After more than half a year of hard work, the archaeological team led by Jiang Wenhao finally attracted a day worth celebrating. On this day, they opened the heavy stone door of the main coffin.

But what Professor Jiang didn't expect was that from this exciting moment, things would also become weird and grotesque.

When the archaeological team cautiously drilled into the burial chamber, they found that it was a burial chamber with nearly 100 square meters, with only one main chamber and no back room and no ear chamber. Professor Jiang took his assistant's searchlight and shone it roughly, and found that the tomb wall was surrounded by exquisite murals. In the center of the burial chamber, a coffin was placed. Behind it was a bronze lampstand, with an everlasting lamp on it, but the flame had long since been extinguished due to lack of oxygen.

When more searchlights came on, the archaeological team members present were stunned by the sight in front of them.

"Ahh How is this possible? ”

Professor Jiang frowned, he found that there were no common burial objects such as clay pots, clay pots, gold, jade and bronze in the tomb, and all that caught his eye were white bones.

Curiously, the bones were not piled up on the ground, they all remained in a standing position before death, with their heads facing the coffin. This horrific scene is like a loyal guard, guarding the owner of the tomb until death.

The fact that the skeleton could still stand after thousands of years of death surprised Professor Jiang, who had excavated all kinds of ancient tombs but had never seen such a breathtaking burial object.

The archaeological team member standing at the front hesitated for a moment, raised his foot and wanted to step forward to take a look, but was calmly pulled back by Professor Jiang.

"Beware of the trap!"

This sentence reminded everyone, and everyone stopped and watched.

A gust of cold wind swept across Professor Jiang's face, and his brow furrowed even tighter.

Strange, this is the depths of the tomb, the air circulation is not smooth, how can there be wind?

"Ghost!" One of the archaeological team members suddenly screamed.

"Don't be nervous." Jiang Wenhao said in a deep voice: "The tighter it is, the easier it is to hallucinate. ”

"It's not an illusion, Professor!"

Looking in the direction pointed by the archaeological team, Jiang Wenhao was surprised to find that the skeleton closest to them seemed to be alive, and its head was turning slightly at the moment.

Suddenly seeing this terrifying scene, Jiang Wenhao hesitated, he forcibly held back the panic in his heart, took the searchlight from the team member next to him and shone it at the skeleton.

The dim light shone on the skeleton, and a cold light seemed to shine out of its dark rumbling eyes, staring gloomily at the tomb door.

In this unsettling atmosphere, the skull's head turned again under the noses of the crowd.

Everyone suddenly panicked, and the timid people had already begun to retreat, and the hairs on their bodies stood on end.

"Are there really ghosts?" Jiang Wenhao muttered, and he noticed that the edge of the skeleton's skull was flickering with starry light, like a point of light formed by the reflection of something.

Jiang Wenhao used to be an atheist, but after experiencing Lin Fang's affairs, he realized that there are still many mysterious events in this world that cannot be explained by science.

But decades of archaeological career, Jiang Wenhao has formed a calm and calm character, in the face of this sudden vision, he instinctively carried a searchlight along the point of light to check the details. Suddenly, as if he had discovered something, he raised his lamp and shone it towards the top of the chamber above the point of light.

After a while, Professor Jiang laughed and said to everyone with a relaxed expression, "Look, what's on the top of these skeletons' heads?" ”

The archaeological team looked up and found dozens of bronze round pipes installed on the top of the tomb, and countless strange points of light flashed in the space between the tubes and the skeletons.

"It's just very thin gold wires that are reflected off the light, and they are tied to these bronze tubes at one end, and the other end is tied to the skeleton to support the skeleton, so that the skeletons can remain standing and not scatter to the ground."

After he said this, everyone was also relieved. Immediately, the tension in the tomb was swept away, and some people were already joking with each other.

Professor Jiang didn't have any joy, he looked at these strange skeletons, and seemed to feel the bloody breath of the slaughter and sacrifice more than two thousand years ago. In a trance, the archaeological experience of this ancient tomb for most of the year came to Professor Jiang's mind.

As the excavation work progressed steadily, Professor Jiang and his colleagues were able to confirm that this was an ancient tomb from the Western Zhou Dynasty, and what was even more exciting was that this tomb actually had four tomb lanes.

The Zhou Dynasty lasted for more than 800 years, making it the longest surviving dynasty in Chinese history. It is a pity that although there were 37 kings in the Zhou Dynasty in 30 generations, the tombs of the Zhou kings were all in the form of secret burials that were not sealed or built according to the tradition of the time, so the archaeological community has not been able to excavate a real tomb of the Zhou kings.

In 2004, Professor Jiang participated in the excavation of the Zhouyuan site.

At that time, a total of 22 tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty were unearthed, including 10 tombs with 4 tomb roads, although the archaeological community is still not sure of the specifications of the tomb of the king of Zhou, but according to the scale of the Shang Dynasty only the tomb of the king is four tombs, the tomb of Zhou Tianzi should also have the same specifications.

The 10 tombs of the kings at the original site of Zhou meet the standard of tombs of the kings of Zhou in the eyes of scholars, but due to the lack of substantial cultural evidence, the archaeological community can only preliminarily infer that these 10 tombs are the tombs of the princes and monarchs of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but the identity of the tomb owner is still doubtful.

Professor Jiang never imagined that there was a Western Zhou tomb hidden in this remote small city.

After discovering that this ancient tomb also has 4 tomb roads, the entire archaeological team was very excited, because it is likely to become the most significant archaeological discovery in China this year!

But the excitement was replaced by disappointment the moment Professor Jiang stepped into the main coffin room, because there were few burial objects in the room except for these terrifying skeletons and lonely coffins.

During the Zhou Dynasty, human burials were popular, but such a large number of human martyrs made Professor Jiang realize that the identity of the owner of the tomb was extremely noble.

Judging from the excavation at the site, no traces of robbery were found, which indicates that the tomb was not harassed by tomb robbers. But why can't you see pottery, bronze ritual vessels, weapons, jade ornaments and other funeral goods in the tomb? This question has been lingering in Professor Jiang's heart.

Just as Professor Jiang was deep in thought, an assistant came forward to ask for his opinion: "Professor, it has been checked, there is no defense organ in the tomb, should we go in to carry out the investigation?" ”

Professor Jiang looked at his watch, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, and it seemed a little too late to carry out the archaeological work, so he said to his assistant: "It's not early, let's go back and rest." ”

Considering that in addition to the archaeological team, many migrant workers were also hired to participate in the excavation work, in order to prevent the guards from stealing, Professor Jiang temporarily arranged several staff members to install fully enclosed monitoring equipment around the cemetery.

After explaining the relevant matters, the assistant asked him again: "What about the coffin, do you want to send someone to guard it?" ”

"Well, there are a few more security guards on site." Professor Jiang looked at the coffin, which was already somewhat decayed, and said, "You should contact a crane as soon as possible, and strive to pack and lift the main coffin to the museum's laboratory before the end of the month." ”

Since there are no funeral goods in the tomb to prove that this is the tomb of King Zhou, there is only hope that the main coffin will be opened, and perhaps the true identity of the owner of the tomb can be found out after the coffin is opened.

It is rare to have smooth sailing in the world, and on the night of Professor Jiang and the others, something unexpected and strange happened.

In the wee hours of the morning, a left-behind security guard woke up with urine, and he got up from bed in a drowsy mood and walked out of the shed to find a temporary place to relax.

There was a black cloud in the sky, snaking like a giant beast. Suddenly, a dazzling lightning flashed in the sky, and the silver snake flew in the ink-splashed sky, looking particularly demonic.

"Damn, it's this damn weather again, and there must be another heavy rainstorm tomorrow." The young security guard muttered, fastened his belt, and prepared to return to the shelter to continue sleeping.

Just as he turned around, his heart suddenly sank, and his eyes tightened at the same time

A thunderclap sounded suddenly, and another lightning bolt lit up, and a silver snake fell in the air, hitting the front of this Western Zhou tomb.

When the lightning went out, the young security guard's scalp suddenly went numb, and his pupils contracted rapidly, because he saw a naked middle-aged man suddenly appear in front of him.

The man was unkempt and covered in mud, as if he had just crawled out of the ground.

The young security guard was startled, and he wanted to open his mouth to call, but in an instant, his voice was as dumb as if he couldn't say half a word.

The middle-aged man looked at the panicked young man and opened his mouth to let out a series of terrible laughs, which were full of evil and joy!

Listening to this terrifying laughter, the young security guard shivered a few times, and for the first time in his life, he felt such fear.

The middle-aged man's eyes suddenly closed, his lips squirmed, and he spat out a series of strange sentences, intermittent, like the scriptures chanted by the monks of the temple, more like the evil spells when summoning spirits.

Suddenly, he stopped chanting, his eyes opened again, and his hands were softly spreading, like a virtuoso conductor conducting an orchestra to play a moving lament.

The young security guard was surprised to find that his body had a strange reaction, and it swayed involuntarily under the rhythm of the strange man's palm.

Cold sweat quietly flowed down the security guard's forehead, and he tried to control this inexplicable action, but he felt that his soul was withdrawn, and his whole body no longer obeyed the command of his brain.

He couldn't help but dance with his hands, like dancing a tango, raising his hand, throwing his foot, it was so natural, so wonderful, wonderful and terrifying.

"It's time for the game to end." As the cold words came out of the middle-aged man's mouth, his body was suspended in the air, spinning like a spinning top that never stops.

"Help!" The young security guard finally shouted, which was also the last word of his life, because his body also rotated uncontrollably with the middle-aged man, turning faster and faster, turning his head more and more dizzy, his vision began to blur, and he could no longer see the surrounding scenery clearly.

Suddenly, without warning, the young security guard strangely stopped spinning, and then slammed headfirst into the basalt rock that was outcropping from the surface beside him!

Blood splattered everywhere, and the young security guard instantly returned to the underworld, and his miserable green eyes seemed to harden, and he couldn't blink his eyes.

The middle-aged man fell back to the ground with a dark laugh of "hehe", his face was full of joy, it was an uncontrollable inner joy, like a hunter who had just finished hunting a long-sought beast.

The moonlight dimmed, the white moonlight seemed to turn into a pool of blue water, and the middle-aged man's face was like jasper, but his lips were red.