I said to the big golden tooth: "Master Jin, don't you scold me, if I know what the characteristics are, I still need to ask you?" ”

The big gold tooth said: "Ouch, look at my mouth, I have become accustomed to it, no matter how I say it, it is the set of rhetoric that pours antiques, pretending to be posture, pretending to be profound, so as to make the buyer stunned and convinced." ”

The fat man said on the side: "That's it, Lao Jin, you are really enough, don't look at what time it is, now on this occasion, none of us can talk about the mountains, there is one to say, there are two to say, to be honest." ”

The big golden tooth said yes again and again, and then continued the conversation we just had: "I'm not an archaeologist, and I don't dare to say anything else, but the characteristics of the human face of the Western Zhou Dynasty are very obvious, I have seen the introduction in the Luoyang Museum, and I am very impressed, so I dare to assert that the stone coffin with the human face is from the Western Zhou Dynasty." ”

The biggest feature of the Western Zhou Dynasty human face carving decoration is that the facial lines are smooth and smooth, there are no gender characteristics, only the ears are larger than ordinary people, but the men and women can not be seen from the face. And only the Western Zhou Dynasty in China admired the thunder pattern, and in the underworld hall, the bottom of the stone coffin was decorated with thunder patterns, which can be said to be the best proof.

On the other hand, before the Western Zhou Dynasty, some cultural relics unearthed in the Yin Shang period, many of which are equipped with facial carvings or pattern patterns, but they all appear to be vigorous and simple, smooth and smooth, and the gender characteristics are obvious, silkworm eyebrows and round eyes, big nose and wide mouth are men, which is based on the legend of the Yellow Emperor on all sides. After the Han Dynasty, the human face was ornamented and carved, and the facial features were more pronounced, and the men's faces had beards.

I understand the meaning of the big gold tooth, from the beginning of the Yin Shang dynasty, there was a carving and casting process of the face, but in the Western Zhou Dynasty, a strange genderless face shape suddenly appeared, and then the aesthetics and craftsmanship returned to the previous style, I asked the big gold tooth: "Why is there such a change in the Western Zhou Dynasty alone?" ”

Although he could see that the face carving on the stone coffin belonged to the craft modeling of the Western Zhou Dynasty, he couldn't tell what the reason and background of the carving of this strange stone face was.

I asked the big golden tooth: "What does the legend of the Yellow Emperor refer to?" ”

This legend is widely circulated, and most of the people who study history and early antiques know a little about it, and the big golden tooth replied: "As the name suggests, it means that the Yellow Emperor has four faces, one in front and one on the left and one on the left, each looking in different directions; In addition, there is a saying that the Yellow Emperor sent four envoys to inspect the Quartet. ”

I said, "I see, but this doesn't seem to have anything to do with the stone coffin in the temple, there are five faces on the stone coffin, and one of the coffins is facing upwards on the lid of the coffin, could it be that the shape of that face is related to the tomb owner?" ”

I know that asking is also a vain question, and the three of us are now like falling into a fog for five miles, unable to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest. Inferring from the words of the big gold tooth, it is not necessarily possible to confirm that the stone coffin and these strange tomb walls belong to the products of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Seeing that I was skeptical, the big gold tooth added a few words: "If you can find some tripod vessels or places with inscriptions in this vicinity, then you can further confirm it." ”

The fat man asked, "Old Jin, do you still know the inscription?" I haven't heard you talk about it, I can't imagine that you are so academic, and it is really unseemly to see that your hairstyle does not match the knowledge in your belly. ”

The big back head left by the big gold tooth, smearing a lot of hair oil every day, has been teased by the fat man, at this time seeing the fat man talking about the hairstyle again, only to remember that his head shape has not been taken care of for a long time, quickly spit on the palm of his hand, wiped the hair back, bared the gold tooth and said: "I don't dare to take it, but if I find the inscription, I can take a look, but I can also see whether it is from the Western Zhou Dynasty." ”

The three of them discussed for a long time, and they didn't come up with anything ugly, the tomb in front of them can be passed on both sides, but I don't know where it is connected, there is a gap on the head, and above it is the underworld temple where the giant coffin with a human face is parked.

I said to the big golden tooth and the fat man: "Our current situation is so embarrassing that we can't figure out where we are, but if this tomb is really the Western Zhou architecture that the big golden tooth said, then I can judge the general pattern of this place." The ancient tombs of the Shang and Zhou dynasties were not as luxurious as the Tang Dynasty, but the scale was relatively large, and the large stone was built in the main hall, and it was divided into several layers, not a plane structure. As soon as we entered the robbery cave, we were blocked by a large stone wall, which was probably the outer wall of the ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, some distance from the main tomb. But I still can't figure out how it came out of nowhere, damn it, it's really hard to get out this time. ”

The fat man said: "Lao Hu, I don't think you can think about it, this matter is not something we can figure out, originally I thought that the combination of the three of us, basically any ancient tomb can be leveled, to have your technology, to have experience with Lao Jin's experience, to strength, I am not blowing, I can at least top the two of you......"

The big golden tooth interjected: "We don't lack technology, experience and strength, but we lack brains. ”

The fat man said: "Old Jin, haven't you heard of the three stinkers topping Zhuge Liang?" Aren't the three of us better than the Stooge? ”

I said to the fat man and the big golden tooth: "I see that we have technical experience and body, we are not lacking, but we still lack a goddess, a goddess of luck, our luck is too bad, we have to find a way to transfer when we go back." Let's not rub against this, the more I think about it, the more fucking confused I am, if it is the ancient tomb structure of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the tomb road on the lowest floor leads to the burial pit, and there will be no exit, I think it is better to go back to the Hades Temple on the upper floor first, and then look for the exit of the robbery hole. ”

The fat man said, "Wait, shouldn't there be any treasures in the burial pit?" It's not too late to go back to find the thief hole by the way, it's not our style to go back empty-handed, otherwise it won't be a busy job. ”

The big gold tooth said: "Forget it, fat man, you don't know how tired you are with thick shoulders, and my two legs are filled with lead." Let's not have nothing to do, according to what Hu Ye said, it is the best policy to go back and find the thief hole. Besides, this place is so weird, who can guarantee that there are no traps in this tomb, and it will be too late for us to regret it. ”

The fat man saw that I and the big gold tooth insisted on climbing back to the upper floor, and in desperation, he had to lead two geese to act with us, and suddenly said: "Hey, I say, do we have to pry open the stone coffin and see if the dead man there has such a strange face?" Maybe there's a mask or something, but if it's gold, it's worth a lot of money. ”

I didn't pay any attention to him with the big gold tooth, how could I be in that mood in this case, I held the big gold tooth and pushed him up to the underworld on the tomb road, and the fat man and I also climbed up one after another.

The temple of Hades has not changed, the large stone coffin carved with the strange human face is still quietly parked in the corner, and we turn on all three flashlights and search for the entrance to the thief hole on the ground.

The whole hall of the underworld is empty except for the six stone frames that are ready to be used to place the six jades, as well as the stone coffins in the corners, and there is nothing superfluous, it is impossible to imagine that there is a stone coffin in the Western Zhou Dynasty in the hall of the Tang Dynasty.

The fat man pointed to the place where we had just climbed out and said, "Where is there the rest of the exit, isn't the place where we just climbed out the same thief hole before?" ”

I turned on the flashlight and looked down at my feet, it was indeed the first thief hole we climbed into, but how could I jump down and it was a graveyard? Before I could think about it, the big gold tooth also made a discovery: "Master Hu, look next to the stone coffin, there is an extra ...... Steps. ”

The fat man and I looked in the direction that the big gold tooth had said, and sure enough, next to the stone coffin, a stone staircase that went up unconsciously appeared, and the stone steps were wide, and each layer was made up of the whole large stone bar. I walked down and shone up, and the flashlight beam seemed to be swallowed up by darkness, and there were black holes more than ten meters away, and I couldn't see the situation above.

I couldn't calm down anymore, so I said to the fat man and the big gold tooth: "Damn, this ancient tomb is simply out of the way, the robbery hole has become a tomb road, and the stone coffin of the Western Zhou Dynasty appeared in the hall of the Tang Tomb, and such a stone staircase has emerged at this time." If this is the ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty, then this staircase next to the stone coffin should lead to the top of the ancient tomb, where it is connected to the embedded road, and maybe you can go out. ”

The fat man said, "Then what are you waiting for, I'll go first, and you two follow." Before the words fell, he raised his feet and went up the stairs, walked two steps, and suddenly remembered something, and turned back to me and asked, "Old Hu, what did you just say that?" What is it used for? ”

I and the big gold tooth also walked up the stairs, and I said to the fat man as I walked: "The embedded road, to put it bluntly, is a tunnel, don't you have to hollow out the mountain to build the ancient tomb, and the earth and stones taken out are all moved out from the embedded road, and after the tomb owner is buried, the tunnel will be sealed, and the craftsmen and slaves who repair the tomb will also be buried alive in it, if you are lucky, maybe you can find the secret passage secretly left by the craftsmen, then you can leave this ghost place." ”

The three of them walked as they talked, and after walking for about five minutes, I suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and when I first walked up the stone steps, I noticed that there was a crescent-shaped gap on the edge of the second stone step, which may have been knocked off during the construction, but every time we went up twenty or thirty steps, we would find the same crescent-shaped gap, and I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but then I counted carefully, and there was one every twenty-three steps.

This is no coincidence, we may be going around in circles, I hurriedly beckoned to the big gold tooth and the fat man, don't go any further, climb up like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to walk until I'm tired.

The three of them hurriedly turned downward, but the road below seemed to have no end, and they walked up and down the stairs very quickly and without effort, but after walking for a long time, far more than it took us to go up, they said that they could not go back to the temple of Hades.

The three of them were already so tired that they were panting like cattle, and the big gold tooth was not in good health, so tired that he was breathing rough and fast, snorting, like a broken bellows.

As soon as I saw that I would go down again, I would have to let the fat man carry the big gold tooth on his back, and it was not easy to walk down from this stone step to carry a person, and besides, I didn't know if I could walk back to the temple of Hades, so it was not a matter to go down like this, so I let the big gold tooth and the fat man rest on the spot.

The fat man sat on the ground, wiped the sweat beads from his head, and said to me: "My God, old Hu, if we continue to toss like this, in a few hours at most, we will starve to death in this hellish place." ”

When we came to the Fishbone Temple, we brought a lot of food, including wine and meat, but in order to be able to hold the treasures in the ancient tomb, we also had to bring some simple equipment for application, so we put all the food in the Fishbone Temple, and did not carry it with us, and each person only carried a pot of water.

Although they ate and drank before entering the thief hole, but after tossing for so long, their stomachs began to drum, and at this moment, as soon as the fat man mentioned the word hungry, the three of them gurgled in their stomachs at the same time.

Now the situation is even more dangerous, recklessly breaking up the stone steps, trapped on the steps like a ghost wall, and the upper and lower ends are out of reach, it is better to find another way in the Hades Temple, but it really responds to what the big golden tooth said about the fat man before, and it will be too late to regret it.

I sighed and secretly scolded myself for being too reckless and impulsive, if I hadn't had this kind of problem in the army, I wouldn't be self-employed now, and I really wanted to slap myself twice.

The fat man said to me: "Lao Hu, it's useless for you to complain about yourself now, even if we don't go up this step, we have to be trapped somewhere else, you save some energy, think about what else is there." ”

I thought for a moment and said, "This step, it seems that every twenty-three steps, the cycle is repeated, up and down, we can't go up or down now, we can't go to the end......

The fat man said: "That's over, this is a ghost hitting the wall, absolutely yes, you can never get out, you can only be trapped here alive, just wait for the next group of inverted buckets to collect the corpse for us." ”

The big golden tooth listened to the fat man's words, and the sadness came from it, and he couldn't stop shedding two sad tears: "Pity my eighty old mother, and the eighteen-year-old friend, I can't see them in this life...... If there is a next life, I ...... I'm not going to do this anymore......"

The fat man was disturbed by him, and said to the big golden tooth: "What is the trouble, I regret it at this time, what did I do earlier!" Death is also like a man, and then crying and crying, I will break off your gold tooth for you first. ”

The big gold tooth regarded his gold tooth as a treasure, almost as important as his hairstyle, and when he heard that the fat man was going to break his teeth, he quickly reached out and covered his mouth: "Fat man, I can tell you in advance, we are all dying people, you have to leave me a whole corpse, don't wait for me to be so hungry that I can't move, take advantage of the danger of people to break my gold tooth." ”

I said to the two of them, "You two don't talk nonsense, we can't starve to death in this hellish place, it's too bad to die like this, and if you want to die, you have to find a happy way to die." ”

The fat man said, "That being said, it is not easy to die happily in this place. As he spoke, he pulled out his paratrooper knife and said to me: "I think there are only two roads, one is to roll down the stairs and fall to your death, anyway, there is no end to this step, maybe the outside has achieved four modernizations, and we haven't rolled to the end yet; Another way is to cut your wrists, if you can't do it, I'll cut a knife for the two of you, and as soon as you bleed, you're not far from death, I think this is the most painful way. ”

The big golden tooth said to the fat man: "Fat man, when did you become so sincere, didn't you hear the meaning of Hu Ye's words?" If I understand correctly, his subtext should be: We are not in a desperate situation now, and we will not die yet. He turned his head and asked me, "Master Hu, is that what you just said?" ”

I said to the big gold tooth, "What I just said is indeed angry, but now I seem to have a clue, you can be quiet, let me think about it." ”

The fat man and the big golden tooth saw that I finally came up with some clues, for fear that if they interfered again, they would lose this line of life, so they stopped at the same time, and they didn't dare to breathe.

I said I'd come up with a solution, but it was just a casual perfunctory move to get the two of them to stop arguing. At this time, it was quiet, and I replayed the scene from entering the fishbone temple to being trapped on this stone step in my mind like a movie, completely and completely, trying not to miss every detail.

I don't know how long I thought about it, and I asked the big gold tooth: "We are in this ancient tomb, it's really like hitting a ghost against a wall, no matter which way you go, something will pop up inexplicably, Jin Ye, have you ever heard of a ghost hitting a wall?" ”

The big gold tooth said, "I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it." At that time, there was a commotion on Di'anmen Street, so that people in the neighborhood did not dare to pass there at 12 o'clock in the evening, or they would not be able to walk out of that road until dawn. I've heard some rumors from other places, but what we encountered shouldn't be ghosts hitting the wall, right? I heard that ghosts hitting the wall is going around in circles, how can it be so powerful, and besides, we wear so many protective magic weapons, how can we encounter ghosts hitting the wall? ”

The fat man also said: "Lao Hu, you forgot, didn't you say that where feng shui is good, the Tibetan wind gathers qi, there will be no lingering ghosts at all, and there will be no zombie zongzi or something, why do you think of ghosts hitting the wall again?" ”

I shook my head and said, "I'm not saying that we're hitting the wall with ghosts, but I just want to confirm that the current situation is not a ghost hitting the wall, then my analysis may be correct." ”

The fat man asked: "One person is short, two people are long, then you can say it, Lao Jin and I will help you analyze and analyze." ”

I thought about it for a moment, and said to the fat man and the big gold tooth, "I seem to already know what we are encountering, but ...... I'm going to say it, don't be afraid, you two. ”