Chapter 19: A Strange Relief

We searched for the screaming place, and found that at the other end of the tomb road, which was close to the stone gate where Chubby and I had entered, there was a path next to it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Chubby said strangely, "It's weird, when did there be such a trail here? Why didn't I see it when I passed by just now?"

"I didn't see it either", I said, "Is it because I was in a hurry, this place is dark, and I didn't pay attention?"

"No", Tang Ying said beside him: "With my eyesight, if this tomb road existed just now, it would be impossible not to find it."

I can't help but believe Tang Ying's words, he eats more salt than I do.

"There really wasn't such a grave path," Hutch confirmed.

"Connecting you...... Can you see that?" asked Chubby, stammering.

I was amusing on the side, thinking that Chubby must have wanted to say that even you, a blind man, could see it, and after thinking about it, it was inappropriate and I held it back.

"Although I am a blind person, but I can see more clearly than some blind people, some things need to be seen with 'heart', the thickness of the brick layer and the soil layer of the tomb road is different, and the sound of return is not the same, I didn't 'hear' the existence of this tomb just now", Hu Qi explained briefly.

"Damn, catch up with the bat", I thought to myself, "Maybe this is the legendary 'Listen to the Voice'", right?", but judging from what happened before, I am convinced that Hu Qi has such a skill. Since even masters like Tang Ying and Hu Qi said that there was no such tomb road just now, it must be gone, but now this tomb road is clearly placed in front of us, what is going on?

"Don't worry about this tomb road for now, that scream came from inside, go in and take a look", Cheng Jiao, who had not spoken, said beside him. Everyone discussed it, and since no one could guess why this tomb suddenly appeared, we could only put this question aside for a while, so we took the wolf's eye flashlight and entered this tomb that suddenly appeared inexplicably.

This tomb passage is much smaller than the main tomb road leading to the burial chamber, only enough for one person to bend over and pass, and the length is not too long, it is about thirty meters, and after we came out of the tomb passage, we found a strange burial chamber.

The reason why it is strange is that this tomb is circular, I used to watch the programs of the Central Ten Science and Education Channel, and I also have some understanding of the ancient tomb system, the circular tomb is very rare in the Han tombs, and it is basically used by ethnic minorities, why is there such a circular tomb in the tomb of a concubine in the Ming Dynasty? What is it used for? On the other hand, there are no coffins in this burial chamber, and the curved ceiling of the burial chamber is carved with the star dipper, and the circular tomb wall is carved with reliefs, but strangely, most of these reliefs have been destroyed, and the ground is full of gravel and broken stone chips.

There was a person lying on the ground in the tomb, and Cheng Jiao exclaimed: "It's Zhang Ziheng!"

When I looked at it, sure enough, I saw Zhang Ziheng curled up in the center of the tomb, motionless. Hu Qi walked over, checked the pulse, frowned, and said: "Strange, judging from the pulse, there is nothing wrong with it, just like a normal person, but he really doesn't have any reaction from a living person."

"Master Hu, why do you always talk like a dumb riddle? Can you explain it clearly? Like a normal person, why don't you have a reaction from a living person? What does it mean?"

"That is to say, he is now in a state of 'suspended animation'", Hu Qi said: "similar to the usual 'vegetative person', but different from a vegetative person, a vegetative person is physically alive but the brain is dead, while 'suspended animation' is that both the body and the brain are alive, but there is no reaction to the outside world, just like a dead person."

Chubby shook his head: "I still don't understand"

Hu Qi continued: "This state of 'suspended animation' is more common in animals and insects, such as Cordyceps, which is a state of 'suspended animation' in summer grass, and it is very rare in human bodies, according to legend, there is a kind of kung fu called "turtle breath gong" in ancient times, and you can achieve a state of 'suspended death' when practiced to a certain extent, but this kind of kung fu is just a legend, in fact, it does not exist, and like Zhang Ziheng's current state should not be his own state of 'suspended death', but caused by the outside world."

"What caused him to be like this?" I asked.

Hu Qi and Tang Ying carefully examined it and found no injuries or attacks on Zhang Ziheng. What is going on here? How did Zhang Ziheng come to this tomb? And what caused him to become a state of 'suspended animation'? It seems that this tomb is far from being as simple as it seems.

At this time, Cheng Jiao looked at the reliefs in the tomb and said, "These reliefs are also very strange."

It was only after her reminder that we noticed the reliefs on the circular wall of the burial chamber. This is a group of reliefs, the first, the one near the far left of the tomb, on which is carved an old man riding an animal like a deer, this old man is in a trance, as if he is about to be planted from the deer, and in the clouds above his head, there is an ugly-looking man with a green face and fangs, who is looking at the old man with a cruel smile, as if he is holding something in his hand. The second, the one on the right side of the first relief, is carved with a pine tree, and under the pine tree there is an old man, one foot in front and one foot behind, as if he is stepping, there are two old men in front of him, one of the old men pushes the back of the other old man as if he is leaving, the old man who is stepping looks at the two of them and smiles, and the two old men who are about to leave seem to have suddenly realized. The third, the one to the right of the second relief, is carved with all sorts of monsters and strange people, some with wings, some with horses......

I saw the first three reliefs that did not cause me special attention, but the fourth relief immediately attracted me, I saw that this relief was carved with a big Buddha, some people seemed to be carving words on the neckline of this big Buddha, I looked at the shape of this big Buddha, I was taken aback, this big Buddha is not the little jade Buddha carved that strange Buddha statue?!

Why is there a Buddha statue in the same shape as the small jade Buddha in this strange tomb? What exactly does this group of reliefs mean? Further down, all the reliefs from the fourth one onwards have been destroyed.

Cheng Jiao said: "It seems that these reliefs were deliberately destroyed, and judging from the traces of destruction, they were destroyed not long ago."

I looked closely, and it was true, the signs of the destruction were all new, and it seemed as if the reliefs had not been destroyed by some chisel, hammer, or the like, but had been cut off piece by piece, and had fallen to the ground and then crushed. What the hell is going on?

Tang Ying walked over, took a closer look at the traces of the destruction of the reliefs, and said: "It seems that these reliefs were cut into pieces by an extremely sharp sword or knife, and then crushed, and from the traces, it seems to be in a hurry", as he said, picking up a piece of uncrushed fragments from the ground, I was surprised to see that this stone fragment was as thin as a leaf.

Fat grinned after listening to this: "That's a stone, boss, what kind of sword or knife can cut off these stone reliefs piece by piece? ”

Hu Qi replied beside him: "It's not impossible, as far as I know, there are at least five swords in history that can cut stones and turnips, these five swords are Zhanlu, Chunjun, Shengxie, Fish Intestine, and Juque." ”

Tang Ying continued: "But to cut the stone to be as thin as a leaf, the person who also needs to use a sword has amazing kung fu, I don't know if there is such kung fu in ancient times, this is unimaginable in modern people, at least I am far inferior."

I was amazed that a person like Tang Ying, who was so squeamish and arrogant and had no one in his eyes, could say such a thing, which shows that if this stone chip was really cut off by someone with a sword, then the kung fu of this person with a sword is so amazing that it is unimaginable.

Xiaopang seemed to suddenly remember something on the side, and said, "I think of a person, could it be that he did it?"

"Who?" asked Cheng Jiao.

"Wu Lan", Xiao Fat said: "I can't see if he has this kind of kung fu, but I have seen the big sword in his long baggage, in the basement of the dry rest house, he took out the treasure guy, black and shiny, and inserted it into the wall with only a light insertion, it was just like inserting it into tofu, effortlessly, I was very surprised at the time, there is really such a sword in the world."

"Can you describe what that sword looks like?" Hu Qi said.

"The sword is not long, it is about two feet long, but it is very wide, at least a palm's width, it is black and gold, after pulling it out, it flashes in the basement, it seems to glow with a blue-black light in the dark, and it vaguely looks at the pattern on the sword body, but because it is too dark, it can't really be seen", Xiao Fat said.

"According to your description, it looks a lot like the legendary 'Juque' sword. This 'Juque' sword is said to be cast by Ou Yezi, which can 'penetrate the copper kettle, cut off the iron, and be as decisive as rice in the Xuzhong, so it is called Juque'. That is to say, the giant sword can pierce the copper pot, and the breaks are like cutting rice cakes. But how could this artifact end up in Wu Lan's hands?" Hu Qi said.

"Even if Wu Lan really has a giant sword and has amazing kung fu, why would he destroy this relief?" I asked.

"I don't know this, but that day in the basement, in order to follow Zhang Ziheng, I told Wu Lan to take a secret passage alone, and the one I walked went to the tomb with mud corpses, it may be a trap, although the secret passage under the coffin was sealed by someone, but it was not necessarily Zhang Ziheng's doing, so it is likely that Wu Lan and Zhang Ziheng took the same road, and Zhang Ziheng appeared in this tomb, and the relief of this tomb was destroyed by a sharp sword, only Wu Lan has such a sword, all kinds of signs indicate that this is what Wu Lan did, maybe Zhang Ziheng becameThe state of 'suspended animation' was also done by Wu Lan, as for the motive for the crime, it remains to be verified", Chubby said with his hands behind his back and pretending to be Sherlock Holmes.

"Miss Cheng, do you know the origin of this Wu Lan?" I asked Cheng Jiao.

"He was invited by our boss, and I don't know the specifics," Cheng Jiao said.

"It seems that this Wu Lan is not simple", I thought to myself.

"There is also something very strange about this relief," Cheng Jiao said.