As soon as the candle went out, I instinctively felt a chill in my body, but then I reminded myself: "This is a normal physical phenomenon, the candle burns to the end, there is nothing terrible, if it burns to the end and it is still on, then there is a real ghost." ”

At this time, I only heard a "coo" behind me, and the fat man and I thought there was a situation behind us, so we hurriedly opened the frame and looked back, but saw the big gold tooth looking at the extinguished candle and sitting on the ground, so frightened that his face was colorless.

This is to blame when the fat man bragged to him, adding oil and vinegar to depict the "ghost blowing the lamp" as a nightmare, the big gold tooth is just a profiteer, has not experienced any tests, at this time, in this gloomy underground palace, suddenly saw the candle extinguished, how he was not afraid, only frightened into a ball.

I stuck the paratrooper knife in my hand into my waist, reached out and pulled the big gold tooth up, and comforted him: "What's wrong with you, Jin Ye?" It's okay, isn't this me and the fat man? With the two of us here, you can't miss a single hair, don't be afraid. ”

Seeing that there was no unusual movement in front of him except for the candle burning to the end and extinguishing, the big golden tooth sighed: "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed...... I'm not...... Scared, I remembered...... My family still relies on me to feed alone, so I'm a little ...... That ......"

I waved my hand at the big gold tooth, and now it was not the time to speak, and a candle was lit again on the ground, and the three of them took a few steps forward, this time the "man" in the southeast corner was already in the range of our wolf's eye flashlight.

It turned out that the person who stood in the southeast corner of the temple through the candle was not a person at all, but there was indeed a face, and it was also a human face, and surprisingly it was a statue carved out of stone.

The stone face is carved in relief on a huge stone coffin, this stone coffin is very large, I dare to swear, when we first got into the temple from the thief hole, the temple was empty, there was absolutely no such big stone coffin, it was the same as the stone wall that sealed the thief hole, it seemed to suddenly come out of the air.

The fat man and I, as well as the big gold tooth behind me, saw that there was suddenly a huge stone coffin in the temple, and we were all confused, and we took a few steps forward and approached the stone coffin to investigate.

This stone coffin is about 3.5 meters long, 1.7 meters high, the whole body is made of large stones, except for the bottom of the stone coffin, the rest of the surroundings and the coffin cover are embossed with a huge human face, the whole stone coffin is gray, very dignified.

This human face seems to be a decoration on the stone coffin, carved with distinct facial features, no different from ordinary people, but the ears are slightly larger, the eyes are level, and there is no expression on the face, although it is only a human face carved in stone, it is indescribably grotesque and cold.

At the beginning of the passage between the Hades Temple and the front hall, we saw this stone face through the candle from a distance, and the candlelight was in a trance, and we did not see that it was a human face carved in stone, nor did we see this large stone coffin in the dark.

At this moment, I can see it clearly, but I feel that the human face on this stone coffin is far more terrifying than any ghosts, zombies and the like, because we are mentally prepared for those things, but we didn't expect such a thing to emerge anyway.

The fat man said to me, "Old Hu, what the is this?" I think this craft seems to have been around for many years, but can it be refined? Otherwise, how can it suddenly appear on the ground. It's still possible to say that we have misremembered the pattern on the mural, but with such a big stone, we just came in and looked at this temple more carefully, but we didn't see it, isn't that a living ghost? ”

I said to the fat man, "Don't talk nonsense, this seems to be a stone coffin with a coffin." This tomb is so strange that I don't know where it came from. I asked the big gold tooth behind me again: "Master Jin, you are well-informed, can you see the fame of this stone coffin?" ”

The big golden tooth that had been hiding behind me and the fat man said: "Master Hu, I think this stone coffin looks like it was from the Shang and Zhou dynasties. As he spoke, he shone his wolf's eyes at the bottom of the stone coffin and said, "Look at the cloud and thunder patterns of the Western Zhou Dynasty on it, I dare to vouch for it with my head, there is no such thing in the Tang Dynasty." ”

Although I have been in the antique business for a while, I have been making some things from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and I have not had much contact with things before the Tang Dynasty, and I have never seen things from the Yin Shang and Western Zhou dynasties.

Hearing the big golden tooth say that this stone coffin is from the Western Zhou Dynasty, I think this is even more strange, and said to the big golden tooth: "If I'm not mistaken, shouldn't we be in the underworld of a Tang Dynasty tomb now?" In the ancient tombs of the Tang Dynasty, how could there be stone coffins of the Western Zhou Dynasty? ”

The Great Golden Tooth said, "Hmm...... Don't talk about you, I'm starting to get confused at this point. Let's take a big turn in this ancient tomb, look at the structure of the underground palace in this tomb, and the murals of those fat palace maids, in addition to the tomb of the Tang Dynasty, how can there be such a pomp, such craftsmanship, but ...... Having said that, this stone coffin is indeed not a Tang Dynasty thing. ”

The fat man said to us, "Okay, it's impossible to remember wrong, and it's impossible to remember all three of them." I look at this stone...... What a coffin, it's not a valuable thing, I'm uncomfortable in this temple, let's quickly find a way to get out of here, it loves which dynasty it loves, it has nothing to do with us. ”

I said, "No, I see that the stone of this coffin is very similar to the big stone slab that seals the entrance to the cave, and they all appear out of nowhere, and if you want to find your way out, you have to find out what is going on." ”

The big golden tooth said: "Master Hu, I also think it's better not to see it, we can't go back from the entrance of the thief cave, can't we still go to the middle cave?" I think the captain who came in earlier left from the cave maze, although the legend is that there is a big labyrinth, but don't we have a compass, and we don't have to worry too much about getting lost. ”

I nodded and said, "I know, in addition to the compass, there are also glutinous rice and long ropes, which can be used as road signs, but the depth of that cave is unknown, and I'm afraid it's not easy to get out." What I'm most worried about is that these strange things like stone walls and stone coffins also pop up on that road, damn it, where did these Western Zhou things come from? ”

As I spoke, I suddenly remembered one thing, in the small village next to the snake slope, the old couple who left us overnight once said that there is no Tang Tomb in this mountain, but according to legend, there is an ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and this human-faced stone coffin is indeed an object of the Western Zhou Dynasty, is it possible that the place where we are now is not the Tang Tomb, but the ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty. If this is the case, how can the layout of those Tang Dynasty murals and Tang Dynasty mausoleums be explained?

I think about my head hurts, and I can't think of a reason, even if there is more experience in these things, we can't explain it, what we are facing is a completely incomprehensible phenomenon, how can the Tang Dynasty abandon the tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty with a human face and stone coffin......

The big gold tooth is still scared, he is money first, he is a complete money worshipper, not too superstitious, never very convinced of ghosts and gods, if he is asked to make a choice between money and gods and Buddhas, even if he is asked to choose a hundred times, he will not hesitate to choose money. After all, doing antique shops, especially inverted Ming vessels, can't be too superstitious, and the big gold tooth hangs the golden Buddha jade Guanyin around the neck, just to seek a little psychological comfort.

However, at this moment, in the face of these unbelievable situations, the big golden tooth was also vague, and couldn't help but ask me: "Could the stone wall that suddenly appeared in the thief cave be...... Ghost hitting the wall? ”

I had just thought of a clue, but before I could sort it out, I was interrupted by the words of the big gold tooth, and said to him, "Ghost hitting the wall? We haven't encountered ghosts hitting the wall, but I've heard that they are all ghosts who are confused and go around in circles. Although there is a stone wall out of thin air in the thief cave, it should be different from a ghost hitting the wall. ”

The fat man urged on the side: "Old Hu, hurry up, if you want to say that we will withdraw now, then don't stand here; If you feel the need to see what this human-faced stone chest is, then we can find a way to pry it open. ”

I didn't answer the fat man's question, I cautiously reached out and pushed the stone coffin with a human face, the stone coffin was wedged with a stone tenon, and it was covered tightly, even if I took the iron bar, it was not easy to pry it open, and if there was a zongzi in it, it would be difficult to deal with it. I looked at the strange face on the stone coffin again, and thought it was better not to move.

Originally, we just wanted to come in and pick up some cheap, but we didn't pick it up, and we tried not to cause more trouble, as long as we could get out of the way, and weigh the pros and cons, I think it would be better to turn a blind eye to this strange human face stone coffin.

I made up my mind, and said to the fat man and the big golden tooth that leave this person alone, let's go back the way we came, it's a big deal to go out of the Longling Grotto, and stay any longer, maybe there will be some changes here.

The big gold tooth has long had this intention, I wish to be far away from this stone coffin, the three of them turned around and left, the big gold tooth led two geese, when the first jumped into the thief hole in the center of the temple, the fat man then jumped down, I looked back at the candle in the southeast corner of the temple, both hands supported the two sides of the hole, jumped down the hole.

When we came to this section of the robbery cave, we had already found out that the trend angle of the robbery cave was a 45-degree inclined plane, leading to the middle of the temple. We crawled diagonally down in the thief hole, crawling and crawling, and we all felt that something was wrong, how did the originally inclined thief hole become flat ground? We swept around with our flashlights, and we were dumbfounded, we actually crawled on the floor of a tomb, surrounded by strange and strange petroglyphs of human faces, not the same cave as before.

The three of you, you look at me, I look at you, and I can't help but ask, "What the fuck is this?" ”

Looking around the strange tomb I was in, even the fat man, who had always cared about nothing, began to be afraid, and the fat man asked me, "Old Hu, what kind of place is this?" ”

I glanced at him and said, "You ask me, I ask who to go." I remember clearly, we jumped from the thief hole in the middle of the ancient tomb temple, it should be a shaft that is not too high, connected to the inclined thief hole below, how did we get here? ”

The big gold tooth snorted and said: "Is there anything wrong with that, there is such a thief hole on the ground of the underworld, just in the middle of the void, next to it should be the coffin of the tomb owner." We have made three turns in the Hades Temple, and in addition to the robbery hole, there are other passages on the ground. This is ...... It's really a ghost hitting the wall. ”

I waved my hand at the two of them, it was useless to be suspicious now, and it wasn't as simple as building a wall. The stone coffin of the Western Zhou Dynasty appeared in the underworld hall of the ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty, could it be that the tomb where we are now is also from the Western Zhou Dynasty? Looking at the petroglyphs on the wall of the tomb, there are some strange expressions of human faces, this narrow burial chamber, or the tomb or something, must have a certain connection with the human face stone coffin in the underworld.

After we entered the Tang Tomb Hades Hall, in order to save energy, there were three flashlights, only one of the big gold teeth was turned on, and at this time the big gold teeth handed over the flashlight to me, and I lit a candle in the same place, and turned on the flashlight to observe the nearby environment.

We are supposed to be in a cemetery, flanked by red ancient petroglyphs. The color of the strokes of those pictures is as red as blood, bright as new, if this tomb road is from the Western Zhou Dynasty, even if it is well preserved, it is impossible to have this effect, these petroglyphs seem to be only one or two hundred years old at most.

Not only the petroglyphs, but also the rocks that made up the tomb road, there are no traces of old peeling, and although it does not look like it has just been completed, it is by no means what it was built thousands of years ago, and there are gray stone stubbles exposed in some places.

The tomb road is about several meters wide, its two ends are straight down, there is no end in sight, the tomb bricks are huge rocks, simple and dignified, not as luxurious and exquisite as the Tang tomb, but there is another thick and calm king's atmosphere.

Knowing that I was familiar with the layout of the tombs, the Great Golden Tooth asked me for the details of this tomb.

I shook my head and said to the big gold tooth: "I'm still not sure, if the stone coffin we found in the underworld hall is indeed an antiquity of the Western Zhou Dynasty as you said, then this tomb road is also very likely to be matched with the stone coffin, which is all from the Western Zhou Dynasty, especially the patterns painted on the wall of this tomb, which have many similarities with the stone coffin." ”

The fat man said, "I bet it's definitely the same thing. Fuck, that big face, you can remember it for a lifetime at a glance, that smile is not a smile, indifferent and weird, it's just a mold pulled out. ”

I said to the fat man: "Little fatty, you have a point, but you don't look carefully, the stone coffin we saw in the temple of the underworld, there are five stone carved human faces on it, and the expressions are the same. ”

The petroglyphs on the tomb wall depict slightly distorted human faces, not all of which are like those on the stone coffins in the temple of Hades. The five faces on the stone coffin are all expressionless, revealing a trace of grotesqueness in indifference, and each face on the tomb wall is slightly different, with joy, sorrow, sorrow, anger, shock, and sadness, but no matter which kind of expression, they are all different from normal people.

The fat man took advantage of the light of the candle to look at some of the faces on the tomb wall, and said to me and the big golden tooth: "Old Hu, I take a closer look, and I think that these faces are so wrong, no matter what the expressions are, they are ...... How to say it, I know in my heart that something is wrong, but I can't describe it, the expressions on these faces are so ...... So ......"

I also saw the strangeness of those faces, and when I saw that the fat man couldn't hold it back, I said it for him: "It's all so fake, it seems insincere, whether it's happy or angry, it looks fucking fake, like it's pretended, not born from the heart." ”

When I said this, both the big gold tooth and the fat man agreed, and the fat man said, "That's right, it's fake!" Lao Hu is still poisonous, in fact, I can see it, but there are too many words in my stomach, and I am stuck, and I don't think about it for a while. ”

The big golden tooth said: "It is indeed so, the laughter is full of treachery, and the anger is full of mockery. I think our expression at that time was fake enough, but compared with the human face painted on the tomb wall, it was a small thing, and the fake and fake demeanor revealed in this expression was ...... Base...... It's not something that humans can do at all. ”

The last words of the big gold tooth made me feel a chill in my heart, and I looked at the faces on the murals, and said to the fat man and the big gold tooth: "I also feel this way, I can't think of it, what kind of person's expression would be so strange?" The singing drama doesn't have such a face! I think the situation we are facing now has something to do with these faces, but ...... What do these faces symbolize? ”

Although I often advertise myself as an authentic gold school captain, I am only good at looking at feng shui to find the dragon vein and find the treasure hall, and secondly, I learned from the "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", and I am very familiar with the tomb layout of the previous dynasties. However, when it comes to some cultural factors, historical background, and cultural relics identification, they are all half-understood, and even if they are half-understood, most of them are guessed by their own speculation, without any foundation.

I don't know anything about these giant face stone coffins and the many strange expressions of human face petroglyphs on the tomb wall, except for some intuitive feelings, and I am far inferior to the big gold tooth in this regard. Although he is not a professional archaeologist, he has at least many years of experience in the world of antiquities.

I said to the big gold tooth and the fat man: "Little fatty, Jin Ye, I see that there are a lot of unbelievable things in this ancient tomb, we are not going to go around like this, if we break in like this, maybe we will encounter something abnormal, now we must think of some countermeasures." ”

The fat man asked, "Lao Hu, do you have any way?" If you want to, say it quickly, don't sell it, I won't hide it from you, I'm really scared now. ”

I know that the fat man is not a person who speaks lightly, and he wants to say the word fear, because we are facing a situation where we have no way to start, although our lives are not threatened, but our nerves are about to collapse. So I said to the fat man, "I can't think of anything right now." The premise of finding out how to deal with it depends on us first figuring out what is going on, now it is like fighting on the battlefield, we have been ambushed, I am in the dark, I can only be beaten passively, and there is no room to fight back. ”

The fat man said helplessly: "Now the three of us are like three little mice in the hands of others, at the mercy of others, dizzy, but we still don't know what's going on." Next time, if I don't bring weapons and explosives, I will never enter the tomb again. ”

I smiled wryly, "If only we could talk about it next time." ”

I asked the big gold tooth again: "Master Jin, I think that although we are in a strange environment now, there will be no danger to our lives for the time being, as long as we sort out our clues, it is not a problem to escape." After all, you haven't been pouring out for so many years, and you can see that the human-faced stone coffin is something from the Western Zhou Dynasty, can you be specific? Let's analyze and analyze, maybe we can come up with a solution. ”

The big golden tooth is not as nervous as the fat man at this time, he is different from the fat man, the fat man is not afraid of wolves, insects, tigers, leopards, zongzi zombies, only afraid of those things that are not focused, to put it simply, he is afraid of using his brain; The Great Golden Tooth fears the immediate threat the most. Although many things from the Western Zhou Dynasty appeared out of thin air in this ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty, they were just very strange and tight, and they were not very fatal, or it could be said that they were not immediately fatal, so although the big golden tooth also felt nervous and frightened, it could still cope with this kind of mental pressure for the time being.

At this time, the big gold tooth listened to my question, thought about it for a while, and then said to me: "Hu Ye, you also know, the things we are turning up in Beijing are the ordinary ones of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the value is high in the past, and they are all private transactions, and they dare not be sold in the antique market." To the Ming ware of the Tang and Song dynasties, in our industry, it is already the best, and then to the ancestral objects before the Tang and Song dynasties, it can basically be said to be a national treasure, and it is necessary to turn around when buying and selling. I've been in this business for so long, and the oldest ones are only a few small pieces from the Tang Dynasty. ”

I saw that the big gold tooth was said something that was not needed, so I asked again: "So you can't eat that human-faced stone coffin is something from the Western Zhou Dynasty?" ”

The big gold tooth said: "Of course, I have never handled such an ancient Ming weapon, this kind of Western Zhou stone coffin, if you want to say that it is valuable, it can be said that it is priceless, the problem is that no one dares to buy it, if it is sold to foreigners, we are accused of collaborating with the enemy and treason, so it is actually worthless for us." Although I have never poured out the things of the Western Zhou Dynasty, sometimes in order to grow my knowledge and eyesight, I often read books on this subject, and I always visit museums to improve my professional ability, and I am also half an expert on these antiquities. This stone coffin is a thing of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which I will not look away, and I can guarantee this point. The human face was used as a utensil decoration, which was once very prosperous in the Yin Shang period, and many important ritual utensils will see the carving of the human face. ”

I wondered: "Didn't you just say that the human-faced stone coffin is from the Western Zhou Dynasty, if I remember correctly, Yin Shang should be before the Western Zhou Dynasty, is this stone coffin from the Western Zhou Dynasty or Yin Shang?" ”

The big gold tooth said: "My lord, you listened to me finish speaking, this kind of decoration, flourished in Yin Shang, until the Three Kingdoms period is still used on some important occasions, but the times are different, its characteristics are also different, the stone coffin we see, there is a characteristic, do you know what the characteristics are?" ”