227 Mawangdui Tomb
"You're saying those two monsters killed these people for food? Still having a candlelit dinner? ”
"Maybe it's more than two?"
"What do you mean?"
Xie Yunhao was confused by Zhao Xinghua's words.
"The bandit leader said before he died that he knew the entrance to an underground world. At that time, I entered a state of unity between man and sword, and I couldn't control the sword intent, and now I think about it, I really should have left him, whether it's true or not, and let him finish talking at that time. ”
"You mean you just saw two monsters from underground? How can it be? ”
Xie Yunhao's expression was as if he had seen a monster, and Zhao Xinghua's words in front of him were even stranger than the two white-haired gorillas just now.
"How can there be creatures living underground! Those two gorillas may have evolved from the zoo. It's not a rat for something that big, so what do they eat underground? ”
"Let's look first, I bet this entrance should be near the left, maybe we can find it by following the bloodstains, and those two monsters also escaped from there."
"If you hear it, immediately follow the bloodstains to find it, pay attention to safety, report it immediately if you find it, and no one is allowed to enter the hole!"
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the five soldiers of the third squad who came to examine the corpse first to find a wide crack in the wall of a reserved place for a rolling ladder.
"How did you find out?"
Zhao Xinghua was very interested in these people, these five people were really talented, and he was very impressed by the report he had just made at the scene of death. This time I was the first to find this place.
"I thought that if there was an entrance to the underground, there must be no standing water there, so I narrowed down the search and only searched a little higher up in the station. Considering that this can become a secret, not everyone knows about it, it should be in a remote location, plus monsters can rush around, and the humans here have not been able to escape, this location must be nearby. ”
"There are brains! Lao Xie, you really have a lot of talents. ”
"Who knows where this rift will lead?"
Xie Yunhao asked the people behind him.
"I know some legends about this."
The tall Tang Haoyu said hesitantly.
"Let's talk about it, is there really an underground world?"
"It all started in 1971......
At the end of 1971, Tanzhou City, the capital of Xiaoxiang Province, in response to the mobilization of "war readiness", the 366 Hospital of the Provincial Military Region near Mawangdui decided to build an underground hospital on two small hillsides of Mawangdui. Seeing the mysterious blue flame that had been lit made the workers feel frightened and puzzled, and refused to continue the construction. The people from the Xiaoxiang Provincial Museum, who were the first to receive the news, immediately realized that they had encountered an ancient tomb, which was called the Huokeng Tomb in the Hunan dialect, and was reported to the central government accordingly.
On January 14, 1972, the State Council issued a document approving the excavation. The archaeological team officially carried out a scientific excavation of the mysterious tomb, showing that this tomb is 20 meters long from north to south and 17 meters long from east to west, which belongs to a large ancient tomb.
When the excavation work began on January 16, most of the museum's staff were sent to the countryside to participate in labor, and only about 30 people could ensure their work every day, some of whom were tomb robbers who were once active in the Changsha area. In the case of limited funds (only 6,000 yuan was allocated for the first phase of the excavation), students from many universities and middle schools in Tanzhou City, as well as local garrisons, also participated as free labor to transport the earthwork during the excavation.
The first is to clear the mound, i.e. the mound of sealed earth above the tomb. The first thing to discover was a circular robbery hole, which was inserted straight towards the bottom of the tomb, and extended 17 meters downward, and the robbery hole disappeared. A slimy mud known as white plaster mud was dug up, and it was often used to protect tombs. At the excavation site, workers suddenly dug up green leaves in the white plaster mud, and in the subsequent excavations, people found emerald green branches and yellow-green bamboo baskets in the fill.
Below this appears a square tomb, 20 meters deep, gradually shrinking from top to bottom, and at the bottom of the tomb is placed a coffin chamber more than 4 meters long and 1.5 meters high, and the unveiling of the coffin is an underground treasure trove: in the center is a huge coffin, and the side compartments on all four sides are filled with treasures.
Just when the archaeological team extracted the cultural relics, a lacquerware was found in the side box on the east side, and after opening the lid, it was found that there was water underneath, and a layer of lotus root was floated, which was more than 2,000 years old.
However, due to an operation error, the fibers of the lotus root disintegrated due to vibration during the extraction of the utensils. However, this phenomenon just proves that there are no major earthquakes in the history of Tanzhou, and this conclusion supports a number of military research units to settle in Tanzhou.
The female corpse of the No. 1 Han Tomb unearthed here, more than 2,100 years old, has a complete body, the whole body is moist, some joints can be moved, and the soft connective tissue is still elastic, almost similar to a fresh corpse. It is different from mummies, and it is also different from corpses and peat tanned corpses, and it is a special type of corpse. When the woman's body was unearthed, it was soaked in about 80 litres of colorless transparent coffin liquid (which soon turned brownish-yellow). Whether or not this liquid is a preservative or not, the true origin of these liquids is still a mystery.
In September 1973, the State Council approved the continued excavation of Mawangdui Tomb No. 2 and Tomb No. 3. On November 18, the excavation of tombs No. 2 and No. 3 officially began. On December 14, the No. 3 tomb was first cleaned up, and a large number of silk books unearthed are the most valuable cultural relics in this tomb. The three layers of coffins in this tomb have been cracked, and the clothes covering the corpse are badly decayed, and only the skeleton remains of the corpse. On January 13, 1974, the excavation of Tomb No. 2 was completed. The excavation results show that the No. 2 tomb has been stolen in the Tang Dynasty, and then after many theft and excavation, the damage is extremely serious, the coffin collapsed, a large number of cultural relics were destroyed, and the remains of the tomb owner were scattered. In this case, archaeologists still screened out three seals from the soil of the tomb, which were engraved with the words "Changsha Prime Minister", "Seal of the Marquis" and "Licang". The jade seal is engraved with the word "Li Cang" in the Yin script of the seal body, which is the private seal of Li Cang; The other 2 are bronze official seals, gilded and turtle buttons, which are respectively engraved with the seal Yin text of "Hou Hou's Seal" and "Changsha Prime Minister".
A large number of silk books and two volumes of medical tablets were found in Tomb No. 3, both of which were found in a rectangular lacquer box in the east box of Tomb No. 3. Most of the silk books are written on a whole piece of silk 48 cm wide, folded into a rectangular shape; A small part is written on a half-width silk 24 cm wide and rolled up with wooden strips. When unearthed, they have been seriously damaged, and after sorting, there are 28 pieces and more than 12 words. Among them, in addition to the "Zhou Yi", "Lao Tzu", and "Warring States Zongheng Family Letter", most of them are ancient books, which involve various fields such as ideology, military, astronomy, medicine, and geography, in addition to two ancient maps.
"The problem lies in these two ancient maps, one of which can be seen as a map of Jingchu, southern Hunan, western Hunan and thousands of square kilometers in the Yangtze River basin, and many cities, ancient official roads, and mountains are consistent with today's information and locations. The other map is no longer a flat map, after expert analysis more like a three-dimensional figure, there are many strange beasts in the picture, as well as apes in costumes, etc., some scholars believe that this is a catalogue describing the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", the scene drawn should be the content of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Great Wilderness East Classic". As soon as I saw the two white-haired creatures in suit armor exposed in the flashbang, I suddenly thought of the rubbing of the map I had seen in the research room. ”
Although Tang Haoyu looks exceptionally strong and is a strength-type evolutionary, he was a real researcher of the Tanzhou Cultural Relics Bureau before the end of the world, and his words are still very convincing.