Chapter 6: The Ghost Tiger

This is the first time I've seen a tomb door like this, but if you think about it, there has been a wave of people here before us, and there is nothing unusual about the tomb door being open. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The opening of the tomb door in front of me was not large, and the two stone doors were intertwined with each other, forming a gap a few feet wide in the middle, and a person could pass through calmly. But what is uncertain is when the door was opened. If it was a long time ago, then this tomb is very likely to have been visited by tomb thieves more than once, and no matter how many treasures there are, maybe it has already been looted inside, so what are we going to do in it?

Cassia was still checking the strangeness on the tomb door, I was a little unbearable by the wind blowing in the gap, and I just wanted to ask him if he had any findings, but Cassia suddenly let out a "hmm".

I said that there was a play, so I asked him, "What did you find?"

"Come and have a look." Cassia pointed to the bottom of the stone door, and he placed the torch on the ground. By the light of the fire, I saw that there were several bloody handprints on the side of the door at the bottom of the stone gate! This really scared me, although the blood stains have dried, they are not completely blackened, indicating that the blood stains will not stay here for too long. Judging from the action, the owner of the hand should have grabbed the bottom of the stone door from the inside of the tomb door and wanted to escape. And what creepid me the most was that Cassia also found a few sticky black hairs stuck together on the bloody handprint, I don't know what left it.

"It seems that this place is indeed evil, so keep a snack and keep up."

Master beckoned us to move on, and the appearance of the corpse seemed to be just the beginning of a bad omen, and I had a vague feeling that something would definitely happen next. The guard was at the front, not saying a word. After the tomb door, there is a tomb passage leading to the front rooms. Master said that according to the plan, this should be a Han tomb. According to the custom of the Han tomb, there should be at least three sealing stones in the main tomb passage leading to the front room. But as we went, there was nothing in the tomb except for the long-dormant wind lanterns on the rock walls and the faded frescoes. And since someone has already waded through this mine before, then we don't have to worry about the mechanism or the like, but we have saved a lot of energy and time.

Several people quickly passed through the tomb road, and after about a stick of incense, the stone gate at the end of the tomb road appeared in front of them. But as we expected, the stone door has been opened. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, although it saves a lot of trouble, but on the other hand, it is very likely that when we go in, we will see an empty tomb.

A few people didn't dare to delay, and the master and the guards walked in front for us to follow. The front room is the main part of the construction of the Han cemetery, the tomb owner will put most of the burial goods and burial objects in the front room and the surrounding ear chambers, and the back room is mainly placed in the tomb owner's coffin and treasures.

After entering the front room, the most direct feeling is that the surrounding space is suddenly much more spacious, and the lighting range of the torch is limited, and it is impossible to distinguish the scale of the entire front room for a while. By the light of the fire, I took a general look around. Directly in front of me was a large stone shadow wall facing the tomb door, and there was a large amount of writing written on the stone shadow wall. According to Master, this thing is very particular in Han tombs and is often called the "Wall of Merit". This kind of wall symbolizes the two worlds of yin and yang, and the front of the wall is written with the eulogy of the tomb owner, and the tomb owner will record his merits on the back of the wall, indicating that he has merit, even if he goes to the underworld, he will still be as comfortable as he was in life.

I circled around the "Wall of Merit" and tried to find out information about the owner of the tomb from above. But the text on the shadow wall, I felt that my head was big at a glance, it was not written by Lishu at all, but a kind of dark script close to the ancient Chu style.

In addition to this "wall of merit," I saw footprints on the ground stretching to all corners of the Frontrooms. There should have been the burial goods of the tomb owner in the corner, but when I went to look at them, the burial goods had almost been emptied, and the remaining ones were almost rusty and out of shape, or some silk products. This kind of silk products are the most unreleased, and after a long time, they are all rotten into scales.

And then I noticed that the guard hadn't been with us since he came in, and that he was crouching alone near the back wall, not knowing what he was doing. I glanced in that direction and saw that there appeared to be two coffins lying in the place, and the guards were crouching near one of them, as if looking for something.

I inexplicably walked over and found that there were two black sarcophagi, two lamp slaves placed at the left and right ends, and behind the sarcophagus there was a one-man high stone door. The top of the sarcophagus has been pried open and reclined on the ground, and in the center of the top cover, a very special ornament is engraved. The reason why I noticed this was because the ornamentation on the top cover made me feel a little familiar, but for a moment I couldn't remember where I had seen it.

And when I stretched out my head to look at the scene inside the sarcophagus, I heard the guard say coldly: "I advise you not to look at this." ”

I was taken aback by his words, and when the guards had finished speaking, they ignored me, got up and began to rummage through another sarcophagus.

"What are you looking for?" I couldn't help but ask him. I didn't expect the guards to look back, as if they hadn't heard me. I was so embarrassed for a moment that I secretly glanced into the sarcophagus. But I couldn't see anything clearly, and I vaguely saw a very ancient armor lying in the sarcophagus, and nothing else.

The Master then walked over and looked at the sarcophagus, and then asked the guard if he had found anything.

The guard shook his head, stared at the stone door behind the sarcophagus and whispered, "One step too late, it was taken." The master frowned and said nothing.

Cassia wasn't interested in any of this, and since he came in, he had been pondering the two Ghost Tigers placed in front of the Stone Shadow Wall. The ghost tiger, also known as the tomb tiger, is a relatively rare tomb beast. The Ghost Tiger is made of copper, about seven feet high, sitting in the south and facing north, all of them are in the shape of raising their heads. In addition, a four-legged beast-faced square tripod was placed in the middle of the two town tomb tigers. It is recorded that most of the tomb beasts will show a vicious ghostly appearance, which is used to ward off evil spirits, and these two are no exception.

Cassia didn't care about any of this, but the dark grease stains on the Ghost Tiger's skin made him feel very uncomfortable. He knocked on one of them a few times, and asked me with a puzzled face what was the matter with this layer of oil?

I looked at these two behemoths, and I didn't know how to answer, after all, this was the first time I had seen such a thing. I think that layer of oil stains may have been an antiseptic treatment made by craftsmen at that time to prevent the copper tiger from rusting. But before I finished speaking, I suddenly saw that the empty pupils of the ghost tiger lit up, and a trace of sparks flickered in the tiger's pupils. I was startled, thinking it was the mechanism activated, and hurriedly told Cassia to go back.

The master said on the side: "It's okay, it's the everlasting light in the ghost tiger's body." ”

Sure enough, as soon as Master's words fell, two dark green fires emerged from the pupils of the ghost tiger. At this time, the ghost tiger seemed even more vicious, especially those two eyes, which always made me feel as if this thing was alive, and it kept staring at me.

I didn't understand a little, so I asked Master in a low voice, "I was fine just now, why did I suddenly catch it?" ”

The master patted the belly of the ghost tiger and said, "This tiger's belly is filled with fire oil, as long as you see a little spark, it will ignite, there are torches everywhere, it should have been accidentally lit just now." ”

I breathed a sigh of relief, and said to myself that this was the case, and that it was just some trick to pretend to be a ghost. I was just about to call Cassia over, but suddenly my eyes jumped, and I saw that Cassia had climbed onto the back of the ghost tiger at some point!

"What are you doing? Come down! ”

I was almost scared to death by him, this guy is completely brainless, and his brain is hot, and he can do anything.

"What are you in a hurry, I'll come down when I touch a baby. Look at the mouth of this ghost tiger, what is it? ”

Cassia hugged the ghost tiger's neck with one hand to prevent himself from falling, and the other hand struggled to touch the tiger's mouth. And in the mouth of the ghost tiger, a baby fist-sized thing that emits a ghostly light is attached to the throat of the ghost tiger, which looks very valuable, but it is not easy to get it out of it. Because the ghost tiger has two tiger teeth on the upper jaw, which is longer than my middle finger, and the distance between the two tiger teeth is so narrow that a normal person's hand can't reach into it at all, let alone cassia. But if you climb on the back of the tiger, you can reach in from the side.

Cassia's hand had reached in, and from below, his entire forearm looked like it had been swallowed by a ghost tiger. I couldn't persuade him, I was in a hurry, so I could only urge him to come down quickly.

"Don't worry, this thing is expensive, I feel sorry for a little skin." Before he finished speaking, his tone suddenly changed and he shouted: "It's not good, it seems to be stuck." As he spoke, he moved his ass up again, and the whole person was almost riding on the neck of the ghost tiger.

But as soon as he exerted his strength, I heard two extremely dull "clicks" from the ghost tiger's body, and at the same time, the ever-bright light in the tiger's pupils also jumped a few times. I haven't figured out what's going on yet? The guard next to him suddenly changed his face and hurriedly asked Cassia to stop.

Cassia will listen to it, and then it's all about this, and there is no room to stop it. Just as Cassia was about to take it out, suddenly the ever-bright light in the tiger's pupil jumped a few times and was completely extinguished. I heard the guard say, "It's over." ”

At this time, Cassia who was lying on the back of the tiger didn't know what the situation was, and asked inexplicably: "Why did the light go out?" ”

And because we don't know what the consequences will be, none of us dare to act rashly. Cassia seemed to realize that something was wrong, and was about to descend from the ghost tiger when he saw the guard make a silent gesture.

"There's movement, listen."

The tomb suddenly fell into a dead silence, the atmosphere was very depressing, I thought that something had happened, and I was so frightened that I didn't even dare to breathe. Cassia realized at this time that he had indeed caused trouble, and he didn't dare to move when he was lying on the back of the tiger for a while.

Several people consciously kept their breathing sounds to a minimum, and when I pricked up my ears to listen, I heard a series of "zizzle" sounds somewhere in the tomb.