"These wooden coffins and ancient corpses ......" Chen Tao walked to an ancient corpse that was entangled in a pile of vine branches, and held a flashlight to shine on the armor on the ancient corpse.

The corpse had a dark skin and black roots all over its body, as if it had become a community with these vines. The ancient corpse's clothes were in tatters, and all that was left was the rusty metal armor.

Carefully identified it for a long time and said: "These are from the same era as the one outside, and the one outside is not a general, these ...... It was a well-equipped Qin army! ”

"The army? How is this possible...... Did you run into an official fall? ”

The official here is a black word in the industry. Some dialects use the word "toss" to buy or sell, or to do something. Therefore, in some places, tomb robbery is also called an inverted bucket or an inverted shell, and it is also called an inverted box. The bucket here refers to the tomb, and the shell and box refer to the coffin.

The so-called official downfall is a military force or ruler who blatantly goes to find ancient tombs and excavate treasures, usually large-scale excavations such as the military. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao set up a golden school captain, who specialized in excavating tombs and stealing property to fill military salaries, and in layman's terms, he was the director of the National Tomb Robbery Office. This is the earliest source of the term "official downfall".

However, throughout the dynasties, there are many people who rob tombs and dig graves. Liu Ziye, the former deposed emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, once imitated Cao Cao to set up the post of general of Faqiu Zhonglang, which was held by Xiuren, the king of Jian'an. The famous Red Eyebrow Army and the Yellow Turban Army, which are famous in history, have also sent people to excavate the emperor's tombs for military salaries, food and grass, or for other reasons.

The great warlord Sun Dianying led his troops to rob the Cixi Tomb at night, in addition, the Jingling Tomb of the Kangxi Emperor and the Yuling Tomb of the Qianlong Emperor were also damaged to varying degrees, which can be called the largest official downfall in modern times.

"How is this possible? Could it be ......" Uncle Long and Uncle Wang glanced at each other and frowned.

Uncle Wang shook his head and said nothing. Chen Tao watched the two of them communicate like a dumb riddle, completely unaware of what they were talking about. Although he really wanted to ask Uncle Long about the family and the secrets behind it, he thought about it: "Since Uncle Long is unwilling to say it, he naturally has his reason......

"No, it's not just the army!" Yan used a flashlight to shine a flashlight on an open wooden coffin and said, "Inside these wooden coffins are another group of people, although they are all ancient corpses, they are dressed in completely different clothes. ”

Several people walked up to the wooden coffin, and the corpses inside were the same as those outside, wrapped in black vines. Inside the coffin was a male corpse, his hair was vaguely tied up, and he was wearing a tattered cloth robe. The mountain ghost stretched out his hand and withdrew a piece, almost without any strength, only a slight pull and came down.

"If these ancient corpses are really the Qin Dynasty or a little further apost, they will be two thousand years old. How exactly are these preserved? In such an exposed environment, it is simply impossible! ”

"I'm even more curious about what these two groups of people are. Based on what we have seen so far, there must be a group of burials under that crack, where these people in cloth clothes are buried. And these officers and soldiers were either buried or were brought up by the Japanese when they died below. Yan said.

"But what is certain is that this tomb is definitely not for these officers and soldiers, maybe, these in the coffin are the main owners."

"That'...... How do you explain it? Has anyone come in before us? Oh, if that's the case, the baby below will be in danger......" Boss Zhang pointed to the corpses of the modern people.

Look at the way those people are dressed, that's what they have looked like in recent years. The black corpse was also entwined with vines, covered in black roots. Uncle Long touched the body of one of them, took out a rusty lighter, a dagger, a scrapped walkie-talkie and a flashlight, and found a rusty pistol on the body of the other.

"It's not been many years since these people died, how did they get in, is there another entrance here?"

"The Man-eating Valley is so big, it's not impossible to come in from other directions. Perhaps, we are not the only ones who have discovered and been here......" Uncle Long frowned.

"Did they climb up from below?" Chen Tao looked at the big crack not far away.

The mountain ghost was still pulling in the wooden coffin on the other side, and although the ancient corpse was covered with black roots, it didn't seem to be dangerous.

The mountain ghost's hand went down the corpse and then stopped at its waist, as if groping for something.

"Hey, there's something!"

With that, his hand pulled from under the corpse's waist and brought up a cloud of black clay.

"It's really wicked...... The coffin was rotten, but the corpse inside was intact! ”

Simply wiped off the mud stains with the rag that was torn off, and a pitch-black waist card appeared in the hand of the mountain ghost.

When he saw the waist card, Chen Tao's eyes were straight. Boss Zhang and others may not be familiar with it, but he is no stranger to Uncle Long's mountain ghost Haozi at all.

This waist plate should be carved from the kind of black jade ore in the mountain. In addition to the different colors, the size, shape, and font style on it are exactly the same as the jade plate that was taken back from Li Guangsheng's hand.

The mountain ghost turned the black jade plaque over to the other side, and sure enough, under the entanglement of many branch patterns, a small figure with a head simplified into a circle was carved on it.

Seeing that pattern, Chen Tao's brain buzzed. If anyone tells him that the bronze man is just an ordinary bronze, he won't believe it.

When he first saw the pattern of the jade plaque in the hotel in Blackwater Town, he just thought it was a little strange. However, after going through a lot of things to the present, all kinds of weird and difficult puzzles along the way, he is 110,000% sure in his heart that the bronze man is not so simple.

Looking at the jade plaque in the hand of the mountain ghost and the corpse surrounded by vines, thinking of all the things along the way, Chen Tao felt as if there were fragments in front of him, and the thing that connected these fragments was the bronze man.

"That bronze man, or what secret is hidden in this pattern......" Chen Tao frowned and pondered, but he couldn't find any usable clues.

Also shocked were Uncle Long and the mountain ghosts.

"Sure enough, the place Li Guangsheng said is here!" Uncle Long's voice was a little excited.

"This should be the identity card of this corpse, come to the college student, see what is written on it!" Boss Zhang shouted at Chen Tao, who was a little stunned on the side.

Chen Tao took the jade plaque from the mountain ghost and carefully identified it. He is not very proficient in ancient characters, the text on the jade plate is the text of the Chu system, and the strokes are very complicated.

"This ...... It seems to be ......"

After gesturing for a long time, Chen Tao couldn't be sure what kind of word it was, after all, words were not his specialty, and there were no reference books to refer to now.

"Hongde, that's that person's name."

Yang Lixuan's voice came from behind the crowd. Chen Tao looked at him, he didn't know if it was because he had this kind of character, or if he was thinking too much, it seemed that Yang Lixuan didn't have any feelings about everything here.

"You...... Know? ”

"I've been in contact with some before, but I don't know much, but I happen to have seen these two words."

Yang Lixuan looked at the black jade plate in Chen Tao's hand, and then glanced at the ancient corpse in the coffin, and an imperceptible complex look flashed in his eyes,

"Every corpse in the wooden coffin should have one of these waist tags on its body. These coffins were not opened by man, and the contents should still be there. ”

The coffins were propped open by the black vines, some of which were broken, and there were rotten wooden planks of all sizes scattered around them. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would have been hard to imagine that these vines could have such great power.

Everyone searched in the several wooden coffins beside them, and sure enough, as Yang Lixuan said, there was a black jade plaque on the body of those cloth-clothed ancient corpses, each with the same style, the difference was only the text on it.

Looking at these jade plates, Yan's hand unconsciously touched his chest, frowned and muttered, "How is it possible?" ”

"Is this a family? Organization? Or is it a sect? Haozi looked at the jade plaque in his hand and said, "These people are in a group." ”

"Perhaps, the answer lies below......"

Uncle Long held up his flashlight and shone it at the big crack in the center.