Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 582 Centipede Mirror

The rest of the people haven't discovered this layer yet. Seeing my sudden change of color, Feng Guishou said, "What's the matter?" I pointed to the bronze mirror below, and talked about the relationship between the image and the stake. When I saw it, the reflection of the four of us in the bronze mirror was still slowly getting bigger.

You know, we are not moving at all now!

How is this going?

At this time, Zhuan Rui seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly turned off the flashlight, and reminded us: "Quickly, turn off the light." His voice sounded very anxious.I guessed that Zhuanrui was trying to understand something, so I turned off the flashlight as I said, and suddenly, the surroundings were plunged into darkness.

This is a kind of pitch-black darkness. In the pitch-black hole, we can't see anything. The only sound we can hear is each other's breathing.

At this time, Zhuan Rui spoke, and his voice echoed in the cave, appearing very ethereal.

He said: "It is said that during the Warring States Period, King Anyang, the last king of the ancient Shu Kingdom, had a precious mirror called 'Cancong Sheyao Baizu Mirror'."

Hearing this, Feng Guishou said in amazement in the dark: "I've heard of this thing before." In terms of cultural relics, I am not as knowledgeable as these people, so I asked what the origin of this 'Silkworm Cong Sheyao Baizu Mirror' was.Feng Guishou said: "This has to start from the ancient Shu Kingdom."

There are seven heroes in the Warring States Period, Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, and Wei. In addition to these seven vassal states, which are relatively powerful, there are also many large and small vassal states, and the land of China is divided into separate regimes.The Kingdom of Shu is one of these countries.

But Shu State is different from other vassal states.

This Shu Kingdom is different from the later Shu Han, so it is called the "Ancient Shu Kingdom". The famous Sanxingdui site in Sichuan is the ancient Shu site. With its unique and incomprehensible culture, it has left many mysteries for future generations.

According to legend, the origin of the Shu people is that in ancient times, the ancient Qiang people who lived on the ancient Qinghai-Tibet Plateau moved to the southeast and entered the Minshan area and the Chengdu Plain.

Therefore, these people who lived in the Minshan valley were called the Shushan family.

Later, the daughter of the Shushan family married the Yellow Emperor as a concubine and gave birth to her son Cancong. Cancong established the ancient Shu Kingdom in the Sichuan Plain, which was passed down from generation to generation and experienced one dynasty after another. It was destroyed by Qin in the late Warring States period. , and it ended here, which shows its inheritance and origin.

Li Bai wrote in "The Road to Shu": "Cancong and yufu, how at a loss was the founding of the country! You are [-] years old, and you are not inhabited by Qin Sai. Xidang Taibai has a bird path, which can cross the top of Emei. The collapse of the mountain destroys the strong men to death, and then the ladders and stone stacks are hooked together." After the Cancong family, it was Yufu, who passed it down from generation to generation, and finally passed it down to King Anyang, who lost the country.

The Cancong family established the Kingdom of Shu, but at that time, the land of Shu was wild and uninhabited. There were hundreds of thousands of mountains, many mountains, and the land of Yunnan was even more ferocious, with goblins and ghosts all over the mountains and forests.It is said that the Cancong family was good at raising silkworms, so they exchanged the drawn silk for a cold "monster mirror" from the gods and men, and captured all the evil spirits of monsters and spirits in it. It's called 'Shoyao Centipede Mirror'.

This mirror was handed down to later generations. It is said that the evil spirit in it is too heavy to see the light. Once the light is seen, the demon spirit in the mirror will climb out of the mirror and make trouble. Therefore, it was later passed down to the Yufu period and cast A mirror buckle covers the surface of the copper mirror.

Later, Qin destroyed the ancient Shu Kingdom, and the last prince, King Anyang, fled to the south with his tribe and this mirror, and established the Anyang Kingdom. Unfortunately, this country was destroyed by the bordering Nanyue Kingdom in more than 40 years. .What happened to King Anyang and his descendants is unknown.

But it is said that the 'cancongsheyao hundred-legged mirror' finally became the funeral object of King Anyang and entered the emperor's mausoleum.

What Zhuanrui means now is to suspect that the huge bronze mirror under our feet is likely to be the legendary founding artifact of the ancient Shu Kingdom, the Silkworm Cong Sheyao Baizu Mirror!When I heard this, I couldn't help hissing, and said, "Why are the funerary objects of the ancient Shu Kingdom here?"

Could it be that Puzhen dug up King Anyang's tomb before he was alive, and moved the demon-camera hundred-legged mirror here?I remembered what Zhuan Rui said, the goblins and ghosts in the mirror will crawl out of the ancient mirror when they see the light, and I can't help but think of the scene just now, my scalp tingles for a while, and I said: "Then what should we do now?"

Zhuanrui said: "Without eyes, you can only use your ears. Everyone pay attention to the movement around you, and then turn on the lights when you are under the mirror." At this moment, we can only do this, and everyone immediately went down the wooden pile , the bottom is dark, even if you open your eyes wide, you can't see anything.

In this way, our forward speed naturally slows down. With every step, we must first stretch out our feet to explore the environment below, looking for the next foothold.

I strained my ears and listened carefully to the movement around me. Except for our footsteps, there was no other sound.And at this moment, I changed my foot to go down, and explored with my right foot to find the foothold. Usually I have to move it twice to find the right position, but this time, I put my foot down and stepped on it.

I thought to myself: Is it the end?

But soon, I felt that the ground under my feet was not flat, but slippery. It looked like a sphere.My heart skipped a beat, and I felt a little tightness in my ankles. People are still afraid of unknown things, especially in such a dark and dangerous environment. Who knows what they are stepping on?
My heart trembled for a while, and I planned to take my foot back, but unexpectedly, in the darkness, my ankle was suddenly grabbed by a hand!
That's right, a hand!

I couldn't help but yelled out at this sudden blow, I just felt that the hand below was pulling me down with great force, and I was standing against the wooden stake again, and when I pulled it, my feet fell. Unsteady, he immediately fell into the darkness!
However, this distance is not very high, I almost reached the bottom at once, and I didn't see much pain, it was only about two meters.I recalled the distance between me and the ancient mirror in my mind, and it was time to end, so I immediately turned on the flashlight. At the same time, I shrank back, intending to stay away from the thing that pulled me.

I could feel it was a human hand.

The moment the light was turned on, I saw a black figurine standing in front of the pit.The first thing I stepped on before should be the head of this figurine.

But how can the figurines move?
Zhuan Rui and others from above jumped down immediately and asked me what was going on.

At this time, we were under the ancient mirror, and we only turned on a flashlight. The light was dim, so it should not have any effect, so I pointed to the figurine and said, "It grabbed my leg just now."

Zhuan Rui was taken aback, pulled out his dagger, and approached the figurines. Feng Guishou also followed, asking if it would be similar to the previous kerosene mechanism.

But the two studied it for a long time and said that it was just an ordinary figurine.This is a male servant, wearing a short jacket, with a machete on his waist, and looks like a guard. Beside him, there are many identical figurines.

Below this earth cave is an ancient mirror, which is supported by a stone pier about three meters high, and we are standing under the ancient mirror now.Everyone searched around, but couldn't find anything else, Feng Guishou couldn't help asking me if I made a mistake.

I said: "Impossible, that thing strangled my ankle, could it be my hallucination?"

Zhuan Rui looked around vigilantly, and said, "Be careful, that thing must be hidden." As he spoke, he looked up, which was the back of the ancient mirror.At this moment, the back of it is right above our heads, with a dozen lights on it, we can see that there are mottled copper traces on it, and there are big worms floating on the surface, which looks like something like silkworms.These silkworms surround the ancient mirror, and inside, there are some patterns that we can't understand, which look like mouths and eyes, which are very three-dimensional.

Seeing the Canwen on it, Feng Guishou said, "Most likely it's the demon mirror in the legend. It's so dangerous. Fortunately, Master Zhuan remembered this, otherwise... hiss." As he said, he was afraid shook his head.

Zhong Gong suddenly said: "Then Wu Shui, could it be that this 'cancong shooting demon hundred-legged mirror' is the way to go?"

I said: "Probably not, what we can think of, Wu Shui can't think of?"

Feng Guishou said: "That's not necessarily true. This man is not perfect, and gold is not pure gold. He Wu Shui is also an ordinary person. Even if he knows more than ordinary people, his knowledge is limited. If he doesn't know everything, he really doesn't know. This Things, if I don’t talk to Zhuan Da, you don’t know the same, don’t you?”

I thought to myself, how can I compare with the dumb, although I say that I have not little knowledge, but compared with this group of people, I am still too immature, so I didn't take Feng Guishou's words.At this moment, the only source of light is the lamp in my hand. Everyone was worried that they would startle the demon mirror, so they didn't dare to turn on the headlights, so they looked to the right under the dim light.

On the right is a passage connecting the bottom of the cave, not exactly a passage.It is a radial space, with the bottom of the cave we are in as the center point, the further you go, the larger the space, like a trumpet.

Due to the limited light, we couldn't see clearly what was at the end of this place. As far as our eyes could see, there was a black hole, giving people a particularly eerie feeling.When I think about the hand that grabbed my foot before, the feeling is even more terrifying.

(End of this chapter)