Chapter 156: Wooden Tomb
In comparison, the number and light are extremely strange to the "Immortal Candle", after all, there is no sound of nails scratching metal in the bronze coffin, and the scratching sound is particularly prominent and harsh in the oppressive underground space.
I hurriedly said to the fat man: "Although the function of the bronze mirror is unknown, it is very likely to be used to suppress the ancient corpse in the copper coffin, you quickly give it to me, and I will go back and try it first, and see if it can still work." ”
The fat man handed the bronze mirror to me, I took the bronze mirror, and asked the fat man and Shirley Yang to ignore the "immortal candle" that had just been lit up over there, and immediately wait by the three candles.
I thought to myself: "This time I will cheat first, this time the Ming weapon is very important, I have to take it, anyway, the rule of 'the rooster cries and the lamp is not touched by the gold', we have not broken it, the ancestor has a spirit in the sky, and most of them will understand our hardships, ***, who let us make a few of our crafts a little more fashionable, and luck a little bit?" ”
We were divided into two groups, I was alone, hurried to the bronze coffin, holding the "wolf eye" flashlight, a little look, the bronze coffin side, there is a circular groove, should be embedded in the position of the copper mirror, but has been the fat man with a sapper shovel to pry a large piece, I was the sound from the coffin, stirred up, where dare to have a little delay, hurriedly put the copper mirror face inward, pressed in.
As soon as I left my hand, the bronze mirror immediately fell to the ground, because there was a gap, the original shallow groove, it was even more difficult to hang the heavy copper mirror, I quickly picked it up, re-embedded it into the bronze coffin, and held it firmly with my hand, but this is not a thing, I can't just keep pressing.
It's strange to say, as soon as the bronze mirror is embedded in the bronze coffin, the sound of scratching the metal inside immediately stopped, it seems that as I expected, the bronze mirror is mostly a magic weapon used to "suppress the corpse", each family has always had its own law, I only know how to deal with zombies by the "touch the gold captains", as for the means of those Taoists and other families, but they don't understand at all, but it doesn't matter, as long as the corpse does not change, thank God.
I was in a hurry, first I turned back to Shirley Young, asked her to relight the three candles, and then rummaged through the bag, remembering that there was tape, but I said that I couldn't find anything, there was a small packet of American chewing gum, I thought to myself that the tape was not, and I made up with this. At the moment, he stuffed it all into his mouth, chewed it wildly, and then pasted it into the place where the gap met the bronze mirror, and beat it twice with his hand, and then let it go, although it was not as firm as the original before, it was enough to deal with it for a while.
The candles on Shirley Yang and the fat man's side have all been lit, and I went over to meet them and said to them: "The candle was extinguished just now, and the flame was gone without even shaking, which shows that the ancient corpses in the tomb are not ordinarily powerful, and when it was not dark, we saw a black pig crossing the river outside, and the strange signs of the rain marquis violating the realm, which all indicate that the corpse here is angry, and it is by no means an ordinary corpse monster." ”
The fat man said, "Isn't that the zongzi in the bronze coffin?" Since it has been suppressed by the bronze mirror, it doesn't hurt. ”
I shook my head and said, "Not necessarily, what's in this bronze coffin, it's hard to draw conclusions before you look at it, and don't forget, this bronze mirror has never been touched except for being pried off by you just now, and Tianzhao has been so abnormal before, so I want to ...... I'm afraid there is something else hidden in this tomb, anyway, don't give me anything to do, and when we find the dust beads, no one will stop you as much as you want. ”
The fat man disagreed: "Why am I tossing blindly?" We are tired of dirty work along the way, but I am rushing to do it, the eyes of the masses are bright, I have always been a hard-working old scalper, Commander Hu, if you always slander me like this, then I will have to raise my eyebrows and point coldly at Qianfu, bow my head and be willing to be a son of a cow. ”
I couldn't help but laugh and said: "My Commander Wang, for the sake of the party-state, can you also stop for a while, why didn't I find out before, you are quite good at beautifying yourself, but does Ruzi Niu have so much meat from you?" You are a fat cow, don't talk to me now, the most important thing for us is to go and see what is going on with the three new immortal candles, he***, how many corpses are there in this palm-sized tomb? ”
After I finished speaking, I took the fat man and Shirley Yang, passed between the three sets of demon coffins, and came to the "immortal candles" lined up, where there are three copper pillars embedded in the tomb wall, but there are no lamps made of "black-scaled sharks" here, and the materials of these three "immortal candles" are far more terrifying than the hideous six mermaid lamps.
This is three obese boys about eleven or twelve years old, made of the appearance of "leading the boy", the posture of the "leading boy" is the same as the mermaid, and it is also made to kneel and bow down, bow his head and close his eyes, his demeanor is very peaceful, and the wick is placed at the navel, and he pokes out a long section, and the belly of the "leading boy" is connected with the copper pillar behind him, and the copper pillar and the human skin may be full of oil in the past, which can flow out through the navel.
But these ointments may have been running out as early as a thousand years ago, and the wick was extinguished early soon after the closure of the underground palace, and at this time, as the air gradually entered the depths of the tomb, the remaining ointment on the three "leading boy" lamps burned again after two thousand years, but it would not be long before the residual lamp oil was exhausted, and it should be completely extinguished forever.
Shirley Yang sighed: "Gandhi of India once pointed out the seven deadly sins of destroying mankind, two of which are politics without morality, science without humanity, and these children have become victims of the ancient emperor's immortal spring dream......"
I said to Shirley Yang: "The burial of boys and girls was very common before the Ming Dynasty, and it was rare after Hongwu, and I have seen it several times, which shows that the closer the era is to modern times, the more the dream of becoming immortal and immortal is considered hopeless by the world." ”
The fat man held the "wolf eye" flashlight, looked back and forth on the three "leading boys", looked at it for a while, turned his head and said to me: "Commander Hu, take a look, this kid is still holding a sign in his hand, what does the word on it mean?" ”
I squatted down and looked at the position that the fat man said, and sure enough, each of the "leading boys" was made into a hard iron sheet, and each held a bronze medal with four ancient characters written on it, it didn't know me, and I didn't know it, so I had to let Shirley Yang identify it.
Shirley Yang half-knelt on the ground, looked at it with a flashlight, and said that these four words were "Receiving Immortals and Attracting Saints".
I nodded and said: "I dare to assert this, it is exactly the same as the legend, these three living immortal candles, that is, the guiding boys, are the brand-holding boys who lead the way for those who become immortals, probably the role of the messenger, and the old thief who sacrifices the king is also thoughtful, but after all, it is still a form of 'immortal candle', is there really nine corpses in this tomb?" I can't count that much. ”
Shirley Young stood up, took a few steps to the side, turned to me and said, "There are more than nine. There is also one of the largest candles of immortality...... But because it was so big, it couldn't light up anymore. ”
The fat man and I walked to Shirley Yang's side, and sure enough, I saw a pure black copper lamp ten times larger than the merman's immortal candle, the copper lamp caused the shape of a big bull's head, vigorous and simple, because the wick was too heavy, it had fallen to the ground, for the number of immortal candles and the number of tomb owners equal to the number of mausoleum systems, I am absolutely sure that it is 1:1, and why are there ten "immortal candles" in this underground palace? Even if the three "leading boys" may not be counted, there are still seven.
What other important people's bodies are here? Except for the princess, the rest of the important ministers should be buried in the tomb at a certain distance from here, who are the ten bones? I can't figure it out.
Shirley Yang also said that it was difficult to understand, only the fat man said: "What's all the fuss about, probably because he has more wives, let's not seep into it, hurry up and get rich, and it is the top priority to fight and touch the gold." How many corpses there are, open the coffin and count them, and naturally it is clear. ”
I said to the fat man: "It is really rare that you also have a time when you are also sensible, it seems that in the long-term and difficult and complicated environment of struggle, you have finally begun to mature. If you want to be at home, let's rush this, and we should also eat a meal of noodles. ”
We originally planned to open the most valuable coffin first, but after a little consideration, we felt that the three coffins had to be opened anyway, so we should choose the most ferocious bronze coffin to start first, fight a tough battle first, gnaw off the hardest bone, and the rest will be easy to deal with, even if there are real zombies, as long as you are prepared in advance, you can also ensure that you are safe, if the dignified "Touching the Golden Captain" is scared away by the corpse that has not yet undergone corpse transformation, I am afraid that it will also make people laugh when they say it. The bronze hanging coffin, not less than one meter above the ground, and the height of the coffin was nearly two meters, and the end was a behemoth, which was tied several turns with chains, reinforced with nine locks, and hung on the top floor of the tomb with sixteen large copper rings, which may be connected by a load-bearing copper beam
Shirley Young told me: "The bronze coffin was hanging in the air, and it was difficult to open it, so you had to find a way to lower it to the ground. ”
I raised the flashlight and shone it upwards, touching Captain Jin's "corpse net" and "corpse rope", which really couldn't be used in mid-air, so I had to go up first, remove those copper rings, and let them fall, so that although it was possible to break the copper coffin, I couldn't think of a better way for a while.
So I climbed up with the claws of the flying tiger, on this huge bronze coffin, I could no longer stand up straight, as soon as I looked up, the mountaineering helmet hit the top of the tomb, I had to bend down slightly, and a little walking, the bronze coffin shook a little, the copper ring made a dull metal sound, but the copper ring chain was very strong, not easy to break it, I held down a few times on it, trying to see if I could use my own weight, the copper ring was broken.
As soon as I stepped on, I heard a hard and crisp broken sound from the top of my head, and the breaking sound gradually expanded, my heart was not good, it seems that it has been hanging too much in this year, and the fatigue of several stress points has reached the end of the oil lamp, the chain is not broken, and the copper beam above is going to break first, so as not to be smashed, and he immediately turned over and rolled down from the air.
There are two thousand pounds of copper coffin did not last long, hanging a copper ring first fell off from the copper beam, the rest of the force point is naturally difficult to support, immediately smashed down from above, this time naturally deafening, the ground shook the mountain, but did not expect the bronze coffin to be on the ground of the tomb, smashed a big hole, down came a few sound of the collapse of the rotten wood, the bronze coffin on the ground also stayed for a moment, and sank into the hole smashed by it.
The three of us hurried over to look at the ground, and saw that under the cracked tomb bricks, there were pitch-black square logs, each of which was the thickness of an adult's body, and it was densely built, but it was seriously eroded by sewage, and it had rotted to a very serious extent, and these woods were not black before, they were all eroded by sewage, and the bronze coffin smashed through these rotten woods and fell into the depths.
I immediately threw down a cold fireworks, suddenly in front of me, there is a bucket room built with square wood below, very low and narrow, in addition to the copper coffin that fell, there is a very special coffin next to it, with a faint fluorescence, not like the worldly things at all, we are in the tomb under the floor tiles, and the following square wood in the interlayer, a very thick layer of lime, have become white mud, the environment below is wet and damp, the smell of wet and rotten rot rushed up.
Although I wore a mask, I still felt slightly suffocated, covered my nose and said to the fat man and Shirley Yang: "It turns out that the old thief of the king is hiding in the front of this brick tomb, this is a tomb similar to a wooden coffin (or wrapping) tomb, I didn't expect to be smashed by a heavy bronze coffin, revealed, otherwise it is really not easy to find, some people say that this is a coincidence, but I think this is fate, his dust beads, not out of this moment, must be in our bag." ”
The fat man picked up a bronze mirror from the ground and said to me, "Commander Hu, you don't have a strong mirror to stick to......"
I was stunned at first, thinking that this time it was a big trouble, and I forgot about the bronze mirror, and took a look, fortunately it was not damaged, as long as I put it back again, but I looked down at the wooden coffin tomb again, and I couldn't help but cry bitterly, the chain that locked the coffin was broken, and most of the nine heavy locks fell off, and the lid of the copper coffin ...... also fell away, and in the trance light, there seemed to be several unimaginably long "nails" poking out of the gaps, which could be regarded as crooked, and there was indeed another corpse in the underworld.