When we looked back, we saw three people hurrying towards us, and we could vaguely see that they were exactly the same as the clothes of the living corpses on the ground.

It was a middle-aged man who took the lead who spoke first, he walked in front of us, took out a jar and unscrewed it, then poured something that was supposed to be fire oil on the body of the living corpse that was twisting and deformed, and then took out a fire fold from his waist bag, blew it and signaled us to retreat, and then he threw the fire fold on the living corpse and quickly returned to the team.

With a "bang", the living corpse was ignited instantly, and as soon as the living corpse was ignited, it made a crackling and piercing sound, and twisted even more, and slowly stopped writhing as the burning time increased. Looking at the burning corpses, the three men closed their eyes and said, "Our dear teammates, Dean, may the Lord bless you for your ascension to heaven. ”

After doing all this, the leader said to us: "Hello two gentlemen, we are employed by the Asian Society for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, both from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, my name is Ang Lee, and I am the leader of this team, and then pointed to a brown-haired and a flaxen-haired person, this is Green and John, they are both my students and team members, we are both Asian. ”

As I listened to him, I looked at the others, and they all seemed to have been through a fierce fight, and it was evident that Grimm and John's faces were not normal, very pale, and panicked.

As a graduate of the Department of Archaeology, I certainly know that this association is a new non-profit international cultural relics conservation organization established in the past two years.

No wonder their armbands are all A-S, which should be the abbreviation of Asia-Save. The University of Pennsylvania, where the Birth Archaeology Expedition was born, is even more normal, with its renowned Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, which benefits from the contributions of the university's renowned archaeology department.

The museum's collection contains a large number of ancient Egyptian and Middle Eastern artifacts, as well as a considerable number of Chinese artifacts, including the world's largest crystal ball from a Chinese dynasty.

After we introduced each other, Li An and the others found that there were still a large number of ghost blood agate in the pit, and they couldn't help but exclaim: "There are still so many demonic eyeballs here!" ”

The stallion whispered, "Devil's eyeballs? These foreigners are really uneducated! ”

At this time, Green said: "Hell, there are so many, there are not enough explosives, what if another one of those things pops up!" ”

As soon as I heard it, they really caused the explosion, and it turned out that we who were ready to watch the excitement were involved. After we introduced each other, we explained to Ang Lee that we had entered by mistake and wanted them to take us out.

After hearing this, Li An said to us: "Mr. Ouyang, Mr. Dumas, it is impossible to go up the way back, you can only continue to the place where you came from Time is very urgent, this is not the place to talk, let's talk while walking, right?" ”

Of course the stallion and I are happy to do this, after all, we still don't know anything about the situation here, if you want to go out, it is the best choice to follow this American expedition, it is much better than the two of us bumping into it, I originally wanted to see the excitement, but I didn't expect to put ourselves in, and it is a big taboo to go down indiscriminately on a tomb that does not understand the situation, and the "Secret Treasure Tongxuan Sutra" that my grandfather taught me since I was a child says very clearly.

Just as we were about to leave, the pit covered with ghost blood and agate suddenly stirred, "Roar! "There was a roar coming from the pit, and the ghost blood agate was pouring up like a fountain, as if something was about to come out!

"Woohoo!" A few tentacles stretched out from the big pit and beat around, and when Li An and the others saw this, they immediately said, "Stay away from here immediately!" Sure enough, there's that stuff here, too! Let's run with us first, it seems that this is also a dead end, we saw a tomb on the way here, we should be able to go in and take shelter! ”

Safety first, I ran with them as fast as I could.

Just now, because of the suddenness of the incident, the range of movement of the stallion and I was limited to the area around the big pit, and when we followed Li An and them, we found that there was so much more than the eye could see.

Now there is a miner's lamp for each person, and these miner's lamps are LED light sources, which can continue to illuminate for more than 16 hours, and also have a gas alarm function.

I can now see the general topography of this place, it should be a fairly spacious corridor, although many places have been destroyed, but there are still complete carved forms that I have found.

This is a kind of burial structure that began to appear in Guanzhong and the Central Plains in the middle and late Western Han Dynasty, and soon became rapidly popular, and was generally prevalent throughout the country during the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The burial chamber was made of small rectangular bricks, sometimes with colorful frescoes, and was used by both officials and landowners. The size of the tombs varies greatly from person to person, and there are many mounds on the ground.

There are individual large tombs and burial areas, building tombs, setting up ancestral halls, erecting tombstones, and placing three-dimensional stone statues of people and animals.

It's amazing that there is such a large space here, but I don't see a single pillar, which makes me sure that this is an ancient tomb in the late Han Dynasty. Because this arch structure is the biggest feature of the Han tomb, it is mainly through the organic combination of small bricks and bonding materials, the load of the upper part is reasonably decomposed, and it is transmitted downward through the arch foot.

Moreover, the owner of the tomb chose this place as the cemetery, and also relied on the special terrain of the underground of Niuwang Temple to build the tomb in this way, otherwise no matter how skilled the craftsman, he would not be able to build this tomb.

There is no Danying carved tree here, and there is no painting building, only a simple taste that has passed through the years. Ang Lee and the others walked very fast, and in the process of walking, they could faintly hear the rumbling sound from above, and in the curious eyes of me and the stallions, Ang Lee and his teammates' faces changed, and they accelerated their speed, and finally stopped in front of a stone door on the right hand side.

There is a stone carved seal on this stone door, and there is a complete relief pattern around it, although it has spent more than a thousand years in the long river of time, it can still see the whole picture of the carved object on the door: its body is S-shaped curved, its body is like a tiger and leopard, its mouth is large and its teeth are sharp, its jaw is a bunch of tendrils, its body has wings, its head is raised and its eyes are angry, its long tail is mopping the ground, its horns are erect, and its wings are fluttering, as if it is about to fly.

This carving technique is extremely proficient, round carving, flat carving, line carving natural integration, point, line, surface, body combination seamless.

On the seal, it can be vaguely seen that it is written in a small seal: "My sword is an extraordinary sword, the stars are brilliant and refer to Tiangang, the sky is clear, the earth and the earth are spiritual, everyone is immortal, and the ghosts and ghosts are destroyed."

The inscription is: "Taoist Master Treasure." "This is a corpse talisman with a spirit seal, usually just stick one on the corpse's head, but if it is a special case, it will be pasted in some other places.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but be surprised: "This is a corpse suppression talisman, is there really something unclean here?" ”

I saw that Li Ang didn't know why, and was about to explain, when I muttered, the stallion said: "Unclean things, in your native dialect, means Ghost, you understand?" Captain Li, can you tell us more about the situation here, Ouyang and I are directly to the end, you came down from above, what is it like below, you also saw it, but we don't know the situation above, we still need you to tell us about the situation here, OK? ”

Li Ang said to us: "The two, don't hide it, something did happen just now, not only Dean, we also unfortunately lost a few teammates before coming here, just now we were preparing to come down to find the lost teammates, just met you, but I didn't expect Dean to be killed." ”

"Captain Li, what the hell is going on? The current situation is not optimistic, look at the specifications of this ancient tomb, the owner of the tomb must not be simple, but there is no mechanism, there must be a demon when things go wrong, maybe there are some unknown traps waiting for us. Also, how did you, as an American expedition, come here? I think we need to discuss it, or we might as well go our separate ways, and I don't want to be in a strange place with someone of unknown origin. I said.

"Yes, I agree, otherwise I'm going to die here, right?" The stallion chimed in.

Ang Lee stopped the team members who wanted to refute our "disrespectful" attitude towards Captain Lee, and began to explain to us. Because they seemed to be being chased by something, he spoke very quickly, and Chinese was not very fluent, often reversed, so I tried to sort out the order as concisely as possible before writing it.

Ang Lee is a Chinese-American, with a Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Asian archaeology, especially in East Asian and ancient Chinese cultures.

One day he received an email asking him to help lead an expedition to China to assist the local cultural relics department in conducting a survey of monuments, signed by the Asian Society for Cultural Heritage Conservation. Ang Lee was puzzled and asked why the local cultural relics department did not look for a Chinese expedition team, but instead sought the help of an American expedition team.

The other party replied that because of something that happened, the local cultural relics department and the Chinese expedition team had a disagreement, and after the discovery of the stone Buddha on the basement floor of Niuwang Temple (see the previous chapter for details), the temple staff often heard strange noises on the basement floor during night patrols, and they suspected that there was something else underneath, so the local cultural relics department wanted to organize people to excavate.

There was also an expedition team in the city before, and after investigation, the expedition team thought that there could be no more ancient tombs, and they did not hear any sound, and they were afraid of destroying the cultural relics on the basement floor, so they did not approve of the excavation.

The strange thing is that after the inspection team left, the staff heard a strange noise again, and the local cultural relics department was forced to turn to seek help from the Asian Cultural Heritage Conservation Association, but the association has been very short of manpower recently, so it needs to find foreign help.

Ang Lee said that he was reluctant to wade into this troubled water, but he was very impressed by the funding promised by the Asian Society for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, because he was short of funds for an experiment he was undertaking, so he accepted the invitation of the Asian Society for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, and brought several of his graduate students to China to help survey the ancient tombs.

After Li An and his entourage arrived at the southern county seat, they immediately began to inspect the work. I don't know if it's a foreign monk chanting, on the first night of the expedition team to hear a strange sound on the basement floor of Niuwang Temple, as if people are talking softly, Li An suddenly came to strength, immediately tested with an instrument, observed again for a few days, determined a location in the basement, and then began to excavate.

The first floor of Niuwang Temple is an ordinary hall, and the first floor of the basement is the stone Buddha, and now the place where it is being excavated will be called the second floor of the underground.

The excavation work was carried out in an orderly manner, and Ang Lee's expedition team entered the second basement floor smoothly, and found that the second underground floor was so huge, and Ang Lee was also very surprised, and they all thought that it would bring a major archaeological discovery that amazed the world. The first thing they do is to find the source of the strange noise, solve the puzzle and excavate the tomb.

The American expedition team still had two brushes, and after preliminary field investigation, they accurately found the entrance to the second basement floor, and after passing through a spiral corridor, they arrived at a large and vast burial chamber.

Ang Lee instructed the rest of the team to start writing, drawing and taking pictures in an orderly manner. On the first day of the investigation, Li An and they thought that this was a typical cave-shaped Han tomb, and many pottery Ming vessels were found in this tomb, which made Li An and them affirm that this is an ancient tomb in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Although the identity of the owner of the tomb cannot be determined for the time being, it is certain that the people buried here must not be ordinary people, because there are tombstones, ancestral halls, tombs, and shrines in front of them.

Li An and they also consulted some historical materials in Nanbian County, there is no way to know when Niuwang Temple was built, everyone only knows that it has always been there, as if it has been here since there are historical records, who built it, why it was built, I don't know.

Ang Lee's speculation is that this hall is an ancestral hall! The most important thing is that with the ground penetrating imager, they also determined that there are three floors underground! (That's where the stallion and I fell)

When I heard this, my heart turned a monstrous wave, this Li An does have the ability, a foreigner who has not studied Qimen Dunjia can also deduce this, it is really not easy, but it is not complete.

I speculate based on the "Secret Treasure Tongxuan Sutra" that the owner of this tomb has set up a feng shui bureau to make a wordless tombstone! Generous! According to the pattern of the five dragons arch beads here, there is the effect of gathering the aura of heaven and earth, the first layer is the ancestral hall of the Sanqing and the Buddha hall, and the Bodhisattva of the stone Buddha on the ground floor is low-eyebrowed, and King Kong is angry, which is how deviant and bold!

Theoretically, this can use the tomb as a container to hold the aura, and it doesn't leak a point, it stands to reason that this should be the fairy spirit cave, but why is there that monster? It's not scientific!

Continue to return to Ang Lee's story. After clarifying the age of the tomb and obtaining a rich burial goods, the Nanbian County Cultural Relics Administration was very satisfied, and withdrew the relevant personnel who followed the tomb to another place to work, leaving only one or two people on the ground to do support, and the excavation work was entrusted to the American expedition team.

When cleaning up to the last part of the tomb, the expedition team found a dark hole, about the size of two people hugging, this hole was in a corner where the light could not shine, Li An threw a glow stick down, and after a while he heard a very weak sound of landing, and he could see that there was a bottom, which was probably the passage into the third underground floor.

Just when Li An and the others were still observing the entrance of the cave, a terrible "he~~~" came out of the hole. After they heard the sound, one of the students couldn't help but be curious, and directly lay on the entrance of the cave and used a flashlight to shine it in, and with a "bang", between the lightning and flint, several tentacle-like objects suddenly stretched out from the hole, entangled the student and quickly dragged him into the hole, and then returned to calm and silent. All this happened so fast that Ang Lee and the others thought they were dazzled for a while.

Li An and the others were frightened, they slowly approached the entrance of the cave again, and looked inside with a periscope tied to a wolf's tooth flashlight, the cave seemed to be able to absorb the light source, only to see that it was pitch black, and nothing abnormal appeared. They found a little black dog again, slowly put it in, and after a while, pulled it up again, and it was still fine.

Li An thinks that it may be that he has been tired and dizzy in the past few days, and the student was smoked by the turbidity in the underground of the cave, so he fell in, and if he went to the third floor underground, he would probably be able to find the missing student, so they installed the bracket and rope, entered the cave one after another, and continued to set off to the third floor underground.