Chapter 6: The Mysterious Sarcophagus
"Maybe the exit is in the back, someone can come in, of course there is a place to go out, and this place is very hidden, not something that can be found in a short time", Yan Wenbin actually knew it for a long time, but people are always like this, if they don't toss it, how can they give up.
"Xiaogang, what now"?
"Lao Hu, are you afraid of death"?
"Afraid, who is not afraid?" When Lao Hu heard this, he didn't answer through his brain, which is the most instinctive reaction of people.
"I'm afraid, I'm afraid, but now we have no choice, there is a way in heaven that we can't go, and there is no door to hell We fall into, if I'm afraid to solve the problem, then I'd rather choose to be afraid", if there is a rope now, Yan Wenbin will also choose to leave.
"Do what you say"? Lao Hu doesn't look at thieves and thieves, but talking and doing things is a spit and a nail, and he will never be ambiguous, which is why Yan Wenbin can be friends with Lao Hu.
"Go forward", after saying that, Yan Wenbin went straight forward, and they walked up the stairs and walked directly to the high platform in the center of the square.
There was nothing to attract attention on the high platform, but when they walked up to the high platform, they found that there was a tomb beast carved in stone all around the high platform, and the eyes were covered with red cloth.
Yan Wenbin knew that since there was a coffin here, the tomb beast had its own reason for its existence, but now he couldn't guess why there were four tomb beasts in front of this high platform.
"Xiaogang, there is nothing in this place", I went straight to it, opened the coffin, took the contents of the coffin, I promised to get the contents of the coffin, I immediately turned around and left, and never dragged the mud and water.
"No, I think the most interesting place in the whole front hall is here, didn't I say that? The tomb beast is a common monster in ancient tombs in China; There are animal faces, human faces, and antlers, which are a kind of dark weapons set up to suppress ghosts and protect the souls of the dead from intrusion
But the four tomb beasts here are completely different concepts, if this is really the main room, it should be placed on the stone pier on the high platform, if there is a coffin on the stone pier, the tomb beast that appears here is not set up to suppress ghosts and protect the souls of the dead from invading, but to calm the people inside the coffin.
But this stone pier is the place where the coffin is placed, and the coffin is there, but not on the stone pier, but inside or below the stone pier, you see that this coffin is less than 30 years old, and it looks like someone else put it later.
"How do you know, Xiao Gang, have you ever been to the tomb before, otherwise how would you know these things", Lao Hu looked at Yan Wenbin with admiring eyes and said, from the beginning to the present, Lao Hu regards Yan Wenbin as the god in his heart, which is sacrosanct, so whatever Yan Wenbin says, Lao Hu will not refute.
First of all, there are several doubts here, the first is that the eyes of the tomb beast are deliberately covered with things, the core of the tomb beast is its eyes, the reason why you are afraid of the tomb beast, you don't dare to look directly at its eyes.
The second is that the direction of the tomb beast is wrong, if the tomb beast is really out of the evil spirit in the underground palace, the face will generally face the opposite side of the coffin, that is, with its back to the coffin, and the face facing outward.
But the tomb beasts here are all facing the coffin, obviously to suppress the contents of the coffin, so that the things inside are afraid, so that they dare not make mistakes.
But you see that the four tomb beasts here face inward, and their eyes are glaring at the stone pier, obviously not to protect the evil spirits inside the coffin, but to play the role of guarding, the purpose is to guard the contents of the coffin.
Thirdly, there are the footprints of the Guardian here, but we are not hindered by any mechanism at the moment, and it is so smooth that I can't believe how I did it.
The reason why the Guardians are not here is because they know that there is something in the coffin that makes them afraid, and ordinary mechanisms can only block a few people, and if hundreds of people are present at the same time, the mechanism is also limited, and they cannot kill all the intruders.
Therefore, the guardian changed the original layout of this place, making people think that the stone pier was the place where the coffin of the tomb owner was stored, and found a way to open the stone pier, and then release the sealed evil spirit, so that more unexpected things appeared, and solved all the people at once, so that the real tomb owner could sleep here for a long time.
"Xiao Gang, I can't find a reason to refute what you said, just do what you say"?
"What I want to say is to open the stone pier and release the sealed evil spirit, this fake coffin has no value, but there are good things in it, otherwise how to confuse others."
"You're crazy, you said that there are evil spirits in the coffin, why do you still do this, are you really not afraid of death" Lao Hu originally thought that Yan Wenbin said this to let him leave, but he didn't expect Yan Wenbin to be uneasy and play his cards.
"But the mechanism to open the next round of passage is on the stone pier, and they all say that the more dangerous the place, the safer it is, die first and then live, don't worry about it, I told you to stop, don't do it, and even keep that action don't move, otherwise while acting, I won't know what to do when I shoot" Yan Wenbin doesn't believe Lao Hu, Lao Hu is naturally lazy, and many times he will make mistakes.
But you can't make a mistake here, a mistake means danger and death, Yan Wenbin and Lao Hu are grasshoppers on the same line, no one can escape if they make a mistake, and both of them will die here.
"Are you sure". Although Lao Hu is reluctant to refute, he can't make a decision easily when it comes to life and death, because no one will take their precious lives at the most cost, because no one can afford to gamble.
"Sure, we're not the guardians, so we can't find a way out, only by cracking this bureau, can we find a way to the next place, there will always be a way out, the people who built this place will definitely leave a way out for themselves, it depends on whether we can find it, and if we can't find it, we will come back and find a way out."
"How"?
"Twist the four tomb beasts, if my guess is correct, the original designer did not want the evil spirits in the stone pier to appear, but also hoped that when this place was discovered by outsiders, the coffin would be opened to let the evil spirits appear and kill everyone present."
Without saying a word, Lao Hu took a step forward, grabbed one of the tomb beasts, and didn't move for a long time.
"Xiao Gang, why don't you move", Lao Hu said with a depressed face, as if Yan Wenbin deliberately made him ugly, Lao Hu can't do anything else, but when it comes to doing manual work, no one can compare, and there is no feeling when it comes to carrying a three-hundred-pound medium, nothing is there, but there is endless strength.
"On the contrary, try it in another direction" Yan Wenbin rolled his eyes, this old Hu is really stupid enough, but he is so stupid and cute, so stupid that he is too embarrassed to scold him loudly.
Sure enough, when Lao Hu turned the tomb beast in another direction, Lao Hu believed that the tomb beast could be turned, and after Lao Hu put the back of the four tomb beasts against the stone pier in a row, he and Yan Wenbin hurriedly left the high platform, returned to the place where they fell, and hid behind the phoenix bird bronze statue to watch the show.
"Xiao Gang, why is there no movement", Lao Hu hid by the bronze lamp of the phoenix bird, and saw that nothing had happened around the stone pier, and it had been almost half an hour, and Lao Hu had long been unable to hold his breath.
"No, turning the tomb beast around, it should trigger the mechanism, could it be that I thought wrong", Yan Wenbin suddenly patted his head and found that he was really wrong.
According to reason, the Tomb Beast turned around, and it was indeed to give the things inside the coffin a chance, but Yan Wenbin ignored one point, that is, it was not only the Tomb Beast that guarded the coffin, there were other things in the coffin.
This is also in line with the fact that after the people who come in beat the coffin, they completely destroy the things that can suppress the evil spirits in the coffin, and when people are fighting for the treasure with red eyes, and they are unguarded around them, the tomb beast will turn around unconsciously, thus triggering the mechanism, so that everyone who is grabbing the treasure will die under the mechanism unconsciously, so as to achieve the effect of making people die.
"According to what you mean, now we have to go and put the face of the tomb beast on the stone pier again, and the coffin will appear from the stone pier", although Lao Hu is stupid, he still has this common sense.
Carry the coffin over first, take out the things inside, and run quickly to see that the situation is not right, don't die because of greed, Yan Wenbin was ready to do it after speaking, but Lao Hu had already pushed the coffin away, the coffin was empty, there was nothing in it, and the two looked at each other with a confused face.
"Xiao Gang, I swear to the world by my damn way, I didn't move the things in the coffin, you saw it just now, from the discovery to the coffin to the present, I don't know if I touched it, and the things inside were not taken by me" Lao Hu suddenly looked at Yan Wenbin with a serious face and said, the expression was as true as it was, in fact, Lao Hu was serious.
"There's nothing in there, we've been tricked, you swear there's no going to be anything in there, push it over, touch the mechanism, we'll hide inside, it's better than being a hedgehog", Yan Wenbin looked at Lao Hu and said.
"Wait, there's text in it, don't move it yet, I'll take a look." Yan Wenbin found that there were words in the coffin.
Love is always accompanied by conspiracy, but I only want to accompany you to old age,
Even if I am used, even if I am deceived, I just want to love you, in this life, holding the hand of the son, growing old with the son, the water comes, I am waiting for you in the water, the fire comes, I am waiting for you in the ashes, in front of the family power, my love, ethereal like a bubble, nothing is concentric, the fireworks are unbearable, you are finally shattered in my lost memory, the dream returns to the place, and this life owes you happiness, please wait for me to repay in the next life, if I still remember you in the next life, I will marry you, the man who appeared in my dream Yan Wenbin.
"Damn, whoever wrote a love letter to you is fucking written in the coffin, Xiaogang, is the person in the coffin a woman, specially prepared for you, even your name is written, I think this coffin is also prepared for you", hahahaha, Lao Hu laughed heartlessly on the side.
This is what is prepared for you, now it's okay, you have saved the coffin by practicing it, Yan Wenbin looked at Hu Haitian with an aggrieved face, it seems that someone has long known that he is coming, and Yan Wenbin doesn't know if this is true or a coincidence.
Sure enough, when Lao Hu twisted his face to the outside again, a sarcophagus slowly emerged from the center of the stone pier, and the faces of the four tomb beasts were facing outward at the same time.
Yan Wenbin knew that he would not touch the mechanism now, and if he touched the mechanism, he would also open the coffin at the moment, and if he designed the mechanism here, he would do the same.
They walked up to the stone platform, and the sarcophagus appeared on the stone pier in front of them, and the whole sarcophagus was built according to the form of the tomb beast, and the sarcophagus was laid down after completion, and the tomb beast was shaped like a human-faced beast.
The face of the tomb beast has the characteristics of the Hu people, the mouth is wide, there are fat ears on both sides of the head, the eyes are protruding, the tiger is eyeing, the expression is majestic, the face is hideous and fierce, there is a curved single horn on the top of the head, each shoulder has a wing, the cloven hooves, the head of the back is connected with the neck, the head of the beast is carved into a deformed dragon face, the giant eyes are round, the long tongue is to the neck, a pair of giant antlers are inserted, and the four antlers are born horizontally, and the image is extremely strange and vivid.
After the sarcophagus is painted with black lacquer, it is painted with red, yellow and gold animal face patterns and cloud patterns. The base is embossed with some geometric squares and decorated with diamond patterns, cloud patterns, and animal face patterns, all of which constitute a mysterious atmosphere.
"Xiao Gang, what is this, is it a tomb beast or a coffin, my God, it is the first time I have seen such a beautiful stone carving, but unfortunately it is made of stone, if it is made of metal, it will definitely be able to exchange a lot of oceans" Lao Hu Cai said with a fan, as long as it is valuable, Lao Hu will not even let go of the coffin.
"It's a coffin, but it's made according to the tomb beast", Yan Wenbin saw this sarcophagus, and was so frightened that his back broke out in a cold sweat, because after he saw this coffin, he always had a bad premonition, but why he felt like this, even he didn't know what the reason was.
This is called Fang Xiang style, and "Zhou Li" records that there is a kind of monster called the elephant, which eats the liver and brain of the dead; There is also a kind of mythical beast called Fang Xiang, which has the ability to expel dragons and elephants, so the family often orders Fang Xiang's to stand on the side of the tomb to prevent monsters from invading.
It is also said that this kind of Fang Xiang's family has four gold-colored clothes, covered with bear skin, wearing red clothes and black pants, riding a horseyango, and hitting the four corners with Ge in the tomb to drive Fang Liang and the elephant.
Fang Liang and the dragon elephant are also demons that endanger the dead, and people use the power of Fang Xiang's clan to drive them away, and the custom of using tomb beasts is derived from the legend of "Fang Xiang's clan".
"Old Hu, do you look at the eyes of the Sarcophagus Town Tomb Beast are red? If it's red, we'll leave immediately with the things around us, remember not to open the museum, if the eyes aren't red, I'm telling you what to do" Yan Wenbin had a hunch, the people in this coffin are not good people.
Xiao Gang, don't fool me, although I don't know what this thing is for, but I can feel that the eyes of this thing can hook the soul", Lao Hu was willing to move forward when he heard this, but he slowly retreated, eager to leave on the spot.
"If I go to see the hooked soul, you can't escape, if you go, I can still save you", Yan Wenbin kicked Hu Haitian to the sarcophagus after speaking.
"Oh, Xiaogang, why don't you say it in advance, the eyes are not red, maybe they were put here before they had time to color after carving", Lao Hu lay on the coffin and screamed, scolding Yan Wenbin for not being a good thing, and if he was in danger, he would be taken to fill the pit.
"Here, don't scream, get up quickly", Yan Wenbin took out a shiny thing and handed it to Lao Hu.
"I'm going to call, what are you giving me", Lao Hu originally wanted to sprinkle it, but when he saw what Yan Wenbin gave, he immediately sat up and grabbed it, and looked at the thing in his hand with love, this is the pearl of the night, Lao Hu knows.
"Night Pearl, you gave me both", the expression on Lao Hu's face immediately changed, and the smile made Yan Wenbin feel sweet in his heart.
"Actually, I'm lying to you, this is not a night pearl, but a fluorite, the difference between the two is that the latter needs to be illuminated with light for a period of time to shine, while the former is a gemstone with its own luminescence."
"As long as it's valuable, I don't care if it's a night pearl or a fluorite", Lao Hu put the two beads in his pocket before jumping off the coffin.
"Next time you have a chance, kick me up, remember to give me two", Lao Hu Meizi said, completely treating Yan Wenbin as a cash cow and a living god of wealth.
"Now open the coffin, we have been down for a while, if the bandits behind are really chasing after them, they will definitely find here, let's hurry up and take the contents of the coffin, go out to change some big yellow croaker and go away, hide for a while and come back" Yan Wenbin felt more and more flustered, maybe his premonition was true.
"Okay, I think so too", Lao Hu almost jumped up when he heard that the coffin was going to be opened, if the eyes of the tomb beast were red just now, he would stop him if he wanted to leave, how could the big yellow croaker in his hand give up easily.
There are four metal pull rings on the sides of the sarcophagus and on the coffin cover, but the pull rings on the coffin are already stained with iron, while the coffin cover is new.
"Lao Hu, tie the belt to the pull ring of the coffin, go back and hide under the Phoenix Bird Bronze Venerable, and the trigger mechanism will not hurt us."
Knowing that, Hu Haitian said according to Yan Wenbin, and after getting it done, he hurried back to the phoenix bird bronze venerable.
They pulled the sarcophagus, and suddenly the part of the entire high platform began to sink slowly, but the four tomb beasts slowly stretched out, and when the tomb beast stretched out, there was also a huge stone on the top of the sarcophagus that slowly moved down, and there were four iron chains around the stone slowly falling down.
"Lao Hu don't move", suddenly there were darts and crossbows shot out of the surrounding stone walls, some hit each other, and some shot directly to the opposite stone wall, and the entire front hall tinkled for almost ten minutes before stopping.
"Okay, we can go out", Yan Wenbin couldn't hear the sound before he walked out from under the phoenix bird bronze venerable.