Chapter 13: The Discoveries of the Latecomers
In addition to these, what can also prove that we are latecomers is a few cigarette butts that have been corrupted and blackened by the stone wall.
Actually, I'm not sure if it's a cigarette butt, but I know very well that it's not silt, at least it doesn't happen naturally.
The evidence that someone has been here is obvious, which can confirm from the side that Liu Qingchun has been here, but because decades have passed, it may not be easy to find out the exact evidence.
With a flashlight, I circled around here and groped with my hands for the cold walls, which felt like rocks, and my hands felt a little chilly to the touch.
It's normal for these stones to be soaked in rain all year round and get cold, but when I looked up, the distance between my head and the ground was only three or four meters at most.
Is it possible to dig up rocks so close to the ground? I don't think it's possible, so it's unlikely that the buildings here were naturally formed, and they could have been transported from nearby by the builders and buried here.
In addition to these, I also found several bullet holes, saying that they were bullet holes, which is also my guess, and no one knows what the truth is.
Looking along the stone wall, I can vaguely guess that the first people who came here must have been more numerous than us, and had a lot of firepower, but looking at the extent of the damage, there was also a very knowledgeable person among them who dismantled part of the mechanism ambush here.
From this, it was determined that the entrance was so clean that there was no trace of gunpowder bombardment.
Because of the elapsed time, many details are no longer there, so I can't speculate on the situation at that time.
As I stood in front of the tightly knit stone door, my gaze extended to the stone carvings on the door, which were two half-human, half-fish beasts.
From the strange beasts listed on the door, I can tell that this is a double-opening stone door, and the door lock may have been embedded in the inside of the stone door because it is metal.
The door is hollow inside, the lock is sealed inside, and the statue exposed in the stone becomes a kind of keyhole for opening the door.
In ancient times, the stone doors used to seal tombs were generally heavy weapons, not hundreds of kilograms, and they were embarrassed to be called tombstones.
But those stones, most of which are made of integrated stone mines, cannot be opened and closed by manpower at all, and once sealed, they can only be opened unless the stone door is destroyed.
It is never a reasonable thing to leave a lock on the tomb door, unless the tomb owner has something else to do, hoping that someone will visit him after he dies.
Smart people in the world often do not leave regrets for themselves, and even after death, they do not want to be ended and forgotten by the world.
This is also a continuation of life, just a different way of growth, but such an idea is also dangerous.
Anyone who has been given the means to open the door can enter, either as friends or neighbors, as well as malicious thieves and greedy "hunters"
I don't know who is buried in this tomb, but the stone gate in front of me is a bold move.
Perhaps this is not a tomb, but a deeply buried chamber that contains a person's memories or a pile of scrap paper filled with memories.
Standing in front of the door, I thought for a long time, and did not take my eyes off the statues on the stone door, which stood opposite each other, each holding a chain in their hands, which connected them to each other.
I groped for the door with my hands, but I didn't find any gaps, and I don't know how Liu Qingchun opened the door in the first place.
Along the statue, I then looked up, and under the flashlight, the door ornaments on it were all auspicious clouds, and there were a few bronze nails in the corners of the door.
With a flashlight, I stared at the door nails, which were supposed to be used to imprison the stone door and the door lock, but when I looked around the door nails, I couldn't find any trace of the door shaft.
The stone door is the same as the surrounding material, and after touching it for a long time, I felt a coldness, and immediately withdrew my hand.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came from the entrance of the cave overhead, and someone was calling my name - "Qin Huai!" ”
It sounded like an old bell, and I immediately went back to the mouth of the cave and made a promise to attract their attention.
By this time, the birds had gone, but they were not feeling well, and their clothes were pecked all over their mouths.
The old bell rushed over to me at the sound of the sound, crawled up on the mouth of the cave and looked at me a few times, and then asked me about what I had discovered.
I briefly explained to him, and asked him to tie ropes to the surrounding trees, and come down together, and I have found the entrance to the tomb, but there is a mechanism on the door, and I can't open it at all.
The old bell nodded, and shone a flashlight at my side, and finally focused his eyes on the stone door, and after a long time, he refused to move away.
"I'll come down now!" As he spoke, the old bell turned back to them and said something, and after a while he was down the rope.
Along the rope, they climbed down one by one, and when they got down, they all turned on their flashlights.
It was damp, and Dongfang had just come in with a few spray paints, and he wrapped himself in his torn clothes.
Compared to them, I'm pretty good, at least the clothes on my body are not holes, so I don't feel good.
The East is different, he was forced to choke by the cold after the rain on it, and he couldn't stand it after coming down, and after he moved his body a little, he ate a few more pieces of chocolate to get used to.
With flashlights, we groped around the stone walls to discuss countermeasures, this tomb is very unusual, there must be a mechanism on the stone door to open, but for now, we can't open it.
If we don't enter through the main entrance, we can only learn the method of ancient tomb robbers, bypassing the tomb stone, and hitting the thief hole directly from the side or bottom of the tomb to the main tomb.
But thinking of this method, I tried to use a short knife to make a hard scratch on the surrounding stone wall, and to see the hardness of the stone, what kind of tools should we use to dig through it?
In the end, everyone still focused on the stone gate, and the meaning of the existence of the stone gate actually gave us the only choice.
A message was left about a door and a lock, as if the builders had not given us any other way to enter the tomb, and were confident that there was no other way for us to get past the stone door.
The only entrance is right in front of us, and we can only enter it through it. Maybe Liu Qingchun and they also tried other methods, so they left bullet holes around.
Among us, the one who knew the most about the trick was Dongfang, and now he was shivering, and while he was breathing hot air into his hands, he stared intently at the stone sculpture above.
After looking at it for a while, Dongfang finally spoke, "These two mermaids are the locks in the stone gate, which are the inner and outer layers, which are responsible for opening and closing. ”
"It's an older lock, I've seen it in old books before, and it's as complex as the distribution of bones in the human body."
"You look at the scales on these mermaids, they correspond to human bones," he said, pointing to the head of the stone statue, "his head is delicately contoured, facing us sideways, and the program of bone distribution is the opening code of this giant lock." ”
Speaking of this, Dongfang looked at Liu Ran again, "These important clues, did Liu Qingchun really not leave them?" ”
Liu Ran frowned and thought about it, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he had thought of something, and said in surprise, "It's bone lines!" I remember seeing a drawing! ”
"What?" We asked in unison.
After Liu Ran thought of this possibility, he rubbed his temples again, as if trying to recall the fragments of his memory, and then continued, "That's a way of bone growth, and they are drawn on a picture, I remember seeing it in my study when I was very young. ”
"That's right, that's it, do you remember their patterns?" Dongfang added.
Liu Ran recalled drawing in the air, "Those bone lines are some lines, I remember starting from the ear bone, then down the tooth bone, and then the laryngeal bone-"
According to her description, Dongfang carefully reached out and pressed lightly on the ear bone where the stone statue should be, only to see a stone shard the size of a fingernail falling off.
Dongfang immediately reached out to catch it, and turned around and handed me the flashlight, asking me to help shine on the mermaid on the right who was responsible for opening the stone door.
He freed his own hands, found the mermaid's tooth bone and throat bone one after another, and also took out two stone scales.
Seeing that this method was feasible, Dongfang finally breathed a sigh of relief and continued to look all the way according to the bone pattern that Liu Ran said.
But because of the long time, Liu Ran couldn't fully remember all the clues on the bone pattern, which was a bit troublesome. When she had just finished talking about the eighth bone pattern, she seemed a little hesitant and a little uncertain.
Hearing that Liu Ran was not continuing, Dongyi reached out to take the stone scale, but as soon as he pressed his finger, he suddenly heard Liu Ran say, "No, it's not here!" ”
Her words made us suddenly raise our hearts to our throats, and Dongfang's confiscated hand was stunned in place.
"No, no, no, I'm really not sure, if it's here!" Liu Ran hugged her head, she didn't know what her memory was at that time.
It's been more than ten years, and when she thinks about it now, she has too much uncertainty in her heart, but now that it's started, she can't stop.
Dongfang glanced back at her and said extremely calmly, "Believe in yourself, you are right!" ”
After speaking, Dongfang quickly retracted his fingers, and with his movements, the statue on the stone door suddenly sank into the door, and then the entire stone door made a sound like a beast grinding its teeth.
The sound quickly died down, and Dongfang looked at the statue and explained, "This is a blockade mechanism inside the door, and after entering the wrong command a certain number of times, the mechanism that opened the stone door will be destroyed, and then we will have no chance." ”
"Maybe we didn't prepare enough this time, we should go back and go to Liu's house to find that bone pattern!" I made this suggestion to everyone, but no one answered.
Dongfang shook his head, "There is no time, according to the change in the direction that Kun Tiandou is pointing to, the position of this tomb is like a clock, constantly changing. Coming back after leaving, I can't guarantee that we will find this place accurately. ”
"Here, we can't leave any markers, and the birds outside are not easy to deal with, so there is no way for us to go back this time."
Speaking of this, Dongfang moved her gaze to Liu Ran, but she didn't know how to make everyone believe it, and even she didn't know if what she said next was right.
More than ten years ago, it was already such a distant and vague memory, and no one could be sure whether the vague fragments she thought of were real or some kind of possibility interspersed with the memory.
This is also an adventure, and Dongfang left her with the sentence of believing in herself, and she doesn't know if she is comforting her or comforting herself.
Liu Ran closed his eyes and calmed down, before he finally began to recall the bone pattern again.
We don't know if what she said is right or not, we can only hope for Liu Ran's memory, don't make mistakes again.