Daomu Biji

From here, the sound sounds a little different. It has a certain echo and seems to come from a very deep place. With the rhythm of the sound, I can clearly feel that the bronze chain is vibrating slightly in short amplitude. , as if the other end is pressing against the artery of a giant.

This phenomenon gave me an irresistible chill, because I didn't feel a breath of wind blowing up from below, and my mother and I couldn't make such a heavy bronze chain vibrate at such a high frequency. What is it that pulls these bronze chains in the darkness?

Boss Wang listened thoughtfully and quietly. Logically speaking, he had never experienced such a thing, so he should be more scared than me. However, looking at his expression, he was surprisingly calm, as if he was judging something.

After a stalemate for a while, the voice finally fell silent, and the bronze chain stopped vibrating. I breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, and almost fell from the chain.

Boss Wang still didn't respond. He thought quietly for a while, took out a cigarette, lit it, took a deep puff, then took out a small fluorescent stick from his pocket, shook it twice, and absorbed the fluorescent light inside. Shake bright.

I didn't know what he wanted to do, so I looked at him coldly. He waited until the glow stick reacted to its maximum brightness, then threw it down along the bronze chain, and the green light pillar fell in circles.

The aperture became smaller and smaller, and quickly disappeared from my field of vision. I thought it would keep falling until it disappeared into the darkness. Suddenly, at the visual limit of what I could see and what I couldn't see, a fluorescent stick hit me. Something bounced with a "bounce" sound, flew to the bronze wall on one side, fell again, and disappeared in an instant.

There was indeed something hanging about fifty or sixty meters below the bronze chain. Unfortunately, the light from the glow stick is too weak. At that moment, I only saw a rough outline, which seemed to be a crystal coffin with a hint of yellow, or it might be the more common Shang sarcophagus (a translucent yellow stone).

Boss Wang raised his head and looked at me provocatively, then suddenly let go of the belt in his hand, turned on the lighter, and began to slide it down. Soon, he entered the darkness, and could only see the shrinking light of the fire.

I thought about it for a moment, and I didn't know why I felt bad. Boss Wang seemed to be very confident. He was familiar with all kinds of strange items. There was no guarantee that he already knew what was underneath and was going to get it. Thinking of what Lao Itch said to me, I couldn't help but unwilling to fall into his hands like this. I hurriedly pulled the short-handled hunting knife in my hand and slid it down with him.

The fall started quickly. The tree roots entangled above disappeared when we reached the bottom. When we reached the back section, our speed slowed down. We only descended for about ten seconds, and we had already reached the height we had just estimated. I saw the fire below stopped. Busy tightened his legs, caught the chain and stopped.

Looking down,

Boss Wang has reached the end of the chain. A few meters below him is the place where the fluorescent stick hit just now. He is leaning down and using his lighter to illuminate it, but because the light is too weak, he cannot see the overall shape of the thing. I saw a yellow crystal-like object hanging in the air. I turned on the aperture of the flashlight, and under the strong light of the flashlight, the whole thing was revealed at once.

To my surprise, what hung under the bronze chain was not Shang's sarcophagus, or even a coffin, but a huge olive-shaped amber-shaped boulder. It seemed to be natural and very transparent. Under the light of the flashlight, It reflects the light of glass like gold. Just turn the angle of the flashlight slightly, and the entire space will appear radiant and magnificent.

The four bronze chains hanging from the top are cast into the inside of the amber. Looking inside along the chains, you can also see a human-shaped black shadow inside the amber. It was very blurry, and the head and shoulders could barely be distinguished. The shadow's shoulders were raised high, like two humps, and the whole person was curled up, like a fetus in the mother's body.

I had never seen this thing before. I was stunned and speechless at that moment. But Boss Wang was surprisingly calm. He just observed it and then slid down, tentatively trying to step on the amber. I quickly stopped: "No." !”

Boss Wang turned around and looked at me inexplicably.

I said to him: "I have never seen such a big piece of amber. It might be a rosin stone. If you step on it, it might break."

Boss Wang smiled contemptuously and said: "You know nothing about amber, this is a corpse cocoon." After saying that, he stepped on it. The corpse cocoon was really strong, and there was no movement at all after shaking it.

Not to be outdone, I loosened my legs and slid onto the amber corpse cocoon. At the same time, I picked up the short-handled hunting knife and tried to insert it back into my waist. Otherwise, it would be difficult to walk on this slippery amber cocoon with a flashlight in one hand and a dagger in the other.

I didn't expect that Boss Wang would get the wrong idea. When he saw me coming down, he stood up warily, picked up the belt and put it on his chest, ready to fight. I was shocked, and the short knife that I was going to insert back into my waist was also put up. .

The atmosphere was tense for a while, but no one moved, because both of them knew that if something went wrong in this place, it would not be solved with just a kick. There is an abyss below. No matter how strong you are, your temper will be the same. No matter how fierce he is, it will only take a second or two for him to fall down and be dead.

After all, Boss Wang is a man in the world. He can pick up and put it down. After a moment of stalemate, he waved his hands and said to me: "Young man, when it comes to this, we all need to step back and perish together. Whoever dies will be punished." It’s no good, this place is not accessible to one person.”

I saw that he showed kindness first because I wanted it. What he said did make sense. In order to climb up in this place, at least two people are needed. As long as he is still down here, he should not dare to touch me, otherwise he may die before me. It's still tragic, but this man is very cunning, so don't trust him too much.

I first slowly put down the hunting knife, made a conciliatory gesture, and briefly talked about the radio interference just now. So that both sides can find a way out. After all, I had murderous intentions just now, and it is impossible for him to let down his guard so easily.

Boss Wang took out his walkie-talkie and turned it on doubtfully. Suddenly, there was a series of high-decibel static noises. The sound was extremely harsh, as if a person was tearing his throat and screaming. Boss Wang was frightened when he heard this. He quickly turned off the intercom and cursed: "**, you shocked me."

I was also scared to death. This place must be very close to the source of the interference for the voice to speak so loudly. I really didn't think there was such a terrifying sound in the world. If I listened to it for a few more seconds, I might lose my mind and jump.

Boss Wang tied the belt back to his waist and said, "I am wrong this time. As you know, most of us who run around in the world are ill-intentioned." He pointed to the swollen spot on his face. , "Young boy, you're not easy on me. Let's even out this time. Let's settle our personal grudges when we go out. How about it?"

I sneered in my heart. His true nature had been exposed just now. I had concluded that he must have planned to silence us long after he left. Now these are just temporary measures. However, at this time, we still need to use each other, so I nodded and threw the flashlight to Him, to show balance.

We temporarily reconciled, but I still dare not get too close to him. In order to avoid being pushed down suddenly, he obviously also had such concerns. The two of them tacitly understood each other, and while being wary of each other, they carefully squatted down and carefully looked at the corpse cocoon under their feet. I took the opportunity to ask him, what does the cocoon represent?

Boss Wang said that things like corpse cocoons had been dug up in southern Sichuan and Inner Mongolia a few years ago. But they are all as big as washbasins, some are like jade, some are like amber, and there are shriveled small animals or the bodies of children, rarely adults, wrapped in them. These things are usually unearthed as funerary objects, and no one knows what they are. How to make it. Ancient books record that this thing may be the medicine primer used by alchemists in the pre-Qin period to make elixirs. Pregnant women who were less than a month old were immersed in the medicine to kill them, put them in a vat, buried them for twenty-seven years, and then dug them up. The contents in their stomachs were still there. It will turn into a cocoon. The outer layer is the petrified material of the pregnant woman's placenta. The amber color you see is actually the solidified amniotic fluid inside. Some people also say that this is a corpse embalming technology, which uses a special resin mixed with traditional Chinese medicine to wrap the corpse so that the corpse does not lose moisture.

In his early years, when his great-grandfather was serving as a royal minister in Hong Kong, he saw some treasures pawned by rich people who immigrated due to the war in Japan. Among them were amber corpse cocoons. The most expensive ones were those with children inside, and those with animals inside. Cheaper. His great-grandfather once saw a corpse cocoon. Inside was a little girl wearing red neon clothes. She was sixteen or seventeen years old. Her eyes were closed as if she were asleep. It was so lifelike that he cried when he saw it. This was so damn true. What an injustice. It was so tragic. There was a war at that time, so he took advantage of the boss not paying attention and burned this thing. As a result, he had a dream that night. He dreamed that the little girl in red neon clothes came to him and kowtowed to him to say thank you. , so this thing is said to be a monster. Those rich people who don’t know what is going on, and listen to random remarks from Feng Shui masters, think that this kind of thing is a Feng Shui treasure that collects wealth. They keep it at home, and eventually they have to flee. .

Hearing what he said, I felt a little surprised. Could it be that this is the "huge benefit" that Lao Itch said? In terms of money and clothing, it is indeed true, but why should it be so mysterious? Is there any hidden secret that I don't know about?

The shadow in the amber corpse cocoon should be the corpse wrapped in it. We took a rough look at it, and the more we looked at it, the more we felt something was wrong. Firstly, the shape of the corpse was too weird. It didn't look like a human being. Secondly, it was too tall. Height, ancient people were about 1.56 meters tall. The absolute length of light and shadow of this amber corpse was already over two meters. He was still curled up and stretched out, and it would reach about three meters.

I looked at it for a long time, but couldn't figure out why, so I said, "Could it be a monkey? The ancient ape from the Western Zhou Dynasty was very big."

At that time, the deep mountains and old forests of Qinchuan, which were 800 miles away, were several times deeper than they are now. There were often legends about a four-meter-tall monkey, which was called the Xiongshan Ghost. Several of them were treated as ghosts and killed. Could it be that the one inside is this kind of thing.

Boss Wang shook his head, "This kind of bronze tree, called the Babel tree at that time, has a strong religious symbolism. It represents a non-material world beyond the human world. Do you know how expensive bronze was at that time? ? With so much bronze, you can buy the entire Western Zhou Dynasty. Put a monkey on it, please explain?"

I saw that he was confident and should know what was in it, so I asked him if he had any information earlier.

He took a breath and said to me: "That's right. I actually have a little friendship with Li Pipa. Before we came here, Li Pipa revealed something to me. He said that his ancestor saw Banagher after climbing the bronze tree. Ermu’s body.”

I was stunned for a moment. Banajiem, in Manchu mythology, is a huge pregnant goddess who is in charge of the land. His ancestor said this, but he didn't know what it meant.

Boss Wang continued: "I didn't know what it meant at the time, but when I saw that the huge coffin room above was empty, I suddenly understood. What does it mean to see Banajim's body?"

I was stunned for a moment, not knowing what he wanted to convey.

Seeing that I couldn't react, he said: "The root system of the banyan tree is famous for finding holes. In some places in Guangzhou, they often grow into the central air-conditioning pipes. Such a vital thing is only pressed against the wall of the coffin. Growth, don’t you understand what this means?”

I suddenly woke up, looked at him dumbfounded, and said, "You mean, there was a corpse in the coffin room above? That's why the banyan tree roots that grew into the coffin couldn't grow freely?"

Boss Wang nodded, but I didn't believe it and said, "Fart, how big is this corpse? Don't you fucking fool people here."

Boss Wang said: "Young man, don't believe it. Don't think about it. Can normal people like us repair such a pillar?"

I still refused to believe it. Boss Wang glanced at me and said, "Wait a minute when we go up. If you look at the decorative reliefs on the inner wall of the coffin, the ratio between the man and the bronze tree, you will believe it. This time we , the Dou who fell was not one of our kind. It was another kind of people, a race of giants that once lived with our ancestors and eventually became extinct for unknown reasons."

Relief proportions? I listened to the first half in my head, but didn't listen to the second half at all. A light flashed through my mind, and I let out a sigh in my heart, really! I didn't notice when I was looking at it just now. Compared with the actual bronze tree, these people who built the bronze tree are indeed not as small as us. The casting of the bronze tree next to them is only about three times their height. I thought it was an exaggeration of art just now, but now that I think about it, I immediately think that the carving style here is very realistic, and the hand is carved as if it were real. So, are the proportions above the real proportions of the architectural scenes at that time?

So, how tall are these people? Oh my God, they are at least three or four meters tall. Then this corpse in amber, isn't it? . .

Boss Wang saw my uncertain expression and said to me: "Everyone in this industry will encounter this kind of thing sooner or later. Let me tell you, I still have a few bamboo slips from unknown ages at home. You know what they are talking about?" What? We all know how long the history was from Xia to Shang. Do you know why it is so long? Because there are no historical records! The bamboo slips I have were written by an ancient scholar in the Western Han Dynasty. He said In fact, there was probably another dynasty between Xia and Shang, but for some reason, there is no record at all. You see, even such an important thing can completely disappear in history. Is it so strange that a strange nation disappears? ?" He patted me and told me not to think about it. Then let's take a look, what is in this amber corpse cocoon?

I told him that I was stunned for a while, but when he reacted, he had already squatted down and carefully pressed against the surface of the amber, trying to see clearly the face of the corpse inside.

It was fixed by a bronze chain. He and I couldn't walk to one end at the same time, otherwise we would lose our balance, so I stayed where I was, holding on to the bronze chain to see what he gained.

Boss Wang took a look at it first, but he still couldn't see clearly. He changed his angle. Suddenly, he jumped up, took a big step back in fright, and shouted: "Is there a mistake?"

All of a sudden, the whole cocoon was shaken by him. I was startled and pushed him to prevent him from retreating to me. I asked, "What did you see?"

Boss Wang turned to look at me with a puzzled look on his face. He wanted to say something, but he moved his mouth but couldn't. Finally he said: "I don't know what to say, you go and see for yourself!"

I shined a flashlight on the spot he was looking at just now. It was blurry and I couldn't see anything unless I looked closely. I told him to stay there and don't move. I walked over, squatted down, and pressed his angle. He looked over slowly.

The transparency of amber is first-rate. I saw a face as big as a washbasin frozen inside the amber. After just one glance, I was stunned. An extreme chill rushed from the soles of my feet to my forehead, almost Instinctively, I jumped up and backed away, almost sliding down into the abyss on the edge.

Boss Wang looked at me with a pale face. After a while, he asked me, "How are you doing? Do you see clearly?"