Oracle bone inscriptions are the earliest and relatively complete texts found in China.

Oracle bone inscriptions mainly refer to oracle bone inscriptions in Yinxu, also known as "Yinxu scripts". "Yin Qi", which are written on tortoise shells and animal bones in the Shang Dynasty.

Due to superstition, the emperors of Shang and Zhou dynasties used to divine everything with tortoise shells (the common turtle braces are) or animal bones (the common ox shoulder blades are) and then engrave the divination related matters, such as divination time, divination content, identification results, verification status, etc. on the oracle bones, and preserve them as archive materials by the royal historians. In addition to divination, the content of oracle bone documents also involves astronomy, calendar, geography, family, conquest, agriculture, sacrifices, humanities, disasters, etc., which are extremely precious first-hand materials for studying the social history, culture, language and writing in ancient China, especially the Shang Dynasty.

So far, about 150,000 oracle bones and more than 4,500 single words have been found. Judging from the approximately 2,500 single words that have been identified, it has the method of creating characters such as "pictographic, cognitive, phonography, reference, reposting, and borrowing", showing the unique charm of Chinese characters.

Oracle bone inscriptions were once popular in the antique market, becoming a golden lump in the eyes of tomb robbers. A considerable number of Oracle bone inscriptions were spread to foreign criminals.

Although I cannot translate oracle bone inscriptions, I still have an in-depth understanding of the shape and structure of oracle bone inscriptions, so I can say with certainty that the words on the brass pendant are oracle bone inscriptions. In this way, this brass pendant is most likely a product of the Shang Dynasty. Seeing that this brass pendant is also like a noble thing, I wonder what its function is?

"Apart from this pen sign, are there any other discoveries?" I asked Lao Yang.

Lao Yang shook his head: "Not yet, I only found this thing in the centipede's corpse!"

How could a brass pendant plaque be buried in the centipede's body for no reason?

Something is wrong!

Something is absolutely wrong!

This brass plaque must have its function!

While thinking hard, I walked to the front of the rock wall, looked at the corpse of the centipede that had been burned to charcoal, and then walked around to the front of the bronze pillar. The dense talisman patterns on the pillar made my eyes swollen.

Just as I withdrew my gaze, I suddenly caught a strange pattern from the corner of my eye.

I gathered my eyes and found the strange pattern among hundreds of patterns, and then stared at the pattern for a while, my heart couldn't help but pound. The pattern was actually a slap shape, but it was sunken, unlike other patterns that were abrupt. Because there were too many strange patterns on the column, even if I got very close, it would be difficult to find the slap pattern if I couldn't wait to observe carefully. I was lucky just now and saw this pattern at a glance.

Slap pattern?!

Another slap pattern?!

My heart pounded wildly, and I raised the brass plaque in my hand and looked at it. This brass plaque is also slap-shaped. Could it be...

An inspiration flashed in my mind. I suppressed my excitement, took a step forward, compared it, and embedded the brass plaque in my hand into the slap pattern on the bronze pillar. The size was just right and the edges were seamlessly connected.

The brass plaque gradually shone a layer of golden light, and then with the brass plaque as the center point, the talisman patterns on the entire bronze pillar successively shone golden light, illuminating the bronze pillar and illuminating the entire cave. The golden light flowed and the colorful colors shone. The relief patterns seemed to be flying out, both illusory and real.

Everyone stared at this magical scene with a big eyes, and for a moment they forgot where they were.

What kind of ingenious craftsmanship can build such a clever and amazing mechanism!

Just as we were stunned, we heard a dull rumbling sound, the ground trembled, and the soles of our feet were slightly numb. We widened our eyes and were surprised to find that there was a crack on the bottom column of the bronze pillar. The crack spread and soon turned into a door frame shape. Then the secret door moved horizontally to the side, revealing a black hole.

Almost everyone held their breath and looked at the scene in front of them in disbelief, and their brains didn't even come back to their senses.

After a while, the old bird was the first to walk up with a wolf's eyes, and looked at the entrance of the black dust hole, turned around and shouted at us in surprise: "Let's see everyone, come and see, it turns out that the bronze pillar is hollow!"

A secret door appeared on the body of the bronze pillar. This exquisite mechanism far exceeded our imagination. But the question quickly filled our minds. What is in the bronze pillar? Why is a secret door built here?

If you think about it carefully, this is actually a chain mechanism. The brass pendant that opened the secret door was in the centipede's body that was hit by hernia. If you want to get the pendant, you must kill the centipede. I am almost sure now that this demon blood centipede is definitely a tomb-guarding monster.

At this time, Fang Weiran, who had been unconscious before, also woke up. When he learned about his experience just now, Fang Weiran was very grateful to me and kept thanking me.

"Everyone is a person on the same boat, don't be so polite!" I said.

With a nervous and excited mood, we held up our wolf's eyes and tiptoed into the secret door and entered the interior of the bronze pillar.

The bronze pillar is indeed hollow, like a closed dark space.

Generally speaking, in such a subtle mechanism, there are most likely some precious things hidden, such as treasures, treasures, etc. But what makes us slightly disappointed is that the pillar body is empty and there is nothing.

I worked hard to kill the demon blood centipede, but there was nothing? Isn’t this too unreasonable?

Just as I was suspicious, the old bird suddenly howled, and the sound echoed inside the pillar, which scared us.

"What are you calling?" Cao Yi shouted angrily.

The old bird trembled with excitement: "Here... there is still a door here!"

There is still a door?!

We were shocked and quickly surrounded us. We saw a secret door behind the bronze pillar. The secret door had been opened, and it was still dark inside. I don’t know where the secret door would lead. But at least one thing is worth our joy. There is still a road behind the secret door, and this is not a dead end.

The bronze pillar was originally embedded in the rock wall, so this secret door was also dug up on the rock wall, which was equivalent to us passing through the entire column and entering the mountain behind the bronze pillar.

After entering the mountain, it is not a rough cave, and the entire cave has traces of human repair.

The ground is covered with large blue brick stone slabs, and various reliefs are depicted on the left and right stone walls. The top of the cave is also reinforced with bluestone to build the arc top with the strongest bearing capacity. Every distance above the arc top is inlaid with a night pearl the size of a porcelain bowl, like a corridor light, shining with a faint light.

I am very familiar with this layout structure because this is a typical tomb passage structure.

In other words, we have now entered a tomb passage.

Needless to say, it is known that the back of the tomb passage must be a mausoleum!

I have been thinking about this question before. If the demon blood centipede is a tomb guarding monster, then where is the tomb? It turned out that the ancients were ingenious and actually hid the tomb in the mountain. If the tomb guarding monster cannot be killed, they will not be able to enter the tomb.

My breathing began to get rapid and my heartbeat became faster and faster. Although I haven't worked in the archaeological team for more than a year, my professional habits still make me feel strongly curious, and I am eager to know who the owner of this mausoleum is.

After hearing me say this is the tomb passage, Lao Yang and the others seemed very surprised.

"I searched for him thousands of times, but I didn't expect that the tomb was deep in the mountain!" the old bird sighed.

Lao Yang frowned: "Damn! If you don't have education, don't quote poems, songs, what a mess!"

Cao Yi said: "I'm very curious about who built this tomb!"

"If nothing unexpected happens, it may be an ancient tomb from the Shang and Zhou dynasties!" I said in contemplation.

"How come you even know the dynasty of the ancient tomb?" Cao Yi looked at me with admiration.

I said, "I just carefully observed the brass pendant and found that the pattern engraved on the pendant was actually an oracle bone inscription. It is known that the oracle bone inscription originated in the Shang and Zhou dynasties and developed greatly during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, so I preliminarily concluded that this ancient tomb was a big fight in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Moreover, judging from the tomb-guarding monsters and bronze pillars outside, the owner of the ancient tomb is quite a small identity, so he must be a person with a big background!"

Cao Yi held his chest tightly with his hands: "Wow! Tuoba Gu, you are so awesome, so knowledgeable, and men with knowledge and connotations are the most handsome!"

I didn't dare to look at Cao Yichi's hot gaze, so I had to laugh dryly and quickly turn my head away.

I turned my attention to the reliefs on both sides. The reliefs were large reliefs, one after another, each relief was five meters long, connected to each other, forming a huge scroll. The content expressed in this scroll was all-encompassing, including pictures of farmland farming, battles on the battlefield, prosperous city and alleys, and sacrificial pictures in the palace.

Two of the reliefs attracted our attention, and the content on the picture was very weird and creepy.

One of the reliefs is a strange beast. I originally thought it was a dragon, but when I looked closely, the monster was even longer in size, without dragon tail and claws, and it looked like a snake. What makes people strange and terrified is that there was a sarcomb-shaped sarcomb on the head. The craftsmen had very exquisite carving skills, and the strange snake with a cockscomb-shaped top seemed to fly out of the wall, which was very terrifying.

There is also a relief picture that is even more terrifying. A big snake with a cockscomb on its head lies in a place similar to an altar, raising its head high, like a king who ruled the world. Under the altar, there were hundreds of small cockscombs, densely packed with snakes. The small snakes all stood upright and spitted their letters in the air, as if they were bowing their heads to the big snake.
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