I hurried over to pull the bull, and when I grabbed him with both hands, his head was already sinking into the water, and bubbles were bubbling on the water.

I felt like something was pulling hard.

Despite exerting all his strength, Niu Meng slowly sank.

I was in a hurry and was about to jump into the water to take a look. Yao Xiaomei suddenly jumped down and came over to help grab Niu Meng's arm, and it seemed that with a slight pull, Niu Meng's whole person was lifted up.

I saw that Niu spit out two mouthfuls of water, panting heavily, "Yes...... Something is haunting me. ”

I saw a lot of black sticky stuff on Niu Meng's legs, and the smell smelled like fishy, and it was different from the usual fishy smell, and I really couldn't remember what it was.

"It's the Tomb Vine." Tang Jinghong also jumped down at this time.

I've seen tomb vines in books on tombs, and if there is water near the tomb and there are many corpses buried in the tomb, this plant will grow.

The appearance is not described in the book, and it is not clear whether it is poisonous or not.

"How are you feeling?" I asked Niu Meng.

Niu Meng rolled up his trouser legs, "I feel a little numb in my legs." ”

His legs were already purple and swollen like eggplants, apparently poisoned.

"Don't get in the way, just release the poisonous blood, the poison of the tomb vine spreads very slowly." Yao mocked her and looked very calm.

"Bear with me." I said to Niu Meng, and Niu Meng nodded.

Then I took out the dagger and made a small cut in Niu Meng's calf to help him squeeze the blood out.

At first, black blood flowed out, and the color of the blood became normal when the swelling of the cow's legs subsided.

The incision was small, and there was not much blood released, which would not affect Niu Meng, and after a simple treatment of the wound, he was able to move freely.

"How does it feel?" I asked him again.

Niu Meng stood up and walked a few steps briefly, shaking his head, "It's not a big deal." ”

"Are you sure it's okay?" I looked at Yao mockingly.

Yao nodded mockingly, with a hint of impatience in her eyes, "It's okay." ”

Tang Jinghong didn't speak, he was carefully looking at this secret passage.

This is the time for me to show off my skills, and although I haven't robbed many tombs, I have a lot of historical knowledge.

I carefully examined the secret passages and told them, "The shape of the oil lamps on the walls was commonly used by the eunuchs during the Tang Dynasty." The surface of the bluestone of the secret passage is smooth and flat, and the skilled craftsmen who can chisel out this bluestone are by no means idle.

It can be seen that what Cheng Fu said after touching the golden captain is true. In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, wars broke out, and presumably the original intention of Cheng Fu to build this secret passage was also to avoid war.

However, this is only my speculation, and it is possible that this secret passage was built in the early Tang Dynasty. ”

"Let's go in and have a look." Yao didn't seem interested in what I was saying.

I asked the ox to light the torch and follow me ahead. Yao Yimei and Tang Jinghong, the two of them, think that they don't need a lamp, they can see things in the dark.

This time, Yao Yimei and Tang Jinghong did not walk in front of the two of us.

The temperature in the secret passage is a little cold, and in front of it is a staircase that extends downward, and nothing can be seen in the dark.

There was a faint sound of dripping water in the depths, and it seemed a little empty.

The ox and I walked very slowly, and every time we walked some distance downward, I lit the oil lamp on the wall.

The oil inside the lamp was apparently fresh, and there were traces of cleaning on the steps, but there were still scattered dirt left.

"Brother Jiu, did you hear any sounds?" Niu Meng suddenly asked me in a low voice.

I pricked up my ears and listened carefully for a while, heard everything, frowned and asked him, "What did you hear?" ”

"No, you're not a good ear, it's so quiet that I don't think it's right."

“…………”

I didn't know what to say, so I had to tell Niu Meng to talk less.

After walking a short distance, he saw a stone door that had been opened, and behind the stone door was a stone chamber.

There are four rooms in this room, two of which are stocked with food, and the rest of the rooms have tables, chairs, and benches.

It seems that I guessed correctly, this kind of vault built underground is for evacuation.

There are two exits to the innermost stone chamber, and the black hole doesn't know where it leads.

Diagonally above the exit, there is a circular hole that looks like a freshly hewn hole with scattered dirt.

"This cave should be a thief cave, the other two exits, one should be a secret passage to the outside, the other may be connected to some underground caves for ventilation, there may be a natural cave hidden under the Cheng Mansion. If there is a tomb, the tomb structure will be built in conjunction with the structure of the cave.

Usually, these tombs are multi-level tomb structures, and the main burial chamber is often placed on the lowest level.

If the tomb robber is a member of the Soul Burial Cult, then this robbery cave is not the best choice to enter the tomb, but it is not dangerous.

So, I think if we want to enter the ancient tomb, we can just go through this thief hole. ”

After I finished speaking, Yao Yimei nodded, and instantly transformed into a little black cat, and the whole process didn't even blink an eye.

Niu Meng was probably frightened, and he didn't speak for a long time with his eyes open.

I saw Yao Xiaomei jump slightly, jumped into the thief hole, turned back to us and said, "Keep up." ”

This feeling is very strange, you can clearly see Yao's mouth moving, but the words that come out don't match the lip sync.

Of course, the strangest feeling is when a cat speaks.

I turned my head to look at Tang Jinghong, meaning that you want to become a nine-tailed fox or something.

Tang Jinghong glanced at me, "What do you think!" ”

After speaking, she stepped on the stone bench, and with a slight use of strength, jumped onto the thief hole.

The thief hole is not very big, even with a thin figure like Tang Jinghong, he needs to crawl forward.

Like Niu Meng, it is estimated that you have to squeeze to get in.

"Keep a foot away from me!" Tang Jinghong glared back at me at the entrance of the cave, and then he got into the thief hole.

I shrugged helplessly and told Niu Meng to let him go up first, and I would be responsible for breaking the rear.

Niu Meng was burly and clumsy, and it was only with my help that he climbed into the thief hole.

Once in the Thief Cave, it wasn't so easy for him. Arms crunched together, holding candles, almost squirming forward.

I asked Niu Meng to blow out the candle first, and his travel speed was impossible even if he wanted to catch up with Tang Jinghong.

The bull blew out the candle, and I crawled into the thief cave and retreated backwards.

This will prevent any accidents in the future, such as other tomb robbers, or bugs and monsters in the tomb.

I've heard a lot about the monsters in the tombs, but I've never seen them.

There are several strange animals that I remember vividly.

One is a bug that looks like a shell, which survives on corpses, can survive for hundreds of years without eating or drinking, and has a particularly strong reproductive ability. If this kind of insect grows in a coffin, it will not take a few years to give birth to thousands of them.

There is also a species of spider that also feeds on carcasses, and it is said that the largest can grow to be the size of a tiger.

Many other strange-shaped animals are recorded in the tomb scriptures.

Of course, the most documented, and most known, are zombies.

What I remember most clearly is that "white hair is all over the body, eyes are as red as dansha, fingers are like curved hooks, teeth are exposed and lips are like sharp blades, kissing and shouting, bloody nose." Such an account.

It is unknown where the source is, as for the folk rumors, the generals, the drought is the ancestor of the zombies, and eighty percent of them are also made up.

There are generally two situations in the formation of zombies, new corpses mutation, and burial for a long time.

My grandfather once experimented with rabbits, and he created an environment that resembled a corpse farm. The dead rabbit was placed there, and after a few months, the rabbit's body did not decay, but the hair on the body continued to grow.

Grandpa said that this was caused by the aura, and if the aura between heaven and earth could be changed, the human corpse could also be preserved in this way.

As for whether the zombies are powerful or not, I don't know.

Because what I heard was different, I remember that Nan Ya told me about zombies once, and according to him, it is easier to defeat a zombie than to pinch an ant to death.

And more rumors are that zombies are very scary and can take people's lives in an instant.

However, this time, with Yao Xiaomei and Tang Jinghong following, I don't have any burden in my heart.

We just like that, slowly crawling down the thief hole.

About two incense sticks later, I heard Yao Xiaomei shouting in front, "It's here." ”

Then there was the sound of feet hitting the ground, and after a while, there was a plop, followed by Niu Meng's "oops", and it was estimated that he fell directly.

I retreated to the entrance of the cave and found that there was a burial chamber underneath, which was not very large, and there was a bluestone sarcophagus in the middle of the burial chamber, and there was a small wooden coffin in the coffin.

The coffin first refers to the coffin on the coffin, commonly known as the set of coffins, and the rarest is the bronze coffin.

Later, everyone was not so particular about it, and the coffin was also called a coffin.

I jumped down, lit the torch and handed it to Niu Meng.

The coffin was empty, there was nothing, apparently an empty coffin.

Because tomb robbers can't steal bones too, can they?

Some princes and nobles will have many empty coffins in their tombs to confuse tomb robbers, and some even do not hesitate to build special burial mounds and bury their bodies elsewhere.

There is nothing special about the whole tomb, and the style of the coffin cannot be judged to be aged, but there is a stone mural on the wall, which is lifelike.

The painting shows a man with a lupine scarf, holding a circular object, kneeling on the ground, and a group of people behind him are also kneeling.

However, it is not known what they are worshipping, and the mural seems to have been deliberately destroyed, not wanting people to know what they are worshipping on.

Niu Meng took a torch and looked at the wooden coffin, suddenly took out a knife, cut a piece of wood down, and sniffed it before taking it to his nose, "Brother Jiu, the best Nanmu, you can sell it for a lot of money if you get it out." ”

"It's hard for you to come in, how do you get the coffin out? Valuable things have long been stolen by others. I waved my hand.

After all, the vast majority of tomb robbers rob tombs for money.

Yao Yimei and Tang Jinghong stared at the mural for a long time.

"Nan Gongzi, what dynasty is this mural from?" Tang Jinghong suddenly asked me.

"The content of the painting is like the Three Kingdoms period, but the period of carving is not visible, at least after the Three Kingdoms, it may also be from the Song Dynasty. We may have to run for nothing, this ancient tomb has been stolen more than once.

It is estimated that the people of the Soul Burial Sect also came down to try their luck, let's go and look elsewhere and find the main burial chamber. I pointed to the stone door next to me, walked over and pressed the mechanism down the door, and the stone door rumbled up.

This shows that the person who designed the tomb deliberately wanted the tomb robbers to leave the tomb, and if they didn't want to, they could have sealed the stone door.

After the stone door was opened, I was stunned when I saw the scene outside.