Tomb Raider Gu Tomb Miscellaneous Notes

We sat close together for a long time, and the incense burner didn't say a word, obviously because he hadn't figured out a way to get out of trouble.

He once lay alone in the coffin of King Ming's tomb for two days and finally got out, which shows how good patience is, otherwise I would have gone crazy.

I didn't want to disturb his train of thought, but I couldn't sit still, so I walked around the mural a few times to see if I could find anything new.

In the end, I found nothing, and I wandered to the center of the tower in boredom.

There is nothing in the center of the ground floor. There is a three-story stone-paved step in the middle. On top of it is a thick Panlong column that surrounds six people. It is carved with jade. The entire column is transparent and white, like ice crystals.

This root is most likely to support the sky pillar, which goes straight from the bottom to the top of the pagoda.

There are winding stairs around the pillar. I went up and looked up for a while: "Censer, let's go up and have a look. It's useless to stay here anyway. Maybe there will be some clues up there."

When the incense burner came to me, he looked up at the big hole in the ceiling just like me, looked at it for a while, and then turned on the flashlight to take a picture.

Although the light is insufficient, we can still see the hanging ladders around the big hole connecting the pillars in the middle and the floors on both sides.

I was afraid that the incense burner would disagree with us acting rashly, so I added: "Minglou should have a stone tablet recording the identity of the owner of the tomb. At any rate, we need to find out who the ancient tomb below belongs to, and we must know whose tomb we are buried in if we die." Killed."

The incense burner nodded silently.

I am very glad that he can understand my mood and return him a bright smile.The guy looked away in embarrassment.

I thought it was fun to tease him, and I wanted to kiss him again to see how he reacted. Unexpectedly, he grabbed the railing of the stairs and jumped up, stepped over the railing lightly, and then climbed up the stairs. Looking at me carefully: "Follow me quickly."

I scratched the back of my head, speechless.

Nine days in the sky, the pagoda really has nine floors, the more it is like this, the more it shows that the underground tomb is an emperor's tomb.

We climbed up the stairs to the ninth floor, unimpeded, with some surprise and confusion.

There was also a trace of doubt on the frozen face of the incense burner, but he still didn't say anything.I was injured, and I was exhausted after climbing nine floors. When I finally reached the top floor, I immediately slumped on the suspension bridge.

The incense burner walked from the hanging bridge to the edge of the floor alone, eager to see the murals on the wall.

Along the way, we went around every floor in order to find clues.When we got to the second floor, we found that the murals on the wall were completely different from those on the ground floor.

On the ground floor is a chaotic picture of snakes and coils, but from the second floor, the content of the murals is a coherent story.

The content of the murals on each floor is related, and we discovered later that they are arranged in chronological order from bottom to top.

But just like we usually encounter this kind of situation when reading a novel, because the beginning is messy, it is impossible to figure out what the main line of the whole story is, and we have to wait until we read it to gradually understand.What's more, murals are not like novels, which will mark the characters who appear on the scene.

The people on the murals we saw didn't know who they were at the beginning, but they guessed their identities after understanding the ins and outs of the whole story.

Of course, in order to facilitate everyone's understanding, I will tell you the conclusions I have reached after discussing with the incense burner.

The beginning of the mural tells about a war that took place in ancient times. There are two main characters in the painting, one with the head of a cow is the Emperor Yan, and the other with the face of a snake and the body of the Yellow Emperor.

Emperor Yan was the leader of the tribe surnamed Jiang in ancient times, also known as Shennong, and also the earliest emperor of heaven in mythology; Huangdi, Xuanyuan, is said to be the son of the seventh false Emperor Yan, who established his capital in Kongsang, which is today's Tai'an, Shandong. country.

The establishment of Huangdi's own power was tantamount to provoking Yandi's authority as the Emperor of Heaven, so the two forces confronted and clashed. Later, Yandi's throne was replaced by Huangdi. The mural we saw on the second floor is about the battle where Huangdi overthrew Yandi's rule.

Huangdi drove away Yandi and became the emperor of the Huaxia Dynasty himself, and Yandi could only swallow his anger and take the side.However, Chi You, the subject of Emperor Yan, was not willing to do so, so he sent troops to conquer Huangdi.

Chi You was so brave and powerful that even the Yellow Emperor respected him as the God of War.The two armies fought in Zhuolu, and the sky was dark. It is said that Chi You almost defeated the Yellow Emperor. There is a mural that said that the Yellow Emperor retreated after being beaten by Chi You. Nine Heavens Travels the Dragon, and uses this to say that he is the son of the dragon, bewitching Chi You to truce and form an alliance.As a result, Chi You fell into the trap of the Yellow Emperor, and was finally defeated and beheaded by the Yellow Emperor.

The image of Chi You is very evil in mythology. Legend has it that he is an invulnerable demon with three heads and six arms, and he is the ancestor of the Miao nationality. He invented Gu, which makes him a horrible and disgusting image in people's hearts.

But he is not like this in the mural.

So until I read the seven murals from the second floor to the eighth floor, I only guessed that the human face and snake body that appeared continuously from the beginning to the end of the painting was the Yellow Emperor, but I never thought that it was Chi You who joined forces with the Yellow Emperor. .Chi You in the painting has an indescribable beauty. Although the appearance painted in the mural is very abstract, even from the outline and color, it still gives people a brave and handsome impression.

Beside Chi You, there was a very young man who was inseparable from him, but because the portraits in these murals were too subversive of the descriptions in myths and legends, neither I nor the incense burner could guess who this man was.

As for why we finally knew that it was Chi You who fought against the Yellow Emperor in the second battle, it was because when we reached the ninth floor, we saw three hanging bridges surrounding the central altar, leading to three stone statues respectively.

The three stone statues are located in three directions, forming an equilateral triangle.But I originally thought that the pillars that lead directly to the top of the tower are gone here. In the middle of the ninth floor is the altar, and on the altar is a stone tablet.

We finally found the stone tablet that should be used to engrave the identity of the owner of the tomb!

What I like most in my life is to dig out stories that the world does not know, so while the incense burner is walking towards the stone statue, I sit at the end of the hanging bridge and read the content on the stone tablet.

The inscription on the inscription was compiled in the Ming Dynasty, which shows that no matter how old the ancient tomb below is, this tower was indeed built after the Ming Dynasty.

According to the text on the stele, I also quickly confirmed our initial guess.

The underground of the Shen family's old house is really an emperor's tomb.

But I guessed it was the tomb of the Yellow Emperor at first, because the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum in Shaanxi is just a tomb of clothes. Archaeologists believe that there must be another real "Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor's Tomb" buried underground. After thousands of years, it has been dusted by time and history. look for.I thought it was here, and excitedly thought that this would be a great discovery, but only after reading the inscription did I realize that I was wrong.

In the underground tomb here, Emperor Yan and his minister Chi You are buried.It is no wonder that the murals on the tower and the tomb passages of the catacombs are full of pictures of snake formations, and the incense burner said that they are Gu formations, probably because Chi You is buried.And the following murals describe the deeds of Emperor Yan and Chi You, which makes sense.

However, a new question arises.

Most of the Ming Towers are used to worship the owner of the tomb. It is clearly written on the stone tablet that the two owners of the ancient tomb are Emperor Yan and Chi You, so why are there three stone statues here?If two of them are Emperor Yan and Chi You, who is the third stone statue?

Thinking of this, I had to drag my heavy legs slowly to the wall.

To my surprise, the main characters in the murals on this layer are neither Emperor Yan nor Emperor Huang. I looked around but couldn't find Chi You.

The content of the mural is about the construction of a large underground palace, which is actually the construction of a huge mausoleum.In the painting, there are coffins with ox heads and octagonal worms. I think this refers to the coffins of Emperor Yan and Chi You. The shape of the coffins is also very strange, but it was in ancient times, and the coffins are different from later ones. Nothing surprising either.

Strangely, the protagonist in the painting has become the person who followed Chi You in the previous murals.

The man was not only young, but also handsome, but his figure was very burly, just like Chi You, exuding a fierce and powerful aura, giving people a very cold impression.

Since the tower was built after the Ming Dynasty, the murals were naturally painted after that, so I think the images in the paintings must imply the meanings that the people who painted these murals wanted to express. Then, they are different from the images in mythology, and they are also It is understandable.

Originally, all of this became reasonable, but there was something unreasonable in it.

After I finished reading the murals around me, I couldn't help shouting excitedly: "Xianglu, look at the murals here."

The incense burner was standing in front of a stone statue, thinking about something, I called him three times, and he came to me in response.

I wondered, "What are you looking at, so engrossed?"

"It's nothing."

He was evasive, obviously hiding something, but I didn't want to expose him.

I pointed to the young and handsome man on the mural, and said, "Look, this man first appeared in the Zhuolu battle between Chi You and Huang Di. If I remember correctly, it should be on the fourth floor." Let’s put it on the painting. When we discussed just now, we also discovered that in the later paintings, the image of Chiyou is gradually changing. You said that the person who painted the murals may want to express some message, and deliberately let the Chi You's appearance is somewhat different. But this person has not changed from the beginning to the end, and he has lived until the death of Chi You and Emperor Yan. Judging from the murals on this floor, he not only lived for a long time, but also gave birth to Emperor Yan and Chi You. Made a huge mausoleum..."

I chattered a lot, feeling very excited, and intuitively felt that I had discovered a shocking secret, but when I talked about it later, I was a little confused.

What secret was discovered, but at this time I couldn't tell why.

The incense burner listened quietly beside me, and he kept staring at the murals, his eyes sparkling with an indescribable expression.

It seemed that he was also deeply affected by the content of the painting.

I think his eyes are more energetic than before, and his emotions seem to be enriched all of a sudden. Seeing his expression, I feel inexplicably uneasy.

"Who do you think this person is?" I asked softly.

The incense burner looked at it for a while, and said lightly: "I don't know who he is, but the extra stone statue here should belong to him."

I nodded.

Suddenly, the incense burner stared at me inexplicably: "Come on, take a look at this stone statue first."

At the beginning, I saw the three stone statues here, and then when I read the inscription, I found that the three gods on the altar corresponded to the positions of the three stone statues, but I didn't know what this meant.

The incense burner led me, and we walked along the wall from our original position, not directly from the hanging bridge in the middle.

In this way, if we go around in a circle, we will pass three stone statues in turn.

When passing the first stone statue, the incense burner did not stop, and he continued to move forward, but I stopped him.

I pointed to the stone statue and said, "Looking at this stone statue, it has been damaged beyond recognition. Among the three stone statues, it is the most damaged one. I find it a bit strange."

In a dim environment, if I say that the stone statue is broken based on its outline, it means that it is not only damaged on the surface, but completely damaged.

The upper half of the stone statue was incomplete, leaving only the part below the waist, and the base was also in a mess. I squatted and looked at it for a while, and found that it was not natural damage, but man-made damage.

Think about it, isn't it strange that in a tower that no one can break into, the stone statue has not collapsed, but it is so damaged that you can't see its original appearance?

I was thinking about it, but the incense burner hurriedly pulled me away: "Leave it alone, I want you to see another stone statue."

Originally, the location of the stone statues should be based on their status, and the person with the highest status should naturally be in the middle.However, since the three stone statues here are located at the three corners of an equilateral triangle, it is not clear which one is in the middle.

The incense burner took me to another stone statue. I stared at it for a while and said, "I think this is Chiyou."

The incense burner was also observing the stone statue, and after hearing what I said, he turned to look at me.His expression was a little weird, as if a little nervous: "Do you think that the face of this stone statue is somewhat similar to yours?"