Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Secret Passage Next to the Tomb
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This turned out to be a hole!
Are there already others who have taken the lead?
The monkey and I had very ugly faces, looked at each other, and walked over.
"There is no trace of excavation!" The monkey touched the wall and breathed a sigh of relief. "But how does it feel like something knocked it down? And also...... How can there be a space behind this wall? ā
The light shone into the hole, reflecting the opposite wall. Look at a passage, but who would dig a passage next to the tomb? The owner of the tomb would not have done that. Tomb robbers wouldn't do that. If someone wants to rob the tomb, just dig it into the ancient tomb.
I lit a cold firework and threw it in. A faint glow lit up in the narrow corridor.
"Let's take a look first." The monkey drew his dagger, held it to his chest, hooked his head, and got into it first.
Except for that small patch of light, everything else was pitch black, with no end in sight. Darkness always makes people feel uncomfortable.
The monkey walked to the side of the road, touched the side wall of the road, frowned, and said, "Looking at the chisel marks, this secret passage seems to lead to the main tomb, could it be that the main tomb has been stolen?" No, the traces of this excavation were almost not long after the tomb was built. The seal is too old. The owner of this grave can't be so unlucky, right? ā
I also looked around. Suddenly, the light shone on a miserable white object.
The monkey also saw it, and was stunned for a moment, and then looked towards the place.
This turned out to be a book!
It landed messily in the middle of the aisle, and although it was yellowed, it was still very glaring compared to the dark sand.
The monkey puts on gloves and picks it up. He said softly: "It's good that this place is relatively dry, otherwise it would have been a pile of mud!" I flipped through it, and it was full of vigorous square words, which were a man's handwriting.
"It's been so long, this is a treasure!" The monkey smirked, "If it's not in the ancient tomb, it's not a tomb robbery!" ā
I was speechless, this guy was actually doing business again.
He suddenly said "Huh" and said, "This is not a Chinese character!" ā
Not kanji? I was stunned, didn't I say that Chinese characters are the only square characters in this world? Could it be that this thing is not on Earth?
The monkey came up to me and asked, "Tongzi, do you see if you recognize these words?" ā
I shook my head, these characters are indeed square characters, but I don't recognize a single word, not to mention that I am not in the antique industry, and I have not studied ancient Chinese characters at all. Even if it's a kanji, I don't recognize it.
"Maybe it's the Tangut script!" I guess it's authentic. Tangut Chinese characters are also square characters. Although this dynasty has existed for less than 200 years, they have created their own script. Of course, this is not to say how good they are, in fact, the Western Xia is a copy of the Southern Song Dynasty, they learn from the Central Plains everywhere, but they have to deliberately be different from the Central Plains, and they have left many mysteries through the ages. Take this Tangut script, for example.
In fact, it often takes a long time for a script to appear. For example, Chinese characters, if you count from the oracle bone inscription of the Shang Dynasty, they have a history of more than 3,000 years. The Tanguts, on the other hand, did so by force, creating their own writing in less than two hundred years. As a result, after the fall of the dynasty, no descendants could read this script. Only archaeologists were left with a large number of Western Xia scripts that they couldn't understand.
But the question is, next to the tomb of the Mongols, how can there be a book full of Tangut scripts? Could it be that this passage was dug by the Tanguts? After they were destroyed by the Mongols, they came to dig the graves of the Mongols to vent their hatred?
"It's possible!" The monkey nodded and put the book away.
We walked into the main burial chamber and were stunned!
The decoration style of the main tomb is actually with the color of the southern Miao people!
How is this possible? This is the far northland! Moreover, we always thought that this was a mausoleum for the Mongols. Could it be that the owner of the tomb was not a Mongol?
This tomb is really evil!
On those frescoes, the costumes of the figures are particularly obvious. At first glance, you can tell that it is the costume of the Miao people. I have not seen any other people have this kind of silver ornament except for them.
Generally speaking, the frescoes record the life deeds of the tomb owner. There are also some that only serve as decorations.
I crouched down and carefully discerned the figure above. It was an immediate surprise!
There was one man who was particularly familiar.
This man turned out to be Ma Zhuo who he saw on the altar relief in that deserted village when he came out of the wormhole!
Could it be that the so-called witch fish legend is real? At least Ma Zhuo is a real person!
Ancient times are no better than modern times, there are cameras and the like. The fact that the portraits in the two places are so similar can only show that this person really exists. The painter or the engraver has seen this person, and if it is only based on imagination, two people cannot imagine one person as one. This is what is commonly said that for a thousand readers, there are a thousand Hamorets.
If it goes down like this, doesn't that mean that in the coffin in the main burial chamber, the person buried is Ma Zhuo?
The murderous grave in Wazi Village, in fact, I have always suspected that it is the burial place of Ma Zhuo. But there was nothing in that grave.
This makes it even more certain that this is Ma Zhuo's tomb.
The monkeys have also seen reliefs of the legend of the witch fish. I could tell that his eyes were full of disbelief.
"Do you want to open the coffin and take a look?" He asked, eager to try.
"Isn't that right? And we got to the main tomb early. ā
"It's fine!" He smiled, "It won't take much time to open the coffin." ā
I muttered to myself that I had never done anything like this before, even though I didn't think it was right. But I also thought a little in my heart, and the reason is very simple. It's so exciting.
I guess after the monkey went to the ground, his old problem of robbing the tomb recurred, and he couldn't help but itch his hands when he saw the coffin.
He said while putting on gloves: "Tongzi, have you brought any electronic devices such as mobile phones?" ā
I asked, "What's wrong?" Bring your phone! ā
"You turn him off!" He said, "It's not good to bring this thing into the ancient tomb, something will happen!" ā
"Don't scare me! It's just a mobile phone, where can something happen? Could it be that these ancients still couldn't see these high-tech things and wanted to deceive corpses? ā
"You just turn it off! Anyway, it's not a good thing! Also, don't touch the corpse with your hands for a while, and wear gloves. ā
"Why?"
"Trick corpses!"
I was shocked, are there really zombies? Isn't it someone else's?
The monkey rubbed his hands together and inserted a crowbar into the gap in the coffin. I followed his example and inserted a crowbar into it.
I stood diagonally with him and shouted one-two-three, while pressing the crowbar down.
With a few crunching sounds, the tenons all came out.
However, we didn't expect that there was an inner coffin inside!
"! It seems that this guy's status is quite high! It's good for ordinary people to have a coffin to be buried! The poor family just went for a straw mat. This guy even has an inner coffin! The monkey cursed and continued to open the inner coffin.
The moment the lid of the inner coffin was pushed open, the monkey and I looked at each other and looked at each other!