Tomb Raider's Notes of Qilin City Lord

Chapter 86: Eastern Xia Kingdom

086 Chapter 86 Dongxia Kingdom
I have been following the little brother closely, and suddenly he stopped for a moment, and I saw that he seemed to be staring at something. He quickly stretched out his right hand, and then I heard him say "Huh?" and quickly stopped. He came back and acted as if nothing had happened. Although I was relatively close to him, I was still confused behind him, wondering if there was some mechanism?Why are you so mysterious?

I saw that his reaction was the same as his reaction when he felt that the bottom of the faucet was empty. It seemed that there was something fishy that only he could see, but it was obvious that he was not going to say it this time. I felt that the stone passage was very strange. If there was a problem, I had the forethought to quietly leave a spiritual sign here that only I could see, and then continued to look at him stupidly.

Wu Xie suddenly saw that we were missing, and he was stunned. From the time he heard the little brother talking to the time he found that we disappeared in front of him, it must not have been more than five seconds. His face was full of doubts but he thought It didn't make sense. In such an environment, two living people could disappear in front of their eyes in the blink of an eye. This was simply unbelievable.

He suddenly felt something was wrong, and subconsciously took a step back, wanting to take a closer look. Suddenly, he saw me and my little brother appearing in front of him again.

The fat man was right behind him. Wu Xie suddenly took a step back, startling him and asked, "What's going on?"

Wu Xie couldn't tell what was going on and hesitated: "No...it's okay." Wu Xie saw that my brother and I didn't seem to know that something was wrong just now. He only saw me staring blankly at the brother who stopped. , the little brother was just observing the surrounding environment and couldn't see anything wrong.

The little brother paused and suddenly said to us: "Follow us." After that, he started to crawl forward faster.I was a little flustered by this acceleration. I took two steps forward and quickly glanced in the direction the little brother was looking. I really couldn't see anything, so I had to quickly adjust my rhythm and catch up.

Wu Xie was still wondering what was going on. He couldn't be hallucinating. This scene appeared and appeared in an instant. It felt very real but he couldn't explain it clearly. He knew that even if he asked, there would be no answer.

Just as he was thinking wildly, the fat man pulled his feet from behind and urged him to follow quickly. Wu Xie was puzzled as he followed and crawled for a while. When he climbed over the section where we disappeared just now, he also looked around carefully and said He didn't find any depressions or places that could give him an illusion, and the doubts in his mind became deeper and deeper.

After passing this section and advancing for about 10 minutes, the little brother suddenly relaxed and leaned out. He gave me a hand and followed the little brother to take out a few fluorescent sticks and throw them around. The yellow warmth The light illuminates the whole place.

Seeing that the front became more spacious, Wu Xie knew that he had arrived at the exit. At the end of the gap was a large number of rocks. After a while, he climbed out from behind me. He looked around and said, "It seems that this should be the most beautiful place among the cracks in the entire mountain." The spacious place is about the width of four or five Jinbei buns and about one and a half basketball courts long. It looks like there are all large and small gravels underneath. It seems that it was torn down when this crack was formed. "

"Brother Wu Xie, how wide is a Jinbei bun? And how long is a basketball court?" Every time he uses the length and width of the court, the height of the building, and the length and width of the car to describe the area, I get confused. He was still old before. They said Jiefang cars were wide, but later I learned that one car was generally about two meters wide, and two cars were almost five meters wide.

Wu Xie looked at my question-marked face, smiled softly at me and said, "As for the width of the car, just remember that it is about the height of an adult. A standard basketball court is 28 meters long and 15 meters wide. Do you understand?"

I blinked and replied, "Oh."

Fatty expanded the aperture of the flashlight, looked around, and said, "It's strange, there are even murals here. It seems that we are not the first people to come here."

We walked up and found a large colorful mural on the cracked mountain wall. Wu Xie said: "The preservation of this mural is very poor, the color is so dim, and the pattern on it is similar to the scene of a goddess flying into the sky."

We roughly observed the situation here. The entrance here was blocked by a huge sealing stone, and there were murals inside.Among the gravel, I found several small hot spring holes. They were all shallow, but the steam was steaming, and there were no traces of other people's activities. Going inside, the gap gradually closed up, becoming a small gap two people wide. Going deep into the rocks, hot wind blew out from the bottomless gaps from time to time.I felt that there were murals, sealing stones, and this road here, and the guy’s condition was definitely not a coincidence, so I quietly made another mark.

The three of them exchanged opinions and decided that there was no need to go in anymore. This was already a good place to escape the snowstorm.

The fat man took a small instrument to test the air and tested it and said: "There is no big problem with the air." Then he turned on the wind lamp for long-term lighting. The little brother looked at me and said: "Wait here." After that, he When crawling back, the small gap notified everyone outside to come in.

After a while, they came in one after another, and Shunzi was also pulled in by Pan Zi. Wu Xie immediately went to check his condition and found that due to the temperature here, his hands and feet were still very cold, but his face had begun to turn rosy. , Wu Xie thinks Shunzi is a good person and hopes he can get through it.

Monk Hua checked his heartbeat and pulse, soaked a towel with hot spring water, put it on a stone to cool down slightly, and then wiped Shunzi's body. After his whole body was covered with blood, he poured some hot water into him. The child began to cough violently and his eyelids twitched.Monk Hua smiled and said, "Okay, I can't die anymore." Everyone immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Fatty and Ye Cheng both took out their cigarette points and started smoking.At this time, Chen Pi's Si also came in with Pan Zi's support.

The snow on our bodies melted into water due to the change in temperature, and our clothes and shoes began to become damp. We took off our clothes and placed them on dry stones to steam dry.Ye Cheng took out the compressed can, threw it into the hot spring water, heated it up and distributed it to everyone.

After eating something, the little brother saw that I was really sleepy, so he found a comfortable place to sit down and let me rest against him.But I always felt uneasy and held him tightly with my hands. I was sleepy but I didn't dare to sleep. My brother noticed that I seemed to be afraid to sleep and asked, "What's wrong?" I whispered in a daze. : "I'm afraid you will disappear." He patted my head, hugged me and said to me: "I won't leave, go to sleep." After all, I couldn't fight against the sleepiness and the sound of my heartbeat that made me feel at ease. After a while, I fell asleep.

While Wu Xie was eating, he and Monk Hua went to see the mural they had just discovered. Wu Xie became more and more confused. It was obviously a naturally formed crack, but why should a mural be painted here in this narrow space? The younger brother and the younger brother Xun's sudden disappearance and the huge stone seal at the entrance of the cave made him feel very unnatural.

Murals and reliefs, which convey a lot of information, naturally attract people like them. After a while, several other people saw them looking at them and gradually walked over.

Wu Xie looked back inadvertently and saw that his brother seemed not to be interested in any of this. He was just watching over Xiaoxun quietly, stroking Xiaoxun's head to coax her to sleep from time to time, and occasionally looking at her with doting eyes. I can't help but shake my head and smile. This stuffy oil bottle is really gentle, isn't it?

But then I thought about it, that’s not what I was thinking about. Then I looked at Mengyou Bottle again, thinking that when he was in the undersea tomb before, he would be at the front to explore, and he said that he was there 20 years ago. It is so strange that he is so obsessed with Yunding Tiangong, but he seems not interested at all after finally arriving here.

I turned around and looked at the mural. It was just a mural of the goddess flying into the sky. It just showed a beautiful scene of singing and dancing and had no practical significance. Maybe it was because of this that I didn't come to see it. I comforted myself not to think too much. Let's take a rest first.

Just when Wu Xie wanted to go back and rub his toes that were numb and painful from the cold, he heard the fat man "tsk", stretched out his thumb, and started to peel off the mural with his hands.

Wu Xie hurriedly asked him: "What are you doing? Although this thing has no value, it is also a relic of the past, and you can't destroy it."

The fat man said: "What nonsense are you talking about? My nails are worthless? I don't peel off ordinary things. Come and see for yourself. This mural has two layers!"

Wu Xie looked at the direction of the fat man's hand with confusion: "Two layers?" Wu Xie looked at it and said: "So it turns out that the upper layer gradually fell off due to exposure to the air, so the mural behind it was exposed. Come out."

Hearing this, everyone gathered around again, and saw that he had scraped off the red cinnabar material, and some bright colors began to appear where he scraped off.This was obviously caused by someone painting a new layer on top of a mural to cover up the original mural.Monk Hua looked at the fat man and said, "Hey, this is really two floors. It's OK. You have good eyesight. I admire it."

The fat man said proudly: "It doesn't matter who I am, Fatty. Come on, help me peel it off to see what's behind."

Wu Xie also scratched the mural with his finger: "Look at this surface layer, not all the processes have been completed, so the color can be simply wiped off with just one scraping. If the complete steps are followed, the outside of the murals after the Tang Dynasty will be stained A special layer of clear material, this layer will protect the mural like varnish, so that the color will not fade and peel off so easily, then we really won’t be able to detect it.”

Chen Pi Asi's brows were furrowed tightly, while the younger brother remained calm and calm, his expression was calm without a trace of ripples, and he just looked at them with a faint look.

The little brother gradually realized that the information in the Ziyan album that Yatou showed him was collected and compiled by traveling through the past and the future, and was far more comprehensive and complete than what they could see.This is what the girl said to him, "You can't be careless when collecting information. You must be meticulous and precise, so that you can help." He finally understood why the silly girl in front of him would rather get hurt or even be punished and beaten. Even though he almost died because of this, he still had to keep this album, all for his sake, and he couldn't help but sigh.

The mural in the front was quickly peeled off into a piece the size of a washbasin, and on the mural in the back, there was a half-carriage painted with colorful paint floating on the clouds. Several women in Mongolian costumes were waiting on the left and right sides of the carriage. The obese man wearing unseen clothing must be the owner of this car.

Wu Xie saw that this was a narrative mural, but apparently for some reason, he replaced it with another one in a hurry. Time must have been very tight at the time, so the mural outside didn't even have the final touches. Finish.

Chen Pi Asi looked at the entire mural, then looked at the surrounding environment, and said to us: "This should be related to the Heavenly Palace. Clear the entire wall and see what the mural is about."

Then they all used their fingernails and began to work carefully, peeling off the murals on the stone walls.After a while, a colorful and majestic picture gradually appeared in front of everyone.

They raised the wind lantern to the side of the rock wall to enhance the lighting. The dim light shone on the rock, giving people an ancient and mysterious feeling.

The color of the mural is very bright, using a lot of blood-like red. Under the variable light source, it shines with the brilliance of colored glaze, as if the whole rock is seeping blood. The mural hidden under another layer of paint is very well preserved. Well, can't help but surprise them.

This mural describes two different things respectively, but when viewed together they are very complete and beautiful.

Monk Hua's eyes lit up and he said to himself: "This should be the war scene between Emperor Wannu of Eastern Xia and the Mongols. Look at this person. This person should be King Wannu himself. This is very likely. Legend has it that the war in the Middle East destroyed the Xia Kingdom." He pointed to one side of the mural, where a large number of soldiers wearing furs and armors were seen, and said, "This is the army of King Wannu." He pointed to the cavalry on one side and said : "This is the Mongolian army. You see, the number is far greater than that of the Eastern Xia army. This is an overwhelming war." The painting showed a scene of flying arrows and stones. The fat man always felt strange after looking at it. Asked: "Why do the faces of the Dongxia army look like women? Do the Dongxia people rely on women to fight? It would be unreasonable to not subjugate the country."

Monk Hua said: "No, this is a characteristic of Dongxia murals. You see, all the people are very handsome. I have also found some strange phenomena in the allusions. It seems that all the people who deal with the Dongxia Kingdom , it is said that in Dongxia country, you can’t see old people. All people are very young. I saw Koreans in Korean journals saying that people in Dongxia kept their youthful appearance even when they died. "

The fat man frowned, as if he couldn't figure out why this was happening.Wu Xie thought that maybe this had something to do with the customs of some ethnic minorities.In some ethnic groups, the elderly are not allowed to see guests, so Wu Xie didn't pay much attention.

Monk Hua pointed to the second part of the mural and said: "This part records the battle. You see, the Eastern Xia people were one against three, but they were shot to death by the Mongols one after another. This war finally turned into a massacre. .”

The murals use a lot of red to show the tragedy of the war.The sense of immersion was so strong that Wu Xie seemed to see Eastern Xia soldiers falling into a pool of blood one after another. Mongolian cavalry stepped over their bodies and began to burn houses and massacre men.

The third part of the mural was pressed behind a huge stone and they could not move it away, but it was estimated that it should be a continuation of the content here.

Wu Xie felt very confused and said: "That's wrong. I remember that Dongxia was a regime that suddenly appeared in Jilin and Heilongjiang during the period when the Jurchens were destroyed. They only existed for more than 70 years, and they were always at war. His founding emperor Wan The slave king didn't even have time to pass on the throne to the next generation, so he was destroyed by the Mongols through North Korea. At that time, Mongolia was extremely powerful. If the scene on the mural was really that decisive battle, given the character of the Mongols, they should have been destroyed. It should be very thorough. At that time, the productivity among the Jurchen tribes was still very low. Under the circumstances at that time, such a small country did not have a large labor force. Even if the country was not destroyed, it would be impossible to build the Yunding Heavenly Palace on such a large scale. His mausoleum?"

Wu Xie thought that if he inferred from what he saw in the undersea tomb that this legendary tomb was built by Wang Zanghai, then the dynasty when it was built should be the late Yuan Dynasty.At that time, the Eastern Xia Kingdom had been destroyed for hundreds of years. It was unreasonable that there would be an Emperor of Eastern Xia who could be buried.

Everyone thought what Wu Xie said made sense, so they all turned their attention to Chen Pi Asi. The old man knew what they were thinking. He glanced at the mural with a blank expression, sneered, glanced at Monk Hua and said, "Since they don't believe it, Monk, just tell them."

Monk Hua responded to Chen Pi's Si, turned around and began to tell everyone in detail: "Most of the information about Dongxia is inferred based on some incomplete ancient books. There is really too little information left by the Dongxia Kingdom. , abroad, they don’t even admit that such a country existed, so it’s hard to say how much of the information you are seeing now is actually true.”

The fat man said, "Since that's the case, how can you say that your information is correct?"

Monk Hua smiled: "That's right, because our information is more direct." He took out a piece of white silk cloth from the pocket of his underwear and unfolded it in front of everyone. It turned out to be the one from the auction. Snake eyebrow copper fish!

At this time, I also slept for a while. The little brother moved a little and patted me quietly, as if he wanted to wake me up, but he didn't want to make it too obvious. I slowly opened my eyes and looked at him, and he asked me Continue to lean against him and listen to them.

Wu Xie frowned, didn't he say that no one bought it?Suddenly he realized that since no one bought it, the fish was in Chen Pi's hands, which meant that Chen Pi's was the seller of the fish.

Monk Hua continued: "This kind of copper fish is an abnormal form of dragon. It was obtained by our old man by chance. I believe that it should be made by a person who knows the conditions in Dongxia. He used a very special method to make it." Ingenious means, a piece of top-secret information was hidden in this copper fish.

As he spoke, he placed the copper fish on the side of the wind lamp. The gold-plated fish scales reflected golden light and shot many thin spots of light on the mural. Monk Hua turned the fish's body and the spots began to change.Gradually, it turns into several text-style spots.It turns out that there are a total of 47 Jurchen characters hidden in the scales of this fish, and the secret lies in them.

Wu Xie pinched the other two copper fish in his pocket, knowing that he couldn't take them out easily, but he really wanted to know what the secret was.

Later, Monk Hua said with some pride, "Actually, based on many clues and the sporadic records in this snake-eyebrow copper fish, it can be inferred that the regime of Dongxia Kingdom has always existed. After the decisive battle with Mongolia, Dongxia Kingdom retreated to Deep in the mountains on the border between Jilin and North Korea, it has existed secretly for hundreds of years. I don’t know what it relied on. This extremely weak regime had fourteen emperors in the past few hundred years. Mongolia and Goryeo tried to destroy this small country more than once. But all failed for a strange reason. Until the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there were still ginseng pickers who saw people wearing strange clothes in the snowy mountains here."

Pan Zi asked: "What's the reason? I said, monk, can you speak more cheerfully?"

Monk Hua shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know. The information on the fish is not complete. There must be other things recording other parts. We have been trying to find it, but unfortunately our old man has been searching for many years and has not found it. The other parts." He paused and then said, "Do you know what the last sentence of these Jurchen characters means?"

Wu Xiexin said that he was still trying to pass things off, but before he opened his mouth to ask, Ye Cheng asked: "What?"

Monk Hua looked at us and said, "The above said that all slave kings in the past were not human beings."

The fat man smiled and said, "If it's not a human being, what is it?"

Monk Hua put away the copper fish, "It says that they are all monsters crawling out of the ground!"

Ye Cheng asked: "Could it be a metaphor that the emperor is a dragon, not a human being?"

Monk Hua smiled mysteriously and said: "According to my research, I found that this person probably just wanted to record some secrets. He was relatively objective about the history of Dongxia, so he probably wouldn't use such respectful language. Moreover, if it was Just imagine what you said, if you wish the emperor a happy birthday, and you first say, Your Majesty, you are really not a human being, I am afraid you will be chopped into pieces before you even say the second sentence. No one would write like that!"

What I heard him mean is that the old man Chen Pi knows that there is more than one fish, and he wants to know the secret above. Doesn’t that mean he wants to know the secret that the little brother is guarding? I hope Wu Xie will not be impulsive, and the secret of the two small fishes I would rather not know than let them know.

Wu Xie has always been very concerned about it. He doesn't know Jurchen characters, and the fish in his hands is really useless. Brother Xiaoxun and Fatty both know that the other two copper fish are in their hands, so everyone didn't say anything. They should all think that they should be handed over to them. They are very inappropriate, so I remind myself that I must never hand them over.

Pan Zi stared at the mural and muttered: "The person on this mural may be King Wannu. He looks like a human being. He doesn't seem to be a monster."

The fat man patted Monk Hua and said to him: "Brother Scar, what are you trying to decipher? We are real people, don't act like intellectuals. When the coffin is opened, it will be clear whether it is a human or a dog. "

Monk Hua smiled and said, "I mean, it's always better to know the enemy."

The fat man asked: "But why did the person who painted this mural paint these things here? Don't they forget the hatred of the country and the family?"

Monk Hua shook his head and said, "I don't know. Maybe I wanted to pluck the stones in whole pieces after painting the murals here, or maybe I just painted to kill time. You see it's so warm here, it's very possible. It was a place where craftsmen at that time used to rest." After saying this, Monk Hua began to take pictures of these things to keep as documentation.

After that, everyone began to take turns to rest. Chen Pi Asi asked his people to take turns to go out and stay outside. If the snow stopped, they would climb in and call us. We and my brothers all asked me to have a good rest, and they took turns to be on duty.

When Wu Xie woke up, Shunzi had also woken up and kept apologizing to everyone. The fat man was too lazy to pay attention to him. Wu Xie brought him something to eat and let him have a good rest. After all, we still have to Keep going up on him.

We stayed here for about two or three days. The snow finally stopped. We climbed out of this crack one after another. It was sunny outside and everything was white. It was so bright and dazzling that I couldn't open my eyes. , the little brother covered my eyes with his hands to let me adapt slowly.

In the gap, Chen Pi Asi taught us many tips on snowy mountains, such as using sanitary napkins as insoles, which can absorb foot sweat, keep feet dry, and the whole body will be warm.It's just that they thought that if they entered the ancient tomb and discarded these things, a few years later the archaeological team would discover what their expression would be like when they saw such things next to the coffin.

We used ropes to climb up the steep slope when we rolled down, and saw many fresh horse hoof prints on the ground. The fat man squatted down, looked at it, and said, "It seems that Aning's gang has surpassed us. They ran in front of us." ”

We all put on our goggles and set off immediately. Two hours later, we saw Aning’s team on a hillside. There were only about twenty of them, thirty of them, and only half the number of horses. Wu Xie still didn't see the shadow of his third uncle.

We lurked quietly and observed them. At this time, Aning was staring in one direction with a telescope. Looking in that direction, we saw a snow-covered mountain standing tall in the distance, connected with other mountains. That was the bottom of the sea. The mountain peak in the tomb shadow painting.I knew it was there, where the little brother was going, and I couldn't help but look at the little brother holding him tightly. I always felt that the closer I got to that place, the more uneasy I felt.

Wu Xie knew that this was the mountain peak. He pointed at the mountain and turned to ask Shunzi: "What kind of mountain is there? How can I get over there?"

Shunzi set up a pergola with his hands, looked at it, and changed his face: "Where are you going? You can't go there!"

(End of this chapter)