This stone man was wearing armor, holding a broadsword in his hand, with his mouth wide open. The ferocious expression on his face seemed to be extremely angry. The most important thing was that he made a forward assassination movement. His feet were in a lunge, and the broadsword in his hand was aimed at
It stabbed forward, and there was actually a corpse hanging on the stone sword. This was the most puzzling thing.
"This stone statue is so lifelike. Can any of you tell which dynasty this stone figure represents?" I feel a bit like the clothes of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. I can tell it at a glance, but not the Ming Dynasty.
"This is the official uniform of the military generals of the Ming Dynasty. This stone statue should represent the military generals of the Ming Dynasty." Jenny turned to look at me and said.
I believe in her judgment that she is actually a military commander of the Ming Dynasty, but what does that mean?
At this time, Li Xin suddenly shouted from nearby, "Zhongyi, come here and take a look."
We hurried in the direction of Li Xin. When we ran over, I was surprised again. There was actually a stone statue here, and it was also a stone man. It was almost the same as the previous stone statue, both wearing armor and holding hands.
He was holding a big knife, his face was hideous and terrifying, and his mouth was wide open, as if he wanted to eat people.
The only difference is the movement. This stone man is kneeling on the ground, and the sword in his hand is pierced directly from top to bottom. And under his sword, there is also the skeleton of a Qing soldier. It looks like
It's as if he died under its stone knife, which is very puzzling.
"These two stone men are so weird. There are bones under each of their swords. Could it be the Qing soldiers they killed?" the big man asked confused.
But the steamed bun immediately scolded sarcastically, "Are you an idiot? Can the stone statue of *** possibly kill people? It's really a mess. If you ask me to see it, this is just for show, to scare people."
The big man didn't dare say a word because of what the steamed bun said, and he probably felt that what he just said was quite childish.
"Zhongyi, what do you think?" Li Xin asked me softly.
"I don't know, I don't understand." Why are these stone statues placed here? I have no idea whether they are just decorations or something else.
"Yi Ge, there are stone statues here too." Shunzi called again from nearby.
As soon as we heard this, we hurried over to him. After we passed by, we discovered that there were several stone statues in the middle of the underground palace. These stone statues were all carved by military generals of the Ming Dynasty, and each stone statue had a unique shape.
The shapes are all different.
But one thing is the same, they are all showing the movements of killing the enemy, some wielding swords, some draw swords, the images are so lifelike, and around each stone statue, there are a large number of bones of Qing soldiers. These stone statues,
What's the purpose?
"Brother Yi, I found something wrong with these stone statues." Shunzi whispered in my ear.
"Problem? What problem?" I turned to look at him. I also knew that there was something wrong with this stone statue, but I couldn't see what the problem was at all.
"Look at their faces, are they missing something?" Shunzi pointed at the faces of the stone statues and said.
I didn't understand what he meant, but I still did it. I looked carefully with a flashlight and was shocked. The stone statue actually had its eyes closed. How could such a lifelike stone statue go wrong in this key place?
Even if the sculptor forgot to carve the eyes, at most there are no eyes, but it shouldn't have closed eyes. There must be something wrong with it.
I hurriedly went to look at several other stone statues, and sure enough, they were exactly the same. The other stone statues also had their eyes closed. This was a big problem. This one could be wrong. It was a mistake by hand, but all of these stone statues had their eyes closed.
His eyes are closed, and his expression is so ferocious. This is really strange.
"Brother Yi, look at the placement of these stone statues. They are too chaotic. Why do they look so awkward?" Shunzi's words reminded me again.
The placement of these stone statues is simply chaotic. Not only are they placed here and there, but they are also near and far apart. There are no rules at all. If they are really the decorations of the underground palace, they should at least be arranged neatly like the Terracotta Warriors and Horses.
That's right, this is the standard for a feudal dynasty to exist. On the contrary, it is not logical at all.
"No, I have to ask Jiao Ba and the others. You guys wait for me here." I told Shunzi and walked forward quickly.
But when I had just walked a few steps, I saw Mr. Mai and three others rushing towards us. "Zhongyi, how are you? What did you find over there?" Mr. Mai saw me coming and hurriedly came up to meet me.
Ask me.
I pointed my hand back and said, "I found several stone statues of Ming Dynasty generals..." I briefly talked about the characteristics of the stone statues and what Shunzi had just discovered.
"It's a stone statue again, and it's the same over there. There are about five or six of them. They are all generals from the Ming Dynasty. They have exactly the same characteristics as you said. They have their eyes closed and are in different assassination postures." Mr. Mai
He said with a serious face, it seems that this matter is not simple.
Chang Shan touched his chin and said, "This stone statue is too weird. You'd better be careful."
"Ignore these stone statues for now, have you found the way?" This is the most important thing. I walked around the underground palace for almost half a circle, but I didn't find an exit.
The three people shook their heads at the same time, with helpless expressions on their faces. It seemed that they had not found it.
At this moment, flames suddenly burst out all around the underground palace. In a blink of an eye, the flames all around the underground palace lit up. It was the same as the fire I saw before, and it was also a blue flame.
At the top of the surrounding stone walls, a circle of blue fire light was lit. I dare not say that it could illuminate the entire underground palace, but at least the situation in the underground palace could be clearly seen.
Several of us were stunned at this moment. No one knew what was going on. Why did the underground palace suddenly light up? Then we looked around and found that in the entire underground palace, there were stone statues of Ming Dynasty generals.
There were only ten of them, and the rest were all the bones of Qing soldiers.
"Brother Yi, Mr. Mai, come here and take a look. There are carvings on the stone wall over there." Shunzi hurried over at this time and shouted out of breath.
Are there any engraved paintings? We looked at each other, and I asked Shunzi, "What's the matter with the fire in this underground palace?"
"It was Jenny who lit it up. I don't know where she touched it." Shunzi explained, this girl is quite lucky and can always find the location of the mechanism.
"Come Zhongyi, let's hurry over and take a look." Mr. Mai greeted, and we followed Shunzi all the way to the innermost part of the underground palace.
Jenny and Li Xin were watching around the stone wall. Far away, I saw Big Man and Steamed Bun arguing about what they were arguing about. The two of them were arguing with red faces.
"What are you arguing about? Can't you just settle down for a while?" Mai Lao walked over and pulled the two people away.
"We are not arguing, we are just talking about the carvings on the stone wall." The two people said almost in unison.
I ignored them and kept staring at the stone wall. This stone wall was almost covered with portraits. I took a closer look and saw that what was depicted on it was a group of people fighting with a group of ghost-like creatures. I didn’t know.
What is that thing, but it is definitely not a human being, so I can only think of ghosts. In the end, humans won the victory, and all these ghosts were killed. This is probably the meaning of the entire stone wall carving.
"What does this painting mean? What are those things, ghosts?" I turned to look at Mr. Mai and asked.
At this time the big man said, "I look like a ghost."
Steamed Bun immediately retorted to him, "That's because you are mentally ill. There are so many ghosts to kill for you." It was probably because of this that the two of them were quarreling just now.
"This painting should have a purpose. Look carefully and see if the characters in the painting are similar to those stone figures." Li Xin said nonchalantly.
But after hearing what she said, it was true that although the characters were relatively small, if you look closely, you can still find that they are all wearing the clothes of Ming Dynasty generals.
"Then what are they killing? This thing depicts neither a human nor a ghost. Does any of you know what it is?" Jenny had a question mark on her face. She must have been thinking about it for a long time and still couldn't figure it out.
But I discovered a terrible thing. There are exactly ten Ming Dynasty generals in this painting. Isn’t this exactly the same as the number of people in those stone statues? What does this mean? How could there be such a coincidence?
Woolen cloth.
The generals in this painting are assassinating ghosts, and the underground palace we are in is full of corpses. Could it be that... the ghosts in this painting are those dead Qing soldiers?
I thought about it over and over and felt that this should not be the case. The ghosts in this painting may just be a representative. It represents the people who broke into the underground palace. The sculptor deliberately portrayed these people as ghosts.
This is a reverse metaphor. People who break into the underground palace without authorization are compared to dark people and ugly people, so they are portrayed like ghosts. When you think about it this way, it feels much more reasonable.
But we are facing a huge danger at the same time. This painting is obviously telling us that anyone who breaks into the underground palace will be killed, but who will kill us? Could it be...those stone statues?
?…
"Zhongyi, why are you in such a daze?" Li Xin touched me and I came back to my senses.
I quickly said everything I had just thought. When I finished speaking, Jiao Ba said with a stern face, "Yes, what Brother Yi said is very reasonable. This is probably what this painting means. I also read it."
Now that these problems have arisen, the people who killed these Qing soldiers must be these ten stone statues."
"Jiao Ba, are you kidding me? How could this stone statue kill people?" Mantou said while rolling his eyes. Others couldn't accept it.
Jiao Ba was not in a hurry, and just said casually, "Then just pretend I didn't say anything."
"Okay, it doesn't matter to us. The most important thing now is to find the entrance, and put everything else aside." Mr. Mai immediately made a decision, and we spread out to look for the entrance.