Chapter 15: The Coffin under the Black Jar
Liu Erhe, Lao Jiu, and the others were startled, and they all sat on the ground and looked up at the black tank.
From the outside, the black vat was still bubbling out.
I walked over slowly, the piece of granite that flew behind Lao Jiu had already broken apart, I didn't have time to care about this granite, I went straight to the black vat.
Lao Jiu and the others also got up from the ground and followed me.
When I walked to the mouth of the black tank and looked inside, I only smelled a fishy and rancid smell coming to my nose, but there was nothing inside, and I found that the tank had no bottom.
The bottom is empty, and when I look down from above, I can see that there seems to be a tunnel under the tank, and there are a few broken wooden boards and some broken stones scattered on the road facing the tank.
"There seems to be a road down here!" I said to Lao Jiu with a flashlight.
Lao Jiu craned his neck and looked at it, then looked at the hole where we came in, pointed a gun at the cylinder and said to me: "You, go down!" ”
I didn't know what was down there, and I didn't know where it led, so I hesitated, grabbed the edge of the tank with both hands, and was ready to jump in.
"I'll come, I'll jump first, and then you come down and I'll catch you!" Liu Erhe separated me behind him, jumped over the edge of the cylinder, and then took a breath and jumped down.
The height of the corridor and the jar didn't seem very high.
After Liu Erhe jumped, I also jumped, and everyone jumped down one after another.
Standing on the road, I looked around, and was glad that it was not as narrow and oppressive as the Tibetan Mountain Gorge.
I didn't see anything yet, but Liu Erhe, who was behind me, suddenly shouted: "! What's that?! ”
Everyone turned their heads to look, and saw that the tall mountain wall behind us was full of holes, and the distance between each hole could be about one meter.
If you look closely, there seems to be something in these holes.
We approached the shortest hole from the ground, and when we got closer, we could see that the contents of this hole were a coffin placed horizontally, and the coffin was completely black, and it was still a little reflected by a flashlight.
"We're rich! There must be a lot of valuable things here! Lao Jiu's buddy was about to pry the coffin after speaking, but was blocked by Lao Jiu.
"It's called a coffin chrysalis, and there's nothing in it but the dead, and the real good stuff is over there." Lao Jiu pointed to the direction we were facing when we jumped off the corridor at the beginning, which is the direction behind us now.
That guy was stunned when he heard it, but I was also stunned when I heard it.
Lao Jiu walked to the hole, which was only more than a meter above the ground, and then stepped on it, and we followed.
This coffin is not very long, only one meter three or four by eye, is it a child lying inside?
I was thinking about it, and I looked over again and found that Lao Jiu was staring at me.
I was so furious that I didn't dare to look at him, I didn't know what the hell he was thinking.
"Come, Brother Xiao An! Hand on! At this time, I found that his tone was quite polite, and he didn't have the ruthlessness he had before, after all, now more people have more strength, I think Lao Jiu should be very clear in his heart.
The three of us walked over, and Lao Jiu handed us the nine-knotted branches and the pry bar that we took out of our bags.
Nine branches: as the name suggests, a total of nine sections, black iron pouring and polishing for three days, the front end is flat and can be inserted into the coffin lid coffin crack, when the coffin is opened on the ground, in order to prevent accidents, adjust the branches at will, and keep a safe distance from the coffin, in case of sudden corpse injury, a total of one meter, shrunk into a section only the length of the palm, extremely hard, with a pry bar, the coffin is effortless.
I am with Yan Liang and Liu Erhe is responsible for fixing the coffin lid with nine branches, and the remaining three guys are responsible for priing the coffin, and Lao Jiu is standing aside to help illuminate it with a flashlight.
With the sound of grinding iron, the coffin lid was slowly pried up, this black coffin seems to be very ordinary, the whole body is pitch black, square, but this lid is unusually heavy, these three guys are big shoulders and thick waists, this pry up the coffin is also a waste of strength, grinning teeth, humming in the mouth.
Lao Jiu was anxious, said a word of trouble, put down the flashlight and helped pry the coffin.
Liu Erhe and I were in the two corners of the coffin, the five of them stood opposite us, Liu Erhe and I pressed against the lid of the coffin, and they stood on both sides of Yan Liang in twos and twos, and Lao Jiu yelled: Get up!
The lid of the coffin in the direction of Lao Jiu rose in response.
"Up!"
Every time he paused, Lao Jiu shouted, and the coffin lid was pried up from the coffin little by little, and soon the coffin lid was pried open to a suitable height, Yan Liang used a nine-section branch net again, and the other four people pushed the coffin lid like this, and the coffin lid turned over at me and Liu Erhe.
We jumped backwards, and the lid of the coffin was completely pried to the ground.
I couldn't wait to step forward and look inside the coffin.
A rancid and musty smell hit my face, and I quickly covered my mouth and nose and looked inside.
The gray mist dissipated, and gradually I saw the true face of the owner of the coffin lying inside.
He was wearing wooden armor, straw sandals on his feet, and official trousers on his legs, his facial features were clearly visible, his lips were cherry red, and his skin was like white face.
There is not a trace of decay, and it is very well preserved.
This dress does not need to be studied, it looks like a product of the Tang Dynasty, but at that time, there was such a general anti-embalming technology, which was actually amazing!
Lao Jiu took a flashlight and swept it inside.
The corpse, dressed as a soldier, lay on a straw mat in the coffin, and the closer it got to the bottom of the coffin, the heavier the smell became, and it seemed that there was nothing to see inside.
Lao Jiu sighed and asked the three of us to help him turn over the body of this dead corpse.
When we refused, he ordered his men to point a gun at us.
There is no trick, so I can only do it.
The three of us put on sackcloth gloves and flipped through the corpse to see a wet patch under the straw mat.
It may be that the corpse has long since decomposed, and the embalming is in the mouth, so, on the surface, it is very freshly preserved, but the underneath has become moldy, and rotten water has grown.
But take a closer look at this straw mat, there seems to be something underneath, the middle place is a little bulging, Lao Jiu asked us to turn him over and freeze, he wants to lift this straw mat to see what is underneath.
But the coffin was so small that we couldn't eat it, and every time we had to lift the mat, the corpse couldn't hold it and lay down again.
Eventually, the three of us lifted the body out of it and set it aside.
After the corpse was lifted out to reveal the whole picture, we were able to see more comprehensively, and the height of the owner in this coffin was really too short.
We put him on the ground and were about to look at what was under the straw mat that Lao Jiu was about to lift, but at this moment, suddenly a deafening shout came from this hole!
Suddenly, a few of us didn't react, but the shouting became louder and louder, and we panicked, I covered my ears, and subconsciously went to see the dead body on the ground, and saw that the originally intact corpse instantly turned into a skeleton.
I suddenly remembered the thing we had met in the Tibetan mountain gorge that scared us out, and when I thought of the skeleton, I suddenly knew something.
At this time, I heard Lao Jiu shouting, "Run!" There's a trap here! Then he covered his ears and jumped out of the hole, not even having time to pick up his backpack.
We jumped out too.
It was only when we landed completely on the rocky ground outside the cave that we felt that this sound could be heard not only from the cave, but from almost all corners of the place, as if someone was holding a bell in his ear and shouting into his ear.
For a while, we were so shocked that we couldn't tell the direction.
I looked up, and there was a shout over my head, looking at both sides, and on both sides.
"Quick! Look! ”
I turned around and saw a guy holding a flashlight at the location of the vat where we had jumped.
Above, on top of our heads, there is the bottom of the tank, which is embedded in the stone wall, only the bottom of the tank we jumped off is broken, and the others are complete!
After thinking about it for a while, I suddenly guessed one thing: those tanks, including the holes in the mountain wall, were coffins and these dead soldiers, and the ghost soldier who suddenly appeared in the Tibetan Mountain Gorge was actually the corpse in the black tank that was found!
And the broken wooden board that you see from the bottom of the black tank is the coffin containing the ghost soldier!
Someone's messing with us!