Chapter 140: The Priesthood Shrine Maiden
After listening to Fat Wei's words, Chen Zhi looked up at the stone statue full of gods and Buddhas, and in the entire underground palace, there was an inexplicable solemnity in an instant. It makes people feel that they are so small and lowly below, but they are so majestic and righteous and sacrosanct.
Judging from the costumes and movements of these stone figures, they are indeed statues of a group of onmyoji. However, judging from historical data, **** Qingming did not die in this war with Tamamo, he lived until he was very old and died.
The assumption that these onmyoji were martyred for **** Qingming is not valid. Then these white stone statues of the Onmyoji, a large number of them appear here, it is by no means just decoration, what is the purpose?
At this time, the voice of the ghost knife broke Chen Zhi's thoughts.
"Come and see, there seems to be a passage here." , The ghost knife ran to the area behind the **** Qingming stone statue at some point, and whispered to them in the dark.
Chen Zhi hurriedly looked into the darkness, and it turned out that behind the **** Qingming stone statue was a black dark wall, which could not be seen at all if he didn't pay attention. The dark wall was black, and there seemed to be an inconspicuous small door, and the inside was black and rumbling so that it could not be seen clearly.
Looking at the past from this angle, the **** Qingming stone statue is more like guarding the dark room behind.
Fat Wei saw the dark room behind him, and immediately came to his senses, he picked up the gun, patted Chen Zhi on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, orange!" Let's go see what's hidden behind there. ”
Fat Wei held a submachine gun in one hand and a flashlight in his right hand, and took the lead to walk towards the darkness.
When they walked over, they found that the secret door was just a doorway, and there was no gate on it, and it seemed to be a burial chamber inside.
"Is it a white burial chamber?" This was the first signal that flashed in Chen Zhi's mind, Chen Zhi had imagined the appearance of Bai Qian's tomb countless times before, but he didn't expect to find it so quickly, it was too easy.
Fat Wei made a gesture first, signaling everyone to follow him and keep quiet. He turned on his flashlight and shone in front of him, and several people lined up in the original formation and walked into the tomb lightly.
The inside of the tomb was so dark that it smelled strange and suffocating. It was as if the light was sucked away by a flashlight. Chen Zhi held a gun in his left hand, and shook it left and right with a flashlight in his right hand, this tomb does not look big, it is estimated that it is less than 100 square meters.
Everywhere the flashlight went, you could see that the floor tiles were still white marble, but they were much smaller, and the ground around them was full of some ancient Japanese daily necessities, and after thousands of years, there was very little dust on them. The surrounding walls are all painted, which looks a bit like Japanese ukiyo-e, but the style is much older, and most of them have faded and peeled, so you can't see the content of the painting at all. It's more like a bedroom than a burial chamber
Fat Wei suddenly sighed lightly at this time, motioned for everyone to look at him, and shone a flashlight to the middle of the tomb, Chen Zhi looked at it, only to see that in the center of the room, there was a bed, which was a typical ancient Japanese nobleman's couch, carved with auspicious clouds and beasts, and behind it was an ancient Japanese screen, and the canvas on the screen had already turned to ashes.
And on that bed, there was a translucent tent, and in the distance, I saw a vast white patch, and I didn't know what kind of sand silk it was made of. And inside is vague, there seems to be a person sitting upright.
Several people looked at the figure in the tent in front of them, but they didn't dare to move at first. After standing nervously for a long time, I found that the figures in the tent had not moved at all, and there was no intention of coming out to deal with them.
At this time, Fat Wei walked over with a gun, turned sideways first, and knocked on the stone platform on the bed. Looking inside, nothing happens. Fat Wei gestured at this time and asked Chen Zhi to cover him with a gun. I'm going to lift the veil tent.
Chen Zhi immediately raised his submachine gun, ready to greet anything that rushed out of it, remembering that the ancient tomb that Fat Wei had told him before was full of red-haired and green-haired zombie dumplings.
Fat Wei still turned sideways, and gently lifted one end of the gauze tent with a gun, and what slowly appeared in front of them was a dry corpse sitting upright. The corpse was clearly a woman, dressed in an ancient Japanese costume, with a handful of hair draped behind her. She wears a white kimono top and a red kimono skirt, and her long hair is wrapped in white sandalwood paper.
In those shriveled hands, there was a stick full of copper bells, which were still bright in color after so many years of erosion.
Chen Zhi looked at the outfit of the female corpse in front of him, and felt very familiar, as if he had seen it on TV before.
Fat Wei looked at the corpse inside and said, "Is this the legendary former princess of Yuzao, or the Bai Qian we are looking for?" Unexpectedly, we went well this time! ”
"This is definitely not Tamamo Qian", Qin Yueyang walked over at this time, looked the female corpse up and down and said, "This should be a 'priesthood witch', a cleric of the Japanese imperial family. The bouncing of bells she was holding in her hand was the magic weapon they used during their kagura dance, the Kamira Bell. ”
Qin Yueyang checked the back of the female corpse again, and said: "Japanese shrine maidens are all women with natural powers, also known as Qizi, who can dance to the gods, communicate with the gods, and sacrifice to the mountains and rivers of the shrine, and are usually responsible for the sacred duties of driving away evil spirits, purifying, praying for rain, and praying for good weather and other sacred duties, and are called women who are favored by the gods.
In ancient Japan, the status of women was very low, but the status of shrine maidens was quite high, and shrine maidens could accept the support of the gods and convey the will of the gods to the king, which was often a symbol of beauty in ancient times. The Japanese poem describes "standing like a peony, sitting like a peony, and walking like a lily" is a unique portrayal of the shrine maiden.
When Qin Yueyang said this, a puzzled expression appeared on his face, and he said, "However, in ancient Japan, the functions of a shrine maiden and an onmyoji were completely different, how could a witch appear in a sealed tomb full of stone statues of an onmyoji?" ”
Fat Wei was not interested in what Qin Yueyang said at this time, after he heard that this was definitely not Bai Qian's remains, he began to be "interested" in the things around the corpse.
He checked around and found that the shrine maiden's surroundings were plain, there were no valuable funeral goods, and there were no gold and jade accessories on the witch's corpse, and even her hair was tied up with white paper.
Finally, his eyes fell on the "Divine Ring" in the hand of the shrine maiden. (To be continued.) )