Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 488 Siguniang Mountain (48)

488 Chapter 488 Siguniang Mountain (48)
Zhang Qiling officially entered the tomb with the girl. He was as calm as ever, but the little girl beside him still didn't like this environment very much. She pulled him tightly with a trembling and uneasy look.

The metal door fell completely, and silence returned to the surroundings. The girl thought about it and said to him: "When the door was closed just now, I seemed to hear someone calling us two. It sounded like the voice of Brother Bai Hao."

Zhang Qiling responded to the girl with a soft "Yes", saying that he heard it too, but they both knew what happened just now, and when they heard Bai Hao's voice, it was too late to wait for him to come in together.

Zhang Qiling carefully observed the surrounding environment. He saw that the celestial diagram of the sun, moon and stars was drawn on the top of the tomb. This theme is still very common in tombs. It is also a rare octagonal tomb. The octagonal tomb used to be seen before was still similar to The girl is in Qilin City.

In addition to the many simple clay pots piled under the walls, the most eye-catching thing seems to be the murals on the walls, which are all quite beautifully painted.

There is a door on one left and one on the right. They are symmetrical and should be the left and right ear chambers. There is a gate directly in front, which is obviously the way to the main tomb chamber. In other words, the front and back chambers should be arranged on the central axis.

He decided to take a look at the murals here first and learn more about them before going to the main coffin room, so he took the girl to walk along the walls and read the murals.

Bai Hao knew that complaining was useless, and it was more important to follow him quickly. He sighed and walked behind one of the tomb-guarding beasts. He followed the instructions left by Xiaoxun and carefully looked at the position under the tomb-guarding beast's wings. He quickly discovered a round raised stone button the size of a thumbnail.

When the two buttons were turned on at the same time, Thaksin said, "That's not easy to do." He directly summoned the mouse doll next to him, leaving the mouse doll in front of the button on standby.

Bai Hao walked behind the other tomb-guarding beast and found another identical button, and then asked the rat doll floating in the air, standing like a little man, to make exactly the same movements as him.

Bai Hao stretched out his hand, and the mouse doll also stretched out its little paw. Bai Hao put his hand on the button, and the mouse doll also put his little paw on the button. They followed the movements of Bai Hao and the mouse doll in synchronization. He pressed the button with his movements and strength.

The tomb-guarding beast mechanism opened again, making a "clack-clack" sound. The wings of the two tomb-guarding beasts spread slightly again, and their heads looked towards the center of the tomb passage. The closed metal door slowly rose again. .

Bai Hao put away the mouse doll and peered into the door. When the door opened to half a person's height, Bai Hao said angrily, "Xiao Xun, Xiao Qiling, I'm back." Got in.

But no one responded to him. He stood in the front room and called Xiaoxun and Zhang Qiling, but still no one responded to him. The metal door fell again. When the sound of the mechanism stopped, the tomb became extremely quiet. Bai Hao was confused. He said "Oh" and said, "No one? No, right? I watched them go in. It's only been a few minutes since they entered. Where are the people?"

Bai Hao thought about waiting first. Maybe the two of them were watching something nearby, and they could also wait for Liyue and the others, so he decided to wait at the door for the time being.

There are eight sides of the tomb wall, and there are doors on all four sides. Except for the murals toward the entrance, which are relatively small and relatively small, the other four walls are full of large murals.

No matter how big or small the mural is, it is in the form of one brick and one painting. The content described in the painting is related to the content that has been seen before. The first painting is about the corpse poison they obtained from Jian. After that, they also held a large-scale sacrificial event, with sacrifices including livestock and living people.

The painting also depicts a process record of the tomb's construction process, which doesn't seem to be anything special.

The mural also depicts what should be a record of the burial process here, but it is impossible to see what was brought in. What was brought in seemed to be a coffin. The shape was not like a coffin, but more like an octagonal alchemy furnace. There were a lot of chains tied to it.

The painting also contains records of the process of putting the funerary objects into the tomb, as well as records of the placement of the coffins. Generally speaking, the content of the narrative mural ends here, but there is a mural at the end, and the content of the painting is really interesting. It's a bit hard to understand.

The contents of the murals here are not common story drawings about gods, objects, myths and legends. The patterns and decorations on them are obviously the patterns of ethnic minorities, and there is no information about the owner of the tomb at all.

In the last painting, looking from top to bottom, the top painting should be the top of the octagonal tomb here. It shows that the tomb is filled with smoke. The smoke is still very thick. Only a corner of the octagonal coffin can be vaguely seen. The rest of the tomb was as dark as ink. Although the meaning was incomprehensible, the picture already gave people a bad feeling. It was also so unpredictable that he couldn't help but feel I'm a little curious as to what's in this tomb.

After reading the murals, Zhang Qiling and the girl continued to walk towards the main tomb chamber. At this time, Li Yue also caught up with his team. In the cracks, there were some mutated rats that were chasing them and jumped down to attack them.

Liyue immediately saw the location mark and message on the tomb guardian beast. Under the light golden button prompt given by Xiaoxun, there was a row of blue words that read "I'm in too."

Li Yuexin asked why she was writing such a sentence alone. Could it be that they were not together? But considering that Bai Hao had just quietly handled the matter, the time did not match when he came back. They separated one after another. It's possible.

Qi Tiezui said: "The patriarch and the others have already entered, right?"

Li Yue told him: "It shouldn't have been long since we entered. Let's just follow him quickly."

Li Yue called Zhang Rishan and opened the door mechanism together. After a while, they all entered the front room one after another. They each looked around at the inside of the tomb.

Qi Tiezui said: "Where are they? There...is no one."

Li Yue looked inside the tomb. She also found it strange that she couldn't sense the aura of any of the three people at all, and she didn't even find any hints left by them. Generally speaking, they would not act separately without hints.

Qi Tiezui looked at the top of the tomb and said, "It's rare to see an octagonal tower-shaped top."

Gou Wuye looked at the tomb and said: "Equilateral octagonal and octagonal plane buildings were ingenious shapes in ancient times. Octagonal towers and octagonal pavilions are quite common, and there are really not many octagonal tombs." Zhang said the other day: "Four Girl Mountain is in western Sichuan, and there are many Han tombs in western Sichuan. Such brick chamber tombs have been commonly used in Sichuan during the Eastern Han Dynasty. The types of tombs in the Eastern Han Dynasty are mostly brick chamber tombs and cliff tombs. Although the age of this tomb is It's relatively vague, but still has a relatively regular shape. Brick chamber tombs are generally found in plain areas. Although we are in a valley, there are also flat areas. Tombs with this shape may not be too far from the ground."

Qi Tiezui smiled bitterly and said: "How far is not far, ten meters, 15 meters, 20 meters or 30 meters? Just now I saw that the mountain wall outside is so high, how close is it to the ground.

As we are running up and down, it is still hot and cold here, and there is no pattern at all. You can still know how many meters above the ground you are. "

Zhang Rishan said: "It is true that the exit may not lead directly to the ground, but it may lead directly to the cliff cave. When you come in, it is a cliff burial cave. Why can't it be the same when you go out."

Qi Tiezui curled his lips and said, "You know how to use strong words to make excuses."

Gou Wuye said: "This type of tomb is indeed special, but the other brick and stone decorations are not much different from the ones seen before. Look at the floor tiles, they are still the same kind of black stone, and there is nothing in the front room. The important things should be kept in the back. I think the clan leader and others may have gone directly to the main tomb. Let’s not run around and just go to the back to find them.” After saying that, he looked at Li Yue.

Li Yuezheng and Zhang Rishan looked at the murals around them. Li Yue replied: "Take a look at these paintings first, and then we will set off."

They looked at the murals on the wall one by one. The contents of the first few paintings were clear and clear, so they hardly exchanged anything. But when they saw the contents of the last painting, everyone also expressed their opinions. Confuse.

Qi Tiezui frowned and said: "The content in this painting reflects the danger here. Isn't this painting just a black cloud over the top? It's a very ominous look. Things in the main tomb cannot be touched."

Gou Wuye said: "It's untouchable. There are so many things that are untouchable. When it comes to you, nothing is untouchable."

Qi Tiezui rolled his eyes, frowned and hesitated to speak. Everyone knew that his fortune-telling secrets should not be revealed. At this moment, he was speechless and seemed to be worried to death, but now that he had said it The main tomb chamber is a place of great danger, so that is by no means an alarmist statement.

Li Yue said: "The content in this painting does look wrong. Let's not touch the things here and try not to trigger the mechanism. The most important thing is to join them quickly."

Following them, they walked cautiously towards the main tomb. After passing a short passage, they entered a tomb door and entered the main tomb. A carved metal product that looked like an alchemy furnace and covered the top of an octagonal tower came into view. This is what is shown in the painting, what appears to be a coffin that was put into the tomb.

When we got here, we still didn't find the three people who came in first.

The main tomb chamber is quite large, less than 20 square meters, and is also octagonal. It also has entrances on all four sides. From the direction of the exit, there are two side chambers on the left and right, and one facing directly leads to the back chamber. In the room, a small area is separated under the four walls to store funerary objects.

The big thing on the top of the octagonal tower was as black as if it had been exposed to fire. It was placed in the center of the tomb, with a dense chain wrapped around it, as if it didn't want it to be opened.

The eight corners on the top of the octagonal tower correspond to the eight metal legs under the big guy's huge body. Each metal leg is tightly stuck in the groove of the black stone base.

There is also a long branch-like lamp placed in the direction of each corner. There are three layers of branches on each trunk, with four elongated branches on each layer. The tips of the branches, including the top of the trunk, are connected to an oil storage tank. The box contained a dark paste-like substance.

The whole lamp is rusty and green, and it is obviously made of bronze. There are some ravine patterns on the trunk and branches. The branches are connected to hollow-shaped leaves, and the leaves are connected to the oil storage box. The oil storage box is in the shape of a curly long strip with the top It is full of scales, and where the branches are connected, there is a design of a curved pointed tail coiled on the branches. The other end of the oil storage box has a rounded triangular head shape, with a pair of large, round eyes protruding from it.

Li Yue looked at it carefully and said, "This is a bronze chandelier with thirteen lanterns per tree. It has a three-dimensional snake pattern oil storage box. The shape is also special."

Qi Tiezui said: "The snake pattern means good luck, but this lamp looks like a tree from a distance, but it's a bit weird up close."

Gou Wuye said: "At that time, only those at the imperial level could use bronze lanterns. Now there are eight of them. But if this is the case, the size of the tomb seems to be that of a wealthy family, which does not match well." ah."

Zhang Rishan, who looked around, said: "If you look at the burial objects here, they are mostly pottery, and there don't seem to be many more expensive burial objects."

Qi Tiezui said: "Maybe they are all put in the stove, but what should we do now?"

Just when everyone was at a loss what to do, suddenly there was the sound of a mechanism, but no one in the tomb had touched anything. The sound of the mechanism echoed in the tomb, and the ground shook slightly.

Suddenly, each layer of the eight bronze chandeliers' trunks slowly rotated left and right. The oil storage box at the top of the trunk lit up, and the oil storage boxes below also lit up one after another. .

Before anyone could be surprised, the large stove on the top of the octagonal tower was rotated by the base, rising while rotating. Everyone watched with vigilance at the gap that appeared on the ground after the stove was raised.

Just when the gap was as high as a head, a lump of black hair suddenly protruded from the gap and hit the ground. As the gap continued to expand, a large mass of hair came up.

Qi Tiezui said: "Why does this look so like a black-haired man?"

(End of this chapter)