Chapter 129: The Mural
This kind of place similar to a mine, generally speaking, the first impression is often dirty and dark, because we ordinary people are usually in coal mines.
But this cave is very strange, the soil on the ground is purple-black, there is nothing like cinder, it does not seem to be stones or dirt, but something else.
So why did the owner of this tomb use this substance to cover the area around the tomb?
Judging from the iron ladder at the wellhead, this place should have been excavated decades ago, since it had been dug decades ago, why look at the previous appearance of the village chief, it seems that there are countless treasures in the tomb? Wasn't the former man greedy, and he only took a little and slipped away?
How can it be!
Thinking of the history of Huangshi Village, and then thinking of the people who suddenly broke in during a meal at the village chief's house not long ago, Luo Qiu suddenly realized that this tomb and the village were likely to hide some secrets.
This secret may only be known to Dr. Cui and the elders of the village chief's generation, and they obviously do not intend to let future generations know about this matter.
Now, he and Brother Qin are equivalent to breaking into the taboo of this Huangshi Village.
Luo Qiu and Qin Su circled around this cave for most of the time, but they didn't find any clues, the only thing they found was that there were a lot of huge back baskets stacked near the west side of the cave.
If you guessed correctly, this kind of back basket is not used to collect medicine for Dr. Cui, it should be used to transport treasures in the tomb, or to dig a thief hole to carry soil, but now, they are all abandoned in this place, and many of them have long dried up naturally.
When he was about to complete the circle, an iron door suddenly appeared on the wall of the cave in front of him.
It was a very quaint iron door, about half a meter thick, rusty, half-open, and not locked. Look at the lion's head with an open mouth inlaid on it, it should be a product of the Qing Dynasty, but such a large amount of molten iron poured into the gate, not to mention some modern explosives, even if it is missile bombing, it may not be useful, and even hiding in it can be avoided even if it is a nuclear bomb.
Behind the big iron gate was a long tunnel, dark, and I didn't know where it went.
This is supposed to be a passage through the tomb, but it's unclear if it's the main burial chamber or .....
Qin Su stretched his neck to look at it, and then said with some vigilance: "It seems that this village chief and the others have not stayed here for long, and their footprints have all walked towards the back of this door, and it seems that they have all walked in." ”
And pointed to a very conspicuous place on the ground behind the iron door, and gestured.
His observation was quite keen, if it weren't for his finger, Luo Qiu might not have been able to find it, only to see that on the ground behind the big iron gate, in addition to the dense footprints, there were a few traces of blood.
There wasn't much blood, it was obviously dripping to the ground, and the color looked fresh.
"This ....."
"How can there be blood?" Qin Su frowned: "Didn't they go in to find the treasure?" Why is there blood just outside here? ”
Luo Qiu didn't speak, but looked at the blood stains and pondered.
And then looked around, all around was just a huge hole that had been dug out, after careful inspection, there was nothing unusual, to say that there must be something unusual, maybe there were some hoes on the ground, which seemed to be used to dig holes.
It's just that these hoes are stained with something else besides the dirt, Luo Qiu squatted down slightly when he saw this, and looked at it carefully, as if he was very interested.
It's not like human blood!
"This is ....." Qin Su didn't understand this, but he also saw some clues: "Black blood, it's just that most of this blood is dead, and most of it is solid, this one..."
Qin Su stroked his hand slightly, but saw that the blood on the hoe was easily stained on Qin Su's fingers.
The blood was not coagulated, but as if it had just been stained with a hoe.
"It's a little weird, it stands to reason that most of the blood of the living is bright red, or some dark red, but this.... It's black, it's obviously wrong to say it's ink, the ink isn't so thick, and there is some blood smell on it, it should be blood.... It's just...."
Luo Qiu was a little incomprehensible, but after all, this is a tomb, and if there are not many strange things, it is strange. On the contrary, Qin Su's face on the side changed a little unnaturally. Luo Qiu was used to seeing these strange things and things often, but although Qin Su said that he had joined the army, had rich knowledge of survival in the wild, and his own strength was not weak, but the first time he saw such a strange and creepy thing, his back was a little cold for a moment.
Standing on the edge of the iron gate and looking inside, where the torches can be seen, the inside looks like a passage, but it is a passage paved with stones, and the surrounding area and the upper edge are paved with stone slabs, which looks like it must be part of the burial chamber. At the end of the passage of about ten meters, there is a platform, and below the platform, there is also a platform, one layer on top of another, and the specific height of each layer is about ten meters.
Although he couldn't see the original appearance of this space, according to this trend, Luo Qiu immediately realized that the design here should be 'decreasing layer by layer', but this staircase is amazingly large, and Luo Qiu and Qin Su are now in the top staircase.
While thinking, Luo Qiu looked up at the upper corner of the passage, and as expected, above his head, there was a sealed flat top, which was densely protruding, full of various circles. They are arranged in an orderly manner, like countless carvings, densely packed, and the eyes of those who look at them are dazzled.
If it is said that it is just an ordinary carving, but at this time, above the head are dense reliefs and murals, which seem to record countless information.
It seems that it is right, this should be the tomb of the county king, but I don't know which county king is in the tomb of this place, for the Qing government back then, the county king should be a very important noble, and although the size of the tomb is not as majestic as the imperial tomb, it is not too far away.
Qin Su didn't know which dynasty's tomb this was, so his eyes were full of curiosity.
Luo Qiu didn't see the curiosity in Qin Su's eyes, but looked at the mural and then looked at the platform at the end of the corridor. Not to mention anything else, just the platform that Luo Qiu is on at this time, layer by layer, looking down, there is no end in sight, how can such a huge project be an ordinary tomb?
However, the more solemn the place, there must be some danger, otherwise, after so many years, not many people dare to have any more ideas, and it is estimated that the group of people in the village chief is also a group of outlaws.
After all, the robbery hole in this tomb seems to have been dug out at the end of the Qing Dynasty before the Anti-Japanese War, and it was impossible for so many warlords not to know at that time, but why did they still return in vain? The truth in this is self-evident.
Gu couldn't be shocked by this special building, and immediately began to follow the footprints of the village chief and the others, and carefully tried not to make a loud sound, the sound spread in such an underground cavity area was very wide, in order to avoid meeting the village chief, Luo Qiu seemed very cautious.
Walking in this passage, Luo Qiu's eyes couldn't help but be attracted by the murals on the wall, the first one is a vast grassland, with countless yurts on it, and thousands of horses galloping and countless livestock on it. After looking at Luo Qiu, he moved his gaze to another one, which was also a vast grassland, but the scene above was a little different.
Countless grassland people began to form one cavalry after another to gallop across the grassland, and one person was particularly conspicuous, a young man sitting on horseback with several guards, followed by a long cavalry steppe soldiers.
Seeing this, Luo Qiu had an inexplicable guess in his heart.
"What the hell is the meaning of this drawing?" Qin Su couldn't help but scratch his head a little honestly, it seemed that he was not interested in mural art at all.