Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 61 Wu Xie’s encounter ([-])
061 Chapter 61 Wu Xie’s experience ([-])

After listening to Master Liang's analysis, Wu Xie said: "It seems that the legend about Jiazigou is true. Now we can be sure that the vast majority of them are the remains of She people."

Master Liang thought: "Since this is an ancient battlefield, the corpses cannot have been tampered with. This is not a corpse formation. I think that, superstitiously speaking, it is probably a ghost attacking the wall. The main reason is that it is too dark. Shouldn't we still Are there any flares? Shoot another one and run all the way while it's bright. I think it's better than using a torch, what do you think, little brother?"

After hearing this, Wu Xie felt that it made sense, so he asked Lao Itch to fire the gun. Lao Itch took out the gun and said it was a waste, then raised his hand and shot it in the head.

The flare shot up into the air. Wu Xie subconsciously raised his head and waited to see it burning. Suddenly, there was a "pop" sound and it bounced back. Wu Xie's heart skipped a beat, and his face changed. Oh no, Wu Xie kicked the old man angrily. Itching, he cursed: "Do you have any brains? This is a cave. How can you shoot a flare straight up? It will hit the roof of the cave before it starts burning..." Before he could finish speaking, Master Liang took a picture. He clapped his hands and shouted: "Grandpas, this time is going to be bad!"

I saw the flare falling rapidly, and when it almost hit the ground, it exploded with a "pop" sound, and it ignited within seconds of landing.In an instant, the small flame had burst into a wall of fire.

This wall of fire was spreading along the path between the piles of corpses at an alarming speed. For a moment, it was like a fire dragon walking close to the ground, wandering in the dark cave, and the bones around it "cracked" wherever it went. The crackling sound is getting closer and closer.

Master Liang hurriedly knelt down and picked up a handful of dirt from the ground, smelled it and shouted, "Oops, there's kerosene poured into the mud!"

When Wu Xie heard this, his face became even darker. He squatted down and pinched the soil. His heart instantly went cold. He shouted, "I'm afraid this is the last line of defense set up by the ancestors here to protect the things in the ancient tomb. It's a pity." We didn't have time to use it at the time, and it triggered us."

At this moment, the fire dragon, which was as tall as a person in the distance, had divided into two groups and rushed over quickly. The entire cave was brightly illuminated.

Wu Xie hurriedly looked around. In fact, the open space they were going to was just a dozen meters to the left, and the soil in the open space did not burn. It seemed to be a good place to take refuge.But now a wall of fire has been separated in the middle. Wu Xiexin yelled: "Don't just look around here, the pit is right there! Rush over and talk!"

Following the three people, they stepped on the corpse and rushed into the pit. In a few seconds, they were in front of the wall of fire. Hot air waves hit their faces. Wu Xie thought, he wouldn't care about so much now, and shouted. , closed his eyes and jumped over with a "whoosh". His body was instantly hot, and then he rolled to the ground, and he quickly put out the fire.

Immediately afterwards, Lao Itch and Master Liang rushed over. Wu Xie hurriedly took off his coat and helped Lao Itch extinguish the flames. When he stood up, he saw that his eyebrows were burnt. Fortunately, he was fine.

Master Liang had fallen to the ground before and his clothes were stained with fire oil. The fire could not be extinguished no matter how hard he screamed in pain. Wu Xie quickly knocked him down and used the mud on the ground to put out the fire.They hurriedly peeled off his clothes and saw that there were several burnt patches on his back. Fortunately, it was not serious. Wu Xie quickly opened the kettle and poured half a bottle of water on his back to cool him down.

Wu Xie lowered his head and looked at the pit. It turned out that the surface soil had been shoveled away, so the place did not burn. Wu Xie looked outside again and shouted loudly: "This open space can only temporarily block the wall of fire. This fire will definitely burn the corpse cave completely. It is located in a low-lying area, and we must find a way out quickly. After a while, the oxygen will be gone, and we will be scalded to death if we don't suffocate to death."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lao Itch grabbed him and shouted: "Old Wu, something bad is going on, copy... copy the guy."

Wu Xie turned around and saw several big rats with red eyes staring directly at them. They jumped over the wall of fire like crazy, went straight to them and bit them. At the critical moment, Master Liang shouted at them: "There's a burglar's cave here!"

The two of them hurriedly turned back and headed towards the robbery cave. After walking a few steps, they heard the crazy screams of several mice behind them, and they rushed towards them with a "swish". Wu Xie raised his hand and ran away. Four shots were fired, three of them were hit, and two more were already in front of them, so they had no choice but to throw out the racket, and with a loud noise, the two mice were beaten into a pulp in the air.

Wu Xie didn't expect that the recoil force of this racket was too great. After a few shots, his left hand became numb and he could no longer lift it. The big rat was frightened and did not dare to attack rashly. He took this opportunity and urged Lao Itchi to run away.

There is a dark hole in front of you, and the brick layer under the soil surface is vaguely visible.Never mind Sanqi 21, behind the Wu Xie Palace, Lao Itch struggled to stuff Master Liang into the burglar's hole. As soon as he let go, Master Liang slipped out and fell down. Then he also ducked down and jumped down with his hands on the ground, and followed. When Wu Xie heard Lao Chu calling him, he quickly jumped into the hole with one hand on the ground.

After entering, Wu Xie handed the lighter to Lao Itch and asked him to find something for lighting. He picked up some weapons on the ground and blocked the entrance of the robbery hole to prevent rats from entering.

Lao Itch lit the torches on the walls around the tomb and looked around. It was obviously a stone chamber in the style of the She Kingdom. The walls of the stone chamber were all made of strips of stone, and there were colorful murals on them. The top was made of strips of stone inlaid with blue bricks. Because of the humidity, there are traces of mold almost everywhere you can see.

The stone chamber is very small. There are traces of a coffin being placed in the center of the stone chamber. There are only some weapons and tools left, and nothing else. There is not even an exit or passage.

At this time, hot air sprayed down from the top, and the oxygen became increasingly scarce. Due to the temperature, the murals became more and more colorful, making people afraid to look at them. Wu Xie took a few sips of water and said, "Staying here will not last long." Guess, maybe there is a secret passage here, you have to look for it, otherwise if you can't escape, we will be adults sooner or later. Let's see how Master Liang is doing first."

From this look, it was obvious that he was suffering from hyperthermia. He was already out of breath and had only half a life left. Wu Xie hurriedly poured the remaining half of the bottle of water into him, and Lao Chu pinched his philtrum a few times. Finally, he was able to calm down.

At this moment, big rats were surrounding the entrance of the thief's cave and screaming desperately. However, the entrance was blocked with a sharp bronze weapon and they could not get in.

Wu Xie looked around, but it was too small and could be seen clearly at a glance. It didn't look like there was any mechanism, so he had no clue.

Suddenly, there was a "clacking" sound, and a mouse chewed up a brick and tried to get in through the gap. Unfortunately, its head was too big and got stuck between the two bricks.

Wu Xie was startled: "Oops, although these blue bricks are very strong, the mouse bites it desperately, maybe it can be bitten open." He quickly picked up a spear, pushed the mouse back, and shouted : "Lao Itchy, please help."

Lao Itch hurriedly took off his coat, used his weapon to push it into the gap at the entrance of the burglar's cave.

But the clothes didn't hold up for a few times before a big hole was bitten by a big rat, followed by more than a dozen rats crawling down the spear shaft.They were so frightened that they quickly let go. The mice jumped to the ground, ignored them and rushed directly towards a corner.

Only then did they suddenly realize that the rat was looking for a way to escape!Lao Itch shouted: "Follow them quickly!"

I rushed over and found an inconspicuous mouse hole at the foot of the wall. I lay down and took a look. It seemed to be empty behind the wall.

Lao Itch immediately picked up a copper hammer on the ground, swung it and smashed it towards the wall. A hole was made in the wall. He found that there was a stone room behind it, and then he hit it with a few more hammers. The hole was blown wide, so the two of them carried Master Liang and climbed in.

There was only a square vertical well in the center of this stone room. The rats ran in and jumped directly into the vertical well without stopping.

Suddenly there was the sound of the brick roof of the tomb cracking from behind. Wu Xie looked back and saw that the lead water used to seal the bricks had softened. The tomb here would soon collapse. The two of them were determined to die. They gritted their teeth. He followed the big mouse and jumped into the well.

After Wu Xie got down, he slid down for a while, then fell heavily, then rolled and fell to a flat ground.Thinking that Lao Itch and Master Liang were behind him, he hurriedly dodged to the side. Just as he dodged, Lao Itch fell to the place where he was standing just now, and then Master Liang pressed on him, crushing him. The monster screamed.

Immediately afterwards, there was a roar from above, and the stone chamber shook violently. The tomb chamber above had been burned down by the fire, and hot stones poured down from the well mouth, hitting them head-on.

Lao Itch sat up holding his head. Wu Xie picked up the torch he had brought from the tomb and said to him, "This is the drainage well of the ancient tomb."

Lao Itch looked at the complicated shafts around him and asked, "Then where should we go now?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a few mice slipped down from above, jumped off Lao Itch's shoulders, and ran into the passage in front.

Wu Xie hurriedly shouted: "Quick! Follow them!" After saying that, he quickly chased forward.

The mouse crawled very fast, and they followed it, turning several turns in the shaft. They chased it for about ten minutes. Suddenly, a breeze blew in front of it, and the mice disappeared in a flash.Before they had time to react, their feet were empty, and they rolled out of the drainage well together.

Wu Xie hurriedly turned over and stood up. Lao Itch and the others fell out immediately. The surroundings were pitch dark. Wu Xie raised the torch and saw that this was not a tomb, but a huge circular vertical shaft with obvious traces of digging. The diameter of the bottom is about 60 meters, and the bottom is sunken into a deep pit.There were fire racks all around the stone well. Wu Xie went up and lit a few, lighting up the surrounding area even brighter.

The temperature here is very high, and a strong scalding wind blows from top to bottom, making people dizzy and unable to stand firmly.

Wu Xie raised the torch and asked Lao Itch to carry Master Liang on his back. Together they walked to the pit to check. Under the light of the torch, they saw hundreds of stone figurines with human heads swaying in the pit. The heads had all dried.Standing in the middle of the pit is a giant bronze pillar with a diameter of about ten meters, with the bottom inserted straight into the stone at the bottom of the pit. There are many small copper sticks of different thicknesses on this bronze pillar, which are similar to the ones Lao Itch is carrying. One root is very similar, but in front of you, there are no less than a thousand branches densely packed with branches. The surrounding rocks have burst with many cracks. The shape of the entire bronze pillar is like a big tree growing out of the stone.

Master Liang's heart felt cold when he saw it. He got off Lao Chu's back and said, "Look at the digging marks on the side. The people who built this place must have wanted to dig out the bronze tree, but they couldn't find the end even after digging to the bottom of the mountain. I don’t know how deep this bronze pillar is inserted into the ground.”

Wu Xie also couldn't figure it out and said: "Such a giant metal tool has long exceeded the smelting level at that time. Those ancestors of the She nationality would not have had such technology, but if they had not cast it, then this bronze tree, Who set it up here? Did it really grow out of the ground?"

At this time, Master Liang suddenly patted him. When he turned around, he found that Lao Itch was staring at the bronze tree and walked straight over.

Wu Xie hurriedly shouted: "Old itch!"

Suddenly he realized what he was doing and stood there trembling.

The two hurriedly ran over, and Wu Xie asked him: "What did you want to do just now?"

Lao Itch looked at the tree, then at them, and said doubtfully: "I don't know, it's really strange. When I saw this tree just now, it seemed like I was used to it, and I suddenly wanted to... climb up."

Wu Xie said with confusion on his face: "You are not a monkey. Why do you climb trees just by looking at them? Are you infected by the aura of this thing? Most people will have the urge to climb when they see tall things."

Lao Itch shook his head and said to Wu Xie, "I don't know either."

Master Liang looked at the bronze tree and said, "You two little brothers, this thing is so big and a bit evil. Let's be careful when looking at it and try not to touch it."

Lao Itch nodded in agreement, Wu Xie raised the torch and walked towards the roots of the giant bronze tree.

While watching, he said: "This bronze tree is extremely rare. Except for the ones unearthed in Sanxingdui, there seems to be no other places. I also learned a little about it from the documentary. The archaeological community has not concluded the cause of this. There are many theories. Look, It is engraved with totems of twin snakes, symbolizing the divinity of this bronze vessel."

Master Liang looked at it for a long time and said to them: "For such a big thing, it is probably a sacrificial vessel from around the Shang and Zhou dynasties. I don't know what it was used for in sacrifices."

Wu Xie thought to himself, around the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Shang Dynasty was more than 600 years, and the Zhou Dynasty was 520 years ago, which added up to more than 100 years ago. To put it in perspective, plus the Xia Dynasty for more than 400 years, it accounted for almost half of the entire recorded history of China. This judgment Saying it means not saying it.

Wu Xie asked him: "Can you be more precise? Can you tell which period it is from Shang to Zhou?"

Master Liang spread his hands and said he had no choice: "This thing cannot be seen with the naked eye. It requires professional equipment. I can only guess for you. You see, the rust color is black and gray. It may be tin bronze, lead-tin bronze and One of the lead bronzes, the Western Zhou Dynasty is most likely, probably [-]%. I can’t tell the other [-]%.”

Wu Xie asked: "With the level of bronze craftsmanship in the Western Zhou Dynasty, is it theoretically possible to cast something like this?"

Master Liang said: "I only know that at that time, bronzes had to be made from pottery molds, which are pottery molds. Theoretically, as long as the pottery molds can be made, it is possible to cast finished products, but this thing is too big. I’m afraid it can’t be made using traditional crafts.”

Lao Itch asked him: "Master Liang, do you think this thing is a relic of some prehistoric civilization? I heard that iron nails were dug out of some coal mines hundreds of millions of years ago."

Master Liang shook his head: "The period from 1000 BC to the first year of AD is called the Age of Miracles in history. Many impossible things were built at that time, such as the Great Wall, the Pyramids, the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, and the Tower of Babel. You have to say It is impossible to cast this bronze tree. It is difficult to say. After all, our ancestors were already able to cast bronze vessels at that time. The emperor gave the order and the people below covered their heads and worked hard. It is not impossible to use it for decades. "

Wu Xie thought to himself, would there be so much bronze that could be used?Qin Shihuang gathered all the soldiers from the world and cast twelve golden figures. I am afraid that hundreds of them could be cast from this tree. Where did so much bronze come from?
Thinking about it again, when I was eavesdropping, Boss Li said that the things here are better than those in Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum. Logically speaking, this should be the center of the entire ancient tomb, or the miracle. If there are good things, they should be nearby. , but except for this tree, there is nothing here that people like Li Pipa like... Suddenly an idea flashed, and he looked up above his head. Could it be hidden in this bronze tree?
For the ancestors of the She Kingdom in ancient times, this huge bronze tree was not an extremely large project, it could be said to be a miracle. There was no guarantee that their king would not place his tomb in the place they thought was closest to the god. If this is indeed an ancient tomb, the coffin of the tomb owner should also be on the bronze tree, and all the visible objects should also be on it.

Wu Xie shared these thoughts with the other two people. They all thought it made sense and asked, "In that case, do you want to climb up and have a look?"

Lao Itch hurriedly said: "We've already reached this point, so what's the big deal if we climb a few steps? There are so many sticks on it, it's like climbing stairs, so it doesn't take much effort."

Wu Xie originally thought that Master Liang only had half his life left, and wanted to tell him that if he didn't wait below, they could just go up, but he saw Master Liang rub his face hard, then patted him and said, "It's okay. The last level, I have to go and see it no matter what!”

Wu Xie saw his firm eyes and knew that he could not be persuaded, so he tied his backpack tightly, raised the torch, and said to Lao Itch, "Then let's continue."

Lao Itch put on the gloves in his bag, stepped on the branches of the copper tree, and began to climb. Wu Xie and Master Liang also followed his example, following his footsteps all the way up.While crawling, Lao Itchy reminded him to pay attention to his next move and not to miss the mark carelessly.

As Wu Xie climbed, he noticed that these outstretched branches were cast at the same time as the torso, and the joints were flawless without any forging marks.However, what surprised me was that the gap between the twin snakes above was very deep, and it seemed that it was carved all the way to the depths of the torso. I couldn't see what was inside the carved groove.

After crawling for a while, he was sweating profusely and panting like an ox. Master Liang was exhausted, so he asked Lao Chu to stop. Wu Xie gestured to him to take it easy and let Master Liang take a rest.

Master Liang squatted down immediately. He was so tired that his feet were trembling and he could hardly stand still. Wu Xie was sitting on a branch with his feet dangling in the air and was very unsteady. He couldn't rest well at all.

Seeing that we were too nervous, Lao Itch threw the dry food to us and let us chew it in our mouths. He said to us: "You can't do it like this. There are still hundreds of meters here. With this physical strength, we may have to stay." Spend the night in a tree.”

Lao Itch took a bite of the tortilla and said to him: "Hey, Lao Wu, you said we discovered this thing. If we notify the government, can we name it after us?"

Wu Xie thought for a while and said: "This... I really don't know anything about it, but I have never heard of anything called Cheng Wang Er Mazi Fang Ding or Zhao Tugen Three Legged Goblet? Don't you think Lao Itch Bronze Tree is shabby? Do you have to panic?"

Lao Itch thought for a while and said: "Then at least give me the right to name it, right? Whoever discovers an island can be named by the first discoverer?"

Wu Xie asked: "Why are you asking these questions? You still want to gain fame and fortune. You don't want to think about how a person can find a place like this if he has nothing to do. It's not clear what you do."

Lao Itch chuckled: "I think this thing is quite interesting. What do you think of a name for such a big copper pillar? Think about it, so that we can brag in the same way in the future."

Wu Xie smiled helplessly and said to him: "If you are the first to find out, you can take it yourself."

After eating for a while, his strength recovered a lot, Lao Itch urged him to continue on his way. Wu Xie raised his feet and was about to leave, when he suddenly discovered that the fire jar next to the door below was extinguished.

Lao Itch frowned: "Could it have been blown out by the wind here?"

Wu Xie shook his head and said: "No, the fire in this fire jar is so big, it's many times more professional than the one I made. It can't be extinguished by the wind, wouldn't it be..."

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly the whole copper tree shook slightly, as if it had been hit by something. Master Liang took a breath of cold air and asked quickly: "What...what's going on?"

Lao Itch made a silence gesture to us, then made a trumpet-shaped hand and put it on the copper wall. Upon hearing this, his face changed drastically and he whispered: "Damn it, something seems to be coming!"

(End of this chapter)