Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Blood Jade Edict
Zhang Gong looked at the small box in his hand, and the top was clearly engraved with the words "the source of evil" in seal script. This particularly weighty locket is made of copper, and apart from the unclear relief, there is no keyhole or other way of opening it, as if it were a monolith. Zhang Gong immediately ran to the martyrdom with the copper box, interrupted Professor Chen, who was directing the cutting work, and said, "Old Chen, look at this!" It has just been found at the bottom of the burial pit. ”
Professor Chen took the copper box and looked at the words on it, and then said to Zhang Gong: "This is a bit interesting! It's so evil that it's probably related to the bottom layer, so you can find a way to open this, it should be an important thing. ”
"But there's no keyhole or anything, how do you open it?"
"You take it outside and clean it with a good high-pressure water gun, and then study it well after cleaning, there will definitely be a gap on it, but after a long time, it is wrapped in decomposition on the corpse and you can't see it clearly."
What exactly does the words on this box represent? Why are they placed at the bottom of the burial pit? ”
"I personally guess that this thing should be related to the Blood Jade Edict, since the Blood Jade Edict is related to the ancient tombs of the previous dynasties, then there is no doubt that many dynasties have people who are worried about that, and to analyze it in a different way, can the Blood Jade Edict mean material desires? What would it be like to reach the limit of materialism? If you want to be evil, and evil is bold, in this case, can you explain the above words? ”
"Sort of, if it's really based on your analysis, then this tomb owner is still quite philosophical."
"Metaphysics is not the feng shui that is now circulating, which of the acquired gossip, Qimen Dunjia, etc., was used by the ancients to see feng shui? What does Zongbo play? They are just playing culture, not superstitions as legends and so on. ”
"Gotcha! I won't bother Professor Chen to teach you, you should continue to be an overseer, see that they don't kill people's arms and legs, I'll go out and solve this thing. ”
After several rounds of cleaning with a high-pressure water gun, the rust and dirt on the copper box were finally washed. Now look at this copper box, the carving on it is already clear and discerning. The relief on the copper box is almost the same as the pattern displayed on the bridge in the general's tomb, which makes Zhang Gong feel more and more panicked the more he looks at it.
This kind of relief, even Zhang Gong, who is very experienced, does not want to see more, he grabbed the lower part of the copper box with his big hand, and carefully studied the way to open it with his back to the sun. A few minutes later, Zhang Gong finally had a harvest, and he found that the relief on the upper part was hollowed out, which means that this should be covered. He tried to open it with all his might, but no matter how hard he tried, it was in vain, and the copper box remained the same as the whole, not moving at all.
Zhang Gong was a little anxious, and scolded and said: "Shameless thing, aren't you happy to invite you out to see the light of day again?" Then I'll do another good thing, I'll ask you to take a bath. With that, he ran to the room and found a pot to boil water. When the water boils, put the copper box in a small bucket at the door and soak it in the freshly boiled hot water for about 5 minutes. Feeling that the time was almost up, Zhang Gong poured the copper box to the ground, he stepped on the lower half with one foot, and kicked the upper part a few times with the other foot, seeing that there were signs of loosening, he picked up a large rag from the side, folded it a few times and wrapped it in the upper part of the copper box, and then made a hard effort, and the copper box opened: inside was a golden cylindrical thing, with two dents at the front end.
Zhang Gong took this golden lump and looked at it for a while, couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and immediately ran into the ice cave, panting and saying to Professor Chen: "Old Chen, this is what is in the box!" ”
"I guess it will only be used in the lowest layer, you put this away first, and then clean it up after the people here and below are martyred and cut."
"Leave the work here to the local area, after all, there is no technical content."
"I'm afraid that there is a problem in this ice cube, so I think it is appropriate to keep an eye on it myself, and there can be no more problems."
"That's it, let Lao Zhu keep an eye here, let's go down?"
"Lao Zhu has a lot of things on his hands now, and several reports are for him to complete, so it's not appropriate for him to keep an eye on them."
"I'll do the work, we should hurry up and put the focus on the following, and then the solution here is the main direction of retreating to Beijing."
In the evening, several of them discussed the progress of the work in the ice cave and the later arrangements, and the issue of human martyrdom was also taken over by Zhu Gong under Zhang Gong's flickering, and asked him to take all the local archaeologists and a few migrant workers to carry out the work of human martyrdom and separation. After discussion, it was decided that Professor Chen would lead the team down to the second layer of the ice cave tomorrow, open the four stone slabs, and see if there was a female corpse buried under the stone slabs distributed according to the five elements of gossip.
Since the jewelry was registered and sent to the museum for sealing two days ago, the wooden car was also dismantled under the supervision of Feng Weiguo, and the space below seemed much more spacious at this moment. With multiple sets of LED lights illuminating in all directions, the atmosphere here is not so oppressive and gloomy.
After Professor Chen asked Zhang Gong to evenly pour the snow melting agent into the gaps of the stone slabs in four directions, he asked him to personally cut out the middle part of the martyrdom from the ice cube so that he could enter the space below.
I waited until the afternoon, and under the action of the snow melting agent, the four stone slabs were loosened. After Professor Chen used a shovel to reach into the gap from one side and pried up the slate, everyone hurriedly stepped forward and lifted the slate together. The secret under the stone slab was revealed: a young woman's corpse lay in a pit not deep inside, frozen in ice.
Zhang Gong used a chainsaw to cut the ice cubes from all sides, and then tied them to the two steel bars with the prepared heating wires, and then started to cut the bottom from both sides after the electricity was turned on. In the "whoosh" sound of the burned red heating wire when it touched the ice, ten minutes later, the ice that sealed the female corpse was divided. After carrying the entire female corpse up, Professor Chen finally saw the abnormality: the female corpse's complexion was particularly white, and the corpse was not too plump and looked very shriveled. Professor Chen immediately judged that the woman was alive and well, and after being killed with a sharp blade, the body was particularly shriveled due to the blood flowing dry.
When three more slabs were opened, the same phenomenon was found.
Through the traction of several ropes, the four female corpses were pulled to the upper layer of space. In the evening, after several of them put one of the female corpses in the prepared container for ice melting, they finally found what they were looking forward to: the abdomen of the female corpse was cut by someone, and when it was turned over, jade fell out of it, and many words were densely engraved on it with seal script.
Seeing this, Ma Kai excitedly prepared to use the camera to take pictures for the record, and Professor Chen on the side quickly stretched out his hand to stop him, and then looked ahead blankly and said, "Let the past return to dust, and the earth to the earth." ”