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Chapter 32 Temperament

"Die is a dead head!" As soon as I touched the two holes, I knew that the ball contained a skull.

A mole's complexion changed slightly, but she reacted better than me.

She forced herself to say, "Yunfeng, you are a big man, you are still a tomb robber. What are the fears of skulls? If you want your second child here, you dare to kiss this thing."

"Get up! Let me go!" She frowned slightly and started to use it directly.

Because the ball had been smashed open by me before, this time she didn't take much effort and smashed it with a few strokes and then opened it.

This time I saw it really, I guessed it before, there was indeed a dead skull inside the ball.

Some areas of the skull have been weathered. What is strange is that there are some gilded layers on the surface of this skull. These gilded layers are arranged in an orderly manner, not like text, but more like some pattern symbol.

In ancient crafts, I have heard of copper gilding, silver gilding, thin gold hairpin, wrong gold and silver, gold and silver shaking silk, etc., but I have never heard of this kind of gilding craftsmanship on dead skulls.

A circle of gold-plated layers around the skull's eye sockets are paired with a pure black skull, and the style is quite weird.

A mole frowned and said, "I saw something similar when I helped a Chengde gang do logistics in the early years, but that thing was not a skull, but a small piece of human finger bone. At that time, the gang told me the head of the gang, saying that this thing was from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period."

She looked up at the trapezoidal bronzes on the top of the cave and said, "Yunfeng, you can see that there are dozens of these things at a glance. If you smash one, let's study it."



"Yeah," I nodded and agreed.

This height is not even reachable by jumping, so I still used the old method to smash it with a stone, and I specially picked a larger stone.

"Bang!"

The first time I hit it, the stones and bronzes collided, making a crisp echo.

Hearing this sound, I had already agreed with a mole's previous guess that 90% of this row of trapezoidal bronzes were chimes.

"I'm adding two strengths," a mole looked up.

"Bang!" Finally, I hit it hard.

With a thud, the chime fell into the river. A mole was ready for it. She caught the thing in less than a minute.

After I took it up, I studied it.

This bronze ware is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, with some red spots and green rust on the body. In addition, the waistline, pattern line, and cloud and thunder pattern are all made very regular. This is an old Western Zhou Dynasty product that opens the door at a glance.

I weighed the portion and felt that the portion was too light, so I started to lift it up with a slight lift.

"Sister Hong, try it, why do I feel something is wrong?"

A mole reached out and took it, "Hey, it's so light, isn't this bronze?"

A mole is older than me. She has been in this industry all year round and has seen more things than me. She used her nails to buckle the green rust on the copper chime. The green rust is very floating and falls off with a slight touch.

As soon as the green rust fell off, a gray-black background appeared inside the trapezoidal chime.

After seeing it, a mole frowned and said, "It's not bronze, this is a good thing. If I guess correctly, it should be Tiantien."

"Iron chime bell?" I glared at my eyes and said incrediblely: "Sister Hong, were there iron tools in the Western Zhou Dynasty? No? Did you admit your mistake?"

She shook her head, "You didn't understand. What I was talking about is the iron of heaven, not the iron of pig. Iron tools appeared in the late Spring and Autumn Period. To put it bluntly, the iron of heaven is meteorite, and it is a meteorite mine. No wonder I felt that the weight was wrong as soon as I got started."

A mole said that trapezoidal chimes were made of meteorite iron, but there is actually a basis. A few years ago, in 1996, the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and the Sanmenxia Cultural Relics Working Team jointly conducted rescue excavations at the Guoguo Cemetery in Shangcunling, Sanmenxia City, and finally found two rusty iron swords. These two short swords came from the tomb of Guo Zhong. After x-ray radiation analysis, the archaeological team discovered many unknown components similar to high concentrations of nickel. Finally, these two swords from the Bronze Age were recognized as meteorite swords by the National Archaeology Team.

"Sister Hong, you said, this thing is so precious, why don't we carry it out?" I realized the preciousness of this chime, and a hint of greed arose in my heart.

I murmured in my heart, "It's better to let me take it out instead of putting it in this dark underground river, it's not a waste of resources, right?"

A mole looked at the chimes on the ground, and she was also a little moved.

"It's not too heavy, so let's take it with you. It's probably not a single person in this place for hundreds of years," she shook her head and signaled me to bring the chime.

I took off my shirt and twisted it into a rope. I didn't mind the chimes being cold. I carried the chimes behind me and tied them with my clothes, then tied a knot on my chest. That was all. I shook it, and I didn't move at all, and I stood firm.

"The chest is not in trouble, right?"

"It's okay, Sister Hong," I patted myself behind my back, "It doesn't hurt at all with hundreds of thousands on my back, now, it's OK."

A mole smiled and said, "Don't panic. I'm looking for help when I go out. Then call the eldest and third brothers and let's take out all this."

"It's a good match, that's a good relationship," I tightened the strap on my chest.

We continued to walk along the underground river. I looked back from time to time and felt that the chimes hanging on the top of the cave were like a large handful of banknotes, swaying to me in the wind.

About 200 meters away from here, as I walked, my nose heated up and suddenly I had no reason to bleed.

"Wait for Sister Hong," I quickly raised my head and called to a mole to stop.

A mole didn't forget to tease me at this time, and she said, "Young is so hot that she can bleed with her shirtlessness. Wait," she tore off a piece of cloth strip from her body, "Righten your head and don't move around, I'll wipe your blood."

"Sister Hong, you're bleeding from your nose!" I saw a mole and suddenly started bleeding from your nose.

She didn't help me wipe it, so she quickly raised her head and used a strip of cloth to stop the bleeding.

"Bang"

At this moment, a low metallic strike suddenly came from behind us. The sound sounded a bit like the sound of ringing a chime.

I looked back with the chimes I had been tilted and looked back with my neck.

At that moment, all my hairs exploded!

Bubble kept bubbling on the underground river, and the copper chains with mud ball skulls hanging on them began to pull quickly.

Dozens of round mud balls began to sway left and right, very rhythmically, and began to hit the meteorite chimes one after another.

The impacting skeleton heads could operate independently under the control of some underwater mechanism. These chimes began to play a music from more than two thousand years ago on their own.

"Bang."

"when!"

The low chimes were getting louder and louder, as if they were reaching the depths of a person's soul, and my scalp was tightened when I heard it.

Less than two hundred meters away, as I listened to the sound, I began to feel my eyes swelling, my heart tightening, and the veins on both sides of my temples began to bulge.

The nose bleeding I just had can't stop now, and the nose bleeding is getting more and more.

A mole is similar to mine, and it also has nosebleeds.

Her eyes swollen and blue veins appeared on her forehead. She heard her yelling angrily: "Yunfeng runs away! We're going to die!"

Many people don’t know that chimes themselves will not make sounds. Chimes vibrate under the hammer’s strike. The vibrations pass through invisible air as a medium and finally spread to people’s ears. Therefore, they become the rhythmic sound of chimes.

A few years later, in order to understand the principle, I spent some money to pretend to be the head of a Hong Kong art troupe. I found Professor Wang Dan, an old technician who once worked in the National 703 Musical Instrument Factory. Professor Wang Dan personally presided over the complete restoration of Zeng Houyi chime set.

So I asked her, under some circumstances, is it possible that the sound of chimes can kill people?

Professor Wang was very surprised after hearing this. She asked me why I asked this, and I said it was purely curious.

Finally she told me that this was possible. She gave an example, saying that someone could break the glass with a high decibel sound, and that chimes were also possible.

Looking back now.

This is a life-threatening concert. The performers are dozens of skulls with gilded runes, and the instrument is a set of meteorite iron chimes from the Western Zhou Dynasty.

And the host who invited me and Sister Hong to listen to it.
Chapter completed!
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