Chapter 18: The Red Fox Town Coffin
This fox hole is hit diagonally above this burial chamber. It's already more than a dozen meters above the ground, and I was surprised by the depth.
I adjusted my breathing to calm down, and instead of jumping down, I first visually measured the height of the place, and made sure that I could climb up for a while before jumping into the tomb with my phone in my mouth.
When I jumped in, I fell down with the clod of dirt at the edge of the hole above, and it sounded loud in this silent space. After observing the surroundings to make sure that there was no one, he slowly walked to the location of the coffin. I was scared, but I was more surprised.
The owner of this ancestral tomb must have been a very famous person during his lifetime. Because of ordinary rural families, there are a few who will build a tomb after death, and they all ask someone to take a look at feng shui and directly take a coffin, and then bury it in a pit.
I think that this tomb may have been built on such a scale as late as the Qing Dynasty, perhaps earlier.
I'm not an archaeologist, let alone a tomb robber, so I don't really care about the age of the grave. The top priority now is to find Li Hui. There was no trace of the Flying Mirror here, and as I expected, the Flying Mirror entered another grave.
I took my phone and looked around, and found that the ground here was actually paved with a layer of green bricks, and I really didn't find it without careful observation just now.
Although the light of the mobile phone is insufficient, it is scattered, and the illuminated area is not much worse than that of a flashlight. It's just enough in this small space.
The bottom of the burial chamber was very dirty and dusty, and there were even fallen leaves and bones of unknown animals, which must have fallen from the mouth of the cave, and those bones, I think, were picked by the fire fox somewhere else!
Once again, after making sure that there was really no one around, I slowly took it into the coffin. The coffin was a large, bright red color, I don't know what kind of fuel it was made of, it hadn't faded in the slightest after all these years, and the light looked like it had just been dipped in blood.
I don't have a taste in my heart, because I've heard that only people who die will use this bright red coffin, and in ancient times, this layer of paint was made of cinnabar, in order to prevent the person who died too resentful and finally turned into a corpse.
I looked at the coffin with the width of a double bed, and thought to myself that this should be a coffin, and there should be a real coffin inside, otherwise it would be a bit of a show off to use such a large coffin to hold a person.
There is no tone on the side, but there are two wood carvings at the top, a dragon and a phoenix, and the technique is delicate and vivid. I looked around and wondered how I should open it.
The bodies of Han Songxia and Li Quanfeng were found in this coffin, but the strange thing is that this coffin has no traces of being pried, could it be that the coffin was open when Lu Tao came in at that time?
I walked around, and finally came to the conclusion that the lid of this coffin was really closed in the last few days, and there were no long nails, maybe it was really opened when Lu Tao came. The bodies of Han Songxia and Li Quanfeng should have been transported out at the entrance of the cave, and then Zhao Suo and the others helped to cover the lid back by the way.
I think that's how it should be.
Now is not the time to face this pile of 'wood', I think that the size of this coffin lid should weigh more than 200 catties, and it is not impossible to push it myself.
It is important to open the museum to save people, if there is no Li Hui inside, it is better to leave here as soon as possible, then again, this tomb is really not a place for people, it is better to leave early.
Thinking of this, I don't hesitate. Walk to the front of the coffin and push the lid with your shoulder.
The shoulders are the strongest part of the human body, and if I really can't push the slightest, then I have to think of another way.
The sound of the wood rubbing came, and the lid of the coffin was really pushed by me, and I didn't dare to stop, and then I continued to push it outward with both hands.
Finally opened a gap of thirty or forty centimeters. Suddenly, a cool breath blew inside, and every hair on my body was cold, and I quickly took a step back to observe the movement.
Five seconds later, nothing strange happened. I think it was probably the air flow created when the air in the coffin circulated with the outside world.
I clutched my left hand and mustered up the courage to look into the coffin, and the moment the light of the mobile phone shone in, a kind of fear spread directly to my whole body, and I didn't dare to move there for a while.
The guess just now was wrong, this is a coffin, not a Rausch coffin at all. But it wasn't this that frightened me, it was the object in the coffin.
What does a coffin do, that's what holds a corpse. The coffin in the cemetery had to be filled with the corpse, but there was no one in this coffin, and not even human hair could be seen.
There was only a small mirror and a crimson mahogany comb.
And then there's a bunch of women's clothes.
This turned out to be a 'well-dressed mound'.
The clothes are the mound of clothes, that is, for some reason the body of the deceased cannot be found, so the things used by the deceased can only be put into the coffin, which can be regarded as a place to return when summoning the soul of the deceased.
I looked at the little mirror and the red comb, and I was a little scared.
This is the third time I've seen these two objects, two of them in this graveyard and the other under a pillow on my bed.
I don't know why I'm scared for no reason, there are no corpses, no ghosts, no fake Lu Tao here. All that's here is a few clothes and a mirror, a comb. But I really felt the fear creeping in.
I unconsciously clenched my left hand, and it became a habit for me. Every time I was frightened, or when I was about to collapse, I just clenched my left hand, and the pain in my thumb could pull me back to reality.
After stabilizing my mind, I turned my phone and looked at the other side of the coffin.
The inside of the coffin is very large, but because I am so close, the light of the mobile phone is concentrated, so I can only see the whole inside by constantly moving the mobile phone.
It's okay not to watch it, but it's even more frightening to watch. I saw that at the end of the coffin, there was a fiery fox squatting at this time.
The courage just now disappeared without a trace the moment he saw the fox.
The fox's corpse stared at me with squinted eyes, and no matter how I turned my direction, it always felt like it was looking at me. Still, this is a brute, and a dead brute, and even a madman won't leave me idle.
Just as I was about to breathe a sigh of relief, the corners of the fox's mouth suddenly rose to a strange height, and with the squinted eyes, it seemed to be smiling at me.
I reflexively kicked it over, and it was a completely thoughtless action.
With a "bump", I kicked the dried fox corpse to the side, but to my surprise, I kicked a hole under the end of the coffin.
I was also secretly proud of the power of the kick just now, thinking that it was really a god and a ghost who was afraid of the wicked.
Looking towards the entrance of the cave, I thought to myself, what kind of article is this? Could it be that there is a tomb under this tomb?
I crouched down in the coffin and looked at the hole for a moment, wondering if I could go in and take a look.
Suddenly, in this absolutely dark burial chamber, a feeling of being watched came from behind me, a purely instinctive instinct, that something in this burial chamber was staring at me.