Chapter 24: The Buddha Statue in the Tomb

This loud sound frightened the rats far away, relieved me of the temporary danger, I struggled to my feet, and quickly took out a fire fold from my backpack and lit it. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info turned his head and saw a hole in front of me, and it was dark and faint, and I didn't know where to go.

Could it be that this is also a thief's hole? How could someone hit the robbery hole in this hole, could it be that some tomb robbers were trapped here, and escaped with the tools in their hands to break the robbery hole.

These thoughts flashed through my mind, and before I could rejoice, I heard the "chirping" of the strange rats behind me, and it seemed that they had found no danger after the loud noise, and gathered around me again.

The thief hole in front of me is a god-sent way to escape, and in the face of hundreds of scalp tingling monsters behind me, even if I know that the thief hole in front of me leads to hell, I will not hesitate to get into it. I hurriedly pulled out a piece of bandaging gauze from my backpack, sprinkled a few drops of disinfectant alcohol, lit it with a fire breaker, and placed it in the hole to block the rats, and quickly got into it myself.

The inside of this cave is wet and narrow, and my stature is no longer considered strong among men, at best it is an average level, and I can't even climb through the narrow part of the cave without closing my stomach. In fact, my psychological quality can not be considered bad, but I still can't see the end after crawling in this dark and narrow thief hole for a long time, and the feeling in my heart that I can't enter and retreat is really impossible to describe with pen and ink, but I'm afraid that people with airtight phobia will be scared to death.

I gritted my teeth and endured the smell of wet mud on the tip of my nose and continued to crawl forward, and suddenly I felt that something furry like a root had been hanging on my head, but this thief hole was narrow, and I couldn't free my hand to take it away, so I could only endure to climb forward, but to climb to the end, I found that this thief hole was slowly going up, and I didn't know where it leads.

I rested a few times in the middle because of physical problems, and I don't know how long I crawled in the dark, and when the numbness of my hands had become a mechanical action, I stretched out my right hand forward, but I didn't expect it to be empty. I don't know if it's the relationship between the narrow and thin air in the hole, I feel dizzy, but it's this press that makes me a thriller, and my mind is much clearer, could it be that this thief hole has come to an end?

I cautiously touched my hand forward again, and sure enough, it was no longer the dirt in the thief cave, but I didn't know where it led outside, maybe it was on the cliff, so I went out so rashly, I was afraid that I would fall to death. I shrank back, lay myself on my back, reached into my backpack, felt a fire breaker out, and lightly lit it.

Under the firelight, I saw that it was still pitch black two meters away from the cave, and I slowly stretched my head out, only to find that the thief cave was hanging more than two meters high, and the bottom was a stone paved floor, the same as I had seen in the former tomb, so it seemed that I should still be in the ancient tomb. I held the fire fold high and shone it on the top of my head, and found that there were some patterns on the top, and the distance was too far away to see some vermilion colors, and the contents were not clear.

Now that I have climbed to the exit, although it is not what I expected, I can only see walking. I climbed the wall outside the cave with my hands, slowly crawled out of the hole with my lower body, and then grabbed the edge of the hole with both hands and jumped down.

I rested against the wall for a while, touched the backpack, and found a bag of biscuits. I took it apart and ate it, and it was only then that I felt a little more comfortable.

The person's spirit has been tense for a long time, and once he is in a relaxed state, Zhou Gong immediately came to him. I tilted my head, and before I knew it, I was about to fall asleep, when suddenly I didn't know where I heard a "rustling" sound. It's like someone scratching a stone slab with their fingernails, and it looks very eerie in this kind of place.

I shuddered, and I was so frightened that I immediately woke up, I don't know which part of the ancient tomb is here, without Professor Jia, I am a blind man with my eyes open in the ancient tomb, let alone find a way out. If a zombie jumps out of the tomb, I'm afraid I won't even know where to flee.

I stood up with my tiredness and listened carefully, only to find that the "rustling" sound just now was gone. I waited for a while, but I still couldn't hear the sound just now, and I felt that it was not possible to wait any longer, so I carefully walked along the tomb wall.

It hadn't taken a few steps before the sound sounded again, only after two rings this time, it never sounded again. I felt that walking was neither stopping nor stopping, so I finally gritted my teeth and continued to walk forward.

The light of the fire fold couldn't shine far, and I couldn't see anything two meters in front of me, so I couldn't even see what kind of environment the tomb was in, so I could only walk along the tomb wall.

"Dangchang!"

While walking cautiously, who knew that the toe still kicked something, the thing was round, and when Chang Dang Chang rolled away. I was startled, and took a look at the fire fold in my hand, and found that it was a cylinder about twenty centimeters long, I picked it up and checked it, but it was not heavy, but one end of the cylinder was relatively flat, and there were traces of fracture at one end, and I don't know where it was broken.

Seeing that the light of the fire fold was fading, my heart moved, and I took out the only remaining tattered clothes from my backpack, tore it into strips of cloth and wrapped it around the column, wrapped it around a layer of gauze for bandaging, sprinkled some disinfectant alcohol, and made a torch, and after lighting it, the visibility in the tomb suddenly increased.

The tomb I am in is actually not very large, at most only about 100 square meters, and the walls around the room are also painted with exquisite patterns and words, mostly some accounts of praise and virtue, but when I see the middle of the room, I was stunned.

I saw that in the middle of the tomb, there are three Buddha statues, nearly three meters high, the one in the middle can be seen at a glance is Guanyin, and the one on the left is Amitabha, and the one on the right I can't name, but it should also be a Buddha statue. The posture of the Buddha statue is different, but the Buddha statue that is supposed to be compassionate and generous is now full of weirdness in my eyes.

Although I am not a professional, I know that it is impossible to place Buddha statues in the tomb. Could it be that this king of Nanyue killed too many people during his lifetime, and he knew that he was guilty, and after his death, he placed the Buddha statue here to prevent those unjust ghosts who killed him from avenging?

But it's not right, my history is not bad, if I remember correctly, Buddhism was introduced to our country from India, it should be in the Eastern Han Dynasty, but why is there such a lifelike Buddha statue in the ancient tomb of the early Western Han Dynasty? Could it be that there are errors in the historical development of the relevant records of Buddhism in China? Was Buddhism introduced to the Lingnan region in the Western Han Dynasty or even earlier?

Such speculation is not impossible, and ivory and other objects from the African coast have long been found in the ancient tombs of Nanling, and it is not impossible that Buddhism was transmitted from India to the Lingnan region by sea relying on such a developed sea transportation. The Lingnan region is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, due to regional isolation or some unknown reasons, the spread of Buddhism only ends in Lingnan, and then Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains through the Silk Road in the Eastern Han Dynasty......

I also thought of the Baiyue people's activity in the Lingnan area, maybe it was these Baiyue people who created the prosperity of the Nanling area through the sea route and finally declined due to the invasion of the Central Plains. There are too many such deeds in the history of the world, such as the demise of the Mayan civilization on the American continent, because of the invasion of Europeans.

Looking at the three Buddha statues in front of me, I thought that if the deeds of the Buddha statues found in the ancient tombs of the early Han Dynasty were spread in the news media, it would definitely cause an earthquake in the academic world.

I circled around the three Buddha statues again, and found that there was a huge stone incense burner in front of the Buddha statue, but it was missing a leg, and then I realized that the stone pillar in my hand was the broken leg of the incense burner. The censer was high to my chest, and I raised my toes and shone the torch to the censer, only to find it empty, nothing.

"Rustle!"

It was at this time that I heard the disturbing voice again. I shone the torch into the room, and found an archway on one side of the tomb, and inside was a passage, and I don't know where it led, and the sound came from the passage. Now it is not a way to wait for Professor Jia and them to come here, but to take the initiative to find a way out, maybe they can get out alive. I took the dagger that had been pinned to my hiking boots in my hand and walked in boldly.

I thought it would be a long passage, but in less than five minutes, I had already walked into another burial chamber. This burial chamber is similar to the previous burial chamber where the coffins of the nine corpses were placed visually, but when I saw the placement in the burial chamber, I was shocked.

I saw that in the middle of the burial chamber, several sarcophagi were neatly placed, revealing a gray and cold feeling in the pale yellow of the torches, which was eerie and terrifying. But I'm not a tomb robber, and I've never thought about opening a museum to touch gold, as long as it wasn't for a zombie popping out of the sarcophagus, I didn't need to worry too much, at least it was much safer than the strange rat swarm in the pit.

Naturally, there are many exquisite murals and texts on the walls of this tomb, although I comfort myself that I don't need to be afraid, but at this time, my heart is also beating wildly, how can I still have the mood to check. I walked along the tomb wall, and was about to bypass the sarcophagus in the middle, but suddenly I was stunned, only to see that on the opposite side of where I was standing just now, in the place covered by the sarcophagus, there were several copper tripods, and there were also some copper kettles and other bronze utensils, which could also reflect a faint yellow light on the halo of the torch, which showed that it was very well preserved.

I walked around the sarcophagus, and now I saw it more clearly, but my heart beat faster, and I saw that in this corner, in addition to the bronzes I had just seen, there were also some jade, gold and silver ornaments and other things, and there were not a few of them. It seems that these must be the burial goods in the ancient tomb, could it be that I accidentally bumped into it and found the main tomb of the king of Nanyue?

Although I am not a tomb robber, I am a mortal after all, and I am very excited to see these funeral goods that are enough for me to live comfortably for a lifetime, not to mention that there are so many here.

Although I was very excited, after experiencing it, I knew that there were many traps in the ancient tomb, and maybe there was a fatal danger in this pile of exquisite funeral goods, so I was excited and excited, and I still kept an eye on it, and I didn't dare to touch it directly with my hands, but carefully picked out a jade pendant from a pile of jade artifacts with a dagger and put it under the torch to watch carefully.

The jade pendant reveals a mellow luster under the light under the torch, although I don't know much about jade, but I don't need to play with my hands to know that it is a fine jade in the jade, the jade pendant is carved with a symmetrical double dragon head, open mouth drum eyes, decorated with open-carved moire, the image is about to come out, the image is vivid.

Now that you're here, any more politeness is tantamount to annihilating humanity. I took out the leftover clothes from my backpack, put the jade pendant inside, picked out a delicate jade horn cup, wrapped it, and put it in the backpack.

There are so many types of funeral goods, I don't know where to start, this feeling is like a poor man, suddenly get a huge fortune, but he is used to it, let him spend it, he doesn't know where to spend it. When he was about to take a good look at the other burial goods, he suddenly found a black thing, diagonally placed under the feet of a copper tripod. If I hadn't leaned half-lean, I wouldn't have noticed.

I turned and walked over, because at a glance I saw that the black thing looked like something that everyone knew. Sure enough, I shone the torch under the bronze dome and found that the thing hidden in the shadows turned out to be a backpack.

The presence of this thing here surprised me even more than the pile of funerary goods. Could it be that Professor Jia and Luo Dascar left it? But it doesn't look like it, I've seen all of their backpacks, and it's not this style.

If you think about it, it's better to take it in your hand and take a look. I immediately took the backpack, under the torch, the backpack was dark brown, and the appearance was stained with a lot of mud, it seemed to have rolled in the mud mound, I suddenly remembered my experience of escaping from the pit, could it be that this backpack was left by a tomb robber?

With this in mind, I quickly opened my backpack, which contained few items, a powerful flashlight, but the battery was used up; A small shovel for digging the soil, very sharp, but I am afraid that the speed of digging and burrowing is not slower than the special pickaxe left by my ancestor in Luo Dascar's hand (I didn't know until later that this small shovel was the famous Luoyang shovel); There was also a worn-out rogen, a bottle of alcohol and some miscellaneous items.

I put aside the worn-out Luo Geng and the alcohol, poured out all the miscellaneous items, and rummaged through them, and found that there were no useful things, but a small porcelain piece caught my attention. If I'm not mistaken, what Professor Jia is often looking at in his hand is the same small porcelain piece. Could it be that there is a connection between these two small porcelain pieces? Are they all maps of the tombs of the Nanyue kings?