Chapter 80: The Hanging Coffin

"You were the one who walked in the front just now, and we were all behind you", Demoman Leather also felt that Yan Wenbin was incredible, he was the one who led the team down, and now Lao Hu and Heizi are indeed still on it, how did Yan Wenbin say that Lao Hu and Heizi took him down.

"Send the injured people out first, and the sunspots who can't move will also be taken away with Lao Hu", Yan Wenbin has a bad premonition, maybe they will die here, but even if they die below, Yan Wenbin can't take Lao Hu with them.

Gang Wenbin carried compressed biscuits that could last for ten days, as well as some necessary tools for digging, and even explosives.

It can be said that Yan Wenbin has prepared a lot of things, and he followed behind Lao Hu and Heizi, but now the demoman said that Lao Hu and Heizi are still on top and are in a state of unconsciousness, so these two people are definitely not Lao Hu and Heizi.

Leng Bingyan followed Yan Wenbin's instructions and asked her subordinates to send people out, and when she came down and saw the fear on Yan Wenbin's face, she was nervously on the sidelines.

Although half of the people left this time, there were more than a dozen people who accompanied Yan Wenbin all the time, and they were prepared, and until the end, they would not let Yan Wenbin take risks alone.

But after an unprecedented aroma wafted by, many of the people who had just come down fell to the ground.

It's not good, this fragrance is poisonous", the place where Yan Wenbin stood was more sheltered, and after seeing that some people had fallen, he immediately put on the gas mask mask.

"Send them all out, be sure to stay away from the location of the Nine Dragon Pit, it is possible that this place is going to collapse", Yan Wenbin saw that yellow muddy water had appeared on the stone wall, and knew that the river had begun to swell, or it would not be long before it would flood here.

After the rest of the people carried out those who fell to the ground, there were only Gang Wenbin, Gang Wen's uncle Bin, Shen Yinyang, Leng Bingyan and Demoman left in the dungeon.

And Yan Wenbin looked at the two Xiangtian tombs in the direction of the gate of life and death, and really didn't know what to do, but he hinted that he must be calm, otherwise he would not be able to do anything.

And there are two things in front of me who don't know what they are still in the dark, and the things that can confuse Yan Wenbin are definitely not ordinary, maybe the next time they appear, they will be able to bring fatal damage to themselves.

The connotation of this kind of tomb originates from the ancient belief concept of the Yi people, "a star in the sky, a person on the ground, and a dead soul returns to the star".

"Yi Xiangtian tomb with the original stone to build a circle, the diameter is between 12 meters and 36 meters, the largest tomb circumference of more than 270 meters, the stone is built in the middle of the circle with a mound of sealed soil, the high mound of sealed mound can reach more than 10 meters, quite a bit of royal style, the top of the mound of sealing a pit is left in the middle, used to face a star in the sky."

The tomb reflects the ancient star worship customs of the Yi nationality to the stars, and combines the star worship with the five elements, the four elephants, the nine palaces, and the eight trigram principles, and divides the starry sky into the five elements of "dragon, tiger, finch, turtle and snake, and the middle palace", and the nine palace areas of "eight directions and the center".

The Xiang Tian Tomb of the Yi people uses the physical remains as the carrier, organically integrating the two cultures of burial and cremation, thus confirming the history of the Yi ancestors who represent these two cultures recorded in the literature.

"Go up to the heavenly grave, throw away the mound in the middle, and you can go inside

Yan Wenbin looked at the more and more yellow muddy water flowing down the stone wall, and looked at the two Xiangtian tombs, but he didn't know which one to go to first.

The Demoman took out a coin and smiled, "Since you don't know what to choose, then leave it to fate, if it's head, you will go to the door of life, and if it is the tail, you will go to the door of death."

But when the coin was thrown, it didn't fall, and it was sucked up by the stone on the top, and there was still thunder and lightning outside, and the violent thunder made the whole dungeon shake, and the deeper it was from the ground, the more powerful the shaking below became.

"I don't go to hell, whoever goes to hell is here, can I still go back? Why did An Zusheng know that sentence, and what did that sentence mean", Yan Wenbin said that he didn't understand the meaning of this sentence now, but Yan Wenbin finally chose to go to the Xiangtian Tomb where the door of death was located.

Gang Wenbin walked in the front, reached the top of the Xiangtian Tomb, began to dig the earth with a shovel, and soon saw the vault made of stones.

After Gang Wenbin broke away the stones, he used a lighter to light the rags torn from his clothes and threw them underneath.

This is to test whether there is oxygen or flammable gas below, if there is oxygen they can go down, if there is a gas that can burn below, if they go down and make a spark, then they will be unlucky.

Sure enough, as soon as the strip of cloth touched the ground, it immediately turned into a sea of fire below, and the rapidly expanding air rushed out the stones around the cave entrance.

"It's good that I didn't go down, otherwise they would all have been burned to death", Yan Wenbin took out the beef jerky and chewed the beef jerky while observing the situation below, keeping himself calm.

But Yan Wenbin heard that there was already a sound of collapse above, and the mouth that Tong Wenbin had just come down was blocked by the collapse of the boulder, and a large amount of water poured down from above, and in just a few seconds, the ground had been flooded.

"There must be a drain here, find the drain first, or in less than half an hour, this place will be flooded, and we won't have time to leave if we want to."

Yan Wenbin knew that it must be the person above who had touched the Bagua Meridian Copper Core Lock, and the self-destruction mechanism of the underground palace had been opened, otherwise it had not collapsed for hundreds or even thousands of years, but at this time, it was going to collapse, and it would have been if someone had not touched the mechanism.

"We have enough explosives to blow up layer by layer, and the diving equipment is ready," said the Demoman, looking at Gang Wenbin, and although they were ready to die this time, everyone wanted to get out alive if they had the slightest chance.

Watching the sea of fire below slowly disappear, Yan Wenbin tied a rope to the pillar, put on the descender, and prepared to go down.

But just down to a distance of ten meters, the underground palace suddenly shook, the ground below all collapsed, fell into the deep pit, the new pit was dark below, nothing could be seen, they could only hang in the air, what happened just now, everyone didn't know.

They hung in mid-air, and could hardly find a place to stand, because they had been in a deep well, and below it was a black hole that never ended, and when they reached the end of the rope, they still did not reach the ground, and they did not know how deep this deep well was, as if it were endless.

All the people are hanging in the air, if it is not for the fastener of the descender but the rope is stuck, the people who come down will not be able to support it for a long time to fall, but people have been hanging in the air for a long time, and their hands and feet will be numb sooner or later, and Yan Wenbin knows that now they must find a way to break through.

"What the hell is this place, how can it be bottomless", said the Demoman, looking at Gang Wenbin.

He had already dropped a headlamp, but it was so deep and deep that in the end, even the headlamp was swallowed up by the darkness below, making people feel as if they were dying in the sky above a bottomless pit.

"Fortunately, the ground has collapsed just now, otherwise if we untie the rope, everyone will all fall, and they will definitely be killed, I see that there are at least a few hundred meters below, it seems to be a bottomless pit, and there is absolutely no chance of survival if you fall" Seeing this scene, Yan Wenbin felt that their lives were really big.

"I don't know exactly what's going on up there, but you can see that there are artificially carved eaves on the stone walls, and the pillars, windows, and fences are all there, as if the outer wall of an ancient building is right in front of them, with a total of nine floors."

"It seems that this coffin is hidden in this place, there is nothing to go down, push me over, I see if I can find a place to stay, if we continue to hang in mid-air like this, we won't be able to hold it for long", Yan Wenbin is the first time to meet such a tomb.

After some effort, the few of them finally stood on the fence protruding from the stone wall, but the fence was so narrow that only one person could barely step on it.

Everything they saw, such as doors, windows, guardrails, etc., was carved against the vertical stone wall, and the protruding distance was only about 30 centimeters, which was used for decoration, and Gang Wenbin believed that there was nothing behind the stone wall.

Fortunately, we can find a place to put our feet down, otherwise we can only climb up, Gang Wenbin said tiredly and panting.

It is true that people are very uncomfortable hanging in the air, especially to grasp the rope with both hands, and now his arms are shaking because of excessive force, soreness and softness, if he finds the fulcrum, Gang Wenbin doesn't know how long he can hold on to the air.

"What the hell is this place, is the coffin really hidden here", the Demoman glanced around, it was obviously a deep pit, bare all around, who would put their coffin on the hanging stone wall.

"I believe that the coffin is here, because in the Guizhou Political Division, there is a burial method called hanging coffin burial, that is, after death, the body of the relatives is put into the coffin, and the wooden coffin is suspended on the wooden stake inserted into the cliff, or placed in the cliff cave, in the cliff crevice, or half-suspended outside the cliff."

"The hanging coffin is often steep and high-risk, down the deep stream, there is no way to climb, its custom is popular in the southern minority areas, the higher the suspension, the more respect for the deceased", although Yan Wenbin has not been to the tomb, but he has also seen the hanging coffin before, and it is not strange to see it over time.

"There is indeed such a record, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Anhui and other provinces of ethnic minorities to implement this funeral ceremony, and the hanging coffin burial coexisting with the cliff paintings, but around the pit carved such exquisite architectural shapes, it is really eye-opening" Leng Bingyan saw it when she was a child, so it is not surprising, but everything here subverts her concept of hanging coffins.

"But you see it's all bare stone walls, and there's no coffin there, and there's no hole in it and a stake in it, how can the coffin be placed on it, and it's not still hanging with a rope, and you see there's no sign of digging on the top, and there's no ring, how can there be a coffin?" said the Demoman, who didn't believe there was a coffin.

"Don't be in time, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, the more you are in this state, we have to learn to calm down, the coffin is here, the cold and glamorous beauty, you say that the higher the suspension, the more respect for the deceased, isn't it, if you follow what you said, the first layer of our heads with eaves is the highest, and there may be a coffin there."

Although Yan Wenbin doesn't know whose coffin will appear here, but he has come here, even if he encounters great difficulties, he must find a way to overcome them, they have escaped death several times, if they are not firm at this time, then those who died tragically on it, their death will be worthless.

"We all saw the coffin from there," the Demoman did not believe that there was a coffin, as it was impossible for the previous people to do the same way they did, and to hang the coffin in the air.

Now we can, why can't the predecessors, we can't see the coffin on the stone wall, that's because the position of the coffin is carved in the stone wall, and then blocked with a stone slab after it is done, plus this architectural decoration, the coffin will not be visible.

But if you pry open the bunker on the stone wall, you will definitely be able to find the coffin I want to find, and Gang Wenbin knows that the demoman is impatient, and like Lao Hu, he has almost recovered his strength and is ready to do it.