Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 252 Tianshi
252 Chapter 252 Sky Stone

"Sky stones"...these are the raw meteorites such as meteorite jade, meteorite copper, and meteorite iron from my brother's house. These are too big, but think about it, there are unimaginably huge rocks in the ruins of my brother's house. Things, this is nothing. The real thing looks so ugly.

I remember that there are many different types of ores in the Zhang family. The varieties are so complete that I can’t recognize most of them, but they are not here.

I thought that the most useful materials in this place were, first, the dark jade used to make jade figurines, and second, the bronze used for the shells of elixirs. The texture of this rough stone must be related to these two substances.

Wen Jin came here just to find this stone, right? Then, what problems can this stone solve... and what knots can this little brother solve by coming here...

As I was thinking about it, I heard the fat man say: "Such a large meteorite was used as a material for carving in ancient times. The most precious one is called Tianxin Stone."

I blurted out: "Brother, isn't that Tianxin Stone used for paving the floor?"

The fat man said: "Tianxin stone is paving the ground, you are so powerful."

The blind man suddenly said: "You don't know this. The Tianxin Stone is just an ordinary stone in her family."

I have only heard that this Tianxin Stone is a medicinal stone produced from the Xingxiu Sea at the top of Kunlun Mountain. It has extremely hot medicinal properties and can restrain cold poison. It can also be used to drive away Hydra Cypress. I have never heard of it. It was very rare or hard to find, because its color was almost the same as that of ordinary stones. It looked very suitable for paving the ground, so Bai Hao took it to the garden. There was a pavilion, a path, and a stone in the Memory Forest. The table and several stone benches are made of this material, and I heard they are still in stock.The last time I saw Lu Palace, it was paved on the ground, so I didn't think it was so rare. "

I looked at the little brother and asked, "Is the Tianxin Stone very valuable?"

The little brother nodded slightly to me.

Wu Xie said: "This Tianxin Stone is a meteorite. It is rare to see foreign objects from the sky. The scarcity will naturally make it more valuable."

I said: "Uh... let's not talk about that first. Let's talk about the one above us first. This one is so big, it should be a natural meteorite." I stretched out my hand and pointed to them.

Wu Xie said: "It is indeed impossible for humans to embed such a huge boulder into the rock formation. It is hard to imagine how many parts are embedded in the rock?"

As he spoke, the others all turned on their miner's lamps and shined light around the roof of the cave. They tried to find the edge where the meteorite met the roof of the cave. After checking enough, Wu Xie exclaimed: "Looking at it this way, the diameter of this stone is enough Five, six hundred meters, including the size of the inside of the rock, it is estimated to be nearly one kilometer in diameter."

Wu Xie used a light to shine on the holes in the meteorite. I felt that the stone looked like a rotten honeycomb.I always feel that there is something hidden in these holes... And this hole seems very familiar, and it seems to look very similar to something in my house... a hollow, a meteorite...

Wu Xie said: "I always feel that this thing is like the pill we saw."

I thought to myself, it certainly looks like it, and it is one of the raw materials for alchemy...

He added: "I don't know how those holes were formed. Do you feel like these holes are staring at you like eyes? This feeling is so uncomfortable."

Wen Jin said: "This must be our destination. This must be the final secret of the Queen Mother of the West. This may be what Wang Zanghai is looking for..."

Wu Xie couldn't understand. He asked with a puzzled face: "Why does he want this thing? What is the use of this meteorite?"

Wen Jin also shook his head: "I don't know yet. It may be related to these holes. Why are there so many?"

The more Wu Xie looked at the holes, the more nervous he seemed, a little frightened. He looked at me and said, "Could these holes be dug manually? Damn it, is there something inside this meteorite?"

The blind man suddenly said: "No, this should be natural. Many meteorites are honeycomb-shaped, but the honeycomb of these holes is a bit ugly."

One of Sanshu's associates said: "Have you ever heard of an unconfirmed statement that the Qaidam Basin and the Tarim Basin were both formed by the impact of a split asteroid? This thing may be a piece of the asteroid at that time. Meteor fragments, the oasis of Tamutuo is the eye of the meteorite impact. The Xiwangmu people built the Xiwangmu City in this crater, and discovered this meteorite that penetrated deep into the ground when they were building an underground livestock pond. I guess this thing must be A symbol of the divine power of the Queen Mother of the West.”

I whispered in my brother's ear: "Brother, this person knows a lot. He has checked the information in advance, but that's not right. These people were invited by Uncle San temporarily and they didn't have time to check so much information." ?, and the things he said don’t seem to be part of the information that anyone can look up, so will this person have any problems?”

The younger brother shook his head and said softly: "Don't worry about him yet."

I looked at the object in front of me and asked my brother: "The ones above are the stone steps, right? There are so many sacrificial jars here, so that platform should be the sacrificial platform."

The little brother said "yes" and stared at the stone platform.

Wu Xie looked at the man and couldn't remember the guy's name. He only remembered that this was the second time he spoke. Wu Xie glanced at him and was about to ask him the specific content of his statement when he heard the fat man shout. : "Hey, come here and take a look."

Wu Xie said, "Hey!" "This fat guy is unorganized and undisciplined. When did he run so far? Menyouping and Xiaoxun didn't even say a word."

Wen Jin smiled lightly: "Let's go and have a look."

They were dripping water and came to the place where we were, about 500 meters away from where we were just now.

When the fat man saw Wu Xie coming over, he pointed to him and asked him to look up. Now, they all saw the intersection between the meteorite and the cave roof, and at the same time they saw a large number of stone pillars hanging from the top into a large strange The huge stone waterfall has a gentle slope that can be hiked up, and it is ridiculously big, like a small mountain.

These stone waterfalls are hideous in shape, like countless huge monster tentacles stuck together. They are extremely ugly and I don’t know how they were formed. They look quite scary.

Wu Xie was stunned when he saw it. He was stunned for a while and then said: "This should be a strange scene formed by the high-temperature rocks after the meteorite impact, but it is too scary to look at."

"That's not the point. Look at that." I stretched out my hand and pointed him to one of the widest and largest stone waterfalls.

Wu Xie said: "There are stone steps, and there are bronze lamps placed on both sides of the stone steps." He continued to look at the top of the stone steps and said: "There is a break where the stone waterfall and the cave roof are connected, and it was repaired into a stone platform. "Wu Xie looked back and looked around and said "Oh": "This is the sacrificial platform. On that platform, you can get infinitely close to the meteorite, and you can have a panoramic view of the sacrificial scene, but the things on it..."

This is the thing. The little brother has been staring at it for a long time. There is a huge stone throne on the stone platform. It doesn't matter. The important thing is that there is a person sitting on it...

I said to him: "Don't be afraid, I was shocked just now, but that thing doesn't seem to move."

Wu Xie took a deep breath and said, "Can't that be the Queen Mother of the West? Prepare the black donkey's hooves."

The fat man said: "It's impossible. If the Queen Mother of the West dies, she's either buried or lying in a coffin. There's no reason to sit down. I think she might be a stone man."

Wen Jin said: "It is absolutely impossible to be a stone man. There is no interest in human figurines here. We have not seen a single human figurine all the way here. This place is so secretive and is the holy land of the Queen Mother of the West. This figure must be of great importance here, so be careful."

I said to them: "Don't you think this thing is placed there, as if it is deliberately luring others to look at it? I think it may be a trap. Do you remember the mummy in the undersea tomb? It's the same reason. It's placed there. You touch him, touch him, and then he will die with you."

The fat man said: "Damn, that's a ruthless character. It's a pity that Pan Zi's gun was destroyed. Otherwise, from this distance, I would have shot him in the head and I would have known whether he was a human or a ghost." Wu Xie glanced at him. He said: "Forget it. If it's a ghost, you can't kill it. If it's a human, you'll become a murderer."

The little brother said, "Go and have a look." He grabbed me and led me away.

Wu Xie and the others followed us towards the stone steps and water.

The entire path was smashed out, and the very simple stone steps. The bronze lamp holders on both sides that might have been used for lighting are now completely embroidered as decorations.

When the fat man saw it, he wanted to put one in his backpack, but as soon as he reached out and touched it, he heard "Oh, shit..." and the thing broke into pieces.

Wu Xie also said to him: "I think you shouldn't put in the effort and leave quickly."

The fat man felt extremely disappointed and continued to move forward.

Slowly the stone steps came out of the water, losing the buoyancy of the water, and their bodies suddenly felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead.We rested for a while, but Wu Xie still felt that we should prepare black donkey hooves, so he asked everyone who had brought them to pack them, and then we walked up to the altar cautiously.

We didn't hesitate, we went straight to the throne to take a look, and found that there was indeed a corpse sitting on the throne.

The corpse sat upright, lifelike, but no matter how you looked at it, it had a gloomy feeling.

The corpse had hairpins on its head and wore a very complicated crown. It seemed that it was a female corpse.

Her face was covered with a layer of cyan colloid similar to lime. In ancient times, lime preservatives were commonly used, using lime and glutinous rice as a desiccant. Her cyan stuff looked like powdered bronze added to the preservative, giving her She made a protective layer or something like that and put it on her face. The role of bronze in the monuments at my brother's house is to control others and create hallucinations... If we don't know, she will fall into some kind of trick... But What's the matter with this gelatinous feeling...

Look at the gold silk dress she is wearing, covered with jade pieces, with no trace of flesh exposed on her body. These jade pieces are meteorite, which is preserved. The gelatinous texture on her face may be because of the jade pieces.

I whispered: "Brother, I still feel that this corpse looks like it was specially made, and it may not necessarily be the Queen Mother of the West herself.

And look at the two people behind her, are they guards? The armor from the Western Regions she is wearing is obviously made of jade, but the lime on her face has been removed, revealing the rotten bones inside.It's obvious that there are some subtle differences between the latter two and the previous method of handling corpses.

I think these three are not evenly preserved and are discarded test items used by Queen Mother of the West for experiments. And if they were placed here deliberately, then there must be something wrong around here. "

The little brother subconsciously pulled me behind him, staring at the three strange corpses.

The fat man asked softly: "Could this be the Queen Mother of the West?"

Wu Xie nodded and said: "Looking at this posture, it should be similar. The ancients must have processed her body and placed it here."

When the fat man saw those pieces of jade, his eyes shone brightly and he said, "Finally, Fatty, I saw something good. It turns out that these women are wearing them. Women are women, and they will not let go of this inheritance even when they die. .”

Upon hearing this, Wu Xie immediately caught him before he made a move.

The little brother said to them: "Don't come close." He pointed to the pattern carved on the ground around the throne. It was a human-faced bird with a big head and a small body. The pattern looked like a disk surrounding the throne in the center. He used a strangely long He touched the edge of the disk with his fingers and said: "There are small gaps, and there may be a balance mechanism. Don't get close to her."

The little brother spoke, and now they didn't dare to mess around. The fat man once again passed by the baby, with a look of helplessness on his face.

At this time, this huge meteorite was already above our heads, within a short jump.

There were several deep holes above our heads. Wu Xiezhao looked in and said: "These holes lead directly into the interior of the meteorite. They are bottomless and the walls of the holes are very smooth. It is indeed impossible to have them dug manually, but... …”

He was silent for a moment. I think he was thinking about why Wang Zanghai was looking for this thing, and what it had to do with longevity.

Suddenly he said: "Why does the material, color, and luster of this meteorite look so similar..."

I said: "It looks like jade figurines, right? Do you think they are made of the same material?"

Wu Xie jumped up and touched it and said: "This meteorite is warm and not cold at all. It looks like jade. Isn't this a piece of "meteor jade"?"

I nodded to him.

Wu Xie said: "Meteorite is a special kind of meteorite. Because the material feels very similar to jade, it was regarded as jade and was extremely precious in ancient times. However, the color of this meteorite is much darker than that of meteorite. Is it possible? Is it a rare piece of meteorite that contains special ingredients? Those jade figurines are made of this kind of meteorite. If it is true, this thing is worth a lot of money. With such a big piece, we can make a fortune even if we sell it by the pound. .”

As soon as his words came out, the group of little money fans felt that they made sense, but I felt inexplicably helpless.

Wen Jin said: "It seems that the formation of those bloody corpses has a deep relationship with this meteorite. In ancient times, the Queen Mother of the West discovered this power and used meteorites to make those jade figurines."

Wu Xie started to say excitedly again at this moment: "You said that the gold-threaded clothes that have been popular since the Han Dynasty are said to prevent corpses from decaying for thousands of years. However, the gold-threaded clothes discovered by archaeologists often even rot the jade. Obviously this legend It's unscientific. So where did this legend come from? In the beginning, could it be because those alchemists consulted some ancient books and found descriptions of gold threaded clothes protecting corpses for thousands of years, but they didn't know about this jade and Ordinary jade is different.”

The fat man said: "Could it be the Warring States silk script? Are you saying that the gold-threaded clothes in the Han Dynasty were made by imitating the jade figurines written on the Warring States silk script?"

Wu Xie nodded and said: "It is possible. Then, Wang Zanghai discovered this flaw, so he began to look for the real materials for making such jade figurines in ancient books.

Damn it, if that's true, then all of Wang Zanghai's tomb robbing activities are looking for this piece of meteorite?Finally, he finally discovered the location of the meteor jade, so he brought people here? "

Wen Jin still said calmly: "No, according to what you said, he should have succeeded now that he is here, but we did not see the jade figurines in the undersea tomb. The jade figurines should not be Wang Zanghai's target."

Wen Jin was right. What that guy Wang Zanghai wanted was another secret, a secret that was far more attractive than immortality. With that, not to mention immortality, he could have everything he wanted.

Wu Xiejue's Wen Jin asked very reasonably: "Then what is his goal?"

Wen Jin looked at the holes on the meteorites and said to us: "I don't know, but I have a feeling that this target is inside these holes."

Wen Jin's tone of voice was very mysterious. They all said they were stunned. She looked up at the holes and muttered.

After watching for a while, Wen Jin suddenly began to pull out the rope from his backpack and said to Wu Xie, "I want to go in and take a look."

(End of this chapter)