Chapter 1: The Mercury Female Corpse
I was completely stunned by what I saw.
It's hard to believe that three months ago, I was still worried about finding a job, and today I am kneeling in this mysterious ancient tomb, accepting thousands of female corpses.
Why do these female corpses covered in mercury corpse spots bow down to me? No, exactly, why did you bow down in the direction I came down?
Could it all be just a coincidence?
Who are they worshipping?
The rope hung down from the vault of the burial chamber, and as the safety lock slowly slid down, the miner's lamp overhead slowly moved downward as its position changed.
The breath was so thick and harsh through the gas mask that it couldn't hide the sound of my heart beating wildly.
Yes, I was a little scared, but that didn't take my eyes off the bodies of the women.
The beam of the searchlight hit the female corpse through the dust in the burial chamber, staining the entire tomb with a layer of mystery.
Ten meters is not a short height, but I felt like I was descending to the cemetery almost in the blink of an eye, so fast that I didn't even see if there was an end to the kneeling female corpses.
The place where I landed was a stone platform, which was also the southeast corner of the tomb.
In a place like this, there is simply no way to have anything.
Could it be that these female corpses are worshipping in front of the mural paintings?
I subconsciously turned my head to see if there was any wall painting on top of the wall that I had imagined.
Because it was so close, the strong searchlight overhead shone on the wall, and it turned snow-white around it, and it was impossible to see if there was anything on the wall.
I had to turn off the miner's lamp on my head, and instead took out the flashlight pinned to my waist and shone it towards the wall.
The light of the flashlight was relatively soft, and there were no murals visible on the blackened walls oxidized by mercury vapor.
Reluctantly, I reached out and knocked on the tomb wall.
The wall is very solid, it doesn't look like there is a mezzanine, even through the rubber gloves, the dull sound proves that this is a very thick wall, and it is almost impossible to have a mezzanine.
"it, what the hell are these female corpses worshipping? Could it be that the gods worshipped in this country are a wall? Qian Da Nose, who followed me closely, took out a small scraper and gently scraped it on the wall, and he was also sweating all over his body.
There is indeed nothing on this tomb wall!
Could it be that the owner of this tomb, thousands of years ago, would have been able to come down from the cantilever beam on the top of this tomb today? Intend to scare us to death? I couldn't stop muttering in my heart, but I still couldn't help but want to check the state of the female corpse, after all, it was extremely rare to see a female corpse 2,500 years ago.
Seeing that Qian Da and I had nothing to do after coming down, the four Wei lame people who stayed on it couldn't bear it, and they all slid down the rope in a slick of smoke.
"Wei lame, don't you keep blowing on weekdays, the ancient tombs of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties are all like your back garden, are the doors clear? Tell us what this female corpse means by worshipping the wall? Qian Da's nose loosened the gas mask, which was a little tight for him, and his nose was uncomfortable.
The nickname Big Nose is really not for nothing.
Qian Nose, I don't know what his real name is, but his nose is indeed different from ordinary people, his nose bone is a little collapsed, it is said that when he was digging a grave in his early years, he was beaten with a shovel by the people in front of him.
The nose that was originally straight and huge collapsed for a while, but now it looks a bit like Sanmaoer in the cartoon, and the tip of the nose is a little round.
But his nose is really powerful, I heard before that his nose, no matter what dynasty the antique toys should be, as long as the nose is passed, the authenticity can be distinguished!
I didn't believe in this matter originally, archaeology is a rigorous science, the identification of antiquities, not only to understand the history of the time, but also according to the shape and material of the antiquities themselves, historical characteristics, and so on, and many other factors, all-round consideration.
With a single pair of noses, I can distinguish the authenticity just by smelling it, which I don't know if it's true or false, but I've seen the means of finding graves with this big nose.
There are really such strange people in the world, just by laying a few threaded pipes and smelling the soil brought out, they can judge the approximate dynasty and the location of the tomb in the underground tomb, and this way, it is really ** not far from ten, it is simply amazing.
"Ge Laozidi, do you also know that it is the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties? It's dripping with mercury, all black drops like bamboo charcoal, five generations have passed, more than 2,000 years ago, I really haven't seen it. Wei Cripple rolled his eyes and said.
Cripple Wei was right, we had seen such a corpse filled with mercury before entering the main tomb road.
The ancients did not know how to replace all the blood in the bodies of these martyrs with mercury, but in order to prevent the mercury from sinking too much, the key parts of these corpses were all nailed into wooden nails that prevented the flow of mercury, and the bodies were coated with mercury powder.
It would be cruel if all these procedures were done while these burial slaves were alive!
Mercury seeps out through the skin, forming radial patches that are blue and red at first, but slowly turn black as the years go by.
In the tombs, the burial of the martyrs was poured with mercury so that the corpses did not decay for thousands of years, which was not very rare in the tombs before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Such a huge scale and such a well-preserved burial group, if it is found in archaeological excavations, it will definitely cause a sensation all over the world and become not inferior to the existence of Mawangdui and the tomb of King Qin.
However, I am even more puzzled, which ancient magnate is the tomb built in the depths of this Great Khing'an Mountains?
Mercury deposits in ancient times, mainly distributed in the Bashu region, all say that the tomb of the first emperor of Lishan 'mercury for the river and jade for the mountain' at least there is a close relationship between the widow of Ba Qing, the queen of Dansha and Qin Shi Huang, to get millions of tons of mercury.
And in this northeast, where does not produce mercury, where does it get so much mercury?
The more I thought about it, the more confused I became, and I felt that all the archaeological knowledge I had learned in the past had been subverted by this tomb.
Just when I was dizzy from this series of puzzles, a person suddenly came up and down, seemed to have tripped and stumbled, bumped into me and scolded: "Fuck, I've been dead for thousands of years, why am you so dishonest that you dare to trip over your grandfather and me?" See if I don't kill you, you stinking ghost! ”
As soon as the words fell, I said to myself.
The king cannon with the equipment on his back was frizzy because of his hands and feet, so Wei lame asked him to keep a sentry on the ground, why did he follow him to the ground today?
Sure enough, almost as the words fell, he had already kicked the female corpse that tripped him.
The female corpse was poured with mercury, and after thousands of years, it became extremely heavy, almost like an iron beating, and was kicked by the king's cannon, but she tilted her head, and she didn't even move where she knelt down.
And the king cannon who kicked out screamed out in pain.
When the lame man saw Wang Cannon coming down, he scolded angrily: "Mother, I won't let you come down, I won't let you come down, why don't you listen to Lao Tzu!" As soon as he came, he would cause trouble for Lao Tzu. ”
Wang Cannon covered his feet and shouted, "Master Wei, you have wronged me to death." It was Xia Meizi who said that the tomb has been dug through, and you need to use flares to go down here, so I came down with the equipment on my back, and I didn't mess up at all! ”
"And quibble, what are you going to do with that dead body, if there is any mechanism on this corpse, you will kill everyone! Thanks to the sturdiness of this corpse, if you kick it to pieces, the mercury inside will flow out and continue to evaporate, and then you won't have to call Wang Dacang, but Wang Dasha instead! Qian Da's nose was also angry, and he scolded.
Wang Cannon was scolded, and he was about to give up, when he suddenly heard a low shout from above: "Shhhhhhh A few of you are quieter, and it's not the first time you've worked in the field, so your quality is not as good as a newcomer. ”
The crisp voice was a female voice, still crisp and pleasant through the gas mask.
Seeing the owner of this voice come down, Wang Dacang and Qian Nose closed their mouths, but Wei Cripple, who was quite senior, said with a somewhat unhappy face: "Jiujiu, what are you talking about, now we are in the depths of this Great Xing'an Mountains, and the nearest population is also fifty or sixty miles, working in this old forest, and we still need to pay attention to the set of rules for going to the ground?" ”
I didn't notice what Wei Cripple said, but focused my eyes on the woman who came down.
Xia Jiujiu, I have known her for a long time, but recently, she has made me feel extremely strange.
It seems that in four years, I don't really understand the girl I know, except that the name is true.
"Oops! Lao Wei, you are also very angry! If you have something to say, just say it! If there wasn't a 99 girl to take us on this trip, would you say you would have seen such a big scene in your life? Seeing that Wei Cripple's tone was not good, Qian Da Nose hurriedly said to Xia Jiujiu.
Partnering is a Northeast dialect, which generally means piggybacking.
Wei lame didn't appreciate it and said, "Partner? What's the guy? I'm not angry if I don't mention it! It's a shame that you Xia Jiujiu is still a craftsman with a red root, and this time I went to the ground, I even brought a layman, if I knew in advance, I would have said that I would not have come. After Wei Cripple finished speaking, he even glanced at me with his eyes.
Being slanted by him like this, my heart is about to rise to my throat, these people who are looking for goods, the things in their hands are all conjured from the ground, in this barren mountains and mountains, if he has any evil thoughts, he can really only be with these mercury female corpses as companions.
"Uncle Wei......"
"Don't! Don't call it that, I can't afford to be a cripple, if you want to talk about seniority, your Miss Xia is much taller than me. Although Wei Cripple said this, the disdain and sarcasm in his eyes became more and more intense.
Xia Jiujiu raised his eyebrows, suddenly raised his hand, and the slingshot he felt in his hand was pointed straight at Wei Cripple's head.
Wang Dacang and Qian Da's nose immediately froze in place, and even Wei Cripple swallowed his saliva unconsciously, and said dryly: "Yo, Xia Jianzhong really raised a good girl, and he dared to use a slingshot at me?" ”
Xia Jiujiu's slingshot is made of extremely special material, within a short distance, the strength can even discount a small sapling two fingers thick, in the wild forest of the Great Xing'an Mountains, everyone can taste the game that Xia Jiujiu used the slingshot back more than once.
He Wei Cripple would not think that his head was harder than the head of those rabbits and little boars.
Just when Qian Nose was about to say something, Xia Jiujiu's hand holding the slingshot suddenly let go, and Wei Cripple's leg script was not good, and he almost fell into the pile of corpses this time.
Almost at the same time, in the depths of the grave, there was a sudden scream of a ghost crying wolf, and the marble actually hit something!
I subconsciously looked in the direction where the marble had disappeared, and saw a white shadow like a female corpse quickly flashing towards the depths of the tomb from the direction from which the voice came......
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