I saw that the fat man hooked the neck of the ancient corpse with the "corpse rope", rounded his arm and slapped the ancient corpse five loud slaps, I quickly stopped him, and when he heard him say something strange, he continued to ask: "Did you eat too much, what did you do to kill someone?" But then I thought that the fat man had been hit by the "tongue drop" before, but he still hadn't completely cleared it, and what was left, thinking that the owner of the "witch clothes" was also killed by the king of Xian, was she turned into a ghost and attached to the fat man, just to sneak into the underworld, learn the behavior of Wu Zixu back then, and whip the corpse to vent the hatred in her heart?

Thinking of this, he immediately raised his hand to remove the fat man's gas mask, looking at his eyes, there was nothing special, but then he heard the fat man say: "It's damp here, why are you picking up my gas mask?" As he spoke, he snatched it back, put it on his face again, and continued: "I said Commander Hu, Chief of Staff Yang, didn't you see it? Look at this ......."

The fat man pointed to the head of the ancient corpse in the coffin, and just halfway through the words, he saw the head of the eyeless ancient corpse, and suddenly shook it three times on the corpse, shook it three times, only to hear the sound of "pop", it actually fell, and just fell to the edge of the "stone spirit ghost coffin", the stone spirit was as smooth as ice, and after a short stay, it rolled to the ground of the wooden coffin.

The three of them were shocked, the ghost coffin made of this stone spirit was very tightly sealed, and it was an extraordinary coffin, the "stone spirit" with extremely heavy yin qi, although it was regarded as an ominous thing, but its unique cool attributes, it could preserve the original appearance of the corpse extremely well, when the coffin was opened, the ancient corpse was like a life, the muscles had not atrophied and collapsed, and most of the water in the corpse was also locked in it, without any signs of decay and dryness, why is this head so not strong, although the fat man slapped him fiercely, it was impossible to knock his head off?

The fat man was also very surprised, and immediately picked up the head that had fallen to the ground. I saw that the skin of the head was gradually turning black, which should be due to the humid air environment in the "wooden coffin", which had a sharp oxidation effect on the ancient corpses that had been placed in a closed environment for a long time.

The fat man said, "Why are you so unstunning? Even if you pull it down, you shouldn't be able to pull it off? ”

Shirley Yang took the ancient corpse head from the fat man's hand: "Let me see." Then he asked the fat man, "What did you want to say just now?" What didn't we see? ”

The fat man said to Shirley Young, "Oh, that...... I said, don't you see what I'm doing? According to the blind fortune teller, when they were fighting backwards, when they encountered a fresh corpse, they would wrap it around it with a rope and slap it in the mouth. If you don't do this, the corpse's clothes, as well as the coffin utensils, will not be able to take out, when he talked about these places, we were eating together, you should have heard, I wanted you to see, this zongzi's head is the same as a living person, it should be smoked first, who would have thought that it was like paper paste. It falls off with a light touch.

I nodded and said: "So you are talking about this, the blind fortune teller said so, but it is their human means, that is to give themselves courage, suppress the dead body, as for not slapping the dead, the face of the light will not be able to say that it is alive, that is somewhat self-deceptive, and its targets are mostly newly dead people who have just been buried in the grave, you are really doing this is too much, I announce that from now on you will be removed from the post of deputy commander." ”

The fat man wanted to argue, but he heard Shirley Yang holding the head of the ancient corpse and saying, "Don't argue, come and see this human head...... and put the head on the lid of the coffin for us to watch.

I looked at it twice, and the head of the ancient corpse was darker than before in this short period of time, which looked extremely terrifying, especially the eyes were deeply sunken, making it look like a pitch-black skull, and the edge of the eye socket had a spiral of crimson blood, because the head was constantly turning black and dry, I only looked at it, and those traces were gone.

The corpses in the coffins of the ancient tombs, I haven't seen much, and there are only the tombs of the golden people in the black wind mouth, the jade coffins in the jungle at the entrance of the Worm Valley, and there are corpses soaked in body fluids, I saw the head of this ancient corpse, except that the eyes were gouged out, I couldn't see anything special, and asked Shirley Yang Dao: "Check the ancient corpse, I'm not good, do you think this is possible, it's the head of the king?" ”

Shirley Yang said: "It is difficult to determine whether it is a sacrifice to the king, you have just seen the eye frame of the head, there are traces of being tortured by a bowl, there is a kind of torture instrument in ancient times, the shape is like a wine glass, there are rotating knife teeth inside, put it at the human eye turn, you can gouge out all the eyeballs alive." ”

The fat man and I nodded at the same time, two years ago in Beijing I saw an exhibition of ancient Tibetan customs, in which there is a bowl that gouges out the eyes of a living person, but those cultural relics are all Tibetan, it turns out that the mainland also has the same torture tools in ancient times, but why was this ancient corpse gouged out before his death? Why is it contained in a "ghost coffin" with a heavy yin atmosphere? There will never be anyone other than a member of the royal family buried in the royal tomb, so who is this ancient corpse?

In addition, I also found that under the head of this ancient corpse, there are traces of being cut by sharp weapons, but it does not look like it was decapitated, but it was cut off after death. Could it be that the ancient Dian country had this custom of cutting off the head after death and then pressing it again?

I suddenly thought of a possibility, but for the time being, I can't assert it, I must first look at the body in the "ghost coffin" to further confirm, so we gathered around in front of the coffin, I let the fat man hold a flashlight to illuminate, by me and Shirley Yang hands, with a companion knife to cut the layers of white brocade wrapped around the corpse, the king of the Han Dynasty had the custom of jade clothes (also known as jade boxes), with cool and moist jade embalming, and this ancient corpse is tightly wrapped in white brocade, but the head is exposed outside, which is very outrageous. The white brocade also began to be eroded by the damp mildew, and the more I went inside, the more difficult it became to peel off, and in the sweltering gas mask, the tip of my nose was sweating, and finally with the help of Shirley Yang, I finally completely peeled off the layers of strange shrouds.

When I peeled off the several layers of white brocade, I already noticed that there was something wrong with my hand, but when I saw what was going on inside, the beam of the flashlight shone into the coffin, reflecting countless golden rays onto the smooth surface of the stone spirit. The dazzling golden light seduces people's souls, and their hearts are quite surprised, how can this be?

In the white brocade of the shrouded place, there is a golden skeleton, except for the spine and waist crotch, there are still a few pieces of human Ken head, the rest of the parts are made up with gold, without a trace of skin and flesh, this half-bone and half-gold cavity frame, it seems that due to the decay of the corpse bones is too high, almost all of them have become earth and air, and they have been artificially put together to create a set of golden bones.

This golden bone is in stark contrast to the head that was knocked off by the fat man, a body that is almost rotten and needs to be filled with gold to fill the bones, why is the human head not rotten at all? It would be unreasonable to say that because we dismantled the shrouded white brocade, the body of the guide was quickly dissected, and it disappeared into the air in an instant.

Shirley Yang said to me: "Old Hu, you see that there is a jade hoop around the neck of this golden bone, which is used to connect the head. ”

The fat man immediately said: "Chief of Staff Yang is still your play, if it weren't for the commander's hand just right, it would not be so easy to discover the secret of this ancient corpse, the golden bones of this body, where can mortals afford it, I think this is the old thing of the king." ”

Shirley Yang didn't know how to say no, just pointed to the golden skeleton and said, "There are a few ribs missing on the left side, it seems that they were deliberately not filled......"

I saw that I already had a clue here, so I said to Shirley Yang: "This is obvious, this is to maintain the appearance of the bones being tortured before death, it seems that the ancient corpse in the ghost coffin is the coffin owner of the three coffins in the tomb, put together a corpse, we have already thought before, three sets of special-shaped coffins in different periods, sealed with three great nobles who were executed, although they were executed, but they were still given to enjoy the same burial system as the production status, they were all identified as the previous life of the king, indicating that he had gone through three prisons, It is the shadow bone that he left in the underworld before he became an immortal. ”

Since ancient times, "Confucius has benevolence, Lao Tzu has Taoism", Taoism specializes in refining and cultivating qi, in order to prove that the Tao becomes an immortal, and gets rid of the suffering of mortals' birth, old age, sickness and death, but immortality is naturally not to wait for leisure to get the land, if you want to be reborn, it is not as simple as peeling the skin, you must go through several heavy disasters, and these disasters are not forced, so some people in the Taoist Gate will find their own three lives of the corpse bones as a substitute, buried in the yin cave as a shadow bone, in order to show heaven and earth that they have gone through the three prisons, enough to be reborn, In this way, there is hope for this biochemical immortal.

It seems that this is what the king did, and the "wooden coffin" under the tomb of the underworld represents the underworld, where the part of the three corpses tortured is pieced together into a complete stand-in here, and the three corpses, because they are considered to be the first three lives of the king, are no different from him, and they are also placed in the main tomb.

Shirley Yang thought about the same as I thought, and said to me: "Maybe the meaning symbolized by each layer of this tomb is also different, the middle layer represents the human room, the wooden coffin below represents the void of the netherworld, and there should be another layer of tomb above the tomb, representing the side mountain, and the real bones of the king lie on the fairy mountain." ”

I said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: "What we just said is just an assumption, or should we further confirm, to such a immortal immortal king's tomb, few people have seen it, it seems that there are chances everywhere, it is better to find out if there are other things with information value in the coffin first, now that the head and body have been read, the stone spirit can keep the corpse immortal for thousands of years, so the state of the bones should be consistent with the original appearance in the respective coffins, I think the head is so well preserved, It must have come from the coffin of the best eight-inch board, in the middle section, the bones were almost rotten, so they had to be replaced with gold, most of them were the remains of the sarcophagus, and the lacquer on the outside of the sarcophagus was sealed later.

The fat man said: "This patchwork stand-in corpse, only the legs are left, we haven't seen it yet, and it may be some valuable license." ”

I think that's unlikely, the legs are from the huge bronze coffin, the two prisons in front are "gouging out the eyes" and "digging out the heart", then the third prison must be the most terrible "soul snatching", so the master in the bronze coffin will be so vicious, I peeled off the white brocade wrapped in the bones and legs, and asked Shirley Yang and the fat man: "Do you know what is soul snatching?" ”

Shirley Yang said: "It seems that in the Shang Tang period, there was a kind of witch punishment that could drain the soul of the living, and the remaining body became a walking corpse that was neither alive nor dead, but how to do it exactly, there is no record in history, and it is still a mystery, is that kind of mysterious witch punishment a soul?" ”

While dismantling the white brocade of the shroud, I briefly told Shirley Yang a thing that happened not long ago, the witch punishment of "soul snatching" did not become extinct until the Warring States Period, once in the Panjiayuan antique market, a few things suddenly appeared, it was an old farmer in Anyang, Henan, he took more than 100 strange-shaped bone tools to find a home, those things are a bit like "bone needles", but thicker and longer, the middle is hollow, all packed in an ancient clay pot full of ancient characters.

The old farmer said that it was dug up in the ground, because there were oracle bones on it, of course he didn't know it, but in his area, a lot of valuable cultural relics had been unearthed, he just thought that these "bone needles" could be taken to Beijing to sell for a lot of money, at that time we had a lot of people to see, but there were too many fakes at that time, no one could eat it, after all, this thing was too old, no one had ever seen it, and it was not even clear what it was.

As a result, there were just two Japanese who took a fancy to the eyes, and they were going to be all wrapped at that time, but they didn't expect that the fake thunder came at this time, and even the people brought things all the buckles, it turned out to be the old farmer's hometown, and some people saw him dig out the antiquities and felt red, and poked this thing out, and chased it all the way to Beijing, and then I heard that he dug out a jar of "bone needle", which was used by the Shang Dynasty to carry out the "soul-snatching" witch punishment, and now this thing fell in the local museum in Henan.

The fat man added on the side: "I specially inquired, this set of Soul Snatcher Needles is now on hold, and one can be exchanged for an imported car, we didn't have enough eyesight at the beginning, otherwise ...... Otherwise, it's our group that goes in and squats in the kiln now. ”

Shirley Young said: "So, taking the soul is a kind of torture that drains human blood? ”

I have removed all the white brocade wrapped in the bones of the coffin, a pair of human legs are exposed, the shriveled skin is purple-brown, and it is full of dots of round black marks, this large number of black spots should be the location where the soul-snatching needle pierced into the blood, I said to Shirley Yang and the fat man: "The blood is not finished, it is said that the tortured people will be poured with a large number of cows, sheep, chickens, etc., mixed with animal blood, these blood have been added to the finch eye and corpse rats and other things that have long been extinct, Anyway, it is to turn the living into zombies, and after we have a thorough investigation, in order to prevent the corpse from changing, it is best to burn these two dried corpse legs, as well as the coffin in the bronze coffin. ”

"Corpse transformation" can be divided into several types, some of which are corpses. The newly dead man who died not long ago suddenly got up and chased after him with yang energy; Some are dead but not decomposing, and although they have been dead for a long time, their hair and nails are still growing slowly; There are also some corpses buried in the place where the leylines are stagnant due to bad feng shui, and the body grows fine hairs, which turn into murder in the tomb; There is another kind of corpse that is buried in the ground, and is paid by some old fox, weasel, or plague god, drought fish, or evil spirit, which can be a disaster for one party, and the danger is great.

The corpse in the bronze coffin of this king's tomb is fully equipped with the signs of "corpse transformation", I think since this situation is encountered, if there are conditions, we should try our best to destroy the corpse with signs of corpse transformation, so that people have already entered, it is good to make up for some losses of Yin De, of course, if you encounter zombies in the "fierce", it is better to slip away as soon as possible.

The three corpses have been verified, and there is nothing superfluous in the coffin, as long as the corpses in the bronze coffin are burned again, and it is confirmed that only the upper body is in the coffin, then our inference can be completely confirmed, and the remaining two coffins in the upper chamber have no need to open them again.

I said to Shirley Yang: "Now I can guarantee the ticket, although the layout of the tomb of the king is strange, but since there is a shadow bone on the lower layer, it must be divided into the gate of heaven and the earth, so that the dragon is lurking, this is a three-layer water tomb composed of shrimp tail, crab body, and goldfish eyes, and the location of the real bones of the king must be completely overlapping with the shadow bone in the wooden coffin. ”

Since we entered the gourd cave, until now, we have been moving continuously for more than ten hours, and our energy and body have been consumed a lot, but now we finally have some eyebrows, and our spirits are lifted when we think of this.

I made a brief deployment, let Shirley Yang and the fat man stay in the "wooden coffin" to burn the two corpses first, one is to break the layout of the "Tomb of the King", and the other is to avoid the "corpse transformation" of the corpses in the bronze coffin in the future, of course, you can also take the bronze mirror away, and it will always be used in the future.

Before I went up, I specially told Shirley Yang to let her take care of the fat man, and be sure to light the coffin in the bronze coffin first, and then take away the bronze mirror, Shirley Yang nodded and agreed, and handed me the "Flying Tiger Claw": "Be careful yourself, don't always be so reckless." ”

Then I climbed the rotten "wooden fang" and crawled back to the tomb in the middle, the nine blue and faint "immortal candle" has not yet been extinguished, and the three candles in the southeast corner are still burning normally, although the light is weak, but it makes people feel reassured.

Looking up at the broken copper beam on the top of the tomb, due to the lack of light, it is difficult to see whether there is space on it for a while, but at the broken beam, there is a large white thing, I saw that the spotlight on the helmet did not work, and took out the "wolf eye" to see clearly, the original tomb top exposed part, is a kind of flower white quartz similar to the outer wall of the underworld, about just above the "shadow bone", if you don't know that there may be a layer of tomb on the top, you will not notice this tiny trace at all.

I also used Shirley Yang's flying tiger claws to go up to the remaining copper beam on the top of the tomb, and removed the broken tomb bricks that covered the white rock inside, it really took a lot of effort, the area of the white rock above gradually increased, revealing a long and narrow olive-shaped entrance, took off the gloves and stretched over to try, there was a swishing cold air flow, and then used the "wolf eye" flashlight to shine up, the height of the tomb above is difficult to determine.

At a cursory glance, it seems that there is a large circular cavity above, similar to the funnel terrain at the waterhole outside, but this is artificially repaired, the scale is much smaller, the diameter of the large cavity is only more than ten meters, there is a coiling earth slope winding up, and then it is beyond the range of the "wolf's eye", and it is pitch black.

I cursed in my heart: "Even if the king is dead, he still has to put himself at the highest place in the Yin Palace, and his dedication to power and immortal path has reached the point of perversion. I still remembered my companion in the "wooden coffin", and when I saw that the entrance had been confirmed, I tied the rope and the rock wedge, and returned to the floor of the middle tomb.

After a while, the fat man and Shirley Yang climbed up from the bottom, the bronze mirror was in hand, this is the second most valuable trophy after the jade letter in the apse of the Heavenly Palace, the fat man asked: "The dried corpse in the bronze coffin does not have legs, there are stone legs instead, how about Commander Hu, do you see a valuable weapon on it?" ”

But at this time I was staring at the fire in the "wooden coffin" in a daze, deaf to the fat man's words, after a long time to come back to my senses, I always feel that there is an important thing, but I can't remember, in fact, I don't know whether I can't remember, or can't bear to think, the more I think about it, the more my head hurts, so I try not to think about it, I turned to the fat man and Shirley Yang and said: "Above the middle tomb, there is a big hollow, and the king must be hanging on the top, and the position corresponds to the shadow bone in the wooden coffin." ”

No one wanted to stay in the palace where the dead rested, so he climbed the top of the tomb more than three meters high with a rope and got into the entrance I had cleared earlier.

The surrounding wall is full of large-scale colored murals, the Han Yi color and the religious color are inclusive, the wind of the king and the elegant and illusory coexistence of the fairy road, this is a painting style that has never been handed down in the world, a closer look, but also feel that the layout is thorough, the intention is rigorous, the direct teaching is breathtaking, I estimate that the murals in such a beautiful tomb, the core of the tomb of the king should not be far away.

The figures in the painting are all angry-eyed gods, almost equal to the proportion of ordinary people, all of them are looking downward, as if they are looking at the comers at the bottom of the cave, their eyes are all three layers of crystal, fluorite inlay, streamers, as our position moves, the light of the portrait's eyes is also moving, in short, this feeling of being stared at by many portraits is very bad.

The fat man was so hairy by the figures in the paintings that he took a sapper shovel to dig down a few crystal eyes, but the scale of the mural was huge, and there were hundreds of figures, and he had to try not to look at the eyes of those portraits, so as not to be afraid.

I have been thinking about the scorching flame breath in my heart, the strangely shaped bronze man, and I didn't pay much attention to the portrait in the big hollow, and walked up the spiraling ramp for a while, and finally remembered that it was about ten years ago, and humanity was: "Ten years with a flick of the fingers, you remember that in the beacon smoke of the year, nine deaths and life are like yesterday's ......"

Indeed, I have seen bronze figures in strange costumes and postures, but they ...... It was Kham Tsingpu under the snowy Kunlun Mountains......

All kinds of chaotic thoughts came to me for a while, and before I knew it, I had reached the highest point of the hollow, ahead of the fat man and Shirley Yang a turning distance, and the end was sealed by a white stone wall, I raised my eyes to see that there was a woman painted on the wall in front of me, this is a portrait of the king's wife, right?

I thought so in my heart, and before I could even see the appearance of the woman's dress in the painting, I felt a sudden tightening on my wrist, as if I was firmly held by an iron hoop, and hurriedly withdrew my hand, but it was so tightly buckled that I couldn't break free at all, and I suddenly felt pain into the bone marrow, and when I looked down, I saw a white human hand, stretched out from the portrait of the woman opposite, and grabbed my arm.

The five fingers of the man's hand are slender, and there is no blood in the white, it is a woman's hand, but the power is great, is this wall is the place where the king's wife is buried, under the severe pain, it is too late to look up and see what changes have occurred in the mural opposite, so I had to endure the pain and take a breath, and raise the "Chicago typewriter" with the other hand, Miai's muzzle has not been raised, and a hand is stretched out from the mural coldly, like a cold iron tong, and I pinched my son, and the feeling of suffocation suddenly made my eyes black.