Chapter 10: The Underground Palace

The hot, dry feeling in my eyes made me cry a lot. Wait a minute! What's wrong, I rubbed my eyes, why am I hallucinating? I rubbed my eyes again, I couldn't believe it!

Why is there a strange gas floating above everyone's head, and the color and size of the gas on everyone's head are different? But basically there are three colors, red, yellow and blue.

His uncle, what the hell is this anger? I looked at Chen Lao, the top of his head was a cloud of light blue gas, and the coal boss was a rich yellow gas, looking at Chen Jasmine beside me, there was a very large cloud of very rich dark blue gas floating above her head, her qi was several times greater than the qi of anyone present.

Looking at Ah Bing again, there was crimson qi on the top of his head, and there were six young men of the dragon genus left, four of them had red qi floating on the top of their heads, one was yellow, and one was light blue like Chen Lao. What exactly do these qi mean?

I finally looked up at the qi above my head, but found that it was gray, what does gray qi mean? Why is it different from theirs?

Seeing that I was stunned, Chen Lao opened his mouth and asked me, "Xiao Meng, what happened to you just now?" ”

"Oh, it's okay, migraine, old problem." I lied and prevaricated, I wasn't going to tell anyone about the blood-red flowers until I figured it out.

"It's scary, little brother, if you're not feeling well, just go up and wait for us, right?" The coal boss said to me.

Can this guy be so kind? When I got sick just now, you hid farther than anyone else, I think you are afraid that the master will get sick again and drag you down, right?

"It's okay, I have a headache for a few days every month, hehe, it won't hurt anymore after the pain today." What can I say? But maybe it's an opportunity, should I go out and wait for them? It feels quite dangerous inside, but I thought about it, what are you afraid of, people are dying in the sky, and even Sister Chen and a woman haven't flinched, can I retreat?

"It's okay, let's go quickly, try to solve this matter before the sun sets, if it gets dark, I'm afraid something will happen." Chen Lao said.

Chen Lao is the backbone of our line, everything is counting on him, he has spoken, who can object?

Our group continued to advance deeper into the mine, and there were no more thrills along the way, except that the blood wax on the mine wall looked quite oozing, and nothing else happened.

In this way, we walked along the mine road for a while, and there was an open field in front of us that was more than three meters high and twenty meters wide, which should be a working area of the coal mine, and there was a thigh-thick wooden stake every two meters around it as a support point to prevent collapse.

Ah Bing pointed to the uneven mine wall and said, "This is it, the empty coffin that the workers dug up here last time." ”

I looked in the direction that Ah Bing was pointing, there was indeed a half-man-deep pit there, Chen Lao motioned for us not to go over first, took out the compass and walked around the shallow pit, the pointer on the compass reacted, but only slightly turned.

"Sure enough, it's down here." Chen Lao said with a smile.

"Shall we dig then?" The coal boss swallowed his saliva and said.

"Wait, I'll prepare." After Chen Lao finished speaking, he first took out the black dog blood and ink prepared by the coal boss in advance, mixed them according to a certain proportion, and then took out the thin cotton rope and soaked the thin cotton rope in the mixture of black dog blood and ink that he had just stirred.

I secretly walked up to Jasmine Chen and asked curiously, "Sister Chen, what is Old Chen doing?" ”

"Grandpa is making ink fountains, afraid that he will encounter zombies later." Jasmine Chen said lukewarmly.

"What the hell are zombies?" I couldn't help but ask.

Jasmine Chen ignored me this time, I have long been used to her attitude, this girl is sometimes really terrible.

At this time, Chen Lao took out a brush again, dipped in cinnabar and began to draw strange patterns on the yellow paper, I saw this on TV, it should be drawing symbols, feelings This old man can also Taoism?

After Chen Lao finished drawing the talisman, he sent one to each of us, and said, "You should put this yin amulet close to you, if you encounter any danger, immediately put this talisman in your mouth, which can keep you safe for a moment." ”

Then Mr. Chen grabbed each of us, put glutinous rice in his pocket, and said, "Glutinous rice can ward off evil spirits when you carry it on your body." ”

To be honest, Chen Jasmine and I are better, I have seen a lot of ghosts and everything, Ah Bing was a special soldier when he was young, and he seems to be a veteran of the battlefield, and he is not afraid of any ghosts, but the coal boss and the remaining six young men who belong to the dragon, hearing Chen Lao say this, his legs and stomach suddenly became a little weak.

"Chen, Master Chen, there can't really be zombies, right?" The coal boss said tremblingly, and the other six dragon boys had similar reactions to him.

"It's hard to say, but don't worry, where are zombies so easy to touch? The old man has been working for more than 40 years, Mr. Yin and Yang, and he has watched things for people countless times, and he has never met a zombie once, so I am prepared in advance just in case, you don't have to be too nervous. Chen Lao comforted.

Listening to Chen Lao's words, everyone's emotions were slightly soothed, especially the six dragon young men hired by the coal boss, before they came, the coal boss said that he wanted them to help dig a coffin, but he didn't say that he would encounter these ghosts, zombies and the like, but they were all new young people born under the party and national flag, although they were scared but they didn't fully believe what Chen Lao said, in their worldview, there are no cows, ghosts, snakes and gods in the world.

Chen Lao looked down at his watch, it was almost two o'clock, and he wanted to try to dispose of the coffin before the sun set, he didn't want to do it in the dark.

So Chen Lao beckoned, "Do it." ”

As soon as Chen Lao gave the order, Ah Bing and the six dragon boys, carrying pointed shovels and iron pickaxes, dug down where they had found the empty coffin before.

Due to the special geology in this coal mine, most of it is a mixture of coal and rock, which is mixed with a lot of broken soil, which is difficult to dig.

Seven people dug in full swing, covered with sweat, and continued to dig for half an hour, only to dig less than a meter deep, at this time suddenly someone shouted, "I have dug up the green bricks." ”

"How can there be green bricks?" Old Chen said lightly.

A few of us gathered around and peeled off the floating soil above, and sure enough, there was a neat row of green bricks underneath.

"It shouldn't be, how can you dig up green bricks? Is there a big tomb down there? Chen Lao said in surprise.

"Master Chen, why don't we call the police, let's not be regarded as a tomb robber, if this is really a big tomb, then we can't touch it, I used to have a friend who did real estate development, he can often dig out ancient tombs on the construction site, every time he didn't call the police, but secretly dug it himself, took the cultural relics and then resold them, and then was caught by the police, I heard that he was sentenced to ten years for the crime of reselling cultural relics." The coal boss frowned and said.

"It's okay, let's continue digging, finish the business first, let's just don't touch the things inside, and it's not too late for us to call the police when everything is dealt with." Old Chen pondered for a moment and replied.

"Okay, then do it, Ah Bing, you take them to dig again, be careful." The coal boss commanded them.

Ah Bing and the others listened to the words of the coal boss, and they didn't think much about it, anyway, just give the money, and the seven people dug a small hole in the top of the tomb made of blue bricks that could accommodate one person in and out.

I was standing not far from the entrance of the cave, a cold and biting wind blew out of the cave, this feeling is familiar to me, I said in my heart that his uncle, there is really a problem here, every time as long as there is a cold wind to the bones, I am sure to meet unclean things.

Ah Bing was just about to take someone down first but was stopped by Chen Lao, Chen Lao took the compass and shook it on the entrance of the cave, the compass pointer reacted more this time, and it had already begun to circle in the compass.

Chen Lao took out a lighter and lit a rope we brought, and slowly lowered the rope from the hole, and the fire on the rope began to burn slowly upward, and the more it burned, the more it burned.

There is a reason why Chen Lao did this, because the tomb has been sealed for hundreds of years, and the oxygen in it may have long disappeared, and if he rushes down, he is afraid that he will be poisoned by carbon dioxide.

At this time, Chen Lao saw that the rope had been spreading upwards and burning, which proved that this tomb was not completely sealed, and there was air flowing inside, so he was relieved to let Ah Bing and them go down first to open the way.

I went down after Ah Bing and them, followed by Chen Lao and the coal boss, and Chen Jasmine was the last to come down.

To be honest, this is my first time going to the ancient tomb, and I am still a little excited in my heart, and at the same time I am curious to observe the environment of the tomb, and I can see clearly under the illumination of the helmet headlamp.

The whole burial chamber is a square about five or six meters long, about two meters and five meters high, the ground and walls are made of green bricks, and the burial goods are placed around.

These burial goods are covered with a thick layer of dust, but you can also roughly tell what these objects are, most of them are used in the past, bottles and cans, etc., gold, silver, jewelry, or something I haven't seen a piece, I said in my heart that the owner of this tomb must have been a poor ghost before his death, what did you spend so much effort to use these worthless rags to accompany the funeral?

How did I know at the time that even these tattered-looking bottles and cans would become priceless treasures after thousands of years of baptism.

"I tell you, don't touch it, do you hear it?" The coal boss instructed the six dragon boys.

Our group, the six of them were hired by the coal boss, so in the eyes of the coal boss, they are outsiders, so I specially instructed again, afraid that someone would steal these cultural relics with unclean hands and feet, after all, we have to notify the cultural relics department to excavate this ancient tomb, if we find that we have stolen things here, then we will really be treated as tomb robbers!