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Otherworldly Merchant - Chapter 845

Published at 5th of January 2023 12:46:23 PM


Chapter 845

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"What are you thinking, brother Zhang?"

Li Mazi asked doubtfully, and suddenly a bold thought came into my mind. In a low voice, he asked, "Mazi, do you think we have reached the ancient tomb?"

I don't mean to say that the white bones here should be the people and animals killed in sacrifice.

"Really?"

Li Mazi's face is full of uncontrollable excitement. I shake my head. After all, I don't know about the ancient tomb. But since there are so many human bones and animal bones here, it can at least show that this is not a simple hole.

According to the injury of Pockmarked Li, it's impossible to climb up. If I want to go out, I can only find other exits. So I helped him to move on, always feeling that something unexpected would happen in front of me.

After walking for a while, there is a deep secret road in front of us, and the end of the secret road is a stone gate.

The stone gate was sealed with animal skin. I couldn't help being curious, so I took Pockmarked Li aside and tore the animal skin off the stone gate.

The hide of the beast was oxidized, so it was torn off at will. However, the stone gate was very heavy. I pushed it with all my strength for half a day, and then squeezed out a narrow passage for only one person to pass through.

Then I picked up Pockmarked Li and asked him to go in first. I followed him carefully. When we got in completely, I took the flashlight and watched with interest.

The space behind the stone gate is about the size of two basketball courts. All the spaces have been built into a Buddhist hall. Looking around, there are statues of Buddha. In the center is the Buddha Shakyamuni, which is the Tathagata we are used to saying.

"Brother Zhang, what the hell is this? How can there be so many Buddha statues? " Asked Pockmarked Li.

I ignored him and went straight to the Buddha in the center.

There is a candle like thing in front of the Buddha statue. The body of the candle is more than one meter high, and under the candle is the body of a boy doll.

The doll was half kneeling, purple black throughout, with candles running through his anus door and mouth.

It's really weird. I rubbed some cool fingers and lit the candle with a lighter. With a swish, the light around me was like day.

"I depend on it!"

At this time, Pockmarked Li suddenly shouted, as if he had seen something terrible.

I turned my head quickly, only to see him staring at the beads, mouth wide open.

"Pockmarked Li?"

I thought he saw something scary. I asked anxiously, "what do you see?"

"Yes, we are!"

Suddenly, Pockmarked Li grabbed me and said with his eyes shining: "brother Zhangjia, look at this Buddha..."

When I looked up, I saw the Buddha's eyes shining in the light.

Who built the Buddha statue? It's so big: the whole body of the Buddha statue is made of pure gold, and the eyes are inlaid with all kinds of gems.

"Don't mention the antique street. The treasure here is enough to buy a small country."

Pockmarked Li is very excited at the moment. If he had not hurt his leg, I'm afraid he would climb up to the Buddha statue and dig down the gem.

But I was in awe of this kind of thing, so I slapped it on Pockmarked Li's head and said, "you know how to get rich, don't you know where it is? If there is a mechanism in the Buddha statue, I'll see what you can do. "

Hearing this, Pockmarked Li stopped, but his face was still excited.

I didn't care about him any more, but I observed carefully. The whole secret room was full of Buddha statues. Moreover, these Buddha statues were not placed according to the rules of the temple, and each one seemed to have no rules.

The most important thing is that although these Buddha statues look golden, they are not that kind of benevolent feeling. On the contrary, they make people feel that the smile hanging on their lips is a little sinister!

I feel hairy when I am stared at by these Buddha statues, so I pull Pockmarked Li to sit beside the human candle.

The light of human candle makes my heart steadfast, because it doesn't give out the taste of candle fire, but a light fragrance.

I was lucky enough to smell this smell in a censer used by the emperor during the Qianlong period: Mermaid fragrance.

The western fairy tales and ancient books have recorded the mermaid, but in the east the mermaid is another creature: the chimaera.

It's said that chimaeras live in the deep sea. When the moon is full, there will be heavy fog on the coast, and then they will go ashore. They are good at weaving and mending, so there were chimaeras in ancient times.

Chimaeras do not trade directly with humans. They trade with humans by borrowing human bodies that have sunk into the deep sea. When they return to the deep sea, they will put the borrowed human bodies on the coast and wait for the fishermen nearby to find them.

I don't know when the word came from the world: the chimaera can make wax and burn it for thousands of years!

According to some ancient books, if the emperor wanted to use the Changming lamp, he would pay a big reward. The fisherman would capture the shark to pay tribute in exchange for the reward. The craftsman would extract the oil from the shark's body, seal it up, and make a candle.

The process of making candle is very cruel. Usually there is a child under the human candle. The child must be of royal blood and can only be three years old. Looking at the human candle in front of me, I thought of the tears of the chimaera I had been looking for to save my father-in-law and mother-in-law. I felt a lot for a while.However, it seems that there are people's candles in this place, which are only used by the emperor.

"Li Mazi, give me the map."

I remember the map shows that the ancient city wall is not far away from the pagoda, which is full of Buddha statues, maybe related to the pagoda.

But now we are trapped in the ground, there is no way to observe from the outside, but it is not difficult to see that the building is arched through the structure of the top of the head, which should be the pagoda recorded on the map.

So we are not far from the ancient tomb.

"Pockmarked Li, we are really lucky this time. We found the pagoda by mistake." I said bitterly.

Li Mazi laughs. The ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty are so attractive to us. What's more, it's about the lives of both of us.

But I wonder how the pagoda was built under the ground. Maybe it was buried here by quicksand or sandstorm. But what happened to the hole we just fell down from? Was it the first step?

At the thought of tomb robbers coming in before us, my heart began to itch. Don't look back and find an empty tomb. It's a waste of time.

Think of here, I just got better mood suddenly sank!




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