Chapter 48: Snake-browed Bronze Fish

I really didn't want to hand over the Snake-browed Bronze Fish, but when I remembered what my Third Uncle had told me, I took it out on impulse. I didn't expect Aning and the others to react so strongly.

After a long time, one of them finally responded and asked me, "Where did you get it? You... are simply a god. Could it be that you are in Luwu Palace... This is the secret code of the dragon fish! I always thought there was only one, but I didn't expect..."

I didn't want to talk to them about this, so I waved my hand and said, "Is there anyone here who can watch it?"

Aning immediately yelled, "Wu Lao Si!" A Chinese man came over and saw the fish in my hand. His face changed and he rushed over and yelled, "Oh my God!"

I said to him, "Can you translate it?" He nodded vigorously and took it as if it were a divine object. The flashlight began to shine on the fish scales, and soon the master's Jurchen characters appeared on the ground. Someone nearby immediately helped to copy them down.

Ah Ning's subordinates were really good. They could translate while copying. They were much better than Monk Hua. After copying, I understood the basic meaning. I didn't understand what he said. It was just a vague meaning. But the more I listened, the clearer it became. It was a bit like a narrative poem. I couldn't write down all of it, but there are a few paragraphs that I remember clearly.

The content of the whole article is very concise. It starts with just a few sentences, indicating that the secret hidden in this dragon fish code is very important. Wang Canghai recorded it and hoped that it would never see the light of day. However, if someone saw it, he hoped that the person would be Han Chinese rather than Jurchen.

The following records what happened after he was captured and brought to Dongxia. It is very similar to the record on his mural, but it also mentions a few sentences that in order to obtain some treasures that Dongxia did not have, he led people to rob many ancient tombs, and secretly placed bronze fish in the places with the most spiritual energy, so that this secret would have a chance to be discovered.

I exclaimed "Ah!" when I saw it, thinking that this was actually the case. Then I read on and the content behind it was even more incredible to me - it recorded that during the process of renovating the Dongxia Imperial Mausoleum, he gradually discovered a strange secret of the King of Dongxia.

The reason why I felt so horrified was that Monk Hua had once told me the first half of this story, which was that King Wannu of Dongxia was a monster that crawled out of the ground, a demon. When I heard this part, it happened to be related to what Monk Hua said.

It said that Wang Zanghai was trapped here for ten years and was once taken to see an underground door that was called a miracle. Legend has it that the Wannu Kings of all generations were not hereditary, but crawled out of that underground door after the death of the previous generation. And that underground door can only be opened when the previous Wannu King dies, otherwise, the hell fire will burn everything of the one who opens the door, leaving Changbai Mountain without white hair. I felt like it was a volcanic eruption, and thought to myself, could it be that the Wannu King crawled out of a volcano?

He was fortunate enough to witness such a change of the throne. What made him feel extremely terrified was that the King of Ten Thousand Slaves who crawled out of the underground gate was actually a monster, not a human at all.

It is recorded above that this underground gate is located under the imperial tomb, at the bottom of Changbai Mountain. It dates back to ancient times and is probably a product of the Xia Dynasty. The passage leading to the underground gate is guarded by a bird with a human head.

I break out in a cold sweat when I think of that strange bird, but even stranger things are yet to come.

On another bronze fish, there was a record of him sneaking into the underground door. I couldn't understand anything about it and had no idea what they were talking about. It was obvious that he carved it after he came back when he was extremely frightened, and his words were a bit incoherent.

The fat man was also listening, and couldn't help but interrupt: "Didn't they say that the hellfire would burn everything of the person who opened the door? How come he was fine after going in? This is bullshit."

I thought he must have used some method we didn't know about, but the records here were too messy. Suddenly, someone came to report that they had found another mark.

We walked over and saw that all the coffins in the coffin shaft were opened, and the contents were all laid out. On one side of the coffin shaft, someone had actually opened a secret door, and a mark appeared inside the secret door.

"Didn't you leave this mark?" Aning asked.

"No, we are also puzzled." I pretended not to know.

A person nearby reported, "All the coffins here are fake. They only contain jade corpses. The real coffins are not here. We just opened the insect-scented jade mechanism, and all the centipedes crawled out. Now we carefully searched and found that there is a secret passage here, and someone has entered it. It looks like a double-layer tomb. The real coffin may still be underneath. This was a popular burial method in the Yuan Dynasty."

I looked at the huge coffin made of gemstones and colored glaze, and was horrified. I looked at the open secret door and found that this secret door was very unusual, because this secret passage was very steep, and it seemed that the goal was to dig deep. I said "Oh my God" in my heart, it seems that this is the place that Menyouping didn't let me go.

Aning looked at me and it seemed that he thought the same as I did. He also waved his hand to ask people to go down, but no one moved. They all looked at me and the fat man.