Chapter 55: The Seal
Huge lighting fixtures were erected, and excavators destructively dug through the top layer of earth, but because the hole was so deep, the excavation had to continue for some time.
The small remote-controlled robot had already been put into the cave.
The first thing they saw was a large number of corpses, and they had realized that the number of corpses found in the village was vastly different from what they should have, but at the time they had thought that it was because the continuous shelling, missile bombardment, and cloudburst attacks had burned most of the corpses. But now, they finally know the answer.
"At first, it may not have the ability to leave the cave, but instead relies on magic to lure the people of the village into the cave and suck their blood. After killing so many people, it has the ability to move freely. An expert from the Special Cases Administration said with a heartache. Luoyi was too cautious and missed the best opportunity to destroy it. ”
Sun Yang scoffed at such words in his heart, and of course he would not make a mistake in inferring conclusions based on the existing evidence afterwards, and as an afterthought without bearing any responsibility, he could make any conjectures at will and find a basis to prove his inference.
People are often under tremendous pressure to actually solve problems, and venturing into the heart of the problem is certainly one way to go, but there is nothing wrong with choosing a prudent approach. Saying such things when both Meng Miao's father and son had already died made Sun Yang's impression of this so-called expert suddenly become very bad.
The robots slowly moved through the cave under the control of the technicians, and they also saw the corpses of a small number of soldiers, all of which had been turned into dried corpses, just like those killed outside.
"Huh?" An object flashed by on the camera, and the expert immediately asked the technician to return the robot.
It was a dry corpse crushed under the other corpses, but his clothes were very different from the others, and he had begun to decay, but it was still clear that it was not the clothing worn by modern people.
The ground was littered with tools that had been badly corroded.
"This should be a tomb robber in the Qing Dynasty." The expert said after carefully studying the form of clothing and the style of tools. He began to quote scriptures, and Jiang Ying immediately stopped him: "Teacher Yan, our task now is to figure out the details of this tomb, figure out what the true body of this monster is, and then find a solution to it." ”
"Okay, okay." Expert Yan's face was a little uncomfortable, but Jiang Ying's level was very high, and he didn't dare to say anything.
There are many items and Tang Sancai pottery in the tomb that have been seriously damaged, which should be funerary goods, and there are some colorful color blocks on the walls around the tomb, which should be murals describing the life of the tomb owner, but unfortunately, I don't know what the reason is, the murals have been almost completely destroyed.
"Judging from the style of the tomb and the style of the funerary goods, it should be a tomb from the late Tang Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty." Expert Yan kept flipping through the materials he had brought, and then said.
"From the late Tang Dynasty to the early Song Dynasty?"
"The style is closer to the style of the Tang people, and it should be a tomb in the early five dynasties or the late Tang Dynasty. But there is a bit of a problem with the form...... The coffin was too small, and the contents of the burial chamber were too miscellaneous. And ......"
The technicians finally turned the camera to the coffin in the center of the burial chamber, and to their surprise, there were four Tang Sancai Buddha statues standing around the coffin, all facing the coffin, but their heads were rudely broken. An iron chain was drawn from under their base, and the coffin was tied, but by this time the lid of the coffin had been opened, and the chain was scattered all over the ground.
They could see that below the coffin was a lotus platform common in Buddhism, and below that was an intricate array carved into a stone slab. A dried corpse lay there, and from his clothes, it was clear that he was supposed to be a local farmer in Luoyi.
"This is simply ......," Expert Yan called out in surprise.
"It's not a tomb." Sun Yang said. "It's a seal specifically designed to suppress this youkai."
The role of the remote-controlled robot can only end here, Jiang Ying went outside and constantly urged the construction machinery to speed up the progress. Unexpectedly, after digging up the sealed soil on the surface for three or four meters, they unexpectedly dug up a coffin, which should be an ancient tomb of the Ming Dynasty from the perspective of the burial goods. But after Jiang Ying asked people to check that there was no harm, she asked people to use a crane to lift the coffin open, and rudely pushed the ancient tomb away.
After three hours of excavation, a corner of the stone underground structure, which was buried nearly twenty meters deep underground, finally emerged.
Jiang Ying quickly instructed the excavator to carefully excavate the surrounding overburden and then began to excavate it by hand, and soon after, they dug up a stone stele, and expert Yan and several other scholars began to study the contents of it, while more professionals began to clean up the deeply buried building.
Under the bright light, they found that the stone cave was densely covered with patterns and some kind of writing.
"Sanskrit......" Jiang Ying quickly made a judgment. Find someone who understands this right away, preferably one who studies Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty! ”
There is not a single gap in the whole building, but there is a hole in the northeast and due north directions, which is obviously opened by tomb robbers.
The simplest reasoning, in the process of opening these two passages, must have also destroyed the integrity of the seal.
"Tomb robbers who can't kill enough!" Jiang Ying shouted angrily.
For decades, there were no conditions for powerful ghosts and monsters to breed in Great Xia, but they could kill those cultivators and let them hide in the surrounding small countries to survive, but there was no way to destroy those things buried deep in the ground. However, in the past, Buddhism used to target those demons who were responsible for the disaster, and often did not kill them completely, but sealed them under temples and pagodas.
Almost one-third of all cases that have caused heavy casualties in the past decade have originated from the unintentional release of the monster by tomb robbers who broke the seal. In places like Luoyi, the proportion of such cases accounts for almost three-quarters.
Countries around the world are facing the same problem, because of earthquakes, landslides that cause damage to these ancient buildings and release the monsters inside, and so on, but most of the time, demons have resurfaced because of tomb robbers and so-called private archaeologists.
Countries around the world have set severe penalties for tomb robbers, with a minimum sentence of more than 20 years in prison, but countries like Bactria that suffer greatly are often subject to death. But helplessly, the tomb robbers killed one stubble after another, but driven by the rising value of antiques, such accidents are still endless.
A technician cautiously entered the stone chamber through one of the openings, and after checking the formation that had no mechanism or was still in operation, the lighting equipment was sent in, and hundreds of dried corpses were sent out of it, and then, Jiang Ying and the others also entered the tomb.