Chapter 267: What I Saw in the Cave

But seeing the affirmative expression on the face of the chief steward, it didn't look like he was mistaken.

What's going on? Let's see!

"Row the boat this way—" she shouted as she commanded the "little daughters-in-law" who were in charge of rowing.

Over there? That's the tip of the waterfall! I was even more confused.

As the saying goes, "Under the waterfall, there must be a deep pool", under this unknown waterfall is an inlet of about 1,000 square meters, and according to the instructions of the chief steward, the boat first crosses this inlet, and then rows towards the corner of the waterfall.

The closer you get to the waterfall, the louder the impact of the water becomes, and when the distance is less than twenty meters, the sound is simply deafening, and everyone hurriedly covers their ears.

At this time, I suddenly saw a cave in the place pointed by the chief steward, and the dark entrance of the cave loomed. The cave wasn't huge, just a little bigger than our ship, and two-thirds of it was obscured by the cascading waterfall, so far away, even someone with super eyesight like me couldn't see it.

"Little brother—" When I was about ten meters close to the waterfall, the chief steward handed me a raincoat and ordered everyone else to put on it. With a loud crash under the waterfall, as if by magic, the boat sailed into the waterfall.

It's a cave again!

The cave is not very wide, and the walls are very gentle, and it looks like it was dug by hand.

"Eyya—how did you find such a hidden cave?"

I still can't help but ask about the big steward.

"Little brother, it's a long time to talk about...... It's actually a thief hole......"

Cave thieves? I instantly remembered the antique Li, it was the last time I was on the way back from Ningxia, because the road was boring, he told me a lot about antique relics, including ancient tombs.

If you simply calculate, in the three thousand years from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Republic of China, there were more than 10 million tombs of emperors and nobles, because since ancient times, the tomb chamber was called "Yin House", which was directly related to the "Yang House" - that is, the prosperity of the descendants of the deceased.

I don't understand Feng Shui, but at that time, I listened to the antique Li dialect and said that the choice of this cemetery was extremely important.

Almost from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there was a kind of shady profession in human society - tomb robbing.

There are many criteria for dividing grave robbers, including geographical division and identity division.

According to the identity of the tomb robbers, they are divided into "official thieves" and "civil roads".

As the name suggests, "Mindao" refers to all kinds of tomb robbers among the people, who either work together with fathers and sons, or join hands with uncles and nephews, all of whom act secretly through the darkness of the night. Most of these thieves are small tombs.

"Official thieves" are more bullish, and there are several well-known "official thieves" in history:

The most famous should be the "Touching Gold Captain" set up by Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period, which sounds good, and is also a "school captain" - in fact, it is specifically responsible for finding tombs and robbing tombs, the purpose is to supply military funds.

Earlier than Cao Cao, there was Wu Zixu in the Spring and Autumn Period, it is said that he was the ancestor of Faqiu, who had dug up the buried King Chuping from the tomb, whipped the corpse of 300, and abandoned it in the wilderness.

After Wu Zixu, the more famous one is the overlord Xiang Yu, and the tomb he stole was the Qin Tomb, but unfortunately it was not successful

Later, the Tang Dynasty's Huangchao, he also entangled tens of thousands of people to digging the tombs of the previous emperors, but unfortunately the army was defeated, and after the failure of the Huangchao uprising, this "official thief" army also disappeared from the historical stage.

The most recent official thief is the great warlord Sun Dianying during the Republic of China, who used gunpowder to blow up Cixi's tomb and the Qianling Tomb......

What I want to say is that in addition to being "grandiose", the characteristics of "official thieves" are also large-scale.

Hearing the chief steward say that the cave where we are located is a thief cave, I immediately thought of the word "official thief", and it is impossible to dig such a thief hole in the mountain without 180,000 people.

Could it be that there is an imperial tomb hidden in this remote mountain?

While I was thinking to myself, the cave in front of me suddenly became wider, and the walls were no longer smooth, just like a natural cave. After a few glances, I probably understood. There was a cave in this mountain, but it was hidden in the mountain.

"What's that?"

Suddenly, Xiaobi pointed to the top of her head and shouted.

I looked up and saw a black coffin seven or eight meters above the water.

The coffin was placed in a groove in the rock wall, and from a distance it looked as if it had been embedded in it. Look elsewhere, it! It's more than one! The section of cave we are in front of is "inlaid with" many of these coffins.

Maybe people are naturally afraid of coffins! The first time I saw it, my scalp was numb, and Yu Lina simply pounced on me, and even Xiaoqing and Xiaobi couldn't help but exclaim.

"Aya - how can there be so many coffins here?" I asked in a whisper.

The chief steward shook his head and replied in a low voice, "When we found this cave, the coffin already existed......"

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly changed her words and shouted to the others: "Don't make a loud noise, let alone spit or ...... Get into the water. ”

Well? Could it be that something happened here?

The chief steward probably saw my doubts, leaned over and whispered again: "Little brother, this place is very evil, if you have anything to say, wait until the past paragraph!" ”

With that, she pointed to one of the coffins.

I followed his finger and saw that the coffin had been split in half and the lid was gone. I was shocked! In our culture, there is a special respect for the deceased, except for those like Wu Zixu with deep hatred, even tomb robbers rarely deliberately destroy the coffin of the deceased.

Looking closely, I gasped directly, where was this destroyed by outsiders, seeing that the holes in the coffin were all bulging outward, it was obvious that there was a great force caused from the inside out.

There must be dead people in the coffin! Could it be that the corpse is being cheated?

Almost at the same time, I thought about the scene that happened yesterday in the woods: monkeys fighting zombies.

Strange to say, because I couldn't communicate with the Monkey King, I asked seven or eight people, including the chief steward, but their answers were the same, "I don't know", and from the flash of panic on their faces, it was not so.

Seeing so many ancient coffins at this time, and many of them have been seriously damaged, I naturally connected these two things together - the zombies that don't always appear in the valley of Jade Girl Village come from here, right? Thinking about it, I think it's unlikely, these two places are not close to each other! Zombies are not flexible in their actions......

I was thinking that maybe Yu Lina in my arms was always in a somewhat uncomfortable position, and turned around, and suddenly she said "ah", I looked down and saw a towel in her hand falling into the water.

Actually, I didn't take it too seriously, isn't it just a towel, girls love to be clean, plus it's hot these days, and when I go out, I habitually hold a towel in my hand.

"It's going to be bad!"

But the chief steward sighed.