Chapter 890: The Tomb

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In the quiet and dim tomb corridor, near the stone gate, there were two white bones emitting a faint phosphorescent light under the light, and the clothes on their bodies had long been decayed, and they did not know which age they were. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhang Daniu, who was walking in the front, arched his hand at the white bone again and again, and muttered in his mouth: "Passing by, passing by, your old man is not strange......

Zhang Daniu's actions made a few people laugh at the back, just dare to rob the tomb with such guts? No wonder he didn't even dare to open the coffin when he entered the tomb, and none of the objects taken out were gold or silverware.

"Come on, turn on two more lights, it's a little dim......"

Professor Meng crouched next to the two corpses, and when he looked closely, he didn't know how long he would have to stay in the tomb because he had to work in the tomb, so he had to save some electricity.

After Zhuang Rui and Dr. Ren turned on the strong light, the entire tomb suddenly became bright, and the light passed through the broken stone door to the tomb.

Professor Meng used the wooden stick in his hand to flick the clothes that had been turned into fibers on the two corpses, and after carefully observing them for a while, he said: "These are two tomb robbers, looking like this, it should be a person from the middle of the Qing Dynasty, who was killed by a secret weapon......

"Organs?"

The big bull who was walking in front was startled, and hurriedly said, "Meng ...... Old man Meng, don't scare me, the last time I came, I didn't encounter a mechanism......"

There are many legends in the folk, there are many organs in the ancient tombs, what arrows cross stones, poisonous water traps, it is impossible to prevent it, and the superstition is that there are Yin soldiers guarding it inside, snatching people's souls.

As soon as Da Niu heard that there was a mechanism, his legs trembled immediately, and he didn't dare to move when he stood there, completely forgetting that he had been here once.

"Hmph, you still have the life to talk here when you encounter a mechanism?"

Professor Meng snorted coldly, reached out and took the lamp in Da Niu's hand, moved a little in the direction of the bones, and said, "Look at what is in these bones......"

"What's this black?

The last time the bull came, he didn't dare to look at the two dead men at all, but now he found that there were four or five rusty triangular pieces of iron stuck in the dead man's ribs.

"Teacher, this is an arrow, right?"

Zhuang Rui approached, and every day he went in and out of the archaeological research institute of Beijing University, Zhuang Rui was already accustomed to dead people.

On the ground next to the two corpses, there were also many such arrows, and Zhuang Rui roughly gathered them, and there were as many as forty or fifty.

Looking up at the gate, Zhuang Rui couldn't help but secretly chill in his heart, if he came here again, I am afraid that so many of his people would be planted here.

Professor Meng nodded and said, "It's the arrow, Xiaozhuang, do you see something?"

"The shafts of the arrows must have rotted, and the iron arrows are almost rusty, huh?"

Zhuang Rui looked at the bones carefully, suddenly became suspicious, pointed to the two bones and said, "Teacher, is the arrow poisonous?"

The reason why Zhuang Rui said this is because the bones of people who died normally are generally white, even if they are slightly yellowed after a long time, and the bones on these two dead people are a little black, like a sign of poisoning.

"That's right, the arrow is poisonous, I didn't expect that after more than a thousand years, these toxins can still play a role, Xiao Ren, when you turn around, take a rib to test it and see what kind of poison it is?"

Professor Meng's face was a little solemn, this is not an archaeological excavation, no one knows what crisis there will be in this thousand-year-old tomb?

"Be careful for a while, don't touch ......"

Just the arrow mechanism was installed in the drainage channel, so if it was in the main burial chamber, I don't know how many killing machines would be hidden? Professor Meng brought people here to archaeology, and he didn't want someone to die here because of negligence.

Speaking of the luck of the two brothers, two tomb robbers helped them to give their lives hundreds of years ago, otherwise the two of them would probably die here quietly, I don't know how young it will take to be discovered.

Professor Meng saw a staff member accompanying him, poking at the top of the stone door with a wooden stick, and hurriedly said, "Xiao Liu, don't touch that, maybe Jihuang is not completely decayed, and he will shoot arrows......

When Zhuang Rui heard this, he glanced at the place and found that in the soil above the stone gate, there was an iron box one meter square, which had rusted into shape.

However, what amazed Zhuang Rui was that there were still four or five arrows in it, and they were well preserved, and even the arrow feathers were not decayed.

Of course, Zhuang Rui naturally wouldn't say what he saw, but after hearing Professor Meng's words, he also kept an eye on it, and he wanted to use the aura to sense the entire tomb for a while.

"Teacher, where did these two tomb robbers come from?"

Zhuang Rui suddenly remembered one thing, listening to the two Da Niu brothers, before they came in, the stone gate was intact, so how did these two tomb robbers hundreds of years ago enter this tomb?

After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Professor Meng pointed to a hole on his head that was only the size of a fist, and said, "No, that is the thief hole, and the soil on the ground is the ...... that they dug down."

"Is this a thief?"

Following Professor Meng's fingers, Zhuang Rui found that there was a small hole in the top of his head, which was a little bigger than a fist at best, similar to the mouth of the bowl for eating at home.

Zhuang Rui had an incredible look on his face, he couldn't believe his eyes, even if he practiced bone shrinking, he couldn't climb in.

"Hehe, Zhuang Rui, it's been hundreds of years, as long as the earth's crust changes slightly, the structure of these soil distributions will naturally change, and it would be good to leave a hole......

Seeing Zhuang Rui's surprised look, Dr. Ren explained to him that the general cave thief has gone through hundreds of years, even after thirty or fifty years, the entrance that could have entered and exited the human cave will become very small.

"It seems that the entrance to this tomb is still in this mountain, Xiao Ren, wait until tomorrow you take two people to make some holes in the mountain and see if you can find it, let's go and see the tomb first......

The discovery of the robbery cave shows that this mountain is not all wrapped in rocks, and there can be tomb robbers in ancient times, and modern people must be able to do it, so Professor Meng's face is a little anxious, if the main tomb is stolen, it will be a major loss for the national scientific research community.

The group drilled through the stone gate and entered the tomb where the Zhang Daniu brothers had come, and the dusty ground in the tomb was full of disorganized footprints.

The whole burial chamber is about 20 square meters in size, about 3 meters high, and the ceiling part at the top is also very neatly treated, not flat, but composed of several diamond shapes that gradually slope towards the center of the roof at the angle between the wall and the ceiling, and there are subtle lines carved on it.

The four walls are made of relief bluestone, and each stone has exquisite carvings, these reliefs are much finer than those in the corridor, and they are all related to each other, as if they are telling a story.

In the middle of the burial chamber, there is a sarcophagus about two meters five long, about one meter wide, on the surface of the sarcophagus is also carved with moire relief, and below the sarcophagus is a huge bluestone as a pedestal, the size is just consistent with the sarcophagus.

At the two opposite corners of the burial chamber, there are two tall stone pillars in the shape of a square, which are very smooth and smooth on all sides, which should be used to strengthen the load-bearing capacity of the burial chamber and increase the ability to resist collapse.

"This ...... Who did this?"

There were still some broken ceramic pieces left on the ground, and Professor Meng was furious when he saw them.

Although these ceramic tiles are not of high value, they are also left over more than 2,000 years ago, and they are irreproducible cultural relics, which can be said to be broken one piece and one less piece.

"This ...... This is my brother's accidental ...... broken."

Zhang Daniu shrunk his neck and replied cautiously, in fact, he didn't tell the truth, these things were broken by Erniu because he was too bulky to move, and he was bored and knocked out with a hammer.

There is a very large clay pot, because it was in the way in front of the door, it was broken by Erniu.

Professor Meng couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, pointed at Zhang Daniu and said, "Okay, go out, you go out now!"

The reason why archaeologists hate these half-baked tomb robbers is that they have no concept of protecting cultural relics in their hearts, but only measure the value of cultural relics by whether they are worth or not, and the harm is far greater than that of those professional tomb robbers.

Tomb robbers like Boss Yu, if they can't get something out, they will never be damaged, in a sense, they are archaeologists themselves, and even more knowledge and experience than some experts.

In ancient times, some tomb robbers were more particular, some people went into the tomb, only picked up the three most valuable things to take, and would never take one more, which is also the reason why many tombs have been stolen more than a dozen or even dozens of times.

"Old man, I'm ...... I'll get out, I'll get out of ......."

After Zhang Daniu heard that the two dead bodies were shot to death by the organ, he had been suspicious and a little suspicious, and Professor Meng drove him out, which was exactly what he thought, and he crawled out of the stone gate at the moment.

"Xiao Zhuang, you are in charge of shooting, Xiao Ren, check it and see if there is anything valuable left......"

After scolding the big cow, Professor Meng took a few deep breaths, and then calmed down, because the next work was to open the coffin, and there was no room for a trace of slip-ups.

"Teacher, there's nothing left except some pottery......"

After a careful search in the tomb, Dr. Ren gathered all the broken ceramic fragments left on the ground into a pile.

Although these things are broken, they can still be pieced together and repaired after being brought out, and it is also a basic skill that archaeologists must master to restore broken funerary goods.