Chapter 70: The Coffin
I didn't go too far before I hid behind the coffin, which was about one and a half meters high, in the middle of the burial chamber.
Even if there is a mechanism at the entrance of the tomb, it is still a dead end of the mechanism, and it is still very safe, I don't believe that any hidden weapon can penetrate such a thick coffin and hurt me.
And, here, you only need to quietly poke out and nod, and you can see all the movements of Yang Baichuan in front of the tomb gate.
I saw that Yang Baichuan hesitated slightly, and finally stretched out his hand and pressed it towards the stone pillar.
I don't know if it was because the opening and closing of the tomb door failed because of too long of time, or because Yang Baichuan didn't use too much force when he pressed the round stone pillar.
I saw that he pressed on the round stone pillar for a long time, but the round stone pillar still did not move, and he could not press even half an inch.
After a while, Yang Baichuan in front of the tomb was already sweating profusely, but the round stone pillar still didn't react at all.
Seeing this, I couldn't stay any longer hidden behind the coffin, and finally walked quickly to the tomb door.
"Brother Baichuan, what's going on?" I asked Yang Baichuan.
"I don't know, it seems that the door switch of this tomb is out of order, and no matter how you press it, it doesn't respond." Yang Baichuan wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead and said.
"I'll give it a try." I said, stepping forward.
Seeing this, Yang Baichuan immediately gave up his position to me.
Walking to the right side of the tomb door, I took a deep breath, then reached out and pressed my hand on the stone pillar and pressed it hard.
At first, I was worried that I would break the round stone pillar, so I only used half of my strength, but after seeing that the stone pillar was motionless, I gradually increased the strength of my hand.
It was the same as what I had seen before, and even with all my might, the round stone pillar remained motionless and unresponsive.
"Could it be that this mechanism is broken?" But in a moment, I was already tired and sweating profusely, let go of my hand and panted heavily, and said to Yang Baichuan.
In my opinion, no matter how skilled the craftsmen who built the tomb in ancient times, there is absolutely no way to avoid it from breaking down after thousands of years.
I crouched down and shone my flashlight at it, looking through the narrow gap between the pillar and the surrounding area, and it seemed that the bottom of the round pillar was blocked by something horizontal.
Judging by what it looked like, it was a bronze longsword or a broad-bladed dagger or something.
If the back of the pillar is really stuck with a sword or dagger, it will be a bit difficult.
I told Yang Baichuan what I saw, and I saw that he was also frowning after hearing it, and obviously felt a little tricky.
"Why are you so slow to open a door?" Yang Yuqing, who was hiding on the side, waited a little impatiently, walked out quickly, and asked me and Yang Baichuan with an unhappy face.
Seeing this, Li Huiyan and Xiao Yue also walked out one after another, and the expressions on their faces were also full of doubts.
Under normal circumstances, it would take a few seconds at most to press a stone pillar switch. And from the time Yang Baichuan began to press the stone pillar to Yang Yuqing's impatient walk, there was a full four or five minutes in between, even if it was me, I would be impatient.
"This tomb door switch seems to have been jammed by something." Yang Baichuan was a little helpless and said.
Yang Yuqing seemed to be a little disbelieving, stepped forward and pressed the stone pillar hard, still not moving.
"Get out of the way." Yang Yuqing frowned and said to the four of us.
"Hey, that ......" I was just about to remind Yang Yuqing not to mess around, when I saw her take a dozen steps back, and then began to rush forward a few steps before jumping high in the air.
Seeing this, I didn't care about saying anything more, so I quickly dodged to the side.
There was a bang, and there was a muffled sound in front of the tomb door, and the smoke and dust filled the air.
The expected sound of the tomb door opening did not sound, and when the four of us walked out again, we were collectively dumbfounded.
I saw that on the right side of the tomb door, the round stone pillar that was originally protruding outward about two inches had been kicked into two by Yang Yuqing at this time, and the section of the stone pillar that originally protruded from the wall rolled directly to the ground.
"Well, I'm sorry, it looks like I'm pushing too hard." Seeing that we all walked out, Yang Yuqing said with a little weakness.
Glancing at the mechanism on the right side of the tomb door, I was a little speechless, what is this too much force, this is clearly the strength of nowhere to use.
"Just tell me what to do now." Yang Baichuan obviously didn't have anything to do with his sister, and said with a loveless expression.
A very real problem is in front of us, without the tomb door switch, then how do we open this stone door?
Brute force is obviously impossible, and we don't have any tools at our disposal. According to the thickness of the tomb door in front of it, it is obvious that the thickness of the tomb door at the back of the tomb is at least half a foot thick.
Without tools, it is almost impossible to use brute force to open such a thick tomb door.
Even if Yang Yuqing's kung fu is very good, it is impossible for her to open the half-foot-thick stone door with her bare hands.
If she really chooses to do that, she is afraid that it will not be the tomb door that will be broken at that time, but her own hands and feet.
"If you want to scold, scold." Yang Yuqing stood aside and said, at this time she was like a child who had done something wrong.
In fact, no one said anything about her, and it was something wrong for her to break the door switch, but everyone knew that she didn't mean it. What's more, now that things have happened, no matter how much you blame her, it won't help, it's better to think about what to do next.
The door switch of the tomb was damaged, which means that we can't continue to move forward, do we really have to go back to the house, to face the yin corpse that has lost consciousness again?
Not to mention whether we can still fight the current Yin corpse, even if we can really do it, the tomb crossing we originally came out of has mysteriously disappeared.
"Do you think there's something wrong with this coffin?"
Just when all of us were anxious about the broken opening and closing of the tomb door, Li Huiyan suddenly walked to the coffin in the middle of the tomb, observed it for a few moments, and then asked us.
Hearing this, I also hurried to the coffin.
With what I have known about Li Huiyan for so long, she will definitely not say useless words, and since she said so, she must have found something wrong on the coffin.
"Sister Lizi, isn't this coffin very good, it can still be preserved so well after being placed here for so many years, there is no problem." Hearing Li Huiyan's words, Xiao Yue also walked over and said without thinking about it.
Indeed, this cypress coffin is very well preserved, except for a few marks cut by tomb robbers of unknown age with sharp weapons, only a lot of black paint has been lost.
However, I know that what Li Huiyan wants to say is not so simple, otherwise she would not have come to the coffin to observe, and asked questions to all of us.
It's just that after all of us were attracted to the coffin by Li Huiyan, no one could see what was different about this coffin.
"Colonel Flower, just say what you have to say, don't sell it when it's like this." After observing the coffin for a long time, I still couldn't see anything unusual about this coffin, so I couldn't help but ask Li Huiyan.
When the others heard this, they hurriedly echoed it, apparently having the same thoughts as me.
"Don't you think there's something wrong with the placement of this coffin?" Li Huiyan didn't directly say the reason, but asked us instead.
Hearing Li Huiyan's words, I re-observed the coffin a few times, and sure enough, I found some problems.
Throughout the ages, whether it is a folk or a coffin of a royal noble, it is nothing more than a big one and a small one.
The larger end of the coffin is where the head of the person is located, and the smaller end is the legs of the person, which is also very consistent with the characteristics of the human body.
According to the burial custom of the deceased, the head should be facing outward and the feet facing inward, which means that the larger end of the coffin should be facing the door of the tomb, and the smaller end should be facing the inside of the tomb.
But the coffin in front of him turned out to be a rare inverted coffin.
In other words, the coffin's head and feet were placed upside down, with the larger end of the coffin facing inwards and the smaller end facing the tomb door, which was completely different from what I had known before.
Although the funeral customs of the Qin Dynasty may be a little different from modern society, they should not be too different, and it is definitely unusual to have an inverted coffin like this.
Since he can have the ability to build the general's tomb for others, and the ability of the tomb builder naturally cannot have any moisture, then the coffin in the tomb is misplaced, which is very thought-provoking.
The only possibility is that someone did it on purpose, for some unknown purpose.
"You mean the coffin is placed in the opposite direction, right?" After seeing all this, I tentatively asked Li Huiyan.
"Yes, it's an upside-down coffin." Li Huiyan nodded and said.
Hearing the conversation between me and Li Huiyan, the Yang family brothers and sisters and Xiao Yue who were standing on the side also suddenly realized, and looked at the coffin carefully a few times, and really found that this was the case.
Because the difference in size between the head and tail of this coffin is not very large, it is almost impossible to discern the difference with the naked eye, and if you don't look closely, you won't notice these details at all.
It seems that Li Huiyan noticed the wrong placement of the coffin from the beginning of entering the tomb, but she didn't say it at the time.
If we really need to dig deeper, the consequences of the wrong placement of the coffin can be big or small, ranging from the death of the deceased to the unrest of the deceased, and the worst may even cause harm to future generations, and the disasters are endless.
I couldn't help but think of the dead body with green hair lying in the coffin, and wondered if it was because the coffin turned into an upside down coffin, causing the deceased to be unpeaceful.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that this possibility was extremely high, and the tomb builders and funeral personnel in charge of the general's tomb would never dare to do this.
The biggest possibility is that they got an order from some people to deliberately place the coffin as an inverted coffin, so that the dead bodies in the coffin would become green-haired zongzi to achieve the role of guarding the mausoleum.
The more I thought about it, the more I felt furious, and I couldn't help but look at the coffin a few more times, but fortunately, there was nothing abnormal in the coffin, and there was no sound that shouldn't have come from inside.
"Colonel flower, this coffin has become an upside-down coffin, it doesn't seem to have much to do with us, we are still trapped here and can't get out."
I thought about it many times in my head, but I didn't think of any inevitable connection between the coffin that was placed as an inverted coffin and the tomb door, so I couldn't help but say to Li Huiyan.