Chapter 30: The Giant Coffin
In the darkness ahead, the voices of the Liu brothers and others could no longer be heard, and it was estimated that we were walking too slowly. The stone chambers that connected to the ground were strange, all empty, and there was nothing. It is made of quaint stone slabs without any ornamentation, and has no tomb structure at all, and looks more like a warehouse for storing goods, which is too simple and more terrifying.
The initiators of this inverted fight are the Liu brothers, so I don't know anything about the stone chamber tombs of the Western Han Dynasty, and I also feel inexplicable about these stone chambers in front of me, so I can only continue to pass through the stone doors in front of me, blindly moving forward in the dark.
As a result, the cigarette man, who had been walking quietly in front, suddenly stopped, and the fat man who followed closely behind him almost bumped into him, hurriedly stood firm, and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?" ”
The smoke man just stood quietly in the dim stone room, his brows were furrowed, and he didn't speak, and the two pairs of eyes of me and the fat man were focused on the smoke man.
Suddenly, a sense of disobedience crossed my heart, and wait, I secretly felt that something was wrong in my heart. Suddenly, I suddenly woke up, how could it be two pairs of eyes? At this time, I suddenly discovered that the resentful woman who had been walking with us had quietly disappeared out of thin air.
I thought he was sick again, so I hurriedly turned my head and looked at the stone room behind, all the doors of the stone room were connected to each other, and the light of the flashlight could see the bottom at a glance, and there was no resentful woman at all. The resentful woman didn't go to the front just now, why did she disappear out of thin air? Could it be that there is a trap mechanism here? The resentful woman accidentally touched the mechanism, and fell silently without us noticing? Come to think of it. I immediately looked at my feet, and there was a large uneven stone slab on the ground, and I knew at a glance that there would never be a trap like a flap trap, so the resentful woman didn't fall into the trap, so where did he go?
The silent stone room shrouded in darkness was full of unknown danger signals, and panic overflowed everyone's hearts. I hurriedly asked the fat man beside me, "Why is the resentful woman gone?" ”
The fat man stared at the motionless cigarette man in front of him, and replied absentmindedly: "He walks slowly, he must be left behind." There is only one passage here. He won't get lost at all, don't worry, he'll catch up in a while. However, what's wrong with the cigarette boy. Why did you suddenly stop moving? ”
The fat man's voice just fell. In the dark and silent stone room, the sound of stones rubbing against each other sounded, gradually from far to near, the sound became louder and louder, and finally the clear and bright sound made me suddenly realize that it was coming from the direction behind me.
I was amazed, and hurriedly turned around to check. I saw that the originally empty stone gate behind me was sliding down from above. The stone gates, which were originally empty and uncovered, were gradually closed tightly one by one, impermeable, and it seemed that it was about to be the turn of the stone gate behind us.
The rumbling sound shook my head, and I couldn't figure out what was going on with this strange situation in front of me. As if stunned, the pestle remained motionless.
The cigarette man, who was motionless just now, suddenly shouted, "Run".
The fat man grabbed my arm, dragged me who was still in a daze, and ran forward desperately. Only then did I come to my senses, and I couldn't help but curse in my heart: it was the bastards in front of me who touched the mechanism. The way out was so simple that they were all blocked.
If we are unfortunately trapped in this small and empty stone room at this time, it will be difficult to fly even if we have wings. Even if we have explosives in our hands, if we want to blow up so many stone gates, we will definitely be buried alive by the collapsed earth and rocks first, and there is no way to save them at all, and there is no way to leave safely. Therefore, it is imperative to pass through these small and dark stone chambers to a wider area, such as a burial chamber or a patio tunnel.
We rushed forward with all our might, passing through one stone gate after another, and just as I had silently passed through the eighteenth narrow stone chamber, we finally came to a very spacious square burial chamber, which was about ten zhang long and wide. And there was a group of people in front of him, who were fighting in front of a coffin, and it became a pot of porridge.
Panting, I stood at the doorway of the tomb, hunched over, with the sound of the stone door crashing and closing behind me. My thighs were cramping, and looking at the swaying figure in the dim room, I looked sideways at the smoker and asked, "Here, you don't have to run anymore, right?" ”
The cigarette man didn't blush or panting, standing in place like a stone statue with a cigarette in his mouth, looking coldly at the people fighting in front of him, and then replied to me in a low voice: "No need to run, but there are more troublesome things." ”
The people who were fighting in front of the coffin were the Liu brothers, and the fat man wanted to go forward to see the excitement, so I hurriedly grabbed him and said, "Don't go over." Before the coffin was opened, they were fighting for red eyes, and if you go over now, maybe you will hurt the fish in the pond. ”
The fat man looked at the coffin in the middle of the stone room, and his eyes lit up.
There is a coffin in good condition parked in this tomb, and the coffin is not painted with gold powder, nor is it whitewashed with colored paint, it is a very ordinary black lacquer and red wooden coffin. However, this coffin is particularly tall, horizontal in the middle of the tomb, fully occupies a quarter of the empty space of the tomb, very majestic, amazing, huge and spectacular, some shocking people's hearts.
In ancient times, ordinary people from poor families generally wrapped themselves in straw mats after they died, and they dug a pit and buried them. After the death of a person with a little wealth, he will buy a wooden "thin coffin", and then bury it, and then raise an earthen grave and erect a simple tombstone. The tomb of the dignitaries after their death will build a burial chamber, and the coffin is not a single thin coffin, but a double-layer coffin, the outer layer is called "coffin", and the inner layer is called "coffin" containing the corpse.
After the death of some imperial relatives, the coffins that buried them were multi-layered, and the materials of the coffins were also different, including jade, stone, copper, and only in the legendary gold coffins, usually their wooden coffins would be painted with gold. The wood is also made of good materials, such as "red sandalwood" and "golden silk nanmu", and the most rare is "gloomy wood". (Legend has it that it takes 10,000 years to become a talent after being buried in the ground, which is extremely rare.) The ancients said: "There is an ebony half square at home." better than a chest of treasure". The paint on the wooden coffin is also very particular, and it has to be painted repeatedly over the years, and it can be regarded as a good "coffin" until the paint is an inch thick. The outer coffin is even more painstaking, some are made of jade, and some are cast from various precious metals.
The coffin of Xin Chai, the wife of the prime minister of Changsha State. There are as many as six layers, and the outermost coffin board weighs more than 3,000 catties, which is not through the technique of guò machinery. It can't be opened at all, which is luxurious and has the effect of preventing theft.
The coffin in the "mausoleum", that is, the coffin in the imperial mausoleum, is even more exaggerated, and usually the "treasure bed" is built in the tomb. The coffin is then placed on the treasure bed. Legend has it that the coffin of Qin Shi Huang. It is placed on the nine dragon pillars cast in bronze, and the treasure bed of this bronze dragon pillar is the outermost layer of the coffin, and it is also the "coffin" of the first layer.
The coffin has many layers and changes, and it is undoubtedly the best symbol of wealth and power.
The three of us stood quietly near the door of the tomb, watching the crowd shouting and fighting.
Suddenly, there was the sound of the stone door closing behind him, and the tomb was completely closed. And the crowd fighting in front of the coffin. When they heard the sound of the stone gate closing, they immediately stopped fighting. Stopping to look sideways, he looked in the direction of the stone door of the tomb.
When the Liu brothers found out about the three of us, they immediately greeted us warmly, and said to the smoke man very affectionately and happily: "Brother Hanyan, you came just in time, as an intermediary, you give a comment." ”
After hearing this, the smoke man, who had always been afraid of trouble, first frowned, then did not speak, still looked coldly at the crowd in the distance with his eagle eyes.
At this time, a black-faced man who looked like Zhang Fei stepped forward, he was a head taller than a fat man with a height of two meters, his clothes were bulging with bulging muscles, but his voice was sharp and thin, he snorted and said, "What's wrong with me wanting to open the coffin?" Isn't this the purpose of everyone risking their lives to fight, why are you stopping? ”
After a long time, the two sides fought not because of the uneven distribution of the spoils, but because the Liu brothers did not agree to open the coffin. The reason is that this coffin is a suspicious coffin set up for anti-theft, and the dangerous mechanism inside cannot be opened, and another group of people led by the black man, regardless of whether this coffin is a suspicious coffin or not, must insist on opening the coffin to see what is going on.
As a result, the two sides disagreed, argued, and finally the fierce quarrel gradually evolved into a full martial arts, and a group of people fought.
The cigarette man glanced at me, and then walked towards the huge black coffin, and the fat man and I followed silently behind him.
At this time, the atmosphere in the tomb was extremely tense, and if it was not done well, a picture of blood flowing would be staged.
At this time, some of the mechanisms in the tomb have been touched, and it is impossible to simply trap us in it, and there will definitely be more thrilling traps in the future, forcing people into a desperate situation, waiting for us to throw ourselves into the net in the dark depths.
And these human beings, who have nothing to do and don't know whether they are alive or dead, are in a state of moving their whole bodies, ready to fight each other anytime and anywhere, adding senseless fear. Internal and external troubles spread in the cold tomb, but the fat man and I both knew very well that no matter what the direction of the situation would be, we would definitely follow closely behind the smoke man, and resolutely stand on the same front with him, sharing life and death.
And as we approached the coffin, I found the missing resentful woman, who was leaning quietly on the side of the coffin, staring ahead with empty eyes.
The second child of the Liu family walked over and kicked the resentful woman sitting on the ground: "You let me." ”
The resentful woman still leaned motionless on the coffin, her empty eyes dilated as if she had lost her soul.
The second elder of the Liu family immediately ordered the person next to him: "This guy is sick again, carry him aside." After saying this, the two men standing beside him immediately picked up the resentful woman and lifted him aside.
I glanced at the resentful woman who didn't know where to go, and said to myself, this guy is really a strange weirdo, when did he come here?
The strange chain of stone chambers, the vicious crowds, and the erratic team members, I can't think about these annoying troubles. So he focused his eyes on the black lacquer coffin in front of him, and suddenly found that on the wooden board of the coffin facing him, a few big characters were written in gold powder books, "Those who dare to send me will never be behind."
It means: Whoever dares to dig up my grave will cut you off your children and grandchildren. (To be continued......)