Pei, did you dig up the tomb bricks? I asked in a whisper, rejoicing in my heart, but I didn't expect it to be faster than I expected.

Pei, who was crawling in front, shook his flashlight for a while, and said to himself in confusion, "It shouldn't be!" ”

"What's wrong, what's going on?" Listening to Pei's tone, I knew what problem Pei should have encountered in front of me.

Pei fumbled with the flashlight for a while and then whispered, "This is really strange, how can there be a big stone slab in front of this good end." ”

In my memory, the dry well is at least 800 meters away from the edge of the tomb. At this time, the section of the robbery hole we dug should be only a little more than 700 meters, and it should not have reached the location of the tomb, but the sudden appearance of a stone slab makes people a little confused.

After thinking about it for a while, I found that Pei's behavior in front of me was a little abnormal. He crawled in front of him for a long time and didn't move, as if he had been clicked on the acupoint, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

"What's wrong with the front, it's a sound." Huzi couldn't bear it anymore and shouted at us in a low voice.

"Pei!"

"Bae"

I called him a few times in a row, but he still didn't respond, and it wasn't until I climbed up to Pei and tugged at his feet that he came back to his senses.

"Yang Xiuyuan, this place is evil." Pei's tone showed a look of horror.

"The patterns and words on these stone tablets, you can't believe it if you see it."

Pei stood in front of him, through the gap between his body and the thief hole, and then by the flashlight I could vaguely see something carved on the stone slab in front of me. Due to the distance, the light, I couldn't see clearly at all.

The more I couldn't see clearly, the more anxious I became, and my curiosity surged me, and I couldn't help but poke my head forward as far as I could. But the width of this thief hole is a little, and my face is next to the cave wall in a hurry, but I still can't squeeze through.

"What's carved on it?" I asked Pei anxiously.

Pei shook his flashlight and described to me, "There are some patterns on the top that resemble the patterns on the charm, and below is a huge grimace. The most important thing is that this grimace actually has three eyes, and the eye in the center of the forehead is almost exactly the same as the eye totem on our back. ”

Pei's words startled me, Demon Eyes? How did it end up here? Could this tablet be an unknown force from the Demon's Eye that caused this tablet to appear here and deliberately obstruct our way?

"Pei, leave it alone, you follow the slate in a different direction and continue to dig, and when you dig to the edge of the slate, you continue to dig in the northeast direction." As long as we keep the general direction correct, whether it is dug into the tomb chamber, or the ear chamber, or the tomb passage, we can enter the tomb in short.

"Click! Click! After a while, Pei followed my instructions and began to work again. Soon a bend was dug up, and the slate appeared in front of me.

When I first saw this grimace on the slate, I was also shocked. This grimace is a bit of an Indian savage, with an ugly face, a hat made of bird feathers on top of its head, and a rather penetrating look with teeth and claws.

The extra eyes in the middle of my forehead don't need to be suspicious, as Pei said, it is exactly the same as the demon eye on our back, and I suddenly had a lot of doubts in my heart. Could it really be that the unknown power of the Demon Eye is at work, but when I saw the soil marks on the slate, I dispelled this unreliable assumption, the soil marks on the slate were obviously formed over the years, and they did not appear suddenly.

When I was full of doubts, Pei began to dig in the northeast direction again after bypassing this stone slab, "Yang Xiuyuan, I have already avoided the stone slab, you can help clean up the accumulated soil at this bend first." ”

I just paid attention to the pattern on this stone slab, and the soil in front of me was almost piled up into a hill, but I didn't notice it, so I quickly carried a bag to help clean up the accumulated soil.

As he did so, he pondered what it meant for the Demon Eye pattern to appear here, which was less than a hundred meters away from the tomb, and whether this tomb would have any connection to the Demon Eye.

After a long time of busyness, the accumulated soil in front of the thief hole was finally cleared. We changed direction after bypassing the stone slab and continued to dig to the northeast, but as we dug and dug again.

With a crisp sound from the shovel in Pei's hand, Pei sighed and said, "Hey! Yang Xiuyuan, how did you dig another stone slab in front of you. ”

"Bypass the slate first and continue digging northeast." Now that the tomb is close at hand, even if there are many difficulties ahead, we must find a way to deal with the past.

Pei continued to dig around the slab to the northeast, and I climbed up to the slab and found that it was exactly the same as the slab I had just seen. It's all three-eyed grimaces, and I can't help but think about the purpose of this slate here.

As Pei continued to move forward, we encountered seven or eight of the same stone slabs one after another. The closer you get to the tomb, the denser these slabs become, and you will come across one of them if you barely move less than ten meters.

At this time, I thought that this must have been deliberately buried around the tomb, and its practical intention was very simple. In order to prevent tomb robbers, there were many anti-theft facilities in tombs in ancient times, and this is actually one of them. There are generally three kinds of robbery holes, and the vertical robbery holes dug directly from the top are called 'Babel Caves'. This kind of cave robbery is generally more common, and it is also a long-term technique used by tomb robbers.

In order to prevent such robbery, the ancients worked the top of the tomb when they built the tomb. For example, the ceiling is filled with lead, or some mechanism is installed on the top of the tomb, in short, so that the tomb robbers cannot lead directly to the tomb from above.

As the saying goes, there are policies at the top, and there are countermeasures at the bottom, and if the thieves can't get through the holes. Clever grave robbers would work from the side of the chamber, now digging a shaft around the chamber and digging horizontally towards the chamber. This kind of horizontal robbery hole is called 'Tulong Cave', and its general meaning is basically the same as the robbery hole we have hit.

As the tombs were dug up by this 'Earth Dragon Cave' method, people came up with various ways to deal with such an invasion.

For example, the tomb wall is strengthened, and hard objects such as iron pillars are placed in the tomb wall, or the tomb wall is hollowed out. There's also a simpler way to pour lead into the middle, like the one we came across.

Large stone slabs were buried around the burial chamber to prevent grave robbers from digging in the direction of the tomb. In the past, when there was no compass, such holes were dug in the ground, and in order to avoid the stone slabs, grave robbers would bypass the stone slabs in this way. But without a compass, you will lose your sense of direction after three or two clicks, and it will be difficult to find this tomb.

With the above two kinds of obstruction, the tomb robbers came up with a way to open the robbery hole, that is, the relatively rare 'heart hole'. The so-called heart-digging hole is to dig the tomb as deep as possible, avoid some facilities that obstruct the hole, and then dig a hole from under the tomb. In short, the offense and defense between the police and the thieves will never be truly quelled.

It is very likely that the situation we encountered was deliberately set up by the tomb owner to prevent theft, but what surprised me was the pattern on these stone slabs! Stone slabs are used to block the steps of tomb robbers, and the owner of the tomb does not need to go to great lengths to carve such patterns on these stone slabs, which is not a bit redundant.

It is said to be to scare off tomb robbers, which may be a bit interesting. But what kind of connection does this grimace with a third face like the Devil's Eye have with the Devil's Eye, is it a coincidence? Or by chance. Of course, we have no way of knowing all this. What I know for sure at the moment is that since there is such an anti-theft facility here, the tomb must be very close to here.

(End of chapter)

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