Yin Yang Tomb Raider

Chapter 12 49, Small Earth Tower

Hua Ji glanced at me and bowed her head in silence. For some reason, I felt that this woman had two sides in one body, sometimes like a hot desert rose, and sometimes like a shy mimosa. This sense of contradiction made her more mysterious and beautiful.

The old man closed his eyes: "If a person knows too much, it is not a good thing, but if you catch up with the time, I can't kill you now."

I felt a "thud" in my heart. This old man is not joking. We are now being slaughtered by others. With a heartbroken heart, we have already opened a hole, so let's continue: "The second thing is the Buddha statue, the so-called bronze statue. If it falls into the water for a thousand years, it will be as green as a melon rind, but as shiny as jade; if it is less than a thousand years old, it will be green but not shiny; if it has not been immersed in water, its color will be purple brown, with cinnabar spots, and even its spots are convex. rise."

"The Buddha statue placed there is purple-brown in color with cinnabar spots, and even the spots are raised. It has not been buried in the soil. Looking at the rust color on the outside, it must not be more than a thousand years old. The main target that the Russians did not transport away back then was Focusing on the Buddha statue of the great statue, I was wondering if this statue is one of the treasures that disappeared?"

"If it is, your identities have been vaguely revealed." I said: "Also, why do people who come here have only two ways, either to die or to stay forever. The dead will not reveal their secrets and become yours." Humans can do it too, what is your secret? The real treasure of Heishui City, or the inexplicable coldness of the underground that makes people unable to sleep well?"

"The reason why you took the initiative to find us must be because we are useful." I said, "I'm done talking, you can make a condition now."

Munro was dumbfounded. This guy doesn't understand. Now it's the same as negotiating a business. Whoever takes the initiative will win the upper hand. Now the upper hand falls on us. We must seize this opportunity!

"Conditions?" Hua Ji was a little surprised: "What conditions do you want?"

"You must ask us now." I said: "Otherwise, why would you officially call us over? In this case, we will not be polite. We can help you, but there is a premise. Let me and the person I designate be released. .”

"You are such a lion!" Someone rushed in and slapped him, and I grabbed the man's wrist with one hand: "Now you understand that it is you who want us, you dare to touch me, Let's see who suffers!"

It was that man, the muscles on his face were twitching constantly because of anger, I sneered and said, "Why, I still want to do it."

"Li Quan, let go." The old man finally said, "It's not your turn to arrange this matter."

"Uncle." Li Quan explained his relationship with the old man in one sentence: "They are outsiders with impure goals. If something happens, can you bear it?"

"What do you mean?" The old man said in a deep voice, "The lives of the clansmen are the most important thing right now, do you want to die here too?"

Li Quan finally turned around and left. The old man said: "I agree to your conditions. As an additional condition, you must keep everything that happened here tight-lipped."

"Deal!" I stretched out a hand, the old man hesitated for a moment, then slowly withdrew a hand and gave me a high-five as an oath.

The old man turned around and pulled the iron chain behind him, a secret door opened, he walked in first, the three of us followed behind, as soon as he walked in, there was a "crash", and his body fell rapidly. Hua Ji on one side is a soft piece, and I can think of where it is with my knees. I said softly, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."

Hua Ji turned around and didn't speak, Meng Luo glared at me, does this guy think I'm going to eat other people's tofu on purpose?
In my heart, I have always believed that the soil structure under the desert is not stable, so it is not suitable for building underground spaces, and there is a danger of landslides at any time, especially in areas without green plants, but the underground soil quality is beyond my imagination. Taking advantage of the time of descent, I squeezed a handful of mud down and squeezed it in my hand. The soil is sticky.

Representatives of clayey soil, such as black soil, are most suitable for the growth of plants. The surface of this place is obviously not covered by any plants, but the quality of the underground soil is completely different, unless...the ground has been tampered with by these people!
The pedal under her feet reached the bottom, and when it touched the ground, it shook suddenly, her legs were a little numb from the shock, Hua Ji walked out first with a torch in her hand, lit the brazier, and the flames sprang up one after another. The place also became clearer.

In front of us, there are mounds of soil one after another. The color of the soil is not pure black, but a combination of black and yellow. It looks like a pyramid and is slightly short. There is something in the hollow, and the distance between these small pyramids is exactly the same, and they are distributed very regularly. There are seven rows in a row, and there are seven rows in total, which is 49!
I lowered my head and stared at my arms. When I came here, goosebumps arose, and my bones began to ache, excruciatingly painful. The cool wind went straight into my body, and I took a deep breath. Holding Meng Luo's shoulder with one hand: "Brother, I can't do it, I feel dizzy and my body hurts."

Hua Ji said: "Master, what's going on?"

"This person is born with a light horoscope, and is easy to run into evil and see ghosts, but because his hands are broken palms, which also play a restraining role, this place is not trivial, and he can't bear it." The old man said: "You still have to go forward ?"

I looked at my palm, the eye-catching severed palm, and then thought of my narrow escape, I couldn't help being happy: "It's all here, what are you afraid of, look ahead."

When you are ambitious, you will walk forward regardless of 21 or [-]. After walking a few steps, you will feel like you are walking in place. Although you are striding forward, you feel that your body is still in place and your scalp is numb. Is this the legend? "Ghost hitting the wall"?
When walking at night or in the suburbs, I can’t tell the direction, my self-perception is blurred, and I don’t know where to go, so I always turn around in circles. I once encountered it when I was young. , cock crowing and five drums ghost upper body", walking in the cemetery, inexplicably circled around the cemetery, as if possessed by an evil spirit, and kept going around until midnight, my legs were shaking with exhaustion, thanks to my dad's mention He came over with a lantern and pulled me out. The moment I walked out of the cemetery, I looked back and saw a few vague shadows in the cemetery...

The situation now is slightly different from that time. When I was a child, I could not go out in circles, but now it seemed to be blocked by something, and I couldn’t move forward. His hand seemed to touch something: "What's going on?"

"This is the Eight Diagrams Formation. Eight gates are opened in total. Hugh, Health, Injury, Du, Scenery, Death, Shock, open eight gates. Enter from the east 'Sheng Gate', and go southwest to the 'Xiu Gate' to exit. Enter from the "open door" from the north, and this formation can be broken." Meng Luo said: "Come in from the "life gate" from the east, Lin Tianyi, follow me."

Munro took out the compass. During this process, neither the old man nor Hua Ji said a word, and Munro took the lead completely. My feet almost touched Munro's heels. There was no reference around me, so I couldn't know. In the direction, Munro finally stopped. At this moment, there was a wind blowing over, which was completely different from the dullness just now. The wind meant that the space was no longer sealed. "We are coming in," Munro said.

We can finally see those small pyramids. There is a bottle in the small hole in the middle of each small earthen tower. There seems to be light in each bottle. Munro's expression changed: "This is the soul-detaining bottle!"

The old man nodded and said, "That's right, this is the soul bottle, you really are an expert."

"What is this?" It was as if a cold wind had blown into my heart, my legs were weak, and now I was holding on with perseverance.

Hua Ji said: "The bottle contains the souls of the ancestors."

Isn't that... I let out a breath, it's something I've been able to see since I was a child, just in a different form.

"Soul-restraining technique was originally a kind of subjugation technique. The descendant traveled all over the mounds and mountains, looking for newly buried tombs, and secretly inserted a sharpened bamboo into the bottom of the tomb to pin the dead body. The glass bottle summons ghosts, seals the bottle, places it at the foot of a tree, and goes to chant the mantra day and night until 49 days later, when the merits and virtues are complete, you can take it back home for driving." Meng Luo said: "But this descending technique originally originated from Because of the yin and yang technique of the Central Plains, it can do ordinary soul restraint."

"These soul-detaining bottles can no longer contain these souls." Hua Ji said: "The gate of ghosts opens on July [-]th, and I am afraid they will all run out, and they will eagerly attach themselves to the living, and end the unfinished business in their lifetime. .”

"Who are these people?" I found some strange words engraved on these earthen pagodas, and I often came across some ancient books when I opened an antique shop. I have dabbled in the words of various dynasties. But I was stuck there again. After a long time, I patted myself on the forehead: "Tangutic!"

"What's that?" Munro asked.

Hua Ji and the old man looked at each other and didn't talk to each other. I snorted: "There are more and more evidences. The Tangut script is the Xixia script, which records the language of the Dangxiang clan. The Daqing Yuan before Li Yuanhao, Emperor Jingzong of the Western Xia Dynasty officially proclaimed the emperor. It was created in [-] by Minister Nori Renrong. It was completed in three years, with a total of more than [-] characters. The shape is square, the strokes are complicated, the structure resembles Chinese characters, and it has its own characteristics.

Hua Ji said softly: "The point is not this."

"Of course the point is this. I'm dying of cold now. Also, after taking the medicine, my whole body is weak, and I feel much better now." I said, "Has the medicine worked?"

Hua Ji said: "Yes, the effect of the medicine has expired, we don't plan to give you any more medicine, we have to solve the current problem first."

These people are closely related to the Xixia Kingdom. The people in these earthen pagodas are all Xixia people. Why do their souls gather here, and why do they gather together in such a strange way?What is the connection between this place and the Xiang Yu treasure we are looking for? Is this the source of the scroll wind?
There were too many question marks in my mind, and before I had time to digest it carefully, my eyes went dark, and I fell to the ground with a bang!

(End of this chapter)