Chapter Twenty-Five: The Male Corpse with the Mask

I said that you fell into the eyes of money, you even want to take this mural away, you don't want to think that when we come in, the little rammed earth layer will make us choke enough, you still want to take this mural away? The murals in the Qin and Han dynasties are so well preserved, do you think you can pry the little thing in your hand? Let's take a look at what is on this mural first, so that we can know whose tomb we entered. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This burial chamber is a square, there are murals on all four walls, we look at it in the order of the left side of the doorway, some of these paintings are worshipped, each painting has a man wearing animal skins, but the object of worship is different, sometimes it is a large number of people worshipping him, sometimes he is leading the crowd to worship a crown on his head, wearing a crown robe, a long sword pinned to his waist, it seems that he should be an emperor, the specific dynasty and which generation is not known, there is an engraved seal in the lower left corner of the end of the mural, There are four words engraved on it, and it is exactly the same as the one I saw in the tunnel of the Altar of the Seven Stars.

I asked the poison-eyed dragon from memory, and he told me that these are the four characters on the golden seal of the king of the ancient Dian Kingdom, and in the fifties, under the leadership of Guo Moruo, then president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the archaeological excavation of Shizhai Mountain in Jinning, Yunnan Province unearthed this unique treasure of the Dian Kingdom, and it is precisely because of this thing that the existence of the ancient Dian Kingdom is proven.

This cemetery belongs to which king of the ancient Dian Kingdom, it is still unknown, except that we played the thief hole, there is only this stone gate cave to go, except for the murals around it, nothing was found, it is naturally impossible to go like this, and walked in with a flashlight.

The steps behind the doorway are down a long way and turned several turns to reach the bottom, the pattern below and the burial chamber I know is the right number, a huge burial chamber, the left and right ear chambers turned around, there are a large number of burial goods in it, some bows and crossbows and horse bones are placed in the back room, and there are some horseshoe prints on the wall, which should be left by the horses that were buried alive, so there will definitely be a living person who was buried here.

There are twelve coffins in the tomb, and there are eleven coffins with the same appearance side by side, we normally see a slightly larger one, and there is a coffin in front that is larger than the other eleven people, perhaps it is influenced by the culture of the Han nation, and the black coffin body does not know what to use to depict nine five-clawed golden dragons, not the totem of ethnic minorities in the southwest region, it looks very weird, I touched the coffin board, it is very thick, it is difficult for a person to pry it off, this kind of coffin board is not used by ordinary people, It also proves that the identity of the owner of this tomb is not low.

The best in the coffin is the gloomy wood, a gloomy wood from the growth to the timber at least thousands of years, this kind of best is hard to find, the ancient sinking in the soil and water of the wood, also called the ancient sunken wood. In ancient times, large areas of precious timber in primeval forests were attacked by major natural disasters such as earthquakes, mountain floods, and mudslides, and became dead wood stumps buried deep in rivers, lakes, and seas. After the passage of time of tens of millions of years, these dead wood stumps are soaked and ground in the sediment at the bottom of the water, and the internal fats and sugars of the wood are dissolved in the water, removing the living space of moths and bacteria. Therefore, there is a folk proverb in the folk saying, "Even if there is a box of jewelry, it is not as good as the ebony side", in which the ebony is said to be gloomy wood. The second is the ancient aristocracy commonly used linden mahogany, golden silk nanmu, millennium cypress, the first is embalming, the second is to prevent insects from eating rats, after all, no matter who wants to see their corpses do not rot after death, but are eaten by insects and rats, that kind of situation is hairy in the heart, so the selection of coffins for the nobles is very strict.

Although the coffin of the tomb owner in front of us is not as gloomy as the wood, it can be regarded as very luxurious, at first glance, it is a tree dug up the heart of the tree, the whole coffin except for the five-clawed golden dragon on the surface does not seem to have too much processing, finally found a gap, I used the Japanese knife to insert it from the gap, pry hard, hard as the knife is skimmed, the coffin board is almost immovable.

The fat man also took out the sapper shovel to help, and the two worked together, and the coffin made a "crunch" sound, and finally knocked out a big crack in a huge coffin board, and we changed positions again, beckoning Li Er and Wang Ye to pry off the coffin nails one by one.

Although the climate in the tropical rainforest is hot and humid, the air in the tomb is very dry, and the top of the head is made of five different materials.

The fat man stretched out his hand and was about to push the lid of the coffin, but I grabbed him and said, "Wait a while, I don't know what will be in here, so you just reach out and open the coffin, and beware of being pulled in to sleep with." ”

The fat man said; "What then? The coffin board has been pried open, are you still afraid that there will be ghosts inside? ”

When I heard him say this, I deliberately lowered my voice, trying to scare him: "Don't say that, although I don't believe in ghosts, I still believe in the corpse, maybe I'll pull you in and swallow you alive." I used to hear my grandfather say that one year there was a great drought, there was a family with a child, only two years old, just learned to speak, the child was weak, no water to drink, he fainted with thirst, the family couldn't wake up, the child's father took him to find Langzhong, Langzhong saw that he was thirsty to death, there was no help, when he was buried, suddenly the child sat up and shouted I want to drink water, and then he collapsed....."

Li Er was born and raised in the mountains, and he heard a lot of this kind of ghost story, so he naturally became skeptical, and when he saw me say so realistically, his voice trembled a little and said: "Xiao Zou, don't talk nonsense, we are in the cemetery, it is too unlucky to say this." ”

Wang Ye has been living alone in the mountains for a long time, he has never believed in ghosts and gods, the fat man can not find the direction, there is nothing he is afraid of, when Vietnam was fighting, he was bold, no matter what task was assigned to him, how many enemy soldiers, he dared to say nothing, at this moment the fat man was not afraid, not moved by my intimidation at all, a faction of who I am: "If you are afraid, go back, anyway, this coffin board is also pried open, and the fat man and I can push it alone." ”

I saw that he was unmoved and continued: "Chubby, it's not too late for you to listen to me finish the story before you start, otherwise you won't know how to deal with it later."

The fat man sat down on the ground and said, "Okay, you say, I'll see what you can say." ”

I said, "After many years, for some reason, the grave has to be relocated, which is very disrespectful to the deceased, so they have prepared a new coffin, and each coffin has to be reopened, and then the body is put into a new coffin and re-buriedThe child's coffin was 'knocking', and after a while, it calmed down, and several people began to pry the coffin again, and they were pried open at once, and there was no coffin board, and the child suddenly sat up, staring at the Taoist priest in front of the coffin with a pair of empty eyes and shouting that I want to drink water. ”

Li Er was already so frightened that his face was bloodless, the fat man still grinned a few times, laughing a little reluctantly, it is estimated that he was also muttering in his heart, and pushed the coffin board with me, but the fat man kept thinking about the child who wanted to drink water, and he didn't start lightly or heavily, and pushed the coffin board to the ground at once, and the things in the coffin were unobstructed.

A corpse that I don't know if it's a man or a woman is lying inside, with a mask on his face, and his body is tightly wrapped in animal skins, revealing only a pair of purple hands that have evaporated the water sauce, and the corpse can still be seen wrapped in skin and flesh after thousands of years, which is already very well preserved (the dried corpses found in the ruins of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, Xinjiang, are mainly formed because of the dry climate, and the climate in the tropical rainforest in Yunnan is humid, if it weren't for the moisture-proof measures that are well done, it would have been rotten to the point that only the bone frame remains), although the face is not visible, Just by dressing up, you can also have a high status until this person's life, wrapped in a tiger fur coat, stepping on the tiger's head, and putting your hands on your chest.

Li Er poked his head out from behind the fat man and glanced at it, and said faintly: "It's not so scary, why is this guy covering his face." ”

Wang Ye reached out to pick up the corpse's mask when he heard this, and when I came back to my senses, I was about to take his hand, and then I thought about it, this coffin has been opened, is it possible to go home? Anyway, sooner or later, he had to take off his mask, and whoever took it off was not the same, secretly clutching the extremely evil bronze ancient sword.

Wang Ye took off his mask, and before we could make the next move, Li Er exclaimed on the spot: "My mother, it's too scary." He quickly shrank behind the fat man.

I looked at it, it was a male corpse, the outline of his facial features was deeply sunken, his eyes and nose had become black holes, but his face was still vaguely recognizable, about forty or fifty years old, with his mouth wide open, his expression seemed to be very surprised, and the black hole hole was like open eyes, which looked a little terrifying.