Chapter 15: The sarcophagus

Sure enough, it was the tomb of the treasure, and I thought to myself, I really had nowhere to find it when I stepped on the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get it. Thinking of this, I can't help but feel a little excited, how many people have been trying to find the tomb for hundreds of years, but at this moment, we have found it.

The godfather analyzed the position we were in according to the structure of the dungeon, and said affirmatively: "It was a pile of figurines just now, this is the arsenal, if you guess correctly, the next place should be Baijiayuan."

"What is Baijiayuan?" "I'm a little curious.

"Come and see you. After the godfather finished speaking, he walked forward.

I followed closely and saw a stone chamber with many bronze models in it, like a shrunken house. It is very exquisitely built, there are palaces, attics, and courtyards, and the pavilions next to the attics, and the wells in the courtyards, all of which are cast vividly.

"It's all made of bronze, so it cost a lot of money at the time, right?" I sighed.

The godfather didn't think so, and explained to me lightly: "The ancient wealthy people were greedy for pleasure, and they were superstitious that they would actually go to live in another world after they died, thinking that in this way they could bring these things to another world and continue to use them. Therefore, many tombs will put a lot of funerary goods. ”

Sure enough, in the next stone room, we found a large number of burials. There is a grain storage room, and inside the clay pot still contains the food that has been carbonized. There is a wine storage room, in which the wine in the vat has long since dried up, and there are many wine utensils on the stone table. In one stone room, I even saw the bones of cattle and sheep all over the floor.

"Let's keep walking, we don't need to look at these two. Passing through the two stone chambers, the godfather said.

Curiosity got the better of me, and I asked, "Why." ”

When my godfather heard me ask, he was a little speechless for a while, and said angrily: "Since you're curious, let's let you take a look." ”

Walking into the stone room, I was immediately shocked, the room was full of neat layers of corpse skeletons stacked on top of each other, due to gravity, some of the upper skeletons had crushed the lower ones, and a few skulls even rolled to the stone door.

"They were all buried slaves." The godfather said lightly, "This is because the owner of the tomb hopes that someone will continue to serve after death." After speaking, he picked up a skeleton and said, "You can see that the teeth in the skeleton are almost smoothed out, which means that they ate poor food before they died." ”

A piece of fresh life was buried because of a nihilistic fantasy of the owner, such a scene, I was a little difficult to accept for a while.

"After that, you will get used to it, some king-level tombs, there are hundreds of people buried with you. After speaking, the godfather came over and patted me on the shoulder: "Let's go, there is the main hall in front." ”

Before coming to the main hall, the godfather suddenly stopped, put down his backpack and rummaged through.

He took out a long rope from his backpack, smeared it on the rope with chicken blood, and said as he wiped it: "Such a big tomb, it's too calm all the way over, it's a little abnormal, we have to be careful." Come, bring your folding knife and smear some chicken blood. ”

After making the rope, he took out a few more pieces of yellow paper, lit them, and put them on the ground.

I once asked my godfather why he had to burn yellow paper every time, and my godfather told me that this was the rule of the ancestors, one was to express the intention to visit the tomb and ask for the blessing of the lord; the second is to burn the money to buy the road, and ask the evil ghosts to make way; Third, you can also test whether there is oxygen in the tomb.

Entering the main hall, I saw that the whole site was divided into two sides, and on the left were four tall stone pillars, with a stone tower in the middle of the stone pillars. On the right is a huge sarcophagus, in front of which there are several black figures.

I was startled, and hurriedly used my headlamp to shine on the figures, only to find that they were several stone statues.

After a false alarm, I walked quickly to the sarcophagus and said excitedly, "The treasure should be inside." Hope to find the Seven Star Lantern this time. ”

The godfather didn't speak, but approached the stone statue to observe. These are three pairs of stone statues, two in a group, the first group is carved with two people stepping on colorful clouds, holding a small figure with their hands stretched out opposite each other. The second group is two people dressed in ethnic costumes facing each other, holding a baby. The third group is even more bizarre, carving two dwarfs facing each other, holding a coffin in both hands.

After reading it, the godfather said: "There is a saying in Nanxiyi that after death, the soul will be divided into three parts. One goes with the gods, another is left for loved ones, and the third remains in the cemetery. That's what these stone statues mean. ”

I was a little impatient and pointed to the thick coffin lid: "Don't look at it, let's find a way to open the sarcophagus first." ”

The lid of the coffin was too thick, in fact, it was a huge stone slab fastened tightly to the sarcophagus. I tried to move it hard, but I couldn't move it at all.

Seeing this, the godfather also came up to help, and the two of us worked together to breastfeed, but the coffin lid still didn't move. I said, "No, the lid is too heavy, we have to think of something else." ”

The godfather took out the iron drill from his backpack and stepped forward to try to pry it a few times, but it still didn't work. Seeing this, I also took out a shovel and smashed it at the sarcophagus, but it was still useless. I was a little unconvinced, turned around and returned to the weapons room just now, found a bronze Daguan knife, and slashed it according to the lid of the coffin. The sound of "bang" shook my mouth numb, and the sarcophagus was still unscathed except for a string of sparks.

After a few times, I looked at the sarcophagus with some discouragement and said with fantasy: "It would be nice if there was a heavy hammer now." ”

"Wouldn't it be better to have a crane, just lift the lid of the coffin, and save you from smashing it." The godfather said angrily: "Let's go, go over there and see if there is any way." “

After listening to my godfather, I threw down the knife and followed him towards the stone pillar.

Approaching the stone pillars, I found that it was a little weird, each pillar was carved with a group of people chasing firebirds and tigers, and there were many strange patterns and some incomprehensible symbols carved at the upper end, and the strangest thing was that there was a large jar on the top of the pillar.

I asked my godfather, "What are these strange things?" ”

The godfather carefully observed around the stone pillar for a while, then looked up at the big altar, and finally shook his head and replied: "The tiger and the fire crow are the totems of the southwest Yi, and I have never seen the altar on the top. However, looking at this arrangement, it should be a sacrificial altar. ”

"If it's an altar, then there should be something very important in the stone tower, right?" I thought to myself as I slowly approached the stone tower. "Hey, there is a small stone gate at the top of the tower."

The stone tower was a bit high, and I jumped out of reach, so I turned around and got a shovel and carefully tossed it towards the stone gate.

Seeing me go to the small stone gate," the godfather instructed, "Don't be too reckless, you be careful." But soon he was speechless with astonishment.

As the small stone door opened, we both stared at the contents of the stone tower in amazement......