Chapter Seventy-Eight: An Unexpected Discovery
The two students were a little overwhelmed by the sound of the sound again, and the two of them clung to Professor Hu, shining around with their flashlights, but they didn't see anything.
Because of the previous walking corpse, Professor Hu also became a little nervous at this time. But after all, the two students are still around, and they can't show their timidity, even if they pretend to be calm.
Professor Hu cleared his throat and said, "Don't worry, don't be afraid. I've been to a lot of tombs, and I've never seen anything strange. When Professor Hu said this, he was not only comforting his two students, but also emboldening himself. After all, Professor Hu was still thinking in his heart, the most terrifying thing in this ancient tomb is just those arsonous silkworms, but now that those liquor are also in our hands, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Thinking of this, Professor Hu took the two of them to walk forward cautiously with flashlights. He had just walked a short distance when suddenly one of the students screamed, and his scream didn't matter, which scared Professor Hu.
Professor Hu glanced back at the screaming student and asked nervously, "What's the matter, what are you shouting?" ”
The student pointed to a spot not far in front of him and said, "Professor, what do you think it is?" ”
After hearing this, Professor Hu took a look and found that on the ground in front of him, there was a thing about four meters long and nearly 30 centimeters thick. The guy has a blackish-gray body with multiple golden-yellow markings on his body that run from head to tail, and the head is slightly flattened.
Since the flashlight shines directly on it, the guy doesn't seem to like such a harsh light too much. The head was slightly raised, and the big mouth opened towards Professor Hu and the others, revealing two rows of sharp teeth, which looked very fierce, and made a sound, which was the same voice they had heard before.
Although the source of the sound has now been figured out, hearing this sound in this environment still makes the two students feel a little creepy.
Seeing this, Professor Hu said with relief: "Hey, I thought it was something, it turned out to be a python!" With that, Professor Hu motioned for the two of them to take a few steps back. Although this python is not as terrible as those walking corpses and arsonist silkworms, it is not a good stubble, so it is better to be careful.
Professor Hu's heart was a little relaxed, but suddenly he remembered something and felt that something was not right. Although I'm not an animal expert, I still have this knowledge, and I haven't heard of any snakes that can call? Because snakes have no vocal cords, snakes can't bark at all. Professor Hu thought about it for a long time and didn't come up with anything, could it be that this guy is a snake that humans have not discovered so far?
But it doesn't matter if this guy in front of him is a snake or not, the important thing is that this guy is now in the middle of the road, blocking their way, which is a bit embarrassing for everyone. Professor Hu took a flashlight and took a picture around to see if there would be a second one around.
After taking a look, he didn't find that it had companions nearby, so Professor Hu relaxed a little. Just as everyone was racking their brains about this guy, suddenly the guy crawled away on its own, and watched it burrow through a cave under a wall. The three of them glanced at each other, and they all let out a sigh of relief. Since the uninvited guest had left, Professor Hu took the two of them and continued to walk forward.
This place is also a corridor, but it is wider than the corridor on the previous floor, at least seven or eight meters wide. Professor Hu said as he walked, "If I guess correctly, this road must lead to the main chamber of the tomb owner. ”
The two students were also going to the ancient tomb for the first time, and they had only learned some things theoretically before, and they had never practiced before, and when they heard Professor Hu say this, they inevitably became excited in their hearts, and began to fantasize about the situation in the main room.
One of the students surnamed Zhang said: "I heard that the royal nobles in ancient times, in order to prevent their tombs from being robbed by those tomb robbers, would set up all kinds of traps, poisonous arrows, it seems that they are not as serious as they say." ”
Another student surnamed Li also said with a pandering voice: "No, from the time we came in until now, except for the stone door of the tomb, we really haven't encountered any so-called mechanisms, and it seems that this ancient tomb is nothing more than that." ”
didn't want Professor Hu to listen to it, but poured cold water on the two of them. "The upper floor should be huge, and there are a lot of places we haven't been to yet. It's not that there are no mechanisms in this ancient tomb, most of the mechanisms designed by the ancients cannot be reused, and once triggered, this mechanism will have no effect. The upper floor has obviously been entered, and even if there is a mechanism, it has been triggered, so we can get here so smoothly. ”
When Professor Hu said this, he looked around again and said, "It seems that no one has been here on this floor, so there are likely to be unexpected mechanisms here, so you should be careful." ”
As soon as the two students heard Professor Hu say this, they immediately became nervous again, and followed Professor Hu closely behind him, looking left and right, Professor Hu shook his head helplessly when he saw this, and continued to walk forward.
If you want to talk about this mechanism, you haven't encountered it for the time being, but you say that these three people have just walked not far, but they found a human skeleton on the ground. When they saw the bones at first glance, the two students were naturally a little scared, and Professor Hu was a little bold in this regard, after all, he had been exposed to these things, although he was a little nervous for a while, but at least he was not out of proportion.
But this skeleton surprised Professor Hu. The reason is that this corpse is actually wearing a military uniform. The first thing that came to Professor Hu's mind at this time was that this was completely different from what he had speculated before. I thought that no outsiders had ever entered the tomb here. But when he saw this corpse, he completely overturned Professor Hu's previous speculation.
After a while, Professor Hu walked up to the skeleton and squatted down, and it was not difficult to see from the deceased's military uniform and military cap that this person should have been a small soldier under a certain warlord back then. From this point of view, the tomb was not only stolen, but also stolen by a gang of thieves, the so-called thieves are the army.
When it comes to army tomb robbery, during the Republic of China, Sun Dianying had a greater impact. In July 1928, in the name of military exercises, Sun Dianying secretly excavated the tomb of Cixi and Qianlong in the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty, and stole a large number of gold and silver treasures. Later, the matter was revealed, causing an uproar across the country.
At that time, some cultural and mass organizations, as well as the Xunqing imperial family, including Pu Yi and others who lived in the Japanese Concession (Zhang Yuan) in Tianjin, reported to Lao Jiang and demanded severe punishment. Because this matter had already caused a sensation in the whole country at that time, Sun Dianying felt that the situation was serious, and in order to escape responsibility, he did not hesitate to take out some of the stolen treasures to deal with them, but such a big matter was finally over.
Thinking of the army's tomb robbery, Professor Hu couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart at this time. Because the age of this ancient tomb is very old, the cultural relics inside have very high scientific research value, if it is really stolen, the loss will be immeasurable.
Just as Professor Hu was thinking about these things, he unexpectedly found that the deceased had a crossbow bolt stuck in his shoulder. It seems that when this person first came to the ancient tomb, he must have been hit by a mechanism here, and was shot by a crossbow that had been erected in advance. Based on the part where the crossbow arrow hit the deceased, Professor Hu believes that the crossbow must have been erected above this road.
Thinking of this, Professor Hu picked up the flashlight and shone it around, and found that there was a gap at the corner between the wall and the top, but through the light of the flashlight, he could only see a black crack, but he could not see what was inside. The more this is not seen, the more worried Professor Hu feels.
Seeing this, Professor Hu immediately turned around and reminded the two students: "You two be careful, don't walk around, there are organs here." When the two students heard this, they became even more worried. In order to protect the two students, Professor Hu walked in front of him and kept a certain distance between the two of them. After all, Professor Hu has relatively some experience in this area, so Professor Hu is exploring the way ahead, and the safety factor is still very high.
The distance of this road is relatively long, and along the way, several corpses were encountered one after another, and even a few Hanyang-made (in the era of warlord scuffle, until the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the Hanyang-made 88-type rifle has always been one of the main weapons in China) was thrown horizontally and vertically next to the bones.
Professor Hu pondered as he walked, since these people had already reached the lower floor, but the beast head oil lamps on the walls on both sides were intact, and the value of these things was also very high. But then again, in those chaotic times, all sorts of motley warlords sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Warlords ranging from thousands to a dozen or so people abound, and maybe this is a group of illiterate guys.
Before they knew it, Professor Hu and the three of them had arrived safely at the end of this corridor and came to the gate of a tomb. The gate in front of you is curved above it, and the edges are carved in relief with beautiful patterns and some wild beasts. On either side of the gate stood two rows of five mercenaries, each with a variety of bronze weapons in their hands.
These things in front of him simply fascinated Professor Hu, but there were still some things that interrupted Professor Hu. At the entrance of the burial chamber, there were several corpses lying there, and the Hanyang-made rifle in his hand was also thrown not far in front of the bones. Judging from the shape of these bones, Professor Hu analyzed that they seemed to have run out of the tomb, but they couldn't run out, and they died here for some reason.
Because it has been a long time, it is difficult to see any obvious scars from the outside gate. But what was going on inside that would make them all come here and run out again? Could it be that when these people arrived in the tomb, they found a large number of treasures and suddenly killed each other, causing these people to die in the tomb?
Professor Hu slowly stepped into the door of the tomb with these questions, and when Professor Hu took a flashlight and looked around, Professor Hu was stunned by the scene in front of him.