Chapter 32: The Organization of Tomb Robbery
Maybe I was tired from sitting on a camel today, and I drank a lot of wine, and I fell asleep in a daze not long after I lay down.
But it wasn't long before I heard a dog barking outside, and I didn't wake up in a daze, followed by a "bang" like something had exploded.
I tried hard to open my eyes, but the strength of the wine still confused me. But my mouth was immediately covered, I instantly sobered up, I knew that something was wrong, and I was about to subconsciously resist, only to hear the voice of Team Chen next to me say: "Don't move, it's me, there is danger outside, don't make a sound."
I relaxed a little and listened carefully to what was going on outside.
But a few seconds after he finished speaking, the door of the protection station was kicked open, and two people with oil lamps rushed in, and the sudden bright light made me dizzy. The shelter was pitifully small, and the place directly opposite the door was the bed where we slept. The two men saw us directly, and they strode up and grabbed us by the collars, and gave a fist to each of them, and I was stunned before I could figure out what was going on, only to know that I was brought up by these two men like rabbits.
My mind slowly turned, and I knew that it was not good, this style must not be my own people, and the hostile elements who came here... That must be a tomb robber! No, such a blatant one is no longer a "thief", it should be considered a robbery. That sound just now, it was the sound of a firearm, right?! Not good, Master Zhou!
Thinking of this, I was very anxious, but the person was still carried away by the two strong men, almost without the strength to resist, and I didn't know how this fist knocked me out, tears and snot flowed uncontrollably, and I saw things very mushyly.
When I came out, I found that there were a lot of people in this group, and there were seven or eight of these two strong men, who were quite professional, and they were all wearing hoods, as if they were grabbing ticket numbers. There were a number of camels parked in the back, and there were people over there.
The oil lamps they were holding were illuminating the area where we had just eaten.
But the only thing that reassures me is that I saw that Master Zhou was also thrown to the ground in front of me, but there was no blood next to him, the person was still alive, and he was struggling to move, it seemed that he was not hit by the firearm, I just remembered that the firearm was the dog that barked just now, and when I turned my head to look, sure enough, the poor guy had fallen in a pool of blood.
The two of them threw me on the ground, and I hit my face on the ground, and I really "touched a nose of ash", and I hit the place where I was hit just now, and I felt that the pain was even worse. Then they went in and dragged Team Chen out, and Team Chen seemed to want to resist until he was punched twice in the stomach before he was carried and thrown next to us. I saw that his nose bleed with tears on his face, and I knew that he was not much better than me after the blow he had just received.
Fortunately, my head was sober, and I guessed that these guys were just hiding in the dark to watch us eat, and when they saw us go back to sleep, they rode camels to approach, and Master Zhou probably saw them on the watchtower and wanted to run back to report the news, but they didn't come as fast as they came, and they were caught.
I was thinking about it when I was suddenly grabbed by the hair by a big man, and the two of them were no exception, they were pulled by their heads and stood up, and then they were held down and knelt on the ground, side by side in one direction.
At this time, a man came over, presumably the leader of the gang, and his accent should be a Han person, and he spoke in standard Mandarin: "You also know what we're here for, listen to the, I can spare you a dog's life, as long as you guys lead the way, otherwise." As he spoke, he took out a hand-held firearm and put it on Master Dingzhou's forehead.
My heart is in my throat, as long as he pulls the trigger, Master Zhou will be in front of my eyes...... I can't imagine it.
Luckily, after a few seconds, he just smiled smugly, put the firearm back in his waist, and then made a gesture to the rest of his men to leave, and a group of people pushed us away.
The leader arranged for me and Team Chen to be tied to the back of a camel, and Master Zhou was placed in front of the first camel. He also confessed to his subordinates, and when he found that some wanted to run, he directly fired a firearm and killed him.
On the way into the ancient city, I didn't have anything to do, and Master Zhou was the most unlucky, because he was pointed at by firearms all the way, and he didn't stop to help them clean up the nail board. I know that in the face of death, there is no other way but to choose to cooperate with these people. If something misfortune happens to him, what will happen to the family?
I felt uncomfortable, so I stopped looking at him, and while I was hurrying hard, I took a closer look at the ancient LL around me by the help of an oil lamp, and I hadn't come in to take a closer look before.
The camel rider saw that I was motionless except for my legs and feet, and said to me in a provocative tone, "Hey, you kid are quite honest, aren't you?" Isn't it stupid? ”
After he finished speaking, the next two also laughed. I didn't bother to pay attention to them, and continued to look at the ruins around me, even starting to distract myself from analyzing what the ruins were.
But suddenly I was hit on the left temple of my head, and I almost knocked me unconscious. My left eye hurt so much that I couldn't open my eyes, and in the corner of my right eye, I saw that the mouth of a firearm had reached my head, and I cursed in my heart that this damn bastard must have hit me with a firearm.
The man with the firearm hit me in the head a few times with the eye of the firearm: "Are you deaf?" Can't you hear the second master? ”
I was hit by his head against the glass, and at that moment, I really wanted to grab the firearm and fight with them, but then I thought that my mother had worked hard to raise me, and I couldn't just die because of impulse. Maybe at this time, nothing can stop me except for my family who can't let go.
I forcibly suppressed the anger in my chest, and pretended to be naughty and said to the person: "I'm sorry, second master, I was just in a daze, don't be angry, your old man."
He laughed, and so did the two behind him, laughing like three bastards.
The firearm was taken back, and he asked me, "You kid knows each other a lot, what are you doing here?" Our brothers who used to come to the shelter said that there were only forty or fifty people at the shelter, so why did we arrest one more young one today? ”
I said, "I'm just here to deliver supplies, and he's going to eat for people in their forties and fifties."
He smiled and said, "I didn't expect it, I'm still an unlucky guy." and he spoke no more.
He didn't speak, and I couldn't have teased them, so we camels regained our composure and followed the two camels in front of us.
After about another hour or so, the gang of bandits seemed to have reached their destination, got off their camels en masse, and dragged me down, and I saw in front of me a mound of sealed soil with a diameter of more than ten meters.
This specification looks like a large tomb of ancient nobles. And the enclosures as far as I can see are intact, and it seems that they have not been stolen before. How did these tomb robbers know the location of the tomb? Or did you step on it a little earlier?
The leader had just directed a few strong men to tie the hands of the three of us with ropes and throw them to the open ground on one side, and the cold air of the ground immediately surrounded us. Although it is hot during the day, the temperature difference between day and night is one of the best in the country.
Seeing that the three of us could not resist or run, the leader began to command a group of men to take out several short sapper shovels and oil lamps from the camels and distribute them to each of them.
This gang of tomb robbers looked like a gang with rich experience in committing crimes, and they may even have been trained by a professional team, so they found the location of the tomb without much effort, and then began to line up in three groups by the light of oil lamps, one group to dig and two groups to clear the soil, and took turns to go into battle, and the cooperation was very in place and orderly. I said in my heart that if the migrant workers at the Jinshi construction site also had this ability, the efficiency of the Jinshi work would be increased by at least 50 percent. But when I think about it, what kind of situation is this, I am still in the mood to think about it, and I can't help but feel a little ridiculous.
When I was having dinner just now, Team Chen also introduced to me that the tombs of the nobles here are generally pit tombs with tomb roads, and most of the tombs are located on the south side of the pit pits, and the whole is in the shape of "A", and it is estimated that these tomb robbers also have this knowledge. Teacher Shen's sentence "There is a specialization in the art industry" unconsciously popped up in my mind, although what these people did was illegal and criminal.
The three of us didn't say a word, just lying there watching them dig in the dirt, just making eye contact from time to time, but barely seeing anything but anxiety. At this time, just like the classic saying of the Hongmen Banquet: "Today's people are swords, I am fish and meat", can only be slaughtered by others, and the best choice is to survive.
The men were also in very good shape, and several groups of people took turns digging in the front, flying up and down with shovels on the left and right, without stopping to rest in between, and soon dug a wide road in the place of the cemetery.
Seeing that they were digging longer and deeper, I knew that this position was very close to the center of the circular enclosure, which was the location of the main burial chamber. It seems that today this tomb will not escape the fate of theft, and dozens, possibly hundreds, of precious LL artifacts are about to enter the black market.
Thinking of this, I can't help but sigh, Master Zhou is right, although we should protect our precious cultural relics, but we are now defenseless and isolated, and it is futile to risk our lives here.
Sure enough, I soon heard a muffled sound of "dang" coming from the tomb, which should be the sound of metal hitting metal. Then the guy who was digging in the innermost part shouted, "It's here!" ”
To be honest, I also kind of wanted to go and see it, not because I wanted the relics, but because I wanted to see what the noble tombs in this place looked like.
When the people around heard this, they turned on their oil lamps and shone them in. All I could hear them say almost neatly, "Huh?"
I don't know what's going on, what do I see inside?