When I returned to the mourning hall, the fire above the study had been basically extinguished, so the entire staircase was much darker. I stood at the door of the mourning hall, looking at the gray room, and actually didn't know where to start.
Whether it is a golden nanmu coffin or a fragrant sandalwood coffin, the corpses have been lying inside for hundreds of thousands of years. The opening of the coffin was purely a temporary impulse. Now I really don't want to disturb them.
However, apart from the white curtains hanging from the eaves and beams, there were only these large and small coffins left in the mourning hall.
I stood at the door and hesitated for a moment, then raised my legs and walked in.
Under the sparks of fire after the fire, ten coffins were lined up in three rows.
Four generations living under one roof, but in such a way, especially the four children who felt they were less than ten years old, made me feel a trace of sadness in my heart.
My hand touched the peacock crown on the blue skull, and suddenly I thought of my grandma. I wonder what she is doing now? Is she sitting alone in the yard of the Zhou family's old house, missing her from a distance?
I am uncertain about my life or death.
While I was missing my grandma, my hand happened to touch the eyes of the huge peacock inlaid on the crown.
I don’t know if it was the telepathy given by my grandma, but I suddenly discovered that the peacock’s eyes can actually move.
It's not surprising that there are movable eyes on the peacock crown. What makes me feel weird is that when you press the eyes on it, it feels very soft and has very little hardness. It doesn't look like gold.
I only looked at my grandma’s Maurya bracelet once. It was at night. Maybe I was physically and mentally exhausted and mentally stressed, so I didn’t notice the material of the Maurya bracelet. Now I touched the crown on the blue skull.
Only then did I discover the strangeness in it.
I carefully took off the crown, then put it on my hand and observed it carefully.
The sensory feeling of the crown, the color, and the weight in the hand are all of gold, but how can gold be so flexible?
At this time, a very bold idea gradually emerged in my head——
The reason why the material of this crown is flexible is that it can be worn by people of different head sizes, regardless of size.
Do you want to confirm it?
I hesitated in my heart.
This thing belongs to the kid Blue Head, so he probably won't mind if I wear it.
I was thinking, and suddenly I put the peacock crown on my head in a daze.
Sure enough, that thing seemed to be alive and could adjust its diameter according to the circumference of my head. Anyway, I put the crown on my forehead without any effort at all.
Almost at the same moment that the peacock crown was placed on my forehead, I felt that there was something abnormal about my face.
My heart skipped a beat, and I thought to myself: Could it be snake skin?
I was really scared, and sure enough, after a while, I saw a little bit of scaly skin on my arms in the cracks of the diving suit.
I touched my face anxiously, and there was no surprise. My face was already covered with scaly skin.
This peacock crown can also react with the snake skin on my body. Does this mean that this enclosure at the bottom of Poyang Lake is inextricably linked to the ancient temple of Wawushan and the Xu family, and I
, is also entangled in these thousands of threads.
There is another thing that I am unwilling to admit until now, which is whether the ancient Zhuyin beast with the head of a human and the body of a snake is also involved.
Because if there is no involvement, the snake skin that appears on my body at every turn, and the human-headed snake-bodied ancestor sitting in the clouds on the ancient pagoda's soul-calling flag, are the ones I saw while participating in the fish-faced man's sacrifice.
The ancient beast with a human head and a snake body on the cube cannot be explained.
This Zhuyin Divine Beast seems to be the backbone that links everything.
Suddenly, a loud booming sound pulled me out of these messy thoughts.
The sound seemed to come from my head.
I took off the peacock crown from my head, then put it back on the head of the boy with the blue skull. I bowed to him three times, pondered for a while and said, "If we are the same kind of people, then please bless me."
I successfully obtained the blue astrolabe and was able to know the secrets behind these astrolabe, and then complete our mission."
After saying that, I exited the mourning hall, closed the door gently, and returned the tranquility that had lasted for hundreds of thousands of people to them again, and then quickly walked up the wooden ladder and walked up.
After walking for about five minutes, I began to notice that there was something wrong with the stairs——
This staircase is the same wooden staircase as the wooden staircase I just walked in from the wall of the nave. I can’t tell the specific differences, but it feels like the space I am in now is different from the one just now.
That one is different.
If I really want to say how I feel it, I can only say that the touch is different, because the torn holes in my diving suit seem to be getting more and more big.
Although I was walking on a wooden ladder, it felt like I was walking through thorn bushes. Every step I took, there would be thorny thorn bushes scratching my body.
Vaguely, I seemed to be able to feel that every time the thorn strips brushed against my black diving suit, the scales under the diving suit would stand up to protect my body.
Therefore, my diving suit has been scratched and torn along the way, but the skin and flesh under the diving suit have not been damaged at all.
The distance I have walked now has far exceeded the distance I just walked down from the wall of the nave.
This staircase is really scary. It either leads to hell or to heaven. I really wonder what kind of wisdom can cast such a building.
Moreover, based on the distance I just walked, it is possible that the height of this enclosure towers above the water of Poyang Lake. How is this possible?
Looking across the vast Poyang Lake, how could there be such a special building standing on the lake without being discovered?
Just when I was obsessed with calculating the height of the surrounding building, a rustling sound behind me startled me - could it be that there was someone else following Wei?
Is it Xiangyu and the others?
It's impossible. If it were Xiangyu, they would definitely call me instead of quietly following me.
Or Chen Mo?
The chance of him following me is basically close to zero.
Moreover, I listened carefully, and the rustling sound sounded like a snake slithering through the grass.
This moment really scared me to the point of trembling.
I don’t know whether it’s because of the snake skin on my body, or whether I was frightened by the two-headed white snake coiled on my forehead in Wawu Mountain. Anyway, whenever I hear about snakes, goosebumps appear on my body one by one automatically.
Come.
I stood still and wanted to listen carefully, but the rustling suddenly disappeared.
Could it be that I was too nervous and therefore heard wrongly?
However, when I moved my steps to climb up, the rustling appeared again.
I quietly stepped very lightly, and now I could probably hear clearly that there were at least five more snakes following me behind me. However, I have not yet determined whether these snakes are in my space or are in the same space as me.
Thorns together?
Just when I was unsure whether these snakes existed, I glanced out of the corner of my eye and seemed to see a little boy not far behind me, wearing a peacock crown, smiling at me.
Behind him, five snakes of different colors were hovering.
I was so frightened that I ran forward.
I fell down the stairs countless times, but no matter how I fell, I got up instantly and rushed forward, because the aura of being followed behind me was always there.
I don’t know how long I ran, but when I fell for the last time, I suddenly discovered that the wooden ladder under my feet had disappeared at some point, and I was now in a space filled with prayer flags.
It can only be said to be space, because what I can see now are prayer flag-like cloth strips of different colors, hanging from the eaves of an incalculable height, filled with dense text and pictures.
It's strange to say that when I was among these prayer flags, the aura behind me that had been following me suddenly disappeared. At the same time, the feeling of walking among thorns also disappeared. I wonder if it was these prayer flags.
The role of flags.
I don’t know why, even though I just walked up the wooden ladder, I felt like I was getting farther and farther away from the familiar space I used to live in.
Then, I don’t dare to think too much about it, because if I think about it carefully, it will instantly make my hair stand on end.
But I can't control so much now, I can only take it one step at a time.