Chapter Twenty-Four: The Black Iron Coffin
I screamed, and one rolled up, and when I looked closely, I saw a little gorilla-like thing with black hair, lying on the ground, holding my candle, looking curiously. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
What is this thing, could it be that the burial boy in the tomb has undergone a mutation, and the long hair has become a zongzi?
The ancients believed that when a person dies, he is the same as when he is alive, and if he is alive, he will still maintain such a status after death, and the powerful families will use the children of poor families for burial.
Boys and girls are servants and servants who go to another world to continue to serve the owner of the tomb.
The boys and girls in the ancient tombs usually take mercury orally when they are alive, and dig holes on the top of their heads, backs, soles of feet, etc., fill them with mercury, and then wipe them all over their bodies with mercury powder after death, just like making specimens, after 10,000 years, the skin and flesh do not rot.
Because it is necessary to use living people, the blood of the dead cannot be poured into it, and the methods are extremely cruel, so this technique is never used on any tomb owner.
Therefore, in the general coffin, it is often the corpse of the tomb owner that is rotten, and these Dantong are still left, and even lifelike, but I have never heard of this boy becoming a zongzi, not only me, but even Lao Zhao affirmed that the corpse filled with mercury will not be transformed.
Of course, this matter is not very absolute, although Lao Zhao is knowledgeable, but a little bit of a blow-and-whistle, what he said is not necessarily accurate, I remember that when I was in the tomb of King Zhou, Lao Zhao also told me that the dry corpse will not be corpsed, and there is a big bronze mirror shining on it.
But then the corpse with the bronze sword fell silently on my shoulder, scaring me half to death.
I stared at the thing tightly, and slowly pulled out the seven-star sword that was tied to my body, and the thing also raised its head, staring at me curiously with round eyes.
The more I looked at it, the more strange I felt, this thing did not look like a zongzi, but more like a living thing, because most of the zongzi's eyes were rotten, and the location could only be judged by smell and the sense of anger.
Could it be that this is really a monkey who accidentally climbed into this tomb? If so, maybe I could let it lead me to a way.
I whistled and hooked my hand at the thing, which is a gesture I usually use when teasing Xiao Zhang's dog, and I don't know if it will work for monkeys or something.
The thing stared at me for a moment, threw the candle on the floor, and crawled towards me on all fours.
I immediately lit another candle, and the hand holding the Seven Star Sword did not relax.
It crawls very slowly, and it is also very unstable, like a toddler, the light of the candle is not too bright, but I can still see clearly after adapting to the dark environment, I tentatively reached out and touched it, the skin under the fur is warm, I can still vaguely feel the ups and downs of its body when it breathes, it seems that this is really a monkey.
Strangely, this monkey is not any species I have ever seen, and we don't have a monkey in this part of Ruzhou, could it have come out of a zoo or circus?
Anyway, it was the only living creature here besides me, and it was docile, and I reached out and scratched its belly, and it rolled on the ground and sprinkled its petiteness.
It was this roll that something fell out of its fur, and when I picked it up, it was half a jade plaque, exactly the same one I had touched from the skeleton in the tomb, and I found that it had a lot of rags hanging from it, which must have been accidentally bumped into in the dark.
I shook the jade plaque in front of it, and then with great effort, gesturing and imitating, it seemed to understand what I meant, let out a cry, and crawled in one direction.
I put away the seven-star sword and followed with a candle.
Gradually, I noticed that the ground under my feet had changed, from stone to white jade, and there were many strange lines on this white jade, I don't know if it was naturally formed or artificially carved.
I stopped again, for in front of me stood a huge coffin.
According to the carving on the coffin, I saw at a glance that this should be a military coffin, the difference is that this coffin is tightly wrapped by a huge vine, I took out my mobile phone and followed the vine to shine up, only to find that behind the coffin, the place I could reach was densely packed with such vines, intertwined.
Through the gap in the vines I saw some steps carved from white jade, and I reached out and touched the vines, which were already dry.
I followed the monkey around, and found six coffins, which seemed to be arranged in a formation, and I noticed that one of them had a vacancy, and that there were square marks on the ground, and it was evident that there had been a coffin in the past.
What I pondered was that these coffins were all military coffins, all of which were before the Qin and Han dynasties, mostly during the Warring States Period, and they were all firmly bound by vines.
But I didn't pay much attention to this, because I was now all about finding a way out, and the monkey took me around, and finally found a relatively large gap and got in.
This gap is just the right size for a monkey, too small for me, I thought about it, simply used the seven-star sword as an axe, and tentatively chopped it, the vine has been dry for many years, and the inside has rotted.
In this way, I swung my sword to open the way, and at the same time lit the candle and climbed the steps, but fortunately, the jade platform was not too high, and after almost an hour, I successfully reached the top.
There were few vines on the jade platform, so I turned on my flashlight and shone it, and found that there were five dried corpses sitting cross-legged in a circle, and I was standing in the gap in this circle.
These dried corpses are well preserved, all of them have black robes, and they still carry swords behind their backs, so they should also be from the Taiyi Sect.
Their heads were all up, and I followed their line of sight to look up, and I saw that above the dome of the palace, there hung a huge sphere of vines, which were so tightly wrapped that I could not see what was in them.
For some reason, I suddenly felt that the scene was very familiar, and I had a sense of déjà vu.
Maybe this jade platform reminds me of the tomb of King Zhou.
I was thinking that the monkey had climbed up the vine little by little, when I heard a series of small, very unlucky sounds of "click".
I said "no" to myself, turned around and ran, but my feet slipped and I fell backwards and hit the dense vines.
I held on to the vines around me, and stood up cautiously, this thing is too brittle, and it will break if it is not good, I don't want to just stand up, I heard a deafening loud noise, the jade platform under my feet shook violently, I didn't stand firm, fell again, and my ears buzzed.
This time really shocked me, it took me a long time to come to my senses, covered my nose with my hands, blocked the dust in the air, climbed up again, looked intently, only to see that the thing hanging on the dome had fallen, it is certain that this thing is very heavy, the vibration just now was caused by it, and even the hard jade platform was smashed out of cracks.
The five dried corpses had been shattered to pieces, and I shone a flashlight on it and pulled out a roll of jade slips from the pile of bones.
Then, I slowly walked towards the behemoth in the center of the stone platform.
I turned off my flashlight, lit a candle, and cleared the remaining vines from the thing with my hands, revealing the black metallic stuff inside.
I took two steps back, turned on my flashlight, and gasped.
In this moment, all my memories were stimulated, and I quickly revived, and I finally found the source of this mysterious familiarity.
At that time, on the mural in the tomb of King Zhou, I saw that the people of the Taiyi Sect used the Heavenly Absolute Vine to lock the Witch King in a black iron coffin, and used it to suppress it with the Zhiyang leyline.
And this thing in front of me is the black iron coffin!