Chapter 196: Opening the coffin
I turned around and saw Luo Wantian and Fat Xiong sticking the dagger in their hands into the belly of the water monster. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info water monster struggled in pain, stirring the lake water turbid.
It was then that I realized that the monster at the bottom of the lake was actually a giant salamander, and it was very large, about the size of two adults, and its four long whiskers were long and thick. It is different from ordinary salamanders, as if it has mutated, and the two rows of teeth are glowing green, as if it is highly poisonous.
It was struggling to shake off the dagger on its body at this moment, Luo Wantian and Xiong Fatzi were swaying from side to side by it, but they were willing to let go. Seeing this, I swam quickly, went around the back, and slammed the jade dagger into the back of the fish, and the water monster struggled even harder, and almost threw me off.
I don't know where I got the courage, gritted my teeth and didn't let go of the jade dagger, I held the jade dagger tightly with both hands and thrust it down, and then dragged it down, so the water monster was opened by me from the back of the fish, and it screamed in pain. The water of the lake was stirred to a boil, and the silt beneath was tumbling with it.
The strange fish floated up and down, swaying its huge body vigorously, and threw the three of us off at once.
Luo Wantian and the fat bear were thrown out, but I broke away from the jade dagger, and the people also flew out. The water monster seemed to be crazy in pain and seemed to have made a final struggle, and hit me head-on, I only felt a pain in my waist, and fell heavily on the sarcophagus, and my head hit the coffin, and immediately felt that my head was bursting with gold stars, and the blood flowed into columns, and my head was immediately dizzy and wanted to faint, and I clenched my teeth to prevent myself from being unconscious.
What I didn't know was that the blood I shed was not stained by the water, but was instantly absorbed by the sarcophagus, and at the same time, the runes on the sarcophagus all flashed a red streamer, and the speed was so fast that no one noticed the flash of this red light.
I tried to stay awake, but I couldn't fight anymore, and after seeing Luo Wantian and Fat Xiong flying out, I immediately reacted and swam back with all my strength and speed. The fat bear threw himself and stabbed the dagger in his hand again at the water monster that was still whirling in pain. Luo Wantian did not hesitate, and then stabbed down fiercely.
Under their combined efforts, the strange fish finally struggled a few times, did not move, and slowly sank to the bottom. The fat bear reacted quickly and sank down, but Luo Wantian had already swam towards me, gesturing with me, and asking me if I was okay. I shook my head weakly to indicate that it was okay, and the hairball had gotten behind me at some point, gently licking my wounds.
There was a crispy numbness in my wound, and I thought about why Xiao Hei told me to bring a hairball, it turned out that this little guy could temporarily serve as a function to stop bleeding.
The bear fat man soon returned, and brought back my jade dagger, and handed it back to me. However, he gestured to Luo Wantian to take me up, but I stopped him, how could I go back empty-handed after I finally got down, I shook my head at them and said that I was fine. The fat bear pointed to the body of the fish that was motionless to show me, and then I knew that the three of us worked together to solve the water monster.
Luo Wantian saw that I was fine, so he pointed to the sarcophagus and gestured, meaning to open the sarcophagus quickly. I nodded with the bear fat man, naturally there was no objection, after the scene just now, I already felt that my physical strength was not good, and I naturally wanted to collect the spirit as soon as possible and go ashore quickly.
Luo Wantian put the heart stone into the groove, and this time there was no water monster to stop it. The heart stone just matched, and at the same time as it was put on, red light flashed, and those runes swam as if they were alive. I felt that I was dazzled, and when I looked up at Luo Wantian and Fat Xiong, I saw them looking at the sarcophagus obsessively.
Xindao: It's not good, they won't be confused, so I hurriedly swam over to pull them. They didn't move, and I was so anxious that I didn't know what was wrong with them, and I didn't realize that there was nothing wrong with me.
However, I could not push them to wake them up, and they seemed to be frozen at once, staring blankly ahead. I had no choice but to tell the furballs to bite them.
I saw the hairball bite the back of their hands, their bodies shook, and when I went to push it again, Luo Wantian and the bear fat man woke up and turned around. Both of them looked puzzled when they saw me, and I gestured that they were confused, and it was the hairball that woke them up in time.
The two breathed a sigh of relief, but fortunately, they were not fascinated for long. However, the runes on this sarcophagus are really powerful, and they even made the two big living people confused on the spot. What I didn't know was that it was my blood that activated the runes on the sarcophagus.
By the time we all came to our senses, the sarcophagus had slowly opened, revealing the red lacquer coffin inside. It's just that the red paint has fallen off, and only some traces remain. It turned out that this sarcophagus was only an outer coffin, but a coffin.
The old man once told me that in ancient China, there was a strict coffin burial system that indicated the identity and rank of the deceased. The coffin is the wooden burial utensils that hold the deceased; The coffin, the outer coffin that is set outside the coffin. Wooden coffins appeared in the Yangshao culture of the Neolithic period of China, and wooden coffins have appeared in the Longshan culture and were used for the leaders of the clan.
In the Zhou Dynasty, the coffin was institutionalized, stipulating: the coffin of the Son of Heaven was fourfold, and the coffin of the person was called the coffin, and it was covered with a buffalo skin; the second weighs the ground also, made of basswood; The third is called the genus, and the fourth is called the coffin. The emperor and queen have two coffins outside the coffin, and more catalpa wood is used, so its coffin is also called "Zi Palace". Shanggong, Hou Bozinan, and Doctor, with equal differences, are three, two, and one respectively. The stone is not heavy, but with a large coffin. In addition, the coffin of the Son of Heaven is eight inches thick, the coffin of the doctor is six inches thick, and the coffin of the common man is only allowed to be four inches thick, and there is no coffin. Later emperors, nobles, and scholars basically followed this system, but there were also those who exceeded the system.
It's just that this sarcophagus is only double, indicating that this is not the emperor's coffin, but what is the matter with the dragon and phoenix patterns carved on the sarcophagus? If it is impossible to say which generation of emperors were buried here, it is too shabby.
I was wondering in my heart, when I saw that Xiong Fatzi and Luo Wantian had already gone to pry open the lid of the red lacquered coffin, and they easily pried it open. The three of them all looked at each other, because it was too easy, and the lid of the coffin did not seem to be stuck.
My heart is racing, has someone already opened it? Why? This may explain why the heartstone was thrown in the grass. As soon as my thoughts flashed, as if I had caught something, I saw that the two of them had lifted the lid of the coffin, revealing the inside.
A pungent stench came from the nose, and the smell of decay rushed to the face. We both flickered, but my eyes were fixed on the lacquered coffin that had been opened.
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