Chapter 17
Rong Shisan shook the gray powder paint on his sleeves, walked to the adjacent stone wall and continued to wipe it. As before, perhaps because the mural had been in time for too long, the gray cloud fairy gradually blurred after being wiped vigorously and repeatedly, revealing a crimson background.
"What's going on?"
Bai Suhe and Lan Zui were dumbfounded, not to mention Lan Zui, even Bai Suhe, who didn't understand the tomb system, knew that it was impossible to paint such an unlucky mural on the tomb road.
"This bucket ...... Big problem. Rong Shisan's face was calm, but he was also puzzled.
"You don't need to say this, you can tell me what's going on with this lamp girl first?"
Lan Zui was depressed when she thought that not long ago, she was face to face with this ancient thousand years of dead face. Although tomb robberies are just dealing with the dead, not to mention fear, human nature is always responsive to the dead. Besides, Lan Zui is also curious about how people can make it like stone carving, she has never heard of this kind of craft.
"I saw this method on a tomb scroll from the Warring States period by chance, and it was a method of disposing of the martyrdom of the tomb at that time. Those who were chosen for burial were washed and fed eggs from a species called the Quelangzi. The insect likes to eat human organs, and after its eggs hatch larvae in the human body, the larvae will crawl out of the mouth after eating the human organs. At this time, the water is poured into the body from the seven orifices, and finally the person is soaked in the water for seven days. The skin of the people who have been treated in this way is as if they were alive, and they will not rot for thousands of years. It's just that the larvae of the bird seems to only eat the internal organs of the human beings that hatch themselves, and those people are all killed by the insects biting their internal organs, and the resentment is too heavy, and it is ominous to the tomb owner. In addition, the process is complicated, so I have never seen this method of disposing of human martyrdom in other tombs. If it weren't for the girl who felt that something was wrong with these lamp girls, I wouldn't have thought of this layer for a while. ”
Lan Zui and Bai Suhe turned pale when they heard this, and they wanted to vomit.
"This layer of these women's faces is drunk?" Lan Zui stared at the nearest lamp girl, frowning slightly. Looking at the appearance, this lamp girl was at most sixteen years old, and she was killed and buried in such a cruel way.
What was the female ghost thinking?
"No, it should be a water-treated corpse that has been put in some kind of stone liquid and coated in a layer of water. Did you know that some places will coat fried meat with a layer of batter? Probably like that, waiting for the liquid to dry up and then carving it a little bit is indeed much more convenient than stone carving, and it is more delicate and vivid. ”
Is it just for convenience?
Lan Zui's eyes wandered back and forth between the lamp girl and the mural, if it was just for convenience, why bother adding this last layer of process.
"It's ...... Curse? ”
Rong Thirteen bowed: "You also thought of it." ”
"Statues of people full of resentment were martyred, and the surface was covered with stone. The hellish ghost picture is the base, and the face is the Yaochi Hundred Immortals Drinking Banquet. Accumulate corpses, to the yin cave. Lan Zui gasped: "Is this a great enmity that is not shared with the sky, it is so vicious." ”
"Even if it's not a great enmity against the sky, I hope that the tomb owner will never turn over." Rong Thirteen said: "The mountain peaks on the tomb are swirling continuously, sitting west to east and lying with their heads down, it is a dragon vein of a sleeping dragon." The location of this tomb is actually not wrong, leaning on the side of the dragon's neck, facing the water in front and leaning on the dragon's horn in the back, and the Tibetan wind gathers qi. Although it is not as good as the dragon vein, it is by no means bad. It's just that the corpses are piled up, and the geological changes are not in the tombs, and a good good cave has become a fierce fight. There are also many arrangements in this tomb, which are clearly intended to make the tomb owner restless and resentful, and not to enter reincarnation and reincarnate as a human being. ”
"So the tunnel I just found is not an escape route quietly left by the craftsman, but a secret passage left behind for the purpose of arranging it. Wait until the layout is complete before backfilling? ”
Rong Thirteen said this, Lan Zui suddenly became enlightened, and all his doubts were swept away.
In this way...... The woman...... It's pitiful.
Thinking of the moody woman and the inexplicable pity in her eyes, Lan Zui suddenly felt a sense of pity for the woman who was originally afraid and hated.
"Yes, this tomb owner should have a very high status at that time, and the people who used their hands and feet couldn't move on the open side, so they were all here to make secret moves. But now this problem comes, judging from the passages behind the lamp girl, this tomb was built on a regular scale, and there should be no less anti-theft measures. The man who used his hands and feet was willing to add to the tomb, and he didn't know what else he had done. We're just afraid of a lot of problems. ”
"Nonsense, don't we have fewer problems since we came down until now?" Bai Suhe poured a basin of cold water on Rong Shisan's head next to him: "According to what you said, you don't have to think about the passage at the bottom, it is estimated that it has been filled." Which one is left with the hole behind these statues of the dead? ”
Going around and around, it still goes back to the original question.
“…… Let's move all the lamp girls away, and Rong Thirteen and I will look for any clues. Lan Zui was helpless and could only come up with the stupidest method.
Division of labor and cooperation, one person is responsible for a section. Lan Zui lit all the lanterns along the stone wall, and suddenly the entire tomb road was as bright as day. Lan drunk dipped some water on his fingers, testing every hole. Soon, the area she was responsible for was inspected, and Rong Thirteen and Bai Suhe were also inspected.
"How?"
The three of them asked at the same time, but they were silent at the same time, and they all shook their heads in a dejected manner.
"I've seen all the thirty-six holes over there, but I don't feel the ventilation, and I can't see any clues. At the end of the tomb is a solid stone wall, which indicates that the road to the main burial chamber is also in this one hundred and eight passages. ”
"Same. So the odds of finding the right one are only one in one hundred and eighth. Rong Thirteen sighed. This trick is really better than any quicksand machine crossbow set up in the tomb. Even if the Jieling faction comes, the number of people is overwhelming, and they can't compete with so many scattered passages.
This trick divides and conquers, and each one is broken, and the art of war is used in the tomb.
"And then? Shall the three of us start looking one by one, or will we look for each separately? ”
"In this way, Sister Bai, you don't understand the tomb mechanism, Xiao Zui and I will choose a passage to see the situation first, and you will wait for us in the tomb. I'm also afraid that this lamp girl has a mechanism, in case one person enters it, it will be automatically closed, and the three of us are locked in it. ”
Rong Shisan's concerns were right, but-Bai Suhe looked at one with a pale face and half a red dress: "You two are okay?" ”
"Bai Suhe, don't underestimate us. It's true that you don't run around. Lan Zui moved his toes and wrists, poured two sips of water and compressed biscuits, and felt that he was in better spirits and motioned for Rong Thirteen to set off.
When the two women were arguing, Rong Thirteen generally chose to pretend to be dead. Cheng Yu took out a bundle of nylon rope from his bag and tied it around his waist, and handed it to Bai Suhe.
"Sister Bai, if something happens, you can pull the rope, and we will come back immediately."
The height of the passage behind the lamp girl was just enough for thirteen to stand, and the width was less than one person, so it was not too much to call it a sheep intestine path. Lan drunk was afraid of tripped over the rope in the dark, so he lit a candle and entered the passage. The road ahead is deep, and candles can only illuminate the distance of two or three meters ahead. Lan Zui cautiously advanced, the two walls of the passage were covered with stones, and he didn't notice any danger for a while.
Getting deeper and deeper, Lan Zui walked back for a while, and saw that the light of the tomb behind him had turned into a small dot in the distance. Rong Shisan quietly followed her silently, and was a little gloomy by the candlelight, Lan Zui secretly swallowed his saliva, and unintentionally quickened his pace.