Volume 2 The Strange Mounds of Southern Xinjiang Chapter 46 Secret Burials and Underground Excavations

"Big brother, look, it's around here!" Park Yinan pointed to the skull ring and said to Park Yifan.

I looked at it, and found that the two green gems on the eyes of the skull ring had somehow turned red, as if they were stained with blood, and the whole skeleton looked more and more hideous, as if it was about to devour people.

"What's going on?" Like a curious baby, the jar leaned in and asked.

"How did the skeleton's eyes turn red?" Xu Yunshu also felt a little curious.

Pu Yifan smiled: "Eldest nephew, have you heard of Lingbao?" ”

Xu Yunshu shook her head blankly and said, "I haven't heard of it." ”

"Lingbao refers to spiritual treasures!" I said to Xu Yunshu for Pu Yifan, "In fact, things that can be called treasures will have some spirituality to a greater or lesser extent, such as the jade we often carry." There are some jade stones, which can ward off disasters and evil spirits for the owner, which is called spirituality. But not all treasures can be called spiritual treasures......"

"Ahh I remember......" Xu Yunshu said, "I remember reading in a wild history that in the Tang Dynasty, An Lushan, who was the envoy of the Three Towns Festival, once gave Li Linfu a pearl of the East China Sea. When night comes, as long as the bead box is opened, the entire Li Mansion will be flashing with dazzling pearls, and half of Chang'an City can be seen clearly......"

"Not bad!" Park Yifan said, "That pearl of the East China Sea is a spiritual treasure." This treasure is different, and the spirituality it exhibits is also different. Take this ring, for example! "Pu Yifan held up the skull ring in his hand" It is a treasure in itself, it is worn on the hand by the witch sect leader all the year round, inseparable, and it is nourished by its own essence, and it is already connected by blood. Therefore, as long as this ring is near the location of the Witch Master, it will change...... You can see that its eyes are turning red, which means that the Witch Cult Master is in this area......"

"So powerful?" The jar was a little surprised.

"Uh...... Of course, it is not ruled out that this ring has been cast ......" Pu Yifan said, "After all, according to the legend, the master of the witch sect knows a lot of evil arts...... "From beginning to end, Park Yifan just put the ring in a small storage bag, and only took it out when he used it, and did not wear it on his finger once, maybe he has always been afraid that this thing was left by the master of the witch sect, and he was afraid that there was any secret art on it, so he didn't dare to touch it at will!"

"Uncle Park, I didn't expect you to know so many things!" Xu Yunshu said.

Pu Yifan laughed and said, "Where do I know so much about your uncle!" These are all things that Mr. Situ told me, otherwise I wouldn't have known that this skull ring could be used as a guiding light! ”

After Situ Feng heard Pu Yifan's words, he interjected coldly and said: "I'm just hearsay, I didn't expect it to be true!" "Think about it, Situ Feng is also from Yunmen, but he is different from me, he is a disciple of Yunmen Zheng'er Bajing, of course, he has been exposed to a lot of adventure since he was a child, including many rumors.

"Now that you know that it's within this area, you can use the GPI to find the specific location of the tomb, right?" I asked.

Ma Xiwen held up a Luoyang shovel and said, "How can the ground penetrating imager compare to this thing?" As long as you plug it into the ground, you can know the following situation, and explore it every other distance, isn't it better than a ground penetrating imager? ”

"Professor Ma, whether you can find the tomb next is up to you!" Park Yifan said to Ma Xiwen.

Ma Xiwen smiled confidently and said, "Then you can rest assured, as long as it is down here, it will definitely not be able to run!" ”

Since it was already past five o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived, we had to wait until tomorrow morning to start exploring.

Things went relatively smoothly the next day, and by four o'clock in the afternoon, Ma Xiwen had already made a discovery.

"Found it?" As soon as Pu Yifan saw Ma Xiwen, he immediately stepped forward and asked.

"Right down here!" Ma Xiwen replied.

"Sure?" Park Yifan asked again.

"Look, the dirt in this shovel!" Ma Xiwen took the Luoyang shovel that he had just brought up, pointed to the soil on it and said to us, "The top layer of black soil is the original soil, very thick, about three meters or so!" Further down, this cyan soil, which is commonly used in tombs, is used for waterproofing. The bottom layer is charcoal powder, which is also used to absorb water vapor. On the basis of these two things, I conclude that this must be a tomb in the ground! Come on, come on, everyone see! ”

"Professor Ma, why haven't you found five flower soil on it, but all of it is undisturbed original soil?" Xu Yunshu grabbed some of the soil on the Luoyang shovel and twisted it and asked, "Didn't you say that there must be five flowers of soil on the tomb?" ”

"Not necessarily! There is no five-flower soil, but there is green plaster mud. This shows that the tomb was not excavated at the top. Ma Xiwen said.

"Not a top excavation?"

Ma Xiwen nodded and said: "In this case, either the method of underground excavation is used, or the secret burial method is used!" ”

"Secret burial? What is a secret burial? I asked Ma Xiwen curiously.

"The so-called secret burial method requires the pit to be dug very deep, but the soil can not be dug up, it must be formed into a block, and the soil clods should be carefully placed in order after being dug up, and then put the soil clods back in their original positions after burial, so that even the Luoyang shovel can not find the abnormality of the soil quality. However, this secret burial method is particularly troublesome, so it is relatively rare, only those Mongolian nobles in the Yuan Dynasty like to use this method, which is one of the reasons why the tombs of Mongolian nobles were rarely stolen during the Yuan Dynasty. "Ma Xiwen is not as cold to me as Situ Feng, and he is polite to me as a layman, he is always answering questions and is very patient, "If these two methods are used, then of course there will be no five flowers on the top of the tomb!" ”

"So which way do you think this is used?" Xu Yunshu asked.

Ma Xiwen said: "The secret burial method generally appears in a relatively flat place, and there are towering trees everywhere, so it is too troublesome to use the secret burial method, and the roots of the underground trees are entangled, and there is no way to dig out the soil into blocks continuously." So I'm guessing that 80% of this place was built by excavating underground. ”

"Aren't you afraid of the soil collapsing if you do this?" Xu Yunshu asked.

"You just need to be supported while you're building! In addition, the soil here is dense, and the roots of the tall trees in this primeval forest are developed to hold the soil, like reinforced concrete, which is very strong, so it does not need a lot of underground support......

"But isn't the green plaster usually applied to the outside of the coffin? How could it be outside the tomb? Xu Yunshu asked.

"Isn't that simple? The burial chamber was not excavated from the outside at all, but a hole was dug into the earth and then excavated little by little from the ground. As they dug up, they smeared green plaster on top of the soil layer, added charcoal powder, and finally supported the stone slabs with supports to serve as the roof of the burial chamber. Therefore, there is no change in the entire upper soil layer, the green plaster mud is waterproof, and the charcoal powder absorbs moisture, which can protect the tomb from water vapor erosion to the greatest extent. This is a rainy place, and there is a lot of water vapor in the primeval forest, so it is necessary to use this method to prevent water and moisture on a large scale, although the project is very large, but there is no way. "And because the top of the tomb is a thick stone slab, we can't enter through the top of the tomb, and if we insist on destroying it, the entire tomb may collapse." ”