As soon as Zhang Gong's story was about to end, there was a pungent sour smell from the main tomb, which seemed to be accompanied by a bit of "snort", and after Professor Wang, who was originally working hard, shouted "not good", bursts of white smoke rose from the coffin.

Zhu Gong shouted: "Yellow phosphorus spontaneously combusted, everyone hurry up!" ”

After everyone ran to the Hades Temple as fast as they could, the main burial chamber was already full of fireworks, and white smoke and pungent smells were constantly wafting from inside. Seeing that the momentum was not right, Professor Chen hurriedly asked everyone to retreat outside the cave, and then asked Lao Ma and them to bring the ventilation fan used for tunnel operation from the construction site to exhaust the smoke inside.

Seeing that the smoke was getting smaller and smaller, Professor Chen asked, "What happened inside just now?" Let's talk about it. ”

In the reports one by one, Professor Chen understood the problem: the bottom of the coffin must have been smeared with a large amount of chemicals similar to yellow phosphorus, and the inner wall of the coffin was brushed with thick tung oil, which should be the last and most cruel mechanism set up by the owner of the tomb. When the coffin liquid runs out, the yellow phosphorus is exposed to the air with high humidity and spontaneously combusts, and then the tung paint on the inner wall of the coffin is ignited.

Hearing Professor Chen's characterization of the problem, Feng Weiguo asked puzzledly: "Professor Chen, why is it that smearing yellow phosphorus or something to the bottom of the coffin is the last mechanism to prevent tomb robbery?" ”

"If you are polite to the tomb owner, that is, to ensure that he is intact, then the coffin will definitely not be moved, and the yellow phosphorus under the coffin or anything else will not spontaneously combust, nor will it light the tung paint on the coffin, but if the tomb robber goes in, he will definitely not be so polite, and it will inevitably destroy the coffin to let the coffin flow out, so that the yellow phosphorus will spontaneously combust when the coffin is lost, and at the same time burn the coffin and the corpse, it will also release a large number of harmful gases through combustion to infringe on the tomb robbers."

"Then if this is the case, you can be sure that the treasure he said in the dark room is actually himself, and he said to advise us not to use brute force to enter, otherwise his greeting gift will cease to exist in the flames, and it should be himself."

Professor Chen sighed and said, "Alas, 2,000 years ago, I donated myself and set up such a bureau for myself, I really admire, burn it, but we will keep him well and let him live forever." ”

The comrade of archaeology in a nearby place still did not understand why this could prevent tomb robbers, so he asked: "Professor, I still don't understand the feasibility of preventing tomb robbers in this way. ”

Without waiting for Professor Chen to answer, Zhang Gong hurriedly said: "The length of any of our arms is not enough to touch the bottom of the coffin, if the tomb robber Si Swenwen scoops out the coffin liquid one by one, I don't know how long it will take to complete, the time of the tomb robbers is very precious, one more minute in the tomb is equivalent to an increase in the risk of being discovered, so they will not patiently scoop out the coffin inside, normal tomb robbers will directly smash the bottom part of the coffin, let the coffin liquid flow out, The yellow phosphorus originally soaked in the coffin liquid is lost with the coffin liquid, and when it encounters spontaneous combustion in the air, the toxic gas released by the combustion of yellow phosphorus is enough to poison people and even die if it is too late to escape, in addition, the spontaneous combustion of yellow phosphorus will produce high temperature and high heat, combined with tung oil, it is certain that the corpse is burned. ”

"Oh, so that means it's equivalent to a fish dying and the net is broken?"

"Yes, the fish died and the net was broken, this is the most tragic."

Because there is nothing in the coffin, the lower part of the coffin has been soaked in the coffin liquid for a long time, the humidity is very high, and it is not easy to overfire.

After putting on gas masks, Professor Chen and the others re-entered the main burial chamber. Seeing that there was still a little spark on the coffin, Professor Chen used the coffin liquid on the side to extinguish the open flame. Except for a little smoke on the inner wall of the coffin, there was no other abnormality.

Seeing the jade and lacquerware that had just been counted scattered on the ground, Professor Chen sighed in his heart: It's broken, there must be something missing!

Professor Chen saw that there were no other local archaeologists around him except Feng Wei, so he said to Zhu Gong: "Old Zhu, you go and take a look at the camera recording, what happened at that moment just now, my intuition tells me that someone must have taken the sheep in the chaos just now." ”

Seeing that Zhu Gong left quietly, Zhang Gong asked anxiously: "Do you feel like you've lost something?" Don't be foolish, if you suspect that you are wrong, there will be problems. ”

"It's not groundless, just now when you were counting the burial goods, your ones are facing south, and the local archaeologists are facing the other three directions, if there is an abnormality, they must have run first, if the thing is dropped, except for the person who registered, even if the others are one person, it should not be these few pieces on the ground now, they will not throw things into the box when they are chaotic, they must be thrown on the ground or brought out easily, and now there are obviously fewer artifacts on the ground, and it is not one or two."

Feng Weiguo heard Professor Chen say this, smiled bitterly and was not ready to refute, he felt that what Professor Chen said was actually quite in line with human nature, and it was already very face-saving to say that it was good to take the sheep by hand, so it was not considered stealing, if it was not handed in, then the problem would be serious, so he suggested that Professor Chen bring all the personnel into the Hades Temple, where they couldn't hide it if they wanted to, and they would either hand it over or be arrested.

Professor Chen said to Feng Weiguo with a serious expression: "After a while, you let them come back in, and then you tell a few policemen about what happened, but explain the nature to others, after all, it is a human instinct to habitually bring out things in your hands when you are in chaos, this is not a problem, but if you don't hand it in, the problem will be serious, so you must explain it to others, don't wronged people." If you don't turn it in, then we can only find a way to find out where the thing is, and now the camera is basically 360° from the outside of the tomb to the inside without dead ends, and we don't have to worry about not being able to find it. ”

With a wry smile, Feng Weiguo walked out of the ancient tomb and went to do what he had to do.

In the main burial chamber, Professor Chen and the local archaeologists stood in two rows face to face, and after Professor Chen asked the cameraman to point the camera at the archaeologists in all places, he said solemnly: "Comrades, just now due to negligence, the yellow phosphorus at the bottom of the coffin caused spontaneous combustion, causing panic to everyone, on behalf of the archaeological team, I apologize to everyone!" After speaking, he bowed deeply to the local archaeologists. After bowing, Professor Chen saw that several policemen had arrived behind the local archaeologists, so he continued: "Due to the suddenness of the incident just now, I thank several comrades for not casually throwing down the artifacts in their hands in the panic, if we say that the loss of cultural relics is caused by our mistakes, it is a very serious incident, but fortunately, a few comrades did not throw away the cultural relics just now, so as to directly protect the cultural relics, I thank these comrades again!" Now, please also hand in the artifacts you just brought out. After saying that, he bowed again. After this bow, several people stepped forward and handed Professor Chen what was still in his hand. In fact, Professor Chen didn't know what and how much was missing, but he just achieved his goal through psychological tactics, and after seeing that he had handed in a few pieces, he smiled faintly and continued: "Now I haven't looked at the monitoring, I think it may be that my memory is a little problematic, I think there are still a few jade pendants I don't know where they are, if there are comrades who find them, please tell us," Before he finished speaking, Zhu Gong ran over, walked up to Professor Chen with a serious expression and whispered a few words, then stood aside and stopped talking.