As soon as we went down the stairs, less than ten meters away, there was a stone gate blocking the way, and everyone used a wolf's eye flashlight to shine around, Uncle Zhang seemed to have found something and asked us to go over and see.

It is a round relief inlaid on the wall, and the relief is carved with a dragon claw, and the dragon claw is carved with some runes similar to the tattoo on my back, which reminds me of the rune of the scimitar on my waist, and there must be some secret behind this scimitar.

There is a hole hole at the tip of each claw with exactly five, which looks like a mechanism that activates the stone door, and each hole is just the right size for a finger to stick into.

I observed it a little, and after confirming the safety, I asked Uncle Nine to confirm the safety, and then directly rotated it with my hands, and the dragon claw relief was very tight because it had not been moved for too long, and it took me a lot of effort to turn it.

After turning around, it was directly stuck, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't turn, and suddenly the dragon claw relief reversed, but fortunately my hand was withdrawn in time, otherwise the finger would be useless.

After the dragon claw relief turned back to its original appearance, the stone door opened, and the entrance of the steps we had just entered before the stone door was opened, which was indeed airtight, completely protecting the tomb and the outside air.

I saw that there is a huge space in the stone gate, it is a cave, this ancient tomb is built in the cave formed by nature, the cave as a whole is the shape of the "U" word upside down, the cave can be visually measured under the light pillar of the wolf, the radius of the cave body and the bottom of the cave is about four meters, there is a big stone gate eight or nine meters high in front of us in the cave, and there is a sculpture in the middle.

Since I have more research on sculpture, the matter of identifying sculpture naturally fell on me, I used a wolf's eye flashlight to look at the sculpture, the sculpture is about two meters high, the shape is peculiar, like an animal and like a person.

The sculpture has a human face and a beast body, the appearance is abstract, a Chinese face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, the nose is wide and the nose is high, the lips are thick, the teeth are grinning, and the face is fierce and vicious, and the body is like a lion but there is a pair of bat wings, the whole sculpture feels weird and terrifying, and it is extremely ugly.

I observed and said to everyone, "If I guess correctly, this should be the tomb beast, the tomb beast is a kind of tomb burial vessel unique to our Han nationality, the ancients believed that there are demons and monsters in the underworld, in order to suppress these demons and monsters, not to hurt the soul of the dead, they carved out these strange-looking orcs to ward off evil spirits."

There have been many similar tomb beasts unearthed in our country, especially during the Warring States Period, but looking at the materials and techniques of the sculpture in front of you, and the subject matter should be before the Qin Dynasty, or even earlier, it should belong to the works of prehistoric civilization.

Because before the Qin Dynasty, Chinese sculpture basically did not have too many details depicted, and most of them were relatively abstract and freehand themes. ”

When Uncle Nine heard me say this, he nodded and said to me, "If you say so, then that's right, this ancient tomb should be from the ancient period." ”

The fat man was not greedy enough, and he was not satisfied with the idea of hitting the ancient tomb after taking the jade on the neck of the female corpse just now, so he rubbed his hands and said, "Then we can make a fortune this time, this town tomb beast has been more than 5,000 years old, and it must be worth the old money." ”

"No! Fatty, I can tell you, you can't take anything from it. I was very serious and serious, and said in a righteous and awe-inspiring speech, "I can tell you, every stitch and thread in this ancient tomb is a unique product of our China, and it is an undiscovered thing of civilization before the officials, if you take it out and sell it, it will eventually change hands abroad, don't you give your own civilization to others?"

Don't forget, none of the twelve bronze heads in our country have been confiscated until now, and some are in foreign countries, and what is even more sad is that this is obviously our country's own things, but now we have to pay a high price to buy back our own things from foreigners. ”

After listening to my high-pitched and impassioned remarks, the fat man sighed and said helplessly, "Don't worry!" I am fat and know that I am Chinese, and I also know the product of defending my country. The fat man said and stretched his hand to the maximum extent, gesturing, "Besides, this town tomb beast is so big, how the hell can I move it?" Besides, it's been more than 5,000 years old, and as soon as it touches the outside air, it will immediately turn to dust and disappear, so I'll just say it casually. ”

After hearing this, Uncle Nine said, "Let's treat it as archaeology this time, don't have other thoughts, you two take some jade pendants or something, I'll just open my eyes and close my eyes, but this tomb can't be moved."

Alright! Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and find a way to open this stone gate," Uncle Nine said, pointing to the eight or nine meter-high stone gate directly in front of the cave and directly opposite the small stone gate we had just entered.

Everyone approached and took a closer look, the fat man and Uncle Nine were looking for the mechanism to open the door, Uncle Zhang stood alone and didn't know what he was doing, nervous, and at this moment I was not in the mood to care about Uncle Zhang, because all my attention had been completely attracted by the sculpture of the stone gate in front of me.

Under the pillar of light of the wolf's eye, you can clearly see the techniques used in each part of the sculpture, the sculpture is mainly expressed in high relief and bas-relief, which is similar to the sculpture master Rodin's "Gates of Hell" on the whole.

The difference is that the figures on these reliefs are the same as the tomb beasts just now, they look like people and non-humans, all with hideous expressions, the lower body of the body is buried in the door, and the exposed upper body has teeth and claws, as if they want to climb out of the door, one on top of the other, one pulls the other, twisted into a ball, and the two sides of the relief are the door frames, engraved with dense pictographs.

The fat man also saw the pictograms, and said to himself, "What is written here?" Why is it like a ghost drawing a talisman, is it ugly? ”

I disapprecitately said, "What do you know, this is called hieroglyphs, which is the earliest beginning of writing in human history, and the above should be our Chinese oracle bone inscription, which proves that human beings have begun to appear written records five thousand years ago, which is a symbol of civilization." ”

"Cut! It's like you know. Come! You explain what is written on it. The fat man retorted directly.

Seriously, I can't understand what is written on it, but I still push back to the fat man" It says "Tomb robbers must die" understood? ”

The fat man had a disgusted expression on his face and responded, "Ah Wang! Do you think everyone else is stupid? As he spoke, the fat man shook the door frame with the pillar of light of the wolf's eyes, and then said: "There are so many words densely packed on it, how can it be that "the tomb robber will die", these are only five words, you can talk about it, you say it is the same as the truth." ”

When the fat man's pillar of light just shook to the middle of the stone door, I happened to see the sculpture's eyes move, because the pillar of light was passing by, and I just happened to glance at it, so I was not sure if it was a hallucination or if the eyes really moved.

I immediately asked the fat man, "Fat man!" Do you see that? The sculpture's eyes in the middle moved. ”

The fat man said, "I don't see it, don't you say it so badly." ”

Uncle Nine and Uncle Zhang also heard it, and they all came over to ask me if I was sure, but I wasn't sure myself, so I asked Uncle Nine and the three of them to help me illuminate, and then put away my wolf's eye flashlight, put the scimitar on my waist on my mouth, and climbed up the stone gate with my bare hands.

Just when I was close to the sculpture, I saw the sculpture's eyes move again under the pillar of light cast by Uncle Jiu's wolf's eye flashlight, so I sped up and climbed up, and found that there was a bug on the sculpture's eye, and the bug moved because it was frightened by the strong light of the light pillar, so I mistakenly thought that the eyes were moving, but I didn't see what the bug was, because when I came up, the bug crawled directly into a small gap in the sculpture.

I saw that the sculpture was well done, and I was sick again, so I took out the climbing rope from my backpack as a protective point, and then turned on the wolf's eye flashlight to look at the sculpture.

The sculpture is a one-to-one size ratio, the visual sculpture is about one meter eighty or so, is a man, burly, wearing a costume made of animal skin, he is wearing a cloak of hair, although the hair is messy but does not look sloppy at all, but there is a very special temperament, just like a knight, the man is masked, I can't see what it looks like, but the eyes reveal a sharpness, the most special thing is that the thing he holds in his hand attracted my special attention, it is a cylinder, engraved with hieroglyphs, and some ancient runes, This cylinder is the Qiankun cylinder used by Uncle Jiu.

Just when I was distracted, there was a sudden sound of breaking wind over my head, I looked up, only to see a black claw was waving towards me, I was startled, accidentally fell directly from the top of the stone gate of eight or nine meters, and when I was about to fall to the ground, I lost the protection point I had done before, so as to save my life.

Seeing this, the fat man, Uncle Jiu, and Uncle Zhang immediately untied me from the climbing rope and checked everywhere to see if I was injured there. "What's going on? So careless! The fat man asked with concern.

I calmed down, calmed down the frightened mood I had just felt and said, "It's okay! But it looks like a monster has snuck up on me just now. "As soon as I said that, everyone immediately shone the wolf's eye flashlight at the top of the stone gate, but they didn't see anything.

Uncle Nine was the first to speak, "Could it be your hallucination?" This ancient tomb has been closed for many years, and the oxygen is thin and it is easy for people to have all kinds of hallucinations. ”

"I don't know! I'm not sure if it's a hallucination, but it feels very real anyway, so I don't care about it for now. Uncle Nine! I just saw the sculpture in its hand look exactly like your barrel-length. "I told Uncle Nine what I just saw.

After hearing this, Uncle Jiu's face sank, and he was silent as if he was thinking about something, and the fat man and Uncle Zhang also looked curious and incredulous. Uncle Zhang suddenly said, "Forget it, I think we'd better go back!" It's too oozing here, you look at the sculptures here are all blue-faced fangs, strange heads and fierce gods, like devils looking at us. "Uncle Zhang couldn't stand it a little and wanted to go back.

I just wanted to speak, but Uncle Nine opened his mouth first, "I must go in and have a look, if my estimate is correct, this is not the ancient tomb of the temple of "Sanduo", it is estimated that this is the mausoleum of the owner of the Qiankun tube, and my lifelong wish is to find the originator of "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts"

From Uncle Jiu's mouth, we learned that "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts" was not written by Uncle Jiu's grandfather, or it should be said that it was not the work of one person.

"Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts" is a copy of the Book of Mountains and Seas, completed by the hands of many people, according to legend, the first handwriting is the owner of the Qiankun tube, that is, the ancient era of the demon hunter, "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts" has recorded all the folk legends, mythological allusions, all kinds of demons and monsters, witchcraft sacrifices, etc., and a few small chapters are about the geography of mountains and rivers, after Uncle Nine introduced the "Hundred Ghosts and Evil Arts", we looked for the mechanism to open the stone door everywhere in the cave.

When I just observed the sculpture of the tomb beast in the town, I found that its eyes had been looking in one direction, just the same direction as the hand of the demon sculpture on the big stone gate, and after I walked in that direction, I found that it was a nine-square grid, and there were four reliefs engraved on the nine-square grid, and the reliefs were four monsters with animal heads and human bodies, namely dragon heads, snake heads, horse heads, and sheep heads, and these relief plates could be moved.

The fat man also found something opposite me, and shouted, "There is writing on this wall, come and see." "We ran to the front and found that the wall was the same as the one I found, it was also a nine-square grid, and there were four pictographs engraved on the nine-square grid, and Uncle Jiu said that these four characters were 巳, chen, wei, and noon.

The engraved board can also be moved, I immediately informed the ninth uncle of what I had just found, and the ninth uncle observed it in the past and said to everyone, "It seems that the mechanism of opening the stone door is the same as the mechanism on the steps of the temple in front, and it is also arranged with the twelve zodiac signs, and it is only necessary to engrave the relief plate engraved with dragons, snakes, horses, and sheep and the pictographic plates engraved with Si, Chen, Wei, and Wu in the order of the twelve zodiac signs on the nine-square grid, but this is particular about which one to move first and which one to move later." ”

When Uncle Nine said this, he said to me, "Nephew! I have to trouble you to climb up to the big stone door, and use the wolf's eye flashlight to look at the direction of the sculpture on the door, and see if it shines on the relief. ”

When I climbed to the top of the door, I used the wolf's eye flashlight and the Qiankun tube in the sculpture's hand to align, and found that the light pillar of the wolf's eye was just shining on the relief plate of the horse's head.

Uncle Nine told us, "According to the position of the clock, the twelve zodiac signs are sorted according to the position of the clock, and the four songs that came in from the temple in front of us are removed, and now the horse should be in the second row of the nine-square grid from left to right, and the third square." ”

Uncle Zhang was responsible for moving the horse's head to the position of the third grid in the second row of the nine-square grid. After Uncle Zhang moved, Uncle Nine asked the fat man to move the word "noon" on the wall of the lettering to Uncle Zhang's side and move it to the third grid in the second row of the nine-square grid.

Since there was nothing to do with me, I came down and just walked to Uncle Nine, and Uncle Nine asked me to use the wolf's eyes to look in the direction of the tomb beast's eyes, which happened to be on the snake's head.

Uncle Nine asked Uncle Zhang to move the relief plate of the snake's head to the third grid of the first row of the nine-square grid, and the word "巳" on the fat man's side was also the same as the third grid in the first row of the nine-square grid, followed by the dragon's head moved to the middle of the first row of the nine-square grid, and finally the sheep's head was moved to the third grid of the third row of the nine-square grid, and the fat man's side was all arranged according to the ninth uncle's side.

After all the procedures were completed, I only heard the "boom" of the big stone door, and then opened it slowly and bulkyly, when the big stone door opened, immediately a gust of wind mixed with dust formed a skeleton-like shadow, straight towards us, everyone saw this and immediately dodged, but despite this, it still made all of us disgraced.

Immediately after that, Uncle Nine took the lead and was about to go in, but Uncle Zhang immediately stopped him and said, "I beg you not to go in, this is too evil, didn't you see that the dust just now was so weird?" ”

"Don't worry, it's just that the ancient tomb has been closed for too long, and the reaction caused by the methane inside and the air outside, plus the lack of oxygen here causes us to hallucinate, this is just a trick," Uncle Nine said and took the lead and walked in. The fat man and I also followed behind Uncle Jiu, and although Uncle Zhang was a hundred unwilling, he didn't dare to stay alone in this cave, so he was reluctant to follow behind us very reluctantly.

At the door, Uncle Nine asked the fat man to look at his watch, because there is not enough oxygen here, so he can't stay too long, and we can only come out in an hour at most, otherwise it will be like walking on thin ice and it will be difficult to go to the sky.

I don't know if it's my psychological effect or if it's true, because this ancient tomb has been closed deep underground for too long, and there is not enough oxygen, and as soon as I enter the big stone gate, I feel that it is obviously much more difficult to breathe.

Entering through the big stone gate is a long cave passage, which looks like it is naturally formed rather than artificial, and the cave is unusually quiet, and I can almost hear the heartbeat of all of us "banging", mixed with the sound of my own big breathing into my ears, the more I feel that it is more difficult to breathe.

And I always felt as if something was following us not close or far behind me, and I could still hear the sound of footsteps in my ears, intermittently, not sure if it was true, but every time I looked back and saw nothing, back and forth several times along the way.

Uncle Nine saw my abnormality and said, "Nephew! Concentrate, you start to hallucinate. ”

Listening to Uncle Nine say this, I was shocked at first, and then I tried to relax myself, concentrate on not fantasizing, and divert my attention to observe the environment, the cave is about more than ten meters long, due to the urgency of time, we are all three steps and two steps to move forward at full speed, and soon walk the cave road.

As soon as the cave came out, a huge sinkhole appeared in front of me, and the radius of this sinkhole was about dozens of meters and nearly a hundred meters.

I immediately stretched out my hand with a cold firework, let it go gently, and kept staring at the cold firework in free fall, and then silently counted in my heart, the cold firework took about three or four seconds to stop falling, so it can be seen that the depth of this sinkhole should be about 100 meters to 200 meters, this is a standard sinkhole, and the width and depth of the standard sinkhole are between 100 meters and 300 meters.

We used a wolf's eye flashlight to shine around the sinkhole, and found that there was originally a wooden ladder next to the sinkhole, but it has been more than 5,000 years, and the wood has long been unable to carry the weight of an adult, so I checked the fat man and the climbing rope in my backpack.

Because we used too much in front of us, now there are only two climbing ropes 70 meters long, which are less than half the depth of the sinkhole, and it is too dangerous to risk it like this, just when everyone is very distressed and helpless.

Uncle Jiu, who had been squatting on the edge of the sinkhole, suddenly said, "Look! Is it a road? "We looked at the end of the pillar of light cast by the Ninth Uncle's wolf eye, and there was indeed a large crack in the rock layer in the middle of the sinkhole, forming a crack road that spiraled down.

Seeing this, I immediately said to the fat man, "What an endless road, fat man!" Work. ”

With that, the fat man and I immediately tied up the climbing nails, and when everything was ready, I threw the climbing rope, just enough to reach the crack in the sinkhole.

When I went down to the sinkhole, Uncle Nine repeatedly told me and the fat man to be careful and careful, and the fat man and I were not the first time that the big girl went on the sedan chair to do this, so it should be no problem, and before I could answer Uncle Nine, the fat man preemptively said, "Don't worry, you just wait for the good news from me and Ah Wang." The fat man went straight down to the sinkhole, and I followed.