Chapter Twenty-Nine: Opening the Coffin
It rained for two days in a row and didn't stop until this morning. Fortunately, Yanshi didn't take advantage of this bad weather to cause trouble for Qi Lu and the others, but they didn't dare to be idle, and they were all preparing to start a new struggle with Yanshi at any time.
At this moment, Qi Lu was sitting on the chair with Erlang's legs crossed, squinting at Lao Wu, who was busy in front of the laptop, and said with a smile: "What are you busy with, you can't make a mistake, it must be him." ”
Lao Wu replied to him without raising his head: "I know it's him, but I'm just making sure again, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble." ”
Ding Xiaolan saw that they were talking mysteriously, so she asked curiously, "What are you doing?" ”
Qi Lu said: "He's looking for information about a god. ”
"Which god?" While speaking, Ding Xiaolan had already stretched her neck to look at the picture that Lao Wu had just called up on the laptop screen.
"Isn't this the second senior brother?" Seeing the pig-headed and pot-bellied guy in the picture, Ding Xiaolan couldn't help laughing. "You guys are really capable, you actually thought of asking Zhu Bajie to help!"
"You've watched too much of "Journey to the West", right?" was ridiculed by Ding Xiaolan, Lao Wu's old face immediately hung up, and he said angrily: "Open your eyes and see clearly, is Zhu Bajie so handsome?" ”
Ding Xiaolan pretended to look at it a few times and then teased Lao Wu: "Well, he is uglier than Marshal Tianpeng." ”
"Women are really unreasonable creatures." Lao Wu said: "What is the second senior brother of the eight precepts, he is the mountain god Meng Huai recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". ”
Qi Lu said: "The place where Meng Huai lives is called Qian Ming Mountain. This guy has a lot of power, with Qian Ming Mountain as the center, and all the creatures in the surrounding three hundred miles of mountains and rivers are at his disposal, no wonder the flying squirrels of Tianchi Mountain will listen to his orders to guide us to find the tomb robber Qiangzi and Tyrant Fang. ”
"The grass is the sacred grass of Xianshan Mountain, and this sacred mountain is less than a hundred miles away from Qiming Mountain. It seems that I was slow to react, and I should have thought it was this guy when I first found the grass. Lao Wu said a little angrily: "Lead the way, lead the way, you actually want to turn into a black cat and bite me twice!" ”
"Ha, it turned out to be God's kiss!" Ding Xiaolan laughed and trembled.
Seeing that Lao Wu's eyes were rounded by Ding Xiaolan's teasing, Qi Lu hurriedly diverted the topic and asked Lao Wu: "Do you really want to decide to do this?" ”
"Yes." Lao Wu said a little worriedly: "To deal with a guy like Yanshi, we need God's help. ”
Ding Xiaolan realized that they were talking about business, so she put away her smile and asked, "Listening to this tone, how do I feel that you are a little afraid of Yanshi?" ”
"It's not that I'm afraid, but that there's nothing I can do." Qi Lu relieved the sullenness that had been frozen in his heart, and said: "Yanshi's puppeting technique has reached the pinnacle, you haven't noticed that every time he fights, he only hides in the distance and manipulates the puppet to fight against us, and we can't even hurt a single hair of him." ”
"Xiao Ding, come here to help!" Lao Wu closed the company's iron gate and moved out a quaint desk from the back room, it seemed that he was preparing to summon Meng Huai to patronize the office.
Qi Lu sat still and didn't move, watching the two of them busy at the desk with cold eyes, and he had a mixed feeling in his heart.
At the beginning, Meng Huai gave himself inexplicable instructions through the office computer, not to mention how disgusted Qi Lu's heart was at that time, and he wanted to let him disappear immediately, but now in order to deal with Yanshi, he had to be cheeky and ask him to help, which is really a great irony.
Lao Wu did the magic for a long time with a sword, and there was no movement in the room at all.
Qi Lu frowned and said, "Forget it, don't do things, I don't think you can summon Meng Huai." ”
"It's because you failed to summon the Dharma yourself, so you don't have faith, right?" Lao Wu gave him a blank look, and then concentrated on doing the Dharma again.
Qi Lu got up with a sneer, walked up to him and kicked over the desk. The incense burner on the table fell to the ground, stirring up a burst of ashes, choking Ding Xiaolan out of breath.
Ding Xiaolan was so angry by his rude behavior that she yelled: "Qi Lu, if you don't help, forget it, why do you want to make trouble?" ”
Lao Wu also said angrily: "Don't worry about money, you will pay if something is broken?" ”
Qi Lu said coldly: "We don't have the items on Meng Huai's body as a medium, no matter how you do things, it's useless, don't you remember what he said to us when he left?" ”
Lao Wu immediately remembered that Meng Huai had said in Jiang Wenhao's office that it would take a long time to meet next time. Now that everyone has made their words clear, no matter how much they toss today, of course Meng Huai will not show up.
Ding Xiaolan was not present last time, and she didn't know why, she was still counting Qi Lu on the side.
At this time, Qi Lu's mobile phone rang, he took out his mobile phone and saw that it was Jiang Wenhao calling, and hurriedly hinted that Ding Xiaolan should stop messing with him unreasonably, and then sat back in the chair and connected the phone.
It turned out that Jiang Wenhao called to inform him to go to the museum, and Qi Lu remembered that today was the day of the opening of the coffin of the ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, so he hurriedly put on his coat and beckoned Lao Wu to drive to the museum with him.
Due to the safety of the artefacts, the museum has decided to close the entire coffin opening process to the public. However, the outside of the museum has long been surrounded by reporters who have heard the news and people who have watched the excitement.
Outside the gate, there are not only armed police officers and soldiers, but also police. Liu Chenfei, who was patrolling, saw Qi Lu and the three of them standing outside and couldn't squeeze in, so he hurriedly led them into the museum through the back door.
When he arrived at the museum, Jiang Wenhao's assistant handed Qi Lu a robe like a doctor's white coat for him to put on, and then took him to the sealed room where the coffin was opened.
Lao Wu and Ding Xiaolan came later, but were politely stopped by the armed police soldiers on duty at the door.
"Can you take these two of my colleagues in?" Qi Lu asked his assistant for advice, but saw that he shook his head very affirmatively and refused.
Qi Lu couldn't force it anymore, so he briefly explained a few words to Lao Wu, told him to pay attention to the movements around him, and entered the sealing room.
He entered just in time, the six layers of coffins outside the main coffin had been removed by the researchers, and now only the main coffin remained.
Qi Lu circled around the main coffin and found that the outer coffin plates on the front and back were engraved with the patterns of the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird and the Xuanwu respectively, and he couldn't help but be amazed. He knew that the patterns of the four gods used to come from the ancient tombs of the Han Dynasty, but he didn't expect that the concept of twenty-eight houses had already prevailed in the Western Zhou Dynasty.
But he thought about it carefully and was relieved, the owner of the tomb is a Yanshi, he is already knowledgeable and talented, those skeletons are arranged according to the position of the stars of heaven and earth, and the four divine beasts are nothing.
After the four young and vigorous young men carefully opened the lid of the coffin, the experts present quickly poked their heads to look into the coffin, and then let out a long sigh and shook their heads in disappointment.
Qi Lu didn't need to look to know that it was the experts who were disappointed after discovering that it was an empty coffin, only Jiang Wenhao calmly looked inside the coffin, hoping to find something valuable.
He found that there were many oracle bone characters carved on the inner plate of the coffin, and he hurriedly arranged for a staff member to take pictures of these characters for archiving. After the matter was done, he walked to Qi Lu's side, took off his mask, and talked to him.
"Xiao Qi, I've worked hard for you, I'm worried that Yanshi will come to make trouble today, so I bothered you to come over and help me guard the field."
"Professor, what are these words, if you don't call me today, I have to come over."
The two were talking in a whisper, when suddenly there was a commotion outside. Jiang Wenhao was shocked, and hurriedly walked to the window and opened the curtains to check the movement outside.
It turned out that the crowd watching the excitement outside seemed to know that the coffin had been opened, and some people wanted to squeeze in to see what was going on, but they clashed with the police standing at the door.
Jiang Wenhao sighed: "I didn't expect the enthusiasm of the masses for cultural relics to be so high, and after the work is completed, I will discuss with Director Li and hold a press conference on a certain day." ”
Qi Lu sensed the aura of danger from it, he whispered to the professor not to go out, and then took off his white robe and walked out quickly.
When Qi Lu came to the entrance of the museum, he had already seen several crowds in front of him fighting with the police, and Liu Chenfei was directing his colleagues to arrest the troublemaker on the spot.
Qi Lu hurriedly ran forward to stop Liu Chenfei from doing so. Liu Chenfei was about to ask him why he didn't stay in the hall but came here to join in the fun, when he saw Qi Lu pointing at the troublemakers with a stern expression, and motioned to look at the facial expressions of those people.
Liu Chenfei opened his eyes and saw that he was famous, and those guys had a dull expression on their faces!
"You mean they fell for hypnosis, is this a conspiracy carried out by Jin Sanye's accomplices?" Liu Chenfei suddenly became nervous.
"Yes." Qi Lu nodded and said, very anxious in his heart. He knew that Yanshi would not give up, and if he didn't make some trouble this day, it would be too inconsistent with his style of doing things.
Liu Chenfei asked: "If they are really manipulated by someone, then what should we do?" ”
Qi Lu didn't make a sound with a cold face, in fact, he didn't have a good idea in his heart, so he beckoned Lao Wu, who was watching the excitement from a distance, to come over, hoping that he could find a way to solve the crisis in front of him.
But at this moment, the crowd who were picking quarrels and provoking trouble suddenly fell to the ground in unison.
"What's going on?" Qi Lu and Liu Chenfei stared wide-eyed, not knowing why this situation occurred.
When the two of them came forward to check, they found that these people were not pretending, they really passed out on the ground. Several police officers helped the fallen man to his feet, and whether it was shouting loudly or pinching others, the man was still unconscious.
Liu Chenfei didn't expect such a mistake, he hurriedly called the ambulance to save people.
"It could be that someone is secretly helping us." Lao Wu, who rushed over, whispered in Qi Lu's ear.
This sentence immediately reminded Qi Lu, and he quickly stood up and looked around, but did not find any abnormal phenomena. Just as he withdrew his gaze in disappointment, he suddenly noticed a person at the corner of the street smiling at him, and then walked into the alley.
Although they were far apart, Qi Lu still recognized him as Sha Hua at a glance!
It turned out that you helped! Qi Lu was grateful, and hurriedly squeezed out the crowd and walked towards the alley where Sha Hua had disappeared.