Chapter 453: The Dark Room
Returning to the camp of the archaeological team, in the middle of the night, I heard a heavy explosion from the back mountain, and all the archaeological team members got up in a panic, it seems that Huang Ping succeeded according to Ye Jiuqing's instructions. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
By the time we arrived at the ruins of the ancient tomb, the archaeological team members who were on the verge of a great enemy had already set up a cordon near the ancient tomb, and their eyes were invariably looking at a gap in the main tomb that had been blown open.
"Can't go in, it's going to ruin the scene." We were about to go inside when we were stopped by an archaeologist.
The director hurriedly walked over and said to us, "There are unidentified people who have entered the site without permission and blew up the main burial chamber with explosives, and I have reported the situation and informed the police that this place cannot be entered for the time being." ”
"What is this?" Ye Jiuqing pointed to the director and asked, holding something in his hand.
"The Luoyang shovel, not a tool of the archaeological team, was found near the site."
"Do you know what this thing is for?" Ye Jiuqing accentuated his tone.
"Yes, yes, a tool for visiting the grave."
"You all know that it is not a tool of the archaeological team, the Luoyang shovel is used to explore the tomb and dig a robbery hole, it can be seen that it is the tomb robbers who blew up the main tomb, don't you see that there is a dark room under the main tomb?" Du also gave us a new identity, a long list of titles must be higher than the director in front of him, Ye Jiuqing can show the most skills, except for visiting the tomb is his mouth. "It shows that there are still hidden relics under the priest's tomb, you have been cleaning and digging here for two years and have not found it, the tomb robbers dare to blow up the tomb at this time, which means that you have already had an idea, and when you continue to rub it, maybe the robbery hole has been opened, and then there will be any loss of cultural relics inside, and you will bear this responsibility?"
The director looked at each other, looking like he was out of order, and asked in a panic for a long time: "Then, how do you think this matter should be handled?" ”
"The ancient tomb is in danger of collapsing, in order to prevent the recurrence of the past, I will take people down first, you stay outside to protect the scene, and before we come out, we can't let anyone approach." Ye Jiuqing said.
The director couldn't stop nodding, probably because he didn't dare to be responsible, and at the same time worried about the collapse again, since someone can be alone now, of course he obeyed his words.
We took our tools and walked to the crack that was blown open, and the flashlight shone down, and we saw the well-preserved coffin in the dark room about four meters deep, and we went down to the dark room one after another, the coffin was airtight, which was incompatible with the traditional Jiangxi burial system.
There were clear regulations before the Western Jin Dynasty.
Zhu Yi shall not use stone as the coffin and the stone room, and the coffin shall not be carved with colorful paintings, and the fence of the household shall not be used, and there shall be no gold treasure and jade in the coffin.
It means that the coffin is a symbol of status, and the burial system from the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty stipulates that the Miao people are not allowed to enjoy the coffin, presumably this stems from the people of Li, in the deep-rooted inheritance of China, the king is defeated, and the descendants of Jiuli are defeated slaves after all, and they are not worthy of the coffin.
It seems that the priest of the Western Jin Dynasty did not take the burial system seriously, the specifications of the coffin did not match his identity at all, and there are exquisite colorful paintings all around.
Although Ye Jiuqing and I are good at exploring tombs, this kind of ancient tomb is the first time to come into contact with it, if we don't know it in advance, we will definitely think that this is an ancient tomb of the Qin Dynasty.
"The ornamentation of the Qin Dynasty, and the hollowing technique is also adopted." I squatted beside the coffin and held up a flashlight. "The carving is as slender as a hair, natural and smooth, which is obviously influenced by the craftsmanship of the Qin Dynasty."
"The cross pattern, the back pattern and the well pattern here, in the Jiuli culture, symbolize the sun and the moon and the ancestors, and are the unique patterns of Jiuli." Xue Xinrou excitedly told us that she had carefully studied Xue Shuqiao's notes on the religious culture of ethnic minorities, and she was no stranger to them. "The presence of two cultures of different backgrounds in the coffins of the priests is a very significant discovery in itself."
"It seems that Zhiqiu is right, this priest tomb is indeed a bit bizarre, integrating the two cultural styles of the Qin Dynasty and Jiuli." Tian Ji said.
"This shows that the priest has come into contact with the architecture of the Qin Dynasty, which also proves that the temple that has been disappearing is likely to be the twin cities of the demon kingdom in the priest's heart." I nodded, and then asked Ye Jiuqing. "Can you open the coffin?"
Ye Jiuqing walked around the coffin, nodded in agreement, we took out the tools to pry open the coffin, and when the flashlight shone in, everyone was stunned in place.
The priest in the coffin actually had two heads, one left and one back facing different directions, and his body was also extraordinarily large, Ye Jiuqing carefully removed the torn clothes, and we saw clearly that there were two dried corpses under the clothes, and they were also the dried corpses of two women, they were wearing a piece of clothing, lying in it with their backs against their backs, looking extremely weird.
"This sacrifice is a deformed person?!" Xue Xinrou's voice was surprised.
Xue Xinrou refers to a conjoined person, generally a person who has two heads and a body together, but the priest in front of us can't tell whether it should be one person or two people.
They have their own complete bodies and heads, but their backs are tightly intertwined.
"Hand me the knife." The palace lord suddenly climbed into the coffin.
I handed him the knife, and the palace lord carefully stabbed the tip of the knife into the place where the two dried corpses overlapped, and with a gentle pick, a thread appeared in our sight.
The palace lord was taken aback and told us that the two dried corpses were not deformed people at all, but two separate female corpses, whose backs had been tightly sewn together by twine before they died, and judging from the current form of the dried corpses, this act was probably not forced.
"Self, voluntary? Who would suffer this sin willingly? Tian Ji looked terrified.
"Maybe they don't have a choice." Gong Jue tried hard to break open the two dried corpses, and found that the back of the dried corpse was not fixed by twine alone, and the skin and flesh of the two dried corpses were glued together and could not be separated at all.
Gong Jue looked back at us, spread out his hands and said, he has been learning tricks from Gong Yu since he was a child, so his hands must be different from ordinary people's sensitivity, so since he was a child, these hands have been soaked in goat's milk, the reason is that the skin of young children is the most delicate and has strong plasticity.
And the same is true for the two female corpses in front of me, I am afraid that at a very young age, the skin on the back was first peeled off, and then the two were fixed together with twine, and the wound was in the process of healing, using this coercive means to let the two bodies grow together.
After a long time, they become inseparable individuals.
"You mean, they, they're artificially made like this?" Xue Xinrou was shocked.
Gong Jue nodded affirmatively.
"That's too cruel, isn't it, why do you do it for no reason?" Tian Ji asked in surprise.
"This is not clear, the identity of the tomb owner is a priest, I am afraid it is a certain religious tradition of the ancestors of Jiuli." Gong Jue said.
In addition to this creepy conjoined female corpse in the coffin, there was no other discovery, Ye Jiuqing was about to look at other places, I grabbed his arm, and the light of the flashlight illuminated the ground, which had been sealed in dust for hundreds of years, the ground was thick with dust, and a footprint was exposed in our eyes.
Normally, the footprints would have been evenly distributed, but this one stretches forward, with noticeably irregular steps and a thin layer of dust on the footprint, which doesn't look like it lasts too long.
Next to this footprint, there is another footprint, from the depth it is not difficult to find that it is left by a man and a woman, I immediately thought of Ye Zhiqiu and Wen Ru, presumably Wen Ru took Ye Zhiqiu into the dark room here after starting the Falling Dragon Stone.
These footprints should have been left two years ago, I looked around under the flashlight, the dark room was closed, there was no other exit, after the collapse of the ancient tomb, Wen Ru could not return the same way, we hurriedly chased the footprints, until they mysteriously disappeared in front of the stone wall directly behind the coffin.
"Wen Ru and Zhiqiu have been here, but how did Wen Ru leave with Zhiqiu?" I was distraught and muttered to myself.
"Xinrou, what are you looking at?" The sound of a field chicken interrupted my thoughts.
Turning his head, he saw Xue Xinrou stunned, looking at the stone wall of the dark room next to him excitedly: "Come and see." ”
Xue Xinrou's voice trembled with excitement, and we walked up to her and found in the light that there were murals painted on the stone walls.
Above is the starry sky, the red sun and the blue moon, and under the sky, it is a huge and breathtaking ancient city, the whole ancient city is in a circular layout, surrounded by nine rivers, in the middle of the ancient city, is a huge stone tower towering into the sky.
We have seen the majesty of the demon tower in Penglai Immortal Island, but if it is in the proportion of the picture presented in the mural, the demon tower is not worth mentioning compared with this stone tower, like a floating temple through the sky, and at the top of the stone tower, we are familiar with the three-eyed unicorn pattern, the eye in the middle of the unicorn opens, shining light to illuminate the entire ancient city.
Around the ancient city, twelve huge stone statues, evenly distributed, immediately reminded me of the stone room I saw last in the Jieshi Golden Palace, and the furnishings in it were exactly the same as those on the murals today.
The starry sky represents the sky, nine should be an allusion to Kyushu, water is the source of all things, representing the square circle of Kyushu, the ancient city depicted in the mural, with astronomy, geography, all-encompassing, representing all things in heaven and earth.
Demon Country!
The place recorded in the mural will be the temple we have been looking for, I prefer to believe that this is another temple of the ancestral gods, but unfortunately the people around me have forgotten the majesty of the temple of the ancestral gods, but now, just looking at the mural in front of me, I believe that everyone can be shocked.
Emperor Qin left clues in the Jieshi Golden Palace, the deepest stone room in the Golden Palace under the sea, the furnishings inside are just a microcosm of the entire demon country, this is probably the largest and most shocking ancient city I have ever seen, it is really hard to imagine how Fusu completed the construction of this magnificent city two thousand years ago.