Chapter 18 The body does not decay
After crawling out of the cave, Qi Luren called Ding Xiaolan's name before he could get out of the tent.
This time there was a response, Ding Xiaolan answered outside and then bent down and walked into the tent.
Qi Lu couldn't help but be stunned when he saw her unscathed, "Are you okay?" ”
"Do you really want something to happen?" Ding Xiaolan's pink face suddenly got old.
"It's not. I just shouted at you below and didn't respond for a long time, and I thought something had happened to you. Qi Lu then asked her, "Did you hear any strange noises?" ”
"No, I didn't hear anything."
Seeing that Ding Xiaolan was safe and sound, Qi Lu also relieved himself, it seemed that his hallucination was doing the trick, Qi Lu smiled, picked up a bottle of mineral water and drank it in one go, and then went down the thick hemp rope to the hole.
After entering the tomb, Qi Lu saw Lao Wu holding a metal detector to conduct a carpet survey of all areas of the tomb, and couldn't help but smile and said, "You are really going to dig three feet into the ground to explore the treasure!" ”
Lao Wu looked up at Qi Lu with a puzzled expression. "It's strange, the detector hasn't responded, isn't there anything here?"
"Maybe something of value is hidden in a coffin."
"There's a fart, I've tried it with a detector, and it doesn't respond at all." Lao Wu scolded and scolded, "Damn, the monk's tomb is really poor to death." ”
After Qi Lu entered the tomb, his eyes were always attracted by the coffin, and his intuition told him that there must be something other than a corpse there. So he said to Lao Wu: "Don't be superstitious about metal detectors, if it's a burial object like jade, it can't be detected." ”
"Then we'll open the coffin and see what's inside." Lao Wu couldn't hold it back.
Qi Lu also had an urge to open the coffin immediately, but he finally held back. He pondered for a moment and proposed, "Maybe there's a mechanism inside, let's take the coffin back to the surface and dispose of it." ”
"What are you kidding, you're looking for trouble!" Lao Wu didn't do it, if he really wanted to do it according to Qi Lu's idea, wouldn't he be tired to death.
"Okay, you stand far away and give me light, and I'll open the coffin alone. In this case, if there is any mechanism in the coffin, we will also have a response to it. Seeing that Lao Wu was troublesome, Qi Lu had no choice but to give in.
"Well, you're smart."
Qi Lu wiped the sweat from his face and came to the coffin. With a flashlight in his mouth, he took out a universal tool knife from his backpack and carefully removed the nails around the coffin.
At this moment, he suddenly saw green smoke coming out of the bottom of the coffin, and bright red blood seeped out from the edge of the coffin lid and the coffin, seeping more and more, until finally it gushed out like a stream of water, flowing to his feet, forming a pool of blood, and it seemed that Qi Lu would have to swallow it completely before he would give up.
Just when Qi Lu was about to scream in shock, all the visions in front of him disappeared. When he opened his eyes, the coffin was still sitting quietly, without any mutations, no blood, and no smoke.
It turned out to be just an illusion, Qi Lu couldn't help but secretly scold himself for not being productive, he tried his best to exhale a long breath, tried his best to calm the beating heart, leaned over and was about to gently remove the coffin lid, but his hand stopped moving the moment it touched the coffin lid, because he heard footsteps coming from outside the cave.
Is there something going on? But his sensitive nose couldn't smell the slightest sign of yin qi flowing, and Qi Lu couldn't help but shout: "Who's outside?" ”
"Me." A timid voice came from a distance, it was Ding Xiaolan's voice. Qi Lu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, she was surprised why she didn't listen to her orders and ran in privately, thinking that a girl who climbed down was easy to get out of danger, Qi Lu and Lao Wu hurriedly went out to meet her.
But Ding Xiaolan had already walked into the tomb, and she looked at the two of them a little uneasily, and there seemed to be panic in her eyes.
"Didn't you let the wind go, why did you come down?" As soon as the words came out, Qi Lu regretted it.
Sure enough, Ding Xiaolan was pushed away before she said sorry with a crying voice, and someone came out behind him, he turned on the flashlight, and shone the electric light directly at Qi Lu, and the dazzling bright light stabbed him and quickly covered it with his hands.
"Hmph, you guys did a good job!" The man spoke coldly.
"Xu Jie?" Qi Lu was stunned, he didn't expect this guy to climb into the hole.
I saw Xu Jieyin smile and said: "I have long seen that you thieves don't look like good people, and sure enough, they are a few tomb robbers, and you fucking lied to me to look at the stars!" ”
Qi Lu hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Master Xu, you misunderstood......
"Be fucking honest, stand still and don't move!" Xu Jie was afraid that Qi Lu would be unfavorable to him, so he was so frightened that he took a few steps back, and then took out his mobile phone.
Oh no, he's going to call the police! Qi Lu immediately panicked, and when he was thinking about how to deal with him, Lao Wu laughed and said, "Don't toss, how can there be a signal here!" After speaking, he glanced at Qi Lu, and the two of them outflanked Xu Jie.
"Don't come here!" Xu Jie ran towards Ding Xiaolan in a hurry, wanting to take her hostage and threaten Qi Lu. But Ding Xiaolan is no longer a simple little girl, she has been with Qi Lu for more than a year, and she has already become much smarter. At this moment, she had already hid behind Qi Lu, leaving Xu Jie at a loss.
Xu Jie panicked at this moment, for fear that Qi Lu would kill people, so he quickly turned around and ran into the tomb. But in a hurry, he ran the wrong way, accidentally hit the stone wall of the tomb, and suddenly his eyes were full of gold stars and he almost fell to the ground.
Qi Lu was not worried when he saw him like this, he continued the topic just now and said, "Master Xu, don't be afraid, I have no ill will towards you. ”
"Do you want to ...... Do? Xu Jie was so nervous that his voice trembled.
"Why don't we make a deal?" As he spoke, Qi Lu blocked his retreat.
"What deal?"
"As long as you don't tell me about today's events, wait for us to open the coffin, and the treasure inside will have a share, and I can share half of it with you."
"What? This is ...... Seriously? Xu Jie didn't expect things to take a 180-degree turn, and he wondered if he had heard it wrong.
"Fart, I've been working hard for a few days, and this kid will make a big deal as soon as he comes!" Lao Wu didn't agree.
"We're just doing it to take risks, not to make a fortune." Qi Lu was afraid that Lao Wu would mess things up, so he hurriedly said to Xu Jie with a smile: "Now is your chance to make a fortune, after doing this ticket, your child's tuition is not a problem, so why bother raising fish?" ”
"Half of me?" This is simply pie in the sky, Xu Jie already has greed on his face, and he has already thrown his original intention out of the clouds.
"Of course, you can pick and choose what's in the coffin." Qi Lu was both soft and hard, "But you can't talk about it, otherwise, I'm welcome." ”
"Don't worry, Mr. Qi, God knows about this, plus a few of us know, I will never say it!" Xu Jie hurriedly assured him, and almost swore to the sky.
"Okay, you and I will go open the coffin now." Qi Lu handed the flashlight to Ding Xiaolan and asked her to light herself.
"No, there won't be a hidden arrow or something like that in this coffin, right?" Hearing that he was asked to open the coffin, Xu Jie became a little scared.
"What are you afraid of, there is really a mechanism, I have to be buried with you."
Xu Jie thought about it, if Qi Lu cheated him, he would definitely let him do it alone, so he didn't panic, and walked to the coffin with Qi Lu, ready to open the coffin lid.
Xu Jie first tried to push the coffin with his hand, but found that it didn't move at all, and immediately grinned and said, "It's heavy enough, there must be a lot of treasures in it." ”
With the two of them "one, two, three!" After a few shouts, Qi Lu and Xu Jie worked together to remove the coffin lid from the coffin.
Suddenly, a black gas with a musty smell floated out of the coffin, and Xu Jie was so frightened that he hurriedly ran to the side, and kept saying in his mouth: "The corpse is fraudulent!" ”
"Don't panic, don't scare yourself!" Qi Lu snorted lightly.
Seeing that there was no mechanism in the coffin, Qi Lu was also relieved, he had already sniffed out that this gas was not toxic, so he covered his nose and retreated to the side to see what was in the coffin after it drifted away.
The black gas disappeared after a while, Qi Lu beckoned everyone to come forward to check the movement inside the coffin, and when they came to the coffin and shone the flashlight inside, they were all dumbfounded. Because the result of the coffin after opening was a big disappointment to everyone, there were no burial goods in it except for a male corpse.
Ding Xiaolan screamed out loud, Xu Jie was also so frightened that his legs trembled, they found that although the clothes on the man's body had long been rotten and unrecognizable, what was strange was that the corpse not only did not decay, but had a ruddy complexion like a living person, like a sleeping person who would wake up at any time.
Qi Lu was stunned, this corpse has been buried for more than a thousand years, and it stands to reason that the flesh has long since decayed into a white bone, if the coffin is not well sealed, maybe there will not even be a wreckage left, but it is actually better preserved than the ancient corpse of Mawangdui, this kind of strange thing is the first time he has encountered it.
He shuddered, and the concept of ghosts, zombies, and ghosts popped up involuntarily in his mind. However, although Qi Lu was surprised, the strange everything in front of him could not stop his heart from desperately wanting to explore the mysteries.
Qi Lu calmly took the flashlight from Lao Wu's hand and shone it on the corpse's face, and found that he was a young man with a well-preserved string of Buddhist beads hanging around his neck.
Qi Lu recognized at a glance that this string of Buddhist beads was a treasure, and the material was precious Indian small-leaved red sandalwood. You must know that in the Song Dynasty, although India traded with the Central Plains, the road was difficult, and it was not ordinary people who could own this string of Buddhist beads.
Lao Wu saw that there was no hair on the deceased's head, and he couldn't help frowning and said, "Fuck, the dead man is really a monk." ”
"Yes, I don't know which generation of high monks, since they have sat down, why haven't they become Buddhas." Qi Lu sighed with emotion and said to him: "Old Wu, you take the corpse out, I will see if there are any funeral goods under the corpse." ”
"Cut, I won't do such an obscure thing." Lao Wu shook his head and stopped, he didn't want to be contaminated with corpse poison or something.
Qi Lu smiled bitterly, so he had to change his sleeves and prepare to do it himself.