The face was twice as large as the human face, square, and the facial features on the face were as dull and wooden as stone carvings, and the ghostly light hit the face, which was a little white and a little infiltrating.

It dawned on me that this face was familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere.

"Fish? But apparently not! Fucking this thing has arms and legs! The black bull had obviously spotted that face as well, and Gu muttered to himself.

After the reminder of the black bull, I found that the strange face was somewhat similar to the strange fish we encountered in the waterhole before, both of which were in the style of Western Zhou stone carvings with square faces and big eyes. However, the four figures in front of them had human limbs, their heads were slightly larger, and their stature was no different from that of ordinary people. Their hands were placed in front of their abdomen or behind them, each holding up a corner of the coffin, and together they carried the giant coffin forward.

Could it be that those strange fish have evolved? However, all evolution takes time, and it only takes two or three hours from the bottom of the pond to now, and they can't become like this anyway.

Or maybe it's the four of them wearing fish-face masks?

Just as we were thinking, the strange face that turned its head to look at us turned back and continued to walk towards the tomb with the other three people carrying the huge coffin as if they didn't see us.

"Copy the guy, go up and see what is going on!" The black bull said, holding up the big black eagle with both hands, and walked forward like a soldier sneaking into the enemy camp, leaning against the stone fence.

We followed, and moments later came to the room where the Phantom had entered.

The door is not high, it is made of bronze, and the two doors are wide open. We stood outside the door, and at a glance we could see inside: the wall between the room and the dark room was open at 90 degrees, and the four phantoms carried the huge coffin to the dark room behind, and the light on their heads reflected on the wall, and the wall immediately refracted several cold rays. It seems that the whole house is made of bronze.

The rooms on the third floor are unusually ghostly, although they are all binary structures - the front is a hall, the back is a burial chamber, but the material of each room is different, first it is made of wood, then it is a mixture of glass and water, and now this one is bronze. The materials of each house are obviously deliberately arranged, but it is not known whether it is based on the personality preferences of the tomb owner during his lifetime, or other factors.

Seeing that the four figures had already carried the bronze coffin into the dark compartment, I pulled out the paratrooper knife from my waist and prepared to enter the room in front of me.

Gao Moli grabbed me and whispered, "They are not people. ”

"Legs and arms, not people? Is it still ......" Hei Niu said and suddenly stopped, his eyes widened and asked Gao Moli: "Little brother, those four can't be ghosts, right?" ”

Only then did I notice that the coffin being carried reflected in the cold light, presumably also made of bronze. Such a large bronze coffin, weighing several tons, at least, how could four people carry it so easily? Moreover, they carried such a heavy thing and walked without making a sound!

I suddenly had a plan in my heart, and secretly said: Whether it is a human or a ghost, I will let you appear in your original form now! I raised my hand to turn on the tactical spotlight above my head, and a blinding light shot out instantly, hitting the bronze coffin impartially.

The four phantoms fell to their knees like balloons punctured by steel needles. The bronze coffin then lost its balance and fell to the ground like a feather.

The whole process was silent, and I even began to wonder if I had just read it wrong.

"Damn, Lao Su, I can't see that you are yin enough, if these four guys are really ghosts, they will be suddenly photographed by you, I am afraid that they will be scattered and disappear!" As he spoke, the black bull turned on the spotlight and walked into the room first with his legs raised.

Intense beams of light shine on the walls of the copper room, which are reflected one after another, making the whole room full of light and shadow.

The bronze wall was still open, and the huge bronze coffin was resting crookedly in the dark compartment.

We walked towards the bronze coffin and found that there were four bronze palace people pressed on the four corners of the coffin, and the palace people had human faces and limbs, and there was a tentacle on the top of the head, and at the end of the tentacles was a small face like a strange fish, and there were fine fish scales on the body. Their legs are pressed under the copper coffin, their hands on the ground, and their heads tilted up. The facial features are dull, and I can't see any expression.

"Damn, the bronze is fine!" As he spoke, the black bull raised his foot and kicked the palace man beside him, making a dull impact sound, which shows that the palace man was indeed squatting bronze.

I realized that what we had just seen might be the legendary ghost carrying the coffin. According to legend, if there is a tomb guarding spirit beast buried in the ancient tomb, when the tomb owner's body is damaged, the stone beast guarding the tomb will transform into shape, re-clean the tomb owner's bones, and then perform the burial ceremony.

Could it be that this bronze coffin has been destroyed? I remembered seeing Zhang Xuefeng shooting at the tomb in the mine, and his location at that time seemed to be the copper room in front of him.

I circled around the coffin, and sure enough, I found more than a dozen bullet marks on the coffin.

The black bull circled the copper coffin three times like a donkey, and pushed the coffin lid vigorously from several different angles, and the bronze coffin lid seemed to have grown and did not move.

"These four bronze humanoid fish bodies, I don't know what they have to do with those strange fish in the pool." Gu Yixin said, squatting down to observe the bronze figures.

I explained: "In addition to the legendary ancient spirit beasts, the burial stone beasts in the tomb are the totems of the tomb owner's beliefs during his lifetime. This kind of humanoid fish body is obviously not among the spirit beasts, it is likely to be the totem that the tomb owner believed in during his lifetime. In addition, the mural of the hallucinogenic Yongdao is also painted with this kind of totem with two heads, half fish and half human, and the prototype of this totem should be the strange fish in the pool. Perhaps, we can infer from this: Yizhou Thorn History has a unique plot for strange fish, and even worships them as totems. ”

"Blood!" Gu Yixin suddenly thought of the connection between the two, and explained: "Those strange fish like to eat man-eating leeches, and the cannibal leeches full of blood are like full blood sacs, that is to say, those strange fish like to drink blood. According to the records of the wild history, the Yizhou Thorn History also likes to drink blood. Therefore, the history of Yizhou thorns regards the strange fish with a common hobby as a totem! ”

The black bull tapped the lid of the coffin with the big black eagle, and asked casually: "If he likes to drink blood, why do you still get it on his son's coffin?" ”

I just remembered that the copper room we are in now belongs to the son of the thorn history, and there is also a strange fish totem here, it seems that the belief in the strange fish is familial.

Could it be that the whole family of Yizhou Thorn Shi likes to drink blood? Or did their whole family have to drink blood for many years? If that's the case, there's only one possibility!

In order to test my inference, I beckoned Gao Moli to open the bronze coffin.

Gao Moli looked at the bronze coffin, put five fingers into the five small black holes on the coffin lid, and with a "click", he lifted it hard, and actually lifted the entire bronze coffin lid.

I found that there were a lot of uneven card slots around the copper coffin lid, and it turned out that the coffin lid was actually equipped with a mechanism, no wonder the black bull couldn't open it with all his brute force just now.

"Damn! Little brother Shenwu! The black bull said, taking off the spotlight above his head and shining it into the coffin.

I saw that the coffin was empty, only a miserable white human skin was spread flat at the bottom of the copper coffin, looking from a distance, like a white paper patch.