Volume 1: The Three Dragons Protect the Lord's Cave Chapter 17: The Hanging Coffin
The second uncle helped me sit down with concern, wiped the sweat on my forehead with his sleeve, and suddenly exclaimed, "Why is my forehead so hot?" Why didn't you say it earlier when your baby had a fever? β
After hearing this, Brother Hemp touched my forehead with his hand and said, "It's really burning, quickly get water and apply it." β
It is estimated that I entered the ancient tomb to fall into the water many times, coupled with many injuries, the underground palace is cold and stuffy, my body can't bear the load, and I don't know when it started to burn.
Miss Luo hesitated, took out a handkerchief from her body, poured some water on it, folded it and put it on my forehead, and suddenly a cool feeling made me feel a lot more energetic, and at the same time, I also smelled a unique feminine body fragrance.
"Let's go up straight to the rest for a while, and then find a way to get out." Professor Wu said.
When everyone rests in place, some people are bored to pick up stones and throw them down, this subconscious behavior is very normal, and no one thinks anything.
Throwing a few pieces, there was a sudden sound of metal collision of "frame", and it was not far away, everyone suddenly came to the spirit, and looked down calmly, but the fog was too heavy, and it was impossible to see clearly three or five meters away.
Applejack hurriedly asked Liu Sanyan where he threw it just now, Liu Sanyan pointed in the direction, Applejack quickly picked up a few stones and continued to throw them, but unfortunately they didn't hit the metal again.
But the voice was real, and it couldn't have been an illusion. Applejack gritted her teeth and took the flare and fired a bullet that illuminated a large area, and although the fog was heavy, we could dimly see a coffin suspended in the middle of the abyss not far from us.
Is that the end of it? Everyone just had this thought in their hearts, but they saw that the flare was still falling, and there was no shadow in the blink of an eye.
This is not scientific, no matter how wise the ancient people were, it was impossible for the coffin to be suspended, there must be something holding it.
Liu Sanyan and the others instantly forgot about going out, and walked down quickly, and after about ten minutes, a loud voice came: "Uncle Wu, come down and take a look, there is something here." β
Professor Wu asked me if it mattered, I was waiting here if I was uncomfortable.
I really didn't want to toss anymore, so I said, "Go ahead, I'm fine, just rest and rest." β
The second uncle also resolutely stayed to take care of me, and Brother Hemp and Sichuan Yan followed, but what I didn't expect was that Miss Luo also stayed, maybe I was afraid of what happened.
I was about to fall asleep in a daze, when I was suddenly woken up by my second uncle and said that Professor Wu told us to go down too.
I don't know what they found down there, but I can only make one trip.
I walked very slowly all the way, and I only felt that my feet were a little weak and weak during this break, and my body was unstable several times, so scared that my second uncle didn't dare to leave a step while holding me.
In the end, Miss Luo came up and put her arm on my shoulder, asked my second uncle to be careful, and helped me down steadily.
After seeing Professor Wu and them, Liu Sanyan looked at me with strange eyes, and almost had to stick it up to take a closer look, and rubbed my face with his hands, which made me nauseous.
I dodged Liu Sanyan's outstretched hand and said, "What are you doing?" Do I have something on my face? β
Liu Sanyan muttered: "It's so similar, it's like a mold carved out." β
"What is too similar? Who is too much like me? I listened inexplicably, and then Liu Sanyan's words made me feel cold down my spine.
Liu Sanyan said: "The one lying in the coffin is simply a middle-aged version of Comrade Xiao Zhang, I don't believe you asked Ajie, he also saw it." β
Applejack said, "It's real, it started to scare me, and I almost fell into the abyss." β
This joke is too much, what age is this tomb, even if the body is preserved completely, it will be shriveled, how can it be seen that it looks like me? Am I that ugly?
Liu Sanyan said hurriedly: "I really didn't lie to you, I don't believe you can just crawl over and take a look at yourself." β
It turned out that the coffin was not suspended, but hung in the center with an iron cable as thick as eight arms, and the fog was too heavy We didn't see the iron cable at first, and the stone thrown by Liu Sanyan before also happened to hit the iron cable.
At that moment just now, Liu Sanyan and Ajie had crawled over and removed the lid of the coffin, this hanging coffin was a wooden coffin, and when they saw the corpse lying in the coffin, they didn't care about checking the funeral goods, so they crawled back directly.
After hearing this, Miss Luo didn't even tie the rope, and climbed the rope with her bare hands. She moved quickly, light and agile, and soon crawled to the side of the coffin, the lid of which was removed by Applejack and the others, and still firmly covered it, not falling.
Miss Luo watched for a long time, and finally took out a mobile phone to take a picture of the picture, and crawled back along the iron cable.
I couldn't wait to take my phone and see that the corpse photographed on it was so perfectly preserved, with a ruddy face and neat hairstyle, it looked like a person who had fallen asleep, if it weren't for this ghost place, I'm afraid I wouldn't believe it was a corpse.
What makes me even more cold is that it is really very similar to me, the facial features and face shape are simply deliberately plastic surgery, if there is a difference, that is, the corpse should look like a forty-year-old, and I am upright and prime.
"Could it be your long-lost brother? No, even if it's a brother, it can't be like that, unless it's twins. Liu Sanyan said.
Everyone took the mobile phone and looked at it for a while, and after reading it, the look in my eyes was very weird, and even the second uncle was a little unbelievable.
"There are many ways to preserve a body intact, but it's rare to find it so perfect, unless it's not long after he died," Professor Wu said. Xiao Zhang, don't you really have any impression of this? β
I really can't think of such a relative, maybe it's really too much of a coincidence, so it's not impossible to find two similar flowers.
The second uncle thought for a while and said: "There is really no one in my family who looks very similar to Xiaoyuan, if you want to say that Xiaoyuan looks like his father, but my brother is not like this extent." β
It's really weird, and it's happening to me, and it's making me uncomfortable.
Professor Wu squinted his eyes and looked at the photo carefully, and did not forget to praise that it was so similar, but it made me feel awkward to listen to it.
After looking at it for a moment, Professor Wu said in surprise: "Why does this coffin look so much like Yin Pine Wood?" Qingqing, you go over and take a look, whether the coffin is complete, wait, I'll go over in person. β
I was really curious in my heart, and despite the persuasion of my second uncle, I had to go over and see what was going on, otherwise I would never be at peace.
They tied a safety knot on me, and I shook my head, trying to be as energetic as I could, and climbed over the wire on the other side.
The arm-thick iron rope let us not worry about the quality, Ajie escorted Professor Wu over, Miss Luo followed me, from here to the hanging coffin about 30 meters, because I was worried that something would happen to me, I tied a rope to my shoulder, so I climbed a lot slower, sometimes the rope was hung by the iron cable, I had to stop and untie it, and I climbed for nearly five minutes. By the time I successfully arrived at the hanging coffin, Professor Wu and the others had already arrived, and even Liu Sanyan, who had followed behind, had arrived.
Looking at this wooden coffin up close, it gives people a sense of thickness, a little larger than the sarcophagus of the previous burial chamber, and the exterior is plum-shaped, and there are no gaps to be seen, as if it was hewn out of a whole tree.
I crawled over from the foot of the wooden coffin, and before I could see the person lying in the coffin, I heard Professor Wu say incredulously: "There is really a coffin carved from the whole pine wood, this is unimaginable, no wonder the corpse can be preserved so perfectly." β
I remember that Professor Wu said before that if it is a coffin made of more than 1,000 years of yin pine wood, it can ensure that the body will not rot for thousands of years, and this may really be a coffin made of more than 1,000 years of yin pine wood.
When I got to the end, sure enough, the one lying inside was similar to me and his own, and even I suspected that there was such a person.
The corpse's eyes were closed, his posture was peaceful, and his hair was estimated to be not short, but he couldn't see it when he pressed it against his back. I originally wanted to see if this person was in recent years through some details, but unfortunately the shroud he was wearing was black, how to describe it, it should be called armor, woven from a certain black material, and I couldn't tell what age it was.
Professor Wu was pleasantly surprised, "Oh my God, this is ...... The black armor in the center of the earth, the value is unimaginable, and after fighting for most of his life, he finally encountered an artifact. In the early years, the archaeological team found one in a Tang tomb excavated in Xianyang, but the damage was more serious, this one was almost complete, and the natural value was greater. β
According to legend, the black armor of the center of the earth is refined from meteorites outside the sky, and the living can wear it to live forever, and the dead can wear it to come back from the dead, but it has not been confirmed so far, but one thing is certain, the black armor of the center of the earth will definitely have an effect on protecting the corpse.
In addition to this, the corpse had its hands on its abdomen, and in the middle it was holding an iron box, which was very small, only the size of a palm, and it was square.
Liu San's eyes drooled and said, "Then take it off quickly, it doesn't matter if you live forever or not, it's worth a lot." β
Professor Wu shook his head and said, "No, this thing really can't be taken off by ordinary people, and once we get rid of the quasi-corpse, we all have to die here." β
What he said was so bad that it scared us, after all, the incident between Uncle Ercai and the dog happened not long ago, and this one is probably more powerful than the two of them combined.
Liu Sanyan said tentatively: "Why don't you cut off his head first?" But this guy looks too similar to Comrade Xiao Zhang, and the third master can't do it. β
Applejack laughed and scolded, "Who said you can't transform a corpse if you cut off your head?" Ghosts are not people, aren't they still ghosts if their heads fall off? β
"Then let's just cut off his hands, feet, heels and heads and throw them into the abyss, even if you cheat the corpse, it's not much of a threat." Liu Sanyan was obviously unwilling.
Ajie directly handed a knife to Liu Sanyan, and then Liu Sanyan was dumbfounded, and said after a long time: "I just give some advice, you have a better way for you to come." β
Normal people can't really do this kind of thing, not to mention that this corpse looks exactly like me.
"Be careful, the corpse is breathing!" Miss Luo, who hadn't spoken much next to her, suddenly became extremely serious and pulled out her knife.
She startled us by saying this, and when I looked at the corpse again, my chest was slightly heaving, and I almost fell down in fright.
"Is the legend true? Can the Black Armor of the Center of the Earth really come back to life? Professor Wu was so excited that he forgot what he was here for, seeing that he was about to raise his corpse, and he was still thinking about the artifact? At critical moments, I can drop the chain better than me.
The ups and downs became more and more frequent, and I could even feel the cold breath exhaled from the two nostrils of the corpse, which soon developed into a real breathing sound.
Miss Luo didn't say a word, and stabbed the corpse in the neck with a knife, mercilessly.
Suddenly, the corpse's neck was crooked, and she dodged the knife, and Miss Luo used too much force, and the knife pierced into the bottom of the coffin. The corpse suddenly opened its eyes and stared at Miss Luo, who suddenly maintained the posture of the bayonet and did not move, and I don't know if she was scared stupid.
Professor Wu finally woke up from this change and hurriedly shouted, "Xiao Zhang, hurry up and use your blood to spot his forehead." β
At this moment, the upper body of the corpse slowly rose, as if there was an invisible force supporting him to sit up, the corpse and Miss Luo always kept looking at each other, and Miss Luo did not react at all, looking at the corpse sluggishly, not even holding her hand, Ajie on the side hurriedly supported her back with one hand, afraid that she would fall.
At the moment of emergency, I hurriedly bit the middle finger of my right hand, and the blood flowed out at once, and I pointed at the corpse's forehead regardless of the pain. Strange to say, the corpse stopped sitting up, and the upper body was at a forty-five degree angle, and it didn't lie back and didn't sit up again.
"Uncle Wu, how long does this take?" I was at the wrong angle, and my upper body was about to lie in the coffin, and this position must not last long.
"You hold on first, don't look him in the eye." Professor Wu didn't say that it was okay, but as soon as I said it, I subconsciously looked at the corpse's face.
I saw that the corpse's eyes were all white, and the whites of these eyes were not pure white, with cyan, and it made me dizzy when I saw it, and I secretly said that it was not good, so I quickly closed my eyes.
I only heard Professor Wu say: "While Xiao Zhang fixed the corpse, hurry up and take the iron box and leave, he won't be able to withstand it for long." β
Then Liu Sanyan and Applejack violently lifted the lid of the coffin into the abyss, grabbed the iron box and climbed onto the iron cable, and the three of them completely ignored me and Miss Luo, and only cared about their own escape.
I secretly said that human nature is really dark, and I will always only take care of myself at critical moments, you must know that now I am fighting for their life, mother, since I don't care about my life and death, everyone wants to die together, regardless of his three seven two one, I let go of my fingers.
As soon as the fingers were released, the corpse showed an evil smile, I tried to finally wake up Miss Luo, and slapped her in the face with a slap, whether she was awake or not, there was only so much she could do, and I hurriedly crawled to the iron rope.
"You dare to hit me?" Miss Luo may have been awakened by my fan, and unbelievably grabbed me by the back collar, and slapped me on the back of the head with an angry slap, slapping me into a daze.
I shouted, "Crazy woman, don't you run away and wait to feed the ghosts?" β
Miss Luo said, "You have water in your brain?" When you see a corpse, you are scared like this, you should have fallen to your death. β
After saying that, he pulled me back, and I returned to the coffin, and closed my eyes and thought that this fucking calf was over, and the woman was really a clean mess, a stinky woman who was not successful enough to fail, and killed herself not to say anything, but also implicated others.
Miss Luo jumped to her feet in anger, slapped me hard, turned me around to look at the corpse, and said, "Open your eyes and take a good look, the corpse, this is the corpse, is it necessary for a big man to scare this coward?" β
I was extremely frightened, refused to open my eyes, and said: "Lao Tzu said that if you don't look at it, you won't look at it, there is a kind of you bite me to death, and if you look at you, I will lose!" β
"Okay Qingqing, it's normal for ordinary people to be afraid, after all, Xiao Zhang is fighting for the first time, and everything has a process." Isn't this familiar voice Professor Wu? Didn't the old man of the dog day run? Conscience discovery is back?
I turned my head curiously to see that Professor Wu and Ajie were there, and Ajie and Liu looked at me with admiration and gloating, and secretly gave me a thumbs up.
Hell, did the ghost just go? When I turned to look at the corpse again, the corpse was still lying there with its eyes closed, everything was the same as when I first saw it. But that's too realistic, isn't it?
I secretly glanced at Miss Luo, and saw an obvious handprint on the left side of her face, and it seemed that my slap was really not light. Miss Luo glared at me angrily, so frightened that I quickly looked away.
Applejack whispered behind me, "Dude, you're so good, acting too realistically, it's the first time I've seen Qingqing being slapped in the face since I was a child." β
I didn't know how to explain it for a while, so I was anxious for a long time and said, "No, you really didn't run just now?" β
Liu Sanyan and Applejack shook her head.
"The corpse didn't move?"
Shake oneβs head.
"Didn't see the whites of your eyes?"
Shake oneβs head.
"Didn't see the corpse's weird smile?"
Still shaking his head......
Damn, this time it's a shame to lose face and grandma's house!
Applejack and the others carefully lift the lid down and rest it on two iron cables, and the body is now visible under the torches.
This corpse not only looks very similar to me, but also the body shape is almost the same, the black armor in the center of the earth is like a jumpsuit, covered from top to bottom, even the feet are wrapped, only the head and hands are exposed, I don't know how to put it in, I guess there is a zipper button or something in the back.
The hands were so white that they were a little transparent, but the right finger was unusually long, almost every finger had a knuckle longer than mine, which made my heart tremble, could it be that the bloody handprints in the tomb were left by him?
Professor Wu's face changed, and he said in a lost voice: "Yang family? β
Glancing at Miss Luo, who was also extremely shocked, I urgently asked what Yang family was? How do you determine that his surname is Yang?
Miss Luo said: "Every generation of the Yang family enters the WTO, the five fingers of the right hand are extremely long, which is related to a kung fu they practice, called five fingers to explore the acupoints, and with only five fingers, almost all the tomb organs can be broken. β
Professor Wu said: "I said that how did an ancient tomb of this scale not encounter a dangerous mechanism, it turned out that the ancestors broke it one step earlier, this is really a blessing to the younger generations, build it back, the corpse can't be moved." β
"Isn't it, old man, the coffin is open and can't be moved? Fight is not this reversal. Liu Sanyan is gone, not to mention the valuable geocentric black armor, and the corpse is holding an iron box, there must be good things in it.
Applejack also said, "Uncle Wu, why don't you open the box and take a look?" We won't take off the armor, this is not counting the body of the ancestors. β
Professor Wu thought for a moment and said, "Okay! β
Liu Sanyan carefully took out the iron box, at first we all thought it was made of iron, but after a closer look, we found that it was not iron, and it was a little warm in the hand, not like gold or stone, but a little like wood.
Liu Sanyan looked at it for a while, and said excitedly: "Damn, this is also a baby, this is a sycamore wood crystal, but how can there be such a big sycamore wood crystal?" It's also precious. β
I was busy asking what is the sycamore wood crystal, Liu Sanyan said that the sycamore tree grows to a certain year, and the root has a certain chance of forming crystal-like wood bumps, which is very small, more difficult than winning the lottery, the general crystal is only the size of a finger, and most of the eggs are rare, and this head can refresh the record.
I asked him again what was the use of that? Liu Sanyan said: "Those alchemy monks in ancient times have heard of it, right? The elixir of immortality refined must be packed with utensils made of sycamore wood crystals, otherwise the medicinal properties cannot be perfectly preserved. Legend has it that the gourd of Taishang Laojun containing the pill is made of this thing, don't you say it's rare? β
Applejack took the box and checked it for a while and said that she didn't find any mechanism, should you open it?
Without waiting for Professor Wu to make a decision, Liu Sanyan grabbed a handful and opened the lid, only to see that there was a fiery red plant in the box, a little smaller than an egg, round, with a piece of cotton silk under the plant, and nothing else.
"Could this be the elixir?" Liu Sanyan reached out curiously to take it, and as soon as he touched the plant, he shrank back like a burning buttocks, and the box was almost thrown away by him, "Fuck, it's so hot!" β
Liu San Liu shook his hand vigorously, and when he looked at it again, there was nothing unusual in his hand.
But we've all taken the box, and we don't feel the heat, so how can it be hot?
Applejack touched her finger suspiciously, immediately retracted it, and said, "It's really hot!" It's like red-hot iron. β
Could it be that these two have a tacit understanding to give us some fun? Curious, I reached out and touched the plant, but it didn't feel anything, just a little warm, I took it out and said, "It's too pompous, this joke is not funny at all." β
Liu Sanyan and Ajie were so shocked that their eyes were about to fall out, "You dare to take it so hot, you have to boil it in boiling water for a bath, right?" β
Miss Luo also felt that they were too contrived, so she glanced at them and reached out to take the plant, but as soon as she touched it, she immediately retracted it, frowning and looking at me suspiciously.
At this time, Professor Wu couldn't help but be curious, and he also touched the plant and retracted it.
"It's too much, I was too frightened before, you don't need to play with me, right?" I'm very dissatisfied, I haven't felt hot for a long time, I really want to burn I don't throw it away? Is it a hallucination again?
I was a little unconfident, and secretly twisted my thigh with my hand, and the pain that came from me showed that it was not a hallucination. But I don't seem to have heard of hallucinations that aren't afraid of pain, and it's not a dream.
Although I am curious why I am not afraid of being hot, but now is obviously not the time to argue about this, Professor Wu took out the cotton silk under the beads, this cotton is very ordinary, only folded in half, and left ten words after spreading it out, this word is a modern word, everyone knows it.
"Leave the fire beads, those who are destined to hold the beads and retreat quickly!"
The meaning is very obvious, this ancestor warned us that we can not go down any further, and it is not a trip in vain to go back with this bead. It seems that this bead should be precious, is this a well-intentioned dissuasion?
Professor Wu read "Leaving the Fire Bead? Away from the fire beads?! Suddenly, his face changed dramatically, urging us to leave quickly.
hurriedly closed the coffin lid, and just as he was about to close the coffin lid, the sharp-eyed Liu Sanyan said suspiciously: "Why does he still have a watch?" β
I asked with a blank face? Liu Sanyan took it off the upper right wrist of the corpse without saying a word, "No, isn't this a watch?" β
It's really a watch, and I recognize it as a plum blossom brand, so this guy is a modern person, and it should be the bones of the Yin Pine Forest.
"Stop the ink, get out of here quickly, or it'll be too late." Professor Wu urged again, his anxious expression as if he had a premonition that great danger was coming.
We closed the lid and climbed back from the iron cable separately.