Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 31
We passed through the Tai Chi Eight Trigrams Gate, and in front of us was a corridor that spiraled downwards.

Turning the corner, we were immediately stunned by the sight in front of us.

At our feet, a volley plank road is like a long dragon hovering and flying, extending from the bottom of the tower above to the top of the tower, which is majestic and magnificent.The plank road is about five meters wide, paved with bluestone slabs engraved with reliefs, one side is suspended in the air, and the other side is leaning against the stone wall of the tower body.There are semicircular caves every three meters above the stone wall, like showcases.There is a stone carved Buddha statue in each window, and the most amazing thing is that these Buddha statues have various postures, and each Buddha statue has a different shape and posture. This place is like a temple full of ancient charm and strong Buddhist atmosphere. Buddha corridor.

An ever-burning lamp is placed in front of each Buddha statue, illuminating the window brightly.Inside this dark ancient tower, countless ever-burning lights are like sparks in the night sky.Looking from the top down, hundreds of long-burning lights are connected in series, like a circling and burning fire dragon, connecting the bottom and the top of the tower, which deeply shakes our hearts.

I couldn't help sighing in my heart, "What a great designer can create such a spectacular scene!"

The flames of the eternal lamps are not bright, but the flames of hundreds of thousands of lamps burning at the same time are enough to illuminate the interior of the entire ancient pagoda.In addition to the majestic and amazing Buddhist cave plank road under our feet, we are even more surprised that the interior of this ancient pagoda is hollow, which is a peculiar architectural structure that we never thought of.Generally speaking, pagodas have a hierarchical structure, which goes up layer by layer, but this ancient pagoda standing upside down under the water has no hierarchical structure at all. The middle of the pagoda is empty, but there is a tree with ancient Bronze pillars of the same height as the tower.

That big bronze pillar is like a sea god needle, inserted straight into the center of the ancient pagoda. I don't know if it is the load-bearing pillar of the entire ancient pagoda.The bronze pillar is tens of meters high, and it is so thick that it takes four or five adults to hold hands to hug it. The black pillar body glows with a faint blue light, which looks magnificent.

I just don't know why, there are many sharp thorns on the bronze pillar, some are long, some are short, they are like branches growing on the trunk of a tree, and they are like countless open arms.Only at this time did we realize that the shape of this large bronze pillar was originally a huge bronze tree.On those outstretched branches, there are some strange ice-blue spots flickering.From a distance, the bronze tree looks like a decorated Christmas tree, shining with ghostly brilliance, which is both illusion and reality.

Faced with this situation, we were deeply shocked from the bottom of our hearts, and we completely forgot that we were inside an ancient pagoda.Everything here is so strange, so beyond imagination, it can be said to subvert our inherent understanding and imagination of normal categories.How many secrets did the Xixia Dynasty, which dominated one side in those days, left to the world?How much history and culture has been left behind?

The cold wind beat our bodies like whips, but our feet seemed to be stuck by something, and we couldn't move for a long time, staring at the deep and strange ancient tower in a daze.Although I have been to many places with Professor Ye in the past few years, compared with this place, those places that I once thought were weird and bizarre are simply insignificant and not worth mentioning at all.

I don't know how long we stood there in a daze, but we finally recovered from the shock, and our souls were finally brought back to reality.

Gu Meidi sighed: "My God! Once again, I was deeply conquered by the great wisdom and creativity of the ancients!"

I nodded and said, "Yes! Words such as 'ingenious workmanship' and 'supernatural workmanship' are not enough to describe this strange and strange ancient tower!"

Professor Ye said: "Don't say that you two newborn calves are shocked, even I, an old Jianghu who has traveled all over the world for so many years, is also deeply shocked in my heart. This place is more spectacular and mysterious than any place I have been to before. !Okay, cheer up, don't stand in a daze, let's go down and have a look!"

We walked slowly along the volley plank road towards the top of the tower below, and there will be a corner every tens of meters. The corner becomes narrower as we go down. We know that every corner is every layer of the ancient tower. The place.

All kinds of stone Buddha statues continue to catch our eyes. The carving skills of those Buddha statues are very exquisite, and each stroke is drawn vividly. Even the folds of clothes, the buns on the temples, and the belt on the waist can be seen. Be clear.If not a life-and-death adventure, it must be a heart-warming Buddhist journey.Walking on this promenade to watch Buddha, the lead dust in my heart seems to be purified and washed, and the whole person gets a kind of ideological and spiritual sublimation.

After walking on the plank road for a few minutes, Gu Meidi who was walking in front of me suddenly exclaimed, "Scared! There is something on the top!"

I raised my head subconsciously, and sure enough I saw a black shadow hanging upside down above our heads.I was taken aback, raised my pistol reflexively, and fired several shots at the black shadow.Gunshots echoed back and forth in the empty ancient tower, which sounded particularly ear-piercing.

Professor Ye, who was walking in the front, stopped abruptly and asked in surprise, "What happened?"

Gu Meidi pointed to the top of his head, "There is something on it!"

With the help of the dim light, we looked towards the top of the plank road in the direction of Gu Meidi's finger. When we saw this, our scalps were numb, our limbs were cold, and we couldn't move.Above our heads, there was a dry corpse hanging upside down.The corpse was hung upside down on the top of the plank road, like an upside-down radish. It was wrinkled all over, and it had lost moisture long ago, turning into a mummy.The dress of the mummy is very simple, but it has a strong Xixia style. It should be a commoner of the Xixia Kingdom during his lifetime.

I put down the pistol and couldn't help but gasped.On the top of the plank road, I suddenly saw such a mummy hanging upside down, and I was still somewhat apprehensive.However, what scares us even more is that there is not just such a mummy hanging on the top of the plank road, but hundreds of thousands of mummy hanging densely, which makes us terrified.

Those hundreds of corpses were like weathered jerky, exuding a strong breath of death.Our previous excitement and emotion suddenly disappeared, replaced by deep fear.Although we, as professional archaeologists, often deal with dead bodies, this is the first time we have seen so many dead bodies gathered together. The scene is both spectacular and weird.

Gu Meidi said: "Could it be that this is a grave for thousands of people?"

I said: "Probably not, these dead bodies look more like funeral objects!"

Professor Ye nodded and said: "These ordinary people are victims of the feudal dynasty. I guess these mummified corpses were craftsmen who built the ancient pagoda. After the ancient pagoda was completed, the brutal rulers made it All the artisans were made into mummies and hung on the top of the plank road."

Professor Ye spoke calmly, but I couldn't help but get goosebumps all over my body.I looked back and found that since I stepped on the plank road, the top of the plank road was covered with mummies, but our attention was not on the top of the plank road, and the light was dim, so we didn't notice it before.Now knowing that there are so many corpses hanging above my head, I only feel my scalp go numb.Just think, what a frightening thing it is to walk under a group of dead bodies!

Gu Mei flute held his chin and said: "I have a question, if these dead bodies are really the craftsmen who built the ancient pagoda, wouldn't it be more clean for the ruler to kill them directly? What about the top? Does the ruler have any special purpose in doing so?"

I said: "If we can guess the purpose of the feudal rulers, then we will be as perverted as them. Maybe they hang the mummies on the top of the plank road just for decoration?"

"Huh!" Gu Meidi glanced at me, "Tuobagu, you are really perverted! I'll make you into a mummy tomorrow and put it in my living room as a decoration!"

I shivered suddenly, it really is the most poisonous woman's heart!

After walking forward for a short distance, Professor Ye suddenly stopped.

Gu Meidi and I asked with some doubts: "Professor Ye, is there something wrong?"

Professor Ye raised his index finger to his lips, signaling us not to speak, then he closed his eyes and listened intently, the expression on his face gradually becoming serious.We didn't know what problem Professor Ye was thinking of, so we could only stand behind him, not daring to disturb him.But Professor Ye's heavy expression made our hearts start to beat uneasy.

Suddenly, Professor Ye opened his eyes, "Did you hear anything?"

Gu Meidi and I were taken aback at the same time, the sound?what sound?
Professor Ye turned around and looked at the bronze tree in the center of the ancient pagoda, his face sinking like water, "Listen carefully, the sound seems to be coming from that bronze tree."

Gu Meidi and I looked at each other, neither of us spoke, we each put our ears up and listened intently.The interior of the ancient pagoda was extremely silent, only the whistling sound of the dark wind passing through.But soon, a strange fluttering sound pierced through the wind and reached our ears.

Gu Meidi looked at me in surprise, "Did you hear that?"

I nodded, "I heard it, the sound is so weird, I don't know what it's coming from."

The fluttering sound gradually became clearer.At this time, Gu Meidi suddenly pointed at the bronze tree and shouted loudly: "Oh my God! Look quickly! Look quickly!"

The sound of Gu Mei Di was sharp and hasty, as if he had seen something incredible.

I fixed my eyes and looked into the distance, and I was so surprised that I couldn't make a sound.I saw those icy blue light spots on the bronze tree suddenly shine brightly, flashing and twinkling, like flickering blue light bulbs, and like countless ghosts and monsters ready to move, adding mystery and magic to the bronze tree.We stared blankly at those ice-blue light spots, not knowing what those light spots were.

In our surprised eyes, those icy blue light spots slowly floated away from the bronze tree, floating in the air like ghosts.For a moment, the scene inside the ancient pagoda became grotesque, and the ice-blue light spots were like stars dotted in the night sky, so beautiful that it made people feel unreal.We seem to be in a strange and ghostly space, and we have forgotten where we are.

Gu Meidi's pupils shone with a blurred brilliance, and she shouted happily like a little girl, "Wow! What are these things? They are so beautiful!"

As the icy blue light spot drifted away and flew up, the strange fluttering sound broke out instantly, breaking our intoxication.

We watched in amazement at the ice-blue light spots flying in the air, and felt an uneasy premonition in our hearts.

Before we came back to our senses, those flying ice-blue light spots suddenly gathered into a group, like a cloud with a strange blue light, flying towards us in a fluttering manner.

I involuntarily clenched my pistol, and cried out, "Grandpa, what the hell are these things?"

Professor Ye's eyes froze, and the expression on his face became very ugly. He only heard him say in a deep voice, "It's a bat!"

bat? !
Gu Meidi and I were taken aback, why are these bats ice blue?It is so strange!

But in the blink of an eye, those blue bats had already flown above our heads, and at this time we could already see the faces of these bats clearly.In fact, in my impression, bats are not scary animals, but the blue bats I saw this time made me feel sincerely scared, because these blue bats are so ugly and hideous.

These bats are very big, each bat is as big as a football, and their bodies are fat and round, like round lanterns.Their heads are pointed and long, they look a bit like wolves, and they look very fierce.Two rows of sharp tusks are exposed to the air, enough to tear prey to pieces.Just imagine, what kind of ugly creature is that with the appearance of a bat and the face of a wolf!Now, however, such hideous creatures hover above our heads, threatening to swoop down on us at any moment.

The blue bat looked domineeringly at us, the uninvited guests who broke into the ancient pagoda, exuding a strong murderous aura.They flapped their wings desperately, and hundreds of huge blue bats flapped their wings at the same time, making a weird fluttering sound.

I don't know if Gu Meidi and I were frightened or what, but we didn't react in the slightest to the murderous bat swarm.

Professor Ye suddenly roared like thunder from the side, "Run! These are wolf-faced bats, we will die if they stare at us!"

There was a hint of tremor in Professor Ye's voice. The wolf-faced bats could scare even Professor Ye, a veteran of the world, which shows that these bats are really not good.Gu Meidi and I woke up like a dream, and ran away quickly along the plank road behind Professor Ye.

As soon as we ran, the hundreds of wolf-faced bats all chased up, flapping loudly, like firing a cannon behind us, even at a distance of more than ten meters, we can feel the waves coming strong wind.

Those wolf-faced bats came so fast, quickly closing the distance between us.At this speed, we will be overtaken by them if we run another ten meters at most.At this moment, we have lost any good mood. The dreamy beauty that we thought was strange and strange just now turned out to be bloodthirsty and murderous wolf-faced bats. This depressing taste is as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly.

Although we have been to many places with Professor Ye, those are all scientific investigations under absolute safety conditions.This time, however, we risk our lives and face death.Perhaps it was only at this time that we deeply realized how dangerous and deadly archaeology is!

Gu Meidi and I are courageous, courageous and knowledgeable, but we lack experience in facing crises.Once the crisis befalls us, we seem to be at a loss and don't know what to do.

Watching the wolf-faced bats swarming up, Professor Ye, who was running ahead, suddenly turned around, raised the submachine gun in his hand, and swept at the wolf-faced bats rushing forward.

Only the sound of rattling could be heard, and the flames shone on Professor Ye's face. Professor Ye gritted his teeth, his face was covered with beads of sweat, and roared from the depths of his throat, "Yeah! Go to hell! Bar!"

The golden shells jingled and fell to the ground, making a crisp sound, like the death note played by the god of death, echoing endlessly in the empty ancient pagoda, shaking us into a daze.

Although those wolf-faced bats are extremely fierce, they can only be beaten passively in the face of the hot weapons invented by humans.After this round of berserk bullet rain, dozens of wolf-faced bats rushing to the front were pierced by bullets and burst like balloons. Clouds of strange and enchanting blood rose in the air. The pungent stench made us unable to open our eyes.Seeing this, the rest of the bats retreated one after another, and there were many fragmented remains of bats scattered on the ground.

"Let's go!" Professor Ye raised his chin at us, changing magazines while running.

We thought the frightened wolf-faced bats would stop chasing us.However, we were wrong. After calming down a bit, those wolf-faced bats gathered together again and chased after them desperately.

As we ran forward, we turned around and shot from time to time. The bats were overwhelming, and basically we didn't need to aim. Just shooting a random shot would kill a bat.After a while, the blood and corpses of wolf-faced bats were scattered all over the long and narrow plank road. The scene was very tragic.

(End of this chapter)