Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 143 What happened in the ghost market

It is said to be a gate, but it is actually just two wooden pillars painted with vermilion paint. There are no other door panels, but above the door pillars, there are two strangely colored carved wooden beasts standing on each side.

As a graduate majoring in archeology and cultural relic restoration, Xie Zihao is no stranger to these two strange beasts. One of them is the rhinoceros and the other is the haechi.

Jian is the mythical beast squatting on the palace table in the Forbidden City. It is a mythical beast that was only established in the pre-Ming Dynasty. It is also known as roaring toward the sky, roaring at the sky, stepping on the dragon and watching the emperor return.

The appearance of this animal is closer to that of the early legends, with a body like a dog, horns on its head, and a head like a lion. However, the ones on the Forbidden City's splendid watches have evolved to look more like unicorns and brave dragons with scales all over their bodies.

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But no matter which of these two forms, they are completely different from the claims that the four ancestors of zombies or Golden Retriever is the highest form of zombies that were later circulated on the Internet.

A group of people made it up. Xie Zihao actually researched this in his previous life. The original origin should be a series of Hong Kong dramas called Deadline.

Seeing this, he remembered the mythological drama that he had followed when he was a child, and he sighed secretly:

"It's a good drama, but the setting and logic are too confusing. It falls apart in the later stages, but it's really brilliant in the front. It's a pity!"

Let’s look at another strange beast, the Haechi, which is the prototype of the Haechi crown worn by ancient judges and censors.

Haechi are mythical beasts that look like sheep and deer. At first glance, they look like unicorns. They have short tails, black fur on their bodies, and bright eyes. The most peculiar thing is that they have a single horn in the middle of their heads, which looks like an oriental beast.

unicorn.

Legend has it that the Haechi has a loyal temperament, is very intelligent, understands people's speech and human nature, can distinguish right from wrong, and can recognize good and evil, loyal and traitorous. If it discovers a treacherous official, or sees two people fighting, it will hit the wrong party with its horns.

, and then eat it.

Therefore, Haechi is also known as the divine sheep and is a symbol of bravery and justice. Therefore, statues of Haechi are often set up in the yamen of ancient judicial and law enforcement departments to show that they are upright, fair and just.

Xie Zihao guessed that Hongmen would place these two mythical beasts at the gate of the market, which should be to defend against external enemies, guard internal security and ensure fair transactions. Because these two things are obviously either magic weapons or formation hubs.

With a flash of red light in his eyes, he could see that the two statues of mythical beasts were unusual, but Xie Zihao did not dare to look further for fear of arousing the "alertness" of these two mythical beasts.

When entering the door, Xie Zihao followed the example of those in front of him and waved his token or pass under the Haechi mythical beast on the door, and then walked straight into it.

When he took out the token, he felt a powerful thought sweep across the iron plate in his hand, and then there was no follow-up. Obviously, he was allowed to pass.

So Xie Zihao just glanced at the statue of the mythical beast with fear, and blended into the crowd without stopping. Just like when he was visiting a flea market in Chinatown, he started at the door and started shopping at various stalls.

The reason why Jinshan Ghost Market is called a ghost market is not only because of the time when it was opened and the surreptitious nature of the transactions at the beginning, but also because each stall has a lantern with a dim light hanging or placed on it.

Against this backdrop of lighting, the entire trading stall indeed had the atmosphere of a ghost market.

Liang Ruian mentioned the allusion here to Xie Zihao. This was not intentional, but because the souls of the aborigines who died in this gold mine had too much resentment and the number of souls was so large that they could not help but be connected to the underworld.

Space turns this place into a ghostly existence on earth.

Although the team of monks led by Hongmen gathered the power of hundreds of extraordinary people to appease, purify or eliminate the undead in this land, the changed environment was difficult to change back.

Therefore, the senior officials of Hongmen at that time set up formations here, which not only served as a barrier to the ghost market, but also had the purpose of sealing off and suppressing the spatial anomalies here.

Xie Zihao knew that the kerosene-style lanterns inside were not burning ordinary kerosene, but a special kind of lamp oil provided by Hongmen. It had to be ignited by its own spiritual power. Its light had the power to calm the mind and break up the space.

The effect of miasma.

When Xie Zihao approached the nearest stall, he paid special attention to the lantern. His nose smelled a special fragrance that was similar to sandalwood, but slightly different. He also found that there was a heavy meaning in its light. After a moment,

When you come into contact with the light range, you will feel a sense of calmness and peace of mind.

He couldn't help but think:

"This Hongmen is a good plan. If you want to set up a stall, you must light a lantern like this. Every once in a while, you have to input a spiritual mana or magic power to keep the lantern lit. It is obviously using these stalls.

The power of the extraordinary comes to activate the effect of the lantern!"

"The power of this lantern may be insignificant compared to the entire gold mining area, but with dozens or hundreds of lanterns gathered together, coupled with the circle of angry wind lanterns outside and the formation layout of the entire ghost market, it is a powerful force.

It is a small or very powerful force. Over the years, it should be enough to maintain the stability of the surrounding space and even slowly calm down the mutations in this area!"

"Sure enough, it is better to travel thousands of miles to study thousands of books. I have learned it!"

Hongmen's approach gave Xie Zihao further ideas on how to use battle tactics.

However, the main purpose of his trip was to find suitable magic weapons or materials, so he quickly started shopping in the ghost market.

To be honest, after Xie Zihao walked around the stall area of ​​Jinshan Ghost Market, he felt a little satisfied and a little disappointed here.

He was satisfied that this was indeed a trading market specially opened for extraordinary people. After walking around, he bought several medicines and materials that were not available in the outside world. They were all good things that he could use for making incense and practicing cultivation.

But I was disappointed that after walking around, I didn't see any truly outstanding magic weapons or extraordinary materials, especially those that could be used to refine magic weapons.

“Perhaps the items at these stalls are relatively low-end?”

Xie Zihao thought about it and couldn't help but cast his eyes in the direction of the blue brick houses in the Jinshan Ghost Market.

There is a portal similar to a gate between the stall area and the green brick building area, but there are no mythical beasts here, but there are still two strong men guarding it.

In fact, there is basically no need for anyone to guard the gate of the ghost market. After all, as long as you have a token, you can get in through the detection of the mythical beast statue, which is comparable to the intelligent security inspection system of modern technology.

In the eyes of some people watching the fun, Xie Zihao came to the gate inside the stall area. In fact, he had heard some people whispering and laughing, most of them guessing how he, a young man, was embarrassed in front of this gate.

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In fact, although Xie Zihao had never been to Jinshan Ghost Market, Liang Ruian had introduced him in detail about the situation inside, so he walked up to the two strong gatekeepers without any stage fright, shook the token in his hand, and then

The two of them clasped their fists respectfully and saluted, returned the salute slightly, and walked into the second door.

This scene shocked the crowd behind them.

Did he really go in? Where did this kid come from?

It’s another day of hard work today. I’ll come back and code quickly in the evening!

(End of chapter)