"Brothers." The fat man knocked on the hard stone door and interjected, "Now is not the time to discuss how awesome your ancestors were and how many tomb doors they built for the Lord of Hell."
"The important thing now is whether we should go in and how." The fat man said very sensibly.
Everyone came back to their senses and stared at the thick stone door in front of them in silence for a while. Zhang Haike tried to fumble around for a while, but to no avail.
"You must go in." Zhang Haike took a step back, "I have to know what happened inside."
"Then let's blow it up." Zhang Zhuxun reluctantly followed up with his words.
The fat man rubbed his hands happily, "I know this job well, can I do it?"
Everyone had no objection. Fatty was indeed the expert in making explosives. Zhang Haike gave him a grenade that was not very powerful and asked him to try the effect first, so as not to collapse the tomb passage with too much force at once.
But that's a bad thing.
Zhang Zhu and the others hid in the opposite ear room. A minute later, he saw the fat man scurrying in with his fist-shaped arms tucked under his waist.
Then there was a loud noise, and the stone slabs under their feet shook three times, and all the dust in the room suddenly popped out of the corners like goldfish snatching bread.
After the earthquake subsided, they went out to take a look. The fat man had planted the mine very cleverly, right in the right corner of the stone door, creating a gap that was larger than three times the size of a dog hole.
Zhang Haike was the first to get in eagerly, blowing on the fire fold, and his eyes met the head of a huge round green beast.
"Gan!" Zhang Haike's body tensed up immediately, and his hand was already on the other gun behind his waist.
After a few seconds, he regained his composure and realized that it was a dead object fixed in place, and then he went to check the surrounding environment.
There was a pool of water in front of him. The light from Huozhezi was not bright enough. With Zhang Haike's eyes, he could only see about two meters, right in front of the bronze beast standing near the edge of the pool.
There is still water in the pool, but I don't know if it was there before or if rainwater seeped in from the cracks in the rocks above.
Zhang Haike picked up a handful of water and looked at it. It was still clear, but there were also algae that had been soaked for a long time on the edge of the pool. Black, green, and white floating on the edge, and the surface was covered with broken bubbles. After being stirred,
Floating on the water like little bugs.
The bronze beast was quietly soaking in the water. The surface was covered with rust spots formed by moisture and oxidation. There were many dense freshwater shellfish growing in the circle close to the water, like fiery red acorn barnacles.
They are also like pomegranate berries, with blood lines as wide as the palm of your hand, crowded together, making your scalp feel numb.
"What's inside?" Wu Xie poked his head in for the second time, wanting to ask Zhang Haike if he had found anything.
He stood up and looked up, and suddenly saw the huge bronze beast head two meters in front of him. He couldn't help but be shocked, "What is this? The Zhang family built a bronze beast here."
Zhang Zhuxun and Fatty also came in from behind and turned on a brighter high-power flashlight to illuminate the content behind the beast's head, so that the entire bronze beast came into view.
The whole body is complete, with the head of a dragon and the body of a turtle, covered in scales and armor, and antlers and a unicorn tail - this is a turtle, also called a bully or a turtle.
Bixi is also called Dragon Turtle, the sixth son among the nine sons of the dragon, and is an auspicious beast. According to legend, Bixi helped Dayu push down mountains, dig trenches, and dredge rivers when he was controlling floods.
After the flood control was successful, Dayu engraved Bixi's achievements on a huge stone tablet and asked him to carry it on his back to demonstrate his outstanding achievements.
Therefore, when the ancients built monuments for deceased emperors and saints, they often used the image of Bixi to carve the base of the monument to carry the base of the monument, which symbolized longevity and the supremacy of imperial power.
Generally speaking, Bixi is a purely yang divine beast in Feng Shui. It has the ability to ward off evil spirits, resolve conflicts, and gather wealth. The tail of the turtle can bring blessings, and the head of the dragon can eliminate disasters. The river map and Luoshu are engraved on the back of the armor.
A very auspicious mythical beast.
Wu Xie took the lead in dipping into the water to observe, and while walking in a circle, he analyzed: "This is a statue of a sacred beast from the Han Dynasty carrying a stele. The carving is obviously the craftsmanship of the Han people. It is very fine, but the carving technique is very unrestrained and free. Obviously
This is not a job that has to be rigorous.”
The water directly covered half of Wu Xie's chest, and the part of the bronze body that was submerged in the water was all the way to the abdominal shell. The height above the water surface was estimated to be three to four meters.
From a distance, there are many patterns on the scales on the surface of the tortoise shell, which look like some kind of writing.
Wu Xie wanted to get closer and take a closer look, but unexpectedly, the bottom of the pool near Bixi was not flat. After taking a step forward, he immediately felt that something was wrong, but when he wanted to pull back his leg, it was already too late.
The lumpy stone slab he stepped on suddenly turned and caved in. Wu Xie said "fuck" and stumbled into the water. The water directly submerged him, and he was caught off guard and choked several mouthfuls of dirty water in his mouth.
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I finally got up, but when I lifted my legs, I found that the forefoot of my left foot was stuck in a hole in the crack of the stone.
Wu Xie spat out the mud foam in his mouth, wiped the algae water on his face, cursed secretly for bad luck, and was about to pull his leg out when he heard a "sizzling" friction sound suddenly coming from above his head.
It's not loud, but it's creepy.
He suddenly looked up and his expression suddenly changed.
The thick turtle shell nearly three meters wide on Bixi's back started to slide off for some unknown reason at this time!
"It's your uncle's!" Wu Xie was complaining in his heart. It was all dripping in the water. Why was it only his who carried it so hard?
Wu Xie was so anxious that he tried his best to pull out his leg. However, unexpectedly, there was a continuous rain in the house, and his foot seemed to be stuck by the sucker of an octopus. The more he pulled out, the deeper he sank.
Seeing that the turtle shell was almost sliding to the edge, Wu Xie hurriedly took a deep breath and got into the water and groped to untie his shoelaces, hoping to get out of trouble.
There were several rapid treading sounds from behind, and someone grabbed his arm and lifted him out of the water, saying quickly: "He's about to fall, go quickly!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wu Xie choked and coughed, kicked his legs hard, and shouted: "My feet... my fucking feet are stuck!"
Hearing this, Zhang Zhuoxun quickly bent down and got into the water. He half-squinted his eyes to look, and found that in the turbid water, there was an unknown black object about the size of a bucket, biting Wu Xie's foot.
He immediately drew his knife to chop, and the blade struck the metal object with a clang.
Zhang Zhuxun realized that this thing was also a bronze object, and it was probably the mechanism that caused the turtle shell to slip. In other words, this object was movable.
He immediately grasped the two corners of the thing with both hands, tried to twist and pull it out, and actually pulled off the head biting Wu Xie.
Wu Xie felt his feet loosen up and something was falling heavily. Before he could think about it, he was directly led by Zhang Shuxun who came out of the water and flew out.
There was a loud clang, and the turtle shell was like a calamity bell that suppressed demons. With an overwhelming momentum, it was chopped heavily at the place where the two people had just stayed.
Wu Xie turned around after realizing it, only to see the pool water behind him splashing for several feet and reaching the top of the cave.
The echoes were surging and the water was surging. It took more than ten breaths before it gradually calmed down.
After everything became silent, the fat man came running over with a splash in the water, gave Zhang Zhu and the two of them a handful on the head, and cursed: "You two careless little bastards, the stone slab is about to be smashed before you see it."
I came down, and I’m still dawdling in the water. I’m going to die?!”
The ear room was big and dark. The fat man and Zhang Haike were on the other side of Bixi. They were a little far away. Just now they could only see Zhang Chuxun rushing into the water, and then the turtle shell was smashed straight towards them.
Fatty was so frightened that his heart almost exploded. Fortunately, the two of them ran out at the last moment.
The fat man was still frightened just thinking about it now, and he slapped Wu Xie hard on the back twice, "What a careless thing."
"What the hell are you... vomiting... training... your grandson..." Wu Xie was filmed so hard that he retched. The water in the pool looked clear, but it actually stinked.
Zhang Zhuxun silently held Wu Xie's arm and said, "Let's go up first and see what stuck you just now."
Wu Xie took a deep breath, and was helped to the shore by two people like Lafayette ascending the throne, limping with his left leg all the way.
Only then did the fat man notice that something was wrong with him, "What's wrong with your leg? Did you just knock it?"
"Haha, what do you think?" Wu Xie sat by the pool with a sad face and raised his left leg.
At the same time, he looked directly at the fat man with a set of resentful eyes full of skills, trying to make the fat man feel guilty for what he had just done.
Fatty didn't even bother him. He just pointed at Wu Xie's foot in surprise, said "Hey, little bastard!"
Wu Xie's eyes darkened, and for a moment he had the illusion that his life span had been shortened by a few seconds.
A muffled laugh came from the side. Wu Xie stared at him with unkind eyes and found that it was Zhang Haike.
Zhang Haike also held a pocket version of the Bixi ornament in his hand. He looked at it cutely and said he took it out from the corner of the pool.
The fat man looked at the little one and then at the big one with no shell in the pond, and sighed, "This turns out to be a bastard's nest."
Zhang Zhuoxun asked Wu Xie to take off his shoes before taking them out of the beast's mouth.
Fortunately, the boots were strong enough and tied tightly enough, Wu Xie's foot was only twisted a little, and it was no big deal.
"The one who stuck you is also a monster." Zhang Zhuxun studied the dismantled bronze beast head and said to Wu Xie.
The most obvious difference between a turtle and a turtle is that the turtle has a row of teeth, while the turtle's mouth is similar to a bird's beak, with only an upper and lower pair of sharp beaks used to bite food.
So the question is back to the original point, why are there so many bugs here?
Wu Xie asked for the ornament in Zhang Haike's hand. After looking at it, he said: "This is also something from Han craftsmen, and it is very casual. It looks like it was carved casually to pass the time."
The jars they saw outside before were also of Han-made specifications, and all the details here were obviously related to the Central Plains.
"Is there any direct relationship between these Bixi and the Zhang family's construction of the bronze door?" Wu Xie asked doubtfully.
“You’ll know after you go and see it.”
Zhang Zhuxun threw the beast's head back into the water, turned around and walked towards the big bronze statue in the water.
