Chapter 12 The opening of the coffin
What it feels like to hold your ankle with a cold, slippery hand in this small thief hole, no one who has ever experienced such a thing firsthand must not know, it is like a person swimming in a river and being entangled in the calf by an octopus, the fear and helplessness that sends chills down the spine. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
I wasn't very timid, but this was the first time I had ever encountered such a thing, and when my ankle was caught, my heart pounded, and my hair rose all over my body, and I instinctively shrank my foot and kicked backwards.
"Don't ...... Don't kick, it's me. ”
Hey? What a familiar sound. I turned my head with difficulty and saw that Song Yi was clutching my ankle and had a mud shoe print on her head.
"Ha, sister-in-law, are you okay? Great, simply wonderful! I was so excited that I called out his nickname at once. I was still worried about his life and death in the last second, but this second he appeared, God forbid.
Maybe it was because he had experienced life and death, and he was too tired physically and mentally, so he didn't talk back to me this time. I never care when others call me crazy, and I feel bored when people scream, but Song Yi is different, he always says that the nickname I give him is ugly, and every time I call him like this, he will definitely fight with me, and this is the first time I have seen this situation today.
Yang Juan also looked back at Song Yi at this time, her expression did not fluctuate, and she frowned and said, "It's good that you're not dead, hurry up and keep up, and be careful of those ghost fires behind you catching up." ”
As soon as I heard that it made sense, I said to Song Yi Nunu, and he let go of my ankles and followed closely behind me.
We climbed for a while, and suddenly felt a bright light coming from the front, and suddenly our spirits were shocked, and we all accelerated our speed.
"Wait......" I suddenly thought of a question and whispered, "Could it be that there is someone here?" ”
Yang Juan shook her head: "This is unlikely. ”
"Then why is there a light in this tomb?" I asked.
"It is said that some emperors are afraid of the dark, so they specially send people to the sea to catch a kind of humanoid fish and deep dragon dragonfish, and their oil can not be extinguished for thousands of years."
After all, I have heard of this kind of thing, and I have seen similar articles, but I have always liked to use science to measure it, and I absolutely do not believe that there is such an event that violates the 'law of conservation of energy'. Now we are all confused, we can't guess the result without seeing it with our own eyes, anyway, if we quit, we will die, and there is not only hope for entering,
It also satisfies my great curiosity, and I still want to explore this tomb anyway. Thinking of this, I patted Yang Juan's shoes and said, "Let's go and see first." ”
Yang Juan didn't talk nonsense, and continued to climb forward, I looked back, and there was no trace of the ghost fire for a long time, and my heart was a lot more steady, Song Yi smiled at me, I nodded to him, turned around and continued to follow Yang Juan to climb in.
This burial chamber is not large, at best it is more than 100 square meters, the height is about two zhang, there is a very steep slope on the left hand side of the robbery hole, which leads directly to the oblique top, and there is a semicircular hole above the oblique top, I don't know where it leads. I didn't know the layout of the tomb very clearly, and after asking Yang Juan, I found out that the hole was a passage, which was a passage to other tombs, and it could also be a passage to the entrance of the mausoleum.
There were eleven long wooden chests neatly arranged in the burial chamber, and I walked to one of them and knocked it with my hand, and there was a dull "thump" sound in the quiet chamber.
"This can't be the emperor's treasury, right?" I couldn't help but laugh.
"That's a coffin, don't move!" Yang Juan pulled me to her side, and I asked suspiciously, "What coffin?" ”
"In ancient times, people with conditions used double-layer coffins, which were divided into outer coffins and inner coffins, the outer coffins were generally called coffins, and the inner coffins were the real places where the remains were stored."
"Coffin?" Shocked, I pointed to the coffin in the burial chamber and said, "These ...... All of them? ”
She nodded, sighed and said: "In ancient times, the status of women was very low, and they could generally be traded as goods, and after the emperor died, he would use the concubines who had fallen out of favor in the cold palace and a large number of palace maids to accompany the burial, so that they could serve him forever in the world below, and these eleven coffins contained the remains of eleven concubines, which was quite pitiful." ”
The eleven coffins were arranged in two rows, five at the top and six at the bottom, and one coffin was missing from the far right of the upper row, otherwise it would be completely symmetrical, and I asked curiously, "Why not use twelve coffins?" It always feels awkward to be missing. ”
"Remember, the items in the tomb are generally singular, that's the rule. But nine cannot be used, because nine is great, and the emperor is sensitive to this number. In ancient times, if someone gave birth to nine children, they had to pass one on to someone else, otherwise if they were denounced, the court could punish them for this matter. ”
As soon as she said this, I instantly understood, nodded and said, "In that case, this is just a small room in the mausoleum." ”
She glanced at me and said lightly, "It's called the ear room." ”
Sure enough, she is worthy of being the descendant of the Heavenly Machine Hand, and she knows so clearly about the things in the tomb, what is her purpose? I suddenly remembered the huge contrast between her before and after, and the dragon moon buckle that she snatched at the risk of her life.
During this time, Song Yi didn't say a word, and stood silently behind me alone.
He was such a cheerful person, probably because he had been hit so hard that he hadn't come back to his senses, so I didn't bother to tease him and began to look at the ear chamber carefully.
The most attractive thing about this chamber is the light source, I saw two iron chains at the top of the chamber going vertically, and a large iron pot-like thing hanging in mid-air, in the pot was placed an irregular stone, the stone emitted a dazzling light, if it were not for the black pot to cover it, the light of that thing was comparable to a hundred watts of large light bulbs.
"I didn't expect that meteorites were used to illuminate the ancient tomb, and I have seen it for a long time." I looked back and sighed.
"Meteorite?" Obviously, Yang Juan also saw this thing for the first time, and asked in some surprise: "Can meteorites emit light?" ”
I gave her popular science: "There are thousands of types of meteorites, and they all contain certain substances, such as the stones on some planets have a particularly high iron content, some are mainly composed of zinc, and some of the stones that fell to the earth contain a large number of special substances, some can benefit mankind, and some are harmful substances, and this stone must be because it contains a large number of high-density luminous substances, so there is this scene." ”
She shook her head and said, "Impossible, since there is such a thing, why didn't the emperor put it in the palace for lighting when he was alive?" That's a bit unreasonable, right? ”
I asked rhetorically, "This stone comes from outer space, contains a large amount of radioactive material, can cause severe radiation to people, equivalent to a chronic poison, would you put it at home and use it?" ”
She nodded knowingly, and I continued, "In ancient times, meteorites from the sky were seen as a sign of disaster and a bad thing, but it was better to be in a mausoleum. ”
"Makes sense." Yang Juan nodded and said: "This kind of princely tomb is full of organs, it is best to act cautiously, don't blame me for not reminding you, if there is no place to die and be buried, don't blame me for not reminding you." ”
Although she said this for our own good, I just looked at her domineering appearance and laughed sarcastically: "Who said there is no place to bury?" The treatment buried in the underground palace of the emperor Lao'er is really not such a blessing for ordinary people.
She didn't bother to argue with me and reached out to me.
I thought she was going to shake hands with me, and as a man, it would be too small to be a man if she didn't accept it, so I grabbed her hand.
Although I was disgraced in the thief hole just now, and my hands were dirty, I still felt a little soft after holding it, and I pinched it out of instinct.
Her brows gradually twisted together, and she just looked me in the eye.
Something seems wrong?
She said word by word: "I, want, knife." ”
Yes? I felt a fever on my face, and I quickly let go of her hand, pulled the dagger from my waist and handed it to her.
She looked at me again and slowly walked towards the nearest coffin.
Only then did I notice that she was limping when she walked, remembering that she hadn't screamed a word of pain since she had been wounded by a gunshot for so long, and suddenly remembered the scene of 'saving' her last night.
She was silent in front of the coffin, grabbed the knife with her backhand, and slowly stretched forward, under the illumination of the light, the shadow on the ground slowly changed with her movements, and the shadow's arm trembled slightly.
I suddenly remembered something, and rushed forward in two steps to grab her arm, and she looked back at me in surprise, her face full of bewilderment.
I explained, "The dead are great, and by doing so now we are destroying the peace of others, and we should respect them." ”
"What Wang Ling taught you?" She asked coldly.
I had long sensed that she seemed to have a deep prejudice against my grandmother, and I didn't care about her, denying it: "My grandmother didn't teach me anything, it's just my personal thoughts." If you put yourself in your shoes, how would you feel if the person lying inside was us, and the descendants came to destroy the coffin? In a lifetime, in the autumn of grass and trees, everyone will die one day, if not for anything else, even if it is to accumulate virtue for future generations. ”
"You mean you don't want the coffin to be opened?" She asked, a little displeased.
I actually just wanted to come inside and have no other ideas, so I nodded and said, "If I can." ”
"What if I say no?" She asked stubbornly.
I sighed, let go of her arms, and knelt down in front of her.
"You...... What are you doing? Her face flushed, a little overwhelmed.
"You're thinking too much, get out of the way." I was a little angry.
Only then did she realize that I was showing respect to the owner of the coffin, and snorted coldly and turned sideways.
"The seniors are above, it's really offensive for the seniors to disturb your peace tonight, Wanghaihan, please accept my three kowtows to apologize!" After speaking, I leaned over and kowtowed, and suddenly felt movement around me, and when I looked up, it turned out that Yang Juan was also kneeling next to me, kowtowing to the coffin together, and I suddenly felt a lot warmer in my heart.
When kowtowing to the third head, I saw the most terrifying scene from the gap between my legs, only to see Song Yi, who was originally standing behind me, with green hair all over her body, no shadow under her feet, the green and faint eyes staring at the two of us, an old man with a tongue sticking out, and the scarlet tongue continued to flow down, and there was no shadow under its feet!
No wonder I always felt that something was wrong with him, it turned out to be a green-haired monster! I was horrified and shouted at Yang Juan, "Run! ”
Yang Juan also reacted quickly, pulling me to roll on the ground, holding the knife horizontally in front of her.
What about the green-haired monsters?
There weren't any green-haired monsters standing in front of us, only Song Yi smirked and looked at the two of us, but there was no shadow under his feet!
Yang Juan obviously noticed this as well, pulled me back and said, "Hide behind me." ”
I wasn't as good as her, so I quickly hid behind her and peeked at Song Yi through her shoulder. ’
'Song Yi' still smirked, slowly walking towards us, Yang Juan's body trembled slightly, but still screamed, rolled forward to him, stood up while raising the dagger, and cut diagonally to the chest of 'Song Yi'.
I didn't expect ...... Such a sharp dagger slashed at him, but he didn't move at all. With a wave of the smiling 'Song Yi' hand, Yang Juan reached out to block it, but it was like a kite with a broken string being thrown several meters.
Such a great force!
'Song Yi' ran towards her quickly, with obvious changes as he ran, long green hair slowly grew on his body, and sharp claws of a few centimeters appeared in front of his fingers, looking extremely hideous.
This is the first time I've encountered such a strange situation, my legs are scared and weak, and I don't have the strength to go over to help first, it seems that I really want to accompany the emperor here.
Suddenly, an arrow struck the back of the green-haired monster's neck with a 'boom', and the green-haired monster turned around and stared at the mouth of the road.
There was a man in his thirties standing at the entrance of the Yongdao, with a small flat head and a slightly chubby figure, who was putting away the crossbow in his hand at the moment, and then pulled out a machete from his back!
He jumped directly from the Yongdao crossing, four or five meters high, he actually jumped down like that!
The green-haired monster strode forward like a gorilla, its sharp claws glistening in the light.
The man reached out and wiped a handful on the blade, which was immediately stained with scarlet blood, he licked the wound in the palm of his hand, held the knife in both hands, and a cruel smile appeared on his face!