Chapter 29: The Tiger Rides the Corpse
After listening to Tianxiang, he didn't dare to ask more, for fear of delaying time and getting lost. Tianxiang walked in the front, I followed him and dragged An Tong, Ma Tianming also supported An Tong in the back, this kid is now like a soft persimmon, he can't stand steadily. Senior brother is at the end of the year, I always have to look back from time to time, I am afraid that Li Ke will climb up and follow us.
Behind the psychological fear, the steps became more urgent, and it was obvious that I was walking much faster than before, but fortunately the hole was high enough, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get up faster in fear. The cave extended a small slope to the upper part of the cave, and a burial chamber came. This is not a tomb, it is not a tomb at all, but a coffin can only be called a tomb.
As soon as I came in to see this scene, it was very familiar, and I immediately thought of the scene I saw in the Wangxiang Corridor. This is the alchemy room on the third floor, but there is no coffin on the painting, but there is a coffin here, and it is placed in the corner.
There is a golden platform in the middle, and there are some utensils on the platform, and there are some copper and iron spoons, tweezers and other things, which should be used by the ancients when they were alchemizing. On the right is a square pond made of stones, on the left is an alchemy furnace that can make a fire, and there are some things piled up next to it, which should be used to make a fire.
Looking at the appearance of the entire tomb, there should be no mechanism, after all, this is not a formal tomb, just an alchemy room, looking into the pool, there is a thick layer of dried blood clots, which have been dried and have many cracks. In the corner outside the pool, there were a lot of bones, and these bones, which looked like children's bones, were very short.
Looking at the bones of these children, I feel a chill in my back, but I am no longer afraid of the bones, maybe I am used to it, I can think of the blood in the pool, it should be these children. In ancient times, many dignitaries and nobles used the blood of boys and girls to alchemize in order to seek immortality.
"Do you use so many children's blood to refine a pill? It's fucking cruel and unethical. I yelled angrily.
"That's not alchemy." Tianxiang replied on the side.
"What the fuck are you doing killing so many kids, it's fun?" I continued.
"It is used to raise corpses, use the blood of boys and girls to make alchemy, give people to eat, and then use the blood of boys and girls to soak, and when people die, they are buried in a bloody sarcophagus, so that they will not die completely, become a cold-blooded bloody corpse, and use the bloody corpse to guard the tomb, which can keep a thousand years of peace."
"Wouldn't a bloody corpse die?" Ma Tianming asked.
"When the blood in the coffin is purified, the bloody corpse will die." Tianxiang replied in the affirmative.
"Damn, you know so much about the Dao, when you encounter the jade sarcophagus, you know the Dao, the blood corpses there can move, why didn't you tell me at that time?" I asked him angrily.
"I'm not sure about that, but when I came here and saw the pool of blood of boys and girls, I dared to conclude."
At this time, the senior brother was looking for other ways around, and An Tong was still there in a daze, still not relieving. Maybe it was a bloody corpse that appeared in the stone at that time, not Li Ke, and now An Tong will not be like this. I looked at the coffin in the corner and asked Tianxiang, "Do you want to open it?" ”
Tianxiang nodded and walked over, Ma Tianming and I also followed, this coffin is very ordinary, some places have been corroded and rotten, and there are no coffin nails, it should not be difficult to open it. Tianxiang didn't go directly to open it in the past, but observed it first, and found nothing, raised his hand and lifted the fast-folding coffin lid, but quickly put it back.
"What's inside?" I asked, confused.
Tianxiang shook his head and said, "Nothing, it's empty." ”
"Come here, there's a way up, don't delay here." The elder brother shouted through a crack in a stone door.
Everyone hurriedly walked towards the senior brother, Ma Tianming and I pulled An Tong and talked to An Tong as we walked, hoping that he would come over quickly, after all, this is the tomb to concentrate. The gap in the stone door is just enough to walk sideways, and there is a corridor inside, and the section in front is still a staircase. This time, everyone was very cautious, for fear of falling into the trap again.
But this time it's smooth, the road is short, and there are no traps. Instead, he came directly to a small burial chamber, which was obviously not a burial, but terrifying.
In the middle there is a stone statue, a hideous-looking evil man, riding on the back of an extremely vicious tiger, and the fierce man below is crawling, and the tiger on the top is sitting on it.
"What does this statue mean?" Ma Tianming asked.
"This is the corpse of a tiger, it seems that this is a mausoleum built by a colleague." The elder brother replied.
"I still don't understand, Uncle Master, what is a Tiger Riding Corpse?"
"The Tiger Cavalry began in the Sui Dynasty, when the Sui Dynasty was in turmoil, fighting for many years, and the food was scarce, so the emperor gathered tomb robbers everywhere. At that time, there was a tomb robbery organization led by the government to help the emperor to raise military salaries, because these tomb robbers helped the emperor solve the problem of money and food, and later the emperor also gave these people officials, and gave the organization a name, it was called: Tiger Regiment. The Tiger Regiment began to dig mounds and rob tombs all over the country, but more and more people were recruited, everyone did not recognize each other, many people stole the tombs, and some tombs were even stolen by several groups of Tiger Regiments, at that time the tomb robbers were very taboo to enter the main tomb without stealing things, so a system was formulated, the tombs stolen by the members of the Tiger Regiment should be marked with the pattern of the tiger riding corpse in front of the main tomb, so that the latecomers should not enter the main tomb again when they see the pattern. Until the late Qing Dynasty, there were still many tomb robbers, in this way, to remind the latecomers. The elder brother explained.
"Then didn't we come in vain, this tomb has been stolen." Ma Tianming said.
"This statue was obviously carved when the tomb was repaired, that is to say, the tomb owner knows the tomb robbers very well, and made an illusion here, but this illusion is made strangely stupid, the carving is so big, who robs the tomb, and has the leisure to carve such a big stone statue here." I continued.
"You're all wrong, it's true that this is a tiger riding a corpse, but it also has a meaning." Tianxiang answered.
"You mean, the Chief's Tomb?" The senior brother asked suspiciously.
"Yes, it seems that it should be, we have experienced so much along the way, many mechanisms, traps are not something we can comprehend, it is completely understandable that this is the mausoleum of the leader of the Tiger Regiment, he has used the mechanisms encountered in the tomb robbery to his own tomb, this stone statue should be a warning to the tomb robbers, there should be a passage behind it that leads to the main tomb." Tianxiang replied.
"So what are you waiting for? Let's hurry. "I seemed very anxious.
Senior Brother grabbed me and said, "If what Tianxiang said is right, then we have to be prepared, there must be a lot of organs in the main tomb, so it's better to be careful." ”
"I suggest it's better not to go in, after all, we are here to find clues from 8 years ago, if you want to go in, you must bring enough equipment and manpower, just a few of us, no equipment at all, I'm afraid we have to go in and out." Tianxiang said very seriously.
Tianxiang rarely speaks so seriously, looking at Tianxiang's appearance, I also realized the danger inside. However, when tomb robbers encounter this kind of tomb, their hands will inevitably itch, and they always want to go in and have a look, and it is better not to take anything.
I went around to the back of the stone carving, and sure enough, as Tianxiang said, there was a passageway, which was very short, only less than 10 meters away, and the searchlight shone in to see the general structure inside. I saw a blood-red coffin inside, very large, larger than the normal three or four coffins together, I was surprised to see it, and hurriedly shouted: "Come and see, this coffin is too good." ”
Suddenly, I felt a pain in the back of my head, my eyes were dark, and I didn't know anything.