Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Cave of Stalactites
Facing the huge stone gate in front of them, everyone seemed a little helpless.
It is impossible to rely on brute force to open the stone door, even if those tomb robbers still have things like armor shovels hidden on their bodies, plus the broken dagger on Liu Laoqi's body, it is just an itch to face this huge stone gate made of granite.
"There must be some other way to open this stone door, otherwise these dead people would not have been able to bring out so many funerary goods from the tomb." Li Huiyan glanced at the bones in the tomb behind her, and said in an unusually affirmative tone.
After her reminder, everyone also felt that it made sense.
There were only a few scratches on the huge stone door in front of me, and other than that, there were no signs of damage on the stone door.
Since the stone door has not been damaged, the answer to how these tomb robbers have entered the tomb throughout the ages is obvious.
Everyone began to act, either knocking on the stone walls with their hands, or constantly knocking on the floor and looking at the cracks in the stones.
However, a moment passed, and everyone was a little disappointed.
When each slab was knocked by everyone next to each other, the sound of each slab was dull and unusual, and it was clear that there could be no mechanism or anything like that behind them.
"Could it be that the mechanism of the stone door is not actually in the walls and floor, but on this stone door?"
Liu Laoqi is worthy of being an old fritter who has stolen the tomb for decades, and after seeing that he did not find any hidden mechanism near the stone gate, he set his eyes on the huge stone gate in front of everyone, and said slowly thoughtfully.
"The mechanism is on this stone door? That's impossible, what tomb owner would be stupid enough to let the mechanism be set on the tomb door, what is the difference between this and opening the door to welcome guests, it is simply giving away the treasure in the tomb. Hearing Liu Laoqi's words, I felt a little incredible, and I couldn't help but say something.
"Nothing is impossible."
Hearing this, Liu Laoqi's eyes were still staring at the stone gate in front of him, and he continued in a strange tone: "Maybe the purpose of the tomb owner is not to give away the treasures in the tomb, but to let us be willing to send them to death?" I have been to an ancient tomb before, and there is no stone door in it except for the outermost door of the tomb, but there are no less than 100 people who have died inexplicably in that tomb. ”
After listening to Liu Laoqi's words, I subconsciously glanced at the bones in the tomb behind me, and I couldn't help but feel a little chill in my back.
These tomb robbers all managed to enter the tomb, but they ended up dying here, which has to be said to be a bit unbelievable.
Could it really be as Liu Laoqi said, the owner of the tomb deliberately used the burial goods in the tomb to lure tomb robbers into the tomb? So what was his purpose in doing this, just to get someone else to bury him?
The problem is obviously not so simple, and the strange things in this tomb are one after another, which has to make people feel a little empty. If I hadn't found Xu Hao and the three of them, I would have even wanted to turn around and go back now, and it would have been torturous to stay in this tomb for an extra second.
Liu Laoqi had already begun to knock on the stone door, looking for the switch on the stone door.
I was a little bored, and I couldn't help but look at the stone gate a few more times.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, this look makes my heart pound again, and I can't calm down.
In the inconspicuous corner of the lower right of the stone door, a very familiar pattern appeared in my eyes, which was exactly the same grimace pattern as the birthmark on my back.
Due to the carving of a ghost pawn on this stone door, this grimace was also mixed in with it, so that I didn't notice it at first.
"Look there." Forcing myself to calm down the emotions in my heart, I walked up to Li Huiyan, pointed to her at the grimace pattern in the lower right corner of the stone door, and said. When Li Huiyan heard this, she quickly saw the grimace pattern I was referring to, and immediately stepped forward without hesitation.
When Li Huiyan suddenly walked to the stone gate, Liu Laoqi and other tomb robbers also noticed her strange behavior, and couldn't help but focus their attention on her, wanting to see what she wanted to do.
I saw Li Huiyan squatting down gently, stretching out her hand and gently groping for something on the inconspicuous grimace relief in the lower right corner of the stone door.
"Mr. Liu, can I borrow your dagger?"
Li Huiyan pressed the grimace relief hard, but there was no reaction. Then she seemed to think of something, and turned back to Liu Laoqi and said.
Although he didn't know what the little girl in front of him wanted to do, Liu Laoqi heard the words and took off the dagger from his waist without hesitation and handed it to Li Huiyan.
Taking the dagger handed over by Liu Laoqi, Li Huiyan politely said thank you, and once again set her eyes on the grimace relief.
Immediately afterwards, I saw Li Huiyan stretch out her index finger and gently slash it with a sharp and abnormal knife edge, pulling out a small wound.
Seeing Li Huiyan's act as if she was self-harming, before I could say anything, I saw her index finger, which was already bleeding, stretched out her bloody index finger to the grimace relief, to be exact, and stretched her bleeding finger into the mouth of the grimace relief.
I don't know if it's a hallucination in my head, but when Li Huiyan's bleeding index finger was put into the mouth of the grimace relief, there seemed to be a very comfortable and satisfied moan in my head, mixed with a sound that seemed to be a baby sucking milk.
After a while, Li Huiyan's face became a little pale, especially her index finger, which showed a sickly snow-white color.
I have already realized that something is wrong, if I continue like this, I am afraid that the blood on Li Huiyan's body will be sucked dry by that weird grimace relief.
However, just as I was about to speak out to stop Li Huiyan, the sucking sound in my head stopped abruptly, followed by another extremely satisfied voice in my head.
The next moment, the stone gate, which had been motionless, suddenly made a rumbling sound, and the entire tomb road trembled a little, as if it was an earthquake.
Li Huiyan also stood up at this time, handed the dagger back to Liu Laoqi, and retreated to my side, looking at Shimen intently, as if waiting for something.
With a rumbling sound, the stone gate, which had been motionless, finally began to shake.
There was a clicking sound from the stone wall of the tomb, and at the same time, the stone door weighing hundreds of catties began to sink slowly.
After about two or three minutes, the huge stone door made of granite had disappeared in front of everyone, and it was pitch black.
"I, Liu Laoqi, am clumsy, I didn't expect that the little girl was also a master of inverted fighting, disrespectful and disrespectful......"
Seeing that the stone gate disappeared completely, Liu Laoqi came back to his senses and said to Li Huiyan with a serious expression.
"Mr. Liu laughed, I'm just a student, that is, I just happened to open the stone door, how can I be compared with Mr. Liu." Li Huiyan shook her head and replied indifferently.
Liu Laoqi stopped talking, and turned his gaze to the other passage that appeared after the stone gate disappeared.
In the dark passage, there was a faint sound of water, as if behind this stone gate was a cave with an underground river.
"Let's go."
As a tomb robber who has robbed tombs for decades, Liu Laoqi is also very face-saving. When he was looking for the stone door switch before, he had lost to this little girl who was dozens of years younger than him, and at this moment, facing the strange passage that appeared in front of him, he commanded the tomb robbers under his hand, and took the lead in walking in.
"Are you alright? You were too impulsive just now, if anything happens to you......" Liu Laoqi and the others passed through the stone gate one after another, and I turned my head to look at Li Huiyan, who was bloodless, and said with concern.
"I'm fine, it's just a little bloody." Before I finished speaking, Li Huiyan interrupted me and said with a smile.
Seeing that she didn't want to say more, I had to shut up, and the two walked into the stone gate side by side.
My previous guess was correct, there is indeed a cave behind the stone gate, and it is also an extremely beautiful stalactite cave.
Along the way, I saw that many stalactite pillars on both sides had traces of being carved artificially, and some of the larger stalactite pillars were carved into lifelike stone carvings of town tombs by the tomb craftsmen of the year.
Although after thousands of years of changes, some of the town tomb stone carvings have lost their original appearance, and even more have long been damaged by the tomb robbers who came here before, but hundreds of town tomb stone carvings are enough to make people breathtaking.
Seeing these lifelike stone carvings of town tombs with different shapes, I couldn't help but be a little secretly surprised.
If we only talk about the age, the age of this stalactite cave is obviously more than the tomb of the general of the Qin Dynasty where we are located, it should be inadvertently discovered when the tomb builder built the tomb, and finally simply built it into a part of the tomb.
"The owner of this tomb is so generous, I don't think he is an unknown person in history, but I really want to know who the owner of this tomb is." I couldn't help but reach out and touch the stone carving of a town tomb next to me, and I sighed with some surprise.
"Well, I'm a little curious to hear you say that. This tomb is indeed a bit extraordinary, and ordinary royal families may not be able to build such a tomb for themselves, maybe they can know the identity of the tomb owner when they enter the main tomb. When Li Huiyan heard this, she also said in a sighing tone.
Of course, there are some things that I didn't say.
In fact, what I am most curious about is not the identity of the owner of this tomb, but what is the connection between the owner of the tomb and the grimace relief, and whether this tomb is the ancient tomb that often appears in my dreams.
The tablet and bronze coffin of Qin Shi Huang are enshrined in an inconspicuous Yao family ancestral hall, and the bronze coffin contains a map of the Great Qin National Fortune guarded by a thousand-year-old female corpse, and we inexplicably fell from the collapsed Yao family ancestral hall into such a strange general's tomb.
If there is no connection between these people, I don't believe it.
It's just that what does Yaojiacun have to do with Qin Shihuang and this general's tomb, I still know too little and too little, and I can't connect them for the time being.
In particular, why that weird grimace pattern is here, and it looks quite important.
Also, Li Huiyan next to her is also extremely sensitive to the grimace pattern, why in the end.
One question after another haunts me, and I can't help but feel a little headache when I think about it.