Chapter 12 The Headless King
Shirley Yang said, “There is a mysterious carving of a goat’s head in front of the door, I think this place may be related to the goat, if you want to visit the Immortals, you have to look for the goat first, there is a cave inside, it seems that the space is not small, why don’t you go in to take a look before you say anything?” After saying this, I raised the “Golden Steel Umbrella” to protect myself, and put the “wolf-eye flashlight” on the umbrella, and went in first from the narrow passage where the heads of the apes were piled up, and there was a cave between the two stone walls, in which there was a jagged rock, and the stalactites were hanging down, which was actually a natural cave of limestone accumulation rock.
I see the “Coffin Gorge” in this cave in the ominous atmosphere, worried that she and the youngest sister will be in the front will be lost, hastily gestured, with the fat man and Sun Jiuji master closely followed, the cave interior space, unexpectedly large, wolf-eye flashlight limited beam, can not immediately explore the surrounding terrain, can only see in front of us is a flat open space, the distance from the stalactites of the head is more than ten years. The height of the stalactites is more than ten meters from the top of the head.
The people do not dare to take it lightly, together as a team forward groping, from time to time with a flashlight to the surrounding area, but the light is like being swallowed up by the darkness, can not see a few steps away from the situation, the cave also seems to be empty, the fat man yanked out of a cold pyrotechnics, “giggle” a scratch in the hand, the red light will be near the immediate illumination of a bright.
Just see a large monument like a big green stone, horizontal inverted sleep in front of us dozens of meters, stone on a tall and strong jade man, jade color crimson like blood, wearing python robes hook belt, head as big as a bucket, seated in the center of a white flower on the platform, just far away from see the face, but also to see around the men and women kneeling as slaves stone dozens of people, are holding lamps, candles and wine.
We see something to discover, will be the first to go over to look at the stone beam, climbed on the stone platform to take a closer look, it turned out that the middle of the jade head, wearing a copper kettle like copper mask, but no five outlines, even a gas out of the sight of things are not holes, with a finger in the copper cover on the knock, the sound of the acid, the serious bronze antiquity.
Prof. Sun wondered, “Could it be the head burial?” Said the words lifted the flashlight, close to shine on the bronze head cover with no face to see a can’t.
The fat man reached out and touched the jade man, think not to move back some pity, mouth muttered to move a jade head back to also make, raised his hand to pull the jade man’s bronze mask, unexpectedly a tug but did not tug to move.
Professor Sun see him this strength is not right, hurry to stop, a hand to grab the arm of the fat man, the other hand to press the other side of the bronze mask, in case the fat man really pull this bronze cover off.
Unexpectedly, the two of them, even the bronze mask wrenched in place turned around, the back of the head to the front to come, Professor Sun screamed a bitter life, panicked to see whether the bronze mask is damaged, who knows not to look at it, a look at once shocked out of a cold sweat, almost will hold the “wolf-eye flashlight” to be thrown away.
I and Shirley Yang, the youngest sister, three people, is behind the stone man holding a candle nearby, suddenly found Sun Jiuji body shrinking back, almost to paralyze on the ground, reached out to hold him, mouth asked: “What’s going on?” Also at the same time looked up to see.
This look is also surprised, you say why surprised? The original bronze mask on the back of the jade man’s head, but there are five senses, eyebrows, eyes, mouth and nose are all in, the expression is also detailed, but not a human face, but a “sheep” face, this time the bronze mask was fat and Professor Sun turned over, plus the jade man statue is fat and tall, this is like a python robe cloaked in a “Wu Yang” old demon.
Everyone was surprised: “this jade man is not a headless king? Why say that there is a body without a head? This is not clearly a pig’s head? Cave and not like an ancient tomb palace, the odd jade statue is why the establishment?”
Although the youngest sister is bold and clever, after all, not much knowledge, see that “sheep” mask so bizarre, can not help but some panic, asked Prof. Sun: “We Qingxi from ancient times to the present, no one is willing to eat sheep meat, why to install such a horrifying brain child?”
Prof. Sun was stunned at his words, and asked Missy, “Girl, this is not nonsense? The ancient custom of this place does not eat sheep?” Not waiting for the youngest sister to answer, he said to himself: “Good king, body without a head, want to see the earth immortal, first find the sheep, is that headless king …… is the king of the sheep?”
Fatty just failed to win, and that a turn only under, and found that the mask is empty, no jade human head, the heart is good is not happy, at this moment see Professor Sun talking to himself, the content of the inexplicable, then said, “Fat master lived more than thirty years, I have not heard of which country has a what the king of the ewes, the old hu you have heard of it?”
I shook my head, never heard of the “King of Sheep” thing, Shirley Yang also said: “I read a piece of news, last year, China and Japan joint archaeology, searching for the remains of the Cuban culture in the field, the location of the Wushan, although there is no result of the investigation to any results, but many times mentioned that the Bajan people in ancient times worshipped the Tiger totem, but didn’t say anything related to the ewe goat.”
I saw Sun Jiuzi looking at the “sheep” mask dumbfounded, thinking that maybe he found some clues, is thinking hard, do not interfere with him, and see the crowd in the mountains in the bird path of the dangerous path for a day, are a little tired, then let the group rest for the time being to rest, and then decided to stop.
Head wearing “sheep” copper face of the jade statue half sitting on a white platform, I never put the ancient “emperor and generals” of the stream on the heart, which cares about what he is “sheep king” is a person is a demon, just said to it, “the king of the sheep” is a person is a demon. Demon, on it said: “you this old man sat for thousands of years, while the working people are kneeling for thousands of years …… do not feel ashamed?” At that moment sat next to the jade man statue.
Fatty close to ride sitting next to the half-kneeling stone man on the back, and I kibitzed a few sentences, the youngest sister sitting on the backpack to listen, but we are exploring some of the more specialized content, the general layman listen to do not understand, such as the jade man is the whole value, or divided into pieces worth money? Without the original jade brain, is there a lack of artistic aesthetic and collection value?
When I was talking, I suddenly felt that something was not quite right under my buttocks, and I was about to get up to look at it, when I heard Fatty say: “Commander Hu, look at your expression, is the seat of the King of Woolly Mammoths not comfortable enough? Do you think the seat of a senior leader is that good? It must be cold and hard. What’s that saying? What’s that saying? It’s not easy to get cold in high places, so be careful of getting cold and running your stomach. ……”
I patted the jade beside me and said to Fatty, “What’s the point of being in a high place? Also fucking accompanied by the king as accompanied by a tiger, but you do not say, really strange, sitting here is not uncomfortable, on the contrary,…… is too comfortable, a bit like a sofa, cold is cold a bit,…… but not hard.”
Fatty and Missy heard, all feel strange, the cave in addition to the stone is stone, even if it is a jade table, maybe it will be warm jade will not make people feel cold, but which will have what sofa?
I myself is even more strange, subconsciously touch with my hand, the surface is a layer of gray soil, but the following smooth and soft, like leather, like leather, I do not know what, look down, are a piece of pillow-shaped rectangular white brick, the edge of the long black spikes, I wonder in my heart, with my hand to set aside a piece of dry, dry as hemp, as the hair of a dead person, can not help but wonder: “Which came out of this many hair! I couldn’t help but wonder, “Where did this much hair come from?”
At this time, Shirley Yang suddenly yanked me to the back, I saw her face is not right, know that the situation has changed, hastily with her a yank of the momentum to get up, at the same time has also been the “steel Emei thorns” in the hands, turn back to follow the beam of her flashlight to see, only to see the side of the white stone platform, but I don’t know when, silent I only saw the side of the white stone platform, but I do not know when, silently revealed a woman’s face, that face is not jade carving, but the mouth and eyes dripping blood of a pair of zombie face.
I was not prepared, suddenly felt a chill surging from the spine, only feel the hair roots “rubbing” a full Chad up, and hurriedly Sun Jiuji and Missy child blocked behind, the fat man is also unprepared, and suddenly saw the flashlight beam under the face of a human color without a face dripping blood, not inevitably some chaos, not to worry about copying the back of the “Lianzhu fast offspring”, busy not stumbling one hand to pull out the black ass hooves, one hand wheel up the engineering shovel to smash.
Shirley Yang busy said: “Do not panic, is not going to move!” I fixed my mind, carefully look at the white stone platform side of the human head, really is a real dead body, mouth and eyes are open, in the darkness looks strange and hideous, but it is not blood dripping out of the face, but from the mouth was filled with something, I use emei thorns carefully scraped off a little, all blood red sand, I do not know in the living is filled with what drugs, the whole cavity is filled.
And not only this one corpse, copper face jade person under that whole white platform, actually six naked corpses spine, those female corpses in two rows kneeling on the ground, some drooped head down, some side over the face, horror demeanor varies, but all the back exposed on the top, six female corpses of similar body size, high and low, as a leather-like soft platform, and the head covered with ebony goat copper face of the Jade person, is sitting on the soft mat built by the The jade man with the ebony bronze face is sitting on the soft mat made of dead bodies.
Professor Sun put on his glasses and stared at half a day, his face changed color for a while, said to us: “no need to test, I dare to guarantee on my honor, this is a human …… chair, a veritable human chair, history books have records, I can’t imagine that there will be a physical object here! The red sand infused in the female corpse’s body may be all the drugs used to maintain the blood and flesh from stiffness and hardness after the death of a person.”
I thought of sitting on the back of the ancient corpse, I felt very comfortable, I couldn’t help but break out in a cold sweat, my heart was pounding for a while: “What the hell is the human chair doing? Surprisingly, the living people killed as furniture …… the toiling masses can not fucking revolt?”
Prof. Sun explained: “this kind of musical chairs, scholars added later, the real name to now is not proved, this thing in the three generations before the era of slavery, is really there, it is said that the last king of the summer Xia Jie, is a famous tyrant, he is extravagant, and compared to the sky, claiming to be the sun in the sky, the female slaves to lie on the ground to him as a musical chair, and he is the most extravagant, and he said that he is the sun in the sky, and he is the only one who has a chair. Female slaves had to lie on the floor for him as a musical chair, and there were also male slaves for him to ride, and so on and so forth were all invented by him, and then this kind of cruel and abusive system continued for many dynasties, and it is said that until the Yuan Dynasty there was still a culture of having a death as a matter of life, and the things that the king enjoyed and used while he was alive, he would certainly have to prepare for his death as well, which is …… The “corpse chair” should be the substitute for a chair in the netherworld.”
I listened to the anger from the heart, asked Prof. Sun said: “Then …… this chair is for the king of the Wu Yang martyrdom of the artifacts? But how come we don’t see the coffin and corpse of King Wu Yang?”
Professor Sun shook his head and said, “I have long said, but you do not listen to anyone, this is not an ancient tomb of the temple, but a place of worship similar to the temple, the tomb of the king of Wu Yang has long been gone his coffin and body, because …… Guanshan Taibao has stolen the ancient mound of the king of Wu Yang, and in which the size of the In which the size of the grave made the village of the Earth Immortal, as a place to hide the truth, want to visit the Earth Immortal, first look for the Wu Yang, is not precisely in this corresponding?”
I deeply feel that this matter is getting more and more confusing, is it true that there was once a “king of the sheep” in ancient times? Is it possible that there was once a “King of Sheep” in ancient times, and that the saying, “What a great king, with a body but no head,” is referring to the King of Sheep? I don’t have any clue just now. How did Mr. Sun find out about it in this moment?
Shirley Yang told me, “You just sat …… on the human chair, Professor Sun found the underground stone beam, full of insects and fish monuments, as well as many ancient symbols shaped like the sun, moon and stars, I can not read half, but Professor Sun is an expert in interpreting all kinds of ancient texts, carved on the stone beam are are the previous legends of Coffin Gorge, although I don’t know whether the legends are true or false, but I can be sure that there is an ancient mausoleum of extraordinary scale hidden in the gorge.”
Prof. Sun nodded: “Yes, the jade statue of the Wuliang King has not been destroyed, may be the Guanshan Taibao intentionally, the king of the body without a head, is the true body of this jade statue, but it should not be called the king of the Wuliang, its real title should be “Wuling King of the Mountain Shift”, but you do not think that the Wuling King is a human being, according to the ancient legend, the Wuling King is a human being, according to the ancient legend, the Wuling King is a human being. According to this ancient legend, the Wuling King is actually …… a surprisingly large ewe.”
Professor Sun said that this cave is to offer sacrifices to move mountains Wuling King place, and Wuling King’s tomb, should be hidden in the “Coffin Gap” in the deepest part of the more incredible, is that the king is not a person, but a body black, weighing thousands of pounds of “sheep”.
I can’t understand, I want to ask again, Sun Jiu masters are lying on the stone monument to see a can’t, I have to hold back full of questions, and take the fat man to look around the terrain, the cave between the mountains is very deep, the distant winds like ghosts crying God, I expect to cave is through the mountains, there should be an exit leading to the other side of the canyon.
It is hard to wait until Sun Jiuji will record the deeds of the “king of the sheep” all the text topped down, has come to the middle of the night, we had to find a piece of stable corner, build a fire, that night stay in the cave.