Chapter XVII: The Catacomb

The tomb behind Hei Pi was slowly opened, and the four of us stood there blankly watching what was happening, thinking that it was so incredible.

It turned out that the stone brick I inadvertently buckled was actually the switch that triggered the closing of the grave. The head of the tomb moved to the left for about half a meter and then stopped moving, and the four of us went up to take a look, and there was a long corridor stretched downward with bluestone bricks underground.

The four of us glanced at each other, and then Sun Litang took out the saber pinned to his waist and took the lead, and jumped down first. I couldn't help but shudder in my heart when I saw Sun Litang's knife, if there was no such sudden authenticity, it seems that these guys are going to kill me today! Don't be sure to guard against them in the future.

Sun Litang took the lead and jumped down first, followed by the sixth master, me and the black skin of the queen of the palace.

The tunnel shook straight down, and I noticed that there were no decorative patterns on the sides of the inclined corridor, only simple excavation and reinforcement. When we went down to a depth of about seven or eight meters, the sun was no longer shining, so we turned our phones into flashlight mode and continued to move down.

Extending about ten meters down, the smell of earth became stronger and stronger, and the space suddenly became open-minded. I took a photo with my mobile phone, but the light source was too small, and it could only shine about five meters under my feet.

"I'm good, what's this?" I opened my mouth wide.

"Look around for any oil lamps." The sixth master commanded the black skin.

Heipi touched the pit wall with a flashlight, about ten meters, and I heard the lighter "click", and the whole tomb instantly brightened a lot. The black skin lit up four or five more lamps one after another along the pit wall, and we found that this room buried deep in the ground was not very large, and it could be seen in the light.

Now we can clearly look at the burial chamber, the whole pit is round, and the walls of the pit are made of marble bricks all around, which is very strong, and it can be seen that the designer put a lot of effort into it. In the middle of the burial chamber was a black sarcophagus, with four permanent lamps at the four corners of the coffin, but unfortunately it had been extinguished. After looking around and seeing that there was nothing superfluous, a coffin was placed in a basement.

In rural areas, coffins are generally dug into a deep pit and put the coffin in it, because there is not too much financial and manpower to spend effort underground, except for the coffin, it is generally easy to do it underground, anyway, no one looks at it. The younger generations who are a little more particular will build a super large grave for the deceased, or set up a monument to engrave the life of the deceased, of course, that is also a face project for the living to see, after all, the dead can't see it.

But the owner who built this tomb is the opposite, it looks ordinary on the ground, it is a dry tomb without an owner, but he didn't expect that there is such a big mystery hidden underground. Why was such a burial chamber built? I haven't heard of any royal relatives in our village? Did the dead person specially confess that the housing area was not large enough after death? I quickly shook my head and dismissed the idea.

I took my phone and leaned my face close to the wall to look at it, and found that there were lines on the bare stone wall, "What is this moment?" ”

The sixth master leaned closer to the texture and took a look, "It's a gossip map, it's in the right place." ”

After saying that, a few people walked to the sarcophagus, and I had to follow closely.

The sarcophagus had already been opened, and the lid of the coffin had been lifted aside, "Damn! I scolded, although I don't know who this deceased person is and who the descendants are, but at least this is the ancestral grave of our village.

The four of us leaned our heads close to the coffin, and I closed my eyes and was mentally prepared to think that it might be a highly decomposed corpse or something. But when I opened my eyes, I found that there was nothing in the coffin.

There was no body in the coffin! It's impossible, looking at this posture, it must be the coffin of a dead man. The body was stolen? Or did the corpse get bored and go out for a walk by itself? I'm obviously more convinced of the first point.

Heipi leaned himself into the coffin a little more, and then wiped it into the coffin wall with his hand, "Sixth uncle, look." ”

The sixth master was not too dirty, so he put his nose up with his black hand and sniffed it, "It's the dead skin of people, it's already started." ”

Hearing what the sixth master said, I looked at the black substance on the black leather hand again, and my stomach began to turn over. "Get away from me, stay away from me!"

Then Hei Pi leaned over to look for it in the coffin, and after looking for a long time, he pulled out half a piece of black and translucent hard shell from the gap between the sarcophagus, which was the size of a copper coin, and emitted a dark light under the reflection of the light. I asked what it was, and the sixth master just said a scale word. It reminds me of the woman with a small scaly face in the village legend. Before I could ask in detail, Sun Litang found another clue.

"Master, look." Sun Litang squatted on the lid of the coffin that was overturned on the ground.

We hurried over and leaned over to see that the lid of the stone coffin had already broken in two on the ground. The upper half of the coffin lid is embossed with the Nirvana Fire Phoenix, which shows that the owner of this coffin is a woman. The lower half is engraved with the life of the owner of the tomb, what blesses the health of future generations, and what the immortal passes away in Elysium. The end of the sarcophagus is engraved with the three words Li Shulin.

"Have you heard of this person?" The sixth master asked me.

Li Shulin? I shook my head, saying I hadn't heard of it. "There are many outsiders in our village, and a group of them escaped during the war of resistance against Japan, and then a group of them left when the world was peaceful, and a group of people died in the flood in the past nine years. Coupled with the same name and surname, no one will know who it is based on a single name, and maybe the family will die a long time ago. The three of them looked at each other and said no more.

The old man looked in the direction of the sarcophagus, and then said to me, "You go to the northwest, and tell the black skin to go to the southeast."

I can also see that the placement of this sarcophagus is indeed unusual. Usually, rural burials pay attention to sitting in the north and facing south, that is, the head of the dead rushes to the north and the feet are in the south. But the corpse was indeed leaning forward, northeast-southwest. I didn't understand the specifics, so I had to do it.

"Look underground and see if there's anything."

"Nope." Blackskin said.

"Nope." I say.

"Look for it again, it's impossible."

So Black and I started digging into the ground, and the military shovels they brought with us came in handy after all. I didn't dig a few times, "dang~", my shovel seemed to hit a stone, I dug it out and looked, it turned out to be a skull.

"Holy! Head. Black Skin shouted too.

The sixth master told us to continue digging, and I have seen a few heads back and forth in the past few days, and my courage has also been practiced. Bloody fresh skulls are not afraid, and certainly not afraid of this dry and corroded skull.

Three came up from my side, five from the black skin, and we gathered them all on the sarcophagus lid. Looking through the light, I found that directly above the skull Heavenly Spirit Cover, there was an oval hole the size of a stone.

I asked the sixth master what this said, and the sixth master smiled and said that these people were all killed when they were alive, and the hole in the skull was a spell that someone cast to take away their living beings.

"Funeral?" I asked.

The sixth master shook his head and said to Sun Litang inscrutablely, "There is only one left." ”

Sun Litang nodded, as if regretful, "But in the end, it failed." ”

I asked them what they were talking about, and Sun Litang scared me into knowing that it was too much and easy to die, so I stuck out my tongue and didn't ask again, because I believed that they could do it.

After we walked around the grave a few more times, we found nothing of any importance, not even a few burial goods.

I scolded, "The grave robbers are so hateful, the thieves don't even have a scum left, and the corpses are all gone." ”

The sixth master sneered, "I don't think so." Then he pointed to his hands and said, "You see that the walls of this tomb are smooth and neat, and the floor is smooth and not messy." If you look around again, there is not a single robbery hole, is there such a polite tomb robber? ”

I followed the words of the sixth master and went to see it, and found that it was not. There are no holes, no gravel, and there are not even other people's footprints on the ground except for the footprints we just stepped on, which is indeed a very abnormal thing. If it is regarded as a normal grave, it is a bit unreasonable to go so hard not to let go of a single burial object. But if the descendants don't have the money to accompany the burial, then why bother digging such a burial chamber with so much effort, can't you just dig a pit and bury the coffin?

Could it be that this corridor and the outside mechanism are reserved for the living? Did the people who built the tomb do this on purpose? So what is his purpose? Who is buried in this coffin?

His wife? His mother? His daughter? Why did he bury this coffin in the ground, but left a secret passage for the living to enter and exit? Too much of the dead and want to "go home and see" from time to time? As soon as this idea came out, I immediately felt a wave of disgust, how disgusting and perverted this person is.

Sun Litang and the others began to study the paintings on the walls again, and they used shovels to remove the sludge from the lines little by little, and a huge gossip map appeared in front of us.

There are carved dragons in the tomb, there are carved immortals outside the sky, and there are also carved on the stone slab as a record of the life of the tomb owner, but it is really the first time to see the gossip carved in the tomb. When it comes to gossip, my first impression is metaphysics, and I often see old Taoists in Taoism using this pattern, according to legend, it was created by Fuxi in ancient times! Could it be that there was a promising female Taoist girl buried in this tomb?

I turned around a few more times, but I didn't find any valuable clues, I felt bored and looked at my phone, it was already half past three, so I yelled out. After all, this is a graveyard, and it's underneath the eerie ground, and I don't want to spend the middle of the night going on a wild trip under the graveyard.

The sixth master looked around and nodded in agreement. We tossed for more than half a day, and we didn't bother to eat, although we brought dry food, but what happened today was so exciting that the dry food was kept in our pockets and didn't touch it. Let's go home and eat something hot.

I stood up, patted the dirt on my buttocks, and beckoned everyone to walk in the direction of the exit.

"Boom~" A strange sound came from the ground again, this time more clearly and more terrifyingly than hearing it on the ground. The sixth master was shocked and screamed badly, so let's run in the direction of the cave entrance.

Sun Litang and I rushed to the front, and Heipi supported the sixth master to follow. Everyone staggered back to the road, ran up a few steps, and looked up to find a person standing at the entrance of the cave, lying on the ground and leaning over to look into the hole.

Seeing us coming up, hehe sneered twice, "Boom~" The tomb was closed again.