"What sound?" I turned to look at the coffin, but for a moment, the voice was silenced.

"What?" Hu Yinman swept around with a flashlight at this time, heard my suspicious voice, and glanced back at me.

"Didn't you hear? That sound of fingernails scratching boards? ”

Adu laughed and said Did I see too many tomb robbers and hallucinate when I saw the coffin?

It wasn't a hallucination, I was convinced that the sound was coming from inside the coffin, and although it was only for a moment, I could catch it very clearly, like someone sleeping in bed in the middle of the night, rolling around. But everyone else was focused on other things, and they didn't care about this side, and it was normal not to hear, and pressed their temples, subconsciously staying away from the coffin.

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"There's a hole in front, go over and take a look!" Hu Yinman's flashlight finally shone something in this place.

"Don't open the coffin?" I asked her in surprise.

"I'm not a grave robber, I'm just coming in and looking for something." Hu Yinman looked at me with a straight face, with a sense of justice.

I suddenly noticed that this guy was still here, smiled wryly, and followed.

Not far ahead, a stone bridge was erected over the ditch, and we cautiously walked over to the other side of the ditch, where the hole Hu Yinman pointed to.

It was a square hole with a very regular square, and after a few steps inside, a tomb door appeared in front of us. The tomb gate is composed of two huge stone gates, tall and heavy, with a smooth polished surface, about 3 meters high and nearly 2 meters wide. Adu and I pushed hard, but the stone door didn't move.

Hu Yinman leaned down, turned on the flashlight to look at the bottom of the stone door, and said, "Don't push it, there is a tap stone underneath, and it is estimated that the door is sealed." ”

It's hard to do now, the platform is only so big, there is a coffin and a few ritual vessels in it, and the ditch is also surrounded by a boxy platform, except for this stone gate, there is no way out, I asked how to go?

Hu Yinman got up, squatted on the ground, looked at the door and said, "Throughout the ages, the door of a large tomb has always been the place with the tightest anti-theft measures. Because the angle between the stone pillar and the tomb door is stable, it is difficult for people outside the tomb door to push the tomb door open, no matter how much manpower is used, and it can also be said that the possibility of pushing open is almost zero. ”

She made a gesture as she spoke, one hand under and one hand upright, "Actually, the mechanism of the tap stone is like this. First of all, the upper and lower ends of the door shaft of the tomb door that contradict and cooperate with it should be made into a spherical shape, and a protrusion should be chiseled out of the joint between the two tomb doors. Then, at the point where the ground inside the tomb door and the central axis of the tomb door are opposite, a groove is carved out that is shallow near the door and deep at the other end, and the width of the stone groove is the same size as the tap stone. Before the burial chamber door is closed, the tap stone is placed in the stone trough and one end of it is in contact with the burial chamber door.

When the craftsmen withdraw from the tomb and close the tomb door, the tap stone will slowly fall and lower with the help of its own weight and the power of the stone balls at both ends of the door shaft, until the top is connected to the notch left on the tomb door, and finally the tomb door will be closed seamlessly. This is how such a huge tap stone magically automatically topped into the door of the tomb. ”

"Is there any way to do it?" Adu said: "The door outside can't last long, after all, it will still be opened, we can't walk all the way and be blocked here?" ”

"There should be a way!" Hu Yinman stroked the middle of the two stone doors with his hand, "It stands to reason that there should be a gap in the middle of the stone door, we just need to find a thin wooden plank and insert it through the gap to open the stone slab behind the tomb door." ”

She scanned it, but was surprised to find that there was not a single gap between the two wooden doors, and the space in them was small enough to fit only a fingernail.

"Are you sure it's so thin that you can push a slate?"

"That's not right!" Hu Yinman continued to caress the tomb door, "There is a line here, it is a secret door. ”

I looked by the light, and found that there was indeed a small square secret door in the tomb door.

"It's so small, you have to let the baby get in, right?"

"Idiot, that's what made us reach in and push the tap stone away." Hu Yinman glanced at me and said, "Keep looking, there must be something else on the tomb door." ”

There was a thick layer of ash on this tomb door, I covered my mouth and followed Hu Yinman to clean it up little by little, and after a while, I found that there was no one, but a layer of dust on my hands.

"Here." I'm crying out here, and Adu has found out over there.

I hurried over and saw a strangely shaped notch in the lower right corner of the tomb door.

"Keys!"

"Nonsense! The question is where is the key? Hu Yinman glanced back at the candlestick, "Bronze Ding?" Or a coffin? ”

I heard Hu Yinman say the word coffin, my scalp couldn't stop a tingling, my sixth sense told me that there was definitely something in the coffin, and that sound was definitely not my auditory hallucination!

"Let's go to the ding first, maybe put it in the ding?"

In this way, the three of us, taking the human ladder, looked at the bronze tripods one by one. It's a pity that there is nothing, so there is only one goal next, which is the coffin.

"Open the coffin!" Hu Yinman put the flashlight back in his pocket, found a rubber band to tie his hair, clapped his hands, and said to me: "Are you coming or am I coming?" ”

"Hey, hey, hey!" I reached out to stop them: "Do you want to think about it?" Looking for somewhere else? ”

"What else to consider, this place has been searched, the only possibility is the coffin, you must know that it is a general coffin, the general to the emperor to watch the door, that is the only way through the ages, I said at the beginning that the key is very likely to be hidden in the coffin, you just don't listen, in vain our efforts."

As he spoke, "Squeak...... Squeak" was another sound of fingernails wrapping around hard objects.

This sound is much fresher than the previous one, and it is also much louder and harsher than the previous one.

At this moment, the three people present heard clearly, looked at each other, and were speechless for a while.

Immediately afterwards, the lid of the coffin was suddenly pushed, and a gap was revealed under the reflection of the two flashlights of Adu and me.

I was startled, this is a coffin, the coffin is an outer coffin set outside the coffin, that is, a big coffin outside the coffin. You know, this thing weighs a lot! I don't know what kind of force is in there that can push it away.