We were like figurines in the cave, hung upside down from the trunk of the tree by a safety rope, and the morning light dazzled our eyes, and we saw a dark red object in the cracked body of the tree, rectangular in shape, with rounded corners on the two sides of the top.

The sunlight shone through the gaps in the trees, emitting a faint purple halo, what is this? I struggled to latch on to the tree with my pickaxe, climbed back into the canopy, and pulled Shirley Poplar up as well. The fat man has a fear of heights, and he doesn't dare to make big moves, so he is so frightened that his whole body stiffens, I want to put him on the ground with a safety rope, but the fat man doesn't agree to anything: "Lao Hu, you still pull me to the tree, I have to take a good look at this thing, I think eighty percent can be worth a lot of silver." ”

I had to pull the safety rope with Shirley Yang with all my strength to help the fat man climb back to the canopy. At this time, the sky is already bright, and standing in the canopy of more than 20 meters high and looking down, it is really a bit like being on the edge of the abyss and walking on thin ice.

This time we learned to be obedient, and we scattered around the object that emerged from the tree, and the fat man asked me, "Is this a coffin?" Jade, or crystal? Why is it such a quirky color? I think it's a bit like the bloodstones we poured in the Pan family. ”

I didn't answer the fat man's words, but I just looked intently, and saw that in the middle of the old banyan tree, most of the transparent coffins like jade and crystal were exposed, which were extremely smooth and translucent, and there was a layer of milky white as thin cicada wings on the outside, and gradually turned red on the inside, and the deeper the color became, as if it was full of crimson blood. Most of them are entangled in various parasitic plants, making it difficult to get a full view of them.

We've never seen anything like it before, and when we look closely, we see that it's made of translucent jade, with a layer of crystal inside, and a large amount of crimson liquid in it, which is like blood. Judging from the appearance alone, this is a rare jade coffin.

Shirley Yang saw this strange jade coffin, and couldn't help but wonder: "This is clearly the coffin of the deceased, and the material is Tibetan heavenly jade, not Burmese jade produced near Yunnan." But...... How could there be such a big jade coffin in the tree? That's right...... After Shalong Mountain, it is already the scope of the tomb of the king, and this coffin is likely to be the companion tomb of the main tomb, but why did the coffin grow into the tree? ”

The fat man said: "You have to ask Lao Hu, doesn't he always brag that there are no coffins in all the cemeteries in China that he doesn't know?" Let him explain the explanation. ”

I shook my head and said: "This is difficult for me, since ancient times, the tomb has been built and the tomb has been built with a tree, the tree is used as a symbol of the tomb, built in front of the sealed mound, so that the mausoleum pattern has the appearance of the descendants of the shade, but I have never seen someone put the coffin in the body of the tree, this is not a system." ”

Since the Shang and Zhou dynasties in China, there has been a theory of feng shui, burying the dead, has always paid attention to "negative yang and yin, relying on the mountains and water", how can there be a reason to hang on the tree. And this old tree is located in the jungle behind the Shalong Mountain, although the top of the mountain is covered with clouds and fog, and the trend of the mountain range is not clear, but it can be seen from the map that this mountain only has a single ridge and a lonely peak, which is a lone dragon. In "Sixteen Characters Yin and Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", it is clear that the dragon is afraid of loneliness and cold, and it should not be really dangerous to look around.

Although the terrain is high in the east and low in the west, it is too lonely and a bottomless valley, so this area is by no means a suitable place to place a mausoleum.

What's more, the old tree is the first of the five evils of the yin house. There are old trees, Dushan, broken streams, bald ridges, and rocks near the left side of the burial room, all of which are evil and bad, and must not be buried: there are old trees that grab the wind and seize the air; If there is a single mountain, there is less entanglement, the main is not melted and there is no knot, and yin and yang are bound to clash with each other; If there is a broken stream, the main vein is bitter and the soil is dry, and when the water vein is broken, the vitality is also isolated; If there is a sudden anger of the rocks, and the rocks are grandiose, then the lord is fierce, and there are many evil spirits of the land; If there is a bald ridge, it is called a lifeless place.

However, these places are not vicious places, and it may be more appropriate to establish temples and ancestral halls, which will play a role in harmonizing the form, but it is not suitable to bury the dead as a yin house.

Therefore, let alone using trees as graves, this completely violates the theory of feng shui form shì, what qi veins, mingtang, water mouth, what dragons, caves, sand, water, xiang, etc. However, this transparent jade coffin is really rare, what is the liquid inside? Is it really blood? Whose blood would that be?

I went closer and touched the jade coffin with my fingers, the tentacles were cold and lubricated, it was really a rare piece of jade, and even more rare was that the whole body was flawless, and it was so big that it was not easy to find such a good jade even in the palace. The jade coffin is placed horizontally in the middle of the old banyan tree, due to the extrusion of the entangled growth of the tree body, and the fracture of a part of the tree body that supports it, the jade coffin that was originally placed flat in the tree is slightly tilted.

There are several small cracks in the downward sloped coffin lid and the coffin body, which are probably caused by the combined action of various forces over time, and the blood-like liquid in the coffin slowly seeps out along the cracks, and falls on the jade tomb bed under the jade coffin.

It wasn't until this point that it dawned on us. The fat man went up to the tree for the first time, causing the jade coffin in the tree to tilt, and the dark red liquid in the coffin seeped out from the three cracks and fell on the tomb bed below.

After the red liquid in the coffin was lower than the crack, the signal naturally stopped; The second time the trunk broke, the wreckage of the transport plane fell to the ground, and with such force, the jade coffin tilted a little more, so the dark red liquid in the coffin continued to seep out. We have preconceived notions and have always regarded this voice as a signal, as the so-called cup bow snake shadow, too much suspicion.

But then I thought to myself, could it really be so coincidental? Just make up a string of death codes? If it's just a coincidence, it's not a good sign, but hopefully nothing big happens to us on this trip.

While I was thinking wildly, Shirley Yang used a paratrooper knife to peel off the plant rhizomes on the lid of the jade coffin, put on gloves, and swept the lid of the coffin a few times. The top of the jade coffin immediately revealed a lot of finely carved patterns, a whole layer is engraved with mandarin ducks, wild geese, foxes, rabbits, roe deer, deer, elephants and other rare birds and beasts that symbolize auspiciousness and spirituality, and the four corners also have different forms of symmetrical arrangement of flowers and grass ornaments.

The jade coffin is surrounded by a shading pattern carved with lotus petals, decorated with a diamond-shaped honeysuckle relief, and in the middle of each side there is a small parrot with a realistic appearance in the middle of the parrot's mouth.

Shirley Yang raised his head and said to me: "The reliefs on these jade coffins are peaceful and docile, although the demeanor is a little sluggish, but the knife technique is simple and bright, gorgeous and deep. This form of table xiàn with a high degree of artistic coverage is very close to the quaint style of the Qin and Han dynasties, which should be the accompanying tomb of the king's tomb, and there will be no mistake. ”

The fat man was impatient, rubbed his palms and said, "It doesn't matter what kind of king he is, since this jade coffin has been met by us, it is our creation." Let's open it first to see if there is any bright weapon inside, and now that the sky is bright, I am not afraid of any corpse changes inside. ”

I stopped the fat man and said, "Don't be in a hurry, this jade coffin is definitely not looking for it, it is impossible to grow into the body of a tree for no reason, and there is so much crimson liquid here, it is no different from blood, who dares to guarantee that nothing will happen if it is opened." ”

Shirley Yang dipped the tip of the paratrooper knife in a little dark red liquid oozing from the jade coffin, put it to the end of his nose and sniffed, and said to me and the fat man: "There is no smell of blood, but there is a very strong ...... Like traditional Chinese medicine, I look at the jade coffin itself, there is nothing too special, the red fluid inside may be embalmed, and the blame is in the coffin tree......"

The fat man said, "What's the fuss about, it may be that the seed of the tree grows under the tomb, and the tree grows bigger and bigger, and finally the rammed earth of the tomb is broken and the coffin inside is pushed out, so the coffin is in the tree." It's not that I'm talking about you, what kind of brains, you can't figure out big things, and you're embarrassed to come all the way to fight. ”

I shook my head and said, "It's unlikely that Chubby said that." It suddenly occurred to me that this jade coffin didn't look like a vulgar product, maybe it was a person in the Daomen. Those sorcerers outside the party think that they are not among the five elements, and they don't need to follow the way of the world's people to choose the Yin House. Maybe he did it on purpose, these two old trees for husband and wife are the coffins of this jade coffin, and inside they are a wizard, or a person who cultivates immortals and seeks Taoism. The tree hole we found on the tree before, I think it is very likely that it is the Mingtang cave eye of this coffin, which is the golden well for extracting the essence of heaven and earth. Legend has it that the tomb of the king is a unique 'water dragon halo' in the world, and the fairy cave in general, where we have not seen it with our own eyes, if it is really as the legend, this tomb should be one of the several stars around the main cave, so it can not be judged only by the shape of the old tree. ”

Shirley Yang felt that my words were more reasonable: "King Xian advocates the way of witchcraft and evil, and only wants to cultivate immortals, so most of the important ministers around him are warlocks, according to this, it seems that this is a fairy coffin in the tomb, but I don't know if the owner inside has become an immortal, if there are really immortals in the world, this jade coffin should be empty now, and the corpse inside is dissolved." ”

The fat man said: "Lao Hu quickly go down the tree and pick up the guy, I cut down the trunk of the tree blocking the other side, let's see what is in this coffin, it doesn't matter if it is a fairy or a demon, the most important thing is to have a valuable weapon, let's get it off to a good start first." I have long seen that the old zongzi of the king is not a good bird, and in the words of the blind man, this is ill-gotten gain, and there is no reason not to take it. ”

Shirley Yang also nodded and said, "There may be some secrets related to the tomb of King Xian, and those information and clues will be of great help to us." ”

When I saw that they all wanted to open the coffin, I went down to the tree and brought up the probe claws, the yin-yang mirror and some other tools that Captain Jin used to open the coffin. The rule of touching gold is to start when it is dark, and the rooster crows to stop, at this time the sky is already bright, and according to the rules, the instrument can not be moved, but the coffin investigation is still made, so at this time it is necessary to use the yin-yang mirror.

The yin-yang mirror is an antiquity handed down in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it is a bronze mirror that is worn more strictly, not a circle, but a triangle, symbolizing the three talents of heaven, earth and man, which is yang and yin, and there are four seal characters cast behind it: "promotion (coffin) fortune". When used, it is suspended in the air with a red thread rope, facing the sun on the front, and the seal on the back is aimed at the coffin.

Legend has it that this luni-yin mirror was specially used to open the coffin that was exposed to the sealed soil of the mound. The trend of tomb robbery in the Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous, and there were poems: "The skeleton is half out of the ground, and the white bones are vertical and horizontal." It describes the miserable scene in the deserted grave after the tomb robbers of the Tang Dynasty swept away. In that period, the professional tomb robbers were the most, and the means of doing things were also their own methods, and the most popular way of inverting the bucket was not to enter the underground palace by robbing the hole, but in broad daylight, directly shoveling the grave, digging up the sealed soil, dragging the coffin out of the underground palace with a rope, opening the coffin outside, taking all the clothes of the owner in the tomb, and then discarding the bones in the wilderness. The yin-yang mirror was an essential tool used by tomb robbers in that era, and it was not a unique traditional tool for Captain Jin.

This yin-yang mirror is the relic of Elder Chen, we only know that in the last resort, we need to open the coffin during the day, we can take the yin-yang mirror to shine on the coffin, so as not to have an unclean yin qi to rush the samadhi fire on the living person, go back and memorize the words.

Today we are going to do things during the day, so use it, and try it if it works. However, when I hung the yin-yang mirror and was about to use the probe claw to open the coffin nail, I found that this jade coffin did not have coffin nails, but a drawer type, and the layer of jade plate that served as the coffin lid had extremely tight slots on both sides.

So we found the coffin and prepared to pull the jade lid out of the coffin. The fat man and I were just about to make a move, but we found that at this moment, the sun was shining on the crystal jade coffin, and a tall human shadow was reflected inside. This shadow is extremely heavy and black, with a head and two shoulders, and the shadow below the shoulders is very wide, as if there are many other things in the coffin, but it is difficult to judge what they are from the shape, and it may be the utensils buried in the jade coffin.

I thought to myself, since there is a corpse here, it seems that this deceased has not become an immortal, anyway, in broad daylight, I am not afraid that it will become a zombie. Unexpectedly, at this time, a large thick black cloud suddenly floated, covering the daylight, and the light around immediately dimmed, and thunder sounded in the sky. We were attracted by the sudden thunder, and we all looked up at the sky, and I cursed, "Hell place, dry thunder, no rain." "I thought to myself, don't let Thunder split this old tree, then we'll follow together, if not, find a place to hide first, and wait for Thunder to stop before doing things.

Suddenly, I heard Shirley Yang say on the other side of the jade coffin: "You come and see here, there is a dead man's hand under this coffin, I think the signal may have come from here, not the liquid oozing from the jade coffin." ”

I was about to turn around and look, but it was too dark to see people clearly. None of us expected that the sky would change, and it would become so fast, in an instant, it was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and the thunder was loud and loud...