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Chapter 997: The Magnificent Underground Palace
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The two auricles were opposite each other, one on the left and the other on the right. Liu Dong first chose the auricle on the left, moved away the boulder blocking the auricle, looked at the black cave, which was two meters wide and three meters high, and strode in.
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Less than 10 meters ahead, a stone chamber covering an area of about 200 square meters and a height of about 3 meters suddenly appeared in front of Liu Dong. Inside the stone cave were large sealed jars.
The height of each large vat is close to one meter, and the diameter of the mouth is about 80 centimeters. More importantly, these vats are not ceramics, but real bronze vats!
Each bronze vat is engraved with exquisite patterns, including animal patterns, alien hunting patterns, war patterns, and harvest patterns.
Judging from the style and the aura displayed by the relics, these bronze jars were not cast in one piece, but were nearly a hundred years apart. It seems that they should be the funerary objects accumulated by several generations of kings of Kangju Kingdom!
In addition, there are sealed pottery pots on the top of these large vats. There is a small hole as thick as a finger on the top of each pot. Thinking about it, the meaning of leaving this small hole is nothing more than to allow the souls of death to enjoy
Offerings inside the vat.
Liu Dong moved the pottery basin from the mouth of a large bronze vat nearby. What appeared in front of him were wheat seeds that had mostly rotted into dust, but some were still left and had turned black!
Obviously, what was buried in this big vat was wheat, that is, grain!
However, the 89 bronze vats in this cave are not all wheat, there is also some dried wine, and a small amount of rice, highland barley and the like!
Although most of these grains and wines from more than a thousand years ago have rotted into ashes, the 89 large bronze vats left behind are rare treasures!
After casually checking a few bronze jars, Liu Dong looked with great interest at the other stone cave connected to this stone chamber at the back!
After walking into this cave for more than ten meters, there is another stone chamber similar to the one before. Similar to the previous one, except that there is an aisle about two meters wide in the center, both sides of the aisle are filled with large pottery pots with seals.
cylinder.
It’s just that only 14 of these large vats are the same bronze vats as those in the previous stone chamber. Most of the latter are pottery vats with bright colors and exquisite patterns!
It was obvious that the person who was buried later felt that the cave in front could no longer hold too many burial objects, so he dug a new ear chamber next to the previous cave.
Because the pottery jars are larger than the bronze jars, there are only 78 large jars stored in this ear room. They also store grain and wine!
There are a total of six ear chambers for storing grain and wine like this. They are all connected to each other, and the years are shorter as you go further back.
After looking at the six ear chambers, Liu Dong did some calculations and found a total of 103 bronze jars and 369 pottery jars!
Because they are buried with the royal family, almost every large vat is very exquisite and well-preserved! Although it cannot be called a national treasure, it is also a rare item in antique collections or unearthed cultural relics, and each one is worthy of it.
Second-level cultural relic!
After checking the left ear chamber, when Liu Dong entered the right ear chamber opposite the main tomb passage, another series of stone chambers appeared, and this time there were many more stone chambers than those used to store food. There were a total of
12.
However, the contents of these 12 stone chambers greatly disappointed Liu Dong.
Bundles of swords, guns, swords and halberds have been completely corroded and stuck together. There are even many wooden spears. Because Chang Ge was not well preserved, only the metal parts have been corroded.
The armor was also in pieces because of the animal skin lining or the rotten knots connecting it!
In addition, most of these weapons are ordinary items and there are no high-quality ones. Therefore, except for a few swords that are relatively intact, most of them are damaged!
Even the swords that are lucky enough to be preserved are of little value.
Therefore, after just taking a few glances and selecting some relatively well-preserved weapons, Liu Dong withdrew.
After walking along the main tomb passage for about 20 meters, two white marble doors blocked Liu Dong's way again.
"It's really incredible!"
Liu Dong, with a hint of shock in his eyes, opened the stone door with force.
Just like what Liu Dong had seen in the stone hall in front, two majestic white marble statues with human heads and lion bodies, 3 meters high and weighing more than 5 tons, were guarding both sides of the stone gate.
After stepping out of the stone gate, there is a corridor nearly 10 meters wide and completely paved with polished jade. The corridor extends forward until it disappears into the darkness.
On both sides of the corridor are 20 squatting bronze statues of Kangju warriors holding spears, wearing armor, and with serious expressions. They are about 2 meters high. If the base is added, it will probably be no less than 250 centimeters.
These twenty bronze warrior statues are spaced 2 meters apart and extend to the end of the corridor made of Hetian Qingyu.
In addition, Liu Dong also found that the style of these bronze warrior sculptures is slightly similar to Greek and Roman sculptures, but it is more combined with the living customs of many Kangju people. The style of the sculpture armor and the appearance of the characters are similar to those of Greece and Rome.
The difference.
After looking at these mighty bronze statues of warriors with serious facial expressions and walking to the end of the corridor, there appeared two huge stone pillars on the left and right sides, which were at least four people in arms and more than 3 meters in diameter, like huge Roman pillars.
More than 10 meters, firmly supported by the rocks at the top.
Moreover, Buddhist statues are embossed on the capitals and bases of the stone pillars, which are extremely exquisite.
When Liu Dong held a strong flashlight and shined it towards the giant stone pillars, one after another giant stone pillars that were straight like giants gradually emerged from the darkness.
These huge supporting stone pillars are arranged in a straight line, forming a ninety-degree angle with the jade corridor at Liu Dong's feet, extending into the surrounding darkness, as if there is no end in sight.
In the middle of these giant stone pillars 20 meters apart, there is a 250 centimeter-high bronze maid statue with soft facial lines and beautiful appearance. She is dressed like a waiter and holds a 60-centimeter-diameter copper basin in her hands!
There are not many decorative carvings on the bronze maid statue, but the clothes and facial expressions are extremely detailed, and each one seems to be different.
In addition, there is a wrist-thick hemp rope in the copper plate they hold high above their heads.
If you get closer, you can smell the strong and pungent smell of gasoline on the hemp rope!
Of course, in ancient times, this was not gasoline but kerosene! That is, unrefined petroleum!
After thinking for a while, Liu Dong took a lighter from the Mustard Seed Space, then pulled some rags and made a torch. He also took out the gasoline from the Mustard Seed Space and soaked the hemp rope, and then put it in the copper basin.
The twine was on fire!
Soon the hemp rope that Liu Dong lit also attracted the original oil inside the maid's body that had not completely evaporated due to the good sealing. Then the fire became brighter and brighter!
Then Liu Dong used the same method to light all the bronze maid lamps between each stone pillar!
Liu Dong didn't count how many maids' bronze lamps he had lit, but when he took the tiger head and they walked through a "kou" shape, a structure like a corridor, the giant stone corridor with a width of only 20 meters returned to the starting point.
The whole process actually took Liu Dong nearly an hour!
Although it took some effort to light the oil lamp, Liu Dong's legs and feet were definitely not slow, but it was precisely because of this that he showed how majestic this huge underground space was.
It's even bigger and grander than all the underground caves Liu Dong has passed through before put together!
Although he had been prepared for it, when the hundreds of bronze maid lamps were completely lit, Liu Dong, who had witnessed it with his own eyes, was stunned when he saw the scene in the underground palace that was almost brightly lit.
The little gold pieces were motionless with a pair of bird's eyes.
coffin!
Wherever Liu Dong looked, there were wooden coffins neatly arranged, with no less than two thousand of them densely packed!
In the entire square, a super giant underground palace with a side length of nearly 300 meters and a height of more than 10 meters, all the wooden coffins are listed on the sunken square.
These wooden coffins do not have a coffin bed like traditional Chinese tombs, but are placed on three thick iron cables! At both ends of the iron cables are two bronze crouching tigers weighing at least more than ten tons, and a row of 5 bronze tigers
The Crouching Tiger is connected in a row with three thick chains, and there are nearly 50 coffins placed on this row of iron chains connecting the bronze Crouching Tiger!
On the sunken square with an area of nearly 90,000 square meters, more than half of the area is filled with coffins arranged in this way. The vacant space is obviously reserved for later generations, but the Kangju royal family only exists for more than 500 people.
Years are gone!
In addition to these densely packed coffins, nearly a hundred bronze crouching tigers are also particularly spectacular, and because the time span exceeds five hundred years, they have different styles and are highly valuable for collection.
In addition to the shocking dense coffins and bronze crouching tigers, the nine giant pillars emerging from the sunken square to support the roof of the cave are also particularly attractive!
It is not used for the huge stone pillars Liu Dong had seen before. In the square sunk 5 meters, there are nine supports, all of which are giant stone statues with lion heads and human bodies. Each stone statue is more than 15 meters in height and 5 meters in diameter, and they all hold their hands high.
, the top of the head and the hands form a triangle to firmly support the roof of the cave.
This was the first time for Liu Dong to see such a tall stone statue. Although the carving process was relatively rough, the height alone was already particularly attractive!
In addition, in the center of these nine giant pillars with lion heads and bodies, also in the center of the sunken square, there is a three-headed golden lion. The lions are on all fours, with three heads divided into three directions. The lion body is about nine meters high and is illuminated by Liu Dong's strong light.
The bright golden light reflected under the flashlight, but through the relic Yuan Guang Liu Dong understood that the giant three-headed lion golden statue was only gold-plated on the surface, and the inside was just bronze. But even so, such a large bronze statue is already unparalleled in the world! (Unfinished)