Volume 1 The Mystery Mountain of the Big Dipper Chapter 47 The Eightfold Relic Coffin (II)

Last time, it was said that Shen Yifan and the ghost doctor climbed the Wuqu mountain wall with their bare hands to the stargazing platform on the top of the mountain in order to save Gu Jie, and successfully sent a signal.

According to Shen Yifan's inference, Qi Chungang is very likely to have used the burial method of the Seven Star Burial, and the ancient tomb they found is very likely to be one of the burial tombs of the Seven Star Burial - the Buddha burial tomb. When they opened the coffin lid and found that there was only a small coffin inside, if the length of the coffin was to see that the person buried was either a child or a dwarf, the ghost doctor guessed that there might be a small living Buddha buried inside, and the latter was a relic, but looking at the small coffin inside, there was no way to crack the layout of those cicada gold wires, so it was impossible to open the small coffin.

Shen Yifan said: "If you can't open the coffin inside, you can't determine whether it is a Buddha burial by the vajra Zen staff outside." ”

The ghost doctor nodded approvingly on the side and said, "This stainless steel Zen staff looks like it weighs dozens of catties, and it doesn't look like an object of a little living Buddha." After thinking about it, he said: "Back then, there was a tomb in the Eight Gates of Guigu, and there was the same cicada gold wire in the coffin, and later the coffin board on one side of the coffin was removed before the coffin inside. We might as well use this method, but I don't know what the material of this coffin is, I have never seen it, and if it is a very strong material, I don't know if I can remove it with the gold ruler in my hand. ”

Shen Yifan looked at the coffin with a flowing inside, and he couldn't be sure, the coffin in front of them was not very big and it was not directly placed on the ground, but the coffin was erected on a desk of the same material as the coffin, Shen Yifan looked at it and felt that the bottom of the coffin could make a fuss, so he said: "Can we start from the bottom of the coffin." ”

The ghost doctor touched the coffin and said, "The texture of the material for this coffin is very gentle to the touch, and it feels a bit like jade, but I have never seen a jade that can have a streamer." Then he knocked on the coffin with a golden ruler, and the sound was very crisp, but with a little force, the streamer of the coffin was actually more intense, and all of them converged in the direction of the beating, and when the ghost doctor continued to knock again, he found that the sound of the coffin suddenly became dull.

The ghost doctor was also very curious about the characteristics of this coffin and said: "The streamers inside these seem to protect the coffin from being beaten, and with a little force, the streamers will converge to protect this piece." ”

Shen Yifan seemed to have some other thoughts when he heard these words, and suddenly stood up and knocked directly at the wall of the tomb with the Yiwang knife. With this knock, I saw that the streamers on the walls of the entire tomb had converged to the point where they were beaten, and then there was no trace of damage on the wall, Shen Yifan said: "If these streamers are to protect the point that is beaten, then what will be the result of beating back and forth when we are in different places?" ”

The ghost doctor also suddenly realized that he hurriedly came to the place where Shen Yifan was in the opposite direction, nodded at Shen Yifan, and saw Shen Yifan knock hard again, and those streamers still converged to the place where he struck, and at the same time, the ghost doctor also knocked hard and saw that there was indeed a crack on the wall, but soon the streamer converged on the place where the ghost doctor struck, and the crack on the wall disappeared instantly.

The ghost doctor looked at it and said, "These streamers are here to mend. ”

Shen Yifan said very frustratedly: "It seems that we have no way to do this coffin." ”

The ghost doctor said, "There is another way, but this is very time-consuming. ”

Shen Yifan hurriedly asked, "What's the way?" ”

The ghost doctor said: "There is a skill called 'fishing' in the tomb robbery skills, which is a skill learned from a thief, and after years of polishing and upgrading, it has become a skill in the tomb robbery industry, which is to use a steel wire to open the coffin inside, and fish for the value inside to get the artifact." We can also use this method to open the coffin inside and see what is inside? ”

When Shen Yifan heard this, it seemed that his brain also showed such a technique, and it seemed that he would do the same way, and he was surprised and happy in his heart. Surprised, he didn't know why he used such a technique, and he was happy that he could open the coffin inside.

The ghost doctor took out a very hard and thin thing like iron wire from the cloth bag and handed it to Shen Yifan, seeing that this posture was to let Shen Yifan operate the skill of 'fishing', Shen Yifan took the wire and took a deep breath to stabilize his mind, and was about to put the wire into the coffin, but was suddenly pulled by the ghost doctor again.

The ghost doctor smiled and said, "I almost forgot the most important thing." As he spoke, he took out another box from the cloth bag.

The box is a very common powder, that is, the foundation used by the woman, he gently sprinkled it into the coffin, Shen Yifan looked at it was also surprised, it turned out that although this powder was very light, it had a certain adhesive force that could be left on those cicada gold wires, so that you could roughly see the layout of the cicada gold wires, although this method could not crack the cicada gold wires, but it could largely show how to enter the path into the coffin, so as to avoid the wire from entering and being cut by the cicada gold wires.

When the powder roughly presented the layout of the cicada gold wire, the ghost doctor and Shen Yifan were also taken aback, the coffin was densely covered with cicada gold wires, and the distance between the gold wires and the gold wires was only about two centimeters apart, and it was even more difficult to take the straight path among them. The distribution of gold wire in this coffin has a total of 20 layers are distributed in a mesh format, and the distribution of each layer is staggered, which means that if you want to probe into the wire from the 20 layers, you can only go down in a very fixed position, and the hand can not shake on the way, once it shakes, it will touch the gold wire in front and back, and the wire is a piece of tofu in front of it.

Twenty layers of dense gold wire through a straight line distance, just like in the twenty layers of staggered screen to find the same position in the twenty layers of holes, into the wire this difficulty in my eyes is a probability of one in ten million, and there can be no jitter on the way, once shake, it is all in vain.

Shen Yifan looked up and down, left and right, took a deep breath and closed his eyes and entered a selfless environment, in fact, the difference between opening his eyes and closing his eyes is not big in the technique of fishing, closing his eyes seems to be able to avoid unnecessary panic to some extent, when Shen Yifan fully understood the distribution of the gold wire in front of him, his brain has sketched a complete pattern of the golden wire of the cicada in the coffin, and closing the eyes is to enlarge the hole of the straight-line distance to be taken in the brain infinitely, This kind of operation of entering the transformation realm also made the ghost doctor dumbfounded.

In fact, the technique of 'fishing' not only requires the operator to be steady, accurate, and fast, but also requires a certain skill of unlocking, because many ancient tombs use this anti-theft technology of cicada gold wire to prevent the burial goods from being stolen by the tomb from falling, so many valuable burial goods will be placed in the box first and then covered with gold wire. Therefore, the tomb robber not only has to dig into the gold wire, but also uses the wire in his hand to open the lock locked on the box, so the tomb robber is required to open the lock as well.

When Shen Yifan entered the transformation realm, he already had the layout of the golden wire of the cicada in front of him and the appearance of the coffin below, and there was a hook at the front end of the wire in his hand, which was used to unlock the lock. Shen Yifan's wire was on the lock cylinder, he still closed his eyes and slowly probed the wire into the lock cylinder in the realm of concentration, with the rotation of the gear of the mechanism in the ancient bronze institute, Shen Yifan seemed to hear the sound of the bronze lock opening, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that the bronze lock on the coffin had fallen into the coffin, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of joy in his heart.

Shen Yifan himself didn't understand why he used this skill, looking at the coffin in front of him, there was a problem, that is, how to open the coffin in front of him, the wire in Shen Yifan's hand had reached the limit, and the lid of the coffin could not be opened with the wire in his hand.

Shen Yifan looked at the coffin in front of him and felt a little difficult, and then looked at the ghost doctor and wanted the ghost doctor to give him an idea, but the ghost doctor was also a little depressed and felt that it was indeed difficult to open the coffin lid, and there was no good way.

Shen Yifan leaned in front of the coffin and looked at the structure of the coffin inside, and found that the structure of the discount coffin was a little strange, the general coffin is a combination of the coffin and the lid, and there are not too many complicated mechanisms on it, but Shen Yifan found that the structure of this coffin was a little peculiar, there were two gears the same size as a penny at the back of the padlock, it was easy to ignore it if it was not a careful look, and the two gears were staggered together, a bit like a box buckle.

Shen Yifan said: "Could this gear be the mechanism that opened the coffin?" As he spoke, he brought the wire closer to the two gears.

The ghost doctor also took a closer look and said, "I've never seen such a device on a coffin, but I've seen one more thing." ”

Shen Yifan asked, "You mean this may not be a coffin?" What would that be? ”

The ghost doctor said, "I used to see a kind of relic treasure letter in an ancient temple, and there is such a thing on this treasure letter. ”

Shen Yifan also seemed to have some things to do with him after hearing it, he remembered that he seemed to have been to the Famen Temple in Chang'an City, and saw Sakyamo's relics treasure letter in the temple, and there was a similar mechanism buckle in this treasure letter, thinking of this, he said: "The coffin is for burial; The letter is a hidden thing, this is the eternal truth of thousands of years, that is, no matter how whimsical the ancients of Beidou City are, they will not break this truth. If so, this should not be a coffin, but a letter. ”

The ghost doctor nodded, but he was still a little unsure, and asked, "But why do you want to make the shape of the letter like a coffin?" ”

Shen Yifan seemed to have some other thoughts in his mind when he heard this, but he was not very sure. He will always be like this during this time, especially after entering Beidou City, this situation has happened to him repeatedly. Shen Yifan's mind would suddenly pop up with some things and skills that he couldn't imagine, and sometimes he wondered if he had a brain problem.

This time, a thought popped into his mind, and he thought for a while and said, "I seem to have encountered an incident before, but I can't tell if it was my own experience or whether I heard it from others." ”

The ghost doctor looked at Shen Yifan and said, "You speak out first." ”

Shen Yifan said: "I remember seeing similar coffins in which ancient tomb before, I forgot when that ancient tomb was, at that time someone seemed to tell me that this is also called a coffin, a kind of coffin of Buddhist bones called 'eightfold relics coffin'." ”

The ghost doctor looked at Shen Yifan and seemed to think of something, and said: "I also remember one thing when you mention it, we have seen the archaeological team digging the cemetery of a monk in Jinling before, and a coffin with a similar appearance was also dug under the relics pagoda at that time, and after opening it, it was found that it was like a nesting doll, a coffin with a coffin, and a total of eight coffins in the last inventory, and the innermost coffin was placed in a small finger frame to cover the size of a bone, which should be the relics of the monk." According to you, this may be a kind of non-transmission method for Buddhist burial. ”

Shen Yifan had already put the wire on the gear at this time, the gear was very flexible, and as soon as the wire was flicked, the gear turned around, and then he saw that the streamer pattern on the coffin lid had changed, and the coffin lid jumped a little bit, and the coffin lid was automatically opened.

The ghost doctor quickly pulled Shen Yifan over, and he heard two 'whoosh' sounds, and two steel needles like toothpicks shot out of the coffin, which also made Shen Yifan panic, and sweat beads the size of soybeans burst out on his forehead.

The ghost doctor sneered, "I knew this thing wasn't so good. ”

When the coffin cover moved by itself, I saw a smaller coffin, the material and shape were the same as before, but it was not as small as before, and there was still a bronze lock in the same position, Shen Yifan still drew the opening lock of the gourd as before, and then toggled the mechanism, and the cover moved automatically, and two steel needles the size of toothpicks shot out of it.

There is not much gossip, Shen Yifan opened the coffin back and forth like this, a total of seven coffins were opened, except that the volume of the coffin was getting smaller and smaller, and the bronze lock on it was also getting smaller and smaller, and the others were the same, even the mechanical steel needles were the same, until the eighth one, it was only the size of a palm, and it was still a small coffin with the same shape and material as before, but the lock on this small coffin was extremely difficult to open. Because the size of the lock was only the size of half a soybean, but it took Shen Yifan nearly half an hour to open the lock.

Shen Yifan exhaled lightly, at this time his clothes were almost soaked with sweat, and he could feel the sweat on his back dripping down again, he said: "This is the most complex and smallest lock I have ever seen, and it is estimated that it can be on the world record." ”

The ghost doctor said, "I've seen locks as big as sesame seeds, and even a single hair can't get into the keyhole. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that Shen Yifan had already dialed the gear mechanism, and watched the cover of the last small coffin be removed, followed by an extremely dazzling light, this colorful light directly illuminated Shen Yifan and the ghost doctor, and they couldn't even open their eyes, and then they saw a thumb-sized colorful bone inside in front of their eyes.

Shen Yifan said: "Sure enough, it's a relic." But this ......"

Before Shen Yifan could ask questions, he heard the ghost doctor say: "This relic is indeed different. It's so brilliant. ”

The relics in front of them were indeed different from the relics they knew, this relics looked like a wrench with a hollow in the middle, exuding colorful and dazzling brilliance, which made Shen Yifan and the ghost doctor a little surprised.

In a sense, the relics are the bones that have not been burned after the cremation of the monks or the inner dan, the ghost doctor has seen many relics of the monks but they are not like this, and the relics in front of him are not so much relics as a jewelry that has been polished, and it looks no different from the wrench of the trumpet.

At this time, the ghost doctor looked at the colorful relics in front of him, his eyes were already straight, and he said to himself: "It's really the first time I've seen such a relic. ”

Shen Yifan sighed and said, "It's a pity that the volume of this relic is larger than the gap in the gold wire grid, so I can't take it out." If you can, this thing is sky-high in the market. As soon as he said this, the ghost doctor grabbed his hand on Shen Yifan's arm, and seemed to be very excited.

He was already speechless with excitement, but kept stammering at Shen Yifan: "You...... You...... See? ”

Shen Yifan was a little curious and asked, "What do you see?" ”

The ghost doctor said, "You...... Do you have ...... Don't see anything else on the side of the relic? ”

Shen Yifan looked carefully, only to find that there was a thin piece of leaf like gold on the side of the relic, and the volume was very small. The small ones won't be easy to spot if you don't look closely.

Shen Yifan asked, "What is that?" ”

Because the thing was yellow, it was close to the yellow velvet at the bottom of the last small coffin, and the volume was only the size of a small fingernail, so it would be completely ignored if you didn't look closely.

The ghost doctor's hands trembled with excitement at this time, and his mouth trembled and said four words: "Buddha scroll Zen Sutra"

Shen Yifan didn't know why the ghost doctor was so excited when he saw this, but he vaguely felt in his heart that this thing might be one of the purposes of the ghost doctor's visit to Beidou City.

What are the relics in front of them and the Buddhist scrolls and Zen scriptures in the mouth of the ghost doctor? Why is the ghost doctor so excited? Is this the Feng Shui of the Buddha burial in the seven-star burial that Shen Yifan said? What else will they encounter next?