As the 10,000-year-old ice silkworm was swallowed, the surrounding temperature gradually rose.

There were no more traps around the sarcophagus, so the four of us gathered around.

Inside the coffin lay a corpse, completely decomposed and reduced to a skeleton. This makes me feel very strange, there are obviously 10,000-year-old ice silkworms in the coffin, which can ensure that the corpse will not decay for thousands of years, why is the corpse in this sarcophagus decaying?

This skeleton is dressed in the costumes of the nobles in the early Tang Dynasty, more precisely, in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, the costumes of the Hu people in the north. He wears a silver bracelet on his wrist and a silver necklace around his neck.

These pieces of jewelry have obvious Hu characteristics, and they don't look special, so why are they so tightly arranged around the sarcophagus?

Nan Ya frowned, "That's right with my guess, this 10,000-year-old ice silkworm is not for preserving corpses. ”

After speaking, he grabbed the skull with his left hand, dragged the entire corpse out of the coffin, and threw it aside.

Niu Meng stared at the skeleton that was thrown aside for a while, and asked, "Brother Nanya...... Isn't this skeleton supposed to fall apart? ”

I was stunned, yes, the corpse had been completely dried, and it would be impossible to connect a piece if only the skeleton was left. Although the skeleton is clothed, the head and neck are not covered by clothing.

But Nan Ya just grabbed the skull and brought the corpse out, but it didn't fall apart.

Nan Ya didn't seem to care about this matter, and waved his hand, "Maybe it's some kind of Taoism, it's nothing unusual." Fierce son, come and help me lift the stone slab under the sarcophagus. ”

"Oooh oh...... Good. ”

Niu Meng and Nan Ya together lifted a bluestone slab from the bottom of the sarcophagus. I didn't pay much attention to this bluestone slab just now, it was about the same size as the bottom of the sarcophagus, about ten inches thick.

There are seven circular holes on the bluestone slab, the size of a baby's fist, and the overall arrangement looks like the Big Dipper.

The holes were just pressed against the skeleton's back, so I didn't see them.

Underneath the stone slab was a descending staircase, steeply inclined, and it was pitch black and nothing could be seen, and there was a chill.

Nan Ya lit a torch and threw it down, and the torch went down the steps for some distance and stopped.

Although the torch is not extinguished, it does not illuminate the surroundings, and only the steps can be seen to be made of bluestone, which indicates that the passage below is relatively wide, and the width and height are outside the scope of the torch lighting.

Nan Ya breathed a long sigh of relief, "Let's go, the real danger has just begun." ”

Only then did I realize that all the Dao arrays arranged in this large burial chamber were not for this sarcophagus at all, but for suppressing what was below.

I don't know if it was a hallucination or something, but as I stared at the torches below the steps, I seemed to see a pair of eyes staring straight at me.

It's a strange feeling, it's just a pair of red eyes, and you can't see what the eyes are without pupils. But you can feel these eyes looking at you.

But the feeling was fleeting, and the red eyes disappeared with it.

Thinking of Nanya's explanation of tomb gas, I didn't think much about it.

Just as we were about to go down, I heard a creaking sound behind me, which sounded like grinding bones.

I had a bad feeling in my heart, and when I turned my head, I saw that the skeleton in clothes stood up, just as I expected.

I'm actually a little scared, even though I've seen a lot of weird things. But the dead skeleton can move, and this is the first time I've seen it. Just like Mu Rong said, the underworld exists. But people's understanding of the underworld is probably still the kind of eighteen-layer hell, devils, ghosts or something, and after listening to it for a long time, that sense of fear will be deeply rooted in the brain.

The skull's teeth were gone, only the bones of the mouth frame, one by one, with a gurgling sound. The movement is very slow, slowly raising the hand bones, looking like he is going to catch the bull?

Another thing that puzzles me, obviously I am the closest to the skeleton, but he wants to attack Niu Meng, who is the farthest away, is he able to distinguish the strength of several of us, do you think Niu Meng is easy to bully? Or is there something in Niu Meng that attracts it?

I took a deep breath and pulled out my dagger, ready to deal with the skeleton.

Nan Ya suddenly spoke, "Don't move. ”

Then he walked up to the skeleton, stretched out his right hand, grabbed it on the skull, and squeezed it hard.

With a "snap", the entire skull was crushed.

The skeleton fell apart in an instant, slumping to the ground, emitting a cloud of black mist. This black mist has a slight smell, a little like the smell of a corpse, but also a little bit like it.

After the skeleton fell apart, the silver ornaments on his body fell to the ground, and Niu Meng put them in his pocket.

Nan Ya didn't say anything about him, we don't care about these things, after all, there is no shortage of money. It is understandable for the fierce son to take something out and sell it for a good price. The business of tomb robbing is basically a life-threatening business. After many people entered the tomb, they died in the tomb before they had time to take out their things.

"It's just a spirit gathering technique, it's used to scare people." Nan Ya crouched down and rummaged around the scattered skeletons, as if he didn't find anything useful, and continued: "Go down." ”

A few of us cleaned up briefly and followed Nan Ya down the steps.

Soul Gathering is a very common Taoist technique, which simply means making a dead corpse move again. There is a phenomenon of "cat defrauding corpses" among the people, and the spirit gathering technique is almost the same.

When a cat passes by the corpse, it will change the aura around the corpse, causing the remaining aura in the corpse to react with the aura, and the corpse will suddenly sit up, or even stand up and take two steps.

However, this corpse is not a zombie, and it will fall after taking two steps. As Nan Ya said, the Soul Gathering Technique is just a scary thing.

After entering the passage, the temperature became a little colder again. In order to save oil, we only lit two torches, and Nan Ya walked in the front and held one. Niu Meng followed behind Nanya, I took a handful, and Yao Xiaomei followed me.

The slope of the steps down is very steep, so you need to lean slightly back when walking, otherwise you may fall if you accidentally slip your foot.

The steps are made of bluestone, the same material used for the bluestone brick walls of the burial chamber. Since Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, things like bluestone bricks have appeared.

If this ancient tomb is really a tomb in the late Sui and early Tang dynasties, it is not uncommon for a large number of bluestone bricks to appear.

The only strange thing is that such a huge project has never been recorded in history! The large burial chamber above alone would cost at least more than 100,000 people, not to mention that it was not known what was going on below.

Nan Ya was still very cautious, and while walking, he checked whether there were any organs around.

When I got to the torch that Nan Ya had dropped, the passage became a little larger, and the slope of the steps slowed down.

After walking some distance, murals began to appear on the walls around them. The frescoes are carved on them and are not painted. The content of the murals is not unusual, they are all Buddha statues.

Many classic stories of Buddhism are reflected in the murals.

The further down I went, the more humidity I felt around me, and I could even see small droplets of water on the mural.

This means that we are close to the underground river, but we have not heard the sound of water yet.

Luckily, along the way, I didn't encounter any mechanism or anything else out of the ordinary.

After walking down for almost a stick of incense, it was finally the end, the slope became a flat road, and the passage was still the same. It felt very empty ahead, and there should be a vent somewhere, but it was dark and I couldn't see anything.

There are four stone lamps on the wall in this flat road passage, and Nan Ya lit all four lamps, and the whole passage was lit up.

The frescoes on the walls of the passage are peculiar, with the same painting carved on the left, right and above.

The carving depicts a figure, dressed like a Buddha, sitting cross-legged on top of a green ox with three faces. I looked closely, and I realized that the three walls were carved with exactly three different faces.

The three murals are identical except for their different faces.

One of the faces, with an expression of hatred, has a deep face, two protruding eyes, a long mouth, and two fangs that resemble those of a wild boar.

The remaining two faces are clearly the faces of two women, but they are equally ugly and look like devils.

The main face of each mural is facing us, and there are two side faces carved on the left and right.

In other words, the person on the mural does have three faces, but the three murals show different faces.

This person looks a bit like a Buddha, but it's not the same.

"Nanya, do you know what kind of person this is drawing?"

Nan Ya shook his head, "I don't know, but I feel like a Buddhist." Our native Buddhism was originally transmitted from Brahma, so very few people are very proficient in Buddhism. Even the Buddha learned from Brahma that there was a more complicated relationship behind him. If you want to know the real Buddhism, you have to go to Brahma and find their high monks. ”

After Nan Ya finished speaking, he continued to walk forward, and when he reached the exit of the passage, he stopped.

"Come and have a look." Nan Ya said.

The three of us hurriedly ran over.

I was shocked by what I saw.

Outside the passage is a very narrow stone bridge, and under the stone bridge is a large river, the surface of the river is very calm, almost stationary, no wonder we can't hear the sound of water.

At the end of the stone bridge is a stone wall, and there is a huge stone gate with a Buddha carved on the stone door. There are also two stone statues of green oxen at the door.

It's a huge natural cave, very large, the top looks like it's been treated, and the surrounding stone walls and tops are filled with a lot of fluorite. The largest piece was the size of two people combined.

Fluorite is the material used to make the pearl of the night, and there are hundreds of irregular fluorites here, which basically emit white and green light, so the whole large cave seems to be illuminated by the moon, and everything around it can be seen clearly.

When I was amazed by the wonders of nature, I admired even more the people who built the tombs here.

But at this time, Nan Ya's brows furrowed, "This stone bridge is almost twenty zhang long, there is nothing to support it in the middle, and it is so narrow, how can it be built on both sides of the cliff unharmed?" ”