Chapter 5: Monsters
Chen Zhan looked at the dumb ditch, frowned and said, "This dumb ditch seems to be a game of absorbing yang and gathering yin!?" It's really strange, how could anyone choose to be a yin house in this place back then!"
"Absorb the yang and gather the yin? What kind of feng shui bureau is that, haven't you heard of it?" Zhao Guofeng asked puzzled, Hu Gang also didn't understand, the first time he heard this kind of strange name of the Feng Shui Bureau.
"I have seen it before from a book left by my master, in fact, this Yang Absorption and Yin Gathering Bureau is actually not a Feng Shui Bureau, there are many kinds of Feng Shui, each of which has its own effect, such as the Yang Gathering Feng Shui Bureau is usually used in the Yang House, increasing people's Yang Qi, which is conducive to people's physical health, and the Yin Gathering Yin Feng Shui Bureau is not beneficial to the Yang House or the Yin House, the reason why it is said that this is the Yang Absorption and Yin Gathering Yin Bureau, because the dumb ditch is surrounded by mountains on both sides, the middle collapses, and the bottom is not exposed to sunlight all year round. But you see that the feng shui here is smooth and the plants grow and the flow of living qi, becoming a place to gather yang, when these two feng shui situations appear in one place, it forms a situation of absorbing yang and gathering yin, here the yin gathers at night, but once the yang flows during the day, the yin energy that gathers up will be dispersed, and the yang does not gather and the yin does not stay, which has no effect on this ancient tomb at all. Chen Zhan explained.
Zhao Guofeng patted Chen Zhan's shoulder and said, "Old Chen, let's go to the ancient tomb first."
When Chen Zhan and the three of them came to the ancient tomb of Dumbagou and were still more than 50 meters away, they saw a bloody scene in front of them, a deer corpse fell to the ground, the whole stomach was broken, the intestines flowed to the ground, there were many flies crawling on the body, and there was a foul smell, it seemed that it had been dead for two or three days.
"I haven't seen any animals here for a week, how can there be a deer dying here, damn, what kind of animal did this, it actually had a disembowelment!" Hu Gang scolded, apparently the smell made him feel sick.
"Since there will be beasts here, let's be careful." Zhao Guofeng looked around and said, "Huh!?" You see, the carcass of this deer has not been eaten anywhere except its entrails!"
As soon as he heard Zhao Guofeng say this, Chen Zhan also took a closer look, and sure enough, he found that the deer corpse was only missing internal organs, and he was curious, but now the main task was to go to the ancient tomb to see the situation, Chen Zhan said: "Don't worry about these for now, let's pay more attention to the surrounding movements!"
The three of them continued to walk towards the ancient tomb, when they came to the big cave, they found that the big hole had a rope ladder used by the archaeological team before, the rope ladder was fixed from the outside and extended into the hole, Chen Zhan took out a military flashlight and shone it inside, and found that the space inside was not small, and the hole was more than four meters away from the ground of the tomb, Zhao Guofeng said, "Let's go down." ”
The three of them walked down the rope ladder into the ancient tomb, anyway, there is no need to worry about the air quality in the ancient tomb for the time being, the archaeological team has been in it before, generally speaking, this ancient tomb has been closed underground for more than a thousand years, the air inside is not circulated, the corpses in the ancient tomb must first expand and be full of corpse gas, and then the skin and flesh and internal organs begin to decay from the inside out, and the corpse gas begins to spread, although the tomb does not have a vacuum environment in the real sense, but if it is not ventilated for a long time, the stench of the rotting corpse inside will still be held in it, Even if it is separated by thousands of years, it will not be dissipated, even if there is no corpse gas, but the air that has not flowed for thousands of years will slowly form a poisonous gas harmful to the human body, once a person inhales this toxic gas, he will be dizzy and dizzy, and he will be poisoned to death, unless he is equipped with a gas mask.
The position where Chen Zhan and the three of them came in happened to be the location of the back room, and the coffin of the general tomb owner was placed in the center of the main room, and the previous archaeological team had already opened all the tombs inside, Chen Zhan and the three of them observed while walking, and they didn't find anything, and they didn't see any burial goods along the way.
There are more than a dozen skeletons piled up in the corner of the main room, from the bones it can be seen that these bones have existed for a long time, the skull is dented and cracked, and there are obvious marks of blunt hammering, these bones may be used for burial in the past prisoners or wives and concubines, Chen Zhan and the three of them did not pay attention.
Hu Gang suddenly pulled Chen Zhan's arm, "Old Chen, there are still paintings on the wall of this main room." ”
Chen Zhan looked along the tomb wall illuminated by Hu Gang's flashlight, and sure enough, he was carved with painted reliefs one after another, the figures in the paintings were simple and lifelike, although they had gone through more than a thousand years, but the colors were still quite bright, but as the flowing air entered the tomb, these murals would slowly fade.
During the Tang and Song dynasties, most of the princely tombs had murals, which were used to record the major deeds of the tomb owner's life.
There are a total of six murals on the tomb wall, and Chen Zhan looked at them in order. Some of these paintings are depicted drinking with friends in the hall, some are depicted sitting with two old men, as if talking about something, some are depicted on a hill followed by many people pointing to the mountains in front of them, and the last one is painted with a scene of lying in front of the table and reading the drawings, each mural has a man holding a folding fan, this should be the tomb owner in this ancient tomb, it seems that this is the tomb of a civil official in the Tang Dynasty, the area of the entire tomb is not small, and the official rank of this civil official must not be small.
The coffin of the tomb owner is not small, and it is brushed with a layer of black paint, but what makes Chen Zhan strange is that there is no decoration on it, it is a coffin style, Chen Zhan squatted down and touched the coffin board on the ground, and found that it was very thick, Chen Zhan looked at the coffin board carefully, and scraped it on it with a knife, "Hey, old Zhao laohu, this coffin is actually carved from the heart of a gloomy wood, who is the owner of this ancient tomb?" Chen Zhan said in surprise.
The best in the coffin is the heart of the gloomy wood and the building wood, a gloomy wood from the growth to the timber and then buried in the ground to form, it takes at least thousands of years, this kind of best can be met but not sought, of course, the building wood refers to the wood of the tree, this kind of tree is more difficult to find than the heart of the gloomy wood, only recorded in the ancient books, no one has seen it now, like the coffin made of the heart of the gloomy wood only the royal family can enjoy.
The corpse is buried in the heart of the gloomy wood tree, the flesh will never rot, it is worth more than the embalming coffin made of crystal, and it is more effective than the preservation function of the refrigerator, followed by the golden silk nanmu, linden mahogany, millennium cypress, the thicker the heart of the tree, the more valuable, the first is to prevent the corpse from rotting, the second is not to give birth to insects, which can effectively prevent maggots and ants from biting, unlike ordinary wood, it will not take long to be eaten by insects and ants, in ancient times, no tomb owner hoped that his body after death would be eaten by insects, In ancient times, the nobles had strict requirements for the coffin wood, and what kind of wood was used for what status.
"It's really gloomy wood, Lao Chen, you are really careful, the last time we came here, we didn't notice that this is made of gloomy wood tree heart, it seems that this ancient tomb was definitely weird when it was built here!" Hu Gang also squatted down, scraped some black-brown sawdust with a knife, put it in his hand and looked at it.
Zhao Guofeng asked puzzledly: "Old Chen laohu, how can the wood used for a coffin show that there is something strange here?"
"Lao Zhao, in ancient times, this coffin made of gloomy wood tree heart has always been only used by the royal family, this ancient tomb owner is either a member of the royal family or a dignitary who was loved by the emperor at that time, generally when these people are buried, there will be Mr. Feng Shui to choose a good feng shui burial place for them in advance, do you think about how this tomb owner will be buried in this place that absorbs yang and gathers yin, doesn't this seem very strange?" Lao Hu stood up and said.
Zhao Guofeng immediately understood, "So what secrets are hidden in this ancient tomb?"
"As for the secret, this will have to be checked by the people in the bureau, and now I'll see if there are any clues." Chen Zhan stretched out his head to look inside the coffin, there was nothing in it, presumably the corpse inside should have been transported away, after all, the corpse placed in the heart of the gloomy wooden tree could still maintain a relatively clear appearance, and it was naturally collected as a treasure.
"Open!" Chen Zhan pressed his finger lightly on his forehead, and the eye of heaven suddenly opened, and Chen Zhan found that there was a layer of faint black and yellow gas wrapped around the outside of the coffin, this layer of gas gave him a feeling of resentment and a bit like evil qi, but it was mixed with some other strange things, "Lao Hu, is this what Monk Jingchen said before?" Chen Zhan asked, pointing to the outside of the coffin.
As soon as Hu Gang heard Chen Zhan say this, he immediately opened his yin and yang eyes, "Old Chen, what are you talking about, why didn't I see anything?"
"Hmmm! It seems to be the effect of gloomy wood. Chen Zhan drew talismans in the air with both hands, pressed the four fingers of both hands on his heavenly eyes, and then pressed on Hu Gang's eyes, and a golden light flashed on Hu Gang's eyes.
Hu Gang immediately saw the black and yellow gas wrapped around the outside of the coffin, "That's right, this is the same as what we saw in the three people who died recently!" What the hell is this thing left behind?"
"I don't know, but maybe something knows what it is." Chen Zhan took out the peach box he had brought from home when he left Xi'an from the bag he was carrying, and this peach box was the box of the dead jade that he had taken from Wang Hai.
"Lao Chen, what the hell are you in here?" Zhao Guofeng asked curiously.
"You'll find out later." Chen Zhan opened the peach box, only to see that there was the jade pendant he had taken from Wang Hai, which was not wrapped in yellow paper, but now it was painted with red runes.
"You help me see what this thing left now, I promise you that when Yin Si comes in the future, I can intercede and ask them to help you reduce some punishment!" Chen Zhan picked up the jade pendant and said to the jade pendant, but the jade pendant didn't react at all.
Lao Hu looked at the jade pendant in Chen Zhan's hand and said in surprise: "Dead jade!" Lao Chen, you raise ghosts!?"
"Huh! How can I raise ghosts, I'll tell you what's going on later, what I'm saying is true, there is only one chance, if you don't want to help then forget it. Chen Zhan said lightly to Yu Pei.
As if thinking about it for a while, Yu Pei trembled slightly, and Chen Zhan smiled slightly, "Solution!" Some of the runes on the jade pendant disappeared, and I saw a black mist full of evil qi gushing out of the jade pendant, slowly winding around the dark yellow gas.
After a while, the black mist slowly retracted, and a hoarse voice came out of the jade pendant, "Remember your words, don't break your promise, I feel that this breath should be left by some kind of monster!"