Chapter 57: Under the Coffin
The shaft inside the coffin was very well repaired, and as soon as I got my head down into the hole, I immediately smelled a musty smell.
I said in my heart that this smell is really not small, the smell of bird feces on my body is strong enough, but I still can't cover this smell, I cursed in my heart, and I regretted that I didn't bring a gas mask down.
It's good to climb down with the bronze lock, but the thick chain is rusty under the coffin, and every time I climb, the green rust on it will fall off, which makes me a little afraid that it will break at any time.
However, the patina is a good anti-slip powder, so that my hand holding the chain is very strong, and the gunshots above my head are still ringing, and after a certain distance, there is no movement on it, and the strange birds seem to be extremely afraid of the sacrificial tower, and do not follow the victory into the coffin.
We breathed a sigh of relief and quickly climbed down the chain.
The further down it went, the more damp it became, and some fungi began to appear around the coffin, and even some tree roots.
However, the skin of these roots is completely different from the outside, it is very soft, and it is covered with a lot of mold, and there are many unknown mushrooms growing on it.
I said in my heart what is going on inside this sacrificial tower, could it be that the droppings of these five divine birds fell into this coffin well, and the undigested seeds in it took root and sprouted in the ground? Otherwise, how could so many plants grow?
The coffin soon reached the bottom, and at my feet was a huge stone wrap, and my upper body hung from the mouth of the hole, my legs were crossed in bronze chains, and one hand turned on the flashlight to shine around, and here was a low hollow, with tangled roots and roots.
Between the entanglements of these roots, there is a huge square stone coffin, and if it weren't for this bronze chain directly locked on the coffin, I guess I wouldn't have seen it wrapped like this and placed elsewhere.
The mold on it almost wrapped the coffin in a thick moss green coat, and there was a coffin bed under the coffin, which was now also wrapped firmly. I thought to myself that this is too pitiful, the environment of the main tomb of the owner of this tomb is not as good as one ten-thousandth of the underground Xuan Palace, I really don't know how to feel if the owner of the tomb is still alive now, and sees his main tomb room become like this.
But this coffin is bizarre enough, why is the bronze chain hanging on it still attached to the sarcophagus? It stands to reason that after using the Flying Corridor to put the coffin into the main tomb, shouldn't the chain be removed and the tomb owner should be buried?
Could it be that something happened in the process of burial? There's no reason why so many bronze chains have penetrated in!
If all the chains on the outside were hanging like this with a pair of stone coffins, how many coffins would there be? A few hundred?
While thinking, I went down to the coffin bed along the bronze chain, and then I saw clearly, this thing is not ordinarily big, almost like a pocket container, the edge of the coffin cover is covered with mold and moss, I don't know if it was Xia Jiujiu who came down first, or a large piece was cleared out by Lao Wei and Lao Qian, and it was scattered on the ground to reveal the true face of the sarcophagus.
On it, there are still many exquisite reliefs carved on it, but the content of the reliefs is no longer visible, and it almost grows with the roots of the tree.
Xu Wenbin and the others hung on the bronze chains, did not come down immediately, and shouted twice outside, I was blind, and I didn't reply to him, he thought I was in some danger, so he asked cautiously: "Boy, what's the situation below?" ”
"There's a stone coffin!" I coped, scolding in my heart, this bastard, not only is he ruthless and annoying, but he is as cautious as a fox. Looks like he's using me as a pathfinder.
Sure enough, when he heard my answer, he immediately jumped down from the coffin and landed on top of the sarcophagus, and then Tie He, Lao Zhou, and another fellow all jumped down.
Xu Wenbin walked up to me, looked at the huge stone wrap wrapped in tree roots, and beckoned to Lao Zhou.
Lao Zhou's experience is extraordinary, he took out a sharp small shovel and struck it on the front of the sarcophagus a few times, and a large area of mold and tree roots was knocked down by him, revealing a small square hole.
We came over curiously, Lao Zhou looked at the coffin with a flashlight, and then put his hand into the small hole, scraped off the moss on the outer layer of the inner coffin with a shovel, recognized it and said: "This is a funeral coffin, not the coffin of the main owner." ”
Tie He was a little curious: "Such a big coffin, isn't it the main coffin?" How can you see it? ”
Lao Zhou explained: "This kind of small square door in the corner of the outer coffin is a place for the soul of the tomb owner to enter and exit, if it is the coffin of the tomb owner, the window lattice of the inner coffin should be majestic and solemn. And this one, the lacquer decoration on it is more feminine, you look here. Lao Zhou pointed to a lacquered villain on the inner coffin.
The villain above knelt on the ground, with a humble demeanor, which should be a gesture of welcome. In other words, the soul inside the coffin is waiting for someone to come! Lao Zhou said firmly: "According to my analysis, this must be a woman who accompanies the funeral!" ”
I can't help but admire Lao Zhou, his knowledge is really profound, only from the coffin after going straight to the coffin outside the coffin door, and then through the inner coffin ornament to analyze the identity of the tomb owner, such an experience is really extraordinary.
When Xu Wenbin heard that it was a funeral coffin, he immediately lost his appetite, pushed me and said: "Forward, forward, forward, don't play tricks on Lao Tzu here, hurry up and lead the way." Tell you, if you let Xia Jiujiu's little lady preempt me as a baby, Lao Tzu will seal you in a coffin and be the companion of this group of old ghosts. ”
I was almost pushed by him, but I didn't care about what he said, in archaeology, opening the emperor-level coffin cover is the most troublesome, even if it is a professional person like Xia Jiujiu and Wei Cripple, it is really difficult to open the coffin lid weighing several tons quickly without professional tools.
I took my flashlight and looked around, and immediately noticed that there were clear footprints on the mold on the ground, although they were of different sizes, but they all walked in one direction. If you can roughly identify the direction, it is the location where the tower towers.
"This way." I was the first to go, and everyone else hung far behind me, not sure if it was out of caution or because of the smell of bird poop.
Tie He came to my side with his nose covered and covered me, I smiled at him, he nodded at me, and the two of them didn't communicate much, and walked cautiously along the footprints.
There are so many fungi on the ground that it is estimated that these fungi have fallen from the holes connected to the altar, and they have been so prosperous after more than 2,000 years of reproduction.
We walked in the world of fungi, surrounded by a layer of tender green fluff, as if walking on a grassland that has shrunk hundreds of times.
It's an amazing feeling, and there are some small hills around it, and there are even some mini-vegetation like coconut trees and pine trees! These vegetation are palm-tall, but lifelike! The surrounding tiny inlets stretch around these hills like rivers, as if the territory of a continent had shrunk countless times over.
No one behind me had ever seen such a spectacle, and they all followed me and looked around. It seems that they are all shocked by the magic of nature.
To be honest, I didn't have a good impression of these fungi before, I felt that this kind of thing was very disgusting, now it seems that I have to admit that my knowledge is too crude, everything has a beautiful side, just when I was intoxicated and a little relaxed, my shoulder was suddenly held down by the iron river behind me, I was stunned for a moment, and was about to ask him what he was doing, he covered my mouth and motioned me to look forward!
Then, I couldn't help but turn off the flashlight and saw a scene that I will never forget!
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