Chapter Ninety-One: The Coffin of the Soul

"Why did you see the coffin as soon as you came in, shouldn't it be in the main burial chamber, could this be the main burial chamber?" I was surprised. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Uncle Li made a stop gesture and motioned for us not to go any further, and then walked over cautiously by himself, circling the bronze coffin twice, during which he also attached his ears to it from time to time and tapped it twice with his hand to listen to the sound.

After a long time, he turned to us and said, "This is not a coffin for burial, the real main coffin will be divided into several layers, the outer coffin and the inner coffin, which is much larger than this." ”

"What? Bigger than that?! I couldn't help but let out an exclamation. I usually look at the coffins used by other people's funerals and I already think it is very big, and the bronze coffin in front of me is one size bigger than that, but Uncle Li said that the main coffin is much larger than the bronze coffin, and it is divided into several layers, which is simply unimaginable.

He went on to say, "The coffin should be empty, and it is called a coffin, which is placed in the front hall of the tomb to guide the souls of the dead to find their home and pray for the safety of the souls after death." Usually high-ranking nobles would put such a coffin in their tombs. ”

Looking at the coffin in front of me, I couldn't help but sigh secretly, there are really a lot of rich people, such a coffin must cost a lot of money, and it is not used outside, and what do you say to pray for peace, I think they have more money to spend, purely for their own fun.

The lid of the coffin was sealed, and we couldn't pry it open, so we simply ignored it, so we all gathered around the thief hole.

The hole is not big, the shape is also very irregular, it seems that it should be dug very quickly, and the distance of less than a few feet inside is blocked by broken soil, Lao Hai just leaned into half of his body and shrank back, covered his head and said: "No, it seems that the inside has been blown up, and the surrounding circle has also been deformed, and there is no way to get in!" ”

The Seventh Master frowned and said: "Ancestor, this must have been done by those people, leave a good gate and don't leave, hit any kind of thief hole, hit it, and blow it up after the fight, it's just a lack of virtue to get home!" ”

Why do they want to open a thief hole, can't this door be opened? With this in mind, I walked to the stone gate and took a closer look.

The structure of this door is quite special, I heard my grandfather once say that some tombs have two stone doors, wrapped in copper and installed on a copper ridge. On the ground paved with white marble on the parallel line of the threshold, next to the lower corner of the stone gate, there are two stone pits about half the size of a watermelon, and there are also two shallow pits on the ground about two feet inside the two stone pits, and a shallow ditch with high inside and low outside is dug in the middle of this deep and shallow pit. In addition, each stone door is prefabricated with a stone ball the size of a watermelon and placed on the shallow pit inside the stone door. When the burial ceremony was completed and the stone door was closed, the two doors did not close, and there was a three-inch gap in the middle. Then use a long-handled hook to reach through the crack of the stone door, and pull the stone ball in the shallow pit outward, and the stone ball rolls along the small trench that has been hewn into the deep pit next to the door, closes the groove, and just resists the stone door. From then on, it was impossible to open the stone gate at all unless it was managed to be destroyed.

I have to admire the wisdom of the ancients, although this kind of mechanical structure is not complicated, but with the level of knowledge at that time, it is very surprising to be able to design, and now I am a little excited to see it in person.

I pulled on the door for a long time, but I couldn't find a way, then Lao Hai also came over, I told him about the situation, he scratched his scalp after hearing it, and yelled at me: "What are you talking about, I still have a few detonators here, let's just blow it up!" ”

When Uncle Li heard this, he hurriedly jumped up from the ground and stopped: "Absolutely not! This place has already been bombed once before, and if you blow it up again, I'm afraid it will collapse the entire tomb! ”

"I said Lao Li, when did you become a mother-in-law, don't you just blow up the door, where are you so exquisite!" The seventh master was not happy.

Uncle Li saw that we had already taken out the detonator, and said a little helplessly: "You listen to my slow analysis, the previous group of people came here and encountered the humanoid Tai Sui in the clay pot, but at that time, the humanoid Tai Sui had just been released, and it was in the adaptation stage, and it was not aggressive, but it must have blocked the entrance to the tomb when they came in, so they had no choice but to fight back against the robbery hole, escaped from here, and then blew up the robbery hole." So the question is, since there are explosives, why don't they blow up the stone gate, but use the time-consuming and laborious method to dig the robbery hole? ”

Uncle Li looked at us, expecting us to react, and after a while, he saw that no one answered, so he continued: "Because those people know that this gate bears a certain weight, and once it explodes, it is likely to destroy the entire ancient tomb, and the gains outweigh the losses!" That's why I don't agree with you guys going to blow up the door. ”

Lao Hai shook his head and said unconvinced: "Then what should we do, we can't also make a thief hole, you just say who has the strength to dig now?" ”

At this moment, there was a sudden "bang" behind us, and we hurriedly turned our heads to look, only to see that the lid of the coffin had been pushed open at some point, and a strange black hand stretched out from it, which was shriveled and emaciated, the surface was pitted, and the skin kept falling down.

"I'll go, what the hell!"

Before we could react, the black hand pushed the entire lid to the ground, and with a loud "clang", the dust raised filled the entire burial chamber, obscuring our view, and we waved our hands as hard as we could, unable to stop coughing.

After a while, when the dust had settled and we could see the coffin, we all took a step back unconsciously, only to see a corpse sitting in the coffin, looking at us with a smile.

That's not all, the most frightening thing is that it's clearly a human skin! His facial features were hollow, his pupils were pitch black, and there was not a trace of blood on his face; The upper body leaned against the coffin board in a very strange position, the entire shoulder was collapsed, and the chest fell together, as if to breathe.

But the strangest thing is that his two black hands are slowly disappearing, and as the skin on the hands falls off little by little, the hands are getting thinner and thinner, until they are completely gone.

I stood in the same place speechless, looking at the scene in front of me, my heart was very worried, if it was a simple zongzi, it would be good to say, I believe that Uncle Li is completely capable of coping, but now we are in front of a strange human skin, looking at Uncle Li's expression is a little surprised.

"Didn't you say the coffin was empty, is this a ghost?" Old Kaido.

As he spoke, he raised his gun and shot it at the human skin's head, which was impartial, and it was piercing his empty eyes and hitting the stone door behind him, and then he looked at the human skin, still staring at us with a strange smile.

"Wow! What a ghost! Lao Hai was furious, raised his hand and saw a shuttle, and the bullets rained down on the thing's face, and there were more than a dozen holes in an instant.

But the human skin did not react, and was not afraid of pain at all, and I was wondering when I suddenly saw him stand up from the coffin, like a piece of paper floating towards us, and his limp lower body dragged on the ground, like a ghost.