Ghostly Tomb

Chapter 1878 Merchant Turtle
In the later stage, this originally smooth tunnel became no longer so regular.

The back part is basically not excavated manually, and the space becomes very large, like a large section of a cave.

The surrounding walls are rarely polished, exposing ferocious rocks, like the current underground mining area.

Because there is no such reflective sand on the walls, the light here has also become very poor, basically they can only be illuminated by their searchlights.

But here you can see the abandoned big cart just now, with chains and shackles tied to the pushers.

It seems that pushing this kind of cart is an extremely terrifying thing, the person who pushes the cart must be handcuffed here...

There are still many traces of tracks on the ground, which were formed by the long-term rolling of the wheels, leading directly to the dark depths.

It feels like the current express delivery track. This underground corridor is like a place dedicated to transporting something to a certain destination.

At that time, people didn't know why, but they were very afraid of this transportation route.

The further you go, the more dangerous it is, and even less traveled, so there are not many repairs on both sides.

Chen Zhi used a searchlight to shine a light on the inside of those big carts, and there were some dark things inside, which looked strange, and he didn't know what they were.

But it does emit a very bad stench...

There is a bloody smell wrapped in that stench, which is not only disgusting, but also chilling~~
And going forward, they finally reached their destination, and there was a big door standing in front of them.

The gate looked really old, made entirely of old bronze, with many large latches on it.

But those latches seemed to have been smashed from the inside out many times, and many of them were reinstalled, and then tied up densely with extremely thick chains, which looked very exaggerated.

It seems that people at that time were very afraid of things rushing out from behind this door, to the point of being irrational.

"What's closed here?",
Chen Zhi took a few steps forward, and carefully illuminated the bronze gate with a searchlight.

To be honest, the carvings on the gate are very rough, with wide openings and large closing curves. When you only look at a part of it, you can't see why.

But when everyone turned their searchlights on the gate, they realized that they were just peeping.

With the reflection of light, a concave and convex rough ore pattern appeared on the entire gate.

And when he saw the pattern, Chen Zhi understood everything...

The carving on the gate is a giant beast, carved in a rough and rough style, which has the taste of ancient art.

It can be seen from the relief that the monster has a dragon head, a turtle body, two mouths and fangs, and looks very ferocious.

There are mountain peaks stacked on the tortoise shell on its back, and its eyes are fire-breathing. Compared with the small humans around it, it is like a huge mountain...

Seeing this special image, Chen Zhi immediately confirmed the origin of this monster. It was the legendary animal protecting the country of the Shang Dynasty, the Shang Gui...

For a long time in the past, scholars' understanding of the Shang Dynasty was very limited, and they didn't know much about the sacrifices and worship of people at that time.

Because of the legend of the mysterious bird, scholars believed that the Shang people would definitely pay attention to the mysterious bird, and found some patterns with the totem of the mysterious bird, so they believed that the mysterious bird was a divine beast in the Shang Dynasty.

However, it was later learned from some unearthed tortoise shells that the legend of Xuanniao sending divine eggs to the ancestors of the Shang Dynasty did indeed lay the foundation for the blood of the Shang Dynasty.

But in this myth, the mysterious bird is actually just a messenger.

And in some bronze wares and armor pieces specially used to worship the gods, a particularly fierce and huge image was found, that is, the Shang turtle, the king of the Shang Dynasty.

According to the records in those ancient books, the Shang tortoise was an extremely noble beast in the Shang Dynasty.

Although the Shang Dynasty followed the totem culture and worshiped their ancestors, they worshiped their kingship even more, and the representative of the kingship was this Shang turtle~~
Legend has it that it was a captive animal in the ancestral temple of the Shang Dynasty. It was enshrined by the monarchs of the Shang Dynasty and lived forever.

His image will not be used easily, and his totem can only be used when the emperor is buried. Even the queen does not have such an honor~~
But this divine beast is extremely ferocious, it eats countless birds and animals every day, drinks blood from its hair, and even takes slaves to make up for it when it is not enough.

But this divine beast is closely related to the energy of the Shang Dynasty~~
It protects the well-being of the monarchs of the Shang Dynasty and the prosperity of the country, and is the representative of the imperial power of the Shang Dynasty.

At that time, a god predicted that as long as this tortoise was alive, the fortune of the Shang Dynasty would never decline, and the Shang Dynasty would rule the world forever, and the kingship would never fall.

Therefore, the kings of the past dynasties treated the tortoise as an eyeball, gave them very generous treatment, and raised it carefully. Some even extreme kings used their concubines to feed it to show their importance to the tortoise.

Later, it was said that when King Zhou of Shang was fatuous and immoral, the regime of the Shang Dynasty was crumbling.

At this time, the giant beast had wept blood and mourned, the tortoise shells on its body fell off, and its eyes were blinded from crying.

And when the Shang tortoise dies in the end, it is the time when the Shang Dynasty completely perishes...

Of course, these are all legends. As for whether this giant beast really exists, archaeologists cannot be sure at all.

And now, when this merchant turtle appeared on the gate, it proved that those legends were completely true.

This sprawling room, along with these large delivery carts, is a testament to the captivity of large animals.

It is estimated that behind this gate is the place where this merchant turtle is kept in captivity...

Although the door was closed tightly, an unbearable stench was constantly emanating from the crack of the door...

This smell is really disgusting, people really don't want to go in.

But from the perspective of positioning, Pang Wei is here now, it seems that they have to go in.

Although there are many thick chains tied to the gate, but those chains are ordinary bronze or pig iron, not as difficult to deal with as the control stone~~
None of this was hard for Ji Ying. Ji Ying first jumped up and landed on the door bolts, and then yanked the thick iron chains on the door bolts vigorously.

After a while, a long chain of iron chains was torn off abruptly by her, and the long chains fell to the ground with heavy thumping sounds.

Ji Ying then jumped down, pressed the door with both hands, and pushed hard inside.

The door was really heavy, and Ji Ying used it twice afterwards.

Finally, "Boom~~", with a dull sound, the door opened

And as the door opened, another world appeared in front of Chen Zhi.

That huge figure is really like a huge mountain...

(End of this chapter)