Chapter 22: The Tomb Group
Tan Jia glared at the marker, almost scolded him for being an idiot, turned back to us and said, "Even if there is danger, we have to go in, do we have any other choice?" Seeing that we didn't squeak, Tan Jia forced a smile and said: "You don't have to be so desperate, which mission we have carried out in the past is not dangerous, but in the end, aren't we all desperate?" I'm sure it won't be this time, so give yourself a little confidence, okay? ”
"That's right, people's little ladies ......" Biaozi knew that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly smiled at Tan Jia, and then said: "Captain Tan, a woman can think so thoroughly, can we big men still be suffocated to death by a soak of urine?" If it's a man, cheer me up, don't fucking look like you're going to die, I can't see this kind of person the most. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Li Yishan clapped his palms and said: "The fat man is right, Sai Weng knows whether he is blessed or not, maybe Professor Zhang is right, there is a way out in the depths of the cave, what are we hesitating about, let's go out and see the sunshine outside." ”
Although we know that there is a very small possibility of an exit from the depths of this cave, people must always give themselves some hope when they live, and if they don't even have hope, they will be like walking dead.
The cave stretched smoothly into the depths, and it was so quiet that nothing could be heard except for our footsteps. In order to alleviate the dull atmosphere, Tan Jia suggested that everyone chat. We chatted and laughed along the way, and after walking for about half an hour, we came to the end of the cave in front of us, but there appeared a huge stone gate equal to the length and width of the cave.
The stone door is closed, and there are many patterns carved on the leaves of the two doors, all of which are monsters that combine humans and beasts, and at the bottom of this pattern, there is a row of ancient Loulan characters. The monsters appear to be performing some kind of ritual, with some of the monsters kneeling on the ground and others standing on the left and right, holding a plate with the heads of five birds in their hands.
Strangely, however, the monsters worship neither a temple nor the remains of their ancestors, but a circular minaret. Judging by the size ratio of the figures on the pattern, the height of the minaret would not have been more than five meters, but I immediately noticed that the tower did not have a doorway.
After looking at it for a while, the sign said: "There is no door in this Eta, how can people enter?" Also, why should you worship a tower? The behavior of these monsters is really strange. ”
Professor Zhang seemed to see something famous, and he explained: "This is not a tower, but a tomb, and these monsters are worshipping their deceased ancestors. Seeing our bewildered looks, he continued: "Many years ago, a friend of mine in the archaeological field sent me a stack of photographs of the Xiaohe cemetery in the Peacock River Channel. I remember very clearly that there were a few pictures of this round Etta that I was very surprised at the time, and then my friends told me that it was a tomb and they had named him "Tomb of the Sun". ”
We suddenly realized that the information of the Sun Tomb of Guloulan, we had carefully read it before leaving, and Professor Zhang was right, the middle of the Sun Tomb was a round wooden tower, which was made of poplar wood. On the periphery of the wooden tower, there are seven layers of logs, which are spread out radially from thin and thick logs, and from a high vantage point, the shape of the entire tomb resembles a shining sun.
Just now we paid attention to the wooden tower, and did not notice the pattern under the wooden tower, now take a closer look, sure enough, we found a few circles around the wooden tower, and counted carefully, the circle is exactly seven, one circle is bigger than the other, and it has been expanding outward.
Biaozi immediately laughed, and he said proudly: "It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it, needless to say, behind this stone gate must be the king-level mausoleum of Gu Loulan." Haha, I didn't expect archaeologists to find a king-level mausoleum with great effort, but we accidentally found one, which is really interesting! ”
Biaozi was so excited, it was nothing more than thinking about the burial goods in the ancient tomb, how could Professor Zhang not understand his thoughts, and said at the moment: "Don't be happy too early, you kid, this stone gate is so heavy, at least tens of thousands of catties in weight, do you think that just a few of us can open it?" ”
Biaozi shook his head, sighed, and said: "I said Lao Zhang, Lao Zhang, you are not a small boss, why is your experience so superficial?" I'll tell you, don't look at the heavy stone door, but there must be a pulley or something like that underneath it, and if you push it forward, you can open it inside. Otherwise, just opening a stone gate will require dozens or even hundreds of people, do you think the people of Guloulan have eaten too much? ”
Seeing Professor Zhang's face full of disbelief, Biaozi rolled up his sleeves and said, "Don't doubt my knowledge of ancient tombs, take a closer look and see how I pushed this stone door open." ”
Walking to the stone gate, the mark took a deep breath, and pressed his hands on the stone door, but as if he was hit by high-voltage electricity, he suddenly retreated sharply, pointed to the stone door and said to us in surprise: "Damn, I don't know what's going on on this stone door, it's just cold and piercing!" ”
I thought the mark was talking nonsense, so I touched the stone door with my hand, only to feel that the tentacle was cold and abnormal, so that I couldn't help but shiver, and in shock, I immediately withdrew my hand. The cold feeling on the stone door was strange, as if it could penetrate into my body through the palm of my hand, making people feel cold to the heart.
When the others saw my big reaction, they were obviously confused, so they also touched the stone door, and the result was the same as me, and they quickly took their hands back after touching it, and their faces were full of surprise, and they didn't understand why this stone gate was so cold.
Li Yishan said strangely: "Why is this happening, is there an ice cellar behind this stone gate?" ”
Wu Jian shook his head and said: "The back of the stone gate is not an ice cellar, if my guess is correct, it is a place where yin qi gathers, and the reason why the stone gate is cold and biting is because it has been corroded by yin qi." ”
Biaozi was stunned and said, "Where Yin Qi gathers? His uncle, if the tomb is built in such a place, it will be difficult for the body of the tomb owner not to become a black-haired zongzi, and it is not easy to do it now. ”
Professor Zhang took the opportunity to taunt: "Wasn't you the first to call to go in just now?" What, now know that scared? ”
Biaozi couldn't stand being looked down upon, so he straightened his chest and said, "Who said I was scared, I was just a little surprised." ”
Professor Zhang smiled and said: "Since this is the case, then you have to open the stone door, don't worry, if there is an accident, we will pick you up in the back." ”
"Just go, you're really scared?" Biaozi glared at Professor Zhang with disdain, and then went to the stone gate again. This time he was mentally prepared, and he turned a deaf ear to the cold on the stone gate, and without hesitation at all, he pressed his hands up. Under our gaze, we saw the mark take a big breath, snort, and push forward with both hands.
The heavy stone gate was indeed equipped with pulleys, and when it was blessed by the power of the mark, it made a "gurgling" sound, and then the stone gate trembled a little, and began to retreat. As soon as the stone gate cracked a crack, there was a yin wind blowing out, the mark bore the brunt, and there was no trace of preparation, and it was blown to the ground by the yin risk, and couldn't help scolding: "His grandmother's, Lao Tzu has grown so big, and I don't know what the yin wind is until now." ”
The yin wind continued to blow out from behind the stone gate, making a "whirring" sound, and our clothes and hair flew up and down, and we felt even more cold. It lasted for a long time before the wind gradually stopped blowing from behind the door, and then I realized that my body was numb and almost unconscious.
After a while, my body temperature began to rise gradually, and my body warmed up, and when I turned my head, I saw that the others were no better, and now my whole body was still shivering, and my teeth were "creaking".
After being silent for a moment, the mark said: "The yin qi inside is so heavy, there must be evil things, and when I go in later, put a spiritual light on my head, so as not to get into the other party's way." After saying that, he pressed the stone door with both hands and pushed it forward again.
This time, the crowd no longer had the heart to look at the joke of the mark, and immediately stepped forward to push the stone gate with him, and with our combined efforts, the stone gate made a dull rumbling sound and slowly retreated towards the back. It wasn't until the breath in our lungs was exhausted that the heavy stone door was fully opened, and we found that it was still a cave inside.
The cave stretched deeper, and we walked all the way through, and it didn't take long to find a black stone monument standing in the middle of the road in front of us. The stele is one meter wide and more than three meters high, and there are no carvings on it, but four large characters are engraved vertically. Because we don't know the ancient Loulan script, we don't know the significance of the stone tablet standing here.
Behind the stele is a huge cave, about 20 meters from us, but there is a stone staircase that leads down to the bottom of the cave. Due to the distance, even if there is a strong flashlight tied to the lighting, we still can't see the situation below the cave clearly, for the sake of safety, Tan Jia asked Li Yishan to launch a cold firework.
Take out the firing gun, load up the cold pyrotechnics, and listen to the "whoosh!" With a soft sound, the cold smoke and fire flew out towards the depths of the cave with a long green tail. Through the strong light of the cold fireworks, we clearly saw that the bottom of the cave was full of wooden towers made of wood, at least hundreds of them, and we were stunned for a while.
It wasn't until the green light of the cold fireworks completely disappeared that we walked out of that shocked look, and Biaozi exclaimed in amazement: "God, why are there so many wooden towers, is this the place where the bones of the kings of Loulan are buried?" ”
Professor Zhang said excitedly: "No wonder those archaeological experts can't find a large ancient tomb, it turns out that the ancient Loulan people buried the kings of the past dynasties here, if this place is announced to the world, it will set off a desert storm in the Chinese archaeological community." ”
I thought to myself, is this just a storm in the Chinese archaeological community? I'm afraid it's going to be a craze for desert exploration all over the world, right? When the time comes, many ambitious people will go to the desert when they hear the news, nominally to go on an expedition, or under the pretext of conquering the desert, but secretly they are afraid that they are only for the purpose of stealing treasure. Sven back then? Under the pretext of exploration, Heding finally took away a large number of precious cultural relics from the old site of Guloulan, which have not yet been returned.
Of course, Sven is not the only one who has stolen cultural relics from the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang? Heding, a Swede, and many other foreign powers have also done such things. You may think that the Chinese government is really incompetent and can't even manage such a thing, but in fact, Xinjiang is located on the border line of many countries, even if China firmly controls the border of the mainland into the deep desert, but those who are interested can still find a way to enter the country illegally from the border line of other countries, so the country is also powerless to do this.
Walking down the stairs, in less than a minute, we reached the bottom of the cave, only to find that there were five large pits in front of us, lined up in a line, blocking the front of the tomb group. The five pits are the same size, six meters long and three meters wide, and they are filled with animal bones, so you can't see the depth.
After looking at the five pits one by one, Professor Zhang said to us: "Judging from the skeleton, the animals in each burial pit are different, but they all belong to one of the five birds. In other words, these five burial pits were prepared for the slaughter of five birds. With so many animal bones, it seems that every time a king is buried, a large number of five birds will be slaughtered for sacrifice. ”
There are three smaller burial pits behind the five burial pits, which are also lined up, but they are not animal bones, nor are they burial goods such as clay pots and jars, but gold, silver, and jade respectively. However, there are not only jade objects in the jade pit, but also precious items such as jewelry and necklaces.
Seeing so much gold, silver and jewelry, no one was not moved, and our eyes lit up one by one, and our expressions were frozen. I suddenly felt an urge to jump out of the pit and take those treasures in my arms, or to just lie down on them and have fun.
After a moment of distraction, I finally came to my senses, and I heard the sign say in a trembling voice: "If all of this gold, silver and jewelry are sold, it is estimated that the richest man in China will be my grandson, right?" No, it's hard to come here and get something valuable with you, even if it's a souvenir. ”
Seeing that the mark was about to go down, Tan Jia immediately stopped him and said: "Everything here belongs to the state, you must not take it for yourself, otherwise it is no different from stealing." ”
The sign "Phew! "Don't give me those useless things, those stinky truths are almost the same as bluffing ordinary people, and I won't eat that set at all." Besides, all five of my family's heirlooms were lost in this mission, shouldn't I give back now? ”
Tan Jia hurriedly said: "If your things are lost, I will report to the government truthfully, and I will definitely compensate you with the same amount of money when the time comes, so you can't touch these things." ”
Biaozi couldn't listen to other people's verbosity, and wanted to refute a few more words, so he heard Wu Jian say: "You can't go down, otherwise you will die immediately, if you don't believe it, you can try." ”
Biaozi didn't expect Wu Jian to say this, and immediately said angrily: "Damn cold-faced god, what do you mean by this, the feeling is to curse me here, do you believe it or not, I will immediately turn my face with you?" ”
Wu Jian was not angry at all, and said with a still pale face: "I have said everything that should be said, it is still the same sentence, believe it or not." ”
I know that Wu Jian never jokes, he must have a reason for saying this, thinking of this, I couldn't help but move in my heart, vaguely guessed something, and couldn't help but look towards the burial pit. When I looked at it, my face immediately changed, because I had discovered an extremely terrible thing, there was a kind of blackened beetle on the four walls of the burial pit, and if I didn't pay attention to it, I thought it was some black spots.
Those insects lay motionless on the wall, and they didn't know whether they were dead or alive, but there were so many of them that they couldn't be counted at all, and they made people's scalps tingle for a while.
Biaozi only had a treasure in his eyes, and he didn't notice the abnormality in the burial pit at all, so he snorted coldly at Wu Jian, and was about to jump down. I was half frightened to death, and immediately stopped in front of him, pointed to the burial pit and exclaimed to him: "The walls of the burial pit are full of insects, and you will definitely suffer if you go down, don't believe it yourself." ”
Except for Wu Jian, everyone was stunned for a while, obviously not believing what I said, and turned their heads to look at the four walls of the burial pit. After confirming that there were really insects on the walls of the burial pit, several of them couldn't help but gasp at the same time, and even took several steps back, for fear of accidentally falling into the burial pit.
Biaozi said with some fear: "Damn, how can there be so many bugs?" Knowing that he was wrong to blame the good person, he turned back to Wu Jian and said with some embarrassment: "That...... Who's that, I'm sorry, the tone of my voice is like that, don't take it to heart! ”
Wu Jian nodded, indicating that he didn't pay attention to it at all, but just introduced to us: "I recognize those insects, called green worms, which contain highly poisonous bodies, and like to eat flesh and blood the most, once they smell blood, they will attack them in groups, and they can gnaw a buffalo into a pile of white bones in a moment." ”
We've never heard of this bug, but we're horrified and want to get out of here. Wu Jian told us not to panic, took out a white porcelain bottle from his backpack, and said to us: "I have a bottle of five perfumes here, which is refined from five kinds of herbs to deal with poisonous insects. ”
Without saying a word, we immediately rubbed the five perfumes on our arms, and immediately smelled a faint fragrance, a unique fragrance containing five flavors, but they were all scents that I had never smelled before, so it was difficult to describe. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. (To be continued.) )