Chapter 88
Outside the door, Lan Zui and Yu Chen argued, but Uncle Zhong and Wang Fugui inside the door cooperated happily and skillfully.
Both of them are experienced old men in the underground, and they know how deep this underground path is, so they don't need words, and the two of them can make a look at each other, and they can understand each other's minds like partners who have been working together for a long time.
Therefore, without making any sound, holding their breath to minimize their breathing rate, the two of them began to step into the Seven Star Gate, one left and one right, taking the crystal coffin in the center of the tomb as the boundary point, holding a huge wolf-eye flashlight, holding a saber in one hand, and carefully searching both sides.
He didn't touch anything inside the door, and he didn't even have to take every step before he stepped forward. Uncle Zhong and Wang Fugui's actions looked to those outside the door like a popular black-and-white slow-motion pantomime in the Middle Ages, silent and quite funny.
But the two people inside the door didn't think it was funny, and their wolf-eyed flashlights kept scanning the darkness in front of them, mentioning what kind of crisis they had missed and caused death. At the same time, even if the two people were sophisticated and steady, they couldn't help but marvel at the area where the flashlight had shone through, so that Wang Fugui began to doubt his judgment - so luxurious and exquisite, could it be a fake main room?
After the two of them walked through every inch of the tomb, and waited for a long time without seeing any abnormal noise, they reached out to the people outside the door and made a gesture to enter, and then walked back to the crystal coffin together, half-squatting and carrying a flashlight to carefully inspect.
Lan Zui and Yu Chen were close to each other, and immediately entered the tomb as soon as they saw the gesture. The burial chamber was also filled with the smell of meat. The Seven Star Gate seemed to be quite well sealed, and they didn't even smell the smell when they stood outside the door. But when he got inside, the smell of this meat being roasted and even burnt on the fire suddenly poured into Lan Zui's nose, Lan Zui was stunned, and then remembered what it tasted like, and immediately his face changed greatly, and he turned his head and retched.
Although Yu Chen's face was not very good, after all, he endured it, and followed Wang Fugui to squat by the crystal coffin, and asked quietly: "Uncle Wang, is this really not the tomb owner?" ”
Three strong light canisters were directly shot on the crystal coffin at close range, and the crystals were even more brilliant because of the refraction of light. This crystal coffin is slightly blurry at first glance, and the crystal material is not as transparent as the seven-star door outside, but when he got closer and looked carefully, Yu Chen found that the crystal coffin was actually two layers. However, the two-layered crystal did not prevent the contents of the coffin from being seen, and half of the body in the coffin was soaked in a yellowish transparent liquid, which was a fairly well-preserved female wet corpse. The female corpse has long hair curled into a high bun, and still maintains the exquisite hairstyle when she entered the coffin, and the clothes are not very distinguishable from the original color because of long-term soaking, but you can see the basic style, which is the robe worn by the northern nobles during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. And the most striking thing that makes people can't take their eyes off it at first glance is not the complete body of the female corpse that has no bones for thousands of years and her clothing style that represents her status and status, but the hair of the female corpse is tied with a crown full of gems, neck, chest, waist, and ankles.
"Uncle Wang, this is really not the tomb owner?" Even when he was outside the door, Yu Chen had already seen the general situation in the coffin, but when he looked at it carefully, he still couldn't believe it.
With Yu Chen's eyes, of course, he could see that none of the objects in the coffin were defective, let alone fake. Anything in it, taken out, is worth a fortune in today's antique market, and it's crazy enough!
"Stuff is good, isn't it?" Wang Fugui smacked his mouth and sneered twice: "It's not good to make people crazy?" Isn't it good to make people lose their minds and lift the lid of the coffin regardless of it? If it's not eye-catching enough, the mechanism in it won't kill people! ”
"But where's the mechanism? The coffin is all transparent, and the copper wire and spring cannot hide the track and movement at all. ”
Wang Fugui nodded, but did not answer Yu Chen's words, but asked Uncle Zhong opposite: "Old Dong, do you see something?" ”
"Lao Wang, why do you still want to test me." Uncle Zhong squatted on the spot and said to Lan Zui, who was bent over and panting, "Little drunk, don't vomit." Come here, and I'll tell you the way in this coffin. ”
Lan Zui had roughly adapted to the smell of burnt meat in the tomb, and resisted the urge to continue vomiting and squatted down next to Uncle Zhong, and hummed: "If you want to talk about it, don't sell it." ”
"This coffin is two-tiered, you can see it." The others were bold and gathered around the coffin one after another, and the timid ones were guarding outside the door, and a group of people all stared at the crystal coffin in front of them, with greed in their eyes. Uncle Zhong glanced at them fiercely and said, "If you don't want to be a barbecue, don't move your claws, be honest with me." It's easy to say, it's in the middle of these two layers of crystals. ”
"In ancient books, there is a kind of mechanism in the tomb called Phoenix Nirvana. The name is good, but those who meet it will die. This kind of mechanism is not a mechanism correctly, but the floor and wall of the tomb are coated with a kind of low-ignition non-volatile fuel, which will immediately catch fire when it encounters air, so the process of painting is extremely cruel, and a large number of workers carrying fuel need to be locked in the tomb and then the door is sealed from the outside. After the door is sealed, the chamber workers turn on the sealed fuel oil and apply it around the tomb. ”
"Isn't it ...... if this fuel burns when it catches fire?"
"That's right, at the beginning, then there is little place to smear, and when the tomb is halfway smeared, the workers have nowhere to stay, so they can only stand on the ground where the oil has been smeared and burned alive." Uncle Zhong continued expressionlessly: "And oil combustion requires air, so when you arrive, the burial chamber will gradually form a vacuum due to oxygen burning. That's why there were so many workers who had to smear the entire burial chamber before they could suffocate. When the oxygen in the burial chamber is burned, the entire burial chamber will form a vacuum, and the fire will naturally be extinguished. However, if a tomb robber enters the tomb later, as the air flows in, the inside of the tomb will burn again, burning the tomb robbers alive, and at the same time, all the things of the tomb owner will also be burned in the fire. ”
"Isn't this a bit like a fire tomb?"
"It may be the same kind, but the Fuhuo Tomb is mainly used to deal with tomb robbers, and once the gas in the tomb is exhausted, it is useless, and it is disposable. And the phoenix nirvana is more tragic, taking the meaning of nirvana rebirth, but it is a common death, the tomb owner would rather have no bones than be insulted by the tomb robbers, so the record in that book is used in the tomb of a general with a strong personality. ”
"So you mean that the fire just now only burned once, and then it was useless?" Most of the people in the crowd were obviously not focused on the principle of this mechanism, and they only grasped the one point they wanted - whether it was the Tomb of the Fire or the Phoenix Nirvana, they could no longer be used after the fuel was burned.
As soon as this sentence came out, Professor Chen's three subordinates and the two men in Beimeng immediately became excited, and even the elm guy Ji Leopard and the blue guy Ji Watermelon couldn't help but be overjoyed.
"A bunch of idiots! Now is the best time for you to learn from experience, and you will be thinking about money and money all day long, and that little bit of interest! Uncle Zhong explained bitterly for a long time, but no one paid attention to it, making him both faceless and disgusted with rotten wood that could not be carved, and his face immediately stretched to the elder: "It's all about some claws, if the mechanism is a one-time, I'll be a fart!" ”
"The mechanism in this tomb is changed from Phoenix Nirvana, but it is more vicious and thoughtful than Phoenix Nirvana. It does not apply fuel directly to the tomb, but to the bricks. If we had decided to dig another cave just now, we would have burned to death in the cave if we hit the part of the brick with fuel. As for this crystal coffin, it's just a bait. As you can all see, the crystal coffin is actually two layers, the inner layer is the coffin, and the outer layer is the coffin. As soon as the tomb robbers entered the tomb and saw so many jewels, their instinct was, of course, to lift the lid of the coffin. Once the lid of the coffin is moved, the mechanism between the coffin and the coffin will be triggered. ”
"Where is the mechanism? It's obviously completely transparent, and there are no springs and copper wires at all! ”
"Uncle Zhong, the mechanism you are talking about is the water between the coffins?" Lan Zui and Yu Chen were closest to each other, and the two of them also listened most carefully to Uncle Zhong's explanation. Lan Zui kept staring at the transparent crystal coffin, and finally found the clue.
In the mezzanine between the coffins, there is a layer of transparent liquid with a horizontal height similar to the yellow water in which the coffin is soaked. Because it is a transparent liquid, and there is yellow water hidden in the coffin, it is very difficult to find. In the liquid, Lan Zui also found a few transparent filaments thinner than a hair, a bit of spider silk, up in the corners and other places that are not easy to find and connected to the coffin lid, and down into the crystal platform at the base of the coffin.
Seeing this, Lan Zui almost figured out the principle of this mechanism: "As long as you lift the lid of the coffin, it will pull the silk thread in the coffin lid and pull the mechanism embedded in the ground, and the fuel in the tomb bricks will flow out, right?" ”
"That's right, but in fact this mechanism is divided into three steps. The first step is bait, so many treasures, it is impossible that no tomb robber would turn a blind eye and be unmoved. The second step is the liquid in the coffin, which should be extremely volatile, and will immediately catch fire when it encounters air, and the tomb robbers surrounding the coffin will be caught off guard. The third step is the silk threads in the liquid, these silk threads are involved in the Seven Star Gate on one side, and they will be closed when they touch the door, and on the other hand, they are involved in the tomb bricks, and the plug is pulled to make the fuel flow out of the tomb bricks, and when the plug is pulled, the coffin lid will be automatically pulled back to its original position by the silk threads, saving the fuel in it and continuing to use it next time. This tomb is not only a door, but also a layer of crystal on the top of the tomb wall, so that even if it is burned many times, it is not easy to leave traces, unlike ordinary tombs that are easily blackened by flames. ”
"From the moment you open the bronze door and face this seven-star gate, is it a game?" Yu Chen shuddered and lost his color.
"Yes, this mechanism is not complicated, but the actual operation has been considered enough in terms of human psychology, skills, efficacy and reusability. The only downside is the bones that were previously burned and the prototype was unrecognizable. Wang Fugui pointed to the pile of black charcoal that was attached to the ground around him and couldn't tell what it was, and sighed: "But in the face of the gems on the door and the jewels in the coffin, who will pay attention to these black ghost things on the ground?" If it weren't for Brzygood, we would have died! ”。
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