Chapter 224: The Coffin
There was no other way around but this wall stuck in the rock. The tomb wall and the rock do not match, it seems that the tomb wall is still buried by the cracked rock, there are some gaps around the wall, people seem to be able to get into, but the gap is completely dark, I still did a long time of psychological construction, before I walked to the tomb wall.
I could get into this hole, but I had trouble following the gap that appeared in the wall of the grave in front of me. Should I go in or not? It seems that if I continue to stay outside, I will only wait, continue to wait for the fat man, even if he wakes up, he may not be able to act immediately, and I will still rely on him to go out at that time, which is a little unreliable. And I'm probably going to have to get the fat guy out in the future.
Finally I made up my mind, took the fat man's dagger in one hand and picked up a stone in the other, and went sideways through the gap between the rock and the tomb wall. This gap is not much bigger than mine, and it is on the water, otherwise I would have to get stuck here with an oxygen tank.
The tomb wall is still tilted, it seems that this wall is not a side wall, the wall is slightly curved, my head is shocked again, who did the owner of this tomb offend, and he still gave people such a thing after death.
The gap was only a few steps away, and I entered the tomb, and the height of the gap was more than half a meter from the bottom of the tomb, but fortunately there was no water in it, otherwise I would not have dared to go down.
The range of my headlight is not large, but when I came in, I found that the burial chamber was very small, and when I looked left and right, a huge stone coffin was in the very center of the burial chamber, but the position had changed.
There is a coffin in this tomb, not like a side room, but if he is the back room, it seems that compared to the specifications of the spiritual hall just now, there is a little mismatch here, which makes me think several times that the owner of the tomb is a tomb that he repaired in batches, and it may still be a big household at the beginning, but when it is repaired to the back, it turns out that there is no money, so he casually sent himself a bedroom.
I dispelled these chaotic thoughts, threw the stone in my hand at the coffin, and after a clang, the coffin did not make any abnormal noise, and then I made up my mind and walked over with a hard head.
The whole burial chamber is only less than 20 square meters, and there is a half-collapsed tomb door on one side, of course, it is also the other way around, because the burial chamber is not high, so I can climb through the door.
When I walked up to the sarcophagus, I realized that this was not a coffin, but a very large stone coffin, which was five meters long and about two meters wide. If this thing is found by archaeologists, it must be a national treasure, and such a huge coffin is not found in many tombs that have been protected.
But unfortunately, because the tilt angle of the burial chamber is too large, the entire coffin fell directly from the top of the head, and the stone coffin was completely fragmented, but it probably maintained its original form.
This alone proved that the collapse of the tomb was an emergency, and I glanced over its head, and the stone bed where the coffin had been placed was still there, and the big creature should have been placed on it.
I only moved a few times, and the form of the stone coffin instantly shattered to the ground. It was a damn offense, and the fragments of the coffin fell to the ground, and I was so startled that I almost wanted to get out of here immediately. But when I walked back, I unconsciously glanced behind me, only to find that something was not quite right under the stone coffin.
In ancient tombs, there is generally a bit of status, and the coffin must be there, the coffin is naturally the thing that holds the corpse, and the coffin can actually be directly understood as the coffin containing the coffin. These things are generally made of stone, but there are also wood, such as the burial method of the yellow intestine inscription. The ancients represented the owner's own status according to the number of layers of the coffin, and I have seen the highest specification of a tomb, the coffin has seven layers, and the coffin inside has five layers.
In fact, it's not like what you usually think, how big the burial chamber has to be built in the corpse coat with twelve layers, in fact, the land where the secret tomb is hidden is counted as one layer, the burial chamber is counted as one layer, and the back room in the burial chamber is counted as one layer, and it is counted one layer at a time, layer upon layer, and in the real tomb, it is as big as a truck compartment.
In this burial chamber where I am now, the coffin is not luxurious. What I saw when I turned around was also the coffin in the stone coffin, this coffin plus the burial chamber, there were only three floors, and the strange place was not the stone coffin, but the coffin in the fragments of the stone coffin.
The color of the coffin is very strange, although the burial chamber has been deflated for many years, the coffin is still blood-red. I didn't think much about it before I left, but before I had taken two steps out, I had another question.
It is absolutely impossible to go underwater, and the oxygen cylinder is not enough for me and the fat man to go out, so the only way now is the half-sealed tomb door in this tomb, but the coffin is sandwiched in the middle, and I must eliminate this danger first, otherwise when the fat man is moved over, the coffin will be difficult again, and then we will only be dead.
I went back to the side of the coffin, it was a big mahogany coffin, the outside of the coffin was completely painted red, and then I saw the size of the coffin, how could this thing be so big?
The whole wooden coffin was almost two inches smaller than the stone coffin, and I thought to myself, how many people would have to be to use such a large coffin. Immediately I thought of Mingrenzong, it is said that it is a big fat man, but it is impossible to think about it, although it is an imperial specification here, but Zhu Gaochi is buried in the Ming Tombs.
I don't know if it was the impact of the experience, or if I did have some excess curiosity, but for a moment I had the idea of wanting to open the coffin to see what was inside. In fact, the most important thing is my suspicion of the identity of the owner of the tomb, because there are too many irregularities in this tomb.
I cleaned the stones from the coffin, and when I was done, I found that I couldn't open it by normal means, the coffin was upside down on the ground, the lid was pressed, and the five-meter wooden coffin was so heavy that I couldn't push it back in reverse.
I used my dagger to probe the gap behind the coffin board, and after a circle, I found a natural crack, and the coffin was actually hewn out of a huge log. This type of coffin, known as the heart of the tree, is said to ensure that the body of the coffin owner does not decay as long as it undergoes special treatment.
But the craftsman who wanted to make this coffin was also not skilled enough, and there was a crack in the bottom cover of the closest. The burial chamber was originally dry, and the stone coffin was broken, which destroyed the sealing environment inside, and after a hundred years, the wood no longer had the flexibility it used to be.
I only picked it with a dagger a few times, and I buckled a large piece of wood to the ground, and so on and so forth, almost scrapped my hands, and only then did I buckle a hole the size of a head in the coffin board.
The headlight shone through the hole, and it was naturally dark, but what I saw at first sight made me doubt once again the true purpose of the tomb.
Immediately a metallic reflection was reflected through the hole, and when I looked closely, it was an iron chain the thickness of my wrist, and each link of the chain was as thick as two fingers.
I looked up along the chain, one end of the chain was connected to the metal fastener inside the coffin, because of the angle, the other end of the chain, I couldn't see, but there was no movement in the coffin, which made me basically think that it was safe. But I still didn't want to stop, this coffin had to be fully opened, and I had to figure out what was inside.
Along the way, there are too many coincidences, as soon as I think about the problem independently, many details that I usually can't think of at once all come out, and my way is all coincidence, and I don't believe that I really have this ability.
The purpose of our visit to northern Shaanxi this time was to find the ancient kiln factory, but now we have inexplicably entered this ancient tomb, I think this will not be a coincidence. Whether Master Ma has a problem or not, I can't guess, but I also know that most of it has nothing to do with him, so we got here, there are many factors, which is not something that can be done by one person's will, so although I was already trembling at this time, I still went to open this coffin.
I couldn't move the coffin away directly, and I used a dagger to pry it little by little, and I was a little stupid, but when I looked at the coffin board that had been destroyed by me, I hated it, and said in my heart that everything that damaged Yin Virtue had been done, and I didn't care whether it was big or small.
I immediately climbed onto the top of the coffin, picked up the largest piece of the coffin, and smashed it down against the bottom of the coffin. I didn't expect this coffin to be so unsturdy. I thought that I would smash a big hole at most, and then slowly expand it little by little, but I really didn't expect that as soon as the stone fell down, the entire bottom plate of the coffin would immediately become fragments.
I was standing on top of the coffin, and as soon as the coffin board shattered, I immediately fell into the coffin. I was caught off guard, and by the time I could react, my legs were already in the coffin.
At this moment, suddenly, I felt that something was wrong under my feet, something moved, almost instantly, the hair on my whole body stood up, that feeling of electric shock, and I didn't want to experience it a second time.
It is said that people can give full play to their potential at critical moments, and at this time, it was in response to that sentence, my whole body was full of fried hair, and people jumped up directly, and this jump directly made me jump out of the half-height coffin.
By the time I got out, my whole body had been relieved, and my legs were weak and shivering, and I fell to the ground. When I think back to what I felt just now, it still makes me extremely afraid. I just wanted to go, and the thing under my feet moved, that is, this moment, I immediately felt that I was stepping on a person's back, but what is this place? In the coffin, how could there be a living person?
I was paralyzed on the ground for a long time, but my eyes never left the edge of the coffin. The inside of the coffin has also begun to move since the moment it came out, and the sound of iron chains has come and gone, and the iron chains seem to be bound to the contents of the coffin.