Baolu Tianxing

He was staring at the stone pillar in a daze, but Duqin had already glanced around, and saw a large sunken hole in the stone wall beside it, inside which were stacked piles of wood-like things, just like firewood piled up in rural areas, so he ran quickly past.

The wood was thicker than an arm, so he picked out a smaller one, carried it back, smashed and kicked it with Da Ya, and tossed and tossed for a while before breaking it into several pieces.

At this time, Da Ya's coat was almost finished, so Du Qin hurriedly took off his own coat and lit it, and then set the wood on fire. After a while, a fire was lit, and the whole cave was lit up.

After staying in the dark for too long, now that the fire was brightly lit, they felt a little uncomfortable, and several people closed their eyes.When I opened it again, I felt that the whole stone room was much wider and brighter. When I looked carefully, I saw that the surrounding stone walls were rough, but they were dark and did not reflect light. In the storage room, Duqin went to pick some small wooden sticks that could be held in his hands, and put them on the fire to make torches.

Da Ya looked around for a week, and saw that although the cave was big, it was simple and empty. He couldn't help being disappointed, "Damn, is this a barren house? Looks like a bunch of poor ghosts!"

Du Qin glared at him: "Will local tyrants come to live in this cave? Do you think this is a summer resort or a nightclub!"

Wu Chen carried a torch and walked to the stone altar in the middle. The stone altar didn't look very high, it only had two floors, but each floor was more than 1 meter high. When he got closer, he found that the first floor below was taller than the stone altar. The upper layer is about three meters wide, and there is a two-meter-wide and one-meter-deep groove on it, which circles the stone altar in a square shape. There is some black carbon ash inside, which was poked with a wooden stick. , the upper layer is a little hardened, and I don't know how many years ago it was left.

Wu Chen saw that the jar was a bit weird, so he put the torch on it, supported it and turned it up, stood on the edge of the stone trough, and turned over to the second floor. This floor is not big, about three meters long and wide. The vertical stone pillars were more than one meter in diameter, standing straight there, occupying half of the stone platform, with some fire patterns engraved on them, and the engravings were very deep.

"What are these poor ghosts burning here?" Big Tooth came over and rummaged through the stone trough, but found nothing except a thick layer of charcoal ash.

"Whatever it is, it won't burn people anyway. Rest for a while, let's find a way out again, it's suffocating, it's uncomfortable!" Du Qin took a torch and looked for the exit along the four walls. His shirt was burned, revealing his dark muscles. After doing a few chest expansion exercises, his chest muscles trembled. Compared with him, Da Ya suddenly paled in comparison.

"That's not necessarily true, maybe this is the place where the ancients cremated and burned the corpses!" Wu Chen sat down and rested on the stone pillar, seeing that Da Ya was still turning over the black ashes, he intentionally frightened him.

"Bah, bah, bah..." Da Ya hurriedly withdrew his hand, feeling unlucky, spit a few mouthfuls of saliva, leaned over and sat down, "Why do I feel evil in this place? If you say this is an incineration room, how many ghosts must be lingering in it?" I can't get out of this hole!"

That's what I said!Wu Chen felt chills when he heard that, so he glared at him, clenched the torch in his hand a little bit, stood up facing the stone pillar, and looked at the engravings.

Da Ya also came over to look at it for a while, but he didn't see anything famous, but he couldn't restrain his excitement, "Is this a Huabiao? It's such a thick one, it's not much worse than the two at Tian'an Gate! And it's not too big. I know when it happened, you said it was going to be sold out, so it should be worth some money!"

Wu Chen wasn't sure if it was Huabiao, so he gave his big teeth a white look, and said angrily, "Forget it, how big a project is this thing going to get out? Besides, who are you selling it to? Once dug out, the state will Levy away! You have to ask why you came here, you can't say that you drank too much and went crazy in the middle of the night!"

The so-called Huabiao refers to the huge stone pillars used for decoration in front of large buildings such as ancient palaces and mausoleums. Composed of squatting beasts.The column body is mostly carved with patterns such as dragon and phoenix, and carved stone slabs are inserted horizontally on the upper part.

This stone pillar has a simple pattern, only burning fire patterns, and no dew plate, but there is something carved on it, but Ying Yingzhuo couldn't see what it was.And there is no palace here. Could it be that there is a mausoleum hidden behind that wall?

The more Wu Chen thought about it, the more chilling he became. He only felt that the surroundings were gloomy.Du Qin came over, and from the expression on his face, he knew that there was nothing to gain.

"You can see that the stone cave is black with smoke, and the soot is embedded in the stone wall. People must often burn fire here. The fire pattern carved on the stone pillar, could it be some kind of ritual altar?" Big Tooth walked around the stone pillar Walking around, the more you look at it, the more you feel that this place is an altar.

"What you said this time is a bit reliable. In the "Emperor's Century", it said: "With fire supporting wood, it is located in the south and governs Xia, so it is called Emperor Yan." Although Emperor Yan is in the land of Chu and Han, but the southern part It's true that many people worship fire." Wu Chen couldn't help agreeing when he reminded him.

"Tsk tsk, what a magnificent scale! With the time, why build it underground, where there is no ventilation, and it won't suffocate people to death?" Da Ya raised his head and continued to display his ingenuity.

"It's a bit strange. Generally, tribes that worship fire also worship the sun, and they usually live in the wilderness where they can see the sun. Why was this established here? Is it a secret tribe? Or is there some other special reason?" Wu Chen was full of heart. Doubt, I just felt that there was a flash of thought in my mind, but I didn't catch it.

"What's so strange about this! There are too many reasons!" Du Qin said nonchalantly, not interested in their entanglement with such metaphysical issues, "It may be that the country was destroyed by others and hid in a cave, or it may be to fool People, make it more mysterious, otherwise, it can also be a group of psychopaths, who have nothing to do when they are full. Just like us, running in this black mountain valley in the middle of the night. What is there to think about! Hurry up and find a way to get out, Brother, I haven't taken a wife yet, so I don't want to ascend to heaven!"

"Wait! What did you say?" Du Qin's words suddenly touched Wu Chen, and a thought gradually became clear in his mind.

"What are you doing? You're so surprised! Shengtian doesn't understand! It's just hiccups, go see Max!" Seeing Wu Chen's serious face suddenly, Du Qin didn't know what he was thinking.

"That's right! Ascension to heaven!" Wu Chen slapped his head!I looked at the surrounding gutters, and then at the stone pillar, "The ancients believed that after death, the soul can ascend to heaven! Whether it is cremation, water burial, or sky burial, all of them lead to the same goal. Maybe this place is really a Look at the crematorium, put firewood under the stone trough around here, and put the corpse on it, isn't it just right for cremation?"

Da Ya was stunned when he heard that, oh my god, this imagination is too rich, the problem is that the top of the stone pillar is the top of the cave stone, where did it come from?Thinking of so many ghosts who could not get out and scattered in this cave, I couldn't help shivering, and said with a forced smile: "Don't talk nonsense, there is no sky here, where is the sky?"

"It's this pillar. After the dead are cremated, the souls are collected and go up along this stone pillar engraved with fire patterns. Isn't that the way to ascend to heaven?" Wu Chen continued along his train of thought.

This time, Du Qin also turned green: "You mean, there is an empty space in the middle of this stone pillar, which is an upward passage!"

"I don't know, but if it's this logic, then the weirdness must be on this pillar!" Wu Chen touched the stone pillar and patted it with his palm. It's quite thick, and it's hard to tell if it's hollow or not!

The three of them searched around the stone pillars, but found no place to enter or exit.

Du Qin saw that the fire patterns were deeply carved, so he asked Da Ya to climb up to see what was going on on the pillar.When Da Ya thought of countless ghosts, he slithered up this pillar, feeling unhappy in his heart, unable to withstand the urging of the two people, he had to climb up cautiously with his hands on the pedals.

Wu Chen and Du Qin were afraid that he would fall, so they stood at the bottom with open hands, ready to pick him up at any time. Da Ya slowly climbed up to the top, grabbed the statue with one hand, and made a V shape with the other, showing off. After a while.

Seeing Da Ya's stinky fart, Wu Chen wanted to kick him a few times, and urged him to look for it quickly to see if there was anything unusual. At this time, the cave had been burning for a long time, and it was difficult to breathe. It was sealed like this. In the cave, the air is scarce. I really don't know how the people who built this altar lit the fire.

Da Ya chuckled, then turned his head and observed the sculpture carefully. It was actually a round ball with uneven surface and no ghosts could be seen, so he punched it with his fists. There is no joint gap, and it seems that the pillar is carved out of one piece of material.

Seeing that he found nothing, he felt that his hands and feet were a little tired, so he thought about climbing up and sitting down to rest for a while.When I looked up, I found that the ball was less than [-] centimeters away from the top of the cave. It was possible to get in lying down, but sitting down was not enough.He held the ball with one hand and lit a cigarette with the other, thinking about how to get the ball down to see.

As soon as the lighter was turned on, Da Ya suddenly found that the top of his head was filled with smoke. After careful observation, it turned out that the top of the stone chamber was an arch. The vaults slowly gather in the center.

He hurriedly shouted loudly and told the situation to the two people below.

After listening to Wu Chen, he became more and more sure of his guess. Judging from the charcoal ash in the stone trough, firewood had been burned countless times in this airtight stone room. It stands to reason that there should be vents or exhaust ports, otherwise the air would be exhausted. Not enough firewood to burn.

Thinking of this, Wu Chen shouted loudly, asking Da Ya to carefully examine the vault above the pillar, especially the place where the smoke gathers!Sure enough, Big Tooth Probe groped in the smoke for a while, and found that there was movement in a spot about the size of a pillar in the middle of the top.

He tried it, supporting the place with his palms, and pushing it left and right, but his strength was too weak, so he asked Duqin to climb up on the other side of the pillar, and the two of them pushed the top plate aside together, revealing a pillar about the size of a pillar. Coming from the entrance of the cave, the smoke sticks to the top wall, flows into the entrance of the cave, and goes straight up.

Da Ya gave a cheer, and bravely drilled up first to explore the way.After waiting for him to go up, Du Qin handed him the torch.Here, Wu Chen also climbed up, and saw Big Tooth yelling from above, so he also climbed up along the entrance of the cave.

Because there was still smoke constantly coming out, choking, Wu Chen finally crawled for a while, and then his head was exposed, but above it was a larger stone chamber than before. Da Ya, who came up first, was holding a torch, walking around Looking for the stone wall on one side, it seems to be an arc-shaped stone wall.

After climbing up from the hole, just as he was about to rest for a while, he heard Da Ya shout, "Finally found something that isn't a rock! Come here!"