Chapter 33: The Treasure

Behind the gate was a long, narrow ramp downward, the slope was extremely steep, and Shirley Young threw down a cold fire, which rolled for a long time before it came to an end, and where the cold smoke stopped, its light was too small to be seen.

I gasped, if this was really a graveyard, it would be too long, there were no bodies nearby, and if there was an ambush on this ramp, then those who had come in before would have left some traces.

Even so, we didn't dare to be careless, and if we took a wrong step, we could be crushed, and I looked carefully at the surroundings as I walked, and it seemed that something was not quite right, but I couldn't remember what was wrong.

Shirley Young said to me, "Have you seen that there are no rats here? ”

I nodded and said, "Exactly, I just felt that something was wrong, and when you said this, I found out that the gate here is ajar, and there is a stone bridge connecting it, and there are so many rats in the underground palace, why can't you see half of them here?" …… Not only are there no rats, but there are no rat droppings or rat hair on the ground. Could it be that the rats, by their animal instincts, sensed that this was a forbidden place full of dangers? ”

Shirley Yang didn't answer, walked down a few more steps, and suddenly turned back to me and said, "Can you tell the truth, have you ever robbed tombs?" ”

I never expected her to answer this question, I was speechless for a while, I don't know how to answer, because these people who traveled with me this time are all engaged in archaeological work, although archaeology and tomb robbery are similar in a sense, but after all, there is a fundamental difference, it can be said that water and fire are incompatible, my matter is extremely confidential, how did she know?

Shirley Yang saw that I didn't speak, so he said: "I just guessed, and suddenly I thought of it and asked you, I think you know so many long-lost feng shui secret techniques, and you are no stranger to all kinds of ancient tombs, it seems that you know more than your own backyard, but it really seems to be a bit like a tomb robber." ”

I scolded in my heart: "Stinky woman, it turned out to be a random guess, and it almost scared me out of heart disease." ”

On the surface, I pretended to be calm, and said to Shirley Yang: "This is my family skill, my grandfather was a famous feng shui master in ten miles and eight towns before liberation, and he specialized in giving people guidance in the yin house. My father has been a soldier all his life, and he didn't learn this set of things, and I just have a little hobby, don't you know that I am a person, I just like to study, Comrade Lei Feng's nail spirit, in the final analysis, is a study ......" Later, I diverted the topic and avoided talking to her about things like feng shui tomb robbing.

We walked for a long time, and finally came to the end of the ramp, but there is no way here, the surrounding space is unusually large, except for the foot of the road, under the ramp is a platform, on the platform stands hundreds of giant pupil stone statues, the edge of the platform is a steep mountain wall, looking up, you can't see the top of your head, it's all pitch black.

There is a huge underground cavity in front of it, I can't see how big it is, and the concentrating light that can shine 20 meters can't reach the end at all. However, if you look closely around this platform, it does not look like the underground cave depicted in the murals of the heavenly brick figurines.

"It is possible that the Queen's coffin is still underneath, and after she is buried, the Elite will destroy the part that connects to this place, so that no one can disturb the Queen's peace," said Shirley Young. ”

I smiled and said, "That's right, let's go back ...... now" Before I finished speaking, I saw Shirley Yang take out three cold fireworks and throw them off the platform respectively, she wanted to see how deep it was underneath.

The two of us went to the edge of the platform and looked down, only to see the cold fireworks falling not far below, it turned out that the difference between the platform was not large, only about 30 meters.

By the light of the fireworks, I saw a large flat land below, and there were all kinds of gold and silver utensils, pearls and gems, and chalcedony like a hill on the ground, and I exclaimed: "Damn, it turns out that all these good things are here, and it seems that the coffin of the Magnificent Queen must be down there." There is just no way down. ”

At this time, Shirley Young found a rope ladder at one end of the platform, which hung from a large rock that grew with the platform, and hung down from the side of the platform, with old-fashioned safety locks fastened at both ends.

Shirley Yang said: "This may have been left by explorers who have come before, although the rope ladder is strong, after all, it is too old, let's go back to the stone bridge first to get the rope ladder we brought ourselves." ”

I said, "Of course it's easy to do this, but have you ever wondered why the explorers who came here before didn't take them with them, those foreigners are not good things, if you say it sounds good, you are explorers, and if it doesn't sound good, you are thieves who come to China to steal things. ”

Shirley Yang said: "I understand what you mean, you mean that they will never enter the treasure mountain and return empty-handed, the reason why these treasures are left here untouched is because there are traps such as traps such as traps and beasts below. ”

I said, "Yes, that's what it means, there is no such thing as pie in the sky, and the simpler it seems, the more complicated it is to do." Do you remember what Anliman said about an ancient curse in the Black Desert? Whoever takes the treasures of the Black Desert will be buried in the Black Desert forever with them. ”

Shirley Yang said: "This legend is also recorded in the Tang Dynasty Western Regions Chronicles, the city that was buried in the black desert is called Luo Luojialai, I don't think this curse is a problem, Professor Chen They are all archaeologists, they will not touch these things casually, what I am most worried about is your fat partner, you have to take care of him." ”

I said angrily, "Why do you say this, and the two of us look like thieves? I'm telling you that we're all poor, and I can vouch for it with my head, and if I say that I can't move anything here, my buddy won't take it. You better take care of yourself first, think about how many good things the Eight-Nation Coalition came to China to kill people and set fires in the year of Gengzi. You are the United States in these eight countries, right? Who do you have to think we're thieves? ”

Shirley Yang was so angry that his face turned white: "So you think I'm like a thief?" ”

As soon as I thought that she had saved me no matter what she said, what I had just said was indeed a bit excessive, so I had to endure my temperament and accompany him, and the two of them went back the same way, this time no one spoke, and the atmosphere was dull and frightening.

Professor Chen and the others had been waiting impatiently, and when they saw that we had finally returned, they hurriedly asked for details, and I fetched a pot of water in the dark river, and described the following situation while drinking, and Shirley Yang added another part.

Professor Chen and his students heard that there was indeed a cave below, and the fat man was overjoyed when he heard that there were a large number of burial goods below.

I walked at the end, and when I went in, I touched the jack gate, if the damn it fell, no one would be able to get out, but there were so many explosives, so there was no need to worry, thinking of this, I felt a lot more relieved, bowed my head, and walked into the cemetery.

Everyone was busy preparing rope ladders on the platform, I estimated that at this time, it was useless for me to persuade them, so I had to tell the fat man not to take down the things on the side, I don't believe what bullshit curses, but I can't let Shirley Yang grab the handle, we have to win glory for the countrymen.

The fat man said: "Lao Hu, don't worry, we are also a man, we can't fall here, no matter what it is this time, I will take a mouse hair." He thought about it and added: "If you want to take it, you will take it when you come back." ”

After the rope ladder was placed, I was still the first to go down as a sharp soldier, and I saw that there were no rats in the vicinity, and at first I thought that there might be that kind of black strange snake below, so the rats did not dare to come down.

But after I went down, I found that there was a death-like silence here, not to mention rats and poisonous snakes, not even a small insect ant, there were a lot of bronze lampstands nailed on the nearby rock wall, all made into the shape of lamp slaves, lamp slaves knelt down on their knees to hold the treasure lamp, the lamp oil in the lamp had already been burned dry, these copper lamps one by one, I can't count how many, just take out one to the market, with this technology, this era, this source, this history, absolutely worth a lot of money.

Standing on top of the pile of treasures, my heart swayed, I had to hold back, I really couldn't do it without concentration, the only way was not to look at those good things, try to distract myself, I blew the whistle, and the people waiting for the signal climbed down the rope ladder one after another.

Everyone who came down was stunned by this mountain of treasures, so many rare treasures were scavenged from the countries of the Western Regions back then, even Professor Chen couldn't name them one by one, but one thing was certain, which one was very valuable.

The fat man's eyes were straight, and he had forgotten the promise he had given me on the platform, and reached out to grab the nearest jade wine jug.