Chapter 72 South Sea stiffs

I am now God sleepy body tired, think of these complicated I Ching hexagrams, feel a headache, but “Zhen” hexagrams, seems to hide and “return to the market” closely related to the major hidden, just as I think hard not to be able to understand the occasion, Shirley Yang suddenly asked me: “I do not know too much about Yi Dao, but I have read the work of a Chinese scholar who traveled to the United States, he is a famous expert in the study of Yijing, a very unique point of view, has mentioned that Yi in the hexagrams, where the number of words, are not out of thin air, which hides ancient encrypted information, today’s people have been more than can not be solved, which shocked the words of a hundred miles of the trigrams, the old Hu you know, why is not the gua Ninety-nine miles and one hundred and one miles, or use thousands of miles, but prefer to say is shocked hundred miles?”

Shirley Yang accidentally mentioned things, is that I never thought of before, “Yi” contains ten thousand elephants, all things in heaven and earth are endless changes in this, only very few people can understand thoroughly, a person can never see everything, as long as the contact with the study of Zhouyi, each person will have their own understanding of the “I Ching”, in the eyes of the philosophers, it is contained in the philosophical, in the eyes of mystics, it is also a predictor of the state of affairs, and in the eyes of the mystics, it is a predictor of the state of affairs. In the eyes of philosophers, it is a prediction of changes in the book of heaven, the benevolent see that is called benevolence, the wise see that is called wisdom, so far, the world’s analysis of the “I Ching” is only a glimpse of the leopard in the tube.

So Shirley Yang said that the “Yi” where there is a “number” of statements, are not out of thin air, “Zhen Gua” in the “Zhen Lai terrified, laughing and dumb, shocked hundreds of miles, do not lose the dagger! “If this is just a description of a phenomenon, why not use the phrase “shocking a thousand miles” or “shocking a million miles”? If this is just a description of a phenomenon, why not use “shocked a thousand miles” or “shocked ten thousand miles”?

Shirley Yang said, our salvage team in the coral temple island since the sea, have seen a few times with this “Zhen Gua” related to the antiquities, which several times seen in the coffins, tombs, or scales of human tortoise divination of bone armor above, as if the recurring “Zhen Gua” trigrams, is the “Zhen Gua”, is the “Zhen Gua”, is the “Zhen Gua”, is the “Zhen Gua”, is the “Zhen Gua”. It seems that the recurring “Zhen Gua” is related to the “Returning to the Ruins” in the netherworld, that is to say, it may not be an image obtained from divination, but a mark of the Hateful Heavenly People’s burial of the bones, or a kind of hint hidden in the Hateful Heavenly’s graves, and these marks represent the “Hundred” of the Gua image. “Hundred” mark, especially prominent, seen many times, have to make people have doubts.

I scratched my head, really can’t think of how to answer Shirley Yang raised doubts, although her thinking is flexible, often can directly see the essence of things, but “shocked a hundred miles” whether the words are unique references? That only the ancient people know, I listened to Zhang Winchuan said, when his ancestors have a wizard, is the master of the gold police in the Zhang three chain, Zhang three masters in the Western Zhou Dynasty tomb dug out like a heavenly book like yin and yang sixteen words full hexagrams, after looking at the closed door, some people asked him what the inside of the heavenly chance? Zhang San master then shook his head, only said: “who understand the secret of which, the flood or a fairy”, which means that, perhaps only the flood of the first opening of the immortal, to know the yin and yang sixteen hexagrams in the real heavenly opportunities.

That sixteen trigrams probably only through the sky of the immortals can understand, even if the later generations of the “gossip”, although reduced by half, even if it is the high and mighty, but also do not dare to say that they can fully understand, I am halfway out of the door, so I do not know the easy to contain the number of words have what the mystery.

However, I refused to admit on my mouth, said to Shirley Yang: “Shocked hundreds of hundred words, is on behalf of the integer, the ancient Chinese are accustomed to use the integer to do the adjective, such as a hundred battles, a hundred steps through the poplar and so on, no one can say ninety-nine battles ninety-nine victories, or a hundred and one steps through the poplar, said hundred appears to be a simple and atmospheric, which is called the micro-linguistic, is not a specific meaning! If a thunderbolt strikes in the sky, who knows how many miles it will shake? In fact, this is only an abstract metaphor, perhaps Americans prefer precise descriptions, that’s why you find it strange.”

Shirley Yang probably think that what I just said, very reasonable, so also do not dwell on the tomb tortoise shell on the “Zhen Gua”, walked over, with the crowd leaning on the snow-white fossilized whale bone next to gasp for breath.

I also followed sitting on the ground to rest, look at the surrounding environment, in the mind speculate the pattern of this tomb, it seems that all this is with the “Dragon Household” ancient guess on the back of the totem coincides with the bottom of the sea under the sacred wood is dead and never die of Hate Sky’s corpse, boat-dwellers will hate Sky’s tomb secrets hidden in the “Dragon Household” body, must not be for the sake of the “Dragon Household”, but for the purpose of the “Dragon Household”, the “Dragon Household”. The boat-dwelling people hid the secret of the Hateful Sky’s tomb in the “dragon house”, it must not be in order to let the future generations to come here to “dump”, but the real reason, I’m afraid that among the egg people who are still alive now, no one is clear anymore.

I will cast my eyes to the ancient wood passage we came down, it seems that this huge immense “楗木” is in hundreds of millions of years ago has been growing here, and then the sea, the forest into the ocean, “楗木” stayed at the bottom of the sea, almost through the three layers of the earth’s crust, no wonder! In the ancient legend, it is regarded as connected to the moon on the Guanghan Palace, hate Tian’s hollowed out the seabed of the sacred wood, the bottom of this coral cave as a tomb.

Tomb in no formal pattern of tomb and such, surrounded by the seabed seeping down the water, and the water below the hole, the water vortex one after another, more do not know how deep, the sound of water in the distance, can feel from time to time there is a rolling hot white gas, think must be “return to the ruins” underwater hot springs, this water is 100 times hot in the earth! This water is a hundred times hotter than the earthly hot springs, once any creature is wrapped by the boiling water, it will immediately be boiled by the high temperature to the point that not even the bones are left.

On the other side, there are gusts of cold coldness surging, the seawater above will be sucked into the center of the earth, the location of the ancient tomb, is built in a cold and a hot yin and yang boundary, was a coral reef wreckage sealed tight, hot and cold water can not be invaded, is a feng shui expert in the eyes of the “through the sky and the earth, the transformation of the ancient and modern immortal cave,” the tomb of the anger is not leaked, the great popularity, the vast and the great. The tomb is full of the magical secret of natural creation.

While I watch the terrain, fat man rested enough strength, probe half body into the whale bone, measure that several ancient corpses, Uncle Ming also dragged the ancient guess to the front, so that the ancient guess to kowtow to the ancestors, Uncle Ming said: “This is the ancestors of your boat-dwelling people ah, if the ancestors of the spirit, may be able to bless us to go back safely.”

Gu Chai does not understand since thousands of years ago, what ancestors do, but see the ancient corpse, or in awe, and immediately fell on the ground kowtowed a few heads, hands together, followed Uncle Ming’s move, the two of them in front of the whale bone haphazardly worship a few times.

The fat man asked Uncle Ming: “I said Uncle Ming your life, digging and selling, selling and digging, how many ancient corpses have been trafficked? Why are you kowtowing and bowing here? I thought you have to put these undersea zombies, transported back to sit on the ground to the price of a strange goods, but you look at your performance now, simply too much to let me down, you give me to the side, you this old no good ……”

Uncle Ming said with a sad face: “Hugh will yesterday than today, today has been a difficult time, now we are trapped in the seabed, can live out of the opportunity is too slim, where there is a mood to consider the price of the ancient corpse, now of course there is what the gods and goddesses to worship what the gods and goddesses, not allowed to say that which column of incense on the right to burn, we will be able to pick up a life to go back, otherwise you say fat boy, what else can you do? ”

Fatty stick that fish candle on the ground, said: “In my opinion …… honestly, in this situation, I do not know what to do, I can only be forced to act in accordance with the guidance of my own sanity …… “Finished with the means of the Golden Schoolmaster, lifting a zombie body, with the knee on the back of the zombie head, one hand pushed the skull, one hand to pinch the zombie’s cheeks, want to let the body spit out the mouth side of the stuffed “face beads”.

I hurriedly pull the fat man to stop, this trip to fish “green head” has been more than enough to return to the ruins of ancient tombs are ancient guess ancestors of the corpse, containing beads for thousands of years, dead and does not rot, if out of respect, generally do not say that zombies or dumplings, but described it has become a “stiff”, at this time still Do not alarm them as well, otherwise this tomb although the anger, once taken out the Yin essence cohesion of the “face beads”, these preserved thousands of years of “stiffs”, immediately have to be reduced to pieces, we this time out to sea is to fish the green head to pick eggs, not to the “Return to the ruins” in the grave robbers, so do not do things absolutely, do not forget the rules of the master, greed is the world of the ambush of misfortune, we still have to find a way to go back to the United States to enjoy a few years, how many of these years of great storms have come over, folded in this can be too uneconomical.

Fatty was I said a persuasive, only reluctant to drill out of the whale bone, I do not want to move these South China Sea stiffs, but would like to see what things in the whale bone, in order to evacuate this place, but also have to count on the discovery of what clues are good.

Giant whale skull fossilized jawbone half-close, this whale skull is not great, wrapped around the dead body but more than enough, said the whale bone coffin seems to be a little too big, there seems to be some funerary goods, more like a set in the whale skeleton chamber, a probe can be drilled as the whale’s mouth, five well-preserved corpses calmly lying in which.

Shirley Yang also want to see a clear, open flashlight, followed behind me bent into the whale bone chamber, Uncle Ming and others also want to come in to see in the end, but the chamber is too narrow, can not accommodate so many living people walking back and forth, I had to let them in front of the mouth of the whale holding a shark candlestick illumination, and guard against accidental vocalization, this eerie dark underground, who knows what monsters will be hidden, don’t worry about the front without the back was copied! I’m not sure what kind of monsters will be hiding in this gloomy dark underground.

Shirley Yang and I, one after the other, carefully stepped over from the five “South China Sea stiffs”, into the depths of the crypt, the two squatted down to review the corpses, with a flashlight, the five corpses were three women and two men, the male corpses are an old and a young, the dress has probably been turned into dust, covered with a thick layer of dry “Dragon skin” cover, “dragon skin” is the egg people commonly known as, from a kind of scales and armor brilliant fish in the sea, fish head has a horn, in recent times has been extinct, can not be seen again.

Five corpses in addition to the head, are covered by a piece of dragon skin tightly, the side of the old man only exposed half of the arm, the body skin slightly black, the face has been slightly spoiled, but the corpse in the water are “in the face of the beads” quell, do not rot and not rotten, only the coral spiral by the sea infiltrated by moonlight beads, only this effect, I pulled out the dive knife! I pulled out my dive knife and gently stabbed the old man’s arm a few times.

Unexpectedly, the tip of the knife touched, stiff people skin and flesh as hard as iron, such an ancient corpse I have never seen, may be ancient times in the sea unique antiseptic treatment, and the legend of Qin Shi Huang’s southern patrol, encountered in the seaside zombies seem to be the same, Shirley Yang whispered to ask me: “You and mess around with a knife poke the ancient corpses to do what?”

I said, “I try to test to see if it will be the first corpse, now it seems that the worry is redundant, the return to the market is the eye of the South Dragon’s cave, the vitality of the life, is unheard of in my life, these stiffs are almost petrified, and will not start another corpse.”

Shirley Yang nodded, with a flashlight in the whale bone inside a sweep, found that a variety of burial goods in the chamber is really quite a lot, accompanied by the matter of artifacts, from the Stone Age has been, and not only in China, the world’s ancient civilizations in the circle, most of the things to accompany the custom of burials, the whale bone fossil there are a variety of aquatic remains, and countless martyrdom superimposed on each other in the chamber in a rectangular distribution, in addition to some altar jars and jade plate tortoise shell, there is also a peculiar shape of the bronze tripod, according to the “Zhou” ritual system, tripod for the three-legged, the son of God buried, can enjoy the specifications of the nine tripods in the tomb, bronze is the country’s heavy weapon, nine bronze tripods are only worthy of the use of the Son of God, the Son of God, divided into the following, “Gong, Hou, Bao, Zi, men “five levels, even if you are a grand duke, can not put nine tripods in their own tombs, otherwise it is the ambition of rebellion.

Return to the ruins of the tomb in this bronze, the shape of the tripod, but the real is different, huge belly divided into eight sides, under the nine feet, half a meter high and short, although low, but it should not be “copper gui”, but a rare nine-footed tripod, identification of ancient bronze, can be from the color of the ancient ware, distinguish between “waxy tea, cinnabar spots, real green, Green wellhead”, only these four is the real ancient copper, look at the nine-legged bronze tripod, although near the water for thousands of years, the copper nature of the stock between the “real green” and “green wellhead” between the two of the ancient color is particularly existent, as if overlaying a layer of the well platform crevices It seems to be covered with a layer of green moss growing in the cracks of the well platform, but it is not yet as bright and moist as the “pure green” bronze, and the sense of clarity and thoroughness has not been diminished by the slightest bit so far.

The edge of the tripod mouth just like a pillow corner, supine ears, sea animals with the pattern, four sides decorated with stars, Panjiayuan antique market is not much circulation of real ancient bronze, but fake is everywhere, more traders to “summer Shangzhong, Shang ShangQi, Zhou ShangWen” of the ancient bronze identification of the mnemonic to bluff people, so I also know more or less, the nine-legged tripod both summer and Zhou of the characteristics, I thought than the “real bronze” bronze, “pure green” like bright and moist. Characteristics, I thought than the “King of Qin bone mirror” to, maybe this dragon fire casting of the tripod value is higher.

I and Shirley Yang are aware of the tripod has always had the role of remembering things, and the two saw the burial of copper tripods in the crypt, is a treasure of the world, can not help but marvel at the meaning of the stunned for a moment, which came together to take a closer look at the appearance of the tripod belly, I look at the belly of the tripod of the abyss, I saw the tripod abyss in the storage of full of water, the water has a thick layer of dark green floating material, looks like a tripod of sewage in the black, stagnant water without waves, do not look at the clear water! There is nothing in the water.