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Judging from the position where Zhuang Rui is standing, the wood used in the coffin has no traces of splicing at all, it seems to be made of a whole piece of wood, Zhuang Rui can't imagine, how big a cypress tree is used?

And the coffin lid and the coffin are seamlessly combined, someone took a piece of paper and tried it, but they couldn't fit in, and there was almost no gap in the match. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"This ...... It's a bit difficult......"

Professor Meng circled around the coffin a few times, his brows were tightly locked, he originally thought that this coffin was a mortise and tenon structure, but after careful attention to the coffin, he found that there was not a single mortise and tenon nail on the coffin, which made Professor Meng feel a little incredible.

Generally, the protruding part of the ancient wooden furniture is called tenon, and the recessed part is called Mao, this form has reached a very high level of skill in China's traditional furniture, and the coffin is naturally the same, but this huge coffin seems to be a little different.

"Teacher, it seems that the hole was filled with burnt copper juice......

Zhuang Rui used his aura to observe the outer structure of the coffin, and found that in the eight places of the coffin, the structure was completely different from the wood, and after he gently wiped it with sandpaper, he found that the material in the hole with a diameter of about two centimeters was completely different from the material of the coffin itself.

After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Professor Meng came over and took a knife, scraped a layer of substance on the coffin, and after carefully distinguishing it, he said: "That's right, it was the copper juice that was burned and instilled into it, and it is unlikely that it will be opened from the mortise and tenon......

This can make the sealing of the coffin better, but it also increases the difficulty of opening the coffin, and it is almost impossible to open the coffin lid intact.

Professor Meng walked around the coffin for a long time, but there was no good way, and in the end, after being helpless, he could only let people make openings in different positions of the coffin in case the crowbar opened the coffin.

"Xiao Liu, you are in the back, and there are two people on the side, Zhuang Rui, you go to the head of the row, okay, everyone take a crowbar, be careful, don't use too much force, and pry up the coffin lid together......"

Professor Meng commanded everyone and stuck the crowbar into the gap in the coffin lid, and under an order, everyone worked together, and the huge coffin made an ugly "click" sound.

"Get up, get up......"

"With a little more force, pry the upper ...... open"

"Stand far away, beware of the mechanism inside......"

The sound of all kinds of shouts resounded in the tomb, such a large coffin, maybe there would be some life-threatening hidden weapon in it, Professor Meng loudly reminded everyone to pay attention to safety.

Being injured in these thousand-year-old tombs is definitely a very unpleasant thing, because after thousands of years of sealing underground, many substances and bacteria will deteriorate, and once infected, it is difficult to cure with modern medical methods.

But fortunately, after the bulky cypress coffin lid was opened, there seemed to be no movement inside, and at the end of the coffin, two people held iron hooks and pulled the coffin lid down.

The coffin with the lid removed, plus the heavy base, is also more than one meter eight, and the situation in the museum can not be seen intuitively, and the people with ladders around them have climbed to the ladder and looked into the coffin.

"And a coffin ......"

"Professor Meng, there is also a bronze coffin ......"

"Grandma's, whose grave is this?

The people who saw the situation in the hall shouted one after another, it turned out that in this cypress coffin, there was actually a copper coffin, under the illumination of the light, the copper coffin lid revealed a few simple stripe depictions, making it more and more mysterious.

"No, the yellow intestine is usually a cypress coffin, why is there a copper coffin?"

Professor Meng also climbed the ladder and took a closer look, his brows furrowed, obviously unable to figure out the joints.

You must know that the ancients understood that death is ascension to heaven, and they will continue their lives in another world in another form, so after death, they prepared a coffin for themselves to bury in the hope of bringing these things into another world.

Since the human body belongs to wood in the five elements, the ancients were very particular about the choice of coffins, and believed that if they were buried in an iron coffin, that person's soul could not enter reincarnation.

Therefore, in history, it is extremely rare to use copper coffins with the five elements of gold.

"Prepare the pulley and open this bronze coffin ......"

After observing for a long time, Professor Meng made a decision that only by opening this coffin could he reveal the secrets and learn the identity of the owner of the tomb.

Due to the limited conditions, everyone used two alloy ladders on both sides, and then reinforced the pulleys on the ladder, and lowered them from both sides of the copper coffin with ropes.

"One, two, three...... ...... force"

If outsiders see this situation, it is hard to imagine that these people, who are usually well-dressed scholars, are like migrant workers at this moment, pulling a rope and relying on the power of pulleys, to hang the copper coffin weighing at least hundreds of catties from the yellow intestine cypress coffin.

When the height of the bronze coffin exceeded that of the cypress coffin, someone below immediately carefully moved the ladder and moved the coffin above the open space little by little, and this work alone lasted for almost two hours.

"Don't know what's in there?"

"Yes, the coffin in the coffin, presumably the funeral goods will be very rich......"

"Looks like there's water in there, and when I lifted it up just now, I felt like there was water swaying inside......

"Impossible, this tomb is at least more than two thousand years old, and all the moisture has volatilized......"

Although tired, but the coffin was successfully taken out, everyone was excited, for archaeologists, uncovering one after another hidden secrets in the long river of history, is undoubtedly the most exciting thing.

"Take a break and prepare to open the coffin ......"

Professor Meng was also happy, he had been working in this place for a week, and finally revealed the identity of the owner of the tomb, and said that he would let everyone rest, but he was constantly circling around the copper coffin, watching and observing the opening method of the copper coffin.

Zhuang Rui sat aside, looking at the bronze coffin, his brows furrowed, because although he could feel that there were a lot of antiques hidden in the copper coffin, it was really as a researcher just said, there was moisture.

However, Zhuang Rui's aura can only detect the type of object through the aura contained in the object itself, so he doesn't know what the water without aura is, and all this may not be known until the coffin is opened.

Perhaps there have been sufficient anti-theft measures before, and the opening of this copper coffin is very smooth, and after pulling up the four live buckles on both sides that have undergone thousands of years without decay, the copper coffin can be lifted upward.

It's just that even if it is a coffin lid, the weight is not light, Professor Meng selected a few people with great strength, stood at the four corners and worked hard to lift the coffin lid away from the copper coffin.

"What is this?"

Zhuang Rui was one of the four people who lifted the coffin lid, and while lifting the coffin lid, he turned sideways to look at the inside of the coffin, but found that at a height of seven or eight centimeters from the edge of the coffin, there seemed to be a layer of watery substance, gently swaying as the coffin moved.

However, on that layer of water, it was all dust, and it was impossible to see what substance it was, and the people who had been waiting next to it surrounded one after another, but squeezed Zhuang Rui and several people who were working outside.

"Mercury is mercury ......"

"Oh my God, no wonder it's so heavy, the whole coffin is full of mercury......"

"Let Jean, let me go in and have a look at ......"

Listening to the words coming from inside, Zhuang Rui squeezed in hard, and he saw Professor Meng holding a wooden stick, stirring in the coffin.

The dust on the surface of that layer disappeared with the flow of mercury, and under the refraction of the light, the bright mercury reflected endless light like a mirror.

Zhuang Rui once saw a scientific research document, once found traces of mercury in a ceramic coffin in a Han tomb in Shandong, but the tomb had been stolen and excavated, but it failed to leave more clues and information.

The scientific name of mercury is mercury, there are many records in historical materials, the ancients and Taoists used this alchemy to seek longevity, although mercury can indeed be used medicinally, can kill insects, attack poison, cure scabies, sores and other diseases, but the harm to the body is also great.

At least three or more emperors in history have died of mercury poisoning, and this emperor seems to have believed in the so-called Taoist theory that corpses soaked in mercury can be immortal.

Professor Meng lifted the wooden stick, a few drops of mercury dripped back into the coffin along the wooden stick, and after a little thought, Professor Meng said: "There is something in the coffin, it must be the owner of the tomb, but the mercury will volatilize quickly when it sees the air, and it is also highly toxic in the gas, so first cover the coffin lid ......"

After Zhuang Rui and the others re-closed the lid of the coffin, Professor Meng discussed with several experts and decided to ask the relevant units for some gas masks to scoop out all the mercury.

The work could not continue, and everyone retreated to the mountain, and by the time the gas masks and related equipment arrived, it was already early the next morning.

"Xiao Zhuang, be careful later, don't let the mercury get on your skin......"

There were only eight people who went down to the tomb, and in addition to Zhuang Rui and Dr. Ren, the other people were also experts in the field of archaeology in China.

After opening the lid of the coffin, Zhuang Rui and Dr. Ren, wearing shoulder-length leather gloves, began to carefully scoop the mercury inside the coffin into several buckets, which will later be sent for research and testing to verify the production process of mercury more than 2,000 years ago.

To be honest, after this archaeological excavation, Zhuang Rui's courage is really a lot bigger, the saying that the environment trains people is not wrong at all, where did he dare to make a big deal in the coffin of the dead before?

As a scoop of flowing silvery-white liquid was scooped out of the coffin, the objects in the bronze coffin gradually emerged.