The candlelight in the corner of the burial chamber is closest to us is the three candles arranged in the same position as the three demon coffins in the room, and arranged in the shape of "△"; This light is familiar to me, and it must be the three candles that the fat man has just lit.

To the right of the three candles, however, there are two other rows of faint blue light standing vertically on the wall, three or three in a row, which can only make one perceive the presence of light in a dark place, while the dark blue light source itself has no illumination; The black place was still so dark, only in this pitch darkness there were six more dim blue ghost fires.

The huge bronze coffin hanging on the copper ring was also making a burst of copper and iron friction sounds, I thought to myself that this must be the sound of zombies scratching the coffin lid inside, *** how did you encounter a corpse as soon as you entered the underworld! Didn't I wipe the dust off the copper coffin with my hand just now, and the ancient corpse in the coffin felt the vitality of the living? No, I remember wearing gloves.

After thinking about it again, not to mention where the six ghost fires came from, the life lamps of the three of us Captain Touching Gold are still there, and the location is not bad at all, so there is no sign of corpse mutation or ghosts and other filthy things in this tomb at least so far, but I don't know what is going on.

When I thought of this, I calmed down and shouted in the tomb: "Commander Wang, what are you *** picking up again?" Get out of here, or military law will deal with it! ”

I saw the fat man peeking out from the other end of the bronze coffin and asked, "Commander Hu, are you looking for me?" I have unveiled a good thing from this bronze coffin, as if it were gold. With that, he walked over holding a round metal object.

I took it and saw that it was a bronze mirror, and when I wiped off the dust on it, the surface of the bronze mirror was still bright and not rusty; The back is rusty, and the mirror is decorated with a circle of golden stones, which can easily be mistaken for gold. Although the back of the copper mirror is tattered, it gives people a unique decadent beauty of ancient cultural relics. Could it be the thousand-year-old corpse that is restraining inside? I've never heard of anything like this. I gave the mirror to the fat man and said, "This is a bronze mirror, and the back is inlaid with stone, not gold." Hurry up and put it back where you got it, let's take a big deal at the moment, don't delay the business for these insignificant artifacts. ”

Shirley Yang asked the fat man, "How many candles did you light in the southeast corner of the tomb just now?" ”

When the fat man heard Shirley Yang ask about this, he couldn't help but wonder: "Three branches! Anyway, I'm also a cultural person, can I still not know how to count? Look at ......" he said, turning his head to look, he was dumbfounded, he also saw that in addition to the three candles, there were six other dim blue lights—it seemed that those were also fires, because the fire source was too weak to burn fully, so the light emitted was blue, the same as the ghost fire in the deserted grave.

I saw that the six ghostly blue lights were really not the work of the fat man, but as long as the three candles were not extinguished, there would not be much danger, so I should go over and see clearly. The three coffins in the burial chamber are all sturdy and will take some time to open, so if there is really any sign of evil, nip it in the bud as soon as possible, and the quail will be sullen and smuggling, so it will be > be stopped

Candles can be lit in the burial chamber, indicating that oxygen is gradually increasing. I first scanned it with a flashlight, but in the absolutely dark space buried deep in the underground of the tomb, the air was somewhat impurities, and I didn't see anything there after a long time.

I didn't think I could see clearly through the heavy goggles of the gas mask, so I temporarily took off the gas mask and hung it on my chest, changed into a pair of masks and put them on, carried Miai, and led Shirley Yang and the fat man over to check.

The location of the strange blue light is on the side of the door of the tomb, because the area of the tomb in this yin palace is not small, the candles lit by the fat man in the corner of the wall are relatively concentrated, the candle light is very limited, the distance between the two light sources is about eight or nine meters away, and no one can illuminate anyone.

Walking five meters away from the ghost fire, the wolf's eyes could already illuminate the tomb wall clearly. As soon as we entered the burial chamber, we were attracted by the three coffins in the center, and the range of light sources we carried with us was limited, so we didn't notice that there was anything else by the door of the inner chamber.

The first to come into range of the wolf's eyes was a strange face covered in black scales, this face had no lips, only two rows of open sharp teeth, and the faint light of the ghostly fire came from its mouth.

When the fat man and I first saw such an abominable and terrible face, the first thought in our hearts was that it was an evil ghost, and we forgot to wonder whether the bullet would work, and we lifted the "Chicago typewriter" that had been on fire for a long time, and immediately wanted to shoot.

Shirley Yang has night eyes, and her eyesight is very good, and she often sees more clearly in the dark than me and the fat man, and she suddenly said, "It's the black scale merman...... It doesn't matter, they are all dead, it turns out that this is the everlasting lamp and the candle in the ancient tomb. ”

I slowly lowered the muzzle of the raised gun, we had talked about the eternal lamp in the underground palace not long ago, and I didn't expect to meet it as soon as I entered, and I couldn't help but be a little curious: "Is there really a mermaid in the world?" Isn't that just an ancient name for manatees? He took a few steps closer to see what the black-scaled mermaid looked like.

I saw that they were two copper pillars embedded in the tomb wall, and each copper pillar was divided into six half-human, half-fish monster corpses tied to the top, middle, and bottom. The upper body of these mermaids resembles that of a woman, and they also have two breasts, and their necks are very thin, and their gills are long on the neck; However, they do not have human skin, and are covered in large, sparse black scales all over their bodies, except for their abdomen.

The corpse seems to have undergone special treatment, dry and black, and did not decay in the underworld, and there are chains on the copper pillar to wear the six mermaids through the pipa bone, making a crouching and kneeling posture, locked on the copper pillar, and just lined up evenly from top to bottom. Their mouths were surprisingly large, all wide open, and I looked in with a wolf-eye flashlight to see that the merman's throat was blocked by something white like asbestos, and there was a section of velvet stuck in its dry and stiff tongue, which was burning with a dull blue light.

The fat man curiously poked the mermaid with the barrel of Miai's gun, and the corpse was already hardened: "It's not the same as the mermaid I imagined, but the victory is strange, it's all dead, it seems that it is useless to sell it to the zoo; Our capital's natural history museum really lacks such a specimen. ”

I saw that although this black-scaled merman was strange, it was just an ordinary immortal candle in this underground palace - it was a prop used to symbolically indicate that since the tomb owner's body was destroyed, the soul still existed - I immediately put down my hanging heart, took out a cigarette, lit the blue fire in the mermaid's mouth, spit the smoke ring on the fat man's face, and said to him: "Commander Wang's consciousness this time is still relatively high, and he did not think only of individuals, but first considered the big collective of the country. You carry it back to the Museum of Natural History, fill in the gap in this field, and maybe even hang it with a certificate. ”

Shirley Young told me: "This is not the first time that the bones of mermaids have been found in many people around the world, and the U.S. Navy has caught one alive." It is said that the ointment of the mermaid in the sea not only has a very low ignition point, but also can be burned for several months with only one drop, and the oil is often used as a perpetual lamp in the tombs of nobles in ancient times. However, I have never heard of the candle directly made from the corpse of the merman, and I think it is related to the legend of the Qin and Han dynasties that the fairy mountain was in the sea. ”

I thought of the immortal candle recorded in detail in the ancient Chinese mausoleum system, and my heart suddenly sank, and I said to Shirley Yang: "You only know one and two, but you don't know the third." Legend has it that the East China Sea mermaids are the most sexually, bloodthirsty, and live under an island formed of dead coral in the middle of the sea. The coral caves crisscrossed the island and the depths are unknown, and there is the old nest of the mermaid. They made a noise in the nearby seas, attracting passing sea ships and merchants, and the victims were all eaten to the bone. Someone caught a live black-scaled merman, slaughtered it to dry, poured it with ointment, and made a long-lived candle, worth 3,000 gold beads. I had heard these stories from my grandfather before, and I thought they were just stories, but now they seem to be true. In addition, the closed and stable micro-environment in this burial chamber has been broken by us, and the velvet ignites when it encounters air, so these ...... I don't think it's surprising that the ghost fire suddenly lit up. ”

The strangest thing is that there are a total of six immortal candles, according to the mausoleum system, the immortal candles in the underground palace are only available in the tomb, which is different from the 10,000-year-old lamp - an immortal candle, which corresponds to an important corpse in the tomb, of course, the martyr cannot use it; For example, in the tomb of husband and wife, there are often two immortal candles in front of the coffin.

The fat man counted with his fingers: "There are only three coffins in the tomb, plus the three of us living people are enough to count, ** his ancestor's!" Could it be that we are even included? ”

Shirley Yang shook his head and said, "No, I don't think the king should be in the middle of the tomb in the three coffins; Although his coffin could not get out of the confines of this tomb, it must have been hidden very deeply. And these three sets of coffins are more ancient, and the bones of them represent the previous life of the king, plus the king, these are four corpses. Lao Hu once said that the animal carvings on the Sanshi Bridge have a pair of male and female, and this king's tomb is a joint burial tomb, which means that there are at least five corpses here, but in this way, the number of corpses and immortal candles still does not match......"

As he spoke, a gust of wind drifted by, and the three candles in the southeast corner of the tomb were extinguished, and the screeching sound of nails scratching metal came from the bronze coffin behind him; In the silent and gloomy underground palace, this kind of sound can deeply impact the human cerebral cortex, causing people to have a strong overwhelming sense of fear from the inside out. We immediately turned around, and the fat man said to me: "Promise Chairman Mao that I really didn't do it this time." ”

I said to him, "The organization has always believed in you, but now the time has come to test you!" Go and see what's in the bronze coffin...... No, *** what the hell! Look at the end of the coffin, why did there come out of three big ghost fires with one word in parallel? Are there nine bones here? ”