Chapter 8: The Marquis of Kaiyang
Everyone's faces changed drastically, and Professor Lan roared hysterically, "Danger! Hurry back! All out! It's dangerous here! ”
Lu Xiaonan stared at the bird-like thing, and saw that the blood-red eyes were full of madness, and there seemed to be flames beating on the outstretched wings, and the roaring sound waves pierced into the depths of people's minds as pervasively, and the brain hurt as if it had been pricked by a needle, and several students who were slow to respond fell down in pain with their heads in their arms.
"Run!" Professor Lan kicked him in the ass as he grabbed two students and dragged him out.
Belch? Lu Xiaonan was alert to the idea of escaping, his skills were flexible, and his speed was extremely fast, he endured the stinging pain in his head, pulled the last student who was holding his head and howling and rolling the student, and rushed to the tomb in a few arrow steps, which was originally at the end, but in the end he was almost the first to escape from the ground, and he was a weight-bearing obstacle course champion alive, and then the crowd of people who were screaming all escaped, many people were bloodless due to fright, and they fell to the ground as soon as they came out of the ancient tomb, and several girls cried out bitterly. It is estimated that the things in it are not good, but fortunately, the thing did not chase out, but when it reached the outer tomb, it fell as if it was forbidden, otherwise, just the pain that pierced the brain was enough to make these people fall ninety out of nine, if they escaped to the city, or would cause more damage, it was terrifying to think about.
Although Lu Xiaonan was also very scared, this was the first time he had experienced such a terrible thing, and he was flustered for a while, but he was not too flustered, and after calming down a little, he began to count the number of students who came with him, fourteen people are not a lot, fortunately, no one is trapped in it, and it seems that there is no big problem, otherwise there will be a big mess.
He asked an old professor who was frowning next to him, "Teacher, all fourteen of our new intern students are here, and no one is injured, have all your staff over there come up?" ”
"Ahh It took a long time for the half-silver-haired old professor to react, and he called a young assistant next to him and ordered, "Xiao Cui, hurry up and check, have our people come up?" ”
What happened just now was very dangerous, but after all, the old professor had experienced a lot of winds and waves, and he had encountered such things a few times, and he returned to his former demeanor in a moment, and he saw that Lu Xiaonan was quite calm among these students who came to practice, so he couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and asked, "Are you Old Man Lan's student?" ”
Lu Xiaonan nodded, and was about to answer, but saw that the old professor's face suddenly turned pale, and he said eagerly, "By the way, what about Old Man Lan?" Old man Lan! Old man Lan, have you come up, you will squeak when you come up......"
Lu Xiaonan was also shocked, he heard Professor Lan screaming in the tomb before, and he was kicked, everyone fled in a swarm, he was fast, and he left him behind, and now he didn't see Professor Lan come out, in that dangerous situation, an old man over sixty years old was at the end again......
The old professor shouted "Old Man Lan", rushed to the tomb door with some staggering steps, but collided with a person, raised his head, grabbed the man's collar and shook it vigorously, "Old man Lan, what the hell are you doing, you scared me to death, do you know ......?"
The last person to come out of the tomb was Professor Lan, and he laughed, "Old Zhu, look at you, what are you panicking in front of juniors?" What good thing can I do for my old Lan not to call you? This little thing can't get rid of our old Lan, come and see, I've brought you something good, it's still a living thing......"
"What!" When Professor Zhu saw the glass bottle in Professor Lan's hand, he immediately shouted excitedly, and then the two hurriedly got into the tent that served as the office, and after a while, a special service vehicle escorted a encrypted box and quickly left.
Lu Xiaonan also breathed a long sigh when he saw Professor Lan coming out intact. Although he didn't like his archaeology major or not, and he didn't have a clear understanding and long-term plan for what he wanted to do in the future, but at this time, the major he was studying in front of him was a foregone conclusion and could not be changed, and he could only accept it.
These days, he has made up a lot of archaeological expertise, and he also knows that there are four famous archaeological masters in China, "Song (Song) Zhu (Zhu) Meilan", and Professor Lan and Professor Zhu, the principal and deputy captains of the archaeology of the Western Han Dynasty princely tomb, are two of them, and it is a blessing for archaeology students to be able to follow them to participate in it this time.
Lu Xiaonan originally thought that there was an accident in the tomb this time, two older archaeologists were injured and sent to the hospital, there is still a danger in the tomb, according to common sense, this archaeology should be suspended until it is confirmed that it is safe to restart, at least until reinforcements can be restarted. But Professor Lan continued the work with a word, saying, "We are the strongest team in the archaeological community, and if we can't even fix a half-abandoned ancient tomb, then we will no longer have the face to mess around." The tone was very similar to that of a soldier, and I later learned that Professor Lan had been a soldier for a few years when he was young and had participated in the counterattack against Vietnam.
Next, the archaeological team collected air samples from the tomb, and then used a blower to replace the air inside, and after some tossing, the instrument showed that the danger factor in the tomb was white, and the archaeological team finally entered it again. Half an hour later, Lu Xiaonan and the other fourteen students, who were defined by Professor Lan as not being able to grow without experiencing danger, were also notified that they could enter, and it was already noon, and the sun was shining.
Back outside the main burial chamber, the air here has long since been replaced, and the breath is almost the same as the outside world. Lu Xiaonan saw some bat-shaped ashes on the ground, there were not many of them, there were about one or twenty of them, these were the things that could emit stimulating sound waves to chase them, and at this time they had already turned into ashes when they fell to the ground, but let those who had tried its powerful taste still feel palpitations.
Lu Xiaonan couldn't help but respect the back of Professor Lan who walked into the main tomb, Professor Lan rescued two students before, and he was the last to escape from the tomb, and then after leaving the tomb, he took out a glass bottle containing a living thing, and the bottle should be the bat here, which he didn't know how to capture alive. What a shocking discovery it would be to have a living creature in an ancient tomb that has been sealed for 1,000 or 2,000 years!
As the main burial chamber opened automatically, archaeologists entered it. And Lu Xiaonan and the students, who were originally warned not to enter the main tomb, were more than half of them looking inside the door of the main tomb at this time, because they felt that it was almost time to open the coffin at the critical moment.
The main burial chamber is about fifty square meters, very wide, there is a high platform made of white marble in the middle, about ten square meters, there are four stone carvings of guards on the platform to guard a cinnabar color coffin, and the white marble high platform is scattered around a dozen servants and soldiers like terracotta figurines, from the position and scale of the terracotta figurines, it is very similar to the entourage of travel, the layout of this burial coffin is rare.
There is also an altar under the stone platform, and there are all kinds of fruits, these fruits seem to be very fresh, the luster is bright and there are water droplets, which is surprising, at this time, Professor Lan and several others are staring at these fruits dumbfounded, everyone is holding their breath, and the sound of swallowing saliva is particularly loud.
Behind the fruit bowl is an incense burner, on which a burning incense is inserted, according to Professor Lan's apprentice Zhao Kai, when Professor Lan and they entered, the incense was already burning spontaneously. At this time, the wind came from nowhere, quietly caressing the burning incense, and the burning of the incense accelerated, and it burned out in an instant, and at the same time, the fruit on the altar also charred, turning into black charcoal stains.
Professor Lan and Professor Zhu stomped their feet again and again, regretting that they had forgotten to protect these precious items in a daze, especially the incense, which should have been lost for a long time and had a very special function.
Lu Xiaonan rubbed his eyes vigorously, his eyes were on the white marble spirit card behind the incense burner, which was more than one meter high, on which was a Yin script filled with gold powder, with a faint brilliance flashing, that word Lu Xiaonan didn't recognize, but Professor Zhu read it, "The Great Han Langya Kaiyang Hou Qu Jing Gong's spiritual position", and then said, "Kaiyang Hou Qu Jing? It's a pity that this is not the mausoleum of the marquis of the Han Dynasty, but the mausoleum of the Marquis of Kaiyang in Langya County, which is much worse in terms of official rank, and there seems to be no such person in the history books. ”
"Dahan Langya Kaiyang Hou Qujing?" Lu Xiaonan whispered softly, frowning, always feeling that he had heard of this name somewhere, but when he thought about it, he really didn't have it.
"This font should be a big seal, right?" Professor Lan said, "I remember that the two Han Dynasty divided the Liu clan Langya County twice, one is the Western Han Dynasty Liu Ze first for the Langya Queen and the Yan King, the other is the Eastern Han Dynasty Liu Jing was named the Langya Duke, the history records of the seventh generation, we have to find out the identity of the tomb owner, first of all, we must figure out that it is the Langya County of that era, by the way, Lao Zhu, this font should be a big seal, you have research on this, talk about it." ”
"Judging from several special glyphs, this should be the seal script font commonly used by Qi during the Warring States Period." Professor Zhu stared at the spirit tablet carefully, "It stands to reason that since it is the mausoleum of the Han Dynasty, it should be written with the small seal of the Han Li or Qin Dynasty, which was more common at that time, but here it is used in the more ancient and less commonly used Qi State seal, which makes no sense......
"It seems that this mystery is not easy to solve, but this tomb of the Marquis of Kaiyang is very challenging, and it is much more interesting than the previous ones." As soon as Professor Lan gave the order, the staff quickly took action, and the measurement, photographing, positioning, etc. were carried out in an orderly manner, which dazzled Lu Xiaonan and the others. But their main concern is not these, but the final opening of the coffin, and all the answers may be in that huge coffin, which is also the most critical and attractive part of tomb archaeology.
What's more, this tomb has set up so many ambushes, which is uncommon in tombs of the same level, and even in the tombs of emperors, how can it be simple to have such a tomb? At the very least, it shows that this tomb is more important than some of the imperial tombs. How many marquis of the county can have such a status in history? The name of the owner of this tomb has stumped historical archaeologists like Professor Lan and Professor Zhu, and the name of Kaiyang Hou Qujing has never appeared in all kinds of official and wild histories, but the various settings of this tomb show that this is an extremely important person......