"I'm afraid you can't do archaeological work with peace of mind, there may be a supernatural phenomenon in this tomb that we don't know yet." Qi Lu regained his senses, and he turned on the flashlight again.

Jiang Wenhao smiled self-deprecatingly, and said with a little sadness: "Yes, in fact, there have been supernatural events, but they are under the principle of secrecy, and I didn't tell you about it." ”

Qi Lu was shocked, and said in a deep voice: "Why do you want to hide the truth? ”

Jiang Wenhao said with a wry smile: "At the archaeological meeting led by the municipal party committee, the leaders asked those who knew the truth to keep it a secret to prevent the truth from leaking out and causing unnecessary panic among the citizens. ”

"What the hell is going on, can the professor tell me?"

"Paper can't contain fire, in fact, this matter has already spread in the nearby village, I guess you have also heard some rumors about the curse of the ancient tomb, right?"

"I've heard that the source of the rumor is that since the professor presided over the archaeological work of the ancient tomb, three people have died. However, for the outside world, the reason for the dead man is said to be the ghost of King Zhou, to take revenge on the people who trespassed on his mausoleum. I don't believe this rumor. ”

Qi Lu further explained: "A ghost who can wander the world for thousands of years without a ghost wandering away is actually about the same as buying a lottery ticket and winning the jackpot. Personally, I believe that the soul of the tomb owner has long been reincarnated, and it has no chance of retaliation. ”

Jiang Wenhao pondered and said: "The archaeological team did die three people, the first was a migrant worker who was invited, he suddenly fell ill and died during his lunch break, and the doctor examined the body and said that the cause of death was myocardial infarction. ”

"Excessive physical exertion, continuous nervous exertion, etc., can induce heart failure and lead to acute myocardial infarction. I believe that the cause of the migrant worker's death was normal and not caused by ghosts. ”

Jiang Wenhao added: "The second deceased was the driver of the archaeological team, who collided with a large truck on the way to pick up the staff in the afternoon, and suffered serious head injuries, and was sent to the hospital less than two hours after being unable to recover. ”

Qi Lu said: "This may be a normal car accident, and the cause of death cannot be attributed to supernatural phenomena." ”

"In fact, these two deceased have not had much impact on the archaeological work, and the key is that the third deceased is reminiscent of a ghost coming to take revenge."

"Then please let the professor and me talk about it in detail." Qi Lu only knew that the third deceased was a security guard, and he committed suicide while on duty at night.

"He walked out of the shed alone in the early hours of the morning and was killed by a big rock next to the grave."

This death was a bit tragic, and Qi Lu couldn't help frowning.

Jiang Wenhao said: "When we found his body during the day, we found that his eyes were not closed, and his pupils turned out to be green. ”

"An evil spirit invaded his body?" Qi Lu exclaimed.

"On the surface, it looks similar, but after the police came, Xiao Liu gave another explanation."

"What did Captain Liu say?" For this old materialist friend, Qi Lu didn't think that he could reasonably explain this kind of supernatural event.

Xiao Liu investigated the deceased and found that he was a drug addict who had taken drugs before going to bed on the day of his suicide. Xiao Liu believed that the reason for his death was that he couldn't sleep at night after an overdose of drugs, which caused him to hallucinate, so he committed suicide in a daze. ”

Qi Lu asked: "That pupil is green, how does Team Liu explain it?" ”

"It could be a side effect of drugs."

Qi Lu was silent, Liu Chenfei's explanation was indeed very reasonable. Take 10,000 steps back and say that there is really an evil spirit attached to the body of the deceased, and the evil spirit will naturally leave after his death, so it is impossible for his corpse to leave obvious supernatural phenomena.

"Xiao Qi, if I hadn't seen Lin Fang's soul with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that there were really ghosts and gods in this world. In that sense, I really appreciate you. ”

"The professor is polite, life is full of many unimaginable things." Qi Lu responded in a low voice. If you say that you have opened the door to an unknown world for the professor, then what is the purpose of walking in the yin and yang world?

In order to inherit his friend's last wish, slay demons and eliminate demons, or to get a glimpse of the true meaning of the mysterious fate? Qi Lu felt like a shadow puppet being dragged by the tugging, involuntarily dragged to the undulating stage, like overlapping and darkening light and shadow, confused and unaware of why.

Jiang Wenhao took out his mobile phone and began to look through the photos stored inside.

Qi Lu took a closer look and said with a smile: "Professor, don't look through the ancient tomb map, the light here is too dark, which will affect your eyesight." ”

Jiang Wenhao said: "Xiao Qi, in fact, I brought you here for another purpose. ”

"Do you want me to help?"

"Yes." Jiang Wenhao said: "In the shed, I found through the ancient tomb map that the underground area of this tomb is very large, and there is a dark room that the archaeological team did not find. ”

"It's unlikely, isn't it?" He and the professor had already discovered two dark rooms one after another, but they didn't expect that there was a third dark room hidden in the ancient tomb. Qi Lu hesitated and asked, "Do you know the location of the new dark room?" ”

"Well, come and see." Jiang Wenhao pointed to the overall picture of the ancient tomb engraved on the tortoise shell and said: "This is a Chinese-shaped tomb. Nowadays, the archaeological community has not found a real tomb of the king of the Zhou Dynasty, but in the Shang Dynasty, the tomb of the king was basically a sub-zigzag and a zhongzi-shaped tomb. Although the tombs of some Shang Dynasty nobles are also in the shape of Chinese characters, they are slightly inferior in scale and have no tomb passages. ”

Qi Lu said: "I remember you said that this ancient tomb has 4 tombs, professor, do you think it is a tomb of King Zhou?" ”

"Theoretically, it should be true, but there is a lack of physical evidence." Jiang Wenhao said a little excitedly: "Maybe this hidden dark room can uncover this mystery." ”

"Where is the location of the dark room?"

Jiang Wenhao pointed to the lower right corner of the mouth end of the Chinese glyph tomb and said, "Here." ”

Qi Lu saw that there was only a vaguely illegible oracle bone script in the position that the professor was pointing to, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "How did you tell that there is a dark room here?" ”

"The other two chambers are marked with oracle bone characters, and so on."

According to the professor's prompt, Qi Lu really saw that the location of the two dark rooms that had been found on the map was indeed written with oracle bone inscriptions.

"I'm not sure if this place is a dark room, though." Jiang Wenhao took a breath and said, "I recognize the meaning of this oracle bone character as a door. ”

"Door, is this another exit from the tomb?"

Perhaps, only a field study can get the answer. I'd like to go and see it now. Jiang Wenhao asked him: "According to the distance calculation, it is in the cave, less than thirty meters away from our cave entrance." ”

"So what are you waiting for, let's go, Professor, let's go and see." Qi Lu walked out of the cave, turned around and smiled embarrassedly.

"Xiao Qi, are you afraid of risk?"

Qi Lu said, "No. To be on the safe side, Professor, you might as well call a few colleagues along. ”

This is not an ancient tomb in the ordinary sense, Qi Lu is indeed worried that the professor is too old to withstand the toss.

"They still have the work at hand that is not done." Jiang Wenhao said: "Let's go over and have a look first, and then organize people to carefully investigate tomorrow." ”

"Okay."

Qi Lu, under the leadership of Jiang Wenhao, walked along the underground river to the end, the river still flowed forward, but it flowed underground.

Jiang Wenhao stopped and said, "It should be here, but there is nothing, is the dark room buried in the ground?" ”

"There is such a possibility" Qi Lu couldn't go on halfway through his words, just when he was shining around with a flashlight just now, he saw a building on the high mountain wall on the other side of the river, and there were obvious stone steps below the mountain wall to stop halfway up the mountain.

Jiang Wenhao also saw it, and he aimed the light of the flashlight at the building, which looked like a temple from the outside.

"Strange thing, I have arranged for archaeologists to survey the landform of the cave, why haven't they found this ancient structure?"

"It's built on a high place, it's dark in here, maybe your colleagues have overlooked."

As he spoke, Qi Lu found that the water was less than half a meter deep through the crystal clear river, so he took off his shoes and rolled up his trousers, and waded across the river with the professor on his back.

After arriving on the other side of the river, Qi Lu dried his feet with his socks, then threw them on the ground, put on his shoes, and walked towards the ancient building with the professor.

They climbed a rocky slope and came to the stone steps. The road became easier to walk, and scattered human bones could be seen from time to time on the steps.

Jiang Wenhao picked up a bone and looked at it with a flashlight for a while, his face couldn't help showing a surprised expression, and his footsteps stopped.

"Professor, what's wrong?" Qi Lu, who was walking forward, saw that Jiang Wenhao had no intention of moving forward, so he also turned around and asked him.

"There is no dust or dirt on these bones."

Hearing the professor's words, Qi Lu's expression suddenly became solemn, he bent down and picked up a bone, and found that it was really as the professor said, which showed that these bones were newly abandoned here.

Jiang Wenhao groaned and said, "Could it be that someone has already discovered this place?" ”

Qi Lu didn't care, and said with a chuckle: "It may be that your colleague has discovered this place, but he hasn't had time to report to you yet." ”

"Then he can't throw the bones here, it's also a relic! He made a low-level mistake, and I'll have to punish him when I go back. ”

The two of them carefully illuminated the winding stone steps with flashlights, held on to the cliff, and slowly walked to the front of the ancient building.

It was true that this was a temple, as the professor had expected, but he could only see the temple gate and eaves, and the walls could not be seen from the side at all. From the outside, it gives people the feeling that they have come to a cave in northern Shaanxi, and no one knows what is inside.

Qi Lu spat and grabbed the badly corroded bronze handle on the door, and without much effort, the rotten wooden door opened with a "squeak", and a bad smell of bad luck wafted out of it.

Both of them shone their flashlights at the temple, but they were amazed by what they saw!

This is not a temple at all, there is only a man-made passage inside the house, and the stone steps made of basalt wind down so that you can't see the bottom at a glance.

"Professor, shall we go in?" Qi Lu hesitated and said.

"Enter!" Jiang Wenhao replied in a tone that was not unquestionable.

Qi Lu took his hand and went down cautiously.

After walking for about two minutes, they came to the end, and there was a faint light shining from inside.

It is a large hole, the wall of the cave is very flat, it does not look like it is naturally formed, it seems that someone has repaired it. There were many bones scattered on the ground, and at the top of the cave against the rock wall, sat cross-legged a white skeleton, its clothes rotten beyond recognition.

Qi Lu's flashlight shone on the skeleton and found that he had his left hand on his belly and a bronze ancient mirror in his right hand.

To the surprise of the two, the walls of the cave around them shimmered with sporadic light. Even with the flashlight off, you can barely see the scenery in the cave.

These glimmers shine like stars in the night sky, giving people a dreamlike feeling.