5. Father's Diary 2

July 11, 1975 Sunny Thursday

After a full night's rest, the next day's physical strength has recovered a lot, and because of the proficiency in the use of the Luoyang shovel, our speed is much faster. By noon, he had finally dug up something hard, and Professor Li's face turned a little pale with excitement. "Comrades, you must be careful not to break the coffin below," he said, making holes with his own hands. I saw his hands shaking and his eyes shining with joy because of the excitement.

"How do I feel like it's getting colder and colder in this hole?" The thin monkey shuddered as he spoke. I also felt a chill rush from under my feet. "Normally, the temperature rises as the depth of the soil increases, but this hole is a bit strange, the further down it goes, the colder it gets." I pouted at the skinny monkey. "Don't really let us run into a thousand-year-old demon." Liu had already said with his hands folded and bowed to the west in a decent manner.

After we closed the hole and made a hole, a complete tomb was finally presented to us. About the width of a basketball court, the tomb is surrounded by brightly colored thangkas. We couldn't understand it, but Professor Li stroked them gently, like a newborn baby, and his eyes were full of fanatical passion. "It's completely comparable to the murals of Dunhuang." The mouth kept babbling. "What a big coffin." The thin monkey said as he walked towards the coffin.

The whole coffin is not like the coffin we usually see, but in the shape of "10,000". In the center is a picture of a sacred bird with a large peng spreading its wings. The form of the mythical bird is realistic and lifelike. The whole coffin is made of golden silk nanmu. "Here, everyone, bring the masks, let's open the coffin," Professor Li said, asking his assistants to distribute the masks to everyone present.

"I'll shout one or two, and everyone will push together," Professor Li said loudly at the top of his voice. "Uh-huh," everyone nodded in agreement. The thin monkey and I were on the right side, and Professor Li stood in the center to command, and everyone worked together, and the coffin lid slowly pushed down. A strange fragrance filled the nose with the opening of the lid of the coffin. "Why is it so fragrant" Liu Ji curiously picked up the lid of the coffin and looked down, and suddenly a spider-like animal grabbed Liu Ji's face, and Liu Ji's crazy shout was heard instantly.

Everyone didn't react for a while, and they all looked at each other. By the time he reacted, Liu Ji's entire face was already dripping with blood. It was an animal that resembled a spider, but it was big enough for a cat. "What the hell is this monster," the thin monkey screamed, wielding the Luoyang shovel constantly. "Get together, don't scatter, don't get nervous," the squad leader yelled at us.

Everyone calmed down when they heard the squad leader's voice. "No matter what it is, whether it's a demon or a ghost, I'll kill you today," the squad leader gritted his teeth. The monster was still holding Liu Ji's face, and its slender tentacles tightened Liu Ji's neck. "Pull its tentacles, don't use a shovel, it will hurt your own people", the squad leader pulled out a military knife from his waist at this time, and with a wave of his backhand, he slashed at the monster's head.

The monster seemed to sense the danger, and quickly jumped away from Liu Ji's face and rushed under the coffin. Liu Ji's whole face was already miserable, and his breathing had weakened, "This monster is poisonous, everyone be careful" The squad leader looked around vigilantly with a military knife. "Liu is no longer breathing," the thin monkey's scream separated everyone from the tension just now, and they all walked towards Liu Ji. "Liu has been, Liu has been..." The squad leader shook vigorously, but the miracle did not come, and Liu had closed his eyes forever. Hurry up and carry Liu Ji on your back and leave this place," the squad leader ordered without delay. I had Liu on my back, I don't know whether it was tears or sweat, my eyes were blurry, my dear comrades-in-arms died in front of me, and I couldn't do anything.

"Everyone, look under the coffin," Professor Li's trembling voice was full of horror. I saw more than a dozen monsters wriggling from under the coffin. "Run, don't get touched, it's poisonous," the squad leader shouted. I looked back and saw that the squad leader was fighting to the death against those monsters. The hand holding the saber waved from side to side. The monsters whose tentacles had been cut off let out a terrible "clang" sound. "What else are you looking at, run, can't you hear the order?" The squad leader yelled at me. "Squad leader, I'll help you."

I said and put down Liu Ji and walked to him with the only Luoyang shovel in my hand. Other comrades-in-arms also entered the combat mode. "Lao Tzu is saying it again, hurry up and withdraw for me, don't you understand what I'm saying now?" The squad leader pushed us without saying anything. I carried Liu on my back and walked towards the entrance of the cave. Hurry up and get a weapon to save the squad leader, this belief made my pace much faster, hurriedly put down Liu has taken the gun into the tomb, the squad leader has been hanging by a thread, is falling to the ground, the whole face is already blue, the mouth is full of blood. "Squad leader, how are you?"

I almost cried out. "Avenge Liu Ji and the squad leader, kill these monsters," the thin monkey said, sweeping away the monsters one by one. The others were similarly filled with hatred, and in an instant, the entire chamber was filled with the strong smell of gunpowder. Those monsters were like ants under their feet under modern weapons, and they were killed in an instant.

The thin monkey was shouting in the corner, "Squad leader, squad leader, wake up", but the squad leader was only half-closed, his mouth was weakly open, and he stretched out his hand as if grasping something, and we walked to him one after another, and there was a cry in the tomb, and the man was not without tears, but not to the sad place. "Take me home" was the last words of the squad leader, and the squad leader, who was only 19 years old, left his teammates and left this world.

Professor Li held on to the frame and kept wiping away tears, "It's me, it's me, if I don't insist, they won't die." He thumped himself in the chest as he spoke. Professor, don't blame yourself, no one expected this ending. I reassured. Now, Lao Tzu wants to see what kind of thing is buried here, raising such monsters to guard the tomb. The thin monkey said and walked towards the coffin, and everyone stood up and walked towards the coffin.

I had never seen such an incredible picture in my life, and these things were completely beyond all I had learned, only to see a girl lying straight in the coffin with a face of serenity, without a trace of decay, and a strange fragrance lingering in the coffin. The girl looks like she is about twenty years old, her whole facial features are quiet and beautiful, and even her hair is so beautiful. Everyone was stunned by the scene in front of them, they all opened their mouths, and some kept wiping their eyes, thinking that they had seen something wrong, Professor Li picked up the funeral goods in the coffin and watched them carefully one by one.

"Is this a dwarf?" Wang Xiao said timidly. "It doesn't look like it, it doesn't look like it's innate." "Look at the funeral goods from the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty." Professor Li said unhurriedly. "For more than 100 years, how can you do it without decomposing the corpse?" I said impatiently. "I heard that there is a Dzogchen method in Tibetan Buddhism, when the practitioner dies, the whole body will shrink to a few centimeters, and some only hair and nails remain, Dzogchen is the highest method of Tantra, which can get rid of the suffering of the cycle of birth and death, and reach the state of Nirvana and Buddhahood, which is "consummation". It seems that this is a Dzogchen practitioner. But it is unheard of to be able to maintain the complexion of life for a hundred years. Professor Li fell into deep thought.

Me and the rest of my teammates left the burial chamber, and our mission was complete. In this mission, the two comrades-in-arms left us forever. In what mysterious events can not make us forget the grief. That night we left Dhoni overnight.

Bai Jing's breathing gradually fluctuated with those words, she couldn't wait to turn down, and the content behind it was all kinds of training, and about a month later, she mentioned it sporadically, saying that the ancient tomb was sealed according to the requirements of future generations. With just a brushstroke, Bai Jing squatted down again and looked for other notebooks from the cardboard box, but after looking for it several times, there were only books left.

"Wait a minute, the army just has a lot of things," Uncle Wang said straight and walked in. "It's okay, I don't have anything important" "I booked you the Gezong Hotel next to our cavalry company, why don't you go and rest and have dinner together in the evening?" "Okay, Uncle Wang, then I'll go and rest first." Bai Jing said goodbye and went back to the hotel.