Chapter 253 The Emperor's Eight Treasures Gate

The Emperor's Eight Treasures Gate.

As the name suggests, this secret door is not a tomb gate, but a palace gate.

The so-called Eight Treasures has nothing to do with Eight Treasures Porridge. It refers to the seals of the emperors in the old days. There are eight kinds of seals, namely the Divine Treasure of the State, the Treasure of the Mandate, the Three Treasures of the Emperor, and the Three Treasures of the Emperor. In a sense, the Eight Treasures represent the supreme imperial power in ancient times. Forging the Eight Treasures is tantamount to rebellion, and the family will be confiscated and the clan will be exterminated.

The etiquette of the world began in Zhou Dynasty. Zhou Gongdan established the etiquette, which is the famous Zhou Li. The etiquette of China, which is known as the country of etiquette, is derived from Zhou Li, including our etiquette officials. It was at that time that we got rid of the Xuanmen and stepped onto the stage of the imperial court. The Eight Treasures also appeared at that time.

According to legend, the earliest eight treasures of the emperor cast in the Western Zhou Dynasty were not only seals, but also eight keys. Only with these eight keys could one open the door of the emperor's eight treasures in the palace. Behind the door was the emperor's secret room, where many royal secrets and royal treasures were hidden. It was the most important place in the country.

However, by the end of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and the princes were divided. The rules were no longer rules. The technology of the emperor's eight treasures door was also lost. The construction method was no longer a secret. Those princes built it behind the scenes. They did not dare to call themselves emperors due to the general situation of the world, but who could stop them from secretly enjoying it?

An ancestor of our family who lived in that era left a handwritten note, in which he mentioned this matter and cursed people's hearts indignantly. Although he did not directly name them, he said "Xiaobai" on the left and "Tan Tian's work" on the other. It was obvious that he was cursing Duke Huan of Qi and Duke Wen of Jin, indicating that these two should have cast the emperor's eight treasures door at that time.

Later on, it was even more chaotic. Anyone who was a big shot would build such a secret room, fearing that he would lose his prestige. It was not until the time of the First Emperor that he abolished this boring measure of the emperor's secret room and established a more complete protection measure for the royal secrets.

It is not surprising that the immortals learned how to build this kind of mechanical door, and there is really no technology for this kind of door. In short, it is so thick that it makes you despair.

The material used for the serious emperor's eight treasures mechanical door is actually lead-tin alloy, a kind of bronze, with a thickness of more than five meters. There are eight locks connected inside. When the emperor's eight treasures are placed in the keyhole, just press it lightly, and the eight locks will open at the same time, and the door will be opened.

At present, this door was cast by the immortals. The craftsmanship is much worse. The door is not big enough and it is made of stone, but I think the internal structure should be similar to the emperor's eight treasures mechanical door. The eight grooves on the door are the keyholes for the seal.

It is basically impossible to break this kind of door by violence. What kind of hammer can you use to knock open a door that is as thick as a city wall? Forget about the hammer. Even if you are given a bomb, you probably can't blow it open without knowing how to blast!

To break this kind of door, the method is very simple, that is, to forge a seal!

In the past, a master had broken this kind of door. He first illuminated the keyhole with a light, observed the texture inside, and then carved eight fake seals out of wood, and opened the door easily.

"This... we brothers don't have this skill!"

Lao Bai was dumbfounded after hearing this, and spread his hands and said directly: "You can't just wait here like a fool, right?"

Isn't that the truth?

Breaking this kind of door requires skill. I understand the principle of this door, but I can't break it either! !

"It seems that I can only make some attempts, which is better than doing nothing."

I sighed in my heart, and there was really no other way, so I simply sat down in front of the stone door, as if facing a wall to reflect on my mistakes, and gently called out to the stone door: "Xue?"

Of course, there would be no response from inside.

Lao Bai was stunned and couldn't help but say: "You said that this door is very thick and we can't hear any movement inside. You are whispering like a whisper, how can we hear it inside!"

I ignored him and said as if talking to myself: "I have heard people say that when a lonely ghost is willing to linger in a place for thousands of years because of obsession, then this place is actually her home. She is inseparable from this place. Every blade of grass and every tree reveals her temperament. She can feel the slightest change, not to mention that a living person ran in and talked in his sleep like a madman?

So, you can actually hear me talking, right?

You may not believe it, but I know you very well. Although we have never met each other, I know that you are lonely, right? It must not feel good to hug the cold body of your lover every day, right?

This person, it is actually quite scary to lose his spirit, he will go to extremes, but it is also quite scary to have a spirit, because he will do stupid things, do you think it is contradictory?

This statement is probably the most appropriate for you, right? !

It is because you have a little bit of spirit that you can persist for so long.

However, I believe you already know that Queen Xin is finished, don't deceive yourself, I know you can feel it, she said a word in the tower, you can hear it in the outside world, there must be some connection between you, right? After all, you have been companions for thousands of years, there must be some connection.

Once she dies, what else can you expect? From now on, there is really only you left in this world, and you should be desperate. What's the point of continuing to exist? Why don't we open the door and put an end to this cause and effect that has lasted for thousands of years? I am a ritual official, and I will settle the unfinished business of my ancestors. I believe that no matter what the final result is, it will be a relief for you! "

"Crazy, this is really crazy..."

Lao Bai muttered, "What you said is just like telling someone to commit suicide. It's not enough to deal with one person, so you open the door and let more people in to fight yourself. Isn't this the thinking of a madman?"

Don't say it, to judge Xue, you really have to use the thinking of a madman!

Who with a normal brain would dig up the grave of his lover and steal the body back to keep him company? !

Queen Xin briefly mentioned Xue's life. I said this completely from Xue's perspective. Anyway, if I were to reach this point, I would definitely want to seek a result. Life and death are no longer important.

Of course, I didn't have complete confidence. I just tried it when there was no other way. After saying that, I stared at the stone door in front of me.

Lao Bai was about to say something, but the stone door in front of him suddenly trembled, making a "boom" sound, followed by a series of "click-click-click" machine operation sounds.

The stone door really opened little by little! !

I immediately rushed in with a knife.

Brother Yaozi was lying in front of the door, hunched over. I could hear his "huffing and puffing" breathing. The stone room was cold, and a large amount of white mist was coming out of his mouth and nose. However, he had his back to me from beginning to end and refused to turn around. I wanted to go around to him, but every time I moved a little, Brother Yaozi would immediately turn his body away, so that I couldn't see his appearance.

I sighed in my heart. Zhang Xinya couldn't accept what had happened. It was also a shadow for Brother Yaozi. Maybe he didn't want us to see his appearance at this time.

However, he should be rational.

"It's exactly the same."

A cold sigh came from the front, and my eyes finally moved away from Brother Yaozi.

In front of us, in the center of the stone room, there was a large stone couch, on which lay a drooping old man.

I knew that this old man should be Shi Kuang. His gray hair was tied into a bun, and he lay there quietly. If you didn't know, you would think he was asleep.

This surprised me a little. Shi Kuang had died a long time ago. It seemed that there were no special antiseptic measures here. Even if there were, a thousand-year-old corpse could not be preserved so intact, right?

My mind turned quickly, thinking about this strange scene, and at the same time, my eyes fell on a woman next to the stone bed.

This was indeed a very beautiful woman, with a kind of classical beauty, with loose black hair and a white dress. She sat quietly in front of the stone bed, with a mournful voice. She was obviously talking to me, but she never looked up at me. She kept staring at the old man on the stone bed, and her gentle eyes could almost melt everything in the world.

She looked at the old man and said calmly, "Actually, I don't like you very much. You are too similar to that man, not only in appearance, but also in insidiousness and deceit. The queen failed, it must be your conspiracy, right? I just don't know if you are as vicious as him? The princess loved him so much, and the prince trusted him so much, but when he pushed them onto the ship and buried them alive, he didn't even blink. I don't know if you can go this far one day in the future and treat the people around you like this?

However, although I don't like people like you, you said something right. My last hope was also extinguished by you. I was so depressed that I wanted to find a result. At least... leaving you, the ceremonial officer, to be buried with the people in the city can also be regarded as fulfilling a wish."

She said these words, of course, to scold me. I took a step forward, but before I could say anything, Brother Yaozi, who was standing in front of me, suddenly stretched out his arm to stop me.

Brother Yaozi's hands were as thin as sticks, his skin was a strange black and blue color, and his nails were very long, just like the claws of a zongzi. He still didn't look back, but slightly bent his body, raised his head, and stared at the back of Xue, as if he was on guard against something.

However, there was nothing behind Xue, only some bookshelves with bamboo slips, and I didn't see anything wrong at all.

At this time, Xue spoke again: "There is another thing, what you said is also very interesting. People are afraid of being ambitious because they will do stupid things, just like me. I have been persistent for thousands of years, but it was all in vain. It is really stupid to think about it. I worked so hard for an unreliable thing. Now I have lost my ambition. I dare to do some things that I didn't dare to do before. I can't help it. You forced me to do it. Who made me busy working for the queen and missed the way? I couldn't beat the corpse next to you? In the end, I could only release things that shouldn't be released."

After she finished speaking, she said no more, but her slender fingers tapped lightly on the stone bed three times, and the other hand was fiddling with something under the bed.

Boom!

A deafening roar came out of the stone chamber without any warning, and the ground began to tremble. The ground behind Xue opened up little by little, revealing a dark passage...

Silently, two red lights appeared...

They were a pair of huge scarlet eyes, like a fierce demon crawling out of the abyss, spying on everything in the world...