Chapter 115: Summoned Beasts in War
Next, Uncle Second told me what happened later...
After leaving the tomb of Chief Mocuo, they returned to their residence. However, when they took out the sealed bottle again to check the holy water of Huaxu, as soon as the bottle cap was opened, a pungent smell came out, and several people were choked and coughed. Everyone was a little puzzled. The big man curiously imitated Lao Gu's appearance and poured out a few drops of holy water from the bottle and dripped on a scratch on his finger.
Just as the holy water touched the wound, a "sweeping" sounded, and a wisp of white smoke came out of breath. The big man screamed and fell to the ground. His hand loosened, and the porcelain bottle containing holy water fell to the ground and smashed it. The liquid inside flowed all over the ground. A strange smell came into being in the room. Before the others could escape, they all fell to the ground.
Only Lao Gu was not in the house at that time. Lao Gu was very addicted to cigarettes. It was not enough for a box of cigarettes a day. In the past few days, he had already finished smoking the cigarettes he brought with him. He was so irritating that he had no time to get to the residence. When he came back, he smelled a pungent smell as soon as he opened the door. Lao Gu was very experienced and thought it was not good and hurriedly covered his mouth and nose. But when he looked into the house, everyone in the house was lying on the ground, and his body became shriveled and charred.
Lao Gu was shocked suddenly, but when he saw the broken porcelain bottle on the ground, he instantly understood the whole story. He held his breath and rushed into the house quickly, opened all the doors and windows, so that the smell in the house would spread out as soon as possible, so he would not hurt others again. Lao Gu thought about it over and over again, feeling that once this matter was exposed, he would definitely not be able to explain it clearly, so he made up his mind to escape to the mountains outside overnight.
Until later, by chance, the second uncle met Lao Gu. At that time, Lao Gu was already in the late stage of lung cancer. Maybe he smoked too much, maybe it was related to the Huaxu Holy Water. In short, when he was dying, Lao Gu told the second uncle about this.
In my mind, I unconsciously recalled the thing that my second uncle had told me. Kong Xue, who was standing beside me, saw that I was stunned, so she called me twice. I woke up suddenly and pulled my thoughts back to the present.
I couldn't help but wonder, in the tomb of the tribal leader more than two thousand years ago, what kind of treasures or secrets would be hidden in the tomb of the ancient Shanhuan king under our feet, which was a long time ago?
I looked at the two stone doors in front of me, and secretly guessed in my heart what was behind them. I became a little excited, but there was also uneasiness at the same time, especially after seeing the carvings of the two human-faced beetles on the door.
Although I thought so in my heart, no matter what is behind these two stone doors, they must be opened. Now that things have come to this point, we have no reason to stop because the two stone doors are not moving forward.
We went up to check and found that the stone door was just closed, and there were no stone sealing devices around them. The three of us pushed one of the stone doors hard at the same time. Soon we heard a "creaking" sound, and the stone door was pushed open by us, which was almost fifty centimeters.
In an instant, I felt a chill blow out from the crack of the door. I couldn't help but chill.
Wen Mo raised the flashlight and looked inside the stone door, and found that this was a spiraling downward stone steps, with nothing but that. This made us feel a little relieved.
Several of us walked through the stone gate in turn and walked down the stone steps. The stone steps were not very long, but they were relatively steep, so we walked very carefully.
At the end of the stone steps is a large tomb, with four tall stone pillars standing in it. As soon as we walked in, we found that the smell was very strange. It was a strange fishy smell. It smelled very uncomfortable.
Shi Tao took out several simple activated carbon masks from his backpack. This mask originated from a major international brand. It is very light and similar to a mask. It uses activated carbon and filter cotton. Although it is not as good as a professional gas mask, it is much better than ordinary isolation masks.
Shi Tao handed each of us one, "I didn't expect to come to such a place this time, so I only prepared this for backup."
I ended up with a mask and smiled, "Brother Tao, you can think so thoughtfully anymore! It's better to have it than not!" As I said that, each of us wore it. Don't say that this simple mask is quite useful. After wearing it, the unpleasant smell instantly reduced a lot!
We looked around and found that the layout here was nothing strange, but the color of the tomb chamber made us a little confused. The interior of the tomb chamber, all the walls, including the tomb roof, were painted black, and there were some irregular white stripes on the black. The ground of the tomb chamber was completely black.
Looking at the situation inside the tomb, we feel inexplicably. From ancient times to the present, we have never heard of anyone making their tombs look like this, which completely does not conform to the tomb rules and the description of the burial scriptures. What is this? It is unique and personalized decoration? The tomb form of this ancient country in the desert of the Western Regions cannot be viewed with the conventional thinking of our Central Plains.
Although the color matching of the tomb chamber is indeed very strange, pigments, at least they do not have any lethality unless they are poisonous, but it seems that there is no problem in this regard. Moreover, I can feel that there is a slight air flow here, which should be related to the entire tomb and the underground river. Therefore, even if pigments are poisonous, the circulation of air will make it difficult for poisonous gas to gather in an effective concentration, so we are not too worried about the dangers in this regard.
We slowly looked around and found that there were many large clay pots standing next to the tomb chamber. When we saw these clay pots, we were simply amazing. These large clay pots were not ordinary large.
Most of the clay pots we usually see in the tombs are only twenty or thirty centimeters tall, and the larger ones are generally not more than fifty centimeters. However, all the large clay pots we see today are one person tall. I am 1.8 meters tall, and I can’t see the mouth of the clay pot even when I cushion my feet.
We all looked at the huge clay pots in front of us in surprise, and counted about it. There were at least a dozen. Shi Tao looked at them and sighed: "Oh my god, what are you doing?"
I was also very puzzled about these clay pots, "Is it possible that the climate here was harsh and the grain and vegetables were limited, so people used this to pickle pickles? It is better to pickle pickles for winter! Or store food?"
Kong Xue looked at me and sighed helplessly, "I said you are so stupid. Is there anyone who pickles pickles in the royal tomb? I want to get some pickles to eat, but I have to open the royal tomb. The leader who died inside lifted the lid of the coffin in a frustrated manner, which would be strange!"
I smiled embarrassedly, "I'm just kidding!" I suddenly thought of Wen Mo, "Hey, boss, do you think these..." I didn't finish my words, but I looked back and looked, but I couldn't see Wen Mo.
"Where has Wenmo gone?" Every time Wenmo's inexplicable disappearance always makes me a little nervous.
Shi Tao made a gesture and pointed to the side. I looked in the direction he pointed, and found that Wen Mo was squatting next to a giant pot and watching something carefully.
We hurried over and saw that there were patterns on the surface of these huge clay pots. We were just attracted by the huge size of these clay pots and did not notice the patterns it indicated.
We looked over and found that these patterns were very special. It seemed that this picture depicted a war, but it was not a war between humans, but a war between humans and beetles. The beetles on the picture had white spots on the back, which was obviously those beetles on the human face.
I only realized a problem now. From the time we came in to the present, we have seen a lot of mural patterns and carvings along the way. It seems that people from the ancient Shanhuan Kingdom like to express their images and like to express everything in patterns and forms.
However, this is in line with historical facts. Due to the relationship between region and development, regardless of economic and military strength, the culture of the countries in the Western Regions is always their shortcomings, and the development of writing is not as perfect as that of the Central Plains. Fortunately, no one among us understands the writing of the ancient Shanhuan Kingdom. Even if we find the records of writing, we can only stare at it.
We noticed that the contents on each pot are different, and obviously the things recorded are different, but the protagonists are the same, these human-faced beetles. I have seen a lot of murals before, so after watching them again this time, I have experienced it and have been browsing them from beginning to end.
I will not repeat the specific content. It is nothing more than the war between beetles. But at first I thought it was a war between the ancient Shanhuan Kingdom and these beetles. Later I realized that the beetles belong to the ancient Shanhuan Kingdom, and they were helping the people of the people of the ancient Shanhuan Kingdom to resist foreign enemies.
I nodded in admiration. This is amazing. I used "summoning beasts" to attack the enemy. From ancient times to the present, there are many precedents for training animals to participate in wars. Moreover, the combat power of this animal army is generally very strong, and it can often win more with fewer ones. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, animals from all over the world have never disappeared. According to legend, the first person to use beasts to participate in the war was Huangdi. He once ordered people to catch bears, snatches, snatches, tigers and other animals. After training for three months, he defeated the invincible Chiyou army at that time.
In 600 BC, Emperor Yaberg of ancient India sent three hundred elephant soldiers to attack the Fortress of Hitoan. The eight thousand defenders in the fortress could not resist the impact of the elephant soldiers. They immediately threw away their armor and fled in a hurry.
The leaders of the ancient Shanhuan Kingdom actually used this human-faced beetle to defend against the enemy, which was probably one of the reasons why they were able to dominate the countries in the Western Regions at that time.
Chapter completed!