Halfway through speaking, Senior Brother Geng looked up at the zenith and was stunned, and I reached out and patted him on the shoulder: "Senior Brother Geng? ”

"Huh?" Senior Brother Geng was taken aback by me, but he quickly came back to his senses, pointed to the zenith and said to me, "There, it's the ground, it's the zenith that we step on, and the tomb is upside down." ”

I asked him, "What is the purpose of the first ancestor to make the tomb look like this?" ”

Senior Brother Geng thought for a moment and said, "If the tomb is upside down, the left and right sides are also upside down. ”

He said this as if he hadn't said it, I sighed in my heart, held the lantern and continued to walk forward, Senior Brother Geng squatted down, picked up a bird statue and stuffed it into a waterproof bag.

It didn't take long for a stone brick wall to appear at the edge of the firelight, and at the intersection of every four stone bricks was a fist-sized round nail, and in some places the stone bricks were broken and the nails fell.

I guessed that there would be a door on such a tomb wall, so I walked along the wall. As I walked, I saw some holes in the walls, which did not look like they were corroded, they were very deep, as if someone had carved them out with something sharp, and a round nail was also dented.

Liu Shangang leaned over to the wall and looked at it carefully, and said to me, "This is a bullet hole made by an earthen gun, and someone has come in!" There are still bullets left on it. ”

These holes can't be made by a mad monk, he may have been here, but can he use a gun?

Liang Houzai said: "There are bullet holes in the wall, which means that there was a battle in this place. ”

I saw a scattered bullet under my feet and crouched down to pick it up. I don't know much about firearms, but I can tell that this bullet is not a modern firearm, it is too small, irregular in shape, and covered in rust, which looks like it was left here many years ago.

I threw the bullet and said to the others, "Let's get together, don't get too long." After saying that, he continued to look for the door.

In a clearing, we unexpectedly found three skeletons, two of which had been shattered by bullets, and the other had been shattered entirely, apparently having been shot to the head with a blunt object.

Senior Brother Geng picked up a Luoyang shovel from the ground and said that these people should be tomb robbers, maybe there was a conflict caused by the uneven distribution of spoils, and they were killing each other.

I said, "There shouldn't be any burial goods for such a tomb, right?" ”

Senior Brother Geng said: "That's not necessarily, just those bird statues on the iron tree can be regarded as priceless antiques." In addition, the tomb we are deep in now is originally a suspicious tomb, and it is possible that the first ancestor will place some burial goods and disguise it as an ordinary tomb. None of this matters, the key question now is, how did these tomb robbers get in, don't look at them with Luoyang shovels, but such a tomb, with these few broken shovels, can't dig through at all. ”

I answered: "Is there a pre-built entrance to the suspected tomb?" ”

Senior Brother Geng rubbed his chin and sighed.

His reaction made me feel worried, according to his previous statement, it is impossible for the first ancestor to open two entrances in the tomb, and if there are two entrances, it means that the person who participated in the construction of the tomb in the first place secretly manipulated it.

As far back as 2,000 years ago, was there already a problem inside the Soul Village?

I didn't dare to think any further, and left the corpses without saying a word.

After walking a long way along the wall, the imaginary door never appeared, and another wall had already appeared around the dark green firelight, and not far away, it was the angle between the two stone walls.

There are no round nails on the other stone wall, but there are a large number of reliefs carved on it, and the patterns on each stone slab are the same, all of them are the four-legged bird totems of the female stork clan, some of them are very corroded, except for a pair of bird wings, the other parts are almost indistinguishable.

When I was thinking about whether to turn around and walk in the opposite direction, Senior Brother Geng came to me, knocked on the wall covered with round nails with his hand, and said to me, "Behind this wall, there should be an apse, and we can't enter it now." ”

I looked at the wall over there, and then at Senior Brother Geng.

Senior Brother Geng continued: "The arrangement of this wall can correspond to the structure of the eight golden locks, but normally speaking, the tomb that corresponds to the layout of the eight golden locks should be a regular octagonal shape surrounded by eight walls, with a door on each wall, one door and one hall, but the angle between the two walls in front of you is straight. Well, this shows that this tomb should only have two side halls on the left and right, one of which is connected to the door of life, and the other is connected to the door of death......"

I couldn't help but interrupt Senior Brother Geng: "Senior Brother, you just tell me which direction to go." ”

Senior Brother Geng then pointed to the wall covered with reliefs: "Follow this wall." ”

I sighed inwardly, held up the lantern of the foxfire, and searched for it along the wall.

Along the way, we saw several more sets of bones, and Liu Shangang also found an earthen box gun, as well as some gold and silver treasures scattered on the ground.

After walking for a long time, I finally found a bronze door on the wall, which had been damaged, one door panel was broken into three or four pieces, and the fragments were scattered on the ground, and the other door was also bent.

Liu Shangang looked at the two door panels and frowned: "This was blown up with powerful explosives." These Tufuzi are also domineering enough, and they are not afraid of the collapse of the tomb. ”

I didn't stay at the door for long, I went directly into the tomb, and Senior Brother Geng came in with me, saying to me: "This is the left side hall, there is a way, you look for it to see if there is an exit." ”

"Do you still need to look for it, isn't it?" I pointed to a wall on my right hand and said to Senior Brother Geng.

At the bottom of that wall, there was a square hole nearly a meter wide and high, and a small amount of rubble was scattered around the opening.

Senior Brother Geng immediately leaned over, looked inside the cave, and muttered, "This tunnel won't be dug out by tomb robbers, they just smashed a layer of stone slabs on the wall." ”

In fact, if the tomb robbers dig in from the outside, there must be a lot of dirt in the area around the cave in addition to the gravel.

I held up the lantern and took a photo, and I saw a very large coffin standing at the bottom of the tomb, and the usual coffins were placed horizontally, but this coffin was standing upright, and there were holes in the coffin lid with earthen guns.

Xian'er beside me asked, "Did the tomb robbers erect it?" ”

I looked at the ground, there were no stone slabs on the ground in this tomb, but a slightly soft layer of mud, I don't know if these layers of mud are natural, or deliberately paved by the first ancestor, I only know that there are no traces of the coffin dragging on it, and the coffin in front of me is originally a standing coffin.

"Open the coffin." I said these two words to Xian'er briefly, and then came to the coffin, grabbed the lid of the coffin with both hands and pulled it hard.

But I didn't expect that the material of this coffin was similar to wood, and two thousand years of corrosion had already made it fragile, and I just pulled it like this, and the coffin lid was broken, and the lower half was still standing in the soil, and the upper half fell directly to the ground with a clang.

Senior Brother Geng was taken aback by my sudden move, he turned his head suddenly, looked at the coffin, and asked me, "Why did you open the coffin?" ”

I waved my hand to drive away the dust that was raised when the lid broke, and shone the inside of the coffin with a fox fire, before saying, "There is no evil in the coffin." I want to see what's inside. ”

Under the light of the fox fire, there seemed to be a flickering wave in the coffin, I tried to put my hand in, and immediately touched a very smooth thing, I grabbed it, and gently pulled it outward, and when it was pulled out of the coffin, I saw clearly that it was a very dark silk cloth.

After so many years, the silk cloth has not rotted at all, and the feel is still extremely smooth.

Senior Brother Geng rushed over, looked at the things in my hand very nervously, and then looked into the coffin, and I heard him say, "Put a clay figure in the coffin, this is the door of death." ”

But I didn't respond to him, just looked at the silk cloth in my hand, and in my head, a voice repeatedly said: "Take the shroud, take the shroud......"

It was the voice of the First Ancestor.

I stood across the coffin and looked down at the silk cloth in my hand, which looked pure black in the light of the fire, as dark as the shadows in the corners of the burial chamber.

My ancestor's voice grew weaker, and I tried to ask her mentally what the cloth was for, but until her voice disappeared, my question was not answered.

Xian'er asked me on the side, "What is this thing in your hand?" ”

"The Shroud." I simply replied, folded the shroud, and put it in a waterproof bag.

Senior Brother Geng was still studying the clay figurines in the coffin, and Liang Houzai said on the side: "Since the tomb robbers entered the tomb from this place, why didn't they open the coffin?" ”

Senior Brother Geng said: "It is the rule of Tufuzi not to move the coffin. Such a rule existed in the Qin Dynasty, and the standing coffins were all soul-locking coffins, and if they moved, something big would happen. Think about it, after a person dies, he will have to stand in a coffin for hundreds or thousands of years, and he will never live in peace. That is to say, there is a way, as soon as he came in, he opened the coffin without saying a word. ”

I asked Senior Brother Geng, "Why are there clay sculptures in the coffin?" ”

"This kind of clay sculpture is wrapped in a real corpse, in order to let the corpse stand forever," Senior Brother Geng said: "This tomb should be the death door with eight golden locks, if there is a coffin in the birth gate, that coffin should be a horizontal coffin, and the coffin is empty." You see, this coffin is also made of dead wood, ah, it is ebony, this kind of wood is very carbonized, so that it can rot and not die, and it is replaced with other wood, two thousand years have passed, and this coffin has long collapsed. ”

Liu Shangang shouted behind him: "Let's go find something, let's give birth, the air quality in this place is not very good, and we can't stay for too long." ”

Senior Brother Geng touched his chin, shook his head and said: "No, the structure of this tomb is reversed, and the door of death should be the gate of life, I speculate that there should be a mechanism to open the apse here." ”

As soon as he said this, I planned to take action to help him find the mechanism in the tomb, and Liu Shangang also took out a flashlight.

Senior Brother Geng waved his hand at everyone: "Don't move." Then he said to me, "There is a way, you light a lantern and follow me." ”

With that, he touched the stone wall on the left, and I held the lantern and followed behind him.

There are also many four-legged bird reliefs on the stone wall, each with its head up and tail down, indicating that this burial chamber is also upside down.

Senior Brother Geng came to the stone wall, and carefully groped for it, and my eyes were fixed on the zenith, where there was a slight sound of running water, I estimated that outside the zenith, it should be a *** road, I am afraid that the tomb has been in disrepair for many years, and the stone slab on the zenith will fall off under the action of water pressure.

Not long after, Senior Brother Geng patted my arm and pointed to a stone brick in his hand: "Push it and see." ”

I reached out a hand and pressed hard against the stone brick, which shook a little, but it didn't sink as I had imagined.