Chapter 114 3.36 "Sheji" Appears in the World
Seeing these eight words, Loki almost vomited blood.
"It is four inches in diameter, with five dragons twisted on it. The front is engraved with eight seal characters written by Li Si: "Received the mandate from heaven, longevity and prosperity" as a token of the divine right of the emperor and the legitimacy of the orthodoxy"
In the last life, there were often idle netizens asking "If I pick up the imperial seal, how much can this thing sell for?" After seeing so many such sand sculpture questions, Loki naturally remembered this treasure lost in the long river of time.
The first appearance of the imperial seal was in the 8th century BC, 1,600 years ago. At that time, it was just a piece of unpolished jade called "He Shi Bi". After the two stories of "Innocent man, guilty of holding the jade" and "Returning the jade intact to Zhao", this unpolished jade was obtained by Qin Shihuang in 220 BC and made into the imperial seal.
The eight words "Received the mandate from heaven, longevity and prosperity" were engraved on the jade seal by Qin Shihuang and ordered Prime Minister Li Si.
Qin II died, and in 206 BC, the imperial seal was passed to the Han Dynasty. After living in peace for more than a hundred years, in 8 AD, a great event happened in the Han Dynasty: Wang Mang usurped the throne.
"Wang Mang asked for the imperial seal, and Wang Zhengjun smashed the corner in anger, and then filled it with gold."
This is the source of the gold in the corner, which is as discordant as a dog-skin plaster.
Until the Han Dynasty, although the imperial seal encountered bumps, it at least lived smoothly. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (191 AD), the famous historical event of "Ten Eunuchs' Disorder in Government" that appeared in the first chapter of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" broke out. The imperial seal, which had a lifespan of 411 years, was lost by the prodigal son who was only concerned with escaping when Liu Bian, the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, fled.
According to the speculation of many historians, the "real" imperial seal should have completely disappeared at this time.
Although many later stories have recorded that Sun Jian of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period once obtained this treasure in a well, the one in Sun Jian's hand at this time is most likely the one he searched for the eunuchs in the palace and imitated according to their descriptions.
At this time, a square seal that is "seriously suspected" of being the imperial seal is placed in front of Loki, and his heart is full of waves.
The imperial seal is actually the most important treasure of the Red Kingdom!
How can I see a national treasure of this level and not take it away? !
Once this idea is born, it will never go away. As a Red countryman in the previous life, there is no reason not to take away such a national treasure in front of me.
(Damn, people die and birds face the sky, and the head is only the size of a bowl! If this thing is the real imperial seal, I can touch it with my own hands and it will not be in vain!)
Reaching out and putting the jade seal into his arms, Loki looked back. As the saying goes: What goes up follows, and during this period of time, the companions around him were not idle either.
The busiest person was naturally Old Gore. As a Viking, he only had gold in his eyes. Therefore, his destination was the Ancient Egyptian Gold Mountain, which displayed all kinds of gold.
Ancient Egypt is the oldest of the four ancient civilizations. Unfortunately, the ancient Egyptian kingdom had perished 800 years ago (30 BC) and was incorporated into the Roman territory. This ancient civilization, which originated in 5000 BC, came to an end after more than 5,000 years.
Old Gore's first goal was a golden scepter decorated with a dog head emblem. He picked up the scepter and weighed it, and immediately abandoned the hammer that had followed him all the way.
The top of the scepter was inlaid with a black Anubis head. The head made of all gold was extremely heavy, making the scepter almost as heavy and powerful as a hammer when wielded.
Old Gore chuckled, but his eyes were immediately attracted by the second treasure.
It was a three-finger arm ring decorated with a golden scorpion.
The scorpion's eyes were made of rubies, emitting a strange light under the dim candlelight. He gently took the armband and laid down his left forearm. With a slight click, the armband stuck to his thick left arm, and the scorpion changed from a standing position to lying on Old Gore's arm through some unknown mechanical principle. The black tail stinger extended from his left hand like a hidden sword, which looked very cool.
He smiled with satisfaction and continued to look for the next trophy.
His eyes fell on a pharaoh's brocade robe woven with gold and silver threads
Emma's interest was not in these gold and silver. She was born in a wealthy family in Constantinople and was used to seeing these things since she was a child. Her interest was in a dozen black stone tablets erected in an open space.
Loki had seen one of these black stone tablets in the Louvre in his previous life. That was the world-famous "Code of Hammurabi". This kind of creation from the "Ancient Babylonian Civilization" in 1600 BC is rare in the world, and only one has been found after thousands of years of archaeological excavations.
I didn't expect that there would be so many in this black pyramid!
The black stone tablet is made of basalt. It is engraved with dense cuneiform characters, and the largest one is nearly 10 meters high. Emma stood under the black stone tablet and bent Yum's head to let him "scan" the entire stone tablet from top to bottom. At this time, she already knew that this boy had a function to "travel" through memory. It is simply too late to copy so many black stone tablets by hand.
If you want to take these materials away, you can only rely on Yum's function.
Lawrence, the ship's doctor, walked in it and did not find anything he needed. As a new sect in the past hundred years, the Holy Bishop's life span is too "young" and is not qualified to be "included" in this underground city.
Lawrence's goal was to find a place to place the huge cross behind him. According to the teachings of the Holy Bishop, he needed to find the sacrificial site in this building, insert the Holy Cross into the ground, and swear to the ancient gods that the Holy Lord existed.
He would have completed the first step of preaching.
He walked slowly forward, towards the darkness ahead.
Seeing this, Loki hurried to catch up. The golden mountain and various treasures would be very shocking when you first see them. But there are dozens of golden mountains in this room, each more than 20 meters high, and at least thousands of exquisite treasures from various civilizations are piled on them.
After just over ten minutes, he felt numb.
There is no doubt that this hall is where the lizardmen store "souvenirs" from various civilizations. This behavior is easy to understand. In all film and television literary works that describe the end of the world, saving the treasures built in human civilization is a top priority.
From the entrance to the inner hall represents the timeline of human civilization from near to far.
The "Imperial Seal" from 191 AD, which was lost by the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, was the first treasure Loki saw, and it was placed almost at the door. The several golden mountains behind him were the "Ancient Egyptian Civilization" where Old Gore was and the "Ancient Babylonian Civilization" where Emma and Yum were.
Both civilizations existed between 3000 and 1000 BC.
Following Lawrence, Loki felt that the closer he went to the inner hall, the more ancient the creations he saw along the way were.
After walking nearly 200 meters, he saw an ancient bronze tree with a height of nearly 50 meters. The leaves on the ancient tree were as thin as cicada wings, and many vivid bronze giant birds were carved on it, which were lifelike. Going forward, he saw a smooth crystal skull and a crystal skeleton of an unknown beast.
At the end of the hall, Loki and Lawrence stopped.
This is a circular secret room. There are no golden mountains here, but 12 black stone statues! Each of the black stone statues is about 20 meters high. The dim candlelight could not illuminate their faces. Lawrence raised his staff and whispered the gospel prayer, and a ball of white light rose to the sky. Loki immediately saw the full picture of these statues.
These are 12 tall lizardmen! They hold books or seals in their hands, with different shapes and lifelike.
This is!!
Loki widened his eyes. The murals in the previous hall with amazing scale could not accurately show the appearance of lizardmen, but now he saw these statues that were so detailed that even the pores were carved out. He immediately held his breath.
He was very familiar with the faces of each of these lizardmen! This is a group of big figures who often appear on TV and online media in the 21st century.
These big figures are the rulers of the human world.
The most conspicuous one is the woman holding the scepter. This is the queen of a big country, respected by all people.
In addition to this person, there are also the Minister of Defense of the Lighthouse Country, the CEO of the Federal Reserve, a well-known rich man in a coastal city, and a European virologist whose face is known to everyone, etc.
If these famous figures in later generations did not have plastic surgery according to the lizardman statues in front of them, then the answer seems to be obvious.
In the 21st century of the previous life, the 12 lizardmen in this hall were still active in human civilization, wearing human skin and continuing to live the life of leaders!
After living with Leviathan for tens of thousands of years, they are like this beast, long-lived and immortal!
The holy light emitted by Lawrence also illuminated a "mound" in the middle of the 12 statues.
When the light is weak, this black "mound" does not look conspicuous. But when the holy light rises, Loki walks in and finds that the mound is not made of gold, but a metal similar to black glass.
He is very familiar with this metal. It is the material used by the broken weapons in the hands of the fallen Titan in the City of Water. At that time, he transported nearly two tons of it back from the City of Water. All of them were forged into weapons, and even many kitchen knives in Hanshui Village were made of this material.
In this black pyramid, there are dozens of golden mountains, but this thing is only a small pile. Could it be that this thing is very precious?
On the black earth pile, there are not many precious treasures like in the corridor outside the house. There is only a bright yellow sword inserted on the top. Loki squinted his eyes and observed for a while, then climbed up the earth pile with his hands and feet.
He could feel his heart beating hard. Reaching out to hold the hilt, he felt exactly the same touch.
This is actually a stone sword made of the same material as the [Demon Sealing Blade]!
But the one in his hand at this time is an absolute giant sword. It is at least twice as large as the Demon Sealing Blade in size. The heavy sword has no edge, and one side of the sword body is engraved with the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, and plants.
On the other side, it is written in a very primitive seal script with the unification of the four seas and the strategy of governing the country and maintaining peace.
Not just the sword body. On the rough bronze hilt, two different gods were painted in two different directions.
One was called the Earth God
The other was called the Grain God
Below the Earth God and the Grain God, the 2-foot-long hilt was inscribed with the methods of wheat, rice, and farming and animal husbandry.
Loki's heart beat more and more intensely. He felt dry mouth and even his consciousness was a little hazy.
In the oldest legend of Chinese mythology, after Emperor Xuanyuan defeated Chiyou, the Earth God and the Grain God once gave him a peerless magic sword. Because it did not emphasize killing, but instead engraved civilized etiquette on it, it was named "Sheji".
The word "Sheji" later became a general term for the two most ancient gods in Chinese civilization, "Soil God" and "Valley God". The ancient kings of the Shang and Zhou dynasties did not respect heaven and earth, but only Sheji.
Because Huangdi's surname was Xuanyuan, later generations also called this sword "Xuanyuan Sword"!