Chapter 77 The Sundial
These thoughts flashed through my mind, and when I looked at Xiao Jing's expression, I was almost certain. I didn't say anything and looked at the strange tomb. Since Xiao Jing was not familiar with the structure of the underground palace and kept breaking around, I didn't know where she brought me. After carefully looking at the tomb, I saw that the tomb was empty, with no burial objects, only four huge paintings on the four walls.
Due to the dim lights, I couldn't see the full murals for a while. I looked closer and saw that the first two murals were painted with market scenery, buildings, horses, and clothing shapes that were somewhat similar to modern Zhuang ethnic costumes, but they were not as complicated as they are now, and they were more concise, just like a living appearance of the ancient Zimu Kingdom.
When I looked at the third picture again, I was shocked, because there was neither a market nor a carriage on the mural, but a huge portrait was painted. This person was fat and exaggerated, with seven heads, one head in the center, making a crying expression, and one shoulder was one head long, respectively, which was anger and shock. There were one head on the chest and back, which was a total of seven. In addition, the seven hands that were poked out from behind, who was not the Ghost King?
I was secretly frightened, thinking that these days, such deformed fetuses as conjoined babies and double-headed babies are not uncommon, but it is really strange to be deformed to this extent. When I looked at the seven faces and their expressions were different, but the seven pairs seemed to be staring at me. In the dim light, it made people feel uncomfortable.
The ghost king sat cross-legged, and each of his seven hands was dragging a black hollow ball with exquisite shape. I thought to myself: Could it be that these seven lamps? It seems that they are not placed on the top of the head, and their appearance is really not related to the lamp. It is better to say that the exquisite balls played by the princes and nobles in ancient times were similar.
Since there is a mural of the Earth Ghost King here, the identity of the tomb owner can be decided. I think this is the Earth Ghost King's underground palace. It seems that the Nazimu Ancient Constitution disappeared strangely, not an earthquake. There is probably a secret that we cannot peek into. Immediately, I turned my eyes to the fourth wall, and I couldn't help but be stunned when I saw it, because this wall was dull and light, which was much inferior to the gold-painted color on the other three walls. I saw two things were painted on this wall, one was a black circle and the other was a black crescent moon.
The color is extremely dark, and at first glance it looks like a big black pot or a huge black hole. What does it mean? It is really incredible. It is the crescent-shaped thing that makes people think of the moon at a glance. When the two are put together, it is easy to understand, it is the sun and the moon.
But... how come the sun and the moon are black?
Just as I was thinking, Xiao Jing suddenly spoke and said, "I promise you, but there is a condition."
I secretly breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what her conditions were, as long as I agreed to this "cooperation", I would be sure to suppress her arrogance, so I listened to her detailed explanation. It turned out that Xiao Jing's conditions were not difficult to handle, which was reasonable. She said that cooperation was OK, but the partner was me and her. In other words, next, we worked together to find the coffin of the Ghost King, and could not meet with Tofu and others, because Tofu and others had spiritual incense in their hands. Once we met, there were many people and many people, it would inevitably be detrimental to her.
I said, "The four of them are also looking for the coffin of the Earth Ghost King. It will only take a while to meet. Besides, Zhuanrui is also coming for the seven lamps. If the things fall into his hands first..."
Xiao Jing said viciously: "Then I will kill you."
"Ha, I am not familiar with Zhuanrui, so I can't threaten him with me."
Xiao Jing said, "So, we have to find the coffin first." After she said that, I thought to myself: This request is not difficult. As long as Tofu and others are safe, they will have their own way to deal with her. So she nodded and determined the next action. She would not look for Tofu and the others for the time being, so she would "join" Xiao Jing.
The agreement was completed, so I pointed to the tomb and said, "How did you find this place?" Xiao Jing did not hide it. After saying that she was confused, she took me back all the way to prevent Zhuanrui and others from following. This retreated, and retreated outside the tomb where the man in the Jade City was. There were two passages outside the tomb, each with a figurine squatting. We had passed by before, but we had never investigated it.
Xiao Jing is already a dead person, so she is not afraid of it. Before, she was just a disguise. After taking me, she picked a passage at will in an attempt to find a secluded place. Unexpectedly, the passage was not far away and entered a dead end. There were still many traces of the mechanisms being launched in the passage.
I felt aroused in my heart and said, I guess my grandfather and others must have explored the two tomb passages, which triggered the mechanism.
Xiao Jing then said that after reaching the dead end, she felt unlucky, but when she was angry, she suddenly found that there was a round hole in the upper right corner of the tomb passage, which looked very similar to the hole we had hit before, and it was probably the ones we had. But Xiao Jing didn't think so much. The zombies were naturally sensitive to the cave. I guess they felt that they were more secure in the cave. Xiao Jing was worried that Zhuanrui and others would change their minds and catch up and carry me into the hole.
The thief cave was long and after it was released, it was a different world. After turning two tombs, I arrived here. There were traces of water leakage in the two tombs, which were very dirty, so she took me here.
When I heard this, I suddenly remembered the salt corpse closed, and thought to myself: The salt corpse was closing behind, and there was a blood letter outside to warn. Could it be that my grandfather and others did not enter the tomb passage at the beginning, but when they found something was wrong behind, they turned around and walked back into the tomb passage where Xiao Jing was located?
There are many mechanisms in the tomb passage, and my grandfather and others must have been doing a lot of trouble, but for some reason I saw another thief hole in the tomb passage?
Could it be that something happened in the tomb passage that grandpa and others were unable to retreat, so they temporarily made a thief hole?
This thief hole just leads to this place. It seems that some of the people must have been here.
Seeing me thinking, Xiao Jing paused for a while, pointed to the arched passage on the left, and said, "I've seen it there. There are three coffins behind it, and there are no other passages."
Three coffins?
This is the underground palace of the Earth Ghost King. Apart from his own coffin, the coffins that can appear in the underground palace should be buried with the coffins. I don’t know what the people in Zimu Kingdom were so buried so deeply after their death. This project was too grand. Thinking of this, I turned my gaze to the right, which was the tomb that Xiao Jing had never been to. The two walked into it, but saw a strange-looking object placed in the tomb chamber.
The thing was made of stone, like a huge bucket plate, with a stone pillar passing through the bucket plate. Due to the uneven angle setting, the entire bucket plate was in a slow rotation. The position where the bucket plate contacted the ground, a rectangular black iron bar was padded. The continuous rotation for more than a thousand years made a groove form the center of the iron bar, and the edges of the bucket plate were rubbed very smoothly.
What is this?
I was a little surprised for a moment, and I couldn't help but look closer. Because it was too weird and worried about it being a trap, I walked a little slow by a few steps. After a while, Xiao Jing and I stood in front of the slowly rotating wheel. When we looked closer, we found that the surface of it was as engraved with dense information like an ancient compass, but due to its huge size, the amount of information it could record was even greater.
At the bottom, there are first the five elements of the eight directions, the heavenly stems, earthly branches, the Qiankun Yin and Yang, and later, there are solar terms and hexagrams and inscriptions and ghost paintings, and I can’t understand them later. They are like astrological calendars. Ordinary compass have eight layers, sixteen layers, and more than thirty-two layers. And the thing in front of me is like a compass and not similar. When it comes to the number of layers, I’m afraid there are only a few more. After a few glances, I feel dizzy.
At least I can see the Qiankun Yi Gua above, the five elements and eight directions. Xiao Jing didn't understand this, and it was completely incomprehensible, saying, "This is like a sundial."
After she said this, I couldn't help but feel a little moved. After looking closely, the stone pillars in the bucket were thick at the top and thin at the bottom, which was really similar. However, there was no sun here, so this "sundial" could not play any role. As soon as this thought flashed, the dim headlight above my head completely extinguished, and the surroundings were filled with darkness.
Fortunately, I kept carrying the equipment bag. I remembered that there was a spare battery in the bag, so I quickly squatted down and removed the equipment bag, asked Xiao Jing to turn on the lighter for me, and prepared to go to the equipment bag to find the spare battery. Unexpectedly, when I squatted, I suddenly found that there was something hidden under the bucket.
It was actually another thief.
I was shocked and thought to myself: How to cut holes everywhere? The further down, the soil layer becomes tighter. It is not as easy to cut holes as on the surface. Grandpa and the others are not robots. Without special circumstances, they will never cut holes underground so often. What I noticed the most was that there was a curly of yellow paper next to the hole.
At this time, I had already taken out the battery and quickly replaced it. The headlight shone brightly again. With this light, I carefully took out the paper and looked at it. I saw that there were a piece of paper that was densely written on it, but there were only two symbols, one was ‘one’ and the other was ‘—’.
It is these two symbols, from beginning to end, and they are combined in a mess, making people dizzy.
I know that these two symbols represent the yang and yin lines in the Eight Trigrams. The yang and yin lines are the basic symbols that form the hexagram, representing all the opposites in the world, such as yin and yang, heaven and earth, life and death, ancient and modern times, good and evil, length and short...
Chapter completed!