wiped her mouth and nodded: "The God of Heavenly Eyes is tall and mighty. His head alone is bigger than our house." Even bigger, he is the only god that the Onifang people believe in. He was indeed a giant before, but, over the past thousands of years, the God of Heavenly Eyes has been changing, and now, only a head is left."
"A head? You mean these giants can still live with only one head left?"
Song Siyuan recalled the giant head they saw and felt uneasy. If what the old hag said was true, then the head they saw was probably the remains of an abandoned ancient god.
The old hag's eyes became mysterious, and she nodded towards her: "The God of Heavenly Eyes will never die."
Song Siyuan had a hunch that since this old lady was alive, she must be someone extraordinary, and there was no need to hide it from her. She retorted: "Since she is immortal, we saw the head of the ancient god with our own eyes on the way here. Why do they die?"
The old hag shook her head: "The Heavenly Eye God needs worship from believers. If believers continue to worship for thousands of years, they will never die. If there are no believers to worship, they will die soon, and the ones you see are gone. The celestial eye god of believers.”
"You untie me, and I will introduce to you the history of Tianpu God."
Faced with this request, Yue Guanchao hurriedly walked over: "Old lady, that's not possible. We don't know your details. If you escape, you will be in trouble secretly harming us."
The old hag shook her head: "What can I, an old woman, do to you? You can't escape anyway, so what's the point of me harming you again? On the contrary, I will let you escape early. Why bother? Besides, I am an old woman who is lonely and helpless. Yes, if there are more than a dozen of you joining a group to keep warm, how can I harm you!"
"If you are worried, you can just let go of my hand."
Song Siyuan nodded towards Yue Guanchao. He picked up the iron chain with understanding and locked the old hag's feet. The length of the chain between the two ankles was just enough to allow her to walk around freely. As for running and stepping, it was completely impossible. Waiting for it to be done. After finishing this, he untied the rope that bound the old hag.
After the rope was untied, the old woman moved her wrist a few times and dragged the heavy chain towards the back of the stone monument. Yue and Song followed closely behind her, wanting to see what she wanted to do.
Behind the stele was a very ordinary wall mural, like six screens inlaid on the wall. The old hag fumbled on the back of the stele for a moment, then lifted a blue brick from the ground near the base. After pulling out the brick, she motioned to Yue Guanchao Go over and take a look. Inside is a faucet knob the size of a palm.
This kind of thing under the floor is often some kind of mechanism. Yue Guanchao immediately understood the old hag's intention of occupying this palace. However, he still couldn't completely trust the old hag. He pulled Song Siyuan and hid in front of the stone monument, exposing his eyes to take a look. , what is the place behind this mechanism?
The old hag pressed the knob, and with the rumbling and trembling sound, the six murals on the back of the stone tablet separated to both sides, completely disappearing into the stone walls on both sides.
Behind the mechanism, a long corridor also appeared!
After waiting for a while to make sure that there were no poisonous arrows or hidden weapons flying out of the corridor, Yue Guanchao led everyone to the door of the agency.
After shining the flashlight, the tunnel was long, narrow and deep, and the bottom could not be seen at all. Not only Yue Guanchao, but also other people were very worried.
"What is this place?"
Before he finished speaking, the ever-bright lamps on the stone wall lit up one by one, illuminating the tunnel dimly and brightly. Most of the murals that appeared were relief sculptures of Beifu soldiers, which showed that they were made by craftsmen from the Song Dynasty.
"This is the cave city built by the soldiers of the Song Dynasty. You will understand when you follow me in."
The old hag looked at everyone with an expression on her face, and her words were somewhat mysterious. Yue Qingshan said: "We can't all go in, we have to leave some of them outside to support them."
"No, just the two of us will go. If we have any problems, you can handle them later."
Yue Guanchao pulled up Song Siyuan and urged the old hag to continue walking inside. After walking through the 100-meter long corridor, they had entered Beifu Cave City.
Yue Guanchao and the other two turned on their flashlights. The location they were in was a huge open cave. To the naked eye, it was impossible to estimate its actual area. It could only be said that it could fit a county town with a population of tens of thousands. The ground was flat and open. , the dome is deep and rugged, and there are many circular or square grottoes scattered on the surrounding stone walls, which are completely connected by plank roads.
In the cave, an ancient square urn city appeared!
They could see that the urn city was square in shape, with a side estimated to be about one mile. It was surrounded by green bricks and was about 1 mile high.
Ten meters wide, there are three gates in the middle of the city gate, with pathways leading in all directions, directly extending to the four stone walls of the cave.
Above the city gate hangs a wooden plaque full of cracks, with the words "Beifu Army Town Wengcheng" engraved on it in characters from the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
As for these underground cities, they have seen many of them. The underground imperial city of Haidong Sheng Kingdom is even more magnificent than the current scale. It is not uncommon to have a urn city like this, but as long as it involves the underground city, it must be It was to preserve something important, or to place some body. This was the reason why Yue Guanchao and the others were surprised.
To them, the Beifu soldiers definitely not only built a tomb here, but the word "military town" appeared here, it was probably an underground barracks!
The old hag picked up the Changming lamp oil on the stone wall, led them into the urn city, pushed in through the small door, crossed the gate tower and walked along the horse path to the city wall.
The layout of the urn city is a very typical panoramic view of a military town. Nine squares form a square layout. The houses and palaces are lined up in rows, arranged like fish scales. Depending on the situation, it is perfectly fine to gather a hundred thousand soldiers. !
The old ghost woman trembled and said: "These Wengcheng were built by Beifu soldiers. They were originally used to accommodate soldiers for garrison. Later, after the Beifu soldiers disappeared, this Wengcheng was abandoned. For my own safety, I have always lived in them. In the courtyard.”
After that, she pointed to the inner square closest to the city wall. There was a courtyard whose roof had obviously been repaired. There were no weeds or damage. It was completely different from other courtyards that were full of weeds.
Afterwards, they walked down the city wall and entered the courtyard where the old hag lived. Apart from being a little messy, there were indeed signs of use for a long time.
The old hag opened the door to her room and took out a box slightly larger than her face. After opening it by candlelight, she found some leather volumes inside.
The old woman took out a cowhide scroll, found it on the table, spread it out, and motioned to Yue Guanchao and the others to take a closer look.
Yue Song walked to the desk and stared at the scroll carefully. The cowhide scroll was polished to be smooth, and the pigments were soaked with pinholes. After nearly a thousand years, it is still clearly visible. Twelve paintings were divided into cotton threads, and completely different pictures were drawn inside. .
In the first painting, there is a huge ancient god with one eye on his head, sitting on a throne, with ghosts crawling at his feet, and there are written records on the side.
While the two were looking at the scroll, the old hag explained the origin of the Sky Eye God.
Probably at the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, Guifang wanted to escape the persecution of Shang King Di Xin, so he took some of Guifang's classics and tribesmen and fled several times to Shennongjia, an outer land in the northwest of the Shang Dynasty.
During the Yin and Shang Dynasties, this area did not belong to the Yin and Shang territories, but was a barbarian territory where Yi and Di people were spread. At the same time, because the waters of Yunmengze did not recede, the Shennongjia area and Jianghan were still a marsh country.
As a nomadic people in the northwest, the Guifang people came to the barbarian frontier full of miasma. Not only did they have to face a humid environment surrounded by water, but they also had to fight against miasma poisonous insects. The tribesmen were very tired of dealing with fatigue. Many Guifang people already had The idea of exiting Shennongjia and returning to his hometown.
Although this kind of thinking can solve the current problem, it is not good for the reproduction of the ethnic group!
