Chapter 84: The Pyramid of Human Bones (2)
It was all a whole rectangular strip of gold bricks, each weighing five kilograms, engraved with the mark of the double-headed eagle of the Russian Empire. If there are twenty gold bricks in the chest, then there will be a hundred kilograms of gold. Lao Jin is a master of gold nuggets, and he can distinguish the authenticity and fineness of gold, which is a good thing to replace as if it were fake. Everyone counted the number of these iron boxes together, densely distributed in the underground palace, and recorded on the wall by Qin Beiyang.
Half an hour later, 5,000 tin boxes were calculated, 100 kilograms per box x 5,000 boxes = 500 tons of gold.
Lao Jin knelt down and kowtowed in amazement, which was a number that no gold digger could dig up in his lifetime.
The last gold reserves of Tsarist Russia, evacuated from Siberia to Central Asia, are buried in the tomb of Pzhvarsky under Lake Issyk-Kul – no, this is an unknown tomb, dated to about 700 years ago.
Seven hundred years ago, the tomb beast actually died on the gold of the twentieth century.
In the East China Sea Dharma Mountain, the one million taels of silver indemnity entrenched by the Tomb Beast of the Evil Dragon Town is the same as the silver - the Tomb Beasts know the value of gold and silver, and they will possess and preserve these wealth for the sake of the afterlife of the tomb owner, and even the resentment of the resurgence of the East Mountain.
Lao Jin revealed his true colors as a tomb robber and worked hard to clean up hundreds of iron boxes.
Finally, the huge stone coffin was revealed.
Lao Jin was the first to touch the epitaph, and sure enough, it was written in Chinese, and two seal characters "Da Liao" appeared at the beginning.
Distant? Khitan?
"Isn't the Liao Kingdom in the Northeast?"
Qin Beiyang naturally remembered the tomb of the Khitan Yue princess in Inner Mongolia.
The little king ran over excitedly, but tripped over the remains of the tomb beast in Arslan, and a nine-colored glass fireball flew over, illuminating the broken bronze shell of the tomb beast, with dense strange words. I found it just now, but I didn't have time to look closely, these characters look like Chinese characters, but in fact, I can't understand any of them, but according to the pattern of square characters, the strokes are even more complex than Chinese characters......
"Khitan?" Xiaojun Wang patted his head, "That's right, this is a dead text, and it hasn't been completely cracked yet." ”
Qin Beiyang continued to interpret the epitaph, and finally made a discovery-Yelu Dashi.
"Xiliao?"
"The Liao State was destroyed by the Jin, and the Khitans migrated to Central Asia to establish the powerful Western Liao Empire. The owner of the mausoleum under Issyk-Kul Lake is the founding emperor of the Western Liao Empire, the "Juer Khan" of the "Hara Khitan" in the Western Regions Historical Records, and the generation of Tianjiao before Genghis Khan - Yelu Dashi. ”
"This makes sense, the capital of the Western Liao Empire, Hu Si Ear, is at the site of the Tang Dynasty's Broken Leaf City, near Issyk-Kul Lake."
Yelu Dashi was originally a member of the Liao clan, the eighth grandson of Yelu Abaoji, proficient in Chinese, the only Khitan jinshi in Liao, and once served as the Hanlin Chengzhi. The alliance between the Song and Jin Seas, the elite Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty attacked Yanjing, Yelu Dashi held the city, and the Jedi counterattacked. The Liao State was destroyed by the Jin State, he led the remnants to flee to the desert, conquered the ethnic groups of Central Asia, continued the Khitan lineage, passed on the Han civilization, known as the Western Liao Empire in history, passed the country for 90 years, and was usurped by the Naiban prince, and finally died in Genghis Khan.
Xiaojunwang patted the Chinese characters and cloud dragon patterns on the epitaph: "No wonder, everything here is more like the tomb of the emperor of the Central Plains with a high Han culture, but the tomb beast in Arslan Town has the characteristics of nomads and the Western Regions." ”
Qin Beiyang said loudly: "We are not tomb robbers, no one is allowed to touch this coffin, let Yelu Dashi continue to rest in peace!" ”
"No!"
More than 30 years ago, the great Russian explorer Pzhvarsky came here, thinking that he had discovered that there was a hero's tomb here, and decided to bury himself here. He built an underground palace for himself above the tomb of Yelu Dashi, and it does not matter where the bones are buried, the important thing is to open his coffin and reach the underground palace of Yelu Dashi. Explorers really think differently than ordinary people. It is estimated that Admiral Kolchak also knew this secret, so he would hand over 500 tons of gold to the Tomb Beast for safekeeping. ”
Lao Jin became less and less like a gold digger, and said contemplatively: "The road that Pzhevalsky has traveled is no less than that of the conquerors in history." ”
Then he lifted the miner's pickaxe and smashed it against the lid of Jerod's coffin.
"Don't!"
Qin Beiyang screamed loudly and followed the White Russian expedition all the way, firstly to prolong his life in cancer, and secondly, to stop the tomb robbery, no matter who the owner of the tomb was.
It's late.
The iron pickaxe arced through the air and slammed into the sarcophagus, instantly shattering the snowflake stone. Qin Beiyang was afraid that this reckless tomb robbery would trigger some kind of murder mechanism in the underground palace?
But they saw inside the coffin, in a pile of broken marble, there were no bodies or mummies, only a fully folded suit of armor, a rotten bow and arrow, and a golden saddle.
Old Jin put down his pickaxe and jumped into the coffin, not even finding any broken bones. This set of armor, bow and arrows, and saddle was clearly used by Jerodashi during his lifetime, and accompanied him in building an empire.
"Clothed mounds?"
In many tombs, because the bones of the tomb owner are missing, such as being trapped behind enemy lines, the body can only be replaced by the clothes and even hair that were commonly used during his lifetime, and this is still the case today.
Perhaps, the real remains of Yelu Dashi have long been shattered in the clouds of history.
The little king looked at the five thousand iron chests that covered the dungeon and said, "It's time to think about how to get the gold out." ”
Qin Beiyang ran to the door of the tomb, and it was quiet outside. He carefully took the top door stone, and as soon as he opened the gap in the door, a dense black shadow rushed in front of him, which was the skeleton warrior of the pyramid of human bones, each wielding a weapon and wearing a thick composite chain mail, about to rush into the last dungeon of the tomb owner.
Fortunately, the town's tomb beast Nine Colors spat out two glassy fireballs and burned the last two skeletons. Qin Beiyang hurriedly closed the door of the tomb and re-plugged the top door stone, when he heard a noisy knocking sound. The bones of those dead people, who will not sleep in a short period of time, have already aimed at Qin Beiyang's group.
Lao Jin hid behind the door with an iron pickaxe and said, "This door must not be opened, judging by my experience in digging graves, they will easily kill us." ”
The little king fell helplessly on the iron box, holding the five hundred tons of gold that was so rich that he could rival the country, and looked at the top of the darkness.
Suddenly, Wolfna laughed loudly, and there was some debauchery in the laughter: "Hahaha...... For these 500 tons of gold, General Kolchak lost his life in Siberia, and how many White Russian men became unjustly killed? The guys who wanted to be the owners of the gold ended up being slaves to the gold. ”
"And the three hundred Chinese soldiers today."
"There is an ancient Greek myth that the king has the superpower of turning stones into gold, when he turns everything around him into gold, but he can no longer eat and drink, as long as his lips touch it, it will turn into gold, and finally even his own daughter will become gold."
The baroness had also read some books, and Qin Beiyang nodded and said, "And we are these fools who are lying on gold and about to starve to death." ”
Lao Jin took out the last piece of water and distributed it to every living person in the dungeon. Qin Beiyang gave his share of water to Wolfna, according to European etiquette, this is called lady first.
I don't know how much time has passed? Did the first snow fall at the foot of the snowy mountains? Qin Beiyang was lying hungry, Jiu Se was lying beside him vigilantly, and a burst of singing sounded in his ears......