Chapter 5 The Sharptoothed Toad

As we walked into the tomb, we found the front room empty, and I wondered if someone had already looted the place. Hearing my thoughts, Luo Dabeard squatted in the ear chamber and carefully examined it for a long time, then turned his head and said to me: "There is no trace of being looted, and there should have been no burial goods in this ear chamber in the first place." ”

I was unwilling to walk around in the ear room, and I didn't find any traces of the hidden secret room, and even a simple mechanism to defend against tomb robbery was not set up, and this ear room in the front room, in addition to being spacious, had no anti-theft function and appreciation value, and I couldn't help but be a little disappointed through the door of the front room.

The firelight diffused from the ear chambers on both sides of the Frontrooms could only illuminate the doorway connecting the Frontrooms and the Middle Rooms, showing how wide and vast the Frontrooms were. Uncle Luo walked along the wall on one side to the ear chamber on the left side of the middle room and lit the everlasting lamp inside. After the lights were turned on, the ear chamber in the middle room suddenly shone with golden light, and people couldn't open their eyes. I saw that the middle chamber of the transept adjacent to the humble antechamber was a golden scene, with golden walls, golden lampposts, golden floors and ceilings, and the entire transept seemed to be covered with gold. When the foreigner of the search and rescue team saw this scene, his eyes opened wide in surprise and he couldn't close his mouth. I walked into the middle chamber and found a lamp on the wall on the other side of the chamber. So, he walked over and lit it, and all of a sudden, bright lights filled the entire ear chamber, revealing the full golden splendor of the ear chamber.

The ear chamber of the middle room is rectangular, with nearly 100 square meters, and the alcoves on both sides are set up with the everlasting lamps of the golden coiling dragon lamppost. I walked in and looked at the golden lamppost, which must have been plated with a layer of gold, and a dragon hovered around the long lamppost, obliquely inserted into the stone wall, the shrine was painted with golden dragon patterns, and the walls were also painted with yellow gold dust. The inner wall of the ear chamber is painted with a green dragon, and there are several half-human-high terracotta figurines in the corner, which are not the Tang Sancai characteristic of the Tang Dynasty. The appearance of several terracotta figurines is very strange, and it is not clear what kind of animal this is, not like the inherent zodiac decorations of the Tang Tomb, nor is it a tomb beast. The terracotta figurines on the ground are all human and animal heads, and some monkey tails have a head that looks like a demon; Some look like rat heads, but have a thick and short tail; Some of them have the head of a frog, but they have a large mouth to show a mouth full of thin and pointed teeth, and the terracotta figurines have different forms and appearances, and each expression is strange and hideous.

The ear chamber was arranged as if it was made of ten thousand taels of gold, so that people could not move, I kept staring at the terracotta figurines, and Uncle Luo walked up to me and said, "I just checked it, and there are no mechanisms." This imperial tomb is really fun enough, if you don't take any anti-theft measures, are you not afraid of thieves, or is there nothing to be stolen? ”

Seeing that there was really no value to study in the ear chamber except for the dazzling golden eyeballs, we walked out of the ear chamber and came to the lobby of the middle room. The middle chamber is not as big as words, about ten times the size of the ear chamber, the top of the high tomb is painted with the sun, moon and stars in the middle, surrounded by flying goddesses in different postures, stepping on the colorful auspicious clouds and dancing with long water sleeves. The front and back walls of the middle room are painted with 12 o'clock terracotta figurines and Ming camel saddle horses, and the two sides are painted with the guard of honor Kabuki, which is colorful and rich, and is beautiful.

I looked at the beautiful painted walls of the tomb and exclaimed, "It's so beautiful." During the Tang Dynasty, Tibetan culture prevailed, and the unique Tibetan painting art form flowed into Middle-earth, which was widely respected and loved by the imperial court. In particular, the world's most beautiful "Thangka" painting, it uses natural mineral plants as raw materials, the color is gorgeous and durable, has a strong snowy style, the pen power is fine and the style is gorgeous, the composition is full and the coloring is bright, and the painting style of fine brush painting has deeply influenced the painting style of Middle-earth.

The spacious burial chamber here is like a temple of art. At the same time, I couldn't help but be amazed: the air outside has not taken away the colors left over from this thousand years ago, and they are still as gorgeous as they have just been painted. In the gorgeous and colorful middle room, there is no Ming ware placed, and the ear chamber on its right side is also the same as the one on the left, which is splendid, and there are several golden terracotta figurines in the corner, the only difference is that the white tiger is painted on the wall of the right ear room.

The middle room is whitewashed and magnificent, and it is not at all the same level as the front room. I couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that the tomb was being built, and only the front room was left and stopped before it was repaired. However, the simplicity of the front room does not look like it was unbuilt, but it was originally intended to be simply decorated. However, for the Imperial Mausoleum, the construction of the front room was inevitably too simple, and I couldn't help but feel in my heart that this place was strange and unreasonable. Perhaps the simple and crude construction of the Frontrooms was intended to paralyze careless tomb robbers, or to dissuade them with good intentions. However, no matter what the reason is, we will only go one way to the dark, and there is no way back. After inspecting the middle room, Luo Dabeard and I were about to go to the back room to have a look, so we planned to inform the two foreigners. As a result, it was found that the two foreigners who were originally watching were moving the golden terracotta figurines in the left ear room at this time. And the terracotta figurines in the ear chamber seem to be connected to the ground, and the two foreigners pulled it out for a long time, and they didn't pull it off the ground at all. So, the two began to hit the terracotta figurines with their bodies vigorously, trying to separate the golden terracotta figurines from the ground.

Locke and Henry, who were originally just admiring the murals, suddenly became interested in the strange-looking frog figurines, and they had to move them. I looked at Locke's actions inexplicably, and said to myself: Do they want to move the terracotta figurines out? However, this thing was not really made of gold, and it was so large and bulky that it was extremely inconvenient to carry with them, and there was no way to take it with them, and they were now completely useless in destroying it. So, I hurried forward to stop their ridiculous behavior.

However, as soon as I approached Locke, they happened to knock the figurines down, and where the bottom of the figurines connected to the ground, the brushes broke apart, revealing a swarthy hole in the ground. I glanced at the frog figurines lying to the side, with some viscous liquid hanging from the inside and a foul smell wafting from them. I pinched my nose and curiously walked up to the black hole on the ground to look down, and a cold wind blew from below the hole, which seemed to be connected to the outside.

As I stared intently at the swarthy hole, I suddenly heard a frog croak, not very clear, but I was sure that I had heard correctly. However, how can there be frogs in this underground burial chamber? Thinking of this, I couldn't help but look at the frog terracotta figurines lying on the ground, and said to myself: Could it be the sound of this hideous terracotta figurines? However, he immediately shook his head again in denial of this ridiculous idea. I thought to myself: how is this possible.

At this moment, suddenly, something jumped out of the dark hole, which startled me unsuspectingly, and I almost didn't fall to the ground when I dodged. When I looked closely, I saw that what had jumped out of the mouth of the black hole was a frog, the size of an apple, with a large mouth with red eyes, and a back covered with pimple warts, crouched on the ground. Seeing the pimple on its back, I thought to myself: This is not a frog but a toad. How did the toad end up here, though? Could it be that they came in from the outside, could it be that this is the place where they hibernated. And while I was thinking, many toads jumped in and out of the swarthy hole one after another, and I couldn't help but take a few steps backwards, at this time, there were already dozens of toads, large and small, squatting in the ear chamber with their cheeks, among which the huge size was the size of a flower pot, and the toads were constantly jumping into the ear chamber from the hole.

Looking at the ear chamber that was about to be overrun by the toad, I didn't think there was any need to stay here any longer. However, Locke and Henry were still struggling to lift the terracotta figurines on the ground, and it seemed that they really wanted to take away the frog figurines with hideous expressions. I had no choice but to stop them and tell them not to mess around, but they paid no attention to me, as if they were enchanted, and only cared about moving the figurines, as if they had no idea that they were members of the rescue team or the purpose of their visit. I can understand the greed in people's hearts, and at any point, it will dictate people's thoughts and behaviors like a demon.

However, Locke and the others are burdened with the burden of rescuing Yue'er, and this golden terracotta figurine is only useless for what it seems, and it is not made of real gold without much value, and removing it will bring them much benefit. So, I barricaded myself at the door of the ear chamber so that they could not get out, and then I kept gesturing to persuade them to give up the heavy terracotta figurines and that I would get something better for them in the future. As a result, Captain Locke, who had always been strong and steady, and full of responsibility, suddenly seemed to be a different person, and he pushed me hard despite my excited persuasion, and I fell to the ground one by one.

However, just as I was sitting on the ground, a toad the size of a fist in the ear chamber suddenly jumped onto the shoulder of Henry, who was standing near the entrance of the cave. Just when I was amazed at the super bouncing power of the toad, the toad that jumped on Henry's shoulder suddenly opened its big mouth, revealing a mouth full of fangs, and bit Henry's cheek, and then pulled hard, Henry's cheeks were completely gone, blood splattered everywhere, and I could even see his gums and teeth clearly.

Henry, who was bitten off the cheek by the sharp-toothed toad, let out a scream of "ah", and finally let go of the clay figurine with both hands, and grabbed the toad that was still on his shoulder in his hand, and at this moment, the pimple on the back of the toad that was caught by Henry in his hand squirted out a large amount of venom and shot into Henry's eyes. So, Henry covered his eyes with his hands in pain, and crouched on the ground to let out a wail. At this moment, the toad, which had been squatting quietly on the ground, jumped up one after another and pounced on Henry. It happened too late, and in an instant, Henry was lying in a pool of blood. When the captain Locke found out that something was wrong behind him, he turned around and saw his teammates covered in blood, rolling on the ground in pain, and batches of toads with fangs kept frantically pounced on Henry's body, cruelly and bloodily biting Henry's body. In a few moments, Henry collapsed in a pool of blood, motionless.

Seeing his teammates die tragically in front of him, Locke stared at the toad in his ear chamber with blood-red eyes and cursed loudly with his gun in his hand. Suddenly, the golden ear chamber was decorated with bright red blood even more dazzlingly. I sat on the ground dumbfounded, things happened so quickly and suddenly, and I was completely unprepared for how to solve the situation in front of me.

At that moment, a man walked behind me and jerked me up from the ground. I couldn't help but look up and see that it was Bearded Luo, who pulled me backwards and said, "Go to the Backrooms, it won't last much longer." ”

I was dragged by Luo's beard towards the door, and as I ran, I turned around and yelled, "Locke, go." However, my shouts were drowned out by the fierce gunfire, and Locke was shooting wildly in the ear chamber with his gun in hand, and the fragments of the toad's corpse were splashed everywhere, but more and more sharp teeth were biting on him.

Seeing this, I knew that Locke had no intention of escaping, so I gritted my teeth, stopped turning my head, and ran forward at full speed with Luo's beard. The light of two flashlights bounced around in the back room, and I kept running forward behind Luo Dabeard, the gunfire fading away until it was gone. Luo Dabeard said to me as he ran: "Virtuous nephew, quickly find something, and block the door in a while." ”

I gasped for breath and asked him as I ran, "What are you going to do?" As a result, as soon as I finished speaking, my feet suddenly slipped, and I fell straight to the back, and almost bit my tongue. I muttered to myself, "I'm really unlucky." I propped my palms on the ground and tried to stand up. As a result, I felt a puddle of slimy liquid on the ground, and a few round thin pieces of iron, which seemed to be coins. The flashlight in my hand went out, I pushed the button a few times, but the flashlight didn't light up, I had to knock the flashlight on my knee a few times, and the flashlight gave a faint light. With the help of the newly lit flashlight, I found that my hands were stained with blood, and there were a few copper coins scattered on the ground beside me.

I looked at the shocking puddle of blood on the ground, and then I was surprised to pick up a copper coin and take a closer look, and saw that the copper coin was stained with dark red cinnabar. In this way, the master must have encountered danger, and there was a fierce battle, so that the copper coin sword was broken up.

I hurriedly stood up, moving toward the backrooms as I checked the floor with a flashlight and shouted, "Master, Master." ”

As a result, Luo Beard suddenly walked up to me quickly, covered my mouth, and then whispered softly in my ear: "Shhh ”

I nodded, turned off the flashlight, and took advantage of the light leaking from the door of the middle room, followed behind Luo Dabeard, and dodged into the ear chamber on the side of the back room. At this time, the "croaking" sound in the middle room began to come sporadically from far and near. The two of us immediately fumbled around the ear chamber we were, trying to find something that would block the doorway.

As a result, there was nothing here. I couldn't help but wonder how depressed the emperor was buried here, and he didn't even have a decent funeral object.

Or rather: this is not really a Tang tomb either!