The composition of those murals was very peculiar and I figured they had been painted on the ceiling of the South Sea Kings tomb. I hadnt paid any attention to them before. There were several silver rivers painted on the murals with ships sailing on them. From ti to ti, there were dragon towers and halls painted above the river, as well as wharf cargo stations. I covered my mouth. At that ti, I had been shocked by Uncle Three's reappearance and made a huge mistake in not noticing that there was sothing wrong with the walls.
If I had noticed this at the ti, I wouldn't have gone to Yang Daguang's ancestral grave and couldve gone directly to the South Sea King's tomb. I wouldnt have had to blow the mud up or be beaten by Uncle Two.
But after thinking about it, I realized it wasnt necessarily a bad thing. I comforted myself as I connected all the causes and effects. Uncle Two probably realized that I wasnt in a good state after I didn't find sothing strange with the reception rooms walls. Then, I made at least ten wrong decisions right in front of him.
I continued looking through the information. On the seashore by Pingtan Islands Liushui Town, Uncle Two and the others had found a hole near Xianren Well (1). The hole was the air outlet of an underground river, which led all the way into the underground river system.
I picked up my e-cigarette and noticed that Liu Sang hadnt been in the team at that ti. It seed that his appearance was related to Uncle Two's next plan. He probably only went down into the South Sea Kings tomb with us just to get close to his idol.
Before entering the South Sea Kings tomb, Uncle Two had noticed that there was sothing wrong with the pignt on the reception rooms murals.
The information that followed after that was Uncle Two's detailed analysis of the murals in the main tomb chamber. His research was much more rigorous than mine and I felt a little uncomfortable when I saw the nurous annotations on the edge of the photos. Because the surrounding environnt wasnt the shop I had been familiar with for so many years, I couldnt seem to focus enough to read. A strange, cold feeling seed to penetrate deep into my bones from my little room.
I hid in my bed and curled up in the corner where the bed t the wall like I used to do when I was reading novels as a child. I then stuffed a pillow behind my back and went on reading.
I saw the mural depicting the construction of the South Sea Kings tomb. The mural was full of people in the sky, but Uncle Two had circled a strange figure among them. Not only was this figure different from the many figures in the series of murals, but it was even different from the immortals on the immortal boat in the sky. This person had been scalped and a bunch of holes were made in the exposed skull.
This man wasnt dressed fancy, but wore ordinary clothes as he directed the workers to build. The immortals were beating drums above as dark clouds gathered. At that ti, the South Seas King Zhi had obviously scalped his ministers or slaves and done sothing to their skulls so that they could hear the thunder more clearly. The South Sea King was probably obsessed by that point.
"This South Sea Kings tomb was built by listening to thunder," I muttered to myself as I looked out the window at the cloudy day outside. If there really was such specific information in the thunder, then what secret was the immortal boat passing down that day?
It was definitely impossible, but I suddenly had an idea. Uncle Three and the others got inspiration from the South Sea Kings tomb. In the end, they listened to thunder everywhere. It wasnt like I wanted to work recently anyways, so could I also chase thunderclouds? Maybe there was sothing special there.
Other than being struck by lightning, it wasnt like there was any special danger in chasing thunderstorms. And the cost was very low, so I could handle it myself.
I suddenly thought of Liu Sang. In addition to listening to thunder and looking for underground tombs, Liu Sang also had a powerful ability: he could chase thunderclouds. Was it as I thought and Uncle Twos next job for him was to chase thunderclouds?
When I thought of this, I decided to check the weather forecast. Unfortunately, it wasnt going to storm in Hangzhou any ti soon. I decided to put the idea aside for now and continue looking through the information. Uncle Two had taken a lot of close-ups of the next mural. I looked carefully and found that I wasnt supposed to be looking at these close-up details of the mural, but at the nurous pencil marks that were there. These marks were the result of soone carelessly copying the mural.
Uncle Two's note read: This was the only mural copied back then.
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TN Notes:
(1) Xianren= Daoist immortal/celestial being. Here are so pictures. So other travelers posted reviews/pics here (ignore the weird close-up of that chicks butt and scroll down).
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